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, ISSUED 8KMI-WKEKL^ l. k grist's sons, PnbU.h?r?.} % <#ami,8 U?osjiajei|: <#oi th? jjlramotion of (h< gotitii;aI, ?o<;ia!, ^gri^altapl and Commeitcial Interests of lh$ |?opI<. J """^otVcopv'rivit'cra"""" ESTABLI8HED r855r YORKVILLE, 8. C^TITESDAY, MARCH 2371915. rco724. 1 1 J ?I"- ??-'A" KvlWAI n nv Aril r vril I lirrn I remnln nn?n thrrtiiffh Sa 111 rHa V Anril C^G4 CUBE /?> CHARLES WITH ILLUSTRATION OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER XII. The second year of a new order brings fewer radical changes than the first. Samson's work began to forge out of the ranks of the ordinary and to show symptoms of a quality which would some day give it distinctloa Heretofore his instructors had held him rigidly to the limitations of black and white, but now they took off the bonds and permitted him the colorful delight of attempting to express himself from the palette. It was like permitting a natural poet to leave prose and play with prosody. One day Adrienne looked up from a sheaf of his very creditably landscape studies to inquire suddenly: "Samson, are you a rich man or a poor one?" He laughed. "So rich," he told her, "that unless I can turn some of this stuff into money within a year or two I shall have to go back to hoeing corn." She nodded gravely. "Hasn't It occurred to you," she demanded, "that in a way you are wasting your gifts? They were talking about you the other evening?several parties. They all said that you should be doing portraits." The Kentuckian smiled. His masters had been telling him the same thing. He had fallen in love with art through the appeal of the skies and hills. He had followed its call at the proselyting of George Lescott, who painted only landscape. Portraiture seemed a less artistic form of expression. He said so. "That may all be very- true," she conceded, "but you can go on with your landscapes and let your portraits pay the way. And," she added, "since I am very vain and moderately rich, 1 hereby commission you to paint me. just as soon as you learn how." Farbish had simply dropped out. Bit by bit the truth of the conspiracy had leaked, and he knew that his usefulness was ended and that well-lined pocketbooks would no longer open to his profligate demands. Sally had started to school. She had not announced that she meant to do so, but each day the people of Misery saw her old sorrel mare making its ^way to and from the general direction of Stagebone college, and they smiled. No one knew how Sally's cheeks Named as she sat alone on Saturdays and Sundays on the rock at the backbone's rift. She was taking her place, morbidly, among little spindle-shanked girls in short skirts, and the little girls were more advanced than she. But she, too, meant to have Tarnin' as much of it as was necessary to satisfy the lover who might never come. And yet, the "fotched-on" teachers at the "college" thought her the most voraciously ambitious pupil they had ever had, so unflaggingly did she toll, and the most remarkably acquisitive, so fast did she learn. But her studies had again been interrupted, and Miss Grover, her teacher, riding over one day to find out why her prize scholar , had deserted, met in the road an A empty "jolt wagon," followed by a P - ragged cortege of mounted men and women, whose faces were still lugubrious with the effort of recent mourning. Her question elicited the information that they were returning from th? "buryln"" of the Widow Miller. ? Toward the end of that year Samson undertook his portrait of Adrienne Lescott. The work was nearing completion, but it had been agreec that the girl herself was not to have a peep at the canvas until the paintei was ready to unveil it in a finishec condition. Often as she posed, Wilfred Horton idled in the studio wlti them, and often George Lescott camt to criticize, and left without criticising The girl was impatient for the daj when she, too, was to see the picture concerning which the three men main' tulned so profound a secrecy. She knew that Samson was a painter who analyzed with his brush, and that his pic ture would show her not only feature: and expression, but the man's estimate of herself. "Do you know," he said one day coming out from behind his easel ant studying her, through half closed eyes , "I newer really began to know you un til now? Analyzing you?studying yoi in this fashion, not by your words, bu by your expression, your pose, th< very unconscious essence of your per sonality?these things are illuminat ing." "Although I am not painting you,' she said with a smile, "I have beei studying you, too. As you stand ther before your canvas your own person ality is revealed?and I have not beei antUal,. nnnhoorvant mvself." "And under the X-ray scrutiny o this profound analysis," he said witl a laugh, "do you like me?" "Wait and see," she retorted. "At all events"?he spoke gravely"you must try to like me a little, be cause I am not what I was. The per son that I am is largely the creatun of your own fashion. Of cours< you had very raw material to worl with, and you can't make a silk purs* or'?he broke off and smiled?"well of me, but in time you my at leas get me mercerized a little." For no visible reason she flushec and her next question came a trifl eagerly. "Do you mean I have influence you?" "Influenced me, Drennie?" he re peated. "You have done more tha: that. You have painted me out ani painted me over." She shook her head, and in her eye -i"******** o lio-Vit i\f anhtlp ofuinetrv. UUIIVCU U v? MMV.... B ? . "There are things I have tried to d | and failed," she told him. W His eyes showed surprise. "Perhaps," he apologized. "I ar dense, and you may have to tell m bluntly what I am to do. But yo 1 apostate, scarcely merited such consid1 eratlon. It informed him that old 8 L Splcer South had been "mighty pore- 8 ' ly," but was now better, barring the h breaking of age. Everyone was "tol- 8 erable." Then came the announce- 8 > ment which the letetr had been writ- I ten to convey. The term of the South-Hollmn truce 1 had ended, and it had been renewed for h ' an indefinite period. " > "Some of your folks thought they s I ought to let you know because they * ' promised to give you a say," wrote 8 ' the informant. "But they decided that 1 I it couldn't hardly make no difference t to you, since you have left the moun- 1 ains, and if you cared anything about ? 5 it, you knew the time, and could of 8 been here. Hoping this finds you ' well." > Samson's face clouded. He threw the soiled and scribbled missive down 8 i on the table and sat with unseeing ' eyes fixed on the studio wall. So, they had cast him out of their councils! i They already thought of him as one 1 who had been. i In that passionate rush of feeling 8 , everything that had happened since > 1 he had left Misery seemed artificial 1 ? and dreamlike. He longed for the 1 realities that were forfeited. He want- I i ed to press himself close to the great, t gray shoulders of rock that broke * e through the greenery like giants tear- I - ing off soft raiment. Those were his I - people back there. He should be run- 1 ning with the wolf pack, not coursing * " with eagles. i He had been telling himself that he 1 s was loyal and now he realized that he s - was drifting like the lotus eaters. 1 i He rose and paced the floor, with * teeth and hands clenched and the 1 f sweat standing out on his forehead. I \ His advisers had of late been urging ' him to go to Paris. He had refused. 1 and his unconfessed reason had been 5 - that in Paris he could not answer a < - sudden call. He would go back to 1 - them now and compel them to admit 1 e his leadership. ' e Then his eyes fell on the unfinished ( ? t It - A a J ?1 TKa fona or qtqH I v ponraji ui Aunnuic. ah^ b e at him with its grave sweetness; its I, fragrant subtlety and its fine-grained t delicacy. Her picture Hps were silently arguing for the life he had found i, among strangers, and her victory e would have been an easy one, but for the fact that just now his cond science seemed to be on the other side. Samson's civilization was two years - old?a thin veneer over a century of n feudalism?and now the century was d thundering its call of blood bondage. But as the man struggled over the s dilemma, the pendulum swung back. The hundred years had left, also, a o heritage of quickness and bitterness to resent injury and injustice. His own people had cast him out. They hod n branded him as the deserter; they felt e no need of him or his counsel. Very u well, let them have it so. His prob ?m had been settled for him. Th< iordlan knot was cut. Sally and his uncle alone had hii ddress. This letter, casting him out aust have been authorized by them Irother Splcer acting merely a manuensis. They, too, had repudl .ted him?and, if that were true, ex ept for the graves of his parents, th tills had no tie to hold him. "Sally, Sally!" he groaned, dropplni ils face on his crossed arms, whil lis shoulders heaved In an agony u leartbreak, and his words came in th ?ld, crude syllables: "I 'lowed you'i telieve In me if hell froze!" He ros iter that, and made a fierce gestur rith his clenched fists. "All right, ie said, bitterly, "I'm shet of the lo f ye. I'm done!" But it was easier to say the wordi f repudiation than to cut the tie hat were knotted about his heart. With a rankling soul, the mountain er left New York. He wrote Sally i rief note, telling her that he was go lg to cross the ocean, but his hur ride forbade his pleading for her com LL?fifc : RLANDS! NEVILLE BUCK-. JS FRCVA PHOTOQRAPH3 1 .PLAY tswur know that you have only to tell me." I a , I For a moment she said nothing, I \ then shook her head again. I h "Issue your orders," he insisted. "I I o I am waiting to obey." I I She hesitated again, then said, o I slowly: I tl "Have your hair cut. It's the one I I uncivilized thing about you." |e For an Instant Samson's face hard- I b ened. i) "No;" he said; "I don't care to dolp that." fi "Oh, very well!" she laughed lightly, p I 'In that event, of course, you shouldn't I s I do it" But her smile faded, and after I c a moment he explained. I n "You see, it wouldn't do." "What do you mean?" I h "I mean that I've got to keep some- e: thing as it was to remind me of a prior h claim on my life." I tl For an Instant the gril's face cloud-1 d I ed and grew deeply troubled. "You don't mean," she asked, with IP I an outburst of Interest more vehement r< I than she had meant to show, or real-Ill lized she was showing?"you don't I e I mean that you still adhere to Ideas of I n the vendetta?" Then she broke off ii with a laugh, a rather nervous laugh, u "Of course not," she answered her- si self. "That would be too absurd!" b "Would it?" Samson asked, simply, jfi He glanced at his watch. Two min- IL utes up," he announced. "The model I will please resume the pose. By the ri way, may I drive with you tomorrow I n 1 afternoon ?" s' 1 The next afternoon Samson ran up b the street steps of the Lescott house I o I and rang the bell, and a few moments I h later Adrlenne appeared. The car was h waiting outside, and, as the girl came I down the stairs in motor coat and I veil, she paused and her fingers on the I q banister tightened In surprise as she n I looked at the man who stood below I si I holding his hat in his hand, with his I a face upturned. The well-shaped head ? I was no longer marred by the mane I which It had formerly worn, but was c. I close cropped, and under the trans-1 ? forming influence of the change the I si forehead seemed bolder and higher, and to her thinking the strength of I the purposeful features was enhanced, I and yet. had she known it, the man I< I felt that he had for the first time sur- I i> I donment of something akin to prin-1 n I clple. J 1< I She said nothing, but as she took I his hand in greeting her fingers h I pressed his own in handclasp more n 'I lingering than usual. i> Late that evening, when Samson re11 turned to the studio, he found a mis-I I sive in his letter box, and, as he took 11' 1 it out, his eyes fell on the postmark. o It was dated from Hixon, Kentucky, tl and, as the man slowly climbed the d stairs, he turned the envelope over In n his hand with a strange sense of mis- f giving and premonition. c The letter was written in the h ^ cramped hand of Brother Splcer. i' ? Through its faulty diction ran a plain- F 1 ly discernible undertone of disapproval b 1 for Samson, though there was no word g 1 of reproof or criticism. It was plain a 1 that it was sent as a matter of cour- & tesv to one who. having proved an & dence, or adding, "I love you. H< lunged Into the art life of the "othei Ide of the Seine," and worked vora iou8ly. He was trying to lean luch?and forget much. One sunny afternoon when Samsoi ad been In the Quartier Latin foi Ight or nine months the concierge o: is lodgings handed him, as he passe< tirough the court, an envelope ad ressed in the hand of Adrlenne Lee ott. As he read It he felt a glow o: leasur&ble surprise, and, wheeling, hi Btraced his steps briskly to his lodg lgs, where he began to pack. Adri nne had written that she and hei lother and Wilfred Horton were sail lg for Naples, and commanded him nless he were too busy, to meet theii Learner. Within two hours he wai ound for Lucerene to cross the Italiaj rontier by the slate-blue waters o ake Maggiore. A few weeks later Samson and Ad lenne were standing together b: loonlight in the ruins of the Coli emum. The Junketing about Italy ha< een charming, and now in that circli f sepia softness and broken columiu e looked at her and suddenly aske< imself: "Just what does she mean to you?" If he had never asked himself tha uestion before he knew now that i lust some day be answered. Friend hip had been a good and seemingl; sufficient definition. Now he was no 0 sure that it could remain so. Then his thoughts went back to i abin in the hills and a girl in calico le heard a voice like the voice of i ong bird saying through tears: "I couldn't live without ye' Samson ... I jest couldn't do hit!" For a moment he was sick of his life L seemed that there stood before him 1 that place of historic wraiths an< lemories, a girl, her eyes sad, bu >yal, and without reproof. "You look," said Adrlenne, studylnj is countenance in the pallor of th< loonlight, "as though you were see lg ghosts." "I am," said Samson. "Let's go." Adrlenne had not yet seen her por rait. Samson had needed a few hour f finishing when he left New York hough it was work which could bi one away from the model. So it wai atural that when the party reachei 'aris, Adrlenne should soon insist 01 rossing the Pont d'Alexandre III, t< is studio near the "Boule Mich" for ai ispection of her commissioned canvas 'or a while she wandered about th' uslnesslike place, littered with th ear of the painter's craft. It was, ii , way, a form of mind-reading, fo iamson's brush was the tongue of hi oul. The girl's eyes grew thoughtful a he saw that he still drew the leering aturnlne face of Jim Asberry. H lad not outgrown hate, then? Bu he said nothing until he brought ou .nd set on an easel her own portrait ^or a moment she gasped with shee lelight for the colorful mastery of th echnlque, and she would have bee: lard to please had she not been de Ighted with the conception of her elf mirrored in the canvas. It was i ace through which the soul showec ,nd the soul was strong and flawlesi ["he girl's personality radiated fror he canvas?and yet? A disappoint? lttle look crossed and clouded he yes. She was conscious of an in leflnable catch of pain at her heart. Samson stepped forward, and hi vaitlng eyes, too, were disappointed "You don't like it, Drennie?" h mxiously questioned. But she smile n answer, and declared: "1 love it!" He went out a few minutes later t elephone for her to Mrs. Lescott, an rave Adrienne carte blanche to brows imong his portfolios and stacked can rases until his return. In a few min ites she discovered one of those ef 'orts which she called his "rebelliou )ictures." These were such things as he paint >d, using no model except memor jerhaps, not for the making of finish? jictures, but merely to grive outlet t lis feelings: an outlet which som nen might have found in talk. This particular canvas was roughl ilocked in, and it was elementall dmple, but each brush stroke ha leen thrown against the surface wit he concentration fire and energy of ilow, except the strokes that ha sainted the face, and there the brus * r. A o swi oti rxrl r\ L'loa tVlO r>ontTQC Til iau orcmcu iu niao v*i? picture showed a barefooted gir standing in barbaric simplicity c iress, in the glare of the arena, whll i gaunt lion crouched eyeing her. He lead was lifted as though she wer listening to faraway music. In th ?yes was Indomitable courage. The :anvas was at once a declaration c love, and a miserere. Adrienne sf it up beside her own portrait, and, a she studied the two with her chin rest Ing on her gloved hand, her eye cleared of questioning. Now she kne1 what she missed in her own mor oeautiful likeness. It had been paint ?d with all the admiration of the min< The other had been dashed off straigl from the heart?and this other wa Sally! She replaced the sketch whei she had found it, and Samson returr ing found her busy with little sketche if the Seine. ? "Drennie," pleaded Wilfred Hortoi is the two leaned on the rail of th Mauretania, returning from Europ'are you going to hold me off ir iefinitely? I've served my seven yeai for Rachel, and thrown In some extr a time. Am I no nearer the goal?" The girl looked at the oily heaven of s the leaden and cheerless Atlantic, and Its somber tones found reflection In I- h<w ovftq fiho ahnnk her head. b "I wish I knew" she said, wearily. - Then she added vehemently: "I'm not - worth It, Wilfred. Let me go. Chuck e me out of your life as a little pig who can't read her own heart; who is too g utterly selfish to decide upon her own e life." f "Is it"? he put the question with e foreboding?"that, after all, I was a d prophet? Have you?and South? e wiped your feet on the doormat marke ed 'Platonic friendship?' Have you " done that, Drennie?" t She looked up in his eyes. Her own were wide and honest and very full of s pain. b "No," she said, "we haven't done that, yet. I guess we won't - I think he'd rather stay outside, Wil1 fred. If I was sure I loved him, and - that he loved me, I'd feel like a cheat t ?there is the other girl to think of. - . . . And, besides, I'm not sure what i I want myself. . . But I'm horribly r afraid I'm going to end by losing you - both." i Horton stood silent. It was tea time, and from below came the strains 1 of the ship's orchestra. A few ulsterr muffed passengers gloomily paced the f deck. 1 "You won't lose us both, Drennie," - he said, steadily. "You may lose your - choice?but, if you find yourself able t to fall back on substitutes, I'll be s there, waiting." For once he did not meet her scru tiny, or know of it. His own eyes were r fixed on the slow swing of heavy, gray-green waters. He was smiling , but it is as a man smiles when he conr fronts despair and pretends that every3 thing is quite all right. The girl i looked at him with a choke in her f throat. "Wilfred," she said, laying her hand - on his arm, "I'm not worth worrying / over. Really, I'm not. If Samson - South proposed to me today, I know 1 that I should refuse him. I am not at d ail sure that I am the least little bit a in love with him. Only, don't you see i I can't be quite sure I'm not? It would be horrible If we all made a mistake. May I have till Christmas to make t up my mind for all time? Til tell you t then, dear, if you care to wait." (To Be Continued.) t GENERAL NEWS NOTES. l Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World, i Secretary of State Wm. J. Bryan celebrated his 55th birthday last Frlu day. New York city has 3,800 charitable, ' civic and religious organizations, all > working for the betterment of people 1 and things in that city. 1 In a freight train wreck near New Cumberland, Pa., Thursday, a ship* ment of thirty automobiles, valued-at 8 318,000, were mashed Into junk. Jacob Abrams, under sentence of five years In Sing Sing prison, escaped from the Tombs prison, New York, on 8 Thursday. Abrams had outside help. Work In the Lehigh Valley Coal e company's mines at Shenandoah, Pa., s begun yesterday after a shut down of i five weeks, giving employment to 10,i 000 men. 0 Mrs. Ellen G. White, founder, proph1 etess and present leader cf the Seventh ' Day Adventist8, aged 87 years, Is crite ically 111 at her home In St. Helene, e Cal. 1 Because of the lack of shipping far cilities between the United States and g the Philippines, army transports will be used for bringing freight from the ? Islands. p The French chamber of deputies t has passed a bill providing for an ist sue of government bonds to the limit . of 4,500,000,000 francs ($900,000,000) r for war purposes. e During the last few minutes of the ri session of the Nevada legislature which - closed last Friday, a wide-open gam bling law was slipped through. Poker, a stud poker, etc., are legalized. l> The two battleships of the dread' nought class, provided for by the last Q congress, are to be armed with 16d inch guns, the largest ever placed on r a battleship. On telegraphic orders from China, | Chinese merchants throughout the en? tire world have begun a systematic boycott against the sale of all goods f manufactured in Japan, d Richard Madden and Gustave Cook were convicted in the Federal court 0 in New York, Thursday, on the charge d of aiding and abetting Richard P. e Stegler, a German naval reserve, to _ secure a false American passport. A story from Geneva, Switzerland, V is to the effect that during February s members of the Austrian royal family, not including Emperor Francis Jos eph, invested J 14,000,000 in American y real estate, stocks and bonds, d Mrs. Helen M. Angle, charged with o the murder of Waldo R. Ballou, a e wealthy citizen, on trial at Bridgeport, Conn., for ten days, was acquity ted by the jury hearing the case, Frly day. Mrs. Angle claimed that Ballou d fell down a flight of stairs, h James J. Hill, railroad builder and a capitalist of Minnesota, predicted bed fore a legislative committee at St. Faul on Thursday, that the European " war would soon come to an end, and e that wheat will sell down to 70 cents lt a bushel before the end of 1916. ,f A bill providing for the establlsh, ment of a million dollar state bank has been passed by the legislature of Mls!r souri. The proposed bank will be es e tablished to handle farm loans. Before e it becomes effective the law has to be endorsed by a referendum vote of the Lt people. Statistics published at Havre, ?t France, are to the effect that up to s January 31st, $8,960,000 had been contributed for the relief of the Belgians. Of this sum the United States had con's tributed $6,200,000; Great Britain, w $920,000; New Zealand, $500,000; Aus e tralia, $50,000. Secretary of the Navy Daniels has ' rescinded the naval order forbidding * the marriage of midshipmen and en't signs of the navy, on the ground that is their salary was not sufficient to sup,e port a wife. Mr. Daniels says he will do all he can to encourage the mar'* riage of ensigns and midshipmen. >s It is announced from Paris that Professors La Chaineheand and Val, lee have discovered a new antitoxin called "Polyvalent," which is describn? ed at the greatest medical discovery ie since Lister's antiseptic. The new 8i serum is antiseptic in character and stimulates the growth of tissue around wounds, insuring rapid recovery. The "s serum is being extensively used in the a French army hospitals. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files ol Tin YorlnrlUe Enquirer. HEWS AND VIEWS OF VESTEDDAI Bringing Up Records of the Past an< Giving the Younger Readers of To day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl edge of the Things that Most Con earned Generations that Have Gom Before. The first installment of the notes ap peering under this heading was pub llshed In our Issue of November 14 1913. The notes are being prepared bj the editor as time and opportunity per mlt. Their purpose Is to bring lnt( review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the oldei people and for the entertainment and Instruction of the present generation. 119TH INSTALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, Aug. 19, 18630 Day of Fasting and Prayor. Friday next, the 21st, Inst., hw been set apart by the president of the Confederacy as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, "in which he invites the entire people to repair tc their respective places of worship and unite In supplication for the favor and protection of God, who has hitherto conducted us safely through all oui dangers." It is meet, says Mr. Davis, "thit when trials and reverses befall us, we should take home to our hearts and consciences the lessons which they teach and profit by the self examination for which they prepare us." We hepe the call will be universally responded to and that our people will strictly unite on the occasion. Let uf devote one day to the heartfelt Invocation for his blessing without which there Is no success?let us pray for our wounded soldiers and suffering country, and he will nerve oui arms when the conflict comes, and under his providence the blessings ol security and peace may yet be ours, L*t the day and the occasion b? strictly observed. We have since been informed by the Rev. Mr. Wood that there will be divine services in the several churches of,'this town, on Friday, next. (Wednesday Evening, Aug. 24, 1883.1 Charleston. While these lines are being written or read, the struggle Is upon us, and our devoted city is wrestling with all the modern appliances of warfare long pent up malice and flendlshnesi that an unscruplous foe can bring tc bear. Fort Sumter is a ruin, bul though Its battlements are gone, or ?ts base a gallant defense is still being made by the Spartan band whe have still maintained their prowesi and discipline through the most unmerciful hall of shot and shell thai history has ever recorded. From al appearances, Charleston is doomed, although it will require time to accomplish the work, and a spirited resistance will continue to be made tc the bitter end. The fortifications thai have been erected may soon be turned against us, so It rests In our commanding general to see that nothing Is left behind that may militate against our future, should we have one. This Is no time for recrimination?let those who have neglected their duty heretofore, prepare now tc defend the state by their property and their persons?let substitution no longer disgrace the true Carolinian, but al that are able to bear arms be throwr into the battle, and those who wll not, be excluded from our borders Let the law be enforced against the many young men who occupy public places to the exclusion of older citizens or disabled soldiers?let them whe are exempt show their determinatlor to shirk no duty but enroll themselvec at once and It may yet be well for the state. The loss of Charleston may affect our pride, but by no meani leads to subjugation, as a necessity? out of reach of their gunboats, the foe will venture but briefly, but even thai hour, unless prepared incalculable mischief may be effected. We have had from the commencement of the waj to defend our seaport against tremendous odds, and these have absorbed our means to the exclusion of the interior, where the battle has still beer to fight, however, improper was sucl a course our manly .breasts must nov be our battlements, our women wil cheer us on and with God's blessing we will preserve our unquenchet household fires. We are by no means dispirited ai to the final success of our cause; t ever reconstruction was ever though of in this state, the proclamation o: Lincoln would have been smotheret in the bud?we feel that In our sistei states similar feelings exist and tha a determination exists never to givi up our homes and institutions. "Dun splro spero?spes." (Wednesday Evening, Sept. 2, 1863.) From Charleston. Charleston, August 31.?Last week while the transport steamer Sumter was returning from Morris* island witl the 23rd South Carolina regiment which had been relieved, she wai opened upon by mistake from Batter: Bee, and sunk. Several soldiers wen killed and wounded or drowned. Latest?About noon today, tw< monitors approached and opened fin upon Sumter, but were soon driven of by Fort Moultrie and Battery Gregg At 2 o'clock p. m., all the moniton stood in close to Fort Sumter, firing briskly at the post, Fort Moultrie ant Battery Gregg, for an hour. Th< fight was severe, Moultrie and oui Sullivan's island batteries firing ven rapidly. Soon after 3, the monitor; withdrew?some having been strucl frequently. Occasional firing Is heart from the land batteries tonight. (Wednesday Evening, Sept. 9, 1863.) Meeting of Citizens. Pursuant to notice a large and re> spectible meeting of the citizens o: York district was held In the court house on Monday, last, when Samue Rainey, Esq., was called to the chair and Thomas J. Eccles to act as secre tary. Tht chairman briefly explainet the object of the meeting to be a re> sponse to the call of the governor foi organization with a view to home de^ fense, and to make provision for th< families of our gallant soldiers. Th< ? meeting: was openeu wun p?o.jrc u I the Rev. Mr. Dickson. The Rev. J. M. Anderson address^ . the meeting at some length, eloquent ? ly advocating In the first place, .1 prompt military organization, and li the second place, some systematic re j lief for the families of our soldlert ' The meeting was called at the instanc of the board of relief, whose mean i were nearly exhausted. Mr. Ander son also read a letter from Governo - Bonham to Col. Cad. Jones, relatlv to the necessity of military organlza tlon. On motion of A. B. Springs, Esq the board of relief were requested t suggest a plan of relief for soldlert families, and also a committee of flvi } were appointed to whom was referred the letter of the governor, viz: Col. J ' A. M'Lean, Col. Joel W. Rawllnson I Major BenJ. F. Brlggs, A. A. McKen I zle and Myles Smith. The meeting then took a recess un til 2 o'clock, when the committee made the following reports, whlcl 1 were adopted unanimously, and after an order for publication, the meetlni , adjourned: , We, the committee, having been ap . pointed by the meeting today, mak< s the following report: We recommeni I iri cuprtll VC WL UUU ?Mviu|r%?v.< [ that the beet companies be called ou I and solicited to volunteer to meet th< , present call of the governor for stati . defense, and we, the committee, thin) the patriotism of York district wil [ furnish her necessary quota to mee , the governor's requirement, and we r the committee, further recommenc , that a company of 80 men be ralse< , for home defense. J. A. McLean, Chairman. [ (To Be Continued.) SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ' Stats Would be Requested to Furnis) 6,950 of Army of 400,000 Men. The adjutant general's office is ir ' receipt of information from the dl' vision of militia afTalrs at Washington says a Columbia dispatch to th< 1 Charleston Post, prescribing the quott of troops each state would be requiret ' to furnish in case the United Statu ' should be required to put an army oi 1 400,000 men in the field. The n&tlona war department finds that this stati would have to furnish 6,590 men. i The United States has been dlvidet into twelve organized militia divl slonal districts with the idea thateacl J of these districts will maintain a com' L plete tactical division. The field ser vice regulations prescribe that t J tactical division shall consist of thre< j brigades, nine regiments of infantry t one regiment of cavalry, one brigade o l field artillery, two regiments; one bat tallon of engineers, three companies } on battalion of signal troopa tw< j companies; one ammunition train one supply train, one engineer train t four ambulance companies and thre< I field hospital companies. With the exception of New York, n< state has the proper proportion o cavalry. The war department Is mak j ing strenuous effort to have the gov ^ ernors of the various states organlzi I their respective natlonai guard uniti along the lines suggested by the gen , eral staff of the army and cont&inet | in the letter to the adjutant general. , Under the plan of organization b: * the war department, two regiments o ( South Carolina Infantry and oni } Florida regiment have been deslgnate< I the 26th brigade of the 9th division. Based on a call of 400,000 men t< j arms, South Carolina would furnlsl l 6,590, divided as follows: Five com j panies of coast artillery, 653 men; on< troop cavalry, 100 men; three batteriei j of field artillery, 532 men; one com , pany of engineers, 184 men; one am bulance company, one field hospita } company 146 men; two regiments o Q 70n man rwthora IWllllred l 1,320 men for headquarters and trans k portation. Governor Manning on January 26 j wrote to the secretary of war that h< stood ready to co-operate with thi , United States war department li | bringing the national guard of thii state up to the army requirements ^ The governor has also assured Ad Jutant General Moore that he wil back him up in his endeavor to mak< the state militia organization one o } the beet in the south. ' The annual inspection of the stati i mllltla will be completed March 26 r and at an early date It will be knowi j what companies will make up the tw< new Infantry regiments, which wlllb' | organized and what companies will b< mustered out. This information wa i given by J. Shapter Caldwell, assist f ant adjutant general. t Major Caldwell said that with thi ( small appropriation made by the gen j eral assembly that It will be impossi ble to support three regiments. In ad t dltlon to this the war department ha Increased the minimum strength of i regiment of infantry to 990 men an< officers and the maximum strength ti 1,915. One of the regimens will hav to be disbanded as the war departmen plans call for only two regiments o this state. ' The Biggest Gun,?There can be lit 1 tie consolation for the thousands o '* volunteer peacemakers in this countr; 3 who are trying to settle the war li f Europe In the announcement that thi ? biggest gun in the world Is being bull in the United States arsenal in Water 1 velt, N. Y., and Is to be placed at thi ' Pacific end of the Panama canal, say the New York Post. The gun Is a slxteen-inch weapon 49 feet 3 inches in length, and weighi j about 126 tons. It has a range o from 16 to 21 miles, varying with dif ferent elevations, and it will hurl i projectile of 2,300 pounds. Each dls charge will cost the government 1600. The enormous weapon will lie li ambush at the canal, being lifted t< position by a large running carriage which will be dropped from the vlev Immediately after the weapon ha; been discharged. Military experts of all countrle . have followed the gun's construction f to such extent as this governmen . would permit, with the kneenest in 1 terest. The gun's installation will b' , an event in the history of defenslvi . measures. 1 * The home of E. C. Haynsworth r master of Sumter county, was destroy . ed by fire Friday. The building an< ? contents were valued at $10,000 an< j were Insured for $7,000. 7 IULU 01 LUIAL LAlnAImO i a News Happenings In Neighboring " Communities. J CONDENSED FOR QUICK ^READING . Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of r Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lane caster and Chester. Gaffney Ledger, March 19: Miss Maude Mauney of Lincolnton, N. P.. arrived In the cltv Tuesdav to as 0 sume her duties as a trained nurse at j f the city hospital. There are now eight { e nurses at the hospital, Including the 1 head nurse Court of general sesr. slons for Cherokee county, failed to i, clear the local Jail of prisoners, and . Sheriff W. W. Thomas now has eight In his charge. Three of these have . been added since court adjourned, and a two are serving sentences in Jail i Mr. Jay Sarratt, recently of the bugle r corps of Company E, 3rd Infantry, U. j S. army, Is now at the home of his mother, Mrs. J. V. Sarratt, after hav lng received an honorable discharge s at the end of three years' service. 1 Miles Ashe, also known as Shelt , Ashe, an employe of the Victor Cotton t Oil company, died suddenly while at i work at the plant about 10 o'clock > Monday night. He worked on the c night shift, and complained of being 1 unwell when he reported for duty. t . , Lancaster News, March 19: On Frl1 day, March 12, Mr. Wilson Wright of 1 the Tradesville section, died at the advanced age of 84 years. Mr. Wright was a good man and a brave soldier, having served during the Civil war, and was one of the oldest Confederate veterans In Lancaster county. He Is survived by his widow and four , children, three sons and one daughter. Mr W T nrncmrv hnn returned from Baltimore, where he went to be with his sister, Miss Eatelle Gregory, <1 who is undergoing treatment at the ^ ' Johns Hopkins hospital Mr. J. W. t ^ Porter passed to his reward yester- t j day miming at his residence on B&rr ? street, aged 74 years, 11 months and J five days. He was the son of the late f j William Porter, and his wife, Mahala t Montgomery, and was born about 9 1 3 miles south of Lancaster. He had * j three brothers, J. W. A. Porter, J. N. 4 Porter and Leonard S. Porter, and two 1 sisters, Mrs. B. F. Hailes and Mrs. 1 1 Matt Flynn, all of whom predeceased j " him. He was reared on the farm, at- j - tending the neighborhood schools. At ^ j_ the breaking out of the war between t the states, he volunteered in Company 1 1, Twelfth regiment, South Carolina , i Volunteers, and made a gallant sol- j f dler. About 31 years ago he married | Miss Henrietta McManus, daughter of ^ the late Capt Amos McManus, who { died a short time since. Recently, , 3 Mrs. Jack Reece, his adopted daugh1 ter, had come to make her home with ' him With a larger gathering ( ' than has ever before assembled In ; b Lancaster to witness Field Day exer- * clses, the 1916 event Is being carried ' > out In every detail. Since early this ? morning crowds of Lancaster county 5 1 people and visitors from other coun- f - ties have been pouring In on regular 1 . and special trains, by wagons, bug- . gies and automobilea More than 2,000 f children took part in the line of . 9 march, each carrying pennants and 1 - giving Bchool yella When the pa- ' j rade had returned to the Lancaster J Graded school grounds, Superintendent Wessinger, as master of cere1 monies, introduced the several speakf ers and made a number of announcements. Hon. Claud N. Sapp, on behalf of Mayor Hood, welcomed the I 1 visitors, and Miss Ivor Brown of Heath Springs, responded to the wel3 come. Hon. Lueco Gunter of the state board of education, made a a 1 brief congratulatory address. Prof, e W. L. Feaster, principal of the Lan- f e caster High school, led the hundreds . of school children in the singing of r "Carolina" and "America" In the fi " courthouse the declamation contests j - were held and the other contests took < j place at the Central school building. , Prof, and Mrs. J. A. Klein are a moving this week from Lancaster to c their new home in Gastonla In ad- g . dition to their music classes there, . Prof. Klien will play the organ of the First Presbyterian church Mrs. 8 '? O. O. Ferguson was taken to a Char- c s lotte hospital Wednesday for treat- j B ment. She was taken by Dr. S. L. Allen and Mr. S. M. Barnette, her brother Mrs. Ella Hough, wife of t 9 the late J. C. Hough of this city, died r l at the home of her son, Ed Hough, . Sunday morning, aged 73 years. Mrs. UnocVi hap m?rrlnm WU Miss t 1 EUa6Evans, daughter of The late Capt. 9 John Evans of Chesterfield county, f Gastonia Gazette, March 19: The e local wireless telegraph station in the building of the Piedmont Telephone & ' Telegraph Co., has recently been 111 cense by the United States govern ) ment. The bureau of navigation of B the department of commerce issued the license which bears the number, B "7803, general amateur radio station." a The official government call assigned . to the station is "4 C A," and Mr. Kenneth Babington is designated as operator as he holds amateur radio e operator license No. 6952. An inter- s - esting clause in the station license is f ? that which stipulates that the president of the United States, in time of 8 war or public peril or disaster, has the s right to close the station, or may au- i i thorlze the use or control of the sta- . j tion or apparatus by any department of the government upon Just compen- 1 0 sation to the owners Following < e are the vital statistics for Gastonia r 1 and Gastonia township for the month . . of February, as taken from the records in the office of Vital Statistics t Officer W. M. Adams: Gastonia, t white births, 16; deaths, 6; Gastonia, colored, births, 4; deaths, 2. Township outside the city, white, births, 6; s f deaths, 4; colored, births, 1; deaths, 1. 1 y Mrs. Nancy A. Rhyne, wife of r Mr. C. M. Rhyne, died at her home in Dallas yesterday afternoon, from para- . B lysis, after an illness of some time. ( t She was 64 years old. The funeral 1 . and burial took place this afternoon at Long Creek Baptist church. Her . e husband and several children survive. b Mrs. J. L. Adams, Mra H. F. t Glenn, Mrs. S. R. Clinton and Mrs. W. i F. Michael spent yesterday as the a ' guests of Mrs. Glenn's sister, Mrs. Will 8 Adams, at her home in the Bethel sec- 1 f tion of York county, S. C J. H. . Kennedy & Co., druggists, have se- ? cured the services of Mr. Jack Thomp- . 1 son, of Charlotte, to take charge of - their soda fountain and he will as- c sume his duties next Monday. Mr. s Thompson has held a similar position 8 for several years past with Jordan's 5 In Charlotte, and is an expert In soft x ), drinks and ice cream. c 7 * * * t s Chester Reporter, March 18: Mrs. i Mattie Reynolds, wife of Mr. J. C. s Reynolds, died at her home at the r 8 Eureka mill Tuesday afternoon after i, a short illness from pneumonia, and 1 t was buried at Armenia this morning "V at 11 o'clock after funeral services by Rev. T. H. Roach, pastor of the Sece ond Baptist church. Mrs. Reynolds s was a native of the Turkey Creek sec- t tion and was twenty-six years of age. j She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ("}. C. Clark of this city, and was a de- s >, vout and earnest Christian Mr. v . I. McD. Hood, who has been appoint- c , ed registrar by Mayor Simpson, will open the books of registration for the ? approaching municipal election Wed- ?' nesday, April 14th, and the books will s 24th Friends of Capt. D. E. Penny, the popular L. & C. conductor, will regret to learn that he Is seriousy 111 with pneumonia at his home in Lancaster Caleb Beam, colored, who has been the efficient Janitor at jvery term of court in this county for he past forty years, is seriously ill at nls home on Saluda street, and it is ioubtful whether he will be able to >e present when court convene? Monlay Mrs. D. H. Smith died at her nome at Blackstock this morning at four o'clock, after a long illness, and will be hurled at Concord graveyard omorrow morning at 11 o'clock, after funeral services by Rev. W. S. Hami;er. The deceased was a native of Ffairfleld county, and was a devout nember of the Presbyterian church. She is survived by her husband, three ions and one daughter. Fort Mill Times, March 18: W. M. Ifarothers and family are arranging ;o move to the dwelling: next to tne >ne they now occupy on White street, he latter to be taken in a short time >y J. E. Williamson It is re portid on the streets that Mr. and Mrs. 2. W. Russell will move in a few days o the McGinn plantation, in the Har ison church neighborhood, which Mr. tussell has rented and will cultivate his year Mill No. 2, of the Fort Kill Mfg. company, which has been :loBed down for several months, beran operations Monday morning. It s stated that a majority of the em >loyee who were formerly engaged In he mill, were present Monday and ook up their old Jobs Construcion work was commenced Monday nomlng on a new store room on Main itreet, to be occupied by L. J. Massey. The services of a night policenan for the town of Fort Mill were lispensed with at a meeting of the !lty council the last week. The posiion of night officer was created by he council early last fall and Mr. Yank Hunnlsuck has efficiently filled he place since that time Mr. K. E. Culp, formerly of Pinevllle, died Lt his home in Charlotte Tuesday light at 10.30 o'clock. Mr. Culp was i9 years of age and had been in defining health for several months. He vas a druggist by profession and luring his residence in PinevMa serv d the town for several terms as may?r. He leaves a wife, two brothers tnd three sisters. see Reck Hill Record, March 18: Monlay night about 11.30 o'clock, the barn if Rev. J. I. Splnks, who lives in the Kethodist parsonage back of the Cenral Graded school, was discovered to le on fire and an alarm Immediately riven. The Are company responded >romptly, but on account of there bong no water mains in this section, the Iremen were powerless to . do anyhlng and the barn was a total loss ind Mr. Spink's handosem touring ?r was burned with lt. The loss was lartly covered by insurance The 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs J. H. Kavberrv. died Tuesday, with pneu nonla, at the home on Hutchison itreet. The remains were taken to dlddenlte, N. C., for Interment drs. Mary Youngblood returned Tueslay from Baltimore with her daugher, Miss Ruth, who has been In a loeplt&l there for treatment The roung lady Is much improved. W. I. Allen of Charlotte, an experienced umber and building material man, ias accepted a position with the Jyleecau Mfg. Co., as estimator and talesman. * King's Mountain Herald, March 18: ?hlef of Police J. H. Fisher was called o & house near the Dilllng mill, Monlay morning, where he killed a madlog and several other dogs which had teen bitten by the rabid animal diss Flora Herndon of Union Level, has accepted a position with the Watson Millinery company here and ias arrived in the city Tom Jenkns of King's Mountain, died after a ong illness of tuberculosis, Friday, darch 6th, at the age of 40 years. He vas a brother of Messrs. Newt and 'ress Jenkins. ENGLAND AND BELGIUM las the Great Power Deeerted Her 8mall Ally? Unquestionably the strongest of the Jlles is Great Britain, and the we&k>st is Belgium. If England has sacrticed as many lives In proportion to ler population as heroic Belgium has riven the world would have stood ap>alled at the loss. Great Britain is ntact, and even prosperous, under the hock of war. Belgium Is prostrate, iverrun with the enemy, bankrupt, and rasping for life Her people are starvng to death in every city and town, rnd are dependent upon the humanity if strangers?not allies, but far-off Americans?for their dally food. Great Britain's refusal to send food o the poor Belgians is one of the most uthless acts of this ruthless and savige war. It is not an excuse to say 1-1 |? ? l_^ -rjU . liai UCl UUUl/ AO cuovr uu?w?vwwmB ?? rium. Let Germany's sins be on her >wn hand. She Is an enemy of Belgium, and, In the opinion of the world, s too cruel In her methods of conluest, even under the sting of enmity. But Great Britain Is the beneficiary of Belgium's sacrifice. She poses as the rlend and protector of Belgium. She intered the war, according to her own ifficial statement, because of her oblgatlon to defend Belgian neutrality md Belgian independence. How, then, in the name of humanity ind sacred obligation, can England reuse to furnish food for her starving illlee? If this callous selfishness, this heartess disregard of the needs of her allee, Is thus early admitted to be Great Britain's policy, what may the world npect when the terms of peace are na,de up? What chance will Belgium lave In the settlement, If It happens hat British interests run counter to he rights of Belgium? Yet Belgium could have saved hertelf if she had been as indifferent to ter obligations as Great Britain Is low. Germany offered to pay all lamages caused by the passage of the Serman army through Belgium. The ittle kingdom could have avoided the llsasters that have occurred if it had >een less courageous, lees loyal to Its reaty obligations, less scrupulous in epeatlng others' Interests, and more mxlous to look out for number one, as England is. In view of the pitiful plight of Belrium, brought about by this loyal adlerence to Its obligations, and In view >f the heartless abandonment of her itarving people, by her great, strong illy, It may be asked whether Belgium vould pursue the same course If she could recall the happenings since August 1, 1914. Would she rely again ipon the friendship and material asIstance of England? Would she court uin, devastation and starvation for he sake of keeping Germany back?? Vashington Poet. The four leading clubs of Columbia, he Metropolitan, Elks, Columbia and tidgewood have abandoned the locker ystem and are said to be complying vith the "gallon-a-month" law. According to reports all clubs in the tate which formerly handled alcoholc beverages, have ceased the practice lnce March 12.