J : - ' . ' - - T* / . , " * . - > -V. \ '' ' t ... w The Fort Mill Times. ?** i^wewwggggggga I =?- , ?it?hH?h?d 18>1." , TOM ML^ E0, tHTOHPAf. JP1? 16, 1? - <1.80 P?r Y?*r.~ . 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^ i asar i I X ?FwTkuWMk? I I8"* *J i 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. m ? ( Julius P. Crowder Dies Suddenly. The Fort Mill community \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." r r 4 ?. 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 ' history of practically every pub(Continued on Page 2.) 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: f 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. % 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 v ?Y v vll I IV/ll (IJ'J'l VNU llll. 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." ?r - t- < \ w* # ^ ' f ' V* * 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 i.,.. ti.'~ 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." " ' ~ / i ? . . - < w, . ; i . ^ .'Zt-' I* ^nH t -