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ODDITIES OF SHAKERS.
^ j ^trang* Religions Sect Decreas'
log in Number.
/ The idea of equal rights for
' women was introduced in Amer.
J ica two years before our Declaj
ration of Independence declared
/ all men are created equal. SpirI
it manifestations, akin to the reI
cent popularity of other world
i communication, nau a vogue ju
/ the colonies before the RevoluJ
tionury war.
i These facts are recalled by the
proposed abandonment of the
Shaker community in Enfield.
New Hampshire, which is reported
to have dwindled from 350
members to only ti survivors,
says a bulletin of the National
Geographic society.
. ?44 0f all the religious groups
- that found sanctuary on the soil
of colonial America the most remarkable
per^ps were the Shakers,
with their customs tlmt were
partly mediaeval'and partly far
- ahead of their day," the bulletin
.continues. /'And the perislcncc
of a firmly grounded religious
belief is aptly illustrated by their
survival to this day, although
their virginal vows provided 110
younger generation to carry on
their truditiou, and their deliberate
isolation in selfsustainiiig
communities gave few opportuj
nities to make converts.
. I 44The Shakers never had more
than 5,000 members and the I'd .
nnmninniiiau rainumimr l.wl.ivr .
vvtiaomatii ivn i \ niuiiiiii^ ivmiui ? v
ported 367 members in 1916,
which means a population of not
more than 1,000. The longevity
of individual members, combined
with their abstinence from meat
and fish, their prescribed manual
labor and hygienic living, have
made their communities interesting
human experiment stations
^ for the biologist as well as the
geographer. The bodily moveSOT
ments as they worshiped closely
j t&aeuible the noonday gymnasium
exercises of many an American
business man.
*'Anu Lee, self styled 'Ann the
Word,' but known among her
follou ers as ' Mother Ann,' found
ed the Shakers, whose official titlto
in 'llnitArl Knoiotv rvf Trii*? Ro
lieverH in Christ's Second Coining.'
After four children died
in their infancy Aim Lee sought
solace among an offshoot ^of the
Quaker sect in England which
had been influenced by the early
18th century wave of 'manifestations'
among what we would call
* mediums.' Ann could not read
or write, and her husband later
deserted her. For her shouting,
leaping and bodily gyrations during
her exhortations she was arrested
in Manchester.
"While in jail the young woman
asserted that the Christ appeared
to her in a vision, told her
Me was one with her, and upon
serving her sentence she gathered
a few followers and set out to
America to proclaim herself the
embodiment of Christ in His second
coming.
"On the way acrosa the ship's
captain forbade the Shakers to
inaulge in their athletic form of
worship. Whereupon, according
to Shaker literature, a storm
arose, a plank was sprung, and
the vessel began to fill. 'Mother
Ann' reassured the captain, saying
two angels had appeared before
her in a vision to promise
her safe passage. Just as the
crew was becoming exhausted
irwiu JWUipiUK, U nil^r nnvi
again at ruck the ship and jammed
the plank back into place.
"For two years 'Mother Ann'
worked in New York as a washerwoman.
In 1776 she founded
the first Shaker village at WatervHet,
N. Y.
"La such strange fashion was
instituted, the year America
dates her national birth, the
Western world's first experiment
Mr**cardinal*principles of the
Hhtpag religion are virgin puriylKt
Reparation from what they
the world's vanities, and a
iitieai socialism. If a man and
kls wife join a Shaker community
^ ^ey pr?hibite^
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A MURE SUPPORT?The eternal God ?a I
thy refuge, and underneath .are the j
ever lusting arms.?Deut. 33:27.
A MORNING PRAYEK?Create In me
a clean heart,, O God; and renew a right 1
spirit within me.?Psalm 51:108UKK
GUIDANCE?In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct '
thy paths.?Proverbs 3:g.
SAFE FROM ADD EV1D?The Dord i
shall preserve thee from all evil: he
shah preserve thy soul.? Psalm 121:7. <
DEATH OR DIFK?To be curnally
minded Is death: but to be spiritually
minded I* life and p*ace.?ttomana 8:6.
THE 8UPRKMK RULER?Exult _ ye I
the Lord our GOtl. and worship at his
footstool; for he Is holy.?I'salm
GOD IS GRACIOUS?Thou art a God
ready to pardon, gracious and merciful,
slow to un?er, and of great kindness.?
Nehemiah 9:17. '
A SURE DWELLING PLACE?Trust
In the Lord and do good; so shult thou
dwell In the land, und verily thou shalt
be led.?Psalm 37:3.
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Julius P. Crowder Dies Suddenly.
The Fort Mill community \<us
shocked to hear of the sudden
death late yesterday afternoon ,
of Julius 1*. Crowder, uged^l. at (
his home two miles souiu of town.
Mr.. Crowder had returned to his
home from a trip to town only a
few minutes before he was stricken
with cerebral hemorrhage,
which resulted fatally in less than
an hour.
lie was a well known farmer
and had lived in the township
for 40 years, coming here in his
early manhood from Cleveland
county N. C. Mr. Crowder had ,
been a member of the Fort Mill
Presbyterian church tor many ^
years and for the last ihree years
nad served 011 the church's board
of deacons, and the funeral ser
vices will be Conducted 'y his (
pastor, the Rev. It. li. Visor. at ,
ail hour tomorrow dependent
upon the arrival of one of liis (
sons who lives in Mississippi. The ]
interment will he in the Fort Mill .
city cemetery. ? : ? ?Mr.
Crowder was twice mar- ,
ried, the first time to Miss Km ma
Wilson of Fort Mill township,
wbo?>diod nearly 30 years ago.
By his first marriage he is survived
hy four children, none of
whom live in this community.
Mr. Crowder's second marriage
was to Miss Alice McCorkle of
Mecklenburg county, N. C., who
survives him with eight children,
the oldest a son 15 and the youngest
a little daughter born only a
few hours before her father's
death. Much sympathy is felt
in the community for Mrs. Crowder
and her . children over the
death of their husband and fa-1
ther.
Given Valuable Set of Books.
Congressman W. F. Stevenson
a few days ago presented to W.
R. Bradford a complete set, eight
volumes, of "Hinds' Precedents"
of parliamentary procedure. The
work is now out of print aud is
hard to obtain. It is invaluable
to members of legislative bodies
who try to inform themselves of
the rules of action which should
govern those making laws for
the people. The author of the
"Precedents,"- Asher C. Hinds,
for many years was parliamentary
clerk of the national house
of representatives and was afterward
a member of that body, representing
a Maine district.
Mr. and Mrs.- W. H. Crook o*
tlia n?!,l Mill ifAiniminUt* Ittii/.* I
vmv xjiwlva A41II v/VIUUlUllliJ IH??v
announced the engagement, of
their daughter, Miss John Evelyn,
to Steele Bryce Windie, who
are to be married on June 21.
as idolatrous. Even the cultivation
of flower gardens for decorative
purposes was frowned upon
in former years. And there is
still doubt among the older members
about the propriety of musical
instruments.
"The Shaker community is as
nearly selfsustaining as possible
and about the only importation
in their beginnings was iron 'for
their ulough shares. In- their industrial
and agricultural development
they have contributed
many valuable ideas which have
.been seised upon for general use.
They are credited with the revolving
harrow, cut nails and the
planing machine. Railing herbs
for medicinal use was one of their
early major industries."
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NEWS or YOSk COUNTY.
[terns of General Interest Found
in the YorkviU* Enquirer.
Frank Roach post of the American
Legion, Rock tlill, will erect
monuments to the memory of Soliier
Frank Roach,' for whom the
post was named, and to James
Lynn, a Rock Hill.boy who also
lost his life in the Worlil war,
Post Commander Thos. W. Huey
iuid Saturday.
Farmers around Tatuut, Marlboro
county, are paying onc-hali
uent each for boll weevils picked
from cotton on their respective
farms, according to William Qib
son or latum, who, with bia family,
recently visited Magistrate
K. L. A. Smith and fumily at
Hickory Grove.
Dr. Joe Sims, well known pharmacist
of Sharon, was run over
aud painfully injured by an automobile
said to have been driven
by Paul White at Sharon, Sunday
night. Dr. Sims was struck
by the automobile while crossing
tiie street near J. L. Whiteside s
store. He suffered a badly sprained
ankle and other bruises.
That there is less corn planted
in Bethesda township at this time
than there has T)een at a similar
period in years is the opinion of
Mr. Will Ayeock of Hethesdi
township, who was in Yorkville
Monday. Mr. Ayeock said that
lie had recently received a letter
from his brother, Mr. Ed Ayeock,
who lives in Ellis county, Texas,
saying that 10 inches of rain felt
in 20 hours in his section of Texas
last week and that hundreds of
acres of cotton and other erops
were washed away.
While there is no official announcement
to that effect forthcoming
as yet, it is understood
that the new 20,000 spindle mill
io be built in Clover by persons
interested in the Hatvthorn Spinning
mills will be known as Hie
'Hampshire mills." M. L. Smith,
general manager of the new milts,'
and John R. Hart, attorney for
the mills, left {Saturday for the
East, where they will have a conference
with the stockholders relative
to the new mill project.
Further evidence of the unwillingness
of farmers of Roek Hill
and the community to sell eot*ou
on a rising market is fouud in
the fact that while the jirice has
been going up all this week not
more than' 200 bales of cotton
have been sold this week, according
to Rock Hill buyers. The
buyers were offering 22 cents a
pound Saturday for strict middling,
but little was offered at
the price. A Rock Hill warehouseman
.estimated that there
are at least 10,000 bales of cotton
in Rock Hill warehouses. Practically
none of the cotton that has
been sold on the Rock Hill market
in the last several weeks hus
been taken from the warehouses,
according to the warehouseman.
That worthless checks are increasing
in number rather than
deereasing, despite the fact that
the recent General Assembly
passed a law supposedly with
"teeth'* in it relative to the matter,
is the opinion of various York
county magistrates and business
men interviewed yesterday relative
to bad checks. When the reporter
inquired the whereabouts
of a prominent business man he
was told Jhat "he is out in the
country trying to collect some
bad checks given him recently in
payment for goods." And the
clerk went on to say: "Really, it
is getting so bad that we are almost
afraid to cash anybody's
check. You have no idea how
bad it is."
Ifaka Vain Search.
Friends of Boyce Bennett, substantial
> and popular farmer of
the lower section of Fort Mill
township, were incensed a few
day8 ago when it became known
that prohibition officers had visited
his home and upon a warrant
based upon "information given
them by one of his neighbors,"
according to the statement of
one of the officers, made a thor
eo|h search of his, premises for
contraband liquor. No liquhr
was found by the officers and
they left after admitting that
they had been misled by a party
whose name they refused to di?
nlge.
ON STUMP.
Htni^r Ford's Paper Prints Story
4bout fbrmar Governor.
The Dearborn Independent,
weekly puper published by Henrv
Ford, in its issue of June li,
prints the following special article
a^bout Cole L. blease, former
governor of South Carolina, \. ho
has announced that he will be a
candidate in the Democratic primary
this summer for a third
tikrm mm nhiof urmnitivu r. ( tl'O
Mr. Blease began his political
career, as fur as State estimation
is concerned, in 1896, when he
became a presidential elector, but
he had been a member of .the
South Carolina house of representatives
and speaker pro tern of
that body from Newberry county
even before that campaign. As a
presidential elector he soon won
popularity on the stuinp. lie has
been in office most of- the time
since he was licensed to practice
law, except during the last dec.
ade, having been mayor of' his
city, representative of his county
and district in the South Carolina
house and senate, and twice governor
of the State. He is a candidate,
be says, now, not because
it will satisfy any personal ambition,
but because his friends insist
on his saving the State.
And wheu the picturesque individual
whom the loyal Bleascites
refer to as 'Coal Blaze, or
just plain "Coley," gets on the
hustings, we are ready to inform
the six or eight aspiring getlemen
who also have their hats in the
gubernatorial ring, they will
know they have been hi a light
when the smokescreen lifts next
November. For be it known that
the Hon. Cole Livingston Blease
is the equal of the late Representative
("Private") John Allen
of Mississippi when it comes
to repartee, as witty as the eminent
Senator John Sharp Williams
in politics^ story-telling and
1 as vindictive as Thomas Brackett
Reed ever was in debate,
i With these splendid equipments
: on the stump, coupled with the
' fact that Mr. Blease knows the
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State. Ail interesting feature of
the article is the lack of information
displayed by the writer relative
to South Carolina affairs in
general and the Democratic primary
in particular:
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As,the boys in the woolhut district
would put it,"Coal DlazeV
hat Is in the ring and all doubt
about the gubernatorial campaign
being a pink tea affair in
Soutjl Carolina this autumn has
passed. As we write that the
Hon. Cole Livingston Blease is
agaii) iu the buttle zone, with h
third term in the governorship us
his goal, the mauve syringiu
lends its fragrance to the zephyrs
of spring und the ringing intonations
of the one gallus voters
pf the common wealth, who
are for Blease first, last and u!l
the time.
The Blease boom came up
with the crocus, but it fuiled to
pass out with the pussy willow,
it hangs on like high taxes und
red mud in the Piednmout section,
because Mr. Blease, known
from the mountain tops of Dark
Corners to the sands of the sea
Mt Charleston, as the "stormy
petrel, of politics," never has yet
showp the white leather, lie is
as foad of a political battle as
a bulldog, and lie never quits until
h|s jaws are pried or his
frieu^ls succeed in carrying hiin
to higher channels.
Wteu.Mr. Blease, then serviug
his second term as governor, resigned
that office in 1915, he had
the stage set for him to step into
the United States senate, but it
proved even for an expert politician
and near-statesman, as he
was at that time, a case of too
many cooks spoiling the broth.
And so, instead of goiug to the
seuute, Mr. Blease resumed the
practice of law in Columbia. In
matters of criminal jurisprudence
there are few lawyers of the eapitol
city that know the law as he
knows it, and still even fewer
who can approximately match
his wits at the bar when it comes
to wringing a verdict from a
inrv
QUESTIONS * "!
H ^ and Bibla Answers 1
1 aissaateBBac^srst.'fSss I
lit jritiliM baritaft to thai in altar jaan. I|
Which I ft the Third Commandment 7?
Exodus 20:7.
What are some of the promises to those
who keep "the Sabbath??Isaiah 58:13-14How
should we enter Into the house of
Uod?? 1'salm 100:2-4.
Wl\lch Is the Fourth Commandment??
Kxodus 20:8-11.
What Is Dromlsed to children who obev
their parents??Ephesluns 6:1-3.
Which Is the Fifth Commandment??
Exodus 20:12In
what war Is there no discharge7?
Ecclesiastes 8:6.
What Is the royal law??James 2:8-9. '
Which Is the Sixth Commandment??
Exodus 20:13.
What did the Apostle Paul say to the
Phlllpplans about right thlnklng'ij?PIHlIpplans
4:8.
Does like produces like??Ualatlans
6:7-9. ?
Which Is the Seventh Commandment?
?Exodus 20:14.
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Three to Die Friday.
Local interest is added to the
prospect of the execution of C.
v.). box, Jesse Gapping and S. J.
Kirby in Columbia tomorrow by
reason of the fact that one of
the trio, Kirby, formerly lived
in Fort Mill township. The three
men are under death sentence for
the murder in Lexington county
several months ago of William
Urazell, youthful transfer driver.
They now have less than one full
day left of life unless something
occurs within the next few hours
to prevent their electrocution.
Kirby is said to be the only one
of the men who shows signs of
restlessness as the time for their
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The first of the trio to die in
the eleetrie chair will be the first
white man to thus pay the death
penalty since July 14, 1913, when
Al. L. Garner was put to death.
Only three white men have been
electrocuted since the establishment
of the electric chair in South
Carolina hi 1912 as compared
with 55 negroes.
At the present time, however,
the white men in the State penitentiary
to be electrocuted outnumber
the negroes, the entire
death house being filled with
white men, with u number of other
white men in cells awaiting
the infliction of the death penalty.
Charles Thornwell, Esq., Dead.
A message received by Airs. J.
B. Elliott yesterday told of the
death a few hours earlier of her
uncle, Charles Thornwell, Esq., at
his home in Rome, (la. Air. Thornwell
was the last surviving
biother of the late Rev. J. 11.
Thornwell, father of Airs. Elliott
and for many years pastor of the
Fort Alill Presbyterian church,
lit was 72 years old and is remembered
by numerous Fort Alill
people, who will regret to learn
of his death. Air. Thornwell was
one of the leading lawyers of the
Rome section of Georgia, where
he had practiced for the last 45
years.
Upon receipt of the message announcing
the death ol' Air. Thornwell,
Mrs. J. K. Roach of Roea
Hill, niece of Air. Thornwell and
Kifatiir nf Yf ru tfllirttt toft fr?r
Rome. At that time it had not
ben decided "whether the interment
would be in Rome or in
Coliiinbiu, this State.'
Few Delinquent Tax Payers.
"The prospects are that within
the next week or ten days every
citizen of Fort Mill subject to
the municipal street tax will hatfq
paid up for the current year,"
yesterday said N. M. McManus,
chief of police. "When the time
closed with the end of May for
the payment of the tax without
penalty the list of delinquents,
about 30 in all, was turned over
to me by the town .clerk. Now
all of these have paid up but six,*
and there is soiAe doubt about
three of this number being subject
to the tax on account of
youth, but my instructions arc to
collect the tax and notify the
young men that they may appeal
tc- council for the return of the
moqey. If they are able to establish
the claim that they are
less than 21 years of age, they
will be exempt from the tax and
their money will be returned to
them."
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SHORT NEWS STORIES.
items of Interest "From Various
Sections of Country.
Thirty-one wooden ships that
were constructed by the United
States shipping: board at a cost
of $700,000 each while the World
war was in progress have been ^
sold to a New York city firm for
a total of $155,000.
President Harding has been
personally invited to attend the
hobo convention to be held in
Huffulo, N. Y., on July 4. The
invitation was extended by James
Kails How, millionaire loader of
the hoboes.
One thousand American troops
will remain in Germany indefinitely,
according to orders issued
by the war department. The
present force is slighily above
the thousand mark* Mid recommendations
will be made for the
return of about 400 men and GO
officers.
With his teeth capped with
diamonds worth $1,700 Joe Krauss
of Otaman, Ariz., boasts of the
hardest set of molars in the country.
The diamonds are from Australia
and are of the kind used
in drills in mines, the hardest variety
of mineral in existence.
Two Baptist ministers and a
like number of Methodist ministers
competed at Knoxville,
Tenn., in a contest to determine
who could tie the speediest marriage
knot. The Rev. R. Pedigo,
Baptist, pronounced Ernest Messer
anil Ruby Ferguson man and
wife in 15 seconds, lie won.
Tearing through u window, a
showcase, a section of pressed
ham and an* apron, a revolver
bullet fired outside the meat market
of-Samuel Groff at Dover,
Ohio, landed in Groff's vest pocket
without breaking the skin.
'1 he shot was fired by one of two
men who had robbeii the market,
stealing $20 and a rifle.
President ilurding shakes hands
with about 150,000 persons each
year, his close friends estimate,
lie is breaking all White House
records with his open door policy'
toward guests. The handshaking
is said to average about 2,000 a
week, counting the White House
receptions to official society and
the scores of conventions thut
meet in Washington each year.
To awaken from a peaceful
sleep ami find a rattlesnake with
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14IIHT UUI1CU I lilt? 1UUI Ui
his bed apparently preparing to
spring upon him, was the experience
of li. K. Wood of I'orterville,
Cal. Wood took a revolver
lrom beneath his pillow and shot
the rattler, but his foot was in
the line of fire and the bullet
that ended the snake's life clipped
off the tip ot his-big toe.
The war department has submitted
statistics to illustrate its
cluim that the United States is
leading the world in land disarmament.
This nation, the department
says, raised an army of 4
million men for the World war,
but now stands 11th in the list of
armies of the world in point of
actual numerical strength, and
in 25th place if the size of the
army is compared to the total
population of the country.
The United States government
proposes to build the greatest
river dam in the world on the
short border line between Nevada
and Arizona. It will rise 735
feet above bedrock, create a reservoir
with a surface of 160,000
acres, and back up the turbulent
waters of the Columbiu river for
a distance of 80 miles. It is con* '
sidered one of the most stupen
dous projects ever undertaken
and promises to make an im
inense barren waste murvelously
fruitful. * %
Prohibition leaders in Washington
are satisfied that the battle
of the "wets" to bring about the
election of ''liberal" members of
Congress with the purpofee of
changing the enforcement act
will fail. A survey made by tho
board of temperance of the Methodist
church on the primary elections
and prohibition says: "The
primary elections so far have been '
exceedingly favorable to prohibition.
It was expected that the
peculiar political situation. would
make certain 'dry' losses inevitable,
but, on the contrary, slight
gains have been registered."
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