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ISSUED SEKX-WEEKL^^ l. h orist'S sons. Pobii.her., % 4amilS lleurspaper,: ^or th$ promotion of fh< political, Social, $grieulfut;at and (Commercial Interests of th? feopt*. j ESTABLISHED 1855. Y()RKVILLE, a C., TLTESD A Y7SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. iSO. 72. r ALONE IN THE By JOSEPH ^ Copyright, 1913, by Small. Maynard CHAPTER XVI. The Camera in the Woods. The use of the camera in the woods ? is one interesting phase of art. I have used the camera in many ways to get negatives of animals in their native haunts. In a preceding chapter I have J spoken of the jacklight method, but I j have not mentioned how at various j times during my career in the woods ! I have made animals take pictures of - themselves. In these instances I set my camera on a trail and laid a string attached to the shutter across the trail. The cam- j era had been focused on the spot, where the oncoming deer or other aniH mal would walk against the string. The creature wandering along presses the string releasing the shutter, and you have your negative. It doesn't j matter what kind of an animal comes j along. If it happens to be a man you will have his picture just the same. In order to get negatives of the W smaller animals a different method is used. Bait is employed. The camera is set at night, and a string is extend- I ed from the machine to a tree. The string dangles bait just above the ground, so that when the coon or other small animal comes to get it it has to rise up and pull hard. This pull releases a flashlight, and the negative is made. I This same simple method is used in' making animals shoot themselves with a gun. The string is attached to the hair trigger, and when the fox or other animal moves the string the gun is discharged. I remember one winter when I was at Kins and Bartlett camps that I set |r one of these suns out on Kins and Bartlett lakes. The men in the camp laushed at me and said I misht be able to trap foxes in all kinds of ways, but that it was impossible to make a fox shoot himself. Even while we were talkins the sound of a sun came to us IMPLEMENTS MADE IN THE WOO BY HIM DURING HIS j [A elteUh made by the author In the wo his fl from the direction of the lake. Investigation proved that 1 had been correct because the dead fox on the ice and the discharged gun told their own story. A first class taxidermist is in truth an artist. I have done much of this work, having mounted heads and full y bodies of animals, together with hundreds of fish. Here again is another thing a man can do in the woods without aid or material from the outside world. Assum ing that I was naked and witnout ' tools, as I was during my two months in the wilderness and desired to do some of this work, I would first catch a fish in the manner I have previously described. Using the same process that I did with the bear and the deer, 1 would remove the skin with sharp rocks. Next I would find a large splinter from a broken down tree, wide enough for a panel underground. In 0 order to catch all the high lights and make the fish appear natural I would shape the splintered wood to an oval by placing it under water and grinding it down with a rock. A man can take ^ any piece of wood and under water grind it to any shape he wants. When this oval background was ready I would stick the skin on with the natural glue of the fish. In spite of the fact that I had used no instruments from outside world the observer- -ould not tell the difference between the mounted specimen ap'J a trout fresh from the water at a distance of ten feet. In emphasizing my point about the artist who lacks the practical, rough side of forest life not being able to put the true touch to his pictures. I want to tell a short story about the best natured man I ever met. Unlike the gentlemen of art who come into the woods 0 to observe under the most luxurious conditions, he was satisfied with anything that happened to be on hand. While he had plenty of money and paid me well for guiding him. he never complained. If he had but little to eat he would say the food was good. If it rained he never complained. one day after one of the hardest tramps I had ever taken we arrived at one of my camps which I had not seen for over a year. It was long after dark. and we had no time to gather fir houghs f?>r a bed. Inside the camp were two hunks, one above the other. No houghs were in them, nothing but tlie rough hard boards. "Well. Frank," I said, "which bunk do you want?" "Any one," he answered in his customary manner. "You better take the lower one." I 0 said, "because if you happen to fall out you won't have so far to fall." "All right." he said, and we turned in, he taking the lower berth and I climbing tip above. The beds were as hard as rocks, f Some time later 1 was awakened by a noise. I looked out over my bunk and saw Frank sitting on the side of the one below with his head in his hands. "What's the matter? Can't you I i WILDERNESS : _____ 1 KNOWLES ; I & Co. I sleep?" I asked him. Without moving he replied: "Oh, yes: I have been asleep, but I just thought I would sit up awhile and rest. After I get rested I will go back to bed." If that man had possessed the artistic sense he could have painted a true picture of outdoor life. He took everything in the woods as it was and in this way learned to feel the spirit of I nature. Sleeping on planks, skinning one's own game, getting one's own meals in the forest, are all just as much a part of the training of an artist painting out of door life as are books and teachers. Without this rough experience the fireside artist has a tendency to paint his pictures somewhat on the order of ( this story: One night in camp some years ago Andrew Douglas and I were discussing good shots and lucky days at hunting. 1 said to Andrew: "Andrew, what is the luckiest hunting stunt you ever pulled off?" "Well," he began, without a smile on his face, "it was back in the old days of the muzzle loading gun. One day l| started out hunting ducks. I went down the bank of a stream and after awhile scared up a flock, which rose from the water and lit on the limb of a tree. I tried to get into position to make a clean sweep of them all, but I couldn't seem to do it. So 1 went under the tree and, taking aim, fired at the center of the limb on which the ducks sat. "Of course as the bullet sped through it split the limb, but before the ducks could fly away, the split came together again, catching every one of them by the toes. While they were fluttering and trying to get away 1 loaded up again and took aim at the butt of the limb close to the tree. This shot cut the limb off, and as it fell it dropped into the stream. "I rushed into the water after it and ri irfc (iiwfiffftriiTiifii DS BY THE AUTHOR AND USED ( EXPERIMENT. , ods on birch bark with burnt sticks from ( ires.] finally caught it. with every duck still 1 attached. I soaped out of the water 1 with about a score of fish in the seat ' of my pants, which had swum up the 1 j legs of my trousers. ' "I remember just as I made an extra hiph step to pet a firm footinp one ' of my suspender buttons snapped off, ' j buzzing away from me like a bullet. A ( : rabbit cominp down into the stream to 1 drink pot the button ripht in the eye 1 ! and it killed him. ' "That was my luckiest day in the 1 way of huntinp." ' ? j Just why did I po to Canada instead 1 of emerpinp from the forest on American soil? This question has inter- ' ested hundreds since my return to ' civilization, but until now I have nev- ( er pone into details of the whole story. ' It is not my desire to attack any I one or to show bitterness, and in tellj ing the plain facts about this trip, I 1 shall simply reveal true conditions as 1 [ they were. 1 I want to po back a little into the ; history of the affair to the time just \ before 1 entered the woods. At that I time, while 1 was in Boston, 1 applied through friends to the fish and game commission of the state of J Maine for a permit to catch or kill i what lame 1 might need in carrying | out my experiment. These friends , explained tnat 1 wouiu pay an ones for the killing of such animals when I came from the forest. For a time the commissioners ignored the application, and when they did reply it was to state that it would be impossible to grant my request. In the meantime I had discovered ( that section 17 of the Maine fish and , game laws made it possible for such a permit to l>e granted?namely, that the commissioners had a right to allow game and fish to be obtained for scientific purposes at any time. On the strength of this, I applied again to the commissioners about ten days later, laying stress on that sec- i tion of the law and also mentioning the fact that noted men were indors- < ing the experiment. Not until Aug. 4, , the day 1 entered the forest, was a I decision reached. I did not see the letter announcing it until I arrived at Megantic after my experiment was over. "Your request for permission to kill animals and birds in Maine in close BELMNS ENTERING Th Jj 8fl V BEgngMPpj '' jjj Jp V ^?j season," reads this letter, "was considered by this commission at a meeting today. "While we appreciate the inconvenience that you may be put to, nevertheless. in view of the fact that your ?xperlence will undoubtedly be published if the desired permit was grant?d, it would certainly put our board in the position of indorsing violations jf our inland fish and game laws, which we cannot see our way clear to io." No name was signed to that letter, anly the word, "Chairman" appearing where thp name of the writer customarily appears. However, with the knowledge that [ had been refused once, as explained | in a previous column, I went into the Aoods and tried to live within the ;ame laws. This made my task douily hard. Everybody but the commissioners of my own state was with ne. The manner in which they had icted before I entered the forest natirally made me feel that they would mt hesitate to disturb me after I had iroken the law. I couldn't be disurbed. as that would have spoiled everything. (To be Continued). PASSING THROUGH BRUSSELS. Required 250,000 Men Three Day? to Get By a Given Point. "On Saturday," says a correspondent if the London Daily Mail, "I reported ;o German headquarters in Brussels, vhere I found General von Jarotzky. asked for a pass and received one to to anywhere, signed by von Jaroszky, vho commanded a brigade of 5,000 men n an army of over a million. "I went to a point near Hal, where I A?Mn/vrl turninrr mnupmpnt oward the allies' left flank. I realized it once that no newspaper man would je allowed here. I felt sure that if I emained I would be arrested and shot is a spy. "On my return to Brussels I found he town in a turmoil owing to von farotzky's stupidity which had neary involved the town in the same fate is that of Louvain. He had been left n the city with 5,000 men and he noved 3,000 of these suddenly out of he city. Then as suddenly he became ilarmed for the safety of the remainler among so large and hostile a popuation and he therefore marched back he 3,'?o0 who were camped outside. "The citizens, seeing these men hasily returning, at once jumped to the premature conclusion that the Gernans were being: forced to retreat in a ;reat battle outside the town and that hey were fleeing in confusion. Some )f the inhabitants therefore wished to ake arms and finish off von Jarotzky ind his men but fortunately the error ,vas discovered in time. "I was in Brussels for some time before the Germans entered. It was nidday of Wednesday (date not given) vhen the German commander denanded the surrender of Brussels. The commandant replied that he was bound jy his honor to defend the town. "Brand Whitlock, the American minster, advised the unconditional sur ender, pointing out how resistance night bring increased misfortunes on he citizens, but the commander renamed adamant until orders arrived 'rom King Albert telling him to sur ender. "Later Mr. Whitlock was officially congratulated by the king for his action. Undoubtedly lie had a great deal :o do with saving Brussels. "The German entry into Brussels was a wonderful and impressive sight. [ have seen many military parades in lime of peace but never a parade on so /ast a scale which went on without a litch. "It was impossible to imagine that ihese men had been fighting continuously for ten days or that they had ?ver been in active service. First of ill came six cyclists, then a detachment of cavalry, then a great mass of nfantry, then guns and field guns and more infantry, then huge Howitzers, then a pontoon train and then more nfantry, from half past one Thursday until Sunday morning without a break. "The pontoon trains were especially impressive. They were carried upside clown on trolleys drawn by six horses, down on trolleys drawn by six horses, of the artillery and commissary were in wonderful condition. "Each company was accompanied by i traveling store, the fire of which was never out. There was always some hot drink ready for the troops. "As the Germans marched they sang ill sorts of songs and national airs. Like everything else their singing is perfectly organized. "An aeroplane kept its station ahead of the advancing horde and it signalled both day and night by dropping various colored stars. "1 became overwhelmed after watching this immense mass of men marching by without a hitch for three days. I never believed such a perfect machine could exist. In all about 250,000 men passed through Brussels and thousands more marched south direct from Louvain. These German soldiers many of them, marched thirty miles daily for six successive days. Some were so weary they slept as they walked and occasionally one fell exhausted, whereupon an officer would kick and prod until he awoke him. The man was then given hot coffee. The men are slaves of discipline and routine." Its Influence.?Frost?Do you think the auto has an ennobling intluence? Snow?Well, speaking personally, ' iv#' have been fined and refined.? ! Judge. So He Did.?"Our water pipe got choked up and the confounded plumber charged me for lixing it. It's an imposition. "Well, you can't say you didn't get a run for your money." IE BATTLE OF HAELEN AS TOLD BY EXCHANGES. News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING. Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee. Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Gaffney Ledger, Sept. 4: Miss Lula Belle Dover of route eight, and Mr. Jona Dillard Self were married by t11hito ,\f Ppnhflti. W. D Kirbv. Tues day. A license to marry was granted Miss Alice Mathis and Mr. Real Black, both of Grover, by Judge Kirby on Wednesday The official tabulation of votes showed that in the race for county superintendent of Education J. Logan Jenkins received 1,107 votes and E. S. McKown, 1,093 votes. * Limestone college will open for the 1914-1915 session on September 23, and preparations for the event are now being carried on. This institution has long been recognized as the foremost female college in this section of the state, and under the able management of the president, Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, it gains a wider reputation with each passing year. During the past summer Dr. Lodge and several members of the college faculty toured Europe, visiting and studying at the greatest in- i stitutions of learning in the world, i A J nranorod f OT i/ney riuunnu ucnn F>V|/>~v- ? their work than ever before, as the re- I suits of the coining session will prob- J ably show * Boots Guest, a little i six vear old negro, walking in the I streets of the city in chains, has af- I forded a rather unusual sight in GalT- i ney during the past several days, as he is undoubtedly the youngest convict on the gang. He was convicted of i entering several business houses in J the city earlier in the summer, and af- , ter repeated offenses with suspended j sentence hanging over him, he was . placed in charge of Street Overseer J. J J. Parrish. He ran away several times and Mr. Parrish was finally forced to J put the chains on him * For the . state senate from Cherokee county Dr. , W. L. Settlemyer and Richmond Stacy ( are in the race. There are four can- . didates in the second contest for the , house of representatives. These are , J. G. Wright, J. C. Fort, B. F. Ramseur and Dr. F. H. Morton. E. Felix Lips- i comb, the incumbent, is in the second j race with county supervisor with John , M. Jenkins. J. Logan Jenkins and E. ( S. McKown, the incumbent, are makine thp second contest for county su- \ perintendent of educationn. R. F. j Spencer is running against J. M. Alii- J son in the second primary for the ( nomination of coroner. J. L. Strain and J. R. Hughes are making the second . race for magistrate between Wilkinsville and Skull Shoals. All other offl- cers were nominated in the first pri- i mary election held on August 25th. ( Mrs. E. S. McKown, agent in . charge of the Girls' Tomato Clubs in ( Cherokee county, is confined to her home in this city by a serious illness, and it will probably be some time be- ( fore she is able to attend to her work, j However, she advises members of the , crops to can all fruit, vegetables and , tomatoes in tin cans possible. They should also make a list of the labels ] ti.ifVi IhoonnrnvlmntP number of , each, and send it to Mrs. McKown Several bales of new cotton have been j ginned in Gaffney this week, the first having been brought to Gaffney, Mon- ( day by Mr. W. L Self, who lives in the Love Springs section of the county. : my 84 cents per pound was offered j Mr. Self for the bale. Considering that j this was not a fair price he carried it j back home, and says he will hold all j of his cotton until he can get a better . price. Mr. T. W. Little, who re- , cently underwent an operation for ap- J pendicitis and other complications at | the City Hospital, has recovered suf- , Hciently to get out on the streets. He , expects to be able to resume his duties : as out-side boss at the Gaffney Manu- i facturing comuany within the next ( several days. * * * Friends of Dr. J. N. Nesbit, who was recently operat- ( ed on at the City Hospital for appendicitis, will be glad to learn that he is ( recovering rapidly and will in all prob- . ability soon be able to leave the hospital. Dr. Nesbit had been ill for some ( time before it was discovered that he had appendicitis. * * D. C. Ross, president of the First National bank, ( has been receiving treatment for rup- ( ture this week at the Steedley hosiptal j in Spartanburg. He was reported yes- , terday as being much improved, and ( will probably return home either today ( or tomorrw. * * * Dr. and Mrs. J. S. | Dill returned to the city Wednesday ( after spending the summer touring ( Europe. * * Gaffney's public schools which opened Monday, are now run- , ning like well oiled machinery in spite '{ of the fact that the superintendent , Professor J. Harvey Witherspoon, and a majority of the teachers are just be- ! ginning their (irst year's work at this j place. Prospects for an exceptionally , successful year are very bright. Tom Horn cut and severely injured j James Vick about the face and neck with a pen knife in a fight at the convict camp near Blacksburg, Sunday , afternoon. Both of the men are white , iiiciiiorra ui iin- uoauuguiig. i lie i'K"1 j was the result of an argument over a bucket of peaches, which Horn was , peeling. Dr. J. M. Caldwell of Blacks- \ burg, rendered medical assistance to the injured man. Horn is serving a one year sentence for non-support of , his wife, while Vick is serving an ! eighteen months' sentence for assault and battery with intent to kill. Last Friday afternoon Carolyn Taylor, president of the Central Graded school Tomato club, gave a tomato party to < the members of the Tomato club and two other friends on the lawn of her ( home on Victoria avenue. The guests amused themselves in playing rook and other games after which a tomato j salad course was served. Mrs. Iris McKown, the guest of honor, gave the girls a talk on the tomato club work. All the girls rejoiced that Mrr- McKown had so far recovered from lit recent accident as to be able to be present. Pretty souvenirs decorated with the tomato club emblems were given to each guest. The pleasant afternoon was brought to a close by the hearty singing of a Tomato Club song. * Chester News, Sept. 4: Mr. Ike Howze, who is in a very grave condition at Magdalene hospital gradually grows weaker and the end is expected at almost any minute. He underwent <iu tijjcrctuuii several uays ago ior uppendicitis. His home is in the Bascomville community. He has been working at the Cousar Grocery Co., and is a mighty tine young man. He is only 19 years of age. * * Mr. J. L. Glenn, Jr., anticipates embarking from New York city on September 23rd, for Oxford university, England. He will sail on the American boat, St. Paul. Mr. Glenn goes as a Rhodes scholar. He says that the university will go right on and will not be stopped, at least this year probably on account of the European war. The Rhodes scholars. he said, from South Africa, decided to help England fight Germany and would not enter the university. * * Yesterday's storm near Lowryville did considerable damage. Lighting struck a mule and a darkey close to Mr. W. O. Guy's place. Neither were killed, both, however, were stunned; the negro for one hour and the mule for three. The lightning also struck the kitchen chimney at Mr. John G. Simpson's home on Route 4. and went down it and badly burnt his daughter, Mrs. Robt. Lee, who was canning some fruit. * Chester Reporter, Sept. 4: The different county oflices to be tilled and the caididates to be voted therefor in the second primary are as follows: Auditor?A. C. Flschel and M. C. Fudge. House of Representatives?S. T. McKeown and W. W. Stokes. Judge of Probate?W. C. Brown and A. W. Wise. Supervisor?Davis G. Anderson and T. J. Cunningham. * The executive committee of the Chester association proposes to hold an associational conference in connection with its regular business meeting at the First Baptist church in this city, Tuesday, Sept. 15th. There will be two sessions of the conference. The morning session will begin at 10.30 o'clock and close at 1 o'clock, and will be taken up with addresses on subjects of vital interest to the Lord's cause in general and of particular importance to the work in Chester association. At one o'clock there will be a recess of one hour, during which period dinner will be served on the church lawn. At 2 o'clock, after a short devotional service the executive committee will take up its work of apportioning the various churches the amounts necessary to | carry on the work of the kingdom. It is the earnest desire of every member of the executive committee that each church in the association send at least two or three representatives to the conference. These representatives will be given the privilege of meeting with the executive committee and seeing exactly how it works. In addition to that each representative will be given an opportunity to express himself as to the amount apportioned his church. * * * * ? ? J * t.?* I ll is sincerely nopeu uim me tuuivuvu will heed the request of the executive committee and send several representatives that together the members of the conference may plan wisely and do the most, in a financial way, for the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Mr. Jos. B. Wylie, manager of the Chester opera house, hasn't completed his bookings for the approaching theatrical season, and is able to give out only a few of the attractions that he expects to have; but if the others are up to the high standard of those that he is now in position to announce Chester may look forward to a most delightful lot of entertainments at the opera house the approaching season. Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 4: Mr. Ben S. Guion, of the A. H. Guion Co., suffered the misfortune Wednesday afternoon of having a small bone broken In his right ankle. Mr. Guion in company with his brother, Mr. A. H. Guion was walking along the sidewalk near Mr. J. H. Separk's where their con- ' struction forces are working when he < stepped on a small rock. This turned < under his weight, causing a small bone ( to snap. While not confined to his room, Mr. Guion will be forced to hobble around on crutches for a week or 1 two. Misses Mary L. Powers, of ( Berryvilie, Va,, and Marie Horton of Lancaster, S. C., have been elected as ( teachers in the Gastonia city schools. < They will arrive within the next day i or two to begin their duties. Miss c Powers will have charge of the first a.nd second grades at the Loray schools ( She is a graduate of the State Normal 1 school of Virginia and is a trained spe- < cialist in public school music. Miss Horton will have the second and third grades at the Clara Mill. She is a Win- ' throp graduate and has taught in the 1 Lancaster schools three years. , Rev. E. L. Flanagan, a young Presby- ' terian minister, of Belle Haven, Va., mention of whom was made in Tuesday's Gazette as being abroad with a party touring Europe and the Holy Lands, arrived in Gastonia last Tuesday night en route to his old home in the Bethel section of York county to visit relatives. Mr. Flanagan landed In New York last Saturday, the 29th of August, having made the trip over on the Olympic, the companion ship of the Titanic of the White Star line. Enroute home he stopped over in Richmond to viist friends in the city and at Union Seminary where he was a student. While in Gastonia, Mr. Flanagan paid the Gazette office a call. He talks interestingly of his trip abroad and more especially of the adventures and Incidents encountered upon his return home. Mr. Flanagan and party were In Milan, Italy, when war was declared and their itinerary led them through Switzerland and France to Liverpool where they had booked passage. Be- i [ng thus In the very heart of the war ( zone during the mobilization of the troops and other events directly con- f nected with the European war, their homeward journey was necessarily characterized by more or less exciting adventures, causing varying degrees ( of uneasiness, both of body and mind, i * * Rev. Nelll Carson Williams of | Sastonia, and Miss Vera Virginia Harris of New London, were married at 1 Bryson City Thursday morning, the < ceremony being performed by Rev. D. j H. Rhinehardt, pastor of the Methodist . church. Mrs. Adeline Heavener died at her home in West Gastonia 1 early this morning following a long Illness, age 68 years. Funeral services , will be held tomorrow morning at 9 ' o'clock at the Loray Presbyterian '' church of which deceased was a mem- i ber and interment will be in Hollywood t cemetery. A husband and several children survive. Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Rhyne, of Gastonia, received 1 a. letter Wednesday from their son, Dr. < . P. Rhyne, who went abroad early in , the summer stating that he was safe and sound and expected to start to- 1 wards home within a few days. The t letter was dated August 17th and was i written from Heidleberg where Dr. Rhyne has been pursuing special studies during the summer. This was the s l.rst message the family had received I from him since the war was declared . and they had become just a little uneasy for his safety. * * * The soul 5 stirring national air "Die Wacht am 1 Rhein" will no more thrill the hearts 1 and fire the souls of the five one-time , German citizens named further on in ' this article, for they are now full- ( Hedged American citizens in complete i possession of their papers of naturali- j zation. Loyal subjects of Uncle Sam they are, and "Das Vaterland" has no 1 meaning for them save only as it < serves to call to mind memories of boy- | hood days on the Rhine or of pleasant . experiences in Baden, Bavaria or else- 1 wnere. tiocn aer ivaiser ana me other umlauted gutterals of the Ger- i mans that pay tribute to their ruler must now give way to the plain everyday Anglo-Saxon "Hurrah for Woodrow," for be it known that on April 1, 11)14 Simon Keilhacker, of Euernburg, Germany, Leo Kopp, of Hacklengen, Baden, Bernard Geil, of Plocking, Bavaria, Louis Marshall and Felix Keilhacker oi" Bavaria, did apply for papers of naturalization, entitling them to all the rights and privileges of American citizens, and that at the recent term of the Gaston county superior court, Judge T. J. Shaw, presiding, their request was granted and the same are hereby declared citizens of the United Stages. The above named are resident at St. Mary's college, Belmont and are men hers of the Benedictine society there, being known to the laity as monks or brothers. Of the five the majority have been in this country for the past 15 oi ' 20 years. The oath of allegiance administered to them by Clerk of the Court C. C. Cornwell was as follows: "1 hereby decare on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and adint>A oil olloiri'inoo 'inrl H/loltf v tn anv JUIC Ull auchinuvv U-"U ""i foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly to William li, the emperor of Germany, of which I have heretofore been a subject, that 1 will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic and that I will bear truth and allegiance to the same." In these troublous times in Germany it is presumed that these now loyal "Amerikaner" thank their stars that "der kaiser" now has no claim on them for the German army and that the music of the "Star-Spangled Banner" will prove as soul-thrilling to them as did "The Watch on the Khine" in days of yore, * Lancaster News, Sept. 4: During the thunder storm yesterday about 1.30 p. m? lightning struck the top of Mr. 1. T. Hunter's dwelling, the house immediately took fire, but before the llames made much headway they were put out by Mr. James F, Williams with a force of convicts, who happened to be working in the vicinity. Mr. Williams, who is superintendent of the gang, (Continued on Page Four.) GERMAN'S DREAM OF EMPIRE What the British Think of Kaiser's Ambitions. WANTS TO DOMINATE THE NATIONS. Argument that German Civilization is Good; but that the German Ambition is Political and Looks to the Dominitlon of all the People Around. The following article on the future of Germany and explaining the position of the allies in the war is contributed to the London Daily Mail by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Campton Rickett, P. C., M. P., ex-chairman of | the congregational union of England I and Wales: Why is Russia a friend and Germany a foe? Russia is a faraway country, Asiatic as well as European. She sprawls across two continents and is touched by the opposing civilizations of the east and of the west. Her science is only awakening; her literature is the breaking of a stormy morning. She has a vast population?both tillers of the soil and nomads?little educated, Heeped in superstition. But we have no quarrel with Russia involving life or death, and never have had one. We have not striven with her for maritime supremacy, in commercial competition, or even for the acquisition of territory. Unoai.1 la rll'll'on hv nsnp?44ltv to I find an outlet to the sea, one which is lot closed in winter by the load of ice jr which does not open upon inhospitable coasts. If she is to find her latural development among the na:ions she must be in a position to exchange her wealth of arable land and >f pasture, her oil and her minerals, for the products of the civilized world. She has, indeed, a port upon the White Sea, which is only an inlet from he Arctic. The approach to her capital in the Ealtic is at the mercy >f winter, and the entrance to it 'rom the open Atlantic is under the control of Denmark, within easy reach )f interference from Germany. She las ports upon the Black Sea, but communication with these can be hrottled at any time at the Dardaneles. The Caspian is only an inland ake and in the faraway Pacific she las a difficult egress from Slberiat at Taaldivostok. Her attempts to open sea way communications have brought her into contact with this country. We fought he Crimean war to keep her out of he Mediterranean, although Great Britian already commanded that inand sea at Gibraltar in the west and it Suez in the east. She threatens us tpon Afghanistan and we strengthen >urselves upon the Persian Gulf. She itretches a long arm to Port Arthur ind is iirivpn out of it bv Japan. It is quite possible for us to give Russia reasonable opportunity for the levelopment of her Immense resoure?s; associating ourselves with her in ier commercial efforts. If she is still oo Asiatic in some of her political nethods she is willing to recognize he independence of the minor Slavic states subject to her own supremacy. The German Menace. The German menace is of a totally lifferent character. The more civilzed the more dangerous the German jecomes as a public foe. He has a perfect right to compete with us in ivery part of the known world, but ts his commercial interests increase le develops his navy under the pre ext of protection of his commerce. It may be asked why Germany should not have the same naval power is Great Britain, and upon what arjument do we claim supremacy at tea? The German colonies are few, icattered, indifferent in quality, praeically useless to the fatherland for German settlement. Germany can lever possess a world-wide empire , vlthout waging war successfully igainst France, Great Britain or the Jnited Mates. There is plenty of oorn in South America. Australia ind Africa for emigrants from Europe, but the space is bespoken, ihe has come too late into the position of a great power, and it is only jy conquest that she can redress the Kilance against her. She has, indeed, scope enough and to spare for the ;xercise of world-wide energies if she s contented to do as Great Britain aas done in countries where she nakes no claim to political preponderance. Argentina is an instance of his peaceful penetration, while British capital is at work in almost every ountry where the needs exist and it s hospitably entertained. But there cannot be two supreme powers at sea without conilict. The ncrease of the German fleet has prov id its intention by Its persistent concentration in the North Sea while its commercial interests abroad have shared the protection of the British Joniinions. There is no contest with [Jerman civilization; it is with the extravagant ideas of German political power that we are engaged. The civilizing forces of Germany would remain ?ven if she were to return to the poitical grouping which existed before 1870. Germany could extend her civilizing influences through Slavdom ivithoui claiming to govern the Slav. There is no necessity for her to drive GERMANS LEAVE 1 Last of the Germuns marching out they sacked and burned. through the Balkans. us there was none to mutilate Denmark by the annexation of Schleswig or to make [France a perpetual enemy through the unhappy appropriation of AsiaticLorraiue. Better for Defeat. if Germany fails in the present war she will inevitably have to submit to loss of territory, yet that very sacrifice may prove her salvation by relieving her of the burden of armament, limiting her ambition but leaving her free as the central European state to become the friend of all her neighbors. The very downfall of Austria as an empire may serve the building up of a new Germany, stronger for consolidation. Why should the German rule the Slav against her will? Get the Austrian Slavic provinces find their true affinity. The Slav has been long in Europe and has his right to his share of soil and self-government. Of old the Slavic hosts stemmed the advance of the Turk and have finally thrown off his dominance. They are coming into ed into the group of European nations. Italy deserves to receive the last of her provinces under foreign rule. Schleswlg should return to Denmark, Alsace-Loralne to France, and possibly Luxemburg to Eelgium. Eut the addition of German Austria will more than compensate for the loss of these territories, even if Posen and Culimia be parted with to the new Poland. KIPLING WAR POEM British Poet Undertakes to Bestir His People. This remarkable poem will be read by people wherever the English language is spoken. It will find a response in the hearts of true, brave men the world over. In some way, by some CAPT. VON HOLTZENDORFF One of the famous sea captains who is assisting in carrying out Germany'! naval campaign. nnn'onnnpr man's trick it has gone forth with this warning: "Copyright, 1914, by Rudyard Kipling, all rights reserved." The following cable message was received by the New York Times, Thursday: "Batesman's Burmash, Sussex, England, September 2. Neither I nor my agent sold any verses to Hearst, or authorized the London Times to sell or copyright them. The poem was sold to The Times World, and Tribune." For All We Have and Are. For all we have and are? For all our children's fate? Stand up and meet the war; The Hun is at the gate. Our world has passed away In wantonness o'erthrown; There's nothing left today But steel and fire and stone. Though all we knew depart The old commandments stand; In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand. Once more we heard the word That sickened earth of old; No law except the sword Unsheathed and uncontrolled. Once more it knits mankind i Once more the nations go To meet the break and bind A crazed and driven foe. Comfort, content, delight The ages' slow-bought gain; They shriveled in a night, Only ourselves remain. To face the naked days In silent fortitude Through perils and dismays. Renewed and renewed. Though all we made depart, The old commandments stand; In patience keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand. No easy hopes or lies Shall bring us to our goal Rut iron sacrifice Of body, will and soul. There's but one task for all, For each one life to give. Who stands if freedom fall Who dies if England live? MOULAND IN RUINS m| Pw^pSbk. v "* M W? If \ Jr :'::'':^i^B^iTi.fUVfr tWW y of Mouland, one of the Belgian town* STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR PLEASE Discusses Recent Election and the Results. ACCEPTS VERDICT WITHOUT PROTEST Says His Political Life Has Been Donated to the Cause of the Unfortunates Who are Unable to Take Care of Themselves, Rather Than to Those Who are Better Circumstanced, and that He Will Continue Steadfast in the Same Cause. cuiuinoia, S. C., Sept. 5th, 1914. 'iu My menus and supporters: A due sense of gratitude and thanks to you lor your confluence and support, as well as a feeling of propriety upon my part, impels me to make to you a statement, as briefly as I can, with regard to the late primary election tor the United States senate, ns you know, two years ago 1 made tne nghi tor re-election tor governor, \u.i,oui Having any tlnancial means to inainiain any organized management 111 my benaif in that campaign, and had to rely entirely upon the volun.a?y expression ot tne will ot the people In tasting iheir votes at the polls. 1 was opposed by the organized efforts and the resources of the bankers, manuiuctuiers and corporations, with subi>u?uaiiy the entire press of the state ....eu up against me with the determination 10 show neither tairness nor ? us. ice, nor to abate a single effort to ....siepresent the true state of the campaign as it progressed, but on the co.?nary to distort and villlfy me in eveiy respect. With this combination ot press and capital against me, I received 12,043 votes, a lead of 6,495 over a man who had been enlisted from h.s early entrance into public life with the TUlmanite movement and wno nau been trained as the candidate in wtiom the senior senator from bouth Carolina and the press placed all of their hope of deteatlng me. nils gentleman had been speaker of the house of representatives, had been an associate Justice upon the supreme uL*11v.11, anu nau uccii cmci /uonvc uy to the time he resigned for the purpose of carrying the standard of the trusts, capitalists, corporations, and the press, who had conspired with the determination at all events and under all circumstances to try to perpetuate tneir control over the politics of South Carolina, and select her state officers, iiuineuiately after that election it was announced by the partisan and unscrupulous majority of the state executive committee that there were irauus and wilful irregularities committed in the election which was held unuer iheir own management and auspices. 1 quietly then submitted to the indignities and injustice which were attempted to be perpetuated upon me anu the majority of the people of the state. 'there were cast In that election for stute otficers, 140,757 votes. It was vehemently asserted by the newspapers and by the members of the executive committee who were trying to nullify that primary election, that there were not that many qualified white Democratic voters in the state. The proceedings in the nature of a contest which were inaugurated by opponents, under the advice and auspices of the partisan executive committee, however, showed conclusively, even by the one-sided and partial examination made there, that such charge was without foundation, and the contest resulted in a ridiculous farce. There was evinced in the present election the greatest interest in any election held within the last twenty years or more, and yet the total number of votes cast for the office of United Mates senator, as reported by my opponents in control of the count, was oniy 132,801?about 8,000 less than were cast in the election of 1912. The iniquitous and unfair rules passed by the state Democratic convention of lasi May, which was entirely in control of my adversaries, were intended to disfranchise the uneducated but poor and honest white men who were supposed to be, and 1 believe were, to a very large extent, my friends and supporters. These rules made it not only difficult and inconvenient, but humiliating, for them to enroll their names upon the club lists to which they belonged. Yet there were enrolled upon the club lists of the state 154,311 qualified voters, as reported under the management of my opponents. Out of that number at the last primary the returning boards for the several counties, nearly all of whom were under the absolute control of my opponents, who did not permit or allow any representative or adherents of mine to be appointed or to engage In the conduct of this election, returned only 132,801 votes, being 21,510 than the Qualified vot YUICO ?vuu era enrolled and appearing upon the club lists. After such a campaign as we had, how is the absence of these votes to be accounted for? In two years time many young men became entitled to vote, and in my opinion did vote. I ask, how can these results be explained? Certainly not by any action of my friends and supporters in counting the votes. Any fair minded person desiring to know the truth cannot fail to recognize that there is something wrong. Examine the votes of Charleston, Columbia and other towns, and It is evident who controlled and obtained the votes of the blind tigers and the dispensary followers. With this vote I was taunted throughout the state by the law and order gang, and yet when the count came who was seen to have pocketed the vote? The primary was intended for the free expression of the white Democratic voters' wishes as to who should be their candidate. It was intended to make easy and afford facility for the free exuression of their will, and not intended to circumscribe their right, and certainly not substantially to destroy it. These rules and the machinery inaugurated under them and the ettort given to them were intended to hamper and make inconvenient this expression of the will of the white Democrats, especially the very people that the party should have protected and aided in the exercise of their manhood suffrage. 1 was aware, at the beginning, of this purpose and intention upon the part of my opponents. I forecasted it upon all occasions?that the machinery of conducting this election was taken out of your hands, my adherents, friends and supporters, and placed wholly within the hands of my adversaries and bitter opponents. While 1 believe, and even knew, so far as one could know, that I would receive a majority 01 me uanuw oitoi for the office for which I was running, 1 insisted that, unless the vote which was cast was safeguarded and the true returns made, and a proper count had, that I would not be declared the nominee, I implored my friends to see that the ballots were counted. Unfortunately it now appears from advices that I have had from all sources that too much reliance was placed upon perfidious adversaries. I felt no apprehension from any of the attacks made by two men who came into the race and made their entire campaign one of abuse. Their position was peculiar. They declared that Senator Smith was not entitled to be re-elected to the office of senator; that his claim for re-election, in the light of his actions in the senate, did not entitle him to succeed himself, and that his pretensions were without foundation. At the same time, if I was unlit, and Senator Smith was not fit, whom then should the people elect out of the four that were running? These two? It necessarily followed that one of these two should be elected, if they were right. Could the people in one breath declare that Smith was not entitled by any action or service that he (Continued on Page Four).