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^ ^ ISSUED SEMI-WKEEL^ l. m. grist's sons, pttbii?her?. j % Ifamilg $(W(t|i(i{: Jjor the promotion of th{ political, Social, SgriEulfurat and ffommerciat Interest* of tin fteopl*. j ESTABLISHED 1855. YORK, S. C.,~TTJESDAY, OCTOBER26, 1915 aSTO. 867 TARZ THE_ By EDGAR RIC \ I Copyright, 1912, by tho Frank A. Mu CHAPTER III. A Jungle Battle. The pictures in the books which Tarzan found in the cabin interested him greatly. There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and farther over Mn the book he found under "M" some little monkeys such as he saw daily * - a Kla flittering tnrougn me ir?? w ...? primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own pepole. In all the book was none that resembled Kerchak or Tublat or Kala. At first he tried to pick the little figures from the paper, but he soon saw that they were not real, though he jg knew not what they might be, nor had he any words to describe them. The boats and trains and cows and horses were quite meaningless to him, but not quite so baffling as the odd little figures which appeared beneath and ^ between the colored pictures?some * strange kind of bugs he thought they might be, for many of them had legs, though nowhere could he find one with eyes and a mouth. It was his first introduction to the letters of the alphabet, and he was over ten years old. Of course he had never before seen print, or never had spoken with any living thing which had the remotest idea that such a thing as written language existed, and never had he seen any one reading. So what wonder that the little boy was quite at a loss to guess the mean ing of these strange figures? Near the back of the book he found his old enemy, Sabor, the tiger, and, just above him, coiled Mistah, the snake. Oh, it was most engrossing! Never before in all his ten years had he enJoyed anything so much. So absorbed ^ v was he that he did not note the approaching dusk until it was quite upon him. He put the book back in the cupboard and closed the door, for he did not wish any one else to find and de* story his treasure, and as he went out into the gathering darkness he closed the great door of the cabin behind him as it had been before he discovered the secret of its lock, but before he left he had noticed the hunting knife lying where he had thrown it upon the floor, and this he picked up and took with him to show to his fellows. He had taken scarce a dozen steps toward the jungle when a great form rose up before him from the shadows of a low bush. At first he thought it was one or nis own people, but in another instant ho realized that it was a huge gorilla. So close was he that there was no chance for flight, and little Tarzan knew that he must stand and fight for his life; for these great beasts were the deadly enemies of his tribe, and neither one nor the other ever asked or gave quarter. Had Tarzan been a full grown bull ape of the species of his tribe he would ? have been more than a match for the ^ gorilla, but being only a little English boy, though enormously muscular for such, he stood no show against his cruel antagonist. In his veins, however, flowed the blood of the best of ^ a race of mighty fighters, and back " of this was the training of his short lifetime among the fierce brutes of the Jungle. He knew no fear, as we know It; his heart beat the faster, but from the excitement and exhilaration of adventure. Had the opportunity presented itself he would have escaped, but solely be cause nis juagmeni 101a mm ne was no match for the great thing which confronted him. And as flight was out of the question he faced the gorilla squarely and bravely without a tremor of a single muscle or any sign of panic. In fact, he met the brute midway in fits charge, striking its huge body with his closed fists and as futilely as if he had been a fly attacking an elephant. But in one hand he still clutched the knife he had found, and as the brute, striking and biting, closed upon him the boy accidentally turned the point " toward the hairy beast. As it sank deep into the body of him the gorilla shrieked in pain and rage. But the boy had learned in that brief second a use for his sharp and shining toy, so that as the tearing, striking beast dragged him to earth he plunged the blade repeatedly into its breast. The gorilla, fighting after the manner of its kind, struck terrific blows with its open hand and tore the flesh at the boy's throat and chest with its mighty tusks. For a moment they rolled upon the ground in the fierce frenzy of combat. More and more weakly the torn and bleeding arm struck home with the long sharp blade, then the little figure stiffened with a spasmodic jerk, and Tarzan. the young Lord Greystoke. rolled senseless upon the dead and deft caying vegetation which carpeted his jungle home. A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but on? of several, and also to see that all members were accounted for. It was soon discovered that Tarzan was missing, and Tublat was strongly opposed to sending assistance. Kerchak himself had no liking for the strange little waif, so he listened to Tublat, and finally, with a shrug of his shoulders, turned back to the pi e of leaves on which he had made his ?ed. Hut Kala was of a different mind. In fact, she had waited but to learn that Tarzan was absent ere she was fairly flying through the matted branches toward the point from which the cries of the gorilla were still plainly audible. Darkness had fallen, and an early moon was sending its faint light to cast strange, grotesque shadows among the dense foliage of the forest. AN OF APES E BURROUGHS I insey Company. i Presently Kala came upon them, lying: in an open space and full under the brilliant moon?Tarzan's torn and bloody form and beside it a great bull gorilla, stone dead. With a low cry Kala rushed to Tarzan's side and, "ntiioriiiir the nonr. blood covered body h"vuv..un a to her breast, listened for a sign of life. Ftolntly she heard It?the weak beating of the little heart. Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, brtngring him food and water and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds. Of medicine or surgery the poor thing knew nothing. She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work. At first Tarzan would eat nothing, but rolled and tossed in a wild delirium of fever. All he craved was water, and this she brought him in the only way she could, bearing it in her own mouth. No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than '..d this poor wild brute for the litle orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping. At last the fever abated, and the boy commenced to mend. No complaint passed his tight set Hps, though the pain of his wounds were excruciating. A portion of his chest was laid bare to the ribs,* three of which had been broken by the mighty blows of the gorilla; one arm was ncariy bcycku by the giant fangs, and a great piece had been torn from his neck, exposing his jugular vein, which the cruel jaws had missed but by a miracle. After what seemed an eternity to the little sufferer he was once more able to walk, and from then on his recovery was rapid, so that in another month he was as strong and as active as ever. During his convalescense he had gone over in his mind many times the battle with the gorilla, and his first thought was to recover the wonderful little weapon which had transformed him from a hopelessly outclassed weakling to the superior of the mighty terror of the jungle. Also he was anxious to return to the cabin and continue his investigations of the wonderous contents. So early one morning he set forth alone upon his quest. After a little search he located the clean picked bones of his late adversary, and close by, partly buried beneath the fallen leaves, ne rouna me anue, nuw ieu with rust from its exposure to the dampness of the ground and from the dried blood of the gorilla. He did not like the change in Its former bright and gleaming surface, but it was still a formidable weapon and one which he meant to use to advantage whenever the opportunity presented itself. He had in mind that no more would he run from the wanton attacks of old Tublat. In another moment he was at the cabin, and after a short time had again thrown the latch and entered. His first concern was to learn the mechanism of the lock, and this he did by examining it closely, while the door was open so that he could learn precisely what caused it to hold the door and by what means it released at his touch. U/v V*r? Via A/viilfl nlnoo onH nc IUUIIU iwai 11^ wuiu viwot ??? lock the door from within, and this he did so that there would be no chance of his being molested while at his investigations. He commenced a systematic search of the cabin; but his attention was soon riveted by the books which seemed to exert a strange and powerful influence over him, so that he could scarce attend to aught else for the lure of the wonderous puzzle which their purpose presented to him. Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books and a great dictionary. All of these he examined; but the pictures caught his fancy most, though the strange little bugs which covered the pages where there were no pictures excited his wonder and deepest thought. In his hands was a primer opened at a picture of a little ape similar to himself, but covered, except for hands and face, with strange colored fur, for such he thought the jacket and trousers to be. Beneath the picture were three little bugs: BOY. And now he had discovered in the text upon the page that these three were repeated many times in the same sequence. Another fact he learned, and that was that there were comparatively few individual bugs. But these were repeated many times, occasionally alone, but more often in company with others. Slowly he turned the pages, scanning the pictures and the text for a repetition of the combination b-o-y. rresenuy ne rouna it neneain a picture of another little ape and a strange animal which went upon four legs like the jackal and somewhat resembled him. Beneath this picture the bugs appeared as? A BOY AND A DOG. There they were, the three little bugs which always accompanied the little ape. And so he progressed very, very slowly, for it was a hard and laborious task which he had set himself without knowing it, a task which might seem to you or to me impossible ?learning to read without having the slightest knowledge of letters or written language or the faintest idea that such things existed. He did not accomplish it in a day or in a week or in a month or in a year, but slowly, very slowly, he learned. By the time he was fifteen he knew the various combinations of letters which stood for every pictured figure in the little primer and in one or two of the picture books. Of the meaning and use of the articles and conjunctions, verbs, adverbs and pronouns he had but the faintest and haziest conception. One day when ho was about twelve ' he found a number of leadpencils in a hitherto, undiscovered drawer beneath 1 the table, and in scratching upon the table with one of them he was delighted to discover the black line it left behind it. He worked so assiduously with this new toy that the table top was soon a mass of scrawley loops and irregular ] lines and his pencil point worn down to the wood. Then he took another pencil, but this time he had a definite object in view. He would attempt to reproduce some ' of the little bugs that scramble over . the pages of his book. , It was a difficult task, for he held the pencil as one would grasp the hilt of a : dagger, which does not add greatly to ease in writing nor to the legibility ] of the results. < But he persevered for months, at . such times as he was able to come to ( the cabin, until at last by repeated experimenting he found a position in ' which to hold the pencil that best per- 1 mitted him to guide and control it, so j that at last he could roughly reproduce , any of the little bugs. Thus he made a beginning at writing. Copying the bugs taught him an- J other thing, their number; and, though ' he could not count as we understand , it, yet he had an idea of quantity, the 1 base of his calculations being the num- < her of fingers upon one of his hands. , His search through the various books ] convinced him that he had discovered . all the different kinds of bugs most often repeated in combination, and he ( arranged them in proper order with i great ease because of the frequency 1 with which he had perused the fasci- . nating alphabet picture book and the , huge illustrated dictionary. 1 By the time he was seventeen he had ( learned to read the simple child's | primer and had fully realized the true i and wonderful purpose of the bugs. No longer did he feel shame for his ^ hairless body or his human features, for now his reason told him that he < was of a different race from his wild 1 and hairy companiona He was a "M-A-N," they were "A-P-E-S," and the little apes which scurried through the forest top were "M-O-N-K-E-Y-S." He knew, too that old Sabor was a "T-I-G-E-R" and Htstah was a "S-N-A-K-E" and Tantor an "E-L-EP-H-A-N-T." From then on his progress was rapid. With the help of the great dictionary and the active intelligence of a healthy mind endowed by Inheritance with more than ordinary reasoning powers he shrewdly guessed at much which he could not really understand, and more often than not his guesses were close to the mark of truth. There were many breaks in his education, caused by the migratory habits of his tribe, but even when removed from recourse to his books his active brain continued to search out the mysteries of his fascinating vocation. Nor did he neglect the sterner duties of life while following the bent of his inclination toward the solving of the mystery of his library. He practiced with his rope and played with his sharp knife, which he had ' learned to keep keen by whetting upon ] flat etnnoa (To be Continued.) ' GENERAL NEWS NOTES < Items of Interest Gathered from All ] Around the World. Arthur T. Lyman, 83 years old. one < of the leading cotton manufacturers j of the country, died at Waltham, Mass., Sunday night. < Baron Durham, a 2-year-old horse, ' broke the world's trotting record for ] the age on a half mile track at Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday, covering the distance in 2.16 3-4. Petitions have been placed in cir- ' culation in Arizona for the recall of Governor W. P. Hunt, on the ground of incompetence and disregard of the courts. ' G. N. Morgan of Nashville. Tenn, , was on Saturday, elected sovereign grand commander of the Scotish Rite for the southern jurisdiction of the , United States. The National Horse Shoe Pitching . tournament was held in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. The tournament was won by the Kansas City eight-man team. i Two persons, Thos. and Cohen Davis, 1 were killed and four others wounded in a pistol battle at Lavona, Ga., Sat- ' i i rvl o \r whon fho nnli no atfomnto/1 t a 1 arrest the brothers for creating" a disturbance in a circus tent. R. L. Rowden, an attorney, was murdered in a St. Louis, Mo., boarding house Sunday. His body was found, after the police forced the door to his room. His head was badly cut. No clue to the murderers were found. Dr. D. F. Watson was shot to death at Carthage, N. C., by his father-inlaw. James V. Larkin, as Watson was forcing his way into the Larkin home, while in a drunken condition. All the ] parties are prominent. A committee of 19, appointed at a 1 meeting of citizens of the lower Rio Grande valley, on Saturday are to make an appeal to Gov. Ferguson of j Texas, and Gen. Funston of the U. S. army, to put an immediate end to the raids of Mexicans along the river. Says Some Husbands Deserve Whipping Post.?In the October Woman's J Home Companion, Charles E. Jeffer- ( son, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, writes a sermon to 1 fathers in which he tells as follows ' why some husbands deserve the whipping post: i "In his home, a man shows his inncrmost self in the way he treats his wife. If he is a coarse-grained, selfish boor, his boorishness will come out i in his conduct toward her. If he is a 1 Christian gentleman, he will have daily ( opportunities to prove it in his atti- i tude to her. If he puts on airs as the lord of the house, ordering his wife nrminrl ns thnnirh shp were a servant. speaking to his children as though he were an Oriental despot, all his religious professions so for nothing. Many men?and professedly pood men at that? do not realize how tyrannical and unapprec.ative and cruel they are. Of all the tyrants on earth a tyrannical husband is the most despicable. A man who lords it over a woman, keeping her painfully conscious of her i daily dependence on him, holding: all the money in his hand, and doling it out to her in reluctant pittances as though she were a beggar, insulting her by disparaging remarks in the presence of her children, is a man who deserves the whipping post." PRIZE WINNERS Among Live Stock Exhibitors in Re cent York County Fair at Rock Hill. The Rock Hill Herald of last Satur day, printed the names of prize win ners among the exhibitors of llv stock at the recent fair as follows: Horses and Mules. Best stallion, any age or breec Bhown to halter?R. B. Plexico, first J. S. Kennedy second, Carhartt farrr third. Best Jack, shown to halter?Steel Stock farm, (one entry.) Best jack, with not less than 4 c his get?Steele Stock farm (one entry. Best brood mare with colt at sideJ. L. Aycock first, W. L. Lathai second; W. W. Faris, third. Best horse colt under 4 years oldW. L. Lathan first, J. R. Wallace sec ond, Sadler Love third. Best mule colt under 1 year oldW. W. Faris first, J. L. Aycock sec ond. Best horse colt 1 to 2 years old?"W J. Fewell first, W. J. Fewell second, J E. Jackson third. Best mule colt 1 to 2 years old?J Hi Matthews first, W. N. Biggers sec ond, R. C. Caveny third. Best horse colt 2 to 3 years oldW. W. Alexander first, S. T. McElhan sy second, W. N. Biggers third. Best mule colt 2 to 3 years old? Steele Stock farm first, J. L. Aycocl second. . Best county raised mule shown t halter?J. H. Matthews, first, J. L Aycock second. Best horse colt 3 to 4 years oldCarhartt farm first, J. L. Aycock sec ond, J. A. Howe third. Best mule oolt 3 to 4 years old?J H. Matthews first, J. L. Aycock sec ond. Best saddle mare or gelding to sho\ three gaits (county raised)?Jame (Vhitesides first, R. A. Anderson sec ond. Best saddle mare or gelding to sho\ three gaits (county owned)?Jame Bros., first, Carhartt farm, second, E A. Anderson third. Best combination mare or gcldini irst shown to buggy, then under sad lie (county raised)?Jame? White fides first, Carhartt farm second Hugh Miller third. Best combination mare or gelding irst shown to buggy, then under sad II- / 4.. \ a T ITInKoll 11U VtUUUl/ UWIICU/ fcJ. U. rwiiJiuaii Ft. B. Plexico second, James Bros. :hird. Best mare or gelding driven b; lady?Carhartt farm first, James Bros 3econd, Hugh Miller third. Best pair, mares or gelding, shown ti t>uggy?R. A. Anderson first, J. B Byers second. Best single horse, mare or geldingdarhartt farm first, R. A. Andersoi second, James Bros., third. Best boy rider?James Bros., first Carhartt farm second, Wallace Fen nell third. (Open to the World.) Best combination mare or gelding Irst shown to buggry, then under sad lie?Arthur Owens first, James Bros, second. Best mare or gelding driven by lad: ?arhartt farm first, James Bros., sec md, Paul Hardin third. Best saddle mare or gelding to shoy three gaits?Arthur Owens first, Jame Bros, second, Jas. Whitesides, third. Best mare or gelding, single harnes ?Arthur Ownes first, Carhartt farn second, James Bros., third. Best pair mares or geldings shown t< Juggy?James Bros., first, W. T. Hoag and second, J. B. Byers third. Shetland Ponies. Best stallion?Steele Stock farn irst, Steele Stock farm second. Best harness Shetland pony?Car lartt farm .Steele Stock farm sec \\T T XTrvsvltr thU.1 suvi, ?? . u. inn u. Best saddle pony?J. T. Roddcy, Jr. Irst, H. Carhartt, Jr., second, W. J ^leely third. Swine. (York County Owned) Class 1?Berkshire. Best boar, 2 years old and over? Carhartt Farm (one entry). Best boar, 1 to 2 years old?Car hartt Farm (one entry)Best boar, over 6 months an< under 12 months?J. M. Stewar irst, Carhartt farm second. Best sow, 2 years old and over? Carhartt Farm (one entry). Best sow, 1 to 2 years old?Car hartt Farm first, Carhartt Farn second. Best sow, over 6 months and un ier 12 months?S. F. Gordon first J. M. Rasor second, Carhartt Farn :hird. Best pair pigs, 1 of each sex un ler 6 months old?Carhartt Farn first, R. A. Gettys second. Best display, not less than It head?Carhartt Farm (one entry). Class 3?Duroc Jersey. Best boar, 1 to 2 years old?W. H Zfowan (one entry). Best boar, over 6 months and unde 12 months?J. M. Rasor (one entry) Best sow, 1 to 2 years old?W. H 3owan (one entry). Best sow, over 6 months and under ^ear?J. M. Rasor (one entry). Best pair pigs, one of each sex, un Jer six months old?W. H. Cowan flrsl (V. H. Cowan second. Best display, not less than ten hea< ?W. H. Cowan. Dogs. Best pointer dog, collar with owner'i laine and address on it?T. M. Ander jon. Best setter dog, collar with owner' name and address on it?W. W. Fen nel. Beet rabbit or fox hound, collar witl owner's name and address on it^rawl'ord Bookout. Fox terrier?Jim Rasor. Bull terrier?James Faris. Cattle. Class 1.?Jerseys. Best bull, 2 years old and overFrank Riddle (one entry). Class 2?Guernseys. Best bull 2 years old and over?Di Fennell (one entry). Best bull, 1 to 2 years old?Carhart Farm (one entry). Class 3?Holstein. Best bull, 2 years old and overStewart Dairy farm (one entry.) Class A?Red Polled. Best bull, 2 years old and over>;tpplo Stnrk Farm tone entrv). Best bull calf, over 2 months am under 1 year old?Steele Stock Farr first, Steele Stock Farm second. W. H Cowan third. Best heifer calf, over 2 months am under 1 year old?W. H. Cowan flrsl Steele Stock Farm second. Best bull, 2 years old and over?E H. Johnson first, Carhartt Farm sec and. Best bull, 1 to 2 years old?J. S Rtultz first. B. H. Matthews second J. A. Williford third. Best bull calf, over 2 months an* under 1 year?Carhartt Farm (on entry). Best Cow, 2 years old and overCarhartt farm first, T. EL Johnsoi second, Carhartt Farm third. Best heifer, 1 to 2 years old?Car hartt Farm first, Carhartt Farm sec und. Best heifer Ca!f, over 2 months an under 1 year?E. H. Johnson (one en try). Best herd of six Herefords?Car hartt Farm (one entry) Class 6?Herefords. Best bull. 2 years old and overAlex Williford (one entry). Class 7?Aberdeen Angus. Best bull, 2 years old and overAlex Williford (one entry.) Class 8?Sweepstakes and Premiur ?Any Breed. Best bull?Frank Riddle. Best bull?E. H. Johnson (one en try). Best cow?Carhartt farm (one en try) Class 9?Holstein. Best heifer, 2 years old and over O. S. Poe first, O. S. Poe second. Class 14?Any Other Beef Breeds. Best cow?Rock Hill Realty Co. first, H. F. Bookout second, Rock Hill - Realty Co, third. Poultry. Barred Rocks. Mrs. Bradford?first cock, first hen, third pullet. I, Mrs. Lizzie McRoy?first pullet, sec; ond Dullet. ' Buff Rocks. e Mrs. J. Bankhead?first cock, first second and third hen. ,f Mrs. J. Bankhoad?first cockerel, ) first, second and fourth pullets. Mrs. J. Bankhead?Winner of silver a cup for best display first pen. Whit* Rocks. 7 W. G.- Flnley?fourth pullet. W. R. Whitfield?first, second, third and fourth cockerel; first and second pullet. W. R. WMlfield?second pen. r S. L. Patterson?third pullet. / J. J. Hoke?first and second cock, first and second hen, first pen. r. Silver Laced WyandottM. P. B. Kennedy?first cock, first, second. third and fourth hen. W. A. Thomas?first and second " cockerel, first and second pullet. W. A. Thomas?first pen. k Partridge Wyandottes. P. B. Parks?first cock, first hen, o first cockerel. ? P. B. Parks?first hen. Buff Orpingtons. J. W. Gunn?first cockerel and second hen, third and fourth pullet. r. Whit* Leghorns. Willie Poag?first cock, third hen. G. H. Ussery?second cock, first hen, * first, second and third cockerels. 8 G. H. Ussery?first and second pul lets. John Reid?second, third and fourth v hens, third pullet, f Brown Leghorns. Willie Poag?first cock, first cockerel, first pullet. Pit Games. L. A. Mahue?first cock, first hen. I, Marvin Paris?second cock. J. A. Nivens?third cock, second and f, third hen. Dark Cornish. ' W. G. Duncan?second and fourth * cock, second and third hen. v W. G. Duncan?second cockerel, first and third pullet. '* P. M. Wyatt?third and fourth cockB erel, third pen. , W. A. Thomas?first cockerel, fourth * pullet. W. A. Thomas?fourth pen. " J. D. Hoke?second pen. W. E. Hall?first and third cock, flrut and fourth hen. I W. E. Hall?second pullet, first pen. White Cornish. W. A. Thomas?first pen. S. C. Rhode Island Reds. - J. W. Marshall?second and third ? hen, first and second cockerel. J. W. Marshall?second and fourth y pullet, second and third hen.. J. S. Comer?first hen, third cockerel. J. S. Comer?first and third pullet, i first pen fowl, first pen chicks, s John London?second and third hen. s Miss Lizzie Lawrence?first bronze n Turkeys. Special Prizes?Poultry. 0 For best pair (cockerel and pullet) White Plymouth Rocks, 50 pounds Just Chicken Food offered by SmithFVwell Co.?W. R. Whitefleld, Rock 1 Hill. Best exhibit, any variety, silver cup, offered by National Union bank?Mrs. ~ Jim Bankhead on Bluff Plymouth Rocks, Sharon. Best pen Rhode Island Reds. One ' self-feeding box offered by Rock Hill Hardware Co.?J. T. Comer, Rock Hill. Best bird White Leghorn variety. 50c package Pratt's Poultry Powder. Offered by Rock Hill Drug Co.?Willie Poag, Rock Hill. For best cockerel and pullet (Bar-1 red Rock) 50 pounds each of Just " Chicken Food by Smith-Fewell Co.? . Wm. Gordon, Rock Hill. 1 Best pair of White Plymouth Rock 1 belonging to boy under 17 years. Offered by W. R. Whitfield one White Plymouth Rock cockerel (Pittsfield strain)?Julian Hoke. Peoples' National bank oiterea one I White Rock cockerel for best pair White Rocks?W. R. Whitfield, Rock " Hill. Peoples' National bank offered one S. II C. Rhode Island cockerel for best pair S. C. Rhode Island Reds.?J. W. and * F. D. Marshall, Rock Hil. Best Pen in Show. ) Feed Grinder?Rock Hill Hardware Co.?W. E. Hall, Rock Hill on pen Dark Cornish. 2nd Best pen any variety?P. B. Parks, Rock Hill, on Partridge Wyandottes. r 3rd. Best pen?Woodland Park Poultry yards, J. S. Comer, proprie[* tor, on S. C. Rhode Island Reds. j Junior Poultry. Barred Rocks. William Gordon?first cockerel, first pullet. Marion Gordon?second cockerel, 3 second pullet White Rocks. Julian Hoke?first cockerel, first s pullet. White Orpingtons. Wm. Gordon?first cockerel, first 8 pullet. Frank Barron?second cockerel, h second and third pullet. Brown Leghorns. Louis Williams?first cock, first hen, first cockerel, first pullet. White Leghorn*. M. D. Hancy?second cock, second pullet. Herbert Dunlap?first and second fourth pullet. John Roddey?first cock, first and second hen, first cockerel. John Roddey?first cock, first ana second hen, first cockerel. ,t John Roddey?first and third pullet Rhode Island Red*. Elliot Haney?third cockerel, sec_ ond pullet. Marion Gordon?second cockerel, first pullet. Elizabeth Byers?first cockerel. Silver Laced Wyandotte*. J Herbert Dunlap, Jr.,?first and secn ond cockerel. [. Herbere Dunlap?first and second pullet. d Bantams?Pair*. t. Charlie Steele (1)?first and second. ). Earl Whisnant (2) ?third and - fourth. Pigeons. Virginia Herbert Wilson?first on ' fancy pigeons. a Virginia Herbert Wilson?frist on e C.'uicy pigeons. Roddey Miller?second on fancy pigeons. ,, Isabelle Wilson?second on white pigeons. Blackburn Wilson, Jr.?First on common, third on white. James Faris?third on fancy. fj Wm. Gordon?second on common. Ned Marshall, Jr.?third on fancy. Rabbits. Earl Whlsnant?first on white. Roddey Miller?Belgian hares first. Wm. Brice?Belgian hares second. Sam Thomas?Belgian hares third. A century's supply of peat, near Mos cow, has been acquired by a Russian company which will erect a plant and n convert it into electricity to light and heat the city. The government of British North Borneo has employed an expert from the United States to make a general survey of the timber possibilities of - that country. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Lancaster News, Oct. 22: The court of common pleas adjourned today after transacting: some routine business. A wedding of marked beauty I and impressiveness was that of Miss | Loma Mae Huey and Mr. Boyce J. Harper which was solemnized Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. A. Huey, eight miles north of Lancaster. The words that made them man and wife were pronounced by the bride's pastor, Rev. W. W. Ratchford. Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's father, Hon. W. U. Clyburn of the Halle Gold Mine, his eldest daughter, Miss Ada Clyburn, was married to Mr. William S. Britt 1 of Lumberton, N. C. The services which have been in progress for the past ten days at the First Baptist church, came to a close last night. The people of all denominations have 1 enjoyed this meeting with their Baptist brethren. Dr. J. S. Dill of Gaffney, whoso preaching made such a strong appeal to all who heard him, is a forceful, convincing speaker, scholarly and interesting Mr. Minor Vincent died at his home in Kershaw early Monday, the 18th inst., after a long and painful illness. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery of 1 Flint Ridge Baptist church, of which he was a member, late in the afternoon of the same day, the services being conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. W. H. Dyches. 1 * * Fort Mill Times, Oct. 21: Dr. S. E. Massey returned Monday to Bramwell, W. Va., after a week's visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Massey, in this city E. R. Patterson and family, who haVe resided on Forest street for some time, are now occupying the Norman cottage at the cor ner 01 roresi ttuu owm The Gold Hill school with both Its teachers, Miss Mary Garrison and Mr. Foy Dickson, and almost the entire student body were represented at the county fair last Friday. Its beautiful float wrapped in white and old gold and drawn by four pretty mules decorated in like manner, made a com- ' mendatory showing Guy Blankenship and Charlie Wlndle spent the past week at home. While here they attended the fair. These two young men left for University, N. C., to take up their duties Osmond Barber, one of the progressive farmers of this section, stated to a friend Friday that during the thirteen months which had elapsed since September 1, 1914, he had sold 110 pigs, receiving an average per pig of 13. Mr. Barber doubtless is doing more to advance the "hog and hominy" project in this section than any other citizen The local public school was closed Friday in order that pupils and teachers might attend the county fair at Rock Hill. Almost the entire school with' the exception of the primary pupils, spent the day on the fair grounds. Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 22: In the installment of "Gas'ton Thirty-five Years Ago," published in Tuesday's Gazette, mention was made of one Jim Falls, a negro who was in 1878 engaged In carrying the malls from the Gastonla postofflce to the trains. Jim's main fault, as therein recorded, was in going to sleep while waiting for the train and often failing to get the pouches on the mail car. Rural Let- 1 ter Carrier T. C. Smith, who carries i Gastonla route one, says that Jim is 1 still living and is engaged in the identl- I cal occupation that was his forty | years ago. He lives now, however, at 1 Dallas. Some weeks ago Mr. Smith < was at Dallas and heard the same thing I said about Jim that was recorded in 1 the Gazette thirty-five years ago. Recently at Dallas, he went to sleep while waiting for the train. Awaking suddenly he rushed out half awake and threw the mail sacks through an open box car, thinking it was the mail ' car. Time doesn't seem to have worked any changes to speak of in Jim's habit Beginning next Tuesday morning and continuing probably ' through Friday the annual meeting of the North Carolina synod of the PresiwtArinn nhnrfh will be held in Gas tonia, the convention being: the guest of the First Presbyterian church. That there will be several hundred delegates and visitors in attendance is indicated by the fact that already nearly 250 delegates have notified the committee that they will be here and have been assigned homes. In addition to the delegates and visiting ministers there will be a large number of visiting Presbyterians from nearby territory. It will be a big week in Oas- 1 tonia and the visitors will find a warm 1 welcome awaiting them from the people of Gastonia. This is the first session of synod to be held here in 17 years A pretty home wedding 1 was solemnized Wednesday evening at 8.30 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Eliza Swift in Bessemer City, when her daughter. Miss Lesslie May, became the bride of Mr. John L. LeMaster of King^s Mountain Mr. Felix E. McLain of Clover, is a business visitor in town today. Mr. McLain recently resigned as agent for ( the C. & N.-W. railway at Clover, a position he has held for several years past and is now traveling. He is succeeded as agent by Mr. Charles R. Morrow At his home in the Crowders' Creek section of the county, Mr. Alfred Ferguson, one of the county's best most highly esteemed citizens of the elder generation, passed away at 5 o'clock this morning, following an illness of some time, the cause of his death being cancer. Mr. Ferguson was a native of the county, and was born on March 30, 1838, in the same neighborhood in which he ( died, being 77 years, six months and twenty-two days old. He was a brave soldier in the cause of the Confeder- | acy, having been a private in Co. H, ( 49th N. C. regiment, and served from ] 1862 until the close of the war. It is interesting to note in this connection that there are now only 26 survivors of this company, Col. R. N. Wilson of Gastonia, being one of i these. Deceased Is survived by nis widow, who, before her marriage, was a Miss Dove, of this county, and seven children, Messrs. R. L? T. M. and 3. E. Ferguson of Gastonia; J. E. Ferguson of Clover; B. B. and A. D Ferguson of Crowdere' Creek, and Mrs. E. L. Crawford. Another daughter, Mrs. L. H. Jackson, died several years ago. Funeral services will be conducted at Crowders' Creek A. R, P. church, of which Mr. Ferguson was a member, at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning by the pastor, Rev. W. P. Grier, and the body will be laid to rest in the cemetery at the church. Mr. Ferguson was the last surviving member of a family of fourteen, the children of the late Thomas Ferguson. Two brothers, Messrs. Ben and L. B. Ferguson, have died within the past year. # Chester Reporter, Oct. 21: Mr. H. C. Beachy, the aviator, made a successful flight at the fair grounds this morning, ascending to a height of about 1,000 feet and gliding gracefully through the ether in a way that in- 1 terested and delighted the crowd Mrs. Emma Dye Gibson, wife of Mr. J. HL Gibson, died at her home near Richburg Saturday evening and was burled the following afternoon at Mt. ' Pleasant church, Rev. J. B. Davis conducting the service and six sons of the deceased acting as pall bearers Mrs. B. O. Boulware died i Monday afternoon at her home at 1 Leeds, after a severe illness of several months' duration, and was buried yes- j terday at Calvery Baptist church | graveyard after funeral services by < Rev. J. E. Jones. Mrs. Boulware was , the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McCallum and was about 20 years of age '.Mrs. A .G. Brice, Mrs. J. T. J Bigham and Mrs. J. S. Marquis of Chester, Mrs. H. Bell and Mrs. R. R. Steele of Hopewell; Mrs. W. R. Kitchens of Union, Miss Ella Sterling of New Hope, and others went to Gastonia this morning to attend the Woman's Missionary union of the First Presbytery, A. R. P. church. Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 22: Court of ' general sessions has been grinding 1 steady this week since Monday and a large number of cases have been dis- ' posed of. The grand jury completed its work and made its final present- < ment Wednesday. It was considered 1 probable that all jury cases to be < brought up at this term would be dla- i posed of before court adjourned last night The only South Carolinians i at the Southern Appalachian Good . Roads association convention In Blue- < field, W. Va., last week were Supervisor J. M. Jenkins and his party, consist- < ing of Messrs. J. E. Sarratt, Will Jones Both Hughes and Landrum Allison. The party was well pleased with its visit to West Virginia. , King's Mountain Herald, Oct. 21: The Cleveland County Baraca-Philathea union was organized at Shelby Saturday night with Dr, RE. Ware of Shelby as president, and Miss N. M. Livingston of Grover, vice president. Fifteen classes were present and became members. The Baraca class of the First Baptist church here would have been well represented had It not 1 been for the lateness of train No. 45 that evening Dr. W. J. McGill 1 returned Saturday from a trip to Charleston, S. C Mr. D. M. Camp- 1 bell, a Confederate veteran of this ( place, went to Gastonla to the fair 1 last Week. Just as he was ready to board the train on the return trip, some snipe swiped his pocketbook 1 with all his money The cotton 1 farmers of King's Mountain and vi- ' clnity are planning to ship a carload of 1 long staple cotton to some point in ' South Carolina within the next few days. , , ] The presenttment of the grand Jury ' containing the report of the expert accountant who examined the county ' offices has been given the public. This 1 report shows that Florene has suffered very much through the laxity of the | county officials in practically every office. The special committee consider- ] Ing the condition in the courthouse says in one paragraph: "In a general 1 way we would like to state that, 1 using the expression of the comptrol- 1 ler general of the state, 'the financial 1 conditions in Florence county as ' handled by the officers are the worst 1 In the state.' We do not believe these 1 conditions come from any dishonest purpose on the part of the officers, or 1 from ignorance, but from negligence, ' or maybe incompetence." The sheriff and treasurer are criticised sharply ' for the conditions of the executions, i there being at the time of the report i nearly >65.000 worth of executions in < the sheriff's hands, only 9 per cent of < the executions of this county being col- < lected. The treasurer is criticised for i carrying as cash unpaid checks which 1 had attained venerable age. He cov- 1 ered all of these items from his per- i sonal resources. He is criticised for i lack of attention to his office. The | clerk of court is criticised for laxity in i his reports which do not show fines 1 and charges collected. The auditor is severely criticised for incompetence in his bookkeeping. The supervisor Is criticised for not having an inventory of the county's property, but his books are well kept in regard to money expended. Mr. Muldrow, the clerk of court, replied, saying that the bookkeeping in his office is an Inheritance, and that the items desired by the committee could have been shown if the Investigators had asked him for explanation. Mr. Darr pleads his own continued sickness as his excuse for failure to keep up his office records. The entire courthouse is very much stirred up, as are the people generally, who have always contended that Florence had the best county officers in the state. The sheriff and treasurer are already hot after the delinquents and they are going to clean up things this fall with special deputies. Already a large amount of delinquent taxes have been collected. An electric motor to vibrate fruit trees so that the sap flows to the buds and blossoms and enables them to resist frost has been patented by a Colorado man. A Pittsburgh man has invented a bullet carrying in grooves a narcotic to deaden the pain of a person that it hits and an antiseptic to cleanse the wound and check the flow of blood. Pressing a button opens a new automobile door latch that Is controlled by electricity. PAUMtl IU ULCADinUO Currant Happenings and Evanta Throughout South Carolina. The Charleston Orphan house celebrated the 126th anniversary of its founding on Thursday. The state finance board last week borrowed $62,400 for the maintenance of Clemson college. The Cherokee county chalngang is engaged in constructing a new road between Gaffney and Broad river. Governor and Mrs. Manning propose to tender a reception to all visitors to the state fair tonight between 9 and 11 o'clock. Claud I. Dawson of Anderson, who is United States consulate at Valencia, Qnalfi Hon Kaon t r-Q nsfarroH tn Tom plco, Mexico. Rev. 8. H. Alexander of Clinton, one of the best known colored ministers of the state, who was presiding elder of the Greenwood district, died suddenly last week. Members of the South Carolina rifle team returned to their homes Saturday after attending the national competition at Jacksonville^ Fla. The team finished in the 39th place. A number of weavers of the Judson mill in Greenville, are on a strike because the mill management refused to re-instate several weavers whom they had discharged. The Florence school board will soon t>egin the erection of a new school building in that city, a bond issue of 250,000 which was recently voted for that purpose, having been sold. Dr. J. D. Dreher, former United States consul at Toronto, Canada, who has been transferred to Colon, Panama, is spending some time with relatives in Columbia before going to his new post Cadet Noble of Branchvllle, a student of Clemson college, is in a hospital in Columbia, suffering from a broken shoulder said to be the result of hazing which he received at Clemson a few days ago. Damon Headen and Lonnie Heyward, white men, were attacked by Barney Leysath and John Robinson, colored, near Swansea last week and badly beaten up. Headen's throat was cut, but he will recover. The negroes Eire under arrest. 'mere are & numoer 01 canaiaam for appointment as auditor of Union county to succeed T. J. Betenb&ugh, who died recently, leaving an unex* pi red term of three and a half years. Governor Manning will appoint his successor in the near future. The abstract of the condition of the national banks of South Carolina at the close of business on September 2, as reported to the comptroller of the currency at Washington on Friday, shows the reserves held as 20.75 per cent; loans and discounts, $28,676,392; gold colna fl52.mrinwful thonbyNKF serve, $1,919,615; deposits, $18,142,61$. The United States civil service on Thursday, announced that examinations would be held in South Carolina at the following places on December 7, to secure both men and women typewriters and stenographers for the government: Charleston, Chester, Columbia, Florence,. Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Newberry, Orangeburg, Spartanburg and Sumter. Rev. J. F. Hammond of the Oakhurst section of Lancaster county, was painfully cut across the cheek by a negro at Mr. Hammond's cotton gin in that county last week. The negro, whose name is Jim Leech, was exciting a disturbance among negroes who were working at the gin, and when Mr. Hammond asked him to leave he drew liis knife and slashed the minister icross the" cheek. The negro was later captured and is now in the Lancaster county Jail. Orders that will keep the state militia in Charleston on duty until November 1, were issued by Colonel H. B. Springs on Friday. Edward McDonald and H. J. Brown, the two men who were arrested by the police in Charleston shortly after the shooting which resulted in the death of Sidney Cohen and the wounding of four other men, have been released from custody. The situation is quiet ind no more trouble is expected. Thousands of people attended the funeral of young Cohen which was held in Charleston on Thursday. Robert McEvoy, the young Greenville man who was recently arrested and lodged in jail charged with being an accessory before the fact in the Seath of Annie May Glenn, a 16-yearold school girl of Greer, who recently committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid after she had discovered that her lover had played her false, has been released on bail of $1,000. In his statement to Judge Wilson, McEvoy states that he never in any way instigated the young girl to take her life and that at the time of the suicide he was miles away. A mass meeting of Columbia citizens on Friday night, by a vote of S4 to 74 refused to adopt the report of a "citizen's committee" which found that Lewis A. Griffith, mayor of that city, had abused the power of refunding fines and that'his conduct on the night of September 18. in a certain louse in Columbia was unbecoming to his official position and that the Columbia city council properly 'took away from the mayor the position of lead of the police department, and that "we are of the opinion that our city should have a fhayor whose standard of duty and propriety to our community is of the highest order." The third triennial conference of the National association for the Study of Pellagra, closed its session at the state hospital for the Insane in Columbia Friday afternoon, after the election of the following officers: PresiJent, Dr. J. F. Siler, captain, medical lorps, United States army; first vice president, Dr. R. M. Grimm, passed X8sistant surgeon, United States public health service, Spartanburg; second vice president, Dr. H. W. Rice, Columbia; secretary. Dr. J. W. Babrock, Waverly sanitarium. Columbia; treasurer, Dr. J. A. Hayne. state Health officer, Columbia; board of directors, Dr. J. J. Watson, Columbia; Dr. W. J. MacNeal, director of laboratories, New York Post Graduate Medical school, New York city; Dr. H. B. White, state board of health, New Orleans, La., and Dr. Roy Blosser, Atlanta, Ga.