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XSSUEDSBKl-WBESX^ l. m. gbist's sons, publisher.. [ % dfamilg Deirspapei;: 4ax ihe {promotion of th? {political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of th< jpeopl*. { t ESTABLISHED 1855: YORKyiLLE. P. C.rTUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1914. I^oTe." \ ? < The Novelized from the Excit BY BERTRAM Copyright, 1912, by Cecil Raleigh with the Drury Lane Company ^ lins, managing director of the CHAPTER XI. ! Locked in the Chamber of Horrors. ^ At the henlike retreat of the Hon. Mrs, Beamish, Tom Lambert laughed long and loud, repeating some of her phrases of pity for the old woman who had robbed her. Finally, his mirth over, he put one leg partly across the Jury box rail, Intending to leave the place, seek out Mrs. Beamish and have a good laugh at her expense. But the voice of Sartoris and Mrs. D'Aquila outside de* J ?-?? ? ?1" f.n.o h|a F icrrcu iinti auu aeatu ?i w ...? ?| to a likeness of his conception of ft wax. The new Dr. Crippen was quite f immovable when Sartoris and the wo? man who maintained that she was the wife of Brancaster, came into the chamber of horrors. "We shall be all right here," she said. I suppose there's no chance of our getting shut in. There's a notice here about the hydraulic door closing ^ automatically after the bell rings." Sartoris laughed. "Only to frighten the bumpkins." he responded, "and add to the hor JUK |M? The New Or. CriDpen Wee Quite Immovable. rors. If it did close they'd hear us shout, I expect." The chance of it had Impressed the woman. "They wouldn't," she said. "I noqb ticed that. There'* a muffled door beyond, and on the last stroke of the clock every attendant will be rushing out for a last drink. Saturday night you know. I don't want to be locked in here until Monday." "In the dark, too!" commented the other. "If it comes oft I'll sit and hold your hand." Directly beneath Lambert and in B the same spot formerly occupied by * Mrs. Beamish, Mrs. I^Aquila seated herself and motioned the captain to her side. "Well, sit and talk quickly," she said. "I'm in a hurry. I've brought you all I could spare." She held out a number of banknotes to him. "Notes. I thought you'd prefer them?300 toward that interest." "Shan't ever be grateful enough," he said. "Quite sure you won't," she responded. "I'll give you something in return," he went on gloomily. "How sweet of you. What is it?" "Bad news." "Good gracious!" "That horse of Beverley?The Whip ^ ?has been tried?a ilier?the Two Thousand's a certainty. There was one moment while Sartoris was giving this piece of stable information when Lambert, The Whip's trainer, had much difficulty in remembering that he was an image of wax. He moved suddenly and had great difficulty in not leaving his perch and giving Sartoris the thrashing he knew ^ he deserved. But he believed that, since they were now on the subject of Ml his beloved horse, his patience would be vastly rewarded. Mrs. D'Aquila had not seemed starnl nrhflt SflrtnHa hfl/1 JUlld' lieu m *w. ^ "That doesn't sound bad," she said. "If one had a bit on at. say twenty"? "No chance," came from the captain. "Di must have told Brancaster, for he caught Kelly, the big bookmaker, half drunk and off his guard and rushed him with three big bets. If the Whip wins he'll win a fortune." "Brancaster!" she exclaimed in a voice of gloom, now thoroughly aroused. "Yes. He'll have lots of money to ' fight you with. If the horse gets beat he'll be nearly broke." In deep and dark thought the woman now was. "Horses do get beat sometimes," she 0 said. "Yes," said Sartoris, equally gloomy. "That's what Kel?what a chap I know said. When Klarikoff was favorite for the Ledger he got burned in his box. "In his stable?" she asked. "No, horse box on the railway," he returned. "I wonder how it was done," she said in a tone that might have stood for the suggestion of an evil deed, so sinister it was. Sartoris shrugged his shoulders. "Accident," he said in his thin voice. "I'd give something for another." "You would?" she asked in a peculiar tone. "Yes," he said, frankly. "I've had a plunge on something else. I want to see The Whip beaten. I must see her beaten. That's why I told you. You've got quick wits"? MBB "The Jockey," she suggested. "Honest idiot.*' "The stable?" "Guarded like the sultan's harem! 2 Beverley's pet fad." "Yes. the train's the place," she said, musingly, getting to her feet. Puzzled. Sartoris also arose. "How? Her lad and probably her clown of a trainer, I^amhert, will travel with her in the box on behind, and slip it at Manfleld, where the down ex Whip ing Play of Same Name. D BABCOCK and Hamilton by arrangement of America and Arthur ColDrury Lane theatre of London. press will pick it up"? "Slip it"?she said, while her thoughts were busy on some sudden problem. "Yes," he explained. "It's what they always do, don't you know, pull a string that undoes the coupling?and the 'torse box slows down and stops at the Junction while the train runs through"? "Has?has it ever gone wrong r" sne asked in a way to arouse his suspicions. "What?'* "The slip business. What would happen if the horse box were slipped too soon?say, Falconhurst tunnel?and left standing on the line?" "The next train would see the red tail light and stop," he said. There was a world of potential tragedy in the woman's voice as with the smile of a destiny of evil she went on: "But?in the dark?it will be dark? If some one had dropped off the tail light before the next train could stop?' "The box would be smashed," he said dazedly. "And the horse?" She paused for a full moment. Then she went on: "The train does not run fast through the tunnel. I've been there dozens of times. I've seen guards do the thing. It's easy enough?to swing from car riage to carriage?along the root piaie ?to drop off the red tail light?to pull the slip and yet the next train"? With her hands brought violently together she let inference finish her sentence for her. "Whom could one trust?" demanded Sartori8 suddenly. "When I've work to do," she said, "1 only trust myself." "But you couldn't"?he began. "No, but you could easily?if you were on the train," she said. "It you joined it farther north and none knew it?you could do it?if you want it done so badly and you have the pluck"? She was interrupted by the ringing of the bell which gave notice that the hydraulic door would close shortly. "Ah, the door!" she exclaimed. Then in a low but strong tone she went on: "What's going to happen? Is The Whip going to win, or will there be an accident?" For a full half minute Lambert stared after them; then he leaned over the ; inrv box and sfiootTVis fist in the di- ' rection of the retreating pair. "No; there won't, my pretty lady," { he said aloud, the solitude and the 1 company of the waxen images inclining him to hear the sound of his own voice. "There'll be no accident. Why? Because that clown of a trainer Lambert will stop it?because he'll send his horse safe to the post first and he'll talk to you two after?tell you what 1 he heard?tell you to your face what . you are"? ' The second bell rang, and immedi- < ately without waiting to allow any 1 who might be in the chamber of horrors to get out, the unseen attendant 1 on another floor pulled a lever, and the door closed with a hard bang. ' Lambert was locked within the cham- < ber of horrors, with no way of escape : until Monday. i "Here stop that!" he roared as he i got down from the jury box, and tried ' to open the door, "I tell you there's ; some one inside?open the door at once?don't play the confounded fool. I tell you It's most important?let me j out!" But he could not bulge the door. Then he put his hands to his mouth and shouted: "Help, help, help!" "All of the lights except a few near the ceiling were switched out, adding to the terror of the trainer's situation. "Don't do that?don't do that!" he faiTly howled. "Stop it?don't leave me here in the dark?I shall go mad? alone here for a day and a night and another night till Monday, while"? Into his frenzied mind there came thought of The Whip. At the picture of his beloved and first member of the Beverley string lying upon some railroad track dying, his terror increased as he cried: "They are smashing my horse? they'll smash The Whip?while I'm locked up here?they shan't?let me out, I say?let me out!" The maniroia tortures 01 ine situation were too much for the trainer and he sank down, sobbing and screaming while even tjie lights in the ceiling faded away. ** * * * * * Mrs. Beamish was decidedly uneasy as she sat in the morning room at Falconhurst, on the evening following the locking into the chamber of horrors of Tom Lambert. Lord Beverley had been furious when Lambert failed to appear and Lady Di was even then at the station to see The Whip put safely into the horse box for the trip to Newmarket. Once or twice she had been on the point of telling the marquis of Lambert's plight, but she had decided to hold her tongue. She had recognized the posing trainer almost the moment her eyes had fallen on the place in the jury box where Dr. Crippen should have been, and she had deliberately planned to stay so late in the chamber that Lambert, who knew nothing of the hydraulic door, would have no time to escape, and would be obliged to remain there from Saturday night until Monday. Now Beverley had just left her. He had threatened to give Lambert the sack, and she knew that the trainer's place was in danger. Her conscience smiting her she glanced up at the clock. "Five and twenty prst 7," she said aloud in her hard, dry voice, with its note of a too abundant humor. "Ten o'clock last night. Ten to ten's twelve hours and ten to half past seven's another nine?twenty-one hours alone In that chamber of horrors! Well, serves him right, and a good lesson for him. Let him dream of his Myrtle!" She tried to turn to something else, but in spite of her her thoughts would go to Lambert. "Poor devil," she sighed, "how hungry he must be! I wonder if he has any cigars with him!" And then thougn she had quite determined to do no such thing, her hand almost of its own volition and with certainly no willing force from her, took up the telephone and her , voice called for Mme. Tussaud's. Without much difficulty she got the place and explained to the night watchman that she had reason to believe that "a Mr. Lambert" was locked in the chamber of horrors. She held the line for a time and finally had the satisfaction of hearing a humble, discreet voice at the other end, which still had a cold defiance in it, beneath A ? ff'' ' JraBBsiili#'" WBm v-'M am zptx\ an m B -.0**- ?--? ? pp^afl hv r "Tired of being a wax work?* the veneer of humility. "Ah, Lambert!" she exclaimed over the wire. "They've got you out, eh? Tired of being a wax work?" But the trainer paid no attention to the jibing quality of her tones and plunged into a recital of what he had heard while he posed as Dr. Crippen. "It's not true," she exclaimed over the wire. "You're inventing it to get at me! Tom Lambert, will you swear It Is true?" 1? Lord Beverley entered during her concluding words and she explained rapidly to him. "What cock and bull story's this?" he demanded. But after another short taiK wun Lambert she continued to Beverley: "It's true! He says he overheard a plot to kill The Whip. They mean to uncouple the horse box at Manfleld junction Just the other side of the tunnel and leave it where the down express'll run into it and smash the whole thing up." Lord Beverley now talked to Lambert in his turn. "It this story of yours is true, whose plot is it?" he asked. "What! Captain Sartoris! Greville! Are you mad or drunk, sir, to make such an accusation? You'll take your oath upon it? Going by the same train as rhe Whip?prevent the horse's starting at any cost. Yes; I'll do that." He snapped up the receiver when they heard the whistle of the train as ! IColonnhn rot ctfltlnn "You can't. There goes the train," lamenteo Mrs. Beamish. "Too late!" exclaimed Beverley. "I wouldn't have that horse hurt for three times what she stands to win. Good heavens, Betty, Harry Anson and the others?we must save them." But Mrs. Beamish was already on her agitated but rapid way to the door. "And we will!" she cried. "It is my doing. My stupid jealousy has led to it all. It's my duty to put things straight, and I'm going to do it." "How?" quizzed the marquis. "Give me the big motor and a couple of men," she said, "and I'll race the train and get to the tunnel first." (To be Continued.) Cotton Seed and Linters.?There has been 396,934 bales or nniers odtained from 3,009,759 tons of seed crushed from the cotton crop of 1913 to December 31, the census bureau announced last Friday. This compares with 352,972 bales of linters obtained and 2,739,897 tons of seed crushed to December 31, 1912. The quantity of seed crushed by tons and number of bales of linters obtained from the 1913 crop to December 31, by states follow: Seed Linters States. Crushed Obtained Alabama 262,854 32,873 Arkansas 172,562 22,295 Florida 17,578 1.677 Georgia 515,036 65,445 Louisiana 101,962 13,443 Mississippi 281,827 34,412 Missouri 22,887 2,381 North Carolina .... 162,745 17,572 Oklahoma 187,886 29,002 South Carolina .... 238,367 26,715 Tennessee 151,221 19,234 Texas 860,758 128,792 All other states .... 34,276 3,093 ? Greenville News: In order to pro tect themselves against persons who can but will not pay, the doctors of the Greenville County Medical association have decided upon a "black list." Each doctor will from time to time submit the names of his wilfully delinquent patients, together with the amount due him, and these names will be listed in a common book for the reference of all the doctors. Calls from these patients, unless emergency, will not be answered and even then the payment must be in cash, and the patient or the patient's family given to understand that no further calls will be answered until the amount due the doctor is paid. There will be no slighting of charity patients as the resolutions adopted provide that all the indigent sick shall be treated. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files ol The Torkvllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF VESTERDAV i Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose Is to bring Into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. Having commenced with the year 1856, it is the desire of the editor to present from the records, a truthful and accurate picture 01 conditions as they existed . Immediately proceeding the Civil war. This will he followed by a review of the war period, Including the names of York county soldiers who went to-the war singly and In companies, and then will follow the events of the re-construction period ' and the doings of the Ku-Klux. All along the editor will keep in mind incidents of personal interest, marriages and deaths of well known people, weather events and general happen- ! Ings out of the ordinary. In the meanMme persons who may desire further information about matters that may ; have been only briefly mentioned are invited to call at the office of the edi- ' tor and examine the original records. 1 , NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT Thursday, May 20, 1858.?Our friend C. J. McKee/of Rock Hill, has sent us a 4 .ole of the prices at which he has sold his cotton crops since the year 1835. It will be seen that the average ' is something over 8.35 per pound, dur ing the twenty three years. The table : is as follows: 1835 10 1847 10 1836 16 1848 6} 1837 9 1849 9} ' 1838 8} 1850 11 1839 83 1851 10 1840 9 1852 8} ' 1841 81 1853 9$ , 1842 7 1854 8) 1843 71 1855 7] 1844 4 1856 10 ' 1845 4} 1857 111 1846 9 1858 Thursday, May 27, 1858.?Governor i Aliston has remitted the sentence passed on Ephraim Mitchell, in Chester for negro stealing; on condition that he leave the state within a month. He was released last week. In regard to the ( negro Wash, who has been twice con- , victed and sentenced and twice obtained new trials, a compromise has been | effected between the parties interested. , ^ J? -,.411 KA ?ava?<A1V Al All Kill iy UOJ lie mu uc DCTC1BV whipped and immediately banished , from the state never to return. I Married on the 20th instant by Wm. , McGill, Esq., Mr. J. F. Horton, and Miss ( M. A. Fairess, all of this district. On Tuesday, the 18th instant, by Rev. R. A. Ross, Mr. Samuel .Larthrage, and Miss Nancy Scott, all of this district. Near Ebenezerville, on Tuesday, the 18th instant, by Rev. J. G. Richards, Mr. Daniel C. Williams of Yorkville, I and Miss Mary J., daughter of the late Wm. S. May, of the former place. i Thursday, June 8, 1858.?Married on 1 the 6th ultimo, by Rev. Bonner, Mr. ' Joseph Austell, of Spartanburg district, ' and Miss Mary Jane Borders, of Cleve- 1 land county, N. C. ( 1 Yorkville Prices Current. Coffee, Rio 14 to 16 > Candles, Sperm 50 to 62 < Adamant 25 to 35 | Mackerel, No. 3 per barrel ..*.... 12 00 per kitt 3 50 Molasses, N. O. per gallon 60 ' Muscovado 50 : Cuba 40 to 45 , Nails, cut 5J Rice 4 00 ' Sugar, Brown per pound .. .. 10 to 11 1 Refined per pound .... 12i to 16 2-3 < Salt, per sack 1 90 Yarn per bunch 1 30 Butter 12J to 15 Beef 61 to 7 Beeswax per pound 16 to 17 Cotton 91 to 111 Corn per bushel 55 to 60 Chickens, each 121 to 15 Eggs per dozen 8 to 10 Feathers 30 to 35 Flour per barrel 4 00 to per 100 lb. sack 2 00 to .. Fodder per 100 pounds 70 Lard 11 to 12 Meal, per bushel 55 to 60 Oats per bushel 33 Pork per pound 61 to 7 Peaches, dried per bushel..2 00 to 2 50 Peas per bushel 75 to 80 Tallow per pound 12 to 12J Wheat per bushel 65 Wool per pound 25 to 28 A public meeting was held in Abbe ville last week and resolutions passed ' denouncing an individual named J. W. Wilkerson who under pretense of sell- . ing maps, was tampering with slaves in the district. * i Announcement is made of the death of William Alexander, postmaster and | the appointment of his son John R. ] Alexander as his successor. Thursday morning, June 17, 1858.? < Notice is given of the establishment of a public library, and the organization , of a debating club known as the "Lyceum" in the Temperance Hall. * ? ( Receipts.?Payments have been made for subscriptions to The Enquirer since the 13th of May by the following , persons to the date attached to each name. Parties interested will please | inform us of any* errors or omissions i promptly. Gilbert Hambright, Antioch, May 6, *59 M. Hullender, Antioch, May 6, '59 1 A. Hardin, Antioch, May 6, *59 J. M. Bird, Antioch, May 6, *59 i Jacob M. Deal, Antioch, May 6, '59 A. J. Deal, Antioch, May 6, '59 J. L. Barron, Clay Hill, Jan. 1, *59 R. G. McLean, South Point, N. C., May 6, '59 B. J. Patterson, Port Mill, May 20. '59 R. B. Cunningham, Liberty Hill, July 29, *58 T. W. Sturgis, Coate's Tavern. Oct. 2, '58 W. T. Glasscock, Coate's Tavern, Oct. 7, '58 Isaac Hyatt, Coate's Tavern, June 22, '59 David Roddy, Coate's Tavern, April 22, '69 D. T. Lesslie, Coate's Tavern, Jan. 1, '59 C. Wilson, Lincolnton, N. C.. Dec. 16, '59 M. J. Smith. Palmetto. Ga., May 6, '59 Col. J. D. Williams, Milton, Jan. 1, '59 S. J. Hemphill, Hazelwood, Jan. 1. '59 I,. B. Krimminger, Concord, N. C., May 20, '59 David Hyatt, Landsford, May 27, '59 H. D. McFadden, Landsford, May 27, '59 W. H. Poag, Smith's Turn Out, Nov. 25, '58 W. E. Waters, Rock Hill, May 20, '59 J. P. Miller, Rock Hill, Jan. 1, *59 Jesse Spencer, Rock Hill, Dec. 9, '58 J. D. Smarr, Bullock's Creek. Aug. 5, '59 J. M. Roberts, Bullock's Creek, Jan. 1, '59 J. & R. Quinn, Russellville, Ark., Feb. 11, '58 J. & E. B. Stowe, Stowesville, N. C. April 8, *59 L. W. Stowe, Yankee Jim's, Cal., March 11, '59 D. C. Anderson, Greenville. Jan. 1, '59 R. B. McFadden, ChestervMe, Oct. 7, '58 James Miller, Cureton's Store, July 1, '58 A. M. Hill, Crowder's Creek, N. C. April 22. '59 Capt. C. Q. Petty, Crowder's Creek, N. C. April 8, '59 C. R. McCarter, Crowder's Creek, N. C. June 3, '59 A. J. Dickey, Crowder's Creek, N. C. April 22, '59 Thomas F. Quinn, Crowder's Creek. N. C., April 22, *59 Clisby McCarter, Crowder's Creek, N. C., April 22, *59 W. D. Carroll, Crowder's Creek, N. C., April 22, '59 W. W. Torrence, Crowder's Creek. N. C. April 22. '69 Capt. J. C. Phillips, Zeno, June 3, '59 W. A. Barnett, Zeno, June 3, '59 G. W. Melton. Zeno, June 3, '59 Col. Thomas Davles, Zeno, June 3, '59 David J. Glenn. Zeno, June 3. '59 J. R. McCully, Zeno, June 3, *59 J. H. Glenn, Zeno, June 3, '59 T. E. Harper, Zeno, June 3, '59 R. J. Harper, Zeno, June 3, '59 B. G. Brown. Zeno, June 3, '59 J. F. Glenn, Zeno. June 3, '59 R. F. Currence, Zeno, June 3, *59 Newton B. Craig, Zeno, June 3, '59 J. D. P. Currence, Zeno, June 3. '59 Samuel E. Moore, Yorkville. Jan. 1, '5S J. R. Hudson, Yorkville. April 22. '59 Joseph R. Howe. Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 A. M. Jackson. Yorkville. Jan. 1, '59 Samuel Hemphill, Yorkville, Aug. 19, '58 MaJ. M. Jenkins. Yorkville. Apr. 15, '59 Rev. J. M. H. Adams, Yorkville. Jan. 1, '59 Prof. W. H. Orchard, Yorkville. Sept. 23, '58 John Burris, Guthriesvllle. Jan. 1, *59 J. M. McDowell, Guthriesvllle. Feb. 25, '59 E. M. Paris, Catawba Creek. N. C. July 22, '58 W. L. Erwln, Ranalesburg, N. C. June 10, '59 J. M. Strong, White Hall. N. C.. June 10, *59 Mrs. Sarah Sadler. Tirzah. Jan. 1, '59 Joseph Adams, New Centre. May 27, *59 G. W. Pearson, Crowder's Mount'n Nov. 18, '58 John E. Craig, HoganvIIle, Ga. June 3, *59 J. C- McCarter, Boggy Depot. Ark. Dec. 9, *58 J. ti. Carrol, Blairsville, May 13. '59 Capt. A. G. Neel, Steel Creek. N. C. Oct. 28, *58 A. R. Homesley, Shelby, N. C. June 24, '58 ? * We regret to chronicle this week the death ot Wm. Brown on Thursday last ln\he 92d year of his age. With a single exception we believe he was the oldest inhabitant of the district. Throughout his long career he gave his community and a well reared family, the example of an upright, honorable and useful life; and this generation must pass away before the hardy virtues which adorned the character of "Uncle Billy Brown," are forgotten. As he lived, so may he sleep, well! (To be Continued.) HOW LAWLESSNESS GROWS Blame Rests on Better Classes Who Would Do as They Please One great trouble with us in South Carolina?one reason why this state is jo far behind other states in so man> respects?is the little respect we have for the law. A great many of us do nnt nnv on j attention to a law that we I 3o not like. We are not deliberate lawbreakers; we Just ignore the law. And that this tendency is Just as strong among those who like to think if themselves as belonging to the better classes?those of us who are eduM.ted and intelligent and fairly wellto-do?makes it all the worse. We speak of the "lawless element," when is a matter of fact, there is little if iny distinction. Some depraved people violate certain laws deliberately, while ithers, who would resent being called :riminals, Just ignore certain laws they do not like and let it go at that. They argue that it is an unwise law, ar one that would cause great inconvenience if obeyed literally, so why should they bother with it? We do not like a law against the sale of whisky, therefore we encourage the blind tigers. We do not like the law against carrying concealed weapons, therefore we go around with a pistol in our hip-pocket. We do not like the law against gambling, therefore we meet with a few congenial friends and play poker or other games. fr\r mnnav Or u/a mo v flr?ha thfl t these are good enough laws for people tvho do not know how to restrain themselves and should be enforced as to those people, but they were not Intended to apply to us and our friends who know how to behave, and so we will just go along and ignore these laws in so far as they apply to us. And so it goes. We ignore the law that we do not find it convenient u obey, and other people ignore the laws which they do not approve of, and it goes on down to those whom we call the "lawless element." They violate laws that we think all people should bt made to obey, and we rail at the officers for not enforcing the law. We declare in our wrath and shame that it is a disgrace, and that the state is being ruined. And that is true. But the ruin is not being wrought by the lower classes; it is being wrought by those of us who know better, but wtu do not do better. We cannot expect the ignorant people, those who have not had the advantages that we have had, to do better than we do ourselves. When they see us ignoring one law it is perfectly natural for them to feel that they have a right to break other laws. And?mark you this?when we set out to enforce the law against them, and allow the priviliged few of our own set to go free, there is got to be deep resentment and we need not be surprised lr mere is serious trouble. If the trouble comes it will not be the ignorant classes who will be so much to blame; those of us who have set outselves above the law will be to blame. It may be said that there are unwise laws on the statute books. That is probably true. But who can tell whether a law is wise or not if it has not been observed? If a law is strictly observed, its unwisdom can soon be determined, and then it can be speedily repealed. A law not enforced dangerous, for it brings on non-enforcement of other laws?laws admitted to be necessary. It is better to submit in patience to a bad law than to bring about the non-enforcement of all law, and we are rapidly approaching the latter condition right here in South Carolina. This is a matter that the people ought to be thinking about and trying to bring about a change. If we do not soon bring about a change we are going to have some very bad times indeed in the state?much worse tin1 than any we have yet experienced.? Anderson Daily Mail. GEN FRANCISCO VILLA Mexican Bandit Who May Be Next President. LIFE RECORD OF CRUELTY AND CRIME Even Huerta ia a Dove of Peace in Comparison With the Outlaw Who Is Now in the Saddle?Changes His Faction to Suit Hie Conscience. Imagine a vicious-faced man of thirty-five, very much in need of a shave; a person of big muscles and swaggering gait, unkempt of dress and body and crude of speech, in every way unattractive and even repulsive?then you will have a picture of the type to which belongs Gen. Francisco Villa, or, ? ~ L ? ' * IrnAwn in Kio Knmn US lie AO UCllCi miunit ui mg state of Chihuahua, "Pancho Villa, tho bandit," says a writer in the New York Times. In the last month the news from Mexico has been news of the victories of Villa in northern Chihuahua, of his capture of historic old Cludad Juarez, the adobe city opposite El Paso; his butchery of captured Federal troops, and the capture of a few days ago of Chihuahua, capital of the state of the same name. Now it is . said Villa has determined to keep on going south, with Mexico City his objective point If he wins Mexico City it is as certain as anything can be that he will demand the reward that every Mexican conqueror demands and receives, the presidency of the republic. And what a president Villa would make! Even the thought of it makes every decent-minded man in Mexico shudder, for Huerta, though cruel and brutal, Is a saint compared to the outlaw of the mountains of Chihuahua. As has so often been the case in Mexico's revolution-cursed history, Juarez was the place from which began the triumphs of a rebel chieftain. Three weeks ago Ciudad Juarez fell for the sixth time in less than three years, and this time it passed to the tender mercies of Pancho Villa, upon whose head Porflrio Diaz placed a price in an effort to bring him to Justice to answer for a score of crimes, some involving murder These crimes were committed in i T ering succession in the days v - ilia was an out-and-out bandit, - .dowers then numbering a hundred or more of the worst characters to be found in Mexico. When the Madero revolution started Villa was a hunted man in the fast* ness of the Chihuahua mountains. His was the most hated name in that part of Mexico. "Half Indian and half ;! beast is how an El Pasoan once described Villa. He is half Indian, and whether the other half is beast, let the record tell. The complete list of murders the 1 responsibility for which directly or directly rests upon the shoulders of Villa has never been written. It probably never will be. It can oe stated, however, that a score is an estimate so moderate that it would make any ordinary Chihuahu$n laugh. Villa started his killing of men about nine years ' before the fall of Diaz. They tell a story in Chihuahua that he killed his first man because that man had in- J suited a woman member of the Villa clan. But not many people believe that yarn for Villa is not the kind of man , who kills for matters of simple honor. When he fights It is for reward, and the reward, if he can manage it, must ' be paid in gold, preferably American gold. Was Hunted for Ten Years. Before he became an outlaw Villa owned a small ranch in Chihuahua about 200 miles south of El Paso, Tex. As a ranchman he was a failure, and so in the course of time he became a , bandit. Such he continued to be until ! the advent of Francisco I. Madero, Jr. j At that time Villa was a bandit out- , law, and the rurales of Diaz had been chasing him without success for near- , ly ten years. It was said that there ( was not a water hole, nor a trail, nor a cave big enough to hide in throughout the fastnesses of the Chihuahua mountains that Villa and his men did not know about. It was an impossible task to capture him, as Diaz's men j soon found out. But old Porflrio appreciated the menace of a live Villa, ] and so the rurales kept on chasing the outlaw. w nen uiv ui-uau veici aiio ui madero switched the war against Diaz into Chihuahua, Villa came out of his retreat and sought an interview with the rebel leader. Madero was impress- ' ed with the man, and though appre- ' elating to the full the bandit's vicious 1 nature, he decided that Villa was a good man to have around, if for noth- 1 ing else than his hatred of Diaz. So Madero took Villa into the insurrecto army and commissioned him a colonel. That commission made possible the capture of Juarez three weeks ago and 1 the investment of the city of Chihua- 1 hua. Villa, who had left Chihuahua as a fugitive wanted for murder in the ' first degree, because of that favor of Madero was able-, ten years later, to re-enter it a conqueror. Once in the Madero fold, Villa be- 1 came one of the fiercest of all the Madero subordinates. He is of a jealous ' nature, and he wanted all the glory for 1 himself. That was why he soon became the bitter enemy of Pascal Orozco. another Madero lieutenant, and of Garibaldi, the young Italian, whose ability as an artilleryman did so much in the accomplishment of the Madero triumph. In those days Villa was unheard of on the American side of the Rio Grande. He was just an ordinary ' Mexican outlaw, with an unusual number of murders and robberies to his credit, and that was all. Under ' Madero his fame, if such it may be called, spread across tne ooraer. in 1 the spring of 1911, when It was seen 1 that the days of Diaz were numbered and that the triumph of Madero was < certain, Americans began to hear about the bandit chief who was fight- I ing with Madero. In battles fought in and around 1 Ahumada and Casas Grandees, en- 1 gagements that preceded the final 1 and decisive battles that were to complete the triumph of Madero, "Pancho, the Tiger," as they called Villa, fought , like the beast whose name had been given him. He realized that he was fighting against the man who had tried to bring him to justice and who had placed a money reward on his head. He was not fighting for constitutional rights. He was inspired by vengeance, not by love of country or his fellowman. Villa Fought Desperately. In May, 1911, the forces of Madero arrived on the outskirts of Juarez. Then the United States papers began to print long stories about Orozco, and Blanco and Gonzales, and Villa, and those of the so-called Foreign Legion, of the latter organization the most prominent member being Garibaldi, the Italian, whom Villa envied and despised. In the battle that ended with the fall of Juarez and the flight into El Paso of old Gen. Navarro, the Federal commander of the city, Villa fought lll?A *I?A. W A I. A.% lifve me uujiuu ugcr inai 110 id. ah American army officer told the writer that Orozoco was round hiding under the International bridge when the tight was hottest, but no such reports were spread aobut concerning Villa.He was in the thickest ot the battle from start to finish. Villa Was Much Annoyed. When Madero entered Juarez and proclaimed the city as his provisional capital, Villa expected that looting would be permitted and that Madero would take no pains to care for his Federal prisoners. Villa, as his acts a few weeks ago proved, does not believe in mercy even to a captured enemy, and he was the angriest man in Chihuahua when Madero ordered all the whisky in Juarez dumped into the gutters and gave instructions that his prisoners of war were to be humanely treated. In the weeks that folowed the fall of Juarez the weeks in which Diaz through his trusted agents begged for terms of peace that would at least permit him to quit Mexico with honor. Villa remained sullenly in his headquarters in an adobe hut on the western outskirts of the city. Inaction on his part brought on moods and soon the bandit was half crazed with jealousy of Orozoco and of Garibaldi. One Sunday there was a bull fight. Orozco was the referee who held the place of honor, while Villa had to be content to sit with the common soldiers in that part of the ring that corresponds to the bleachers in American baseball parks. The look on Villa's face was a study during the performance. His every glance at Orozco was one of intense hatred. There can be no doubt that he would have been nveHnved at a chance to nut a bullet in his rival that afternoon. But Orozco even if he did seek shelter under the bridge, was popular with the soldiers and Villa dared not satisfy the envy that obsessed him. Up to this time Villa had never set foot on American soil. One day he announced that he was going to pay El Paso a visit. He went in full regalia, with beaded sombrero and defiant air. Followed by a staff of six ex-bandits he rode through the principal streets of the beautiful border city. He h%d been advised to be good and so he was content to make a show for the benefit of the curious thousands that lined the streets to witness his journey through the city. oume ua.ys imer v urn ileum umi Madero was going to make Garibaldi a brigadier general, but that he had no intention of so promoting Villa, That was the last straw for Villa, who announced that he would cross the river that day?it was May, 1911?and kill Garibaldi on American soil. Garibaldi was generally to be found In the lobby of the Hotel Sheldon, then the principal hotel of El Paso. It was situated on a street that led directly to the bridge, and if Villa could accomplish his mission he would have a straight road over which to make his dash for liberty and Mexico. The news that the bandit was coming over the bridge to settle matters with Garibaldi spread like wildfire, and that afternoon the lobby of the Sheldon was crowded with men waiting to witness the entry of the Chihuahua tiger. Villa came on time, and with him came his six faithful body guards. The outlaw, raving mad, walked into the hotel. He swaggered about looking for his prey. The look on his face was brutal, his eyes were bloodshot, and his swagger that of the bully. For ten minutes Villa waited before Garibaldi came in. He was the bad man of the dime novels, and had an idea that even in the United States he could bully his way. rinniiy uufiuaiui, oienuci, faced, and very calm, entered the ho* tel. But he was not alone. With him were Col. (now Brigadier General) Edward Z. Steever, U. S. A.; several officers of the Fourth United States cavalry, and four secret service agents. CoL Steever had heard of Villa's threat. As he was in command of the government troops then guarding the west Texas border he decided that if Villa wanted vengeance he could seek It somewhere else than in El Paso. Garibaldi, the American soldiers and secret service men forming a circle around him, stood near the desk in the hotel lobby. Villa, his men near him, stood near the grand stairway. He was the personification of rage and hate, as he awaited the opening that would make possible his intended assault of Garibaldi. But the opportunity never came. Into the lobby walked a slender, blue-eyed Irishman named Kelly, the mayor of El Paso. Kelly walked up to the American army officers and asked what was the trouble. "Villa over there," an officer of the Fourth answered, "says he is going to kill Garibaldi, and we do not intend that he shall do it." "You bet he won't!" Kelly answered. The mayor of El Paso turned and walked rapidly to where stood the hlimtorine' clnrinc Villa. 'What's this I hear?" demanded Kelly, looking straight Into the Mexican's eyes. Villa did not answer. Instead, his demeanor in an instant changed from bluster and bluff to the sheepish. "Hand me those pistols, and be quick about it!" said Kelly. Villa was lamblike. He realized that be was in the presence of a man who was his master, a man who would call any bluff he could make. Villa followed Kelly down the lobby and handed him the pistols. "Now you get!" said Kelly. "Don't you never let me catch you on this de of the river again. You know what I mean. Now, go, and go fast!" "Pancho the tiger" never rode any faster than he did on that memorable retreat into Mexico. That was his last visit to El Paso. Not much had be?n heard of Villa for some time until three months ago. Then he loomed large. Instead of being at the head of a few hundred men, bandits like himself, he comes to the front as "Gen. Villa," with an army of several thousand, an army that is growing all the time. Several big cities fall before his advance and in all of them he demands and gets tributes of money. A month ago he appears in northwestern Chihuahua with a bigger army under his command than Madero had when he overthrew Diaz. The dispatches say that Villa is somewhere near Chihuahua City. Juares is still in the possession of the followers of Huerta. Then something happens. Juarez has been captured again, and this time by Villa the bandit, who proceeds to slaughter the defenseless officers of Huerta's army until he finds that what he is doing is displeasing to ?f MSIIIUQIUU. The biggest and one of the richest states in all Mexico is Chihuahua, and Villa is its ruler. Will Villa make good his promise to advance on Mexico City? That is a question uppermost in the minds of those who are watching Mexico. 8tormy Dsys for Jusrex. > As for the city of Juarex, it has had a tempestuous history. Perhaps no other city on earth has ever been captured, recaptured, invested, and evacuated with such monotonous regularity as Ciudad Juarez. A change of government every few months is its recent record. On May 1, 1911, it was held by the troops of Porflrlo Diaz under Gen. Navarro. Three weeks later it was the provisional capital of Madero; after that for a year there was peace. x nun me m&aensi troop rebelled and looted Juarez. The Federal government rushed troops to the border line, and the city was retaken. Next Salazar captured the place. Again the Federals managed to retake It. All waa peace again until the murder of Madero. But from that moment until the present Juarez has been a storm centre of the revolution, one day In the possession of Huerta's troops, the next In that of the rebels under Salazar. Lastly, it is in the bloodthirsty ruffians that follow the banner of Pancho Villa. It has been written that "The Benito Juarez monument in Cludad Juarez is the beginning and the end of most Mexican revolutions," and history seems to bear It out. UNIFORM GRADING! Congressman Lsvsr Has a Bill Intend-sd to 8av? Millions to tha Farmers. Savin# ot millions of dollars now lost annually by cotton farmers and small manufacturers Is the object of a bill which Representative Lever of South Carolina, chairman of the house committee on Agriculture, introduced in the house yesterday. The measure seeks to appropriate gMUHM to be used by the secretary at agriculture in determining the relative spinning values of the different grades of cotton as already standardized by law, and for demonstrating the results of this work to producers and consumers of oottoa. The department of agriculture also has standardised nine grades of ootton, and is concluding its flr*t investigation for testing the waste, tensile strength and bleaching qualities of these grades. The Lever bill which will be urged for early action of congress. proposes to use the information already on hand to determine the nsl-. ative spinning values, and when this is done, to provide machinery in the department for carrying this information out to the farmer and manufacturer that it may be of service to them both as sellers and buyer*. ine nvuse cuiuiumoc wu A|iibu?u>< has been advised that Texas alone la losing: $40,000,000 because neither buyers nor sellers have any appreciation of the value of this year's off-color cotton In that state. Buyers from the gulf ports were said to be going into the interior and buying up low grade cotton at about seven cents a pound, shipping it to Galveston and there revamping it and selling it for 14 cents a pound. This condition of affairs, Mr. Lever said tonight, exists to an extent .true in every cotton producing state oach year. < "The cotton farmer in the sale of his cotton is absolutely at the mercy of the local cotton buyer in the matter of grades In 99 cases out of 100," said Mr. Lever. . "Except for the determining factors of dirt,' trash and stains, the farmer has no way of knowing what grade of cotton he is about to esll and is forced to sell at the grade determined by buyers and many buyers are almost as lacking in information as the farmer himself. Some action must be taken to secure the sale of the south's cotton crop for its intrinsic value. The bill lays the foundation lor arousing sucn lenumem as wm force state legislatures to inaugurate some system in co-operation with the Federal government to provide expert cotton graders at various cotton centers of the country.'" To Elect Senators.?Representative W. F. Stevenson has introduced a bill providing for the election of United States senators in general and special elections. The bill gives to the governor the right to All any vacancy caused by death or resignation for a period not exceeding ninety days, in which he must order a special election by the people to All the vacancy. The bill follows: "That from and after the passage of this act, the United States senators shall be elected at the general election next preceding the expiration of the term of any United States senator from this state and at such election the ballot for the United Staes senator shall be on the ballot for congressmen, both being printed on the same ballot, with proper designation, and both being voted for in the same box which shall be labeled "For United States senator and congressmen." The ballot shall be counted, the returns canvassed and the results declared by the same officers and in the same manner as is rinne In the ease of con&rressmen. Dro vided, that in case of a vacancy from death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor shall have power to fill the place vacant by appointment, but not for more than 90 days from the occurrence of such vacancy, and shall order a special election to be held within 90 days at which a senator shall be elected to All out the unexpired term, the election to be conducted and the result declared in the same manner and by the same officers as now provided by law for the election of congressmen." The High Cost of War.?We are now informed that the Balkan war cost $745,000,000 and that the net result has been the killing of 228,000 men. The per capita price seems to be a very high one, something over $3,000; but then what can one expect from these primitive peoples unversed in the methods of civilized commerce? Recent police disclosures in New York show , that the average price of a murder is about $25, and probably even this price could be reduced on taking a quantity. Evidently the Balkan peoples have much to learn both in markets and marksmanship.?The Argonaut