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. -9 *" , % * * " ^ * \ ' V n j Established 1891. SPEECH ON TARIFF. Incident of Passage of Wilson Bill Recalled. 'P The passage a few days ago of the Fordney tariff bill by the house of representatives in Washington takes at least one South Carolina newspaper man back in . memory to another tariff meas- i ure, the Wilson bill, which was ! passed by the saihe body nearly j 30 years ago. a few months after j the second inauguration of Pres- j ident Cleveland in March. 18W&. j to be a little more exact. The ; Wilson bill bore the name of the j chairman of the ways and means committee of the bouse of that ! day just as the Fordtiev bill of | today bears the name of the chairman of the same committee. | William L. Wilson of Wot Virginia. Democrat, was the author of the Wilson bill, which was i ? .... I u? oi^uru mm rrvniur |mh |mim'> ; only?that is. carrying out the ; <Joc trine of the Democratic party, ; the hill was drawn to raise only j enough revenue to run the gov- j eminent. It was in no sense a protective measure and did not take money from one citizen's pocket to put it into another's. Following weeks of debate, the j house passed the hill and sent it to the senate, there to he emasculated by certain Democratic senators, led by Arthur Pugh Gorman of Maryland, who had fallen out with President Clevc- i laud and thought to get even with him in that way. When the Wilson hill was tinder consideration the house of representatives was Democratic j ami the majority mcmhei> stood as one for,lower tariff rates to j relieve the country of the hard j times upon which it had fallen. Compared with the panic through which the country was then passing, the business depression of tlu* present day Walks big us pros- ! perity?a statement which will J be indorsed by all the middleaged and oUler eiti/ens who Wave memory enough to recall what a terrible fix the Harrison admin- I fc* istrution left the nation in when it gave tip control of the govern- j inent in March. 1893. Many placed the blame for the panic of that year at the door of President J Cleveland because it came an shortly after his second inauguration; hut these people conveniently ignored the fact that the i plates from which the millions of | dollars worth of government bonds President Cleveland was forced to issue had been made hv the Harrison administration in anticipation of the necessity of thus raising revenue to meet the expenses of the government. There were many men of out - j standing ability in the house of renresentatives in 189d. many I more than there are in the house I oil ay. One of these was a young ! man from the Middle West who I "Wuk serving his seeond term. He "Was the type of man who won hi readily attract attention in any gathering ?t handsome of face, broad shouldered, of medium height, with mild blue eyes, a pleasing manner and a massive head tlmt bespoke intelligence 1 his brain was happy to indorse. . It was the good fortune of the writer one Saturday night while the Wilson hill was under consideration in the house of representatives to receive an invitation from a South Carolina congress- j man to occupy a seat in the members' gallery for that night. Shortly after the session opened the young representative from the Middle West rose from his seat to speak for the hill. He was greeted by practically the entire membership of the house, it was stated at the time, and people were packed in the galleries like grains of eory on a well matured ' ear. He had not spoken five minutes before everybody realized that they were listening to a master debater who was thornilfflllv fittiiiliiir with lii? The Republicans, knowing in advance that he was tt? apeak, had ) on hand their strongest men ready with many perplexing questions they put to hiui in im effort to break the thread of bis argument or foree from him u statement favorable to their view of the tariff. But they were only . V f . fHE F FUNERAL* SUNDAY. Body of Corp. Harvey McManus Expected This Week. Funeral services will be held in Confederate park. Fort Mill Sunday afternoon at .'1 o'clock for Corp. llarvey F. McManus. whose body is expected here tomorrow or Saturday from Hoboken. N. .1.. where it arrived several days ago from France. The order of the exercises will he similar i to those held in honor of the j other Fort Mill soldiers whose J bodies have been brought hoiiie - t - ? i "iii win iui llilt'l 1111" 11 i . lilt" body will lie in state in the arm- ! ory of tin* Tom Hall Guards from tlit* time it arrives until the hour for the funeral, when it will he borne by a number of his comrades to the park. There will be a prayer by one of the local min- j isters and a eulogy by a member j of Kb Bailes post. American He- ' fjion. "under whose auspices the 1 services will be held. The body, i accompanied by a military escort, will then be taken to New Unity cemetery and interred in the plot of the Legion post, where lie the , bodies of five other Fort Mill boys who made the supreme sac- | rifice in the World war. <'orp. McMuiiiik died in a base hospital in France about 15 days after he was severely wounded on October S. 1!>1S. in the memorable attack of the itOtli division on the 11 indcnbur<r line. He was a member of the Fort Mill <*oiupany. 11 Sth regiment, and was a I model soldier, in the estimation , of lu^tli the officers and men of I the comnuiiv. He ioineil the com- 1 panv on April 7. 1 ! 17? the ilav j after tlir deelaration of war oil i (Jerinany. tints attesting; his patriotism to a tnarki'd decree. Ho I was a soil of Mr. ami Mrs. M. M. MeManus of Fort Mill and was nhout 1l'i years old when lu? dii'd. Tht* K4?v. W. K. Botikhigrbt, I pastor of St, John's Methodist j idiurcli. is this week conducting; a | special mooting at Niigcly-Six. I < i roi'iiwood county. pouring; water on his whr?d. ys , tl.cv learned to tlieir disugyy aip) chagrin before he had eoipdipled his speeeli. .Not oiicr did h?' fy'ter or want for u word or facts of any kind to express his party's ; attitude on the tariff question., Always in delightfully tfood humor. lie drove home with uiian- | . I I . .1. I V!- I .-.xx ? l ,11111- ii ipi III t* 11 I I IM* lll'liri II H I to li?* derived liy lli?* mass of tin* ! people from n low tariff ami with i'?|iial force told of tin* injustice j to which they had been subjected under tin* provisions of tlu>l>in^ley tariff law. which bis party was about to w ipe from the statute books. h'or years that speech was remembered throughout the country and overnight it brought its author into national prominence. Twenty-ei^ht years ayo! The! author of that speech is no Ion- I jrer a member of Congress. The j day of his young manhood is gone j and mow bis footsteps arc lead- I ill}; to the setting sun. Ami the beardless youth of that day who j listened with rapt attention to j what In* had to say could not now be thrrlled as lie then was should I'aul himself return in the flesh and deliver for his special benefit an oration such as In* alone o! Hit* hilli?m*t who have tarried here a little while eould deliver. So iinieli tor the changed pe rapedive that passage from youth to middle age brings. lint perhaps it has heen the good fortune of the reader to hear this man spent. lie is Still one of | earth's passengers, lie has done an immeasurable amount of good in the years lie has gone in ami out anions his fellow-man. Not only has he made the government tinder whirh we live better than it was before he entereil pnblie life a third of a century ago. but what is more In* has rekindled hope and brought courage anew to thousands who were despondent and ready to sink in the maelstrom of what they con sidefed life's uiKMptal struggle. One speeeh on the Wilson tariff hill that any man was fortunate to hear was delivered by William .1. Bryan, friend then, as he ever since has been, of the man trying to gain a foothold m lii'u. > 'V .vt" ort! >oet mux, a. a-, ttm ' leax* QDAXHT OLD CHAKLE8TOH. StrMt Venders Add Pictorasque 1 nees to State's Chief City. (Charleston is a citv of im own peculiar kind. Nowhere throughout America can quite snuh aunt her he found, one that retains aiuul the hustle of up-to-date 1 coiuinercial activity so much of an old world flavor or of picturesque features. l*arts of the city, with the quaint houses turned gable ends to the street, others of the dignified old-time Georgian type-: the narrow winding streets 1 ami high walls surrounding the gardens; the exquisitely wrought iron balconies and gateways?all tl*ese give to the old city a mellowness. a picturesqueness all its own. Hut for the newer and mod orn buildings that rise here aud there, one could well imugine himself in some ?>1?1 city of the j mother ebuutrv. <'harlestouiaus have Ween loyal j to their Kuglish ancestry through i alt the centuries since the place was settled by the KugliRh col ony under \V ill Lain Sayle. There is still a King street, a Queen street and a Princess street in , ('harleston. One feature, however, that is j quite distinct from any of the mother country is that of the negro venders who throng Charleston's streets, especially during the early morning hours. While in other ejtles of the Sopth tjiis custom has long ago to a cot|sii| crahle extent heeome a thing of tin past, it its still much in evidence in tin* old city by tlu? *eu. The succeeding generations of negroes luivc followed naturally j i.? the footsteps of their streetvending ancestry. Charleston is rated as having about the largest percentage. 45. of negro population of any city* 1 in the country. If t|ie population of the udjnceut islands *ve*v in eluded, the percentage of negroes would be larger than' that of whites. , It is on these neighboring islands that most of the vegetables sold in Charleston are raised, almost the -year .round, owing to the mjhJ climate, us well as her- j tins a.m| pigtoips in season. The more wall tn-ilQ negro farmers t have horsMli-'Hwn gQiivpyances inl v hull t|m produce p? taken 1 < Imrlestmi httt by f#r the ma- j jority of the vendors tran?|>?rt their wgres by means uf p"P?h certs or great baskids balanced upon their heads. The hulk of : the island produce is tukou to | the city by bout. The venders | throng the wharves at the com-| ing of the boats in order to pur- | chase tin* supplies for their street j soles. Hy sunup, or shortly there- i after, the venders are weuding j their way through the streets, e.ieh with his or her own special cry to advertise the quality as veil as the character of the wares tor srvft*. While many of the cries are little more than a medley of meaningless words, yet, when rendered in the deep, mellow negro voice, some of them are quite musical. i There is nothing more quaintly attractive to the Northern visitor to Charleston than these picturesque street venders, and ,the odd cries hy which they seek to i a tract the attention of prospective buyers. Some of I lit1 cries are considered sweet, pitched in a high voice that in t he ease of tjie aged is usually quavering and which often ends in a mournful cadence long drawn out. T)te vegetable sellers, many of , them wo pi erf. strong shouldered, hig hipped, nutve easily along, a huge basket of produce, 60 to 7(1 pounds in weight, hulanced with the greatest ease upon tlu? head. Negro Woman Loses Mind. A Fort Mill negro woman. Maria Caruthers, beunte violently insane on*" day last week and for several days had to be con fined in the local guard house. -She is now being eared for by a negro family near town and will be taken to the State hospital in Co- < lumhia as soon as the commitment i! papers are received, perhaps to- i day-or tomorrow, by Magistrate i J .-"it. Uaile. i 1 ;\ ' " i."" ' ^ * - r"'J ENCAMPMENT AT1 WD. | fort Mill Company Wins JMs tine tions at Mount Pleasant. T*o hundred citizens of the community were at the ^WtKtiiern passenger station Sunday night it 9 o'clock to greet the Fort Mill military company upon its return from Mount Pleasant, where for 15 days it had bet'n in camp fcith the other companies of the First regiment, S. N. U. The officers and men of the company oaroe home in good condition physically, there having been Onfy one or two sii gilt attacks of illness among them during the encampment. Excessive rainfall at Mount i'leasant interfered serioualy with the training of the regiment during the encampment and it is laid to be a foregone conclusion that the encampment next year b ill not U* held there. The Mount I'leasant camp is built ujmu low. tuarshy ground anil in wet weutIter is not suitable for military training purposes. For several Hays the companies could not go through the prescribed drills, water betug from two to six inches deep on the drill grounds. But hot withstanding the discomforts in which both the officers and men were subjected on accouut 01 the heavy rainfall, the morale 01 the regiment was said to have been of high order. The Fort Mill company, with men and three officers, had the distinction of being the largest company m eatun. The second r ? largest company. also from Yurk county, was the Frank ttoueh Guards ot ttock Hill, which flad in eniup Si men and three officers. I he looul company also ?oii the distinction, as a result of the competitive regimental shoot, of furnishing two men, Corp. I harlton (7 (iarrison and Liut. K. f\ Grier, .Jr., for the State rifle ttim of 14 faen to take part in die shoot next mouth of the entire National Guard at (amp ferry, Ohio. In the same compititive shoot the Fort Mill com- i puny won tonrth place among the i- coinpauieH of the regiment. Much praise was given Mess Sergt. Alfred Jones of the Fort .uill company tor tin; painstaking care with winch he looked after tlie quantity, quality and preparation ot the tood tor his company during the encampment, tfegiincntay officers pronounced Mte bort M?U company mean the best ill tlu^capip. Fleet ion of a major of the 3d l attaliou, which it was aunouueul would be held during the en- , cumpuieut and in the outcoun^af i which there is considerable interest in Fort Mill because of the candidacy for the majority of t apt. F. Murray Mack, was post poned. * m Talk of New School Building. The building which lias tor \cars been used by the Gold Hill public school has outlived its day and now the trustees are planning to either erect an entirely j new building next year or make additions to and remodel the t ? - : ? ' in Kiuiiiiiig 10 proviue lor ; tiu* ilierfused attendance at the t school. Keeentlv the chairman 1 of the hoard ot trustees, W. 11. t rook, has been in correspond- I ence with the county superintendent, .John K. Carroll, with , reference to State aid for a new buihiiiig. which Mr. Carroll urges j instead of additions and repairs to the old building. There seeius J practically no doubt that finan- I ciul assistance for a new building would be forthcoming from the ! State, but the law does not oth- j or wise provide building aid for I schools. x Already the U old Hill school is considered one of the best country schools in this aeetion of the State, but with the improved facilities which the tPiiut^o U. V.. 1 .if 1 I ..".Hirn OIT III Ol prOVllllllg j it will be even better tbau it j now ift. The condition yesterday afternoon of Kravor Kiinbrell, who j had been critically ill for several J dnys up to a few days ago at the I home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Kiinbrell, was considered mnch improved by the attending physician. - i "t **IF t ' . " ' '$ir .. ^ i j s .. ' t;; i t rtMR . i ? OLD 8LESPEB8 DECAY. Timber in Uu Many Years at Local Cotton Mill. An interesting and not untimely discovery was made at mill No. 1 of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company recently when preliminary plans Mere being made for the enlurgeiuent of the original weave room. Workmen in examining the heavy wooden timbers that supported the weave room found that the timbers were af :.i ttiru wuii ury rot aiul that uiaiiv of the in were in suck condition where they entered the walls of the building that new supports for the floor would have to be provided at once. In consequence of the discovery a row of brick columns was immediately erected in the cellar of the building and ouv these columns supporting timbers were placed, thereby removing all danger of the floor collapsing. ] An interesting story is told in connection with these sleepers of the old weave room, which was erected in 1887. At that time the Southern railway was tearing down the. wooden bridge which spanned the Catawba river three miles south of Fort Mill preparatory to erecting the steel structure which stood there until it ! wus washed away by the freshet of l^lti. Much of the timber in the briilgo w?s as sound as when j it was put in place shortly after the close of the Civil war. This timber was bought hy the Fort , Mill Manufacturing company ami a considerable part of it. including the sleepers for the weave room, was used iu the construe tion ot the mill. It is these sleepers which have finally decayed. after years of service in the t 'atuwbu river railroad bridge and for the last 34 years as an important part of the weave room of the original Fort Mill eoMou mill. BOY 8C0UTS IN CAMP. Fort Mill Troop Leaves for Chimney Rock, N. C. Twenty-two members of the Fort Mill troop. Hoy Scouts of America, left town at t?:3U o'clock Wednesday morning fur Hiituuey Kock. in the mountain* of western North Carolina, where they will go into camp for ten days The trip was made in a large motor truck ami was expected to consume about 13 hours. Assistant Scoutmaster W. II. Niius was in cluvrge of the troop in the absence of Scoutmaster H. ll.Stribling. The hovs were well equipped for camp life, taking with them a complete outfit of tents, I tedding and cooking utensils, besides many articles they expected to need while away from home. They looked forward with much pleasure to camp life in the mountains. The following members of tintroop are in the camping party:! W. H. Niius. Mike Link, John M. Spratt, llenrv Link. Thomas H. Spratt. dr., B. W. Bradford. Jr.. I James Ferguson. B. C. Ferguson, Jr., Dan Broudnax. Joe Broad nax, Jr.. Karle Steele. Kdwurd I Harris. Tom Harris. Klliott liar I ris, Pat Brown. Lee Ca rot hers, Luther Patterson. Fvuns Wolfe. Dudley Crook. T. K. Kimbrell. J. P?. Mills. Jr.. I). C. Patterson. Big Engine DestroyedTrip hammers *a few days ago made junk of a ?d0 horsepower Corliss engine whiehwus installed at tnill No. 1 of the Fort Mill .Manufacturing company 30-odd years ago and which was in good running order when it was used fo# the last time several years ago when steam power was discarded for electricity. The engine was given to a junk dealer to remove it from the premises. The original cost of the engine was about $3,f>00 and although it was considered in good condition it was said a purchaser could not be found for it at any price. The space occupied by the engine was needed for other purposes. Dr. James H. Drakcford Qf New York eitv spent Friday and Saturday of last week in Fort Mill with his mother, Mrs. Laura H. Drakcford. v i|3| t! *'3 I mm $1.60 Per Year. / a ~ BURIED IN YORK. Body of Corp. Erwin 0. Graham RrnnffV* *?? ?* -- ?????? **wiu? i rau rranCv*. A firing squad of nine men from the Tom Hall Guards, in charge of Sergt. dames O. Hammonds. Tuesday afternoon went from fort Mill to York to participate in the funeral of Corp. hlrwin C. Orahaiu. whose body Monday " reached York from France, where he lost his life in the severe fighting of the 30th division on October f>. 1918. Corp. Graham's home was in York, hilt he was a member of the Fort Mill company, in which he enlisted in 1916. lie was with the company on the Mexican border in 1916 and was one of the first . members to respond for duty when the company was ordered into camp after war was declared on Germany in the spring of 1917. He was an excellent soldier and was well liked by his comrades. Corp. Graham lost his life by the explosion of a German shell, which also killed two oflieers and two other non-commisioned oflieers. all of the 118th regiment. At the time he was with an advance party that had -been ordered to the front to show the Fort Mill company the position i? was to occupy in relieveing another company. The party had Hone as far as oossihle in a truck and was preparing to forward a foot vvht'll 1 ki?* shell e.\plod< d. ('apt. F. Murray Mai'k of Fort Mill was a member of the party and was within a few feet of ('grp. (irahaiu when lie was killed. The funeral of Corp. (Irahaiu was under the auspiees of Meeeli Stewart post. Amerieau Lotion, of York. The funeral oration was delivered by Col. T. It. Spratt of Fort Mill. Interment was in Kose llill cemetery, York. Among the Fort Mill citizens who went to York for the funeral of Corp. (irahaiu was his captain. S. \V. Harks, and ('apt. F. Murray Mack and Lieut. A. C. Lytic. | i Pleased With "Times'' Editorial. The following communication from Congressman John J. MeSwaiA of the Clreenville district relative to an editorial which apj?eared in The Times last week on the proposed soldier Junius has been received at this oflicc -. "I am much interested in your editorial dated July lilst. 15)'J1< 1 ami especially the latter pari with reference to the magnificent gifts that our national go\eminent is dumping iuto the lap of I the railroads. 1 cannot understand I .1. i :_ .i i. i ..v mr lo^ir ur i in* |?M in i tli** action taken in this connecI tion. 1 tin not charge any actual I corruption ami 1 believe it is 'only a mistaken view of the situation. Nobody has proposed that | the farmers, whose business is more indispensable than any other. should be made whole for the losses they have sustained incident to def la t ion. "When you write any more such interesting editorials, please send me a copy." "Buck" Bryant in Town. "Buck" Bryant, attached to the Washington bureau of the New York World as eapitol correspondent, was in Kort Mill for a short time Sunday morning, coming here from the home of his brother. Badger Bryant, in the Providence section of Mecklenburg county, to board a train for Columbia and other Southern cities to report the activities of ?l... It U'l..? VI.... C MM.. II' ..I I I III a%ll IIIIIA l\ mil llll 1 III' >> III HI. Air. Bryant's trip 1 lir??u*fli tin* South will take liiiu as far as Texas and In* plans to In* aW,?y from Washington for several weeks. Barron Bennett, son of .Mr. ami Mrs. K. I*. Bennett, has lieen seri oiihIv ill for several days, hut his condition was reported uiueh improved yesterday hy the attending physieian.who said the report that he had typhoid fever was ineorreet. Young Mr. Bennett has had reeurring spells of illness sinee he returned from the World war. due. it is thought, to some extent, to German poison gas he inhaled, while in the service. /