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^1^ ?? e^mmiim^ms Ijjj ^^1 * ISSUED SSMI'WEIKLT. i ii i ?<??jfcj?????? L M. QEIST'S 80H8,Pnbiuhen.} ? Jfamits BuassaiJtr: 4ar (h< promotion of the jjolitiiial. Social. Sflricaltciial and (Eommncial gnttrtals of thj guglt. {TK"oiS'c'^.n"o?N?YA'IC'! * ESTABLISHED 1835~ ~ YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IP, 1909. JSTO. 737 in wi ww nwwwfWFw m m iw m m ra bi?' ^ By ETTA \ ^ CHAPTER VI. "By Jove! there she Is!" Mr. Varneck came strolling along the Tremont street pavement under the coot their shadows into the) eiiuo uiuv v?~. ? old burying-ground and against whose time-honored trunks, from morn till! dewy eve, the old apple women sit like a fungus growth of the tree. Clad In all the purple and fine linen allowable by law was Mr. Varneck. He was ' fresh, too, from his breakfast, for though It was high-noon, this curled darling of fortune was somewhat indolent In his habits and luxurious in his tastea With his blue eyes and fair hair and .his superb figure, on whose heavy outlines the careless grace and well-bred nonchalance so natural to him sat like a charm, one would not find in a day's journey a handsomer specimen of Christian manhood and music than Mr. Varneck. Suddenly a small, veiled figure darted past him. and vanished in the crowds of people pouring up and down the great thoroughfare. "Jove! It Is she!" muttered Varneck r on fire from head to' foot In a moment. "Of course, going home from the 11 o'clock rehearsal. By my faith, an opportunity not to be lost!" He flung away his cigar and rushed after the small, lissome shape like one possessed. By the old Park Street church he came up with her. ^ "Miss Rale!" he pronounced. She heard him and turned quickly. She cast one startled glance at him through her veil, and without a word sprang forward to cross the street. rAt the same moment a pair of horses attached to an empty carriage, driverless, wild-eyed, the reins trailing loose under their feet, came tearing down the hill like a whirlwind. Either she did not see the danger In her haste or she was too late to escape It. As her foot touched the crossing the frightened brutes, without curb or master, dashed upon her. "My God!" cried Varneck, and flung MmaAif with all his might on the heads of the horses, dragging her with one gK hand back from under the trampling hoofs. Checked so suddenly In their headlong race, they reared and plunged madly, but he held them in an iron grip, and directly a score of arms ^ were stretched forth Jo help him from the crowd. ' Pale, breathless, stood. Varneck, and on his breast lay Paulette like one dead. "Is she hurt?" asked several voices. "She has fainted, I think," he answered. "Call a carriage. No, I need * no help?I will take her home at once." A hack rolled up, and Varneck placed his insensible burden Inside, .' gave one sharp order to the driver fT and leaped after. Off went the vehicle up Beacon Hill and disappeared. At the quiet West End House it stopped. varaecK, raising muicuc m his arms?for she had as yet given no sign of consciousness?sprang out, ascended the steps and rang the bell. A little pause, then the door was cautiously opened and Megrim, the bearded, old dragon in the high Normandy cap, scowled darkly out at him. "Mon Dleu!" she screamed at sight of the limp, lifeless burden he carried. "She has met with an accident," said j Varneck, pushing straight over the threshold; "whether serious or not, let us discover as soon as possible. Lead the way, and be lively. Don't you see that she Is senseless?' The old Frenchwoman, quite over$ come, flung open the nearest door, and Varneck entered and deposited on a sofa. Paulette. A sunny little room. He took In at a glance Its deep window full of birds % and flowers, the landscapes on the wall, the harmonious tints of carpet and furniture; then his eyes wandered swiftly to the little mistress of it all, lying like a crushed day-lily among the crimson sofa pillows and overflowing ? them with the splendor of her yellow hair. "Go, nuvv, monsieur," said Megrim, pointing Varneck to the door with a long, imperative, skinny finger. "Excuse me," answered Varneck, po, litely; "it is quite impossible, till I know that she is uninjured." "Go! Mademoiselle is recovering!" cried Megrim. And lo! a pulse began to play under the white temple, a streak x of red flashed into the colorless cheek. Paulette opened her black eyes?a perpetual surprise in that blonde face - ?and looked around. "Sacre!" exclaimed Megrim, stamping and shaking the high white cap. "Will not you go, monsieur? Directly, I say!" "Thank heaven, she is not hurt!" j cried Varneck in rapture. "Keep quiet woman. No, I will not go! Paulette! Paulette! Speak! Do you know me?" He fell on one knee beside the sofa and lifted her hand to his lips. "Monsieur, if you do not go." said Megrim. "I will call the police!" "Hush, shrew!" Paulette looked up at him in great * bewilderment. "You!" she gasped, "here?" "I snatched you from under the fee' i of the horses." he answered, somewhat reproachfully. "And I have taken the liberty to bring you home. Could 1 do less? Are you sure?quite sure you are not harmed?" She heaved a great breath. The memory of her escape went over her in a shudder. "No, no! Thanks. I remember all. You are very kind, and I am very grateful. May I ask you now to leave me?" The dragon opened the door sug^ gestlvely; but like a brazen Image stood Vameck. His face had lost its usual easy sang froid. It now looked /lushed and desperate. "Pardon," he pleaded, "one moment! You owe me a hearing?do you not? ? Paulette. cruel, beautiful child, what have I done that you should hate me?" "Stop!" she gasped, in distress. "Stop! say nothing more!" mmmmm iw mwiw w w w m twm V. PIERCE. I He knew that he had small time to spare?that a chance like this might never fall to him again. He put on a hurried and determined front "I think," he cried, "a man has the tight to tell a woman he lovee her, no matter what her answer may be! I think she is bound to hear him. And I love you, Paulette, and I am in dead earnest about it. For weeks I've been waiting only for a chance to ask you to marry me." Her dull ear took in hardly a word of tms appeal. Half fainting again, she fell back on the sofa, repelling him with a gesture. He recoiled a pace, growing pale. He was a man who did not know how to take "no" for an answer when his heart demanded "yes." Moreover, the mad, unreasoning love of early youth goaded him on. With a great cry he cast himself beside her; his arms closed suddenly around her. He dragged her up to him and pressed her to his breast In spite of all resistance. "You shall answer me!" he cried. "Paulette, do you understand me aright? I love you, I repeat! Have you no pity for m^ when I say that? I love you?yes, so well that I cannot live without you. Do not ask me to leave you. I cannot! Love for love! Paulette, love me?love me as I love you!" These words, loud and passionate In Varneck'a voice?Varneck! there?under that roof! holding the while, too, the childish figure pressed against his breast, her yellow hair falling over his flushed face, her ii? ip and lifeless body seeming to yield to his close embrace. "Gardez blen, monsieur!" screamed the old Frenchwoman. A * + akwill nmr r\f Hantrpf flJlfl Al Ulai Ollilil V? J V4 UW..QV. ? ? warning, Varneck turned. He heard a footstep, he saw a slanting shadow, and on the threshold of the room, staring in upon the scene, pale and . with greedy, blood-shot eyes that flashed hell-flre, stood St. John. He stood?he took in slowly, deliberately, the kneeling lover, the languid form his arms encircled. Then 1 his hand flashed quickly up to his 1 breast. "Mon Dieu!" shrieked the old 1 Frenchwoman, "fly! He will kill you!" Then there was a flash, a report, a ' cry, and Serle Varneck leaped to his 1 feet, staggered and fell face down to < the floor. 1 From her fatal swoon PauletTe ' this moment awoke?stung Into sud- 1 den, quivering life again, as by an elec- 1 trie shock. She sprang up colorless, disheveled, with that murderous shot 1 ringing through her ears, and stood i face to face with St. John. I "Guy!" she shrieked in a voice of < unutterable horror. "Oh, Guy! what i have you done?" i Never heeding her, never looking at < her, even, he ran and lifted Vameck i from the carpet?turned him over to ! the light. I "I've killed him!" he cried, and again, for the second time, and with i a dreadful look. "He is dead?I've i killed him!" He spurned the body with his foot. I "Guy! Guy! Guy!" she cried, and i rushed toward him, but he flung her 1 violently off. "Farewell!" he answered, wildly I "ther> is your lover?take him! Fare- < well. ;raitress! From this moment 1 you are free! Forget that I ever lived! As God hears me, I will never again look on your face?you shall never < look on mine!" I "Guy! oh, Guy!" 1 With a look that distorted his feat- ] ures beyond recognition, he thrust i her away. He turned and fled out of i the house and into the street. i "Come back!" she cried, groping af- ) ter mm?"come DacK:-' < She talked to a man mad with the maddest of earthly passions; she talked to a fugitive stung now by the Instinct of self-preservation; she talked to empty air, for St. John was gone. "Ah! great heaven! the police are coming, mademoiselle.!" cried Megrim. Strange feet ascended the steps? strange faces appeared at the door. She stood for a moment like some hunted wild creature, her dark eyes dilating in unutterable horror, this little bride of four short, troubled days; then a sudden darkness and pain and confusion laid a merciful touch upon her, and she fell, and knew no more. | CHAPTER VII. The sober day was fast waning when Paulette again opened her eyes. She was lying on a bed in her own chamber, and Megrim sat beside her, shaking noiselessly from a bottle the white grains of a narcotic powder. Paulette started at the high, bobbing cap, the wizen face with bristling chin, the skinny hand agitating the bottle?then she shrieked aloud: "Megrim! Megrim! Is he dead?" ' The old woman looked up. "Ah?" 1 "Dead, I say?speak! speak! That man Varneck?" "Lie down, petite!" said Megrim, putting away the powder. "Non, he lives. They have taken him away. Many people came?his friends came? they carried him off, I know not whither. He was then alive." 1 Paulette lay pondering this. "Do you know?have you heard"? she began, but could not go on. "I have heard nothing of monsieur who shot him," said Megrim, quietly. 1 "I know nothing of him. I told as little to those people as possible; but, 1 bah! they guessed all things. The house Is closed?the street Is quiet. I have cleaned all stains from the room below. Mademoiselle, you nave noth- 1 ing to dread." Paulette fell back on her pillow. She : lay staring blankly up at the wall. Was n* ii rcauiy ?ii" oimiic iiuuiuic uivmii . Six o'clock struck. It was pitch-dark in the chamber, and Megrim rose to ' light a gas jet. As she turned from doing this she found her little mistress standing in the centre of the < room, shivering and wild-eyed. JOHN E. BRADLEY, WHO FINA John R. Bradley, explorer, travelen very picturesque and interesting indlvl hood of $50,000. "This," he declares, 'J The sum numed covers the cost of tfcl _o_n o_it_* ai'11 v t-nnpomintr fho otr ppf fry1 Cook's outfit Bradley declared that an "Help me Into my clothes!" she commanded. "I shall be late for the play." "The play!" echoed the old woman, aghast. "Dleu! Mademoiselle, you cannot mean that, after what has happened, and you like a ghost from the 5 rave!" With a burst of wild laughter, Paulette turned and surveyed herself In a mirror on the wall. A dozen years seemed to have passed over her in the last few hours. She hardly knew her 5wn face. She fttfetred in amaze a* Ha pinched, ashy outlines, wan mouth, lauiv-iuauo ccs. "I look like a butterfly with broken wings," she said; "but no matter?I must act People will flock to see me tonight My name by this time Is In Bverybody's mouth?my reputation jone forever. No matter; I must play my part all the same. Megrim, my Jress! Hasten! I will do my best? rouge for my cheeks?no human being shall look on me in this plight?and a sflass of wine, or I shall die!" The old woman flew for the liquor md held it to her colorless Hps as she arulped it down. "Mademoiselle, you can never reach the play?you cannot stand. Bid me ?o to monsieur the manager and tell him you are 111." "No, no! Be quiet! The faintness Is going. They must see what I can Jo tonight, for I shall never play before them again?no, never!" And then she went. The shooting of Vameck had, lnJeed, been noised from end to end of the city. In consequence, as Paulette had predicted, the house was densely packed. Everybody was curious to see the naughty little artist for whose sweet sake one man that day had nearly yielded his immortal soul, and mother was a fugitive flvlne fmm outraged justice. Up went the curtain, and in the second scene the favorite glided out upon the boards. Her pallor was disguised by rouge; her yellow hair fell down about her white shoulders; she made a picture of fresh, Innocent, childish beauty. At sight of her an Irrepressible murmur of applause stirred the body of the house. Mingling with this?dropping from the gallery above and stabbing her like so many darts? she heard, for the first time in her life, hisses?long-drawn, venomous hisses. She grew pale. She looked wildly around. She seemed about to faint; but the next moment she rallied, nodded her bright head to the audience and flung herself with great abandon into her part. Her brain was on fire. The noise of waters in her ears drowned out her own words. Nevertheless, she played as she had never played before. The sea of faces before her?curious, sneerIncr fnppa thnt striiplf torrnr nrwl orar?_ fusion to her soul?she did not see. Her eyes were fixed on one spot only, and that was the vacant orchestra chair occupied the night before by Varneck. From that seat he had flung her the bracelet; from that seat often she had seen his adoring face upraised to hers in the gaslight. This night it was filled, but not, alas; by him. This night a face fixed, intent, fascinated, looked up at her from It, but it was not Varneck's. This one was bronzed and old. It had the beak of an eagle, and fierce, white mustaches overhanging the haughty, irritable mouth. It belonged to a man with a soldierly bearing, and the aristocratic air which one long used to command unwittingly assumes. A heavy cloak lined with fur was spread across his knees, and he sat watching the little actress with an amused look which softened greatly his stern old visage. He seemed quite alone, and spoke to no one. She had come to play comedy with a breaking heart, and she played It well. Blue and shivering, hardly able to stand, she was helped off the stage, at the close of the second act, to receive the compliments of the greenroom. "Excellent!" said the manager, "excellent, Miss Rale! You quite surpass yourself. We hardly expected such NCED DR. COOK'S POLAR DASI R. BRADLEY. and big game banter, who financed Dr dual. According to Bradley, tbe Cook < 'shows that Dr. Cook did Dot go to the le ship used and the Cook-Bradley huntii ith of the Eskimo. In explaining why tv i Eskimo will travej thirty miles for on 13wE*oll fiy * / tr/ * E. H. HARRIMAN The greatest organizer of railroad* the world has ever known, died at his magnificent home at Arden, N. Y., yesterday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. Because of the effect It was known his death would have on the stocks of the thousands of miles of railroad controlled by him, the news of his death was suppressed until after the close of the stock exchange. Mr. Harrlman's health had been a factor in the stock market since his return from Europe, and the extent to which his death may have been discounted will develop later. Mr. Harriman worked his way up in the railroad world from the bottom, and his wealth aggregates many millions. spirit after?ahem! the unpleasant affair of the morning." r or years iuici raun.v;r tuuiu ncici recall this night but with shudderd? the staring crowd, the hot air, the lights, the whirlwind of sweet sounds from the orchestra, and, above all, the Jupiter front of the old aristocrat In Vurneck's seat, seen, as through a glass, darkly. It was In the last act. Haggard and deadly white, except for the spots of rouge on her cheeks, she had gone on merrily, brilliantly, with her part? played it out almost to the bitter end. The electrified house could not but applaud. Generous and hearty broke out tne voice ot tne auuience, una now no hisses mingled with It. She came forward and stood before the footlights?pressed close up to their spurting jets like a daring little moth, her dizzy eyes seeing nothing?all things swimming together before her sight. As she stood thus, the lights dickered suddenly In a draught of air?a little serpent-shape of lire leaped up and fastened its red tooth in the hem of her garment. The next moment Pau lette was wrapped from Head to root in a sheet of llatne. "Merciful God, save her!" shrieked a hundred voices. Up leaped the audience en masse, but the first to reach Paulette was the Jupiter-fronted figure from the orchestra chair. He sprang upon the stage with his heavy cloak in his hand. The roof that had not ceased to echo the applause of a moment before rang now with frightened cries. Through a veil of smoke and fire Paulette saw the bronzed face with the white mustache. and felt his arms clasping her? tearing her draperies away, smothering and binding her in the great cloak with the fur lining. Rolled therein, as in a chrysalis, she stood, while he squeezed out in its hoary folds the hor flames; then, snatching her like a child to his breast, he ran into the greenroom. The curtain fell. (To be Continued.) [, AND DECK OF THE JOHN . Cook's dash to the north pole. Is a expedition cost him In the nelgbbornortb pole with only a straw bat." i? tour. Bradley has also qualified as ro barrels of gum drops were part of p gum drop. | DETAILED CROP REPORT ISSUE. Figures For Different States Given By Secretary Hester. Supplementing his report on the cotton crop for 1908-09, as issued on August 81, Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, last Tuesday made a detailed report of the crops of the different states as follows: Alabama 1,428,000, against 1,171,00# last year;' . r'wArtaftses 1,052.000, against 78.7.000. Florida 75,000, against 60,000. Georgia 2,118,000, against 1,964,000. Louisiana, 486,000, against 673,000. Mississippi 1,673,000, against 1,496,000. North Carolina 747,000 against 689,000. South Carolina 1,298,000, against I,226,000. Tennessee 426,000, against 335,000. Texas, 3,819,000, against 2,221,000. Oklanoma 704,000, against 950,000. Total crop 13,826,000, against 11,672,000 last year. He puts the spindles in the south at II,265,787, including old, idle and not complete, against 10,661,308 last year, an increase of 694,479. Referring to the consumption by American mills, Mr. Hester says that north and south they have had a season of unparalleled activity. In no past I year, he states, have they consumed so much cotton, and phenomenal as the extent of the business has been, it has not reached the limit of their capacities. The money value of the past commercial crop, he states, is in round figures $683,794,000, showing that while the number of bales marketed was 2,243,000 bales more than last year, the increase in money received was but $11,509,000, equivalent to $5.11 per bale for the excess, and yet Mr. Hester contends that considering all the circumstances if ever a crop was sold at a good round price, it was the one under review. In the south, Mr. Hester makes the consumption 366,596 more than last year, and 120,765 over the year before last. Twenty-one new mills are building in the southern states, and including additions to old establishments, 10,000 new looms and 511,294 new spindles are under way. The increase in the number of mills over last year has been eight, making a total of 841. The year's consumption has been divided as follows: States. Consumption. Increase. Alabama 251,871 46,261 Arkansas 6,038 < 2,190 Georgia 556,119 74,767 Kentucky 36,290 1,694 Louisiana 17,244 3,331 Mississippi 48.691 3,529 Missouri 14,826 6,449 North Carolina 759,295 130,414 South Carolina 700,352 75,806 Tennessee 69,211 9,154 Texas 42,456 8,675 Oklahoma 2,568 954 Virginia 77,912 3,382 Total 2,559,873 366,596 In conclusion, Mr. Hester says the facts concerning this remarkable year in cotton consumption speak for themselves, but It is safe to say that had they been estimates instead of plain, unvarnlshpd truths, even extremists would have been justified in classing them as exaggerations. In the south he says, "We have brushed 2,600,000 bales closely during the past year, and this close on the heels of the panic, with 215 out of a total of 786 mills from one to two months late in getting under headway. Most of the new, not complete spindles will be in working order before the coming year's close, and with these on the basis of the 1904-05 consumption per spindle, the capacity of the southern mills will be something like 2,800.000 to 2,900,000 bales." The Real Value of Sheep.?The census report can not give the real value of sheep. Outside of the value of sheep as producers of meat and wool, there is a benefit conferred by them to land. Pastures occupied by sheep be come richer every year, and bushes, weeds and briars, which so readily grow where they are not desired, are kept down by sheep and their places occupied by grass. The poorest kind of land, if given up to sheep, even if it is necessary to allow feed to them, will be made productive in a few years. RURAL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Upon It Depends Welfare ot Country And Town. GOOD ROADS, SCHOOLS-PROGRESS. Address of Miss Thso Dargan, President of the Rural School Improve..men* Association of South Carolina, a Paper That May be Read With Interest and Profit by all Classes of Peonle. Following Is the address that Miss Theo Dargan of Stateburg, delivered before the Farmers' Institute In Yorkville last Tuesday morning: I am glad to have an opportunity to explain the work of the South Carolina School Improvement association to the people of York county, and I thank Mr. Williams and Mr. Martin for their Invitation to me to be here and take part in these exercises. We have active county associations in nearly all the counties, they are doing hne work, having twentyeight county organizers. York county has one of these. The work Is divided into three branches?the local association, which Is composed of the people of the community, the teachers of the school, and the pupils. These local associations do a great deal for a community. They can not only improve their schools by building new school houses, putting in modern equipments and beautifying the yards, hiit ran build un the whole neighbor hood. They can put up telephones, work the roads, have contests on raising poultry, dairying, gardening?both flower and vegetable?stock raising, cooking and Held products of cotton and corn. The county association Is for the purpose of having the local association come together and compare the work they have done In the year. There need not be but two meetings of the county association. One In the fall, to plan the work, and one in the spring to bring In reports of the work accomplished. The state association which meets annually, usually at the capitol, in Columbia, has two delegates from each county. The state association has $200,000 appropriated by the general assembly of the state, to be used to offer prizes for Improved material conditions of the school?like better grounds, better school houses, more libraries, more pictures on the walls, better musical Instruments and improvement in all other things that go to give a better equipment to the teaching force. There are thirty-five of these prizes?five of $100 each, thirty of $60 each. I know you will regret to learn that York is not an advanced county in this undertaking, as it has only one entrance for these prizes. A people of such well recognized Intelligence as you are of this county, should be, and doubtless will be some day soon among the leaders in the good work. You have yet time to catch up and attain leadership should you desire to do so, as the contest does not close until October 1st. It would be well for your local papers to copy In full what is said on this subject in the bulletin gotten out by the association, a few copies of which I have with me. Now, let me say a word In regard to the importance of having good schools in the country. To put the matter in a nutshell, none but worthless people will neglect the education of their children, and if there are no good schools in the country, there will soon be no good people there, and when all the worth gets in the town, then there will be destitution in the country and destitution in the country ultimately means final unison in ' the towns. For there Is nothing surer than the inter-dependence of these two modes of life?I mean decent life, for even seml-barbanlans must have villages of some sort for the distribution of the articles of use in their II vos fnrul n Inthlnq' onH Imnlpmpnfs of industry. So the country people need the towns certainly as distributing points and as centres of culture, of which they must take advantage if they would attain the best civilization, and surely no person with a thlmblefull of sense ever said that towns could get along without the country as a support. Foolish as killing the goose that lays the golden egg Is that townsman who is willing to see the country stripped of intelligent and industrious people. So then, talking to an intelligent mixed audience of town and country people, it Is not necessary for me to argue their inter-dependence. Have all the good schools in the city and thereby attract all the good people from the country, simply means ruin for both. xnow, lei us see, as mis is our special work today, by what methods we may make the country keep pace with the town in the onward and upward march of civilization. Well, to begin at the bottom, there must be material prosperity in the country. The agencies there for improvement must be used to the very best advantage. The land must be brought to a state of highest productiveness by such an economic arrangement as will leave in the hands of the farmers a fair and full share of the wealth they produce, and the country school will never perform its proper work until it proves Itself a centre for the spread of this kind of information, where not only the regular pupils of the literary deno mon f mnv erica thnnerVif nnel lohrtl* to agricultural and horticultural subjects, but where the farmers and their families, not of the school age, may come to learn and go home to work more Intelligently and profitably. This Is used In the broadest sense to mean that country schools should teach all the inhabitants of the community In which they are located, such subjects as poultry raising, dairying, bee culture, as well as stock raising and field work in the larger crops and for ornamentation, which should be as much considered in the country as In the town, floral products should have their place of appreciated value. Then to these must be added as of prime consequence, facilities of transportation and travel. The Intimacy between the superintendent of education and supervisor of roads should be of the closest kind and they should be devoted co-workers In the great cause of community advancement. The school and the road are the main agencies for the advancement of man along all lines of life, and the compar ative difficulty of having good roads in the country makes the difference existing today between the progresBiveness of town and country. Trade relations, social relations, moral relations, and Intellectual relations must be stimulated and developed to make an enlightened people. Oive us good roads and there is nothing surer than that we shall soon have good schools In the country and with good schools and good roads, good people will flock to the country, as they are now doing to the town. The county that has a good superintendent of education and a good supervisor of roads, will as certainly have good farmers as life follows light It Is encouraging, indeed, to see the great awakening in reference to the needs of country life?that Is, taking hold of the American mind everywhere, and grateful are we that the ex-president of the nation has given as one of his last earnest words to congress, in a message, a most forceful expression of the nation's anxiety that country life should have as great attrac tlons for our most worthy people as city life and It will be to the advantage of every resident In the country, and especially to the teachers In the rural schools, to devote earnest study not only to this magnificent message, but to the edifying report of the commission on which It is based. It is the high privilege of true patriots to look for fields of greatest usefulness in the nation's development, at every period of its history and certainly the Industrial field is the inviting place for patriotic effort today. And as all faithful service, to be most efficient, must carry with it the elements of sacrifice, let us not wait until rural life charms us with its attractions, to begin the work of rural school advancement; but now, while the needs are the sorest and the hardships are the greatest, let us enter into this work, with earnest and persevering labors for its betterment, if we would enjoy the highest privileges of patriotic service.. ABOUT THE CHAINGANG. Interested Citizert*/Uks For 8omc Information. Editor of The Tortile 'Enquirer: I desire to request the bse of sufficient space in your valuable columns to develop iniormdtlon on a public question that 1 do not exactly understand, and to say that I have no other purpose In trying to develop this other than to cry to secure equity and justice for the whole county. I have reference to the manner in which the law regulating the assignment of the chalngang is being observed at the present time. Although not present on the occasion, I have heard it stated that 8ui nArvlnnr Dnrrlnn ronnntlv tnlH n r?nm mlttee of citizens In the court house at Yorkvllle that the chalngang Is now engaged in working out a contract with the city of Rock Hill, whergby .the county is undertaking to give bick.to Catawba township, laDor to"tw'TOlue of 2,800 days In return for a like amount of labor municipal convicts sent from the city of Rock Hill had given to the county. As I understood it, the supervisor said he did not make my such contract; but was merely caciying out a trade that a previous boam made with the city of Rock Hill; but after paying back these 2,800 days he would give Catawba township In addition, her pro rata share of the two years' division to which she is entitled by law. Now, I am not prepared to say that this is an absolutely correct statement of the situation, or that Supervisor Gordon has been correctly quoted by the different people from whom I get my Information; but I am prepared to say that if Supervisor Gordon has been correctly quoted and my statement Is a fair representation of the situation, that, as I see it, the whole thing is so unjust and ridiculous as to make it seem amazing that anybody could expect it to have the sanction of fair-minded. Intelligent . men. As I see it, under the law, Catawba township is entitled to the chalngang in exactly the same proportion as the other townships?no more and no less, and if she has had her share of 1 the two years specified In the law, i thin the chalngang should be used elsewhere. What is the basis of the alleged trade between the city of Rock Hill and the county board of commission- < ers? Surely the county never agreed to receive, feed, guard and doctor every municipal convict that the city was glad to get rid of, and then, in the course of time, give in return for such doubtful consideration, day for day of the whole chaingang plant, Including superintendent, guards, doctors, mules, tools, and everything for 2,800 days! Of course, I understand that the 2,800 days mean that number of days for one man; but at what rate is the unguarded, unfed, undoctored, unsupervised municipal convict figured against the supervised, guarded, fed, doctored, power and machinery provided convict of the county? According to my view and understanding of the case, the chaingang Is a positive boon to every municipality In the county in taking care of convicts who are unable or unwilling to pay their fines, for without the chaingang to fall back on, these municipalities would have to pay out all they receive In fines to support those convicts who elect to work or go to jail, and I venture, as an estimate, that the county chaingang plant, counting convicts, mules, rolling stock and machinery, with the supervision and guarding ?hat goes with it, could give back ?. a r<onth, dollar for dollar, all '.'.at net value it has received from all the municipal convicts it has had from the whole county from the date of the establishment of the chaingang to the present time. 1 am aware that there is an old law tnat sanctions iraues uciwccii tuun- ? ties and municipalities, under which law the counties may make good to municipalities the convict labor that munlcipaltles furnish to counties; but however Inspeciflc Is tills law In Its provisions, I do not think It can be fairly used to Justify such a situation as we have under consideration. If It is a fact that some former board of commissioners made a foolish trade like this, I do not see that such a trade would be binding to the present board. In the first place there was no sense or reason In the trade, and in the second place the law governing the chaingang In this county has been changed. In Section 12 we find: "It (the chaingang) shall be assigned as equitably as possible by the county board of commissioners, to work In each township in the county during a period of two years," and in the same section: "Provided further, The work of the chaingang ..Unit V\n " * "11 * I ?V? rt O VlA AVaIh. aiiu.ii uc ul un iiwtco uimci me caviu- I slve supervision and direction of the county supervisor." 1 I think that the law should be ob- y served and that the chaingang should j be distributed around among the townships, giving each its pro rata of ' the two years, and that if Catawba has already gotten her share, she s should not have any more until her . time comes around again. I have no desire to be unfair or un- 1 just, and if anybody thinks they are t able to see where I have been unfair j or unjust, I am quite sure that The . Enquirer will give space for a full 1 reply. 1 O. R Wilkins. Yorkville, S. C., September 8. gfrjgaltantou# fading. YORK BAPTI8T A880CIATI0N. Proceedings of Forty-First Annual Meeting. Reported for The Yorkvllle Enquirer. Flint Hill Church, September 9.? The forty-first annual aeaalon of the York Baptist association convened with Flint Hill church on Tuesday, September 7. The Introductory sermon was preached by the appointee, Rev. R. T. Marsh, pastor of First church, Rock Hill, his text being' Epheslans 111, 20. The sermon received the undivided attention of the congregation, and was an especially clear, forceful, textual presentation of the subject At the close of the Introductory ser vice, Edward R. Reaves, moderator, took charge of the meeting, and submitted the following as the order, of business, which was adopted with the understanding that It was subject to change and amendment Tuesday?11 a. m., Introductory sermon by R. T. Marsh; 12?Adjournment for dinner; 1 to 1.46?Enrollment of delegates; presenting church letters; L46?Election of officers; 2 to 2.30?Report on state missions; 2.30 to 4.00?Report on aged ministers; 4 to 4.30?Appointing committees, assignment nf homes, etc.. adlournment Wednesday?9.30 to 10?Devotional exercises; 10 to 11?Report on home missions; 11 to 12?Report on foreign missions; 12 to 1?Adjournment for dinner; 1 to 1.80?Report on temperance; 1.30 to 2.15?Report on orphanage; 2.16 to 3?Report on education; 3 to 3.30?Report on woman's work; 3.30 to 4.30?Report on Sunday school*. Thursday?9.80 to 10?Devotional exercises; 10 to 10.30?Report on obituaries; 10.30 to 11.30?Miscellaneous reports; 11.30 to 12?Miscellaneous reports and final adjournment After adoption of the foregoing, the moderator, in behalf of the association extended a welcome to the following visiting brethren, and stated * that It gave him great pleasure to welcome W. T. Derleux, assistant secretary of the state mission board; A. J. Nielson of Charleston, representing the church building department of the state mission board; McDowell, representing cue uapun courier, net, K. W. Hague, who has become pastor of Oak Grove since the last meeting; Rev. Alexander Miller, the recently appointed pastor of North Bide, Park and West End churches, Rock Hill; A. E. Willis, Rock Hill; Rev. W. A. Hefner, pastor of Fort Mill Presbyterian church. As their names were called, each arose-and made proper and appropriate acknowledgment Adjourned for dinner. The moderator next announced that if the representatives of any churches that desired admission to this association were present, the time was at hand for the presentation of credentials. Letters properly made out aMxp presented by representatives of Wset End and North Side churches. Rook Hill. /HSpPfP The chair then announced that the time had arrived for the election of a moderator, a cleric and a treasurer to serve during the ensuing year. R. T. Marsh moved that the old officers be re-elected by acclamation, the motion being duly seconded. After discussion by J. A. Tate, R. T. Marsh and Edward S. Reaves, at the suggestion of D. E. Boney that a rising vote be taken, the question was submitted, resulting in a vote of SI to 4, the question being put by R. T. Marsh, acting moderator. The moderator then announced that the following were the duly elected officers for the ensuing year: Edward S. Reaves, moderator; Sam M. Grist, clerk; W. F. Boyd, treasurer. In accordance with the programme adopted before noon adjournment, the report on state missions was read by the chairman, I. G. Murray. It was discussed by Alexander Miller, A. J. Nielsen, W. F. Derleux. Bro. Nielsen explained that he, under the auspices of the state mission board, was engaged in raising funds for the erection of a new church building to take the place of the present Cannon street house in Charleston, and explained the great need. Representatives of the various churches present promised that collections would be taken. A cash collection was taken. The report was adopted. The committee on hospitality of Flint Hill then submitted Its report assigning delegates and visitors to the homes where they would be entertained during their stay. Adjourned to 9.30 a. m., Wedneslay. Wednesday?Association was called to order at 10.16 by the moderator, who requested that any delegates who were lot present yesterday, present their lames. Rev. W. T. Thompson, pastor if Unity, was enrolled. In behalf of the association, the noderator extended a cordial welcome :o Rev. J. I Kendrlck. now a pastor In Louisiana, but a native of the Flint Hill section and a former member of flint Hill church. Bro. Kendrlck expressed his pleasure at once more atendlng a session of this association, ind also had something to say aa to ;he status of the Baptist denomination n Louisiana. The report on home missions was , ead by Rev. W. E. Lowe, chairman, ind was discussed by W. E. Lowe, J. ? Kendrlck, I. G. Murray, after which he report was adopted. The report on foreign missions was ead by Rev. R. T. Marsh, chairman, md was discussed by R. T. Marsh. \.t this point the moderator Invited 3rover C. Epps and J. Wendell Bar>er, members of Flint Hill, to come to ;he stand. The moderator stated that flint Hill had been contributing money .'or foreign missions for years and now t was his especial pleasure and prlvlege to present two young men, who md decided to go to the foreign fleld :o tell the gospel story. Both young nen are now students at Furman university, and will take up their chosen ife work when they have completed :helr education. R. A. McDowell, another Furman itudent, who will also give his life to he work on the foreign field, was invited to stand and made a talk along he line of the especial work in which ie was to engage, and was followed >y J. W. Barber, who in a short and nteresting speech, stressed the duty [Continued on Second Page.]