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Local Schedule for Passenger Trains
TRAIN8 FROM COLUMBIA,
Arrive 9:00 a. m. Depart 9:00 a. m
" 2:28p.m. " 2:23p.m
TRAINS FROM SFARTANBURG.
Arrive 11:85 a. m. Depart 11:8E a. m
" 9:08 p.m. " 9:08 p.m.
Close connections at Spartanburg with
trains for Atlanta and Charlotte and
intermediate stations, and at Columbia
for Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville
and points soutln Through trains for
Asheville, etc.
Local News Notes
Points Personal and Otherwise
Picked up and Paragraphed
by Our Pencil-Pusher.
Mr. Hugh Little, of Spartanburg,
was in the city Monday.
Miffs May Whitiock, of Jonesville, is
visiting Miss Bessie Summer.
Mrs. It. W. Tinsley and little daughter
Clarice, are visiting in Chester.
Messsrs. M. M. Scott and t H. B.
O'Shields spent Sunday in Jonesville.
Mr. R. A. Hancock has been appointed
special constable at Monarch.
Mr. J. D. Brown had the misfortune
to lose one of his flue mules one day last
week.
Miss Kate Summer, who has been
teaching near Jonesville, has returned to
her home.
Mrs. O. B. Mayer, of Newberrv. is
visiting At the home of Capt. and Mrs.
P. M. Parr.
Mr. Thoa. S. Perrln, of Abbeville,
visited friends and relatives in the
city a few days this week.
Mrs. P. M. Parr gave a dining on
Saturday to a large number of her lady
friends, in honor of her visitor, Mrs. O.
B. Mayer. " *
Miss Beulah Counts has been' appointed
post office olerk to fill vacancy
oaused by the retirement of Miss
Beatrioe Hoghes.
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very pleasantly a few friends at tea
Tuesday aftarnon, 5:80 o'clock, complimentary
to Mrs. Dr. O. B. Mayer.
Mr. Brown, of the Anderson Dally I
Mail, oalled to see as last week while
in the oity on a visit to his brother,
Mr. R. ?. Brown, R. R. agent at this
plaoe.
Ihe Wallace LamberOo. has leased
the lot belonging to Mr. J. Olongh
Wallace, near the Power Fenl Go.,
and will begin erecting buildings at
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Mr. Wm. Reeves and Miss Roxie
Horn were married Wednesday ol
last week at the home of the bride'f
mother. Rev. L. L. Wagnon officiating.
Revs. D. E. Caraack, D. M. McLeod,
L. E. Wiggins and J. B.'Kil
gore left Tuesday for Spartanburg
where they will attend the meeting
of the Missionary Institute of Spar
tanburg district.
Dr. F. C. Duke h&s purchased th(
Holmes Pharmacy from Dr. Henrj
Holmes. Dr. Duke will run botl
stores until he can find time to coosolidate
the two. Dr. Holmes ha!
not made any announcement as t(
what he will do in the future^ but il
is hoped that he will cot leave th<
city.
The Monarch Cotton Mills will add
10,000 spindles and 250 looms. This
will make Monarch Cotton Mill havt
about -10,000 spindles. Mr. Fanl
says they will also build forty oper
atives cottages, a hotel and school
house. The work will begin righl
away and expeots to have it finished
by September.
Mr. Clyde Drummond will leavt
this Week for Spartanburg, where he
has accepted a position as book-keep
er for Mr. R. H. Furgerson, Agent
for the Prudential Insurance Co
The many friends of Mr. Drummond
regret to see him leave, and It if
hoped that he will do well in his new
position.
Rev. A. O. Wardlaw was unceri
monlously deprived of his trip to the
Orient. All the necessary arrange
ments had been made, he had complied,
bo far as he knew, with all the
requirements for the trip. At the
last nour he received a letter saying
that his berth had been resold. This
was a great disappointment to him
and to his people.
Mrs. I,. G. Young, at her home on
East Main street, entertained a number
of her lady friends, at a reception aiven
complimentary to Mr. Dr. O. B. Mayer,
The decorations were palms and yellow
jonquils. Delicious refreshments were
served. The visiting ladies were Mrs,
Montgomery, Mrs. Sloan and Miss Jes
sie Thompson. Misses Ixinise Duncar
and Ilunter Young, in sweet and fain
like attire, did'the honors of the threshold.
V. E. DePass, Esqr., was the invited
guest of the Chester Commercial
and Manufacturer's Club, at
their annual banquet Monday even
lng, 7th Inst.
" 'Man and Clubs' was ably re
ponded toby Victor E. DePass, Esq ,
of Union. Mr. DePass is a prominent
lawyer of our growing sister
city and he furnished an address well
prepared and full of timely advice tc
the men of dubs."?Chester Lantern
An Ethical View of Lynching.
In all the per-fervid discussion, th?
llery denunciation evoked from iniiv
i sources by what has b.*?-n termed I he
' prevalence of lynching" an 1 the
"growth of the mob spirit" iu this
country, tome quite distinot factors have
entered aud have helped to obscure the
real and most vital issue.
To the ultra-conservatives of every
section, whose sole idea of virtue is
bound up in forms and precedents, tolerance
of lynching for any cause means
the overthrow of law and order, and the
swift coming of anarchy.
To the liegrophobists?inasmuch as
the records show mote blacks than
whites lynched?it means continued and
aggravated persecution of the "man and
brother." To a few narrow souls who
can noc forgive or forget the incidents of
'61 ar.d '65, the cry against lynching ;
means condemnation of the South? 1
though recent happenings iu northern
ciri* 8 have lurgely depriced these of their 1
argument. I
And" what is it the anti-lynching (
apostles demand? That the rapist 6h*il <
enj y the right accorded every other sort i
of criminal in this country to ?ui impartial
trial try jury. And does the (
average pen-on real)/.* what this "fairtrial"
for the rapist, would mean? It j
means that his victim, if she ire alive, i
must confront him in tire courts?as, in \
the case of rape, the victim is usually >
the only witness. If the trial l>e any- '
thing but a farce, attorneys for the de- '
feme must be provided, (think of itn- I
posing upon any self-respecting lawyer *
the task of defendingsnch a brute I), arid '
under the latv the witness must be sub- <
jected to minute and humiliating crosn '
examination. Can it be possible iti free
America that men of Analo-Saxoa blood f
will demand or will permit such ind-gnily
to a pure woman? T1 o practical 1
unanimity of mob-action for the "one 1
terrible crime" whenever it occurs from a
Maine to Texas, would seeui to furnish 11
the most direct aud truest answer to this t
question. I
Yet the opposing vo:ce of S) many 8
editors governors md other high officials r
is confusing to many who may not have t
observed that the human animal grows H
platitudious in its s udied utterances; 1
that simple, staaight-forwaid, fearless c
ti nth-telling is one of the rarest qualities 1
either of public speaking or public writ- <
ieg. Persons who will express thsm* '
selves frankly and honestly *whun inter- 1
regated in private, if asked to frame a i
public deliyeratice upon the sanu sub- '
jrct, will use only such language as th*y t
deem acceptable to the uo?j ority. They f
are afraid of the "bad effects" of speak- t
ing the truth, and so they take refuge in I
cant I
It is the fashion just now to inveigh <
against the "mod spirit." A leading <
Review of current topic3 is befora rue.
Municipal corruption ou a gigantic scale, >
the Postal scandal, frauds in army con- 1
tracts, the progress of the negro race in
this countrv, are all touched upon in
mild and optimistic terms. All the
severity in the editorial pen Is reserved
for the lynchers. One might readily
suppose that the only danger which bodes
much harm to the nation at present, is
the generous wrath aroused by a woman's
wrong* I It is not surprising therefore,
1 that the one mm in theChatauq la MobConference
who had the courage to sta'.c
! the case squarely, and p occlaim t he bi',
tor fpnt.Vi ulmiilil Knwa K >
?v. v>u>?| uuuutu IUIIC U-Wiun lilt) 1111
stand target forthearmv of time-serving
' scribblers who fondly imagine they aie
backed by an overwhelming public sentimentl
I have taken the trouble to sound
" "public sentiment" for myself on this
> phase of mob violence. I have talked
> with persons of various callings, condi
tione and degrees of intelligence. My
interrogatories have included men and
women of every variety, of every age.
5 and temperament. Farmers, merchants, |
r bankers, doctors, lawyers and ministers i
1 of the gospel; young men, mature ruen \
and men of seventy, while deprecatii g 1
! the necessity of opposing Unlaws, all!
) agree without a dissenting voice: "There
t is no other punishment for the rapist."
> It is the sheerest nonsense to .ray that
the impulse to this kind of vengencc
corrfes from the ignorant and vicious elel
ments in a community. These elements
i are doubtltsi present in the mcb?as they
> a:e in every assemblage of human units
i I collected for the most just and holy war,
. hut they are not the moving spirit of it.
[ Officers of the law do not stand idle and
. powerless before the excesses of "the
I ignorant and vicious."
Thecommentof a prominent Northern
journal on the Delaware incident is suf.
ticient: "Nothing could have been more
public than the action of the mob: yet
1 only one arrest was made and this alleged
' rioter was released at the instance of a
' mod twice as la?ge as the one which had
lynched the negro. It is not thought
' likely that there will be aoy at temp'
whatever, made to punish anj body couf
cerned in the lynchiog Delaware is a
small state, the militia oan in a few
hours be moved from any part of it to
' any giv*.n point, and it would seem as if
1 the exercise of ordinary vigor in the in
terest of public peace by those charged
with the keeping of order, might readily
) have prevented this fresh disgrace." He
> who runs may read. Could this have
; been the c.is* 1 i ' not Deleware officials
\ and Dele writ* public sentiment been in
, sympu'bv with the purpose if not the
method* of the lynchers?
The real truth about it is that there is
, no stronger moral nor physical force in
t he Republic than the body of determined
men who have banded together to avenge
a woman's honor, and those who talk of
r Qatling guns in connection with them
, would do well to reckon with this force.
Men or mis calibre do Dot quail before
. Gatlingguns.
, Much anti-lynching eloquence and
r lofty perorations anent the majesty of
. the law fall flat because deep down In
the human heart?undisturbed by any
argument or threat?lies the oonviotion
. that one needs ODly to bring the incident
home, shift the scene and change the
grouping?make their sisters, daughters
' and wives the victims of the crf.me and
the central figures in the "impartial
trial" to convert these doughty champ'
ions of law and order into leaders of tho
> mobl
What tlien? Shall we advocate per'
petual and systfrnatic lawlessness?
1 Heaven forbid! Though it would not
> be difficult to show that some of the
, 1 worst kind of lawlessness are daily per
petrat* d in the name and under a foru
of law.
Why not. then obseivea fact which i;
too often ignored, thata great ai.d ethi
eal principle underlies the popular demaud
that death for rape shall I o iu
sfautaneous and sure. It involves tin
safety and honor of American womauhood,
aud with it the safety and honoi
of the American commonwealth. Lay
it down as your m-.'jor premise; lower
the standard of respect for American
women; destroy the manly reverence
which surrounds them like a palladium
and you san the most vital strength of
the Republic. If the "majesty of the
law" is the crowning pinnacle, wo nanly
honor is tin chief corner stone of our
politicd structure, and you cm not have
the top without the bottom.
1 ,et u j endeavor to preset v * It >th But
wo must face the issue squarely. Oioa
again in our political history the const itutional
rights of ihe individual ate at
variance with the cause of humanity and
(he higher civilization. In a word, we
have reached the stage in our national
development where tlie t ights of Araeri3
in womanhood as viewed by the tn j k
ity, itin manifest conll;cr. with tlie
1 c ni^ti uiiuual lights" of the tn >st atrocious
clas- o-.' crinrhials.
The Constitution as the bulwark of
)ur liberties, is a sacred instrument Yet
t has not bee:i altogether iuviol ib'e i t
lie past. Wo all re uembar how, when
Us plain edict came into collision with
'free moral ideas" and the "progress of
lumanity" as viewed by a portion of the
jopirlation half a century ago, it yieldHi?after
much talk and some skirmishng?to
the moral pressure, and vindicted
its elasticity in a series of amend iients.
We think the time is ripe for some
'urther emendation. Shad the wrongs
aid perils of American women appeal
ess potenily to the American heart than
lie wrongs, (largely fanciful), of Afi ic in
ilave-V Write it. ii> vmii* ei?ini .
is it is w itteu in H19 public conscience,
h >t the man who ruthlessly despoils a
voinau of life and honor, places hiinelf
beyond the protection even of crimii
il law. ile forfeits his right to tiial
>y jury, as in the very nature of the c.iso
periatrial is a further humiliation of
lis victim. Horrible as (s the fact h s
trim; pi acts him beyond the pile of
uim.iuity and puts htm in the category
>f wild b asts. A legal enac'm nt w'lich
would make "death without triat" the
>eualty for rape, while it couli not niitizate
tha' fact, would eliminate the
nost revolting -features of mobexecuiious,
and would reduce ths number of
luch crimes to the minimum For the
rapist, like every other criminal, trusts
to the delays, the uncertainties and
tricks of the law. Once make him unierstaud
tliat there is no law for him
excep'. tlia rope and that without delay,
and hia offence will become so rare that
his occasional execution will not excite
comment "But," some one objects,
"if we permit such summary punishment
for oue class of criminals, there
will Da no danger of extending it to all."
Will not thi3 apply with equal force to
our present penal code? Since we permit
hanging for murder, how do wt
manage to prevent hanging for thefi?
America stands foremost iu the list of
enlightened, progressive DitiODa. Let
her take the initiative and set the chivalrous
example to tlie world of differ
enliatlng the "one terrible crima" fron
all ot* era by making the written law
against it conform to the unpublisbei
statute. ? Annie Riley IIale ii
January Number L'fe and Letters.
The Usury Law.
When we fiist read this law, passe
at the last sitting of the legislature, w
must confess we wore very much shock
td and surprised that a state of affaii
existed in this State that would uecersi
rate the enactoieutof sucli a law. Ther
were private individuals, funis of uiei
chants and dealers wlio practiced su
dishonest schemes upon the poor, ignc
rant, innocent borrower of money. We
having never been the victim of this un
-crapulous classs, could not know o
their tricks, and 'tis only those wh
have been fleeced, that do know, am
can tell of how thev have been robbed
The following is the law in full a
passed:
S ction 1. That it shall be unlawfu
for the lender of money on a mortgag
or hill of sale of chattels, as a secunt;
for a loan, his agents, employees or an;
person in his behalf, where the sun
loaned is under twenty live dollars ti
charge the borrower with any sum, 01
sums of money for the drawing of tin
mortgage, bill of sale or any papers con
nected with said loan, unless the sai<
papers be drawn up and prepared by j
duly licensed and prrclicing attorney a
law, magistrate or notary public not con
nected in business wiih the lender, whicl
Laid officer eo drawing said papers sha'
receive the whole amount so paid by thi
borrower for the services so rendered
ami no laQpf nf auirl foil uhnll l>n V
nuu puiw vi "m.u v miaii VT ft 1 VOll |>J
the said attorney at law, magistrate 01
uotary public, to the lender, his agenta
employees or any persona in hia behalf
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful foi
any person in his behalf, as set forth ii
Section I hereof, to oharge any sums foi
the examination of any property pro
posed to be given as security for sail
loan, or for any service whatsoever ren
dered in the negotiating, making or ef
fectiug of said loan, under wh itsoevei
name the same may be denominated.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful foi
the lender of money as aforesaid, his
agent, employees or any person in his be
half, to have inserted in his mortgage oi
bill of sale, as representing the indebted
ness of the mortgagor or vendor, ar
ainouut in exuess of the aotual amoun
of money received by the borrower.
Sec. 4. All mortgages or bills of salt
hereafter given as security for loans it
or on which charges have been made o
which on its face shall show an indebt
edtiess greater than the amount actuallj
received by the borrower in violation o
the proceeding sections, shall be, and art
hereby declared null, void and of nt
effect.
Sec. 6. This Act shall go Into effec
immediately upon its approval by tbt
governor.
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