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Aioe one blll^Jp Sel^bSwfit? or'tbe
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Corel of tbe Houprablo Peter Sterling
Tlntage, St 09am authentically
ttom THe Congfbetlonal ?tcord, or
ltaN predecessor, njr a writer in the
Dearborn Independent.
And the following quotation is not
:? from some history of the Ittnn&n republic
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"If you are going to spend money
WJreagfully, if you are going to spend
ft profligately, 1 wish yotr to do it
anywhere else bat within the-borders
of my own State."These
words, like the ones in the
first quotation, actualy were uttered
by a member of the United States
senate. The last words spoken in opposition
to an appropriation for the
continuance 6f a federal government
activity in the senator's own State.
But neither group of words was spoken
recently. They were uttered in
the eighteen fifties by Robert Toombs
of Georgia, an outstanding national
political figure of that time and regarded
by many students as one of
the four or five ablest public men of
the period. Savoyard, the noted
Washington correspondent, has written
that in his opinion Toombs was
the ablest man of that day.
Many changes have occurred since
Toombs battled against wasteful
spending and needless extension of
governmental activity from Washingtop.
Toombs, though a congressional
leader for nearly 20 years and the intimate
friend of Daniel Webster, is
now scarcely remembered as a statesman
of national identity. (That deDindfl
nnnn whr? la. tha Mmoni.
berinf?Fort Mill - Times.) Even
whenhis career in Congress is
^ . recgllad, his defense of negro slaaroxy
is chiefly remembered, lis reijr
signed from the United States senate
whafsttb State seceded in 1861 and
the Confederacy was formed, and unlike
many other Southern statesmen
who survived the Civil war, he never
made an effort to return to national
pnbl|$ life. In fact, he became so
embittered that he died without taking
an oath of allegiance to the federal
government, though he lived for
nearly SO years after the Civi war
enided and took active, part in the
politics of hie State.
Thua his notable long fight against
everyvcongreesional move partaking
of political "pork" has been obscured
by the more striking fee tares of hie
later life. But regardless of Toombs'
Identity with the defense of slavery
and his intimate leading part In the
secession movement, it is interesting
to revtfb some of hie utterances and
actions op national matters having
naught to do with those two mighty
tahbstioiMl of 75 years ago
Toombs was among the last of
American statesmen to ooatend that
the "general welfare'1 clause of the
federal tiMttitution did not authorise
I Congress ^to raise for and . seen 1
money on anything in eight. ,?TUv|
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actment, how with fiery deterrainah^^^cu,8lng
one v in 1864,
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Town's First Electric Lights.
Th# first electric lights ever seen
in Fort Mill were a great curiosity,
to most people living here at the
time," yesterday said one of the older
citisens of the town. 'The lights
were installed in the weave room of
the Fort Mill Manufacturing company
when the mill was completed in
1886 and people came to town from
miles around to see the wonderful
method of iluminatlon. All the lights
were 16 power carbon lamps?old
style now and out of date, but new
at that time and viewed with great
interest by all who saw them for the
first time- That was before the day
of great electric plants on .the Catawba
river which now furnish power
not only for lighting the mills in this
section but also for driving the machinery!
The Fort 'Mill Manufacturing
company then generated its own
electric current for lighting purposes
from a dynamo driven by steam. 1
recall distinctly the installation of
the lights at the mill and the little
trouble experienced in having them
burn * successfully, considering the
general lack of knowledge of_electric
power 36 years ago."
Boy Fleeces Char lotto Butchers.
A citizen of Fort Mill township a
few days ago was telling a party of
hit friends of a slick trick a boy living
in this community several years
ago played on a number of Charlotte
butchers. The boy was standing
on the sidewalk in front of hbutcher
shop in that city when a
man came up leading a cow which he
said he wished to sell to the butcher.
"How much do you want for your
cow?" inquired the Fort Mill hoy.
The man announced his price and the
boy bought the animal on the spot.
Then he sold the cow to the butcher
and waa told to leave Her at a certain
address in the city. Instead of
doing as he was directed, the boy led
(ho nnm In onnlhnp hnlnhop phnn ariri
again sold her, repeating the trick
four times before he finally sold the
animal to a butcher who took imiqediate
possession of her. The boy's
dishonesty cost his father several
hundred dollars.
Night School for Adults to Open.
The fall session of the night school
for adult illiterates of the Port Mill
community will open next Tuesday
evening at 7 o'clock at the local graded
school building with Misses Minnie
Garrison and Emma Anderson as
teachers. The session will last several
months and there is the promise
of a large enrollment. The first session
of the school was held last
Bpring and at times, there were more
than 50 pupils in attendance, some of
whom applied themselves so diligently
to the task of learning to read and
write that they were able to do both
when the session closed for the summer
months. There Is no charge for
the instruction given the pupils aud
the only expense to which they are
put is in purchasing the low-priced
books they need. Two sessions of the
school are to be held each week, each
session lasting about two hours.
Mrs. T. J. Crayton Dead.
Mrs Namvto <C ray ton, wife of Thos.
J. Crayton, died at her home in Port
Mill late Prlday afternoon, following
a lingering illness. Mrs. Crayton was
the daughter of the late John W.
McElhaney and Mrs. McElhaney, She
had spent practioally all her life in
fPort Mill and had many ffeiids who
greatly regretted to ,hear_ of her
qeam. since Her childhood, MrsCrayton
had been an active membe?
of the Fort Mill Baptist church. She
is survived by her husband, mother
and tvio brothers, J. C. McElhaney of
Fort Mill and A. R. McDlhaney of
Kershaw. Funeral services for Mrs.
Crayton were conducted at the home
oi: Academy street by her pastor, the
Rev. J. W. H. Dyches, Saturday afetrnoon
and the interment was in th?
city cemetery. ?
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City Slipping Into Mississippi.
The city of Hickman, Ky., has made
a frantic appeal to Washington-asking
the authorities to cut the red tape
procedure at once to save the city
from being literally swept into the
Mississippi river, The Mississippi
rive*' commission has been urged to
take action in the direction of temporary
revetment of the river bank
aitraifci West Hickman, which, due. to
the changing of the river's curreht
and its terrific action upon the shore,
is described as menacing not only the
life and property but the welfare of
the entire community.
Senator Stanley of Kentucky pro
potsa to Introduce in Congresa a Mil
aatborislhg the expenditure of |350, 00
on permanent Improvement* of
th? riser banks at Hickman to save
too dtp* Ho say* that Hickman's
Plight la ana in which the city's
dwellings. school . house*; Churches
and Industries arc in danger of dropping
Into tha riser in a short 'time.
An important change soon is to bp
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FORT MILL, S. C., THUR3I
NEWS OF TOOK tOlTiTJ.
Item of General Interest Found In
the YerfcvMe Enquirer.
Mr. -R. 8. Riddle of Clover R. F. D.
' No. 2 reports a yield of 41 measured
bushels of potatoes from 11 rows 150
feet long harvested last Sauturday
mujning.
William C. Furies was still in the |
York county jail at noon Tuesday.
Sheriff Quinn had planned to carry
hihi to the State penitentiary early
Tuesday morning, but later decided
to postpone transportation. A committal
to the penitentiary was issueu
Monday by the clerk of court. A telegraphic
order was received by Sheriff
Quinn Monday not to carry Faries
to Columbia Tuesday. '
Ku Klux Klansmen of Rock Hill
buve given no further evidence of
their existence in this section since
their first public demonstation Saturday
night, when members of the
order, in regular regalia, paraded
through the streets and the negro
quarter. "We are here to stay, to
morrow and foreve/," declared the
main poster of the white robed paraders.
Others carried the slogans,
"Down with the bootleggers" and
"W? stand for law and order." The
number of kklansmen in the parade
was variously estimated at from 3* |
to 50.
Seven defendants who were convicted
in the York county court of
. general sessions last Wednesday and
Thursday of violations of the prohibition
'law and who were given chaingang
sentences without the alternative
of a fine .were allowed to pay
Tines of $100 each in lieu of the chaining
sentences. Judge Peuyifoy in
changing the sentences from days to
dollars made no hesitancy in saying
that he didn't like the proceedings
a bit, but if appears thut the attorneys
for the alleged tigers had already
made arrangements with Solicitor
Henry whereby their clients were
to gtot out with the payment of fincBQilmore
Deas and Hall Noisier,
y^ong white men and trusty convicts
on the York county chaingang, made
their escape from the stockade, about
3 miles west of Yorkville, Sunday
night. Although police officials in a
number of cities and towns in the
sui rounding country have been notified
to keep a lookout for them,
the two convicts have not yet been
captured. Hall Neislcr had served 18
months of a two year sentence, following
his conviction for car breaking
and robbery. Qilmore Deas b-d
about a year to serve of a 30 months'
sentence.
L'enjamin Franklin Blalock, 43, his
wife, Mrs- Ada Blaclock, 38, and his
daughter, Miss Briner Esther Blalock,
16, residents of the Lockmore village,
have died since Friday. Influenza r.nd
pneumona was given as the cause of
the deaths. It was stated Tuesdav
morning that the five mouths' old
baby of the family was critically 111'
with the disease, while several other
members of the family are sickjvith
it. Mr. Blalock died Friday and was
buried Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Blaock
died on Sunday night and Miss
Esther died Monday morning. The
mother and daughter were buried
Tuesday afternoon.
Supervisor Brown said Friday that
all the white men who were sentenced
at the recent general sessions
would be sent to the peniteptiary.
The chaingang has about all it can
handle with its present accommodations,
he said, and because of the desirability
of keeping whites and negroes
separate as far as possible, it
fel necessary to send these to the
penitentiary. Ue also said that of
t&e 62 men already on the gang, before
the arrival of more recruits from
this court, there were two whites
hnd ore negro who would have to be
sent to tuv ?rnitentiary. They are in
bad shape and the penitentiary is
better prepared to take care of them.
Robert Brlce, 14 year old son of
Senator and Mrs. J. 8. Brlcs, who
died in a hospital in Qastonja Sunday,
was the manliest little gentle*
hum in Yorkville. Everybody has
been saying th&t for several years.
Ha vu nnllU. onnaWlAratA full nf life
ft dynamo of energy, generous, honorable
and brave. He was a conscientious
worker at his books, a leader
1ft .sports, and ail , that a real boy
Should be. Every man, woman andchild
In the community knew "Bob"
Brieo by name as well as by sight,
and consciously or unconsciously be
ipfffred (he love ot everybody. In
fhe staftden,catting oil ot bis bright
young life almost every individual in
the town la saddened by ft sense of,
personal .Idea, which finds relief only
lb the deep sympathy that bas Veen
stirred in every heart for the bereaved
parents and brothers- .
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One w?y to get a via to praise
your Judgment is to agree to all be
It Is about time to begin thinking
of what yon can swear off on New
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PAY, NOVEMBER 30,1922.
ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR FARIES.
Hirderer of Little Bey at Clever
(ilten Death Sentence la York. 1
William C. Fariea, 60 years old and I
the lather of 16 children, was convict- 11
ed at 3:21 Saturday afternoon in the !
court at York of the mnrder of 13- < <
year old Newton Tayor at Clover on i
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o?yiciuut;r o ana ior tne crime was i y
sentenced by Judge Peurlfoy to die l
in the electric jchair at the State pen- {{
Itentiary In Columbia on December i
29- Counsel (or Faries immediately i
gave notice that an appeal would be ,
taken to the supreme court, which 1
stays his execution on that date.
Newton Taylor was one of (our members
of the Taylor family shot to
death by Faries in Cover following a i'
quarrel between the children of the ' *
two families. The best his lawyers, !1
Thos. F- McDow and Cole L. Blease, '1
could hope for, or asked for, in be- 1
half of their client was a verdict of 11
guilty with recommendation to the 1
mercy of the court, which would have 1
meant a life sentence. <
At 3:21 Saturday afternoon, fol- ^
ioVing the trial which had lasted
through Friday .and the greater part ?
of that day, the verdict of "guilty"
was announced by the foreman of the ^
liury- It was stated that the Jury required
only one ballot to reach '
tLe verdict. While the verdict was *
being read Faries sat handcuffed beside
his attorneys and showed little 1
emotion. Stolid and unpurtured, he
had lounged on his chair through the A
morning session of the court, appar- '
ently unmindful of what was going '
oil about him.. One of the jurymen
who decided Faries' fate was W. *
Neil, Fort Mill township farmer. ^
Late Saturday afternoon, after denying
the motion of Faries' counsel
for a new trial, Judge Peurlfoy ordored
the defendant to stand up to (
hear his death sentence. "I have (
wondered," said Judge Peurlfoy, t
"if you could retrace your steps if ,
you would live your life any differ- j
ently. Now, I think, you have come j
to know what it means to strike down t
and kill in anger, and possibly you (
could tell the young folk of this city (
something about the control of the |
passions. But your race is run. I j
do not. know what your intentions .
were in youth; but if good intentions t
are not translated Into good actions j
they fall short of value. You li.tve
taken the wrong fangle. You. might (
have made friends of these people, t
but Instead yon fed the flames of an- t
ger, and as a result you stand today, j
just as the sun Is sinking, almost in fi
the very presence' of your Maker.
I mur miorneys may get you a new
trial, but my advice to you is not to
rely upon this hope, but now, without ]
delay, to make your preparations to ^
meet your God.*' ' . t
Referring to his refusal to grant the 1
motion fcr a new trial, Judge Pcrr- t
ifoy said: "I have seen nothiug in t
this trial to indicate that Faries has I
not had & fair and impartial trial. -1
Fever.in my court experience l:av0 I 1
seen better order maintained- There *
were few if any objections to testi- 1
mony. If I made an error in refus- 5
ing to grant the change of venue, *
there is, of course, the State supreme 1
court to correct me. And I am still 1
of the opinion that on Mr. Wither- J
spoon's repeated statement, that de- 1
spite his previous opinion, he was '
able to give the defendant a fair and
impartial trial, and was a competent
Juror. He said he had formed this
! opinion from reading newspaper acl
counts of the case, and anyone who
read the facts in the case would be
[ justified in saying-Abe same thing.* If
I am in error the supreme court can
correct me. I do not see how the jury
i could have brought in another ver|
diet unless, of course, they had exercised
their right to recommend
mercy. They chose not to do so and
I believe were amply justified in so
chooalnr
"Never before have I heard a more j
powerful plea for mercy than that
made by counsel for the defense. I 1
do not see how more could have been '
said or said more effectively. The j
I verdict only shows that-counsel must
have to present something more than 1
eloquence, something more than
words. So, however eloquent counsel's
plea, he had nothing to base it j
upon. Paries' own testimony was j
sufficient to convict hind of mdrder. j
The details of the four slayifTgs
:liocked the sensibilities' of the entire j
State. If there were ever a case in
the annals of the State criminal law j
that was murder, this is one."
After Paries had been sentenced,
r<Mr. McDow said tha^ defense had (
agreed to allow Farles to plead guilty
of murder with recommendation to mercy.
"This offer," he continued, j
"was refused by.the solicitor and at- j
torn#ye for the State, We propose ,
means otherwise known to the law in ,
an effort to sure the old man's life." y
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LOCALS DEFEAT ABBEVILLE.
The Fort Mill high school football
earn today proved too strong for AbwvUle
high and took the game from
he visitors, N toft
v The sneeess of the local team was
lac largely to the good work eL Peterson,
Elms, Link and Crook. Abberllle
dft not score until the laat few
ulnates of plaj, and then when Oam?rel
made a touchdown.
Fort Mill's good Interference was
i feature of the gamei.
The game was fast said dean, rejecting
credit on both schools.
Mrs. Sal lie Yountr Dead.
A stroke of paralysis, suffered last
Tuesday, Sunday might at 8 o'clock
mded the life of Mrs- Sallie Ross
founts, widow of J. A. Younts, forner
well known citizen of Pineville,
C. At the time of her death Mrs.
founts was a visitor, from her home
n Pineville, at the residence of her
>rother-in-law, W.' E. Younts, in I
Charlotte. The stroke ot paralysis
vhich was the Immediate cause of
k'T8. Younts' death was the second
ilie had had in the last two years.
Funeral services for Mrs. Younts
vere held at the home of Miss E'eulah
founts in Pineville Monday afterlr.on
and were in charge of the Rev.
tirs. Hamiter, pastor of the Pineville
Jresbyterlan church. Burial was in
he Pineville cemetery.
Mrs. Younts was 76 years old and
rns born in Lancaster county, the
laughter of John and Olive Rt>sa
3be was married to Mr. Younts in
1872. Mrs. Younts is survived by two
:hildren, Mrs. Annie Lee Huffman o!
3ineville and Charlton P. Younts of
louston, Tex. .
Masons to Elect Officers.
The annual election of officers of
Catawba lodge. No. 56, A. F. M , will
>e held this evening at the regular
nonthly communication and many
nembefs of the lodge are expected to
)Q present for the event. Dr. J. B.
SUiott is the worshipful master/ of
he lodgo and is concluding his secmd
term as such. Under the guid-'
ifice of Dr. Elliott the lodge has had
remarkable growflh, many of the
>est citizens of the community havug
been added to its membership
oils during his administration. L. M.,
dassey is senior warden of the lodge
ind in the event that there is a
:hange in the office of worshipful
naster as a result of the election
his evening it is anticipated that
?r. Massey will be promoted to the
itatinn of wA?oliin#>ii
w. (fviouiy&ui uiaoivi,
Evangelistic Club Fully Organised.
The organisation of the Fort Mill
business Men's Evangelistic club
vas completed Tuesday night with
he enrollment of 22 charter menu
>ers and the adoption of a constituion
and by-laws- Standing commitees
were appointed by Qeorge Fish,
>rfesident, as follows: Membership, S.
V. Lee, C. W. Eason and A. Y. Wiliamson;
finance, S. L. Meacham, C1.
Link and A. O. Jones; program,
4. L Carothers, E. H. Phillips and
) L. Meaoham; publicity, J. D.
Itarnes, C. S. Link and W. D. Wolfe;
dusic, H. D. Harkey, C. S. Link and
V. Y. Williamson; lunches, A. - O.
Tones, J- B. Broadnax and H. D. Harcey;
extension, W. M- Epps, E. L
iughes and R. C. Hubbard..
Grows Butter Beans Successfully.
Growing butter beans for market
>n a commercial scale is a new indusry
for this section which was underaken
this year for the first time by
H. Helms, farmer of the Pleasant
/alley section of Lancaster county,
from less than an acre, Mr. Helms
lays he gathered about 25 bushels,
or which he expects to receive about
iS per bushel. Mr- Helms says that
>utter beans are easily cultivated
ind that when the pods have reached
.he right stage of maturity to be
gathered from the vines all that has
o be done to get the beans out of the
>odB fs to spread the pods out la the I
lun tor three or foar hours and the
>ods will.burst open, leaving the
leans to be picked up rdady for
oarket. ^
Geld Hill School* Heuer BelL
The honor roll of the Qold Hill
public school, Miss Elms Bradford
principal, for the month of .November
s as follows:
Second Grade?Brevard Patterson,
iwbert Epps.
Third Grade?Ruth Crook, . Lena
3ormand.
: Sixth Grade?Edgar Crook.
Seventh Grade'?Raymond Patterion.
At a congregational meeting of the
fort Mill Psesbyteriaa church last
lunday morning the board of deacons
vas Incresed to 12 members by the
tlection of W. T. Barron, George Pleh,
William Ardery, Brice D. Chip, Qapt.
Frederick Nims and J. A. Withers,
fie new deacons are to be installed
it a special service, the date of
vhleh has not yet been announced.
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BASTES ISLAND.
Tiny Spot In Pacific Ky story Whkh
Has Interested World.
Easter island, rumored to hare disappeared
beneath the Pacific at the
time of the recent destructive earthquake
shocks in Chile, is the subject
of the following bulletin from the
National Geographic society:
"If Easter island has sunk beneath
the ocean as it is rumored tn have
done," says the bulletin, "this final
dropping ot the curtain on the island
might have gone some way toward
solving its mystery, for this
tiny bit of land with its unique gigantic
statues is shrouded in mystery
and has remained sihce its discovery
one of the world's unsolved
rlddes. One 'theory is that it represents
the last pinnacle of ancient
Pacific 'Atlantis,' which disappeared
beneath the waters many centuries
ggo?a theory to which a disappearance
of the island might obviously
lend support.
"Situted 2,000 miles west of South
America and almost an equal distance
from other Pacific islands,
Easter island le one of the most isolated
inhabited regions on the globe.
Its greatest length is less than 16
miles, and its greatest width about 7,
but its triangular shape gives it an
area of only 60 square miles. Many
an island so small has gone practically
unnoticed, but former inhabitants
unwittingly 'advertised' Easter
island by setting up huge images
along its beach, and to geographers
and students of human Institutions
and activities it Is as famous as auy
island of the Seven Seas..
"The mystery of Easter island became
recognised when Dutch navigators
discovered it on Easter morning
1722 and reported that hundreds of
strange stone figures of men more
than 30 feet high stood everywhere
about its margins, their backs to the
sea. The natives had only the crudest
of tales to account for these images,
which evidently had been fashioned
ages before.
"<R!ecent study has shown that the ^
images were mounted on terraces
usiuw wuicu uie ooaies 01 tne ueaa
were exposed and often buried. But
whence came the idea for such statues
on this isolated island, and bow
some of them weighing many tons
were moved and set in place by the
natives, have proved bafflllng enigmas.
. "The statues were carved from volcanic
lava on the slopes of an ex
tiuct volcano. Scores of them remain
still in and near the quarries. Others
have been ?moved various distances,
soma remaining horizontal, others
placed in an upright position. Some
were moved?the natives say by
magic?for miles across the islandAltogether
nearly 200 of the huge
figures are now visible and otherB
are believed to have been burled in
the landslides. The largest standing
statues are 32 feet high, but one still
reclining in its quarry measures 64
feet in length. On the heads of many
of the figures were placed great cylindrical
'hats' of a different colored
stone, each weighing several tons.
"Easter island, discovered by the
Dutch and for a while possessed by
Spain, now belongs to Chile, but for
long periods there have been no
civil Chilean representatives in residence.
A Chilean company operates
a cattle and sheep ranch on the island,
which supports a luxuriant
growth of grasses. About once a
year a- ship calls, leaves supplies and
takes away wool and hides. The cattle
are killed for their hides alone and
the surplus meat is thrown away.
"Only about 200 natives, Kanakas,
now live on the island, but it is supposed
to have supported several thousand
inhabitants in the past. Peruvian
slave traders kidnapped close to
1,000 at one time during the past century.
Since then there has been practically
no tribal organization.
"Easter island payed its part in
the World war and evidently had figured
for years in German naval
plans. German vessels from all
ports of the Pacific quietly assembled
there in the summer of 1014 preparatory
to united action under
Admiral von 8pee. But it was a rendesvouz
of death. From there the assembled
fleet saled to its destruction
by a British squadron off the Falklands."
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Following a brief Illness, Paul Lee
Wilson, three year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thssss C. Wilson, died at the
home of his parents in Fort Mill
Tuesday morning. The Interment
was in the city cemetery Wednesday
afternoon, following funeral sendees
at the home conducted by the Her. J.
W. H. Dyches, pastor of the Fort Mill
Baptist church. The little boy was
an unusually bright child who had
greatly endeared himself to all who
knew him.
Speaking of lncky boys, there la
the one whose father owns a filling
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