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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. t. m GRIST'S SONS, Publisher., } % ^amtlg Dturapapti;: 4or the Jjroinofion of th< political, Social, g^rieultural and (Commercial Jntewste of the j3copI<. { IIRIV/noleJop/wve'ce^*''' ^ ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, JUNK 9. 1!>14. ~ ISTO. 40. p = PARRO' By HAROLD P Copyright 1913. The Bobbs-Mer CHAPTER X?Continued. She continued her exposition. "There are but few gently born. They are ^ generous and broadminded. They could not be mine own people otherwise. They are all I care about. I shun mediocrity as I would the plague. 1 refuse to permit it to touch me, either with words or with deeds. The good opinion of those I love is dear to me; as for the rest of the # world!" She snapped her lingers to illustrate how little she cared. "1 am a man under a cloud, to be avoided." "Perhaps that cloud has a silver _ lining," with a gentle smile. "I do * not believe you did anything wrong, premeditatively. All of us, one time or another, surrender to wild impulse. Perhaps in the future there awaits for me such a moment. I cannot recollect the name of Warrington in a cause celebre," thoughtfully, t He could only gaze at her dumbly. "Don't you suppose there is u vast difference between you and this man Craig? Could you commit the petty crime of cheating at cards, of taking advantage of a woman's kindness, of betraying a man's misfortune? I do not think you could. No, Mr. Warrington, I do not care what they say, on board here or elsewhere." "My name is not Warrington," finding his voice. God in heaven, what would happen when she found out what his name was? "But my first name is Paul." "Paul. I have had my suspicions that your name was not Warrington. But tell me nothing more. What * good would it do? 1 did not read that man's letter. I merely noted your name and his. You doubtless knew him somewhere in the past." "Might there not be danger in your kindness to me?" "In what way?" "A man under a cloud is often reckless and desperate. There is always an invisible demon culling out to him: What's the use of being good? You are the first wotrtan of your station who has treated me as a human being;. 1 do not say as an equal. You have given me buck some of my selfrespect. It throws my world upside down. It's a heavy wine for an abstemious man. Don't you realize that ...... a h..olltiflll woman?" JV.U l?.V V r She looked up into his eyes quickly. but she saw nothing there indicating flattery, only somber gravity. "1 should be silly to deny it. I know that had I been a frump, the colonel would not have snubbed me. 1 wonder why it is that in life beauty in a woman is always looked upon - with suspicion?" "Envy provokes that." She resumed her inclination against the rail again. "After Singapore it is probable that we shall not meet again. I admit, in my world, I could not walk upon this free and easy around. I should have to ask about your antecedents, what you have done, all about you, in fact. Then, we should sit in judgment.*' "And condemn me, off-hand. That would be perfectly right." "But I might be one of the dissenting judges." "That is because you are one wof man in a thousand." "No; I simply have a mind of my own, and often prefer to be guided by it. I am not a sheep." Silence. The lap-lap of the water, the long slow rise and fall, and the dartin" (lying lish apparently claimed their attention. But Warrington saw nothing but the danger, the danger to himself and to her. At any moment lie might fling his arms around her, without his having the power to resist. She called to him as nothing in the world had called before. But she trusted him, and because of this he resolutely throttled ^ the recurring desires. She was right. He had scored what she had termed as a woman's instinct. She hail read him with a degree of accuracy. In the ..oo* ,.f he was a irood man. a tie ' J v" ?? - .. ? - pendable man; but he was not im possibly good. He* was human enough to want her, human enough to appreciate the danger in which she stood of him. He was determined not to fail her. When she went back to her own world she would carry an unsullied memory of him. Hut. before God, he should not have her. "Why did you do that'."' she asked whimsically. ^ "I)o what?" * "Shut your jaws with a snap." "I was not conscious of the act." "Hut you were thinking strongly about something." "I was. Tell me about the man who 0 looks like me." His gaze roved out to sea. to the white islands of vapor low-lying in the east. "In what respect does he resemble me?" "His hair is yellow, his eyes are blue, and he smiles the same way you do." He felt the lump rise and swell in his throat. "if you stood before a mirror you would see him. Hut there the resenthlanee ends." "You say that sadly. Why?" "Did I? Well. perhaps I was thinking strongly, too." "Is he a man who does things?" a note id' strained euriositv in his tone. Ten years! "In what way do you mean?" "Does he work in the world, does he invent, build, linaiioe?" Mayhap her eyes deeeived her, but y the tan on his faee seemed le.-s brown than yellow. "No: Mr. Kllison is a collector of paintings, of rugs, of rare I and hina. He's a bit detached, as dreatn. ers usually are. He has written a book of exi|Uisitc verses. You are smiling." she broke off suddenly, her eyes tilling with cold lights. "A thousand pardons! The thought was going through my head how unlike we are indeed. I can hardly tell r & co. MACGRATH rill Company. one master from another, all old books look alike to me, and the same with china. I know something about rugs; j but I couldn't write, a jingle if it was to save me from hanging." "Do you invent, build, tinance?" A bit of a gulf had opened up between them. Elsa might not be prepared to marry Arthur, but she certainly nnf inlprntp n envert sneer in regard to his accomplishments. Quietly and with dignity he answered: "I have built bridges in my time over which trains are passing at this moment. I have fought torrents, and Hoods, and hurricanes, and myself. I have done a man's work. I had a future, they said. But here I am, a subject for your pity." She instantly relented. "But you are young. You can begin again." "Not in the sense you mean." "And yet, you tell me you are going back home." "Like a thief in the night." bitterly. CHAPTER XI. The Blue Feather. Elsa toyed with her emeralds, apparently searching for some Haw. Like a thief in the night was a phrase that, rang unpleasantly in her ears. Her remarkable interest in the man was neither to be denied or ignored. In fact, drawing her first by the resemblance to the man she wanted to love but could not, and then by the mystery that he had thrown about his past simply but guarding it closely, it would have been far more remarkable if she had not been deeply interested in him. But tonight she paused for a moment. A little doubt, like one of those oblique flaws that obscured the clarity of the green stones, appeared. She had always been more or less indifferent to public opinion, but it had been a careless, thoughtless indifference; it had not possessed the insolent twist of the past fortnight. To receive the cut direct from a man whose pomposity and mental density had excited her wit and amusement, surprised her rven if it did not hurt. It had rudely awakened her to the fact that her independence might be leading her to a labyrinth. She was compelled to admit that at home she would have avoided Warrington, no matter how deeply sorry she might have been. His insistent warning against himself, however, served to arouse nothing more than a subtle obstinacy to do just as she pleased. And it pleased her to talk to him; it pleased her to trille with the unknown danger. Something new had been born in her. All Kon alto Vt.wl ffottn nlw.ul nnlrvtlir and aloofly, her head in the clouds, her feet on mountain-tops. She had never done anything to arouse discussion in other women. Perhaps such a situation had never confronted her until lately. She had always looked forth upon life through the lenses of mild cynicism. So long as she was rich she might, with impunity, be as indiscreet as she pleased. Her money would plead forgiveness and toleration? Elsa shrugged. Hut shrugs do not dismiss problems. She could have laughed. To have come all this way to solve a riddle, only to find a second more confusing than the first! Like a thief in the night. She did not care to know what he had done, not half so much as to learn what he had been. Peculations of some order; of this she was reasonably sure. So why seek for details, when these might be sordid? Signapore would see the end, and she would become her normal self again. She clasped the necklace around aer lovely throat. She was dressing for dinner, really dressing. An impish mood filled her with tue irrepressible desire t<> shine in all her splendor tonight. Covertly she would watch the eyes of mediocrity widen. Hitherto they had seen her in the simple white of travel. Tonight they should behold the woman who had been notable among the beauties in l'aris, Vienna. Home, London; who had not married a duke simply because his title could not have added to the security of her position, socially or financially; who was twenty-five years of age and perfectly content to wait until she met the Alan who would set to (light all the doubt which kept her heart unruly and unsettled. Into the little mirror above the washstand she peered, with smiling and approving eyes. Never had she looked better. There was unusual color in her cheeks and the clarity of her eyes spoke illuminatingly of superb health. The tan on her face was not made noticeable in contrast by her shoulders and arms, old ivory in tint and as smooth and glossy as ancient Carrara. "You lovely creature!" murmured Martha, touching an arm with her lips. "Am I really lovely?" "You would be adorable if you had a heart." "Perhaps I have one. Who knows?" "You are foolish to dress like this." Martha finished the hooking of Lisa's waist. "And why?" "In the first place there's nobody worth the trouble; and nobody but a duchess or a ?Martha apused embarrassedly. "< ?r a what? An improper person?" Lisa laughed. "My dear Martha, your comparisons are faulty. I know but two dm lo sses in this wide world who are not dowdies, and one of them is an American. -Ml 11II | ?l in *>-11erally the most proper, outside her peculiar environments. Can't you suggest some!hint; else?" .Martha searched hut found no suitaide reply, (tne thing she felt keenly, a feverish impatience for the hoat to reach Signapore where Klsa's folly must surely end. She believed that she saw more clearly into the future than Klsa. Some one would talk, and in that strange inscrutable fashion scandal has of reaching the ends of tic earth, the story would eventually arrive home; and there, for all the profession of friendship, it would find admittance. No door is latched when scandal knocks. Over here they were very far from home, and it was natural that Elsa should view her conduct leniently. Martha readily appreciated that it was all harmless, to be expressed by a single word, whim. But Martha herself never acted upon impulse; she first questioned what the world would say. So run the sheep. For years Martha had discharged her duties, if mechanically yet with a sense of pleasure and security. At this moment she was as one pushed unex pectedly to the brink of a precipice, over which the slightest misstep would topple her. The world was out of joint. Shockingly bad wishes flitted through her head. Each wish aimed at the disposal, imaginary of course, of Warrington: by falling overboard, by being MPi7Pf1 with nno <?f th?? nnmornnq plagues, by having a deadly fracas with one of those stealthy Lascars. "I wish we had gone to Italy," she remarked finally. "It would not have served my purpose in the least. I should have been dancing and playing bridge and going to operas. I should have had no time for thinking." "Thinking!" Martha elevated her brows with an air that implied that she greatly doubted this statement. "Yes, thinking. It is not necessary that 1 should mope and shut myself up in a cell, Martha, in order to think. I have finally come to the end of my doubts, if that will gratify you. From now on you may rely upon one thing, to a certainty." Martha hesitated to put the question. "I am not going to marry Arthur. He is charming, graceful, accomplished, but 1 want a man. I should not be happy with him. I can twist him too easily around my finger. I admit that he exercises over me a certain fasci nation; but when he is out of sight it amounts to the sum of all this doddering and doubting. It is probable that I shall make an admirable old maid. Wisdom has its disadvantages. I might be very happy with Arthur, were I not so wise." She smiled again at the reflection in the mirror. "Now, let us go and astonish the natives." There was a mild flutter of eyelids as she sat down beside Warrington and begin to chatter to him in Italian. He mad a brave show of following her but became hopelessly lost after a few minutes. Elsa spoke fluently; twelve years had elapsed since his last visit to Italy. He admitted his confusion and then-after it was only ocasionall' that she brought the tongue into the conversation. This diversion, which she employed mainly to annoy her neighbors, was, in truth, the very worst tKinrr uK#. n/.n 1.1 An? TKni. nr. longer conjectured; they assumed. Warrington was too strongly dazzled by her beauty tonight to be mental!v keen or to be observing as was his habit. He never spoke to his neighbor; he had eyes for none but Elsa, under whose spell he knew that he would remain while he Hved. He was nothing to her: he readily understood. She was restless and lonely, and he amused her. So be it. He believed that there could not be an unhappier, more unfortunate man than himself. To have been betrayed by the one he had loved, second to but one, and to have this knowledge thrust upon lim after all these years, was evil enough; but the nadir of bis misfortunes had been reached by the appearance of this unreadable young woman. of what use to warn her against himself, or against the possible nay, probable misconstruction that \\ould be given their unusual friendship? Craig would not be idle with his tales. And why had she put on all this finery tonight? To subjugate him? "You are not listening to a word I am saying!" "I beg your pardon! But I warned you that my Italian was rusty." lb pulled himself together. "But 1 have been rattling away in English!" "And I have been wool-gathering." "Not at all complimentary to me." "It is because I am very unhappy; it is because Tantalus and I are brothers." "You should have tlie will to throw off these moods." "My moods, as you call them, are not like hats and coats." i hisii i cowiu inu?\t- juu iiir^ri, "On the contrary, the sight of you makes memory all the keener." He had never spoken like that hefore. It rather subdued her, made her regret that she had surrendered to a vanity that was without aim or direction. Farthest from her thought was conquest of the man. She did not wisn to hurt him. She was not a coquette. After dinner he did not suggest the usual promenade. Instead, he excused himself and went below. They arrived at I'enang early Monday morning. Elsa decided that Warrington should take her and Martha on a personally conducted tour of the pretty town. As they left for shore he produced a small beautiful blue feather; he gave it to Elsa with the compliments of Rajah; and she stuck it in the pugree of her helmit. "This is not from the dove of peace." "Its arch-enemy, rather," he laughed. "I wish I had the ability to get as furious as that bird. It might do me a world of good." "How long is it since you were here?" "Four years," he answered without enthusiasm. He would not have come ashore at all but for the fact that Elsa had ordered the expedition. There was no inclination to explore the shops; so they hired a landau and rode about town, climbed up to the quaint temple in the hills, and made a tour of tin- liotutinicul gardens. "Isn't it delicious!" murmured Klsa, taking in deep breaths of the warm spice-laden air. Since iter visit to the wonderful gardens at Kandy in Ceylon, she had found a new interest in plants and trees. She thoroughly enjoyed the few hours on land, even to the powwow Warrington had with the unscrupulous driver, who, at the journey's end. substituted one price for another, despit. his original bargain. It was only a matter of two shillings, but Warrington stood tirni. It bad of necessity become a habit with him to haggle and then to stand firm upon the bargain made. There had been times when half an hour's haggling bad meant breakfast or no breakfast. It never entered into his mind what Klsa's point of view might be. The average woman would have called him over-thrifty. All this noise over two shillings! Itut to Klsa it was only the opening of another door into this strange man's character. What others would have accepted as penuriousness she recognized as a sense of well-balanced justice. Most men. she had found, were afflicted with the vanity of spending, and permitted themselves to be imposed on rather than l ave others think that money meant anything to them. Arthur would have paid the difference at once rather than have stood on the pier wrangling As they waited for the tender that was to convey them back to the ship. Elsa observed a powerful middle-aged man, gray-haired, hawk-faced, steeleyed, watching her companion intently. Then his boring gaze traveled over her, from her canvas-shoes to her helmet. There was something so baldly appraising in the look that a flush of anger surged into her cheeks. The man turned and said something to his companion. who shrugged and smiled. Impatiently Rlsa tugged at Warrington's sleeve. "Who is that man over there by the railing?" she asked in a very low voice. "He looks as if he knew you." "Knew me?" Warrington echoed. The moment he had been dreading had come. Some one who knew him! He turned his head slowly, and Rlsa, who had not dropped her hand, could feel the muscles of his arm stiffen under the sleeve. He held the stranger's eye defiantly for a space. The latter laughed insolently if silently. It was more for Rlsa's sake than for his own that Warrington allowed the other to stare him down. Alone, he would have surrendered to the Berserk rage that urged him to leap across the intervening space and annihilate the man, to crush him with his bare hands until he screamed for the merev lie had nl ways denied others. The flame passed, leaving him as cold as ashes. "I shall tell you who he is later; not here." For the second time since that night on the Irrawaddy, Elsa recorded a disagreeable sensation. It proved to be transitory, but at the time it served to establish a stronger doubt in regard to her independence, so justifiable in her own eyes. It might be insidiously leading her too far away from thesteppingoff place. The unspoken words in those hateful eyes! The man knew Warrington, knew him perhaps as a malefactor, and judged his associates accordingly. She thus readily saw the place she occupied in the man's estimation. She experienced a shiver of dread as she observed that he stepped on board the tender. She even heard him call back to his friend to expect him in from Singapore during the sec ond week in March. But the dread went away, and pride and anger grew instead. All the way back to the ship she held her chin in the air, and from time to time her nostrils dilated. That look! If she had been nearer she was certain that she would have struck him across the face. "There will be no one up in the bow," said Warrington. "Will you go up there with me?" After a moment's hesitation, she nodded. The Lascars, busy with the anchorchains, demurred; but a word and a gesture from the Sahib who had turned the hose on a drunken man convinced them that the two would not be in the way. A clatter of steel against steel presently followed, the windlass whined and rattled, and Elsa saw the anchor rise slowly from the deeps, bringing up a blur of muddy water; and blobs of pale clay dripped from the anchor-flukes. A moment after she felt the old familiar throh under her net, and the ship moved slowly out of the bay. "Do you know that that man came aboard?" "I know it." The wide half-circle of cocoanut palms grew denser and lower as they drew away. "This is the story. It's got to be told. I should have avoided it if it had been possible. He is the owner of the plantation. Oh, I rather expected something like this. It's my run of luck. 1 was just recovering from the fever. God knows how he found out, hut he did. It was during the rains. He told me to get out that night. Didn't care whether 1 died on the road or not. I should have but for my boy James. The man sent alor.g with us a poor discarded woman, of whom he had grown tired She died Wllfll Wt* I"fill'llt'U IIJ1YII. 1 lltlll IIUIUI.) any money. He refused to pay me for the last two months, about fifty pounds. There was no redress for me. There was no possible way I could Ret bach at him. Miss Chetwood, I took money that did not belong to me. It went over gaming tables. Craig. I ran away. Craig knows and this man Mallow knows. Can you not see the wisdom of giving me a wide berth?" "()li, 1 am sorry!" she cried. "Thanks. But you see: I am an outcast. Tonight, not a soul on board will be in ignorance of who 1 am and what I have done. Trust Craig and Mallow for that. Thursday we shall be in Signapore. You must not speak to me again. CJive them to understand that you have found me out; that 1 imposed on your kindness." "That I will not do." "Act as you please. There are empty chairs at the second-class table, among the natives. And now, good-by. The happiest hours in ten long years are due to you." He took off his helmet and stepped aside for her to pass. She held out her hand, but he shook hi> head. "Don't make it harder for me." ".Mr. Warrington, I am not a child!" "To me you have been the Angel of Kindness; and the light in your face I shall always see. Please pi now." "Very well." A new and unaccountable pain tilled her throat and forced her to carry her head high. "I can find my way back to the other deck." He saw her disappear down the first ladder, reappear up the other, mingle with the passengers and vanish. lie then went forward to the prow and stared down at the water, wondering if it held rest or pain or what. (To be Continued.) Columbia special of June to the Spartanburg Herald: T. 1? ltoach, member of the Itichland county dispensary board, was found guilty today in the court of general sessi >ns of assault of a high and aggrieved nature upon Mayor Orifiith of Columbia, and was sentenced by \V. A. Holman, special judge, to serve two years or pay a line of $fdiO. I'pon motion made by It. II. Welch and tleorge Ifcll Timmerman. attorneys for the defendant, an appeal will he made to the supreme court. He has been admitted to bail pending the appeal in the sum of $500. 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 puniisnea in our issue 01 ixuvemuci 11, 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. FIFTY-THIRD INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, January 3, 1861). Today's issue contains a lengthy account of the evacuation of Fort Moultrie, copied from the Charleston papers. * Married?On the 19th ultimo, by Rev. L. A. Johnston, Mr. J. Wilson Marshall, of Colleton district, and Miss Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Wm. I. and Martha Clawson, of Yorkville. On the 16th ultimo, by A. Hardin, Esq., Mr. John L. Doggett, of Rutherford county, N. Carolina, and Miss Margaret Rebecca Wood, of York district. On the l.r>th ultimo, by James Atkinson, Esq., Mr. John Meek and Miss Nanev A. Sanders. On the 18th ultimo, Mr. T. M. Gwinn and Miss Sarah S. S., daughter of Mr. E. and Sarah Sanders. In Charlotte, on the 24th ultimo, by Rev. F. A. Mood, Mr. W. J. Sprinkle and Miss Mary S. Holton, of the North Carolina Whig, all of Charlotte, N. C. Near Shelby, N. C., on the 27th ultimo, by Rev. Mr. Holmes, Mr. D. F. Jackson of York district, and Miss P. H. Elliott, of the former place. * * ? AN ORDINANCE For Protecting and Preserving the Health of Yorkville. Whereas, there are good reasons for believing that "Variola and Varaloid" exist, and are now prevalent in the city of Columbia, in this state; and that persons coming from said city, if permitted to enter and remain within the limits of the town of Yorkville, may introduce said loathsome disease among the people of said town: Be it therefore ordained by the town council of Yorkville, that from and after the passage of this ordinance, no person who has been in the city of Columbia, shall be permitted to enter into or tarry, stop or reside, within the limits of the town of Yorkville, within twenty-one days from the time he or she has been in said city of Columbia. 2. He it further ordained, by the authority aforesaid. That if any person who has resided or been in Columbia as aforesaid, shall enter within the limits of the said town of Yorkville, within the time aforesaid, the marshal of said town shall forthwith remove said person from beyond the limits of said town. 3. Be it further ordained, That any white person so coming from said city of Columbia, and entering within the limits of the town of Yorkville, in addition to being removed from said town shall be subject and liable to a line of eighty-five dollars, for entering within the limits of said town; and also to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each and every time he or she shall enter within said town afterwards. 4. Bo it further ordained, That if any slave or free person of color shall come from the city of Columbia and enter within the limits of Yorkville, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, such slave or free person of color, besides being removed from the limits of said town, shall he punished by receiving not more than f?0 lashes, nor less than 155 lashes, for each and every time he or she shall enter within the limits of the town aforesaid. .1. Be it further ordained, That if the owner of any slave shall direct, or knowingly permit his or her slave who has been in Columbia as aforesaid, to enter the town of Yorkville, within twenty-one days from the time such slave has been in said city of Columbia, such owner shall be subject and liable to a fine of twenty dollars, for each and every time his or her slave shall enter within the limits of Yorkville. AMERICAN ^ <K ' > ?-/ *; < ~ >\~ * '; *>.: W. ' . V- V*%%t" : ' < '" ; 'v. U';>*Htwiw/wvict"! ^ >^c : r ^ ^ I This photograph of an American pleasantly Htuated. 6. Be it further ordained. That the provisions of this ordinance shall continue in full force while said contagious diseases exist in said city of Columbia: and when the intendant of the town of Yorkville shall become satisfied the same have ceased, and shall proclaim the same, this ordinance, and all the provisions thereof, shall cease and determine: saving and excepting the right to impose fines for previous offenses against said ordinance, and to collect the same. Done and ratified in council under the Corporate Seal of the town, on the 27th day of December in the year of our Dord one thousand eight hundred and sixty. M. Jenkins, Intendant. \V. A. Moose, clerk. January 3. (Thursday Morning, January 10, 1SG1). Qullnel/'e P.rPal/ Winilanea Quite a number of the citizens ?if south-western York, and of Chester district also, having met at Davidson's store on Saturday, the 29th ult., for the purpose of organizing a vigilance association, Maj. William Hardiwick was called to the chair and A. H. Farr requested to act as secretary. It was unanimously resolved, that such an association should be formed, in order that the welfare of the community might be preserved against the intrigues and treasonable designs of any lawless wretches, who may be in our midst or traveling in disguise; and also that a vigorous patrol system might be kept up among our negroes. A committee appointed for the purpose, reported a constitution for the association, which was adopted. James Robinson, Sr., was then electml nro.iidcnt A H ICnrr secrt'fnrv nnil E. G. Fe< trustor, treasurer. The following gentlemen compose the executive committee: William White, William Lynn, Samuel Feemster, Sr., William H. Hardwick, William K. Hamilton, Harvey Jaggers, J. L. Guy, G. L. McNeel, J. G. Davidson, E. G. Feetnster, Andrew Blair, and J. D. Smarr. The association adjourned to meet on Saturday, the 19th of January next. Wm. Hardwick, Ch'mn. A. H. Farr, Secretary. * Public Meeting. At a meeting of the citizens on the fith inst., at the muster ground of Beat Company No. 3, North Battalion, John Quinn was called to the chair, and A. P. Campbell requested to act as secretary, The object of the meeting was then explained to be the formation of a company of men, exempt from military duty, for the protection of our homes and families, to be in readiness at all times, and to quell insurrection and deal very harshly with the secret emissaries of our enemies. The following nersons enrolled themselves: R. B. Alexander, F. J. E. Quinn, Elaml A. ? Falls, J. C. Watson, John Quinn, | Hugh Nichols, E. W. Falls, A. P. Campboll, Francis Nichols, Robert Quinn, J. R. Dowry, John Henry, Arch Dillingham, J. 15. Faris, Solomon Quinn, John Whitosides, Robert Davidson, Joel McCartor, W. J. Good, G. F. Ferguson. R. Allison, John O. Crawford, William Oates, J. M. Jenkins, A. Reamguai 1, John Reaves, William M. Enloe, Gilbert Enloe, Wm. McGill, Jr., R. A. Pursley, Maj. M. Smith, A. E. Dobinson, Joseph A. Robinson, Wm. A. Robinson, James Pursley, W. 15. Pursley. t >n motion of Maj. Dowry, the chairman appointed a committee of three to nominate officers for the company. The following persons were nominated and unanimously elected: F. J. E. Quinn, captain; E. W. Falls, 1st lieutenant; Robert Quinn, 2nd lieutenant; and R. 15. Alexander, 3d lieutenant. On motion of A. P. Campbell, the chairman appointed A. P. Campbell, J. B. Dowry and E. A. Falls to draft a constitution and by-laws for the regulations of the company. On mot. ,i of E. W. Falls, it was resolved, That the company be called the "Mountain Guards." On motion of Captain Quinn, it was resolved, to meet at the muster ground, on Friday next, at 11 o'clock, a. m.. for drill and instruction. on motion of R. B. Alexander, it was resolved, That the proceeds of this meeting be published in The Yorkville Enquirer. John Quinn, Chairman. A. P. Campbell, Secretary. * Married?In Yorkville, on Sunday, Clh instant, by Rev. W. o. Patterson, Mr. William A. JefTerys and Mrs. Dicey llorney, all of this place. (To be Continued.) Many a man who has a way of his own has a wife who outweighs him. soldiers camping uni ----- --- :-;:: : ? ? ::::::t'.ztz - ~ ~ : :: " 'ii outpost near Vera Cruz shows that no Pisfcllancous grading. EXPLANATION OF RULES. Technical Irregularities May Do Great Harm. John J. McMahan has given out the following interview in regard to the new rules of the Democratic party governing enrollment of the primaries, beginning on or before the second Tuesday in June: "The new rules of the Democratic party prescribe as follows: 'Books of enrollment for voting in primary* elections shall be opened by the secretary of each club or by the enrollment committee as hereinafter provided on or before the second Tuesday In June " 'Each applicant for enrollment shall in person write upon the club roll his full name and immediately thereafter his age, occupation and postotflce address, and if in a city or town shall write the name of the street anil the number of the house in which he resides, if such designation exists in said city or town. " 'If the name be illegible the secretary shall write the name beneath the signature of the applicant. " 'In the event 01 tne lnauimy ut the a|)plicunt to write, he may make his mark upon the roll, which shall be witnessed by the secretary or other person then having the custody thereof. and the secretary shall fill in the other requirements. . . . " 'That the county committee shall . . . appoint for each club an enrollment committee of three, which may consist of the secretary and county committeeman from the said club and the third member to be designated by the county committee, by whom such enrollment shall be conducted. " The enrollment book shall be kept in the custody of the secretary or at such place as shall be designated by the enrollment committee. " 'The club roll shall be open to inspection by any member of the party.' Self - Disfranchised. "The state committee has prepared and sent out the prescribed books of enrollment, 'uniform throughout the state.' The signing of the club rolls will begin on or before June 9. "Special attention should be directed to the details of the new provisions, and everybody should be warned against discouraging uiem. .^cgicv-i to conform to the specific requirements will cause the rolls to be thrown out by the county committee. In other words, a man who disregards the rules runs the risk of disfranchising himself. "To help start things right, I restate the meaning of the provisions quoted above. " 'The book for each club roll shall be kept in the custody of the secretary or at such place as shall be designated by the enrollment committee.' "The secretary or other enrolling officer can take the book to a sick or infirm person or to any place for the convenience of those who should enroll. "The would-be voter must himself write his own name in full on the book or make his mark on the book. "This forbids enrollment by proxy. Heretofore the secretary was expected to put on the roll every name that anybody reported to him. Candidates and others would bring lists and names were often duplicated an errors were made in spelling or initials or in residence. Sometimes the secretary failed to insert the name, though requested to do so. For these Errors of commission and omission, there was no redress. A man came to Columbia from Hendersonville in tn vnto ami found his name not on the roll, although his friend had given it in or thought he had, "This provision enables a man to know, to a certainty, whether his name is on the roll or not. Checks Against Fraud. "Hut its special value is that it lessens the opportunity tor fraudulent enrollment. A man's signature is his identification. If he comes up twice and is not recognized by the enrolling officer he forges a false name and false occupation and residence in his own handwriting and may be caught up with later and punished. "When a man presents himself to the managers of the election and offers to vote under a certain name, he can be challenged and required to identify himself with the bearer of that name by signing the name before the managers, to be compared with the signature on the book. Thus if he is an impostor he will be discovered and can be punished. "This is the real safeguard in the new rules, and any one should readily see why the convention refused to substitute the minority's plan of enrollment by written applications? such applications being easily forged and multiplied Indefinitely, and not readily preserved and referred to on election day for comparison or signatures. "The name must be written in full ?another safeguard against duplication and forgery. 'J. S. Jones,' is not as definite as 'John Samuel Jones, or James Stuart Jones,' or 'Jack Saunders Jones.' "Moreover, as handwriting goes, J. S. Jones' might pass for 'I. L. Jones,' etc. "The applicant must, in his own hand, write on the book his age, occupation, postotlice address, and, if there is such, his street and house number. He must write these statements himself, so that if they are afterwards proved to lie untrue he can not set up the defense that the secretary misunderstood him and wrote )ER PALMS , ^^K_T79 ;* *&. >* * *? , '*.? '" V' ' .<? , t all the soldiers down there are ud the information down wrong. "If unable to write, he must make his mark, and the secretary or enrolling officer writes the full name and other facts, given him by the applicant. and signs his own name as witness to the mark and the statement of the name and other facts. One Weakness. "Here is a weakness in the new rules, as there is no check on the applicant but the word and memory of the witness, and a corrupt enrolling officer can multiply 'marks' and fraudulent voters.' "But there is provision for scrutinizing and purging the rolls by the county committee; and there are ample statutes to punish for fraudulent enrollment. "As to the hardship on the voter, he is required to do no more than the dispensary law has always required of every person that buys a half pint of liquor. "Already I have heard of a secretary who said he would save all this trouble by just copying his old club roll into the new book. It is to be feared that we have a number of secretaries who would connive at this sort of thing. But let every voter re member that if his name gets on the club roll in any other way except by his own personal signature of full name or mark, he cannot legally vote, and he commits a crime in offering to vote, "Secretaries who try to be obliging by taking care of their friends in disregard of the rules, will be liable to criminal prosecution, and their entire club lists may be thrown out. "If the signature is not plainly legible, the secretary or other enrolling officer should rewrite the name Just beneath the signature. Mar.y signatures are illegible to a stranger?and some signatures are practically hieroglymphs." KEPT SLAVES AFTER 1875 Former Surgeon of Navy Lived Like a King on Tropic Isle. Augustus Hemenwry was by no means the only citizen in the United States to hold slaves as late as 1875. Indeed, a former surgeon in the United States navy was an extensive slave holder and the administrator of a vast slave-worked plantation some years after Mr. Hemenway's death. The story of the fashion in which a United States iii?lii-iji wai viaiicu uio lunatfr ouicer a tropical retreat on a strange errand, is one of the most picturesque told by older officers in the wardrooms today. News reached the navy department something more than thirty years ago that an American schooner, seized by mutineers, had been purchased by one Wilson, of the Comoro Islands, and was employed in the African slave trade. The Comoros, a group of four considerable and many small Islands, lie in Mozambique channel, midway between the east coast of Africa and the island of Madagascar, between latitudes 11 degrees and 13 degrees south, and longitude 43 degrees and 45 degrees 50 minutes east. They have a perpetual summer climate, a rich soil and a population partly Arab, partly negro and partly mixed, with an autocratic sultan as ruler. Their total area is about 30 square miles, and their population something like 60,000. A range of mountains, rising at one point to a peak 8,700 feet high, gives relief from the extreme heat of the region for those who can leave the lowiands, though life in the latter is far from intolerable for the wealthy planters. In 1842 France acquired one of the group, and in 1886, shortly after our expedlt l?\n tn thrt Pnmnrna oil tin/lpr hpr ww?? iw v??C V/Viitui v/o, " ? V.U.I.V "**?- ..... control, through the native sultan continued to exercise local jurisdiction. Having reason to suppose that the contraband vessel was at one of the smaller of the Comoro group, where Wilson had a plantation, the navy department gave orders that a man-ofwar should call at the island, seize the vessel, her tackle and apparel and bring all away, using force if need be. There must have been an intimation that Wilson would resist and that he could make a good show in a fight, for the man-of-war proceeded with great caution. Having reached the island, she landed a party to reconnoitre. The party of reconnoissance saw naught of the missing vessel, but easily discovered Wilson's plantation, and Wilson himself. So far from being warlike, he was most amiable and hospitable. As to the vessel, he declared that it had not been engaged in the slave trade and that it was no longer in his possession. What the naval officers found at the Wilson plantation was a sort of tropical paradise, says the Boston Transcript. Wilson had some thousands of acres, many slaves, a spacious and comfortable house, and the luxuries of all climes. He was an extensive grower of sugar cane and his other large crops of various kinds were large and valuable. Under the protection of his friend, the dark sultan of Comoro, he exercised pretty near absolute sway in his own domain. On his table were American and English magazines and newspapers. He sent a steam launch many miles across a bit of the sea once a month to fetch his mail. He had baths and pleasure grounds and horses and dogs. Scores of slaves worked the plantation, while others, in scant costume, served the master in the great, comfortable house. He had even an ice-making machine and he served his guests with juleps and cocktails. Wilson's hospitality is remembered with interest to this day by the officers who were privileged to taste his food and wines. In spite of the agreeable reception given by the nabob of this Oriental domain, it became necessary for the captain of the man-of-war to carry out instructions as far as he was able. He could not take the vessel, because it was elsewhere and under the protection of a foreign tlag, while those who had committed barratry in seizing her at sea were out of reach. She had been a whaler, however, and Wilson owned that her trying-out kettles were in his possession in fact were used on the plantation for boiling sugar cane. r. was an ungracious task after drinking a man's cocktails and eating his salt to despoil him of what he had bought with his own money, but the captain informed him that the kettles would be seized and carried to the United States. Wilson made no objection, and accordingly a landing party was again sent ashore and the kettles were loosed from their seats and carried aboard the man-of-war. Next day the vessel sailed away, leaving the former surgeon still lord of his plantation and his slaves. Wilson revisited the United States and perhaps saw some of those who had despoiled him. Naturally, nobody asked how he reconciled it with his conscience to own and work slaves in Africa twenty years after Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.