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. 1 1 *'' i : 3 Ml ^Hd semi ^ l7 m. grist's sons, Publisher.. g, Jfamiiii cirs pap or: ? or t'u promotion of the political, Social, Jigricultuiial and Commercial Interests o( tty ?eopty. T E R y r^nmAW?^ ESTABLISHED 1855 """ YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1921. ^NO. * - 1 jumH VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS . ' !' ** Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "Went down to Camden the other ' day on official business," said Deputy Sheriff Tom Quinn. "1 was struck ' by the fact that the cotton fields along the road between Kershaw and Cum- J den look very poor and bare of fruit? 1 ip fact they look nothing- like as healthy as York county. I was unable to \ learn how much damage the boil 1 weevil has done in that section this year, but it was quite evident that its ] ravages are being felt." _ 1 Just Throe Years Ago. i "Just think," said a lady yesterday, ( "only three years ago: "York county folks were whooping , up tbe Fourth IJberty Loon. "Collecting clothing for the impoverished. Belgians was a popular justtime. "Conserving gasoline on Sunday was looked upon as a patriotic duty. "Coffee without augur had gotten to be almost a habit. "Contributions of household linens > to the Red Cross for hospitals in France were of un every day occur- ( rence. j * Men and boys, women and children . everywhere were admonished to save f 'peach stones, etc., to make gas masks. , "Daylight saving was in lorce. f "And the whole country was going ( through an epidemic^ of Spanish in- , fluenza." , To Get the Once Over. 1 That lots of ex-soldiers from every 1 section of York county are going to 1 Rock Hill on October 17, where they < will be given an examination, is the t information gathered from talks with 1 lots of them. For instance, said one Saturday: "So far as I know there Is I nothing wrong with me and I don t f know that the government owes me ' anything; but still the Bureau of War ' Risk Insurance which is assisted by r the Red Cross and the American 1a-- 1 gion makes the offer and I am going 1 to be in Rock Hill on October 17 t > get that examination because I don't r know l>ut what I might break down ' in the next low years." Information ; :l is that there are* nuni!>ers of men suf- ' ferlng with flat feet since they left Hi" !l service and there are many others i who have lung trouble from gas or exposure which has developed since v the war closed. a Stiil Opposed to Bonus. "I'm still opposed to the payment of t a cosh bonus to all ex-service men." I said Congressman Fred Dominiek of the Third South Carolina district to ( whom Views and Interviews talked } the other day. "1 am in favor," the congressman went on to say. "of any ; legislation that will help the fellow who is physlcially disabled or partially , so; but 1 am convinced that this coun- . try is in no condition financially to pay ! ( the cash to every man who served. It is true the munitions contractors have beer. paid and paid more than they were entitled and it is true that the railroads have probably been given ( more than they were entitled to. Hut j two wrongs do not make a right and because 'lie government has paid these | claims and thrown itself into a desperate financial situation ! am, not in j favor of going ahead now and inak- j ing matters worse. No, sir, 1 am not in favor of a cash bonus for all who served." Wants the Csih. J Overheard some remarks from a York county ginner the other day, and ; from what he said, there will he no j credit work at his ginnery if no has any say-so about it. "Did annosi an my wuik ia?i ?va.-v?n tin credit, and have not got my pay yet," he said, "When the fanning season commenced in this county cotton was on the toboggan down from 40 cents. It had reached the 25 cents sta- j tion. I'eople did not understand it, and thought cotton was simply doing a fool j stunt without knotting why. They felt 1 sure that when it came to its senses again it would go back to 40 cents, | where It. belonged. I kind of felt that way too, and when folks asked me to ' wait on them for the ginning because) they did not want to sell now, I agreed. Very few people paid me. 1 soon had several thousand dollars scattered overt the country and it is scattered ever the | country yet. I expect to get come of it; ; ' but how much I do not know. Hut one tiling is certain, and that is that unless people pay rnc for ginning this year " there will be no ginning." Airdale Pups. Mr. J. B. Scott and bis sons. Messrs Rodney and Jahn K. Scott of York No. 3 have recently come into jkjs.scssion of two very fine Airdale pups of l which they arc very proud and which they expect, to train. Mr. J. It. Scott is one of the best known local authorities on the Airdale, and he is well satisfied with the pedigree of the two pups he has managed to obtain j through his son-in-law Mr. Hoy Ferguson of Columbia. The grandsirc of the two pups is now in possession of , the mayor of New Yolk city who is ! also a great Airdale fancier. "The Airdale," said Ml*. Scott the' f other day, "can easily be trained to hunt 'possums, rabbits, partridges, foxes, bears or e\en larger game. In fact the late Theodore Roosevelt took several of them with him on his last j big game hunt .in Afiica. They are very intelligent, they are a one-man dog and they ate great lovers of children." Mr. Scott would like to see the Airdale increase in this section. Honesty of the Jury. "I don't take any stock in the declaration of Judge Sease that the petit juries are responsible for the alleged disrepute into which the law is falling,'' said a York county court official in the presence of Views and Interviews, Saturday. "It is my deliberate opinion that the average York county petit Jury wants to do what is ?ight in every case, and unless misled in some way, either by the lawyers or the judge, generally it will do what is right. "I am not a lawyer, and am not supposed to know anything about law; but as I understand it. the object of the jourttf is to punish evil doers for wrong committed, to the end that it will make them better citizens and by the example ?Hiia held ud deter others from fall Ing into the some evil ways. "To be sure it is all right to temper [ justice with mercy; but I have seen; nany a case in which it looked to me | ike the judge was deliberately bent on jndoing all that was possible of accomplishment through the proper processes of the law. "For instance I have known cases vhere the agencies constituted for the jurpose had spent weeks and weeks unning down violators of the liquor aws and getting the goods on them so >ut that escape was impossible, these same violators would come into court ind on the advice of a lawyer plead ,'uilly of first offense and all that kind >f thing and receive a suspended sentence. Why there is on record in our ourt one case in which fifter an of'ender had plead guilty attention was called to the fact that he was then unler suspended sentence for the same >ffense, and the judge did not do a hing but give him a new sentence for he new offense and suspend that. "Of course a judge is able to justify limself for this kind of thing on the pound of mercy, on the ground of tryng to make a better citizen of the defendant or any other old ground he night, with a long, solemn, benevolent 'ace lay down; but as I see it it is all >unk. '"The acts of the general asSbmbly >rescribe certain and particular dtnngs >y citizens as transgression of the law, in<i judges are i?;u on uie ufiicn iu nn-1 o it that when these transgressions j ire proved the transgressors are punshed in accordance with a proscribed schedule. I cannot see it in .any other vay than that judges arc or should be is much bound by law as anybody else, ind when a judge, sworn to do othervise, assumes to be a law unto himlelf and allows a convicted transgress>r to go free for the accommodation of ihe transgressor's lawyer or for any >ther reason, he is worse than the convicted transgressor himself. "I am of opinion that if we wi'l go ifter every transgressor with a sharp dick and punish him according to law when he is found guilty, we will hear ess and less about the laws falling into disrepute. \ "JJut a judge who thinks he can do my fool thing he wants to without making a bad impression on jurors, ourt officials and spectators, needs to lake a new start and learn something jotter arid sounder than lie now seems to have about him." A RAILROAD UNDER ROOF Southern Pacific Has Many Miles of Snowsheds in Sierras. Operation of the Southern Pacific rail load over the Siarras on the OgJen route between Sparks, New, 5U7 miles west of Ogden, and Itoseville, t'al., 13*.t miles farther west, presents difficulties, to overcome, which. expedients. in construction, maintenance, e<miphient and operation have been evolv (I that together constitute a bit of railroading spectacular enough to impress even the unsophisticated. Uriefly summarized these difficulties include tlie operation of a single track having grades ranging from 7'J.2 to 125.12 feet to the mile and curves up to 10 degrees radius, on which train movements average one in each twenty-one minutes of the movements of helpers engines, and in a region where tlie annual snowfall sometimes amounts to more than sixty-five feet and aveiages two-thirds of that amount. In order to cope with this extraordinary precipitation the company is obliged to maintain thirty miles of snowsheds in a distance of forty-one miles, twenty-nine miles of tli? sheds being concentrated in thirty miles of line. While snowsheds are not rait' on mountain rouua nuumin approaching: so great a mileage ol' railroad under roof is to he found anywhere else in*tho world. The snow is concentrated in a period of three months. It is very wet. and heavy: and as there is littlo wind it lies where it fails. Very little goes off during the winter. It keeps settling until the average depth on the level is fifteen feet though a depth of twenty-si:; feet has been measured many times. This makes the snow very heavy with streaks of ice in it. --Iiobert Hums, Scotland's lyric poet, was the son of a poor nurseryman, and was himself a small farmer and revenue'"officer. # CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS Soldier Delegates Had a Most Delightful Time in Newberry. MEETING WAS THE BEST EVER HELD Incidents and Observations Gathered on the Road and In Newberry?Cotton Crop Badly Off All Along the way. Traveling .to Newberry (iy the Irene Bridge across Broad River in Cherokee county; from, thence to Union, then to Whitmire and on to the journey's end from Yorkville is a distance of about 90 miles according to calculation ot E. Bamford Garrison of the Philadelphia section who fliwered himself and Henry Brown of Filbert, Baxter B. Robinson of York No. 1 and P. A. Smith and JAs. D. Grist of Yorkvilie there Tuesday as the representatives of Mcech Stewart Post No. 66, American Legion to the annual state coinention. It was an awfully hot and dry day and people busy in the cotton fields and at the ?ins along the way just looked so tired that they might drop any moment. ^ The crop prospect through western York Cherokee, Virion and Newberry Isn't anything like ns good as it w,as this t^e a yestr ago according to lots of people living along the wiry who were asked about it. In fact, cotton has deteriorated greatly in all that territory in the past two we' s. fAcrooge was reduced considerably to start with; fertilizer has been cut almost fifty per cent throughout that section a,nd the Good Lord has done the reat In Newberry the crop is furtlier advanced than in the other sections traversed. in some sections of that county these lads in the party who are farmers gave it as their opinion that at least one-third of the crop has been gathered. Quite a number of ginneries were doing business, long lines of cotton wagons awaiting tlieir turn. Getting in the vicinity of Newberry the party came upon the 11th United States infantry from Camp Jackson camped for a day there in order to take in a part uf the American I?egion officers and soldiers; In the camp and convention. There were 1,000 or more officers an soldiers in the ramp and 200 mules/ That camp looked for all the world like Camp Sevier in the early days before things were well straightened oat during the late war. Arriving in Newberry the streets were ; live with American Legion inen. soldiers and local townsmen come to give them the glad linnd. On the streets, around the hotels, at Newberry College, in I lie diug stores there were rev unions of former buddies who hadn't Hw, n,? 25*"T." 11 UUt' ?( I LvJ I 11 (J 1 SIUIC U?V vi uiv war and others who hadn't seen friends wince they were in school together. Newberry is a city of about 7,000 people. It has three banks, three cotton mills, many fine stores, tv?-o fine hotels, a handsome court bouse; fine school buildings?in fact, it is right much of a town. It is the h<<me ol Newberry College, the Lutheran college of South Carolina and it was at the college that many of the delegates were quartered while others were entertained in private homes and hotels. Three Newberry men to whom perhaj? most credit is due for the delightful entertainment of the American Legion convention were Dr. John B. Setzler, commander of Newberry Post No. 24; Duane Livingston, publicity chairman of Newberry Post and Hal Kohn, the first commander of the post. Kohn. who is a young chap, runs a stationery and novelty store in Newberry and is one of the livest, most hustling youngsters in the state. His store was headquarters frr the delegates and whenever they wanted any information or any thing else why that was where they got it. Newberry has a comparatively new court house. It is a court house almost as tine as the York county court house. The old court house is a mighty nice building. The old court house was given to the Newberry post of the Legion as its headquarters and 1 it was here that the sign "General Head Quarters" hung out during the convention although the meetings were held in the new court house. It just seemed like everybody tried ' to outdo everybody else in courtesy ! and hospitality to the delegates. I Among the prominent citizens of Newberry who were everywhere all the time trying to make it pleasant for the visting lac's were: I)r. S. J. Derrick, president of Newberry College; Dr. : George B. Cromer; John M. Kinard, Col. E. H. .Vnil. editor of the New! berry Herald and News; Messrs. W. H. Wallace and T. M. Sewell of the i Newberry Observer; Mayor Eugene S. j Hlea.se, Owen Holmes, prominent coti ton buyer, Congressman Fred H. Dominick and a host of others. flovernor Kobe t A. Cooper appeared to thoroughly enjoy the day he i unnttl it'ifh t lir? l?wl< in Vpil'liPIM'V ' Wednesday. In conversation with .a rej<crter for The Yorkville Enquirer, the governor stated that his health had IxH'ii very had this year and lie hadn't been feeling at nil well; but that he was much better now. He made a fine address to the Legionaires following the Barbecue at Willowbrook I'ark Wednesday in which he pleaded foa their aid and influence in main taining law and order in the stati and the convention pledged him by a rising voie. Senator Neils Christensen of Beaufort, one of the best known public men in South Carolina was one of the most interested delegates in attendance upon the convention. It was the flr3t time that the senator had been prese.it; but he stated that he would never miks another. "The American Legion," h* said, "is one new organization in this state that is going to grow and nourish and I am proud to be a Legionaire." The senator said that he expected to come to York county on a visdt pretty soon. The Fifth Congressional district fared quite well in the distribution of officers. In addition to the election of Bamford Garrison of Meech Stewart Post of Yorkville as a delegate to Kansas City to the national convention October 28. Lyles Glenn of Chester was elected on executive commit tee rrom tne siaie at targe ana ur. John Hamilton^ of Wlnnaboro, succeeds H. L. ^Elliott of WInnsboro as a tmember of the state executive comm!tee. t Ben E. Adams of Charleston was disposed to take his defeat as state commander with the best of grace. He iost by eight votes. Adams who was a non commissioned man in the army is a native of Georgia and has been in South fcarolina only five years. He ip on the editorial staff of the Charleston Neiws and Courier and is president of the South-eastern Poultry Growers' association. "My defeat shall not interfere in the least with my efforts in helping in every way I can to build "up the South Carolina Legion," he saJd. Aviator Lester E. Shealy of Charlotte who wlU be remembered by manv York county people as being in Yorkville with hfs plane on July 4, last drove into Newberry Wednesday evening. He made many flights Thursday, his passengers including one of the Yorkville delegates. Lack of History.?The forthcoming historical pageant in Greenville will inform thousands of people of the Piedmont section as to parts of its past history about which they are ignorant. Those in charge are now requesting the loan of books which contain that portion of our history which relates to the period covered by the pageant, from 1750 to 1850. As a matter of fact, printed volumes dealing with the history of upper South Carolina are few and scarce. Not long before the War Between the States Dr. John li. Logan of Greenwood, wrote and published one volume, of a history of upper South Carolina. There is a tradition that he also wrote a second volume, but that he was so displeased \%ith the lack of interest indicated by the sale of the flrst that he threw the manuscript of the second into the tire. The Piedmont knows of but two copies of the published volume in Greenville. The public library of Anderson searched for years before it could obtain one. United States District Judge H. H. Watkins of that city, after a long quest obtained a volume in Florida, but the flrst pages were missing, and he had to have then copied from another book on a typewriter and filled in. That is the only history of up?>er South Carolina which has ever been published, with the exception of Dr. J. B. O. Landrum's book issued about 20. years ago. This is a volume of much interest and value, preserving a number of local traditions and history that otherwise might have been lost. Dr. Landrum's book is also hard to And. The Piedmont knows of no history of any single county in the Piedmont section except Dr. Landrum's history of Spartanburg county. The late Col. S. S. Crittenden did this county a great service in compiling and publishing his little booklet on the past of Greenville county. C. M. Calhoun wrote and published some random reminiscences of Crunwnnd eountv. Has anybody written a real history of Abbeville. Pickens, Oconee, Greenville, Laurens, York, Chester, Lancaster or Union county? Not that the Piedmont knows of. A doted Charleston lawyer remarked to The Piedmont the other day that a history of this section is actually needed. The history of the lower par^ of the state has been fairly well preserved and published. Hundreds of books J containing history of Charleston and the low country have come from the press, but the record of the Piedmont section, a stirring, wonderful story, is yet to appear.' There are fragments here and there, yet nobody has attempted to compile and publish the whole history. . Of course, to prepare a properly written history of upper South Carolina, accurate and comprehensive, would require vast labor and involve considerable expenser' for the historian or historians would have to give full time to it for years and spend many days in libraries in other sections of the nation. It is high time that the unwritten history of the upper part of South Carolina should be written.?Greenville Piedmont. ? The cotton mills of Cheniw have been forced to shut down because of scarcity of water and the people have leason to fear that the town may l>e thrown into the dark at any moment through failure of the supply of electric current. i OLD ABBEVILLE v Section Is Very Rich in Historic Interest. REFUGE OF JEFF DAVIS IN FLIGHT \ t r i Larry Gantt Recalls Some Notable In* cidents Connected W;h the Last Days of the Confederar That stria of country extending from Abbeville, S. C., to Washington, WUkes county, Ga., was the first settled in our up-country, and is rich in historic interest. The early settlers were Cavaliers from England and French Huguenots, and the characteristics of these chivalrous people are to this day noticeable in the inhabitants, and this section witnessed the rise and fall of the Southern Confederacy. A little wooded knoll in the town of Abbeville is known as "Secession Hill," for on this spot was held the first meeting to demand that South Carolina secede from the union. It was on the road | dividing these places that Jefferson Davis traversed while escaping from the Federal troops and in Washington he h41d the last meeting of his cabinet and the Lost Cause went to pieces. Old Abbeville district has given to the country some of its greatest statesmen ,and warriors, John/ Calhoun, George McDuffle and other men who made the history of our Republic were born in Abbeville. In the town stands the only old Scotch Covenanter church perhaps in that state, if not, in the south. It has a smoll congregation and who follow in the footsteps of John Knox. And in this old district is the best preserved relic of the Revolutionary war?the old Star Fort at NinetySix and the tunnel leading thereto. The walls of the fort are covered with giant oaks, and the tunnel is as perfect as when first dug. You can even read the names of the Colonial soldiers cut by them in the clay now, hard as a brick. And in this territory are found four dead towns, once prosperous business centers. Bordeaux was built by French Huguenots after their expulsion upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes. At the confluence cf Broad and Savannah rivers once stood three populous and rival towns, Petersburg, Vienna and Lisbon They were fine fiontier cities and business centers when Augusta was a small hamlet. But today sunken spots mark the sites of wells and cellars and scattered brick bats are all that remain of these dead towns are now cotton fields, as is also old Cambridge, near Ninety-Six. t After the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox President Davis began his retreat to the seacoast, to escape the pursuing Federals. In passing through Abbeville, he spent the night at the beautiful homo of hi3 friend, Col. Armstoad Burt, and crossed the Savannah at Vienna. On the Georgia side his troops left two large bronze Napoleon, guns, and for years they remained on the side of the road. Mr. Davis was guarded by a regiment of soldiers, among them some gallant Kejjtuckians. Mr. W. S. Holman, now a prosperous business man of Athens, Ga? was among the number and to him am I Indebted for much valuable information. Mr. Holman was from Bowling Green, Ky.. ind served gallantly through the war, having followed Morgan on his Indiana raid. The president of the Confederacy was followed by a string of wagons loaded . with specie, mostly belonging to the banks of Richmond, and which he was endeavoring to sa.ve from the enemy. On arriving at Washington, Ga? with several members of his cabinet, it was found that Federal troops had about surrounded his band. Mr. Davis and his cabinet met in ths third story of a large brick house, belonging to General Heard. It was decided to disband the Confederacy qnd the party separate and escape as best they could. Gen. Heard was present at that last meeting and poirted out to me the exact spot occupied by Mr. Davis' chair. This old building was demolished to make space for a modern courthouse. Afftir thi? ln<2t ni?Atlnir nf thp load. ers of our Lost Cause, President Davis made his way to the seaboard where he intended embarking on a vessel and escaping to some foreign and friendly country. But the Federal troops were hot on his trail and he"was captured near Irwington, Ga. I visited this spot and saw the bruised pine trees riddled by Federal bullets. Many falsehoods have been told about the capture~~6f Mr. Davis, one being that he was disguised in a woman's dress. This has been proved to be false. Mr. Davis wore a nlghtrobe, as had been his custom on retiring. The following extract from an address by gifted southern lady, Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, or Alliens, ua., ana wnuse pen uas done such great work in vindication of cur Southland, is here appropriate. Miss Rutherford says: "Jefferson Davis was born in Christian county, Ky., on June 3, 1808. Abraham Lincoln was born in Harden county, Ky., February 12, 1809. They were born 10 miles apart in the same state?both men Kentuckians of southern birth. "Jefferson Davis was in personal appearance, tan, ereet, lean with features very prominent; Abraham Lincoln was tall, with stooping shoulders, with prominent features but with determination written upon every lineament. "The testimony of the body servant i f ' / who was with Mr. Davis when oaptured would be sufficient to defeat the awful falsehood of General Wilson's telegram, that Mr. Davis was disguised in a woman's dress when arrested. The faithful servant said, when he heard the Yankees coming we were skeered to death, old Boss ^wa'ked Just as straight as if he was walking the streets of Richmond with Lee and Jackaoft. He was the bravest man I ever saw. I was sho the Yankees were going to hang him, but if he ever flinched nobody ever saw him. roiKS may say wnai mey piease, uui Mars Jeff sho was brave.* " I On separation of Mr. Davis gnd his cabinet the treasury train started back toward the Savannah river, as the Federal troops were reported in the advance. The train camped at a farm house near the town of Danburg in Wilkes county. The two teams were unhitched and fed and the wagons drawned into coral. But the whole country was filled with disbanded Confederate soldiers, many being from Kentucky and Tennessee, and who could -not return on account of the strong Union sentiment at their former homes. These soldleis were without means, esceot that each member of the president's guard was given a silver dollar on being dismissed. The people of the country took in these exiles and divided with them the scant food left by the war and w'hlch the Yankees had not taken or destroyed. Realizing that the Confederate treasure train would unquestionably be captured by the enemy before many hours, these old ex-Confeds organized and that night raided the train, meeting no opposition from the guard. Mr. Anderson, an old citizen of Danburg, told me that he was among the raiders and got some ten thousand dollars in gold, but the Federals hung him up by the thumbs and he had to give it up. The gold and silver were in axe boxes and nail kegs. The soldiers, with whatever tool they could find, broke open these kegs and boxes, and if gokl was ' found filled saddle bags, pockets and whatever receptacle they had. Others buried the/treasure at certain marked spots, hoping to return for It later. Mr. Anderson said if the men found silver they cast It aside as so mucn dross and renewed the search for cold. The night after this raid a Kentucky soldier stopped at my father's house in Elbert county and discovered that he was a Mason, remained the night with him. I remember that it took nAy father, the soldier and a stout negroto carry the saddle bags into the house where they were locked in a trunk. Tho horse he rode, as also a lead animal, was loaded down. Afterwards I learned that the stranger had a load of gold coin and when the raiding of the treasury train was made known there was no doubt about this soldier being among the looters. In aftep years, when a man developed suddenly rich here In that section the report grew ti^tt he has got his share of Confederate gold. The father of Jefferson Davis was a native of Wilkes county, and moved to Kentucky only a few weeks before the birth of his illustrious son. Washington, Ga., is also the home of Gen. Bob Toombs and other great and famous men. HEFLIN IS ENTHUSIASTIC Alabama Congressman Sees Big Jump in Cotton Prices. Giving it as his opinion that there will undoubtedly be a very large jump In, the price of cotton next spring. If not before. Senator Heflln, of Alabama, a member of the 3enate committee on agriculture, and a well posted cotton expert, has made the following statement: "We have consumed ard exported more than eleven million bales of cotton since July 1920. The southern cotton mills have made heavy inroads on the low grade cotton produced in 1920. The cotton of that crop now remaining unsold is mostly high graoe cotton. "The cotton crop this year win oe in the neighborhood of seven million bales. April, May, June and July of next year will see the smallest supply of and the greatest demand for American cotton that the world has witnessed In a long time, Germany's demand for American cotton is growing in leaps and bounds. Germany is out after a very large part of the world's cotton goods trade. One of the largest cotton producers in the United Stateo is now in Germany arranging for the direct sale of American cotton to German interests. "The War Finance Corporation ani nounces that negotiations for ad van ccs to finance agricultural products for export sale are approaching completion as follows: "Oklahoma Cotton Growers association, 200,000 bales of cotton: Texas Farm Bureau Cotton association, 300,000 bales of cotton. "The small crop, the Increasing demand r.nd the aid furnished, the cotton producer by the War Finance Board is bound to advance cotton prices." ? The demolition of a little shack, supposed to be a tenant house, located In the heart of the city of Greenville last Saturday, disclosed a distilling plant that had evidently been in operation over a period of several years. The plant, however, had not been in operation recently. ? Samuel Richardson, one of the first famous novelists, was a Journey; man, printer, the son of a carpenter. LAND OF THE DONS .j Fort Mill Man Tails of Things Ha Saw in Spain. *. / . "Drop the average American dpwh in the Pyrenees mountains of SpftllL where I spent 16 months a fair years ?- *La ? XI t% aar agu 111 U1C CU1>/1UJT VI Cfc ilCff A'-?B w?r- , ginejring concern that had the cjflritract for building a large electric'plant near the Preach border, and ha W|jl . imagine that time haa been turned back 500 years qr more,** said a ntjjflfc 1 or two ago John E. Jones, of Fort Iftp, In teling a party of bis friends of some | of the conditions and customs he towserved in that country, relates the foil Mill Times. ' 4$ "I am not surprised," be continaeA, "to learn that the Moors are gdttifc the best of the Spaniards in their Pgtyt* and that the Spanish government' fo OAAltlni, nrnv PAAMllla In IWa rtUflS States. My observations led me to by lieve that the average 8panlfpd-*I mean the claaa from which the prHflft soldiers' must be recruited.?is whoifr Is eking in courage and that tbg'0Mf ernment is doing the natural thing fli I calling upon other conn trie# for^ty dters. Indeed, there appeared to m little patriotism among tbe woMw classes in Spain, and that not wltiifwt reason. The government does next g> nothing to improve the hard copdltjiotyl In which these people live, hut Is noy tlnually adding to their burdeES<'bjr imposing fresh taxes upon them. "There were hundreds of day loiterers employed in building the da**, I canal and power house# where I wag and I can testify to their 'gensgrgl worthlecsness. Here in the Bottth'ffifjj sometimes complain that the negqn does not do his work as well as 111 should, but the average Southern negro will do more work in one day lhan Ig tQ be expected of the average Spaniard in four daya To get any work tiMI out of the Spanish laborer one treat him. like a spoiled child, for (Nf will strike on the slightest provoettof} and when there is no provocation they frequently manage to trump up i cuse to quit work. Strikes and holV> days are the rule among tbe Laboring I classes in Spain. "There is a large floating population I of day laborers in Spain, mapy/OL, them men past middle life. Th^w Aljk have no homes and move about frttnt placo to plgce wherever they work, carrying with them only' blankets in which they Bleep, more frequently on the ground than In a'bljiffu Ing. The weather is much more in the Pyrenees mountains of Spaing winter than'it la In this sect5a^^| ' notwithstanding the oold. 1 have many times seen Spaniards after finishing their day's work wrap themselvftR & their blankets and lie down on ityg ground and apparently sleep In cefclr fort until almost time to go to wofi again. They are paid from 20 to df cents a day for thpir labor nngpjW' course have little with which to MJ I the comforts of life. fl "Spain la one of the nvoat be.Mghtq^ I of all the European countries. KXM H would not suspect that the country I stood out a few hundred years agO tg a leader among the naUeus of (H earth. 'The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome' do ait abide in Spain. A very liftge per of the people can neither read neq? write and there is a great deal of erty and suffering among the lower classes. But whether of the beftar or lower classes the Spaniards are *trc>?? for sports and what they consider a "good time.' 8unday Is the principal day of the week for pleasure ow# there. There Is no Christian Sabbatli in Spain as we observe the day in tMfc country. On the other band, the day is given over to dancing, wine draft? Ing, bull fighting and other forma df "But fighting Is the principal national sport. I have seen a few bull fight* l* Barcelona; and 1 ana glad we have nothing so brutal In this county Thousands flock to see the flghts -lit4 which some well known toreador is to take part and so excited do-the become Jn their wild rush for ch'tHto seats when the event is about to begjp that one must be Careful or he will to trampled to death. Usually the dor is mounted on an old grey horse too wellnigh exhausted from lack of J ? ?<! Arl* 1 A nsoen* 'MtA itcu ttliU vrvtnviA VV vov?pv wppr rushes of the frenzied bull goaded fcc^ desperation by sp^ar prodding and flaunting of red flags. As a conse* quence the horse Is nearly aWrayk quickly dljemboweied by the bull, if it is able to stand up it is from the arena, sewed up and tfegA brought back into the arena to under, go further punishment by the bull. It seldom happens that the byll kill# injures the toreador. "Farming conditions are as ba^k* ward in Spain as one oopld lmagwfc There they plow with a crooked studf, as they did thousands of years ago and there is no modern farnv machinery Ut use. Living conditions around the homes of the farmers are the primitive. .4^ "I was interested <*n the antiquity q( many different things to be seen U) Spain. There many houses, always o( stone, hundreds of years old are % common sight. In the town of Lertdp, I 50 miles north of Barcelona, Is to be ?een n stone marker which bears the i date 16 B. C. In going to and from mjr, work I passed over the road hewn out" of the solid rock irt tli* Pyrene^? mountains by Caesar's legions beforfc the time of Christ.'' I ? The city of Bamberg. Is boring ttt 8-inch well to guard against a wafer shortage. #<? J?