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A Stirring Story of the Mexican Revolution 1 10 (Copyright 1914. t SYNOPSIS. Bud Hooker and Phil De Lancey are forced, owing to a revolution In Mexico, to give up their mining claim and return to the United States. In the border town of Gadsdeb Bud meets Henry Kruger, a wealthy miner, who makes him a proposi tion to revurn to Mexico to acquire title to a very rich mine which Kruger had blown up when he found he had been cheated out of the title by one Aragon. The Mexican subsequently had spent a large sum of money in an unsuccessful attempt to relocate the vein and then al lowed the land to revert for taxes. Hook er and De Lancey arrive at Fortuna, near where the Eagle Tall mine is located. They engage Cruz Mendez to acquire the title for them and begin preliminary work. Aragon accuses them of jumping his claim. Hooker discovers that matrimon ial entanglements prevent Mendez from acquiring a valid title. Phil, who has been pnylng attention to Gracia Aragon, decide* to turn Mexican and acquire the title. Aragon fails in his attempt to drive them off the claim. Rebels are reported In the vicinity. A rich vein of gold is struck and work on the mine is stopped until the title can be perfected. Phil is arrested by Manuel del Rey, captain of the rurales and suitor of Gracla's. He is released on promise to stay away from Gracia. CHAPTER XVI?Continued. "I wonder where that dogged In dian went to," he said for the hun dredth time, as the deep shadows gathered in the valley. "By Joe, Phil, if Amigo comes back I'm going to go ahead on that mine. I want to keep ^ him around here, and we might as well get out some ore, if it's only for a grub-stake. Come on?what do you say?' We'll open her up?there's noth ing to hide now. Well, I'll do it my self, then?tliis setting around is get ting on my nerves." His far-seeing eyes, trained from his boyhood to search the hills for cattle, scanned the tope of the ridges as he spoke; and while he sat and pondered they notod every rock! Then at last he rose up slowly and gazed at a certain spot He waved ills arm. beckoning the distant point of blackness to come in, and soon from around a point in the canyon the Yaqui appeared, bearing a heavy Mau ser rifle on his arm. Across his broad breast hung the same familiar cartridge-belt, two more encircled his hips, and he walked with his head held high, like the war rior that he was. Evidently his flight had led to the place where his arms had been hid, for he wore the regulation knife-bayonet at his hip and around his hat was the red ribbon of his people, but Bud was too polite to ask him about his jour ney. Since his coming the Yaqui had always maintained a certain mystery, and now, though his eyes were big with portent and he smiled at the Jests about his gun, he simply waved his hand to the south and east and mur mured : "Muchos revoltosos!" "Seguro," answered Bud Jokingly; "but have you killed any?" "Not yet!" returned the Indian, and he did not smile at that. "I wonder what that Indian Is wait ing around here for?" remarked Phil In Enelish. "He must have his eye on somebody." "Yeah, I bet," agreed Bud, regard ing his savage friend with a specula tive interest. "Most of them Yaqui soldiers was farmhands in this coun try lefore they rounded them up. I reckon he's looking for the man that had him deported. "Tired, Amigo?" he inquired in Spanish, and Ignacio gravely acknowl edged that he was, a little. '^Then drink plenty coffee," went on Hook^j. "Eat lots?tomorrow we go to work^n the mine." "Tomorrow?" repeated the Indian, as if considering^ his other engage ments; "good!" Ife*nodded a smiling assent. After a month and more of Idleness Bud and Amigo performed prodigies of labor in the cut, rolling down boulders, lifting them up on the tram, ^ and clearing away the face of the cliff. Their tram was ramshackle, their track the abandoned rails from older workings, and their tools little more than their hands, but by noon the last broken fragments were heaved aside and the shattered ledge revealed. A low cry of- wonder escaped the Yaqui as he^gazed at the rich vein of ore, and as* he saw the grim smile on Bud's rugged countenance he showed hia Jrhito tooth in ovmnothv ? v** *** W J . S "Que bueno!" he murmured. "How good!" gathering the precious frag ments in his handkerchief. At the camp they crushed the picked ore in a mortar and panned it in the creek, and for ihe moment De Lancey dropped his air of preoccu pancy as he stared at the streak of pure gold. Like a yellow film it lay along the edge of the last fine tailings, and when skilful washing had left it bare, it gleamed like a Jewel in the pan. "By Jove, Bud!" he cried, "that's the real stuff?and it goes a dollar to the pan easy!" "Sure thing!" assented Bud. "Let's pound a lot of it and wash it as we go ?then we'll have some getaway money when things break loose here!" "I'll go you!" answered Phil, and Bud's heart warmed toward him as he watched him pound up a piece or ore and go to swirling the dirt in the pan. But alas for the fond hopes he cher ished! Even as he washed out the gold Phil's mind wandered far away, back to the hotel where Gracia Ara gon sat watch'.ng by the window. Her hair was the color of gold, spun fine and refined again; yes, it was worth more than this golden dross that he caught in the bottom of his pan. And what was gold if he could not have her? He paused in his labor and a dreamy smile parted his lips?then he broke Into a song:'. Sweet honey bee, be sweot to me. My heart Is lVee, but here's the key; Lock up the', garden gate; honey, yoa know 1*11^ wait, Und?r th? ranabJar rose tree-ee --J oken Promises j By DANE COOLIDGE Author of ? "The Fighting Fool" "Hidden Watera" "The Texican, " Etc. Illustrations by Don J. Lavin __j I if Prank A. Muojey) Once more be returned to his work, humming now the dulcet strains of "The| Merry Widow," and when Bud came back from the cut it was to tear a coon song: 'Cos I want yer, me honey, yes, I want yer, want yer; 'Cos I want yer, ma honey, yes I do! So he labored and sang, until finally the labor ceased, and then the song. He jvent about other things, and other thoughts, not so cheerful, filled his mind. r Bud returned sadly to the company of the Yaqui and gave it up. Perhaps his pardner had been right when, rid ing out of Agua Negra, he had en larged upon the dangers of Old Mex ico, "the land of manana and broken promises." Certainly hie speech had been prophetic in regard to dark-eyed women; for, even as he had said, nothing seemed to please them better than to come between man and man. It was a madness, he felt sure?the spell of the hot country, where the women look out from behind barred windows and men sing beneath their balconies at midnight. Already it had cost him his pardner?would It con quer his will as well and make him forget his trust? In his impotence the idea of some perverse fate?some malign influence over which he had no control?was strong with Hooker; yet when the blow fell he was not prepared for it It was the third day of their mining and, with Amigo, he had been driving Into the face of the cliff. Already their round of holes was drilled, the fuses cut, the charges set, and as he retreated before the blast he noticed absently that Cruz Mendez was in camp. The shots followed, one after another, and he counted them to make sure there was no miss-flre? then he looked around and discovered that i^nn was gone. "Where is Don Felipe?" he inquired of Mendez, and that low-browed broth er of the burro bowed fawningly be fore he replied. "He has gone to Fortuna," he said, wiping his face with a bath towel which he wore about his neck. "And what for?" demanded Bud im peratively, "I don't know, senor," writhed Men dez. "I brought him a letter." "From whom?" "I don't know. It was given to me by Juana, the servant of the Senorita Aragon." "Ah!" breathed Bud, and pretended not to be surprised. "Well, let 'im go!" he said to hlm 1? - _ J * 1 1- + mlnn Tf sell, ailU ncub uata mw tuo l?.i?u?t **. Thrust His Rifle Into Its Sling and - '*?. Started for Town. was what he had expected, In a way, nrrt Ma rnrift harie him keen hia hands off. But the next morning, when the evil was either avoided or done, he thrust his rifle into its sling and start ed for the town. At the jail he halted and gazed in through the windows? then he rode up to the hotel and asked for Phil. "What? Have you not heard?" clamored Don Juan. "Ah, it is most unfortunate?I would not have had it happen for the world!" "What?" inquired Bud succinctly. "Why, the quarrel?the encounter with Capitan del Rey! I did my best, 1 assure you, to prevent It, for the town has been put under martial law and the captain is in full charge. They quarreled over the favor of a lady, and now your friend le in jail." "I didn't see him when I come by," observed Hooker. "Ah, no?not in the carcel?In the cuartel, the guardhouse of the rurales!" "Much obliged!" nodded Bud, and rode on through the town. The street of the Mexican quarter was filled with strange people hurrying to and fro; long packtrains loaded with trunks and curious bundles came swinging up from below; and a pair of rurales, looking fierce under their huge sombreros stood guard by the I cuartel door. "Where is the captain?" demanded Hooked. After requesting him to hang his pistol-belt on his saddle-horn, a sergeant Bhowed him in to the chief. Manuel del Rey was very busy with papers and orders, but as the Ameri can appeared in the doorway he rose ana greeted Mm witn a dow. "Ah, good morning, senor," he said, with one swift glance to read his mood. , "You are In search of your friend? no?" "Si, senor," answered Hooker, but with none of the animosity which the captain had expected. "Where is he?" "I regret very much." began the of i fleer, speaking with military tormality, f i "but it is my duty to inform you that J ' the Senor De Lancey has left Fortuna. ! Last night he did me the lienor to en list in my company of rurales?he is now on his way to the north to assist in guarding the railroad." "What?" shouted Bud, hardly able to believe his ears. But when the cap tain repeated it he no longer doubted his Spanish. "But why?" he cried; "why did he join the rurales?" "Ah, senor," shrugged Del Rey, "was he not a Mexican citizen? Very well, then; he could be summoned for mili tary service. But the circumatancea were these. Your friend came yester day to this town, where I am at pres ent military commander, and made an unprovoked assault upon my person. For this, according to law, he should have been shot at sunrise. But, not wishing to occasion unpleasantness with the Americans now residing here, I offered him the alternative of mili tary service. He is now enlisted as a rural for a term of Ave years." A "Five years!" exclaimed Hooker; and then, instead of starting the ex pected rough-houee?upon which the rural guards were prepared to jump on his back?he simply threw down his hat and cursed. Not anyone in par ticular, but everything in general; and at the end of it he turned once more upon the watchful captain. "Dispenseme, senor," lie said, "thle is the truth, Is it?" "SI, senor," returned Captain del Rey. "But before leaving with his de tachment your friend wrote this letter, which he requested me to deliver to you." He offered with a flourish a sealed envelope, from which Bud extracted a short note. Dear Bud: When you get this I shall be far away. I must have been mad. but it is too late now. Rather than be executed I have enlisted aa a rural. But I shall try to be brave for her sake. Take care of her, Bud-J-for me! PHIL. Bud read it through again and medi tated ponderously. Then he folded it up and thrust it in his pocket. "Muchas gracias, senor capitan," he ooiri cnlntlne' and turning upon his heel; and while all the Mexicans mar veled at the inscrutable ways of Amer icanos, he mounted and rode away. CHAPTER XVII. , There was a world of Mexicans In the plaza when Hooker rode down through the town. Never, it seemed to him, had he seen so many or liked them less. To the handful of Americans who remained to man the mill and mine, they were easily a hundred to one; and though their eyes were wide with fear of the imminent rebels, they had an evil way of staring at him which he did not relish. Even at the hotel, where the Span ish-Mexican aristocracy was massed ten deep, he sensed the same feeling of veiled hostility and wondered vague ? - -I-* It Dhllln r?o iy wnui il JLL115i-i u pui bcuu. a& * uuiy i/U Lancey, for making love to a girl, was drafted Into the army, what would happen to him if theBe people should ever break loose? And did they have the courage to do their worst? He lingered around tile door for a while, hoping to meet Don Juan or some American who would tell him the news; then, disgusted with every thing, he flung away and left them to themselves. Fortuna was not a white man's country?he could see that with out a diagram?but at the same time he intended to hold his mine until he could hear from Phil. Let the tides of insurrection come and go, let the red-flaggerB take the town and the federals take it back again?at the end he would still be found at the Eagle Tal\ unless Phil received his title to the tnine. As for Aragon, whose fine Italian hand he perceived behind the sudden taking off of Phil, let him make what trades lie would wun uie ruraies ana Manuel del Rey, even to the giving of his daughter's hand; but If, taking ad vantage of the unsettled times, he dared to try to steal their mine, then there would be war to the knife. It is a fine, comforting thing to be single-minded and of one purpose. All the rest of life is simplified and or dered then, and a man knows when to raise his hand and when to hold it back. In his letter Phil had said nothing about their mine, but he was a Mexi can citizen still, and the mine was in his name. Bud was his pardner and free to hold it in his stead; and that he determined to do?not only hold it, but work it for a stake. Then, when the tide was passed and all made cer tain, they could turn it over to Kruger and quit the accursed country. As for the girl, Bud decided that she could take care of herself without any assistance from him, and dis missed her from his mind. % Back at the mine he found Amigo guarding camp from the hilltop, and after telling him the gist of his trou bles, the two of them went to work. Every day, while one of them dug out the ore, the other crushed and washed ( it and watched as he horned out the gold. Their rifles they kept beside them and pistols in their belts; and every time a Mexican dropped into camp, as one did now and then In the general unrest, he felt the silent men ace of arms in readiness and continued on hia way. For a week they labored on together, grim, watchful, expectant?then, at the break of day, they heard a distant rattle of arms, like the tearing of a cloth, and knew that the battle was on. The great whistle at Fortuna opened with Its full, bass roar, and Amigo snatched up his gun and went loping down the canyon, drawn irresistibly by the sound of conflict. Bud lingered, climbing higher and higher to get a view of the country. But his young blood clamored for action too, and soon he was mounted and gone. The fighting was not at the Ameri can town, but down the valley by Old Fortuna, and as Hooker galloped on toward the sound of the firing he no ticed that it was on the move. Al ready the cowardly rebels were re treating?the volunteers from Fortuna were hurrying to get cloeor to them, the rurales were riding to flank them; and when Bud jumped his horse up the last hill and looked down into the broad, cultivated valley he saw the dust of their flicht : vfesl : r--" Down the fenced trail that led to the lower country the mounted insurrectoa were spurring In a rout; across the newly plowed field, of Aragon the men on toot were making a short cut for the hills; and all about them, like leaping grasshoppers, sprang up puffs of dust. Now they plunged into the willow brush along the river, where it swung In against the ridge; and as their pur suers broke into the open they halted and returned the fire. The bullets struck up the dust like hailstones in front of the oncoming irregulars, a man or two in the lead went down, and they faltered. Then, as frantically as the rebels, they turned and ran for cover. While defenders and invadera shot back and forth across the broad field, Bud put spurs to his horse and rode Closer, auu wiieu ue cam? uui uu au other hilltop he was Just In time to see the rurales come pelting in from the west and take the revoltosos on the flank. There was a great deal of long distance firing then, while the rebels slowly retreated, and finally, with a last defiant volley, the defenders turned back from their pursuit and marched triumphantly to Old Fortuna. There, amid- numerous vivas, Don Ciprlano rolled out a cask of mescal and, after a fiery speech, Invited the victors to help themselves. So they fell to drinking and carousing, and the one defender who had been wounded was bandaged and made much of, while a great crowd from the upper town looked on in awe and admiration. At last Manuel del Rey and his rurales returned from harassing the enemy and with several wounded pris oners in their mHst, the valor-drunk Mexicans formed a riotous procession and went marching hack to town. Every boree and mule was carrying double, guns were being dropped, broad hats knocked ofT, and ever, as they marched, they shouted: "Viva Madero! Viva Mejico! Muerte a los revoltosos!" It was an edifiying spectacle to an American, and with the rest Bud tagged along to the plaza, where they had speeches and cheers galore and more mescal at the company's cantina. But in the midst of it, while he sat laughing on his horse by the hotel, Bud felt a gravel strike hie broad hat from above and, looking iurtiveiy up, be bebeld Gracia Aragon smiling down at him from the balcony. She beckoned him with a swift movement and gazed out over the as semblage again, and after a few mo ments of deliberation Hooker tied his horse and wandered into the hotel. A tingle of excitement went over him as he tramped up to the ladies' parlor, for he had never met Gracia face to face. But he disguised his qualms by assuming a masklike grlm ness of countenance and, when the glorious Gracia glided out of her room to meet him, he only blinked and stood pat A long experience as a poker player was all that saved him from betrayal, for there' was something in her very presence which made bis heart leap and bound. But he only gazed at her somberly, without even so much as raising his hat. Back in Texas, in his social world, It wm onnniriArer! almost unmanly to thus salute the ladiee. So he stood there, his big sombrero pulled down over his mop of light hair, gazing at her without a blink. Perhaps it was not altogether as friendly a scrutiny of her charming features as Oracia expected, for he remembered what she had done to his pardner; but if she sensed such a rare thing as disapproval from a young man. ehe was too excited to show it Her lips trembled, and she looked back furtively, meahwhile drawing him Into an alcove by the sll^itest twitch of his sleeve. *' "Don't talk too loud," she whis pered. "My mother Is listening from the room?but for the love of God, tell me, where is Phil?" "I don't know," answered Bud, try ing to lower his big voice to a boudoir softness; "he Joined the rurales and was ordered north?that's all I know." "Yee, yes, to be sure; but haven't you heard from him?" She seemed to be all impatience to snatch his news and fly with it, but Bud was in no such hurry. And so far was he from being a carpet knight that be immediately raised his voice to its normal bass. It was all right for Phil and his kind to talk by Bigns and whispers, but that was not his style. "Not since he went away," he said. "He left me a little note, then, say ing?" ,ir?o UNL ur int uumuuo inmuo So Remarkable an Incident of Life That Comment Really Seemed to Be Useless. I "It's curious about things, isn't it?" said the man who had something on his mind and wanted to talk. : "Yes," replied the man addressed, but without interest. "It's curious how a fellow gets into a box and then out again." v'Yes." "You know the Widow Spicer, of course?' "Oh, yes." "I heard last month that she had come into $50,000. Sat right down and proposed marriage by letter and rushed the letter-off.'" "Well!" "Didn't hear from her in answer. Here's the letter. Forgot to stamp it, and it went to the dead letter office. Just got it back. Suppose it had reached the widow and she had ac cepted me?" "What do you mean?" "Why, a week ago I heard that she didn't have ten cents to her name. Curious, ain't it?" "Yes, but I can beat It. I married the Widow Spicer five days ago." "Gee whiz!" "And instead of having $50,000, she had $75,000." "Say?say!" exclaimed the other, as he threw up his hand3; but hi could get no farther. It was too cu rious. > * i 1 / ii.u :i "Saying what?" she demanded breathlessly. "Well, saying that he had enlisted to keep from being executed, and? that's about all!" "And not a word about me?" "Yes," admitted Bud; "he said he'd try to put up with It?on account of you?and?" "What?" she entreated, taking him beseechingly by the coat. "Well," stammered Hooker, shifting his feet and looking away, "he told me to kinder take care of you?while he wae gone." "Ah!" she breathed, still standing close to him, "and will you do It?" "I reckon so," said Bud, "If we have any trouble." "But I'm In trouble now!" she cried. "I'm watched?I can't get away?and I'm afraid!" "Afraid of what?" he demanded. "Of him!" she answered, her voice breaking; "of Manuel del Rey!" "Well," replied Hooker bluntly, "I've got nothing to do with that? I can't Interfere in your love' affairs?but If they's war and they try to take the town, you can "count on me." "Oh, thank you," she said, bowing satirically. "And do you expect a DM war: "Not with that bunch of hombres!" returned Bud, waving a disparaging hand toward the noise of the shouting. "But I'm In Trouble Nowl" She Cried. At this ehe broke down and laughed. Evidently she was not so fearful of discovery after all. "You forget, sir," she said, "that I am a Mexican!" Then, as he failed to show any signs of contrition, she changed her mood again. "But wait!" she ran. on, her eyes flashing. "Perhaps we are not so eager to defend our government when we have a new one every year. But If the men who are gathering In Chihuahua invade our country, you will find that ae Sonorans those men will fight to the death. "You laugh because you do not un derstand. But why should we So norans fight side by side with the federals and rurales? Are they not the soldiers of Diaz, who have simply nJinnoori tn nnnther master? That | VW ? ? Manuel del Hey was last year hunting down Maderistas In the hills; now he is fighting for Madero! And tomor row? Who can say?" She shrugged her shoulders scorn fully, and Hooker > perceived that she was in earnest in4her dislike of the dashing captain, but prudence warned him to say nothing if he would escape being drawn into the quarrel. "No!" she went on, after an expec tant pause, "let the rurales pursue these bandits?they are hired for that purpose! But if Orozco and Salazar Join this ladron, Bernardo Bravo, and seek to capture our towns, then, Senor Americano, you will see real war and men fighting to tne aeatm An, you laugh again?you are a Texan and judge us Sonorane by the cowardly Chihuahuans?but It la the truth. And I, for one," she added naively, "would be almost glad to have war. Do .you know why? To see if you would really defend me!" * She smiled, looking frankly Into his eyes, and Bud blushed to the roots ol his hair,, but once again he held his peace. (TO BE CONTINUED.) SETBACK FOR THE OPTIMIST According to Pessimist, He Had Failed Utterly to See Things in Their Proper LlghU "Look at this, will you?" exclaimed the cheerful real estate man. "In this paper there Is a record of eighty seven marriage licenses Issued yes terday." uca, wuai ul it; ooiu ma jj*** ? ner, the pessimist of the firm. "What of it?" echoed the other. "Can't you see? Those eighty-seven marriage licenses mean eighty-seven marriages. The eighty-seven mar riages will lead to eighty-seven in quiries for houses, flats, or at least eligible apartments. It's bound to stimulate business in our line and we'll get our share." "That doesn't follow at all. Those eighty-seven licenses represent 174 persons, don't they?" "Yes." "Probably all adults?" "Undoubtedly. What of it?" "Nothing," growled the pessimist; "except that 174 persons who have hitherto occupied 174 apartments will hereafter occupy eighty-seven, and that ain't helping our business any. You make me tired." In Luck. Small Brother (whoso sisters ara working for their girl guides' am bulance badge)?"Come cn, here's a bit of luck for you. I've made Rupert's nose bleed."?Punch. V i : DEVELOP HAYS 8Y BRIDGE SYSTEM f PR0P08E TAX ON AUTOMOBILE8 TO PROVIDE FUND FOR BRIDGES. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings anc Happenings That Mark the Progress of 8outh Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the 8tato Capitol. Polnmhl* The board of directors of the Co lumbia Chamber of Commerce, E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries, and Gadsden E. Shand, a Columbia engineer much Interested In road building, in con ference recently In the rooms of the chamber, discussed and indorsed the proposed plan for covering South Carolina with highways linked at the t important river crossings by perman ent bridges built, in place of inade quate bridge? and ferries, by the state by means of an annual tax of $5 on automobiles. It is proposed that eight bridges be built, one a year. Mr. Shand has pre pared a map giving the location of the proposed bridges and showing their advantages. The tax of $6 proposed by Commissioner Watson will be $4 more than the presenst county automo bile tax and will entitle the owner of the machine to a tag good for lnatra state travel. The tax will provide for the bridges and highway upkeep. / The locations of the proposed bridges as shown on the map prepared by Mr. Shand In co-operation with rvrnimlRstoner Watson, are as follows: Across thp Broad river between Union and Chester; across the Wateree be tween Chester and Lancaster; across the Wateree between Colombia and Sumter; across the Santee on a pro posed highway from Manning to the old state road; across the Great Pee Dee between Florence and Marion; across the Little Pee Dee between Conway and Georgetown; across the Santee between Georgetown and Char leston, and across the Edisto between Charleston and Yemaseee. New high ways are proposed between Union, Chester, Lancaster and Chesterfield, between Dillon and Marion, between Florence, Sumter end Columbia, be pi >? a Qnri Monnlnr. hobween Manning and the old state road, be tween Manning, Kingstree and the confluence of the -Great Pee Dee and the Little Pee Dee rivers. Rawley W. Holcombe, acting secre tary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, will address letters to the trade bodies of the state asking their opinion pf the project and urging their co-operation. A general good roads rally will be held in Columbia in October when steps will be taken to have the legislature pass a bill to carry out the project, Governor Grants Three Pardons. The governor has granted a pardon to David Holcombe, who was convict ed in Greenville In May of this year on the charge of housebreaking and larceny and sentenced to three months. A pardon has been granted to W. L. Henderson, who was convicted in (n Anoniaf nf 1Q(Y7 rm thfi oaiuua a jm AuguBb v* *wi w? ? charge of manslaughter and sentenc ed to 12 years in the state penitenti ary. Henderson was paroled by the governor in 1911. A pardon has been granted to Torn Kibler, who was convicted in Edge field county on the charge of grand larceny and sentenced to one year. The pardon was granted to restore citizenship according to the papers filed in the office of secretary of state. Since assuming office the governor has extended clemency in 1,253 cases. Senator Tillman Leaves Washington. Washington.?Senator Tillman left Washington recently for Atlantic City to spend a day or two with one of his daughters. He expects to go to South Carolina on August 23 for the purpose of voting in the primary election, and as the end of the present session of congress will probably be near at hand by that time will likely not re turn to Washington until December. Health Officers Inspect Towns. James A. Hayne, M. D., state health officer, has just returned from a trip of inspection of the Maple and Dillon cotton mills. He found oaa sanitary conditions at the Maple Mills because of lack of sewerage. He found cases of typhoid fever, pellagra and hook-, worm. He has been assured of co operation by the mill people and the mill owners, and it is thought that the preventive measures to be installed will show decrease in disease. Lan der Female college at Greenwood was found to be in good condition. Currell Meets With Board of Trustees Dr. W. Spencer Currell, president elect of the University of South Caro lina, was in Columbia recently, to meet with the board of trustees of that institution. While no definite business v<-as transacted a general sur vey of the proposed plans and ideas of the new administration was made anl discussed. Dr. Currell left on the ~*ranino- train fnr Maw Vnrlr fMtv whe>c he is lecturing in the summer school of the University of the City of New York. New Rates on Milk. In an order addressed the Southern Express Company the railroad com mission of South Carolina made a new rate schedule for milk and cream in this state effective Aug. 15. "Inves-1 tigation having determined that in the ) the interest of furthering the dairy in- j dustry of the state a change in the rates governing milk and cream is deemed expedient." says the official order. The new rates are based on < an additional charge for every addi-' tional five miles and the rates quoted on 5, 8 anl 10-gallon shipments. Solve Problem for Encampment Columbia.?Plans are now belli# worked out for the encampment be held at Batesburg by Companfc A, B, C, D and M of the Second in* fantry and the field hospital of thflf National Guard of South Carolina. Itt was determined recently at a meet* tag of the Columbia officers to be^to( the march to Batesburg on Saturdayj August 8, arriving in Batesburg about 10 o'clook August 10. It was also <* ? termlned to work out a problem oaf the march. According to the theoretfc cal situation outlined by the commit tee, Companies B, C, D and M, torn* ing a part of the Red army, are pre sumably escorting a wagon train to Johnston, which is a supply depot tag the Red forces. Information of thlo march having been obtained by tfa? Blue forces stationed at Saluda, Cobm pan7 A of the Blue army is dispatcher to intercept and destroy the convoy and its escort. The two opposing forces engage In action between Leee ville and Batesburg. The militiamen plan for a week's encampment in Batesburg. Elaborate plans are being made by the oomm& tee for the entertainment of the ?oH dler boys and a most enjoyable tintt is anticipated. yrj# m New Charters Are Granted. Tbe Carroll Live Stock Company 4| St Matthews has been chartered bf*. the secretary of state, ylth a oapltelj of 110,000. The officers are: O. Wienges, president; J. L. Carroll, riot president; J. W. Wanaam alter, tary and treasurer. Norrls Brothers of Greenville been chartered, with a capital atoakj of $70,000, to do a general cotton mfflj supply business. The officers are L. Norrls, president and treasurer^ A. M. Norrls, vice president, and Mfcssn v N. M. Stewart, secretary. The Salley Ginning and Supply Company oI Salley has een chartered with a capital of $4,000. The offfoera are Geo. L. Salley, president, and D, .. E. Holcombe, secretary and treamrerj ' Briggs Company of Greenville, Chap* tered with a capital stock of $5,000. The officers are: W. A. Briggs, presi dent; G. H. Whitner, vice president and C. E. McAlleter, secretary and treasurer. The* Crescent Company of Green*, wood has been chartered with a.eap-rv ltal stock of $5,000, to do tL general motion picture business. .The officer*.',. m are: D. M. Sheppard, president; O.' ;>J El Sheppard, vice president and M. G. Sheppard, secretary and treas urer. * ; The Farmers' Union Ginnery of Moselle has been chartered with a" capital stock of $5,000. The officers are: J. H. Yarn, president; H. Ifw "> ' Ward, vice president and treasurer* and J. S. Sanders, secretary. The^Shandon Grocery Company of Columbia has been commissioned,! with a capital stock of $2,500. Thai . : petitioners are W. H. McCaw and Gw A. McCaw. Hampton Hardware Company ot with a capital stock of $10,000. Thai '\.i petitioners are W. J. Anderson, C. H. Cummlngs, G. B. Hoover and J. V. -/ Rivers. A general hardware business will be conducted. Mill Aisessment For Taxation. T3/vwrvrrf An QAUASamAiff AvvyvA V vu WUV MTOOODOiuyuv iVi VMW tlon .of cotton mills, cotton oil mnut and fertilizer plants was announced by A. W. Jones,, secretary of the state board of equalisation. The assess ments were fixed at a reoent meeting of the board held In Columbia. Toes day the board met to hear protests. The assessment for taxation Is based on 50 per cent of the actual value at the plants, as fixed by the board. The value of the cotton mills of the state was placed at $28,782,548* as compared with $28,489,969 In 1913 or an increase of $1,292,5791 The cottoor mills were assessed at $1,613,650 as compared with $1,532,725 in 1913 or an increase of $80,325. < The fertil izer plants were assessed at $2,433,288 as compared with $2,359,133 In 1913 or an Increase of $74,155. The total increase for all property assessed by the board for taxation was $1,447,059, Sloan Writes of Hall Damage. In a letter from S. M. Sloan, chief inspector in the government service, to E. J. Watson, secretary of the de partment of agriculture, the writer tells forcefully of the damage done to crops by the hailstorm, which visited York county early this month. He makes a plea for cash contributions to the relief fund, for which there has already been $3,000 subscribed, to bring succor to the stricken farmers. Eastern Carolina Road Association. There Is general Interest In the meeting which Is to bp held at the Isle of Palms at an early date, when the Eastern Carol^a Highway asso ciation is to be formed. The purpose of the association is to improve the highways in the Pee Dee and coast seotions of the state. A general plea for the development of the roads has been proposed by Reid Whitford, engi neer of Charlestcfh. Under the plan outlined the new system will tap the Capital highway at Columbia, Cam den, Cheraw and Augusta. l Much Anti-Typhoid Vaccine Used. In view of the large quantity of anti typhoid vaccine that the state board of health has been sending to physicians throughout the state, James A. Hayne, M. D., said: "The vaccine is sent out free of charge, the only condition being that people who want io be im munized have their family physician or health officer order thfe vaccine. The laboratory will not send the vac cine to a layman, because it has to bft injected under the skin and laymen have no means of administering it. Several New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a charter to the Moore Music Company of Florence, with a capital stock of $25,000. The officers are: L. N. Chappel, president; William Read, vice president, and W. P. Moore, sec retary and treasurer. A charter has been granted to th? Hampton Avenue Development Com pany of Sumter, with a capital stock of $10,000. The officers are: E. H. Rhanie, president: H. Harby, vica president, and Charles L. Cutting secretary and treasurer. uj&m 1m ;> { -AS