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HUGH IA>\(. IN AIKtA JAIL. Kliertff ami HU Men Outwit Angry Wager.or Crowd. Alken. Sept. 19.?After eluding a snob of determined men bent upon wreaking vengeance upon him after he had shot Plckena H. Gunter, pres? ident of the Bank of Wagener, on the streets of that town yesterday af? ternoon, and after suffering many hardsnlps and traveling under serious difficulties more than 2& miles through the rain la*t night. Hugh Long, mayor of Wagener and repre? sentative-elect, was brought to Aiken this morning by two rural policemen and placed In Jail. Muscoe Samuels and 8. K. Holley. the officers who ac? complished one of the cleverest ruses ever worked in this county to protect a prisoner from violence, arrived In Aiken. haggard and worn out with the hardships of a wild night, at o'clock. When fherlff Kubom and his depu? ties reached Wagener last night they found an angry mob surrounding the house In which l?ong had barri? caded hlmael'. Long, who was ap? parently very glad to see the officers of the law, was stationed 91 the sec? ond floor of the house, at the head of a narrow stairway, armed with two loaded revolver* and a shotgun, and holding hie ground with a determi? nation 'hat convinced 'he officers be? yond doubt that If he had been at? tacked by the mob he would have sold his life dear. According to the sheriff, Long had taken up a position which he could havs held against the onslaught of the crowd until bis ammunition was exhusated. and before he could have been killed, it was apparent that he could have shot down at least a dozen of the attacking party* Long's wife and child, and another family, were In the house with him. Upon his arrival Sheriff Raborn ad? dressed the crowd, but his words of advice were unavailing* . In a gin house a few yards aw*} were gath ered a large number of men. These Long could see through a window from his station at the head of the stairs. Their dark forma were moving about continuously, and occasionally the glow of their cigar* and cigar? ettes resembled the display of *-> many fireflies. Other men formed a cordon around the house in which Long had taken refuge and the mob kept their eye* upon the big black automobile In which the sheriff and his men made the trip from Aiken. thinking that the officers would attempt to carry him sway in the machine wheo they would t .. ? - **Alff oipvJiiunl.) b? make an attack. The sheriff, however, had no euch Intention. Realising that to attempt to carry Long away in the face of the mob would mean, at the very least, the death of his prisoner, he asked the leaders of the mob what they de? manded. They answered that they would be satisfied if Long were kept la Wagener until daylight?presum? ably to await word from the bed? side of Mr. Gunter, the desperately wounded man. When the sheriff K'ormed these men that he had no intention of try? ing to carry Long away in the auto? mobile, many of those composing the mob were satisfied and left the scene, but enough remained to keep a pretty close watch out. Once, when the driver of the automobile ran the ma? chine across the road, a volley of shot was fired over hin head. Long was anxious to get away to a place of more security. At last, about midnight, one of the deputies finding that the guard at the rear of the house had relaxed its vlllgance, he reported the matter to the sheriff, ard th?> sheriff realizing that this was his opportunity, told Long to go with the two deputies. Long k based hin wife good bye, a id In the run tod / of the officer.*, who themselves wer?- heavily armed, el,p. silpped out of Uli b o k door ard Into the woods. I'or 12 miles th? thiee men walked through the rain and the da ranees, keeping eway from the puMie road* md following by paths through th? voods. They lost their way and were gear Saliey What one of th.? officer* r< their location. Thirteen ggttfSl from Aik.-n they tared a BSJggy and \s. t t> the skin, worn und mtlSJttX I IhOJ dfWVS I BS remainder of the way. At Wagen* r. hfjfjrSVer, I he sheriff .md h? sthe* deputies maintained their guard of the hOSSM In which the liioli fliipp*>*ed Long to Still be held. This guard was kept up all night, and thin morning \n hen IhOOS of the mob who had been watching the big. Mark automobile all night SjSh#d 0OSH *errbfig Lossy* ihey wer* loM thai he was probibly in Alken bv thai time. As It developed, the mob had guarded dottbl) against the law of M* ? M taking Long iway in the au IsjgaatM lev Og every load leading out of |1m town barrfc ides were placed t.. stag *?r hlndei ihe progress of any eoaveyaace. Telegraph poles wer*- felb-d acroen tb.- r**ad in several slassa and in others logo wets piled up an barrier**. Lat*- |oi nlf/ht bs .i? ... . . . _ ? yReady With Ovir Fall Exhibition of M,im of Greater Interest than Ever Must This Store be to All Women, for Never Have we Made Better Preparations. THE SCHWARTZ STORE IS DISTINCTIVE. The styles offered you are ?Correct0?being chosen by buyers of experience and well known taste. ThejHome in Fact o! Ladies' and Misses' Outer Garments. We aim to select our models to please the women to whom individual? ity as well as ^tyle is important, and in looking over our Suits. Dresses and Cloaks one is at once struck by this note of distinction in each garment. We invite your early inspection of the number of New Suits. Dresses, Cloaks. Evening Gowns. Waists. Coats. Skirts and Petticoats we have gathered for you. In variety and quantity, many times the largest in Sumter, and we think none larger in the State, you find just the thing here ?"For if it's Correct Schwartz has it." Ladies' Cloaks 1 $5.00 Up to $35.00. Suits at $10. EASY STEPS up to $50. Dresses $7.50. EASY STEPS Up to $40. EVENING GOWNS $12.50 Up to $50. CHILDREN'S CLOAKS $2.00 Up to $10. SCHWARTZ BR.OS Remember, we love to show you? The Millinery Department says "ME TOO" fore the main body of the mob din- j punted an attack was made upon the office of the Wagener Edlsto Newa, a weekly newspaper, which Long estab llxhed about a year ago and which has been edited and published hy him during his residence in Wagener. i With brickbats, sticks and stone* the windows and doors of the shop ' were battered In, and the front of the office completely wrecked. The sheriff this morning arretsed Tr. O. H. Portwood and Hays Gunter of Wagener and brought them with him to Alken, placing them In Jail with Long. Theee men are charged In the warrant on which the arrest* wire made with being accessories to the crime with which Long Is charg? ed. It being alleged that Dr. Port- 1 wood, who Is a prominent citizen of Wagener and who perates a drug store there, gave Long the pistol with which he shot Picken Ounter. Havs Ounter, It la alleged, had hold of Plckens ?unter when he was shot by Logn. With his stocking feet against a smouldering Are In a waiting room < at the Alken county Jail this morn? ing, Hugh Long .whose stormy care*-; since he took up his resident.- in a: ken county a little more than a year ago, led to the sensational events of last night, this morning greeted two newspaper men who called upon him. He was smoking a corn rob pipe when his visitors entered. What he passed through during the previous 12 hours told plainly upon him?he was haggard and worn, still a little nervous; but he ami led pleasantly and Introduced his fellow prisoners. Dr. Portwood and Hays Ounter, to the newspaper men. l*ong aald that he has no statement to make at this time. When told that the mob had practically wrecked his newspaper shop, he remarked, "I am not surprised." Hardly had the sheriff reached Alken this morning when he received a telephone message from Wagener stating that the sltuattor, in that troubled town Is still bad and grow? ing worse. The sheriff WSJJ requesteu to rattirn to Wagoner at once and bring with him the entire rural COH? stahulary to preeorvs order. Two deputies were sent at on< e to the aOfJtM and In another gut ?mobile went Itohert L Ounter. aollclloi of this circuit n oounetn of Plckens Quit? ter?and Mayor Harbart Oyles ol Alken. No definite word has been received bare todny from Wagoner as to the condition of Picken! Ounter, who, however Is no despei 11e|y wounded, being shot through and through, that the ptiyalclana enter? tain not I he leant hope for his recov . i . The light between Long ;?ini Clun? ?er occurred about I o'clock ycater da) afternoon on the main business - piate of Wagoner Mnrrlngr IJtvmss Itocont. Marriage licenses have been i tied to the following colored couples dur in^ the paat two dayi .lames Chatfnnn and Oraeb Voung >-r Borden; lien 111ri n and iiucy \rin Mei'.in nt Pnlaell and Qeorge Brunaon of Bumtor md Irene Buck !? >? < f st. Matthews. SCHOOL OPENS AT WISACKY. llain Hindere Cotton Picking but Helps Other Crop**? Hum Ines? Brink In Town. Wlsacky, Sept. 28.?We, like every other section of which I've heard, had a very heavy rain last Monday night. Though it put a stop to cot? ton picking, for awhile, it was very acceptable, and helpful to potatoes, peas and gardens. More peas are be? ing made this season than have been made for a number of years. Pea Nine hay h'iH Improved very much. Some havo begun to cut their hay, but I fear will lose it as the weather has been very unfavorable for cur? ing. The public school opened last week with Miss Uoyal Peck of Kdgefleld, as teacher. Our school is quite email as so many of our young people have gone off to higher schols and num? bers are kept from school to help gather the cotton crop. How un? fortunate that some of our parents cannot iee the Importance, yea. the neccpslty of educating their children no-re, what an injustice they are do? ing their children to deprive them of an education because they failed to havo rec? ived one in their childhood. I hope our next legislature will Suc? re, d 111 passing a compulsory educa? tion law, and thus save our rising generation from ignorance. .Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Scott stopped on their retuin from the mountains to spend a week at the home of their daughter, Mrs. W. W, McCutchen. They went on to Alt. Pleasant yester? day where they will spend the win? ter. Mrs. N. Z. Alford also returned yes? terday from her sojournings In pur? suit of health. Dr. Alford has been absent for a week In North Carolina, where he went to attend the funeral of his brother. Mack. He has the sympathy of us all in his bereave? ment. V good many of our young people have been suffering from the effects of hook worm treatment, but are about recovered from it and claim that it has helped them. Business Is quite lively in our little town and though the cotton crop la very short, prices are very good, compared with last year at this time. s?-ed is bringing s good price. Corn and potatoes are good and the farm? ers are cheerful. Wo Were glad to m?et our old friend, Mr. A. Strauss of your town, who visited our town this week, hike some of the r?st of us, age is tell ? - ii him, We ai< nwalting very unxlousl) the verdlcl ..t the stat. Bxecutlvi Committee \sitb reference to our re cenl State election, I trust it will d< justice to ,iii parties and nnl be gov srncd b) any partisan spirit. it |i raining again, und all farn Work i i suspended fot this w eek, "W.Irow Wilson Is one southern er whom the Ynnkces made run," re mnrk*. the Columbia State, To whlcl The Qreenvllle News adds: ' Am Governor Marshall is n Yankee whon the Southerners nre tunning.? Au gusts Chronicle. FARMERS' UNION NEWS (Condacted ay g* W. Dabo?, Fi? tsent C F*&im*rs Unlecv) Some Random Thoughts. The quotation from President Hlghtower's annual report Is made principally to emphasize the idea ex? pressed in the following sentence: "In the 2nd place the success of the com? pany depends upon the development of an Idea in the public mind. The people of the South, as a whole, have little conception that a most de? plorable market condition exists in this country. They can't he induced to co-operate properly unless they un erstand the vast amount they are losing each year by improper market conditions. The surest and quickest way to disseminate this knowledge is through our agricultural colleges. This instruction will not only be given to the young men of the col? lege, but through the department of markets in these institutions the pub? lic will be informed from time to time and knowledge of real conditions will be disseminated throughout the ^outh generally. ' s a a Thus wrote Mr. G. R, Hightower, for years President of the Mississippi Farers' Union, and Blnco June 15th, President of the Mississippi A. and M. college at BtarkVllle. When that was written the President of the South Carolina Union had already carried the request for a study of marketing to the University at Columbia and to Clemson College. Finding it imprac? tical to visit all the colleges of the State, he sent each and every one an earnest letter requesting that the matters of Farm Finance, and pro? duce marketing be studied. This is not to detract one scintilla of honor from my colleague of Mississippi, but to show to the readers of this paper that those of us who have given much thought to these matters, seo that It is a matter of education and that we have H right tO expect the coieges ami the educated minds of the coun? try to help solve these problems. SOS in only one instance did the head of a college seem reluctant to take up the subjects. He said it was not the province of the college to try to teach marketing; that it could only be done h) practical men organising co pperatlve selling agencies, and giv? ing an object lesson of scientific mar? keting. Probably when ho has given more thought to the matter, and realises what ? tremendous hold it has ??n the public mind, how Institutes ind magazines, ami congress and Farmers' Unions ar? wrestling with t m problem, he will revise his "pin? ion. * * S in tin meantime the A and M. col? lege ot Missis Ippl must be given due < redII for beim- the tlr^t college In America to establish a chair of Rural Credits and Farm Marketing. ? ? e Two editorials from the Carolina Union Farmer are so appropriate just at this time that they are re? produced below. Read them careful? ly, both farmers and merchants; yes, and bankers and lawyers, school teachers and preachers will also find them Instructive. a a a In response to an Inquiry of the Governor of a progressive State of the Middle West, I have been prom? ised all their bulletins on co-opera? tion. They have a State board In re? sponse to a plank In the party plat? form in part as follows: "We favor thorough Investigation of conditions of county and eity life as an aid In bringing the wage-earner and farm? er closer together, eliminating the waste of distribution, promoting co peratlve selling, buying, storage, and warehousing, co-operative credit and knowledge of co-operative meth? ods and the encouragement of the ownership of homes by wage-earners and farmers." a a a The county meeting on Friday bids fair to be a most interesting one. 'resident Williams will give the de? tails of a plan of co-operation "to aid each other in buying and selling" that should be understood and put In operation In every local union. The beauty of this plan of his, is that it has been tried successfully in his own local union. When our people are willing to begin in a small way at home as he has done, these larger things that we read so much about will come naturally. In fact they can? not come without being preceded by the small efforts and small efforts will lead to big things Just as sure As the seed leads to the harvest of the crop If It Is properly cultivated. E. W. D. Ootton News t*. Political Netra. The Monroe Enquirer bus a wa. of going straight to the Issue without wasting any words. And hero's the way It says thinge: "And now Kin*r Cotton comes to the front. More interesting will be the items about cotton, Its condition, quality and price than all the reports from political conventional all the re? turns from elections and the wrang linga ?>f politician." Teh Enquirer is everlastingly right In its comparison. Not only the Sotuhern farmer but the entire busi? ness interests of the South are more Interested In cotton news than poli? tical news. And this reminds us again that the Atnertcun farmer has leas reason to get excited over party ma ? nine politics than uny othei ctaaa of people. His interests are not se? riously considered* in the groat game ..f politics that Is being pulled oft this year, The political platforms searcelj refer to agricultural Interests at all. The special Interests have been well taken care of heretofore and I hen Is nothing t ? Indlcati Hint Ihej are not going to be w ell taken ?an ol iit<i the io\t election, regardless of which p-irt3 machine may win, sir.ply because the special Interests still have enough men In the parties to get what they want. No lines have yet been drawn that separate those who may be seeking to run the gov? ernment in the interests of the masses from the controllng minority. In their respective political parties, who repre? sent the "Invisible government." Un? der such situation why should the farmer, or anybody else, as for that matter, get excited over the present political situation? Of course the price of cotton .s more interesting? more exciting. If you don't believe it, ask the farmer who is wrapped up in debt. Ask the merchant whose ability to meet his obligations depends upon the price of cotton. Ask the doctor whose collections will depend largely upon the price of cotton. Also the lawyer who will also be in a tigh place unless the price of cotton goes right. That unpaid preacher's sa ary also makes him feel a lingering interest in the price of cotton. Yes, indeed, "cotton news" is decidedly the most interesting to everybody in this country?except to the fellows who are waiting and hoping for seome fat, Jucy slices of party "pat? ronage," as pay for their "influence*"" in the campaign. Market Your Cotton Slowly. If you lost your nerve last fall and permitted yourself to join the panicky procession and dumped your cotton: upon a congested market, thus caus? ing the price to tumble way down be? low a normal level, you might figure out your losses. It won't do any good now except to remind you of the log? ical effect of feeding the markets faster than there Is an economic de? mand for the product. Perhaps you thought the other fellow would hold, and he acted just like you did?and he thought you would hold. Or. per? haps, the large crop reports last fall caused yotl to lose faith In the mar? ket, and you surrendered and "let her roll." However that may have been, the fact remains that there was panicky marketing last fall?"scared marketing"'?ami that kind of mar? keting slwsys produces panicky prices us a natural COnseQUence, And that kind of rapid selling cost the> Southern farmers twenty dollars a bale. They lost twenty dollars a bale and the speculators and spinners made twenty dollars a bale by the operation. The aggregate loss to the farmers foots up. in round numbers, the neat sum of three hundred million dollars and also the neat profit of the three hundred million dollars to the speculators ami "special interests. ' If you don't like the result of that kind of marketing, wouldn't it ho s good Idea not to be caught in th it kind of panic again'.' Cradual mar? keting, feeding the markets only the j markets are hungry for the product, is the remedy. Congested marketing pro,hues falling prices. If you don't believe it carrj more tomatoes or more melons to your local market than tb< re is b d< n and for, and s? e it prices come down. Our historians devote pages to milt tars or political phases of lifo, while scarceI) a page is given to our Indus? trial heroes who ba\.? led the pro? cession In our country's substantial de\ elopmenl