The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 14, 1922, Image 1
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VOLUME XXXVII
CYCLONE MACK
IS COLEY MAN
Sends Printed Circular From
Lincolnton, Where He
Preached
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HIS v> I YLt Uh MAIM
Re Is an Enemy Rather Than
a Help to Organized
Churches
There is an evangelist preacher
, going about the country with a tent
and who seems to have recently
closed a protracted service at Lincolnton,
N. C.
He is known by the sobriquet of
Cyclone Mack. His cue has been
the drawing of large crowds by the
performance of antics on the rostrum,
and the use of highly colored
sentences and big- words, often getting
to his tent thousands of people
who went to hear something out
of the ordinary, and a great proportion
of whom no doubt belong to
no regularly established church?
from this big outside crow.4 who are
either not affiliated with any church
or, if they are members of any
church, are dissatisfied with the
Spiritual food they get from it.
McLendon is understood to be originally
from Bennettsvilie, S. C., as
the name of this place appearV on
the letter which he has been sending
out in behalf of Cole L. Blease,
as the home address of the preacher.
Recent stories told of McLendon
would indicate that the evangelist
tent business has not been, with him,
anything like a profitless business.
Tt is reported that in Marion county
he has purchased a iarge tract of
land, which he uses as a hunting
ground and where he goes to hunt
( and shoot game in between the
times when he is holding down the
flaps of the tabernacle. It is also
said that he is negotiating for ttie
purchase of another and perhaps
larger and more costly tract of this
kind of property, and either adjoining
the tract he already owns, or
nearby in the same township.
He seems to be a medly of Sam
Jones, Billy Sunday, and the many
i preachers of the Holly Roller and
f similar sets of traveling religious
sects. Anyway, he is a supporter
of Cole L. Blease, to whom it is
alleged he is a second cousin.
Last week a circular letter was
being mailed to people in tnia State,
purporting to come from him. Following
is the circular in full:
""Rev. Baxter F. McLendon
"Evangelist
"Lincolnton, N. C., Sept. 5, 1922.
"Mv Dear Friend:
,4Ne:<t Tuesday will decide whether
the Columbia Machine that has South
Carolina by the throat in the Interest
of its own domination will rule
this State, or whether we'll have a
real Governor who has a heart instead
of a gizzard and who Is fighting
for the masses of the people, or
the Columbia State backed by its
hireling editor, Bill Ball, whose
policy is to RULE or RUTN; and it
is up to the people of South Carolina
to say whether they want a real
Governor or a jumping-jack, and
rubber stamp who will be pliable In
* the hands of August Cohen, President
of the Columbia Machine, who
has been Governor of this State for
eight years and is$ now seeking a
fifth term. The issue next Tuesday
will be the rule of the people or the
domination of the Oligarchy, led by
the Columbia State and its hirling
editor, Bill Ball.
"Blease is the strongest card that
can be put against the Oligarchy,
for the simple reason that he commands
the confidence of thos|e who
Vnow him to a larger extent. He
5s known as a man who does no?
mind saying where he stands, aivl
who can always be depended upon
to do what he says he will do.
That is why every stand-pat, free
lunch-pie-counter, pliable plastic,
i lick-spittle, tin-horn, pin-headed,
peanut-brained politician is opposed
to him.
"Cole L. Blea.se may make mistakes
but the people always know
, where to find him. You don't have
\ to turn a Yerkes Telescope on mm
to find out where he stands on an
I issue.
"The success of the Oligarchy on
I September 12th, will mean that taxes
' will continue to mount as they have
i been mounting since Blease went out
1 jWAVAV.V/.VW.V.'.W//.1
% It is now past the time when o
t j, Conway should be entirely out o
U Jjj of the, "every man for himself
L. JS class" and fully entered in the <
k JJw "common pood of all class.'' <
I Zm Thft, "every man for himself
r "J class'' belongs to the small vil- o
L lage where things are dominat- i>
I erj by one or two men, and the
u V village never amounts to much o
E ?J[ until it gets out of that class. J J
m "J As the village grows it leave? +
Je that class more and more beV
hind and it is often hard lo U
I break through the lines anil o
* cross over into that bigger and J J
f better way of doing things. <
|k IB Conway should be well over
"J the line between the two. o
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OLD CASES ON
COURT DOCKET
To These Listed Here Will
be Added All of the
New Ones
The Court of General Sessions wl'r
convene on the last Monday in this
month. It is the 25th.
Rvnminof iaii nf . I 1?i- 1'?
ua uic uwKt't ui me
criminal court shows that cases to
the number of twenty-six were continued
over from the last term. To
these old cases will be added numerous
cases sent up by the magistrates
of the county since the last
term of the court.
There is no way to tell just how
many of these new cases there will
be.
The continued cases are listed as
follows:
Town of Loris vs C. W. Stalvey,
appeal.
The State vs W. Percy Hardwick.
Drawing and writing check
without funds.
The State vs W. Fred Jones.
Larceny.
The State vs J. M. Tindaf.
Larceny.
The State vs Charley Jones am*.
Geo. Hucks. I)itf(posing of property
under lien.
The State vs W. J. Hendricks.
Appealed.
The State vs Jack Hickman, Turner
Vereen and Alva Grainger. Appealed.
The State vs Ben Hickman. Violating
Prohibition Law.
The State vs W. C. Floyd. Charge,
disposing of property under lien.
The State vs H. W. Lewis. Breach
of trust with fraudulent intent.
The State vs Furman Hatcher.
Appealed.
The State vs D. G. Hinson. Disposing
of property under lien.
The State vs Jess Strickland.
I Assault and battery with intent to
' kill.
The State vs John Graham. Assault
and battery with intent to kill.
The State vs Daniel Skipper,
Loving Skipper, Sam Sellers, Bili
Elvis, Gary Skipper, Rufusl Skipper,
Harrison Rowell. Charge, Violation
of the Prohibition Law.
The State vs W. J. Johnson.
Charge, Larceny.
The State vs John Causey and
Crettie Huggins. Adultry and Fornication.
The State vs Furney G. Ward and
Mary Baker. Adultry and fornication.
The State vs J. M. Gasque. Disposing
of property under lien.
The State vs E. N. Tompkins*
Disposing of property under lien.
The State vs E. Bert Sarvls. Ascauit
and battery with intent to kill.
The State vs Burroughs Gerrald
Obtaining goods by false pretense.
The State vs Bill Lewis, G. W.
Harrelson and Martin Faircloth.
Rule to show cause. Defendant Bill
Lewis arrested and in chain gang.
The State vs Richard C. Cook.
Non-support of wife. (Mistrial.)
The State vs Jessie Strickland, W.
J. Tyler and Lewis Tyler. Violation
of the Prohibition Law.
The State vs Kelly Jones. Violation
of Prohibition Law.
of office, and the defeat of the
Cohen Machine will mean that eithei
extravagance and useless appropriations
will be stopped or the people
will know the reason why.
"Before you vote next Tuesday, ask
yourself this question: Why is it if
Blease is such a bad man that his
home county, Newberry, elected T\Mt?
every time for every office he has
AifAv QcniivtH f a ' Ho wn? in t?iw
Vi VV1 Utl|/I 1 VVI W M m ?? w. w
Legislature for years, and State
Senator for several terms, and Mayoi
of Newberry, to say nothing of t*ie
large majority his county has always
given him every time he has run for
Governor.
"Then ask yourself this question:
Why is it that Tom McLeod, the
Columbia Machine Candidate, let
Blease beat him in his own home
county, Lee, and then tribbled htm
in his home town box, where he wa?
born and reared? Do you want a
man for Governor of South Carolina
who can't carry his own county,
nor his home box where he was
born and reared ?
"Bob Cooper entered the race 4
years ago in opposition to the Columbia
Machine, appealing to the
"common people," then wnen he got
left the machine bought him ou^
with the promise that if he wouid
throw hisi influence to Manning in
the second race they would give him
the Governorship at the close of
Manning's second term, but even at
that they had to steal the election
from Blease by unadulterated fraud.
"George Laney is plnving the
same kind of pie-counter politics, he
is kissing the hand that smote him,
expecting to be made Governor after
the Columbia Machine is through
with Tom McLeod."
Respectfully,
REV. BAXTER P. McLENDON.
Bcnnettsville, S. O.
We have never seen this traveling
preacher in this county. Since
seeing this circular, if McLendon
composed it, the people of this section
know at least what tftyle of
man he is. He cannot support Colo
L. Please for high office without endorsing
the life of Blei.se, his habits,
and his purposes. Ju^t as Bleasc
would pardon every convict in or
Wmt
CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY,
| UTTER DISREGA1
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! conditions in that county are
o siders the conditions even at
J [ the county.
] Recently one of the larj
< State was discovered in Ma
" been running for a long tim
wholesale. It was called the
stills.
o In Horry county, our (
o conditions are no better. Th<
3[ not worse. The enforcemen
] seems to be taking up the t
< and a great portion of the C
o istrates' constables. One pol
JI stills out of one community
< stills were found and reporti
< been run within fifty yard*
31 part of Horry almost there
3> ance of religious gatherings
3J stills and the monkey rum i
women. In a land where it :
o and sell whiskey it is no ur
It dead to the World from stro
was found lying in a car de
< passage of other vehicles. I
< cases, are accused of having
Jt Conditions are bad and
The law making bodies hav
< except to make it a crime f
the influence of whiskey, and
X much good. It may not dc
J facts that have come out
worry those who would like
X the facts are the facts and
X may help to bring about be
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CRIMINAL TERM
The jury commissioners convened
at the Clerk's office one day re- <
cently and drew the petit jurymen 1
for service at the approaching 1
term of the Court of General Ses- i
sions, Monday, September 26th. ]
Following is the list: 1
L. M. Hardee, 1
J. E. Holmes, 1
B. H. Gerrald,
L. C. Anderson, 1
Wm. C. Martin, t
H. M. Elliott, 1
L. P. Hardwick, i
W. .H. Prince, 1
R. W. Bryan, 1
Ed Doyle, ;
C. M. Blanton,
T. Archie Smart, 1
D. H. Baker, I
W. A. Spivey, :
B. J. Vareen, J
Bert Grainger, (
John T. Anderson, s
J. H. Hooks, 1
I. T. Cook, I
Joe H. Derham, <
L. F. Bellamy, I
B. F. Boyd, ' i
J. Lewis Vereen,
J. T. King, I
Sam C. Long,
W. H. Graham, Jr., 1
C. C. McCorley, ; i
T. L. Thomas, 1
P. R. Lawrimore, i
J. H. Edge, <
F. T. Hniro-ins. '
W. W. Carmichael,
C. D. Owens, ]
A. L. Alfred,
L?. M. Stanley, <
Herbert L. Bellamy, 1
BRIDGES LOSE !
BY BIG VOTE |
I
Legislature Provided For Bond |
Issue in Vain This i
Time ;
There are three bridges needed in
this county, more than any other,
just now, and they are Across the <
Great Pee Dee River at Yawhanna,
across the Lumber River fit Nichols;
and across the Waccamaw River, between
Star Bluff Ferry and the Belder
to repay his friends, so the \
Rev. McLendon would pardon every |
thief and murderer who was ever ,
turned loose on a decent community. ]
Just as he is laving in the praise
of Blease, going so far as to say ;
things that are untrue, just so he ,
would take the stage before a large |
I audience and make statements that .
| he could not prove. % \
Such a man should he looked upon ,
as an 1 enemy of the organized <
churches of the land instead of their (
friend. If there is any church that \
is of value to us of course it the ]
organized Baptists, Methodists, Pre:* .
hyterians, and others, and not the
kind that roams the country like Gyp- ,
sy hands. If the business of Me .
Lendon was concerned in the saving
of souls as he doubless claims, time
and time again, that it is, then he .
has no business taking sides in a (
political fight and on the side of a ]
man who has lined up with the people
who are looking downward in- i
stead of upward. I
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SEPTEMBER 14, 1922
RD OF THE LAW 1 ]
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f Florence County, liquor J[ F
i now demoralizing. He con- <
palling in some sections of o
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?est stills ever seen in this
rion County where it had < t
e and making rum by the < (
daddy of all other crude Jt 1
>wn home, it appears that < (
ey may be fully as bad, if < 1
t of the prohibition laws X (
ime of the rural policemen, T ^
lounty Sheriff and the Mag- ^ e
iceman recently took three
r. In Floyds township two U ^
3d in the Herald as having x
3 of each other. In every < i
are reports of the disturb- < 1
5, the finding of parts of o f
tself in the homes of lewd \
is against the law to make J J 1
icommon sight to see men .< *
ng drink. Recently a man *
ad drunk and blocking the X t
Vlen in high office, in some J
strong drink and using it. i
they call for some remedy. X 1
e done about all they can J \
or a man to be seen under J <
I we doubt if that would do t
) any good to print these X J
in the last few weeks to i r
to see things different; but i
a plain statement of them t
tter things. X J
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DAMAGE CASES 1
ON BIG TRACT!
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Suifc OVA IXAM/li' J? ? /""1 1 *
wvi.vn ?4C PCIIUIUU 111 LIIU LiOUn OI '
Common Pleas here by J. M. Hard- I
wick and several of his sons, of 1
;he Loris section, in wnicn damages f
will be claimed against the irexler
Lumber Company for alleged wrong- i
ful ways of handling the lands when <
the lumber company cut off the tim- i
:>er*from their lands. <
The timber was sold on the Hard- 1
wick land a number of vears ago i
;o the Atlantic Coast Lumber Cor ?
poration. That company sold their
rights to the Trexler Lumber Com- 1
E>any and the latter went on the i
land and cut otf the timber a - few j
years ago. > ',vj 1
In' cutting off the timber they i
blocked up a branch that runs i
through the tract by locating 1
skidder across the mouth of it. They i
Also blocked up Buck Creek, a bold i
;reek that runs through this tract, t
so that in many places the creek
lias tried to form a new channej 1
)y running over higher lands to get
around the obstructions. During this
time the lands have been flooded anci
ruined by the water sobbing through.
This is about the way the allegu- *
tions appear.
The plaintiffs are represented by
Mr. Malcolm C. Woods, of the Marion
bar, and lately other council
lias been retained who will assist .
Mr. Woods in the trial of these
lamage cases.
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lamy Landing.
Hut the people of the county have
said by their vote that they did not
want the county to issue bonds for
.he purpose of building these bridge*, i
The question was submitted to the 1
voters in the first primary under the
provisions of an act passed at the 1
ast session of the Legislature. The ;
natter wa>s well known about Conway ]
>vhen the projects were being dis- j
jussed last Spring and Winter, about t
the time that the location of the j
southern end of the national highway ?
was being talked pro and con, and
just before that time and just after j
.hat time. \
The crossing of the Pee Dee at i
Yawhanna Ferry as it is called on j
the Great Pee Dee side, has been ]
a hard place to get over on the road
to Georgetown, from time out of j
memory. {
The people have not only wanted (
in easy crossing there, but there Is *.
lot a question but what they have l
iceded it as much as they ever i
needed any improvement of like (
kind.
The need of a good bridge at j
Nichols is also needed. It can be j
remembered when the old bridge at ?
l/iiwv j'Kivc i?;n m?wii sevcnn tinier i ^
:in<l caused a man arid his team to j
fall into the river; times when It <
was so dangerous tluvt r.o man would \
venture over it. Again the people
of the two sectio 13 of Horry lying
on opposite aides of the Waccn- j
maw River want to visit each other f
ind do business with each other. ,
Strangers need to pass through j
without danger of being drowned in j
a swelling stream. ,
The members of the T,egisTatutf ,
passed the act providing for the is- (
suing of bonds to a large amount to
do all these things, provided the '
people would say so at the polls. I
The people have said not. The i
total of the vote cast for the bridge <
bonds was 857 while 'hose against m
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PLANTERS ASK 1
FOR MORE AID
Petition Will be Presented (
to Delegation in the
Assembly
A movement was started last week |
o get more aid for the unfortunate
'armers in Socastee township who ]
ost their crops by means of the un
isual rains last Spring.
A petition was being circulated in
Donway and through adjacent secions,
asking the delegation in the
jeneral Assembly to appropriate
some money that will help the funcle h
ilready supplied and together make *
mough to do some good. c
In Socastee township the rains be- v
fan early in the crop reason oi <
1922, and continued without stopping
mtil the last vestige of tobacco v
>lants, corn and other crops ha<? 2
>een ruined. On some farms in tha: c
section of Ilorry County, the fieltlr 1
ippear as if they had not been cuf- j
;ivated this year, except for the fe\> t
ittle dried up stalks of corn, ana
he great crop of crab grass thai ?
sprang up to eat the fertilizers thai i
lad been intended to make food for t
he people. \
ThM misfortune took all the t
planters about alike. The negro t
Topper suffered and the man who j
ents out land suffered. There wa? i
lobody who could make a crop in t
5ocastee this year in the face of s
he conditions that prevailed. A e
survey was made of the situation \
or publication in the Herald several j
nonths ago. Those who do not j
enow how extensive the destruc-. r
ion was, might well hunt up that 11
ssue of the Harald which carried 11
he names of the planters and the (
rops they had planted and the pet ]
entage of loss that they sustained. \
When the people saw that they r
iaa Kuieci in tneir tobacco crops and i
vould make but very little, they j
>1 anted the late crops of sweet potar- f
oes that you now see growing on r
he farms of that section. Cow j
)eas were planted on some farms ami r
-vill produce a fairly good crop, j
rhe sweet potatoes on a number of ^
farms are apparently making a \
?ood crop. ,
Many of the farmers say they can- j
tot afford to keep their cattle and ^
3ther animals and are trying to j
make disposition of them. With- i
>ut the means of feeding cows next (
winter, and fattening the hogs, the j
'armers of that entire section are t
expecting a hard winter.- t
This year has been one of the'.
wettest that the county has seen ^
n a long time. This statement applies
to the whole county. While r
:he damage was not as extensive ^
n other sections of the county a* N
t was in certain spots, yet many j
armers will tell you that the dam- c
ige ha^ been great in all section.>
is compared to other crop years of j
;he past ten years. j
WHISKEY RAID j
NEAR MYRTLE \
t
rhree Men Taken Under War- '
rants in Connection With
The Raid
IhKth SI ILLS TAKEN UP !
Officers are Active at This 1
Time in Downing Whiskey 1
Making
The officers of the law are making
t hot for stillers of whiskey in Horry
County.
They need to be active, judging.
by the numerous reports of drunken ?
ind disorderly conduct on various
public roads in the country and the {
lumber of Sunday and Saturday '
light rows coming off at hot sup- 5
>ers, cross road stores and in the ,
>ticks.
Last week the Herald carried an 1
account of a big raid in Floyd.?
township, now this week there is 1
mother report, this time in the op- 1
aosite corner of the county, near
Myrtle Beach.
D. Frank Bellamy, of the rural J
police, assisted by Joseph P. Vaught, J
5. S. Owens, and Tobe Cooper, lo- 5
!ated and destroyed three of the l
>tills, and one bairel of loured mo *
as?ses and water, which was about 1
eady to run, all located very nea. 1
;o Myrtle Beach Summer resort. , .
Warrants have been sworn out for I
Abraham Causey, and Irvin Cox | J
)oth cnargea witu Having' used these <
stills in the making" of rum from <
:heap molasses, while Charley Owens 1
las been arrested by the officers 4
charged with having sold some of <
his product. 4
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Grim determination to obtain *
eparations from Germany, seize 4
guarantees and enforce such pay- 4
nents in the event that the repara- <
ions commissioner's decision should <
arrant a moratorium to Germany *
without exacting the securities de- <
-nanded by Trance is everywhere <
ivident in French official circles. J
Lhe issue was 2.952. It will be J
;een from the reading of the annex- <
xi table just how each precinct went '
)n this '^stion of bonds. <
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Best News f
NO 21
JORMAN MATTER
BACK IN COURT
Jase Tried in March 1922
Did Not Seem to Stop
Matters
r0LL0WS WITH SHOT GUM
?eace Bond Required in Court
of Magistrate W. H. Chestnut?More
Threats
Trouble is about to break forth
igain in the Adrian community, in
he upper part of Conway township,
>ver the Dorman-Mishoe affair which
s-as aired in the court of General
Sessions here in Conway, last March,
vhen Robert Mishoe, husband of
kLacey Dorman, was tried on a
:hare of shooting G. K. Dorman,
lis father-in-law and was ' found
guilty by the jury and was fined in
.lie sum of one hundred dollars.
Judge Thomas S. Seaste delivered
i lecture to Mishoe when piolouncing
sentence on him, saying
hat he perhaps should be severe,
>ut would temper justice with mercy
ind trust to the tenets of the Chrls;ian
religion to help bring back
>eace and good will to this husband
md wife who had been living apart
or a number of years, he by himself
or with the people of his parnits,
she with her father and mother
'or she was the only child.
The lecture of Judge Sease, it ap>ears,
lias not had the desired effect.
Hie peace of the community has
igain been disturbed. According to
iharges made in the magistrate's
:ourt here last week, Mishoe went to
Popular Church last Sunday night,
vhere his wife had gone to atteiuf
)raver meeting held bv tho Knworth
..aguers, and after church was out
le made threats and followed her
or about a mile, while Macey Dornan
managed to escape by climbng
on a buggy which was being
Iriven by one of the sons of Noah
iardwick. By fast driving the young
voman got stifely back to Tier fa.her's
home without injury.
On Tuesday, it is said that in
:he magistrate court a peace bond
vas made and entered into, whereby
bondsmen stood for his keeping the
peace. At least G. K. Dorman said
;hat a peace bond was demanded by
lim in the magistrate court and
;hat before he left he was assured
hat tne peace bond would be made,
ind he heard afterwards that tne
)ond had been made.
Nevertheless, on Wednesday ereling
when CJ. K. Dorman returnd
,o his home, the first thing he saw
vas Mishoe standing at the corner of
;he hog lot with a single barrel
.hot gun, in a menacing attitude.
After chasing the wife home from
-he church on Saturday night, it ia
eported that he made threats In the
\earing of Mrs. Lucinda Anderson
md saitl that intended to kill all the
Dorman family, or words to thac
ilfect. These threats were repeated
;o that G. K. Dorman got hold ot?
hem and he was told of other
threats that had been made by the
husband.
On last Thursday G. K. Dormart
md hi.H daughter, Macey DormanMishoe,
were both in Conway, callng
on the Magistrate and his constable
in an etfort to get some legal
relief from the conditions described
>y them as being awful and almost
unbearable.
\NOTHER STILL
IC T A I. 1/V FWVH7M
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The officer^ of the law arrested
rom Hardee last Friday under the
charge of violating the prohibition
aws in that he ran a still in Simp?son
Creek township, and was caugn*
tvhile going to the still to operate
t.
He is an old offender against tha
whiskey laws, having been charged
with a violation of the law before.
The still, which consisted of a
gasoline drum and improvised cap
nade in the country, was taken by
;he officers and demolished. The
;till worm was brought to Conway
ind furnished a sight for the cur?>us.
J. K. King, of the rural polce,
was the captain of the raiding
>arty.
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The failure of the people lo <
* vote in favor of the bond issue J *
for the building1 of three o
bridges in this county, was o
nothing else except a protest ^
against- the way that the na- <
tional highway was located in ^
the county and in the town. <
: This road was not located | *
according to the dictates of
good sense and reason so as O
to benefit the greatest numbei
i of people and the Town of o
I Conway itself. So the people j
it spoke and they hit a hard blow
' at progress and improvement <
\l when they did it; but they
^ have also taught a lesson <
J which it would pay us all ] J
* retain and keep. <?
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