Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, May 26, 1908, Image 1

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^ ^ " ISSUED 8EMI-WEEKL^ ' l. m. orist'S sons, Pubii?her?. } % ^jfamilg Demsgajer: Jfor promotion o)f th? gotitioat, Social. Agricultural and Commercial Jnterests of the people. {TE sinoi!* copt.n?Ic'LthVaNCK . ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKYILLETS. C., TLTESDAY, MAY 20, 1908. " MO. 42. > mm nyiumiu>u>uMnuiim ! ' 01 i 1 | By CLARENCE Hiwwiwu'wwwwwifiinifwfw CHAPTER XXIX?Continued. The conversation between Mr. Prier and Gilbert Senn was not the last nor the only one they had during the voyage home. Each talked freely?except on one subject; Senn was not yet ready to speak of the certainty in his mind regarding Miss Bannottie's guilty knowledge of the murder of Mrs. Craig by Elsie Barron; Prier spoke sometimes of "Mrs. Senn's companion"? because he knew her by no other name, + felt no need for a definite name for her. and had not thought of the question as to whether Senn knew her name as being one in which he had any interest whatever; Senn also spoke of "Mrs. Senn's companion"?because Prier did, because tlie designation was convenient, and because of one reason which involves a curious psychological fact. The strange truth in mental science, to which I have referred, is this: When one person is concealing, from a second, some fact or suspicion ^ regarding a third one, he is often unwilling to speak the name of that third person, and will frequently resort to much ingenious circumlocution rather than pronounce It. I dare say that most of my readers will readily recall & incidents of that sort which have fallen under their own observation. For the rest of the curious train of cricumstances which kept the name of Miss Bannottie from Mr. Prier for so long a time, I have only two things to say: Strange as they were, they were probably not unprecedented in strangeness; and, if they were?my duty as a truthful chronicler would ? compel me to record them just as they occurred. The Ocean's Own arrived at New York in due time. Mr. Prier paid her owners, her officers, and her crew. He gave Patsy Gullens all he had promised him?and more?sending that gentleman home to Jahnway Station pleased with himself and the rest of the world, and so full of the remarkable adventures which he had to relate again and again to admiring - ' If hp menus mat u ??s uuuu?ui ? would remember the reputation he had 4 once had as a tighter and a bully, and so live and demean himself as to keep it. Mr. Prior and Mr. Senn returned to Boomville. Both were weary enough? mentally as well as physically?to be f glad of at least the semblance of rest. Each wished a chance to think; both desired to plan; neither one had any idea of their having need to hurry in what they were about to do. Senn had settled it in his own mind, and fully to his own satisfaction, that his wife was guilty. He felt that a half-hour's conversation with her V would prove that fact?after which, Frier's promise binding that gentleman to perpetual silence and inactivity, she would be safe. Aldrlch would be safe, and the honor of the Senn name (so far as popular opinion had left it any) would be safe. So he had readily given his consent to a visit to Naples, and a call upon Mrs. Senn in company with Mr. Prier. Prier was confident Mrs. Senn was innocent. He knew the strangeness of circumstantial evidence ?how likely the conclusions to which it points are to be false. More than all, he wanted ? to prove her innocent: he was going to keep his word to Senn, no matter how much it cost him, but his hopes still <iipootiAn f\f ,,hanepine' HJVlveu in uic \ui wviw.i w some one." Mr. Prier, then, in going t(? Naples, did not look forward to find/* ing a woman with a guilty confession hidden in her heart; he expected to find an innocent woman? as pure and innocent as he felt Elsie Senn must be?but possessed of information which was of vital value to him. And he meant to make her tell what she knew. Prier and Senn had not been In Roomville many days, and had not yet completed their plans regarding the intended trip abroad, when something happened which entirely destroyed what plans had been made, and rendered it necessary to begin all over again. This was the receipt of a cav blegram by the Roomville News-Express. No one knew who sent it. No one knew why. The News-Express had never had a cablegram before, and the editor certainly never expected to have one again. It was brief, and of so little importance to the general public?to the editor of the Roomville News-Express, for instance?that any of the gentlemen or ladies you have met in these pages might reasonably have been interested in asking by * whom it was sent, and for what reason?unless some one of them happened to know. This was the message: "Mrs. S?nn and her companion will reside in Naples no longer." * That was all. And? Shall I help you a little, dear reader? "Delays are dangerous," says the proverb, but did you ever think of the other side of it? Is it not true that delay means safety, too? Safety and freedom? Run with the hare once, instead of riding behind the hounds, and see! And the message caused delay ?on the part of Prier and Senn. They * waited?waited?waited. They waited ,r,tii ;? vi-.w certain that Mrs. Senn and her companion were as unlikely to reside in Boomville as in Naples; waited until after other news of which I shall inform you after a little had been received, discussed, and made familiar; waited until thev felt that they could ill afford longer delay, and so looked each other in the face with the cry, "Have we been duped?" "Has she escaped us?" "Mrs. Senn and her companion " Surely the one who sent such a message should have known how low down ? Mrs. Senn's misfortune had plunged her. and how high good fortune had ^ raised her friend. We ought not to have to write ignorance or inadvertence of one who sends messages under the sea. for publication in so estimable a journal as the Boomville NewsExpress, shall we say?Modesty? Or Egg A No. my dear reader, these are only BOUTELLE. suggestions. I am, unfortunately, as much in the dark as you are. I don't know who sent that message to the News-Express! I never expect to. The next day after the publication of the disturbing ocean message in the newspaper the mails brought a copy of the London Times containing a brief mention of the rescue of Mr. Jasper Jahnway "after the wreck of his yacht, in which all the rest on board were lost." Mr. Prier and one of the persons reported "lost" rejoiced at Jahnway's escape?undoubtedly for somewhat different reasons?and talked about it, and wondered regarding it, while they waited! And then, one day, as though still more to increase the anxiety with which he was waiting for the return of "Mrs. Senn and her companion," a letter arrived for Mr. Prier. "From London?" queried Senn, carelessly. He was often at Prier's room, and happened to be there when the letters were brought in. "Yes," said Prier, "and unless I am mistaken in my judgment of his writing, from Jahnway himself." He tore the letter open. The picture fell upon the table, face down. The lines of verse Jahnway had seen written fell upon the picture. Prier took up the letter. He read it through. And Senn, watching him, knew by his face that somewhere, someway, the eyes of the old detective saw light at last. Prier laid down the letter. He took up the lines of poetry. He read them from beginning to end. He tossed them to one side. He took up the picture. He read what was written upon the back of it. He turned it over. He gazed down upon the beautiful face there. And Senn, watching with breathless eagerness, caught himself half wondering if that look of scorn and loathing and unutterable hate could scorch and burn?wondering whether he should see the card shrivel, smoke and burst into flame under Prier's glance. Prier looked up. He spoke. "Gilbert Senn," he said, slowly and solemnly, "did you ever hear the name of Mrs. Senn's companion?" "Certainly." "What is it?" "Lurline Bannottle." Prier rose to his feet. He raised 'lis right hand toward heaven. He had a name, at last, for the "some one" he had followed so long. And Senn hushed his very breath as he spoke. ?*T hnnlr fhoa flnrl 99 ho prlpfl. "for this day and this hour." There was a pause. Suddenly Prier seemed to remember Senn. He turned toward him. "I'll be blamed if I don't hang Lurline Bannottle!" he said, solemnly. CHAPTER XXX. The Tenants of Jahnway Park. "Why did you bring: me here. Lurline?" Elsie Senn confronted her companion in one of the rooms of the great house at Jahnway Park. They had been there a week, and in all that time Elsie had found it impossible to have an Interview with the woman who had been her nearest and best friend for so many of the best years of her young life. Elsie had enjoyed the trip from Naples there; there had been a sudden determination on Miss Bannottie's part to leave Italy. Her determination had been followed by brisk promptness of action, but by nothing like hurry. They had enjoyed?or, at least, Elsie had?a brief stop in London; Lurline had found it necessary' to attend to some business there, so she said, the renting of a suitable home in America for them, among other things, but she had not been away from the quiet ho- ] tel at which they stopped for very long at a time. Elsie had enjoyed her trip home across the ocean. She had had no doubt they were to return to Boomville, and she had looked forward with pleasure to seeing her friends there; Rev. John Kane, for instance, and?and Walter Aldrich. She had even dared cherish a hope that there couia ne a way found of paying a portion of the enormous amount of money for which the burning of the Boomville Bank left her morally responsible; she had fully intended putting the whole business in the hands of some friend?such a man as Walter Aldrich. for instance,?after she could have explained her feelings regarding the condition of affairs in a more satisfactory manner than was possible by the use of pen and ink merely, and an ocean between them. She said to herself that Mr. Aldrich was nothing to her now, of course, and never could he. a fact for which he was. perhaps, not sorry by that time; but it would seem good and best to have such a gentleman as he attending to her disarranged affairs instead of the cold-blooded and methodical man of business who had been put in control of her interests after the disaster at the bank. She loved Aldrich still, so she said to herself, being so frank and candid to the face in her mirror that it would have been pitiful in the extreme had there been any other than CJod and the angels to see her. And. equally as much as she loved Aldrich. she hated Senn. and always would?so she firmly told herself. Tt had been a disappointment, therefore?a terrible disappointment?when she found daylight 'roving to her that she had been lied to and defrauded. She did not know whether they had passed Boomvilie in the night, or stopped short of reaching there. She only felt the strange taste in her mouth that gave her the startled conviction that she had been drugged; she had a dim recollection of lying down, in a terribly cramped position, in a car-seat, after Miss Hannottie had pleasantly and cheerfully given her a drink of water: she was not quite sure that she had slept calmly from that time until she awakened in her new room in the new home to which Miss Bannottle had brought her; she found, in her mind, the shadow of a remembrance?so unreal and unearthly that she was not sure it was not a horrible dream, and no more?of wild orders and wilder actions, of force being used against unavailing resistance, and of one of those words being pityingly used with reference to her which are enough to chill the heart and appall the soul of any of whom it is not false to assert sanity. And now, they had been at Jahnway Park a week: seven long, cheerless, dragging days; and Elsie had lived alone, save for the stupid old servant who attended her?had eaten, read,! thought, all alone. Sometimes she had found the doors of her apartments locked against her; sometimes she had been free to go as she pleased. Sometimes she had seen the flutter of Lurline's dress, down some long passage in the roomy old house, or in some distant part of the grounds. But now, for the first time in a week, she confronted Lurline, and there was no way for her to escape an t?.* AM..t A... i.nlAnn OKA itoa/1 nhifolno 1 interview .->nr- U.-1CU pu J olv<*> force. It was a very indignant face which Lurline Bannottie had to confront. It was a very determined and a somewhat dangerous looking woman who asked the question: "Why did you bring me here, Lurline?" "For safety." "Safety from what? You know there is no truth in the absurd story I heard two of the servants .whispering and nodding over, something like an hour ago." "What story is that?" "The story that I am insane." "No: I know there Is no truth in that." "But they said you said so." "Did they? They were correct. I did say so." "Why?" "To deceive." . "Whom? The world?" "The world and the servants." "You mean the story to be believed?" "Certainly. There are to be just two persons in all the world who shall know the truth?you and myself." "But I am sane; I am free." "You are sane; you are not free." "I am needed in Boomville. "What for?" "To try and devise some means of paying off at least a part of the losses by the burning of the bank." "Indeed? I fancy you owe me more than you will ever pay. Put your mind at rest regarding your other creditors." "But, Lurline, you know those notes were given as a mere form: you never expected to have them paid; I never intended to pay them." "I know that." "And. the dates considered, the number of them considered, no judge nor jury could be made to believe I looked forward to a time when I could pay them." ."I know that. I knew that when you gave them." "Were sudden fortune to come to me again, you could not take those notes, given when I was without resources, into any just court and enforce their nuvment. I have thoueht that all out in the lonely week I have spent here, and I know that the allowance my more than generous father intended for you is the least of my moral obligations." "Indeed? Has it taken you a week to discover that? I have known and recognized that fact all the time." "You could not imprison me for debt on such Slight evidence." "I know it." j "Which ends the list of possibilities regarding them, and makes them useless?worthless." "A very ungrateful conclusion. Elsie. considering- all I am doing for you. and all I am spending in your service." "Oh. Lurline, Lurline, spend no more. Turn me out from your door. Let me beg?or die. Only give me freedom. Only let me go home!" "No. And let me correct you; those notes are not valueless; they are worth more to me than any claim any other person in all the world can have against you. Shall I tell you why?" "Yes." "Because I can take them into court, swear you are insane, and have you given into my custody and care, my dearly beloved and unfortunate sister? as I claim you to be." "But the doctor " "Bah! What does a doctor know of the subtle forms insanity takes. One WHO WOUIII iriuw i<? triinj lu J..V.. being of unsound mind, under the circumstances, would almost risk his own freedom." "Oh, Lurline, Lur " "Yes; I can take those notes into court and prove you a mental wreck." "Oh, Lurline " "And I will, unless you do what 1 wish you to do." "You will? Oh. my God! You cannot love me, then, Lurline." "No, Mrs. Senn, I do not love you." "Did?did you ever?" "Mrs. Senn. I will be frank with you: I think I can afford to be. There is one love which shuts out of the heart of her who feels it any lesser love?or any other love which could live only at its expense." "And that is " "The unsought and unreturned love for a man?" "Lurline Bannottie, what do you mean?" "That I love Walter A Id rich!" "You do?" "I do. I have loved him more years than you have been old enough to know the meaning of love at all." "And?and " "And you will never go out of this house, Mrs. Senn, until you go out in your coffin, unless you swear to renounce Walter Aldrich and his love for ever." "For ever?" "For ever! In this world, and the next?if there is another." "Lurline, the world beyond this must be a thing by itself. No human being would date go before God's throne with an oath recorded against her which could be kept and performed only beyond the grave. Hut, for this world, you must not forget that I took my cross upon me of my own accord. I am the wife of Gilbert Senn, by my own free act, and " "And I will be frank with you again, Mrs. Senn, for again I think I can afford it. You called yourself Gilbert Senn's Wife. Rut you erred. You are ills widow." "Is Gilbert Senn dead?" "He Is." "Are you sure?" "I have not seen his dead body. I have not had the pleasure of weeping over his grave. But I have no doubt of his death. He was lost at sea. He is dead." "When was he lost?" "I?I?well, I knew of it before we left Naples." "And kept it from me?" "Certainly. Did you think me unselfish ?" "I thought you good and honest." "Did you? I am charmed. You were mistaken. It will be necessary, you see, for you to swear." "Will you swear first?" "Tn what?" "To Gilbert Senn's death." "With pleasure. I believe fully, and without the least doubt, that Gilbert Senn is dead." And Miss Bannottie added the words of a solemn appeal to Deity to bear witness to the truth of what she had said. j "Then I shall take no oath," said Elsie, firmly. "You will not?" "Never! I love Walter Aldrieh with all my heart and soul; I will never give him up?never?never?never!" "No? Do you know you may compel me to take another oath myself, if you refuse." "What one?" "You know I have said you are Insane?" "I do." "Very well; the oath to make that statement true, here in this lonely old house, before I am done with you, Mrs. Senn!" Spring: grew into summer. Summer ripened into autumn. Autumn faded slowly winterward. It was almost a year since Aldrieh and Senn played chess together. Aldrieh attended to his business. If he felt his great loss, he did not show it. He was not a man to show his heart to the world. He was rich. He grew richer. Jasper Jahnwav traveled on the Continent. I suppose. I am really not quite certain. I am sure, however, that neither Prler nor Senn had the least idea of his whereabouts. Elsie?poor, sweet, pure, tenderhearted Elsie Senn?she kept her mind ?with an effort. She was not yet walking the road to ruin with which she had been theatened. but she wondered. sometimes, how long it would be before she would find herself going ?going slowly?going consciously and knowingly?going sadly and despairingly?but going inevitably?going mad! Lur But that isn't necessary. Please excuse me this time. It is get*! ? ~ 1& ahmit hpr UIIK UII|JI?-C?.-.C?..l l.r .. ? Prier and Senn were waiting still. Not very patiently. Not passively. Not without many plans and schemes, with more of stolid determination than of faith in them. Not without advertising which didn't pay, clews which were misleading, and trails followed until they led far away into other sins and sorrows?sins no less wicked, I suppose, and sorrows no less sad?than those which, swinging through the widest circle of human depravity, began and ended in the room where Constance Craig and her unborn babe suffered death. Prier and Senn were waiting, and? "I wish I knew whether Jahnway could give us any more light?" said Prier, one day. "So do I," said Senn: "do you suppose it is possible he has returned home yet?" "I haven't the slightest idea." "Suppose I go up to his place and see ?" "The very thing." said Prier; "suppose you do." Aldrich, Jahnway, Elsie, Prier, Senn; let me see? Are there any of the others we should remember in these days of fading autumn? Oh, yes; there is Patsy Oullens. Patsy had thought Jahnway a pirate, or pretended he did, and had been genuinely afraid of him. But now, with only an insane woman and her keeper there, Jahnway Park was more a ft motive to him than it had formerly been. A pirate seemed a very genuine and a very terrible thing: an insane person was almost beneath his contempt?especially if that person was so unfortunate as not to belong to the sex which Patsy believed monopolized all the good qualities (as he regarded good qualities) which there were in the world. And so, Patsy Gullens, undeterred by fear, now?and he had never, perhaps, been deterred by anything else?resolved to go up to Jahnxvay Park, some night, and look around. Patsy would have objected to being called a burglar, of course, but he had resolved tn go inside the old mansion i in order to satisfy his curiosity and gratify his desire for investigation. He had no doubt he would find the house securely fastened. He expected to have to break in. Mr. Gullens would very likely have protested, at least, if you had been so unkind as to wound his sensitive soul by mentioning theft or robbery in connection with his name. But "There's lot of valuable property up there, I suppose, that is growing old and worthless for want of being used. I think it is almost a man's duty to undo such a shameful state of things," was what Mr. Patsy Gullens said to himself. To be Continued. Sleeping Sickness. i Doctor Koch, the famous bacteriologist, is one of the principal delegates to the sleeping sickness conference now sitting at the foreign office, says the London Daily Mail. The object of the conference is to arrange for the creation of an international central bureau which will collect facts about the disease and assist to stamp it out. "The disease is due to a fly which exists in the virgin districts of Africa," said Doctor Koch recently, "and the special insect has peculiarities about its life which make it difficult to deal with. "The fly is a bloodsucker, and I found that where there are no human beings it lives upon the crocodile. My examinations showed that crocodile blood was its main diet, and therefore I suggest that with the destruction of the crocodile you will destroy the fly also. The crocodiles could be greatly lessened in numbers if not entirelydestroyed, by collecting their eggs and some means will be taken in time through international action to do this." FLINT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH Interesting Story of a Notable Congregation. TWENTY-ONE PASTORS IN 116 YEARS Grand Old Grand-Mother of the Churches Retains the Vigor and Power of Youth, and Looks Forward With Confidence to Additional Centuries of Usefulness. The following sketch of Flint Hill Rantlst chi i'ph u-.i? nrenfirerl hv Rev. Edward S. Reaves, the pastor, to be read on the occasion of the occupation of the handsome new church at Flint Hill last Sunday. The sketch was prepared in the apprehension that Rev. A. L. Stough. the venerable former pastor, would not be able to be present. Much of the material had been obtained from Rev. Mr. Stough. Rev. Mr. Stough, however, was able to be present, and at the request of our representative Rev. Mr. Reaves gave up his own interesting and valuable sketch for publication in The Enquirer: Flint Hill Baptist church, under the original name of Sugar Creek church, pKZ?r~ T~~~~ ... ... ~ H Art I FLINT HILL'S NEW CIwas organized May 1st, 1792. The founder of the church was John Rooker, who was born In Northampton county, Va., March 12th, 1755, and removed to Warren county, N. C? whence he came to this community in 1790. In North Carolina he had been engaged as a teacher, and was a licentiate preacher. Eighteen months after his arrival the church was organized by Rev. Abraham Marshall of Columbus county, Ga., who, himself was born in New England in 1748 and [is described by Newman in his "History of the Baptist churches i.i the United States" as one of the most amiable, laborious and successful minj isters of the time." He traveled much us un evangelist and possibly on one of these evangelistic tours his services, [as an ordained minister were sought by Rev. John Rooker to organize the little band of believers which he had gathered, into a church. In an essay .written by John Rooker in which he gives an autobiographical sketch when he was 85 years of age, he states that the number of constituent members was thirteen and that four others joined the church on a declaration of their faith on the day of its organization. According to Benedict most of these members came from Warren county. i\. u., unci constituted puu ui u. wiuny, which settled on lands belonging to the Catawba Indians and in the surrounding country. The names of these first members of the oid church are worthy of mention here. They are: John Rooker, John Dlnkins. John Smith, James Spears, Wm. Pettus, Julia, (a negro servant belonging to Mr. Harris), Margaret Dinkins. Celia Withers, Mary Smith. Alice Spears, Alice Withers, Mary Cooper. There lire but twelve of these names, but it is supposed that tlie name of Mrs. Rooker. wife of the minister, was in some way not recorded, which would explain the discrepancy between the earliest records and the statement made by John Rooker that the number of constituent members was thirteen. John Rooker became the first FLINT HILL'S OLD CH pastor of the church and continued in this capacity for forty-four years, or until 186. No records of the church were keot for the first two years, and doubtless many interesting1 facts have thus been lost to us. The first deacons were John Dinkins and John Smith. It may be of interest here to state, that the late Dr. Thos. H. Pritchard in a sketch of Tryon Street Baptist church. Charlotte, published several years before his death, says that John Dinkins was the first Baptist in Mecklenburg county, of whom we have any knowledge. He further says that it was through his influences that Rev. John Hooker came to these parts and that he lived in a home provided for him by John Dinkins. A foot note on til? first page of the original record book of the church says, that during these first two years, when no connected record was kept, that regular services were maintained and it is lijcely that during these years others were found to join the little band, and take their part in its struggles and triumphs. When the first house of worship was built, we do not know. I But it was most likely a log building, and It la aald to have stood In the rear of the old building- In 1794 the church sent delegates to Bethel association, which at that time covered eleven , counties in-North and South Carolina, and had thirty-two churches co-operat ing. Later, in 1811, the church transferred its membership to Moriah association and in 1X66 joined the York i association. 1 During its history the church has had a good many members who were Indians. To it probably belongs the credit of first giving the gospel to the Catawba nation, among whom they maintained a mission station. In 1806 a noted Indian by the name of Mush, together with his family, joined the church upon a letter from Lower College church, Va. He was of the Pamunky tribe. The next day after becoming a member of the church, he was licensed to preach. He is described as a man of talent, who developed into a popular preacher, who was frequently called upon to preach on great occasions such as the annual meetings of the associations and at conventions. He was a man who could have been largely useful, but unfortunately in early life he learned to love "fire water" or strong drink, which ever proved to be a deadly curse to the Indians. The church after bearing with him many years, finally stopped him from preaching, but retained him as a member on condition that he should not manufacture, sell, nor use intoxicating drinks. After this he reformed and in 1S37 died, still being a member of the church. This leads us to remark that in those early days our Baptist fathers were strict disciplinarians. They would receive no one excluded from another church without ~Z "7TB -JK I IURCH BUILDING ?1908. the consent of the excluding church. They required private offences to be settled according to the teachings of our Savior as given in the 18th chap-1 ter of Matthew. They made a broad distinction between the church and the world, and took a decided stand against dancing, and such other worldly amusements as many of our people now resort to. They were extremely careful about receiving candidates for baptism, and each one was required to give before the church an account of the Lord's dealings with his soul. Such a time was made a great occasion. Relatives and friends were invited to come forward to hear the religious experience related, and many were melted to tears through these recitals and it was not uncommon that conversions followed upon such testimonials of God's dealings with individual souls, the testimonial meeting has ever been a fruitful source of divine blessing and it is believed by the writer that we do not today make as much use of this service as we ought. The early devotional spirit of the church is attested by the fact that in 1795 they agreed to have prayer meetings every Wednesday afternoon at the home of the preacher. This item is worthy of special note for it indicates that the spiritual tone of the church was rich. In 1810 the church agreed to purchase twenty copies of Watt's Child's Catechism, but recorded their dissent from the teachings of this work with reference to baptism. This indicates the meagre supply of literature in those early days, and the care with which our fathers guarded the doctrl I they put into the hands of "heir chUI I dren. Just when the first Sunday I school was organized we do not know, I but it was probably during the pastorI ate of the Rev. Peter Nicholson, many II years later. But whether they had a I Sunday school or not, the purchase of I the catechisrhs proves that they die. I not neglect the spiritual training of I their children. BB jw URCH BUILDING ? 18SS. The church was from the first, fuli of the missionary spirit. That a mission to the Catawba Indians was maintained by the church has already been stated. In further proof of the missionary spirit which pervaded the church. Dr. Thos. H. Pritchard in the historical sketch of Tryon Street church, already referred to in tracing the early beginnings of Baptist history in these parts, after recording the organization of Flint Hill church in 17!*2. tells next, of a missionary society organized in 1815. which had the promotion of missionary interest as its object. The date of the organization of this society is noteworthy as being just one year after that of the Missionary Convention of the United States, which came into being in response to the need of an organized agency for the support of Judson and Rice, who on going out to India, became themselves converts to the Baptist faith, and thus created a demand for missionary contributions from the churches. They continued earnestly in this work until a Rev. Mr. Osborne, who was a leader in the ranks of antimissions from Baltimore, came among REV. EDWARD S. REAVES. Edward S. Reaves, pastor of Flint Hill Baptist church, was born near the town of Mullins, In Marion county, S. C., August 15th, 1866. He attended the neighborhood school in his \T>n?h find wn? nrpnnrf>ri for pnllpee at the Mullins academy. Entered Wake Forest college, Wake Forest, X. C., in the fall of 1888, whence he was graduated June, 1892, with the A. B. degree, having made the average grade in his studies for four years of 92J. lit- was honored during his school days by election to a responsible office In his literary society, and by being made one of the editors of "The Wake Forest Student." a leading college magazine. For two years after graduation he taught the Aulander Male Academy at Aulander, X. C. It was during this time, July 28th, 1893, that he was ordained by his home church to the full work of the gospel ministry. October, 1894, he entered the Southern Baptist Theological seminary. Louisville, Ky., to prepare himself for his life's work, from which institution he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Master of Theoiogy. During his seminary course he was again honored by his fellow students by being twice elected to a position on the editorial staff of "The Seminary Magazine." His first pastorate was Yorkville and Fort Mill churches, where he served 1897-1900, next he became pastor at Statesvllle, X. C., where he served 1900-1903; thence he removed to Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he served as pastor 19031906, enterijig upon his present field as pastor of Flint Hill and Fort Mill churches January 1st. 1906. Each move has marked an advance. He was married August 8. 1900, to Miss Mamie Meacham of Fort Mill, who for fit's* irannu iancrht ha nrlmorv ffpa/loa ' " " Jtai n lau^ni mv. 1'* ?"?? J In the Yorkville Graded school. them and poisoned their minds against missions. But this was only for a short while. They soon returned to the support of the mission movement, and the church has been ever since a missionary body. The progressive and missionary spirit of the church is further attested by the fact that it sent out arms in several directions, and established places of worship, some of which grew into Independent churches. 'One of these arms was Chalk Level, beyond Sugar creek. Another was at Ezell's meeting house, where Marvin now is. A church was organized here) called Buck Hill, which was disbanded in 1859 or '60, after which the remaining members were organized into the Pleasant Valley church. Sard is, beyond the Catawba river, was another arm of the church, which in 1836 was organized into a church by sending out thirty-eight members. Because of death and removals, this church afterwards became extinct. Mill Creek church, beyond the Catawba river, was also an arm of the church which developed into a church. In 1833 ten members were dismissed to form in Charlotte which was the beginning of organized Baptist effort in that city. Owing to discord and deaths, this first church disbanded, but the survivors were afterwards organized into the Tryon Street church of that city. Flint Hill is also the mother of Union. Fort Mill, Oak Grove and Pinevilie churches. It is entitled to be hailed today as a mother, yes, and a grandmother of churches. Heavy drafts have been made upon her vitality and life to form organizations elsewhere. And still the call of the city draws away from her sons and daughters to swell the working forces of the cities and towns. It is safe to say that there is scarcely a nearby church anywhere which does not number among Its Best ana most userui, ronner runt Hill members. What this old church has meant for the upbuilding of God's kingdom on earth only the last day can reveal. May it go on doing its gracious work until the Master himself shall come to claim his own. On August 9th. 1811, the first worship was held ir. the second building, which stands where the new building is now located. This building which was of logs was enlarged in 1838 by adding a frame addition. Two years previous to this, In 1836, James Thomas was called to the pastorate to share the labors with Rev. John Rooker, who was now getting too Infirm to meet the demands of his responsible position. During the two years' service of Rev. James Thomas over a hundred members were added to the church. Father Rooker seldom preached after this, but in 1837, the people met at the church of wor-hi? and no preacher being present, they repaired to the home of the now iged Rooker. who preached to them a touching sermon on "Finally, brethren farewell." In 1836. he did his last baptizing, the associate pastor being -ick. He was then very feeble and had to call in the help of two deae< ns to baptize the twelve candidates. The sermon referred to above was ossiblv the last one he ever preached. He died June 21st, 1840, aged 85 years. 3 months and 13 days. The church supported him while he lived, and his widow after his death. From Major W. A. Graham's "History of South York Association," I have learned that he also served Hebron and Lower Rahama churches from 1800-1819. He is described in this work by one who remembers him in her father's home as a "lovely Christian gentleman." That he was a faithful workman, his labors bear abundant proof. He has left behind a monument more enduring than brass, for while his grave, in the cemetery hard by the church, is marked by a marble slab, his name is held in loving remembiance by hundreds of the descendants of the fathers who through his ministry were brought to the Savior. Following is the inscription upon his tomb: "In memory of Elder John Rooker. who was born on the 12th day of March, 1755, in the state of Virginia. and departed this life on the 24th of June. 1840, in the 84th year of his age. In 1782 he united himself with the Baptist church. In 1783 he entered the ministry and in 1792 became pastor of Sugar Creek, (now iviinr Hilli church, in which he re mained until the time of his death." In the midst of joy we now have sorrow. Evil reports followed Mr. Thomas. Ho was tried by a council, convicted of immoral conduct and excluded front the Lisleville church, Anson county. X. C., of which he was a member. This was a heavy blow to the Baptists. The church was wellnigh in despair. It declined to such an extent that they could hardly get enough members together to hold a conference. But realizing that they must hold the fort, the faithful ones got together and called another pastor, Rev. Wm. Xowell, In 1841, who served them until 1842. Rev. John P. Prltchard, father of Dr. Thos. H. Prltchard, served the church as a suppply 1843*4 4. He had been one of the ten members dismissed in 1833 to begin the eventful career of Baptists in Charlotte. Prltchard was followed by Rev. Wm. C. Perry, who served the church as pastor 184 4-'45.> Rev. Joseph P. Pritchard was then'recalled and served the church 1845-'46. Rev. W. W. Rollins came next as pastor In 1850, and served until 1852. He was followed by Rev. G. W. Rollinson of North Carolina. In 1854, who served the church but one month, giving up the pastorate because of the great distance he had to travel. Rev. Milton Garrison, a member of the church, served as supply from May, 1854, to August, of the same year, when he was succeeded by Rev. Peter Nicholson, who continued In the service of the church until 1862. In September, 1855, subscriptions were taken to erect a new house of worship, which was perhaps loccupieu ine nexi year, as ine ueauuiis were then constituted trustees with the order from the church to sell the old building and to paint the new one. In 1861 the civil war came on and the church gave the strength of her manhood to defend the principles for which tlie south fought through four weary years of struggle and hardship. The pastor. Rev. Peter Nicholson, accepted a chaplaincy in the army and Rev. A. M. Croxton occupied the pulpit for a short time. In 1864 Rev. W. C. Owens became pastor and served until 1866. He was succeeded in 1866 by Rev. A. L. Stough, who' remained with the church until 1876. It was during this pastorate, in 1867, that the church discontinued the monthly business meetings, holding quarterly meetings instead. The monthly business meetings had been kept up for seventy-four years. The annual call was also abolished, the church extending an indefinite call instead. In 1870 an additional acre, the gift of Mrs. James fJlover, was added to the cemetery. Rev. A. M. Croxton again supplied the church from June, 1876, to October of the same year, when Rev. B. G-. Covington began his pastorate. He remained with the church until 1882. It was during this pastorate, in 1880, that hn moot fa e roonhlntr rmriifo 1 In tVio history of the church was held, by Dr. Teasdell, one hundred being added to the church by baptism. The church at this time raised the pastor's salary to. $1,000, which Is the largest salary the church ever paid. Rev. Milton Garrison again served the church as supply from October, 1882 to 1883, when Rev. L. C. Hlnton came to the pastorate, serving 18841885. In this year the Young People's society of the church was organized and for a time maintained four prayer meetings within the bounds of the church. It was during the same year, 1885, that the church purchased a lot and a six-room house in Pinevllle, which became the pastor's home. Rev. J. K. Fant came to the church as pastor In March, 1885, and served most acceptably until 188?, when he was succeeded In July following by Rev. C. T. Scalfe, who resigned In January, 1889, greatly to the regret of the congregation. Rev. F. O. S. Curtis came to the church In July, 1889 and remained In Its service until August, 1894. During his pastorate he baptized seventy-five Into the fellowship of the church. In 1894, after much deliberation, it was decided to build a house of worship five miles west of the church, by voluntary contributions, where services might be held as an arm of the church. The Chapel, as It was designated, became Oak Grove church during the pastorate of Rev. M. W. Gordon In 1903. Rev. S. M, Hughes served the church for about six months during 1894, but was forced to resign because of feeble health. He died soon after, loved and lamented by the people whom he served for a short while. In 1895 the church again sought the services of Rev. A. L. Stough, who became pastor of the church the second time in 1895 and served until 1902, when on account of the growing infirmities of age, he retired from the pastorate, carrying with him the love and veneration of the people whom he had served so faithfully for eighteen years. He was succeeded July 1903, by Rev. M. W. Gordon, who served the church with great efficiency until March. 1905. It was during this pastorate that the movement was started, which developed into the new building. To Bro. Gordon, in a large measure, is due the credit for the undertaking by the church of so large and costly a building. The first committee to secure plans was appointed In November, 1903. In February, 1904, plans were adopted which on further Investigation were found to call for too large an outlay of funds. In April, 1904, the plans for the present building were adopted and in August of that ti-no nut nn tha phllivh ycm, liiuuci nan v.ut ui i v??v grounds and sawed Into lumber on the church lot. Subscriptions aggregating about $5,000 in five annual payments were taken. Rev. M. W. Gordon was succeeded in the pastorate, April, 1905, by Rev. J. D. Huggins, who closed his pastorate with December of the same year. The present pastorate began January 1st, 1906, without any break in the continuity of the church services. In August, 1906, the first brick were placed on the ground and on September 25th, 1907. ground was broken for the new building. The corner stone was laid November 7th. The building, erected by contract in any of our towns or cities would cost not less than $10,000. but more probably $11,000. For the generous and self-sacrificing efforts put forth to secure this beautiful, substantial and commodious building, due credit should be given to the membership as a whole. For.the membership as a whole, the pastor has nothing .but words of praise and thanks. To the building committee the church is indebted for faithful and self-denying service. It is the opin| ion of the pastor that a church was never served by a more faithful com mittee, while too much cannot besaia in recognition and praise of the service rendered by Bro. Jas. F. Boyd, chairman of the building committee. The church during the one hundred and sixteen years of Its history has had twenty-one pastors and three supplies. The total membership, during these years would aggregate about two thousand. Many of them have gone elsewhere to Join other churches and cast in their lots with other folds. But the great majority of them have passed on to Join the choir invisible and to worship before the throne in that abiding city where they have no need for houses built by human hands, but where the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. Blessed old church! May we who are here now and those who shall come after us, with the passing of the fleet-footed years, prove ourselves worthy successors to that great company who have gone before us. Short Ways to Multiply. Rapid multiplication is always a source of pleasure and profit to the operator and never fails to cause astonishment in those who do not know how it is done. Suppose you wish to multiply two numbers of two places each, such as 65 and 68. The product can be written In one line by inspection as follows: Eight times 5 are 40. Put down 0 for the right hand figure and carry 4. Add 5 and 8 and multiply the sum. 13 by 6. obtaining 78. and add 4. Put down 2 for the next figure and carry 8. Multiply the 6's and add the 8 and put down 44 for the remaining numbers. The product is therefore 4,420. In this case the tens are alike. The same method may be used if the units are alike, thus: What is the product of 75 times 55? Five times 5 are 25. Put down 5 and carry 2. Seven and 5 are 12. Twelve times 5 are 60. Add 2. Put down 2 and carry 6. Seven times 5 are 35. Add the 6 and write 41. The product is 4.125. The last illustration might be worked another way since both of the right hand figures are 5 and the sum of the tens gives an even number. In such a case simply write 25 for the right hand figures, and for the remaining figures write the product of the tens Increased by one-half the sum of the tens.