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I L. M. GBIST'S SONS. Publiiherr J E^ABLLSHED 1855. 7T\e. C* A cim I /&> CHARLES. WITH ILLUSTRATION OF SCENES IN THE , CHAPTER XIV. Samson stopped at his studio and threw open an old closet where, from a littered pile of discarded background draperies, canvases and stretchers, he fished out a buried and dust-covered pair of saddlebags. They had long " " " 4 hut thov held the lain mere lurgvum, uu. ? rusty clothes in which he had left I Misery. He threw them over his arm I and dropped them at Adrienne's feet, I as he handed her the studio keys. "Will you please have George look I after my things, and make the neces-l sary excuses to my sitters? He'll find a list of posing appointments in the! desk." I The girl nodded. "What are those?" she asked, gaz-1 ing at the great leather pockets as at some relic unearthed from Pompedianl excavations. "Saddlebags, Drennie," he said, "and in them are homespun jeana Onel can't lead his 'fluttered folk and wild' I in a cutaway coat." Shortly they were at the station, I and the man, standing at the side of the machine, took her hand. "It's not good-by, you know," hel said, smiling. "Just auf Wiedershen." I She nodded and smiled too, but as she smiled she shivered, and turned I the car slowly. There was no need to I hurry now. Samson had caught the fastest westbound express on the schedule. In I thirty-six hours he would be at Hixon. I There were many things which his I brain must attack and digest in these I hrmra He must arrange his plan of| action to Its minutest detail, because I he would have as little time for reflec- I tion, once he had reached his own I country, as a wildcat flung into a pack I of hounds. From the railroad station to his I home he must make his way?most I probably flght his way?through thirty I miles of hostile territory, where all I the trails were watched. And yet, fori the time, all that seemed too remotely I unreal to hold his thoughts. He was seeing the cooly waving curtains of J flowered chintz that stirred in the win- I dows of his room at the Lescott I house and the crimson ramblers that nodded against the sky. He was hear- I ing a knock on the door, and seeing, I as it opened, the figure of Adriennel Lescott and the look that had been In I her eyes. He took out bully's letter, and read I it once more. He read it mechanically and as a piece of news that had brought evil tidings. Then, suddenly, another aspect of it struck him?an I aspect to which the shock of its recep- I tion had until this tardy moment I blinded him. The letter was perfect I grammatically and penned in a hand of I copybook roundness and evenness. I The address, the body of the missive I and the signature were all In one chirography. She would not have intrust-1 ed the writing of this letter to anyone I else. I Sally had learned to write. ^ Moreover, at the end were the I words, "with love." It was all plain I now, Sally had never repudiated him. I She was declaring herself true to her I ^ mission and her love. All that heart- I break through which he had gone had I been due to his own misconception, I and jn that misconception he had I drawn into himself and had stopped writing to her. Even his occasional I letters had for two years ceased to I brighten her heart-strangling isolation?and she was still waiting. . . I She had sent no word or appeal unw the moment had come of which she had promised to inform him. Sally, abandoned and alone, had been fighting her way up?that she might stand on his level. "Good God!" groaned the man, in abject bitter self-contempt. His hand went involuntarily to his cropped head, and dropped with a gesture of selfdoubting. He looked down at his tan shoes and silk socks. He rolled back his shirtsleeves and contemplated the forearm that had once been as brown and tough as leather. It was now the arm of a city man, except for the burning of one outdoor week. He was returning at the eleventh hour? stripped of his faith in kinsmen, half-stripped of his faith in himself. If he were to realize the constructive dreams of which he had last night so confidently prattled to Adrienne, he must lead his people from under the blighting shadows of the feud. Yet, if he was to lead them at all, he must first regain their shaken confidence, and to do that he must go, at their head, through this mire of war to vindication. Only a fighting South could Hope to be heard in behalf of peace. His eventual regeneration belonged to some tomorrow. Today held the need of such work as that of the first Samson?to slay. He must re-appear before his kins?" "iioh 00 nrtaaihle the hov who ^ had left them?not the fop with newW fancied affections. His eyes fell upon the saddlebags upon the floor of the Pullman and he smiled satirically. He would like to step from the train at Hixon and walk brazenly through the town in those old clothes, challenging every hostile glance. If they shot him down on the streets, as they certainly would do, it would end his questioning and his anguish of dilemma. He would welcome that, but it would, after all. be shirking the issue. He must get out of Hixon and into his own country unrecognized. The clan boy of four years ago was the somewhat tilled-out man now. The one concession that he had made to Paris life was the wearing of a closely cropjM-d mustache. That he still wore ?had worn it chiefly because he liked to hear Adrienne's humorous denunciation of it. He knew that, in his present guise and dress, he had an e-xcelk lent chance of walking through the streets of Hixon as a stranger. And, P after leaving Hixon; there was a mission to be j>erformed at Jesse Purvy's store. As he thought of the mission a grim glint came to his pupils. LL?f?r RLAND5 NEVILLE BUCIC 3 frcm& ph0t00raph3 play All Journeys end, and as Samson passed through the tawdry cars of the local train near Hixon he saw several 1 faces which he recognized, but they 1 either eyed him in inexpressive silence 1 or gave him the greeting of the "furriner." Then the whistle shrieked from the 1 trestle over the Middle fork, and at 1 only a short distance rose the cupola ' of the brick courthouse and the scat- ' tered roofs of the town. Scattered ' over the green slopes by the river bank lay the white spread of a tented 1 company street, and, as he looked out, 1 aaxu uniformed figures moving to ' and fro and caught the ring of a bugle call. So the militia was on deck; things must be bad, he reflected. He stood on the platform and looked down as the engine roared along the trestle. There were two gatllng guns. One pointed its muzzle toward the town, and the other scowled up at the face of the mountain. Sentries paced their beats. Men in undershirts lay dozing outside tent flaps. It was all a picture of disciplined readiness, and yet Samson knew that soldiers made of painted tin would be equally effective. These military forces must remain subservient to local civil authorities, and the local civil authorities obeyed the nod of Judge Hollman and Jesse Purvy. As Samson crossed the toll bridge to the town proper he passed two brown-shirted militiamen, lounging on the rail of the middle span. They grinned at him, and recognizing the outsider from his clothes, one of them commented. "Ain't this the hell of a town?" "It's going to be," replied Samson, enigmatically, as he went on. Still, unrecognized, he hired a horse at the livery stable, and for two hours rode in silence, save for the easy creaking of his stirrup leathers and the soft thud of hoofs. The silence soothed him. The brooding hills lulled his spirit as a crooning song lulls a fretful child. Mile after mile unrolled forgotten vistas. Something deep in himself murmured: "Home." It was late afternoon when he saw ahead of him the orchard of Purvy's place, and read on the store wall, a little more weather stained, but other wise unchanged: "Jesse Purvy, General Merchandise." The porch of the store was empty, and as Samson flung himself from his saddle there was no one to greet him. This was surprising, since, ordinarily, two or three of Purvy's personal guardsmen loafed at the front to watch the road. Just now the guard should logically be doubled. Samson still wore his eastern clothes?for he wanted to go through that door unknown. As Samson South he could not cross its threshold either way. But when he stepped up on to the rough porch flooring no one challenged his advance. The yard and orchard were quiet from their front fence to the grissly stockade at the rear, and, wondering at these things, the young man stood for a moment looking about at the afternoon place before he announced himself. Yet Samson had not come to the stronghold of his enemy for the purpose of assassination. There had been another object in his mind?an utterly mad idea, it is true, yet so bold of conception that it held a ghost of promise. He had meant to go into Jesse Purvy's store and chat artlessly, like some inquisitive "furriner." He would ask questions wnicn Dy meir very impertinence might be forgiven upon the score of a stranger's folly. But most of all, he wanted to drop the cas- t ual information, which he should assume to have heard on the train, that Samson South was returning, and to 1 mark, on the assassin leader, the effect i of the news. In his new code It was | necessary to give at least the rattler's i warning before he struck, and he < meant to strike. If he were recognized, ] well?he shrugged his shoulders. i But as he stood on the outside, wip- i ing the perspiration from his forehead. ) for the ride had been warm, he heard ] voices within. They were loud and i angry voices. It occurred to him that by remaining where he was he might j gain more information than by hur- . rying in. ( "I've done been your executioner for ] twenty years," complained a voice, | which Samson at once recognized as 1 that of Aaron Hollis, the most trusted | of Purvy's personal guards. "I hain't j never iaia aown on ye yei. ??e uu on. Asberry killed old Henry South. We laid fer his boy an' would 'a' got him ] ef you'd only said ther word. I went < inter Hixon an' killed Tam'rack Spicer. \ with soldiers all round me. There j hain't no other damn fool in these < mountings would 'a'took such a long , chance es thet. I'm tired of it. They're a-goin' ter git me, an' 1 wants , ter leave, an' you won't come clean | with the price of a railroad ticket to Oklahoma. Now, damn your stingy j soul, I gits that ticket or I gits you!" j "Aaron, you can't scare me into doin' ( nothin' I ain't aimin' to do." The old , baron of the vendetta spoke in a cold ] stocial voice. "I tell ye I ain't quite ' through with ye yet. In due an* proper j time I'll see that ye get yer ticket." ( Then he added, wih a conciliating soft- 1 ness: "We've been friends a long while. Let's talk this thing over be- ; fore we fall out." i "Thar hain't nothin' to talk over," < stormed Aron. "Ye're jest tryin' ter 1 kill time till the boys pits hyar, and j then I reckon ye 'lows ter have me kilt like yer've had me kill them others. 1 Hit ain't no use. I've done sent 'em j away. When they pits hack hyar, i either you'll be in hell or I'll he on my i way outen the mountings.'' ' Samson stood rigid. Here was the confession of one murderer, with no denial from the other. The truce was , off. Why should he wait? Cataracts seemed to thunder in his brain, and yet he stood there, his hand in his coat pocket, clutching the grip of a \ I % 4amilg Jtmajajeit: <J[or tt YORK" magazine pistol. Samson South the I old, and Samson South the new were I writhing in the life-and-death grapple of two codes. Then, before de- i cision came, he heard a sharp report inside, and the heavy fall of a body to the floor. A wildly excited figure came plung- . ing through the door, and Samson's " left hand swept out and seized its shoulder in a sudden vise grip. I "Do you know me?" he inquired, as the mountaineer pulled away and crouched back with startled surprise and vicious frenzy. "No, damn ye! Qit outen my road!" Aaron thrust his cocked rifle close against the stranger's face. From its muzzle came the acrid stench of j freshlv burned Dowder. "Git outen my 1 road afore I kills ye!" t "My name is Samson South." i Before the astounded finger on the J trigger could be cocked, Samson's f pistol spoke from the pocket, and, as 1 though an echo, the rifle blazed, a little too late and a shade too high, over his tiead, as the dead man's arms went up. ( Except for those two reports there vas no sound. Samson stood still, anticipating an uproar of alarm. Now n le should doubtless have to pay with 8 lis life for both the deaths, which t vould inevitably and logically be at- v ributed to his agency. But, strangely -y >nough, no clamor arose. The shot In- a ride had been muffled, and those out- f ride, broken by the intervening store, j, lid not arouse the house. Purvy's j, jodyguard had been sent away by Hoi- ^ is on a false alarm. Only the "women y 'oiks" and children remained indoors, j, ind they were drowning with a piano n iny sounds that might have come from 8 vithout. The piano was the chief ? >mblem of Purvy's wealth. Jt repre- v lented the acme of "having things a lung up;" that ancient and expressive 8 ihrase, which had come down from a lays when the pioneers' worldly con- j, lltion was gauged by the hams hang- { ng in the smoakhouse and the pep- n lers, tobacco and herbs strung high v igainst the rafters. Now Samson South stood looking lown, uninterrupted, on what had >een Aaron Hollis as it lay motionless it his feet. There was a powderturned hole in the butternut shirt, and ? * - ?J? . j - i i >niy a sienaer inreaa 01 oiuuu inumeu n nto the dirt-grimed cracks between ^ he planks. The body was twisted ^ ildewlse, In one of those grotesque ittitudes with which a sudden sum- p nons so frequently robs the greatest c thenomenon of all Its rightful dignity. j The sun was gilding the roadside ( :lods and burnishing the greens of the reetops. The breeze was harping ileepily among the branches, and several geese stalked pompously along he creek's edge. On the top of the itockade a gray squirrel, sole witness ^ o the tragedy, rose on his haunches, ^ llrted the brush, and then, in a sud- ^ ten leap of alarm, disappeared. Samson turned to the darkened doorvay. Inside was emptiness, except 'or the other body, which had crumpl;d forward and face down across the counter. A glance showed that Jesse Purvy would no more fight back the ll ;oming of death. He was quite un- r irmed. Behind his spent body ranged g ihelves of general merchandise. Box- 11 ?s of sardines and cans of peaches 1 vere lined in homely array above him. 1 lis lifeless hand rested as though v lung out in an oratorical gesture on a v jolt of blue calico. c Samson paused only for a moment- e iry survey. His score was clean. He 1 vould not again have to agonize over ;he dilemma of old ethics and new. 1 romorrow the word would spread like ,vild fire along Misery and Crippleshin 0 hat Samson South was back and that 1 lis coming had been signalized by * hese two deaths. The fact that he ? . . . .. . e vas responsible ror only one?and that .n self-defense?would not matter. g rhey would prefer to believe that he iad invaded the store and killed Pur- ? fy and that Hollis had fallen in his naster's defense at the threshold. ? damson went out, still meeting no one, ind continued his journey. (To Be Continued.) b NEUVE CHAPPELLE LOSSES I * 5 Already 300 Officers' Names on the j( Casualty List. r The British public is not deceived )y the lact of definite reports as to :he British losses in the recent fighting at Neuve Chappelle. Official an- e louncement that the British had tak- 0 *n 1,800 prisoners, that the Gennans ^ must have lost in all 18,000 men, says f( in Associated Press dispatch of Sat- ^ urday, prepared the public for the t leavy loss on the Britih side. Rumors a ran that the total British loss was in g the neighborhood of 13,000. ^ Already there are about 300 officers' tames on the casualty lists as the re- a suit of the battle, which are being ad- j, led to daily. Since it takes so many men to win a mile of French soil from ^ the Germans, more than the losses at e Waterloo, the British public is aware ^ the cost will be stupendous before the t nvaders are driven from France and s Belgium. v Meanwhile recruiting advertisements j, point out that the Germans, being at Ostend, already are nearer London than Manchester is, and some dally papers are preaching conscription. ^ rhere is an urgent call for more nurs- j, es and hospital facilities. In short, London feels that the anticipated v spring campaign, in all its grimness, n lias begun. s School buildings, work houses, asylums and buildings of all kinds are be- p ing commandeered in all the larger t. cities to provide hospital accomoda- t tions. About fifty work houses and asy- a lums now are being fitted for 60,000 wounded men. who are expected when e the promised "big move" comes. Recent appeals for nurses brought hundreds of replies, but many were from ( women without training. "It is clear, however," says Viscount Knutsford, in charge of this branch of war office activity, "that we must c abandon the idea of nursing soldiers ii anly with full trained nurses, at least a an this side. In France we shall still require only trained nurses as long as possible." * The war office has also sent out a 1; call for more doctors. Arrangements j, for the transport of wounded from the t ? . V.,. T knpnllolp Vin C LIUJ1L IU lilt: lA'UUUH lav/opuuio IIUIV aaww been so perfected that many wounded a men are in their beds here within k rorty hours. t ' * ' t XiT Canada's total debt Is $483,232,556. n &?>' Greece is a heavy lumber export- _ er. d More than ninety per cent of the f alcohol and alcoholic drinks that are . made in the Philappines are derived from th sap of palm trees. '' KSUED SEB 14 promotion 0/ the political, ft ^ILLE, 8. C., TUEi FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS Is Traced In Early Flies of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. HEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY 3ringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Youngsr Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes ap>earlng under this heading was pubished in our Issue of November 14, .913. The notes are being prepared by he editor as time and opportunity pernlt. Their purpose is to bring into eview the events of the past for the ilononra onH on t Info pt inn nf thf* nldfir >eople and for the entertainment and nstructlon of the present generation. 120TH INETALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, Sept. 9, 1863.) Evacuation of Morris' Island. Charleston, Sept. 7.?The bombardnent was kept up without intermlsion all day yesterday and far into he night About 160 of our men trere killed and wounded at batteries Vagner and Gregg. The attempt to ssault battery Gregg was repulsed beet re the enemy had completed their uiding. Great havoc is supposed to iave been played in the enemy's boats y our grape and cannister. At dark esterday afternoon, the enemy havng advanced their sap up to the very ioat of Wagner, and it being imposible to hold the island longer, Gen. teauregard ordered its evacuation, irhich was executed between 8 p. m., nd 1 o'clock p. m., with success. We piked the guns of Wagner and Gregg, nd withdrew noiselessly in forty arges, only one barge containing welve men, was captured. The enely now holds Comming's Point in full lew of the city. All quiet this morning. Charleston, Sept 7, 12 m.?A disatch from Maj. Stephen Elliott cornlanding Fort Sumter, announces that flag of truce demanding the imlediate surrender of that fort has ust been received from Admiral )ahlgren by Lieut. Brown of the Palletto State. Beauregard telegraphed llliott to reply to Dahlgren that he an have Fort Sumter when he takes i and holds it, and that in the mean* Ime such demands are puerile and nbecomlng. * * ? Charleston, Sept. 7, 8 p. m.?At 6 p. i., the Ironsides and Monitors aproached Fort Sumter closer than usuI and opened Are against it. Our atteries on Sullivan's island, includig Fort Moultrie replied heavily and be Are is still going on. Wednesday Evening, Sept 23, 1863.) Our Advertisements. We often call attention to these maters, but now we do so particularly, enquiring all "to take due notice and overn themselves accordingly." For istance: The assessor gives notice hat he has Ailed his appointments hroughout the district and that he fill close the returns on "the tax in alue," at Yorkville, on the 7th of ctober, next, after which the defaultrs will have 25 per cent taxed on hem. The issue of Confederate notes of 861 and '62 by some considered of ittle value are receivable by the tax ollector, and so a favorable opporunity is afforded to fund them; and ou had better do it. After this, If you have anything to at and want the material to spread t on, you will have an opportunity on ales day next, to buy crockery ware t your own prices, for the public will hen be offered a chance to place their wn value on a stock that will be of ered. Now, if you have 25 per cent tacked n your tax account?If you have any ad money past redemption, and no rockery to smash up when your fives make you mad, or been paying 0 cents for a thimble full of apple ick, don't blae the "anxious Enquier" for it. From the Coast. Unless we get something by Tuesday vening's mail there will be nothing f interest to report from Charleston, "he enemy continues to work on their ortiflcations as opportunity offers, our atteries playing on them in the meanime. One of our shots dismounted , gun of battery Gregg, causing a uspension of operations during the ay. Evan's brigade is at Mount Pleasant nd we learn in good health and spirts. The Wayside Home in Charleston, 3 daily visited by our soldiers where very accommodation is cheerfuly aforded them?the enterprise is the heme of Draise on their Dart and de erves the public encouragement both fith money and provisions. A home, ideed. Of It the Courier says: "We Invite the attention of all ofcers visiting the city on honorable jat'e to the Wayside Home, in the American hotel building, corner of :ing and George Street. "They should acquaint themselves >'ith the claims of this place that they lay intelligently commend it to the oldiers. Stragglers, loiters, deserters or imosters are not wanted at the Wayside lome, but all soldiers passing through he city will be received there with cordial welcome and good wholesome ntertainment, and lodging if needed. Wednesday Evening, Sept. 18, 1863.) The News. The news from all quarters is heering. Our troops in Virginia are n excellent condition and ready for fight which is daily expected. At last dates from Tennessee, the 'ankees were in Chattanooga, closei besieged by our forces. Our losses a the battles of last week, do not exeed 12,000, of which a large portion re only slightly wounded. The Yanee loss, killed, wounded and capured, It Is said, number 28,000. Our ownsman, Gen. Jenkins, is in comnand of Hood's division, and at latest ates, held Lookout mountain. On the 8th, inst., Gen. MagTuder deeated a Yankee division, commanded y Gens. Franklin and Weitzel, sinkrig two gunboats and driving off the gjggEHI^ mial, SUruuttural and Commercia jDAY, MARCH 30, others, at Sabine city, which is at the ' mouth of the Sabine river, the dividing line between Louisiana and Texas, two hundred and eighty miles west of i the mouth of the Mississippi river. Our troops in the trans-Mississippi department are in fine condition, and confident of success whenever they < meet the enemy. ' At Charleston, there has been no excitement during the past week. The I Yankees or Morris' Island are working like beavers trying to make Gregg and Wagner impregnable. Shells from our Dattenes Diew up iwu tuiuuunltlon chests at Wagner on Friday, last. (To be continued.) GENERAL NEWS NOTE8. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. After December 31, 1916, prison contract labor will be abolished In the state of Missouri. A strike of 100,000 workers of thirty-four trades is threatened in Chicago, to begin May 1st. The Dutchess of Brunswick, daughter of Emperor William of Germany, on Thursday, gave birth to a son. Cerebro-splnal fever, popularly known as spotted fever, is epidemic In certain of the camps of recruits in England. Charles Klmbrough, a negro, has been convicted at Saginaw, Mich., of murdering an 8-year-old girl, and sen- a senced to life imprisonment. The New York conference of the j Methodist Episcopal church, has j passed resolutions inviting Rev. Billy c Sunday to conduct a revival cam- ? palgn In that city. c Caesar Ancinas, a Filipino, was in I New York last week In charge of a de- J tectlve, on his way from Genoa, Italy, c to Manila, where he is wanted for <3 forgery and embezzlement to the ^ amount of >150,000. jj Richard S. Darling, on trial last I week at White Plains, N. Y., on the ? charge of "stealing" Mrs. Katherlne j Shaw, from her husband, Robert M. c Shaw, a New York banker, was ac- * quitted of the charge. ? The British admiralty has Issued a 1 statement in which it expresses a be- v lief that the German submarine, ? tt-99 f*ant. Weddieen. which recently \ torpedoed nine ships in 24 hours, has ( been sunk in the English channel with ^ all hands. ? A dispatch by way of Copenhagen 1^ is to the effect that a general prohibitlon has been issued in Germany against the baking of cakes in baker- t ies, hotels or private homes. A pun- ? ishment of six months in prison is pro- t vided for violations of the order made 8 necessary by the scarcity of flour. " b Following a legal opinion by the at- c torney general of the United States, I General Goethals, governor of the > Panama canal zone, has ordered a re- ? duction of 20 per cent in canal tolls, t Under the new ruling the maximum J rate will be $1.25 per ton of net regis- ? tered tonnage. t Frederick S. Boyd, former Industrial * Worker of the World, convicted of sabotage and Incendiary utterances f and refused a new trial, has petitioned I the New Jersey board of pardons for 'J clemency, declaring that he has re- ? nounced his former I. W. W. views, a The first name on his petition is that C of Theodore Roosevelt. Dispatches received in New York by the Presbyterian foreign mission ^ board brings the information that all the men of the village of Gulpashan, r Persia, had been murdered by Kurds, jj the women violated and an American jmissionary beaten, and 65 refugees t taken from the French and American ii missions had been hanged to gibbets J erected in the mission yards. a Jacob B. Miller, a burglar, arrested b and being escorted to the police sta- ^ tion in Philadelphia, Thursday night, ? by two detectives, suddenly drew an t automatic pistol, shot one three times h through the heart, killing him instant- 1 ly. and mortally wounded the other , officer. He made his escape but was o arrested next day and confessed the F crime. He was a "dope" flend. b A Fable.?Once upon a time a cer- S tain man in South Carolina forgot to s pay any portion of his preacher's sal- i ary. t Near the end of the year an officer * of the church waited upon him and v made remarks to the effect that the 1 Lord loves a cheerful giver. R The man flatly refused to be cheer- ? ful. "I won't pay a cent," he declar- c ed stoutly. "Not a cent. That preacher a hasn't been to see me this year." J When the matter was reported, as ^ such matters are, the preacher, as p preachers will, felt that he had fallen f short of the whole schedule of his ^ duty, and took the blame upon himself. But he determined that should . he be spared for another year's work, * he would call often upon the offended 1 brother, who thus yearned for his so- tl ciety. d Accordingly, he made it convenient *! to call four times during the follow- w ing year. Still the man paid nothing, f; and at the close of the year the officer ? of the church waited upon him again. j "Not a cent," he declared. "Not a n cent. I've boarded that preacher and 1< his horse enough to make up my a share of his salary." j, And the moral is, of course, that 1< it's a long, long way to Tipperary, and & the conductor can't collect fare unless i,' your heart's right.?Fountain Inn 0 Tribune. E , , n How Small Boys Make Love.?In the g April American Magazine, Ellis Parker E Butler writes another small boy story ^ in his new series. This month's story ia PntitioH "Teacher's Pet." and in the ,. following extract, the small boy talks v about his girl: E "Her name is Milly. I haven't said anything about marrying her yet?not \ to her or anybody?but I've carried & her books three or four times and I 11 hit her In the back of the head with w a soft snowball, and I guess she likes T me too. She threw a snowball back at me when I hit her and then, when ^ I washed her face for her with snow, 0 she just said, "Oh, George! You mean S thing!" as if she might be willing to 8' marry me sometime If I got nerve n enough to ask her when we're grown ci up. I wonder how a fellow gets nerve t? to ask them. I don't think I'll ever ?( have." h ?4 4f?? XUnnT# I ?^J!4Cl<r3W VJ| T915. rOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES Hews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Sealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lan* caster and Chester. Rock Hill Record, March 25: J. L. 3taley of Lynchburg, Va.. who has seen living at Due West for some :ime, will probably make his home in Flock Hill. He represents the ipilllng :oncern of D. A. Stickel & Son of lagerstown, Md. He is here now, aciompanied by his wife Mrs. W. T. Carter died Tuesday night of pneunonla at her home on Wilson street She was 35 years old and leaves a lusband and several children. The 'uneral was held from the home on Wednesday afternoon by Rev. F. T. 2ox and the remains were taken to fort Mill for interment The pu)lls of the high school were given a loliday yesterday afternoon, lasting hrough Monday, on account of the eachers going to Florence to attend he annual meeting of the State Teachers' association, now in session here Jas. S. White has given a lontract t< the Catawba Manufacture ng company to build an extension 30 eet long to the store room next to he Peoples Bank building, occupied >y the Rock Hill Supply company. As oon as it is completed, the Supply :ompany will move their stock all ino this one store room and the other itore room will be given up by them. 1? o ? U.|.AL x. Mr a unoiivr nopoiivif m?> w >esha Breckenridge of Lexington, ?y., the noted woman suffrage advocate, addressed a crowd of about 200 Lt the opera house last night, the neeting being held under the auspices >f the local Equal Suffrage league, idrs. Robert C. Love, president of the ocal league, presided, and Mrs. F. M. licklin said a few words at the contusion of Mrs. Breckenrldge's adIress. Mr. Martin E. McFadden lied at his home in the Mt. Prospect teighborhoOd Monday afternoon, after an illness of three weeks from tneumonla, and was buried in Union graveyard at Richburg Tuesday after uneral services by Rev. J. V. Davis, dr. McFadden was a native of this eounty and was in his fiftieth year, ie was an active and devoted member >f the Methodist church, and Chester county contained no better citizen, dr. McFadden is survived by his vidow, who was Miss Sallie McWaters, nd several children The Jury in he case of William, alias "Man" foung, charged with murder, Mr. R. ?. Mills, foreman, brought in a verlict of "Not guilty," this morning, foung shot and killed Tillman Cunlingham at Fort Lawn during the tolidays, by firing a pistol promiscuously in celebration of Christmas, .'here was no evidence of intention to lit anybody, and the Jury decided that he homicide was accidental and the layer not at fault Mr. Geo. W. lelghley, a highly esteemed citizen of he Halsellville neighborhood, died uddenly of apoplexy Tuesday afterioon i> bout 1.30 o'clock and was >uried a esterday at Calvary Baptist hurch, funeral services by Rev. E. ). Wells. Mr. Reighley was about 66 ears of age and leaves a widow and me step-daughter, Miss Fanny Llpord; also several brothers and sisters, wo of whom, Mr. T. B. Reighley and rlrs. Kate R. McNlnch, live in this ity. The deceased was a member of he Baptist church and was highly hought of in his community. dr. and Mrs. Louis Levy expect to eave tomorrow evening for Baltinore, where Mrs. Levy will remain or several months with relatives. Mr. rfvy, after spending about ten days n Baltimore, will go to Philadelphia nd take a course in optometry at one >f the leading optical colleges. Mr. .nd Mrs. Levy expect to return to Chester in August or September. Lancaster News, March 26: Mrs. llethia T. Clyburn, widow of the late 'apt. William Clyburn, died at her lome In Atlanta Saturday. Her renalns were brought to Kershaw Monlay and Interred beside those of her tusband The Lancaster friends of >r. Robert S. Cauthen were shocked o learn of his death, which occurred n Charlotte early Wednesday mornng, after a brief Illness with heart rouble. He was stricken Tuesday fternoon in his office in the Realty luilding. He was soon taken to his tome on Park Drive and physicians ,nd nurses did everything possible to estore him, but in vain. Dr. Cauhen was a native of Kershaw. He tad for the past four years been praclcing medicine in Charlotte as a spelallst in diseases of the eye, ear and hroat. Dr. Cauthen was a physician f recognized ability. After competing a full course of medicine in his country he studied for sometime n Vienna. Dr. Cauthen is survived y his widow, who was Miss Cynthia lesslons, a former teacher In Elizaeth college; by two sisters, Mrs. D. I. Klrkley of Kershaw, and Mrs. )aisy Hasseltine of Rock Hill, and by wo brothers, Mr. Claude Cauthen of tock Hill, and Mr. W. V. Cauthen of )rlando, Fla Mrs. Mary Manes, . idow of the late James Manes, died 'uesday at the home of her daughter, Irs. E. H. Steele, at the advanced age f 86. Mrs. Manes was, before her larrlage, Miss Mary Neven, of York ounty. She was a daughter of James nd Eliza Nevens, of Tennessee, and ms born in 1829. For forty years Irs. Manes was a member of the fethodlst church at this place, ^tr astor, Rev. E. T. Hodges, assisted by lev. W. S. Patterson and Dr. J. H. 'hayer, conducted the funeral serices, after which the remains were iterred in the Presbyterian cemetery. Luther Ellison, secretary of the .ancaster chamber of commerce, atended the meeting of the Catawba Ircuit of the South Carolina Federaion of Fairs held at Rock Hill Tuesay. Mr. Ellison is secretary and reasurer of the state organization, 'he dates for the several county fairs re re arranged, the Lancaster county air to be held the week following the tate fair, or about the first part of Jovember. After gathering at the lock Hill chamber of commerce, the leetlng adjourned to Wlnthrop colige, where the body was entertained t dinner. President Johnson afterwards made a short talk, congratulatlg the organization upon having ;arned the secret of co-operation.... Irs. Lizzie Revelle died at her home i the mill village Wednesday, March 4. She was 50 years and 7 months Id and was a devoted member of the laptlst church. The interment was lade in Westside cemetery yesterday fternoon at 3.30 o'clock after funeral ervices conducted by the Rev. S. R. trock and the Rev. W. C. Burgess. Irs. Revelle is survived by the fol>wing children: T. L. Revelle of [ing's Mountain, N. C.; Virgil Reelle, Tillman Revelle and John Reelle of Lancaster, and Mrs. Addle lobertson of Lancaster. * * Gaffney Ledger, March 26: Judge (endel L. Smith, in Spartanburg, on londay, granted a temporary injuncon against the election for township ommissioner in Cherokee township, hich had been ordered for Tuesday, his made null and void the act of le general assembly, by virtue of the uthority of which the state commisoners of election acted when notice f election was given. Notice of Judge mith's action was given the commlsoners of election late Monday night, nd they sent word to the various lanagers who had been appointed to inHnot tho olaoflnn Pofnrn Qon. / tUUVk V??V V IVVklVII. . iJViVI V WV|/ ;mber 1st, of this year, three hand>me new brick business buildings ill have been constructed on the old j otel property on North Limestone j 1T street Each of the buildings will be two stories. The lots, which were recently sold at auction, are owned by ... Dr. V. H. Lipscomb, Dr. J. N. Neabit m and Mr. T. H. Westrope, respectively. As yet no contract has been let, but plans are being considered, and one . of the men interested states that work n will begin within the next six weeks or two months....... .Mr. George H. tw Edwards of Yorkville, was among the visitors in the city Wednesday tw Mr. O. E. Wilkins of Yorkville, spent a few hours In the city Wednesday.... Wilbur Jefferies, a negro, was tried in the office of Magistrate William Phil- W IIds at the courthouse Tuesday, by co Magistrate J. M. Gardener, of the But- I lers section of the county, on a charge of stealing chickens from Mr. J. V. I Ui Price, near Macedonia. The negro ca plead guilty and was sentenced to pay co a fine of $20 or to serve thirty days on the county chaingang. He accepted the days. The theft of the chick- flr ens occurred several days ago, and finding that he had been detected Jefferies went to Union, where he was wl arrested and held for Cherokee coun- ] ty officers. Deputy SherifT J. E. Wat- . kins brought him back from Union. It is said that considerable chicken ty, thievery has been worrying the people we of the Macedonia section of the coun- , ty, and they have become aroused 1 over the frequency of the depreda- su tions A verdict for the defend- Ja. ant was rendered by Magistrate T. C. da Bridges Tuesday, in the case of R. L. Elmore versus the town of GafTney. ] The prosecution was represented by ?,. Captain J. B. Bell and Hon. W. S. , Hall, while City Attorney G. W. Speer c J represented the city. Elmore was at asking for the return of $100 bond to which had been forfeited to the town. A summary of the facts in the case follows: Elmore was convicted on a ele certain charge and appealed tb the Ea circuit court: he put up a bond of t. $100. Later Elmore signed a $200 bond for a negro named Douglas Os- stl borne. It is alleged that before the trial Elmore took Osborne into North ' Carolina and told him to stay there. 011 Before Elmore's appeal to the circuit ku court could be heard, he was pardon- Ve ed by the governor of the state. The city authorities retained his $100 for the bond he had signed for the ne- ' gro. Elmore brought suit to recover aj, his own bond, but the city took no steps to collect the bond he signed for Osborne. Magistrate Bridges de- tw cided against the plaintiff. M< Gaotonia Gazette, March 26: Mra J M. I. Bablngton, mother of Mr. R. B. of Babington, general manager of the ah Piedmont Telephone and Telegraph thi company, is quite ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herbert B. Hunter, ~~ in Charlotte Mr. R. A. Denny, ? a brother of Mrs. J. Q. Hall and Mra , Annie Hall, of Belmont, died yester- . ''atr a* Vila n In Wo nnoHo Hlrlo ^ U ai> 1UO 111 TT ?IIU???V| - -,,. XT1 Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Hall and Mrs. An-1 nil nle Hall left yesterday for Plymouth, rei 111., by way of Chicago, to attend the h? funeral and burial of their brother.... A telegram received by Mr. A. P. wl Whitesides conveyed the sad intelli- 9tt gence of the death in Athens, Texas, yesterday morning of little Ada Ag- J nes, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. I th< and Mrs. W. E. Whitesides. She had Ga been ill for eight weeks with catarrhal I ^ fever, which later developed into pleurisy The following from the chl Charlottesville, Va., Progress of Mon- I to day afternoon, March 22, will be of re< interest to many of our readers, not I only because of the unusual clrcum-| ' stances therein related, but because vil of the fact that the principals of the ^ adventures narrated, formerly lived in Gastonia. The Progress says: Prank I mt Stockton of Gastonia, N. C.. and Miss M( Sallie Sparks of Orange, were married I Qr by the Rev. Dr. Staples at the home I . _ of the bride in Orange, last Thursday I morning. March 18th, and came to < Charlottesville on the train which ar-1 ha rives here at 11.45 a. m. They regis-1 n tered at the Hotel Gleason and decid-1 ed to continue their wedding trip to I c?< Gastonia, N. C., and pay a visit to the wa mother of the happy bridegroom. ^ However, Prank Stockton must havel changed his mind between Thursday I 8*c noon and the evening of the next day ler as he disappeared Friday night and, 1 it is thought, deserted his bride of a| day as he has not been heard of since. I wa As soon as the anxious wife realized ter her position she notified her family in mq Orange and sent an inquiry to her ID husband's mother, asking if she knew Re of the whereabouts of the recalcitrant wa groom. Dr. Geo. H. Sparks of Mitch- I th? ell, Va., came at once to Charlottes- Ltt ville, but he could do nothing and re- I turned to his practice after consoling his sister as best he could. Mrs. co, Stockton, Senior, the groom's mother, in response to her newly acquired daughter-in-law's inquiry as to her I a i husband's whereabouts, telegraphed I hit Mrs. Frank Stockton to come to her I e at Gastonia and that she, the groom's mother, would find the missing hus-1 ?? band. Mrs. Frank Stockton decided I ide to accept her mother-in-law's invita-| , tion and left on No. 9, on the South- I ern railway on Saturday. No news has I col yet been had from the missing groom. I pa: Frank Stockton gave his age when ap- tht plying for the marriage license in Orange as 21, but it is said that he is tW( still attending school and that he is I we only 18 years old. Mrs. Stockton is jn 28. These newlyweds first met lastL, year when Miss Sallie Sparks, as she was then, went to Gastonia to teach ab< school. It is not known whether I vill Frank Stockton was one of her pupils. I II King's Mountain Herald, March 25: pre Rev. C. L. Bragaw is having a serious sen time with pneumonia. His condition t doesn't seem to improve. His father is here from Washington, D. C - I ,e8 J. M. Patterson has been elected sec- Ma retary of the King's Mountain Pro-1 jan gressive association. This action was taken by the executive committee last mo week An attempt was made Sun- Le' day night to burglarize the Mauney the drug store. An effort was made to neg gain entrance by the back door. This f iling the man went on top. of thel C building and was working at the sky- I r0 light when discovered by Dr. Hood. I ' There is no clue Miss Sallie Cooper, aged 65, a maiden lady who made I ?dher home at Long Shoals, died last pol Tuesday. The remains were buried on I me Wednesday afternoon at the Harrill I ? burying ground near Long Shoals I au On March 7th Mrs. J. H. Green pass-1 net ed into the great beyond. This good I j8 woman was a native of Cleveland p0. county and always lived in this county. She was a devout Christian, and C a member of Trinity Baptist church, I cor where her body was laid to rest I Mrs. George Brooks and children left I for their home at Marion, Ga., at the I me first of the week after spending two I uni weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I 92 J. E. McLaughen, here. _ Ires "* * req The Road to Mexico.?President Wil- I t}ie son has made a genuine move of ef-1 (jaj fectlve diplomacy in demanding that the railroad between Mexico City and I. I D66 Vera Cruz shall be kept open. One I ounce of specific and concrete states-1 ^ menship is worth a ton of general I ^ and idealistic representations. Car-1 on I T6D ranza knows now that there is at least one thing he must do; If he cannot d?|^! it he is entirely too puerile to warrant I tny further recognition from the Unit-1 0> ?d States. I 8 ( There are three reasons why the I 'allroad should be kept open: Ameri- J , I 8ele ?an citizens ana tne suDjecis 01 omer . rations must have a quick means of egress from Mexico City In case of c teed; a food route must be maintained ^ 'or those who still remain there and ire apparently threatened with star,-atlon; a clear and free road must be eady If it should be necessary for the United States to occupy Mexico City yeai vlth an armed force for the protection >f International Interests.?Philadel>hla Public Ledger. A . he I of 5 Xfl'A phenomenon is something a .. lesslmist thought would never hap>en.?Toledo Blade. ffral ERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. SINGLE OOPY, EIVE CENT8. xm C\tJ i-X W. <t\J. HAPPENINQ8 IN THE 8TATE m? of Interest From All 8ections of South Carolina. There are several cases of smallpox Charleston. Fire in Greenville Friday, destroyed 'o homes at the Brandon mill and ro at the Carolina mills. The contract for the erection of a w school building in Spartanburg, is let last week. The building will st (30,183.86. W. W. Johnson, judge of probate of alon county, has announced his ndldacy for congress from the 4th ngressional district. Miss Pauline Brown of Easley, won st prize in the annual declamation ntest among Pickens county schools, lich was held Friday. Fire destroyed a dozen small restncee in Prosperity, Newberry counFriday afternoon. The buildings ire valued at about $25,000. Sixty-one deaths occurred at the Lte hospital for the Insane during nuary and February. Forty-one aths were attributed to pellagra, in the first regular game played by e two teams this season, Clemson liege defeated Furman University baseball in Anderson, Friday, 3 2. Prof. W. B. Benson has decliand reaction as superintendent of the sley schools, to accept a position on e faculty of the Bailey Milltar- intute, Greenwood. John R Sample, one of the oldest izens of Greenwood county, died it week, aged 84 years. He was & teran of the war tietween the secna. rhe Greenville fire department has eady broken all records for fire lis in that city for March. Twenty0 fire calls were answered from ixch 1 to March 26. Governor Manning has sent a copy the gallon a month law to each eriff in the state, with a request at the sheriffs see to it that all Lgistrates are made familiar with 1 provisions of the law. J1VCI1WUUU I\U5CIO, WU1VI CU, ^UVIVI" of arson in connection with the lrder of George W STounge in Laui8 county, several months ago, has en taken to the state penitentiary lere he will be eiecUt>cuted on April L M. C. Dowling, vice president of s Citizen's Trust Co., of Augusta, which failed in 1112, was arrestat Fairfax, S. C., last week on argee of embezzlement He refused return to Augusta without proper lulsition. rhe suit of W. D. Metts of Greenle vs. J. W. Norwood, alleging dames of $75,000 on account of statein ts made by Norwood, following rtts's appointment as postmaster at eenville, has been ?H for trial on iril 22. 4 -apt. J. L. Wardlaw of Columbia, a been elected superintendent of the nfederate home, Columbia, to suc3d H. W. Richardson. Mrs. Wardlaw 3 elected matron of the home and J. Derrick, M. D., was elected phy:ian, succeeding Dr. P. W. P. But(V. F. Kay was held up by high.ymen near Anderson last week. A rifle flght ensued in which his thes were cut in numerous places, alizing that their would-be victim s an unusually hard DroDOsition. > would-be robbers abandoned their empt. There has beon no arrests, rhe town of Bennettsville has been isiderably stirred up during the st few days over the ippearance of juposed "wild man" who has shown nself at the homes of several cltiis, greatly frightening the inmates. far the strange fellow has not been intlfled. II. W. Swann of Bennettsville, has lected 41,000 beer bottles during the st few weeks. He proposes to sell to liquor dealers. All save enty-flve barrels of the bottles which re secured at McCoU, were gathered Bennettsville. During the past few ya Mr. Swann has also gathered )ut 4,000 liquor botties in Bennettsla lev. J. Ross Stevenson, D. D., isldent of Princeton Theological ninary, is to preach the baccalaure> sermon at the Presbyterian cole of South Carolina, at Clinton, on .y 28. Rev. S. J. Cartledge of Atita, 6a, is to deliver the annual ser n to the Y. M. C. A., and W. W. wis, Esq., of Yorkville, is to deliver commencement address on Wediday, June 2. Governor Manning has appointed bert M. Burts sheriff of Abbeville inty, to succeed C. J. Lyon, resignThe appointee has never held itical office before and the appointnt came as a great surprise, since rts had not been mentioned in con:tion with the office. Sheriff Burts a brother of Rev. C. E. Burts of umbia. rovernor Manning has received a nmunlcation from the executive nmittee in charge of the arrangents for the state Confederate re on, which meets in Columbia, April and 23, in which there ns inserted a olution, adopted by the committee, ueeting the chief executive to close dispensaries in Columbia the two 's of the reunion. 'laude N. Sapp of Lancaster, has n appointed a trustee of the Cedar -ings institute for the deaf and nb and blind. Mr. Sapp who was merly a member of the house of resentatives from Lancaster county, 3 regarded as one of the leaders ing the administration of former rernor Blease. Governor Manning luoted as saying that the appointit of Mr. Sapp is in line with his cy of not regarding factions in >cting men for office, but to appoint >ly on efficiency and merit. olonel Francois Desclaux and Mme. hoff. on trial in Paris last week. >re a court martial, on charges of illng army supplies, were declared ty. Desclaux was sentenced to re seven years and the woman two rs In prison. Chicago grain dealer reports that has on the way to England a cargo 150,000 bushels of wheat, but up to i time he has had no bids for the in.