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YOiKVILLE ENQUIRER. t ISSUED SEMl-WKKKLT. l. m. oeist's sons, Pobu.hcr.,} % #utilg Demspapei;: c|or (In {promotion of the jpotitieat, J5o<(iat, Agricultural and Contmtyial Jnttresls oJ the jptopty,, ( ESTABLISHED 1853. YORK, S. C- TTJE8DAYrOCTOBERI.2, 1915 ~ ~jSTO. 827 ?I #-M( ' mcsTMriofiSj CHAPTER XXXI. The Desert and the Sown. Through streets in which the village quiet of the summer night was undisturbed save by the spattering tinkle of the lawn sprinklers in the front yards, and the low voices of the outdoor people taking the air and the moonlight on their porches, Griswold fared homeward, the blood pounding in his veins and the fine wine of life mounting heavily to his brain. After all the dubious stumblings he had come to the end of the road, to find awaiting him the great accusaa tion and the great reward. By the un^ answerable logic of results, in its effect upon others and upon himself, his deed had proved itself a crime. Right or wrong in the highest ethical fields, the accepted social order had proved - ^ itself strong enough to make its own laws and to prescribe the far-reaching penalties for their information. Under these laws he stood convinced. Never again, save through the gate of atonement, could he be re-instated as a soldier in the ranks of the conventionally righteous. True, the devotion of a loving woman, aided by a train of nfmlrlnnplv 11 If All O tiivuiuoiauvca oitmuigij *w?n?ivv?.o and little short of miraculous, had avet 4ed the flna. price-paying in penal retribution. But the fact remained. He was a felon. Into this gaping wound which might otherwise have slain him had been poured the wine and oil of a great love; a love so clean and pure in its own well-springs that it could preceive no wrong in its object; could measure no act of loyal devotion by any standard save that of its * own greatness. This lovo asked nothing but what he chose to give. It would accept him either as he was, or as he ought to be. The place he should elect to occupy would be its place; his standards its standards. Just here the reasoning angel opened a door and thrust him out upon the edge of a precipice and left him to look down into the abyss of the betrayers? ( the pit of those whose gift and curse i it is to be the pace setters. In a flash i of revealment it was shown him that i with the great love had come a great i responsibility. Where he should lead, 1 Margery would follow, unshrinkingly, ] unquestioningly; never asking whether i the path led up or down; asking only ] that his path might be hers. Instantly he was face to face with a fanged ; choice which threatened to tear his i heart out and trample upon it; and , again he recorded his decision, con- ] firming it with an oath. The price was too great; the upward path too steep; , the self-denial it entailed too sacrl- | flcal. "We have but one life to live, and we'll live it together, Margery, girl, for better or for worse,'" was his apos- ( trophic declaration, made while he was , % "Put Them on/' He Snapped. turning into Shawnee street a few doors from his lodgings; and a minute later he was opening the Widow Holcomb's gate. The house was dark and apparently deserted as to its street-fronting half when he let himself in at the gate and ran quickly up tho steps. The front door was open, and he remembered afterward that he had wondered how the careful widow had come to leave it so, and why the hall lamp was not lighted. From the turn at the stairhead he felt his way to the door of his study. Like the one below, it was wide open, but someone had drawn the window shades and the inr terior cf the room was as dark as a cavern. Once, in the novel-writing, following the lead of many worthy precedes. . . _ I sors, Griswold had made much of the "sixth" sense: the subtle and indefinable presence which warns its possessor of invisible danger. No such warning was vouchsafed him when he leaned across the end of the writing table, turned on the gas and held a , lighted match over the chimney of the working-lamp. It was while he was still bending over the table, with both hands occupied, that he looked aside. In his own pivot chair, covering him with the mate to the weapon he had smashed and thrown away, sat the man who had opened the two doors and drawn the window shades and ^ otherwise prepared the trap. ' "You bought a couple o' these little playthings. Mr. Griswold," said the man quietly. "Keep your hands right where they are. and tell in which pocket you've got the other one." Griswold laughed, and there was a sudden snapping of invisible bonds. He dismissed instantly the thought ad 3SLYNDE " MODES c&?Y/t/effrffr<yvuiL?j scvwuxs jo*> that Charlotte Farnham had taken him at his word; and if she had not, there was nothing to fear. "I threw the other one away a little while ago," he said. "Reach your free hand over and feel my pockeets." Broffln acted upon the suggestion promptly. "You ain't got it on you. anyway," he conceded; and when Griswold had dropped into the chair at the table's end: "I reckon you know what I'm here for." "I know that you are holding that gun of mine at an exceedingly uncomfortable angle?for me," was the cool rejoinder. "I've always had a squeamish horror of being shot in the stomach." The detelctive's grin was appreciative. "You've got a good, cold nerve, anyway," he commented. "I've been puttin' It up that when the time came, you'd throw a fit o' some sort?what? Since you're clothed in your right mind we'll get down to business. First, I'll ask you to hand over the key to that safety-deposit box you've got in Mr. Grierson's bank.'' Griswold took his bunch of keys from his pocket, slipped the one that was asked for from the ring, and gave it to his captor. "Of course I'm surrendering it under protest," he said. "You haven't yet told me who you are, or what you are holding me up for." Broffln waved the formalities aside with a pistol-pointed gesture. "We can skip all that. I've got you dead to ngnis, aner so long a. unit*, ana a m goin' to take you back to New Orleans with me. The only question Is, do you go easy or hard?" "I don't go either way until you show your authority." "I don't need any authority. You're the parlor anarchist that held up the president of the Bayou State Security bank last spring and made a get-away with a hundred thousand?what?" "All right; you say so?prove it" Griswold had taken a cigar from the open box on the writing table and was calmjy lighting it. There was nothing to be nervous about "I'm waiting," he went on, placidly, when the cigar was going. "If you are an officer, you probably have a warrant, or a requisition. or something of that sort. Show It up." "I don't need-any papers to take you," was the barked-out retort Broffin had more than once found himself confronting similar dead walls, and he knew the worth of a bold play. "Oh, yes, you do. You accuse me pf a crime; did you see me commit the crime?" "No." "Well, somebody did, I suppose. Bring on your witnesses. If anybody can identify me as the man you are after, I'll go with you?without the requisition. That's fair, isn't it?" "I know you are the man, and you know it, too. d n well, snapped Broffin, angered into bandying words with his obstinate capture. "That is neither here nor there; I am not affirming or denying. It is for you to prove your case, if you can. And listen. Mr. Broffin?perhaps it will save you time and mine if I add that I happen to know that you can't prove your case." "Why can't I?" "Just because you can't," Griswold went on argumentatively. "I know the facts of this robbery you speak of; a great many people know them. The newspaper accounts said at the time that there were three persons who co>uld certainly identify the robber? the president, the paying teller, and a young woman. It so happens that all three of these people are at present in Wahaska. At different times you have appealed to each of them, and in each instance you have been turned down. Isn't that true?" Broffln glanced up, scowling. "It's true enough that you? you and the little black-eyed girl between you have hoodooed the whole bunch!" he rasped. "But when I get you into court, you'll find that there are others." "That is a bold, bad bluff, Mr. Broffin, ana noDoay Knows it any Deuer man you do," he countered. "You haven't a leg to stand on. This Is America, and you can't arrest me without a warrant. And if you could, what would you do with me without the support of at least one of your three witnesses? Nothing?nothing at all." (To be Continued.) The President at Prayer.?The story is told that at a recent cabinet meeting, at the time when it looked as if the United States might be drawn into the European war in spite of all that could be done. President Wilson said to the members of the cabinet as they assembled: "Gentlemen, I don't know whether you believe in prayer or not, but I do. Let us ask divine guidance before we begin our deliberations." And then, the story goes, the president knelt, the cabinet members knelt with him, and he offered a fervent prayer. We are prone to think of this as a cold and materialistic age. We hear little of prayer by laymen, either public or private. It is therefore all the more refreshing and inspiring to read of the president of the United States and his cabinet kneeling in prayer in the face of a great crisis. It will give all of us, whether we are in the habit of prayer or not, faith and hope and courage. Those who do not pray themselves have faith in the man who does pray. The man who prays is not apt to go wrong. He will try to do right, and that is more than half of any battle.? Anderson Daily Mail. For emergency use a wooden automobile tire has been invented, made in sections, which are bolted to the rim of the wheel. GOV. BLEASE AT GREENWOOD Former Governor Talks About Matters Political. STANDS FOR JUSTICF TO ALL Says Report of Greenville Speech Created Wrong Impression?Believes Warehouse System in Danger?Discusses Taxation Question and Calls Attention to Heavy Increase in Expenses. Greenwood, October 9.?After thanking1 the people for their attendance, former Governor Blease said that he desired to correct an impression which certain newspapers had made in reference to his Greenville speech. He did not charge the reporters with doing it intentionally, but said the way his remarks were reported, it made him appear to say what he really had not said; that he did not "jump upon the ministers, who he said, would get along much better if they stayed in their pulpits and ceased mixing in politics," as he was quoted; but that, in discussing the whisky question- he stated that he did not believe, nor did any sensible man believe, that morality could be legislated Into people, and he contended that prohibition would never be brought about by ministers of the gospel preaching sermons or meddling in political affairs; that if they would stay in their pulpits and preach the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ and him crucified, and keep Christ and his life permanently before the people? for without the life of Christ in the Bible, the Bible itself would amount to very little, and the Christian religion would be a failure?that if they would preach that religion, and by precept and example create within the hearts of men a love for Christ and for his religion, then and not until then would their hopes be fulfilled, and that they could not see these hopes realized by running around dabbling in politics and abusing others for their political opinions. He said he had tried to be very conservative in his Greenville speech, and in fact had been very highly complimented both by letter and in person by people from many different parts of the state upon his speech as a whole, both as to the positions he had taken and as to the conservative tone of his remarks. In discussing the state warehouse system, and the proposed big merger n't enrnnrote mvncil wnrphnilRPS to fleht the state system, exposed by Senator McLaurin on Friday morning, Governor Blease said: "My fellow citizens, you see the great benefits which the people of South Carolina have derived and are deriving from the state warehouse system, and certain financiers have become so jealous of it, because it has unhorsed them and forced them to a six per cent rate of interest, that they are now trying to form a great merger of corporation warehouses to put the state warehouse system out of business. and to prevent its spread in the other southern states. Some of these capitalists are leaving their own state and coming into South Carolina and endeavoring to break down this state system, which has given so much relief to the farmers?New York capitalists. and such men as Barrett of Augusta, and others, joining their hundreds of thousands to the capital of Robertson, and to the capital of Stackhouse and others in Columbia and other parts of South Carolina and the south, to destroy your state warehouse system by the formation of this gigantic trust. And mark the prediction, if they succeed in this merger it will be a greater evil than the great cotton mill merger, to which I called attention some years ago. The people today see that I was right in that, and they see the evil which It is doing. But this latest merger will be more ruinous than that. If the farmers of the state and the people of the state stand idly by and let it succeed it will destroy the state warehouse system, prevent the adoption of the system in Georgia and other states which are about to enact it into law. and after its destruction the farmers will be in the hands of these corporation heads and as helpless as before the warehouse system became a law. Proof of this is shown in the very call made for this great merger meeting in Co| lumbia, in which the South Carolina ?4~ ~ cvolorn la <HrOPtlv aiUlC wainiwuoc ojavvui wv?.v mentioned as the reason?or, at least, the foremost reason?for the call. Common sense shows you, my fellow citi( zens, that the entire effort is to force the farmers to store their cotton in central warehouses in Columbia, Charleston. Augusta, Atlanta and other southern cities.* instead of storing it, as now, on their own farms and in nearby towns, thereby forcing the farmers to pay freight on their cotton to these great centralized mergerowned warehouses, to pay high storage rates, high insurance to the insurance trust which McLaurin has broken into and compelling them to place their cotton in the hands of the banks from which they borrow money. For, just as certain as you allow this merger to succeed and permit the state warehouse system to fail, certain banks?Robertson's in Columbia, in particular?will be the head distributing centers, just as Robertson's now is for the Standard warehouse, and you will be forced to place your cotton in their hands, and it would not surprise me when this is done if. when a rise in the price of cotton takes place, they would unload your cotton which they are holding in their warehouses to the ills, and when the price goes back down, replace it with low-priced cotton, which will be forced upon you when you call for it with your receipt. Any man can see this who studies the situation and knows it, and who understands the system of me financiers or ?ew iurx uuu ui iu? south in the handling of the cotton crop. There are others wiser than I. but I am willing to stake whatever reputation I have in reference to matters of policv in the handling of the state government upon the prediction which I make you today. I can, without boasting, but merely in passing, call your attention to the fact that not a political prediction have ever I made upon the rostrum in South Carolina, or as governor of this state, but what has been fulfilled. "The power of corporations had become so great that in the constitution of 1895, article 9, section 13. it was provided, 'that the general assembly shall enact laws to prevent all" trusts, combinations, contracts and agreements against the public welfare, and to prevent abuse, unjust discrimination and exortion," etc. Now I want to call your attention to the statement made by a member of the Federal reserve board in Washington, from the records of the comptroller of the currency, showing that there were banks in South Carolina charging as high as 20 per cent interest last year, and that the average rate of interest in South Carolina is around 15 per cent. Is this section of the constitution a part of the 'law and order' propaganda, or is 'law and order' only to be applied to a few blind tigers in the city of Charleston, and not to the millions of Robertson, inherited from negro rule i?-? QrxittVi nnrl hv the purchase (?) of the Columbia canal? What is the difference in the sight of God between the burglar who blows open a safe and steals money, and the smooth, fat-jawed banker who catches me hard-up and violates the law by charging me usurious interest? K society condones this criminal who sits in the 'amen corner' of the church, why should not I. as governor of the sta'e, have been merciful towards the ignorant criminal who committed a crime oftentimes to feed his hungry wire and children? There ought to be a law which would punish the rich criminal as well as the poor criminal said there ought to be a law. And there is a law. It ought to be enfcreed, and then maybe we would have some real 'law and order* instead of all this smirking, hypocritical pretense. I am curious to watch and see what is going to be done in the way of 'law and order,' when applied to a set of men who propose to monopolize the storage of cotton and the lending of money. The state warehouse system has broken into their plans, and when McLaurin went to Atlanta and tackled them there, forcing the extra session of the legislature of Georgia in this regard, they concluded that the best way to do was to take up their millions of money and come over to South Carolina and smother this baby where it ?'as born. "My fight for years has been for six per cent money. In the house and in ihe senate, and in the governor's office, as the records will show, and as my messages to the general assembly will show, I fought for it, and begged the legislature to pass a law making the legal rate of interest six per cent, j This six per cent fight has been won for cotton through the state warenouse system, and now others are trying to follow in my foot-steps by trying to catch on to the warehouse system. This same cheap money which the warehouse system has secured on cot'on can be secured for land by a proper system of rural credits. Our ongressmen haven't the ability to frame such a measure, and we don't want national interference, even if they had. We want a system of rural credits for South Carolina, and I hope the general assembly will get the proper information from the proper source and pass a law of this kind at their next session, which will meet the needs of the people of this state, and stop making tenants out of our white people who, by having fo pay exorbitant rates of Interest on land, are being forced into a position which makes them little short of vassals to the money king. I tell you now that the people are demanding this relief, and they propose to have it, and I intend, through some friend of mine, to have the proper measure presented at the proper time. It is carrying on the fight in which I have been engaged all my life. It is the fight of the people, and it is bound to win sooner or later, and all the bankers in Columbia and New York and Augusta and Atlanta can't prevent It. "When I asked the general assembly to pass this six per cent law it was heralded all over the state that it would ruin the banks, and yet in so short a time, even today, we see these same banks lending this money at six per cent, and actually asking to make loans instead of turning down those that are requested. Scalawag money, supplemented by Yankee millions, can't rule the people of South Carolina." Governor Blease then took up his local option platform, and stated his position along the line of his remarks at Greenville, adding that this was one of the most effective ways to dispose of the blind tiger, because where a county had prohibition it would be in the same condition as it is today, but where a county had the license system those who paid the license would be the most vigilant in keeping out the blind tigers, because they would not allow them to compete with them and pay no license. In ad ditlon to this, he said, "we would get better liquor, thus protecting the health of the people who drink it, because we would have competition in the trade, and each man, in order to build up his business, would have to sell a pure article, and there would be less drunkenness and less crime committed from the drinking of pure whisky than there would be from the drinking of the blind tiger liquor, such as is now prevalent in some parts of the state, and the concoctions sold from the dispensaries under the name of whisky." He reiterated in strong language his oposition to the bar room, and again stated his position against allowing any whisky to be sold on credit. He then took up the question of taxation. He said he favored lower taxes and the abolition of useless offices, and called attention to the laws passed at the last session of the legislature removing the penalty imposed upon the cotton mills when they discharged their employees and refused to pay them, saying that this repealing act was iniquitous, and was slipped through by corporation counsel to injure the cotton mill boys and to give further protection to the corporations. He read the law as passed and approved by him, fixing this penalty, and the law of 1905, repealing It, which will be found in the acts of 1911, page 39, and the acts of 1915, page 153. In discussing lawlessness, he spoke along the same lines as in Greenville, and said that he noticed that killings, robberies, stealings, and other criminal offences were continuing to be committed, and that the state body, for the past several months had been in the most lawless condition that it had faced since 1876, as the solicitors' records would show. But the newspapers now, when crime was committed, stuck it on back pages, or tried to hide it, when formerly similar articles were published on the front pages, under big headlines. These crimes were then charged up to the governor, he said, but now they were charged to whisky, pistol toting, or general devilment. He again called attention to the fact that the legislature had attempted to deceived the people by leaving the state levy the same as in 1914, and by making an extra levy for the state hospital for the insane and pensions, which really raised the state levy higher than it has ever been, and even with this, the state had been forced to borrow the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars. And the people will find, he said, that many of the county levies are higher than they have ever been before under a Democratic administration. The borrowing of J700,000 was necessary because the legislature, even with the highest levy in many years, had failed to levy enough to pay the extravagant and useless appropriations which they had made, thus still further increasing the indebtedness and the real levy by paying interest on this heavy deficiency. In conclusion, Governor Blease s ated that it was impossible for a governor to do anything without a legislature; that the four years he was governor, everybody knew that he hkd a hostile legislature, and that no governor could make a law, and therefore it was absolutely impossible for him to carry out fully the reforms which he advocated, and to have enacted such laws as two cent flat passenger rate on railroads, six per cent legal interest, the abolition of useless offices, and other sadly needed reforms, and he hoped that in the next campaign those people who voted for him for governor would realize this fact and vote only for men for the general assembly of high moral character, of ability, and who were known political friends of his, who would endeavor not to fight those things which he advo cated just because he advocated them, but who would Join with him when he was right and pass laws that would bo of benefit to the people of the state. That he did not mean by this hat he wanted stool-pigeons, fenceriders, time-servers, or blind followers, but good, clean men, who advocated the principles which he advocated and who would stand with him in relieving the people of the heavy burden of taxation which they are now carrying and pass such laws as would be for the best interest of all the people of the state, holding up his hands in carrying out the promises which he made upon the stand. It was well known to all people, ho said, that he never made a promise in his life that he did not fulfil; that ho never said no when he intended to act yes, and never said yes when he intended to act no; that he said what ho was going to do, and did it. and said what he was not going to do, and did not do it. Ho said he had received good news from all over the state, and was dally in receipt of letters, and was seeing people from various parts of the state, and that he had assurances not only of the support of those who had stood by him in the past, but of many men who had never supported him, and that he was sure of his election. He said he had heard the third-term argument used against him. and at the proper time he would answer that as thoroughly and as completely as he answered the secondterm cry in 1908. He didn't presume, he said, that anybody next summer would hollar anything about opposition to a second term; If they did, he would only remind them of the opposition to him in 1912. PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Happenings and Event* Throughout 8outh Carolina. P. R. Moore, the oldest mail carrier in Laurens county, died last week. Capt. W. F. Martin, a well known and popular citizen of Greenville, died Thursday morning. The city of Greenwood has decided to raise the salaries of its police officers $5 each month. W. H. Tiller of Columbia, has been appointed a game warden by Governor Manning. Kid Haynes, colored, killed Gussle Jones, also colored, at a hot supper near Walterboro, last week. J. E. Kinsley of Round, Colleton county, last week reported killing a rattlesnake having nineteen rattles. Andrew Peden has been appointed a member of the Chester county board of registration to succeed J. G. Brown, resigned. The governor has made requisition on the governor of Virginia for the return of L. C. Starnes, an escaped convict from Greenville. In an interview given out Friday, W. P. Pollock of Cheraw, denied that he would "be a candidate for office in the Democratic primary next summer. Dispensary sales in Charleston during the month of September were $67,250.02, compared with $47,016.41 in September, 1914. The city of Greenville proposes to build a new city hall at an early date. The present building has been sold to J. W. Norwood for $35,000. John Lomax, colored, was cut to death with a razor by Mack Darwins, his brother-in-law in Columbia last week, following a family quarrel. Mayor Griffith of Columbia, has been removed as head of the police department. He was succeeded by Councilman DuPre. Former Governor Blease, Assistant Attorney General Domlnick and H. C. Tillman, ESq., of Greenwood, spoke at the Greenwood cotton mill Saturday afternoon. The annual convention of the South Carolina division, United Daughters of the Confederacy is to be held this year in Aiken, the convention opening on November 10. The state borrowing board borrowed $100,000 Thursday to meet the running expenses of the state government. The loan was made by the Palmetto bank of Columbia, at a rate of 2.44 per cent. This makes $700,000 borrowed by the state this year. Joseph Bollo, E. H. Rlckles, H. H. Rabens, J. Holsberg and W. H. Behrens plead guilty in the Charleston county court of general sessions last* week to the charge of selling and storing liquor. Houston Taylor, colored, was shot and instantly killed by Dr. R. L. McManus, near Pageland, Wednesday morning. The shooting followed a discussion of property under mortgage being sold. Taylor fired two shots at Dr. McManus, one of the bullets going through the doctor's hat. Governor Manning has named as an hnnnmrv hnarH fnr Smith PnrnllnH lin on request of the American defense society, Adjutant General W. W. Moore, W. W. Lewis, Esq., of Yorkville, El M. Blythe, Greenville; W. F. Robertson, Greenville, and H. B. Springs, Georgetown. Attorney General Peeples ruled In an opinion handed down Ftiday at the request of the assistant secretary of the board of charities and corrections, that women cannot serve on the local committees under the jurisdiction of the state board of charities and corrections. J. T. Pace of Tryon, N. C., owner of a garage and public service car at that place, and Richard Bomar, colored were killed and James Outlaw, another negro was seriously injured when the northbound Carolina Special struck an automobile in which they were driving at a grade crossing near Landrum in Greenville county, late Friday afternoon. Alice McMorris, a negro woman, has entered suit in the Lexington county court of common pleas against J. S. \Vessinger, president of the bank of Chapin, and u well known merchant of that town. The woman alleges that a mule which she was driving became frightened at the automobile of the defendant which was being run at a rapid rate of speed, that she was thrown from her buggy and seriously injured. Annie May Glenn, a 16-year-old school girl of Greer, took her own life by drinking carbolic acid Friday after she discovered that her lover, Robert McElroy had betrayed her trust. According to the girl who confessed to a minister's wife, a next door neighbor, who first reached her side. McElroy visited her Wednesday night and promised to marry her Friday. The home had been prepared for the ceremony when the happy school girl learned that her lover had left town. She was at home with a younger sister whom she sent to a drug store for carbolic acid. After drinking the deadly poison the young girl ran screaming out of the house. All that was possible was done for her but she died within an hour's time in great agony. Wanted Local Agency.?There seems to be no limit to man's ambition. A few days ago Col. R. E. Sloan, cotton buyer for Cooper & Griffith, was called aside by a farmer residing in the country, who, in a very serious manner, asked: "Colonel, can you tell me the name of the emperor of Germany?" "Emperor William," replied Mr. Sloan. "Do you reckon I could get a letter to him?" anxiously interrogated the farmer. "No, I hardly think it probable during these critical times." The farmer's face took on a disheartened look. "Why do you ask?" continued Mr. Sloan. "Well. It's this way. I've been readin' In the papers thet Germany's buyln' cotton in the United States at big prices and I jest wanted to write the kaiser and see if he wouldn't make me his Greenville agent."?Greenville Piedmont. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGE} News Happenings In Nelghborlnj Communities. CONDENSED FOB QUICK IEADINI Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire o1 Cherokee, Cleveland, Qaaton, Lancaster and Cheater. Rock Hill Hereld, Oct 8: Humorout to a degree, bubbling with optimism overflowing with the soundest of adi vice in an eloquent and an enjoyable manner, the address of Dr. D. W Daniel of Clemson college, at th< quarterly meeting of the chamber ol commerce last night, was declared bj all to have been the most masterful address ever delivered before the commercial organization. To use th? words of the Charlotte chamber ol commerce president, it was worth walking all the way from Charlotte tc hear. Quite a large number of Rock Hill people were out for the occasion, In addition there were about a hundred Charlotte boosters present, Including the Cl.arlotte band. After Dr, Daniel spoke talks were made by Mayor Kirkpatrick, David Ovens and W. C. Dowd of Charlotte. After the Charlotte men had departed a business session was held and five directors elected. A group of young ladles served coffee, sandwiches, etc., before the visitors departed. The evening was a most enjoyable one from every standpoint and everybody expressed their pleasure at being present Arrangements are being made to provide a rest room at the fair grounds and It will be in readiness by Wednesday morning. This room will be the headquarters for the better babies contest, which will be held on Wednesday morning, the hour to be fixed later. However, it will be about 12 o'clock or shortly thereafter. * * * Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 8: There will be no difficulty in locating the Gaston County Boys' Corn club boys here next Tuesday, which is school children's day at the Gaston county fair. They will march in a body from the courthouse to the fair grounds and each one will carry as a banner a corn stalk. Thpro hftvfl hpen no now cases of diphtheria in the city this week. The cases which had already developed are getting along nicely. Unless there should be development of further cases the primary and intermediate classes of the Central Graded school will resume work again next Monday morning... .Mr. Henry Clark, who recently underwent a very serious operation at a Baltimore hospital, has returned to his home here. Though still weak from the effects of the operation, he is getting along splendidly and is able to be out Deputy Sheriff C. Y. Young of Chester county, S. C., came here yesterday after one John Sanders, colored, who is wanted there to answer to a charge of assault with intent to kill At the home ol the bride's mother, Mrs. N. E. Jenkins, on East Airline avenue, at 8.30 o'clock Wednesday evening, a very beautiful home wedding was solemnized when Miss Mary Jenkins became t~t! bride of Mr. Folsom C. Proctor. Lancaster News, Oct. 8: Today is the 60th anniversary of the birth of perhaps the most popular man in the county, Sheriff J. P. Hunter. Not wunsianaing me wtci iimi nc ntu reached his,-three score years, he is still as active and energetic in the discharge of his duties as he was many years ago, when he first became sheriff. He never loses the trail of a fugitive from justice. He never quits working to capture them until they are caught. In celebration of his birthday he is sending a deputy to Winston-Salem, N. C., for Johnson Benson, charged with larceny from the field; and another deputy to Huntersvilla, Ala., for a while man by the name of Brown Simpson, charged with disposing of property under lien Rev. Dr. J. H. Thayer is in attendance on the Moriah Baptist association with the Flat Creek church. Dr. Thayer preached the opening sermon. He carried to the association a splendid report from the First Baptist church The Lancaster colored school opened Monday, with an enrollment of 156. Last year only 108 pupils were enrolled in this school. An increase in attendance has been made in all of the graded schools of Lancaster Magistrate W. J. Crenshaw of Van Wyck, was in town last Monday, and turned over to the county treasurer $63, fines collected in his court the past quarter. His docket was also inspected by County Supervisor Cook, as the law requires and found neatly kept and in first-class condition. Fort Mill Time*, Oct. 7: F. E. Ar drey left Fort Mill Monday at noon for Florence, where, on Tuesday, he was to marry Miss Blanche Lawrence. Mr. Ardery was accompanied by Mr. W. F. Lewis of this city, who was to act as best man at the marriage. Mr. Ardery and bride will tour the west, returning to Fort Mill about November 1st. Second Lieut. R. A. Fulp of the Fort Mill militia organization, asks the Times to say that the company has received an invitation to attend the York county fair at Rock Hill on opening date, Wednesday, October 13. Free transportation and entrance to the fair will be furnished, and Lieut. Fulp requests that all members of the company who desire to attend notify him at once in order that he may make the necessary arrangements * Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 8: Reports received from the Pasteur institute at Columbia, which examined the head of the animal, confirmed the belief that the cat which bit K. O., the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huskey, Sunday afternoon, was afflicted with rabies. The child is receiving the local physician Miss Sallie Putnam of Gastonia, and Mr. Fred Bridges of King's Mountain, were married Saturday at the home of Mr. R. H. Hord, in this city, the ceremony being performed by Probate Judge W. D. Kirby. Miss Lugcnia Millwood and Mr. Jesse J. Mullinax, both of route six, were also married Saturday by Judge Kirby Mr. M. L. Ross, who has Pasteur treatment at the hands of a been receiving treatment in a Spartanburg hospital for the past few weeks, returned home Wednesday, much improved Reed Tull, city J engineer of Spartanburg, who has I been elected by the council to supervise the paving of Limestone street, with an assistant, spent Wednesday in ? the city gathering necessary preliminary data. The Southern Paving Brick Construction company of Chat| tanooga, Tenn., has the contract for the work, which will bogin within a few days. ' Chester Reporter, Oct. 7: The fall term of court for Chester county, will open Monday, November 1st, with [ | Judge H. F. Rice of Aiken, presiding. I } The first and second week jurors will be drawn Wednesday, October 20th. ' Mr. W. F. Marlon, who collects ^ ginning statistics in Chester county r for the national government, reports ^ the total number of bales of cotton ginned in this county up to Septem; ber 25th, was 7,094 bales, as compared j with 6,656 bales up to the same time t last year Deputy Jas. O. Howze returned this morning from Keystone, W. Va., with Lindsay Mobley, colored, who is wanted here for the murder of Frazer Wright in October, 1914, the killing occurring in the neighborhood of Mr. W. E. Conley's place Interesting rumors are in circulation with regard to what the Great Falls | Farm corporation, recently organized at Great Falls, will do in that com| munity. Mr. J. B. Duke is said to be interested in the project, and is said ( to have furnished many of the Ideas that are now in process of being worked out. It is said that several big tractors have been purchased, and are already at work breaking up the ground at a depth of many inches. It is also declared that an Immense tract of land in the vicinity of Great Falls will be cut Into medium-sized farms of perhaps 75 acres each, with handsome farm houses and all improvements and will be turned over to farmers. Much of the soil around Great Falls is understood to be suitable for tobacco, and the plan Is to cultivate this crop on a large scale. It is also declared that there is some probability of a railroad being built down the river along the line of the Southern Power Co.'s holdings' evi-i dently to be a continuation of the Catawba valley. WAREHOUSE8 MAY COMBINE McLaurin Says Plan is to Head Off State Warehouse System. The formation of a big warehouse corporation by merging thf Standard Warehouse company of Columbia, and the South Atlantic Warehouse com pany of Augusta, Ga., Is now being considered, it became known here to| day, says a Columbia dispatch of last Thursday. The idea is to have a company with a capital of $1,000,000, and to extend the warehouse system throughout Georgia and South Carolina, and probably over the entire cotton belt. If the proposition goes through it Is said that Y?g??.h0u8es to store thousands of bales of cotton may be built at principal points in the two states. The proposition for the merger came from the Augusta company to the Standard Warehouse company, a financial representative of the Augusta company having come here from New York with the proposition. It is under11 stood that at a meeting of those in' terested here today, a committee was named to take up the matter with the stockholders. The new company, if i formed, will buy up the stock of the Columbia company, it is stated. The proposed warehouse concern i would be a gigantic affair, one of the biggest private corporations in the south. They propose to negotiate . loans on warehouse receipts for cotton stored with them at a low rate of interest. State Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurin thinks this private ware, house concern is forming to combat the state warehouse. In a statement issued he said. "There was a meeting in this oity luuay 01 me owners ui oumuu.ru woj c! houses in this state and Georgia to i form a huge combination to head off the state warehouse system. I have in my possession a copy of the letter calling this meeting at ttye instance of large capitalists. They do not permit [ the farmer to store his cotton where It was grown and they call specific attention to the danger to their interests of the South Carolina state warehouse system. Whether this conspiracy of a class whom Roosevelt described as 'malefactors of great wealth,' will destroy what has been done depends on the people. I have no millions to back , me, only faith in God and hope in the people." T. B. Stackhouse is president of the Standard Warehouse system, while Mr. Barrett is head of the South Atlantic Warehouse company. The rumor that if the merger goes through that Mr. Barrett would move to Columbia and head this branch was denied by an official of the Standard Warehouse company, who said that Mr. Stack- [ house on yesterday was re-elected president for another year. 1 Few details of the proposed ware- 1 house merger could be obtained, for it was stated that the Standard Warehouse had not yet given a definite j answer to the Augusta people. i Senator McLaurin said tonight that 1 the plan of the state warehouse system had all along been to build .a big '{ cunceniruuon warenuuae ?i ^imriesiuii I where the cotton would be collected 1 for export. The new private ware- j house company if formed, may also build a big warehouse at Charleston. , I "John L. McLaurln does not know ( anything about It. He is pretty much of | of a hot air artist anyhow,'* said an official of the Standard Warehouse company, Friday afternoon, according to a Columbia dispatch to the Spar- ] tanburg Herald, in discussing the pub- ' llshed charges that a gigantic ware- ] house company was being formed to i fight the state warehouse system. The i new concern was reported to have a I capital stock of $1,000,000, being back- < ed by Georgia and South Carolina i capital. Officials of the Standard ] Warehouse company said that several business men had been informally dis- | cussing the question of a large sys- i tern of warehouses, but that "no def- i inite proposition had been made. We I have never for once thought of the i state warehouse company," said an 1 official of the Standard Warehouse. It * is said that the South Atlantic Warehouse company of Augusta, is inter- i ' ested in the new proposition. i OFFEN8IVE OF ALLIE8 FAILED German War Office Makes Interesting Statement. The German war office at Berlin, has sent the following statement, covering the results of the recent offensive movement of the Allies against the Germans In France: "On September 14, before the beginning of the great attack on the western front, Gen. Joffre Issued an army order, a copy of which has been found. Gen. Joffre gave instructions as to the manner in which French officers were to explain the coming attack to the men. The officers were to tell them that the intention was to drive the Germans from French soil and that this would influence nations hitherto neutral to enter the war with the Entente powers. "Gen. Joffre then told about the exceptionally favorable conditions for the attack. Territorials were to be used in the trenches, thus freeing the younger men for the assault. The landing of British troops enabled the commanderin-chief to hold several armies ready for the attack. The number of machine guns had been doubled and the heavy guns replaced by new ones. The amount of ammunition on hand was unprecedented. The moment was favorable for the movement, Gen. Joffre said, because all of Kitchener's armies had been landed in France, whereas, the Germans had withdrawn troops for the Russian front "Gen. Joffre said the attack should proceed on every important front and consist of several combined assaults. When the German line had been taken other formations of troops should follow and break through the second and third lines until they reached the open field. He gave Instructions that cavalry should participate in the movement. "Moreover, a British order was found, telling the soldiers 'that on the coming battle depends the fate of coming British generatlona' "The German official report and the French and British orders prove how little truth there is in the pretense of the enemy that it was not intended to continue the attack which began on September 25 and was stopped by the Germans. The object of the attack was to drive the Germans from French sollt but the only result obtained on the entire front were in one place to the extent of 23 kilometers, and in another of 12 kilometers; and these results were not obtained by the military achievements of the attacking British, but by a successful surtkrloA nAaidfin rw a vi a4Saal? ?ni#Vl IOC A coui 11115 uuui an aitava wim gas. In these sections the first German line was pressed Into the second line, which Is by no means the last line. "According to conservative estimates the French losses in dead, wounded and prisoners, were 130,000 and the British losses 60,000. (This portion of the German report was received from Berlin yesterday by way of London.) The German losses were not one-fifth of this number." The remaining portion of the war office communication Is summarised as follows by the Overseas News Agency: "The headquarters staff says furthev . that such local successes as were obtained were gained with seven-fold numerical superiority, prepared for by war material from the factories of the world, and that they cannot be called "brilliant victories." "Army headquarters says further that only one German division, which was on Its way from the western' front was retained at the beginning of the enemy's attack, and that other divisions were assigned to take the place for which the detailed division was destined. Otherwise the plans of the German army were not interfered with in any way by the attack, which at no place penetrated beyond the second line and nowhere rendered impossible movement of reserves Just as was done In May, when the offensive movement at Arras was made." GENERAL NEW8 NOTE8 Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Col. Osmun Latrobe, chief of staff to General Longstreet during the civil war, aiea in i>ew iorn, rnaay, ageu 82 years. An entire block of business houses and tobacco warehouses were destroyed by fire in Richmond, Va., early Sunday morning. The loss was (250,000. M. D. Reed of Hopewell, Va., is held by the police of Newport News, Va., charged with drowning his wife Friday night as the couple were preparing to take a boat for Richmond. Willie Buckner, 17 years old, of Franklin county, Va., shot his brother to death Friday with a shot gun, and then committed suicide. They had had a boyish quarrel. A monument to President John Tyler was unveiled in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va., yesterday. A congressional delegation was in attendance. Expert accountants have found that E. E. Holcombe, former chief clerk in the office of the keeper of buildings and grounds, Atlanta, Ga., is (4,500 short in his accounts. More than 60 merchant sailors engaged in a drunken riot at Newport News, Va., Saturday afternoon. Several men were drowned by being knocked into the bay. One thousand bales of cotton were destroyed by fire at Goodwater, Ala., Saturday. The loss is estimated at (70,000, with (25,000 more for warehouse and machinery. James Whitcomb Riley, the famous "Hoosier Poet," celebrated his 62d birthday anniversary at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., Friday. Mr. Riley received hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the country. Alexander Zaimls is the new premier of Greece, and at the request of King Constantine has formed a new cabinet IUI1UW1I1B me rcaigiiuuun ui riuiuci Venizelos. Mr. Zalmis has twice before been premier and foreign minister. In an automobile race at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., Saturday, Driver Gil Anderson covered the distance, 300 miles, in 2 hours, 55 minutes and 32 seconds, at an average speed of 102.56 miles an hour. J. W. Burkhalter, a young man of Aiken county, this state, is held under $1,500 bond to answer to a charge in the superior court of Richmond county, Ga.. of obtaining $1,000 from a. cotton Arm on an alleged fraudulent bill of lading. The duPont Powder company has recently discovered a process by which It reduces the time required to produce gun powder more than 60 per cent. The discovery will largely increase the powder production of its various factories. Hogs Were Drunk.?A citizen of Newberry went to his plantation last week and while going through the pasture saw a hog acting as though something was wrong with it. As he examined it and found it shaky In the legs he cast his eyes around and discovered another in a wobbly condition, apparently dying. Other hogs on the place were similarly affected. Leaving word with the overseer to put the hogs up and look after them, the citizen returned to his city home and family for the night, and went back to the plantation next morning, expecting to find the hogs dead. He was surprised when told that the hogs were all right. They had Just been on a drunk that afternoon, having swilled the skimming of the sorghum molasses.