Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 05, 1922, Page Page Seven, Image 7

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w r-s v .j'. i in DESER \\ sw ^ t^u^or COPYR^HT "ZS'Cs HARPER ^ ANC "Blanco Sol 1" exclaimed Gale, mor* k "Dick, Here's Your Stand. If Any Raider Rides in Range Take a ; Crac'< at Him." In amaze that Ladd should ask for the horse than In reluctance to lend him. "Will you let nie have him?'' Ladd repeated, almost curtly. "Certainly, Laddy." : A siuile momentarily chased the dark, cold gloom that had set upon the ranger's lean face. "Shore I appreciate it, Dick. 1 .know how you care for that lioss. I guess inehhe Charley I.add has loved a hoss! An' one not so good as Sol. I was only tryin' your nerve, Dick,' askin' you without tellin' my plan. ; Sol won't get a scratch, you can gamble on that! I'll ride him down Into the valley an' pull the Greasers out into the open. They've got shortragged carbines. They can't keep out . of range of the .40.", an' I'll be takln' the dust of their lead. They can'f rain on Sol, an' he'll run them down when ,1 want. Can you beat it?" "No. It's great! . . . But sup< pose a raider comes out on Blanco friablo?" "I reckon that's the one weak place ! In my plan. But if they do, well, Sol ! can outrun Diablo. An' I can always kill the white devil!" | Ladd's strange hate of the horse ! showed In the passion of his last words, In his hardening Jaw and grim set lips. Gale's hand went swiftly to the , ranger's shoulder. j "Laddy. Don't kill Diablo unless ; It's to save your life." "All right. But by O?cl, if I ci j a chance I'll make Iilanco Sol run bin; ! off his legs He spoke no more and set aboui | changing the length of Sol's stirrups "When he bad them adjusted to suit, hj mounted and rode down the trail and out upon the level, lie rode leisurely as if merely going to water his lior^e. The long black rifle lying across ills saddle, however, was ominous. Gale securely tied the other horse ( to a mesquite at hand, and took u position behind a low rock over which he could easily see and shoot when necessary. Ladd rode a quarter of a * U nine oui upon me nut ueiuie iui.Mini^ happened. Then a whistle rent the still, cold air. A horse had seen or scented lilanco Sol. The whistle was ? prolonged, faint, but clear. It made the blood thrum In Gale's ears. Sol halted. Ilis head shot up with the old, wild, spirited sweep. Gale leveled his glass at the patch of mesquites. lie saw the raiders running to an open place, pointing, gesticulating. Then he got only white and dark gleams of moving bodies. Evidently that moment was one of boots, gnns and saddles for the raiders. Then Gale saw a rider gallop swiftly from the group toward the farther out let nf the valley. This might have been ftwing to characteristic cowardice; hut it was more likely a move of the raiders to make sure of retreat. Undoubtedly Ladd saw this galloping horsciir^. A few waiting moments ensued. Tiie galloping horseman readied the slope, began to climb. With naked eyes (lale saw a puff of white smoke spring out of the rocks. Then the raider wheeled his plunging horse hack to the level, and went racing wildly down the valley. ' The compact hunch of bays and blacks seemed to break apart and spread rapidly from the edge of the mesquites. Puffs of white smoke indicated tiring, and showed the nature of the raiders' excitement. They we he far out of ordinary range; but they spurred toward Ladd, shooting as they rode. The raiders' bullets, striking low, were skipping alfng the hard, bare floor of the valley. _ Then Ladd I i.NE GREY Riders of the Purple Sage, jf Wildfire, Etc. ^ ^ I Illustrations by Irwin Myers OaOTHEOS. ' rnised the long rifle. There was no | smoke, but three high, spnnglng re- | ! ports rang out. A gap opened In the ! I iinrir lino of advancing horsemen;. then n riderless steed sheered off to | the right. Blanco Sol seemed to turn i as on a pivot nnd charged hnek toward the lower end of the valley. He circled over to Gale's right nnd j stretched out Into his run. There were nojy five raiders In pursuit, and j they came sweeping do'-.n. yelling and shooting, evidently sure of their | quarry. Ladd reserved his fire. He kept turning from back to front In I his saddle. Manifestly he Intended to try to lead the raiders round In front of Gale's position, nnd, presently, Gale saw he was going to succeed. The raiders, riding like vnqueros. swept on in a curve, cutting off what distance they could. Blanco Sol pounded by. Iris rapid, rhythmic hoofbeats plainly to be heard. He was running easily. Gale tried to still the jump of heart and pulse, and turned his eye again | on the nearest pursuer. This raider ? Ul. UaI/) Was Crossing 111, Ills ouumc ii?7?u muzzle up In h!s right hand, and he was coming swiftly. It was a long shot, upward of five hundred yards. I Chile had not time to adjust the sights ' of the Remington, hut he knew the gun and, holding coarsely upon the swiftly moving blot, he began to shoot. The rifle was automatic; Gale needed only to pull the trigger. Swiftly he worked it. Suddenly the leading horse leaped convulsively, not up nor aside, but straight ahead, and then he crashed to the ground, throwing his rider like a catapult, and then slid and rolled. He half got up, fell hack, and kicked; but his rider never moved. The other rangers sawed the reins ; of plunging steeds and whirled to escape the unseen battery. Gale slipped a fresh clip Into the mnga; rlne of his rifle. He restrained himself from useless firing and gave eager eye to the duel below. Lndd began to shoot while Sol was running. The .40.r> rang out sharply?then again. The heavy bullets streaked the dust all the way across the valley. The raiders spurred madly In pursuit. 17\n (111, cr onrl flrino- Tliov slinf tor times while Ladd shot once, and nil i In vain; and on Lndd's sixth shot a raider toppled backward, threw his carbine and fell with his foot eatchln? j In n stirrup. The frightened horst! ; plunged away, dragging h'm In a patt j j of dust. I,add had emptied a magazine, nnc j now Blanco Sol quickened end length [ ened ids running stride. lie run awiij 1 from his pursuers. Then it vns thai the ranger's ruse was divined by th< raiders. They hauled sharply up and 1 seemed to he conferring. But thali I was a fatal mistake. Blanco Sol wni seen to break his gait and slow dowi in several Jumps, then square awaj and stand stock.still. I.ndd tired at tin j closely grouped raiders. An install', passed. Then Bale heard the spat o', a bullet out in front, saw a puff o: dust, then heard the lead strike tin rocks and go whining away. And it wni after tliis that one of the raiders fel J prone from his saddle. The steel | JO", hmt r?ntir> tlirniifrli litrr ' i on its uninterrupted way to hum pas-1 j Gale's position. The remaining two raiders frnn tieally spurred their horses and fled uj j the valley. Ladd sent Sol after them The raiders split, one making for tin eastern outlet, the other circling hael of the mesquites. Ladd kept on nfte; the latter. Then puffs of white smokt and rifle shots faintly crackling told o' Jim Lash's hand in the game. IIow, ever, he succeeded only in driving tin railer back into the valley. But Lad< had turned the other horseman, ant j now it appeared the two raiders wen} between Lash above on the stonj ' slope and Ladd below on the level ' There was desperate riding on par 1 of the raiders to keep from beic; (| hemmed In closer. Only or.e of tliem j v got away, and he came riding for life 1 down under the eastern wall. Blanco s ; Sol settled into his graceful, beautiful v swing. He gained steadily, though he ic was far from extending himself. Some few hundred rods to the left 1 of dale the raider put his horse to the j i weathered slope. He began to ciimb. t Zigzag they went up and up, and when t Ladd reached the edge of the slope 'J they were high along the cracked and v guttered rampart. Once?twice Ladd < raised the long ritle, but each time lie i( lowered it. dale divined that the i t ranger's restraint was not on account of the Mexican, but for that valiant t and faithful horse. Up ami up he went, and the yellow dust clouds rose, t and an avalanche rolled rattling and u cracking down the slope. It was lie- ( yond belief that a horse, hardened or r unburdened, could find footing nndjr hold it upon that wail of narrow i ledges and inverted, slanting gullies. But he climbed on, sure-footed as a mountain gout, and, surmounting the .. Inst rough steps, he stood a moment silhouetted against the white sky. L | Then he disappeared. Ladd sat j { astride Blanco Sop pacing" upward. How the cowboy must have honored that raider's brave steed! Gale, who had been too dumb to shout the admiration he felt, suddenly leaped up, and his voice came with a shriek: "Look out, Laddy!" A big horse, like a white streak, was hearing down to the right of the ranger. Blanco Diablo! A matchless rider swung with the horse's motlan. Gale was stunned. Then he reme inhered the first raider, the one Lash had shot nt nnd driven away from the outlet. This l'ellow had made for the mesqulte and had put a saddle on BoWling's favorite. In the heat of the excitement, while Ladd had been intent upon the climbing horse, this last raider had come down with the speed of the wind strnlght for the western outlet. Perhaps, very probably, he did not know Gnle was there to block it; and certnlnly he hoped to pass Ladd and Blanco Sol. A touch of the spur made Sol little forward to head off the raider. Diablo was in his stride, but the distance and nngle favored Sol. The raider had no carbine. He held aloft a gun ready to level it and fire. lie sat the saddle as if it were a stationary seat. Gale saw Ladd lean down and drop the .405 in the sand. He would take no chances of wounding Belding's bestloved horse. Then Gale sat transfixed with hubpended breath watching the horses thundering toward him. Blanco Diablo was speeding low, fleet as nn antelope, fierce and terrible in his devilish action, a horse for war and blood and dentil. Pfe seemed unbeatable. Yet to see the magnificently running Blanco Sol was but to court a doubt, riain it was the raider could not make the opening ahead of Ladd. no saw it and swerved to the left, emptying (To Be Continued). HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS ? 'S heap o' Times de trouble bout a man is,we.n he git t' be a LIL whirlwin ' roun' home he magine he'S A harrlcane blowin' All ovEH de country.' | Copyright. 192) by AcClurt New?p*p?r SyhdlCJt*. Railroad's Kindly Act.?Jack "V\* ilianis is a crippled man, and is unable o make a living for himself. He lives n the eastern section of town, and re |UCStea me to wine a piece union rhat tlie Seaboard Air Line Railway s doing for him. Jack occupies a mall house the railroad's property, by irtue of "orders from the president >f the road." Then the engineers and firemen are houghtful as well. "When the weather s cold and bad a big lump of coal or wo has a habit of dripping off the enders against my door," said Jack, 'he section men also have a generous ray of dropping a fat lightwood piece >r an old crosstie or two for the benTit of the man who has a poor way o make a living. Jack Williams can say with verity hat "corporations do have souls." Then Jack was quite solicitous ns Dr. fl. 15. Nance, the county physi inn, who is now in a Charlotte hos?ital. "That man has been good to ne," said the man who is "down and >ut" of life's game.?Monroe, (X. C.j Snquirer. Presumably?Bible School Teacher: What was the Tower of Babel?" Bright Willie: "Wasn't that the dace where Solomon kept his five hunIred wives?" SISTER OF KING BRIDE ! . mHmSHE his six-shooter as no lurnea. Blanco Sol thundered across. Then the race became strnipht away up the valley. It was n fleet, beautiful, magnificent race. Gale thrilled and exulted and yelled as his horse settled Into a steadily swifter run and bepan to pain. The irnn between Diablo and Sol narrowed yard by yard. All the devil that was In Blanco Diablo had Its running on the downward stretch. The strange, cruel urge of bit and spur, the crazed rider who stuck like a burr upon him, the shots and smoke added terror to his natural violent temper. He ran himself off his feet. But he could not elude that relentless horse behind him. Then, like one white flash following another, the two horses gleamed down the bank of a wash and disappeared in clouds of dust. Gale watched with strained and smarting eyes. The thick thrr' In his ears was pierced by faint sounds of gunshots. Then he waited In almost unendurable suspense. Suddenly something whiter than the background of dust appeared abrvt the low roll of valley floor. Gale leveled his glass. In the clear circle shone Blanco Sol'3 noble head with Itt long black bar from ears to nose Sol's head was drooping now. Anothei second showed Ladd still In the snddle The ranger was leading Blanct Diablo ? spent ? broken?dragging? riderless. ? ^ * % i ' " V X. ^ < '.. . . S ?, ^ ' * %, y- ? a . ?:; :'- - '" ' s v ; . '\. '.":: m, ':f> $! &m *'< f : . V V:r..-ij! -; V' 1 " V ' ' ' - - >-V " r- -< < " 11 ?r; PrlnceBS Dagmar. slste; of King bride of Lieut. Castensfjold. a comrr estate as plain "Mrs." Site Is the royal family. ! FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Mighty Good Thing if it Will Attend to It* Own Business. George \V. Norris, governor of the Federal Reserve Rank of Philadelphia, says the Federal Reserve Syt tern Is, i I or will be, in peril unless every citizen "lets It be known that he is absolutely opposed to any repeal of the act or to any statute that wo ild impair or destroy the independence and utility of the system." In support of this statemtnt Mr. Norris reviews the history 6f the first and second banks of the United. States which were dis-established because the people concluded they had too much power, political anu qincrwise. i Mr. Morris is right. *The Federal Reserve System mny go the way of its predecessors, but not for the reason he suggests, which Is J.hat "those who have suffered are inclined to hunt for .a scapegoat upon whi?h they can piece the blame for their,, losses and. misfortunes." We believe in the Fedefal Reserve i ] System. We realize its enormous ; ! value to the country and we should be 1 sorry to sec it done away with, but | its unpopularity and peril are its own fault and unless it chang<r%*ts ways it t will go. The people blame the officers of the Federal Reserve Sys'em, not for raising the interest rates or any other use of their statutory powers under the Federal Reserve Act, but for their extra legal activities including: First. Their preachments upon tho need ot deflation and liquidation, which greatly increased the demoralization and depression of the period j from which we are just emerging, Second. Their inquisitorial investi- | gations into the business of merchants, manufacturers, and others to get the data which they print in the reports that the Federal Reserve Board and most of the regional banks issue each month or oftener. For these reports j and the money spent on them there is j not a shred of authority in the Federal Reserve Act. Third. For the resentment and truculence of the Federal Reserve Hank officers under criticism and the propaganda they have conducted in defense of their policies. Including the distribution of speeches and "pleas in abatement" by Senator Glass and others. They have forgotten that they are the servants of the public, and have assumed the airs of autocrats. Fourth. For their vindictiveness toward those who criticized them and the bludgeoning methods used in trying to induce non-member banks to join the system and in compelling recalcitrant institutions to accept the "par collection" plan. Fifth. For the unwisdom and ex| travagance shown in the construction of the new buildings now i;\ course of erection for several of the Regional Hanks and branch banks. It is much to be feared that these buildings will prove to be permanent and irritating memorials to a recklessness in expenditure that is exhibited not only in the way they have been planned but also in the salaries paid to the higher officers of the Regional banks. The duties of the Federal .Reserve Bank officers and the Federal Reserve , Hoard are clearly set out in the Fed| eral Reserve Act. Not a word is said j about compiling or issuing reports or ; advising the public how to conduct its business. They are authorized to raise and lower the rediscount rate and if they will but confine themselves to this and conduct the business of the banks economically, they will be i?ua itnnnrtninr In this respect they would do well to follow the example of the directors of the Hank of Eng- ! j land. They raise and lower the bank | rate, but they do not send out quesi tionnniros or issuo reports to the public, or attempt to be the deus ex j machina of business in general as have ! the officers of the Federal Reserve System almost from the first. I The Federal Reserve Officers have la quasi-governmental nuthoritv and1 status. For this reason they are sup- I I posed to know more than other people. 1 : OF POOR COMMONER. j " . < J ' I ' : m I Christian of Denmark, became the loner. She will live on bis modest youngest member of the Danish The supposition is a mistake but it gives undue weight to their utterances, and this, taken in conjunction with their control of the reservoirs of credit, makes it possible for them to intensify depression or prosperity by talking'. This is why they should stick to their knitting" and say nothing.?Commerce and Finance. GET-RICH-QUICK GENIUS Tells How He Devised His Dream to Make Millions. Charles Ponzi, Boston's get-richquick genius, explained his now famous postal reply coupon scheme for making millions on the witness stand in Boston, last week, testifying in his own behalf. He declared he didn't keep a cent of the vast amount intrusted to him by investors. Ponzi said he pleaded guilty in the Federal court two years ago to use of the mails in a scheme to defraud on the advice of counsel and the entreaties of his wife, with the expectation of receiving a light sentence. He is under a five-year Federal sentence to Plymouth jail and is being prosecuted in the state court now. Describing his postal reply coupon scheme, Ponzi said: ? "In the spring of 1919 I devised an advertising scheme that looked good, but I lacked capital. One day a letter came from Spain, which contained an international reply coupon, it iay uu my desk for several days, and one day I picked up the coupon and read and reread it. "I decided to find out regarding the possibilities. I wrote to parties in Italy, France and Spain, enclosing a dollar in each letter, and told them to buy as many coupons as they could. It was done. Then I took them to the post office and found they could be exchanged. "I reasoned it out that if five or ten or fifty coupons could be converted at a profit, millions could. I didn't go into the ethics of the question. I didn't have any money and I know It was practically out of the question to go to any bank to borrow without disclosing the plan?giving them a chance at it. "I decided I could borrow from the public rind lot the public share the pro- J THE CITY MARKET Phone No. 74 GOOD MEATS of all kinds. Let us have your orders now for Thanksgiving Oysters. "We want your good Veal Calves. We buy Hides. THE CITY MARKET GEO. A. SHERER G. W. SHERER OBELISK ELOUK WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED a carload of that famously Rood OBELISK FLOUR. People who have used Ballard's Obelisk Flour KNOW that there is no other Flour that is its equal? those who haven't used it, will do well to try a sack. It always pleases most particular people, KENTUCKY FARM FEED IS A REAL FEED for growing and fattening hogs. It makes more bone and more fat. Have a fresh shipment. Try it on your hogs. They'll grunt at its goodness, SCRATCH FEED IF YOIT WOULD HAVE Eggs in' plenty feed your hens plentifully. Let us send you a sack of Our Scratch Feed. It is really better?a balanced ration for laying hens. i J. F. CARROLL It I made. I approached one acquaint- h ince and askod him If he thought he n :ould raise the money. "I got my first returns in February ind from that time It grew and grew tl is people got their returns. Each one i p brought ten others." / v Ponzi told of having served twenty ? months in a Canadian prison in con- $ nection with the failure of an Italian o bank in which he had been employed. "I am not going to say at this time," he remarked, "whether I was guilty." He related also how after his parole j he tried to help five Italian immigrants fi to enter the United States from Cana- t da. He was arrested for violation of j the immigration laws and served two ? years' imprisonment at Atlanta. After 1)0 YOU WANT A HIM OF YOUR OWN? ; Build Now LOGAN LUMBER YARD! "Wo Strive to Servo and Satiafy." F. E. MOORE, Proprietor 1 BRING USi YOUR EGGS AND COUNTRY PRO- J DUCE. WE'LL PAY YOU THE i HIGHEST MARKET PRICES. JUST REMEMBER? j YOU GET QUALITY GROCERIES ! AT RIGHT PRICES WHEN YOU TRADE WITH US. j NIVENS BROS | Near Hawthorn Mill B. R. NIVENS, Manager CLOVER, S. C. YORK, S. C. On Charlotte 8treet B. M. NIVENS, Manager DO IT NOW ! PAINT YOUP HOME and SAVE IT, with GLIDDEN'S OVER ninety per cent pure lead and zinc, costing you only $2.75 or less per gallon. Liberal Terms. Ask for them. EQUIP YOUR FORD WITH Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup CASINGS and TWO-TON TESTED TUBES. None better. Heating Stoves, Ranges, . Rugs and a line of FURNITURE? built for service and at reas<-^able prices. PEOPLES FURNITURE COMPANY "A Fine Job" WAS THE OWNER'S VERDICT when he first looked at his newly painted car. SINCE THEN we have done many good jobs and are hoping to do more. We use the BEST and most enduring Paints, Oils, Varnishes, applied by Skilled Painters who are masters of their craft, and return your old car looking like a NEW ONE. JOHNSON'S PMNLop i JAS. A. JOHNSON, Manager Auto Painters, Body and Top Builders, ROCK HILL, S. C. I ij Y0RKV1LLE COTTO jj FIRST CU OUR ROLLER MIL 1\ condition and in charge o: J | business, has been throuj I [ ing, and we are GIVING A SATISR FIRST-CLASS FLO WHEAT. OUR PATRONS tcsti ! | to get better satisfaction ! where. Bring us your w ! YORKVILLE COTTO ? ? ? is release he said he went to Alabaia "and began to forget the past." I ft 1 . ? The first payment ever made under ho South Carolina inheritance tax law, asecd by the state legislature last /inter, was reported last Friday by Jtate Treasurer S. T. Carter. It was 46.14 paid on the estate of C. C. Mima ?. ' f Dorchester county. ? On the recommendation of District Vttorncy Ernest F. Cochran, Judge H. I. Watkins has ordered a special term if the United States district court to o >e convened in Greenville on January Ith. STORK EVIDENCE FOR YORK PEOPLE The statements of York residents am lurely more reliable than those of utter strangers? xiuiue icsumuny m mi jiruui, Public statements of York people sairy real weight. What a friend or neighbor says comjels respect. The word of one whose home is far iway Invites doubts. Here's a York man's statement. And it's for York people's benefit Such evidence is convincing. That's the kind of proof that backs VVILBO-LAX. J. M. Latham, York, says: I had a long spell of indigestion and suffered tvith gas and constipation, and also leadaches. As Wilbo-Lax was highly recom mended to me I bought a bottle at the Tork Drug Store, and I can truthfully say that Wilbo-Lax has done me more good than any other medicine of its kind that I have ever tried. Price 50 Cents a Bottle at the YORK DRUG STORE jliiiraiiiiiiiiiiuiniiniiimiiitmiiiiiiiiifg (CATHOLIC BOOKS | ? SENT FREE ON APPLICATION. 5 = GET TOUR INFORMATION 5 FIRST HAND. E 5 !7 V. s QUESTIONS ANSWERED BT | MAIL. 1 5 | WRITE TO 3 | REV. W. A. TOBIN 2 Saint Anne's Church S | ROCK HILL, 8. C. ,1 nillllllllUIUIUIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIllUIIUli PROFESSIONAL CARDS .. . ..u .u...: ml' ^itT" Dr. C. L. WOOTEN -DENTISTOFFICE OVER THE P08T0FFICE Telephones: Office, 128; Residence, 93 CLOVER, - - S. C. 71 11 to I J. S. BEICE Attorney At Law Prompt Attention to all Legal Business of Whatever Nature. Office on Mein Street in the Moore Building, First Floor, formerly occu* pied by 8. E. 8pencer. v J. A. Marion W. Q. Finley MARION AND FINLEY ATTORNEY8 AT LAW Office opposite the Courthouse. P one 128. YORK.8. C. YORK FURNITURE CO. Undertakers ? Embalmers YORK, - - t. c. In All Its Branches?Motor Equipment Prompt Service. Day or Night In Town or Country. JNO. R. HART ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Prompt and Careful Attention to All Business Undertaken. Telephone No. 69. YORK. 8. C. T? r.t It iN OH COMPANY j SS FLOUR L, always kept in good j j f n Millar whn knows his i > ?li a complete overhaul- ! | * 1 i A.CTORY YIELD OF UR FROM GOOD ify that they are unable than we give them any- j \ heat. N OIL COMPANY jj