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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEHI'VEEELT. l. m. okist'6 sons, p?bu.her.,} % |lfiosgajei[: ^or th< promotion o| fhi> fjoliliqal, gonial, Sgri<ultui;al and (ffomm^tial Jnttresls of th< |oopI<. J ""Vii.olVcotv'rr.J'ciI^f""' ? ESTABLISHED 1855. " YORK, s7c~TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 19T5 !NT)780.~ JkeP] ^FRAN( 4 1LU5MI0N5J 1 CHAPTER XXIX. Dust and Aahas. A full moon, blood-red from the smoke of forest fires far to the eastward, was rising over the Wahaska hills when Griswold unlatched the gate of the Farnham inclosure and passed quickly up tne wane. Since the summoning note had stressed the urgencies, he was not surprised to find the writer of it awaiting his coming on the vine-shadowed porch. * In his welcoming there was a curious mingling of constraint and impatience, and he was moved to marvel. m Miss Farnham's outlook upon life, the point of view of the ideally well ballanced, was uniformly poiseful and self-contained, and he was wondering if some fresh entanglement were threatening when she motioned him to & a seat and placed her own chair so ^ that the light from the sitting room windows would leave her in the shadow. "You had my note?" she began. "Yea It came while I was away from the hotel, and the regular trip of the inn brake was the first conveyance I could catch. Am I late?" Her reply was qualified. "That remains to be seen." There was a hesitant pause, and then she went on: "Do you know why I sent for you to come?" "No, not definitely." "I was hoping you would know; it would make it easier for me. You owe me something, Mr. Griswold.'' "I owe you a great deal," he admitted, warmly. "It is hardly putting it too t trongly to say that you have made some part of my work possible which would otherwise have been impossible." ' "I didn't mean that," she dissented, with a touch of cold scorn. "I have no especial ambition to figure as a character, however admirable, in a book. Your obligation doesn't lie in the literary field; it is real?and personal. You have done me a great injustice, and it seems to have been carefully premeditated." The blow was so sudden and so calmly driven home that Griswold gasped. "An Injustice?to you?" he protested; but she would not let him go on. "Yes. At first I thought it was only a coincidence?your coming to Wahaska?but now I know better. You came here, in goodness knows what spirit of reckless bravado, because it was my home; and you made the decision apparently without any consideration for me; without any thought of the embarrassments and difficulties in which it might involve me." Truly, the heavens had fallen and the solid earth was reeling! Griswold lay back in the deep lounging chair and fought manfully to retain some little hold upon the anchorings. Could Vthis be his ideal; the woman whom he had set so high above all others in the scale of heroic faultlessness and sublime devotion to principle? And she was so much a slave of the con^ ventional as to be able to tell him w coldly that she had recognized him again, and that her chief concern was the embarrassment it was causing her? Before he could gather the words for any adequate rejoinder, she was going on pointedly: "You have done everything you could to make the involvement complete. You have made friends of my friends, and you came here as a friend of my father. You have drawn Edward Raymer into the entanglement and helped him with the stolen money. In every way you have sought to make it more and more impossible for me to give information against you?and you have succeeded. I can't do it now, without facing a scandal that would * never die in a small place like this, and without bringing trouble and ruin upon a family of our nearest friends. And that is why I sent for you today: and why I say you owe me some^ thing." Griswold was sitting up again, and he had recovered some small measure of self-possession. "I certainly owe you many apologies, at lea3t," he said, ironically. "I have really been doing you a great injustice, Miss Farnham?a very grave injustice, though not exactly of the kind you mention. I think I have been misaDDrehending you from the beginning. How long have you known me as the man who is wanted in New Orleans?" "A long time; though I tried not to believe it at first. It seemed incredible that the man I had spoken to on the Belle Julie would come here and put me in such a false position." "Good heavens!" he broke out; "is your position all you have been thinking of? Is that the only reason why you haven't set the dogs on me?" ^ "It is the chief reason why I cou dn't afford to do anything more thai. I have done. Goodness knows, I have tried in every way to warn you, even to pointing out the man who is shadowing you. To do it, I have had to deceive my father. I have been hoping that you would understand and go away." "Wait a minute," he commanded. "Let me get it straight! you still believe that the thing I did was a criminal thing?" "We needn't go into that part of it again." she returned, with a sort of placid impatience. "Once I thought that there might be some way in which you had justified yourself to yourself. Dut now?" "That isn't the point," he interrupted roughly. "What I want to know is ^ this: Do you still believe it is a crime?'' "Of course, it is a crime: I know it, you know it, all the world knows it." Again he sat hack and took time to gather up a few of the scattered shreads and fragments. When he spoke it was to say: "I think the debt is on the other side, Miss Charlotte; I think I 3CE 35 CMC rCBfflOIES cafiYXK*rirrcm*Lej jaatMatJ MAS you owe me something. You probably won't understand when I say that you have robbed me of a very precious thing?my faith in the ultimate goodness of a good woman. You believe? you have always believed?that I am a criminal; md yet you have Deen wean enough to let expediency seal your lips. I am truer to my code than you I are to yours, as you shall see if the j day ever comes when I shall be convinced that I did wrong. But that Is neither here nor there. You sent for me; what is it that you want me to do?" "I want to give you one more chance to disappoint the Wa.iaska gossips," she replied, entirely unmoved, as It seemed, by his harsh arraignment. "Do you know why this man Broffln is still waiting?" "I can guess. He is taking a long chance on the chapter of accidents." "Not altogether. Three days ago, Mr. Gailbraith had Miss Qrierson telegraph to New Orleans for some one of the bank officials. Yesterday I learned that the man who is coming is the teller who waited on me and who gave | you the money. As soon as I heard that, I began to try to find you." Griswold did not tell her that the danger she feared was a danger past. "Go on," he prompted. "You are no longer safe in Wahaska," she asserted. "The teller can identify you, and the detective will give him the opportunity. That is doubtless what he is waiting for." "And you would suggest that I make a run for it? Is that why you sent for me?" "It is. You are lempung iaie u> staying; and, notwithstanding what you have said, I still insist that you owe me something. There is a fast train west at ten o'clock, if you need ready money?" Griswold laughed. It had gone beyond the tragic and was fast lasping into comedy, farce. "We are each of us appearing in a new role tonight, Miss Farnham," he said, with sardonic humor; "I as the hunted criminal, and you as the equally culpable accessory after the fact. If I run away, what shall be done with the?the 'swag.' the bulk of which, as you know, is tied up in Raymer's business?" "I have thought of that," she returned calmly, "and that is another reason why you shouldn't let them take you. Right or wrong, you have incurred a fresh responsibility in your dealings with Mr. Raymer; and Edward, who is perfectly innocent, must be protected in some way." It was not In human nature to resist the temptation to strike back. "I have told Raymer how he can most successfully underwrite his financial risk," he said, with malice intentional. "How?" "By marrying Miss Grierson." He had touched the springs of anger at last. "That woman!" she broke out. And then: "If you have said that to Edward Raymer, I shall never forgive you as long as I live! It is your affair to secure Edward against loss in the money matter?your own indlvidr?onnnolhill*v Mr Up accepted the money In good faith, and?" Again Griswold gave place to the caustic humor and finished for her. ?"And. though it is stolen money, it must be taken away from him. Once, when I was even more foolish than I am now, I said of you that you would be a fighting heroine in a story in which the hero should be a man who might need to borrow a conscience. It's quite the other way around." "We needn't quarrel," she said, retreating again behind the barrier of cold reserve. "I suppose I have given you the right to say disagreeable things to me, if you choose to assert it. But we are wasting time which may be very precious. Will you go away, as I have suggested?" He found his hat and got upon his feet rather unsteadily. "I don't know; possibly I shall. But in any event, you needn't borrow any more trouble, either on your own account or on Raymer's. By the merest chance, I met Johnson, the teller you speak of, a few minutes ago at the Winnebago house and was introduced to him. He didn't know me, then, or later, when Broffin was telling: him that he ought to know me. Hence, the matter rests as it did before?between you and Mr. Galbraith." "Mr. Galbraith?" "Yes. That was a danger past, too, a short time ago. I met him, socially, and he didn't recognize me. Afterward, Broffln pointed me out to him, and again he failed to identify me. But the other day, after I had pulled him out of the lake, he remembered. I've been waiting to see what he will do." "He will do nothing. You saved his life." Griswold shook his head. "I am still man enough to hope that he won't let the bit of personal service make him compound a felony." "Why do you call it that?" she demanded. "Because, from his point of view, and yours, that is precisely what it is; and it is what you are doing, Miss Farnham. I, the criminal, say this to you. You should hare given me up the moment you recognized me. That is your creed, and you should have lived up to it. Since you haven't, you have wronged yourself and have made me the poorer by a thing that?" "Stop!" she cried, standing up to face him. "Do you mean to tell me that you are ungrateful enough to?" "No; ingratitude isn't quite the word. I'm just sorry; with the sorrow you have when you look for something that you have a right to expect, and find that it isn't there; that it has never been there; that it isn't anywhere. You have hurt me, and you have hurt yourself; but there is still a chance for you. When I am gone, go to the telephone and call Broffln at the Winnebago house. You can tell him that he will find me at my rooms. Good-by." He was half way to the foot of Lakeview avenue, striding along moodily with his head down and his hands behind him, when he collided violently with Raymer going in the opposite direction. The shock was so unexpected that Griswold would have been knocked down If the muscular young iron founder had not caught him promptly. At this saving instant came mutual recognition. "Hello, there!*' said Raymer. "You are the very man I've been looking for, Charlotte wants to see you." "Not now she doesn't," was the rather grim contradiction. "I have Just left her." "Oh." There was a pause, and then Griswold cut in morosely: "So you did take my way out of the labor trouble, after all, didn't you?" Raymer looked away. "I don't know Just how you'd like to have me answer that. Kenneth. How much or how little do you know of what happened?" "Nothing at all," shortly. "Well, it was Margery who wrought the miracle of course. I don't know, yet. Just how she did it, but It was done, and done right." "And you have asked her to marry you ?" "Suffering Scott! how you do come at a man! Yes, I asked her, If you've got to know." "Well?" snapped Griswold. "She?she turned me down, Kenneth; got up and walked all over me. That's a horrible thing to make me say, but it's the truth." "I don't understand it, Raymer. Was it the No that means No?" a uuii i uuuci oiaiiu u, riiuci , i ? turned the iron founder, with gra*e naivete. "And. yes, I guess she meant It. But that reminds me. She knew I was looking for you and she gave me a note?let me see, I've got it here somewhere; oh. yes, here it is?gilt monogram and all." Griswold took the note and pocketed it without comment and without looking at it. "Were you going to Doctor Bertie's?" he asked. 'T was. Have you any objection?" "Not the least in the world. It's a good place fbr you to go just now, and I guess you are the right man for the place. Good-night." At the next corner where there was an electric light, Griswold stopped and opened the monogrammed envelope. The enclosure was a single sheet of perfumed note paper upon which, without date, address or signature was written the line: "Mr. Galbraith is better?and he is grateful." (To be Continued.) EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT What Various South Carolina NewsPapers Think of Various Things. Some of the Greek reservists in America are so reserved that they don't care to thru9t themselves forward for an enlistment in the army of the home land.?Greenville Piedmont. 9 Owe Debt of Gratituce. The English and French owe the Russians a lasting debt of gratitude for kppninc thp Gprmans off 'em for the past six months.?Edgefield Advertiser. A Prophecy. We predict that the European war well end next May. Not that we have any special reason for selecting this time, but Just think if it should happen to stop in that month, wouldn't we have a dandy rep for being some swell, prophet!?Wlnnsboro News and Herald. * * Better Use a Little Fertilizer. Some of the farmers of the township have this year grown fairly good crops without the use of fertilizer, doubtless due to the fact that last year the amount put to the acre was heavier than usual. It is our opinion that the man who next year attempts to raise cotton without any fertilizer is going to come out "the little end of the horn." ?Fort Mill Times. Buy American Securities. Why the money lenders of this country should fall over themselves to buy Anglo-French war bonds that will vield at most or.lv five and n half per cent is inexplicable to people In this section of the country, where there are almost unlimited opportunities for safe investment of money at higher rates. The war bonds may be safe, but there is an element of chance in the matter that does not exist when money is put into municipal, county or state bonds or in real estate loans, and the half billion of American money that will go into the war bonds would do this country more good if invested in American securities.? Sumter Item. * * Called to Trial. The grand jury of Charleston has made a good beginning of the assertion of the law against the sale of liquor. Twenty-three true bills brought in yesterday are the first indictments that have held against alleged blind tigers in a very long time, and their finrtinp PviHpnrpa lpt iir hnr*> thp hp ginning of a better sense of responsibility for the enforcement of the law, however unpopular it may be esteemed or unsuited to the conditions of the community. For a long time there has been not so much as an attempt to bring supposed violators of the liquor law to trial, and recently an endeavor to make trial of alleged illegal sellers resulted in a wholesale rejection of indictments made by the solicitor. The attitude of the county authorities toward this situation has furnished text for endless denunciation of the people of Charleston, much of which has been merited. This action of the grand jury should do something toward counteracting these outpourings, but, far more important, it should nourish and support a better sentiment of respect for the law for its own sake among the people of Charleston.? Charleston Post. POLITICS AT GREENVILLE Great Gathering at Barbecue and Picnic. FORMER GOV. BLEASE THE SPEAKER. Announces His Caindidacy for Next Year, on Local Option Platform? Denounces Tax Commission, Defends His Pardon Record and Reiterates His Views as to the Lynching Question. Thara wn? a hie nnlltiRflJ rallv in Greenville last Saturday, gotten up through the efforts of Sheriff Rector and others, with the promise of a picnic and barbecue, and speeches by Governor Cole L. Blease and Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurin as attractions. The crowd in attendance is variously estimated at from 1,500 to 3,000. Mr. McLaurln was unable to be present and sent a letter explaining the press of business that could not be deferred. Governor Blease, however, was on hand, and he made a spirited speech that aroused the enthusiasm of the audience to high pitches, evidenced by frequent applause. Sheriff Rector presided Juring the day. In calling the crowd to order he said he was not a "Bleasite," but was a citizen of Greenville county who was entitled to vote as he pleased, for Blease or anybody else. He wanted it distinctly understood that while the gathering had been advertised as a barbecue and picnic, no one connected with the promotion of the occasion had ever thought of it as other than a political barbecue and picnic, so there need be no misunderstanding along that line. Sheriff Rector said: "There is no need for me to tell you anything ; about the man who is going to address | you for you know him better than I do." The following report of Governor Blease's speech is from the Greenville News of Sunday: When the sheriff ceased speaking, Governor Blease came forward and was greeted with hearty applause, showing that the crowd was purely a "Blease" gathering. In his opening remarks the speaker referred to the fact that Sheriff Rector is the candidate for sheriff of Greenville county. He referred to Sheriff Rector as the "most persecuted public official I ever heard of in South Carolina." He said that while he was governor he was attacked enough, but that he was never attacked from behind and his life put in danger, like the sheriff. He thought that the only thing that would defeat Rector for sheriff would be "Rector himself." Governor Blease spoke for almost an hour, giving his platform, or rather views, upon a number of the leading issues, stating that he never dodged an issue and never wouid. "1 desire to announce right now," said the speaker, after concluding his remarks regarding the sheriff, "that if I live, I expect to be in the race for governor of South Carolina in the next campaign. I am-a-goln' to run!" he concluded and there was considerable cheering. He stated that he didn't particularly care about being governor but that so many of his friends throughout the state had been so insistent in their demands that he had at last decided to enter the race and "to be governor again for two years.*' He entered the race, ha ?Id. because the leaders had decided that he was the only man "among our folks," upon whom all factions can center. The speaker referred to the high price of cotton and told his hearers not to believe that any one man was responsible for the high price of cotton, but that it was merely the law of supply and demand and that cotton was going still higher. He spoke for some time regarding the McLaurin warehouse bill, stating that he haa called the legislature together for the purpose and that he was responsible for this bill, which he declared the opposition was now trying to lay claim to. He called attention to the low price of money and stated that this was true because Senator McLaurln had gone north and the big banks there had promised to let him have the money on cotton. They advised him to start a bank and loan money, which they would supply, upon cotton warehouse certificates, but he stated, that Mr. McLaurin had decided to let the local banks loan the money, if they would do it cheap enough, otherwise he would follow their suggestions. He spoke of the money he had saved or would have saved, or rather which was going to be saved, as a result of his message to the legislature regarding the state printing, which he said was nothing but a theft of the people's money, in that the printer charged the state for printing the various acts of the legislature three times when as a matter of fact the type was kept standing and was not reset, as the charges would indicate. In the matter of taxation the speaker declared that the present tax commission was not treating the corpora iiuua iigui. x tiiit nut ixiijr Liiaiii^iuii of the corporations," said the speaker, "but they are entitled to a square deal and they are not getting: it at the hands of the tax commission." He spoke of the "old soldiers" assessment, stating that while it was made to appear that the assessment to the farmer had not been raised, that as a matter of fact the tax was one mill higher, made to take care of the old soldiers' assessment, which was taken care of last time in the regular assessment. He charged that after the taxes had been placed upon the corporations that in a few years it would be gradually taken off and "Mr. Farmer" will have more to pay. In the matter of paying taxes he stated that the corporation does not pay a cent of tax as a matter of fact, but that the laboring class paid all the taxes. If the railroad lose money they cut wages, was his statement, and the same he charged holds good with other corporations. He ended the tax discussion by saying that the tax commission was the "greatest curse South Carolina has had since Frank Moses was governor." Th speaker stated that he had an apology to make to Lewis W. Parker, of whom he made a statement in the 1914 campaign and which he now believed to be untrue. "I think it's the duty of every man to make amends when he finds he has made a mistake," said the speaker, "and while at that time I believed that what I was saying was true, I now believe this to be untrue. "I stated that Lewis W. Parker contributed $10,000 in 1914 to defeat me for the senate. I do not now think so. though I do think that he contributed" in 1912 against me. I was honestly mistaken and I made the statement in a public way; hence I am going to make a public apology to Lewis W. Parker, and not make a private one, here in his own county. I make it public and not private, for as a matter of fact I don't speak to him." He spoke of the "lawlessness" which had been charged to his administration, stating that there was more of it now than when he was governor, though as a matter of fact no administration could be held responsible for lawlessness. "Since the present administration went into offi.ce, 14 white women have been a.ssaulted, when there was but 2 while I was governor. One of the criminals was electrocuted, the other was hung to a limb. "That's the cure, and I say to you that whenever one of your white women is assaulted, find the right man, be sure he is the right man, and then hang him as quick as you can. "Oh! They told you that I wouldn't speak in Boston about this matter like T do down here and in Richmond: well, I talked meaner up there than arywhere else. Boston, you know, is th * hub of all 'Yankee-dom.' "It's not against the law to lynch a man for criminal assault. The law says a man who does this must diewell, if you hang him to a limb he dies, don't he'. You are obeying the law, not violating it, therefore." He spoke of the pardons he issued while governor, some 1,700 in number and quoted the fact that his method was a success by the fact that not a one of them had been caught and sent back to the penitentiary. "What's the use of sending a youth to the penitentiary for life, he said, when, while tanked up on mean whisky. he does some act of which he is nnt rnnarlnua TJi? mart who sold him the whisky ought to go along to the penitentiary with him, even if it's the state of South Carolina, that one is to blame." He charged that whisky is drunk the fashionable clubs of Columbia. He quoted a number of newspaper articles of papers of this state, regarding the cheapness of human life in the mind of the average person of the state. He did not lay any of the recent killings to the administration, stating that no one man could be held responsible; however that "when any one was lynched while I was governor, 'Blease lynched him;' now its different, they didn't lynch that fellow at Elloree, they 'merely shot him to death.'" He took up the prohibition question, stating that he was forever opposed to the open saloon, with the "pool room attachment and the indecent pictures, the music boxes and tne social drink, which ruined the young men of the country." He declared that he favored local option; that if any county wanted prohibition, or vice versa, let them have it; but make the rules stringent. In referring to his resignation as governor, some few days before his last term expired, he stated that no one but himself knew and no one else ever would. He spoke of his various work in the anti-prohibition flpht when he was senator from Newberry county in 1905 and after talking along this line for a time he took up the dispensary question: "Somebody has been making money out of the dispensaries," he said, "somebody has been getting rebates. Anyone who would make a statement like that and not be in a position to prove it would be a fool," continued the speaker, "and I am prepared to prove the remark." He charged that the whisky was adulterated and that this was where the "graft" came in, in the shape of rebates. He spoke of purchasing a bottle of standard-brand whisky In Baltimore and then comparing it to the whisky of the same brand sold in one U1 HIS UIQf'Clloai ivo. He referred with pride, he said, to the fact that in the recent prohibition election, counties that went for him in other years w?ire the counties voting for prohibition. He mentioned the names of Aiken and Anderson counties. He stated that he believed in local option and stated that the people of j Greenville county should have voted upon the road bond issue. He declared that if Charleston waited a dispensary they ought to be allowed to have it, that laws could not change the sentiment of people. "You can't legislate morality into people," he declared. At this time he paid his respects to the ministers, stating: "It would become them better to occupy their pulpits and preach the religion of Jesus Christ than try to dabble in politics. They'd have a heap more success improving the morality of the people and saving souls," declared the speaker. In closing, the former governor promised his hearers that ,'n 1617, some time about the middle of the first month, he would be glad to welcome his old friends back to the governor's mansion and "eat some more of that old pie." He was heartily applauded, time after time during the speech' and at the conclusion. He promised to return when the campaign opened and talk more upon his pla* form, outlining the issues as he sa v them that | might be uppermost at that time. | The day proved a k "eat success, I there being but little disorder and [those who attended seemed to have enjoyed the entire day to the fullest. GENERAL NEWS NOTES Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Sir Charles C. Wakefield' has been elected lord mayor of London. A slight earthquake shook the coast section of California Friday. More than 30 persons were killed in an explosion in a bomb factory at Muembswyl, Switzerland. Thursday. Four hundred others narrowly escaped fire following the dust explosion. The widow of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, has rented a furnished homo in New York for the winter and is to pay a rental of $330 per day. The increase of the retail liquor license in New York state from $1,200 to $1,500, effective October 1st, forced nearly 600 saloons in New York and Brooklyn to retire from business. One man and four children were killed and two fatally injured when a roln otrur>lr nn nntnmnhilrt at a crade crossing near Leola, Pa., Friday. The automobile contained ten children returning from school. Two New York gunmen broke the plate glass show window of a Philadelphia jeweler Friday, and gathering a tray of diamonds valued at $5,000, made away with it. One of the thieves was captured and the diamonds recovered. By a decision of the Federal district court in Philadelphia, the "Motion Picture Trust" is to be dissolved. Twelve motion picture corporations nre affected by the decision and some of these will be put out of business by the decision. A Stockholm, Swden, dispatch says that a terrific explosion occurred in a German munitions factory at Witterberg, Prussia, on August 23, In which 242 workmen were killed and many Injured. The Keystone Watch Case company of Philadelphia, has been given a contract to furnish brass parts of the fuse mechanism of shrapnel sheV:s for England. The contract totals about $4,000,000. Sir. A. Conan Doyle, the English author, says, in an article in the cuirent issue of Collier's Weekly, that he hears the roar of the guns in Flanders, while at his home in southern England, a distance of 120 m'les. The Will of Martha Washington has been returned to the state of Virginia by J. P. Morgan. The wiU was owned by the elder Morgan and the state of Virginia had begun suit to recover the paper, alleging that it has been stolen. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway was the mediator between Mr. Morgan and Governor Stuart of Virginia. Six middles have been expelled from the Annapolis Naval academy, following the charges of cribbing. Fifteen men were put back a year. Included in tho latter number were F. W. Benson of South Carolina, and A. B. Craig, a sor. of Governor Craig of North Carolina. Secretary of the Navy Daniels has issued an order to the effect that hazing must be stopped at the academy. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings Id Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Cheater. Chester Reporter, Sept. 30: Mr. Frank Winchester has accepted a position as deputy under Sheriff D. E. Colvin, vice, Mr. S. F. Hardin, resigned Miss Bessie Alexander, *- lnaf ??AAl/ Kir tha WI1U WtUl UtUCU IIOIC look TT cvn u/ VMV ? death of her brother, Mr. J. R. Alex- i ander, returned to Greenwood yester- t day morning to resume her duties as t teacher In Lander college Judge { of Probate A. W. Wise issued a mar- . riage license this morning to Mr. B. 1 F. Singleton of Horry county, and Miss 1 Florida Brakefield, of the Armenia t community Mr. R. T. Sandifer, in- e tendant of Lowryville, who was in the s city yesterday, said in reference to I the injuries received a few days ago r by Mr. R. I* Kitchens that as Mr. I Kitchens approached the ditch on his t motorcycle he was signalled by two dlf- c Cerent men Mr. Sandifer being one of the two), to dismount, but seemed to be in a hurry, and instead of dis- ' mounting plunged into the ditch with 8 the results already stated. Mr. Sandi- 1 fer said that others had approached * the ditch during the afternoon while r work was in progress, but had heeded 1 the warning and met with no accident, n and the same thing would have occur- n red in Mr. Kitchens' case, if he had e heeded the signals. Mr. Sandifer said '' that the ditch in question is ono hun- a dred yards from any b...d in the road ll and Mr. Kitchens had a clear find un- c obstructed view of the ditch and the * working force Mr. J. B. R. Carter, c a highly esteemed citizen of the 1 Sealy's Creek neighborhood, died last ^ night at 11 o'clock, after an illness of 8 several months, though his condition 0 naa Deen cruicaa oniy a iew wcoivd. Funeral services will be held at Lib- 11 erty Baptist church this afternoon at * 4 o'clock by Rev. Mr. Trogden, fol- a lowed by interment in Liberty grave- c yard. Mr. Carter was a native of the a Sealy's Creek section and was 46 years of age. He was an industrious c and successful farmer, and a consls- n tant Christian. v Lancaster News, Oct. 1: Dr. J. A. 11 Q Wlnstead and family are leaving Lancaster within the next few days for his old home in Nashville, N. C. Dr. Wlnstead is a capable young physician, who has won the confidence of 8 his patients in and around Lancaster. 8 The friends they have made during n their residence of only a year in L&n- a caster will regret Dr. and Mrs. Win- _ stead's departure While practicing with the other boys of the high a school football team Wednesday af- 11 ternoon, Walter McManus, a sturdy a member of the team, suffered the mis- * fortune of breaking his left arm. e Medical aid was summoned, and the 1 bones was set. The young man bore 4 the pain bravely and was at school as usual next day Rev. and Mrs. 1 ? ? ? ... e IH. K. Murcnison moiorea 10 tsaiesburg this week. On their return Wed- r nesday, they stopped in Columbia, 0 where Mr. Murchison sold the whole c output of his tomato farm, which con- ^ sists of 300 cases, to a single distri- ^ butor. Mr. Murchison had little more 1 than three acres "planted in tomatoes c and installed on the farm a cannery, 8 which he kept busy for several weeks. e What this energetic minister has done "as a 3ide line" and in another section of the state, the man who lives all 0 the year round on the farm could cer- 1 tainiy do. It seems to us that toma- 1 toes might be raised more generally on ? such a scale w^h profit to the producer Mrs. S. T. Blackmon pre- K sented us this week with a curiosity ? in the form of a sweet potato vine in full bloom. The leaves on the vine closely resembled cotton foliage and / the blossom is similar to the morning > glory. Trumpel-like flower shades ^ from a deep purple to a pale shade ot ? lilac and is very pretty. Mrs. Black- ? mon tells us she has seen a potato * vine with similar blossoms before but ^ we had never seen anything like it. c Mrs. Emma Small of this place, ( and Mr. W. R. McCampbell of Char- ? lotte, were married Wednesday at the ^ home of the brida After t'ne cere- I mony, performed by Rev. W. S. Pat- I terson, the couple left for a trip to ^ Baltimore and New York On j; Wednesday evening at 6.30, the home F of Mr. and Mra Jack Reece was the ^ scene of a quiet home marriage, when ^ Mr. Reece's niece, Miss Alice Lorena I McKenncn, became the bride of Mr. * Edgar Ray Sloan. ^ * * * Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 1: Ftlends of L little Miss Nannie Williams Dobson, I daughter of Hon. and Mrs. R. A. ^ Dobson, will be glad to learn that she ^ is much improved after suffering for > the past ten days with a severe case ? of blood poison F\ineral services p over the remains of Mr. D. L. John p Humphries were held Wednesday at S Beulah church, being conducted by the ? Rev. C. M. Teal. Mr. Humphries died last Saturday. He was 82 years of V age, and is survived by several chil- ^ dren Mrs. Mira Jane Ross, wife g( of Wm. F. Ross, of the Buffalo section of the county, died at her home Tuesday at the age of 64 years of age. p She is survived by her husband, five n sons and three daughters "Farm- ? ere are marketing their cotton too fast," said Mr. B. Harris, representa- f< tlve of the state department of agriculture, who spent Wednesday in the p city. "If they will market it slowly g they will realize the profits which the c speculator has been accustomed to get- " ting In the past. Twelve cents a c poynd is a good price, but 15 cents) is c better, and if the market is not glut- " ted I haven't a doubt but that It will reach 15 cents and possibly go even tj higher," said Mr. Harris. ' p Fort Mill Times, Sept. 30: Rev. F anrt Mr* .1 R Mr-TClttrirk and chil- 1' dren of Dyson, are visiting relatives '' in Fort Mill and vicinity Miss Olive Brock of Honea Path, who was detained at her home on account of a illness, arrived in Fort Mill Saturday t and on Monday assumed her duties as r teacher of the third grade in the t public school. Awaiting the arrival ii of Miss Brock, the class has been p taught by Mlsa Mae Morris of the India Hook section of the county B. F. Massey, Jr., a former Fort Mill druggist, left Tuesday evening for Tampa, Fla., where he Is to again engage In the drug business. Mrs. Massey and little daughter will Join Mr. Massey in the Florida section within i short time The friends of Mr. ind Mrs. J. W. Wylle deeply sympa thlze with them in the loss of their Utile son, James Wylle, Jr., whose death >ccurred at Greensboro, N. C., Tuesiay night. The child was about two r'e&rs of age and had been ill but a 'ew days. The remains, accompanied ay the parents, were brought to Fort Hill Wednesday al'ternoon and taken :o the home of the grandparents, Mr. ind Mra J. H. McMurray, from which :he funeral services will be conducted his morning. The burial will be made n New Unity cemetery, this city. The Fort Mill friends of Rev. >r. Edward Mack will be interested to earn of the most cordial welcome exended him last week when he assumed his duties as professor of Hebrew ind Old Testament exegesis at the Jnion Theological seminary in Rlchnond, Va., Dr. Mack is a graduate of Davidson college and was formerly astor of the First Presbyterian hurch of Charlotte. Rock Hill Herald, Oct. 1: The storm rhlch on Wednesday night swept the rulf states, appeared to have reached lock Hill. Rain fell gently all of yeserday and last night It came in torents for some time. The wind atained a velocity of thirty to forty niles an hour during the night, renlndlng one of regular March we&thr. The ground was thoroughly dry n this-section and the rain did a vast mount of good, both to the crops and n aiding the seeding of alfalfa and over crops Interest in the eleclon for a mayor of Fort Mill is inreasing, and while conditions are enlrely harmonious, the two candidates, V. M. Carothers and B. E. Patterson, nd their friends are doing a great deal f earnest work. The candidates have rranged for the county board of regBtration to be here on Saturday next, o enable those of the citizens who re not registered or have lost their ertlflcates, to secure one. It is prob ble that 15 voters will appear on tne seal registration bookt when they are losed D. M. Ferguson died last Jght at his home in the Arcade vilige, following an Illness of some reeks. He was 65 years of age and i survived by his wife and several hildren. King's Mountain Herald, Sept 30: . F. Ware has been in what is conidered by some as a critical condition ince Sunday as the result of an automobile wreck Sunday afternoon. The utomobile was the property of Dr. J. 1. Hord and was driven by Otto Hiord. iesides Otto, Mr. Ware, Burgon Falls nd. Will Berry, colored, were in the machine. They had been to Shelby nd were returning. After descending he long h:.il this side cf Shelby, the xcesslve speed of the machine made t impossible to make the curve and he car went headway against the em ankment. All the occupants were hrown out and all more or less lnjurd but Mi. Ware was the only one to ecelve serious injuries. He had one r more ribs broken and is bruised and ut and stove up a good deal. He has ieen in a serious condition ever smce. .'he automobile was badly wrecked, .'he car was a two-passenger mahine but the four were taking pasage on it, which fact accounts fo? the normlty of the accident THs Referendum Vote.?Complete .nd certified returns from all counles in South Carolina, as filed with he secretary of state, give for protibltion 41,735 votes and against prohibition 16,809. The election was held leptember 14. The state board of janvassers has been called to meet )ctober 5. Following is the vote by ounties. Wet. Dry. Lbbeville 723 246 Liken 1,126 316 inderson 1,985 847 famberg 448 232 (arnweil 643 488 leaufort 203 164 Berkeley 248 186 Calhoun 346 186 Charleston 370 2,607 Cherokee 1,209 269 Chester 625 234 Chesterfield 887 496 Clarendon 550 157 aii? 'olleton sui Arlington 1,152 149 >illon 494 162 >orchester 454 497 Mgefleld 710 70 Airfield 453 138 'lorence 1,514 362 ieorgetown 259 154 Ireenville 4,056 1,')28 Ireenwood 1,172 # 234 lampton 545 227 lorry 861 727 1 aaper 152 46 Kershaw 620 335 , .ancaster 989 202 aurens 1,416 370 jee 473 236 <exington 1,405 672 farlon 604 111 larlboro 828 Ml dewberry 1,170 3!>J ! tconee .... 1,108 lit3 irangeburg 1,415 4!>t 'ickena 1,0 2 8 3515 iichland 1,257 714 aluda 787 13<i 1 partanbrrg 3,338 1,261 umter 652 244 Jnion 1,281 427 , Williamsburg 565 132 ork 813 164 08'9l PHO.L | i Helfin V/ants to Buy Cotton Now.? , Lepreserlatlve Helfin of Alabama, a 1 OAmmUloa f\T% leiuuer ui mc nuuor vuuuhivi.vv v griculture, called on Secretary GarIson and Secretary Daniels yesterday i ? discuss the administration's deense programme, and particularly the se of cctton and linters in the manuicture of gun cotton and other exlosives. Mr. Helfln suggested that the overnmcnt purchase 450,000 bales of j otton and 250,000 bales of linters to j leet the munitions requirements of < he army and navy, and that on ac- < ount of the short cotton crop the in- < reasing demand both for cotton and i nters in Europe for war purposes, the 1 urchase be made early In Decemer. The secretaries promised to ] ake the matter up. Secretary Dan- 1 ?ls told Mr. Helfln that more cotton ] han usual would be required by the < overnment powder mills at Indian I lead because the plant there was be- ; ng enlarged and soon would be able to i screase its output of manufactured 1 owder. I 1 A German dispatch says that private 1 dvices from Ceylon are to the effect ' hat the island has been in a state of ] ebelllon since June and that more ] han 2,000 islanders have been killed ' a the rioting. Practically all the tea lantations have been destroyed. PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Happenings and Events Throughout South Carolina. The Southern Textile exposition will be held In Greenville, November 2-6. The Thornwell orphan: ige celebrated the 40th anniversary of Its founding on Friday. The Observer, a weekly newspaper, is being published in the little town of Olanta, in Florence county. Chaa. C. Langston, former editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, died in Anderson, Tuesday, aged 66 years. Iredell Hllllard has been appointed by Governor Manning a magistrate in ^ A<U?M4?? 4A ?lH?tKAA/l T TtJ urui gciuw ii vmiu/, w ouwwu w. Tv Wingate, resigned. Rev. C. M. Gray of Charleston, landed a Ash at the Isle of Palms last week that weighed 40 pounds. The flsh was caught with hook and llna The shortage of T. J. Southall, former dispenser at the dispensary In Aiken, which shortago amounts to about 92,000, has been paid by his bonding company. The publication of the Citizen, a weekly newspaper has been begun at Denmark in Bamberg county. F. Earl Bradham is editor of the new publication. Mason Shular, colored, was shot to pieces by a poere of citizens at EUoree, Orangeburg county, Tuesday, while he was attempting to enter the home of a citizen of that town. The city of Augusta, Ga., is seeking an injunction against Edgefield county to prevent the foreclosure by public sale for taxes of a dam across the Savannah river. The amount of taxes which EdgeAeid county claims Is 1774.95. The injunction Is sought on the ground that the dam Is a public necessity. Governor Harris of Georgia, has withdrawn his requisition on liovtrnor Manning for the arrest of J. A. McNeill, wanted in Georgia for kidnapping his daughter. McNeill ho'da an important position in Charleston. He had been estranged from his wife for some time but now has made up his dltff^jnces and his wife requeued the withdrawal of the arrest warrant Gov. Manning last week appointed more thi-Ji 100 delegates to the International Peace congress which is to be held 'n San Francisco, Cal., Octoi er 10 to IS. Each delegate who attends will have to pay his own expenses. The list is as follows: Rev. J. D. Crane, Greer; John Laird, Aiken; J. C. Houston, Aiken; M. M. Mewborne, Charleston; Chief Louis Behrena, Charleston; Rev. J. B. Budds, Charleston; Joseph Lindsay, C. C. Edwards, Chester; El El Kirven, Dovesvllle; A. W. Welling, Darlington; Hi A. Bethea, Latta; J. D. Manning, J. M. Sprunt, Dr. Wade Stackhouse, Dillon; H. H. Husbands, J. D. Evans, M. D. Lucas, Florence; W. H. Keith, Timmonsville; Rev. Chas. Wood, Florence; <}. ? Holiday, Golivant's Ferry; Dr. H. N. Snyder, Spartanburg; El C. Goesett, Maj. Wm. Roberts, Greenville; Richmond Stacy, J. C. Wright, N. Hi Littlejohn, Gaifney; Capt L. B. Steele, B. P. Fraser, Gen. S. M. Ward, Georgetown; R. v. Bray, Rockton; W. B. Wright, Shelton; T. G. Patrick, White Oak; C. M. Gavin, St. George; J. P. Prettyman, Sumraerville, W. B. Browning, Rldgevtlle; Rev. B. H. DeMont, Rev. J. B. Greene, Rev. L. P. McGee, Greenwood; H. W. C. Folk, Branson; W. C. Patrick, Varnville; M. M. Chleolm, Estell; Dr. D. C. Sootto, Kingstree; W. C. Wilson, Cadee; T. W. Boyle, GreetyviHe; Col. T. Y. Williams, Lancaster; O. W. Potts, Port Mill; Dr. W. 8. Moore, Heath 8prints; W. J. Ardis, Pinewood; J. W. Player, Shiloh; Spann Vinson, Remberts; H. 1* Tilgtum. Sellers, J. P. Cooper, Mulllns; P. F. Covington, D. Mclntyre, Marlon; W. B. Moore Yorkvllle; W. J. Roddey, Rock Hill; W. R Meacham, Fort Mill; Dr. C. E. Burt a, Dr. LeOrand Guerry, H. N. Edmunds, Rev. T. J. Hegarty, Columbia; M. T. Pitta, Saluda; Alvin Etheredge, H. C. Smith, Saluda; J. F. Mewborne, Orangeburg; ?1 N. Chisolm, Rowesville, T. L. Connor, Eutawviile; T. 3. Bryant, Orangeburg; Dr. T. H. Dreher, Dr. B. F. Brunce, J. E. Wannamaker, St Matthews; Rev. J. F. Mattheson, Union; Dr. F. M. EUebre, J. W. Cunningham, Joneeville; C. R. Doyle, Calhoi. n; A. D. Mann, Pickens; J. F. Ban 1st.i, Liberty; J. E. Todd, Due West; Patrick Roache, Abbeville; S. D. Bowleu, Lowndesville; D. M. Barrentlne, Chesterfield; F. E. Kerr, McBee; J. It Long. Cheraw; J. W. Jenny, Syear,ore; J. A. Myers, Myers Mill; Angus Ah, Allendale; M. M. Houston, Yevarsce; J. M. Rhett, Beaufort; W. P. Oibbes, Port Royal; C. M. Barnwell, Beaufort; S. M. Johnston, Sandy Springs; J. F. Evans, Anderson; J. B. Watkins, Belton, F. V. James, Denmark; MaJ. C. F. Bamberg, Bamberg; Capt J. M. Donnelly, Ernhardt; Dr. W. B. Ryan, Ridgeland; J. M. Langford. Oilllsonville; J. S. Berg, Ridgeland; J. K. Breedln, Manning; J. H. DuBose, New Zion; J. E. Davis, Davis Static n; B. G. Price, Walterboro; Ben Thompson, Lodge; J. G. \ Varn, Rufflsi; W. A. Edwards, Kalb; \ J. T. Mack?}', Camden; W. J. Burdell. M. D., Lugof'; J. M. Moss, Walhalla; Dr. E. C. Doyle, Seneca; M. S. Strib ling, Westnur.s er; W. P. Baskins. Providence; W. R. Scarborough. W. A.. Gardener. Bishopville; Dr. J. H. Self, Pleasant Lane; J. B. McKie, Clark s Hill; P. N. Lott, Johnston; Dr. J. H. Miller. Cross Hill; J. W. Drummond. Landlord; W. L. Gray, Laurens; Dr. J. H. Harms, Newberry; Wm. Coleman, Woltmire; W. W. Wheeler, Prosper'.y; Rev. J. A. Brunson, St. Matthews. ? Turkey has consented to the emi Knit ion of all Armenians who actually will become naturalized American citizecr on their arrival in this country, says a Washington dispatch i" Saturday. Ambassador Morgenthau w Constantinople has arranged with the Turkish government for their departure. An apepal will be made public by the board of commissioners for foreign missions, for money to make possible the transportation and change of allegiance of such Armenians. A large number of former Turkish citizens are now under arms in the strip of Armenian Turkey near Van, now held by the Russiana and the Turks fear tht t if other Armenians are allowed to go to adjacent territory they will also enlist with Turkey's enemies. The only restriction that the United State* makes upon the proposed encouragement of Armenian emigration is that the newcomers ftlflll the immigration requirements and enter the United States as any other foreigner, Bincerely applying for American citizenship. ?