Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-05-04

Up in Virginia this week they
are trying young woman who
Is charged with hacking to death
with u hatchet the wife of man
with whom she was infatuated,
and over in Oklahoma robust
sensation has been speeding along
for the last day or two over the
alleged kidnapping OF minister
who says he was knocked on the
head, gagged, chloroformed, car
ried out OF town and dumped I'M
conscious into IA ditch by the
roadside. The odd thing about
the Virginia case is not the CRIME
itself, Tor crime is become com
monplacc, but is in the fact that
the husband OF the murdered
woman Is not also on trial for his
life, since his relations with the
alleged murderess were not what
they should have been, unless we
have arrived at the point in our
civilization where immortality is
virtue and not vice. But
? however that may be, Virginia is
an old. fashioned State and up
there judge and jury have way
OF doing their duty. So we may
dismiss consideration of the case
, with the assurance that if the
woman is guilty she will be ade-
qGately punished and that if
there is any substantial evidence
to, connect the man with the mur-
der of his wife, sooner or later he
will have to tell an Old Domin-
ion jury why he should not feel
the halter draw. Jumping across
country to Oklahoma we find.
new State and we should per-
haps make allowance for the fact
that out there the people have
not yet had time to learn to. do
things in the conventional way
enc expects OF the older common
monwealths Of the country. For
instance, in Oklahoma it does not
seem to be bad form to use eX-
treme persuasive methods to in.
duce minister 10 leave town for
the town S good If he has married
couple in a bathing suit which
bore close relationship to the ira
ditional fig leaf nor are citizens
of that State bashful about ex-
pressing the opinion that the
same minister went b little too
far when he exhibited risk NOV
ing pictures in his church. They
want him to- shake the dust of
the town off his feet, to get out
of the community at once, and to
stay out. The minister does not
deny that he has done ths vari-
Gus and sundry things to which
objection is raised, but pleads in
extenuation that it was part of
the day S work and will all come
out in the wash, and that there is
much ado about nothing. One
will have his own opinion wheth-
er the minister should be held to
account for doing things that
seem odd to well-ordered South
Carolina, for Instance; but there
will be oneness of opinion every
where in passing upon the outra-
geous charge that the minister's
story of being knocked ON the
head and cuffed about generally
is all a lie, that he concocted it
himself to get in the limelight
and to try to land a job in the
movies.
81 Frederick Palmer, war CORES
pondent, who has been in Ireland
writing series of articles for a
syndicate of American newspa-
pers, has been especially struck
with the youthfulness of the Irish
leaders, most. of whom are under
40. The moving spirits in adven-
lures like those under way in Ire
land have always been young
men. When we speak of the Pill
grim Fathers it is merely fig
ure Of speech. Most Of the men
who came over in the Mayflower
were young men, many Of them
under 80. In the Civil war many
Of the major generals on both
sides had not reached their two
score years. The leaders in polit>
ical urheavaIs are usually young
men with old heads to counsel
them.