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I t % ISSUED SKMI-WKKKL^ l. m. oeist'8 sons, PubHiheri.} % oJfawlg IJeuispapeii: |for th$ promotion of th$ jlolitiqal, ?o$tl, &ari$ultat[al and Commercial Interests oj th$ feoplj. ) ESTABLISHED 1856. YORKVILLE, S. O.^'^^SDA'^APRILTa^lQlS- NO. 30. am /?> CHARLES J with illustration; OF SCENES IN THE J CHAPTER XVI.' The governor had been more infiu-1 enced by watching the two as they I talked than by what he had heard. "" m<? o-antlemen." he | XI OVVlllO W *UV| Q ~* suggested quietly, "that you are both overlooking my presence." He turned to Callomb. "Your coming, Sid, unless it was pre-arranged between the two of you (which, since I know you, I know was not the case) has shed more light on this matter than the testimony of a dozen witnessea After all, I'm still the governor." The militiaman seemed to have forgotten the existence of his distinguish1 ed kinsman, and, at the voice, his eyes came away from the face of the man he had not wanted to capture, and he, shook his head. "You are merely the head of the executive branch," he said. "You are as helpless here as I am. Neither of us can interfere with the Judicial gentry, though we may know that they stink . to high heaven with the stench of blood. After a conviction, you can pardon, but a pardon won't help the dead. I don't see that you can do much of anything, Crit" "I don't know yet what I can do, but I can tell you I'm going to do something," said the governor. "You can just begin watching me. In the mean'|? T i am commander-in- , chief of the state troops." , "And I am captain of 'F" company, but all I can do is to obey the orders of a bunch of Borgias." "As your superior officer," smiled the governor, "I can give you orders. I'm going to give you one now. Mr. . South has applied to me for a pardon in advance of trial. Technically, I have the power to grant that request. Morally, I doubt my right Certainly, I shall ' not do it without a very thorough sifting of evidence and grave consideration of the necessities of the case? , as well as the danger of the precedent. ] However, I am considering it and for the present you will parole your pris- j oner in my custody. Mr. South, you will not leave Frankfort without my , permission. You will take every pre- t caution to conceal your actual identity. ( You will treat as utterly confidential ' all that has transpired here?and, , above all, you will not let newspaper ( ^en discover you. Those are my or- j tiers. Report here tomorrow after- ( noon, and remember that you are my ( prisoner." Samson bowed and left the two cousins together, where shortly they were . joined by the attorney general. That ( evening the three dined at the execu- , tive mansion, and sat until midnight ' in the governor's private office, still | deep in discussion. During the long^ session, Callomb opened the bulky vol- j ( ume of the Kentucky statutes, and ] laid his finger on section 2673. "There's the rub," he protested. ] rea'ding aloud: "'The military shall f be at all times, and in all cases. In ( strict subordination of the civil pow- j er.'" The governor glanced down to the next paragraph and read in part: ' " 'The governor may direct the comt manding officer of the military force 1 to report to any one of the following named officers of the district in which ' the said force is employed: Mayor of ! a city, sheriff, jailer or marshal.'" "Which list," stormed Callomb, "is ' the honor roll of the assassins." "At all events"?the governor had derived from Callomb much information as to Samson South which the mountaineer himself had modestly withheld?"South gets his pardon. That is only a step. I wish I "ould make him satrap over his province, and provide him with troops to rule it. ' Unfortunately, our form of government has its drawbacks." "It might be possible," ventured the attorney general, "to impeach the sheriff, and appoint this or some other suitable man to fill the vacancy until the next election."' "The legislature doesn't meet until next winter." objected Callomb. "There is one chance. The sheriff down there is a sick man. Let us hope he may die." One day, the Hixon conclave met in the room over Hollman's Mammoth Department store, and with much profanity, read a communication from 1 Frankfort, announcing the pardon of Samson South. In that episode, they foresaw the beginning of the end for their dynasty. The outside world was loosing on, ana ineir regime couiu mn survive the spotlight of law-loving scrutiny. "The fust thing," declared Judge Hollman. curtly, "is to get rid of thes* > damned soldiers. We'll attend to our own business later, and we don't want them watchin' us. Just now, we want to lie mighty quiet for a spell?teetotally quiet until I pass the word." t Samson had won back the confidence ' of his tribe, and enlisted the faith of the state administration. He had been authorized to organize a local militia company, and to drill them, provided he could stand answerable for their conduct. The younger Souths took gleefully to that idea. The mountain boy makes a good soldier, once he hats grasped the idea of discipline. For ten weeks, they drilled daily in squads and weekly in platoons. Then, the fortuitous came to pass. Sheriff Forbin died, leaving behind him an unexpired term of two years, and Samson was summoned hastily to Frankfort. He returned, bearing his commission as high sheriff, though, when the news reached Hixon, there were few men who envied him his post, and none who cared to bet that he would live to take his oath of office. That August court day was a memPorable one in Hixon. Samson South was coming to town to take up his duties. Everyone recognized it as the day of final issue, and one that could hardly pass without bloodshed. The Hollmans, standing in their last LL?fff>e HANDS SfEVlLLE BUCK-- o P1AT w"i*WtfT4fflW*KT trench, saw only the blunt question of Hollman-South supremacy. For years, the feud had flared and slept and broken again into eruptions, but never before had a South sought to throw his outposts of power across the waters of Crippleshin, and into the county seat. That the present South came bearing commission as an officer of the law only made his effrontery the more unendurable. Samson had not called for outside troops. The drilling and disciplining of his own company had progressed in silence along the waters of Misery. They were a slouching, unmllltary band of uniformed vagabonds, but they were longing to fight and Callomb had been with them, tirelessly whipping them into rudimentary shape. After all, they were as much partisans as they had been before they were issued state rifles. The battle, if it came, would be as factional as the fight of 25 years ago, when the Hollmans held the store and the Souths the courthouse. But back of all that lay one essential difference, and It was this difference that had urged the governor to stretch the forms of law and put such dangerous power into the hands 1 of one man. That difference was the man himself. He was to take drastic steps, but he was to take them under the forms of law, and the state executive believed that, having gone through 1 worse to better, he would maintain the Improved condition. Early that morning, men began to assemble along the streets of Hixon; and to congregate into sullen clumps with set faces that denoted a grim, unsmiling determination. Not only the Hollmans from the town and immediate neighborhood were there, but their shaggier, fiercer brethren from remote creeks and coves, who came only at urgent call, and did not come without Intent of vindicating their presence. Old Jack Hollman. from "over yon" on the headwaters of Dryhole creek, brought his son and fourteen-year-old grandson, and all of them carried Winchesters. Long before the hour for the courthouse bell to sound the call which would bring matters to a crisis, women disappeared from the streets, and front shutters and doors, closed themselves. At last, the Souths began to ride in by half-dozens, and to hitch their horses at the racks. They also fell into groups well apart The two factions eyed each other somberly, sometimes nodding or exchanging greetings, for the time had not yet V* nnraifAr tha UUIIlt? IU llglll. OIVWIJ, uwnwTv., v??v Hollmans began centering about the courthouse. They swarmed In the yard, and entered the empty jail, and overran the halls and offices of the t>ullding itself. The Souths, now coming In a solid stream, flowed with equal unanimity to McEwer*s hotel near the square, and dissappeared lneide. Besides their rifles, they carried saddlebags, but not one of the uniforms which some of these bags contained, nor one of the cartridge belts, had yet been exposed to view. Stores opened, but only for a desultory pretense of businesa Horsemen led their mounts away from the more public racks, and tethered them to back fences and willow branches in the shelter of the river banks, where stray bullets would not And them. The dawn that morning had still been gray when Samson South and Captain Callomb had passed the Miller cabin. Callomb had ridden slowly on around the turn of the road, and waited a quarter of a mile away. He was to command the militia that day, if the high sheriff should call upon him. Samson went in and knocked, and instantly to the cabin door came Sally's slender, fluttering figure. She put both arms about him, and her eyes, as she looked into his face, were terrified, but tearless. "I'm frightened, Samson," she whispered. "God knows I'm going to be praying all this day." "Sally," he said, softly, "I'm coming back to you?but, if I don't"?he held her very close?"Uncle Spicer has my will. The farm is full of coal, and days are coming when roads will take it out, and every ridge will glow with coke furnaces. That farm will make you rich, if we win today's fight." "Don't!" she cried, with a sudden gasp. "Don't talk like that." "I must," he said, gently. "I want you to make me a promise, Sally." "It's made," she declared. "If by any chance I should not come back, I want you to hold Uncle Spicer and old Wile McCager to their pledge. They must not privately avenge me. They must still stand for the law. I want you, and this is most important of all, to leave these mountains?" Her hands tightened on his shoulder. "Not that, Samson," she pleaded; "not these mountains where we've been together." "You promised. I want you to go to the Lescotts in New York. In a year, you can come back?if you want to; but you must promise that." "I promise," she reluctantly yielded. It was half past nine o'clock when Samson South and Sidney Callomb rode side by side into Hixon from the east. A dozen of the older Souths, who had not become soldiers met them there, and, with no word, separated to close about them in a circle of protection. As Callomb's eyes swept the almost deserted streets, so silent that the strident switching of a freight train could be heard down at the edge of town, he shook his head. As he met the sullen glances of the gathering in the courthouse yard, he turned to Samson. "They'll fight," he said, briefly. Samson nodded. "I don't understand the method," demurred the officer, with perplexity. "Why don't they shoot you at once. What are they waiting for?" "They want to see," Samson assured him, "what tack I mean to take. They want to let the thing play Itself out. They're inquisitive?and they're cau tious, because now they are bucking the state and the world." Samson with his escort rode up to the courthouse door and dismounted. He was for the moment unarmed and his men walked on each side of him, while the onlooklng Hollmans stood back in surly silence to let him pass. In the office of the county Judge Samson said briefly: "I want to get my deputies sworn In." "We've got plenty of deputy sheriffs," was the quietly Insolent rejoin- ' der. "Not now?we haven't any." Samson's voice was sharply incisive. "I'll name my own assistants." "What's the matter with these boys?" The county judge waved his had toward the hold-over deputies. "They're fired." The county judge laughed. "Well, I reckon I can't attend to that right now." "Then you refuse?" "Mebbe you might call it that." Samson leaned on the judge's table and rapped sharply with his knuckles. His handful of men stood close and Callomb caught his breath in the heavy air of storm-freighted suspense. The Hollman partisans filled the room and others were crowded to the doora "I'm high sheriff of this county now," said Samson, sharply. "You are county judge. Do we co-operate?or fight?" "I reckon," drawled the other, "that's a matter we'll work out as we goes along. Depends on how obedient ye air." "I'm responsible for the peace and quiet of this county," continued Samson. "We're going to have peace and quiet." The judge looked about him. The indications did not appear to him indicative of peace and quiet. "Air we?" he inquired. "I'm coming back here in a half hour," said the new sheriff. "This is an unlawful and armed assembly. When I get back I want to find the courthouse occupied only by unarmed citizens who have business here." "When ye comes back," suggested the county Judge, "I'd advise that ye ? ? A 1# Kaiiw < a nKniif I^TBlgll y\J IV JUU. A "?WI I1VU1 to O.UVUI. es long es ye ought ter try ter hold hit." Samson turned and walked through the scowling crowd to the courthouse Bteps. "Gentlemen," he said, In a clear, farcarrying voice, "there is no need of an armed congregation at this courthouse. I call on you in the name of the law to lay aside your arms or scatter." There was a murmur which for an instant threatened to become a roar, but trailed into a chorus of derisive laughter. Samson went to the hotel, accompanied by Callomb. A half hour later the two were back at the courthouse with a half dozen companions. The yard was empty. Samson carried his father's rifle. In that half hour a telegram, prepared in advance, had flashed to Frankfort. "Mob holds courthouse?need troops." And a reply had flashed back: "Use local company?Callomb commanding." So that form of law was met. The courthouse doors were closed and its windows barricaded. The place was no longer a judicial building. It ' was a fortress. As Samson's party paused at the gate a warning voice called: "Don't come no nlgher!" The body-guard began dropping back to shelter. "I demand admission to the courthouse to make arrests," shouted the new sheriff. In answer a spattering of rifle reports came from the Jail win- 8 dows. Two of the South's fell. At a word from Samson Callomb left on a ' run for the hotel. The sherifT himself 1 took his position in a small store c across the street, which he reached un- 8 hurt under a desultory fire. Then, again, silence settled on the ^ town, to remain for five minutes un- ? broken. The sun glared mercilessly on 1 clay streets, now as empty as a cem- r etery. A single horse incautiously 8 hitched at the side of the courthouse v switched its tail against the assaults 1 of the flies. Otherwise, there was no 4 outward sign of life. Then Callomb's f newly organized force of ragamuffin ? soldiers clattered down to the street at 4 double time. For a moment or two 1 after they came into sight only the massed uniforms caught the eyes of the intrenched Hollmans, and an alarmed murmur broke from the courthouse. They had seen no troops detrain, or pitch camp. These men had sprung from the earth as startlingly as Jason's crop of dragon's teeth. But, when the command rounded the shoulder of a protecting wall to await further orders, the ragged stride of their marching and the all-too-obvious bearing of the mountaineer proclaimed them native amateurs. The murmur turned to a howl of derision and challenge. They were nothing more nor less than Souths, masquerading in the uniforms of soldiers. "What orders?" Callomb inquired briefly, joining Samson in the store. "Demand surrender once more?then take the courthouse and jail," was the short reply. Callomb himself went forward with the flag of truce. He shouted his message and a bearded man came to the * courthouse door. s i/eu em, ne saia wunoui reuun- i dancy, "that we're all here. Come an' 1 git us." The officer went back and dlstribut- 1 ed his forces under such cover as of- 1 fered itself about the four walls. Then \ a volley was fired over the roof and In- t stantly the two buildings in the public | square awoke to a volcanic response of rifle fire. i All day the duel between the streets I and county buildings went on with J desultory intervals of quiet and wild ( outbursts of musketry. The troops < were firing as sharpshooters, and the t courthouse, too, had its sharpshooters. . When a head showed itself at a barri- , caded window a report from the out- i side greeted it. Samson was every- 1 where, his rifle smoking and hot-bar- , reled. His life seemed protected by a \ talisman. Yet most of the firing, after ' the first hour, was from within. The . troops were, except for occasional pot- , shots, holding their fire. There was i neither food nor water inside the build- 1 t ?? ? ? *?! ?? 1?? ?? I aIaoa/I a n/1 t liu * INK, anu til loot ui^iii vtuovu anu niv cordon grew tighter to prevent escape. The Hollmans, like rats in a trap, grimly held on, realizing that It was to g se a siege. On the following morning I i detachment of "F" company arrived I 1 ragging two gatling guns. The HollTians saw them detraining, from their j lookout in the courthouse cupola, and, realizing that the end had come, resolved upon a desperate sortie. Simultaneously every door and lower win dow of the courthouse burst open to ^ discharge a frenzied rush of men, firing as they came. They meant to fight | their way out and leave as many hostile dead as possible in their wake. Their one chance now was to scatter before the machine guns came into action. They came like a flood of hu man lava and their guns were never Bilent, as they bore down on the barricades, where the single outnumbered ? company seemed insufficient to hold 1 them. But the new militiamen, look- | Ing for reassurance not so much to r Callomb as to the granite-like face of i Samson South, rallied and rose with a t yell to meet them on bayonet and Jsmoking muzzle. The rush wavered, fell back, desperately rallied, then broke In scattered remnants for the shelter of the building. ( Old Jake Hollman fell near the door, md his grandson, rushing out, picked jp his fallen rifle and sent farewell 1 lefiance from it as he, too, threw up c soth arms and dropped. Then a white flag wavered at a win- ^ low and, as the newly arrived troops ^ lalted in the street, the noise died sud- e lenly to quiet. Samson went out to ^ neet a man who opened the door and ^ iaid shortly: r "We lays down." 8 Judge Hollman, who had not partlci- c sated, turned from the slit in his shut- f ered window, through which he had * ilnce the beginning been watching the lonfllct. "That ends it!" he said, with a deipairing shrug of his shoulders. He t sicked up a magazine pistol which lay u >n his table, and carefully counting 1: lown his chest to the fifth rib, placed r he muzzle against his breast. t (To be continued.) 1 THE HOMES OF Photographic Evidence o York Cc This photograph of a handsome Y< a number that The Enquirer has had en provement that is being made along th THE LESSLIB This handsome structure has four r cost of $3,000. The trustees are Messr W. Boyd, and the teachers are Mr. O. C. Mary Simpson. The school belongs to t ment of 71, and receives $200 state aid SCURVY AT HOME I t rreatment of a Disease More Common than Generally Supposed. a The chief predisposing cause of a (curvy is a diet deficient in fresh b ruits and vegetables, a monotonous a liet and unhygenic surroundings. At li >ne time scurvy was believed to be a iisease only found aboard ships, h imong sailors who had been fed up- v >n stale, salty and canned foods. We d enow now that the condition is wide- d ipread and may be found among the n ich as well as the poor. The disease f; nay be suspected whenever there is v iny evidence of loosing of the teeth, n vith spongy, bleeding gums and an of- * 'ensive breath. Other manifestations o >f ill health will be noticed at the c same time. In adults there will be d jreat weakness and lassitude, and t lometimes patches under the skin, as v f from hemorrhages. b Infants sometimes have scurvy, 1' :aused by faulty diet, such, as by the o jrolonged use of condensed milk, steri- v ized milk, or proprietary foods. A a :hlld suffering from this disease is o >ale and seemingly bloodless. The t egs may be stiff and immovable as if P jaralyzed, or they may be swollen and fery tender and painful if touched. v )ccasionally the mouth shows inside n he spongy germs and tiny patches b >f red blood vessels. Parents or careakers at the first intimation of scur- 1 ry in a child should immediately call 3 n a physician. Unless a suitable diet F s at once prescribed and tonic reme- 0 lies given to relieve the existing conlitions a small child may not live. The prevention and cure of scurvy s correction of the diet. The adult 1 equires fresh vegetables and fresh a ruits every day?better twice a day. Jrange or fresh pineapple juice to bejin the breakfast, and lemon juice n two tablespoonfuls in unsweetened n vater) directly after luncheon and din- g ler. No canned, dried or preserved 'oods or fruits should be used, nor laity foods and pork products. Potaoes, all fresh vegetables and especi- sl illy the green ones (such as lettuce, ^ :abbage, celery, onions), string beans, ipinach, asparagus, fresh peas, should b nake up the daily rations, with fresh A neats or fresh fish. Boiled or roast ^ >eef or mutton once a day will aid in -estoring and preserving the health, ^n iron tonic is sometimes required ti 'or a month or two before a cure can tl >e perfected. Infantile scurvy is cured a >y the use of fresh cow's milk, beef uice and orange juice. a Fresh air and sunshine are of great si mportance in the treatment. Four or 0 ive hours daily should be spent out . >f doors in the sunshine and fresh air. " rhe rooms occupied at night should d >e kept wide open all day for thornigh ventilation. The open window luring the hours of sleeping should lot be where it will place the sleeper n a draught. Ten to twelve hours' ^ est in bed at night are essential dur ng the treatment of combat the weakless and exhaustion. The care of the II nouth must not be neglected. A ?ood antiseptic wash, such as a satjrated solution of boric acid (prepared ?y dissolving four heaping teaspoon'uls of boric acid powder in a pint of s| miling water) should be used three >r four times a day to rinse out the 11 nouth. Scurvy is always curable if ci reatment is begun early enough and e, drictly carried out. ( The less a man thinks of his leighbor the more he admires him- a lelf. OOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS iS Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvllle;Enqulrer. IEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Todav a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl edge of the Thing* that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes apfaring under this heading was pubHed. in our Issue of November 14, Rs. The notes are being prepared by he editor as time and opportunity pernit. Their purpose is to bring into eview the events of the past for the leasure and satisfaction of the older teople and for the entertainment and nstructlon of the present generation. 124TH INSTALLMENT Wednesday Evening, Nov. 18, 1863.) 8lav# Labor. By advertisement, it will be seen hat Col. Shannon, the state agent, alls upon York to furnish her quota if slave labor for the defences in the Icinity of Charleston. Let the relulsltlon be made promptly, for the vents of the last few months have lemonstrated that if we but do our luty, Charleston is saved from the Kisseesion of the enemy and our late from invasion. If we do not do >ur duty, we have no right to com lain of misfortunes?those receive lelp who help themselves. Secessionville, S. C., Nov. 12, 1863. Dear Enquirer: In this, our day of ribulatlon, it is natural to look around is for support and encouragement. It las been our great error to confide too nuch in the hope that the foreign nalons would interpose in our behalf. Phat hope I trust and believe has THE SCHOOLS >f Modern Progress In >unty. ork county school building, is one of igraved to show the wonderful lmat line in Tork county. 3 SCHOOL." ooms. It was erected in 1914 at a s. T. F. Lesslie, W. S. Boyd and J. Klbler, and Misses Lilly Martin and he rural graded class, has an enrolland runs eight months. >retty well "played out" by the inelllgent of our country. It now becomes our duty to lay aside .11 the uncertain reliance upon kings nd emperors of the earth and to ring into the field of actual conflict 11 the muscle and strength of our md unimpaired by disease or age -devoutly asking the blessings of leaven upon our cause?go forth irlth the resolution calmly taken to lie or be free from the threatened angers that surround us. Our heroic nothers and sisters with our aged athers, maimed and disabled brothers /ill keep the agricultural and donestic machinery in motion, whilst ve strike with terror and destruction ur ruthless Invader. Let no man of onscrlpt age be relieved from his luty to his country and himself by he votes of our people at home, /hile our men with hoary hairs can e found fit and competent to preside ri the councils of our state. Let the Id Roman maxim of "young men for var and old men for council," be felt .nd acted upon, by all the true patrltic citizens of our district who love he country and desire to see its indeendence established. There Is one man in our district rhose name I have heard repeatedly mentioned by the soldiers, with the lighest admiration around the camp Ires. We remember seeing him at he head of a noble regiment from our tate this morning as we crossed the tapldan river in Virginia in pursuit f the braggart Pope. His snowy eard and sunburnt visage told of he hardships he had encountered, "he smoke of battle had scarcely dlsppeared from Cedar Mountain when re saw him yet with the rekindled res of youth glowing in his counteace; he was pushing ahead with tonewall Jackson to strike the finishig blow to Pope's retreating vandals. We parted at the Rapidan (as Longtreet's corps brought up the rear), 'he next we heard of him was on the loody field of Second Manassas, fter passing through the large numer of our most important battles, dth honor to himself and to his coun ry, he has retired to his home for ie rest his age demands. His sons re in the army. We know he can ppreciate the soldier's self denial and Littering and in the opinion of many f them expressed spontaneously, he ? the man to represent them in their istrlcts's highest office. Seventeenth Regiment. (To Be Continued.) IOGS ARE SHEEP'S WORST ENEMY , ' This Menace Were Removed, American Flocks Could be Easily More j than Doubled. The number of sheep in the 36 farm tates, which do not include any in ie Western Division, could be in- l reased by lf>0 per cent, it is estimat- I tl, without displacing other live tock. Some authorities believe that he increase could be even as much 1 s r>00 per cent without serious inter?rence with the number of other ^ animals. An increase of 150 per cent in these 36 states would mean in money 3144,267,000. In a new publication of the department of agriculture, farmers' bulletin 652, the responsibility for this loss to the country is laid upon the sheep-killing dog. Sheep-killing dogB, it is said, are the principal cause of the marked decrease In the numbers of sheep on American farina In the 10 years between 1900 and 1910 the number of sheep in the country, exclusive of the states in the Western Division, decreased, 3,000,000 head, in face of the ittt'l lllilt, UUUI15 mcoc OCUII*; j vtM? the market value of sheep rose so rapidly that the total value of sheep in this area was $19,000,000 or approximately 25 per cent more in 1910 than in 1900. Favorable though the market conditions were, they were not a sufflcent incentive to induce farmers to risk the heavy losses from stray dogs. The number of sheep killed annually by dogs cannot be stated exactly since there are many cases which are not reported at all. Judging from the figures in those counties and states in which reasonably complete reports are obtainable, however, it may be said that in the 36 farm states more than 100,000 sheep are killed each year by dogs. This, it is true, is less than 1 per cent of the total number of sheep in this area, but a 1 per cent loss on a business that is being conducted on a profit basis of 6 or 6 per cent cannot be Ignored. This estimate it must be remembered is also probably much lower than the actual figures. It is certain too that many men have been kept out of the sheep business through fear that in their own particular cases the loss would be much more than 1 per cent. Any one who has actually seen sheep killed, injured or frightened by dogs is likely to think twice before engaging in the business. In many cases while only 1 or 2 sheep may be actually bitten by the dogs, the whole flock is chased until it dies from exhaustion. If the dog question could be satisfactorily disposed of, there seems to be no reason why the number of sheep in the country could not be Increased to the extent already indicated. In Great Britain there is 1 sheep or lamb for each 2.5 acres of the total are/ . In the 36 farm states in this country there is 1 sheep or lamb for each 31.8 acres. The British farmer handles his land on an intensive basis and feeds his sheep on forage-crop pastures. Such pastures not only increase the fertility of the land but also free the sheep from many internal parasites contracted through grazing upon permanent pastures. In particular the use of a succession of forage-crop pastures will prevent stomach worms, one of the most prevalent and disastrous scourges of young stock, and will enable the farmer to market by the end of June or the first of July, when market prices are usually highest, the lambs that were born in the late winter or early spring. Handled under such conditions and on high-priced farm land the importance of a small flock of sheep cannot be overlooked. In addition to pointing out these facts the bulletin already mentioned, "The Sheep-Killing Dog", discusses the possible means of preventing in the future the loss from dogs. At the present time the various state laws on mis suDjeci uiuer wiueiy, sume siaieo using the money obtained from dog licenses to reimburse sheep owners, while others permit the sheep men to recover damages from the dog owners and two offer them* no recourse whatsoever. Dogs, however, are very seldom caught In the act of killing sheep. It is always difficult to determine their owners, and where t.ie damages are paid by the state directly from the dog tax funds the money very frequently is far from, sufficient to meet all the claims. A remedy that Is suggested for this situation is a uniform state dog law embodying the principle of a tax upon dogs sufficiently heavy to discourage those who are not willing to take care of their pets from keeping them. Under this plan all dogs over six months of age must be licensed each year, the tax paid at the time of licensing and a metal tag bearing the license number attached to the dog's collar. Any dog found without this tag, unattended and off its owner's premises, may be killed. When found unattended on a farm where sheep are kept the dog may be killed whether it has the tag or not, and under any circumstances a dog caught chasing or killing sheep may be killed. All dogs which can be proved to be sheep killers must be killed whether caught in the act or not, and a reward of $15 should be offered for any one identifying a sheep killing dog. The money received from dog taxes should be devoted to reimbursing sheep owners for their lost stock and the county should in turn recover this money whenever possible from the dogs' owners. A special license should be issued for kennels where large numbers of dogs are maintained under such conditions that they cannot possibly do any harm to neighboring flocks. While some such plan as this is probably indispensable to the full development-of the sheep industry In the United States, there are cases where the flock master will And in its absence the use of dog-proof fences very desirable. The grazing: of sheep upon comparatively small areas of land sown to forage crops, instead of upon permanent pastures in larger fields, materially reduces the area to be fenced and makes this a practicable precaution. In the west fences have been built which prove satisfactory defence against coyotes, and the fence that will turn aside a coyote will turn a dog. A fence of this character can be built as follows: Posts 7J feet in length, set 2& feet in the ground and 16 feet apart; a barbed wire stretched flat to the surface of the ground; 3 inches higher a 36-inch woven-wire fence having a 4-inch triangular mesh; 5 Inches higher a barbed wire; 6 inches higher a second barbed wire; 7 inches above this a third barbed wire. Total height 57 inches. It is Important to remember, however, that the bottom strand of barbed wire must be stretched flat on the surface of the ground at all points. If necessary the ground must be graded before the fence is built. Thereafter such smull holes as appear may be filled in. It is not always necessary to fence the entire pasture, for dogs usually attack sheep at night only. If a sufficient area can be fenced to give the flock protection through the night, therefore, they may be safely lert In unlnclosed pastures through the day. This method involves a certain loss of time in driving the sheep to and from the inclosure, but in many cases will be preferred to the expense of fencing on a large scale. Jack Johnson Out.?Jack Johnson lost the championship of the prize ring in Chicago saloons and brothels, long before he had any thought of meeting Jess Willard in the ring at Havana. The pace will kill even a great brute of a man. It will get the new champion in due time. Years and dissipation are the only permanent holders of the title. It's rather to be ( regretted, if the matter is important j enough to consider seriously, that the 1 supremacy of the pugilistic world goes back to a white man. When it came , around to Jack Johnson it was back I to the primitive where it belonged | Prof. Booker Washington, loo, will | have to reduce his record of the ne- i gro's distinguished achievements, the fistic supremacy of Jack Johnson hav- j Ing been one of the citations, and the , Krench will have to find a new name for the big smoke-raising shells from the German artillery.?Charleston , Post I TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOE QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokaa. Clavaland. Gaston, Lan caster and Chester. Cheater Reporter, April 8: Mrs. Jane Gladden, widow of the late John Gladden, died last night at eleven o'clock, at her home in the New Hope neighborhood, death coming after a long period of illness, which the deceased bore with characteristic Christian patience and fortitude. The tuneral service will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at New Hope M. E. church, of which the deceased was a faithful member. Mrs. Gladden was seventy-one years of age and Is survived by two sons, Messrs. William and Thomas Gladden It Is learned with great regret that Dr. J. G. Johnston, Chester's well known specialist |n diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, has decided to locate in Charlotte, and, in fact, is about ready to enter upon his work in that city. Until the closing of the schools in June, Dr. Johnston will come to Chester to spend the weekend, and some time after this date will move his family to Charlotte The regular monthly meeting of the city council was held Tuesday evening, those present being Mayor Simpson and Aldermen Westbrook, Frazer, Peay, Stewart, Glenn, Nichols and Sessions. The chief of police's report for the month of March read as follows: Arrests, 72; fined, 50; discharged, 16; continued, 2; served time in city jail, 1; serving time in city jail, 3; tinea $368 The county board of commissioners met this morning in the office of Supervisor D. G. Anderson, and after considerable discussion, adopted a motion by Commissioner McKeown, which was in substance about as follows: That the board report to the grand Jury in reply to the recent report of the latter body that after careful, investigation, the board has found that the new county Jail was built according to plans and specifications furnished by Mr. A. W. Hamby, that the building is safe and strong in the opinion of the board, and that during the progress of the work Mr. Hamby visited the job sufficiently often and kept in touch with the work as provided for under the contract. This motion prevailed 6 to 3, and further investigation, if there is to be any, will have to be prosecuted by the grand Jury Three young white boys from Columbia?all under fifteen years?Earle Olive, Raymond Short and Silas Short, were arrested at the Southern depot Tuesday afternoon by deputies from the sheriffs office on the charge of having entered the store of Mr. T. M. Grant near the Wylie mill; but the charge was not pushed, and the boys were turned over to relatives to be taken home. Gaffney Ledger, April 9: Era Hoffman, the negro woman shot Sunday afternoon by Mary RhoadSb the home of the latter, two miles south of Blacksburg, died Monday afternoon. Coroner R. P. Spencer held an Inquest over the body the same day. The Jury returned a verdict to the effect that the woman came to her death from gunshot wounds inflicted at the hands of Mary Rhoada The Rhoads woman has not been captured yet After enjoying city delivery of mall for two years without collection boxes, Gaffney is now to have this convenience added to the service. Postmaster F. B. Gaffney has received the bill of lading for a shipment of nineteen collection boxes sent from Cleveland, Ohio, and he expects them to arrive next week. The boxes are of the latest improved type, being model 2-A, measuring 21 inches in height, 13 1-2 inches in width and 8 1-2 in depth. They will be placed according to a route already made out as soon as possible after they are received Clerk of the Court T. M. Caldwell is in receipt of the money with which to pay the pensions to those entitled to same. A list of pensioners in Cherokee county appears in this issue of the Ledger. The total amount is 37,354.50, and the total for the state is 3286,171.50 Mr. Lewis Humphries, who was seriously injured last Monday, when he was knocked down on Limestone street by a runaway team, is doing very well at the city hospital Tom Hemes, the negro who was shot four times several days ago by Lewis Spears, another negro, was able to sit up at the city hospital yesterday, and it was said that his recovery is practically assured. For sometime Hames was in a very critical condition, but he is improving gradually now.... The stock of Vinesett Brothers, bankrupt mero n/vtl An iiroa uiaiuo, auiu cit yui/uv ?uvmvi*| nw bought by the Merchants Grocery company, for the sum of $3,005. The Merchants Grocery company will dispose of the stock through its regular business channels. ? King's Mountain, April 8: Rev. R. A. Miller of Rock Hll? S. C., supplied at the Presbyterian church here Sunday night. Pastor C. L. Bragaw is still bed ridden and there is no prospect that he will be able to fill his pulpit any time soon. His physician has recommended that he take a vacation of at least three montha He is arranging to accompany his father to Washington, D. C., as soon as he is able, and he may go on to the Pacific coast in search of health Clerk W. H. McGinnis of the town of King's Mountain announced to the board of aldermen at the regular monthly meeting Monday night, that the town was clear of debt. "We don't owe a cent but what we have the money to pay unless it is some bill that I do not know anything about," said Clerk McGinnis. This was good news to the board. It appears that there is yet about $4,000 to collect on taxes and the board is anxious that it be collected as closely as possible in order to get it into their annual and final report in June Capt. B. M. Ormand is overhauling his splendid residence on Mountain street and making some extensions in the second floor capacity Although there were but few present at the auditorium Thursday night, the Law and Order league of King's Mountain, was organized, with Rev. G. Ll Kerr as president and Editor G. G. Page as secretary. Attorney N. F. McMillan was made temporary chairman and after some round table discussion, the work of organization was done. i"* ? i- i?i :n o _i a -i a. RaaIt nugi\ n in nvwvruf np in v? *?w? Hill is to have a camp for boys this summer. This action was made final at the meeting: of the Y. M. C. A. directors, held early in this week. A committee of R. C. Burts and W. J. Roddey has been spending some time in connection with Secretary Tucker in the preparation of the plans that will make the camp possible An alarm was sounded Wednesday night from West White and Chatham, on account of fire in the dry room of the Carhartt mill. The fire company responded at once but their services were not needed, as the sprinkler system had it out by the time they reached there Tuesday night shortly after 9 o'clock, fire did considerable damage to the home of S. N. Sowell on Park avenue. It was caused by the explosion of an oil stove in the bath room on the second floor. Miss Ixtulse Sowell was at home alone at the time. The firemen responded promptly and their good work saved the home from destruction. Insurance on the house and contents was carried with the First Trust and Savings hank Raymond Holroyd, who has heen quite ill with pneumonia, continues to improve and his many friends ntluh for him ji unoprfv rpoovprv I ? Fort Mill Times, April 8: There was something of a rush to the two tianks here on the last day of March by the taxpayers who had put off the payment of their state and county taxes until the last moment, the local banks being county depoeitoriea Information was received Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. J. B. Elliott of the death at Morganton, N. C., of her aunt, Mra Pattie Hague, who was well known in this city. Mrs. Hague was a sister of the late Dr. J. H. Thornwell, and is survived by a sister, Mra Anderson, of Morganton Mra W. Mc. Culp has been seriously 111 for a week at her home on East Booth street. Her condition this morning was reported as slightly improved. With a view to experimenting with the growing of Oeorgla ribbon cane, Mr. W. M. Carothers several days ago received a shipment of the I cane seed which he will sow on his plantation west of Fort Mill. Mr. Carothers is of the opinion that there . is money in other crops than ail cot- / ton and will give the ribbon cane & / try out The many friends of Mra /' Thos. B. Spr&tt will be pleased to / learn that she was able to return to her home in this city Monday from a ^ Charlotte hospital, where she had ' been under treatment for several weeks. ? * * Gastonia Gazette, April 9: Mrs. Nancy Hunter Craig, widow of the late Robert J. Craig, died suddenly between the hours of 2 and 4 o'clock Wednesday morning at the residence of her son, Mr. J. Henry Craig, at the county jail, death being caused by a stroke of apoplexy. Mra Craig was, before her marriage, Miss Nancy Ervin Hunter, and was born in the Bethel section of Tork county, S. C\, on August 22, 1842, being in her seventy-third year at the time of her death. She was married to Mr. Robert J. Craig on December 22, 1884. Her husband died on November 19, 1910. Mrs. Craig was the mother of seven children, all of whom are living and are residents of Gastonia. They are: Messra W. Dorle Craig, J. Henry Craig, Ben W. Craig, B. Hunter Craig, Oscar O. Craig, Chaa B. Craig, and Mra Walter L. Head. She is also survived by one sister, Mra. Caroline Stowe of Gastonia, widow of the late C&pL W. L and one brother. Mr. Sam Hunter, who lives In Texas Eugenia, the 9-year-old daughter of Sheriff and Mrs. W. N. Davis, had the misfortune to fall while playing Tuesday afternoon, and break both bones of her right arm at the wrist. The injury was painful but not serious. Dr. R. M. Held was called and set the fracture and the patient returned to her classes in school the following day Mr. A. F. Watte and Miss Ethel Moore were united in marriage Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, by Rev. J. J. Beach, pastor of the East Oastonla Baptist church, at the residence on East Airline avenue. Mr. Watts formerly lived in Stanley, but now holds a position with the firm of D. H. Campbell & Co., at the Flint mill. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mra A. E. Moore, who live on Ozark street On Easter Sunday, Rev. G. P. Abernethy, pastor of the Dallas and High 8hoals Baptist churches, officiated at three weddinga At 9 o'clock Sunday morning, he pronounced the ceremony uniting Mr. Ed Propst and Miss Vertle Thornburg in marriage at the home of the bride's parents at Worth. At 9.30 o'clock, Mr. Charles Sain and Miss Vira Rumfelt were married by him ut the bride's hoine In Worth. Sunday afternoon, at his residence in Dallas, he officiated at the marriage of Mr. Thomas Robinson and Miss Cary Robinson, the bride being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Robinson of Dallas Postmaster John R. Rankin states that' the records of the local postotflce show a slight Increase for the quarter ending March 31, over the previous quarter. The actual Increase is $118.22. While not large, It Indicates an Increasing business. The month of March, 1916, showed an increase in receipts over March, 1914, of $69.47. Work on the Armington hotel, opposite the Southern passenger depot. which w.is discontinued last fall, was resumed this week and will be continued steadily until the building and its furnishings are complete and ready for occupancy. It Is now confidently expected that the hotel will be ready for guests by the middle of August, or not later than the first of September The annual meeting of the Commercial club was held I ut?3Utt> ulttlll 1u iiic viuw vviiid wtv. the First National bank, Dr. D. A. Garrison, president, presiding. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: W. T. Rankin, president; L. F. Groves, first vice president; Dr. R. M. Reid, second vice president; J. W. Timberlake, secretary and treasurer. Lancaster News, April 9: At the attractive new bungalow built recently by her mother, Mrs. J. F. Lathan, Miss Jessie Lathan was married, yesterday afternoon to Mr. Beatty Thompson, formerly of this county, but now a resident of Alabama. Yesterday, promptly at 6 p. m., the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gregory on Main street, was the scene of an interesting ceremony, by which their daughter, Miss Carrie Gregory, became the bride of Mr. J. Franklin Smith of Mooresville, N. C. No cards were Issued and only a few neighbors and close friends of the family were present The Northern Gibraltar. It is only a quarter of a century, writes a contributor to Fields, since Helgoland was an English possesion. A British force seized the barren rock in 1807, during hostilities with Denmark, which used to own it; and such was its strategical importance that England insisted on keeping it at the end of the war. Helgoland is opposite the mouth of the Elbe and Weser rivers, and Is twenty-eight miles from the nearest point on the mainland. There are really two islands, and they are Important because they command the approaches to Hamburg and Bremen, and the entrance to the Kiel canal. The main island is a huge rock about a mile in length by some five hundred yards wide, with steep red cliffs that rise two hundred feet above sea level. A channel a quarter of a mile wide separates the main rock from a little Islet called Sand Island, or Duen-Insel. The landing place is at the southeast corner of the Island, where a sandy spit called the Uuterland Is connected with the top of the cliffs, or oberland, by a long flight of steps and an elevator. There is a resident population of nearly four thousand, and during the summer months forty thousand holiday makers visit Helgoland for the bathing from the "dune." The German occupation dates from 1890. In that year the British and German governments made an agreement by which Geimany engaged to to recognize a protecorate of Great Britain over the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. and the dominations of the Sultan of Witu and the adjacent territory up to kismayu; and Great Britain engaged to cede Helgoland to Germany. The Islands were fortified in the days of the British occupation, but the Germans have greatly strengthened the works since they got possession of them. They have replaced the British batteries by armed turrets mounting guns of heavy caliber, and they have spent large sums on the harbor works. Helgoland is one of the strongest strategic defenses of the short but marvelously protected German coast on the North sea The sea, however, is steadily wearing Helgoland away. In 800 A. D.. it was 120 miles in circumferance. By 1300, it had decreased to a circum terence 01 ioriy-nve mues, unu uy 1649, it covered only four square miles. At present it is hardly onethird of one square mile in area.? Youth's Companion.