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Story of Life of New Heed Steel T rust is Like Fiction. New York.?Whdn William Ellii Oorcj retired from the preside ncj of the United States Steel Corporation, the .wo big bosses of thai trctui rci? L concern, j. i*. Morgue and LltKit 11. Cary. pat their htadi toge .:.r decided chut .u da I ? fatu. ti v corporation suoulu u?. presu . n*.i us. It . .o master?Morgan; it had till C ?_l lit .id t.nr. \\. li . cumL r it with an officer who wouli 'k? a i'.t utcoration? At ? Ld of a week the corporation uw still without a president hut u. LUfcr. were not going right Thet ?tgimeot or two of big able ..k the head of various subsieuo corporations that make up the steel trust, and these men began tt, get re<stlve. Plainly thej did l.ot o. lievo that the office ol presiuoi.i rtno to be kept permanent!.. \nt nt. Being naturally ambitions, ?.. ch began to look con?cIou.. \. li. u he came into the prosonco u Morgan or Gary. He f woulei . ^-nggest such a thig fox the v.erlu, but in case?in the even* of supposing that a new presim i. was chosen?well, what had 1.0- spent all these years servirT0.ii ? ? ? ? ? ??.v ?. . puiaLiuu iur uujwajr Sc tdorgan and Gary got together again : :.d decided that they had raad< a uiistake. When they got over Ihei. astonishment at thiH ninaM g uiscovery they made up their Xii.i.ou to correct it quickly before U lu. ce any trouble. The.. c; Hi their experienced eyes over C.4. ic. ptive candidates for the p44.il.ut-ncy and the first man tliey James A. Farreli, bea of tl e cit 1 Products Company, whici .s die division of the big corporation Li.at sella steel rails and steel giluuiiB, and armor-plate, and other vi 11 gs of steel to foreign count 1 its Fan ill is a Connecticut Yankee. That was a big recommendation, for w^ec Connecticut Yankees go out af?ei tijtl.irg they usually get It. or at liust all of it that can be pried ir blasted loose. Neither Morgan nor Gary wanted a temporal y president. They wanted a man who was more interested In steel than In anything else on ^artli ar.d who was well enough uloug iu years to be past the age of habit forming. "How about this fellow Farreli?" asked Moigan. "Is he strong for yuchtlLg cr European travel orany of the other frilln thnt ? ? ?*?? ?- ?**MV (* U1V1 U VO" ident of a 31 can't afford?" ^ "He^PJjot a couple .of cat-boats up at-^3outl) N'orwalk," said Gary. "Ma) be one of 'em's a sloop, now I come to think of it. That ends him 011 tl.e jr.chting business.'' "Does he keep office hours?" asked Morgan. "His bill for overtime would stagger humanity if he put it in said Gary. "Man of Education?" "HeIds the degree of H .P. (head puddler) from one of the biggest Pittsburg steel mills . Has read everything that's going on steel, and has done a lot of outside reading on top of it. I should call him a men of education and then some." So James A .Farreli was recommended by the executive committee its candidate for president, and ^mat is just the same as getting a jj| Btaocraiic endorsement for United senator in the grand old Mr. Royst< Manufacturer < flhnvo nthor rr idea Twenty-s< to-day; the res Factories to su( NORFOLK, VA. MACON, OA. B||| I This James A. Farrell has bee: so busy with the affairs of his em j ploycm for the last 32 years tba nobody outside the steel busines I f u a chauce to know much abou im . lie m n8 bora in South Norwalh . Conn., the Bummer residence o ui.-ny famous men in all the lines o juBincss. lie moved to New Havei when he was five years old?chief I iy for the reason that his parent r v-huiiged their residence to that city j He may have absorbed sora a now ledge fiom Yale universit; while there, but if he did he onl; gut such crumbs of erudition a were thrown over the walls, for hi never was inside the college as i ) student. At sixteen he decided he ha< ( been loafing long enough, and wen f to work In a wire mill. "I workei , with my head and my muscles," b< said, thus giving birth to a mottt that ought to be hung up cm ever; head of every youth of the land. It took him nine years to lean , all about the wire business that th< . New Haven mill had to teach. Hi , saw Yale students coming and go r lng, playing football and basebal and pulling shells on the water . Perhaps he regretted that he wa not one of them. Most hard work . ing boys do envy those who can af ford to make college professors dt their work for them. But, anyway, he kept on working and when there was nothing mon about the wire business in Nev Haven for him to find out lie pu a toothbrush and an extra pair o: overalls in ins grip and went t( Pittsburg, whtfcli is the Athens o the steel business. Arriving there lie went to worl at his specialty?wire?and sooi rose to a boss of a mill. Rut a few blocks away was a big steel mill where they turned the raw crud< iron into polite, refined steel, and young Farrell decided that here were more things to find out. He went into that mill as a beginner worked a while as a puddler. and emerged as a superintendent. A pudder is a man who watches the process of pudding, which con. sists in uniting the component parts of steel, iron, carbon, etc., in a big crucible. Farrell was a good pudder. About that time he came undei the kindly eye of Charles M. Schwab, who was a marvel of efficiency, and one of the most energetic brain hunters that ever served the steel corporation. Schwab took Farrell out of the pudding mill and put him in charge of one of the many companies that handle the product, and he has been working for the steel corporation in responsible executive capacities ever siuce. When Andrew Carnegie made up his mind to die with net more thau fifty or sixty million dollars, he took a flrat mortgage on all the visible steel property in and around Pittsburg, and allowed other and more avaricious men to run the business. Then the head office of the company came to Now York, and Mr. Farrell came along. His first care when he got here was to find himself a home on the soil which had given him birth, and to buy a boat, so that he could get into his lungs the oxygen he needed to keep steam up in his brain. Then he took a winter bouse in Brooklyn, and went to work so gin of Ro? stcr F 2r belie ed that succ< Df Fertilizers who wot >nsiderauons. This wa even vears aco and >ult has been that it >ply the demand for Ro; ?. ROYSTER GUANO COMPi FACTOBIEB AND SALES OfflCIS, I TAMOflO. N. C. COLUMBIA. 8. C. SPAS COLUMBUS. OA. MONTOOMCBV. ALA. I q hard that nobody not connected i- with the steel trust never heard ol t him. Mr. F*arrell is an earnest man of powerful physique, and an im t tiring worker. He has a wife and five children and he says that hit home is his fad. X f Baruca ("lass Meeting. n There was quite an interesting ~ meeting at the Baptist church or 8 Wednesday evening. It was in th< ' nature of a Baraca rally, the cftiel e feature being an address by Mr. A y 0. Saleeby, an enthusiastic Barncn y worker, of Salisbury, N. C. Mr. Sa3 leeby represents the Sajfsbuo e Township Baraca Union, comprising a a membership of five hundred, and none who heard him here could ^ fail to see that hi3 heart is thor * oughly enlisted in the work. * Notwithstanding the severe weath 13 er a goodly crowd assembled and J the speaker was given the closest y attention, as he sketched the ori gin and growth of tta Baraca move1 ment, detailed its objects and 8 achievements, and closed with a ringing call to arms. He briefly and entertainingly related the story of the conversiot of Mr. M. A. Hudson, the founder ol this great movement which has non attained worldwide proportions. Tr twenty years said the speaker, this 3 movement whose very name and symbol means "Blessing," started ' with a class of five under Mr. Hud" son in Syiucuse, N. Y, has placed its motto, "Young men at work foi i young men, all standing by the Bi ' ble and the Bible school." upon the 31 walls of thousands of active Sunday I Schools throughout the United | States and England, and has beer [ j instrumental in the reclaiming of a 1 j legion of young men; one hundred r | and fifty conversions have crowned * , the work of Mr. Hudson in his own : | class alone. ' Two very important and practical J results immediately followed the delivery of Mr. Saleeby's address; one J J was an invitation to Mr. Hudson to visit Dillon and address the local ijaracjts ami t'nuaitiens and tnc 1 j other was the suggestion that steps ' j be taken looking to the organlza' ! tion of a local Baraca Union. The ' matter of a Union will be taken up (Sunday morning before the Baraca ' class* s of the Baptist and Metliod ist Sunday Schools, and it is very likely that an organization will be formed. . I i! 1 1 District Court of the United States for the District of South Car, olinu. in the matter ol' VV. H. Dunbar In Bankruptcy. Bankrupt. To the creditors of W. H. Dunbar, of Dillon, in the county of Dillon and district aforesaid, a bank' rupt. Notice is hereby given that on the 11th day of January, A. D. 1911, the said W. H. Dunbar was duly adjudicated bankrupt; and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at the office of J. B. Gibson, Esq, in Dillon, S. C.. on the 28th day of January A. D. 1911, at 11 o'clock In the forenoon, at which time the said creditors xuay attend, prove their claims, ap point a U ustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. A. P. Woods, Referee in Bankruptcy Marion, S. C., Jan. 17, 1911. RACE MARK !>S.R.> ? FPEO. miliars. 25^ availed the j!d pi/-- :e quality is Mr. Roystar's this is his idea requires Eight yster Fertilizers. 1NY. rANsuno. . o. I lALTIMORK. MO. m ^/v? I L. C i TIT $ A ^ We ttro agent? for the Acett* : brands are Quick Stop S-4-4; Pe r j , ton (Irowor 8-H-2&, and 9-i!*i-2. ' I ' " Hee us before buying as we a ! 1 you know that when you use AC J v*? ' made. ^ i 1te?rv ; On a t stock and , have not 1 j ^*=-^ t' 4>u. - worn. G r> ' XV* ' , ' Gloves an i ?. ] *T' | All new r i " j i .. La<ii<*s Sweaters at reduced r ; _ til nils- null lllllNl IllOVf. 1 111* ] I ^" quick. Call early for l?u< lies' 8w< I ~ On,[ I v-?. . ^ we ai-e cl I I ^ If >? J w i I I ' , >- ' ? V I L. Cottii > A > > +*<9-+'>++++<-?+++++4.+.>4.++++< fj J ? I ! 4 * ! A ! Ill Ul |!tl Hardw i * a 111i Dm > X * x * ; * * ? - -- - - ! * X * * > > X < + A ? * X * !? > ? * T * ' t V 1* t V 2 Underti * ?? <* > 2 :* A * i *. * A *1 | ors. M i I < linaFui A T !*?; ? t t Dealers | | ! ? | have ju > V Z t 1 III I a Pair c j % | our bus jfj ' Iff Phone ill l? I .ill A I A ^ ^ ^ ? a A A. . j j wwwvwwwwwwvw^ #? ?I??<? ? ?? ? + f jjBMaflMEtfft'r tfAahlrffrllfrft I 'ottingham Co.fJ e fertilizer*. Some of their familiar p 1>ee Special 8-3-8; Acme; Acme Cot ro in a position to please you and M E you use the best guano there is ^3 |r 11 heavy WINTER t.OODS?come to see us as we have a full I you will save money to buy here. All choice Roods as they been subject to cost sales and pulled about until shop- 3^2 A.. IB et choice, FIRST CLASS Merchandise ut Cotting ham's. liave just opened up o new line Ladlra' Neckwear and Suede JEjj ul Suede Belts. Automub ile Scarfs. Iiadies' Handkerchiefs, tnd attractive?see them. l|V lly1 pr ices. We have a very large stock Z ; price we have on them will move them ^ [waters. -hM <6^ 2 SHOE STOCK is complete. Many numbers in the department , V "~2 V-toosing at sacrifice prices. j ^3 H u are bargain hunting co me to '^5 ery truly yours, ngham Company Uiiiuiwiiiiiiiuai iiUiiiiiiiiK jE LLON Ijn * Y * are CompanY |f|..| * % 4 on, South Carolina. i f J 1 ? j ??=. HI 4 $ f j ? J $ Y * I * T ! * 1 * Y I a akers and Funeral Direct- ' * V t X z [embers of the South Caro i * X | ^1 ! t i- ? lerahDirectors Association. j Z ?|? % ^ TinJFuneral Supplies. We j | 3 st added a nice Hearse and I Y | j! * f | a f horses to this branch of ? I I 11 U: f iness. , i X i_ p Nos. 6 or 29, jljjf AY OR NIGHT, j 11f ^ ^l7_777n_777Jjj ^ ;|A.- i'Mflto,yMMil?MHiWM*ira''1'"' Ml ?A<t?ni himmimim hi ? .!-..