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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
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** 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.
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"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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OLD ABBEVILLE v
Section Is Very Rich in Historic
Interest.
REFUGE OF JEFF DAVIS IN FLIGHT
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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
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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. #<?
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