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. " " ' ' ^ S ? . ": - 'dSEMI WEEKLY. ^ ' _ i ...... 1 . 11 - - - i ii l. m. grist's sons, Publishers. Ju <^atnH|| |lf tcspaptr: <J[i>r the jpromotion jf tlic {political, Social, Jjjrictiltmtal anil ffommcr.ciat Jnfcrcsts nf the |JtopIq. TER"^uscopT,EriTENoEi?TsfNCE ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, .JULY 10, 1921. _ . NO. 57 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS" Brief Local Paragraphs of More, or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed ! For Quick Reading. "Demand for palm, beach clothes has [ been usually brisk this season with the j result that it is well night impossib'e to buy them now," said a Yorkvilie t merchant who was talking about clothes yesterday. "For several years past the demand for palm beach [clothes has been steadily growing," the merchant went on to say. "One who tries to buy palm beach at this season of the year is about out of ) luck." Six Per Cent Cotton Money. A well informed banker was discuss( * ing the promise of the Federal Reserve bank to lend farmers money on their cotton at C per cent, announcement to which effect has recent'y been made by 1 the Federal Reserve board. "So far as I know." the banker went on to say, "none of the banks are in position to take carc of the farmers as yet because the banks don't know the rate at which the reserve bank is going to let them have the money to loan to the farmers. "Refore the rate was around 3 per cent, and maybe it will be that again but we don't know. "However if the rate to the banks is say 4 per cent, we will be in position to take care of the farmers at G per cent, and we will be able to make money out of it. "There is no question of the fact, however, that the Federal Reserve bank can help the farmers and the south wonderfully if they do make arrangements to lend money on cotton at 6 per cent." What Do You Know. QUESTION'S 1. What French monarch was so influenced by Mme. du Karfy that she became the real ruler of the country until his death? 2. Who was the author of the novel, -Trilby?" 3. On what island do the Dyaks, who formerly made trophies of their enemies' heads, live? 4. What names are given to tin three small hones of the middle ear because of their shupe? * 5. What is the shape of the earth's orbit? (1. What state group name is given to Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Islands? 7. On which sfidc of the sun's disk dors an eclipse always begin? X. On which side of the moon does no ec'ipsc always begin? t?. In which of its phases must the moon always bo when it is eclipsed? 10. What is the state flower of Mississippi? ANSWERS 1. Louis XV. 2. Du Maurier. .1, Murium. 4, Hammer, anvil and stirrup. la. ; ' I Ellipse. (!, New England Stares. 7.; Western. X, Eastern. 1). Full moon. 10. j Magnolia. Be'ievuR in Baseball. TVi * lr i n ? In Alt* "YV T t!.n) mi'iiM r.l tin. ! well known contractor of Yurkville ana ! I Clover, the other clay about various things, principally baseball, Mr. Ileaniguard lives in Clover; but is in Yorlcville about as much as he is in Clover and claims both places. When he was a great deal younger than he is now he was a famous baseball player. l*'or a long time he and M. L. Smith eon- i stituted the battery for the Clover j team. Bcamguurd jdtcher and Smith i catcher. "We had a pretty good team for that j day and time remarked Mr. Ileum- i guard: but I suppose it wou'd hardly i stand much of a showing with such a team as we have today. "What do you think of baseball ' now," 1 asked, "are you still as much i of a fan as you used to be " "Why I suppose I am. You know Clover boasts of being the greatest j baseball town in the state in proper- j lion to population and I could not be j comfortable here if I was not still in-! terostcd in baseball. I never miss a panic if I can help it and generally I ma nape to help it, as you son." "Then you have ma got to tin- ape: when you look upon playing huselinil as a frivolous waste of time?" "No, and I hope I never will." Mr.! l'camguard replied emphntiealiy. "The i late Capt. W. 15. Smith, who was J probably responsible for the bast ball ; enthusiasm that has so Imp;' been ' characteristic of Clover, used to say: j 'I have not pot much hope for a boy who hicks the cnorpy to make a pood ^ baseball player. If lie hasn't ciioiiph i encrpy to play baseball, be is ma like- j ly to amount to much; but if lie makes] pond in hasebnil, he will sooner 01 later make pood in whatever oectipa- | lion he chooses for a like work." I have thoupht often of the ?>!<! Captain's declaration. I do not know bin thai lie \\ 's pretty near ripht." The Cotton Situation. "Why of course I don't know: bui 1 have an idea that new cotton is poinp to open up around 1J cents," said John T. lioddey of Kock Hill, when asked his opinion about the matter (lie other day Mi". Itoddey if; peucrstllv re .Si-mt'l lilies ;i women .-> ...... j ?:inil oeeasionally il is plaited. ' There is always rumu at the i"|>. I?nt j few iif us i art' fur an tittle ruuin. Kt?"tis;: Any person wi.Ii mure tnuiMcs than yourself. Nn. Henrietta, the porter mi a s'eep-i i11;? car isn't called a iwirteriiiastor. yet lie is. Mail weather often proves a lilc.ssinu in disguise l?y afl'iinline people some- i ihint? t<> talk almtil. A man occasionally interferes withthe affairs of a woman without getting! the worst of it in hooks. Nothing pleases a spinster when she lias oeeasioii to stop at a hotel like he- j ing assigned to suite Hi. A woman's idea of a dutiful hiisltand is one who will slay a' home and look j after the hahy while she spends the i afternoon shopping. ^ j - -Congressman .laines F. I'yrnes in-j formed the Augusta Chronicle that he I has presenUd to Chairman Anderson of j t In joint eong'-cssioual i oniiniil tee in-' . vestjgating agricultural conditions' : eopii s of the address of John Skellon I Williams at Augusta on July I I. and thai Chairman Anderson informed him jil'.yrriesi that Williams's ehargts .against the Federal Reserve hoard will j he investigated and that Williams will l.e summoned to Washington within ' i lie m xt few da ys I Sometimes the harrtcst things to bcsir arc what the neighbors say. The shadow of suspicion often results from the casting of reflections. A diplomat is a man who gets what lie wants l<y pretending not to want it. "Conversation is a dead art," says a philosopher. II was ta ked to ileatli. The girl who is chummy with her father and brothers hasn't much to fear from other men. If a man .makes a specially of painting towns red he cannot hope in remain in the pink of perfection. When a woman neglects to put her hands to her haek hair occasionally she ha* n't much left to live for. If you recommend a man for a position it is do.igliluuts to fudge you will he hlamed all the rest of your natural | life if he happens to go wrong. Two swelled heads are worse than j i one. Truth isn't always a thing of beauty. | hut it isn't the truth's fa n't. - ii-" -Mill.. I. ! "VUUUn nan ui vti nvi.il .-iv<ni v*i < .. sis of real genuine supply and demand except during the World war. "Jiut the farmers as a whole haven't learned that the only way to get a fair price for their product is to keep production down. As a c'ass they arc very, very foolish and nobody knows that they are fools any better than the New York Cotton exchange. "I' c lived in New York and I've boon around the Cotton exchange quite a hit. "When a man in New York wants to call another a Cool he doesn't tell him that he is a fool, lie says, 'Vou are a farmer.* "Some of these days, though," Mr. Roddey went on to say, "the farmers of the south arc going to wake up to the situation. 'They are going to realiize that they can control the situation if they will and they are going to do just that, it nviy not be in my lifetime, but it is coming." Peppery Paragraphs. Fiction is falsehood done in colors, j A stitch in time may save a hig sur- j germ's fee later. Wise is the fool who knows enough J in keen it to himself. yarded as one of the best informed cotton men in this .scctiop and his opinion is worth something. "Just how long the market will remain around, thill price depends upon the size of the crop and how it Is marketed." Mr. Roddey went on to say. "But southern farmers need not expect to get rich nut of this crop. The farmers, you know, are stilt as much slaves as were the black slaves during the War. Between the Siatcs. "Each year the Xew York Cotton exchange gamblers' set aside so much money for the purchase of the southern cotton crop. Figuratively speaking they just put so much money asiue and they say, 'now we arc going to give this money fur the crop?or rather we are going to allow this money for the crop, if the farmers make S,000.000 bales they will get this sum of money for it. it tncy mase ts,000,000 bales they will get this sum of money for it. "So if the farmers make a big crop they don't get as much per pound, or course us they do when they make a small cro)). "It is the visible surplus that largely controls the cotton market. In fact, in my opinion that is what controls it absolutely. Suppose the farmers make a big crop and warehouse it?keeps it off the market. The manufacturers knowing that the cotton is there just the same just simply sit back and wan until the farmers have to sell at the manufacturers' price. 4*.? l..... k/mn c5/"\lr1 nn >1 lifl ? ROCK HILL NEWS BUDGET Boll iWeevIl Has Advanced to the Outskirts of York County. FARMERS HAVE HAD GOOD SEASONS Fishermen Find Little Market for Carp ?15,000 Bales of Cotton in Warehouses?Other News and Notes of Metropolis of York County. (by u Start Correspondent.) *1 Rock Hill, July 1C.?i'nge the boll weevil! IP Kmn't into York county yet, it is just a matter of a few days until he is within the borders of the White Hose. No, there is no mistake about it. The "bug that is with the (ai mers in the Harmony section, in the Edgmoor section, around Lewir.? Turnout and other Chester sections bordering on York, is the real, genuine, unadulterated boll weevil. Farmers from those sections who were in Hock Hill today were talking about it. Some of them had been down stale where the boll weevil has been working for more than a year. Others had studied, about boll weevils until they couldn't possibly be mistaken. All are of the opinion that it will advance into York county within the next few days. What it is going to do for this year's crop is purely a matter of speculation. Some say that it will clean * t ,,,111 tilings up ann ouuus say mm mut ..... not be much doing. A'l arc convinced that the weevil will be here in force next year and that the present is the last year thai they will be able to make a cotton crop without great depredations from the weevil. Fish Go Begging. Fresh fish brought to Rock Hill today from Catawba river were hard sale. .Just why is not known unless there were more' fish than the Rock Hill market could take care of. Lots of the fish brought in today were carp and nobody around Rock Hill who knows a bit about fish is particuarly keen about carp. One young fisherman from the river Miction walked around the streets this morning carrying by the gi'ls a carp that weighed eight and a half pounds. He tried faithfully to dispose of tnc fi?h but beinc unable to find a sale fur il had to carry it back home. The Curb Market. The "country store" or curb maiket originated here several weeks ago by Miss .lunnlta Nrely. woman's home demonstration agent for York eouni... continues to do a good business on Saturdays.* A large quantity of country produce, including chickens, huttcv, eggs and. vegetables, was brought in by ladies from the countryside this morn- | ing- and as usual most of it was dispos- j ed of at prices satisfactory to everybody concerned. As a general thing the business of the "country store" is about over on Saturday mornings by 11 o'clock. The ladies from the country who bring produce to the store come early and Hock ilill housewives who buy most of it come to the market between S and 10 o'clock in 'the morning. So by li o'clock, as a usual thing, there is nolh ins; left but ihc leavings. Street Paving Progressing. Street paving in progress in Roch Lliii is progressing rapidly and tincon tractors arc losing no time with the work. I'aving work on Oakland avenue, which was in progress Cor several weeks, has been completed and. the street is open again. However, a mimber of other streets are still eloscdnnd more or less inconvenience' is caused to peop'e coming in and out. Flier Carrying Passengers. Lieut. Harry .J. Kunser, flying a. British avru 1 mi - horsepower rotary motor aeroplane, has 'oeen in Rock Hill making flights for several days and is stili i here. The plane is parked on Cherry j Field, near the eil.v, and numbers of Rock Hill people have avalied themselves of the opportunity to go up. Aeroplanes are no longer a novelty for liock lli'l, airmen from different rites around dropping into the city quite! often. I No Cotton Selling. Little cotton has been sold on the Rock Jlill market for the past ten days or more and. indications today were that there would lie mighty little selling in the near future. A Rock Hill warehouseman, who is quite familiar with storage conditions here, told The KnqHirer's correspondent this morning 1 I.IM I loin IrVnnil I I l?l L 111**1 ? ?? V II** II ".7 ....... ?F hales of cotton, tiie property of farmers. stored in flock Hill warehouses. The warehouseman also volunteered the information while he was talking, that the warehouse people were having a pretty hard linn- of it along with everybody else Just now, by reason of the fact that few if any farmers were paying their monthly storage charges. Vet insurance hills and general expense hills have to lie met regularly, requiring the warehouse people to visit the bankers. The Crops. farmers in various seetions arotinci Itock 11 ill say thai they have been having good seasons of late and most of tln m admit that the crop prospect is as good as usual for this season, if nut bet- j | tcr. "it is a good prospect all through I York eountv, although I don't know| whether or not many farmers would he willing to admit," commented .h'hn T. I Roddey this morning. .Mr. iloddey, who j has been spending several weeks with i his family in Montreal, came down on I i'Vidny for a d:t\ or two to look r.fiov \ to replenish the rresn water supply. Although plans for ridding the seas of these dangers to navigation have often been proposed the coast, guard officers insist the icebergs "still rule the northern sea.' They arc awaiting with interest reports of experiments made by the destroyer Mreckenririge which shot several hergs with torpedoes. Some of the coast guardinen are frankly skeptical of this plan and insist that a torpedo would make no more impression on an iceberg than a popgun would on a mountain of col.t on. ? A jury at Cleveland, Ohio, has convicted .Mrs. Kva Catherine Kaher of conspiracy to murder her husband. Daniel ! '. Kaher. The trial was longdrawn out. It. was shown that after failing to poison her husband, Mrs Kaher had him slabbed to death. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy, which means that the woman must go to the ivmitenliary for life. have been warned when they were headed for the ice. The open winter caused :i large number of bergs to break away early and drift south. They have become an abnormally serious inenance to navigation. according to naval officers. Many are of huge dimensions. The giant of nil the icebergs is doscribed by Lieut. Comander E. H. Smith, navigaolor of the Seneca, as approximately one third of a mile long and towering 7f> feet above the water. This berg remained in sight for nearly a month, during which time it travelled 3(10 miles. The vagaries of the ice movements are shown by the fact thai another berg circled about the vessel, covering 3." miles in three days. At times the patrol boats have gone alongside the floating refrigerators to obtain cracked ice for the wardroom or huge chunks which could be melted GIANT ICEBERG FOUND Third of n Mile Long and Towers 75 Feet Above Water. Icebergs of unusual size and number, one of them estimated to contain enough ice to supply the homes of a large part of the country fur the rest of the summer, have been encountered by the United States coast guard cutters Seneca and Yamnerow which arc policing I lie icenn steamship lanes, relates a Mosloti. .Mass., dispatch. Since early February the United States government, acting under an international agreement and at international expense, lias maintained the annual iceberg patrol. The coast guardsmen have helped many vessels to steer a safe course through the danger zone. Some have, been extricated from serious positions, others attention they can to the road; but they can't be there all the time. The best solution is a regularly employee officer to watch the rcikd, according to. Hock Hill people. The Price o? Gat. Considcrab'c "gas" fy being dispensed by some Hock Hillianjgabout the price of gas. Same of local car owners declare that local filling stations arc. charging mfcrc for gasoline than other towns and country stores charge for the stuff and they are asking why. Numbers car owners artdriving out of town to" buy their gasoline. Personal Mention. Messrs. Edward and Donnom Spcneef of Vorkvillc, visited their brother. Air. C. W. F. Spencer, here this week. .Mrs. Dexter J-irown and Miss Maggie Gist of Vorkvil'c, were visitors to Rock Hill today. business affairs. "The crop prospect looks mighty good to me," he went on to say, "both cotton and corn, and 1 don't sec that our farmers have got much to kick about along that line." ' Want Game In Rock Hill. Rock Hill baseball fans arc anxious ' that the "rub" game between Chester and- the American Larrupors of YorkviHe. be played at the fair grounds in Rock Hill. Each team has won one game and it is going to be necessary to play the "rubber." Said a Roch Hill fan this morning: "We would like mighty well to see that game playea in Rock Hill. Chester beat the lard oui of Rock Ilill here; but we liavc hopes of the. Legion bunch trimming them. If the game should be played in Rock Hill you would be assured of a gooa crowd from ChesLer; a good crowd from Yorkvillc and practically all 6l Rock Hill." Quiet in Police Circles. There has been a comparative quiet in police circles in Rock Hill for sev eral days past. Several weeks ""fgo tne police department was kept busy looking after petty burglaries, etc., but there has been little of that kind of thing for the past several days, Recording to Assistant Chief Merritt. However there is never any telling when it is going to start up again and the police must be on the* alert. Want a Speed Cop. There is considerable agitation in Rock Hill for the employment of a speed cop who shall spend all of his lime on the Cherry road between Rock Hill and the- Catawba river bridge. It is actually dangerous for careful automobilists to travel that road any more, according to Rock Hill people. "Reckless, careless, daredevil drivers are always burning 'em up there; wrecks Cf a more or less serious natue are constantly happening and tfte situation Is orjc that holds the lives of peop'e who whuld like to live in jeopardy. Special Constable Johnson, Sheriff Quinn and Ebenezer township officers give all the CLOVER NEWS BUDGET Construction Work on New Sqhool Building is. Now Under Way. SWIMMING POOL GROWS IN FAVOR Clover Defeated King's Mountain Saturday?Town to Bore Another Weli for Water Supply?Other News and Notes of tho Metropolis of Northern York County. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Clover. July IS?Sum K. Moore, subi stitute mail carrier on Clover No. 1, also had a narrow escape fron^ death when his horse was killed by lightning neap Bethany church Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Moore was rendered unconscious by the bolt and it was some time before he was ^ble to grasp the situation. The buggy was uninjured. Mr. Moore also suffered slight burns. Good Auto Record. "Walter B. Moore of Clover, returned home Saturday afternon after spending several days in Richmond, Va. Mr. Moore was accompanied to Richmond by his daughter and Mr. Ed Whisonant. The trip was made in a Ford 1 KaI Im'Ai? thnt "hr* Vtnlrlc illiu IVII". iUUUl C UCtiV>co V11CVI. iiv. the "slight trouble" record of this section for such a long trip. He had one puncture on the trip which included more than S00 miles and the machine also suffered a broken fan belt. Upon his return he learned that his horse had been killed by lightning while he was away, the animal having been driven by Sam Moore substitute carrier for \V. B. Moore. The roof of the barn on Mr. Moore's place was also blown off by wind during his absence. Interest in Swimming Pool. Day after day interest increases in the public swimming pool and in the afternoons especially many Clover people of all ages come to the pool? some of thorn to swim and others to watch the swimmers. It is a common occurrence to see as many as thirtyfive swimmers in the pool at one time. The water, which is changed weekly, is furnished by the city water system and the town council has agreed that no charge will be made the School Improvement association who own the pool, for water this year.. Odis Uobinson, Trinity College student who is spending the summer here has been employed as life-guard and caretaker I at the pool and is on the job at all I time.'?. Season tickets are being sold, j permitting all holders to enter the pool as often as they care to. The | total cost of construction was about I1.250. / BuHdihg New School House. Work of making the necessary excavations for the new school building to bo erected in Clover has been commenced. The new building will join the present building and it is proposed to push construction work as rapidly as possible. The new building, it is stated will hardly be ready for occupancy by the time the fall term of school ->pcns. Construction work 011 the new First ..?M.?|, 1 miiiiiriir here is l*riWI,Vli:i inn v...... .. also l>oin?: pushed rapidly. The building is being erected by day labor in charge of a mm potent overseer. The odilice will not he completed for scvj era I mont hs. | Clover Defeats King's Mountain. The Clover "Town Rounders" defeated the King's Mountain. North Carolina baseball team on Hawthorn Field. Saturday afternoon, fi to 4. It was a. slow, uninteresting game of J baseball although at times there were I flashes of the national game, as it should he played. "Red" Ormond, j second baseman for the visitors, j starred at hht, getting a terrific drive I to the centerfiejd fence which lacked I only about two inches of going over and netting the hatter three bases. It was said to have been the longest Mt registered on Hawthorn Field this season. Louis Smith of Filbert. Presbyterian college Hurler, pitching for Clover, allowed himself to get into sovcrn 1 pretty bad boles mil ne was there witn the fronds in the pinches. Lee Ormond, pitching for the Tar I Heels did a good job but the support accorded him was miserable and real i/.ing that he couldn't win the game by himself he appeared to let up considerably toward the last. There were several jungles between the umpires and players, the King's Mountain crowd doing most of tlm jangling. A big crowd, including perhaps a half hundred Yorkville people turned out for the game which failed to hold their interest. The afternoon was dreadfully hot. causing the perspiration to come out on the face of the painted little girl sitting on the first row of scats in the grandstand right I near the entrance, making her face to look like it was afflicted with warts when it wasn't. The hot weather produced a. considerable1 thirst for the fans and the man selling colas and the i lad.v selling ice cream anil cigarettes ; did ;i rushing: business. I^cnnis Vanish umpired bulls and I'ascem TInAve buses. Their work was nil right. Dogs Named for Murderers. (I. \V. Adams of ('lover has or rather had two fine hound dogs which lie named for two famous murderers of York county who escaped from the York county jail while awaiting1 execution more than twenty years ago. One of the dogs is named "lieece" and the of her "Inioky." "Tteeco" either St raved nwnv or was stolon from the hill and vote to send it back to the committee from which it came says a Washington 'dispatch. Senator Dial holds that the hill in addition to a drain on the treasury and a burden on the taxpayers, is not in conformity with the ideas of patriotism and statesmanship. lie expresses satisfaction that the South Carolina post of the America Legion is on record as refusing to demand for its ablebodied members financial assistance from the government. There is every indication that the hill Friday afternoon will bo referred to the finance committee of the senate with instructions to report it again at a time when its terms can be complied with by the treasury. These instructions would prevent the permanent destruction of the measure. I I < 111 .v luwiia I'Vluiv; iiiuiij liivuw.w. many places in former days two and sometimes three papers were published, and nil did fairly well, but today in only n few of the larger places of the stale can more than one paper exist and break even, and it is safe lo say that in 75 per cent of the newspaper offices the proprietor is the poorest paid man in the shop today. Some papers are trying to help business by reducing their prices, but any business man who knows his costs also knows that will not get him anywhere. The above is in answer to many subscribers *.vho arc asking why The Daily Mail does not reduce its price. While things were going good this paper did not advance, like most others, for we believed that the wave of prosperity would not last and .saw no reaison for making increases that would soon have to be lowered, and our judgment proved correct.?Anderson Daily Mail. DIAL BACKS PRESIDENT Junior Senator Is Opposed .to a Soldier Bonus. Senator Dial announced this afternoon that he would stand by the administration in its position respecting the adjusted soldiers' compensation ton to jusury me (juuiiuuiuu ui ? newspaper at that, place. It used to he that one could buy a "shirt-tail full of type," as the popular expression goes, and a press, an.l start a paper almost anywhere and get away with it, but now the expenses of printing a paper arc so great that about the best any of the papers in South Carolina are doing at present is to break even; and many of them are not paying expenses but struggling along, hoping for better times. The greatest expense of any newspaper is labor, which is now at the peak, antl it costs as much in the smaller towns as in the larger citlies, and, in many cases more. For instance, printers in Anderson are getting a' week more than Hartford, Connetticut, a city probably fifteen times the size of Anderson. There arc few towns in South Carolina that can support more than one newspaper, and there will necessarily le consolidations or suspension in 4l.rtfoi.n monv mnntlic Tn I visiting relatives and friends in Washington. Rev. and Mrs. W. P. Grier and children recently visited relatives in Due West. Mrs. M. L. Jackson of Clover recently visited Mrs. Andrew Smith in Charlotte. / Miss Claude Smith of Clover is vsiting relatives in Gaffney. Miss Ailee Ross has returned to her home in Gaffney after a visit to Mrs. J. Meelc Smith here. Another Newspaper Quits. ? The Williamston Heral/1 discontinued publication about two weeks ago, after a life of a few months. The Herald was a creditable paper, but there is simply not enough business at Williams Adams home a few days ago and Mr. Adams is now making every effort to recover his prize hound. To Bore Another Well. Another deep well is to be bored in Clover to add to the town's water supply. It is possible that arrangements will also be made for the boring of a fourth well. At the present time with two wells furnishing the water supply, the town has a flow of about seventyfive gallons a minute; but since the opening of the swimming pool it is necessary that the water supply be increased. The new well, it is expected, will be completed within thirty days. Personal Mention. Miss Frances Benjamin, of Darlington, is visiting the family of Dr. R. L. Wylie here. Miss Ella Youngblood of Clover, is visiting relatives and friends in GreenI ..nu v ujtr. Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Wylie and children have returned from a visit to relatives and friends in Darlirrton. Mrs. Beulah Matthews Quinn of Columbia, is visiting relatives and friends in Clover. Dr. J. E. Brison who has been confined to his home by illness for some time past is able to be out again. O. E. Fitzsimmons of Clover is spending some time in the mountains of North Carolina. Misses Jean and Elsie Pressley have returned to their home in Greenville after a visit here. Miss Bailie Faulkner of Yorkville recently visited Miss Mildred Parrot! here. Mrs. E. M. Dickson and little son are visiting the family of Mr. James Currence here. Master Marshall Neil of Clover is SOUTHLAND STORIES, , ,1 Larry Gantt Gives Some Interesting ' Recollections. TELLS OF THE MEN OF OTHER DAYS 4 Dueling Days in South Carolina Re* called?Cash and Shannon Were Last ta Fight?The Perry-Bynum Affair. ~ fFor The Yorkville Enaulrer). During old, ante-bellum\ days in<6outh Carolina the code duelfy was as established and accepted an institution as a written law and was considered by hot-blooded members of the slave-holding aristocracy as the proper and only manner in which gentleV' men could settle their differences and disputes. And any man who refused to accept a challenge and meet an aifctagonist on.the field of honor hacbi&s well quit the state, for the brand^Mcowardice was indelibly fixed upon his brow and he was ever after a. social outcast, held in contempt by all rneii ' and women of his class. . Of course, no man with a spark of pride could afford to accept and live under such a verdict, and the result was that many little islands in the Savannah river, as also certain localities on the banks of that stream Jn both Georgia and South Carolina, were" selected as duelling grounds. The er- , roneous idea prevailed that the. Sa vannah river, being the dividing line between the two states, its islands were a 'no-man's land", and there was no legal machinery to punish offenses committed on said islands. But in. truth the courts have several times decided that the Savannah river be>longed to Georgia and its islands were as much a part of the territory of that ' state as its mainland- . : The duelling practice also prevailed in Georgia, but not to the extent as in' South Carolina. The Georgians claim-'' lng the river as their own, crossed the stream and exchanged their shots on South Carolina soil. They thus escaped prosecution in their ownstate and placed themselves under the > jurisdiction of a people who looked' upon the code duello with a condoning, eye. I never knew or heard of a man ' being punished for killing an antagon-' ist in a duel. One of the favorite .duel-* ing grounds for Georgians .was Bar Ferry, below Augusta? and'Jthfci' soil there has often- been, criimromsdl with the life-blood^o^cHWSHt^uttiGewSr A :} . il*. gians. - </a;. While duelling was practiced to a greater or less extent, in 'all*voP?ttte? * southern states, but not near-to the.'' frequency as in South Carolina, and-, Louisiana.. " i And this characteristic is transparent to anyone who has studied the., early settlement and nativity of the * two peoples. Louisiana Was first set-. /. tied by the French and theft acquired' y by Spain, and untij several years after our Civil war a preponderating majority of her population constituted, these two hot-blooded and impulsive ' nations and to this day they retain their characteristics. The lower section of South Carolina, and until the triumph of Tillmanism, the dominating and ruling portion of the Palmetto State was largely settled, by Cavaliers from England and. Huguenots driven from France after Louis XIV had revoked the Edict of Nantes. Both these claimed the blu est or blue Diooa, ,xney weic uia<? w recklessness and hated tyranny, unless such tyranny as they themselves ex- . ercised over their black slaves and the potilical tyranny through which they dominated their state. The ancestors of the English settlers had been persecuted by the Puritan Oliver Cromwell and the French by the Roman Catholic Richelieu. With the blood of such ancestry coursing through their veins the code duello and secession was as natural a sequence as for water to flow down hill. The apologists for duelling argue, and with some reason, too, that fewer, lives have been lost in such encounters than in street brawls. Where'an amicable settlement is possible it is made without bloodshed. Again, the duel puts the small and weak man on. an eqaulity with the larger and physically stronger antagonist. The duel- ' ling pistol is about ten inches. )on? and carries a large bullet. The last duel fought in Soytn varo,-_. lina was between Cash and Shannon. The latter was killed at the first fire. Col. Cash was a hot-bratned planter and Mr. Shannon a church worker and. a lawyer universally respected- In some litigation, Shannon submitted certain interrogatories to Mrs. Cash . and which her husband declared insulting and would listen to no explanation and challenged Mr. Shannon. It is said that Shannon had decided to refuse to meet Cash, as he was conscientiously opposed to duelling, tint one of his sons, a young man just of age, declared that he himself would accept the cartel, and rather than have his seta's life endangered/ Shannon agreed to meet Cash. The duel provoked such an outburst of indignation that duelling was outlawed by legislative enactment in South Carolina, and the sending or carrying of a challenge v">? not only a violation of law, but disfranchised both the sender and bearer of 1 a cartel. I could fill volumes with narratives ' (Continued on Page Eight.)