Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Afterward Toung MUt and Bad Anee Obook assets, and the younger man ?old to tho older: -Now that ]Sro proTOd to ye that 1 what I aaid. I reckon wo can a peace that'll endure a spell, war And Aase answered: "Milt, I've boon hophV wo ooold ever tlnce the day wo watched for tho teller that ?mill to harm down tho school" GHAPTIR XXII. That tprtng bow buUdlnft wont up Ot tho oohool and brave rows of flow tB tho garden. At trat her college had boon a kh>] to effect, hot now as Juani * tho porch at reosss she tt any other schoolmistress drawn about her such a isortmant of pupils. There little tots hi bright oallco, glory i beg bowa of cotton hair-ribbon snbmttttiig grudgtofiy to tho of tho hair they sought to There were larger boys and gftrm, too, tod eren ti half-dosen men JOat now pitch big horseshoes and tsaOknag lip? sind they also were loaning to rood and write. 10 tho afternoons women rode in on and horses or came no foot, and taught titan not only letters hot loouonA looking to ? ??in and more healthful cabins, stay came with smiles and songs In to sunset, and In where th? moisture rote grtsot wvsro landing out hopeful shoots, the wild flowers themselves. Thun Juanita and Anas Hai ey would go to up to tho ridge and watch the per on tho brown and of too hills, and under woo o off pot of glowing hod noror hod ouch a and aside* things bo* wfeoo iho stood there, with the - onoomtiig too curling r ttmblei, and blowing skirt about her slim oofclea, and moated off. smiling, to his ho dropped his hood in mock "Only too castle moodily gloomed sf JO ttsstf apart,'" she quoted In accu WtaaiJon. and tho man laughed boyishly. 1 reckon ye haven't moon tho castle r." ho said. ?To wouldn't hardly It It't gettin'all cleaned up an crrlitsed. Tho eagle's nest is tsfaln' Into a sure enough bird cage." "Who's changing now?" oho ban tared. "Am 1 efrUtstog yon or"?her L eyea danood wtth badinage?"arc yon propartng to got married T" Bio moo flushed and than became "Who'd marry meT" he savagely de? n's oors I don't know," she teased. "Whom hare you naked?" % Ho boot o little forward and told o ye told mo I woo wasting my yotsth. To 'lowed I ought to bo captain of my soul. If I found o woman that I wanted and aba wouldn't have me? what ought 1 to do about ttr "There are two courses prescribed P to all tho eorrMpo. dence schools, and both are perfectly simple." oho an? nounced wtth mock gravity. "One Is simply to toko tho lady first and oak bor afterward. The other is oven easier; get another girl." "Oh," as sold. Ho was hurt because she bod aether not seen or hod pre? tended not to too bis meaning. She bod not grasped tho presumptuous dream and effrontery of his heart His voice tor a moment became enigmatical no bo added: "Sometime* I think ye've played hell In these mountains." ? That ?print silent forces were at work In the hills; as silent and lees beneficent than tho stirring tap and too brewing of showers. Three men In the mountains were now fully convinced that what tho world needs the world will have, and they wore trying to find a solution to sVtho question which might make their own people sharers In the gain, in stead of victims. These three were Ante and Milt and Job. and their first stop was the effort to hold landowners in eh eck. and make them slow to sell and guarded In their bargaining. Jtm Fletcher, a mounta'n man who ^had for years drifted between Trlbula tlon and Winchester trading In cattl? and timber, made a journey through tho hlllt that spring, and was every whore received as "home folks." For him there were no hart of distrust, and bo wot able for that reason to buy I land right and left Though he had P paid for It o price above the average H woo a price far below the value of tho cool and timber It contained? and Jim bad picked his land. Alse Havey and his associates know that the money he spent so lavishly was not his own money; and thatfhe came as a stalking-horse, but they did not know that he had been to Louie tille and bad conferred there with Mr. Trevor. Neither did they know at once that he had visited the cabins of every malcontent among both the for? mer factions, and that he was a mis chlofmaker adroitly laying here in the hills tha foundations for a new (eud. Jim iiad a bland tougue and a per* i uasivs manner, and he talked to the mountain men In their own upeech, but he wee none the lest the advance agent of the new enemy from down below: the personal fulfillment of Juan it as prophecy to Roger Malcolm. Juani a did not realise how much she was leaning on the strength of Anse Havey, how she depended on him for counsel and encouragement, which te gare not In behalf of the school, but because he was the school teacher*U slave. She saw the little hospital rise on the hill and thought of what it would do, and she believed that Anas Havey mast he, In his heart, I converted, even though his mountain obstinacy would not let him say so. l.t'U ??i CONllNUIfiD.i Real Estate Transfers.. McCallum Realty Company to Is? aac WIUH lot on Shot Pouch Heights, $8?. 4 Master to E. W. A. Bultman in? terest of Charles Lane in tract of 10 acrea formerly owned by father, $100. Master to H. J. Harby, 464 acres on Lynches River, $500. Master to T. B. Kennedy and R. J. Kennedy, one-half interest In lot in county, $40. Mary C, Carver to E. W. McCallum, lot on West Hampton Avenue, $35 and assumption of mortgage of $875. M.; D. Moore to Anne Moore Ar? thur, hie interest in 350 acres known as Cane Si .van nah tract, $5 and other considerations, R. L? Wright to Mrs. M. F. Parish, two lots on Wright street, $1,900. Jesse A. Brown to 8. F. Stouden mire, three lots on Church street, 12, 800. Louise B. 8tubbe to Hattle Gregg, lot on Sumter street, $800. T. R. Kennedy and R. J. Kennedy to Tuvld W. Cuttlno, son of B. P. Cuttlno, lot on Blending street, $1, iee. Henry J. Harby to S. J. Tomllnson, 464 acres on Lynches* River, $7, 000. Allda H. MoLeod to J. L. G?lls, 130 acres on public road between Rem bert and Camden, $1,000 and assump? tion of mortgages amounting to $2, !l00. Plsgah News and Views. Plsgah, Feb. 10.?Farm work has commenced and is making very good ' progress on many farms. The gu ano problem can best be solved by letting It alone, or largely so. This | j way of taking a large per cent, of the crop to pay for it dont' pay to uso it. | If people would raise home manure they would be independent, j The legislature is showing its sense in a good many ways. Appropriate ing the people's money to enforce I the prohibition law. Where are the sheriffs, mayors, rural police, and po? lice in towns, if they can't, enforce the law? They are paid good salaries to keep law and order. Another sen? sible thing Is to want to pay the Unit? ed States for military supplies stolen or destroyed by the State militia. Why don't they punish the thieves without upholding them In tholr ras- ! callty by letting them alone and pay? ing for what they have unlawfully used to the amount of $25,000, then hardly giving McLaurln a small sum to help develop the warehouse sys Item, all In keeping with giving the 'governor $2,000 to employ legal coun? sel when the attorney general is his 'legal advisor? Fine solons ain't they? Every one ought to be sent back. Wise ain't they? A fit representative of this extravagant age. I Germany did right not to go a slop further in settling the difference with the United States. Wilson unduly! pressed Germany on many small j things, lea vi n; England alone on large things, especially injurious to the South, without more than a mild i protest. Germany Is no enemy to this .country, while England Is, as is shown In the past and present, too. WllSOn favors England, but the day of reck? oning will soon come and we will then see how the cat Jumps. I Iloke Smith of Georgia, is a truo friend of the South, as shown by bis speeches in the senate, und if he had his way he would bring England 1o torms in many things as Cloveland did. Miss Ha Baker, who has been vis it? ing below Sumter, has returned home. An Approiuiilng Marriage. Klngstree County Record. The marriage of Miss I>eola LoVetl to Mr. John Scott Cain is announced to take place at Cooper Wednesday afternoon, February 16. The an? nouncement is made by Mr. and Mrs. 0, If. Lovett, brother and sistcr-in l.i w of the bride-to-be. Fruit trees are In bloom In some sections of the county and the outlook for a fruit crop .his year is not good. BOW AND WHEN TO PRUNE BUNCH GRAPES _._._._i__j_ (Two branches of grape vines that grew side by side In the eame row. That on the left was properly pruned. That on right was not pruned at all.) The habits of growth and fruit bearing of the bunch grape make it | easy to prune and the work can be done much more systematically than with most other fruits. Furthermore, it will stand very severe pruning with? out injury. The fruit is borne on new shoots from the preceding year's growth and unless the vine is con? tinually cut back, the fruiting area will become farther removed from the main stem each year and will produce long, naked canes, which serve no purpose other than to convey plant food to the more remote fruit-bearing parts. Moreover, if the vine is left to Itself, more fruit will form than the plant can properly develop. The im? portant objects in pruning, then, are to get the most bearing wood in the smallest space and to limit the bear? ing wood according to the ability of the vine to produce well developed fruit Not infrequently vines are al? lowed to retain too much bearing wood and there is a consequent waste of energy in the production of many small, inferior bunches. For best re? sults, our common varieties more than four years old should be pruned so as to bear not more than from seventy to one hundred clusters. The method of pruning is determin? ed in part by the kind of training practiced. There are several good systems. One of the simplest, which Is also one of the best for the South. Is that known as the double Knlffin system of training, in which are de? veloped two trunks, each of which carries two arms trained to a two wire trellis. Use a one- or two-year-old vine fof transplanting and cut back the top to three or four strong buds. That vig? orous canes may be produced, rub off all shoots that appear during summer, except the strongest three. Only two shoots are necessary, but it is well to leave three, in case one should be?| SPRING ONION POINTERS Some Practical Suggestions About How and When to Plant Seeds end 8ets for Best Onions. Onions may be grown in spring from seed or from sets. However, spring planting of seed is not generally so satisfactory and sets are recommend? ed for the man who neglected to plant in fall and who wants early onions. For best results with seed, plant them in October, in order that the plants may become established before severe winter weather begins and that the onions may grow off rapidly in spring and mature early in June. Still, if seed are planted very early In spring and conditions are favor? able, they will make good onions, al? though they will be smaller and later than those from fall-sown seed. Onions should be planted on very sandy loam. After the land has been thoroughly prepared by deep plowing and repeated harrowing, apply ferti? lizer and manure broadcast and har? row Into the first three or four inches of soil very thoroughly. Lay off rows fifteen inches apart, plant the seed in the drill, and cover the seed to a depth of one-half to three-fourths of an Inch. When the young seedlings ap? pear, cultivate frequently in order to destroy weeds and maintain moisture. Thin out the onions so as to leave them standing three or four inches apart in the row. To grow onions from sets, prepare and fertilize the land as when plant? ing the seed and plant the sets just as soon In spring as soil conditions will permit. Plant them three to four inches apart In rows fifteen inches apart. White Pearl and Prizetaker are the two most reliable varieties for this region. Sets are more convenient fsr the home-gardener, but for a commercial onion planter, seed-planting is to be preferred, because onions grown from seed keep better than those grown from sets and because seed cost less than sets. C. C. NEWMAN, Professor of Horticulture, Clomson Agricultural College. Farmers wishing to know how tc spray in spring and summer, and what to use, should write to the South Carolina Experiment Station, at Clomson College, and ask for Circular 25. If you don't know what you give your cows end you don't know what your rows ?Ivo you. why do you kee? cows? Keep records. injured. The following winter (after constructing the trellis) remove the weakest of the three canes and cut back those remaining, one at the first wire and the other at the top wire. Securely tied to the wires, they form the permanent trunks of the vine. In the third year, select two strong canes coming out near the extremity of each trunk and train them along the wires in opposite directions to form arms. Then shorten them back to a length of two, three, or four feet, this depending on the vigor of the vine. All other canes are cut oft close to the trunk. Pruning In the fourth and subse? quent years consists in cutting back new canes to two buds'or entirely re? newing the arms by cutting them out and training new canes to take their places. Ic is not always possible to renew an arm, because of the prob? able lack of a strong cane to take its place. On the other hand, the prac? tice of cutting back canes to two buds, continued a long time, will cause a thick, objectionable mass of spurs to accumulate along the arms. The most desirable way is to combine the renewal plan with the spur meth? od and thereby suit the pruning to the vigor and general form of the vine. In cases where it sems beet to prune an arm to spurs, thin them to a dis? tance of six to eight Inches apart to prevent the setting of more fruit than the vine -can properly develop. The best 'time to prune the bunch grape is .in spring, just before the buds come., out Do not delay until the season la too far advanced. That pruning; produces results is shown in the accompanying illustration, the bunches j being that the vine of one was pruned, while that of the other was noil - ; -' F. J. CRIDER, Associate Professor of Horticulture, Clemson Agriculture College. REPAIRING FARM MACHINERY Don't Walt Until Spring Rush Begins But See to It Beforehand That Im? plements are In Qood Condition. Have you forgotten about that brok? en piece, lost bolt, or loose nut on ono of the implements that you intended attending to during winter? There is still plenty of time for such things, but it will be unwise to let them wait until the spring rush of work begins and hurry calls for the machinery come with it. Remember the "stitch in time" and use the cold, rainy days for overhauling broken implements and sharpening dull blades. Why wait until your oats are ready to cut before pulling out your binder and finding that there is a new piece to be ordered? This may cost you a week or two of valuable time and af? ter you have waited impatiently through several days of fine weather, it is as likely as not that rain will be? gin to fall. When you order repairs at such a time, you will find that oth? ers are doing likewise. The manufac? turers are rushed with orders and the delay is often such that you are driven to purchase a new machine. Now is the time to inspect your equipment and put in your orders for necessary parts. Keeping a machine well repaired and well oiled not only Increases its efficiency and length of life, but also lessens the power necessary to oper? ate it After inspecting an Implement, tightening nuts* ' renewing broken parts, and sharpening dull blades, a coat of paint should be applied. It will prevent the Iron from rusting and the wood from decaying and will pro? long the life of an implement several years. For painting, there is nothing better than red lead and linseed oil. A. H. WARD, Agronomy Division, Clemson Agricultural College. BLACK ROT OF GRAPE8. To control black rot of grapes the Botany Division of Clemson College recommends spraying with Bordeaux mixture. Apply Bordeaux just as tho buds begin to swell in early spring. Make a second application as soon aa the leaves unfold and a third as soon as the fruit 1b set. After this, weather conditions and the severity of tho disease will determine the number of applications. Ordinarily, it is advis? able to spray every two weeks until the fruit begins to ripen. Black rot is tho most common and destructive disease of grapes In South Carolina. A. O. Ii. PRESIDENT MARIUS STATEMENT. Following the Tlircatened Strike of Pnssengcr Conductors. Charleston Post. Following rumors of a strike among passenger conductors of the Atlantic Coast Line because of refusal of the Company to remove a checking sys- j tern recently installed, a statement to the conductors has been issued from Wilmington by J. R. Kenly, president of the Coast Line. The statement relates to the dis agreerrient of the company and the conductors* committee as to the White Audit System employed by the railroad since January 15, and follows advices of the conductors that a vote is being taken among the men to de? termine further action. Conductors are I now canvassing the line for votes on this question, with the intimation that a strike will result if the vote Is un? favorable to the system. The position taken by the conduc? tors in the matter is stated clearly in resolutions sent by the conductors' committee to the company, a portion of which is quoted in the statement of President Kenly, as follows: "Be it further resolved, that in the event of your refusal to suspend the operation of circular No. 33, that the general committee of adjustment for conductors of the Atlantic Coast Line, through the general chairman, S. J. Brooks, hereby puts you on notice that the conductors will not stand for any of the conductors being disciplin? ed under the proposed audit system, or any other system that you may choose to inaugurate and put into effect, that has not been mutually agreed upon and accepted by the con? ductors' committee and all conductors properly notified." What will be the result of the pres? ent canvassing of the line by the con? ductors has not been stated, although it is understood many are voting not to accept the new audit system. The statement of President Kenly, which reviews the controversy ip. pa* gard tothe audit system, shows that eleven or more conferences have been held ,between the conductors' commit? tee and various officers of the com? pany, without agreement being reach? ed. . ? . The conductors propounded a list of questions, which were submitted to the company \>r answers. The ques? tions were answered apparently to^ their, satisfaction, except the last .two propounded. One of these asked for the elimination of form 224, with the exception of the part relating to cash fare, and the other asked if the com? pany would agree to an audit system, conducted by its bonaflde employees. To the first question the company re? plied no, and to the second replied that it intended to give the present system a fair and impartial trial. Thirteen questions wero asked relat? ing mainly to what would be the ? rights of the conductors in the pres lent system. As shown in the statement the con? ductors' committee made a number of objections to the White audit sys? tem. One was that it involved a check made by persons other than employees of the company and others questioned the fairness of the check? ing system because of situations the conductors would have to confront. The prime objection made, as set out in the statement, was that the checking of the accounts of a conduc? tor subjects him to humiliation, be? cause it-involves the inference that he is suspected of dishonesty. "The company replies to this," said President Kenly, "that no honest man need be humiliated by the simple checking of his accounts; that it re? quires a checking of every other of? ficer or employee in its service who handles its funds; that this system of auditing the accounts of all its agents is a plain business proposition which is in vogue in all conservative and properly managed business organiza? tions, and it is necessary, not only for the proper handling of its revenue, but in order to comply with the re? quirements of the law." After summarizing the facts in the controversy and the positions taken by the corstpany and the conductors, President Kenly closed with the state? ment that it was his purpose to make clear the fact that the company had no desire to impose burdensome reg? ulations upon its men, but its purpose was to apply the same business prin? ciple to all employees who handle its funds. SUCCUMBS TO HURTS. Son of Greenville Rector Suffers Fa? tal Wound Serving as Officer in British Army. Greenville, Feb. 11.?The Rev. H. B. Ryley, rector of St. James and St. Andrew's Episcopal missions of Green? ville, has received word that his son, a 17-year-old lieutenant in the Brit? ish army, had died of wounds sus? tained some time ago. The young man was sent to the Dardanelles and there was wounded. Mr. Ryley is an EnKlishman by birth and once held a commission in the British army. M'LAURIN DENOUNCES TRUST. Says Southeastern Underwriters' As? sociation is Monopoly for Benefit of Insurance Barons. Columbia, Feb. 12.?At the re? quest of Mr. W. P. Odom, of Chester? field, who introduced in the house a bill similar to the Laney bill in the renate, to dissolve the Southeastern Tariff association, so far as South Carolina is concerned, Senator Mc Laurin, State Warehouse Commission? er, appeared before the house insur? ance and banking committee on last Thursday afternoon and told of the operations of the insurance trust in this State and of the strenuous fight made by this trust against the lower insurance rates secured by the State Warehouse System. Mr. Seibels, of the Seibels Insur? ance Agency; Mr. Harrington, of the Germania Fire Insurance Company; Mr. James A. Cathcart, president of the South Carolina Underwriters' as? sociation, and a number of Columbia insurance agents, were present in op? position to the measure. Commis? sioner McMa3ter urged the passage of a brokers' bill, in connection with an? other bill which he has had intro? duced in the legislature, or the pas? sage of the Odom bill. Senator McLaurin squarely urged the Odom bill. He said that when he *)egan to insure State cotton he had endeavored to deal with the lo? cal agents, but had encountered a trust which was the most binding and omniponent trust with which he had ever come in contact in a long ex? perience with business affairs. He called attention to the fact that Mr. Harrington, of the Germania, which was not a member of the Southeast? ern, was present with Mr. Seibels and Mr. Cathcart, eh owing that even the companies which were not active members of the avowed trust stood by the rates promulgated by the trust. That the rates were exorbitant was shown by the fact that when he had secured $1.58 rates for country ware? houses, the Southeastern agents had met these rates and sought to hold the business where they had been forced in competition. Mr. Seibels at this point interrupt? ed to state that the Southeastern had no agents. Senator McLaurin said he realized that it was a system of "rings within [rings," for the purpose of shutting out the light, and that he was referring to agents of companies which were members of the Southeastern, which was all one and the same thing?"a distinction made by Mr. Seibels with? out the shadow of a difference." "Why, these gentlemen here,", he said, pointing to Mr. Seibels, Mr. Har? rington, and the others, "know that they are in an iron-clad trust. And I will further make the statement that I have good reason to believe, after my experience of fifteen months as State warehouse commissioner, that the companies in this trust are re? quired to put up and have put up I large forfeits against any violation of the agreement. Of course this is not a matter susceptible to proof, but these gentlemen can deny it here and now if they want to." There was no denial by any insur? ance man present. Senator McLaurin called attention to Article IX, Section 13, of the Con? stitution, which forbids trusts and monopolies, and makes it the duty of the legislature to enact such laws as will carry out the letter and the spir? it of this provision of the fundamen? tal law. He did not want to have to con? tinue to go outside the State to get competitive rates, he said, because he would prefer to deal with the South Carolina agents?and he believed the agents around the country would be glad to be relieved of the arbitrary I rules Imposed upon them ' by a "Co? lumbia ring" whose members sat in an office in Columbia and decreed what rates every agent should charge upon every piece of property. The hearing was spicy. Senator McLaurin did not mince words, and he cited the facts, as shown in his re? port, and urged that the people of South Carolina, and the town and country agents, be relieved of the in? iquitous operations of an oppressive trust, maintaining exorbitant insur? ance rates, working through a "little Columbia ring." "We might as well lose our property by Are as to have It eaten up by exorbitant fire insurance rates," he said. Marriage license Record. A license to marry has been issued to one colored couple: H. Wells and Ruther Kendrick, Rembert. Geo. H. Hurst, gSjjjdS Ml EltllMf. PnMupt Attention t ? Day m Nif M Calls AT J. 0. Grali 0M Stane. N. S)iin Phones mJmmi