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* * * r'*? =-? I ===== ' = ?=== ? = -' == ; ' ~ " ^ ISSUED SEM J- WEEKLY. ' ' - . " l. Mi grist's sons, publishers. Ji <J?amiI)i jjeiospaper: jfor flu Jlromofion of the |jo!iftcal, Social, JgrituKutal and tfomincrrial interests of the feogtg. TER"^^^opT,Eri*iN?j?!nkN" ESTABLISHED 1855 ~ 7TZL YORK, S. C.TKRID A.'Y, A/PRIIu 3^5~1921 ' ^"Q- .30;:'... VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brie! Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIKER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know . and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. Hog Got First Drink. Views and Interviews' friend, Mnpris' irate Robert Laban Abernothy Smith. of Broad River township, sends in this nlory and there is therefore1 no doubt of its reliability: "rT,tir/\ nrnliUiiHnn nffirnvc vrnontlv found a stilling- outfit.near here. A vat of beer was partially buried in the ground and the officers found that the stuff was just right for drinking purposes. Each of them drank a good deal of the beer?about a half gallon each. "Later they learned that a hog belonging to a white man living in the vicinity, had fallen into the vat of beer two days before and had drowned. The owner of the hog and'his family are now working cn the meat. The officers who drank the beer rceall that it isn't so good as they thought at first." The Ponselle Concc:t. "Unless there is more interest on the part of the people in the surrounding towns and country5! we are going to ' have to abandon our policy of bringing great singers and artists to Winthrop college," said a representative of the I i college the other day. "We will simply be unable to nay them. Freda Hcmpell. who recently appeared at Winthrop, was paid $1,-00 for her one night's entertainment.' She made a special rate 1 of $1,200 because of the fact that she , was singing primarily fur a,college au, die nee. Her regular price is $1,500 a night. Receipts from the sale of tickets paid all the expenses, hut we lost money when Sophie Bras la u recently appeared here. Wc are paying Punselle $1,500 for her concert next Tues1 day night. Unless there is a big out of town attendance on the concert, we arcgoing to lose." Will Be Lets of Trouble. County Treasurer It. K. Neil is going . to have additional work piled on his , shoulders next October when the new . slate law regarding the tnxing of dogs becomes effective. Under the law all , dogs must bear a state license tag, | which will cost the clog.owner a quar- j ter. , "There are about 1,000 clogs in York ' - ? . IMilltUy. Nil 1(1 llic imi.surir, in i.iimsi^ | about the new dog law the uthcr day. , "and it is going to be right much of a job to keep a line on them ami to keep . the record straight. i When the county treasurer jocularly remarked' that one of his young larly . assistants would be designated to tie the tag on each dog brought to the of- , flee for license, the young woman , promptly replied that she didn't lilc. (logs that well and that the dogs of the ] < county would simp'y have to go tngics.s if she had to tie the tags around their . necks. Florida's West Co:st. ?.lr. J. T. Crawford of MeConnells- ! J ville, who with Mrs. Crawford lias re- I t ' 18...? ?lw. in I : UII'IK'U UIUT. speiioum lot I>MH> I | Florida, was talking about the Florida j i West Coast the other afternoon. "As you are no douhl aware." Ii J said, "thousands of people from all j t seetions of the country pro t1 Florida j 1 in the winter.,, fcjoine of them stop 0:1 ^ the Fast Coa,st and some on the West I Coast. Nearly all of the mil ionaires I and idle r.ieli-find winter c|liarlers alorm Hie I0ast.cfia.st. You'll Ik- .surprise*!, ' wlun I tell you that the Floridians 1 don't aprjreeiale the millionaires as much as.they do people off moderate .1 means wljo K" to Florida, for. the win- ' ter. ' "Natives tell me that the mi lionaires < hold themselves aloof and mix very little with the people of the stale. A millioiiaire. they say. will lumule over the prh'e of a box of fruit niueh loini'ei than will a man of moderate ni'-ans and bemuse of their eeeentrieities and < poeuliarities the millionaire tourists iij ' l-'loridu at'e not .so very popular down there. "I spent t li?* will tor at I'l-torslniri? I'la., our the West Coast i (" tin- slate," ""JJr. Crawford went on t-i say. "Peters- ' Itui'K is a town of about IS.oo'i in sum* ! nier. while the i?<>|>iflitti<>11 in winter ' throws to .sevt'i'aI times that manlier.! ' 'i'he elimato is aim st ideal. I don't! 1 think I wore.my oven-oat hut two or j ' llin-e times during tin- past winter and | ; then only for a lilt Its while. The .Inde- j ' pendent, a iv-wspa per of I'etershnri?. j ' lias a slnutliim- offer to nive away ii s j ' entire edition on.any day that the sun I does not shine. I don't renv-mher just i how many; -hut; the publishers have!' had to idvi:- away very few editions M sijiee the offier was made. (Jin- must j. . have an automobile to enjoy the aeon-! 1 i ery in Florida." Mr. Crawford went on j to say. "hooaiise there are so many; p'aees of interest to see that one simply has to move about in a machine. J "people of the West Coast are progressive and enterprising- and thai see- j tion is rapidly f?rowinj?." COURTIER'S QUICK WITS | Witty Answers Have Often Turned Wrath and Beccme Saving Grace. There are numerous :>utlentieated instances of itty answers that have turned away Wrath and become . a j saving ftraee.' A:: a spectrum of n-ad'. v,it it wpnhl i lie difficult tu match the retort of Charles Murltigh, the threat opponent of the s'avo trade.' He was in the middle of one of his cloipicnt denunciations of slavery when a well-aimed and rotten egg struck him full in the face. . "This," he said calmly, as he produced his ha'ndkerchief and wiped his face, "is a striking evidence of^ what I have always maintained, that proslavery arguments are .unsound." Another example was displayed by AI the de Voiscnon. who had been unfortunate enough to offend .the great Condo and lose his fa vol*. When the abbe wer.it to court to make his peace with the offended prince, the latter rudely turned his back on him. "Thank heaven, sir," he abbe cx'b. ! -1 * ! i 1* i fV\ * ?>->< If 1 _ uiiuiiiuu. i jiii > vj nwn iiikhhiui mvud Your highness does not treat me as if 1 were an enemy." ' "Why do you say that?" the prince demanded. "tfocausc, sir," answered the nl>l>e, "your highness never turns his back on an enemy." The Duke of Wellington answered n similar insult with espial if more crushing cleverness. When the Drench king introduced one of his field marshals to Wellington the marshal turned his back on bis former enemy. Louis PhiKippe was naturally indignant. and apologized to the duke for such rude behavior. "Prey forgive him, sir," the Iron Duke raid. "I ^am iifraid it was I who taught him to do that in the Peninsula." And still another is told of how Urevy, when French president once ( _'Xtrieatod himself from a predicament with wonderful presence of mind, lie was being; conducted iwini! the salon 31 an eminent artist, when he saw a painting that displeased him. "What ii claiib!" he exclaimed. , Whose is' it?" "That picture, M. le President." said lis cicerone, "is my own work." "Ah!" raid the president, without my sittn of embarrassment at his iwkward mistake. "In our country, ivhen we particularly wish to ptir ha.se a thing:, wc always begin by uinnin;; it down," and, true to his ;>arl. he purchased the offending pieairy then and there. An instance is related of a newly ippointed officer on General Slierirui's staff whore wit saved h'm from i breach of etiquette. The general liked young ra.cn but lot when they were tfresh.". lie was "nil of praise for the bright officer n his'first epaulets: tint despised a teeond Iienti mint's attempted familinity. (ine ni ;hl lie happeiietl to overall r a boyish officer say to a group!" if friends: "Llaerman? Deuced good fellow. lie mil I Ikt?l a bottle together. I am ' t!thet; fund of o'.d Sherman." Tin? general joined the gvilinring imid rrofoiinil : ilenco. Turning to the ' ioiitnnnnt, ho said- sternly. "1 tliinl* 1 .on, sir might have said General Shernan. "So," answered the youngster with ' nippy presence of mind. "Did you 1 vor hoar of < ton oral Ael'.illos or (.Sen- 1 rnl Julius (tnesar'."' I'rolahly no one possessed more i' ondy wit than the famous l.i.wyor. j tir I'm nl; Lock wood, lie was a tall r nan, and an unriity member of bis !' Muliencc oner called out to him in the I' nidd'c of Ids speech, "(to it., tele-;'* t I scope: "My friend is mistaken in applying l at term to me," Sir l-'rnnk said. "He 1 Might to claim it for himself: for ~ hough he (annul draw me out, 1 thin!; I 1 can both see through him and shut j * lim up." ! (?n another occasion one <?i ins pnu- ; if;iI ujipciK ills called out "All lawyers i' ue ki^iics.'" "J 11 in ^leil." Sir I-'r.'inl: quickly re.!' oined. "tu ;:re?-.t lliis ^cntleuum as u j1 in miter n!" my profession. luit lie nee?| J ml |>rt>e!:iii;i our shortvominjrs to I lie j' YiU'lll." I! j 1 HOSPITAL CHIEF QUITS THnlcG n Younger Mnn Should Take J1 Charge. Afler luitillK l"r several years iillei! ' tii'i I'istiir.'tion I.lie position of pro- I essor ol' inc'lii.ine ul I lie Johns Hup- 1 x ins I lospital, ; 11 1 !;i 11 ininre. Mil., I Jr. ' A'illiai i S. Thayer lias resigned. I )r. Tha.yer's aet was due. as In; ' lii.-.M-ir stated. lo his belief that the ' lireetin,a id" the departuielil should : e in the hands at a younger man. | lie specifically pniuteil nut that Ins j e.-'i.^nati'Ui was ia no way imiiea- | i ive ul' his lack ul faith in the full'- !l litre professorship idea I nit rather 11 hal In- w:is eonvinretl I his work'! Oil!,! I:c more fii'ly ;in>i effortjvely i !< vi-|iipf<| |.y tin? :i]t|Hiintr:? nt of :i i:mn i< who ns lit; fX|il:iiii"(l, "may roust,n;i 1 ?ly j i 'ook l"i."\v:11*?I in lwentj or twenty-Jivr ;j y? sirs of striivity in the excretion nf, i Ills Meals .'iicl his loiift-.otiiuis." i !!< v.'ill ii-turn to hi: It- |?r;n> ; lift'. j; Tlif rt-siy tuition lines no! ;;o into,, offeri for several moalhs sttnl in the :t>< ;iut;m the officials of the hns|ti1:11 will seel; his sneecssor. Dr. Thayer ws's one of the two emiiit ni llojiliin:! men who were the role i ivilinns elovnle.l In Hie rnnk .;!' hriuniier yenvi.-i] jn tie- metiienl ?l?*| :?rt e.t o." the Anierienn nriny iltiiinu' the war. the t!:? r hnvinrr heen Dr. .i. At. Kinney, lie wjis mittie ehief rietlieit! ilviM't' or the Anierienn IIx | >< ?! i t ion :>iy Kofie.;. while Dr. Kinney was tin* eliier m miriest I ntlviser. Wh.it i* sa irl to lie the worlil's srre.iDst rntjiu |ihnt is now uitder eon-' strilel "!l near .Meliin. Krnnee. PRESIDENT i CONGRESS Mr. Harding Ontlincs Administration! Policy. , LEAGUE IS DEFINITELY REJECTED Would Establish Peace By Resolution of Congress; But Would Insist On Securing for the United States All the Benefits That Were Acknowledged In the Versailles Treaty as DueIn his first message to the extraordinary session of the new congress last ' Tuesday, President Harding definitely 1 settled the league of nations question, i There is to be no league of nations is so far as the United States is concerned; but Ihe United States must have all i the benefits to which it is entitled by < reason of having won the war. The I protective principle is to be followed in < tariff legislation. The rates and operat- < ing expenses of the railroads must be f lowered. The excess profit tax must be repealed. Business must be reorgan- ; ix.cd along business lines. Also' mob law musL be suppressed throughout the country. The message was read per- 1 sunnily by the pre.sid.cnt and required < about one hour. The full text of the : document follows: * " I Members of Congress: You have been called in cxlraordi- j nary session to give your consideration t to national problems far too pressing to x be long neglected. We face our tasks ( of legislation and administration amid conditions as difficult as our govern- , ment has ever contemplated. Under ^ uur political systtm the people of the t United States have charged the new j congress and the new administration , with .the solution?the rc.'idjustments. reconstruction and restoration which f rpust follow in the wake of war. t It may be regretted that we were so e illy prepared for war's aftermath, so ? little made ready to return to the ways | of peace, but we are not to be d:scour-1 ( aged. Indeed, we must be the more , (Irmly resolved to undertake our work j with high hope and invite every factor in our citizenship to join in the effort ? to find our normal, onward way again. The American people have appraised ^ the situation, and with that tolerance ( ind patience which go with understanding they will give to us the influence c uf the deliberate public opinion which ultimately becomes the edict of any mpukir government. They are mcas uring some of the stern necessities and ? will join in the give and take which is so essential to linn re-establishment. Home Problems First. , t! First in njind must bu the solution of , :it home, even though . JU1 I'i VVIVMIW ... inmc phases of them an: inseparably inked with our foreign relations. The tl surest procedure in every government s to put its own house in order. 1 know of no mure pressing problem it homo than to restrict our national xpcnditurcs within the limits of out ^ national income, and at the same lime 1 .inmeasnitibly lift the burdens of war ^ axation from the shoulders of the \meric.in people. One can not he unmindful that ceonitny is a much employed cry, most frcluently sire soil in pre-election npicals, but il is ours to make it an out- 1 landing and ever-impelling purpose in '' Mitb legislation and administration. v rite mm strained tendency of heedless L' :xpenditure and the attending v yrowth of public indebtedness. extend- 1 ag from federal authority to that of s ital?* and municipality :ind including ' be smallest political su I (division con titutc the most dangerous phase of ' fuvernnieitl today. The nation cannot v estrain except in its own activities. :l nil it can be exemplar in a wholesome ^ eviTsul. ' v 'The staggering load of war debt must ' * e- /loolf fiTTulinii' ;iiul V il5 rami mr.in Minna,) .. ri"i<lii:i 1 liquidation. We sltail h:k?>lcn ' !ie solution :mii :i^<1 effectively in lift- 1 ny the tax liunlens if we strike rcsn- " lllfly :it expenditure. It in far .mure 11 iisily said than dune. In the fever of ' var "in- expenditures were so little ' pins!ioiied 1 lie luerycnry was so iin- 11 lelliny. appropriation was so mumped- ! tl that we little noted millions and oiinted the treasury inexhaustible. It i 1 ivill strengthen our resolution if we!" ver keep in mind that a continuation \ 1 >f such a course means inevitable ins- 1 istcr. Burden Unbearable. Our current, ex pi adit a res are runliny at the rate of approximately live j billion a year and lite harden is ua- f, M-araIde. There are two aycncics to , Lie i mjiloycd in correction. One is rigid ] resistance in approjiriation and the I,, it her is the utmost economy in admin- j istratioa. I.it its have lioth. I hnvojt, 11 ready charged department heads with it this necessity. I am sure congress wilij, ay rev. and hotli conyrcss and the ad-!| niinistratioii ma.y safely count on the I j. oiiuinrt of all riyht-mimled cilizeiis. he-L cause the hurdou is theirs. The press-j. mv for expendit ures, swelling I lie flow j r in oin> locality. wltik* draining another., is sure to defeat the imposition of just | burdens, and tiio effect of our citizen- ! ship protesting outlay will he whole-! sonic and helpful, i wish it might 11ml its reflex in economy and thrift anion!; the p'-op'e tin inscivcs, hrcau.se therein lies quicker recovery and added scctir- j ity for the future. The estimates of receipts and rxpri\* ditures and tlic statements as to the; condition of the treasure which the. .. , ' . , I secretary of the treasury is prepared. In present to you will k indicate what! revenues mnsi ho pi'oyidi d in order to I carry on the government's business ' ami meet its current requirements Und ; fixed debt charges. Unless there ?t(*e striking cuts in the important Held of j expenditures, receipts from internal taxes can not safely be permitted to fall below $4,000,000,000 in the fiscal year 1922 and 1923, This would mean i total internal tax collections of abriut . $1 090,000,000 less than in 1920 and onehalf billion less than in 1921. 1 The most substantial relief from tax burden must come for the present from the readjustment of internal taxes and the revision or repeal of those taxes which have become unproductive and are so artificial and burdensome as to defeat their own purpose. A prompt find thorough going revision of the in- | Lernal tax laws, made with due regard ^ to the protection of the revenues, is, in my judgment, a requisite to the revival ? of business activity in this country. It ' is earnestly hoped, therefore, that the x cjongrcss will be able to enact without * ilclay a revision! of the revenue laws md such emergency tariff measures as ire necessary to protect American trade a ind industry. ^ Repeal of Excess Profits. It is of less concern whether inter- '' lal taxatio- or tariff revision shall 0 :ome first than has been popularly im- 1 igincd, because we must do both, but f lie practical cdurse for earliest accomplishment will readily suggest it- d >elf to the congress. Wc are comjnit- 1 ed to the repeal of the excess profits n ax and the abolition of inequities and mjustifiablc exasperations in the present system. * a The country docs not expect and will 11 lot approve a shifting of burdcrts. It a s more interested in wiping out the ne- _ icssity of imposing them and eliminatng confusion and cost.in the collecion. mi... nn Instant tariff on- ' 1 il*J Ult,VUv.? Wfc ?... tctment, emergency In character, and n mderstood by our people that it is 1 ;mergency only, can not be too much ^ mphasized. I believe in the protection 1 >f American industry and it is our pur- v >osc to prosper America first. The c privileges of the American market to he foreign producer are offered too iheaply today, and the effect on much y )* our productivity is the destruction c if our self reliance, which is the foun- n lation of the independence and good v brtunc of our people. Moreover, im- 1 >orts should pay their fair share of ?ur cost of government, c One who values American prosperity 0 nd maintained American standards of 0 vage and living can liavfe no sympathy vith the proposal that easy trade entry s ind the flood of imports will cheapen 1 iur costs of living. It* is more likely to 1 lestroy our capacity to buy. Today c American agriculture is menaced and 1 Ls products are down to pre-war nor- ^ no Is, yet we arc endangering our fun- 11 lamentnl industry through the high nst of transportation from farm to S: narket and through the influx of for- K ign farm products, because wc offer. n ssentlally unprotected, the best mar- 11 -- ..1 l? |.?| tll :el in the worm, ji wuuiu uc rr in protecting our basic food in- " lustry Llian paralyze our farm activi- '' ies in the world struggle for restored b xchnnges. 1 Policy of Protsctiqn. The mnturer revision of our tariff mvs should be bused on the* policy of p roleclion, resisting' that selfishness 1 t'hich turns to greed, but ever concernd willi that productivity at home ,l rhieli is the source of all abiding good ortune. It is agreed that we can not ell unless we buy, but ability to sell .is ' used on home development and the " ( storing of home markets. There is;" itlle sentiment in the trade of the J" rorld. Trade can and ought to lie hun- I'l ii.ii. imt it knows no sympathy.)1 Vhile the delegates of t!ic nations at var were debuting peace terms at v 'nris, and while wc later debated our n >art in completing tlie peace, c#mmerial agents of other nations were open- '' ng their lines and establishing their w mlposts, with a forward look to the narrow's trade. It was who ly proper c nd has been advantageous to them. -v ,'artly as we are. it will lie safer lo hold 11 ur own markets secure and. build | v hereon for our trade with the world, j A very important matter is the tfsaldishment of the government's busi- ^ less on a business basis. There was oleration of the easy-going, unsyste- ' nalie method of handling our fiscal af- c airs, when indirect taxation held the tublie unmindful of the federal burden, tut there is knowledge of the high cost ii if government today and high cost of t iving is inseparably lined with high II ost of government. There can be no n omplete correction of the high living K ost. until the government's cost is y lotably reduced. Let me most heartily commend tlie [ ^ nactment of legislation providing for! tl lie national budget system. Congress ! f' las already recorded its belief in thojS ludget. It will bo a very great satis- j n action to know of its early enactment, a hi that it may lie employed in estab- I " ishing the economic and business f netImds so essential to the minimum v j f expenditure. j" Would Not Impede. I have s:iid to tin* people wo liavei neant to have loss of government in | lusiuess as well as more business in foverament. It is well in have it un- j leisloml that business has a right to, ' itii'site its normal and legitimate j11 vay imimpaireil. and it might have no ! all to meet government competition;'' where all risk is borne by the public reasnry. There Is no challenge to j" lonest and lawful business success. 1 i (Continued on 1'age Seven). !l ! HIE NEWS ABOUT CLOVER ?' i * . 1 ^' l Family United After a Separata of Eleven Years of Hardship. MOTHER AND CHILDREN FAMISHED . *lr ? . i VJrs. Faddel and Children Cotne From Syria?Minister's Car Stolon and Lator Abandoned?Othor News. and Notes of the Metropolis of Northern York County. (By a Stall Correspondent). Clover, April 14.?After a separation >f eleven years, during which time they lave been subject to all the trials and lardships of life in a land of warfare md hunger, Mrs. Zemcroud Faddel and jcr three children have been reunited vith the husband and father, Waddell 'addel, bettor known as Joe Moses, of jlovcr. Mrs. Faddel and her youngest child, i boy, Nezcshlp, aged 11, arrived In Hover this week from Liverpool, Engand, where their trip across the Atantic to Clover was delayed because f an illness which attacked the boy in he English city upon his arrival there rom his home in Syria. , , The two older children of Mrs. Fad,lel, Miss Sameia, 23, and Miss Ameine, 3, arrived several days before the nothcr and'younger brother. Faddel Is Happy. Waddcl Faddel, better known locally s Joe Moses, the merchant, is the haplicst man in all this section just now s a result of the re-union with his amlly, for which he has been strivng many years. All during the recent'World war he ricd to get in touch with them, oftenimes not hearing from them for months and laboring under the fear hat they had probably been put to ieath by the Turks or else fallen vic[ms to the pangs of hunger and staration which stalks the land of Syria, laiming daily hundreds for their own. His Money Stolen. Month after month during the eleven ears of separation Faddel, the merhant, sent the profits from the busicss of his little store in Clover to his fife and three children in Syria for heir support. Most of that money was never reeived by them, but fell into the hands f some postal thief or customs officer n the other side of the globe. - StiP showing evidence of. the .terribly . uffering and hardship through which hoy have gone as a result of faminc'in heir native land, the mother and three hildrcn, gaunt and emaciated, picture o the husband ghastly scenes of the wrmicht in Svria and adjoin I# countries as a result of war. They tell him ot' hundreds and thouands who have fallen victims to huner and want nnd the number includes aany of the boyhood friends and playlates of the merchant, Faddcl. Mrs. Faddel, a woman about 40 years f a pre, is weak and ill as a result of cr hard life of recent years and it will c months and months before she is ully recovered. The younger .members f the litlle emigrant band arc recuerating rapidly, however, and it is exected will be back to normalcy withr\ a short time since they are in the .r.,i ,,r i>ir>ntv and freedom from war nd pestilence. Had Long Journey. The mother and three left their home 1 the province of Lebanon in Syria n February 2 of this year. It was nth no touch of regret except the pain f parting with loved friends and acuuintanecs, that they felt in leaving he stricken country. They came to Liverpool England, dicre the boy became sick and the lothcr stayed behind while the elder a lighters came on. The boy recoverlg, he and his mother arrived this . reck. None of the 'members of the family an speak but few words of English et; but that gives them little concern ow. They are happy in conversing ,:ith the husband and father in native nnguc. There is much to tell. "I am the happiest man you know," iiid Faddcl in talking to the corresponent about the re-union. Never whilelive shall they go back to the old oun try. Will Put Children In School. "The little boy and the little gel I put 1 the school next year. They pick up he English (juick you sec. My friends liey want me to put them in the schoul o\v. 1 say no. They pick up the Innuagc the little around my p'acc. Next ear they start out right." It was through the good offices of Ir. M. L. Smith of Clover, F.addel said, hat he was enabled, after years of cfart to get his family into the United States. "That man," he said, "do it for 10. He write telegrams and letters nd big mens and everything. I can ever repay him for what he has done or mo. I never get my family in the rorld without his help. I wish I could o something for him to show my aprceiution. 1 never can." Car Stolen and Found. The big Ruick automobile of Rev. W. I. > Armstrong, pastor of Clover Wes\van Methodist church, was stolen 'hursday night. It was found Friday light on tiie Faulkner road, between Mover and Ti'.ethan.v, and was npparntl.v uninjured, although the unknown hieves had used all the gasoline and il in tiie machine. Theory is that the ar was stolen by a party or parties in iriler to go after a load of moonshine nd that after the mission was accom plishcd the car was abandoned. No ar-. rests have yet been made. Considerable Cottop' Sold. More than 100 bales of cotton have been sold on the Clover market this week at prices ranging from 10 to 11 cents and a little better in a few instances. Mr. and Mrs. Hambright Leave. Mr. and Mrs. V. Q. Hambright and little daughter, Betty, for more than a year residents of Clover, left Tuesday for Rock Hill, where they expect to make> their home in future. Good Baseball Team. Clover High school's baseball team is goinggood so far this year. The team has won four games from other schools and thus! far has lost only one school nnnfoct A hif cnlifirtiiln nf irnmps has been arranged and Clover people expect to see some good baseball exhibitions during the remainder of spring. Charlotte Automobilo Show. Large numbers of people of Clover and the vicinity have been attending the automobile show in Charlotte this wfcek. a JOHN SWEAT DEAD. Paralytic, Pauper and Murderer. Takes His Own Life. V The suicide of John Sweat, paralytic; pauper, former convict and convicted murderer at his home at Bannockburn in Berrien county, Georgia a few days ago, removed from that > section a character as strange as ever was pictured by a novelist. Fate visited great afflictions on Sweat. When he was 27 years old he . was stricken with ^ baffling form of rheumatism that paralyzed his lower limbs and so affected his spine that his head was drawn backward, leaving his eyes always staring upward. His arms were not touched and their strength was remarkable until the day he sent a load of shot crashing through his brain.Vi-rtm tho Hme he was stricken un til his suicide, a period of about 40 years, Sweat was neither able to lie down nor stand up. When he slept it was in a rolling chair. He got about in a small cart to which he drove an ox he managed to train to an amazing degree. . . , In this cart, Sweat frequently hunted, being able to kill game when found in trees. It was. only by' rolling his eyes that the afflicted man was able to see in any direction except straight up.- " , 7 . " '? Sweat's physical copditjon 414 ppt present him from marrying, and he ' was the father of seven children. Neighbors asserted that he controlled his family with an iron hand. His suffering caused him to develop a violent temper and he was generally feared. One of Sweat's neighbors was .jonn J-aillKDCr. 11 WUS IU1 ruumniii a murde'k* that he was given life imprisonment. Testimony at the trial which occurred a number.of years ago seemed to show that Sweat became angered at Faulkner, who was 70 years old, over some trivial incident and drove to his hoiJse and. called him to the door, explaining tliat he had come to kill him. Faulkner replied that, he was old and his fighting days were over and turned to leave.. From his ox cart, the paralytic opened fire with his shotgun. ' Faulkner fell to the ground dead. Sweat then turned to one of his young sons who was in the cart with him and commanded him to catch Mrs. Faulkner and bring her to him. The boy tried to carry out the instruction but the woman ran. Sweat then drove to Nashville and surrendered to the sheriff. While in jail. Sweat spent his time in his rolling chair and was described as being the most troublesome prisoner ever confined in the Berrien county jail. At the trial he was convicted of murder, the jury recommending that he be given a life sentence. At the stale farm. Sweat was & troublesome prisoner. There was practically no work that he could do. He spent his days and nights in his rolling chair, alternately singing, praying and swearing. In a few months his family began :i long fight to secure his freedom. lie was released under parole about five years ago. It was fear that he would again be carried back to prison that prompted Sweat to get into his cart, drive down the roadway about two mites from home and end his life with his shotgun. COLLISION IN MID AIR Ducks Met Death When They Came Together at High Speed. Not long ago, at 4 The Bluff" on Cooper liver, the old negro known by everybody thereabouts as Peter, picked up two dead teal ducks, says the Charleston News and Courier. The hill of one of the ducks had been driven through the crop and into the breast of the other. It was evident that the two clucks had collided in the air while flying at high speed and that the accident had been fatal to both o' them. .Although in this case there is no mystery involved, this is centainly one of the most interesting of the severa" queer episodes which have been brought to light in one way or another by the publication of Woods and Waters of the strange story of the loon which in swimming about off the Folly Beach, dived once too often and enine up dead without a mark on Its body to show what killed it, BOCK HILL NEWS JW; ; * : ; Former York Ceuoty MmtottvM . Conditions In Teiosi ; l 5' " AGAINST PRONE INCREASE : KltES' Body of' Fraihk Roach, Deceased JBcldier to . be Buried Sundayr-Am.ijri'r; < can Logion Poet Gaina; Meaiba^^*' Result of Drive?News of:the :Vo1*kCounty Metropolis. .y (By a Staff Correspondent.). ' Rock Hill, April 14?;Mr. Ed. F. Ay- , cock of Midlothian Texas, has . writ ten a Rock . IIIH business , maxima. \ mighty Interesting1 letter..teijlnS of ? Jlal I? lullW present conditions in . uie , liuul-?,ciuu State. Mr. Aycock .who'ia engage^ia : ' . ?. u *. ' -v'J . > ' business in Midlothian,, is;.a. Yocmpr resident of York county .dnd^js^a brother of Messrs. John andv.^iil. A^cock of Betbesda? towns^lp^a^tfvSL^vV. Aycock of Bullock's "Creek.; > , ; "Business conditions aire .bad, .b.uJti,! thing I have seen theip. mucK ^orpei" says Mr. Aycock in.liis letterJdesc)rt&lng life in Tex&s/ Because of jtbc that many York county people' Haye i relatives and friends and'/, acqualn* ' tances living in Texas.and are dirrious to know how they view ,{he 6u#Q0k; the major part of .Mr/ Aycock'a' lettdr' is here given:' '/'J "'/Y.': / Conditions here are .pretty,, the present time, especially".with the; ' farmers. In 1919 it began .rtflning^ ta'-' the early fall and kept it up. throughout the entire fall and winter,.keepipg , the farmers out of the fleld during" the fall and early winter. 'There /was," hardly any grain sown at all, jfchlrf dOhfpelling the fanners, to put In, a larSre cotton crop in 1920.-'.' Labor .- wa^r scarce and high, cotton 'yhopplxig. run-. ' r ning as high as $4.50 per. day. .. .The high cost of labor -and every'thfng . else connected with farming^ m&de the cost of producing the .* cotton dty mlcrhtv hiah?on averace of abouthib per pound to produce, g&thdr,. gtil aid* put in bale. On account' oif'the^fete,. wet spring the flrtt planting of-ColCon " failed to come up ahd 'Had ' to ,"b&"Tt- ' . planted. Planting seed being vejry; scarce they, had to pay'from $100.00 per ton foi* 'scedfc' tiiklng'dOny kind they -could get''^Tijis*; made the crop frbm'two^ Laie; the< larger port'- of^i^peklugTn^ the latter part of Oct v too late to get the market when l)?Rf lsh enough to store arid tftitait," bellp#ing it would go b'ack td i-4tt'per pZ>una.'. J Much of- It Is still belnjfWldt/With th^'' results that' there Isvh<it*one''f0rmfeK out of ten that was i?* ? .1 J'cura ucuio, auu > vvrvv?^po* are very few that ha^e tthyt^lfw.^ to1 start this years crop",;<Jh^,V' * .)". j There is quite ' a. bjt^f iiejEfd'^A%$'\ otiher supplies in the' nih'dsijQf/'^no; average farmer here. Wd b^A^^Od; corn crop, a good oaW $?bp?iwt/^j very light wheat crojfc;'' T&^a^caAi". of oorn was pretty ; gfobdf wheat and oats was sholH.:^ ^There?ia lots of cotton in the'fleJ^yherV-^W. We paid as high as^ltib ' far iW'drtd'. pounds for picking in - fch'er early !ffail' and are now giving half-'brfthe'cotto'h\ for the picking. The . cotton that' 'is : being picked at thi3' time"; is' bVingirlit .02 per pound in the sWd/ whtcfi/ts ^ equal to .06 per pound in &i& lint' ;If io&\! . of this cotton could havd been' oicReil and put on the market^When'"It' first opened, it wouid have tifotight' frdm. ' .30 to .35 per pound in ;thel lint; So-' you can draw a pretty gbodTdea from1 this what the Texas farmers have lpst ?selling cotton at this time' for .06ver pound that cost him .32 ?e'r pound to: make.. There are lots of tbeni that will rtt?f Af Hohf {n Hio/nntt.' five years, unless they kick oilt.' But,' who is t(* blame??In 1917, 19i8-and' 1919 the farmer made so much money, in this country he did not kc6w what to do with it, and became ohfe of rtfte most extravagant and biggest spend-thrifts in the whole country; 'They'j^l have their automobiles?even the ones that are working one of thq .crops ,;oh the half and don't own a team have their automobiles, The making of another crop/ i3-'gtring to be quite a problem .here. . Many '/ of the farmers are badly in' debt' to the banks and also the merchants. I am a stockholder in the Piret National Bank, vice president bnd dlrei-' * tor and served last year J on the ad-. visoi^ board, this putting m^.ln pretty close touch with the banking- conditions. We took a loss of about $20,r 000.00 last year and we are Carrying over some mighty hard papeh frotn the past two years. We are loaning money to farmers for actual farm . purposes and we are making the land-lord go on the note with the tenant. Crop and chattle mortgages are proving very satisfactory with us ;and we are not going to loan any more money on that kind of security. ,'We are not going to loan any faqnbr money to make a crop unles& Tie ,plants enough corn and grain to make his feed and bread. We are tiryihg awful hard to get the cotton crbjj cut Onehalf. We have the largest grain acre- , age that we have had foi* yedrs, but ' the green bugs have been working on !t for the past two weeks aftd it TiOW looks like they are going to get the most of it before they qujt. If they do eat it up and we lost out on the big grain crop that is planted, it is going to put us in a mighty bad condition. I have four farms?onO in Bell (Continued on rage Bijjht.) '