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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WBEKLY. I. k gkxst'S sons, Pubii.h.r., } % 4amit8 D'H'sjapei;: <gor ihe promotion of the JMIicai, Social, ^jrieulturat and (Tommerrin! interests of thq feopl^. ( TER"^o"K0?(,*vY""vJ" E"""Ct' 4 ESTABLISHED 1855. . YORKVILLE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1914. KCX 147 * 9 SEVEN ' If? . n BY I . EARL DERR BIOOERS Copyright, 1913. by the Bebbe-Merrill Company CHAPTER V. A Professional Hermit Appears. Mr. Bland walked calmly to the table and picked up a poular novel ' * * 41 T*- Tt'QQ tho mai lay tnereuu. iia ^ picture of a very beautiful maiden. "See that dame?" he inquired of the professor. "Sort of makes a man sit up and take notice, doesn't she? Even the -frostbitten haberdasher here has got to admit that in some ways she has this Arabella person looking like a faded chromo in your grandmother's parlor on a rainy afternoon. Ever get any notion, professor, the way a picture like that boosts a novel in the busy marts of trade? No? Well"? Mr. Bland continued. Mr. Magee leaned back, overjoyed, in his chair. * Here was a man not to be annoyed by the mere filching of his story. Here was a man with a sense of humor, and opponent worthy of his foe's best efforts. "I used to paint dames like that," Hland was saying to the dazed professor. He explained how his pictures had enabled many a novelist to "eat up the highways in a buzz wagon." As he approached the time when the novelist besieged him he gave full ^ play to his imagination. One, he said, ft sought out his apartments in an aeroplane. "Say, professor," he finished, "we're m in the same boat?both hiding from writers. A fellow that's spent his life selling neckties?well, he can't exactly appreciate our situation. There's what you might call a bond between you and me. D'ye know, I felt drawn to you just after I flred that first shot. That's why I didn't blaze away again. We're going to be great friends. I can read it in the stars." He took the old mr.n's hand feelingly, shook it and walked away, casting a covert glance of triumph at Mr. Magee. The face of the holder of the Cranio dall ohair of comparative literature gill I // / ^ . G(2?vJt_U* ^ I ' I M| used to paint dames like thai." was a study. He looked first at one young man. then at the other. Again he applied the handkerchief to his v. shining head. . "All this is very odd." he said r thoughtfully. * He permitted Mr. Magee to escort ^ him into the hall and to direct his f search for a bed that should serve him through the scant remainder of | the night. Overcoats and rugs were pressed into service as cover. Mr. Bland blithely assisted. "If I see any newspaper reporters," he assured the professor on parting "I'll damage more than tnetr aerDies. "Thank you." replied the old man heartily. "You are very kind. Tomorrow we shall become better acquainted. Good night!" The two young men came out and ^ stood in the hallway. Mr. Magee spoke in a low tone. "Forgive me," he said, "for stealing your Arballa." "Take her and welcome," said Bland. "She was beginning to bore ^ ine anyhow. And I'm not in your class as an actor." He came close to Magee. In the dim light that streamed out from No. 7. the latter saw the look on his face and knew that underneath all this was a very much worried young man. "For God's sake," cried Bland, "tell me who you are and what you're doing here. In three words?tell me." "If I did," Mr. Magee replied, "you wouldn't believe me. Let such minor ns rhf? truth wait over till tO morrow." "Well, anyhow," Bland said, his foot on the top step, "we are sure of one thing?we don't trust each other. I've got one parting word for you. Don't try to come downstairs tonight. I've got a gun and I ain't afraid to ^ shoot." Br ' He paused. A look of fright passed W over his face, for on the floor above they both heard soft footsteps, then a faint click as though a door had ^ been gently closed. P "This inn," whispered Bland, "has more keys than a literary club in a prohibition town. And every one's in use. I guess. Remember, don't try to come downstairs. I've warned you. Or Arabella's castoff Romeo may be found with a bullet in him yet." v S KEYS TO BALDPAIE IT ? III J @ I . g. f I ~ V "I shan't forget what you say," answered Mr. Magee. "Sha'.t we look about upstairs?" Bland shook his head. "No," he said. "Go in and go to bed. It's the downstairs that?that concerns me. Good night." He went swiftly down the steps, leaving Mr. Magee staring wonderingly after him. Like a wraith he merged with the shadows below. Magee turned slowly and entered No. 7. A fantastic film of the frost was on the windows: the inner room was dreary and chill. Partially undressing, he lay down on the brass bed and pulled the covers over him. At length his mind seemed to stand still, and there remained of all that amazing evening's pictures but one? that of a girl in a blue corduroy suit who wept?wept only that her smile might be the more dazzling when It flashed behind the tears. "With yel low locks, crisped like golden wire," murmured Mr. Magee. And so he fell asleep. Every morning at 8, when slumber's chains had bound Mr. Magee in his New York apartments, he was awakened by a pompous valet named Geoffrey. whom he shared with the other young men in the building. It was Geoffrey's custom to enter, raise the curtains and speak of the weather in a voice vibrant with feeling, as of something he had prepared himself and was anxious to have Mr. Magee try. So, when a rattling noise came to his ear on his first morning at Baldpate inn, Mr. Magee breathed sleepily from the covers, "Good morning, Geoffrey." But no cheery voice replied in terms of sun, wind or rain. Surprised, Mr. Magee sat up in bed. About him the maple wood furniture of suit 7 stood shivering in the chill of a December morning. Through the door at his left he caught sight of a white tub into which, he recalled sadly, not ovfln a fionffrAv eoutd eoax a glitter ing drop. Yes?he was at Baldpate Inn. He remembered?the climb with the dazed Quimby up the snowy road, the plaint of the lovelorn haberdasher the vagaries of the professor with a penchant for blonds, the mysterious click of the door latch on the floor above. And last of all?strange that it should have been last?a girl in blue corduroy somewhat darker than her eyes, who wept amid the station gloom. "I \yonder," reflected Mr. Magee, staring at the very brassy bars at the foot of his bed," "what new variations on seclusion the day will bring forth?" Again came the rattling noise that had awakened him. He looked toward the nearest window, and through an unfrosted corner of the pane he saw the eyes of the newest variation staring at him in wonder. They were dark eyes and kindly. They spoke a desire to enter. Raising from his warm retreat, Mr. Magee took his shivering way across the uncarpeted floor and unfastened the window's catch. From the blustering balcony a plump little man step| ped inside. He had a market basket on his arm. His face was a stranger to razors; his hair to shears. Magee dived hastily back under the covers. "Well?" he questioned. "So you're the fellow?" remarked the little man in awe. He placed the basket on the floor. It appeared to be filled with bromidic groceries, such as the most subdued householder carries home. "Which fellow?" asked Mr. Magee. "The fellow Elijah Quimby told me about," explained he of the long brown locks, "the fellow that's come up to Baldplate inn to be alone with his thoughts." "You're one of the villagers, I take it?" guessed Mr. Magee. "You're dead wrong. I'm no villager. My instincts are all in the other direction?away from the crowd. I live up near the top of Baldpate in a little shack I hunt myseu. my name's Peters, Jake Peters, in the winter. But in the summer, when the inn's open and the red and white awnings are out and the band plays in the Casino every night, then I'm the hermit of Baldpate mountain. I come down here and sell picture postcards of myself to the ladies." Mr. Magee appeared overcome with mirth. "A professional hermit, by the gods!" he cried. "Say, I didn't know Baldpate mountain was fitted up with all the modern improvements. This is great luck. I'm an amateur at the hermit business. You'll have to teach me the fine points. Sit down." "Just between ourselves, I'm not a regular hermit," said the plump, bewhiskered one, sitting gingerly on the edge of a frail chair?"not one of these 'all for love of a woman' herrno/1 ohnnt In hnnlfS Of course I have to pretend I am, in summer, in order to sell the cards and do my whole duty by the inn management. A lot of the women ask me in soft tones about the great disappointment that drove me to old Baldpate, and I give 'em various answers, according to how I feel. Speaking to you as a friend and considering the fact that it's the dead of winter, I may say there was a little or no romance in my life." "Back to nature, in other words," remarked Mr. Magee. "Yes, sir; back with a rush. I was down to the village this morning for a few groceries, and I stopped off at Quimby's, as I often do. He told me about you. I help him a lot around the Inn, and we arranged I was to stop in and start you a fire and do any other little errands you might want done. I thought we ought to get acquainted, you and me, being as we're both literary men, after a manner of speaking." "No?" cried Mr. Magee. "Yes," said the hermit of Baldpate. "I dip into that work a little now and then. Some of my verses on the joys of solitude have appeared in print?on the postcards I sell to the guests in the summer. But my life [work, as you might call it. is a book I've had under way for some time. It's called simply, 'Woman'?Just that one word; but, oh, the meaning in it! that book is going to prove that all the trouble in the world from the beginning of time was caused by fe males. Not just say so, mind you. Prove It!" "A difficult task, I'm afraid," smiled Magee. "Not difficult?long," corrected the hermit. "When I started out four years ago I thought it would just be a case of a chapter on Eve and honorable mention of Cleopatra and Helen of Troy and a few more like that and the thing would be done. But as I got into the subject I was fairly buried under new evidence. Then Mr. Carnegie came along and gave Upper Asquewan Falls a library. It's wonderful to think the great works that man will be responsible for. I've dedicated 'Woman' to him. Since the new library I've dug up Information about a thousand disasters I never dreamed of before, and I contend that if you go back a ways in any one of 'em you'll find the fluffy little lady that started the whole rumpus. So I hunt the woman. I reckon the French would call me the greatest cherchez la femme In history." "A fascinating pursuit," laughed Mr. Magee. "I'm glad you've told me about It, and I shall watch the progress of the work with Interest, although I can't say that I entirely agree with you. Here and there is a woman who more than makes amends for whatever trouble her sister have caused. One, for instance, with golden hair and eyes that when they weep"? "You're young," Interrupted the little man, rising. "There ain't no use to debate it with you. I reckon I'll start your fire." He went into the outer room, and Mr. Magee lay for a few moments listening to his preparations about the fireplace. "I say. Mr. Peters." he cried, leaping from bed and running into the other room, where the hermit was persuading a faint blaze, "I've an idea. You can cook can't you?" "Cook?" repeated the hermit. "Well, yes; I've had to learn a few things about it, living far from the rathskellars the way I do." "The very man," rejoiced Mr. Magee. "You must stay here and cook for me?for us." "Us?" asked the hermit, staring. "Yes. I forgot to tell you. After Mr. Quimby left me last night two other amateur hermits hove in view. One is a haberdasher with a broken heart"? "Woman!" cried the triumphant Peters. "Name, Arabella," laughed Magee. "The other's a college professor who made an indiscreet remark about blonds. You won't mind them, I'm sure, and they may be able to help you a lot with your great work." "I don't know what Quimby will say" studied the hermit. "I reckon he'll run 'em out. He's against this thing?afraid of fire." "Quimby will come later," Mr. Magee assured him, drawing on a dressing gown. "Just now the idea is a little water in yonder tub and a nice cheerful breakfast after. It's going to pay you a lot better than selling postcards to romantic ladles, I promise you. I won't take you away f r-nm a uinrlf fnr TvVilph thp wnrld is panting without more than making it up to you financially. Where do you stand as a coffee maker?" "Walt till you taste It," said Peters reassuringly. "I'll bring you up some water." He started for the door, but Mr. Magee preceded him. "The haberdasher," he explained, "sleeps below, and he's a nervous man. He might commit the awful error of shooting the only cook on Baldpate mountain." Mr. Magee went out into the hall and called from the depths the figure of Bland, fully attired in his flashy garments and looking tawdry and tired in the morning light. "I've been up hours," he remarked. "Heard somebody knocking around the kitchen, but I ain't seer, any breakfast brought in on a silver tray. My inside feels like the Mammoth cave." Mr. Magee introduced the hermit of Baldpate. "Pleased to meet you, said Bland. "I guess it was you I heard in the kitchen. So you're going to cater to this select few, are you? Believe me, you can't get on the "job any too soon to suit me." Out of a nearby door stepped the black garbed figure of Professor Thaddeus Bolton, and him Mr. Magee included in the presentation ceremonies. They talked little, being men unfed, while Jake Peters started proceedings in the kitchen and tramped upstairs with many pails of water. "You ain't going to see any skirts up here," Mr. Bland promised him. And Mr. Peters, bringing the water from below, took occasion to point out that shaving was one of man's troubles directly attributable to woman's presence In the world. At length the hermit summoned them to breakfast, and as they de scended, the heavenly odor of coffee sent a glow to their hearts. Peters had built a rousing fire in the big fireplace opposite the clerk's desk in the office, and in front of this he had placed a table which held promise of a satisfactory breakfast. As the three sat down, Mr. Bland spoke: "I don't know about you, gentlemen. but I could fall on Mr. Peters' neck and call him blessed." (To be Continued.) \Vir a charity doctor will scarcely look a gift patient in the mouth. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY 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 nuhlished in our Issue of November 14. 1Q13 Thn notpn nrp helne DreDared by the edbor 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, t is the desire of the editor to present from the records, a truthful and accurate picture of conditions as they existed immediately preceedlng the Civil war. This will be 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 happenings out of the ordinary. In the meantime persons who may desire further information about matters that may have been only briefly mentioned are invited to call at the office of the editor and examine the original records. TWENTY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT Thursday, December 16, 1858.?A Relic.?The Pendleton Messenger says: "We have lately exhumed in a cellar of our village, the old wooden press that the Messenger was first Issued upon. It was the identical press that General Greene printed the dispatches of the army with. It is made mostly of mahogany. To compare it with the presses of the present day, it is indeed a curiosity. "Our friend and pitcher," Jchn E. Grist, the veteran of the York Press, and now employed leisurely, in The Enquirer office, became enthl siastic on reading of the old press, and discoursed thereupon eloquently. He "served his time," in the Messenger office; worked it out on Greene's old mahogany machine; remembers every joint of its worn-out timbers; ind in their natural old age, sends greeting to the old veteran. In the days of his apprenticeship, when the Messenger was the only paper in the state outside of Charleston and Columbia, John Miller was his boss, the editor and proprietor of this 10x12 pioneer. And John Miller was in earlier da3's, a journeyman in the office of Woodfall in London, "wrrd set'In type most of the "Letters of Junius." Thus the authorship of Junius was made known to him; but he was faithful to the trust and the secret died with its possessor. So it was said long ago in the Messenger office, and "the old man" tells it yet. All persons indebted to the York District Chronicle for subscriptions, advertising or job work, are hereby notified that accounts have been placed in the hands of James Jefferys, Esq., for collection; and all remaining unpaid on the 15th of January will be sued on. Richard Hare, Assignee. The election of governor on Thursday and Friday last was unusually spirited and warmly contested. Only two candidates were in the field and yet four ballots were taken?Col. William Hi Gist of Union, receiving 78 VOtes, *J01. J. tl. iroy ui murciia, i i, and two or three votes scattering? before a choice was effected. On the fourth ballot Col. Gist received 81 votes, and was consequently declared "Governor and Commander-in-Chief." The contest was purely personal, both candidates being of the "red hot" school. For many years Col. Gist represented Union district in the senate, and in 1848 was elected LieutenantGovernor during the time of Governor Seabrook. The inauguration took place in the house of representatives with due prompt and ceremony on Monday. Thursday, January 20, 1859.?Capt. Clinton publishes orders in this issue r\f fhn "Rrlor Pat/'h" Beat on Friday, the 4th of February next, instead of the following Saturday. The change is made in order that the company may vote for colonel to supply the place vacated by Col. McCorkle, at the election on that day, and at the same time perform their wonted duties. Married?In Yorkville on Wednesday morning, the 19th instant, by James Jefferys, Esq., Mr. John R. Alexander (Postmaster), and Miss Mary, daughter of J. Leroy Telton, all of this district. Thursday, January 27, 1859.?We have been requested to state that Rev. Robert Lathan will preach in the Associate Reformed church at this place on Sunday next. Service at 10J and 2J o'clock. Married?On Thursday evening, 13th instant, at the home of A. H. Graham, in De Soto county, Miss., by Rev. A. Enloe, Mr. Jas. R. Hudson, late of York district, S. C., and Miss J. L. Cook, of the former place. Thursday, February 3. 1859.?For The Yorkvllle Enquirer. A Card. Yorkville, Jan. 31st, 185S-. The undersigned take pletisure in giving publication to the fallowing correspondence, as the adjustment of a difficulty lately pending between Mr. S. W. Melton and Mr. Wm. A. Latta. D. F. Jamison, R. G. McCaw. Yorkvllle, S. C., Jan. 27th, 1859. Mr. Wm. A. Latta? Sir: In an article published in the "Indian Land Chronicle" of the 21st instant, to which your name is affixed, allusions are made which, if .lesigned to refer to myself, I consider personally offensive. I desire to know, therefore whether the language to which I al ude was intended to apply to me. An early answer is requested. Respectfully, Sam'l W. Melton. A copy of the following letter was presented to Gen. Jos. F. Gist, and to MaJ. M. Jenkins, the acting friends of the parties: Yorkville, Jan. 29. 1869. Dear Sir:?The undersigned have learnt that a serious personal difficulty exists between Messrs. S. W. Melton and Wm. A. Latta, and as they have reason to believe that it admits of a peaceable and honorable adjustment, they beg that the matter may be referred to them to inquire if a result so every way to be desired may not result from their mediation. With great respect. Your obed't servants, D. F. Jamison, R. G. McCaw. Yorkville, Jan. 29. 1859. Gentlemen:?Your note of this date, usking that the difficulty existing between Mr. S. W. Melton and Mr. Wm. A. Latta may be submitted to you for the purpose of an honorable adjustment, was handed to me. In reply, I have to say, as the friend of Mr. S. W. Melton, I have no hesitation in surrendering into your hands the adjustment of the difficulty between the parties above referred to. Yours respectfully, Jos. F. Gist. Messra D. F. Jamison, R. G. McCaw. Yorkville, Jan. 29, 1859. Messrs. D. F. Jamison, R. G. McCaw? Gentlemen:?Your favor is at hand. All that I desire is the sMctly right and honorable, and having every confidence that nothing but what would be honorable to all parties will be proposed by you, I cheerfully accept for my friend, Mr. W. A. Lutta, the mediation you offer. With great respect, I am, gentlemen, Your obd't servant, Micah Jenkins. The undersigned, at their request, having been permitted to act as mediators in a difficulty now pending between Messrs. Samuel W. Melton and William A. Lutta, have given to the { subject, the fullest consideration. The difficulty seems mainly to have arisen out of an editorial paragraph 1 in the Yorkville Enquirer, purporting i to give the proceedings of a meeting of the Stockholders of the King's Mountain Railroad, in which the acdon of a majority of that body was censured by Mr. Melton, and expres- i sions were used which might be deem- , ed olTensive by Mr. Latta and those with whom he acted; but the undersigned do not think, that anything i .-ontainpd in that editorial wa8 suffl- i cient to call forth or Justify the very severe and Insulting communication in reply to it, in the Indian Land Chronicle, written by Mr. Latta. The undersigned have, therefore, come to the following decision?:? That Mr. Melton disclaims any design in the editorial above mentioned, to injure Mr. Latta, and he withdraws any expressions therein calculated to wound his feelings. That Mr. Latta withdraws the harsh and offensive language used in his communication to the "Indian Land Chronicle," as fully and in the same manner as if such words had never been used. These things being done the undersigned believe that the difficulty heretofore existing between the parties, will have been adjusted in a manner equally honorable and satisfactory to bcth. 2 D. F. Jamison, R. G. McCaw. Yorkville. Jan. 30.J869. Yorkville, Jan. 30, 1859. Messrs. D. F. Jamison, R. G. McCaw? Gentlemen: I have just received your note enclosing the terms of an adjustment of the difficulty existing between Mr. S. IV. Melton and Mr. W. A. Latta. As a friend of Mr. S. W. Melton, I accept the settlement. Respectfully, your obd't servant, Jos. F. Gist Messrs. D. F. Jamison and R. G. McCaw? Gentlemen: Your propositions for the adjustment of the difficulty between Mr. S. W. Melton and Mr. W. A. Latta, have been handed to me. The terms proposed being such as I can honorably entertain for my friend, Mr. Latta, it affords me great satisfaction that I can accept them as a settlement of the difficulty, and remain, gentlemen, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Micah Jenkins. (To Be Continued). HOW GOETHAL8 GOT HIS NAME It Means "Stiff Necked" and Dates From the Crusades. : The soldier ara aamimsiruLive mmtary man have been bred In George ' Washington Goethals for three genera- 1 tions. He is claimed now by many ' cities and states, but he is a "Brooklyn 1 boy," although his ancestry is Swiss, 1 and of the military Swiss at that. His 1 grandfather was a surgeon In the ' French army arid was with Napoleon at Austerlltz. His own father, John 1 Goethals, was born in Switzerland and < moved to Amsterdaf in his early boy- ' hood. In 1848 he came to this country, 1 making his home in Brooklyn, where 1 in 1858 Colonel Goethals was born. ' The origin of the family name is in- < teresting. In good Dutch it is the equl- 1 valent of the English "stiff necked," ? and was conferred on the first of the < present line, who was one of the crusaders, by an early king of Flanders. ' This man was fighting side by side I with his king, when a foe struck him 1 a mighty blow. The sword was turned i aside by the armor and the man kept s on fighting. A second blow was struck, I but still the man kept on fighting be- t fore the eyes of his king, until the battle was won. After the conflict the i king called the warrior to his side and i commended him for his prowess. i "Sire," said the soldier, "I break be- 1 fore I bend." i "Henceforth," said the king, "thy i name is Goethals, the stiff necked." c The name "stuck," and for centuries the family mctto has been "We break before we bend." < The canal builder pronounces his t name "Go-th'lls," with the accent on i the "go." This pronunciation is vouch- i ed for by Peter C. Macfarlane, the t writer, and by others who know the ' colonel personally. According to Funk [ & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary, the i name should be pronounced "Ger-tuls" { with the vowel sound as in "Goethe." ( The colonel, however, appears to pre- l fer the American way, purists to t the contrary notwithstanding. So < "Go-th'lls" gees.?New York Herald. I ? ? < Castile soap and orris root in equal ( narto make a cleansing: and fragrant < tooth powder. t A quantity of quicklime put into a t damp cupboard for a few days will i absorb the dampness. j Blood stains should be soaked when t fresh In cold water. t Turpentine or benzine will remove i pnint stains. i Use salt or lemon Juice on Ink i stains. s Rub grass stains with molasses and ? wash. t Use boiling water for tea stains. t pteaUatuou* Heading. THE ASYLUM INVESTIGATION Or. Griffin Testifies to Alleged Interference of Dr. 8aunders. Dr. H. H. Griffin, third assistant physician at the State hospital was the only witness to give testimony last Friday. He was cross-examined by Dr. Saunders, Governor Blease and Dr. Babcock. His testimony related mainly to the causes of friction among the members of the hospital staff. Following is from the official stenographic report of his testimony: "Well, I think there has been some friction and disagreement between Dr. Saunders and myself, which, I think, dates back probably four years. "Well, I think the first time It was more or less a misunderstanding. That was some?felt was reaily the beginning of the little friction that we had, it was a little incident, a little remark I think that I made, that I think she took exception to, and it seems to me that from that time her attitude toward me changed." Dr. Strait: Will you mind telling me what that remark was? The witness then said that he and ( Dr. Saunders were behind with their dues to the Columbia Medical society ( and that their names had been read out. That on the following morning . he mentioned the fact that their ( names had been read out and she immediately said: "I wish you would , mind your own business." The wit- , ness said that he did not mean to , ' ? Qonn^Ara tva a Hi.Q lllipiy l iiui l/l. uauiiutio fftw honest or did not pay her debts. Dr. Griffin: That Is, far as I can see, the beginning of the trouble. I felt that it was a misunderstanding and certainly on her part. Now, since that, the main grievances that I have had against Dr. Saunders, and It was on that account largely that I spoke to the board of regents, and that was her, as I saw it, discourtesy toward me. "I would?don't mean to say now 1 that she showed that sort of spirit each day, but generally she did. For instance, now, when I would go into the office in the morning, she would frequently not recognize me when [ said, 'Good morning,' and some- . times in passing her in the hall I ivould greet her and she wquld not . take any notice of me, and I have on , some occasions, I do not remember , lust specific instances, addressed some , little remark to her, when she would jive me a rather curt, short answer. , A.nd it seemed to me that her whole learinc and attitude was rather hos- , tile, and so much so that within the last year I even really dreaded having to come in contact with her. Now [ do not mean to say positively that she really meant to be disrespectful to me, but that is the way that I certainly interpreted her manner." The witness next-urt*; in reply to ivestions by the committee, that he tit.d never complained to the superintendent because of the attitude of Dr. Saunders. He said that there was no rule to this effect until last July. Continuing, the witness said: "Now I remember?well, one instance?we had just gotten in, I do lot know how long she had been there, a new stenographer in the ifhce, and I said to this lady one morning, T wish you would take some letters for me,' and at the time she was not occupied. Dr. Saunders, nho was occupying her chair there it the desk, whirled around and said, She is my stenographer,' that she is lot to take your letters. Well, I had lever heard of her having been assigned a private stenographer. I knew ' * ? * ? tn lr/v mv 1 /% - mis muy trner hull uiu ianc mj ???. :ers. "There was another time, when I nad charge of the white male department in Dr. Thompson's absence, which I usually did. I think Dr. Saunders was guilty of some profesjional discourtesy then. She sent a ray of food into a nurse who was un3er my treatment. This man had a very severe case of tonsilitis, his throat was very much closed up, and fery much nauseated, very high temperature, and I had left instructions for him to have a very simple diet. I Pave?well, I think I had specified that the man was to have a little milk and cracked ice at stated times. And I was apprised of the fact, as I jnderstocd the next morning, that Dr. Saunders had sent a tray into the fnf ?hla mnn nnr! that the nurse had sent word back that Dr. < 3riflln had given instructions for this t nan to have only this specific diet, ^ ind the message came back, however, I ;o the ward that Dr. Saunders said, t Oh. well, that is all right, Just let I Him have it.' Now that is the way ? hat I understood it. And, as I say. < t felt that she didn't treat me just * "ight, and if I am not mistaken I 1 ipoke to Dr. Babcock about it, and I ' :hink I also spoke to Miss Irwin. I :ried to find Dr. Saunders." I The witness then said that if Dr. * Saunders had wanted to send a tray B n to the patient it would have been " nuch better and more courteous for * ler to have consulted him about the natter. The witness said that he had lever interfered with the department ^ if Dr. Saunders. Continuing, the witness said: "Well, there was another little in- 1 :ident?I do not just recall the date? * which I think was trying, too?in t which she apparently tried to brush c ne aside. When I was first appointed ? here on that staff in 1905, Dr. B. W. s raylor said that he wanted me to do iny little bacterological work that night arise there at the institution, ^ ind while they had nothing of a lab- e iratory at all, I gathered together a 'ew little test tubes and things of a hat sort and I brought some of my >wn apparatus up there. I had a } 'airly well equipped laboratory at my jfflce and I had done quite a little )f that work here in the city before I :onnected myself with that institu:lon. Well, I think I got permission :o give a little order for some little ipparatus. I do not know Just who t Is had the representatives of one of :he firms dealing In that sort of stuff, :o come down there, but it was anlounced one day in the office that the epresentative of Arthur H. Thomas Si Co., of Philadelphia, was there to lee about taking an order for some ipparatus. Well, I immediately got lp and went in there and commenced e o tell him about a few things that I j understood that they were going: to give an order for, a few things that I would need, and very shortly Dr. Saunders came in and it appeared to me that she took the thing out of my hands and brushed me aside. Certainly when the things arrived I got no official notification of it, and the box contain.ng the goods was opened and incidentally I was advised, I believe, as to the receipt of the goods." Q. What was wrong about the transaction? A. Well, I thought, as I say, it I was supposed to have charge in a way of that department I ought to have had It Q. Yes? A. And I should have been miowea iu u?e my uiDt-icuuu txa iu what apparatus should be gotten. The witness next said that Dr. Saunders had interfered, while he was in charge of the white male department, by permitting the wife of a patient to see her husband. He said that he did not think it best for the patient for his wife to come very often, "because after each visit I always found him in a very much more excited state. I had given Instructions that she was not to see him quite so often, because I thought it was for the patient's good." He said that he did not think Dr. Saunders treated him fairly in the matter. He thought that he should have been consulted by Dr. Saunders. "I certainly never would have done any such thing with one of her patients," the witness said. Dr. Oriffln next told the committee that he did not believe that he had the friendship of Dr. Babcock. He read from the proceedings of the spe cial legislative committee, appointed In 1909 to investigate the hospital, to show that he grave testimony in Dr. Babcock's favor. Dr. Griffin said that an several occasions Dr. Babcock had been hostile to him and that he did not know why he had incurred the anmlty of the superintendent. VALUATION OF RAILROAD8 * Task That Will Occupy Six Years and Cost $12,000,000. C. A. Prouty, formerly interstate commerce commissioner, who has charge of the commission's task of making a physical valuation of all the ' railroads of the country, delivered an important address recently before the innual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United Statea Mr. Prouty gave the first authoritative outline of the gigantic Job undertaken by the commission. He estimates that it nay be Ave or six years before the work is completed, and that it may :o8t the United States government as nuch as $12,000,000. "It should be possible," said Mr. Prouty, "for the people to know upon :he completion of this work what it would cost to rebuild its railroads new uid to what extent these properties lave depreciated as compared to new." Mr. Prouty said that the country :he physical valuation of railways involves something: more than determinng the cost of reproduction without lepreciation. "I am not saying," he added, "that t may not finally come to pass that :he cost of reproduction will be the jontrolling factor; many people so inilst. Others urge with equal earnestness that the true test of value, so far is it can be ascertained, is the money nvested in the property. I express no >pinion upon any of these propositions. [ simply call your attention to the fact :hat the commission is required not nerely to ascertain the cost of produc:lon but to state the value of the property, and that in attempting to do so nany delicate and difficult questions nay be encountered." Mr. Prouty estimated that it will ?l"> frnm fmip tn ?lr vsnrs to rnmnlfitfl :he valuation. The commission, he said, will in the near future have data with -espect to some of the railroads, but whether a valuation will be at once announced in such cases is yet to be de:ermined. He thought the task might be competed at an expense of between 16,>00,000 and 17.000.000, but he thought he government ought to be prepared :o spend at least 112,000,000. He con:ended that this amount was in reality Titling when compared with the present aggregate capitalization of our allroads?122,000,000,000. "One purpose," said he, "and to some nlnds, the principal purpose of this valuation, Is to determine the amount jpon which the public should be rejulred to pay a return to the owners )f these public utilities. Assume that his valuation varies the amount on which return should be paid by only 5 >er cent. Five per cent of 120,000,000,100 Is 11,000,000,000 and a return of 6 )er cent upon 11,000.000,000 is 160,000,- , 100 annually. The difference then eithtr to the public or the railroads may herefore well be, for every year, five imea the entire cost of the valuation tself." Mr. Prouty contended that while the >roblem of establishing railway rates vlll not be solved by the physical valuLtlon, It will be enormously simplified. -From a Washington dispatch to the <ew York Sun. Changing Clemson's Name.?Senator Tillman is quoted in the Columbia State of Sunday morning as saying hat "if an endowment of $1,000.000 vere offered to Clemson college today would not consent to the violation of he contract under which the state ac:epted the bequest of Thomas G. Clemlon. Col. R. W. Simpson, Mr. Clemson ind myself," the senator is quoted as laying, "decided on a plan of a self>erpetuating board of trustees for the < nanagement of the college, because we vanted to keep the control of the initltution out of the hands of negroes, i mil r\f thnoo wnriw than nefiTTOeS. for ' ill time." This is the first time we have ever leard of this negro scare in connection vith Clemson, and we must confess hat to us it is somewhat of a novel dea that the great state of South Car?lina must relinquish to a self-perpetlatlng board the control of one of her >ducational institutions, which is costng her people a quarter of a million lollars a year to keep that instltuion >ut of the hands of negroes. The letters of the descendants of Tohn C. Calhoun, which appear in a ipecial message of the governor to he general assembly, published elsevhere in this issue, should have the nost serious consideration of the genral assembly.?Newberry Herald and <Jews. SOCIAL EVIL BILL8 House Pastes Two of Thorn to Third Reading*. Columbia State, Saturday. By a vote of 68 to 26 the house of representatives yesterday passed to third reading the Sanders bill, making the injunction process available for abatement of disorderly houses, and immediately thereafter passed also, by unanimous vote, the bill of the judiciary committee, which 1* In substance the same as the Mann Federal act relating to "white slaves." Thursday it was agreed, following prolonged flllibusterlng, that a vote should be taken "on the whole matter" Friday, "immediately after third' reading bills." The pending question was tho motion of Mr. Liles to order the previous questions. Obstruction Tactics. When the two bills were taken up yesterday the opposition renewed its obstructive tactics, depending less on flllibusterlng, though they managed in this fashion to work delay by securing several roll calls, then on loading the measure down with absurd or impossible amendments. Mr. Mlley sent up half a dozen amendments, one of which was to bar from public office any person found visiting disorderly houses. This the house rejected, 69 to 48. Mr. Vander Horst moved to amend the Sanders bill by striking out all after the enacting words and substl tutlng the language of the "white slave" bill proposed by the judiciary committee. The house refused by a vote of 62 to 39 to accede to this amendment. The vote was as follows: Vote on 8anders Bill. For the amendment: Ashley, J. W., and M. J. Barnwell, Browning, Clement, Creech, Daniel, Gasque, Goodwin, Gary, Hale, Hall, Hardin, Harper, Harvey, Hutchison, Lee, McDonald, McMaster, Massey, Melfl, Mlley, Miller, Moseley, Mower, Murray, Odom, Pate, Pyatt, Rlttenberg, Robertson, Rogers, W. S., Jr., Sapp, Senseney, Shirley, Thompson, Vander Horst, Welch, Wyche C. C? Youmans. Nays: The speaker, Addy, AtklnBon, Baskin, Belser, Bethea, Bolt, Bowers, Boyd, Brice, Burgess, Charles, Courtney, Dantzler, DeLaughter. Gpps, Evans, Friday. Frlpp, Greer, Harrelson H. F. and M. C., Haynesworth, Hoitt, Hunter, Hutson, Irby, Johnston, Jones, Kellahan, Kelly, Kennedy, Klbler, Klrby, Liles, Long, Lybrand, McCravey, McMillan, McOneen, Malpass, Martin, Means, Moore, Nelson, Nicholson, Peegues, Ready, Riddle, Riley, Robinson L. M., Rogers, Sanders W. M. and W. W., Scott, Smiley. Stanley, Sturkle, Walker, Warner, Warren. White, Whitehead, Wllburn, Zelgler. On the direct question whether the Sanders bill should be ordered to ihlrd reading the vote was as ColIVW0T' ? ? * Yeas: Baskin, Belser, Bolt, Bowers, Boyd, Brice, Burgess, Clement, Courtney, Dantzler, Epps, Evans, FrlDD. Greer, Hall, M. C. Harrelson, Harvey, Haynesworth, Hoitt, Hunter, Hutson, Irby, Johnson, Jones, Kelly. Kennedy, Kirby, Kirk, Liles, Long, Lybrand, McCravey, McDonald, McMillan, Malpass, Martin, Means, Moore, Moseley, Nelson, Nicholson, Pegues, Pyatt, Ready, Riddle, Riley, Robinson L. M., Rogers, Sanders W. M. and W. W., Scott, Sherwood. Shirley, Smiley, Stanley, Sturkle, Walker, Warner, Warren, White, Whitehead, Wilburn and Zeigler. Nays: Ashley J. W., Black well, Browning, Busbee, Creech, Daniel, Fortner, Gray, Holley, Hutchison, Lee, McMaster, Masey, Melfl, MUey, Miller, Mower, Murray, Odom, Pate, Rittenberg, W. S. Rogers, Jr., Senseney. Summers, Thompson, Todd, Vander Horst, C. C. Wyche. On the direct vote to pass to third retLuuig wiuko PM?TV w?u w..v was 91 to 0. The title of the Sanders bili says the measure is "to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness. . . to declare the same to be nuisances, to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any building used for such purpose, and to assess a tax against the person, or persons maintaining said nuisance and against the building and owner thereof." The committee report on it was "six favorable with amendments, six unfavorable." The author is Representative Olin Lee Sanders of York county. The title of the complementary measure is: "A bill to prevent the transportation, inducement, harboring or protecting of any female within the state for the purpose of pros titution or other immoral purposes, ind to provide punishment therefor." Messrs. Friday and Mixson were paired on the Sanders bill. The former would have voted for the measure, the latter against it. Rural Credit?The story of rural credit societies in Germany, covering the past quarter of a century, shows that the people of that country have not failed to develop the means of financing their crop any more than they have failed to provide adequately for the financing of their expanding foreign trade. In 1912 German domestic exports were >2,131,718,000 compared with >1,113,313,000 in 1902. The export movement has, therefore, nearly doubled within this decade. The co-operative credit associations which numbered 1,729 in 1890 have grown to 15,537 In 1910. The common principle is that of individuals banding together. The directors in these cases who act for the societies render a service to be compared with the directors in our mutual savings banks who look upon the opportunity as an honor without pay. ?Wall Street Journal. Taxing Rockefeller.?The tax assessors of Cleveland say that John D. Rockefeller owes that city $12,690,000 taxes, since he has remained there during the past year for a period long enough to make him a resident These tax assessors further state that If the tax is not paid promptly, penalty of fifty per cent will be charged, making the total about $19,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller, according to common conception Is not a resident of Cleveland, but of New York, so this attempt to collect taxes from him appears somewhat in the light of nagging. We are not in sympathy with a man who amasses a fortune such as Rockefeller has amassed, and in the way he has done it, but nevertheless there is no reason to worry at him, and try to collect taxes which are not due. If he pays his taxes in New York, there is certainly no Justice in making him pay again in Cleveland. Incidentally Cleveland's chances for getting that $12,690,000 are the slenderest we can imagine, for John D. Ijas never been noted for allowing people to get the beter of him in business Ieal8.?Greenville News.