Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The ~ Btttie-Ct? m%\%LUM *Jeat to kMp him out of mischief ho smiled. "Bran tho law aw aaau not auatatx -Waat win happen when the II o ha replied. ait head. 1 cant hardly the next morning Ante Havey \ ami cautioned the two to Mart their rooms and to koto, their shutters open. AO da? Um town lay Ilka a turtle, frawn mfo tU shell. Streets esgffcy. Doors wer? looked and OawUtrt tarred. Bat toward evening, tcw%ae sjttWp ewwfMcrment, she saw Ilageys rtntaw, wot of town test sod of tola tC Boom there were mo more Maes at, too raekw. By night the ajfeba whMb was to be assaulted to Owwrow seemed to save seen abas* owned by tu defenders. fid MOt McBrtsr bad ridden out is taw nwnlng. fans* bat wrathful, to most the mow who were hurrying In. TM? fcfao of Bad Ante Hatay jfeotaw otfawlWm bar window, but for the Mot wart Iba foroe of Bareys had evaporated. and wttb forenoon the snow town tattled down to the tJlawto of a osmstary. bat wttb after ntoa tho new procastlon to come in. ? long and oow of MoBrtar horsemen, to toe teeth, rode past the and wwnt straight to the court Then aba beard again the be bad board oa bar first gaoun taint, only now it O bundred throats, n was the MeBrtar yen. and after H aatsa a scattering of rifle and pistol a waa going away again ap the town at they wiaat bad happened dowa CHAWTIR XXL hoard the story. The Mo* come expecting battle Tbey bad found every road open and taw town deserted. Vor a thus they bad gone about looking for trouble, bat re awl no one to oppose them. Old M It and his son had rid *Tsll Ivory Mao That Calls Hit Self t Meaner That the Havsyt Havs Got Ma In Their Damned Jsllhoussl* awn to the courthouse to demand the So of the Jail. They found Judgs tring sitting la the little office, and wttb him. quite unarmed and without taoort, sat Bad Anse Havey. When the two McBriars, backed by a score Of armed men, broke fiercely Into tbc room, others massed at their backs crowding doorway and ball. Judge Slderlng gretted hit visitor* OS though no intimation had evet reached him that they wire oominf Wttb a grievance. "Come In, Milt, and havo a chair,' bo Invited. "Cheer, hsnraboatoi Milt MoBriar MOWe me the keys ter thet jallhouse at' ftts em tsr me qilck!" Opening the drawsr of his desk ai tf be bad been atkei for a match Jadfs Slderlng took out the big iroi key to tbs outer door und las ? ma lie key to the little row of cells. H the two across to Milt in i matter of fact fashion. live minutes later the McHrls thief was back trembling with rage ty# had found the jail impty. "If you're lookln' for Lukn Thuton efllt." said the judge ca mly. 'the htgl sheriff p*ok him to Louisville yestsr dsv for safe-keepln ." Taa answer was a bellow of rags. Old lllk McBriar threw forward hh rile. Aase looked up and spoke slowly: "I reckon it wouldn't profit ye muci to harm us, Milt We ain't armed, an It would bring on a heap of trouble/ Outiide roie an angry chorus o> voices. The news that the Jail was empty had gone through the urowd. For a time the McBriar stood there debattig his next step. The town ?eemoi at his mercy. Seemed! That word i;ave him pause. The way home lay through Havey territory, which might mean twenty miles of solid ambush. Anse Havey tat too quietly for Milt's ease of mind. Was he bait ing some fresh trap? The old intriguer felt baffled and at tea. He had grown accustomed tc weighing and calculating with guileful deliberation. He balked at swift and Impulsive action. Moreover, if he de? bated long, he might not be able to control hit men. He looked up?tc see little Milt who was fighting back j the crowd at the door and locking ' them out Beyond the paneln could be heard loud swearing and the lmpa ttent shuffling of many feet "What shall we do, son?" inquired the older man of the younger. His voles had a note of appeal and break? ing power. IWhen Young Milt had ridden out PerU no fendist in the hills had >rne a heart fuller of hatred and inger tor vengeance, but that was ?cause of his father. Now his father as f-ee. For Luke Thixton he had profound contempt He saw in the tuation'only a same of wits In which nse Havey was winner. "Well." he replied with a grin he >uld not repress, "hit looks right nart ter me like thar hain't notbln' > do but ride on back home an' try rain next time." That counsel hi the end prevailed, uttide there had been a short sharp truggle with a mutinous spirit These ion hsd come for action and they did et want to ride back foiled, but the ord of Old Milt had stood unchal mged too long to fall now. Yet he id back a grumbling following and ore a discounted power. They could ot forget that a Havey had worsted im. 80 the spirit of the men who had ome to fight vented Itself In the yell nd the random shots to which there ras no reply, and again a train of lorsemen were on their way ii.to the ills. When'it was all over and Juanita at there in her empty school she was eaUstng that after all, the desperate Doment had only been deferred and nust come with absolute certainty. Christmas was only two days eff and ter gun-rack was empty. Whin she isd come home there had not been i single weapon, there,, There would bo no Christmas tree low! The beribboned packages lay In 1 useless pile. Had school been in ses lion, she knew that the desks would lave been as empty as the gun-rack, rho whole turtlejike life had drawn in Its head and the countryside lay as though besieged. On Anse Havey's book-shelves were oew volumes, for Juanita was feeding his scant supply, and a softer t;rpe of poetry was being added to his frugal and stern repertoire. A number of men left the mountains and went into w;ile elsewhere. These were th* wit? nesses who must testify against Luke Thixton and whose lives would not have been worth a nickel had they stayed an home. Then came Christmas day "Itself, bleak and soggy with the thaw that had set in and the moody drea-ir.oss of the sky. The sun seemed to have despaired and made Its course spirit? lessly from dawn to twilight crawling dimly across Its dally arc. Brother Anse Talbott came over to the school and found both women sit? ting apathetically by an untrimmed fir tree amid a litter of forgotten pack? ages. The children of Tribulation were having the sort of Christmas they had always had?a day of terror and empty cheerleesncss. "Hit seems like a right smart pity fer them children ter be plumb, tee totally dtsapp'inted," mused the old preacher. "8*pose now ye put names on them gewgaws an' let me jest sorter rids round an' scatter 'em." "Yon dear old saint!" cried Juanita, suddenly roused out of her apathy. "But you'll freeze to death an' get drowned In some ford." "Thet's all right," the preacher an? swered briefly. "I reckon I kin go ther route." It took Good Anse Talbott three days of haUle with quicksand and mire to finish that mission. At each house he told them thst Juanita Hoi land had tient him, and the girl was canonised afresh in hearts old and young, back In roadless coves aud on bleak hillsides. Every evening found Anse Hnvey seated before Jaanita's hearth, st-iJy ing the flicker of the firelight on her faco. Every detail of her expression became to him as something he bad always known and worshiped. Some day Malcolm would come back ?and marry her?and then?st that point Bad Anse Havey refused to fol low his trend of thought further. He only ground his teeth. "Ye damn fool," ho told hlmnelf I "That ain't no reason why ye shout in't make the most of today. She's right I here now, an' she's sun an' moon an star shine and music an' sweetness She did not know, and he gave tiei no hint, that In these times, with plot: and counterplots hatching on cot) sides of the ridge, he never made tha journey in the night without in vitin death. Re was walking miles throwg! black woodland trails each oYeutni, i i fssltfo lev mm Hour or two not lo&ei ness And to worship with sealed Hps and a rebellious heart. On the night before he was to go to Peril to attend the trial of Luke Tbix ton he came with a very full and heavy heart. He knew that It might be a farewell. Tomorrow he must put to the test all his hold on his people and all his audacity of resolution. He stood at the verge of an Austerllti or a Waterloo, and he had undertaken the thing for no reaaon except that it had pleased her to command It He knew that among his own fol? lowers there were smiles for the power which a "furrin" woman had come to wield over him, and If one failure marred his plans those smiles would become derisive. It was weak? ness to go on as he was going, gaiing dumbly at her with boundless adora? tion he dared not voice. Tonight he would bluntly tell her that he was do? ing these things because ho loved her; that, while he was glad t o do them, Christmas Was Only Two Days Off and Hsr Gun Rack Was Empty. be could not let her go or. misunder? standing his motives. But when he reached the school she rose to receive him, and he could see only the sllmness of her graceful fig? ure and the smile of welcome on her lips, and the man who had never been recreant before to the mandate of resolution, became tongue-tied. She held out a hand, which he took with more in his grip than the hand? clasp of friendship, but that iiho did not notice. "Anse," she laughed, "I've had a let? ter from home today urging me to give up and come back. They don't realise how splendidly I am going to succeed, thanks to your help. I want you to go with me soon and mark some more trees for felling. It won't be long now before they can begin build? ing again." tTO BE CONTINUED.) HKIR TO SULTAN ENDS LIFE. Turkish Crown Prince Reported Sui? cide. London, Feb. 2.?The suicide of Yussef Izzedln, heir apparent to the Turkish throne, is reported in a dis? patch received by Reuter's Telegraph company from Constantinople by way of Berlin. * The message says the crown prince ended his life by cutting his arteries I in his palace at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Ill health is given as the reason. Pool Table license Unchanged. At a special meeting of City Council this week It was decided to allow the j license on pool tables to remain as it is fixed at present in the license or? dinance, 5200 a table. Messrs. I. C. Strauss, on behalf of H. T. Edens, and H. T. Edens appeared before Council and made requests that the license be reduced. After hearing their statements, the mayor stated ?that he was in favor of reducing the license to $100 on each table. Coun cllmen Booth and Rowland, however, wero opposed to the change and the license will remain fixed as at present. Clurcndon County Notes. Manning Times. Mrs. E. C. Cross received n telegram last Thursday morning, announcing tho death of her brother, who was killed in an automobile accident in Qtorgta, and she left at once for her home. see JudKo DeVore refused Willie Rc thune a new trial lust week, and re Menteneed him to ho eletrocuted on February IIth. Hothune's attorney at onco appealed to the Supreme Court which will stay the death sentence again. New York, Jan. 31.? Ma.. <1en. CJcorgo W. QoCthalS, governor of the Panama canal '/.out, arrived today on the steamship Cnlumares on his way to Washington to appear before the congressional committee on canal ap? propriations. (Jen. (loethnls said he was unable to tlx any definite date as to when the canal would be opened, but was confident there would be no more slides < AGAINST LAW TO WHIP CONVICTS. I Attorney General Answers Inquiry From Board of Charities and Cor? rections. Columbia, Feb. 3.?"It is clear to , my mind that if a sentence of cor jporal punishment is unconstitutional, I as it is, certainly the infliction of such I punishment without sentence would be unlawful," says Thomas H. Peeples, attorney general, in an opinion rend? ered yesterday upon request of Albert Johnstone, secretary of the State board of charities and corrections. The opinion is in part as follows: "The prohibition against the inflic? tion of corporal punishment extends in my opinion, not only to prohibiting the courts from sentencing a convict to corporal punishment, as was for? merly permitted years ago under some of our laws, but in my opinion this prohibition extends also to con? victs who are confined in the peni? tentiary or upon the chaingangs and It is unlawful to inflict corporal pun? ishment upon them." ATTEMPTED ASSAULT CHARGED. Greenville, Feb. 2.?A negro named J. Monroe Collins was arrested in An? derson county Tuesday and was held there by Sheriff Ashley pending an in? vestigation to ascertain if he were the man who on Saturday morning at? tempted to assault a white woman of Greenville. Tonight the negro was brought back to Greenville by Sheriff Rector and several other officers and when taken before the woman, it is stated by sev? eral witnesses that she and her eight year-old daughter positively identified him as the guilty man. His clothes were torn in several places, as if a dog had attacked him and this gave the officers additional evidence, as the negro was driven away from the house where he attempted the assault by the savage attacks of a dog. Sheriff Rector called up Gov. Man? ning after midnight and said that he thought a good precautionary step would be to take the negro to Colum? bia.. *The governor advised this and accordingly the sheriff left on an early train .to place the negro in the peni? tentiary. The description given by the woman fits the negro exactly, even to details. Three other negroes taken before her wero said by her to be the wrong- men. SCORES OF MIDDIES FAIL. ?'? Annapolis, Md., Feb. 2.?Two hun? dred and twenty midshipmen, or about one-fourth of the entire mem? bership at the naval academy, will be asked to resign because of their failure to pass the half yearly exami? nations according to reliable reports here today. Many midshipmen claim that these examinations -were much harder than usual but this is denied by the instructors. The number of the failures in each class is said to be as follows: First or graduating class, 20; second, 60; third, 60; fourth, 80. One explanation of the large num? ber of failures is that instructors have been forbidden to indicate in any way to the midshipmen the character of the examination. The court of in? quiry which investigated the scholas? tic methods of the academy recom? mended abolition of the "dope" sys? tem, as it was called May Let Them Stay. Washington, Feb. 2.?The standing of midshipmen who failed at the half yearly examinations at Annapolis will be decided finally by officials of the navy department here, before whom the recommendations of the examin? ing board will come for review. So far the board has not reported to Wash? ington. It was made clear at the de? partment today that failure in the examinations would not mean a re? quest to resign. Officials believe that in a great many cases there probably exists reasons for allowing those who failed an opportunity to make up past delinquencies. 8UMTER COTTON MARKET. Corrected Dally by Ernest Field. Cot? ton Bayer. Good Mddillng 11 6-8. Strict Middling 11 3-8. Middling 11 1-8. Strict Low Middling 10 5-8. Low Middling 10 1-8? Staple cotton 13 to 16o. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Yeet'dys Open High Low Close Close Mch . .11.93 11.05 11.82 11.93. 11.87 May . ,11.11 ILM3 13.02 lt.II 11.06 July . .12.22 12.27 12.15 11.26 12.18 Oct. . .12.26 12.30 12.16 12.29 12.20 Dec. . .12.39 12.43 12.30 12.43 12.34 Lisbon, Feb. 2.?Revolution broke out here Unlay and an attempt WSI made to assassinate Minister of Jus? tice Catarho Ds Menssss, but the shots fired at him missed. The pres? ident's palace was sot a fire, and the troops were mustered to put down the rebels. 00000000000000000 0. 0 4 WITH THE LEGISLATURE 0 0 0 00000000000000000 Property Shortage. "Few people know that there is a law providing for a tine of $ 100 or 30 days imprisonment for having govern? ment property in their possession," said W. W. Moore, adjutant general, who was discussing the federal prop? erty shortage yesterday. "I met a negro on the street the other day," he said, "who was wearing an army shirt. He told me that he had bought the shirt from a white man. I informed him of the pena\y. The next after? noon the shirt was returned to the State armory. Since assuming this office I have issued strict orders that no government property is to be taken from the armory except upon written order from this office." The adjutant general said that the shortage of gov? ernment property had occurred during the past several administrations. * * i Stand by Guns. "The ways and means committee will stand by the terms of the appro? priation bill as reported to the house." said J. T. Liles, chairman of the com? mittee, yesterday. "We have kept | faith with the people and the State j tax levy has been reduced. If the | items are increased by the house it I will not be the fault of the members of the ways and means committee,'' he added. a a a Politics. "This session has been practically free from politics," said a member of the houso yesterday. However, sev? eral near booms have been launched. Last week the name of Senator Sher ard of Anderson, was mentioned for lieutenant governor in opposition to Andrew J. Bethen. Mr. Sherard. at his home fn Anderson, gave out an In? terview in which he stated that he preferred to remain on the floor of the senate and help in shaping legis? lation. Yesterday several senators proposed J. T. Liles, chairman of the ways and means committee, for lieu? tenant governor. Mr. Liles said that he was considering the matter, but had no announcement to make at this time. see Stimter Under Hunters* License, After many delays the house passed the bill amending the resident hunt? ers' lioense law so as to Include 14 counties under Its provisions. The additional counties are: Sumter, Fair field, Edgefleld, Richland, Newberry. Spartanburg, Bamberg, Kershaw, Col leton, Horry, Plckens, Union, Ander? son and Saluda. There are now 31 counties in which the law hi In effect, see Prepares Pardon Data. During the past several days Gov. Manning has been working on his par? don report which will be sent to the general assembly next week. The acts of clemency by the governor have been few. He, however, will give a complete history of every case acted on during his first year in office. * ? * Law Enforcement. J. K. Breedin, editor of the Man? ning Herald, called on Gov. Manning yesterday when the matter of enforc? ing the prohibition law was discussed. Mr. Breedin was the leader in the prohibition fight last fall. Following his conference he said that it was the duty of the legislature to provide means for a strict enforcement of the law.?The State. FOR BETTER LIVE STOCK. Pee Dee Experiment Station to Lend Encouragement. Florence, Feb. 2.?It was announc? ed after the recent visit of Prof. J. N. Harper of Clemson college to tho Pee Dee experiment station this week that the purpose of the station from its incipiency, the care and feeding of live stock, would be developed, and that the station would be fully equip? ped for this work. Tests are to be made of flesh and fat producing feeds, butter fat in milk and rations for beef cattle. The interest that is be? ing awakened in this section in live stock prompts the college to go ahead as rapidly as possible in this work because the records of one year alone do not establish a rule In such work, though they help the farmer, and in order to make the station of as much value as possible to the farmers they are asked to make free use of the station. Prof. Shields of the live stock department of Clemson college and Prof. C. P. Newman of the gov? ernment bureau of animal industry ! spent a day at the station planning ! for tho development of the station and I they will lay out the work to be un? dertaken and the plant necessary to carry it on. Washington, Feb. 3.?The State de? partment has received advices from border officials that the VUlistas have defeated Carranza forces near Chap apape and are again terrorizing the Tamplco oil belt. The VUlistas cap tUred a large quantity of arms and ammunition.! A HARD MAN TO ARREST. Bradford Farmer Resisted and Three Officers could Hardly Manage Him. Deputy Sheriff Forbes, Constable Hazel Hoykin and Rural Policeman H. B. Boykin were all three given a hard tussle on Tuesday afternoon be? fore they could overpower Bradford Farmer, colored, and bring him to the county jail. Farmer was wanted on the charge of giving a false mortgage and Constable Boykin asked the dep? uty sheriff to go with him to make the arrest, as he had heard that Farmer was a bad man. On arriving at the house on Bee street at about 4 o'clock Tuesday af? ternoon Rural Policeman Boykin went to the back door and officers Forbes and Hazel Boykin went in at the front door. Deputy Sheriff Forbes found the man and grabbed him, but the negro also grabbed the officer and they had it. Constable Boykin came in at about that time and fired his pistol at the negro's leg, hoping to make him turn the officer loose. The shot did not have the desired effect and the two men were unable to do much with Farmer until the third of? ficer came up and assisted them in taking him from the house. Then he had to be clubbed several times before he gave in and could be induced to come along. The charge of resisting officers was lodged against him in addition to the other charge upon his being confined in the jail. News and Views of Pisgah. Pisgah, Jan. 31.?The sudden changes in the weather have brought on the usual cold complaints. Grip has had full sway for some time, but as yet no deaths have occurred from it among the white people. The col? ored people never observe the laws of health, so when diseases corns, they have not the power to resist as they otherwise might. Farm ' preparations are going on very well on many places. Some peo? ple are making a quantity of home manure and are going to cut out guano, except possibly a small quan? tity. The legislature acted wisely when it re-elected McLaurin State ware? house commissioner. He mads tho system a success and should have the honor of it. Judge Fraser's many friends are pleased to khow that he has been re elected. He will do nothing wrong as a judge, if he knows it. At this time it Is hard to tell what the staple crops will be. It depends on the fertilizer question to some ex? tent. The small grain crop is beginning to show up. Potatoes are keeping remarkably well. Germany is holding her own and will continue to do so. Japan is taking advantage of her friend's troubles to again bully old China. Wonder if the United States will keep quiet for fear of trouble with the Yellow Jackets. . The middle States claim to he a Chritsian nation and strictly neutral in the European war. Yet she manu? factures munitions of war and allows them to be sold to the warring na? tions, knowing full well that they wlH be used to kill people, justifying her? self on the ground that if she gets in a war and needs these things other countries wont let her have them, if she puts an embargo on the shipment of them- In a word, she gives a gun to a neighbor or friend to kill anoth? er. Where does the Christianity come in? Good people will prohibit, If possible all warfare and not help It on, but in this case she is helping to kill people by the sale of war mu? nitions. SAPP FOR ATTORNEY GENERAD. Columbia, Feb. 2.?That Claud N. f Sapp, former member of the house from Lancaster county, has about de? cided to enter the race for attorney general as a non-factional man is the information in circulation around the lobbies of the general assembly. It is understood that Mr. Sapp will strongly champion the warehouse sys? tem and because of the fact that he was the man who in the extra ses? sion nominated Senator McLaurin for warehouse commissioner, is expected to commend him to the friends of that institution. Mr. Sapp, while af? filiated with the Blease faction in the last legislature, was known for his in? dependence and frequently took courses opposite to the policies put forth by the leader oi that faction. Mr. Sapp is serving as a trustee of the State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind under appointment from Gov. Manning. Attorney General Thomas H. Peeples has already announced his candidacy for re-election, and Senator J. J. Kvans, of Marlboro county, has *lso announced that he is in the race r >r attorney general. Miss Mary Lemmon, home demon? stration agent tor Sumter county, has returned, after spending a month at Winthrop College studying the courses outlined for county agents.