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^ " ISSUED SBKl-Va?B:L^ L k grist's SONS. Pobiiiheri. j % ^autilg $?iS|ajti;: <^or ih< fromotion of thq JJoUttal, Social, Agricultural ami Commercial Jntcrcsts of th< jDeoplt. ( if ESTABLISHED 1855. ~~~ YORj^II^ETsiC., FRnjj?^EBHUARY 13,~1914. NO. 13. ? 9 SEVEN IBB f Ura [jP BY g EARL DERR BIOOERS C#?yri*ht. 1013. by th. B?bb*-M?rrUI Caapuj CHAPTER III?Continued. Mr. Magee proffered some of the covers that Qulmby had given him ';J and accompanied Mr. Bland to suit 1ft .w? Violl With a hrlsk iVi avri U9o iuc nun. ?? ?. ? good night, Mr. Magee returned to ^ Xo. 7. But he made no move toward the chilly brass bed in the inner room. Instead, he sat a long time by the Are. He reflected on the events of his first few hours in the supposedly uninhabited solitude where he was to be alone with his thoughts. He ponderf ed the way and manner of the flippant young man who posed as a lovelorn haberdasher and under whose flippancy there was certainly an air of hostility. Who was Andy Rutter, down in Reuton? What did the * young man mean when he asked if he should "close up shop?" Who was "he" from whom came the orders, and, most important of all. what was in the package now resting in the great safe? Mr. Magee smiled. Was this the stuff of which solitude was made? He threw ofT his dressing gown and began to unlace his shoes. "There has been too much crude / melodrama in my novels," he re-1 fleeted. "It's so easy to write. But I'm going to get away from all that up here. I'm going"? Mr. Magee paused, with one shoe poised In his hand. For from below came the sharp crack of a pistol, folm lowed by the crash of breaking glass. CHAPTER IV. Blonds and Suffragettes Mr. Magee slipped into his dressing gown, seized a candle and. like the boy in the nursery rime with one shoe off and one shoe on. ran into the hall. All was silent and dark below. He descended to the landing and stood there, holding the candle high above his head. It threw a dim light as far as the bottom of the stairs, but quick* ly lost the battle with "TTifc shadows! that lay beyond. Hello," the voice of Bland, the haberdasher, came out of the blackness. "The Goddess of Liberty, as I live! What's your next imitation?" Ko onmofhinir Hn. 1 uric OCCIIIO iV I/V ing," said Mr. Magee. Mr. Bland came into the light, partially disrobed, his revolver In his hand. "Somebody trying to get in by the front door," he explained. "I shot at him to scare him away. Probably one of your novelists." "Or Arabella," remarked Mr. Magee. coming down. "No," answered Bland. "I distinctly saw a derby hat." With Mr. Magee descended the yellow candlelight, and, brushing aside the shadows of the hotel office, it revealed the mattress lying on the lloor close to the clerk's desk, behind "W which stood the safe. On the mattress was the bedding Magee had presented to the haberdasher, hastily thrown back by the lovelorn one on rising. "You prefer to sleep down here," ^ Mr. Magee commented. ^ "Near the letters of Arabella?yes," replied Pland. His keen eyes met Magee's. There was a challenge in them. ' Mr. Magee turned, and the yellow MKSratf.;, light of the candle flickered wanly over the great front door. Even as he looked at it, the door was pushed BSBfjp^^r open, and a queer figure of a man stood framed against a background of glittering snow. Mr. Bland's arm flew up. "Don't shoot!" cried Magee. "No. please don't," urged the man in the doorway. A beard, a pair of lound, owlish spectacles, and two ridiculous earmuffs, left only a suggestion of the face here and there. "I have every right here, I assure you, even though my arrival is somewhat unconventional. See?I have the key." He held up a large brass key that was iho eonnternart of the one Hal Bentlv had bestowed upon Mr. Magee in that < lub on far-off Forty-fourth street. "Keys to burn." muttered Mr. f Hland sourly. "I bear no ill will with regard to the shooting." went on the newcomer. He took off his derby hat and ruefully regarded a hole through the crown. His bald head seemed singularly frank and naked above a face of so many disguises. "It is only natural that men alone on a mountain should defend themselves from invaders at 2 in the morning. My escape was narrow. but there is no ill will." He blinked about him, his breath a white cloud in the cold room, j "Life, young gentlemen." he remarked. sitting down his bag and leaning a green umbrella against it." has us surprises even ai sixty-two. Last night I was ensconced by my own library fire, preparing a paper on the Pagan renaissance. Tonight I am on Paldpate mountain with a perforation In my hat." Mr. Bland shivered. "I'm going back to bed," he said in disgust. "First." went on the gentleman with the perforated derby, "permit me to r introduce myself. I am Professor Thaddeus Bolton, and I hold the chair of comparative literature in a big eastern university." ,t, Mr. Magee took the mittened hand of the profesor. "Glad to see you. I'm sure." he said. "My name is Magee. This is Mr. Bland?he is impetuous, but estimable. I trust you will forgive his first salute. What's a bullet among gentlemen? It seems to me that as explanations may be lengthy and this 1 KEYS TO BALDPATE TT ? i I Y ^ $ Ik | room is very cold, we would do well to go up to my room, where there's a ?? /? 1 ("Delighted," cried the old man. "A < fire. I long to see one. Let us go to your room by all means." your room by all means. Mr. Bland sulkily stalked to his mattress and secured a gayly colored bedquilt, which he wound about his form. "This is positively the last experience meeting I attend tonight." he growled. They ascended to No. 7. The professor removed, along with other impedimanta. his ear tabs, which were connected by a rubber cord. He waved them like frisky detached ears before him. "An old man's weakness." he remarked. "Foolish they may seem to you. Hut I assure you I found them useful companions in climbing Baldpate mountain at this hour. "But I am not here to apolozie for my apparel, am I? Hardly. You are saying to yourselves, 'Why is he here?' Yes, that is the question that disturbs vnu What has brought this domes ticated college professor scrambling from the Pagan renaissance to Baldpate inn? For answer, I must ask you to go back with me a week's time and gaze at the picture from the rather dreary academic kaleidoscope that is my life. I am seated back of a desk on a platform in a bare yellow room. In front of me, tire on tire, sit a hundred young men in various attitudes of inattention. I am trying to tell them something of the ideal poetry hat marked the rebirth of the Saxon genius. They are bored. I?well, gentlemen. in confidence, even the mind of a college professor has been known to wander at times from the subject in hand. And then?I begin to read a poem?a poem descriptive of a woman dead 600 years and more. Ah, gentlemen"? _ He sat erect on the edge of his great chair. Back of the thick lines of his spectacles he had eyes that still could flash. "This is not an era of romance," he said. "Our people grub In the dirt for the dollar. Their visions perish. Their souls grow stale. Yet now and then, at most inopportune times, comes the flash that reveals to us the glories that might be." Mr. Bland wrapped his gay quilt more securely about him. Mr. Magee smiled encouragement on the newest raconteur. "I shall be brief," continued Prof. Polton. "Heaven knows that pedagogic room was no place for visions, nor were these athletic young men fit companions for a soul gone giddy. Yet ?I lost my head. As I read on there returned to my heart a glow I had not known in forty years. The bard spoke of her hair: Her yellow locks, crisped like golden wyre. About her shoulders were loosely shed. And I saw, as in a dream?ahem, I can trust you. gentlemen?a girl I suppusfll 1 llctU IUICVC1 lurguucil ill ] the mold and dust of my later years. | I will not go further into the matter. t My wife's hair Is black. "And reading on. but losing the \ thread of the poet's eulogy in the i golden fabric of my resurrected ? dream, it came to me to compare that maid I knew In the long ago with the < woman I know today. Ah. gentle- , men! Lips made but for smiling ] fling weighty arguments on the unof- j fending atmosphere. Eyes made to ] light with that light that never was ; by land or sea, blaze instead with ] what they call the injustice of wo- < man's servitude. White hands made to find their way to the hands of some young man in the moonlight, carry banners in the dusty streets. It seemed I saw the blue eyes of that girl of long ago turned, sad, rebuk- | ing, on her sisters of today. As I finished reading my heart was awhirl. I said to the young men before me: " "There was a woman, gentlemen? ^ a woman worth a million suffragettes.' ( "They applauded. The fire in me died down. Soon 1 was my old meek, academic self. The vision had left no j trace. I dismissed my class and , went home. I found that my wife? j she of the black hair?had left my ( slippers by the library lire. I put ( them on and plunged into a pamphlet lately published by a distinguished ; member of a German university facul- , ty. I thought the incident closed , forever." I He gazed sorrowfully at the two , young men. "But. gentlemen, I had not counted 011 the viper that we nourish in our bosom?the American newspaper. At . present I will not take time to denounce the press. I am preparing an ] article on the subject for a respectable j weekly of select circulation. Suffice ( it to record what happened. The next day an evening paper appeared with a huge picture of me on its front page and the hideous statement that this was the Professor Bolton who had said that 'One peroxide blond is worth a million suffragettes.' "Yes, that was the dreadful vision of my remark that was spread broadcast. Up to the time that story appeared I had no idea as to what sort of creature the peroxide blond might be. I protested, of course. I might as well have tried to dam a tidal wave with a table fork. The wrath of the world swept down upon me. I was deluged with telegrams, editorials, letters denouncing me. Firm faced females lay in wait for me and waved umbrellas in my eyes. Even my wife turned from me, saying that while she did not ask me to hold her views on the question of suffrage, she thought I might at least refrain from publicly commending a type of woman found chiefly in musical comedy choruses. I received a note from the president of the university asking me to be more circumspect in my remarks. Me? Thaddeus Bolton?the most conservative man on earth by instinct! "And still the denunciations of me poured in; still women's clubs held I meetings resolving against me; still a steady stream of reporters flowed through my life, urging me to state my views further, to name the ten greatest blonds in history, to?heaven knows what. Yesterday I resolved T could stand it no longer. I determined to go away until the whole thing was forgotten. 'But,' they said to me, 'there is no place on land or sea where the reporters will not find you.' 1 talked the matter over with my old friend, John Bentley, owner of Baldpate inn, and he in his kindness gave me the key to this hostelry." Wisely Professor Bolton blinked about him. Mr. Bland was half asleep In his chair, but Mr. Magee was quick with sympathy. "Professor," he said, "you are a nuch suffering man. I feel for you. Here, I am sure, you are safe from reporters, and the yellow Journals will joon forget you in their discovery of :he next distorted wonder. Briefly, Mr. Bland and myself will outline the tan > IC Ul CYCillO luai U1 v/up> ? v mu %v ?.?? nnM? "Eriefly is right," broke in Bland. 'And then it's mine for that mountain)us mattress of mine. I can rattle my story off in short order and give you he fine points tomorrow. Up to a jhort time ago"? But Billy Magee interrupted. An dea, magnificent, delicious, mirthful lad come to him. Why not? He :huckled inwardly, but his face was nost serious. "I should like to tell my story first, f you please," he said. The haberdasher grunted. The prolessor nodded. Mr. Magee looked Bland squarely in the eye, strangled :he laugh inside and began: "Up to a short time ago I was a laberdasher in the city of Reuton. My iame, let me state, is Magee?William Magee. I fitted the gay shoulder slades of Reuton with ciotmng rrom :he back of pages of the magazines, ind as for neckties"? Mr. Bland's sly eyes had opened wide. He rose to a majestic height? najestlc considering the bedqullt. "See here"?he began. "Please don't interrupt," requested Mr. Magee sweetly. "I was, as I have }aid, a happy, carefree haberdasher. *.nd then?she entered my life. AraDella was her name. Ah, professor, Kwrr lady of- *he?-yellow locks,-CTisped I ike golden wire?even she must never n my presence be compared with Ara>ella. She?she had?a?face?Noah Webster couldn't have found words to Jescribe it. And her heart was true to fours truly?at least 1 thought that it was." Mr. Magee rattled on. The haberlasher, his calling and his tragedy matched from him by the humorous Magee, retired with sullen face into his Dedquilt. Carefully Mr. Magee led up V*** n# V?o mon frnm Toraov .U IUC VUilllilg VI V**\i ?. V... vv* City;- in detail he laid bare the duel >f haberdashery fought in the name of :he fair Arabella. As he proceeded his enthusiasm grew. He added fine bits that had escaped Mr. Bland. He painted with free hand the picture of tragedy's dark hour; the note hinting at suicide he gave in full. Then he told if how his courage grew again, of how fie put the cowardice of death behind fiim, resolved to dare all?and live. He finished at last, his voice husky with emotion. Out of the corner of his eye fie glanced triumphantly at Bland, rhat gentleman was gazing thoughtfully at the blazing logs. "You did quite right," commented Professor Bolton, "in making up your mind to live. And now, the gentleman in the?er?the bedquilt. Has he, too, i story?" "Yes," laughed Mr. Magee, "let's L ? ? ? . - ?An^lA?%?n n i w Vi A near now iroin lUC ^nmnuaii an Hie bedqullt. Has, he, too, a story? And If so, what is it?" He smiled delightedly into the eyes if Bland. What would the ex-haberiasher do, shorn of his fictional explanation? Would he rise in his wrath and denounce the man who had stolen his Arabella? Mr. Bland smiled back. He stood up, and a contingency that had not entered Mr. Magee's mind came to be. (Continued on Page Four). NEW AUTO FUEL FOUND Cheaper Than Gasoline, Odorless And More Powerful. The announcement, through the American Machinist, of a newly developed fuel for all internal-combustion engines will be good reading for auto owners. An Englishman, after much experimenting, has produced a fuel oil which is not only cheaper than gasoline but is practically odorless, is easier started and a more powerful propeller, writes the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. About 80 per cent of it is kerosene, the remaining tiO per cent being chemicals which are not named, but which form an emulsion for the kerosene. The combination of the chemical is the secret of the process. Combustion of the oil is said to be so perfect that there is very little soot left in the cylinders, and it can be used ivitn the ?;imp mrhtirpfor as irasoline. It can not yet be bought in the markets, but an English company is building a plant that will produce 20,000,000 gallons a year. Of. course, if there is no mistake and the fuel proves to be what is claimed for it, the next step will be to bring it to America and place it on our markets. where it will find its biggest sale. A better and a less expensive auto fuel would be a boon to car owners. Undoubtedly there will be an effort on the part of the gasoline people to "spike the wheel" of the proposed new enterprise, but the worst they can do is to raise the price of kerosene. But even if they do this, the greater power of the new fuel will make it cheaper. American manufacturers as well as American car owners will watch with much interest the English experiment. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced Id Early Files of Hi Yorkvllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and ? 11? \y .I T?. VJivmy itio ? Uuii^Dl ivawv ? w i ? day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Moat Concerned Generations that Hnve Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was rublished 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 pant 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 of conditions as they existed immediately preceedine the Civil war. This will be followed by a review of the war period, including the names of York county soldiers who went io 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 happenings out of the ordinary. In the mean'ime persons who may desire further information about matters that may nave ueen uniy uncn^ uiciinuucu a>v invited to call at the office of the editor and examine the original records. TWENTY-FOURTH INSTALLMENT Thursday Morning, October 28, 1858. ?It gives us pleasure to state that our young friend and former playmate, Col. I. Donom Witherspoon has determined to make his home permanently among us. By reference to the card in another column, it will be seen that he and Col. W. B. Wilson have formed a partnership in the practice of law. We wish our young friend the largest measure of success. Mr. Joseph H. Postell, a native of York district, has been elected Judge of the Probate court of Madison county, Miss., by a handsome majority. 9 9 9 Married?On the afternoon of the 20th instant, at the home of Mr. H. L. Swann, by Rev. John S. Harris, Mr. Robert L. Davidson and Miss Mary R. Latimer, all of this district. On the 21st instant by J. P. Hood, Esq., Mr. Leander Jones, and Miss Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James and Martha Archer, all of thin district. Thursday, November 11, 1868.?At the election held in the district for sheriff on the 8th instant, the vote was as follows: Alfred Stilwell, 972: A. F. Love, 787; Thos. S. Pagan, 359; total 2,118. Majority for Stilwell, 185. Thursday, November 26, 1858.?Married?In Yorkville, on the 23d instant by Rev. John W. Kelly, Rev. O. A. Darby, of the South Carolina Conference, and Mrs. R. Catharine Withers, of this place. On Thursday evening, 18th instant, by Rev. W. W. Carothers, Mr. Noah Benfield, and Miss Jane Thomasson, all of this district. ^ ? ? 4 un rnursaay, me iom iiisiaiu, uj Rev. R. Y. Russell, Mr. Reuben McConnell, Jr., of York district, and Miss Amanda J. McDonald, of Chester district. In this district on Thursday, the 18th instant, by Rev. R. Y. Russell. Mr. John D. Anderson and Miss Ianthe Jane, daughter of A. S. Wallace, Esq. Thursday Morning, December 2, 1858.?The first drove of hogs of the season passed through our town on Monday. The drovers asked 7 cents gross. * The Indian Land Chronicle.?The friends of Mr. T. J. Eccles will be pleased to learn that he has resumed the publication of his paper at rock Hill in this district, with the above title. The first number of the new series, which reached us on Monday last, is well filled with news matter, original communications, and best of all to the proprietor?a good quantity of advertisements. The editor promises, among other features, a history of the "Indian Land and the Catawba Indians," by Rev. A. Whyte, which we will endeavor to transfer to the columns of The Enquirer. We have been requested by Mr. Eccles to state that the regular issue of the paper will commence on Thursday evening next, which will in future be "publication day." We extend to the new series the usual congratulations and wish success to all concerned. Thursday, December 9, 1858.?W. W. Carothers, principal, and W. H. Smith, assistant, advertise the opening of the Yorkville Male Academy on the First Monday in January. Payments have been made for subscriptions to The Enquirer by the following persons to the date attached to each name. Parties interested will please inform us of any errors or omissions. R. L. Crook, Coates' Tavern, March 25, '59 John Culp, Coates' Tavern Jan. 1, *59 R. A. Steele, Rock Hill, July 29, '59 Dr. J. M. Johnson, Rock Hill, Jan. 1, '59 Elijah Clark, Guthriesville, Jan. 1, '59 Rev. John S. Harris, Guthriesville, Aug. 12, '59 James M. Williams, Guthriesville, March 25, '59 John W. Garvin, Guthriesville, Oct. 22. '59 John Tipping, Guthriesville, Jure 17; '59 I. N. Sadler, Guthriesville, Aug. 5, *58 G. F. Wallace, Clay Hill, June 3. *'59 W. O. Youngblood, Clay Hill, Aug. 9, *59 Mrs. E. M. Currence, Clay Hill, Sept. 2, '59 S. C. Johnston, Clay Hill, March 11, 59 Rev. J. R. Baird, Clay Hill, Nov. 11, '59 E. G. Feemster, Bullock's Creek, Feb. 4. '59 Dr. B. E. Feemster, Bullock's Creek, July 22. '59 J. H. Alexander, Bullock's Creek, May 6, '59 Maj. J. R. Wallace, Allison Creek, Aug. 5, '59 T. T. Faris, Allison Creek, June 10, '59 B. R. Miller, Allison Creek, Nov. 10, '58 Joseph Miller, Esq., Allison Creek, Sept. 23, '59 William Smith, Sugar Hill, Ga., Jan. 1, '59 , George S. Bower, Columbia, Feb. 1, '59 J S. L. Campbell, Columbia, May 20, '59 I Henry Glenn, Zeno, Jan. 1, '59 fJ. M. Gullick, Zeno, May 6, '59 LB. M. Wilson, Zeno, June 3, '59 Pirhotnaa S. Neelv, Ebenezerville, Feb. 11, *59 J. A. Garrison, Ebenezerville, Feb. 11, '59 William M. Simril, Ebenezerville, Feb. 11, '59 W. G. Story, Ebenezerville, June 5, '69 J. P. Hutchinson, Ebenezerville, Jan. 21. '59 A. W. Henry, Gaily Creek, Arkansas. Aug. 16, '59 W. E. McConnelt, McConnellsville, , - Aug. 26, '68 Moses McLeave, McConnellsville, Jan. 1, '69 Maj. Z. D. Burrln, McConnellsville. April 22, '58 J. M. Brison, McConnellsville, Sept. V 25, *59 J1 D. Muller, Yorkville, July 29, '59 Hi F. Adickes, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 William Quinn, Yorkville, July 1, '59 John Peters, Yorkville, March 18, '59 James T. Foreman, Yorkville, Jan. 28. *59 John R. Schorb, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 A. P. Johnston, Yorkville, Jan. 1, *59 J. R. Clinton, Yorkville, April 29, '59 J. P. Acock, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 Mrs. M. Chambers, Yorkville, Feb. 25. 69 Dawson N. Mitchell, Yorkville, April 15, *59 A. S. Wallace, Esq., Yorkville, Feb. 18, *59 O. Newton McCarter Yorkville, March 18, '59 O. P. Cranford, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 W. H. Orchard, Yorkville, Sept. 23, *59 O. E. Carroll, Yorkville, Oct. 28. '59 Dr. Alfred Craven, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 J. L*. Clark & Co., Yorkville. Nov. 4, '59 William M. Walker, Yorkville, Jan. 1, 59 J. B. Pankey, Yorkville, June 10, '59 Jane S. Thomasson, Yorkville, Nov. 4. '59 Eli Meek, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 J. M. Rawlinson, Yorkville, Jan. 1, *60 James Brian, Yorkville, Jan. 1. '69 LeRoy Ferguson, Yorkville, April 22, ;59 J. (}. GuincK, York vine, April os James Black, Yorkville, Jan. 1. '59 W. D. Simpson, Chesterville, May 20, 59 Rev. R. A. Ross, Blairsville. Sept. 3, *59 R. A. Lfithem, Blairsville, Oct. 7, '59 H. G. Plaxico, Blairsville, Oct. 21, '59 E. W. White. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 2, *59 G. W. Hudson, King's Mountain, N. C., July 15, '58 Miss Mary E. Garrett, Limestone Springs, Sept. 9, '59 Dr. J. G. Smarr, Hickory Grove, Jan. 1, '59 Samuel Anderson, Taylor's Creek, Jan. 1. '59 Rev. A. J. Witherspoon, Shiloh, Ala., Sept. 16, '59 J. J. Hemphill, Yorkville, Ala. Sept. 23. *59 B. C. Pressley, Charlotte Way, June 24, 59 J. !H. Forbes, Charlotte Way, Aug. 12. '58 CApt. Samuel Smith, Charlotte Way, June 10, '59 J. B. Mintz, Boydton, Jan. 1, '59 J. 13. Mintz, Jr. Boydton, Sept. 23, '59 E. M. Faris, Catawba Creek. N. C. Jan. 21. '59 G. M. Herrington, New House, Dec. 23. '68 Mnnrne R. White. Dunkirk. New York. Sept. 30, '59 J. ]J. Jackson, Bethel, Jan. 1, '59 Jesse K. Armstrong, Bethel, Jan. 1. *59 Jol n Ross, Pleasant Valley, Sept. 20, '59 J. N. Whitner, Florence, Jan. 1, *60 F^B. Moore, Fort Mills. Jan. 1. '59 J. H. Faulkner, Fort Mills, Jan. 1, '59 T. B. Withers, Fort Mills, Nov. 18, '59 J. F. Adams, Austin, Texas., Nov. 1, '59 Clark Harris, Pinevllle, N. C., Jan. 1, 59 R. McRoberts, Rabbit. Town, Ala., Oct. 7. '59 N. A. Fox, Noxupater, Miss., Oct. 7, 69 J. M. Jackson, New Centre. Dec. 9, '58 Obadiah Saratt, Broad River. N. C. Sept. 2. '58 J. G. Gaulden, Landsford, April 16, '59 W. H. Whitner, Spartanburg, Oct. 21. 59 W. N. Palmer, Spartanburg, Nov. 11. '59 John McKee, Hendersonville. Miss.. Nov. 4, '59 Col. A. Ramsay, Mecklenburg, Tenn., Nov. 25. '59 J. M. Hays, Oak Grove, Tenn., May 27 '58 S. K. Gill. Sandersville, Sept. 30. '69 1 f i n /I an Tavo ? Tnltr 1 rjuan ?utv^ai in, ivuiiuuu, 1 CAao, uuij ?. '59 Rev. J. W. North, Cokesburg, March 25. *59 A. H. Douglass, Bennettsville, Oct. 21. '59 Matthew Knox, Grand Hill, Jan. 1. '59 W 111am A. Steele, Smith's Turn Out. July 29. '59 Matthew Harper, Highland, Ala. Jan 1. '61 Rev. R. F. Taylor, Flint Gap, Tenn., Jan. 21, '60 B. P. Barron. Indiantown, April 1, '60 A. C. H. Lathem, Cralgsville, Sept. 23 '59 J. A. Wozier, Edgefield, Sept. 30, '58 F. M. Clark. St. Joseph. La. Jan. 1. '59 J. T. McGalliard, St. Joseph, La. Nov. 1. '59 (To be Continued.) ANTARCTIC RIVALRY American Interest in Shackleton's Project Increasing. Public Interest and speculation, both at home and anroaa, in sir nimest Shackleton's bold and magnificent project, not only continues, but increases day by day. The offices of the imperial Transantarctic expedition, in New Burlingto 1 street, are deluged with letters and te egrams conveying congratulations and offers of assistance to the leader of the expedition. The correspondents in ilude men who have served with hi ti and are anxious to do so again. Applications for employment in any capacity, however humble, are innumerible, and they come from men of all classes. American experts, while enthusiastic about Sir Ernest Shackleton and hi? great project, feel a spirit of friendly rivalry, and are inclined to regret that the daring journey will not be flnf need with dollars and carried through under the Stars and Stripes. Admiral Peary doubts the advantage of machinery and pins his faith to d( gs. Mr. Eernacchi, who is a polar traveller of great authority, for he has served with two Antarctic expeditions, he Ids a similar view. But, as Sir Ernest Shackleton has already pointed out, in the last three years the aeroplane engine has reached what we may call absolute efficiency, and it is an aeroplane engine mounted on a sledge with an aeroplane propeller attached to it, that he proposes to employ for traction. Two of these sledges will be built and thoroughly tested during the winter out in Siberia, or the north of Canada, under similar conditions to the Antarctic, and only if these tests are convincing will the sledges be employed on the journey.?London Chronicle. Scare at Two Things.?Purchaser? And will he scare at anything? Farmel?M' friend, this boss is jist afraid o' two things: That he won't get enough to eat, an' that he won't hear when I say "whoa!"?Judge. ?t?7 a farmer who can not learn anything from his neighbor will soon go to seed. pisccllantous Reading. TESTIMONY OF DR. CAROTHERS Chairman Asylum Regents Examined by Dr. Saunders. ( The feature of the asylum investigation last Tuesday was the cross examination of Dr. T. R. Carothers, chairman of the board of regents, by Dr. Eleanora B. Saunders, of York county, assistant physician, who is alleged to be the cause of friction in the management of the institution. Following is I the official stenographic record as reproduced in the Columbia State of Wednesday: Dr. Saunders: What county are you from?Yorkville? A. Yorkville. Q. You are chairman of the board of regents? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Do you feel that an honor? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Isn't it your opinion that the physicians in the institution work in harmony with the doctors in the state? Don't you think the doctor In the state should know his own patient, even if he has gone to a hospital? A. I haven't thought it was necessary. Q. As chairman of the board of regents, what do you know of my ability? A. I don't know. In Women's Wards. Q. How many visits have you made through the women's department? A. Four. Q. How many with me? A. One or two. Q. How far did we go? A. We went through three or four wardB. Q. The ground floor of the main building, didn't we? A. I don't know. Q. We left there and went where? To the white male employes' dining room? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. From there to the white male patient's dining room? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Hadn't you been told that I went out of my ward to do other work? A. I don't know. Q. Don't you think you might have then told me you didn't want me to do It? A. I couldn't make you feel badly. Didn't Expect Inquiry. Q. Do you think that is worse than this? A. I didn't expect this. Q. Did you know there was a breach between me and Dr. Thompson? A. 1 didn't know except from hearsay. Q. What have you been told that I have done which was not in my own department: a. i;na.rg?ni, ur. oauuders, that were made ebfore the meeting the other day over at the hospital, in your presence. Q. Who told you? A. Dr. Thompson, Dr. Griffin, Dr. Blackburn and Dr. Toole. Q. Do you feel my work at the hospital has been for Jthe good of the place? A. I do. Q. Don't you believe the usefulness i of any employee is the extent of her or his own ability? A. Couldn't be otherwise. Q. Was there any objection at the time I was doing the work?did they object at the time I was doing the work? A. I don't know Just when the time was they complained of. I only know the objections came to me as mentioned, but just when they came I don't know. Q. Do you know when I made the improvements In the white male dining room? A. The month I don't know. Q. You have visited hospitals in oth- ! er cities? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Where have you been on your trips? A. The first hospital I believe was Norristown, Pa. < Q. Did you visit the men's or women's wards in Norristown? A. Both. Q. Do you know the line of scientific work done in state hospitals?you are a physician? A. Yes, ma'am. "What is Insanity?" Q. What is insanity? A. I couldn't give you a definition. Q. Can you give me the causes? A. There are many causes. Q. The present day idea, there are three causes of insanity (causes named)? Q. Have you seen in my department that 1 have attempted to do any more than is done in any other hospital? A. So far as to your department, I have only been there a few times. Q. How long have you been regent? A. Less than two years. Q. How many times have you been executive regent? A. Every five months. Q. Have you been in my department? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Have I ever attempted to do any more in every respect in my department than in other departments? A. 1 could not tell what you have done. Q. Has there ever been any open breach between me and Dr. Thompson? A. I didn't know of any until complaints began to come. Q. Was the letter read there by Dr. Thompson a surprise to you? A. I don't know. Q. It was a surprise to me. Have 1 ever failed to help Dr. Thompson? A. I I don't know. Q. Perhaps as chairman of the i board of regents?how much open an- i tagonism between me and the other < officers was there? A. I only know their statements. i Q. You have a right to accept their statements whether they be true or > not? I Accepted All Statements. A. I could not do otherwise than accept your statement or theirs either. Q. Did you accept my statement on i the 12th of December? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Does the record show it? A. I I think so. Q. Will you tell me how I superceded Dr. Thompson? A. Only in the way they told you. Q. They never told me at all. A. I i never have said you superceded them. Q. Why did you act on the resolution which displaced me? A. I acted i on the evidence given. Q. Did you know that evidence was true? A. I could not doubt the evidence was true. Q. Have you any reason to believe them and not me? A. No, ma'am. Q. Were they sworn? A. 1 think so. I Q. They were not? A. Well, maybe not. Q. Where have I trespassed? A. J i have never made any such charge myself. Q. May I ask this: When that evl- : dence was brought out, wasn't it your duty to look into it and see who was i right and who was wrong? A. We i have looked into it by that evidence. Q. Do you know that evidence was true? A. I only know because the parties who testified were truthful. people. Q. Couldn't you have looked into these specific statements? A. I could have. Q. Will you tell me what department has Dr. Griffin? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Didn't you make a statement that I invaded Dr. Griffin's ward? A. Dr. Griffin said so. Mr. Mauldin: Kindly confine your examination to questions. Dr. Carothers: I only have what Dr. Griffin said on his examination. Dr. Saunders: Have you ever noticed anything you could call disloyalty on my part? A. I have not. Q. Do you know I have been disloyal to Dr. Babcock? A. No. Q. To Dr. Thompson? A. I know nothing at all about that. Q. Can you tell where there was want of harmony here? A. It was between the staff. Q. Where was that want of harmony? A. That want of harmony was in the staff. You seem to have the idea that there was want of harmony between the board of regents and somebody. Where the board of regents is concerned there has been no want of harmony. Q. You told the gentlemen a while ago, on the 12th of December?those people you invited to the meeting? you were there? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Invited by whom? A. The board of regents. Q. Did you ask my father to leave? A. I did not. Q. Who did? A. 1 don't know. Q. Do you think it hardly possible he would have left his business to come here and desert me at the most critical moment? A. I don't know. Q. Have you ever doubted my ve raclty? A. Never. Q. Not even on the 12th of December? A. Never did. Q. Do you know the evidence brought against me that day was true? A. 1 only know what was stated by others, not by personal knowledge. Q. Will you tell how I prevented Dr. Blackburn from doing his work? A. I only know what Dr. Blackburn said. Q. What is the extent of work J have* done in the hospital? A. The ( only thing I know in connection with ( the whole affair as far as that part . goes is from the physicians them- ( selves. Allotment of Work. Q. Don't you think as chairman of ( the board of regents you should make yourself acquainted with everything? A. I have tried. , Q. Do you believe you could sue- j cessfully accomplish work unless you had the hearty co-operation of every- ( body concerned? A. No. Q. Don't you fe?-l when you tell Dr. | Babcock about improvements that it ( should be done? A. I do. Q. You feel he is your superior of- ( fl/tawo A T sij-h nnt wo qpa nn annal footing. _ Q. Do you know I have refused to { do any work Dr. Babcock has asked of me? A. No, I do not. Q. Have you ever let out the work ( for the different departments? Have you ever defined the work for the white female department? A. No. Q. Do you know whether it is customary in hospitals to let out this work? A. I don't know it is. Q. When you said in your resolution there that you thought it was for my , best interest to dismiss the whole matter?you said that? A. Yes. Moral Character First. Q. Do you think a professional code , or a woman's moral character should mean more to her? A. I would an- j swer the question by saying the moral ( character. Q. Do you think and still say that there has never been any reflection on my moral character through the regents or by the regents? A. I say that, ( yes. Q. Have you heard letters by Gov. Blease read, two letters on the 12th of , IWomhor' Will vr?n eentlemen let me make a statement? Mr. Mauldin: You examine him and make your statement while on tho stand. Dr. Saunders: Q. Do you think you gave my father a fair hearing on the 15th of January? A. That was one meeting I was not there. When I was there I did. Q. At the meeting on the 12th of December, at which I was taken into a kind of courtmartial or trial, or whatever you call it, didn't my father ask for a re-opening? Was it agreed to? A. 1 think the board did. Q. Do you know whether my father was permitted?. A. That resolution deprives him. Best to Drop Matter. Q. Was it quite fair to do that? A. ( I thought the matter, so far as I was concerned and everybody connected , with it concerned, it was better to have , it closed. Q. If it had been your daughter. ( would you have had It closed? A. Yes, ma'am. Q. Don't you think it is better for , any rumor of that kind to be opened ( and investigated? A. I never heard of any rumors. Q. Didn't Gov. Blease's letters indicate it? A. I did not think so. Q. You still say there was nothing done by or through the regents? A. So far as I know I do. Q. How did you consider Dr. Griffin's remarks? A. No meaning at all ?it was a slip pure and simple. It was most unfortunate. Q. You know what he said? A. Just the words I don't remember. Dr. Griffin's Remark. Q. What was the bearing of his words? A. The question was put to him by Gov. Blease as to whether Dr. Saunders was a married or single woman. Q. What did he say? A. Dr. Griffin said, "No, I suppose not." Q. Was that his wording?was that his manner? A. So far as his manner was concerned, I did not see anything in it. I would not have taken any offense at it. Of course you have your privilege. Q. Didn't Dr. Griffin that day, in answer to that question, whether or not Dr. Saunders was a single or married ^ woman?didn't Dr. Griffin say, "She is supposed to be?" A. As to the words, I did not consider that derogatory at all. Dr. Griffin immediately, not only in words, but at once, when you show- ( ed you were hurt by the remark, he at once apologized sincerely and humbly, i and asked that it go on the record that ! it was simply a slip. If I thought he ( meant it I would not stand for it. I did i not think he meant anything at all. Q. Will you have the record read? Mr. Stevenson: We have not received it yet. Dr. Oarothers: I don't know the words. Dr. Saunders: That's all. Mr. 8anders Intervenes. The following is the stenographic report of the cross-examination of Dr. Carothers by O. L. Sanders, father of Dr. Saunders. Mr. Sanders: If I went out on my own volition, I could not have stayed there? Dr. Carothers: So far as I was personally concerned. Q. Didn't I appeal to you as chairman of that meeting if I could stay. A. You asked for the privilege to remain nn/l T ?.A.? MU AAnsanl fov a a T auu 1 ftQ Vc ;uu IIIJ VUUOCIll ow iai aq A was personally concerned. When I looked up you were gone. Why, I do not know; 1 do not know yet. Q. That's all. WHITE TEACHERS OF NEGROES Governor Blease Sends 8enate Mas* sage on the 8ubjeet Governor Blease on Tuesday afternoon sent to the senate a message transmitting the picture showing white teachers at Benedict college, a negro institution located in Columbia, standing up to be photographed with colored people. The governor also called attention In this message to one of the negro preachers whose picture la alleged to be in the photograph and to this man's lurid career as pastor of a colored church In the city of Columbia. "I have been Informed that one of the white men whose likeness appears In the photograph has been playing on the negro football team of this college," says the governor. "I have been informed that the negro boys' dormitory of this institution has a white matron, whose likeness appears in ims pnuiogTapu. "I have been informed that the negro boys in this d6rmltpry have the pictures of white girls and of white women in their rooms. "I have been informed that at a reception or 'sociable,' as my informant called it, given or held on the campus of this college recently, white women teachers mingled on terms of equality with negro boys and negro members of the faculty, and ate refreshments at the same tables. "I also beg to call your attention to extracts from a letter which I have received from the town of Beaufort: '"The president of the board of trade of Beaufort, Charles E. Danner. handles the funds of the Matha school (i jgro), the white teachers of which attend negro churches with their negro pupils. The secretary, George Waterhouse, is the son of a woman who came here to teach and taught In Penn school, on St. Helena island (negro school, white teachers). It was at Waterhouse's request that Colonel Thomas -recommended the appointment of Rosa B. Cooley as a trustee in St. Helena township." "1 also beg to call your attention to a. quotation from another letter received from Beaufort, in which it is stated: " 'One Miss Marion Harmon, No. 27 Prospect avenue, Wollaston, Mass., came to Beaufort to teach in this Mitha school, some week or two ago. She came understanding she was to teach a white school, and didn't know that it was a negro institution until she arrived at the school. She was forced to stay in same house with negro teachers, as there are both negroes and white teachers in this school. This woman will gladly furnish you some valuable information relative to true conditions existing in this institution.' "The purpose of this message is to call your attention to the serious condition in this state at these negro institutions where white people are teaching, I notice the press has made a great hurrah, and some people have had a great deal to write and say about the Fortner bill. "Knowing conditions as I do, having Been with my own eyes and having heard with my own ears, and having talked to people, I say to you gentlemen that the situation is a very serious one. The matter of a few white women teaching negroes in the City of Charleston may not be so bad, and 1 shall not express, in this communication, my opinion as to what I think of any white woman who will teach negroes anywhere. "But the conditions in Charleston are possibly quite different Trom wnai they are in these schools where white people are teaching negroes, sleeping in the sanie rooms with negroes, eating at the same tables with negroes, going to the same churches with negroes, and associating with them generally?which is teaching the negro to look forward to social equality, and which is putting in their hearts, as the pictures of these white women hanging in their rooms show, their desire to come into closer contact with white people. "The preachers?some of them?and. the newspapers?some of them?may rant, but South Carolina is going to regret the day when she allows these conditions, and if these conditions continue you will have more lynchlngs, a.nd more stigmas upon the fair name >f our state. "I appeal to you once again to pass the Fortner bill. If Charleston is so terribly interested in her pet white teachers who teach negroes, let Charleston be exempted from the bill. She seems to be exempted from all ether laws in this state, and I don't see that it would do any harm to make her in exception in this matter. "As governor, I have sounded the noie Ut warning. x uaic uuuc mjr Hiu>. [f you fail to do yours, you and you alone are responsible. Some of you will not be in office when the legislature convenes again, but it is a fact that you have a heart and a conscience, and by not helping to relieve these conditions the day may come when you will regret it. "There are sections of South Carolina where things that are being permitted in other sections would not be allowed any longer than it would take to blow a horn and congregate a few people." "Cole L. Blease, "Governor." *? Illinois in 1912 produced 28,000,1)00 barrels of oil of 42 gallons each. *** Cincinnati authorities have begun agitation for three-cent street car fa res. Jt51" Sweden exported nearly 35 000.D00 pounds of matches In the six months ending with last June.