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YORKVILIE ENQUIRER. l. m. qrist's sons, publisher*. \ % DfUJSjjajjert: 4or fwmoliott of th$ political, ^oqial> ^(jrtyultur^l and Commercial Jnteresls of th$ feopty. j nRM^Q%^l0kFY^^^nci ? - - j^i ? -? ? established 1855. YORKVILLE, S.~C.. FHit)AY, JUNE 18,1915. NO. 49. | When Billy Sunda = $ By ALEXANE | Copywright. 1913, by the H. K. F1 CHAPTER XVIII. i A Business Venture. In a few moments Vivian came out \ and George Caldwell also joined the \ company on the porch. After a little ( while Joy Graham turned to George j and Vivian, who were sitting togetner < on a' settee and said: "Won't you two please excuse Mr. Nelson and myself? j I want to talk a little business to him ] privately." Leaving them on the porch, Reginald ' and Joy Graham sauntered out into a i pasture field. 1 "I have come to see you this evening i about your future plans," said the girl. "It may seem improper for a ] young woman in my place to do this, i but I am not doing it for your sake, i remember. I am thinking of the honor i of our family and also of the good of t Bronson. Wre need just such a paper t in Bronson as you had made the Cou- 1 Her?a newspaper that has principle ] and which stands for the welfare of t the community at all times. I want j you to originate and control just such r a newspaper in Bronson. I have even 1 named this new paper. It will be call- c ed the Bronson Tribune, and the editor of it will be Reginald Nelson." f The ex-editor looked in astonishment i at the girl by his side. c "Tell me what you mean," Reginald c responded after a brief pause. "I have a little fortune which was I left to me by my mother's family," a Joy Graham continued. "This came into my entire control when I was * eighteen, and I want to use a part of a it in this enterprise for the good of a Bronson. I said I believed in you. h Now I will prove it." The girl stopped and opened a hand- C bag which she carried on her left u arm. She took out a small package a and handed it to Reginald. "You will find (5,000 in that package," she said, c '"At the end or a monin air. imvis Parker, the lawyer, will give you li another package of bills of equal v amount, and in still another month you p will get (5,000 more. I want to intrust this to you that you may estab- t lish with it a real newspaper which t will make effective in our social life \ the teachings of Mr. Sunday and Dr. Rutledge. I Reginald Nelson was too amazed to c speak for a moment, and he stood n holding the package which the girl had-given him, looking alternately ? from it to his companion. "I understand," he answered slowly,' n "but I could not think of thus risking o your inheritance" f "It is a matter of business, remember," said the girl, with determination, ii "The newspaper is to belong to you, h then?" After a silence Reginald spoke h thus to the girl. A "Yes," she answered, "but my part q in the enterprise is, of course, to re- v main a secret for the present. Mr. Davis Parker will act as my trustee, f and you will never need to consult c with me directly in regard to anything v connected with the Bronson Tribune, f as he will be my agent." t Reginald Nelson knew Mr. Davis J Parker well. He was one of the rising ?' young lawyers of Bronson, and in com- b pany with several other members of ? the Bronson bar he had "hit the sawdust trail" during the tabernacle 8 meetings. E "I think I understand your propo- b sition, Miss Graham, and I accept it, ? assuring you that I will guarantee b you against any financial loss. I am P glad to say that I can make good this C guarantee some time." r "No guarantee is necessary," replied the girl stoutly. "I am making a busi- e ness investment." F "Tbe enterprise will succeed," said 1 Reginald, his enthusiasm beginning to h awaken as he saw his life plans open before him. t "When do you think you can bring b out the first edition of the Tribune?" asked Joy as they neared the Derwent b home. " "I will return to Bronson tomorrow," s rejoined Reginald, "and I think I can s ront a Kiiilrlinv rrctt manhinnrv o n/1 sudden reappearance in Bronson and 11 of his contemplated plant for a rival r newspaper. o "It is a bluff," said Mr. Graham, in I astonishment, when he first heard the * news. "The fellow will not dare to * do that." If, Mr. Graham was astonished when 51 he first heard of Reginald Nelson's purpose to start a rival newspaper, he s was dumfounded the next day at * something still more amazing to him. Davis Parker, the young lawyer who t was the legal adviser of the reform s element, called on him and paid in e full the amount of the judgment against Reginald for his shares of r stock in the Courier Publishing com- \ pany. I "I)o you want to purchase these t shares which Mr. Nelson owns?" asked s the young lawyer after he had settled t the judgment by depositing with Mr. ( Graham the cash for the full amount, t "At what price will he sell them?" i j y Came to Town { ?ER CORKEY ^ y Co. f asked Mr. Graham in response. "He has authorized me to sell them to you at the same price he paid for them. If you do not buy them he will advertise them for sale in his own paper which will be issued in a few weeks." "The shares are not worth what he paid for them now," responded the lawyer, somewhat off his guard. "All right," answered Davis Parker; 'he will advertise them and get what ae can out of them. He does not wish to have any connection henceforth with the Courier." Before leaving Mr. Graham's office Oavls Parker gave the older lawyer i still more severe shock by remark- ' ng: "You have been publishing a lumber of defamatory articles for over ! i month in regard to Mr. Nelson. I im sure you know you have already aid yourself liable to a suit for libel. However, Mr. Nelson will pay no atention to what has already been * irinted in your newspaper, but if you nention him again in any such way le has ordered me to begin a suit for lamages immediately." At a conference of Bud McCrea's fiends. which was held that evening n the Courier office, the sudden turn ' >f affairs was discussed by the dis- 1 :ouraged conspirators. 1 "I thought we had that fellow 1 Celson fixed," exclaimed McCrea with ? * workmen together so that I can begin 1 publication within a month or six s weeks." "Where have you two been?" asked I the farmer's daughter when they had 11 reached the porch. "If I see any more s of this, Joy, I shall be compelled to speak to Roland." C "Don't worry," replied Joy, with a wan little smile. "Mr. Nelson and I s have finished all the business discus- a sion we will ever need to have togeth- ' er. I came to announce to him that 1 he is to be the editor of a new paper 0 which will soon be published in Bron- 11 son." 0 On the following day, to the sur- ' prise of friends and enemies alike, 11 Reginald Nelson appeared in Bronson and commenced at once his plans for 1 the publication of the Bronson Tri- 11 bune. t When Mr. Graham and Roland Greg- a ory returned from their trip to the east, where they had engaged a new ' editor at a high salary, they were as- I founded to hear of Reginald Nelson's in oath. * One of the councilmen of the city vas present and informed them that i reform ticket had already been .greed on by the "Rutledge crowd," as ie called the reformers. "I heard about that," said Roland Jregory. "I understand they have put ip Edgar Prince's name for mayor, nd George Caldwell, Dr. Gracely and 4r. Cameron have been picked for ouncilmen. Think of it!" Bud McCrea frowned darkly as he ieard these names spoken which he J ell knew boded no good to his emiire in Bronson. "That fellow, Nelson, him, is at c he bottom of it all. He is worse than he preachers. Can't we make away c irlth him?" "You are right, McCrea," chimed in t loland Gregory. "If I got a good I hance I would like to rid our com- 8 nunity of that fellow myself." "Who is this fellow, Nelson?" asked c IcCrea. Mr. Graham told the history of Regiiald as far as he knew it, speaking e f the letter which he had received * rom London a short time before. c "I am convinced there is something 1 n his record in F^gland, if we can get 1 lold of it, which will enable us to 8 iurl him out of our community," said'1 Ir. Graham earnestly. "Let us keep k ;uiet for a few weeks and I will In- ? estigate." Although Innocent of the further eforts which were being made to dis- r redit and ruin him, Reginald Nelson 8 iras working like a Trojan getting his 1 iew publishing plant in order. For- 1 unately a few days before the visit of oy Graham to the Derwent farm the I oreman of the Courier had resigned, r eing unable to endure the insolence f f Ned Rowlands. Reginald Nelson ' ound him packing his household 8 oods and getting ready to leave t tronson for Grand Rapids, where he 8 ad been offered a minor position in 8 ne of the printing offices. It did not 1 ake much persuasion on Reginald's * art to convince the ex-foreman of the I .'ourier that it was to his interest to emain in Bronson. 1 "Where did the fellow get his mon- 8 y?" asked Roland Gregory of his t rospective father-in-law one day as r he two men were talking in the Gra- 1 am home. ' Joy Graham listened attentively to * he conversation of her future hus- I and and her father. c "I am unable to find out who is I acking him financially, but I expect t t is Edgar Prince. Prince will be * upported for mayor by this new c heet." ? "I think Bronson is arousing itself ' o be worthy of its high place in 8 outhern Michigan," answered the girl iravely. "The reforms which Edgar 8 'rince and his friends are fighting for a nean the redemption of our city from c ocial paganism.'* * "Hush, daughter," responded Mr. t Iraham. 1 "If you want to enter politics, Joy," I aid Roland laughingly, "you will have t n opportunity this fall. Your father I s to run for mayor against Edgar c >rince." The news that Mr. Graham ? T the law firm of Millman & Graham r tad accepted the nomination for may- 1 >r from the hands of McCrea and his i riends brought much joy to Bronson's t inderworld. f The Edgar Prince faction suffered he disadvantage of being without a lewspaper, while the Courier in every ( (ossible way hurled abuse and scorn i it the "visionaries." c "When can you issue the first num- c >er of the Tribune?" asked Edgar i ?rince anxiously. "I am planning to bring out the first lumber on October 1." answered Regi- a laid promptly. "That will give us iver a month in which to enlighten the j eople of Bronson in regard to seme hings which ought to be known, and i have no fears about the result." \ "The new editor of the Courier is an ible fellow," responded Mr. Prince, i and I can see that he is influencing t ome of our business men to favor the vide open policy." 1 "Come into our pressroom and see r he new machinery which we are in- f italling,"' said Reginald, and he ushii'Ofl Pilirar Prinoo Infn hlo i?lont 1 "I have been thinking:." said Regi- j laid slowly, "that it would he an ad- a vantage if we could erect our own \ abiding for the Tribune and plan to liter it next spring. If we could berin the erection at once it would give ( he paper a better standing in the \ ommunity. If I could get some of \ he business men in Bronson who are \ nterested in our reforms to take stock l in the Tribune I believe I could make the newspaper a power not only in Bronson, but all over southern Michigan." After a further conference the result was that a large Tribune Publishing company was organized. A week before the publication of the much expected first issue of the Tribune Reginald Nelson distributed circulars over Bronson announcing the advent of the new organ of reform. The circulars weft headed, in leaded type, "The Bronson Tribune, the People's Paper." This circular described briefly the policies which would be advocated by the Tribune and promised some interesting details in regard to the exposure made in tne Indeoendenco dav edi tion of the Courier. "The Tribune will be a newspaper without a muzzle," said the circular in conclusion. (To Be Continued.) A BACKWARD PEOPLE Folks Living on Adriatic Have Not Progressed Like Those of Other Climes. "A much mixed, backward and strangely superstitious people are those who dwell along the western shores of the Adriatic sea, according to a bulletin issued by the National Geographic society, which sketches the latest folk to be brought upon the cattle frontier in their pleasant hillmd-valley homes, stretching from rrlest to the southern tip of Dalmaia. Continuing, the bulletin says: "Greek colonies and Roman municpia; Byzantian officials and sick Frank abandoned on the rocks of Zara }y Crusaders; Italians exiled during he centuries of strife among their setty states or brought thither by rade ventures; the flood of Slavotian and, later, of Ottoman invasion; ill these are the elements of the peo)le living along Austria-Hungary's leacoast. Franks, Byzantians, Croats, Inonlolro Tnrlro Hiinmrlnnii Ounr. ;se, Neapolitans, Germans, and, of irst importance, Venetians have ruled various parts of this coast at different imes. The heavy gTound-tone of this ihore people is Slavonian, but there s besides a jumble of almost every )ther racial element under the sun. "From Triest, downward, the Slavonians predominate. Latin writers i loted that these Slavonian tribes knew 10 form of monarchial government, >ut that all matters of the tribe were lealt with by a common national :ouncil. And today the individual Dalmatian and Istrian is one of sturliest independence. These Slavonians vorshipped a god of thunder, sacred rroves, nymphs, and genii, special>owered beings, of all descriptions; ind they still do many odd fetish services, though more Christian peoples, >f more simple and abundant faith, ire not to be found. "Vampires, diabolical ghosts, witchis, 'Vilen,' and vengeful spirits are >eld in great respect throughout this " lountry, and the folklore Is rich in heir doings and in the common moral'.i philosophy of self-preservation in i world Ulled with such discouraging hings. The 'Alp,' or night-mare, is a litter old maid, recognizable by her rarb, who sits on the back or breast ( >f the sleeper and torments him, maymp fatally. She cannot, for some eason or other, sit upon the sleeper's ide, and so the true Dalmatian never hinks of sleeping in any other way han on his side. "The vampire pursues his peculiar Dalmatian orgies in the guise of u nan or woman, lately dead and of aulty existence, and is said to be nercly a human skin filled with blood md covered with a shroud. This creaure waits at night along byways and ;raveyards for his victims, and, also, it times, rattles the window shutters >r throws down tiles from the roof, t thorn-stick for thrusting the vam>ire." "Witches are bad weather creatures; heir evil is unfettered only with the torm and mist. To kill them, one hrows three grains of corn and a wax andle at the lightning before the founder sounds. Thus, they are best tilled while the storm is yet a great vay off. 'Vilen' are maids, with horse's ) loofs. Mostly these 'Vilen,' or wood ^ reatures, are good and tolerant of luman happiness, but they have a fa- { al tendency for stealing handsome, lew-born children. The newly arrived baby, therefore, in a Dalmatian listrict frequented by 'Vilen' is closey watched until baptism, when the ibductors are powerless. "To preserve their vineyards from ummer hail, the peasants throw salt .nd shredded garlic at the black louds. In order to force the vines to ( ?ear fruitfully, children are taken Into j he vineyards on Innocents' day, when hey switch the vines and sing: 'Bear, (ear fruit, pretty vine, else will I cut hy head.* This exhortation is said to >e very effective. To spill wine on J ne's self is great luck, and a luck oft>n enjoyed along the rocky coast. To neet a viper in the house is also good uck: while the birth of black lambs ( >r the entering of a house left foot irst, on the other hand, are sad mis- ( ortunes." t c Didn't Eat His Paper.?Andrew t ^armical, managing editor of a local . lewspaper, was alone in his office the , >ther morning when a man entered the f lour, which he quietly closed and \ ocked, says a dispatch from Okmul- , jee, Ok la. ? "Are you the editor?" Carmical was , isked. I "No, but I represent him," the news- ( japer man replied. "Then I'm going to make you eat ] ast night's issue of your paper," the t visitor said. ] "All right, but before you do, you'd , jetter lock the door again. It has t ome open," Carmical said. , The man turned, but the door was j Mf'lf Pti fi 11 rl u'hpn ho fono/1 Purminnl igain, he looked into the muzzle of in automatic pistol. The newspaper man was not beaten, >ut the stranger was arrested. In ' ail he gave his name as John Clark md said that an article in the paper vas a direct slap at him. I ? < A wrench that its Ohio inventor < laims will replace the monkey | vrench and that will handle pipe as i veil as nuts of all sha|>es has a milled I vheel, adjusted by a spring clip, in > dace of the lower jaw. 1 FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHER! As Traced In Early Files of Th Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDA Bringing Up Records of the Past am Giving the Younger Readers of To day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl edge of the Things that Most Con corned Generations that Have Gon Before. The first installment of the notes ap pearing under this heading was pub lished in our issue of November 14 1913. The notes are being prepared b: the editor as time and opportunity per mit. Their purpose Is to bring int< review the events of the past for th< pleasure and satisfaction of the olde: people and for the entertainment am Instruction of the present generation. 139TH INSTALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, Dec. 21, 1864.] From the Reserve Forces. Florence, S. C., Dec. 15, 1864. It is just three months today sine our battalion left home, and thougl we have lost several from disease, w have got along tolerably well so fai There has been a general clearing o measle cases from the hospital those who were able to travel having THE HOMES Ol Photographic Evidence York i This photograph of a handsome a number that The Enquirer has had provement that is being made along J GUTHRIESV This building, in district No. 61, expense of $1,200 and for quite a v of the rural school buildings of the special levy of 4 mills, and receives der the rural graded school act. The are J. C. Bell, M. Bratton and J. W Miller and Mary Clark. oeen sent home to "Christmas. A lew still remain but the general health if the camp is much better than it haf ieen. The exchange of prisoners is still ijoing on. They are delivered ir Charleston harbor instead of at Savannah as heretofore. Though they ire sent off a thousand at a time we lave new accessions daily and jusl while writing, a number are passing lur quarters on the way to tlie stockide. They were captured recently al Pocotaligo and have thus succeeded n gaining a foothold in the interior. It is now understood that a stocklde is being built on the South Caroina railroad eleven miles below Coumbia, to which point the prisoner! -emaining unexchanged will be transferred and the reserves sent on to the front as the militia will relieve them if any further guard duty. It is hoped jy that time (some twenty days, it is jaid) our commanding officers will be it their posts; as it is we are like sheep without a shepherd, and it it Hard to tell from one day to anothei who is in command. The Georgians ire still lording it over us but it it hought they will be relieved after a while. Gov. Brown certainly hat some use for them in his own state, There is none for them here except tc teep out of harm's way and sporl ?ay uniforms, trade in greenbacks and Yankee jewelry and drinking whisky \s a consequence, late hours are kepi ind we have a new feature in guard nounting at 3 o'clock p. m., instead if in the morning as has been the mstom from time immemorial; the change produces great dissatisfaction imong both officers and men, but it cannot last longer than some soberninded men are placed in command, Sen. Winder did not stay with us ong but left a good many in his trail who should be doing duty at the front with guns on their shoulders. A company of "M. D.'s" can be licked up at any hospital station and we would call the attention of the war brokers to the fact. It is a source of regret among us hat the hospitality of our fellowjitizens at home should be called in question that Yankee prisoners are letter treated in Yorkville than oui iwn soldiers. A week since, one of )ur men on his way home with a sick 'urlough had his leg hurt and was left it the York depot until late in the evening without assistance until a jood Samaritan moved him in a hand jarrow to the hotel and procured a light's lodging and refreshments. The next morning arrangements were nade by the soldier for conveyance lome by an old "hacker" for $25 a Hollar a mile, but at the end of the journey $50 was demanded and paid! [f this is not extortion what is it? II his be the hospitality we meet at lome what must we expect from strangers? It is not necessary to name he party; he has been for some time narked by high professions and low practices which, like old age, rather ncreases miser-like. 'Still prowling, relentless and eager to save. Still grasping for cash on the brink of the grave." The near approach of Christmas Holidays, though but little merriment jan be expected, at this time, has rented a furor for furloughs among >oth young and old. They had been suspended for twenty days, which :ime is near out and as your correspondent hopes to be with you in "a few days,' he would like to have 5 company home. Many of our boys *] have not been home In three months I | and as they have withstood disease, 0 a furlough home to see their sweet- J t hearts should reward them as they may have to go into hard service on I their return to duty. ? The scramble for the office of gov- i 1 ernor will be over before you receive this. Whoever may be the "lucky i man," the position to be properly fill- ' ed, will be one of great responsibility. . The hand that is to guide the ship of . state through the storm now threate enlng, should be a steady and sober ' one; there should be no halting be- ' tween two opinions now, but the man 1 _ of nerve is required; one who will take - the responsibility of putting in the ( army the Innumerable skulkers that [ infsst the capital and with spirit and j capacity to lead the troops over which 8 he Is comander-in-chief. The man r who can now claim exemption from any cause; with the Yankees besieging Pocotaligo, are unfit for any office of either profit or trust, and the sooner the state is rid of them ) the better. At this time every man should be in the field; if they shrink now their coward hearts will more e surely fall them when the danger Is i at their own doors; and helpless woe men and children cling to them for . protection. When the history of this f war is written, though many brave , soldiers will be numbered among those ; "unrecorded dead," there should be a F THE SCHOOLS of Modern Progress In County. York county school building, is one of engraved to show the wonderful lmthat line in York county. ' 4* . . ILLE SCHOOL. was erected several years ago at an vhile it was one of the most creditable county. The school district pays a state aid to the amount of 1200, unequipm'ent is modem. The trustees r. Mooiv. and the teachers are Annie r ? C I i. page reserved for those who slipped ( i into soft places and Nero-like, fiddled I i while Rome was burning. The great J rames of the Revolution have passed [ I away, blood has degenerated and time i i has created new names for the pages c of history, let the broken down aristoc- j ' racy who have gloried in the name of ^ s their ancestors remember the deeds i ; they are now vainly called on to per- ? : form. Do they relish the picture? [ E. j (To be continued.) 1 ??? ! FOR SERVICE ON JURY ? a Right Kind of Man Needs to Possess 1 i Character and Information. The proposed ten-to-two verdict for I ! Juries in civil cases is a step in the jj 1 right direction, writes a correspond- N ' ent. I have served on Juries for over \ 1 ten years, working in the supreme ! courts, the city courts and the crlml- ^ ! nal courts, and my experience has j 1 shown me that on almost every Jury is r found one or more of the following: t ' The man who has not enough edu- ^ 1 cation and experience to weigh evl- r L dence. c 1 The man of anarchistic or socialistic (l tendencies who refuses to accept the ' 1 judge's interpretation of the law. t The man who habitually votes for t 1 the poor or unfortunate in a suit J against a corporation or a well-to-do c individual. li ' The deaf man who does not hear the ' evidence. ^ ' The man who is unable to compre- d ' hend legal language, as. for instance, v 1 the one who consider the weight of evidence dependent upon quantity j, rather than quality. a The self-sufficient man who won't 0 I v 1 argue. I I 1 The abusive man who insults his jj 'fellow-jurors and lejists that one who r changes his vote has been corrupted. ? ! Many who have done jury duty will t recognize the above types and will re- v ! call the time when one of them has 5 caused 11 tired men to be needlessly ? ' locked up in a stuffy room for hours, u In a case of statutory assault the man c 1 next to me, in advance of the introduc- ^ 1 tion of any evidence, whispered to me: s [ "The legislature had its turn: the dis- s trlct attorney is now to have his: we'll ' have our turn later. We should interpret this law in a 'common sense' * ' way." It is needless to say the case 1 resulted in a disagreement the second q time. Two men on the Jury openly D 1 declared they would not vote for a s conviction in this particular case, no ^ matter what the evidence or the law g in the case might be. The solution of the civil jury ques- ^ tion is a majority verdict and a deter- ^ mination of the intelligent business ti man not to "duck" this most import- ' ant civic duty. If the men who should 1 serve on juries would serve, the gen- , ^ j* ' eral grade of juries would be raised j, and attorneys would have a better op- ? portunity to select juries which could h "n'l ........la .'nrHintc npcnpdinp ' to the evidence and the law.?New [J York Times. p v I) No matter how old a Cossack is he a belongs to the reserve forces of the c ! "National Defense," in Russia, and, if required, accompanies his sons and his () , grandsons to battle. F 1 _ e i Representative Claude Kitchin of j North Carolina, will succeed Oscar b Underwood, senator-elect, as Democratic floor leader when congress i convenes again. A FOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES Hews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. ;ONU?NStO FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Lancaster News, June 15: Two Jeaths occurred at the home of Mr. J. A. Williams, just east of Heath Springs last week, one, that of a child less than two years old, and the >ther that of a mother in Israel, 80 years of age, showing that the grim -eaper no more respects youth than >ld age. Little Ruby, infant daughter ? ?- ?PronU William* nt :he Flint Ridge community, died at ler grandfather's home June 8th, aged me year and eight months, and was juried the following day at Bethany :hurch, near Westville, the services jelng conducted by Rev. Mr. Fulmer, jastor of the church. On Thursday, he 10th, Mrs. Caroline M. Truesdel jassed away after an illness of several nonths, during which she was tendery cared for in the home of her daugh.er, Mrs. Williams. She was the widjw of the late George Truesdel of Kershaw county. She was 80 years >f age and up to the time of her last llness seemed to be well preserved jhysically and mentally Mr. D. ?. Bell of the Dry Creek section, died it his residence at 1 p. m. Saturday. He had been in declining health for tome time. Mr. Bell was a son of the ate Nelson Bell and Ellen Adams, and vas born in the Bell Town section oi he county, October, 1836. His wife vas Sarah Jane Ferguson, who surrives him, with the following children: ). H. Bell, Mrs. Ella McKeown, J. F. 3ell, Mrs. W. J. Culp, Mrs. Peter Bigfart, L.. P. Bell, E. G. Bell and Mrs. Jlllan Hough After suffering vith pellagra for a year or more, Emnle Denton, eldeet daughter of Mr. ind Mrs. Will Denton, succumbed to hat dread disease Monday. She was ust fourteen years of age and before he ravages of sickness laid hold up>n her, seemed to be a very promisng young girl. * Gaffney Ledger, June 15: Joe V. iVhelchel, official cotton weigner, ormer supervisor of Cherokee couny, and a highly respected farmer, lied at his home on Mill street Frllay morning about 10 o'clock. He had >een ill for several weeks before his leath. Only about a month before his ieath Mr. Whelchel underwent an iperatlon in a Spartanburg hospital, >ut his convalescence from this was is rapid as could be expected. It was bought that he had practically re,'overed and he had resumed his busiless life. In fact, he walked down own on last Tuesday morning to vote n the special election that day. Reurning from the polls, he suffered a levere relapse about 10 o'clock. He lever recovered from this attack but gradually grew weaker until his death same Friday morning Dr. Chas. danly of Chicago, who is visiting his laughter, Mrs. Edward Watson, at ler home in this city, preached at the irst Baptist church Sunday mornng and the Cherokee Avenue Bapist church Sunday night Mr. A. a Hollman, for many years sergeant if the local police force, has entered he real estate business Mrs. Dora Lile, of Coddo, Okla, wife of the ate Ch.pt. J. B. Lile, and her daugh- ' er, Miss Fannie, left the city yesterlay after spending a few days in the :lty visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith. In Columbia they will visit firs. Fannie Means and will return to [ Jaffney the latter part of this week, ifrs. Lile is the daughter of Margamin i dcArthur, who conducted a general ( ountry store at Limestone before the ' ?ivil war. Capt. Lile, her husband, was i prominent man in this section, beng a school teacher. Many of the ilder people of the city and county renember him well. Capt. and Mrs. Jle left this county about 44 years go. Capt. Lile died a few years ago, i nd the present is Mrs. Lile's first rlsit to her old home since she went vest. Chester Reporter, June 14: We un- i lerstand that Mr. D. H. Shannon is i nterested in the establishment of a oiler mill in Chester, and we hope hat business men of the community vill assure him of their interest and upport, as seven or eight times as nuch wheat has been produced in the :ounty this year as any other year in [uite a while, and the fanners will lecome discouraged if there is no ! onvenient mill for the grinding of heir crop Mr. J. R Davis, a naive of the western section of Chester 1 rounty, and a brother-in-law of dessrs. S. B. and W. C. Hardin of this ounty, passed away Saturday at his lome in Moulbrook, Fla., and was mried yesterday Deputy C. Y. 1 foung arrested a negro at Fishing i ^reek Friday, who bore a marked reemblance to Jim Lowry, the negro , vho shot and killed Chief of Police ones at Shelby, N. C., in 1901, and 1 or whom there are rewards aggregat- i ng $600; but a more careful reading ( ii me uescnpwuii ui i>>v?ij a*> oc... iut at the time of the killing' coninced the officers that the negro ar- ' ested by Mr. Young, while remarkably ] ike the man sought, was not the . ight party The Jewelry store of (r. L. A. Wise was badly damaged iy fire between one and two o'clock i his morning. When discovered, smoke , rag pouring out of the windows on rfain street, and the fire had gained ' onsiderable headway. All of the jew- i Iry was locked up in the safe as ] isual, but there was a large stock of ( hina-ware, clocks, cuttlery, etc., in , he shelves that was badly damaged iy the smoke and water. The loss to I took and building is covered by in- ] u ranee. * Rock Hill Record, June 14: The Iighla.nd Park school won the prize or keeping the building and grounds ' nost attractive during the season, i "he prize is offered to the Aragonlanchester, Arcade-Victoria and al- . o to the Highland Park In acordance with the result of a meeting 1 ield last Monday night by the con regation of the Church of Our Savior, , he old Reid house, owned by J. H. V'itherspoon, which was moved some ! ime ago from Main to Caldwell street, I as been rented for the use of the rec- , or, Rev. Nathan Matthews and fami- . V < Gastonia Gazette, June 15: County "arm Demonstration Agent B. P. 1 'oik left yesterday on No. 37 to i pend his two weeks' vacation at his 4 nme at Pomarie. S. C.. and Ruston, ?i The four massive brick colmils in front of the Armington hotel i ave been completed, except for ( lastering, and the portico above, ( ,'hich is at the third floor, is being Tir 1, hntnl la nnm I n C C Ulll. IV IJI R nil H1C IIWill ... long nicely and it will probably be ompleted within a few weeks 'oil owing a lingering illness of more t han two years, Mrs. Barbara Frone- i erger Weaver died at her home in i tessemer City Sunday morning at i I o'clock, aped 61 years. Mrs. Weav- 1 r was the widow of the late Mr. I ilndsay Weaver, who died on Decern- t er 5, 1905, and is survived by three I aughters, Mrs. Bessie Barnett, Mrs. c *la Barnett and Mrs. Oates Anthony, r II of Bessemer City Mr. D. W. I leacham of Lowell, began harvesting r his wheat crop this morning. It is about the largest crop around here. He has about 65 acres which will probably make about 1,000 bushels. Wheat and oats are generally good around here Among those who left yesterday for Greensboro to attend the State Normal summer school ware Misses Edith Lineberger and Mary Hall of Belmont, and Mary Dixon and Nannie Whitesides of Gastonla. * ROBERT LANSING A Man Who Haa Boon a Tower of Sttength to the President. Washington Dispatch to Philadelphia Public Ledger. Robert Lansing, the counsellor of the department of state, who has become acting secretary of state by the resignation of Mr. Bryan and also, many believe will be the successor of Mr. Bryan as ranking member of the cabinet, is one of the ablest authorities in this country on the conduct of diplomatic affairs and on questions of international law. Mr. Lansing has been counsellor of the state department since April, 1, 1914. At that time he succeeded John Bassett Moore, another American expert on international law. Mr. Lansing has served in the capacity ever since the United States landed troops in Vera Cruz, throughout the Mexican situation, and during all of the European war to date. Especially since the war in Europe imposed on the United States government new, serious and most intricate problems has Mr. Lansing been a tower of strength in the state department. He has been the main source for advice on all questions of international law and neutrality. All questions relating to American neutrality?and they have been numerous?have been referred first to Mr. Lansing for his advice and judgment as to the correct course to be pursued. Mr. Lansing is a son-in-law of John W. Foster, who was former secretary of state. He was well known in Washington even before he became councellor of the state department by 1 reason of his service in a special ca paclty for the state department. He is a native of Watertown, N. Y., and ' a graduate of Amherst college in ' 1886. He is 51 years old, in the prime a# Klo o \r\t \r (a nnlof mnHftflt onH 1 thoughtful, regarded aa a man of ; poise and balance, hard worker and an official of fine judgement and ability. Three years after his graduation, Mr. Lansing was admitted to the bar in 1889. He became a member of the law firm of Lansing & Lansing in that year, a partnership which continued until 1907. In 1892-3, Mr. Lansing became counsel of the United States in the Behrlng sea arbitrations and in 1896-7, he became counsel for the United States Behring sea claims commission. Again in 1903, be became solicitor for the United States government before the Alaskan boundary tribunal. In 1909, the United States once more sought his services and he was employed as counsel in the North Atlantic coast fisheries during the arbitration of that issue between England and the United States at The Hague. Mr. Lansing is a trustee of the Roswell P. Flower Memorial library ' at Watertown, N. Y., where he maintains his home, is a member of the American Society of International ' Law, of the National Geographic society, of the Holland Society of New ( York, of the Psl Upsilon fraternity, and of the American Political Science association. He belongs to the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase and Black 1 River Valley clubs. ' Speaking before the alumni of his * alma mater?Amherst college?on 1 February 24 last, Councellor Lansing y sounded a note of warning regarding ' America's relations to the war. He 1 said: "You may think that I have adopted 1 a too serious vein for an occasion of 1 this sort, but, men of Amherst, these 1 are critical days for our country? ' how critical only those who are in in- ' timate touch with affairs can fully ' realize. It is a time for serious ' thought, a time for anxiety. ' "It is my duty, as many of you 1 know, to deal with the questions of intomoHnnal low and usasre. which ' are arising every day in our relations 1 with other countries. These questions are absorbing interest and many of them are extremely complex, because this war in its magnitude and methods is different from all the wars which have gone before. One can look in vain for precedents In many cases. In fact, we have to abandon the time honored refuge of jurists and diplomas, precedents, and lay hold of the bed rock of principle. Diplomacy today is wrestling with novel problems, to which It must apply natural justice and practical common sense. "This great conflict has introduced the submarine, the aeroplane, the wireless telegraph, and new forms of explosives. It has made mechanical motive power an absolute necessity in military operations. The old strategy j{ surprise has given place to mobility. The petroleum products, essential to rapid motion in the air, on land and beneath the sea, are as necessary to i modern army and navy as arms and ammunition. New devices of communication and transportation are used now for the first time in war, and modes of attack are employed. "The result is that neutral nations bave had to meet a series of problems which have never been solved. The liability of error, the danger of unintentional partiality, and the constant complaint of one or another of the belligerents make the path of neutrality rough and uncertain. When the war began early last August the lepartment of state, amply equipped for its work in times of peace, was forced to re-organize immediately to meet the new conditions and the enormous increase of its business. All it once the department of state found itself the diplomatic clearing house )f the world as well as the banker, rononnrtiitlnn acAnt and medium of ? :ommunicatlon for Americans abroad." * c What's the News??Do you know hat an editor or a reporter for a v lewspaper can in his rounds, stop and isk a hundred persons. "What is the 11 tews?" and ninety out of a hundred f vill reply, "Nothing special,'* and yet t ifty out of that number know somehing that, if not found in the next laper, will astonish them greatly and v lisappoint them more?and perhaps i nake them madder than hornets. .] ">on't be afraid to let the newspaper nan know it.?Newberry Observer. 1 HAPPENING8 IN THE 8TATE Items of Interest From All 8ectiona of South Carolina. The school district which includes the town of Winnsboro, has adopted the compulsory education law. A bank is to be established at Landrum, Spartanburg county, within the next few weeks. The institution will be capitalized at $30,000. The city of Anderson has contracted for 100,000 yards of paving to be laid in that city between now and December 1. R. B. Belser has announced his candidacy for the legislature from Sumter county, to succeed Dr. Geo. W. Dick, resigned. Mr. Belser formerly served two terms in the legislature. Prof. A. B. Spencer, for more than twenty years instructor of Greek in the Presbyterian college, Clinton, was last week awarded the degree of doctor of laws by Centeral University, Kentucky. The machine shops of*D. W. Alderman & Sons company and the Alcolu Railroad company, situated at Alcolu, were destroyed by Are Tuesday night The loss will total several thousand dollars with no insurance. ' The first shipment of cotton from Charleston for a foreign port since April 23, left that port this week, when the Spanish steamer Angel B. Perez sailed for Huelva, Spain, with a cargo of 5,000 bales. Robbers entered the store of Julian Sharpe, at Edmund, Lexington county, Monday night stealing a goodly sum of money and dry goods. The United States poetofflce was located in the store. According to reports received by the state department of education, seventy-one school districts in twentyBlx counties have adopted the compulsory education law which will be in force next year. Something like 600 delegates attended the annual convention of the Southeastern Aerie, fraternal order of Eagles, which met in Columbia this week. Aeries from_North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama were present. The keel of the tug Wando, which Is to be'built at the Charleston navy yard, was laid this week. The contract price is about $125,000. Repairs to the cruiser Olympia, totaling about 1100,000, will also be made at Charleston. Because the patrons of Evergreen school district in Florence county at an election last Friday, defeated a proposition to issue bonds sufficient to build a new school house, the trustees of the school have presented their resignations to the county superintendent of education. Sam Stephens, a Hall county, Oa., negro, was removed from jail Monday night and hanged to a tree by a mob Df more than 100 persona The negro had criminally assaulted the daughter of a prominent white farmer. The negro made his escape after the crime, but was arrested in Madison, 3. C., Sunday night. Chicora college, located in Greenville, will be moved to Columbia, and will be known at Chicora college for Women. Harmony presbytery at its meeting in Sumter Tuesday, cast the iecidlng vote, it being the sixth presbytery in the state to vote for the change. Only one of the eight presbyteries ,'n thp state, Enoree, voted to et the college remain in Greenville. Meyer Caplan, a merchant of Newberry, is at a Baltimore hospital, earning under the direction of a trained nurse to eat virtually without a itomach. He went to Baltimore two iveeks ago to be treated for tumor of :he stomach and surgeons removed all >ut about two inches of this organ. This small flap attaching to the oesophagus was joined to the duodenlum, a part of the small intestine. The nan is now able to take into his sys:em food that is easily digested. This be must take standing, a spoonful at l time, so that each meal takes about two hours. The surgeons think he las many years of usefulness ahead bf him. A coroner's inquest over the body bf the late Sheriff A. D. Hood, who was shot on the court house steps at Winnsboro, Monday morning, as he was conveying Jules Smith, an alleged negro rapist to the court room for trial, was held in Winnsboro Tuesiay, the testimony of a number of witnesses to the tragedy being taken. The coroner's inquest was later adlourned until July 12, in order that :he testimony of several deputies, barticipants in the tragedy and who u*e now in hospitals, might be secured. Clyde Isenhower, alleged leader >f the mob, who killed Sheriff Hood ind the negro prisoner, died in a lospital in Chester at 10.30 o'clock ruesday night. Ernest Isenhower, resse Morrison and Jim Rawls are now ? a? 11 n tne ruirneia coumj j?ji, tiungw vlth participation in the shooting, ind it is expected that a number of >ther persons will be arrested, charged with complicity in the affair. The [senhowers, who are the principals in he affair, are said to be one of the nost prominent families in Fairfield ;ounty, living about seven miles from fVinnsboro. Clyde Isenhower, who is (aid to have mortally wounded SherifT rlood as well as killed the negro and vho, in turn, was mortally wounded >y the sherifT, was a farmer. One of lis brothers is a Baptist preacher in Fairfield county, another is a school eacher, a third is a rural policeman, ind a fourth is a policeman in the own of Winnsboro. It is said that lot more than twenty shots were fired luring the affair which did not last nore than a minute. From the testinony at the inquest Tuesday, it ap>ears that the Isenhower clan were esentful against Sheriff Hood and hat the sheriff as well as a number if other people were in a measure ex?ecting trouble. The sheriff is alleged o have remarked to Solicitor Henry ifter he had been shot and after he lad brought his fatally wounded prismer into the court room: "Well, they ;ot me." Deputies Beckham, Boulvare and Stevens who are wounded, lave a good chance for recovery. The uneral of Sheriff Hood was held yeserday, the brave man being buried rith Masonic honors, the funeral serices being conducted by Rev. Dr. Olver Johnson, assisted by Rev. J. B. Cray wick. Hundreds of people atended the services.