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t ^ ISSUED SEBIX-WBBBL^ l. m. orist's sobs. Fabiiihen. j % 4amilS Dturapapti;: 4or th? {promotion of thg {political, goqial, Sgrieultur.al and ffontmtyiat Interests of fhi) {peoptg. j t established 1835. york7s.c.7frid ay.8eptkmrer 10,19157 1^0.73. 3h(D * niBSMrras^ :Z CHAPTER XXII. $ The Valley of Dry Bonet. The cyclonic summer storm had blown itself out, and the clouds wtre beginning to break away jn the west, when Griswold, obeying Marsery's urging to go home and charge his clothes, turned his back upon ulereside and his face toward a future of thickening uoudis anu unnerving j/uosibilities. Griswold had ret deceived himself, nor had he allowed Margery's apparent convincement to deceive him. The old man's mind had not beer, wandering in the eye-opening moment of con^ sciousness regainec. On the contrary, ^ what he had failed to do under ordinary and conventional conditions had become instantly possible when the plunge into the dark shadow had brushed away all the artificial becloudings of the memory page. What action he would take when he should recover was as easy to prefigure as it was, for the present at least, a matter negligible. The dismaying thing was that the broad earth seemed too narrow to hide in; that invention itself became the clumsiest of blunderers when it was given the simple task of losing a single individual among the millions of unrelated human atoms. Thus the threat of the per:i which might be called the physical. But beyond this there was another, and, for a man of temperament, a still more ominous foreshadowing of evil to come. Of sc-ne subtle, deep-seated change in himself he had long been conscious. Again and again it had manifested itself in those moments of craven fear and ruthless, murderous promptings, when kindliness, gratiStude, love, all the humanizing motives, had turned suddenly to frenzied hatred, and the primitive savage had leaped up, fiercely raging with the blood-lust. For a long time after he had reach* ed his room, and had his bath and change, Griswold sat at his writing table with his hand in his hands, thinking in monotonous circles. The tiny chiming clock in his dress~ ing case in the adjoining bedroom had tinkled forth its 10 tapping hammer strokes when he heard voices in the lower hall, and then a man's footsteps on the stair. To a hard-pressed breaker of the traditions at such a moment an unannounced visitor, coming up in the dark, could mean but one thing. Griswold silently opened a drawer in the writing table and groped for the mate to the quick-firing pistol which after the change of wet clothing, he had put aside to dry. The visitor catne heavily upstairs, and Griswold. swinging his chair to face the open door, saw the shadowy ' m When the Bulk Filled the Doorwa)' It ** Wat Covered by the Pistol bulking of the man as he came through the upper hall. When :he bulk filled the doorway it was covered by the pistol held low, and Griswold's finger wes pressing the trigger. "Asleep, old man?" said the intruder in Raymer's well-known voice. There was a sound like a gasping sob and another as of a drawer closing softly. Then Griswold said: "No; I'm not asleep. Come in. Shall I light the gas?" "Not for me," returned the bedtime visitor, entering and groping for the chair at the desk-end, into which, when he had placed it, he dropped wearily. "I want to smoke," he went on. "Havje you got a cigar?no, not the pipe; I want something I can chew on." % A cigar was found, in the drawer which had so lately furnished the weapon, and by the flare of the match in I Raymer's fingers Griswold saw a face haggard with anxiety. "What's the matter. Edward?" he [asked. "A mix-up with the labor unions. It's been brewing for some little time, but I didn't want to worry you with it. Unless we announce a flat Increase of 20 per cent in wages tomorrow morning, and declare for the closed shop, the men will go out on us at noon. I've seen it coming." "We'll see them in hell, first, Ray mer! The ungrateful beggars are * merely proving that it isn't in human nature to meet justice and fairness and generous liberality half way. If they want a fight, give it to them. Hit first and hit hard: that's the way to do. Shut up the plant and make it a lockout." "I was afraid you might say something like that in the first heat of it." * said the young ironmaster. "It's a stout fighting word, and I guess, under the skin, you're a stout fighting man, DICE 215 LYNDE rCDMIOKS > c&?y/?/c#r/jrcH4*tfj 30*3 Kenneth?which I'm not. Where are your convictions about the man-toman obligations? We've got to take them into the account, haven't we?" "Damn the convictions!" snapped Griswold viciously. "If I've been giving you the impression that I'm an impracticable theorist, forget it These ?* q fl arK t T oqu trivp fhpm iciiuns naiu a iisuh, * o- ~ v..?? a fight?all they want of It and a little more for good measure." Raymer did not reply at once. This latest Grlswold was puzzling him, and with the puzzlement there went sorrowful regret; the regret that has been the recanter's portion in all the ages. When he spoke it was out of the heart of common sense and sanity. "I know how you feel about It. I don't dare to pull down a fight which may not only shut us up for an indefinite time, but might even go far enough to smash us." Grlswold took his turn in silence, rocking gently In the tilting chair. When the delayed rejoinder came, the harshness had gone out of his voice, but there was a cynical hardness to take its place. "It's your affair; not mine," he said. "If you've made up your mind not to fight, of course, that settles it Now we can come down to. the causes. You've been stabbed in the back. Do you know who's doing it?" "The Federated Iron Workers, I suppose." "Not in a thousand years! They are only the means to an end." The tilting chair squeaked again, and he went on: "If I'm going to show you how you can dodge this fight, I'll have to knock down a door or two first If 1 blunder in where I'm not wanted, you can kick me out. There is one way in which you can cure all this trouble-sickness without resorting to surgery and blood-letting." "Name It," said Raymer eagerly. "I will; but first I'll have to break over into the personalities. Have you made up your mind that you are going to marry Margery Grlerson?" Raymer laughed silently, leaning his head back on the cushion of the lazychair until his cigar stood upright. "That's a nice way to biff a man in the dark!" he chuckled. "But if you're in earnest I'll tell you the straightforward truth: I don't know." "You mean that Margery Grleson doesn't measure up to the requirements of the Wahaskan Four Hundred?" There was satirical scorn In the observation, but Raymer did not perceive it "Oh, I don't know as you would put it quite so baldly," he protested. "But you see, when it comes to marrying and settling down and raising a fam- ! ily, you have to look at all sides of the thing. The father, as we all know, is a cold-blooded old were-wolf; the mother nobody knows anything about save that?happily, in all probability ?she isn't living. And there you are. Yet I won't deny that there are times when I'm tempted to shut my eyes and take the high dive, anyway?at the risk of splashing a lot of good people who would doubtless be properly scandalized." Ey this time Griswold was gripping the arms of his chair savagely and otheiwise trying to hold himself down; but this Raymer could not know. I "You have reason to believe that it rests who'ly with you, I suppose?" 'came from the tilting chair after a little pause. "Miss Grierson is only waiting for you to speak?" "That's a horrible question to ask a man, Kenneth?even in the dark. If I say yes to it, it can't sound any other way than boastful and?and caddish. Yet I honestly believe that? Oh, hang it all! can't you see how impossible you're making it, old man?" "Not impossible; only a trifle difficult," was the qualifying rejoinder. "It is easier from this on. That is the peaceful way out of the shop trouble for you, Raymer. When you can go to Jasper Grierson and tell him you are going to marry his daughter, the trouble will be as good as cured. This labor trouble that is threatening to smash you is Jasper Grierson's reply to the move you made when you let me in and choked him olf. He is reaching for you." Raymer held his peace and the atmosphere of the room grew pungent with tobacco smoke. "I'm feeling a good bit like a yellow dog, Kenneth," he said, at length. "After what I've admitted and what you've said, I'm left in the position of the poor devil who would be damned if he did and be damned if he didn't. You have succeeded in fixing it so that I can't ask Margery Grierson to be my wife, however much I'd like to." "That isn't the point," insisted Griswold half savagely. "How you may feel about it, or what your people may say, is purely secondary. The thing to be considered is, what will happen to Miss Grierson?" "Why, see here, oiu man; 11 you were Madge's brother, you couldn't be putting the screws on any harder!What's got into you tonight?" Griswold was inexorable. "Miss Grierson hasn't any brother, and she might as well not have any father?better, perhaps. As God hears me, Raymer, I'm going to see to it that she gets a square deal." "By George! I believe you are in love with b*?r, yourself!" "I am," was the cool reply. "Well, of all the? Say. Griswold. you're a tirce-cornered puzzle to me yet. I don'i Know what the other three-fourths of the town is saying, but my fourth of it has it put up that you've everlastingly cooked my goose at Doctor Bertie's: that you and Charlotte are just about as good its engaged. Perhaps you'll tell me that it isn't true." "It isn't?yet." "But it may be, later on? Now you are getting- over Into my little gardenpatch, Kenneth. If you think Im going to stand still and see you put a wedding ring on Charlotte Farnham's finger when I know you'd like to be putting it on Madge Grierson's?" Griswold's low laugh came as an easing of stresses. "You can't very well marry both of them yourself, you know," he suggested mildly. And then: "If you were not so badly torn up over this shop trouble, you'd see that I'm trying to give you the entire field. I shall probably leave town tomorrow, and I merely wanted to do you, or Miss Grlerson, 1 or both of you, a small kindness by way of leave-taking." "Do you mean to tell me that you are going away, leaving me bucked and gagged by this labor outfit to live or die as I may? Great Scott, man! if my money's gone, yours goes with It!" "You are freely welcome to the money, Edward?if you can manage to hang on to it; and I have pointed out the easy way to salvage the industrial ship. Can't you give me your blessing and let me go in peace?" The blessing was not withheld, but neither was It given. "I came here with my own back-load of trouble, but It seems that I'm not the only camel on the caravan," said the young Ironmaster, thoughtfully. "What is it, Kenneth? anything you can unload on me?" "You wouldn't understand," -was the gentle evasion. Once again Raymer took refuge In silence. After a time he said: "You've been a brother to me, Grlswold, and I shall never forget that. But if I needed your help in the money pinch, I'm needing it worse now. I'll do the right thing by Margery; I think I've been meaning to, all along; if I haven't, it's only because this whole town has been fixing up a match between Charlotte and me ever since we were school kids together?you know how a fellow gets into the way of taking a thing like that for granted merely because everybody else does?" i'Yes;* I know." "Well. I guess it isn't a heart-breaker on either side. If Charlotte cares, she doesn't take the trouble to show It. Just the same, on the other hand, I've grot a shred or two of decency left, Kenneth. I'm not going to marry myself out of this fight with Jasper Grierson?not In a million years. Stay over and help me see it through; and when we win out, I promise you I'll do the square thing." "There's only one other way, Edward; and that is to fight like the devil," he said, speaking as one who has weighed and measured and decided. "What do you say?" "If you will stay," Raymer began, hesitantly. "I'll stay?as long as I can." Then with the note of harshness returning: "We'll make the fight, and we'll give these muckers of yours all they are looking for. Shut the plant doors tomorrow morning and make it a lockout. I'll be over bright and early and we'll plaoe a bunch of wire orders in the cities for strike-breakers. That will bring them to time.'' Raymer got up slowly and felt in the dark for his hat. "Strike-breakers!" he almost groaned. "Griswold, it would make my father turn over in his coffin if he could know that we've come to that! But I guess you're right. Everybody says I'm too soft-hearted to be a master of men. Well, I must be getting home. Tomorrow morning, a': the plant? All right; good night." And he turned to grope his way to the door and through the dark upper hall and down the stair. (To be Continued.) BATS TO KILL MOSQUITOES. Texas Doctor Makes Important Experiment. A San Antonio, Tex., dispatch says: There was mild amusement a year or so ago when Dr. A. C. Campbell of this city, announced his plans for a municipal bat roost as a solution of the malaria-mosquito problem in this section. Despite the oddity of his suggestion, the plan was given a trial. A municipal roost capable of housing 250,000 bats was built and the bats were colonized. In a short time the mosquito plague was noticed to be declining. and with the continued operation of the bat roost the number of mosquitoes in the city is appreciably less. San Antonio not only operates the bat roost, but by city ordinance has prohibited the slaughter of bats, and has, through its legislators, introduced a bill in the state legislature for state-wide bat protection. F>r Pflmnhpll Qnont fnnrfpAn va? rs bringing: his bat roost to perfection and devising methods of attracting the bats to the roosts after their completion. The experimental roosts were erected near Mitchell lake, in the worst malarial sections of the state. A farmer living in that section declared: "I could not keep my horses penned up because they would break out in order to escape the hordes of mosquitoes which made life a burden. Since the bats were colonized here we are not molested by mosquitoes." Surgeon General W. C. Gorgas. who made the Canal zone free from malaria, has recently investigated the merits of the roost and is greatly pleased with the efficacy of the odd device. "It seems to me this field has great possibilities," he said, "and I would gladly recommend it in all cases of malarial work." Each bat will eat on an average 250 mosquitoes each night. It is a mistake to imagine that any sort of an old barn or tumble-down house will attract bats. Dr. Campbell learned through years of experimentation that the roosts must be built in accord with the singular habits of the bats, which much be attracted by a chemical giving off an odor similar to that of a large number of bats congregated in a small area. One bat roost will protect an area ranging from seven to ten miles, Dr. Campbell says: To overcome a child's tendency to throw away anything of a medicinal nature a New York woman has invented a hot water bottle former like a doll and which can be dressed in doll clothing. Herring, great quantities of which are caught in Japan each year, are used chiefly to fertilize rice fields. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone , Before. The first installment of the notes apI rvnnwlnrw thla llAO/llnflr fVOO Hllha I i^cai 1115 unuci tiiio ucauiiie n?w >/?lished in our Issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor aa time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 157TH INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Oct. 11, 1866.) Court Week. The usual fail term of the court of sessions convened here on Monday. Illness in the family of Judge Dawkins prevented his attendance and Judge Aldich kindly consented to devote the few leisure days afforded from his circuit to holding the court here. His honor, upon the opening of court addressed to the grand Jury a charge appropriate to the occasion. He congratulated the Jury and the people of South Carolina upon evfery appropriate stage towards a reconstruction of civil law that the state arrived at. It was his privilege to state to them today that a.v order had been recently issued by the commander of the state restoring to tire jurisdiction of the state all matter? coming under the cognizance of the courts with one or two exceptions. The vagrant act and the penalty of whipping for certain offences were not permitted to be enforced under this order. While he congratulated the Jury upon this near approach of the state to the management of her own affairs once more he must express the humiliation he felt that we are under the control of a power which could still address the edict to the state peimissively as regarded the enactment of laws for its proper welfare. In relation to the act against vagrancy the military authorities required that if upon indictment the defendant offered proof that he had made reasonable effort to obtain employment and failed that he should not be subjected to the penalties of conviction. This in effect nullified a wholesome law. It would be easy enough for a bad man to prove that he had made application for employment. It was a well known fact that persons of notoriously bad character could not well procure employment where others could, and it was against such persons that the act was mainly intended to operate. Under these trying circumstances he consuled patience. There was a higher degree of courage in submitting to what we could not avert, than in growing restive under it. In relation to the freedmen thrown upon the protection of the laws of the state he urged the grand jury to setthat strict C'.i.d impartial justice be accorded them. In some communities he regretted to say and he hoped not in this one?many acts of lawlessness had been committed against these people that called for prompt and decisive punishment. His experience had been that this class of persons (freedmen) had exhibited a disposition in regard to the laws that had entitled them to their fullest protection and he was unwilling to seo a proscription manifested against them. The usual suggestions in relation to the public buildings, the various boards etc., in the district was made. A case of much importance came before the court on Tuesday. This was the case of M. R. Nichols for another vs. W. Boleyn and D. Whitesides, involving the question of currency as a legal tender. A rule was issued against the sheriff In this case for refusing to accept the United States legal tender notes in discharge of an execution against the defendants. Mr. J. Bolton Smith appeared for the rule and Mr. Geo. W. Williams contra. The case was elaborately argued by counsel on each side. His honor decided unhesitatingly that the U. S. treasury notes purporting to bo legal tender in payment of debts are not a legal tender for debts of any discription arising upon contracts made either previous to or since the passage of the currency act by congress. He conceived the constitution of the U. S. as well as the laws of this state forbade any such conclusion. Notice of appeal was given and this important decision will go before the court of appeals at its next sitting for a final hearing. After disposing of a few other cases of small importance the court adjourn ed the session on Tuesday evening. The following panels of grand and petit jurors were drawn for the spring term of 1867: Grand jurors?Hugh Simpson, Reuben Crawford, Rev. D. Lr.than, R. C. McCarter. Dr. A. Graven, S. J. H. Alexander. Wm. Bridges, R. R D. Thomson, Col. J. H. Barry, F. B. Thomasson, Jas. Ashe. Benedict Kimbrell, Jas. McCollough, W. M. Ashe, Morris Russell. J L. Moore, (N. F.) \V. J. Bowen, Daniel Nichols, D. D. Moore, G. L. Riddle, J. F. Nivens, Jas. McGill, J. B. Whi'.esides, Samuel McCarter. Petit jurors?S. M. Hanna, J. N. McElwee, Jr., Hugh Tate, M. B. Tate, Henry Watson, Dr. J. S. Crosby, Y. T. K. Bates, J. R. Paris, W. A. Bales, A. A. McKenzie, G. A. Patrick, S. J. Klmbrell, J. L. Bennett, J. E. Jeffreys, J. M. Robinson, J. B. Patrick, Capt. J. J. Wilson, James Meek, Jas. B. Davidson, S. D. Carothers. J. H. Austell Willis Moses. A. W. Whisonant, D. R. Strait. W. G. Steele. H. J. Allison, J. H. Abernathy, W. A. Barrett, Jno. Rurris, Jr., Robt. A. Steele, Dr. R. T. Allison, Henderson Whisonant, D, T. Latham, A. S. Wallace, J. R. Steele, Col. W. B. Allison. N. G. Steele. J. W. Steele, W. B. Steele, J. K. Carothers, Richard Ingram, Joseph Parks, Calvin Whisonant, Sm'th Patterson. D. T. Pegram. L. P. Sadler. J. D. Wylie, Moses Alexander. The New Cotton Crop. (Thursday Morning, Oct. 25, 1866). The late, dry weather, has been favorable for gathering the small cotton crop of the district and a considerable portion of It Is finding Its way to this place for sale. We learn that the yield is unprjcedcntcdly light, and the quality much injured by the early fall rains. (To be Continued.) PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Happenings and Events Throughout South Carolina. Rev. J. N. Tolar has resigned the pastorate of Grace Baptist church of Sumter. Fifty-three men of Greenville have petitioned Adjutant General Moore to nrETanizp a rnmnnnv nr artillarv In that i city. Capt. William E. Gonzales of Columbia, United States minister to Cfuba is spending some . time at his home in this state. Tom Creecey, a young white man was drowned in Lynch's river near Scranton, while bathing with a number of companions Monday afternoon. The body has not been found. The Joint meeting of the South Carolina Conference for the Common Good and the State Board of Charities and Corrections was held in Columbia this week. A number of prominent speakers made addresses. A party of hunters killed ten deer in the vicinity of McClellanvilie last week. One member of the party also killed a rattlesnake which measured seven feet in length and had fourteen rattles and a button. Jeff Scott, and Jessie, his wife, are in a critical condition in a Spartanburg hospital as a res Jit of wounds inflicted by the husband upon his wife and himself follow'ns a domestic quarrel at their home at Inman, Spartanburg county, Sunday, both will likely die. Rufus H. Senn, an insurance collector committed suicide in Sumter Saturday evening by swallowing an ounce of poison. Senn had been dispondent since his wife divorced him several months ago. He was a native of Newberry but had lived in Newport, Ky., before coming to Sumter. Edward E. Felder, a prominent .banker of St. George committed suicide in Ashville, N. C., where he was spending the summer, Monday, by slashing his throat with a razor. Continued suffering from isomnia is believed to have been the cause of PnM nr'a ont O. G. Holleman of Florence, was killed when a freight train on the Atlantic Coast Line railway was wrecked at Ferrebee last Friday night. It is believed that the wreck was caused by persons who tampered with the switch in an effort to wreck a passenger train which came behind the freight. Employes of the Columbia Railwaj. Gas and Electric company have threatened to go on a strike following the dismissal of two employes of the company a few days ago. The employes' union have demanded of the street car company that the two discharged men be re-instated and the company has refused the demand. George Zwlngmann, assistant foreman and engineer of the Charleston fire department died in a Charleston sanitarium Sunday night of blood poison which was caused by a small scratch on his hand. The fireman bruised his hand with a fire extinguisher while fighting fler on the Charleston waterfront several days ago. The Richland county dispensary board has ordered about 1300,000 worth of whiskies, wines and beers in anticipation of prohibition carrying in the referendum to be voted on next Tuesday. It is estimated by the board that $100,000 worth of whisky will be sold between now and September 15 and that the balance on hand will be disposed of by January 1. R. R. Legare for mayor and J. B. Dodd for councilman have filed their pledges as candidates In the municipal Democratic primary called to decide the recall election in Beaufort. The entries closed Tuesday afternoon. The incumbents, Mayor C. E. Danner and Councilman W. F. Marscher, refused to enter the primary. Their followers have for several days urged members of the city Democratic club to stay out of the primary. There are about 250 white voters in the city and about 70 negro voters. The latter are said to be almost solid for the incumbents. In a general election they would hold the balance of power. This issue of white supremacy is overshadowing the tax matters. John L. McLaurin, State warehouse commissioner, gave out the following statement Tuesday. "The Edwards Manufacturing company of Cincinnati, Ohio, has submitted plans to me for warehouses of from 200 to 1,000 bales capacity. The roof Is of the heaviest patent lock style, of galvanized iron?the best thing I have seen for roofinsr. I have samples of this roofing at my office. The sides and ends are to be of painted corrugated iron. The frame is to be built at home and the iron shipped just to fit. I am having 100 blue prints of each size made and with the requirements of the fire insurance companies so as to secure the lowest rates of insurance. Parties desiring to secure these blue prints can have them by mailing 10 cents to this office to cover cost. The price quoted covers the freigh* to any point in South Carolina. Write to me at Columbia, sending check for material for warehouse described or instructions to ship with bill of lading attached. The prices are as follows: Two hundred-bale capacity. 5167,.50; 400-bale capacity, $262.14: 600-bale capacity, $325.25; 1,000bale capacity, $637." Judge Willis S. Knowles, justice of the eighth district court of Rhode Island, was assassinated by an unknown assassin, a short distance from his summer home near Moswansicut lake, that state, last Monday morning about 8 o'clock. The motive of the killing is not known, but it is supposed the judge was a victim of a revengeful criminal on whom he had at some time passed sentence. Reneath a new washing machine is a stove so that water can be heated in its tank without additional handling. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Lancaster and Cheater. Chester Reporter, Sept. 6: One of the most interesting and well attended gatherings held in Chester county this summer was that at Ebenezer church near Rosssville last Friday, the occasion being a combined temnpmnpp and educational rally. Mr. E. W. Gibson presided, and Messrs R. B. Caldwell and E. H. Hall spoke in the forenoon, and Messrs. W. D. Knox and Lueco Gunter in the afternoon. In the interim a delightful and abundant picnic dinner was served, and everybody was in fine spirits and much impressed with the exercises Mra W. D. Evans of Cheraw, has sent out invitations to the wedding of her daughter, Miss Nan 'Keitt, and Mr. Thos. Bingham Spencer, formerly of Chester, but now of Greenville, the wedding to be solemnized Saturday, September 18th, at 6 o'clock p. m., e t St. David's church, Cheraw Two young men, George McKeown and Robert Cooper, were arrested yesterday on the serious chargo of taking a horse and buggy out of A. S. Barron's stable without anyone's knowing and consent and driving away. When overtaken near Mr. J. T. Pressley's, the horse is said to have been suffering from the effects of hard driving, and the buggy also is said to have been damaged. The young men, we understand, claim that they had made arrangements to secure a team. The horse is the property of a minister living in the country The store of Joseph Jones, colored, near the S. A. L. depot was broken into and robbed last night. Several watches and other articles on a punch board constituted most of the spoil The following Chester county citizens have been drawn as members of the Jury for the fall term of Federal court at Ro?k Hill, beginning Tuesday, September 14th: H. J. McKeown of Cornwell. member of the grand Jury, and Messrs. W. L. Reid and W. S. Martin of Richburg, and Alex Fraser of Chester, members of the petit Jury. Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 7: A wed ding of interest to a large number of people was solemnized last Wednesday . evening at 8.30 o'clock, at the manse of the First Presbyterian church when Miss Effle Davidson, daughter of Mr. J. M. Davidson, became the bride of Mr. George R. Ford of Lowell. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. H. Henderlite A pretty wedding took place yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bradley on West Franklin avenue, when their daughter, Miss Nettie, became the bride of Mr. J. R. Corn Work was begun yesterday on the excavation for the new addition which is to be built to the Arlington mill. Messrs. J. A. Jones & Co., of Charlotte, have the contract for the erection of the building, which is to be about 50 by 150 ( feet in size, When this addition is completed It will be used to enlarge the number of spindles so that the spinning department will be operated only in the day time Mr. Geo. M. Dickson was quite painfully, though not seriously hurt, Sunday afternoon when the mule he was driving became frightened at a passing bicycle and ran away. The buggy was overturned and Mr. Dickson was thrown out, sustaining a broken arm and a number of painful bruises "A remarkable case of longevity and also a striking coincidence," said Mr. B. T. Morris of the firm of Morris Bros., to the Gazette man Saturday, "is that of William Hoyle, a highly respected old colored man who lives in the vicinity of Dallas, enjoying life at the age or 95, and old Beck, a mule that was once slick and black, that has attained to the unusual age for a mule of 56 years. Both man and mule have spent their lives thus far in the community in which they now live. The remarkable feature in this case, however, aside from the unusual ages of both the man and the mule, is that about 53 years ago the mule was broken to work by William. Now In their old age both man and beast through the munificence of Mr. Puett Hoffman, whose wards they are, enjoy immunity from work. William is able to get around pretty well and, with his pipe and his mule, seems to enjoy life Immensely." * ? Rock Hill Record, Sept. 6: Two weeks or more ago we stated in the Record that a party had Informed us they had definitely, or practically so, decided to erect a flour mill at this place, but asked us to withhold his name until he could get his arrangements perfected. This party was Mayor J. C. Hardin. This morning work was begun on the erection of a suitable building for the mill and Mr. Hardin showed us invoice and bill of lading for the machinery. This mill will have a capacity of 25 barrels per day and will be modern In every particular. He expects it to be in operation by October 1. In addition to this, he will install a corn mill and expects in the near future to handle anything in this line in the way of grain and feed stuff Miss Blanch Plexico has returned to Reidsville to resume her teaching in the High school at tha: place. Miss Julia Plexico will leave fnmArrnu' ff\r Rawmnn urhprA ?ha u/lll teach this year Maydr Hardin has been invited to Clover on the 18th to make an address at which time the Junior Order of American Mechanics will present the Clover school with a Hap and Bible The many friends of Mrs. Laura Biggers will regret to learn that she still continues to be quite sick. Gaffney Ledger, Sept 7: Mayor N. H. Littlejohn was instructed by the city council at its regular meeting held Friday night to get into communication with a number of civil engineers with a view of securing an expert to supervise the work of paving the two blocks of Limestone street between Birnie and Robinson street. There is no local engineer available for this purpose, all of them being engaged for the greater part of the time, so Mr. Littlejohn has written to sev er&l in other cities, asking for their best terms Two Cherokeeons have been drawn to serve on the grand Jury for the Federal term of court which will convene in Rock Hill on September 14th, with Judge Johnson presiding. These are: Messrs. Hv S. Sellars and H. H. Camp. One Cherokeean, J R. McCullough. was drawn for the petit jury. Charlton Shell of Spartanburg, son of Rev. J. W. Shell, of this city, has been appointed court stenographer Twenty-two prizes, totaling in vaiue more man are offered to the winners in the Girls' Canning club contest this year, according to an announcement made by Mrs. E. S. McKeown, county agent in charge, yesterday. Two prizes, totaling $3.50 in value, are offered to the poultry club Mr. L. C. Brady, Jr., of Dillon, a graduate of the law department of the University of South Carolina, is preparing to open offices as an attorney-at-law upstairs over the Crawley Drug company on Limestone street. Lancaster News, Sept. 7: Miss Eloise Foster, who for a number of years has been such a successful teacher in the Lancaster Graded schools, has gone to Statesvllle, where she will be lady principal of the Statesville Female college, of which Dr. Marlon Moore Is president... .The alumni and former students of Furman University of the counties of Kershaw, Lancaster, York and Chester met in the chamber of commerce hall on September 1, and formed an organization, the purposes of which is to create and foster such love and affection for Furman University as will cause her sons to rally to her support. This organization will be known as the Catawba Chapter, which is most appropriate as all these counties border upon the great Catawba river. Dr. E. M. Poteat, president of Furman University, motored over from Rock Hill to attend this initial meeting and assisted in the organization by a clear and concise statement of the purposes of said chapter and what Furman expected of her alumni and frienda The following were elected to the various offices for the coming year: TV. S. Hough, president, Lancaster; Walter F. Mobley, vice president. Heath Springs; Waddy R. Thomson, secretary-treasurer, Lancaster. To these officers were added the names of Prof. R. C. Burts, Rock Hill, and S. E. McFadden, Esq., Chester, and these five shall constitute the executive committee Mr. D. E. Walters of the Carnes school house section, was in town today on his usual mission of selling some of his farm produce. Mr. Walters is one of the many Lancaster county farmers who for years has been farming for himself. He parted company with cotton a long time ago. He says he owes no man anything and has plenty at home. He has been practicing intensive farming and rotation of crops for years. He says If couon wouia go up to *v cents a pouna he would not plant a row more than he is now planting. GENERAL NEWS NOTE8 Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. A new landslide blocked the Panama canal Sunday. Twenty-two vessels are tied up on account of the trouble. Approximately 1,000 delegates are attending the forty-second annual convention of the American Bankers' association at Seattle, Wash., this week. Friends of Senator Cummins of Iowa, have thrown his hat into the ring as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination next year. A case involving the right to mine coal under a railway right-of-way has been settled in favor of the plaintiff in Schuykill county. Pa., after being in the courts for 43 years. Frank Grano, an Italian laborer, in a Jealous rage on Monday, near Snow Hill, Md., shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. Levi W. Robinson and a farm hand. Grano loved Mrs. Robinson. Five persons were killed in a railrnnH crrailo crnasinc accident near Glens Falls, N. Y., Sunday when the party attempted to cross the railroad track in an automobile. A process for making steel absolutely Immune against the action of risk and even against nitric acid, is reported from the Krupp works in Germany. It is reported from Berlin that the government of Germany is now offering $1,000 per ton for copper; 75 cents a pound for brass, and $3.75 a pound for nickel. Last Monday, September 6th. was the 158th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette, the valiant Frenchman who fought with the American troops in the Revolutionary war. An official statement by the French army says that during the first year of the war 35 German aeroplanes and dirigibles were destroyed or captured. The French aviation losses are not given. There are 78 cases of typhoid fever in the Pennsylvania state hospital for the insane at Danville, Pa. The health authorities are unable to locate the source of the infection. There have been several deaths. Dr. Ralph Thompson of the faculty of St. Louis University, who has returned from France, where he was a physician in the British hospital, predicted Monday that the European war would last from five to fifteen years. The man or woman who can write the best code of morals for the instruction of children in homes and schools will receive a prize of $5,000 from the National Institution for Moral Instruction, of Washington. This offer is made by the institution, and each state In the Union is to have one or more code writers in the contest. In all, about 70 code writers are requested. The new type of giant biplane undergoing tests in Germany is said to have a measurement of 138 feet across the plane. The motors develop 300 horsepower, and each works three propellers. These biplanes are capable of carrying sufficient fuel for flights of eight hours. They are equipped with wireless and searchlights. Each carries 12 bombs weighing 22 pounds apiece and five machine guns. DISTRIBUTION OF THE JEW8 Every Country on Earth Has Its Quota. Where and what la the moat Jewlah city In the United States? Chelsea. Mass., was stamped with that distinction at the recent session of the convention of the Federation of American Zionists, writes Edward R. Bushnell, In the Philadelphia Ledger. Twentyfive per cent of Its population of 50,000 are Jews. Numerically. New York has the greatest Jewish population either in the United States or the world, but the proportion of Jews there is slight* ly below that of Chelsea. Nearly half of the Jews in America, and onetwelfth of all the world contains, live within the confines of Greater New York. Nevertheless, their proportion of New York's entire population is only about 16 per cent. The extent to which the Jewish people maintain their racial integrity though scattered to the four corners of the earth still remains the most astounding thing in the history of nation building. Prom the time of their bondage in Egypt, their flight through the wilderness into the promised land, and their wonderful expansion during the reigns of David and Solomon, followed by their subjugation at the hands of the Greeks t.nd Romans, this Integrity never suffered. And even during the last 2,000 years, as they have gone with civilization into every quarter of the globe, they have always been a distinct people. The study of their world-vide distribution forms a subject of gripping Interest. Roughly speaking, there are about 12,000,000 Jews today. Every country has its quota. Palestine, the original home of the Jews, numerically does not contain many Jews, but in proportion to the entire population of that country it leads the world. The latest statistics give Palestine a Jewish population of 78,000 out of a total population of 350,000. This gives the Jewish race in Palestine a percentage of 22.39 of the entire population) though its .otal of 78,000 is hardly half the entru Jewish population of Philadelphia, la certain parts of Africa and Asia the Jewish population, although numerically small ib prupuruu ninety rugn. inis Africa ranks next to Palestine, with u- Jewish population of 108,000 out of a tolal of 1,923,217, or 5.82 per cent Europe, of course, contains the great bulk of the world's Jewish population, there being approximately 10,000,000 scattered throughout the continent of nearly 600,000,000 people. Russia furnishes a home for more than half of Europe's Jews. There are 5,214,805 of this race living under the czar's authority. Then comes Austria with 1,113,687 and Hungary with 982,496. Germany has 616,021. Of all these European countries, however, Roumanla contains the greatest percentage of Jews. There are 259,016 there out of a total population of 5,956,690, a percentage of 4.62. The Jewish proportion in Austria-Hungary, which includes Bosnia-Herzegovina, is 4.42, that of Russia 4.16. Portugal probably contains the smallest percentage of Jews of any of the civilized countries. Out of this country's total population of 5,423,132 there are to be found only 481 Jews, representing but .01 of 1 per cent In Spain there are about 4,000 Jews out of a total population of 19,588,688, or .02 of 1 per cent The Jews are not an agricultural people, a fact which explains why in thia Annntrv mrtat nf thorn hu ta fnnnH their homea in the great cities. Oatside of New York, of course, Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston contain the greatest number. The Jewish population of Philadelphia is estimated at about 150,000, or a little less than 10 per cent of the entire population. St. Louis, with a total population of 687,029, contains 45,000 Jews, with the same number credited to Cleveland out of a population of 560,663. San Francisco, with a population of 416,912, contains a Jewish population of 30,000. Atlanta, Ga., thrown into a state of turmoil over the trial and conviction for murder, of Leo M. Frank, has a Jewish population of only 4,200 out of a total population of 154,839. This case attracted nation-wide notoriety, and the charge was freely made that much of the agitation against either the retrial of Frank or the commutation of his sentence from death to life imprisonment was of antl-Semltis origin. Yet the proportion of Jews In Atlanta is extremely small. The number of Jews in the small towns of the United States is almost negligible. An estimate made by the industrial removal office shows that 50 of the principal elties of the United Hiates, not counung ixew lorn, ^;nicago, Philadelphia and Boston, contained only 287,100 Jews. AN UNJUST BURDEN Demand an International Conference on Tare. Commissioner Graham of North Carolina, in a recent letter to Secretary * ' Houston gives the historical explanation of the matter of cotton tare by saying: "Prior to 1865 the weight of a bale of cotton was generally 350 pounds. The bagging and ties then, as now. weighed 21 to 22 pounds, that is, 6 * per cent of the weight of a bale at that time, and that amount was fixed by the Liverpool authorities on this subject as the tare. Since that time the weight of the bale has been increased to 500 pounds or more, but 6 per cent is still fixed as the tare, which is 30 pounds or about eight pounds more than the actual weight of the tare, or practically a dollar a bale. This is fixed at Liverpool and is deducted in fixing the price." The remedy lies, we believe, as the association of Southern Agricultural Workers assert, in an international ^ conference to revise the tare standard. South Carolina has passed a law requiring buyers to allow farmers to put on the full 6 per cent, but naturally there is difficulty in enforcing one tare rule in one cotton-producing state and another rule in another state. The real solution lies in having the United States government arrange for a conference with Englsh representatives and provide '.hat hereaiter the tare should be only, say 4J per cent. Then Europe would allow for only 221 pounds of bagging and ties on a Sdft.nniinH hnl? nt (>(iflnn nnd nflv for cotton a price correspondingly higher than that which she now pays on the basis of allowing thirty pounds for tare. Every farmer interested in this matter should write to his United States senator and to Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston, Washington, D. C.. and urge their help in getting an international conference on cotton tare. ?The Progressive Farmer.