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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. * ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLT. l. *. orist's sons, PubUthen.} & 4amiI8 IJewspapeit: ^or % Jlromofion of the jpotitical, ^oqial, $jri^uttupt and Commercial Interests of th$ fropl<. { ESTABLISHED 1855. " ~ YORK,'8. CTFRIDAY^OCTOBEH '22,1915~ ~ N"Q. 85. T ARZ THE By EDGAR RIC ^ ; Copyright, 1912, by tho Frank A. Mi CHAPTER IL The White Ape. Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing ?my, but how stupid he was! Kala sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, It could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it. * Had they known that the child had seen thirteen moons before it had come into Kala's possession they would have considered its case as absolutely hopeless. Tublat, Kala's husband, was sorely ^ vexed and but for the female's careful ^ watching would have put the child out of the way. "He will never be a great ape," he argued. "Always will you have to carry him and protect him! What good will he be to the tribe? None. Only a burden. "Let us leave him quietly sleeping among the tall grasses, that you may bear other and stronger apes to guard us in our old age." "Never, Broken Nose," replied Kala. "If I must carry him forever, so be it." Tublat went to Kerchak to urge him to use his authority with Kala and force her to give up little Tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny Lord Greystoke and which meant "white skin." But when Kerchak spoke to her about it Kala threatened to run away from the tribe if they did not leave her in peace with the child, and as this is one of the unalienable rights of the jungle folk, if they be dissatisfied among their own people, they bothered her no more, for Kala was a fine, clean limbed young female and thev * did not wish to lose her. As Tarzan grew he made more rapid strides, so that by the time he was ten years old he was an excellent climber and on the ground could do many wonderful things which were beyond the powers of his little brothers and sisters. In many ways did he differ from them, and they often marveled at his superior cunning, but in strength and size he was deficient, for at ten the great anthropoids were fully grown, some of them towering over six feet in height, while little Tarzan was still but a half grown boy. Yet such a boy! From early infancy he had used his hands to swing from branch to branch after the manner of his giant mother, and as he grew older he spent hour upon hour daily speeding through the treetops with his brothers and sisters. He could spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy heights of the forest f top and grasp with unerring precision ^ and without apparent jar a limb waving wildly in the path of an approaching tornado. He could drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb in rapid de^ scent to the ground, or he could gain ^ the utmost pinnacle of the loftiest irupivtu Sio.ui w nil me case aim swiftness of a squirrel. Though but ten years old. he was fully as strong as the average man of thirty and far ^ a And Then, With an Awful Scream, He Sprang. * mnrp airile than the most oracticed athlete ever becomes. And day by day his strength was increasing. His life among the fierce apes had been happy, for his recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar. He was nearly ten before he commenced to realize that a great difference existed between himself and his fellows. His little body, burned almost black by exposure, suddenly caused him feelings of intense shame, for he realized that it was entirely hairless, like some low snake or reptile. In the higher land which his tribe frequented was a little lake, and it was here that Tarzan first saw his face in the clear, still waters of its bosom. It was on a sultry day of the dry season that he and one of his cousins had gone down to the bank to drink. As they leaned over both little faces were mirrored on the placid pool, the fierce and terrible features of the ape AN OF APES IE BURROUGHS msey Company. beside those of the aristocratic scion of an old English house. Tarzan was appalled. It had been bad enough to be hairless, but to own such a countenance! He wondered that the other apes could look at him at all. So intent was he upon his personal appraisement of his features that he K /vn m tho tvq rflnor r\f tho tA.ll U1U 11 IS I 11CXU 111V [/U1 iiUQ Vk ??<W ... grass behind him as a great body pushed itself steadily through the jungle, nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking, and the noise of his sucking lips drowned the quiet approach of the intruder. Not thirty paces behind the two he crouched?Sabor, the tiger?lashing his tail. Cautiously he moved a great paded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before he lifted the next. Thus he advanced, his belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground?a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey. Now he was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows. Carefully he drew his hind feet well up beneath his body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin of black and yellow. So low he was crouching that he seemed flattened to the earth except for the upward bend of the glossy back as it gathered for the spring. No longer the tail lashed. Quiet and straight behind him it lay. An instant he paused thus as though turned to stone, and then, with an awful scream, he sprang. Sabor, the tiger, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of his fierce cry as he sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could he not more suVely have fallen upon his victims had he but quietly leaped without that loud shriek? But Sabor knew well the wondrous quickness of the jungle folk and their almost unbelievable powers of hearing. To them the sudden scraping of one blade of grass across another was as effectual a warning as his loudest cry, and Sabor knew that he could not make that leap without a little noise. His wild scream was not a warning, but instead.was meant to freeze his poor victims in a paralysis of terror for the tiny fraction of an Instant, which would suffice for his mighty claws to sink into their soft flesh and hold them beyond peradventure of escape. In so far as the ape was concerned Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing. Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. Before him lay the deep waters of the little lake, behind him certain death?a cruel death beneath tearing claws and rending fangs. Tn r7Qn hoH olwavQ hntorl u'fltpr oY- I cept as a medium for quenching his thirst. He hated it because he connected it with the chill and discomfort of the torrential rains, and he feared it for the thunder and lightning and wind which accompanied it. But of the two evils his quick mind chose the lesser, and before the great beast had covered half his leap Tarzan felt the chill waters close above his head. He could not swim, and the water was very deep. But still he lost no particle of that self reliance and resourcefulness which were the badges of his superior being. Rapidly he moved his hands and feet in an attempt to scramble upward, and, possibly more chance than design, he fell into the stroke that a dog uses when swimming, so that within a few seconds his nose was above water, and he found that he could keep it there by continuing his strokes and also make progress through the water. He was much surprised and pleased with this new acquirement which had been so suddenly thrust upon him, but he had no time for thinking much upon it. He was now swimming parallel to the bank, and there he saw the cruel beast that would have seized him crouching upon the still form of his playmate. The tiger was intently watching Tarzan, evidently expecting him to return to shore, but this the boy had no intention of doing. Instead he raised his voice in the call of distress common to his tribe, adding to it the warning which would prevent would-be rescuers from running into the clutches of Sabor. Almost immediately there came an answer from the distance, and presently forty or fifty great apes swung rapidly and majestically through the trees toward the scene of tragedy. In the van was Kala, for she had recognized 'he tones of her best beloved. ar th her was the mother of the little e who lay dead beneath cruel Saboi Though more powerful and better equipped for fighting than the apes, the tiger had no desire to meet these enraged adults, and with a snarl of hatred he sprang quickly into the brush and disappeared. Tarzan now swam to shore and clambered quickly upon dry land. The feeling of freshness and exhilaration which the cool waters had imparted to him filled his being with grateful surprise, and ever after he lost no opportunity to take a daily plunge in lake or stream or ocean when it was possible to do so. For a long time Kala could not accustom herself to the sight, for, though her people could swim when forced to it thev did not like to enter water and never did so voluntarily. Tliat the huge fierce brute loved her child of another race is beyond question, and he. too, pave to the great, hairy beast all the affection that would have belonped to his fair younp mother had she lived. When he was disobedient she cuffed him. it is true, but she was never cruel to him and was more often caressing than chastising him. Tublat, her husband, always hated Tarzan and on several occasions had come near ending1 his youthful career. Tarzan's superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch. By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots and make sliding nooses, and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient. One day while playing thus Tarzan had thrown his rope at one of his fleeing companions, retaining the other end in his grasp. By accident the noose fell squarely about the running ape's neck, bringing him to a sudden and surprising halt. Ah, here was a new game, a fine game, thought Tarzan, and immediately he attempted to repeat the trick. And thus, by painstaking and continued practice, he learned the art of roping. Now, indeed, was the life of Tublat a living nightmare. In sleep, upon the march, night or day, he never knew when that quiet noose would slip about his neck and nearly choke the life out of him. Kala punished, Tublat swore dire vengeance, and old Kerchak took notice and warned and threatened, but all to no avail. In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the tiger? The wanderings of the tribe brought them often near the closed and silent cabin by the little landlocked harbor. To Tarzan this was always a source of never ending mystery and pleasure. He would peek into the curtained windows, or climb upon the root, peer down the black depths of the chimney in a vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls. It was on the next visit to the vicinity following the adventure with old Sabor that as he approached the cabin Tarzan noticed that from a distance the door appeared as though an independent part of the wall in which it was set, and for the first time it occurred to him that this might prove the means of entrance which had so long eluded him. He was alone, as was often the case when he visited the cabin. The apes had no love for it. The story of the thunder stick, having lost nothing in the telling during these ten years, had quite surrounded the white man's deserted cabin with an atmosphere of weirdness and terror for the simians. The story of his own connected with the rabin had never been told him. In a dim, vague way had Kala explained to him that his father had been a strange white ape, but he did not know that Kala was not his own IIIUII1CI . On this day he went directly to the door and spent hours examining it and fussing with the hinges, the knob and the latch. Finally he stumbled upon the right combination, and the door swung creakingly open before his astonished eyes. For some minutes he did not dare venture within, but finally, as his eyes became accustomed to the dim light of fhe interior, he slowly and cautiously entered. In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones, to which still clung the mildewed remnants of what had once been clothing; upon the bed lay a similar grewsome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle nearby was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton. To none of these evidences of an old tragedy did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved. The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely?strange tools and weapons, books, papers, clothing?what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast. He opened chests and cupboards, such as did not baffle his small experi ence, and in these he found the contents much better preserved. Amonp other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Nothing daunted, he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy. For a long time this amused him; but, finally tiring, he continued his explorations. In a cupboard filled with books he came across one with brightly colored pictures. It was a child's illustrated alphabet: A is for archer. Who shoots with a bow. B is for boy, His first name is Joe. (To be Continued.) PRIMITIVE WEAPONS Searched From Out of the Centuries' Dust Heap. Aeroplanes, submarines, superdreadnaughts, poison gas bombs and all of the new terrible instruments of modern warfare seem strangely inconsistent with some of the primitive weapons that the European armies have searched out of the dust heap of centuries, says the October American Magazine. Seven hundred years ago the crossbow was at the height of its popularity in the Crusades. A relic of the days of chivalry, it had been discarded for centuries when some French troop discovered that it was a most effective instrument for throwing bombs into the enemies trenches. It is exactly the same old crossbow?only instead of the arrow, bombs are shot. But you will have to go back to the ( Id Testament days, nearly three thousand years ago, to the time, when the catapult, found in a Russian trench by the Germans was a dreaded engine of war. Assiah used catapults to defend the walls of Jerusalem, according to 2nd Chronicles, xxvi. 15. Like the crossbow, the catapult is used to throw bombs into the trenches of the eVietny. The catapult in use today is built on the same plan and looks almost exactly like the crude drawings of the engines used for throwing great stones in the days of the supremacy of Greece. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge ef the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review tne evems or me pasi iur me pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 163RD INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, Aug. 15, 1867.) Go and Register. The registrars under the military reconstruction acts begin the important work of registration in this state this week. The life of the state depends upon the votes of its intelligent citizens and if such feel an interest in the future or experience a hope for the return of better days to our state, let them go at once and exercise this important privilege. All who can register, owe it to themselves and their children to do so now. It may be the last time the privilege will be offered you. If you are not disfranchised by the acts of congress do not disfranchise yourself by failing to register. Under the acts of congress, all can register who did not hold civil offices before the war. Some who did hold such offices are not disfranchised and we would advise such as have doubts to go this week and consult with the members of the reglstery boards as to their status un utrr wie ttcus. The wisest and best men of the country have unanimously recommended to every citizen the duty of registering his name in readiness to vote whether he wants to vote or not. The time may soon come when you will deeply regret a neglect of this duty; if you neglect it you should. The life of the state depends upon the votes of its intelligent citizens. Don't fail to prepare yourselves to vote. (Thursday Morning, Aug. 22, 1867.) Registration Fun. During the registration in Yorkville last week, some funny things occurred. A freedman who is well known as Jink applied to be registered. He listened very attentively to the reading of the oath until the part was reached where the promise is made "to support the constitution of the United States." Here Jink interrupted the reader with, "Stop, sar, stop, sar; I can't do dat; it's all I can do to support my own family and I'm not goin* to support any body else." This part of the oath was explained to him whereupon he "accepted the situation" and is now a full-fledged citizen of African 'cent. (Thursday Morning, Aug. 29, 1867.) Republican Meeting. On Wednesday evening of last week, one J. W. Randolnh and A. W. Handv (colored), visited this town as "envoys" of the Republican party;'charged, we suppose, with the duty of illustrating to our people the priceless blessings of Republicanism. After some delay on account of the heavy fall of rain a considerable number of the colored people of the town and some of the white citizens assembled at the Zion church to hear what they had to say. Each of the speakers occupied an hour and a half in discussing Republicanism vs. Democracy. This paper not being represented editorially at the meeting, we are unable to give anything like a synopsis of these harangues. We learn from those who were present that their temper was intensely Republican? anti-Democratic, anti-Orr and Perry and antl everything and everybody white, black, and mulatto, who could not swallow the Republican platform, joists, pillows and plank. As rhetorical exercises, we hear these speeches spoken of favorably, nnrl If pnrrartlv InfnrmpH In thia nnr ticular, we commend them to the study of oratorical aspirants here and elsewhere. ? The Freedman's Bureau. Lieut. DeForest is the officer in charge of this "institution'' at Chester. We have had some intercourse with him professionally and have invariably found him courteous and just. The principal upon which this bureau was founded and which in the eyes of congress, justifies its existence, is that white men are not disposed to treat the freedmen justly and they need that kind of protection which state laws do not give. While we believe this assumption to be in the main an error, unfortunately circumstances often seem to warrant it. Just at this time (and last year at this season similar complaints arose) many of the cases which ask the interposition of the military authority arise from the changes of the freedmen that their employers wish to get rid of them and dismiss them from their plantations. It at least gives rise to unpleasant suspicions when such employer whose I 1 V, J 1 f n nrnn ii(iiiu? tut; mi't'u iui tt pan ui mc ciuk wishes to dispense with their services now that the crop is made upon some charge of insubordination, idleness, etc. There are no words too strong with which to stigmatize such conduct, and we doubt not that any case of the kind properly authenticated would meet in our own courts with the punishment deserved and that exemplary damages would be awarded. The frequency of these complaints would lea(\ one to believe that some of them are true. If so. nothing can be more mean or dishonest, nothing more dishonorable than to take advantage of the poor and ignorant. Besides contravening that sublime axim of Christian ethics?"to do unto others we would that they should do unto us"?such conduct is in the highest degree impolitic and will induce most disastrous results. Laborers will be thrown upon the community at a time when no work is to be obtained and will become necessarily beggars, loafers, or thieves 1 and worse than all that, confidence in I the true honesty of the white race which is so essential and desirable to f be impressed upon the colored people, is destroyed and no profession of friendliness will restore it. Every right thinking citizen will approve of | the interposition of any authority which will punish attempts to defraud | freedmen of their rights, but officers of the bureau should guard against listening too readily to which are made but too willingly against the white , man. The colored people are in a state of . great agitation. They have been ex- J cited lately by political discussions, recollections of past wrongs have em- t Diuereci tnem ana a reeling or nosunty ( to the white people unknown till now has been developed in them. Under f these circumstances it will not be t strange if cases of insubordination ^ occur which it is the duty of the bureau to repress. That unjust demands ^ will be made and false accusations which should be heard with caution and acted upon with deliberation. j We have confidence that Lieut. De- 0 Forest In discharging the delicate Q duties of his office, will be actuated by j a conscientious desire to deal fairly f and equitabe between the two races, and we trust that he will believe that as a general rule the white man is disposed to act justly toward the black (To be Continued.) p ABSENTEE LANDLORDISM o r Is Doing Much to Retard Progress in v the South. ? We quite agree with the following v from the Orangeburg Times and Dem- s ocrat and from the Progressive Farm- ? er: f imo man wno devotes mucn tnougni a to a study of agriculture and social c farm conditions can fail to agree a that absentee landlordism is a men- n ace to the south. History can fur- <j nish numerous examples of domestic a turbulence brought on by a preva- e lence of this evil. In Mexico today t the fact that a very few people own j, the large bulk of the land is re- ^ sponsible for much of the riot that has p existed there for several years. ^ In regard to this system the Pro- n gressive Farmer of .this week con- j, tains a good article from its editor, t Clarence Poe, as follows: "Absentee landlordism is really 0 about the greatest curse to the south e today?and I speak as an absentee v landlord, on a small scale, myself. a The old farm on which I grew up and ^ which belonged to my great-grand- a father, grandfather and father before t me, I naturally dislike to sell, and yet y I realize that I am holding back the ^ 41,/v AAtwmnnltir Kv nnf pruK'^a8 ui uic twuuiiuiuij Kt j ?*w ^ selling:; I am preventing a pood own- ^ er from getting hold of the place and taking a sort of interest that only an . owner will take In schools, roads, r churches, social life, moral conditions ^ and everything else that affects the g welfare of a neighborhood. It is true that I do feel that I owe a duty to the people of the community, and in obedience to this feeling I have sold a part of the tract to a white man. But it is ^ still true that as an absentee landlord CJ I am keeping that neighborhood from , building up as it otherwise would, and I ought to have to pay an extra tax ^ for community purposes to atone for my attitude. This question of absentee landlordism has got to be faced in the south and I am willing to bear my ^ part of the extra tax that will sooner ^ or later be voted on absentee owners. "Rented land is like an orphaned child. It is true almost without exception that nobody is going to love and nuture and develop a child like the parents to whom God gave it; and ^ it is also true almost without exception that nobody is going to love and ? nurture and develop a piece of land c like the man and woman who feel that Q u fa n n i-cHv^n n^rmanent home?a _ haven and resting place bought with * the products of their own sweat and r toil or handed down from ancestors * who hallowed It by years of love and labor. "FJvery member of the legislature ' and every member of congress ought ? to have ever before his eyes the saying of old James Oliver's 'Happy is the v land that is tilled by the man who owns It!' Land tilled by a resident landlord may be kept in good shape. ? but Dr. Craver spoke truly when he said that next to war, pestilence and c famine, absentee landlordism is the % worst evil that can befall a country. J; "And of all kinds of absentee landlords, the worst?next to the man who * indiscriminately sells land in white ^ communities to negroes?is the man ^ who holds land out of use, keeping ^ population out of the neighborhood and preventing adequate support of ^ schools, churches, and social life." v Benzol Vs. Gasoline. r I. F. Stone, president of the National j. Analine & Chemical company, in an address to the American Chemical soci- c ety predicted that the war not only j would end Germany's control of benzol ^ but would broaden its use and bring it t into active competition with gasoline. Before the war, he said, this country j produced .1,000,000 gallons of benzol annually. Now the production is 15,- g 000,000 gallons. The demand was so ^ immense that even the increased supply was not sufficient. "There is one use for benzol," said Mr. Stone, "which is practical and sure, and that is its use for motive a purposes in automobiles in place of f\ gasoline. It is being used largely in j Europe for that purpose, and the only reason it has not been used here has * - ? J ?' tha r neen me nmiiea pnmuvuuu anu v. high price, it normally being about p double the cost of gasoline. With the present immense production, however. the cost has been reduced until now I believe that it can be manufac- r tured and sold at a profit at the pro- n portionate price of gasoline, and that will be done as soon as the war is * over. v "When I say proportionate price I v mean that careful experiments for automobile purposes show that benzol has a motive power about 25 per cent n greater than gasoline. Consequently F it would have 25 per cent advantage at the same price, so that even with benzol 25 per cent more in cost it would still be equal in money value. a "Rut I also believe that benzol could t be produced now and sold at the same c price as gasoline if it were necessary ^ to do so. Therefore, the importance * of this matter is obvious. Not only n is this true, but it is a fact that the a use of gasoline for automobile purposes is so large that It is very difficult for the oil companies to pro- c duce enough to meet the demand, j Consequently the use of the new pro- ^ duct for the same purpose will be a great relief."?Commerce and Finance. v rOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES lews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. iONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affair* of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Rock Hill Herald, Oct. 19: Rev. F. W. Gregg, pastor of the First Presbyerian church of this place, and Rev. r. T. Dendy, pastor of Ebenezer Presjyterian church, will exchange pulpits lext Sunday morning. The announce- ( nent was made Sunday at the two , :hurches Walnut Camp No. 4, W. D. W., is arranging to have a log oiling in the near future, at which ime quite a large class of amateurs vill be instructed in the art of wood:raft. The interest in the order is [uite good at present and all mem>ers are working to make the coming iccasion one to be remembered Jews was received today of the death in last Saturday in Knoxvllle, Tenn,, if Mrs. Reld, the mother of Mrs. Fred Joag. Mrs. Re id was well known in lock Hill and a wide circle of friends vill loarn with regret of her death. Mrs. LcRoy Poag this afterloon received a message informing her >f the serious illness of Miss Carrie E. 'oag of Chester. This news will be ead with regret by the many friends f Miss Poag Dr. R. H. Crawford eturned this morning from Baltimore vhere he delivered an address to the ialtimore Medical society, dealing vith his experiences in Europe as a urgeon in a German military hospital. )r. Crawford left the city again in a ew hours for Charlotte where he will ddress the Mecklenburg Medical soiety this evening. Saturday evening t Winthrop college, Dr. Crawford will nake an address to the York County 'eachers' association. Dr. Crawford's ddress in Baltimore was well receivd by his audience of learned men of he medical profession, and was high i a w.. tu. _s y pnuBtu uy tut? iiewopttyera ui 111c lty Sunday afternoon at the Mt. ' lolly cemetery, Walnut Camp No. 4. V. O. W., unveiled monuments to the memory of R. J. Pearson and W. M. Jewsom. A large concourse gathered o witness the ceremonies and hear he address. Rev. H. J. Wood was the rator of the day and he delivered an xcellent address. Prior to the uneiling the Woodmen attended services .t Mt. Holly church in a body beginning next Sunday, the Southern's .11 steel through train from New York o Augusta will operate. This train irill be the equal of the Southeastern .limited, discontinued last year. Day oaches will be carried between Vashington and Augusta. The new rain will operate, so far as Rock Hill s concerned, about on the schedule iow observed by trains 27 and 28. Trains 27 and 28 will operate on the chedule now observed by trains 31 md 32. There may be some slight hange on the Yorkville division, but io announcement has been made as et. No. 32 going north will arrive lere about 6.45, while No. 31, going outh will reach here about 7.45 a. m. Jo. 27 will arrive here about 9.45 p. n.. The exact schedules have not leen announced. 1 Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 19: In so far s the Ledger has heard, Miss Clara ilmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeorge Elmore df route nine, is the champion cotton picker of Cherokee ounty. On last Wednesday the staple ;athered by Miss Elmore tipped the cales at 504 pounds. While she does lot pick this amount every day, yet rliss Elmore usually leads the other tickers with ease Two robberies >f a similar nature occurred in Gaffney Sunday night in different parts of the ity. The home of Magistrate William fillips was entered and about >15 renoved from Mr. Phillips' trousers ocket, and the home of Mr. G. W. Vebster suffered a like violation, be- I ween >3.50 and >4.00 being taken from dr. Webster's pocket and about 60 ents from his son, Mr. M. W. Webster. ? Nothing but money was taken, other 1 aluables not being touched < diss Cora Lee Cudd and Mr. Fred ' Gaston, both of Glendale, were marled at the home of the bride Saturday. 1 following the ceremony the couple i ame to Gaffney, where they are now 1 'isitine- at the home of the groom's i >arents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Caston, on : ?eeler street... .Through information i iecured by Sheriff Thomas, Oliver 1 mmpkin, a negro who escaped from ' he Cherokee county chaingang on )ctober 1, 1911, was captured at Me- < lerrin, Va., last week by E. L. Nun- 1 lally, policeman. Lumpkin was t irought to Gaffney Saturday night by 1 Jhief of Police D. E. Lemmons, who ' t'ent after him....Mr. David Hawkins 1 ecently found a bullet on the Cowpens < lattleground that looks as if it had < ome service either for or against the 1 ause of the American patriots. The ' eaden missile is about an inch and a ' lalf in length, and the nose is bent and { wisted Officers of the J. A. Caroll Cotton company, formed here Fri- 5 lay for the purpose of buying and ' elling cotton and cotton products, are s s follows: President, J. A. Carroll; I ice president, G. G. Byers, and treas- * irer, T. D. Daniel. ( Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 19: "I have ' . pig at home that would have taken 1 Irst prize over anything at the fair ' n his breed," said Mr. E. H. Forbes of ] he Crowders' Creek community to the lazette man after he had inspected the ilgs shown at the fair. "The pig ex- J libit was a splendid one," he added, but I wish I had taken time to bring nine up. Somehow it just escaped ne till it was too late to enter him." t is safe to assert that Mr. Forbes rill be on hand at the 1916 fair not only vith thoroughbred hogs but with other gricultural exhibits. Doubtless nunerous other farmers, just like Mr. "orbes, had exhibition stock but kept mtting off entering them until it was oo late Mrs. Press Ballard, aged hout 30 years, died Friday night at he home of her mother in High ihoals, where she had been visiting or some time. Death was due to pneunonla and followed an illness of only . few days The October term of laston superior court for the trial of riminal cases, will convene here next londay. October 24, with Judge J. L. Vebb of Shelhy, presiding. The term rill continue only one week Gaston county's first annual fair came to a close Saturday night. The records showed that more than 20,000 people entered the grounds between the opening of the fair Tuesday morning and midnight Saturday night. It was a decided success In every respect and the management is highly gratified at the results. Some of the exhibits were not as large as might have been desired but were as large as could have been expected. With the enthusiasm engendered among the farmers by this fair there is every reason to believe that the agricultural and livestock exhibits next year will easily treble or even quadruple those of this year. The same is probably true of the exhibits by local merchants and manufacturers. Chester Reporter, Oct. 18: Mr. I. C. Cross was badly kicked this afternoon by a mare belonging to Mr. J. F. Hardin, the accident occurring In Mr. Cross* backyard on Pinckney street as tie was getting ready to rein up his )wn horse and was passing the other inimal. The blow landed in the small )f the back, and two or three ribs were broken Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Morgan of Charleston, are spending :oday in the city on their way home !rom a northern trip. Mr. Morgan will je remembered here as editor and lubllsher of the old Chester Bulletin. Rt. Rev. W. A. Guerry, bishop of he diocese of South Carolina, conlucted services at St. Mark's Episcopal :hurch yesterday evening, and his able lermon was heard by a large crowd. A tenant house near the Sea>oard depot, owned by Mra E. P. Moore and occupied by Amanda Simpton, colored, was destroyed by fire 3aturday evening Died at Lewisrille, October 2, Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson Mayben, wife of H. B. Mayben, and laughter of Robert and Elizabeth Hudson, aged 17 years. She left one :hild, fj months old Miss Sallie Wilkes of R. F. D. 2, left Saturday for Wilklnsville, where she will be principal of the Wilklnsville school. THE BE8T MAN He Who Does His Work Best?The Calling Doesn't Count. A young man just about to start out n life went to an old man and asked lis advice. "What profession or busiie88 would you advise me to adopt?" ie asked. "It doesn't matter very much what rou do," was the old man's reply, "Just jo you do it well. If you will do your work, whatever it is, better than anylody else around you is doing it, you will get to the top of the ladder." And the old man was right. He had earned the truth by long living and ibservatlon and experience. The man who does his work better lhan anybody else does the same kind if work, is bound to succeed. He Just cannot keep fom it The best carpenter is always sur* if a job. He is the last to be laid oil if times get dull and the first to be put back to work when times get letter. The same thing is true of the lest bricklayer in the town. The best machinist that we know las not been out of a Job since he Inished his apprenticeship. The best lawyer that we know turns away ilients every week simply because he^ lannot find the time to handle their lusiness. It is so in every walk of life. The nan who does his work best stands it the top. And he is not crowded, while the shoddy workmen below lim are fighting and scrambling to real n their precious footing. And another thing: It is better to stand at the top of the list in an humble calling than to be a failure In i more pretentious one. There is more money In It, more satisfaction, more self-respect, and more respect from one's fellows.?Anderson Daily Mall. SINGLE STALK PLANTING New Method Found to Have Much Virtu*. Realizing that the eyes of the world ire just now on "King Cotton," the [Jnlted States department of agriculture has issued the following statement on single stalk culture: "Single stalk cotton culture has proved more satisfactory than other systems of culture In various sections because it has been found that it promotes earliness and Increases the acre yield. In regions which have short seasons or are infested with the boll weevil increased earliness is a factor >f especial Importance. "Two principles are involved in Dingle stalk cotton culture, nameiy, ate thinning and short spaces be;ween the plants in the row. The late thinning suppresses the vegetative branches and restricts the size of the plants so that they can be left from 5 to 12 inches! apart without injurious crowding. This enables the row space o be utilized more effectively, and ligher yields in consequence are obtained than from the common system >f wide spacing. "The increased earliness of single italk culture is due to the fact that arge, luxuriant plants are later in jetting and maturing the crop than ilants of more restricted growth. In he region of San Antonio, Texas, lrought and the ravages of the boll tveevil so shorten the season that ordimrily a cotton crop must be set in ibout one month. Under such circumstances single stalk culture possesses advantages that cannot be overlooked. "In department bulletin No. 279, the results of recent experiments coniucted by the department at San Antonio in single stalk cotton culture are jet forth in some detail. The single stal.c and wide spaced systems of culure were compared in alternate single rows, in alternate blocks of four *ows each, and again in alternating rows, three, rour, nve ana six reel ipart. The plants were thinned early, ate and very late to various distances ipart. The result of these experiments showed that while there were 'ewer bolls on the single stalk plants, he difference was more than made ?ood by the greater number of plants n the single stalk rows. "The single stalk rows set from 47 o 149 per cent more bolls than adjoining wide spaced rows, and differences in yield were in about the same proportion. In alternate row plantings he single stalk rows yielded from 63 o 227 per cent (average 121.5 per cent) nore seed cotton than the wide spaced ows, while in alternate blocks of four rows the yields favored the single rtalk culture by from 15 to 119 per 'ent, (average 56.1 per cent.) An exunination of the fibre in the field showed no perceptible difference in the quality of the lint." PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Happenings and Events Throughout 8outh Carolina. The Cheater county fair was held this week. Rev. E. V. Babb of Easley, has been called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Newberry. James Gray of Chester, sustained a broken leg In an automobile accident this week. Mrs. M. J. Miller has been appointed postmaster at Trenton, vice A. J. Day. Trnn t la tho hnmo r\t SAnotnr 'Fill man. Fire in Easley Sunday destroyed the large grocery store of F. C. Folger. The stock of goods was valued at $5,000, and the building at $2,000. Professional robbers cracked the po8tofflce safe at Seneca Monday night, took all the cash and stamps on hand and secured one registered package. J. Thoa Arnold, manager of Chick Springs hotel, has been appointed a member of the Greenville highway commission to succeed C. 8. Webb, resigned. Gertrude Butler, Anna Sims and Amos Duckett of Greenwood, have been bound over to Federal court under $800 bond on the charge of selling liquor without a Federal license. Governor Manning has appointed J. A. Hertz, C. V. Boykin and D. R. Sinkler, commissioners of election for Charleston. They will have charge of the general election in December. Mrs. Velvie Harris, aged 18 years, died at her home in Anderson of typhoid fever this week. Three other members of the family have typhoid and will probably die. Harry Simmons, a youth of Charleston, was painfully injured in that city Monday, while skating on the pavement. The boy accidentally skated off the sidewalk and was struck by an automobile. He will recover. Jack Salters, a white man serving a short time on the Colleton county chain gang, was shot and killed by Wo, Zeigler, a guard, Saturday afternoon. Salters was advancing upon another guard with an axe when he was shot and Instantly killed. Auburn college of Alabama, defeated Clemson college in a game of football at Anderson last Saturday, by a score of 14 to 0. Three York county boys, Matthews, Rawdon and Suggs appeared In the Clemson lineup. O. E. Hardy for 28 years a member of the South Carolina penitentiary guard, died early Tuesday morning after a long illneea He entered the guard service of the penitentiary In 1886. He is survived by one brother, W. D. Hardy, of Newberry. In the Greenville county court of common pleas Tuesday, a jury awarded W. H. Gay a verdict of $12,000 against the Greenville Traction company on account of the death of Marie Gay, daughter of the plaintiff, who was killed In Greenville December 23 last, by a street car of the defendant company. Bill Simmons is dying in a Greenville hospital of gunshot wounds received In a drunken brawl in the red light district of that city Monday afternoon. Five young men are being held In Greenville, charged with complicity In the shooting. Simmons was a boss in the spinning room of a Greenville mill. He leaves a wife and several children. During the proceedings Wednesday at the Inquest into the death of Sidney Cohen, the young newspaper reporter who was killed in the brawl in the committee room in Charleston, last Friday, Jerry W. Dunn testified that Cohen was killed by Edward McDonald. Whether or not the killing was accidental he cannot say. The four men who were wounded In the fighting are getting along nicely and all will recover. The death rate in South Carolina from pellagra, says a Columbia dispatch of Monday, based on reports in the bureau of vital statistics, has been 90 per 100,000 inhabitants for the first eight months of this year. The death rate from typhoid fever for the same period was 26.5. The number of deaths from pellagra from January 1 to August 31, inclusive, was 1,683, divided as follows: 125 white men, or a percentage of 11.5 of the total deaths; 232 white women. 21.4 per cent; 216 negro men, 19.9 per cent; 511 negro women, 47.2 per cent. In an opinion handed down last Saturday, the supreme court affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case of Dean Farmer against the Greer Fertilizer company. The opinion, written by D. E. Hydirlck, associate Justice, is as follows: "Careful consideration of the constitution and statutes on the subject shows the intention of the lawmakers that crops shall not be exempt, under the provisions for homestead and exemption of personal property to the he. Js of families, from attachment, levy and sale to enforce the payment of obligations contracted in and for the production thereof. From the standpoint of law and morals, such obligations are of the same nature as purchase money obligations and should have the same protection." Although attention has been called to the Federal act requiring stamps upon notes and other papers held by banks and other financial institutions, there appears to be a number still ignorant of the requirements, which imposes a penalty for violation of this section of the emergency revenue act. It is necessary to place upon every note a stamp of the denomination of two cents for each one hundred dollars or fraction thereof, and should Inspection be made by an officer of the internal revenue office and a note found without stamp it is necessary to report this violation to the collector of inter? P/\llaotrvf? Uaimro rH aoiH I Id I ICVCIIUC. WUWWVi ?AW;ITMIU recently that warning had been given the various banks that under the law It would be necessary to inspect these notes and other papers, and, of course, when it was reported to him that the required stamps had not been affixed, it would be necessary for him to enforce the penalty or require the party effected to submit a suitable offer In compromise which would be forwarded to the commissioner of internal revenue at Washington for final action. The collector has no power to overlook a matter of this kind.