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' I38UED SKMI-WKKHL^ t. m. orist's sous. Pubiiiher.. ) % <JMl8 g(uisjaj(ij: ^or th< $romoiion af fh< ^political, ^oqial, fgri^ultupl and (Commeyial Jntfresta of th? |eopI<. { ESTABLISHED 1855. YORK, src.7FRID AY,AX^QtJST 6, 1915"! NO." <>3. Ml . &TR AN( MGTEfflQFiSj CHAPTER XII. I Lots and Gain. Striving feebly as one who gathers up the shreads and fragments after an explosion. Griswold remembered cloudily the supper of tasteless courses at the Hotel Chouteau. Afterward there were vague impressions, momentary breaches in the wall of inclosing darkness. In one of those intervals a woman had stood beside him, and he seemed to remember that she had put her cold hand on his ^ forehead. When complete consciousness returned, the dream impression ? was still so sharply defined that he was not surprised to find her standing at his bedside. Before he could frame any of the queries which came thronging to the door of the returned consciousness, she smiled and shook her head and forbade him. Late in the day the doctor came; and when the professional requirements were satisfied, Griswold learned the bare facts of his succoring. It was characteristic of the Griswold of other days that the immense obligation under which the Griersons had placed him made him gasp and perspire afresh. Griswold looked long and earnestly - * 41 n?Affloelnnol nifuloor I lit IIIC Itttc Ui IIIO J/I Uivooivuui ? ? ? .?v. . It was a good face, clearly lined, benevolent, and, above all, trustworthy. 'Tell me one thing more, doctor. If you can. What was the motive? Was it Just heavenly good-heartedness?? or?" The doctor's smile was the least possible shade wintry. "It la Pretty Late to Begin Looking for the Thief Now." "When you have lived a few years longer in this world of ours, you will ** "* rv?/^vlv/v 'aa Jnmvlip Intn mntiiroo1 HUl piVUC IVU UCCJ/IJ IlliU III vilfvoi you will take the deed as the sutfleient exponent of the prompting behind it. If I say so much, you will understand that I am not Impugning Miss Grierson's motives. There are times when she is the good angel of everybody in sight, Mr.?" The pause after the courtesy title was significant, and Griswold filled it promptly. "Griswold?Kenneth Griswold. Do you mean to say that you haven't known my name, doctor?" "We have not We took the Good Samaritan's privilege and ransacked your belongings?Miss Margery and I?thinking there might be relatives or friends who should be notified." "And you found nothing?" queried the sick man, a cold fear gripping at his heart. "Nothing but clothing and your toilet tools, a pistol, and a typewritten book manuscript bearing no signature.' Griswold turned his face away and shut his eyes. Once more his stake in the game of life was gone. "There was another package of?of papers in one of the grips," he said, faintly; quite a large package wrapped in brown paper." "We found nothing but the manuscript. Could anyone else make use of the papers you speak of?' Griswold was too feeble to prevaricate successfully. "There was money in the package," he said, leaving the physician to infer what he pleased. "Ah. then you were robbed. It's a pity we didn't know it at the time. It is pretty late to begin looking for the thief now, I'm afraid." "Quite too late," said Griswold monotonously. It was not until after the doctor had gone that Griswold was able to face the new misfortune with anything like a sober measure of equanimity. With or without money he must relieve the Griersons of their selfassumed burden at the earliest possible moment. This was the thought with which he sank into the first natural sleep of convalescence. But during the days which followed, Margery was able to modify it without dulling the keen edge of his obligation. What perfect hospitality could do was done, without ostentation, with the exact degree of spontaniety which made it appear as a service rendered to a kinsman. It was one of the gifts of the daughter of men to be able to ignore all the middle distances between an introduction and a friendship; and by the time Griswold was strong enough to let the big, gentle Swede plant him in a Morris chair in the sun-warmed hay window, the friendship was a fact accomplished. "Do you know, you're the most wonderful person I have ever known?" he said to Margery', on the first of the | J I. 15 LYNDE{ "CDMIOItS " ecy>Y/f/c#r tsrcKMLtj jommrj so*s sunning days when she had come to ? U I - nrln/lAnr anO AnnAflitft hifl IJflUIl 1X1 IUO TT 1I1UVTT OVMV chair. "Do you believe in destiny?" She nodded brightly. "Sometimes I v' do; when it brings things out the way c< I want them to come out." a "I've often wondered," he went on T musingly. "Think of it?somewhere back in the past you took the first step in the path which was to lead ^ you to that late supper in the Chou- 0 teau. Somewhere in my past I took w the first step in the crooked trail that was to lead me there." p "Well?" she encouraged. 1 "The paths crossed?and I am your poor debtor," he finished. "I can never hope to repay you and your father for what you have done." "Oh, yes, you can," she asserted ^ lightly. "You can pass it along to the ^ man farther down. Forget it, and tell me what you want to know about Wahaska." * "First, I'd like to know my doc* . ai tor s name. "The idea!" she exclaimed. "Hasn't nj there been anybody to introduce you? He is Wahaska's best-beloved 'Doc81 tor Bertie'; otherwise Doctor Herbert ^ C. Farnham." A "Doctor Farnham ? ? not Miss Char?" He bit the name in two in cc the middle, but the mischief was done. ai "Yes; Charlotte's father," was the n( calm reply. Then: "Where did you n meet Miss Farnham?" "I haven't met her," he protested m immediately; "she?she doesn't know me from Adam. But I have seen her, ?11 T loom hbr TlfllTiP flild auu x iiauuciivu w iv?. i. ..v* _ 6f her home addres&" ^ "Oh," said the small fitter of deduction pegs; and afterwards she talked and made the convalescent talk, ci pointedly of other things. Ig This occurred in the forenoon of a w pleasant day in May. In the afternoon of the same day Miss Grierson's trap was halted before the door of the ^ temporary quarters of the Wahaska public library. Raymer saw the trap and crossed the street, remembering ?what he would otherwise have forgotten?that his sister had asked him to get a book on orchids. ** Miss Margery was In the reference room, wading absently through the st newspaper files. She nodded brightly ** when Raymer entered?and was not cc in the least dust-blinded by the libra- si ry card In his hand. "You are just in time to help me,' ct she told him. "Do you remember the A story of thaf daring bank robbery in New Orleans a few weeks ago??the as one in which a man made the presi- w dent draw a check and get it cashed ai for him?" 'e Raymer did remember it, chiefly w because he had talked about it at the ^ time with Jasper Grierson, and had wondered curiously how the president a of the Farmers' and Merchants' would 1<I deport himself under like conditions. n< "If you should meet the man face to er face, would you recognize him from the description?" she flashed up at Raymer. CP "Not in a thousand years," he confessed. "Would you?" til "No; not from the description," she admitted. Then she passed to a matter apparently quite irrelevant. "Didn't I see Miss Farnham's re- p< turn noticed in the Wahaskan the other day?" With Charlotte's father a daily vistor to Mereside, it seemed incredible that Miss Grierson had not heard of sil t Y the daughter's homecoming. But Raymer answered in good faith. "They came up as far us St. Louis il on one of the Anchor line?the Belle w ? . .. H Julie?and even Miss Gillman admits " that the accommodations were excel- ( lent. bl th She nodded absently and began to turn the leaves of the newspaper file. m Raymer took it as his dismissal and M went to the desk to get the orchid ^ book. When he looked in again on his way to the street, Miss Grierson ' g) had gone, leaving the file of the Pioneer Tress open on the reading desk. Almost involuntarily he glanced at ^ the first page headings, thrilling to a ^ little shock of surprise when one of ^ them proved to be the caption of another Associated Press dispatch giv- ai ing a 20-line story of the capture and l>< second escape of the Bayou State Se- 111 curity robber on the levee at St. Louis. The reading of the bit of stale news impressed him curiously. Why had 1'' Miss Margery interested herself in ai the details of the New Orleans bank s< robbery? Why?with no apparent ?' special reason?should she have re- s' membered it at all?or, remembering e' it* have known where to look for the " two newspaper references? Raymer left the library speculating vaguely on the unaccountable tan- 'c gents at which the feminine mind s< could now and then fly off from the ^ well-defined circle of the convention- c' ally usual. On rare occasions his P mother or Gertrude did It and he had 01 long since learned the folly of trying to reduce the small problem to terms Cl of known quantities masculine. a "Just the same, I'd like to know ^ why, this time," he said to himself, as he crossed the street to the Manu- Sl facturers' club. "Miss Grierson isn't e at all the person to do things without 0 - - f>! an object." (To be continued.) k Elbert Hubbard.?Down to the t) depths went Elbert Hubbard, with a smiling: eyes that knew no fear, and e all the lovely mermaids rubbered, and r< Neptune shouted, "See who's here!" Well might there be a great commo- \ tion throughout the sea from east to a west, for seldom has old Father Ocean o clasped hands with such a splendid <] guest. The inkstand waits upon his a table, his pen is rusting in the sun; there Is no living hand that is able to do the work he left undone. There is \\ no brain so keen and witty, no voice z dth his caressing tones; and Elbert, i the Dead Man's city, is swapping arns with Davy Jones. And all the :orld that reads the evidence its sordw that he's dwelling there: not all tie warring kings and princes are rorth a ringlet of his hair. Death eeps a record* in his cupboard of vlcms of the monarch's hate; so goes tie tally, up to date. If it would ring you back, Elbert, to twang your arp with goldenstrings, it would not rorry or hurt us to drown a wagon md of kings.?Walt Mason. PUBLISHING THE NEWS luty of Newspaper it to Give its Readers the Truth. The Yorkville Enquirer was seerely criticised because it published ?rtaJn red hot words handed out in speech by Mr. Blease at the Filbert Icnic. In justification of its course he Enquirer writes a capital editorial n the duty of a newspaper to pubsh the news. We reproduce the folding sentence from this editorial hich is quite sufficient: "When it comes to things of general ublic Interest we try to print the ?ws as correctly as we can, whether is pleasing to us or not. We have ) apologies to make in this matter." It is certainly the duty of every ?wspaper to publish the news. It akes no difference what may be the ew of the editor on anything that is In Its news that is fit to print. e owes It to the public, and we do Jt hesitate to add, to himself to give le news to his readers. It is news, nd to publish the news is one of the lost important functions of a newsiper. This means, of course, that he not to color the news, in any way to lit himself, but to hand it out straight om the shoulder, just as it occurred. newspaper that does this may be Itlcisod but It will receive far more immendatlon thnn criticism; for the ?neral public believes In fairness, nd In honesty. And, what if it should ot receive one word of approval? Is nt an editor's sense of right and jusce worth a great deal to him? It atters little what others may think, ) long as he seeks to do right. He nd his paper will command the hlghit admiration and respect from all ght thinking people. We have heard man conaemnea lor speaKing uui hen duty required It, and when his iticg were faced with the question, i he not right? The answer always as: "Yes, he is usually right, but I ish he had not said it.'* Deep down in le heart of that critic there is a sense f right that forces him to approve of r? honest, conscientious man be he lltor or not.?Greenwood Journal. Paying Hi* Way.?In South Carolina lere is a candidate for congress who is developed what might appear range ideas. He is actually paying le newspapers for the use of their >lumns, asking no "free puffs," a conderation expected as a matter of >urse by the average candidate for ingress or any other office. This man, . Hv Miller of Greer, has bought lace in the papers in his district, Just i a merchant or other business man ould make an advertising contract, id is thus reaching the voters in a gitimate and an admfiably honest ay. It has often occurred to us why le free use of the newspaper by candates has not been the subject of press convention paper. It is a cusm coming out of the past when the ?wspapers, from patriotic motives, llisted their space and their energies behalf of the party and the candilte who represented the party, beluse neither the party nor the candiites were able to pay for it, and the ection of these men meant the salvaon of the south. But times have langed. The man who aspires to jblic office has no more right to ex?ct free advertising from a newspa?r than he would expect free goods om a merchant. The country has sen saved and the thousands of patri8 who are volunteering to keep it ived ought to be willing to pay for le privilege. In a few instances a an may be brought forward as mering state or national reward and in hose behalf it would be proper and ght for the papers to enlist their aid >r the good of community or causp, it the average candidate goes into ie campaign for personal aggrandizelent and with no claims as a penslon on press or country. One reason hy so many newspapers in North arolina are poor?some as poor as ib's turkey, others as poor as a June lad?is that they continue to give imething for nothing, countenancing irough force of custom the miscelneous lot of beggnrs that consider lemselves, also through force of ibit, privileged to knock at the doors, nd of which miscellaneous lot the ulitician is the most insistent and iost .ungrateful.?Charlotte Observer. Secret Orders.?There are some prole?but only a few, we believe?who re opposed to secret orders and can ?e no good in them. Those who are f this way of thinking should conde'r what is being done by the (?enrostee tribe of Red Men, which has s headquarters in the Orr mills vilige. Some time ago a member of the >dge died and left a widow and little in. The widow was able to support erself and could have supported her hild, of course, but the Red Men steped in and adopted the boy, in a sort f informal way. Ever since then the Klge has cared for the boy. All of the ost of his living is paid by the lodge, nd the members keep watch over him. 'hey pay for his clothes and everyning he needs, and they send him to chool. The other night they had an ntertainment in their hall in his honr. He was the honor guest, and evrything was done to make him have pleasant evening. The Red Men do many things of this ind. They make life pleasant for thers as they go along. They do not dvertise the good deeds they do, of ourse, and therein lies much of the pal good in what they do. In doing good to others the Red [en make themselves better men. Jul this is true of many other secret rders. Those who oppose secret orers simply do not know what they re doing.?Anderson Daily Mail. Some of the best gas coal in the rorld has been discovered in Veneuela. ENGLAND MAKES HER REPLY Holds Tbat Her Interests Is tbc Law. BLOCKADE MUST BE A BLOCKADE Long Note Diecusee* Points of Difference as to Neutral Rights, Etc. but Does Not Admit Any Point oi Contention. Washington, August 3.?Great Brit ain's repnes 10 me laiesi Amencmi representations against interferences with neutral commerce reject entirely the contention that the orders in council are illegal and justify the British course as being wholly within international law. "Unsustainable either in point of law or upon principles of international equity," is the British reply to the American protest against the blockade of neutral ports, with an invitation to submit to international arbitration any case In which the United States is dissatisfied with the action of British prize courts. Great Britain's reply in two notes, was made public here tonight and in London simultaneously by agreement between the governments. With the note was made public also the correspondence over the American steamer Nechee, seized by the British while en route from Rotterdam to the United States with goods of German origin. Changed Conditions. Changed conditions of warfare, the British note contends, require a new application of the principles of international law. The advent of the submarine, the airship and the alleged atrocities by German troops In Belglum are cited as justification for the exercise of extreme measures. The blockade Is justified on the contention that the universally recognized fundamental principle of a blockade is that a belligerent is entitled to cut ofT "by effective means the sea-borne commerce of his enemy." The note reiterates that Breat Britain will continue to apply the orders complained of, although not without every effort to avoid embarrassment to neutrals, and observes that the American statistics show that any loss in trade with Germany and Austria has been more than overbalanced by the increase of other Industrial activities due to the war. Old Principle*. In the general reply to the American representations against the orders in council, Sir Edward Grey, the foreign minister, addressing Ambassador Page, begins by expressing the hope that he may be able to convince the administration at Washington "that the measures we -have announced are not only responsible and necessary in themselves, but constitute no more than an adoption of the old principles of blockade to the peculiar circumstance with which we are confronted." "I need scarcely dwell," wrote Sir Edward, "on the obligations incumbent upon the allies to take every step in their power to overcome their Common enemy in view of the shocking violation of the recognized rules and principles of civilized warfare of which he has been guilty during the present struggle." Sir Edward refers to atrocities in Belgium, poisoning of wells in German Southwest Africa, use of poisonous gases against the allied troops in Flanders and the sinking of the Lusitania, to show "how indispensable it is that we should leave unused no justifiable method of defending ourselves.'* Allied Blockade. Taking up the question of the allied blockade of neutral ports, the note continues: "In the various notes which I have received from your e? cellency, the right of a belligerent to establish a blockade of the enemy porta Is admitted, a right which has obviously no value save in so far as it gives power to a belligerent to cut off the sea-borne exports and imports of his enemy. The contention which I understand the United States government now puts forward is that if a belligerent is so circumstanced that his commerce can pass through adjacent neutral ports as easily as through ports of his own territory, his opponent has no right to interfere and must restrict his measures of blockade in such a manner as to leave such avenues of commerce still open to his adversary. This is a contention which his majesty's government feels unable to accept and which seems to them unsustainable either in point of law or upon principles of international equity. "They are unable to admit that a belligerent violates any fundamental principles of international law by applying the blockade in such a way as to cut off the enemy's commerce with foreign countries through neutral ports, if the circumstances render such an application of the principles of blockade the only means of making it effective. The government of the United States, indeed, intimates its readiness to take into account 'the great changes which have occurred in the conditions and means of naval warfare since the rules heretofore governing legal blockade were formulated,' and recognize that 'the form of close blockade with its cordon of ships in thp immediate offering of the blockaded ports is no longer practicable in the face of an enemy possessing the means and the opportunity to make an effective defense by the use of submarines, mines and aircraft.' Apply the Test. The only question then, which can arise, in regard to the measures resorted to for the purpose of carrying out a blockade upon these extended lines is, whether to use your excellency's words they 'conform to the spirit and principles of the essence of the rules of war' and we shall be content to apply this test to the action which we have taken In so fnr as it has necessitated Interference with neutral commerce." Ptlwjnl t hon rpfppa to thC American civil war blockade of 3,000 miles of coast with a small number of vessels, and recalls how the United States finally took recourse to blockading "neighboring neutral territory which afforded convenient center from which contraband could be introduced into Confederate territory and from r which blockade running could be facilitated." x The American Case. t "Your excellency will no doubt re' member," wrote Sir Edward, "how In order to meet this new difficulty, the old principle relative to contraband and blockade were developed and the | doctrine of continuous voyage was applied and enforced under which goods destined for the enemy territory ' were Intercepted before they reached , the neutral ports from which they f were to be re-exported. "The difficulties which Imposed upon the United States the necessity of re-shaplng some of the old rules are i somewhat akin to those with which i the allies are now facing in dealing with the trade of their enemy. Adjacent to Germany are various neutral i countries which afford her convenient opportunities for carrying on her trade with forelgp countries. Her own territories are covered with a network of railways and waterways, which enable her commerce to pass as conveniently through ports In such neutral countries as through her own. A blockade limited to enemy ports would leave open routes by which every kind of German commerce could pass almost as easily as through the ports in her own territory. "Rotterdam Is Indeed the nearest outlet for some of the industrial districts of Germany It seems accordingly, that If It be recognised that a blockade Is in certain cases the appropriate method of Intercepting the trade of an enemy country, and if the blockade can only be effective by extending it to enemy commerce passing through neutral ports, such an extension is defensible and in accordance with principles which have met with general acceptance." Springbok Case. The note then refers to the case of the British ship Springbok, seized by United States cruisers during the civil war, while bound for the British West inaies, Decause ner cargo, u was charged, was to be trans-shipped to the Confederate states. The supreme court of the United States sustained the seizure against the condemnation of a group of prominent international lawyers, although the United States and British governments took the broader view and recognized the development of the oldest method of blockade. No protest was made by Great Britain. "What is really Important, in the general interest," says the note, "is that adaptations of the old rules should not be made unless they are consistent with the general principle upon which an admitted belligerent right is based. It is also essential that all unnecessary injury to neutrals should be avoided. With these conditions it may be safely affirmed that . the steps we are taking to intercept 5 commodities on their way to and.from Germany fully comply. We are interfering with no goods with which we should.not be entitled to interfere by blockade, if the geographical position and the conditions of Germany at present were such that her commerce passed through her own ports. We are taking the utmost possible care not to interfere with commerce genuinely destined for or proceeding from neutral countries. Furthermore, we have tempered the severity with which our measures might press upon the neutrals by not applying the rule which was invariable In the old form of blockade, that ships and goods on their way to or from the blockaded area are liable to condemnation." The note then reviews at some length the various forms in which blockades have been maintained to show that there has been no uniformity of practice in very essential points, and declares: Fundamental Principle. "The one principle which is fundamental and has obtained universal recognition, is tnat Dy means oz diockade, a belligerent Is entitled to cut off by effective means the sea-borne commerce of his enemy." Consequently, Sir Edwzrd argues.lt is impossible to maintain that the right of a belligerent to intercept the commerce of his enemy can be limited In the way suggested in the American notes on the subject. "There are many cases," he said, "in which proofs that the goods were enemy property would afford strong evidence that they were of enemy origin or enemy destination, and it is only in such cases that we are detaining them. Where proof of enemy ownership would afford no evidence of such origin or destination, we are not in practice of detaining the goods." Continue Meatures. Sir Edward's note closes with the observation that "figures of recent months show that the increased opportunities afforded by the war for American commerce have more than compensated for the loss of the German and Austrian markets. . . . . . . We shall continue to apply these measures with every desire to occasion the least possible amount of inconvenience to persons engaged in legitimate commerce." In the supplemental note, which is a reply to the American caveat giving notice that the United States would not recognize the orders in council in lieu of international law, Sir Edward writes he does "not understand to what divergence of views as to the principles of law applicable in cases before the prize court the government of the United States refers, for I am not aware of any difference existing between the two countries as to the principles of law applicable in cases before such courts." Sir Edward compares the rules governing British prize courts, to the rules applied by American courts, referring especially to the American case of the Amy Warwick before the United States supreme court, where it was held that "prize courts are subject to the instructions of their own sovereign. In the absence of such instructions, their jurisdiction and rules of decision are to be ascertained by reference to the. known powers of such tribunals and the principles by which they are governed under the public law and the practice of nations. It would appear, therefore, that the principles applied by the prize courts of the two countries are identical." The supplemental note then proceeds with a long legal argument to demonstrate the practicability of prize courts being governed by internation al and at the same time by municipal 1 law in the form of orders in council. I It finally comes to the case of the steamer Zamora in the present war, in i which the British court declared: "The nations of the world need not be apprehensive that orders in council will emanate from the government of * this country in such violation of the acknowledged laws of nations that it is conceivable that our prize tribunals, [ holding the law of nations in reverence, would feel called upon to disregard and refuse obedience to the provisions of such orders." i Sir Edward then points out that the c legality of the orders In council, or of 7 the measures taken under them, have c not yet been brought to a decision la b a prize court, but he reminds the Unit- b ed States that "It is open to any Unit- f ed States citizen, whose claim is be- J fore the prize court, to contend that \ any order in council which may effect e his claims is inconsistent with the li principles of international law and is p therefore not binding upon the court, h The prize court declines to accept his fl contentions, and if, after such a de- d cision has been upheld on appeal by li the judicial committee of his majesty's l privy council, the government of the ii United States considers that there is h serious ground for holding that the de- t! cision is incorrect and infringes the s rights of their citizens, it is open to c them to claim that it should be sub- t! Jected to review by an international f tribunal." The celebrated Matamoros cases of the Civil war are cited to show that a the supreme court of the United States b held It had the right to' reverse the 11 decisions of prize courts and that p "there was no doubt of the jurisdiction n of an international tribunal to review h the decisions of the prize courts of the t; United States, where the parties al- ii leging themselves aggrieved had pros- 8 ecuted their appeals to the court of I last resort." d If the United States should be dia- 8 satisfied with decisions of British a prize courts as sustained by the privy c council, the British government is pre- ^ pared to concert with the United States a "In order to decide upon the best way fi of applying the .... principle to c the situation which would then have c arisen." s To the American note in the case o of the steamer Neches, which sum- a marily demanded the expeditious re- y lease of the American-owned goods a detained under the orders in council, o "the International invalidity of which f the government of the United States t: regards plainly illustrated by the pres- s ent instance," Great Britain replies o that "while these acts of the German fi government continue ('sinking neu- J tral as well as British merchant ships p irrespective of deslnatlon or origin of r cargo and without proper regard for p safety of passengers or crews'), It c seems neither reasonable nor Just that e his majesty's government should be r pressed to abandon the rights claimed e in the British note .... and to allow goods from Germany to pass freely through waters effectively pa- u trolled by British ships of war." g Great Britain offers, however, to c make a special examination in the c Neches case If hardship has been In- t flicted. c The British reply in short, is a J declination to allow free passage to tl goods originating in Germany or in t a territory under German control. e ? ' v GENERAL NEWS NOTES ft ti Items of Interest Gathered from All fl Around the World. g Switzerland celebrated the 624th an- p niversary of Swiss Independence last ? Sunday. t During the five days ending Mon- c day night, 45 persons died in Philadel- h phia on account of heat prostrations. s Monday's toll was 19 persons. c Major General Goethals. builder of f the Panama canal, left Panama for 0 his home Monday. He has severed his 1 connection with the big ditch. ' A $2,000,000 corporation has been g organized at South Bethlehem, Pa., to manufacture fast color uyes oy a process invented by a Philadelphia chem- j, 1st Abraham Cornelius, a married man, cashier of a national bank at Eaglewood, N. J., has disappeared, likewise , $11,000 in cash and also one young , woman stenographer. During the month of July 59 per- t sons were killed in New York state c by motor cars. New York city's toll j was 24. In New Jersey the deaths due t to automobiles totaled 28 persons. I Howard E. Hensley, purser on the I American line steamship St. Louis, is I going to quit the sea, having completed n his 1,000th voyage across the Atlantic. I Hensle estimates that he has sailed t 6,600,000 miles. c A dispatch from Athens, Greece, r says that arrivals there from Constan- 1 tinople, report that 3,000 buildings, n including the German hospital filled 1 with wounded soldiers, was destroyed 1 by lire in the Turkish capital last * week. J M. P.ark, finance minister of Russia, stated to the duma Monday, that the r war expenses of Russia at the end of . 1915 will amount to 7,242,000,000 rubles, ($3,621,000,000), to cover which the minister is projecting a series of , credit operations. These operations were assured of success, M. Bark said, as the national savings had increased 1,800,000,000 rubles ($900,000,000), ( which proved that the country had sufficient resources. This was due, the f minister insisted, entirely to the temperance of the people, and he asserted . prohibition must be maintained even . after the war because of its salutory v effect upon the nation. , A British admiralty statement re- t cords the sinking or a uerman iroop- n ship and the G-196, destroyer, on d July 26, in the Baltic sea. A strange . assortment of performances by an- i other British undersea boat operating o in the sea of Marmora, is also record- a ed in the admiralty's statement. This v craft not only crept so close to Con- u stantinople as to launch torpedoes at a lighters in the Golden Horn, presum- I bly awaiting munitions from the arse- c nal, but with its guns bombarded and t for a time tied up the railway skirting fl the Asiatic coast, delaying a troop a train and causing havoc among the s ammunition stores and killing 200 ? Turks. In addition, the submarine a considerably damaged Turkish ship- b ping and sank one craft believed to y be a gunboat. s [OLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES lews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK HEADING Scaling Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Lancaster and Cheater. Lancaster News, Aug. 3: After havng been In failing health for a number >f years, Aunt Patsy Crawford, aged 7 years, wife of Henry Crawford, :olored, died Saturday night at her lome in Lancaster. She hod formerly ?een a slave, the property of the Crawords and later tho Wylle family ailer Cameo, after searching far and ride for Hal McKenna, colored, wantd here for giving bogus checks, finally ocated him at Hamlet, N. C., to which ilace he went for him, bringing him lome, where he has him safely conined in Jail Married, at his resllence on July 31, Mr. J. T. Ellis and liss Allle Myers, both of this county, 5. F. Adams, notary public, officiatng Mrs. W. B. Glasscock, who ist Friday underwent an operation at he Fennell Infirmary in Rock Hill, tood the operation well and her Lanaster friends will be pleased to know hat her condition is still most satlsactory. Gaffney Ledger, Aug. 3: With the wakening life of a new day there was rought to a close a long and useful fe by the death of Mrs. Caroline Hoper, which occurred at 5 o'clock Friday lornlng at the home of her son, Suttle, i the Wllklnsville section of the couny. "Aunt Car'line," as she was lovngly called by her many friends, was 1 years, 6 months and 21 days of age. leath was caused by a general breakown, due to advanced age. She is urvived by three children: John F. nd Suttle Hopper, both of Cherokee ounty, and Mrs. Ruth Lavender of larls, N. C. She is also survived by brother, Andrew Moore, of the Bufalo section of the county W. W. larter of Varnville, was elected prinIpal of the Cherokee Avenue Graded chool for the next term by the board f trustees of school district No. 10, at meeting Friday night. Mr. Carter's cceptance was received Saturday fternoon by W. J. Wllklns, secretary ' 1 a I... Ml. I uie uuaru, uj icic^i ?|/u riends In Gaffney and Cherokee conns' will be glad to know that Mr. Gus larratt has been appointed manager f a new store opened by the Newark (hoe corporation at Hopewell, Va..... Ir. L. C. Camp's store in the western >art of the city, was entered and obbed by some unknown person or ersons Thursday night at about 10 i'clock. Several packages of cigarttes, tobacco and a 38 calibre Haris:>n & Richardson revolver wore takn. Gastonia Gazette, Aug. 3: At a inion service of the up-town churches lunday night in the First Presbyterian hurch, Mr. S. J. Durham, who was hosen by the Ministerial association o represent Gastonia and Gaston ourity at the annual convention of the National Antl-Saloon league at AtlanIc City, July 9, made his report on' hat great meeting. Owing to threatning weather conditions the crowd /as not large but everyone who heard Ir. Durham was not only highly enertained but greatly edified and beneited Announcement was made lunday that Rev. G. P. Abernethy, at resent pastor of Long Creek and High ihoals Baptist churches, had accepted he pastorate of the Loray Baptist hurch which was recently tendered ilm Mr. A. E. Moore's large even-passenger Cole touring car aught afire Sunday near Hickory Nut Jap a;,d was damaged to the extent f about $160. The flames caught from he vacuum tank, which had overlowed. Mr. Moore and his family vere en route to Waynesvllle, having tarted from here Sunday morning. The county board of commisIoners met yesterday in the courtlouse. There was nothing of special mportance to come before the board ind only routine alfalrs were disposed if. The tax levy is the same as for ast year, being a total of $1.03 on the 1100 valuation of real and personal iroperty and $2.75 poll tax. This $1.03 ax is apportioned as follows: 23 2-3 :ents general state tax: 4 cents state tension tax; 20 1-3 cents for the mninenance of poor and general county urposes; 2 cents special courthouse tond tax: 20 cents for general school )urposes;.25 cents special road tax, ind 8 cents special school tax dr. G. W. Falls died at his home in he Crowders Creek section at 11 'clock this morning following an illless of several weeks. Mr. Falls had een in failing health since suffering l stroke of paralysis several years ago. ie is survived by his wife, who was diss Dilling, and two children, Dr. P. t. Falls of Gastonia, and Mra Robert ackson of Crowders' Creek. Chester Reporter, Aug. 2: Mr. Robt. 'razer, who left two weeks ago with lis brother, Mr. Alex Frazer, for Tipon, Mich., to visit relatives, returned o the city yesterday afternoon. Mr. Uex Frazer stopped at Norfolk, Va., o spend a few days with Mrs. Frazer. /ho is spending the summer in that ity with relatives A card from ?ody, Wyoming. Dr. R. G. McAliley ays: '"I have been here since July th?at Mr. W. R. Coe's lodge. He wns and controls several ranches? 00,000 acres or more. Has now about 5,000 head of cattle, mostly Herefords. Ve are Just 55 miles southwest of rellowstone Park. I saw the view on his card a few days ago. I am havng a wonderful rest. Scenery is wonerful. Horseback riding every day." Mr. Wm. P. Timmie, who died "hursday afternoon at his residence ' n Church street from the effects of stroke of paralysis Monday evening, ras buried in Evergreen cemetery Satrday morning, after funeral services t the house by Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour, ). D., pastor of Purity Presbyterian hurch The Walker-Gaston Camp, J. C. V., met this morning at the ofco of Judge of Probate A. W. Wise nd elected the following county penion board: W. H. Edwards, J. W. iigham, J. W. Wilkes, S. B. Lath&n nd Dr. W. B. Cox. Mr. Lathan will e chairman of the board, Capt. Edwards is to be secretary and commisioner, and Dr. Cox surgeon Cor oner J. Hi Gladden was called to the Cabal neighborhood yesterday afternoon to hold an inquest over the body of Clarence Sims, colored, who was shot and fatally wounded yesterday about noon by Cleveland Osborne, another negro. The slayer fled after committing the crime, but late In the afternoon surrendered to W. H. Barnes who turned him over to Coroner Gladden, who In turn delivered him to Deputy C. Y. Young, who brought the prisoner on to Chester and committed him to jail. HAPPENING8 IN THE 8TATE Items of Interest From AM 8eetions of 8outh Carolina. Mrs. A. W. Klutz died at her home in Chester Tuesday at noon. The Conerosa mill of Anderson, has a contract to manufacture asbestos yarns for several European governments. Ten negroes were registered In Richland county last Monday, to vote in the proniDiuon eiecuon 01 September 14. The annual meeting of the 8outh Carolina division of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, was held in Columbia this week. Textile workers of Anderson, to the number of nearly 1,000, have recently formed a union under the auspices of the United Textile Workers of America. Nat Smith, a 17-year-old boy of Mullins, was struck by a passenger train in that town Monday afternoon, receiving injuries from which he will likely die. According to the state bureau of vital statistics, there were 2,418 deaths in South Carolina during the month of June. There were 3,298 births In the lata Hnrlnir thfl month. Rev. Louis J. Bristow, pastor of the Baptist church of Abbeville, has been elected superintendent of the Baptist hospital in Columbia, to succeed Judge J. J. Gentry, resigned. A barn belonging to Oliver Rollins, who lives near Cheraw, was destroyed by Are Sunday morning. A negro named Anderson has been arrested, charged with burning the building; Tommy Orlce, colored, was electrocuted in the state penitentiary Wednesday morning. He was convicted of criminal assault upon a white woman in Florence county. He confessed his crime. The Wlllard-Boggs company of Spartanburg, has been awarded the contract for the building of the new gymnasium at Winthrop college. Tht, contract calls for a total expenditure of $60,000. , W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw, has offered the sinking fund commission $6,000 for one-half the Interest which the state owns in the property of the Richland Distilling company in Columbia. Country ministers from all sections of the state are invited to come to Clemson college August 9, for a two weeks' Institute in connection with the summer school for teachers, farmers and Corn club boya Five young women of Lexington, had a narrow escape from death by ptomaine poisoning Monday, caused by their having eaten sausage put up in oil, as a part of their noonday lunch. Governors Locke Craig of North Carolina, Rye of Tennessee, Ferguson of Texas, and Stuart of Virginia, have accepted the invitation of Governor Manning to attend the Southern Commercial congress to be held in Charleston this fall. Governor Manning has granted a parole to Robert Kennells, a young white man who is serving a fifteen months' sentence for housebreaking and larceny. The parole was granted in order that the young man might visit his mother, who is dying of pellagra in Greenwood. Edmund H. Deas, of Darlington, for many years chairman of the Republican state convention, died Sunday following a brief illness. He was about 60 years old. Deas ran for congress several times and at various times held various government positions. He leaves considerable property. Ida Golf, a young white man, was instantly killed near Blaney in Kershaw county, last Monday, when he fell beneath a wagon which he was driving and was crushed to death. The young fellow was returning from mill and when a storm came up he whipped his horses into a lively gait By some means he lost his balance and fell under the wheels, his head being crushed. The Seventh Day Adventlsts, who are holding a ten day camp meeting and conference in Spartanburg, have been unusually active during the last three days. Numerous meetings have been held in succession, at which a great deal of business has been transacted. Officers have been elected to serve during the coming year, regular services held, and a very enthusiastic discussion over the proposed Seventh Day Adventlsts school, which may be established at Spartanburg. The following officers have been elected: Elder E. H. Shuler, of Columbia, president; Thos. E. Pavey of Columbia, secretary-treasurer; Henry Ton joes of Charleston, superintendent of evangelistic colporteurs; Prof. Leo Thiel of Atlanta, secretary for educational departments. Committees have also been appointed. The Sam and Edna Parks stock company, which filled an engagement at one of the local theatres last week, disbanded Sunday morning, following the issuance of a warrant against the company for beating a restaurant bill or aDOUt J6U, says a spananuurg um patch of Tuesday. But arrangements were made by which part of the bill was paid and the rest satisfactorily arranged for so that the warrants were not pressed. The members of the company, with the exception of one man, left for their homes in the United States. The remaining member was really stranded, having no means to get to his home in Montgomery, Ala. He has offered to work his way home by distributing any kind of literature along the way if anybody will furnish him a bicycle. He claims he will ride the vehicle home and ship it back to the owner, Immediately after his arrival at home.