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. ^ ISSUED SKMI-WEEKL^ ____==^=_ l m. grist's sons, Pabu.h.r.,} % 4awilS ?ett?spaptij: ?$or the promotion o)f th< (political, goqiat, ^grieultuntl and (Commercial Interests of thi[ fleoji*. ) * ESTABLISHED 1855. ~YORK, S. C.. FRIDAY^D1^CICMBER 3, 1915 ~ ' XO. 97. TARZ, THE By EDGAR RIC) ^ ; Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mui CHAPTER XIV. | The Call of the Primitive. "Where's Miss Porter? What happened?*' questioned Clayton. "Ain' Miss Jane here?" cried Esmeralda, sitting up with wonderful celerity for one of her bulk. "O Lawd, now Ah "members! It done must have tooked her away," The negress commenced to sob and wail her lamentations. "What took her away?" cried Professor Porter. "A great big giant all covered with hair." "A gorilla, Esmeralda?" questioned Mr. Philander, and the three men j scarcely breathed as he voiced the ? horrible thought Clayton immediately began to look about for tracks, but he could * find nothing save a confusion of trampled grasses in the close vicinity, and his 4c. woodcraft was too meager for the ' + translation of what he did see. All the balance of the day they sought through the jungle, but as night drew on they were forced to give up in despair and hopelessness, for they did not even know in what direction the thing had borne Jane Porter. It was long after dark ere they reached the cabin, and a grief stricken ' ? fV*nf oof oilantlv within the little structure. Professor Porter finally broke the silence. His tones were no longer those of the erudite pedant theorizing upon the abstract and the unknowable, but those of a man of action, determined, but tinged by a note of indescribable hopelessness and grief which wrung an answering pang from Clayton's heart. , _ "1 shall lie down now," said the old JF/V man, "and try to sleep. Early tomorrow, so soon as it is light, I shall take what food I can carry and continue the search until I have found Jane. 1 will not return without her." Clayton rose and laid his hand jjentr ly upon Professor Porter's bent old shoulder. "I shall go with you, of course," he said. "Do not tell me that I need even have said so." "I know that you would olter that you would wish to go, Mr. Clayton, but you must not. Jane is beyond human assistance now. I simply go that I may face my Maker with her and know, too, that what was once my dear girl does not lie all alone and friendless in the Jungle." "I shall go with you,'* said Clayton olmnlv The old man looked up, regarding the strong, handsome face of William Cecil Clayton Intently. Perhaps he read there the love that lay In the heart beneath?the love for his daughter. "As you wish," he said. "You may count on me also," said Mr. Philander. "No my dear old friend," said Pro\ fesor Porter. "We may not all go. It would be cruelly wicked to leave poor Esmeralda here alone. Come? let us try to sleep a littlq." ******* i From the time Tarzan left the tribe of great anthropoids in which he had been raised it was torn by continual strife and discord. Terkoz proved a cruel and capricious king, so that, one by one, many of the older and weaker apes, upon whom he was particularly prone to vent his brutish nature took their families and sought the quiet and safety of the far interior. But at last those who remained were driven to destraction by the continued trucluence of Terkoz, and it so happened that one of them recalled the parting admonition of Tarzan: "If you have a chief who is cruel, do not as the other apes do and at^ tempt, any one of you, to pit yourself against him alone. But, instead, let two or three or four of you attack him together. Then no chief will dare to be other than he should be, for four of you can kill any chief." ^ And the ape who recalled this wist counsel repeated it to several of his fellows, so that when Terkoz returned to the tribe that day he found a warm reception awaiting him. There were no formalities. As Terkoz reached the group, five huge, hairy apes sprang upon him. At heart he was an arrant coward, which is the way with bullies among apes as well as among men, so he did not remain to fight and die, but tore himself away from them as quickly as he could and fled into the sheltering boughs of the forest. Two more attempts he made to reJoin the tribe, but on each occasion he was set upon and driven away. At last he gave up and turned, foaming with rage and hatred, into the jungle. It was in this state of mind that jp the horrible manlike beast, swinging from tree to tree, came suddenly upon two women in the jungle. He was right above them when he discovered them. The first intimation Jane Porter had of his presence was when the great hairy body dropped to the earth beside here and she saw the awful face and the snarling, hideous mouth thrust within a foot of her. . One piercing scream escaped her lips as the brute's hand clutched her arm. Then she was dragged toward those awful fangs which yawned at her throat. But ere they touched that fair skin another mood claimed the t anthropoid. The tribe had kept his women. He must find others to replace them. ^ This hairless white ape would be the first of his new household. He threw her roughly across his broad shoulders and leaped back into the trees, bearing Jane Porter away toward a fate a thousand times worse - 4 than death. Esmeralda's scream had mingled with that of Jane Porter; then, as was Esmeralda's manner under stress of AN OF APES | E BURROUGHS lsey Company. | I emergency which required presence of mind, she swooned. The scream that brought Clayton and the two older men stumbling through the undergrowth led Tarzan of the apes straight to where Esmeralda lay, but it was not Esmeralda in whom his interest centered. For a moment he scrutinized the ground below and the trees above until the ape that was in him by virtue of training and environment, combined with the intelligence that was his by right of birth, told his woodcraft the whole story as plainly as though he had seen the thing happen with his own eyes. Instantly he was gone again into the swaying trees, following the high flung spoor which no other human eye could have detected, much less translated. Almost silently the ape man sped on in the track of Terkoz and his prey, ( but the sound of his approach reached the ears of the fleeing beast and spurred it on to greater speed. Three miles were covered before Tarzan overtook them, and then Terkoz, seeing that further flight was futile, dropped to the' ground in a small open glade that he might turn and fight for his prize or be free to ' escape unhampered if he saw that the 1 pursuer was more than a match for him. He still grasped Jane Porter in one great arm as Tarzan bounded like a ' leopard into the arena which nature 1 had provided for this primeval-like battle. 1 When Terkoz saw that it was Tar- 1 zan who pursued him he jumped to ' the conclusion that this was Tarzan's woman since they were of the same 1 kind?white and hairless?and so he rejoiced at this opportuntiy for double revenge upon his hated enemy. To Jane Porter the apparition of this godlike man was as wine to sick nerves. From the description which Clayton and her father and Mr. Philander had given her she knew that it must be the same wonderful creature who had saved them, and she saw in him only a protector and a friend. But as Terkoz pushed her roughly aside to meet Tarzan's charge and she saw the great proportions of the ape and the mighty muscles and the fierce fangs her heart quailed. How could any animal vanquish such a mighty antagonist? Like two charging bulls they came together and like two wolves sought each other's throat. Against the long canines of the ape was pitted the thin blade or tne man s Knue. Jane Porter?her lithe form flattened against the trunk of a great tree, her hands tight pressed against 1 her rising and falling bosom and her eyes wide with mingled horror, fascination, fear and admiration, watched the primordial ape battle with the primeval man for possession of a woman?for her. As the great muscles of the man's back and shoulders knotted beneath 1 the tension of his efforts and the huge biceps and forearm held at bay those mighty tusks the veil of centuries of civilization and culture was swept from the blurred vision of the Baltimore girl. When the thin knife drank deep a dozen times of Terkoz's heart's blood and the great carcass rolled life- i less upon the ground it was a primeval woman who sprang forward with outstretched arms toward the primeval man who had fought for her and won her. And Tarzan? He did what no red blooded man needs lessons in doing. He took his woman in his arms and smothered her with kisses. For a moment Jane Porter lay there with half closed eyes. But as suddenly as the veil had been withdrawn it dropped again, and an outraged conscience suffused her face with its scarlet mantle, and a mortified woman thrust Tarzan of the apes from her and buried her face in her hands. Tarzan had been surprised when he had found the girl he had learned to love after a vague and abstract manner a willing prisoner in his arms. Now he was surprised that she repulsed him. He came close to her once more and took hold of her arm. She turned upon him like a tigress, striking his great breast with her tiny hands. Tarzan could not understand it. A moment ago, and it had been his intention to hasten Jane Porter back to her people, but that moment was lost. Since then Tarzan of the apes had felt the warm form close pressed to his. The hot. sweet breath against his cheek and mouth had fanned a new flame to life within his breast. Again he laid his hand upon her arm. Again she repulsed him. And then Tarzan of the apes did just what his first ancestor would have done. He took his woman in his arms and carried her into the jungle. Early the following morning the four within the little cabin by the beach were awakened by the booming of a cannon. Clayton was the first to rush out, and there, beyond the harbor's moutn, ne saw iwo vessels lying at anchor. One was the Arrow and the other a small French cruiser. The sides or the latter were crowded with men gazing shoreward, and it was evident to Clayton, as to the others, who had now joined him, that the gun which they had heard had been fired to attract their attention if they still remained at the cabin. By means of a bonfire the attention of the cruiser was gained, and a boat was lowered and dispatched toward the beach. As it was drawn up a young officer stepped out. He was met by Clayton. "M. Clayton, I presume," he asked. "Thank heaven, you have come!" was Clayton's reply. "And It may be that It Is not too late even now." "What do you mean, monsieur?" asked the officer. Clayton told of the abduction of Jane Porter and the need of armed men to aid in the search for her. "Mon Dieu!" exclaimed the officer. Among the officers in the last boats to put oft from the cruiser was the commander of the vessel, and when he had heard the story of Jane Porter's abducation he generously called ior volunteers to accompany rroressor Porter and Clayton In their search. Not an officer or a man of those brave Frenchmen who did not quickly beg leave to be one of the expedition. The commander selected twenty men and two officers, Lieutenant d'Arnot and Lieutenant Charpentier. A boat was dispatched to the cruiser for provisions, ammunition and carbines. The men were already armed with revolvers. Then, to Clayton's inquiries as to how they had happened to anchor offshore and fire a signal gun, the commander, Captain Dufranne, explained that they had overhauled the Arrow and had boarded her. The sight that met the Frenchmen's eyes as they clambered over the ship's side was appalling. A dozen dead and dying men rolled hither and thither upon the pitching deck, the living intermingled with the dead. Two of the corpses appeared to have been partially devoured as though by wolves. The prize crew soon had the vessel under proper sail and the living members of the ill starred company carried below to their hammocks. The dead were wrapped in tarpaulins and lashed on deck to be identified by their comrades before being consigned to the deep. None of the living were conscious when the Frenchmen reached the Arrow's deck. It did not take the French officer long to learn what had caused the terrible condition aboard, for when water and brandy were sought to re store the men it was found that not only was there none of either, but not a. vestige of food of any description. When restoratives had been applied several of the men regained consciousness, and then the whole story was told. With no one on board who understood navigation after they left the African coast, discussions soon arose is to their whereabouts, and as several days' sailing did not raise land they bore off to the north, fearing that the high north winds that had prevailed had driven them south of the southern extremity of Africa. They kept on a north-northeasterly course for -two days, when they were overtaken by a calm which lasted for nearly a week. Their water was gone, and in another day they would be without food. Conditions changed rapidly from bad to worse. One man went mad and leaped overboard. Soon another opened his veins and drank his blood. Two days before they had been picked up by the cruiser they had become too weak to handle the vessel, and that same day three men died. On the following morning it was seen that one of the corpse had been partly devoured. All that day the men lay glaring at each other like beasts of prey, and the following morning two of the corpses lay almost entirely stripped of flesh. And then the criuser had come. When those who could had recovered the entire story had been told to the French commander, but the men were too ignorant to be able to tell him at Just what point on the coast the professor and his party had been marooned, so the cruiser had steamed slowly along within sight of land, firing occassional signal guns and scanning every inch of the beach with glasses. The preceding night had brought them off the very beach where lay the little camp they sought. By the time the two parties had narrated their several adventures the cruiser's boat had returned with supplies and arms for the expedition. Within a few minutes the little body of sailors and the two French officers, together with Professor Porter and Clayton, set off upon their quest into the untracked jungle. (To be Continued.) Of Good Reputation.?Col. A. B. Wil liatns. editor of the Richmond Journal, has much familiarity with South Carolina people and South Carolina conditions. Copying the Observer's article on the proposition to advance Rev. Richard Carroll to the leadership of the colored race in place of Booker T. Washington, he makes the statement that Carroll is in many respects a better man than was Washington. "In the most trying and sometimes dangerous conditions in South Carolina," says the Journal, "he has been working now more than 20 years for his people. He has worked faithfully, diligently, ably, bravely, patiently and unostentatiously and having very little to work with?no millionaires behind him. He has carried himself so tactfully and skillfully as to win and hold the confidence and good will of all the white people; and he has produced practical results for the good of both races in the state." Evidently, Mr. J. G. Butler, the steel manufacturer of Ohio, who suggested Carroll as Washington's successor, had surveyed the field as one with a knowledge of people and conditions, and that he has brought forward a successor who would naturally fit into the place.? Charlotte Observer. ? John Bukowa, aged 27, while suffering from rabies, became violent and escaped from a Pittsburgh, Pa., hospital- on last Thursday, running through a crowded thoroughfare scratching and biting at people until a patrol wagon loaded with police gave chase. After a battle with Bukowa in which six police officers and patrolmen were either bitten or scratched, the afflicted man was re turned to a hospital, where he attacked those in charge. He died during the night. Bukowa was bitten by a dog about two months ago, but no attention was paid to his injuries until he began to act strangely Thursday morning. His escape was made but a short time after entering the hospital. Fourteen persons in all were bitten by Bukowa, eleven of whom were at once sent to Mercy hospital to undergo the Pasteur treatment. ? The railroads are talking quite favorably to Governor Manning because of a request that he has made of them for reduced rates on ground lime and phosphate rock. The governor represents the necessity of the reduced rates because of the impossibility of securing potash. ittiscrllanrous Reading. OUR DUTY TO GOD Synopsis of Sermon Preached by Evangelist Black. By a Reporter for The Enquirer. God's love for us and the duty we owe him, was the subject of a strong, simple and plain sermon which Rev. T~?r William Rlapk nr.Mirhfwl to a laree congregation in the Presbyterian church Monday night. There were a large number of young boya and girls present. While it was not announced that his sermon would be devoted especially to children, so plain and clear was the message, so interesting and i tender the Illustrations and anecdotes, that it appeared as though it were intended especially for them and his juvenile auditors as well as their elders were greatly Impressed,* as was evidenced by their rapt attention. The text was from Romans 12:1?"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.*' There isn't a book in the world like the Bible, said the preacher. We cannot look upon any page in it without seeing evidences of God's love for us. For Instance, the first words of the text: "I beseech you." There he condescends to beg us, and yet he could bring down fire and brimstone upon us in a moment. He wishes us to give him our souls and bodies and in return promises us mercy. 'We cannot count all of God's mercies. Suppose you young people tried to put down all God's mercies, said the preacher. He has shown compassion in sparing our lives. He has given you health and strength. All children have not health. Can you think what a predicament you would be In If you had not health? He takes care of you every day, keeping your lungs breathing, etc. He never forgets you. We breathe sixty times a minute and there are sixty minutes in an hour. He is therefore watching over us 3,600 times each hour. Yet we forget him. Many of us forget to go to him in prayer when we get up or go to bed. He is faithful to us but we are faithless. The dog does not forget the hand that is kind; but we do. "But, if you don't want to thank him Tor his many blessings, don't you want to thank him for giving his only begotten Son to save you?" queried the speaker. "They struck that Son and spit upon him and crucified him, and he suffered all for you and me. Don't you feel sometimes like you want to do something? I am sure you do. Just give him your souls and bodie.. Sometimes, little children, you art sad and miserable when other little children treat you bad and don't want to play with you. _But. donlt, .worry about that. Remember God wants you, not only your souls but your body also. He wants your body pure and unsullied. You can do many things for him with your body. You can attend church and prayer meetings and otherwise work for him. So many people think he wants only souls. He wants bodies because they are useful. Of course souls are useful, too, but we know little about souls. i Little folks, continued Dr. Black, sometimes say, "I will give my soul and body to God some day." Some day will be too late. Isn't it a shame to keep our bodies until thoy are worn out and then give them to him? He says the only sacrifice which is acceptable to him is a living sacrifice. Do you ask why It is reasonable that God wants your bodies aB a Hvinrr onnrlfipft Intprm^ntprt fhp nnenlfpr It is so because God asks it, because we can make such sacrifice and because he has done' so much for us. God loves us so much that he would melt us down to love if our hearts were not as hard and cold as steel. The preacher concluded his sermon with an appeal to old and young to accept Jesus and consecrate themselves to him before God might compel such consecration by punishment. ' He may take away father or mother or dear brother or sister as a punishment for our hard heartedness," he said. In this connection he told the story of an engineer who had a sweet Christian wife and a dear little golden-haired, blue-eyed daughter. The wife often plead with her husband to accept Christ, but he had turned a deaf ear to her entreaties. The husband was wrapped up in his family and each morning as he started on his run his little daughter would follow him to tne gate and wave him good bye and in the evening again be awaiting his return. One morning the little girl was sick and couldn't see him off as usual. When he came home in the evening she was not swinging on the gate and as he approached his door he saw a piece of crepe hanging there. The child of his heart was dead. Going in he gazed upon his daughter's dead face and his wife told him the child's last words were: "Tell daddy I got so tired 1 couldn't wait at the gate for him but I will wait at the gate of heaven." It was then he realized his urtfaithfulness to God and straightway became a consecrated man. Is that what you. my friends, are waiting for? asked the evangelist. Some dear heart to be taken away in punishment. It may come if you continue to refuse him. Therefore now is the time to present your souls and bodies to him as a living sacrifice. Profit and Loss. That it is impossible for any person to gain the whole world or a very large part of it and that even if it could be done, it would be useless because the only thing worth having?the soulwould be lost forever, was the theme of Dr. Black's sermon Tuesday evening, his argument being based on the 'exl as found in Mark 8:36-37: "Foi what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world, and f<?rfeit his life. For what should a man give in exchange I. expect, said Dr. Black, that every man has considered the question of profit and loss. God has presented us a serious problem. In college it is necessary for us to get the right answer to a number of questions in order to pass into the next class. If you and I don't get the right answer to God's question, our souls are lost. Many men and women are lost because they are seeking afler the treasures of this world without regard to their soul. The devil has other avenues, but that is the principal one. Heaven Is a place where God has exhausted himself making a home for us. Suppose heaven wasn't beautiful, but merely a place where one could live always. Wouldn't it pay to give our souls to God on his promise of eternal life? It Is hard to tell the value of a soul. God tells us it is worth more than the whole world. He means any soul. Tou can see what our souls arc worth to him when you know that he gave his most precious possession, his only Son. to save each of us. We haven't but one soul. If our horse dies, oui house burns down or other property 's lost we can restore It: but if our soul is lost we can't Ret another. Who can think of what eternity means? It Is forever. These bodily appetites of ours that are carrying us down to ruin won't last forever. Many men and women think only of appetites, our animal instincts. They are only temporary pleasures and yet they will cause us to lose our souls which live forever. It Is dangerous to experiment In this thing of salvation, said the evangelist. You can experiment with crops, modes of dress, etc.. but to experiment with our souls Is foolish. A great many people are lost and don't know It, many others are lost and think they are not. How do we lose our souls? By neglecting those souls. The people of Yorkville are a good people morally: but there are doubtless many unsaved here, continued Mr. Black. There are many of you who, though you may not be drunkards, or robbers or perpetrators of other such ofTenses. and therefore think you are above reproach, are lost because you are neglecting your duty to your fellow man. to your church and to your God. A soul may be lost by remaining under condemnation which is a conditional Judgment. We can be pardoned from the sin by which we are condemned from birth only through tlje acceptance of Jesus Christ. He is willing to pardon, anxious to do so. Yet we are unwilling to accept that pardon and therefore unwilling: to save our souls which Is greater than the world. In Illustration of the unwillingness of men and women to receive salvatloil Mr. Black said: "Suppose a man who was to be hung, would trample a pardon from the governor received at the last moment, beneath his feet. What would you think of that man? And yet that is a poor Illustration of what we are doing. It cost the 1'fe of Jesus Christ to give us a pardon and yet many continually refuse to receive It." We can lose our souls by being ashamed of Jesus, the evangelist told his hearers. Some of us say we believe In him and yet we refuse to confess him publicly. The man or woman who Is ashamed to confess him Is as truly lost as If they had committed murder. None of you men and women are going to hell for the things you will get In the next world, but In this?a bottle of liquor, lust, card playing, fine clothes and other sinful pleasures. You are blindfolded by the devil. Just before a criminal Is executed, sa'd the speaker, a black cap is placed over his head, and he is blindfolded. Then the sheriff springs the trap and the criminal swings Into eternity. "I k/vn. moMt. rv# ... o ni/uucr uuw iiicviiy ui uo aic uiuiuiuiu" ed by the devil and are waiting for the sheriff." If we don't accept him. concluded the speaker, God will pour out his wrath without mixture. On the last day all will be resurrected. Tho^e who have not accepted will , be resurrected and cast Into hell. God says hell is the lake that burneth forever. God put a man named Mr. Dives in hell and he didn't burn up. God says it is fire. If it is not Are and brimstone, it is something worse. If we lose our souls we have lost heaven and earth and Jesus and are gone down, down, down. There is no profit in the loss of the soul. To Be a Christian. "We can't be apostles of Jesus Christ," said Dr. Black Wednesday morning, "because the only apostles are those who have seen him." But we can be Christians and saints by believing on him. Disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. In the eleventh chapter of the book of Acts there are a number of word pictures of a Christian. A true follower of Christ Is like a soldier, an athlete, a husbandman, a servant and a vessel. He is like a soldier in that he Is called to fight the world, the flesh and the devil and return a victory for the Lord. The first steps In becoming a soldier is enlisting and enrolling. The first step in becoming a soldier of Christ is to enroll your name in some church and then begin service. "I don't see how any one can be a Christian and not a member of a church," said Dr. Black. "I do not say there are people who are not church members who won't go to heaven; but on the other hand I won't say there are people who are not connected with a church who will go to heaven. Characteristics of a soldier are bravery and endurance, the minister related. Cowardice cannot be in a good soldier. Many of us are not good Christian soldiers. We are afraid to acknowledge the Master in public, afraid to take the front seats at service, afraid to lead in his work, afraid to ask a blessing of him when we sit down to meals, afraid to pray in public and to go to church. We are not willing to. endure mucn, out we want a bed of roses. A soldier is always ready and is always at his post, continued the evangelist. There are many in this community who say they intend to aecepi him some day, but are not ready now. There are soldiers of Jesus who are not always at their posts, but love to take furloughs. A good soldier never hesitates. Yet we Christian soldiers often do. The Christian, said the speaker, is like the athlete in that he is running a race for a crown. The reward for victory is a crown of life and not a mere chaplet of roses. Many of us think we are good husbandmen of God's, said the minister. A good husbandman, when he plants a crop, expects to gather the harvests. There are many of us who have worked in God's vineyards and who have not saved a single soul for Jesus. We will have to answer for that at the judgment bar. A good servant is one who is careful in the doing of little things, the speaker explained. We Christian servants are often unwilling to do little things for God. For instance, some mothers think it unnecessary to teach their children to say, "Now I lay me down to sleep," when they are put to bed. They think it unnecessary to ask some unsaved one to come to church. These little things are links of a great chain which we must forge for God, if we would receive life. We should not try ' to do as little as we can for the Master, but as much as we can. The best servant In the world is mother, and It is so because of her love for h^r children. Suppose in a home (here are six persons and five pieces of cake. Each child gets a piece of cake and yet one person goes without. That person is mother. She, too, likes cake, but has sacrificed her desire out of love to the little ones. Jesus is like mother, only more -loving and thoughtful. He gave his life for us. Christians are like unto a vessel. There are thousands of men and women and children dying for lack of the water of life. God wants us to be the vessels to convey that water of life to them. Suppose, my friends, concluded Dr. Black, you decide to say, "Take me, Lord." God would first have to empty you of your hatred and malice, then he would cleanse you and then he would fill you with his spirit and love. He is willing to do it if you will consent. The service was concluded with a duet by Prof. Burr and Dr. Black, "When You Have Found the Saviour, Go Tell Others." PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Events and Happenings Throughout 8outh Carolina. Chief Detective James Hogan of the Charleston police force, has been retired after 35 years of active service. William .P. Stevenson, a prominent farmer of Anderson county, lost 37 bales of cotton by fire Monday afternoon. Pete Hamilton, a negro, Is In the penitentiary for safe keeping, charged with criminal assault upon a white woman, In Pickens county, Sunday. The 130th annual session of the South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, Is now In session in Charleston. Dr. V. M. Roberts of Blacksburg, suffered a compound fracture of his leg Tuesday afternoon when his automobile was overturned near Union. The Woodstock Hardwood and Spool Manufacturing company's plant in Charleston, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The property damage will total about $40,000, with riO'inSOT&nce. Governor Manning has commissioned W. C. Cathcart, former chief of police of Columbia, as a special constable, to act for the Southern railway in Columbia. Robbers broke into the dispensary at Elloree. Orangeburg county, Sunday night and later set the building on Are. The blaze was extinguished before serious damage was done. Governor Manning has ordered an election to be held Jn Spartanburg on i December 7, on the question of whether or not Mayor John F. Floyd of Spartanburg, and tjvo councilmen of that city should be recalled. Lieutenant Qovernor Andrew J. Bethea has accepted the Invitation of Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, to represent South Carolina on Ford's proposed peace mission to Europe. The Brogon cotton mills of Anderson, resumed operations on Monday after remaining Idle for eleven weeks, due to a strike among the help. About 575 operatives are again employed at the mill. Fifty persons were arrested in Anderson this week on the charge of selling liquor. A number of them have plead guilty. The cases were worked up by detectives of a national detective agency who were brought to Anderson by the mayor of that city. George Ham and Charley McElveen, the two policemen of Olanta, Florence county, who were arrested Saturday night on the charge of killing Sam Lee and mortally wounding his son, Olin Lee, during a hand-to-hand encounter on Saturday afternoon, have been released on bonds of $1,500 each. "National preparedness Is a question which demands the earnest support of all Americans and rises above party lines or personal differences," said Governor Manning Tuesday night, replying to a telegram from the New York World, "Is national preparedness above party lines " was the question put to Governor Manning by the World. Deputy Sheriff A. G. Justus of the Judson mills of Greenville; J. A. Jackson of the cloth room; J. A. Parker, overseer of carding; Floyd Tidwell, overseer of spinning and Henry Jordon, J. A. Rollins and Wllmont Jackson, all employes of the mills, have been arrested on the charge of assault and battery with Intent to kill David Freeze, who was so seriously wounded in the riot between strikers and strike-breakers at the mills last Saturday. The men were released on Tuesday on bonds of $2,000 each. Next Year's Cotton Crop.?C. S. Webb, cotton merchant, and, incidentally, mayor of Greenville, in a newspaper interview urges southern farmers to persevere in the policy of last year in reducing the cotton acreage. He points out that if the war should end the demand for cotton used in the manufacture of tents, uniforms, explosives, bandages and sundry other appliances of warfare will cease and that the Europeans who consume 65 per cent of the southern crop, will be too poor to buy cloth and yarn except to satisry tneir necessities. mere is scarcely a man or a woman who, under the stress of poverty, can not cut down his consumption of cloth by half without suffering actual discomfort. Mr. Webb's opinion is manifestly sound. The reasons to reduce cotton production are even greater now than they were a year ago. Had the war ended at the beginning of 1915 the reduction in consuming power of 400,000,000 people would have been comparatively~slight. The danger that southern planters will throw away the advantage that they have gained in 1915 by overdoing the cotton business next year is very real.?The Columbia State. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaira of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Cheater. Gastonia Gazette, Nov. 30: Gaston county was doubly honored by the North Carolina Teachers' assembly ln^ I annual session at Raleigh last Thursday and Friday, in that two of her prominent school men. Supt. Joe S. Wray of Gastonia, and Prof. J. B. Henson of Dallas, were among the officers chosen for the ensuing year. Prof. Wray was elected president of the association of City Superintendents and Prof. Henson vice president i of the association of High School i Principals and Teachers Misses Erroli Henderson and Connie Lomax left last night for New York where they will do postgraduate work in the Polyclinic hospital. They are both graduates of the city hospital school for nurses Dr. L. N. Patrick re- ( turned this morning from Baltimore , to which place he went last week to take Mrs. W. R. Harrison of Lowell , route one, for an operation On , Wednesday afternoon of last week, at 3 o'clock, Mr. R. F. Campbell and Miss Edna Wallace were united in marriage at the home of the bride in West Gastonia. Rev. F. W. Bradley ' was the officiating minister... .At the 1 parsonage of Bast Baptist church, Sunday evening at 8.30 o'clock, Miss 1 Edna Rhyne and Mr. Jay Arthurs were 1 married in the presence of a few intimate friends, the ceremony being performed by Rev. J. J. Beach I Dr. T. C. Qulckel left on No. 38 Sun- 1 day night for Baltimore, to take little ] Beulah Hoyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hoyla to Johns Hopkins , hospital. Mrs. Hoyle accompanied , them. The little girl has a serious throat trouble which has rendered ( It necessary for more than two montns to keep a tube In her throat. ... Rock Hill Herald, Nov. 30: On or about December 15, there will be . turned loose in the city of Rock Hill between $15,000 and $20,000, a goodly sum of which will be spent In buying Christmas merchandise, gifts, etc. The 1 spending of this money will cause < business to hum along all lines. The sum referred to is to be paid out to the members of the Christmas Sav- i lngs club of the Peoples' National I bank and represents the deposits of 1 the 1,330 club members. Next Saturday night the club year will close and i all members who have made regular payments to this date will receive 4 per cent Interest on their deposits to cover the club duea This In itself Mil amount to several hundreds of ( dollars Sunday morning at 10 ( o'clock at the Baptist parsonage, Rev. W. J. Nelson united In mariage Ed- . ward D. Catoe and Miss Mollle Parish, both of the Manchester village...... The only" Rock Hill pastor to leave as a result of the conference appointments yesterday Is Rev. D. H. Aattaway, who has served the North Rock Hill circuit, Including the Manchester church. Rev. Mr. Attaway goes to the 1 Brookland church, Columbia, as supply paoii/i iui a. uu tt ai u a.- c n vi* o friends will regret to know that she is 1 /julte sick at the Fennell Infirmary. ' An operation will probably be perform- ( ed today. i Lancaster News, Nov 30: Mr. Vem- | on Proctor, who for the past two years , or more has held the responsible posi- ] tion of assistant agent and operator j at the Southern railway station, left , Sunday for Branchville to accept j another position with the Southern, the change being made In the nature , of a promotion. Mr. Proctor's Lancaster friends regret that this change ( takes him from this place, but they wish him continued success. Mr. ] Proctor Is succeeded by Mr. Curry of Forest City, N. C. An Interesting , gathering of friends and relatives ' filled the home of Mr. J. F. Bell on Thursday, Nov. 25, to witness the 1 marriage of Miss Irene Bell to Mr. 1 T. P. McKeown Mr. Otis Dees of Fork Hill, and Miss Millie Sims were married Sunday morning at the home of Rev. P. E. Blackmon at Longsvllle. ' On Thanksgiving night, the 1 25th, Mr. C. W. Estrldge and Miss Nannie Lee Delaney were happily 1 married by Magistrate W. J. Crenshaw, at his residence Sunday evening . at 6 o'clock, Mr. L. P. Small and Miss i Connie Eva Rowell were united In . marriage at the home of Rev. P. E. 1 Blackmon Wednesday evening at i 0 n'nln/ik the hnme nf \f rs M P Gardner was the scene of a beautiful wedding1, when her daughter, Miss Beulah, became the bride of Mr. Er- j nest Knight, son of Mr. J. W. Knight. | Chester Reporter, Nov. 29: Mr. J. . T. Collins, who filed a voluntary pe- , tition in bankruptcy last week through his attorney. Mr. S. E. McF&dden, has assets amounting to S54.685.17. while liabilities amount to S49.491.90. Mr. Collins had been endeavoring with the help of fall and winter business to effect a satisfactory settlement 1 with creditors and was making pro- 1 Tress towards this end. when the seI curing of a number of Judgments at the recent term of court, to be served last week and which would have been preferred claims and not have allowed him to settle with all creditors upon ' the same basis, led him to file the pe- 1 Mtion above alluded to. Mr. Collins is one of Chester's best citizens, and , friends hope to see him emerge from ( his business troubles and re-establ'sh , himself more firmly than before the terrible business depression came on. Cotton ginned in this county up t? Mnv 1?t wan .175 hales as com pared with 25,832 bales up to the same time last year, according to the figures compiled for the government by Mr. W. F. Marion Rev. C. B. Betts of Troy, who has been spending several months at Saranack Lake in the interest of his health, arrived here last week and is spending a few days i with his father. Mr. C. B. Betts. The many friends of Rev. Mr. Betts will be glad to know that he is greatly improved. Gaffney Ledger, Nov. 30: Plans for the new cotton mill at Blacksburg 1 have been received and have been I placed in the hands of contractors. 1 Just as soon as they can render their bids, Dr. Hamrick says he will immediately award the contract to the successful bidder and that he hopes to receive the bids within the next week or ten days. Work will be pushed as rapidly as possible after the contract is awarded Miss Edna Darvina Green of Cherokee route three, and Mr. S. C. Painter of route seven, were married by Judge W. D. Kirby Sunday Miss Clara Virginia Hicks of Lattlmore, N. C., and Mr. Irving Richards of route three, were married Sun uay, me ceremony oeing penormea ay Judge Klrby Miss Macie McCraw and Mr. Bedford P. McCraw, both of route two. were married Sunday by Judge Kirby Vernon Oaffney, a young negro man, was shot in the forehead on Thanksgiving day while out hunting with a companion. His right eye was put out by the shot, but otherwise he was not seriously injured. The Bhootlng is said to have been accidental. GENERAL NEWS N0TE8 Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Banks of the large cities of the north are complaining of an unprecedented scarcity of one dollar bills. A Reading, Pa., man called in his attempt to commit suicide Monday, although he used a razor, poison a bullet and gas. Orvllle A. Derby, an American, in the employ of the Brazilian government since 1875 as a geologist, committed suicide at Rio Janerio, Saturday. President Wilson entertained more than 50 of his Princeton classmates of the class of '79, at the White House Tuesday night. Large quantities of toys are arriving in the United States from Japan. This trade was formerly largely supplied by Germany. Thomas Miller, a Philadelphia club steward, committed suicide Sunday morning. He is the third of three brothers to commit suicide within eighteen months A radium hospital for the treatment nf ranrpr rnvtlAnt* rirh nnrl nnnr wan opened in New York Monday. The institution is the first of its kind in the United States. Rev. Frederick Krleger, formely of New Briton, Conn., for many years a missionary in East Africa, is in a British prison camp in India, charged with being a German spy. Three persons were killed and three seriously, injured on a grade crossing at Tarentum, Pa., Sunday night. The train struck a Jitney bus, which was doing business because of a strike Btopplng the electric car system. Serious rioting continues at WilkesBarre, Pa., in connection with the street railway strike at that place. Personal violence has been threatened against the families of officials cf the railways. An American prelate stationed at Rome, estimates that nearly 1,000,000 Armenians have been slaughtered since the present slaughter began several months ago. He says that of 14,000 who once lived in a single city, only 100 are left. Federal authorities are* investigat Ing an anonymous threat to destroy waterfront property at Seattle, Wash., that is being used for loading supplies for the Allies. Pier No. 14, was destroyed by a mysterious Are on October 28. An unconfirmed dispatch from Amsterdam, says that information has been received there to the effect that several thousand women gathered before the imperial palace at Berlin on Saturday, demanding the return of their husbands from the front and better food conditions. Congressman Howard of Georgia, will propose to congress that in order to maintain a large standing and reserve army in the United States that an army post be established in each state, with enlistments of six years? two years with the colors and four years in the reserve. Mr. and Mrs. Edward L?. Dramond and two other persons have been placed under bonds of 810,000 each, charged with manslaughter, by a New York coroner's Jury. Dramond and his wife were owners of a building recently deatroyed by fire, in which a dozen ur more young women lost their lives. Joseph Campbell, a negro convict, was found guilty of murdering Mrs. Maizie Allen, the warden's wife, at Jollet, III., Monday. The negro was i trusty and murdered Mrs. Allen In June last. Allen resigned as warden because he refused to live In the prison apartments, as required by law, following the murder of his wife. Several railroads running into New fork, Philadelphia and Baltimore have found it necessary to place an embargo on freight shipments from western points destined for export through these cities, on account of the freight congestion due to lack of ships to carry the immense quantities of freight abroad. The four-masted schooner Judge Boyce arrived at Philadelphia on Monday from Opobo, Africa, bringing a cargo of palm oil in cakes, the first shipment of palm oil ever landed In the United States direct from Africa., rhe mate of the Judge Boyce presented an African chieftain with a silk umbrella and the chief insisted on presenting to the mate eight dark African belles. The mate declined the gift with many thanks. Mother Shipton's Prophesy, Written 1445.?"Carriages without horses shall trrt Ov> And accidents fill the world with woe, Around the world thoughts shall fly. In the twinkling thoughts shall fly, Waters shall yet more wonders do, Now stranger, yet shall be true; The world upside down shall be And gold'be found at root of tree. Through hills man shall ride And no horse nor ass be at his side: Under water man shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. In the air men shall be seen In white, in black, in green; Iron in the water shall float As easily as a wooden boat, Gold shall be found mid stone In a land that's now unknown; Fire and water shall wonders do, England shall at last admit a Jew, And the world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one." William Kinsler of Ohio, who was committed to the state asylum for the insane from Anderson some time ago, has escaped from the institution.