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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. > ISSUED SKMI'WKEKLT. L. M.GBIST'S sobs, Fsbiiihen. j % U^ppei;: ^or % promotion of th^ lotitat, ga^al, Sgrtyttltniiat and <Eommet[ciat gnteresta oj tin jltopU. . { ViNQL^copt.'"^'"^'""' ESTABLISHED 18667 " YORKVILLE, 9. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 2,1915. 1STO. 27~ co&o\ CUMBE t /?> CHARLES WITH ILLUSTRATOR OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER XIV?Continued. Dusk was falling when he hitched his horse in a clump of timber, and, lifting the saddlebags, began climbing to a cabin that sat back In a thlcketcd cove. He was now well within South territory and the need of masquerade had ended. The cabin had not for years been occupied. Its rooftree was leaning askew under rotten shingles. The doorstep was Ivy-covered, and the stones of the hearth were broken. But it lay well hidden and would serve hie purpose. Shortly, a candle flickered Inside, before a small hand mirror. Scissors [ and safety razor were for a while busy. The man who entered in Impeccable clothes emerged fifteen minutes later?transformed. There appeared under the rising June crescent a smooth-faced native, clad In stained store clothes, with rough woolen socks ,?^ showing at his brogan tops, and a battered felt hat drawn over his face. No one who had known the Samson South of four years ago would fall to recognize him now. And the strangest part, he told himself, was that he felt the old Samson. He no longer doubted his courage. He had come home, and his conscience was once more clear. The mountain roads and the mountain sides themselves were sweetly silent. Moon mist engulfed the flats in a lake of dreams, and, as the liverystable horse halted to pant at the top of the final ridge, he could see below him his destination. The smaller knobs rose like little islands out of the vapor, and yonder, catching: the mooniignt use scraps ?. * gray paper, were two roofs?that of his uncle's house and that of the Widow Miller. At a point where a hand bridge crossed the skirting: creek, the boy dismounted. Ahead of him lay the stile where he had said good-by to Sally. The place was dark, and the chimney smokeless, but, as he came nearer, holding the shadows of the trees, he saw one sliver of light at the bottom of a solid shutter; the shutter of Sally's room. Yet, for a while, Samson stopped there, looking and making no sound. He stood at his Rubicon?and behind him lay all the glitter and culture of that other world, a -world that had been good to him. That was to Samson South one of those pregnant and portentous moments with which life sometimes punctuates its turning pointa At such times all the set and solifled strata that go into the building of a man's ? Ka nntnasoH and re-arran8T IIAIUI r illAJ W M|/fcvwwvws - ? w ed. So the layers of a mountain chain and a continent that have for centuries remained steadfast may break and alter under the stirring: of earthquake or volcano, dropping heights under water and throwing new ranges above the sea. There was passing before his eyes I as he stood there, pausing, a panorama much vaster than any he had been able to conceive when last he stood there. He was seeing in review the old life and the new, lurid with ^ contracts, and as the pictures of things thousands of miles away rose before his eyes as clearly as the seried backbone of the ridges, he was comparing and settling for all time the actual values and proportions of the things in his life. He saw the streets of Paris and New York, brilliant under their strings ol opalescent lights; the Champs Elysees ran its smooth, tree-rimmed parquetry from the Place de Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, and the chatter and ? "ol'> r\t Ita nafaa rnncr In his ears. The ivory spaces of Rome, from the Pincian hill, where his fancy saw almond trees in bloom, to the Piazza Venezia, spread their eternal story before his imagination. He saw buses and hansoms string through the mud and fog of London and the endless pot-pourri of Manhattan. All the things that the outside world had tc offer; all that had ever stirred his pulses to a worship of the beautiful, the harmonious, the excellent, rose in exact value. Then he saw again the sunrise as it would be tomorrow morning over these ragged hills. He saw the mists rise and grow wisp-like, and the disk of the sun gain color, and all the miracles of cannoning tempest and caressing palm?and, though he had come back to flght. a wonderful peace settled over him, for he knew that, il he must choose these, his native hills or all the rest, he would forego all the rest. And Sally?Would she be changed? His heart was hammering wildly now. Sally had remained loyal. Il was a miracle, but it was the one thing that counted. He was going to her, and nothing else mattered. He lifted his head and sent out a long, clear whippoorwill call, which m quavered on the night much like the p other calls in the black hills around him. After a moment he went nearer, in the shadow of a poplar and repeated the call. Then the cabin door opened. Its jamb framed a patch of yellow candle light, and at the center, a slender silhouetted figure, in a fluttering, eager attitude of uncertainty. The figure turned slightly to one side, and, as i1 did so, the man saw clasped in her right hand the rifle, which had beer his mission, bequeathed to her in trust She hesitated, ana me man, mvisiuit in the shadow, once more imitated the bird note, but this time it was so low and soft that it seemed the voice of s whispering whippoorwill. Then, with a sudden glad little cr> she came running with her old fleet jrrace down to the road. Samson had vaulted the stile an<3 stood in the full moonlight. As ht ^ saw her coming he stretched out his A arms and his voice broke from his H throat in a half-hoarse, passionate ^ cry: "Sally." It was the only word he could havt HANDS NEVILLE BUCIt, a ? FKm PHOTOGRAPHS .PLAT I spoken just then, but it was all that I 11 was necessary. It told her everything. I It was an outburst from a heart too I full of emotion to grope after speech, | 1 the cry of a man for the One Woman i who alone can call forth an inflection > more eloquent than phrases and poSTORY FOUR . etry. And, as she came into his out> stretched arms as straight and direct i as a homing pigeon, they closed about i her in a convulsive grip that held her ; straining to him, almost crushing her i in the tempest of his emotion. For a time there was no speech, but , to each of them it seemed that their i tumultous heartbeating must sound i above the night music, and the telegraphy of heartbeats tells enough. Later they would talk, but now, with a gloriously wild sense of being togeth. er, with a mutual intoxication of joy I because all that they had dreamed i was true, and all that they had feared . was untrue, they stood here under the skies clasping each other?with the rifle between their breasts. Then as he held her close, he wondered that a shadow of doubt could ever have ex> isted. He wondered if, except in some nightmare of hallucination, it had ever i existed. The flutter of her heart was like that of a rapturous bird, and the play of her breath on his face like the fragrance of the elder blossom, i These were their stars twinkling overhead. These were their hills, and ' their moon was smiling on their tryst He had gone and seen the world that lured him; he had met its diffl> culties and waced its puzzles. He had even felt his feet wandering at the last from the path that led back to her, and now, with her lithe figure close held in his embrace, and her redbrown hair brushing her temples, he marveled how such an instant of doubt could have existed. He knew only that the silver of the moon and the kiss of the breeze and the clasp of her soft arms about his neck were all part of one great miracle. And she, who naa waneu ttnu aimuoi ucs^aucu, i.v? taking count of what she had suffered, felt her knees grow weak, and her head grow dizzy with sheer happiness, and wondered if it were not too marvelous to be true. And, looking very steadfastly into his eyes, she saw there the gleam that once had frightened her; the gleam that spoke of something stronger and more compelling than his love. It no longer frightened her, but made her soul sing, i though it was more intense than it had ever been before, for now she knew that it was she herself who brought It to her pupils?and that nothing would ever be stronger. But they had much to say to each other, and, finally, Samson broke the silence: "Did ye think I wasn't a-comlng back, Sally?" he questioned, softly. At that moment he had no realization i that his tongue had ever fashioned smoother phrases. And she, too, who had been making war on crude idoms, forgot, as she answered: "Ye done said ye was comin'." Then she added a happy lie: "I knowed i plumb shore ye'd do hit." After a while she drew away and said, slowly: "Samson, I've done kept the old rifle-gun ready fer ye. Ye said ye'd i need it bad when ye come back, an' I've took care of it." She stood there holding it, and her ' voice dropped almost to a whisper as i she added: "It's been a lot of comfort to me i sometimes, because it was your'n. I I knew if ye stopped keerin' fer me ye wouldn't let me keep it?an' as long ? as I had it I?" She broke off, and the fingers of one hand touched the , weapon caressingly. The man knew many things now i that he had not known when he said 1 good-by. He recognized in the very t gesture with which she stroked the > old walnut stock the pathetic heart? hunger of a nature which had been i denied the fulfillment of its strength, , and which had been bestowing on an i inanimate object something that > might almost have been the stirring of the mother Instinct for a child. r Now, thank God, her life should nevI er lack anything that a flood-tide of I love could bring to it. He bent his I head in a mute sort of reverence. I After a long while they found time ; for the less wonderful things, f "I got your letter," he said, serlous, ly, "and I came at once." As he bes gan to speak of concrete facts he dropped again into ordinary English r and did not know that he had changt ed his manner of speech. : For an instant Sally looked up into , his face, then with a sudden laugh, she informed him: l "I can say 'isn't' instead of 'hain't,' i ton How did vou like my writing?" > He held her off at arm's length, and I looked at her pridefully, but under his , gaze her eyes fell and her face flushed with a sudden diffidence and a new shyness of realization. She wore a t calico dress, but at her throat was a > s^ff little bow of ribbon. She was no longer the totally unself-conscious wood nymph, though as natural and instinctive as in other days. Suddenly : she drew away from him a little, and her hands went slowly to her breast i and rested there. She was fronting a , great crisis, but, in the first flush of ? joy she had forgotten it. She had ' spent lonely nights struggling for rudir ments: she had sought and fought to i refashion herself, so that, if he came, he need not be ashamed of her. And ' now he had come and. with a terrible t clarity and distinctness, she realized how pitifully little she had been able 1 to accomplish. Would she pass mus> ter? She stood there before him, ? frightened, self-conscious and palpij tating, then her voice came in a whisper. "Samson, dear, I'm not holdin' you to any promise. Those things we said i were a long time back. Maybe we'd better forget 'em now and begin all over again." But again he crushed her in his arms and his voice rose triumphantly: "Sally, I have no promises to take back, and you have made none that I'm ever going to let you take back? not while life lasts!" Her laugh was the delicious music of happiness. "I don't want to take them back," she said. Then, suddenly, she added, importantly: "I wear shoes and stockings now, and I've been to BChool a little. I'm awfully?awfully ignorant, Samson, but I've started, and I reckon you can teach me." His voice choked. Then, her hands htmvftd ud. and elapsed themselves about his head. "Oh, Samson," she cried, as though someone had struck her, "you've cut your hair." "It will grow again," he laughed. But he wished that he had not had to make that excuse. Then, being honest, he told her ail about Adrienne Lescott?even about how, after he believed that he had been outcast by his uncle and herself, he had had his moments of doubt. Now that it was all so clear, now that there could never be doubt, he wanted the woman who had been so true a friend to know the girl whom he loved. He loved them both, but was in love with only one. He wanted to present to Sally the friend who had made him, and to the friend who had made him the Sally of whom he was proud. He wanted to tell Adrienne that now he could answer her question?that each of them meant to the other exactly the same thing; they were friends of the rarer sort, who had for a little time been in danger of mistaking their comradeship for passion As they talked, sitting on the stile, Sally held the rifle across her knees. Except for their own voices and the soft chorus of night sounds, the hills were wrapped in silence?a silence as soft as velvet. Suddenly, in a pause, there came to the girl's ears the cracking of a twig in the woods. With the old, instinctive training of the mountains she leaped noiselessly down, and for an instant stood listending with intent ears. Then, in a low, tense whisper, as she thrust the gun into the man's hands, she cautioned: "Git out of sight. Maybe they've done found out ye've come back? maybe they're trailin' ye!" With an instant shock she remembered what mission had brought him back, and what was his peril; and he, too, for whom the happiness of the moment, had swallowed up other things, came back to a recognition of facta Dropping into the old woodcraft, he melted out of sight into the shadow, thrusting the girl behind him, and crouching against the fence throwing the rifle forward, and peering into the shadows. As he stood there, balancing the gun once more in his hands, old instinct began to stir, old battle hunger to rise, and old realizations of primitive things to assault him. Then, when they had waited with bated breath until they were both reassured, he rose and swung the stock to his shoulder several times. With something like a sigh of contentment. he said, half to himself: "It feels mighty natural ter throw tnis oia ririe-Run uy. ? rcviwii I kin still shoot hit." "I learned some things down there at school, Samson," said the girl, slowly, "and I wish?I wish you didn't have to use this." "Jim Asberry is dead," said the man gravely. "Yes," she echoed, "Jim Asberry's dead." She stopped there. Yet, her sigh completed the sentence as though she had added, "but he was only one of several. Your vow went further." After a moment's pause, Samson added: _ "Jesse Purvy's dead." The girl drew back with a frightened gasp. She knew what this meant, or thought she did. "Jesse Purvy!" she repeated. "Oh, Samson, did ye??" She broke off, and covered her face with her hands. "No, Sally," he told her. "I didn't have to." He recited the day's occurrences, and they sat together on the stile, until the moon had sunk to the ridge top. * Capt. Sidney Collomb. who had been dispatched in command of the militia company to quell the trouble in the mountains, should have been a soldier by profession. All his enthusiasms were martial. His precision was military. His cool eye had a note of command which made itself obeyed. He had a rare gift of handling men, which made them ready to execute the impossible. But the elder Callomb had trained his son to succeed him at the head of a railroad system, and the young man had philosophically undertaken to satisfy his military ambitions with the state guard shoulder stfaps. The deepest sorrow and mortification he had ever known was that which came to him when Tamarack Spicer, his prisoner of war and a man who had been surrendered on the strength of his personal guaranty, had been assassinated before his eyes. In some fashion, he must make amends. He realized, too, and it rankled deeply, that his men were not being genuinely used to serve the state, but as instruments of the Hollmans, and he had seen enough to distrust the Hollmans. Here, in Hixon, he was seeing things from only one angle. He meant to learn something more impartial. I>^"5 ^? * fr /vn /Infv QU an nffinpr DCS1UCO UCIII5 KJ11 UUIJ MU Mia vaiiwa of militia, CaJlomb was a Kentuckian, interested in the problems of his commonwealth, and, when he went back, he knew that his cousin, who occupied the executive mansion at Frankfort, would be interested in his suggestions. The governor had asked him to report his impressions, and he meant to, after analyzing them. So, smarting under his impotency, Captain Callomb came out of his tent one morning, and strolled across the curved bridge to the town proper. He knew that the grand jury was convening, and he meant to sit as a spectator in the courthouse and study proceedings when they were instructed. But, before he reached the courthouse, where for a half-hour yet the cupola bell would not clang out its summons to veniremen and witnesses, he found fresh fuel for his wrath. He was not a popular man with these clansmen, though involuntarily he had been useful in leading their victims to the slaughter. There was a scowl in his eyes that they did not I like, and an arrogant hint of iron laws I in the livery he wore, which their instincts distrusted. j| Callomb saw without being told that over the town lay a sense of portentous tidings. Faces were more sullen than usual. Men fell into scowl- a ing knots and groups. A clerk at a store where he stopped for tobacco inquired he he made change: * "Heered the news, stranger?" "What news?" ' rnui- i mrn o- aA..fK X HID HCI O W11UU11 OtUIlDUIl OUUtu I come back yestiddy, an' last evenln' towards sundown, Jesse Purvy an" Aaron Hollls was shot dead." For an Instant the soldier stood looking at the young clerk, his eyes J kindling Into a wrathful blaze. Then, j he cursed under his breath. At the t door, he turned on his heel: E "Where can Judge Smlthers be ? found at this time of day?" he de- p manded. 1 (To be eontlnued.) GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. Amos Hassler, the treasurer of the q Meyerstown Trust company, Is In e Jail at Lebanon, Pa., charged with n the embezzlement of $8,300 of county V funds. ? There were more than 100,000 ~ visitors at Atlantic City, N. J., Sunday, the largest Palm Sunday crowd on record promenading the board walk. 11 George Virtue, 60 years old, former sheriff of Essex county, N. J., com- . mltted suicide with a razor, Monday. Financial troubles is assigned as the cause. Governor Boumbaugh of Penn- k sylvania, claims that he has won a enough votes of legislators to pass j| his local option measure through the j legislature. When the Italian ship Napoli leaves New York this week for Italy, her cargo will Include 6,000 tons of coal ' for the Italian navy and 1,500 horses n for the army. -j Lamuel T. Rathell, a wealthy oys- _ ter dealer of Philadelphia, lost his life Monday afternoon by falling 30 feet through a skylight to which he had climbed to rescue a kitten. Jack Johnson, the negro cham- , pion, says he will permanently retire J from the prize ring after his fight with Jess Wllliard next Monday. He says he will live in France. Mayor Curley of Boston, is demanding that the heads of all city departments turn into the city treasury, 5 ( per cent of their annual salaries as a j "conscience fund," or lose their Jobs. Rev. Billy Sunday will begin a seven weeks revival campaign at Paterson. N. J., Easter Sunday. Every one of the fifty-two Protestant churches of the city are co-operating In the campaign. On March 28 there were 168 ships inside the harbor of Genoa, Italy, waiting to unload their cargoes. Outside the harbor 116 other vessels were waiting their turn to get inside to unload. The German submarine U-21, which "?? T3?r*orliaVi r?na?t QPVPffl 1 weeks ago, is reported to have been raised by the British, repaired and put in service as a part of England's fighting machine. A Chicago letter says that Wall street speculators who made much money In grain soon after the war opened, have lost all their early earnings and in addition have been driven out of the Chicago wheat pit. The Watkins Cotton Statistical bureau, New York, predicts a 20 per cent reduction in the 1915 cotton acreage and a decrease of 42 per cent in the use of fertilizers. It is estimated that the 1915 crop will be approximately 11,000,000 bales. ( Rev. Dr. Charles M. Aurand, a I widely known retired Lutheran minis- ? tre, died at Selirgsgrove, Pa., last Friday under suspicious circumstances. It has since developed that < the dead man had forged various t notes to the total amount of $16,000, j it is alleged. A French soldier, Mathlen Jouy, " in the fighting in the Champagne c country recently, killed seven German n soldiers, including an officer, who were i( creeping upon him while Jouy was on the sentinal duty. He was given d the military medal, which is more e coveted by the soldiers than is the p Legion of Honor decoration. ' Harry W. Schneider, a lawyer of f Atlantic City, N. J., has been sentenced to serve three months in prison on the P charge of impersonating a U. S. Army officer and swindling women out of a money and jewels after making love to them. c H. Tirpitz, a German sailor, is a under arrest in Philadelphia, charged t with having fraudulent Swiss pass- c ports. It is also believed that Tirpitz had designs against the South Bethlehem Steel Works, where large 0 quantities of war supplies are being g made for England and France. p Assistant Secretary of the Treasury p Peters says: "The revenues from . whisky and alchoholic beverages have shrunk considerably over $2,000,000 n a year, and this, unquestionably, is s due to the spread of the temperance a movement. We are prepared to see it continue to diminish from' this cause." c A dispatch from Athens, Greece, r says that Austrian navy yards are <3 pushing work on 20 submarines for blockade service in the Mediterranean. Money is lending in Chicago at 2} p per cent?more at 2j|. Says a Chicago p letter. These are not the minimum rates that ordinarily are quoted, ( which are around 31 per cent, but a many hundreds of thousands of dol- li lars have been lent at these lower p, rates, the amount, more likely, is many millions. Largely these transac- e tions take the form of sales of com- II mercial paper. This money comes, to n a great extent, from the country .. banks, which last year gave the cold shoulder to bids of 4 and 5 per cent. n , m , c Some Historic Marches.?The pro- " digious marches accomplished by some *> of the German troops, especially be- n fore the battle of Tannenberg and In B the last battle of the Masurian lakes, . have moved a Berlin historian to make interesting comparisons with famous " marches of other days. He concludes that no troops have ever before made q such a record in this respect as the ' soldiers now in the armies in the east. 11 An average march, he says, is 20 to v 21 miles, but after three days a day of p, rest is observed if this pace has been kept. On the famous retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xen >pnon, alter the battle of Kunaxa In 401 B. C., from tl near Babylon to Trapezunt on the w Black sea, the average day's march was 16 3-4 miles, but this average was a secured by several forced marches of ti 27 1-2 miles, and the normal day's p march was about 15 1-4 miles. ^ A striking accomplishment was that of Napoleon's Guards, who covered 110 " miles in six days on their march to d take part in the battle of Jena, and ,j that over bad roads through the Thuringian forest. The Ninth German, army corps with exhausting marches be- ti hind it, covered 46 miles from the if vicinity of Blois to Orleans in 36 hours ei in 1870, and over muddy roads and was ready to fight the next day. One East Prussian regiment march- g ed 122 miles in five days to Join Hind- a enburg's army, and took part In the battle of Tannenberg in the afternoon of the fifth day without stopping to 01 rest. " a OQTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS a Traced In Early Flies of The YorkvlIIe Enquirer. IEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Iringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl* edge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published In our Issue of November 14, 913. The notes are being prepared by he editor as time and opportunity pernio Their purpose is to bring Into eview the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and nstructlon of the present generation. 1218T IN8TAILLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, Oct. 7, 1863.) Army Correspondence. Charleston, Oct. 4, 1863. This is the Sabbath and the greatest ulet prevails throughout the bedeagurd city. The old familiar chimes are o longer heard, warning the worshipers to their respective churches, for he bells have long since changed heir tunes from those of peace to grim vlsaged war." The stores in he city are generally closed, while hose that are open contain but few eceeedtles at fabulous prices. Cookrig utensils are particularly scarce, rhile those persons who are removng refuse to sell theirs. There are , great many families remaining here, irho probably have not the means to emove, or if they should, God only nows what would become of them, s they can still eke out a livelihood ri their old homea We are becoming aroillar with the report of shot and hell, which has continued steadily lnce our arrival here last Saturday reek; though today we have heard io firing from either party. The 'ankees, it is thought, can shell the THE HOMES OF Photographic Evidence ' York C This photograph of a handsome 1 i number that The Enquirer has had ( irofement that is being made along 1 ESQ J . i MIS3H3RB3KP' ~ OGDEN I This building is located in District Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta divisl Lhree-room structure, erected in 1914. ind is valued at 32,000. With tho const dal levy of four mills and 1200 state ait enrollment is 65. Messrs. W. H. Dunll he trustees, and Mlssoe Iola Chlldersi Mext year a third teacher is to be addt ity when they please and though it my be burnt, the people have no lea that it will be taken or summered. The second "big gun" has reac d here and been tested satisfactoriir. while the torpedo boat which was unk has been raised and improved rom these probably too much is ex*The salt works are in full blast round the city and there is no scarity of the article. At Mount Pleas?f it lo ortM at frnm 115 to 318 per lushel, a good many of our York companies have purchased there, It osting fifty cents a bushel to bring it >ver here. The great difficulty is in ;etting transportation for it to Coumbla, but perseverance seems to lave overcome this. Salt In the city 9 held at much higher figures, the n&ximum being $25. Our home folk hould supply themselves at once, as n excellent article can now be proured. It probably will be lower a lonth from now if the Yankees should lefer operations that long, if not it trill assuredly be much higher. Capt. Lowry's company (B) is at resent stationed in a grocery building, 4 Hayne street, and Capt. Bowen's K) at another in Meeting, near the rteslan well. The health of the men s generally good?some seven or eight ave been exempted by the surgeon in ach company, from physical dlsabilty. The mosquitoes annoy us very luch; probably they relish something fresh" and the consequence is a leasly appearance throughout the amp. Your correspondent, by no leans overburdened with flesh and lood, is as rough in the forehead as a utmeg grater. It is suggested by ome that measles would be prefersle, as the doctor might prescribe something to drive them out." Orders have been issued from headuarters to enforce the attendance of lie drafted men who remain at home, rhich will be strictly carried out. The urnout, however, has been pretty genral, and all seem to have hopes of nrloughs being granted to enable Kom tn return home to sow their rheat?on what grounds these hopes re based I am at loss to know, cerlinly not through any action of the ^glslature. What we were brought ere for at all is yet to be seen. Our uties are not onorous, but when we raw our arms there will be more rilling doubtless, and the monotony of amp life relieved. There will be less me to think of the dear ones at home, as to grieve over our suffering inter9tS. The Charlestonians are slow to oranlze their quota of 5,000. Last week n election was held for officers and in ne company but seven votes were ast, and the next day the captain got furlough for twenty days. From ap pea ranees every citizen is a soldier, an officer I mean, for the privates are over the "hills and far away." If ever they had an existence. If Gen. Beauregard's order relative to persons wearing uniforms or badges which they are not entitled to wear was enforced the plumage would be plucked from many a Jackdaw now strutting the streets much to their own glorification. I will endeavor to keep your readers posted as to what transpires proper to be written. The boys on Mount Pleasant are In good health and spirits. The 17th have moved to a point six miles distant, nearer the "flashing guns." Gen. Evans was In the city Friday?he is under drreet. E. (Wednesday evening, October 14, 1863.) Army Correspondence. Charleston, Oct. 11, 1863. The greatest quiet prevails throughout the city tonight, notwithstanding shouts are distinctly heard from the several batteries. Last night two Yankees in an open boat were brought to by our water pickets, and this morning turned over to the tender mercies of Gen. Ripley. They say they lost their way and it is said were not overcommunicative. The new bridge constructing between the city and Mount Pleasant vicinity is nearly completed, and thus a safe connection between the two places and Sullivan's Island will be secured, at least until the bridge between the two islands is destroyed, the "big gun" will then be rolled over and probably will report loud enough for your readers to hear at a propitious time. The 17th and 18th regiments are again on the move, not far this time, only to the other side of the city, on James Island. The trial of Gen. Evans is progressing here at the military hall, which is the occasion of assembling many of the military hot and coldspurs. It seems Gen. Evans was acting major general, and Col. Keitt was appointed by Gen. Ripley to the temporary command of his brigade. This the general (Evans) would not allow, contending the position of right was THE SCHOOLS of Modern Progress In lounty. fork county school building, is one of mgraved to show the wonderful im;hat line in York county. gaa i i ~~i?rnfV SCHOOL. No. 14, near Ogden station, on the on of the Southern railroad. It Is a In accordance with the Clemson plans, itutlonal tax supplemented by a spe1, the school runs eight months. The ip, W. M. Newsom and C. E. Strait are ind Lou Ella Foster are the teachers. >d. due to his own senior colonel?hence a charge of disobedience of ordera However we may sympathize with Gen. Evans, we must remember in these war times that it is the duty of the soldier to obey without question. There seems to be so little prospect of the Yankees running the gauntlet of our batteries at least for sometime, our two regiments, 1st and 6th, are clamoring to go homp, to sow their wheat, and Indeed they are warmly seconded by the Charlestonians, who also seem to look upon them as Intruders. In one sense at least some of us are, for several companies who were quartered in stores with no conveniences, have taken possession of better quarters, sans ceremonle. Capt. Lowry's company (B) anticipating a frost, have moved into a fine three story residence, 44 Society street. The owner was a little nettled to find us there, but he made no fuss, and with urbanity of manners that always distinguished Dr. Henry R. Frost, he handed over the keys with a request that his walls would not be soiled or his property otherwise injured, which was promised of course and for the good name of old York will doubtless be fully complied with. Other companies have followed our example, though Capt. Bowen's comDanv fK) still remains in exoect ancy. The late conscription of Col. Melton was quite an Interesting topic among us for a day or two, but the secretary of war having telegraphed to "make no Issue with the state of South Carolina," attention Is turned to other matters. We do not know how the many young men In the country avoid doing military duty, but we do think that If they could see the gray haired men of the country going through the fatigues of the battalion drill some sense of shame would come over them, and If the speculators who rest nightly on beds of down would reflect on the hard pallet or coarse fare which is the soldier's lot they would cease to prey on their helpless families, but pray to God to turn away from them the wrath that must follow if they persist in their evil ways. Aside from this view they should remember that a time of reckoning may come in this world, for some of the soldiers will assuredly return. The health of the city is very good; that of the soldiers better than could have been expected from the change of habits, water and ease to which middle-aged men accustom themselves at home; to say they are all in good spirits would not be true, but that they are willing to do their duty may be vouched and that they will occasion will prove. Companies B and K send greetings to their friends. E c (To Be Continued.) c FINANCING THE WAREHOUSE Commissioner HcLanrin Makes An Interesting Statement. OPENS THE WAY FOR CHEAP MONEY The Receipt Guaranteed By the 8tatet It Recognized By Regional Officiate and New York Financiers Aa Afford* ing the Beet Collateral to Be Had. and Arrangements Are Made Whereby the Full Benefit of the 8yetem May Be Realized By the Individual Farmer. Editor Yorkville Enquirer: I desire to make a public announcement that on a recent visit to New York, in company with Senator J. A. Banks, we made arrangements so that cotton In state warehouses can be financed at a rate of Interest on straight loans not exceeding five per cent, and on bank acceptances, at the present money rate, including broker's mission, not over four per cent The only difficulty is on this end of the line, in providing the necessary machinery. The most practical way is to handle the matter through the local banks for the reason that the large institutions in New Tork cannot well deal with individual borrowers desiring small amounts of money. In an article published in the Columbia State of December 9, and copied into most of the county papers, I said that "The new currency law, properly understood and wisely, administered, is the greatest boon in finance ever conferred upon man. It is the first effort to impart elasticity to our currency system, and is a distinct recognition of the fact that credit, not gold, is the real money that is carrying on the commerce and maintaining the civilization of the world." In an address made by Mr. Herbert E. Eld ridge of the National City bank, to the New York Credit Men's association, on January 21st, he said: "Credit, the backbone of trade, is built upon the solid foundation of character and ability. Without such component parts the structure is insecure and lacks permanency. No matter what amount of capital one may have employed in his business, credit remains his most valuable asset" For many years our cotton planters have created vast national credits which others have used to their own benefit, making us pay a heavy interest for the use of our own credits. In speaking of the re-discounts under the new currency law, and, more recently, acceptances under the New York state bank law, Mr. Eldrldge said, in the same address: "Taking the south as an example and recalling the evident desire of congress and the country at large to assist in its problem of caring for the large cotton crop of this season and the slow movement consequent to the lessened demand occasioned by the war, it can be seen what degrees of usefulness the acceptance privilege would have permitted. It cannot be expected that a northern Investing bank should be familiar with the quality of the usual warehouse receipt issued in the various centers of the south. But if such advances could be made against bills drawn by the owner of the cotton on a bank of high standing, the situation would assume a far different aspect. The accepting bank would protect itself by the deposit with it of familiar warehouse receipts representing cotton in sufficient amount to amply protect it" The state warehouse law was designed to meet Just this condition of affairs, and now is the proper time to establish in the money centres their value as a collateral. I have kept in touch with the Federal reserve board, and am greatly indebted to the kindness and intelligent aid rendered personally by Mr. W. P. Q. Harding, who coming from the south, thoroughly understands finance as It relates to cotton. He gave me a personal letter In which he said, "The state warehouse law Is, in my opinion, in advance of anything that has been attempted in other southern states, and appears to be a model of its kind." New Yofk financiers desire to maintain that city as a financial centre, and to do so must offer money at a rate under the discount established at the various reserve banks. This gives the Federal board considerable power over interest rates, by either lowering or rals. lg the Federal discount rate. The intention of the state bank law is to develop an acceptance and discount market in New York such as has enabled London to make herself the clearing house of the world. The National City bank is showing great wisdom in establishing branch banks under the Federal law in South America and elsewhere, so as to develop our export trade. Under the old national banking system we had a rigid money market, producing such bankers' panics as in 1907, because just as credits needed expansion to avert panic, there was a contraction of credits, increasing panic conditions. These acceptances will make for elasticity by extending credit when needed and automatically retiring credit when not required by actual business needs. The new currency law, under its power to fix the re-discount rates, will eventually standardize Interest cnarges throughout the country, and, to some extent, eliminate competition as to interest rates. It is to meet this condition that a system of acceptances is being established. One or two large financial concerns in New York seem to be preparing to make a specialty of the purchase and sale of acceptances, i rhis has never been done to any ex- ( tent in this country, but in the money , :enters of Europe it is used very largey in commercial transactions. The 1 lcceptlng bank is paid a small com- ; nlssion, which can be well afforded i jecause of the low rate of Interest at i which a draft is sold. It is to be re- < nembered, in this connection, that 1 he state banks aggregate in capital ] ind surplus sixty-two per cent of the < mtire banking capital of the country, ( ind that the proportion is greater In l <ew York than in any other state. 1 I am constantly struck with how i ittle knowledge the public in South I Carolina have of the enormous change ] hat has been brought about by legls- i ation within the past year. I confess 1 hat I did not know anything about \ he changes in the state banking laws 1 >f New York until I made this trip, "i ind I am saying as much as I do now i ibout acceptances because I feel that t ve all need a better understanding of i he banking system. The prosperity c >f this state depends largely upon an t ntelligent use of credits arising from i :otton. We need to learn that the t orrect idea of a bank is not so much d as a mere place to borrow money, but that its highest function Is to conserve the credits of the country and use them to the beBt advantage of the entire public. The time is at hand when we must better understand what Is meant by reserves, discounts and acceptances. All that I have endeavored to do with the warehouse system Is to transform our cotton into a basis of credit. I believe that I have made a beginning In financial circles, in establishing the character of state warehouse receipts The state receipt is the best security that can be offered on cotton. I said in December that it was "up to" the banks. I say so again. There is no excuse for charging a man with cotton eight per cent Interest in South Carolina when money can be had In New Tork on acceptances at four per cent j. uttvc me xuiiuwuiH tenor irurn a. responsible note broker in New York: "My dear Senator McLaurln: "Referring to our conversation in re arrangements for acceptances against cotton stored under the warehouse system of the state of South Carolina, I beg to suggest the following plan for overcoming the difficulties which are presented in the fact that the money that you propose to borrow would be borrowed for account of a number of these obligors, owners of the cotton hypothecated. "I suggest that in order to get over this difficulty, you arrange with some responsible bank or financial institution in South Carolina to loan against the warehouse receipts issued by the State Warehouse System and to take in connection with said loans an agreement giving them the right of rehypothecation or subrogation. "If they are not familiar with the terms of this agreement, I shall be glad to draw it up for them. "Whenever they desire to reimburse themselves for the advances so made, they can send the warehouse receipts to me in New York together with the draft at say ninety days' sight on some institution here who is willing to accept the same under the provisions of our state law as set forth in the pamphlet which I have just handed you. "The usage of the market la against making such contracts as these for a longer period than ninety days but it is frequently arranged that the acceptors shall renew them upon maturity continuously, making the loan in fact a continuous one. "For such acceptances, the institutions who are willing to make them, cftn?raJlv charee a commission at the rate of one per cent per annum, or at the rate of one-fourth per cent for each ninety day acceptance. Drafts so accepted by any one of the institutions I have in mind can now be sold In the market here at about 2 1-2 per cent per annum, which added to the acceptance commission of one per cent per annum and my brokerage of one-eighth per cent for each ninety days, equal to onehalf of one per cent per annum, would make the total cost of the money so borrowed four pr cnt pr annum. "If your local bank loaned the money at six per cent per annum, they could make a profit of two per cent for their services and the negligible risk assumed. "It could doubtless be further arranged that the New York institution will allow them to hold the warehouse receipts in trust so that when any borrower desired to pay off a small loan against a particular lot of cotton, it would not be necessary to send to New York for the release of the warehouse receipts. "Of course you understand that on loans of this sort, the acceptance institutions of New York require a margin of at least 20 per cent upon the ascertained value of the cotton at the place at which it is stored as evidenced by your warehouse receipts, and it is probable that some general agreement would have to be arrived at for the adjustment of any margin calls that might be made In the event of a decline in the price of cotton. "My commission would include arranging the acceptance and selling it and attending to all necessary details." The legislature granted me power to negotiate loans and make sales of cotton, but appropriated no money except for current expenses. It Is a manifest impossibility for me, without providing new machinery, to handle these individual loans, and I hope to make arrangements with several local banks to transact this business on a margin of two per cent profit?that is, if they can get the money at four per cent, they lend it to the farmer at six per oent I can myself place straight loans at five per cent in New York, but it would not be possible for me to handle them in small amounts. In the matter of sales of cotton, I am in touch with a gentleman from Europe who is familiar with the cotton business, and I am satisfied that arrangements can be made to sell cotton direct to the mllla I believe that the state warehpuse system is a scientific solution of the cotton problem. It is in its infancy, but can be developed to handle the cotton in each of the southern states on the same plan that we are pursuing here, enabling us to market our crop gradually. Ail legitimate interests in cotton desire to stabilize its value. Hedge selling by mills to protect purchases of cotton is now a necessity, because of wide fluctuation in the price of raw cot ton. This expense is now borne by the cotton planter. A striking example was had a few days ago, when a report was circulated in the exchanges that Secretary Houston had said there would be no reduction of acreages Prices broke sharply, which enabled short sellers to get out of the market, and who probably circulated the story for that purpose. The next day, on a denial by Mr. Houston, the market rebounded to a higher point than ever. It is to be hoped that the secretary of agriculture will find out the author of this "conspiracy in restraint of trade" and prosecute them to the limit of the law. The farmers need organization so as to make their power felt At present there is no adequate means to secure unity of action among the several states. The Farmers' Union is strong in Texas and North Carolina. We should revive it in the other states so as to enable us to act together in securing proper legislation, not only In handling and marketing the crop, but in restricting production. "The present rise in the price of cotton is deceptive and if It leads to generally Increased use of fertilizer and enlarged acreage the reeult will be disastrous. Those interested in cheap cotton can act as a unit. We are a disorganized mass, each for himself, with no concert of action. The warehouse bill is a fine i _ ~s 1 w- ~ exuinpie 01 wimi uui uo aiwiutiiiBiinu by concentrated effort. Fellow Farmers, let us organize and act together. We create the credits, we have the numbers, why not use our power? Respectfully, John L. McLaurin, State Warehouse Commissioner. The Submarine Schley.?When the submarine boat of the future makes a. dive to come up no more exoept by the aid of the grappling hooks, she will carry a crew of not 12 or 20 men, but 30 or 50, and perhaps more, for fifty will compose the maximum crew of the Schley, the pioneer of the new type of submarine now being built for the United States Navy. It is possible that the successors to the Schley type will carry even a greater number of men, and hat the submarine will eventually each the proportions of a battleship inder water. The Schley, in fact, will ie equipped to make the round trip to Surope. The Schlev will be a combi latlon battleship and submarine, fitted 'or deadly work both above and under vater. In length she will not bo very 'ar short of a city block, and will make ',000 miles at 12 knots without putting nto port for a new supply of fuel. The irrangement of her torpedo tubes, 10 n number, is such that they may be iper&ted at any angle, and it will not >e necessary to maneuver the vessel nto position. The Schley seems to be he forerunner of newer and more Ireadful things.?Charlotte Observer.