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Y ISSXTED SE^II-WEEKL'^^ l. m orist's sons, Publisher.. % dfuwilj Jletcspaper: j; or the promotion of the political, fecial, Agricultural and (Commercial Interests of the peopty. ( ESTABLISHED 1855. YOUKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1?i, 1 i>14. NO. 83. * ^??i^ CAPTAIN'S ( % How Three British C Single Si The New York World has obtained from Capt. Otto Weddigen. a ^ story of how he sank the three British cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, recently. The story as printed by the World on last Sunday, was as follows: I am thirty-two years old and have | been in the navy for years. For the last five years I have been attached to the submarine ttoiilla and have been most interested In that branch of the navy. At the outbreak of the war, our under-sea boats were rendezvnnooH ui i>ormln harbors in the I North Sea. the names of which I am restrained from divulging. Each of us felt and hoped that the fatherland might be benefited by such individual efforts as were possible at a time when our bigger sisters of the lleet jvere prohibited from activity. ^ So we awaited commands from the admiralty, ready for any undertaking that promised to do for the imperial navy what our brothers of the army were so gloriously accomplishing. It has already been told how I was married at the home of my brother in VWilhelmshaven to my boyhood sweetheart. Miss Prete of Hamburg, on August 16. Before then I had been steadily on duty with my boat, and I had to leave again the next day after my ^ marriage. But both my bride and I wanted the ceremony to take place at the appointed time and it did although within twenty-four hours thereafter I had to go away on a ven ture that gave a good chance or matting my new wife a widow. But she was as firm as I was that my first duty was to answer the call of our country, and she waved me away from the dock with good luck wishes that I sure had in my part in the outcome of my expedition. f I set out from a North Sea port on one of the arms of the Kiel Canal and set my course in a southwesterly direction. The name of the port I cannot state officially, but it has ^ been guessed at. nor am I permitted to say definitely just when we started, but it was not many days before the 1 '>Or?rl /\f Qontornhpr Illuming ui nir ..iiu u> wp.v....... when I fell in with my quarry. Coming Up With the English Ships. When I started from home the fact was kept quiet and a heavy ^ haze helped to keep the secret, but when the action began the sun was bright and the water smooth?not the most favorable conditions for submarine work. I had sighted several ships during f my passage, but they were not what I was seeking. English torpedo boats came within my reach but I felt there was bigger game further on, so on I went. I traveled on the surface except when we sighted vessels, and then I submerged, not even showing my periscope, except when it was p necessary to take barings. It was ten minutes after six on the morning of last Tuesday, when I caught sight of one of the big cruisers of the enemy. I was then eighteen sea miles northwesterly of the Hook of Hol^ land. I had then traveled considerably more than 200 miles from my base. My boat was one of an old type, but she had been built on honor and she was behaving beautifully. I had been going ahead partially submerged with about five feet of my periscope showing. Almost immediately 1 caught sight of the first cruiser and two others. I submerged corn* pletely and laid my course so as to bring up in centere of trio, which had a sort of triangular formation. I could see their gray black sides riding high over the water. When I first sighted them they * were near enough for torpedo work, but I wanted to make my aim sure, so I went down and in on them. I had taken the position of the three ships before submerging and 1 sue?? crntHno- nnathor iL'ish tCCUCU 111 through my periscope before I began action. I soon reached what I regarded as a good shooting point. (The officer is not permitted to * give this distance, but it is understood to have been considerably less than a mile, although the German torpedos have an effectve range of four miles.) p First Shot Went Straight and True. Then I loosed one of my torpedoes at the middle ship. 1 was then about twelve feet under water and got the shot off in good shape, my men handling the boat as if she had been a skiff. I climbed to the surface to get a sight through my tube of the effect, and discovered that the shot had gone straight and true, striking the ship, which I later learned was the Abou? kir, under one of her magazines which in exploding helped the torpedo's work of destruction. There was a fountain of water, a burst of smoke, a flash of fire and part of the cruiser rose in the air. ? W )WN STORY. ruisers Were Sunk by ibmarine. Then I heard a roar and felt reverberations sent through the water by the detonation. She had been broken apart and sank in a few minutes. The Aboukir had been stricken in a vital spot and by an unseen force that made the blow all the greater. Her crew were brave, and even with death staring them in the face, kept to their posts, ready to handle their useless guns, for I submerged at once. But I had stayed on top long enough to see the other cruisers, which I learned were the Cressy and the Hogue turn and steam full speed to their dying sister, whose plight they could not understand, unless it had been due to an accident. The ships came on a mission of in- 1 quiry and rescue, for many of the < Aboukir's crew were now in the water. the order having been given. "Each man for himself." Cruiser Hogue the Second Victim. But soon the other two English [cruisers learned what had brought about the destruction so suddenly. As I reached my torpedo depth I sent a second charge at the nearest of the oncoming vessels, which was the Hogue. The English were playing my game, for I had scarcely to move out of my position, which was a great aid, since it helped to keep me from detection. On board my little boat the spirit of tho Herman naw was to be seen in its best form. With enthusiasm every man held himself in check and gave attention to the work in hand. The attack on the Hogue went true. But this time I did not have the advantageous aid of having the torpedo donate under the magazine, so for twenty minutes the Hogue lay wounded and helpless on the surface before she heaved, half turned over and sank. By this time, the third cruiser knew of course that the enemy was upon her and she sought as best she could to defend herself. She loosed her torpedo defense batteries on boats, starboard and port, and stood her ground as if more anxious to help the many sailors who were in ' the water than to save herself. In common with the method of defending herself against a submarine attack, she steamed in a zig-zag course, and this made it necessary for me to hold my torpedos until I could lay a true course for them, which also made it necessary for me to get nearer to the Cressy. I had come to the surface for a view and saw how widly the fire was being sent from the ship. Small wonder that was when they did not know where to shoot, although one shot went unpleasantly near us. When I pot within suitable reach, 1 sent away my third attack. This time I sent a second torpedo after the first to make the strike doubly certain. My crew were aiming like sharpshooters and both torpedoes went to their bullets-eye. My luck was with me again, for the enemy was made useless and at once began sinking by her head. Then she careened ' far over, but all the while her men stayed at the guns looking for their invisible foe. They were brave and j true to their country's sea traditions. Then she eventually suffered a boiler explosion and completely turned , turtle. With her keel uppermost she floated until the air got out from under her and then she sank with a loud sound, as if from a creature in pain. All Three Sunk in Less Than Hour. The whole affair had taken less than an hour from the time of shooting off the torpedo until the Cressy went to the bottom. Not one of the three had been able to use any of their big guns. I knew the wireless of the three cruisers had been calling for aid. I was still quite able to defend myself, but I knew that news of the disaster would call many English submarines and torpedo destroyers, so, having done my appointed work. I set my course for home. My surmise was right, for before I got very far some British cruisers [and destroyers were on the spot, and the destroyers took up the chase. I kept under water most of the way, but managed to get off a wireless to the German fleet that 1 was heading homeward and being pursued. I hoped to entice the enemy, by allowing them now and then a glimpse of me, into the zone in which they might be exposed to capture or destroyed by German warships, but although their destroyers saw me plainly at dusk on the 22nd. and made a final effort to stop me, they abandoned the attempt, as it was taking them too far from safety and needlessly exposing them to attack from our fleet and submarines. How much they feared our sub marines and now wtue was uie agitation caused by good little U-9, is shown by the English reports that a ITH MITRAILLEUSE I j whole flotilla of German submarines had atacked the cruisers, and that this llotilla hud approached under the flag of Holland. These reports were absolutely untrue. U-9 was the only submarine on deck, and she flew the flag she still flies?the German naval ensign? which I hope to keep forever as a glorious memento and as an inspiration for devotion to the fatherland. I reached the home port on the afternoon of the 22nd, and on the 2-lth, went to Wilhelmshaven to find that news of my effort had become public. My wife, dry eyed when I went away, met me with tears. Then I learned that my little vessel and her brave crew had won the plaudit of the kaiser, who conferred upon each of my co-workers the Iron Cross of the second class, and upon me the Iron Cross of the ilrst and second class. (Weddigen is the hero of the hour In Germany. He also wears a medal for life saving. Counting himself, Weddigen had twenty-six men. The limit of time that his ship is capable of saying below the surface is about six hours. ANTWERP Rich City and Seaport a Prize in Many Conflicts. Antwerp, the city of dikes, once surpassed Venice, the city of lagoons in its commercial importance. Just as Venice was the clearing house between southern Europe and the Levant, so Antwerp was the clearing house for the products of central Europe, the British Isles, and the Spanish Main. Although it has had an art of its own?almost a culture?the city has always remained true to the significance of its name, "Aan't Werp"?"at the wharf." Under the protection of the Emperor Charles V., the city rose in the middle of the Sixteenth century to be the most prosperous and wealthy on the Continent. Vessels from every part of the world lay in the Scheldt and the great fairs held in the city attracted merchants from Russia and beyond. At one time over 1,000 commercial firms had their agents in the city. Besides being a clearing house Antwerp had goods of its own to dispose of?Flemish carpets, cloths, and gold and silver ornaments and the work of her artists. Like Venice, Antwerp was the envy of all Europe and first one country and then another sought an excuse to taka the city by force. In 1566 the Duke of Alva's courts expelled thousands of her native merchants and turned their business over to Spaniards. Ten years later the Spanish soldiers were turned loose in the city and burned and pillaged. Nine years later still came the siege of fourteen months and the city's tinal capture by the Duke of Parma. During these disasters the place not only lost most of its commerce, but most of its population, which dwindled from 125,000 in 156S to 40,000 twenty years later. What Antwerp lost the Dutch gained and in 1648 the final blow was delivered?the Peace of Westphalia closed the Scheldt to sea-going vessels. Napoleon 1 recognized the importance of Antwerp as a strategic base, and during his dominance of the Low countries rebuilt its wharves and revived its commerce. His general, Carnot, defended it against the Allies in 1814, but was finally forced to surrender it to the British General Graham. The Congress of Vienna the next year incorporated it with the country lying south in the kingdom of the Netherlands, and then, in 1830, it was claimed by the newly established kingdom of Belgium, not however, without being bombarded by the Dutch under Chasse, who in his turn was bombarded then by the French. Restored to Belgium in 1832, the city gradually recovered its commerce, although again and again the Dutch closed the Scheldt to Its trade. At the outbreak of the war its population even surpassed in numbers its golden period, being 400,000; it had again become a great mart binding Central Europe to the rest of the world; its ancient industries had revived and to them had been added diamond-cutting, cigar making, lace making, sugar retining, brewing and distilling.?New York Times. Future of Submarines.?Thomas A. Edison inspected a dreadnought and a submarine for the first time last Saturday. Accompanied by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. Edison and Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher, commander of the AtlanticMeet, the inventor went through the battleship New York and the submarine G-4, at the Brooklyn navy yard. Earlier in the day Secretary Daniels and Mrs. Daniels had inspected Mr. Edison's laboratories at Orange, N. J. The submarine was of especial interest to Mr. Edison. After studying its intricate mechanism, especially the electrical parts, Mr. Edison surprised his companions with this prediction: "It will not be long until you can keep your submarine under water almost indefinitely without coming up for air." "Several years ago," he said, "it occurred to me that if a fish could extract enough oxygen from water to live on, man could do the same thing. I have thought much over the subject since then and I am sure it would not be difficult. It's as simple as can be?any ooay cmiiu uu n. .-\u umi i.-i unui.. a device with potash batteries as the principal part. Such apparatus could lie installed in a submarine, for it would not take much space, and it would break water up in its elements of hydrogen and oxygen.'" "A Shame and an Outrage."?As will be seen in another column Chief Justice Kugene It. CJary persistently continues to harass Mrs. Lucy Dugas with the threat of taking over her two little girls, Douschka and Lucy, and trying to force them to live with their Tillman grandparents. They have given every evidence of their determination not to do this. To further air this piece of high-handed business is nothing less than an outrage and a shame that public condemnation should so stamp with its disapproval as to relieve the future of ever seeing any more of it. To attempt to tear away those little girls from their mother's protecting love and care to be placed in hands that are distasteful to them, should no longer lie countenanced by a brave and self-respecting people. The sooner it is all hushed up far better will it all be.?Kdgelield Chronicle. 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 published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. EIGHTY-SIXTH INSTALLMENT Maj. S. W. Melton. We were mgniy grauneu on luesaay last to welcome Maj. Melton on his arrival from the Virginia army. He looks well and in good spirits. We have not had on opportunity to converse with him as yet; hut hope to hear from him soon. * The Palmer Guards. This fine company, under the command of Capt. Wm. H-. McCorkle, left our town on Tuesday morning, last for the Camp of Instruction at Llghtwood Knot Springs. The company numbered something over one hundred. May Heaven's blessing attend them. * * Gaston Invincibles. Messrs. Editors:?I send you a list of the "Gaston Invincibles." This company has been recently formed in Gaston county, North Carolina, mostly through the inlluence and exertions of Rev. T. H. Edwards, who was unanimously elected captain. The company is now pleasantly quartered, and drilling at High Point, Guilford county, North Carolina. The names are as follows: Officers?'T. H. Edwards, captain; S. N. Stowe, 1st lieutenant; E. L. Pegram, 2nd lieutenant; D. B. Smith, 3d lieutenant. Privates?W. W. Cloninger, R. A. White, T. T. Smith, S. W. Love. H. A. Torrence, J. B. Carson, A. J. Jenkins, D. A. Lineberger, Leroy Stowe, C. M. White. R. D. Rhyne, J. L. Allison, W. T. Allison. L. M. Bell. J. P. Beaty, R. M. Beaty, Andrew Beaty, Wm Boyd, J. T. Carpenter, J. Carpenter, T. P. Carpenter, E. J. Clemmer, G. A. Clemmer, J. L. Clemmer, J. H. Costner, J. L CostAMERICAN CONSUL WOUNDED John A. Ruy of Texas, American consul at Odessa, who was wounded when the Wilson liner Runo, on which he was a passenger from Sheffield, was sunk in the North sea by a mine laid by the Germans. ner, J. R. Crenshaw, T. u uarrou, l,. n. Clemmer, W. H. Carjienter, J. W. Canley, J. R. Dixon, D. A. Fronabarger, N. P. Farrer, J. S. Foy, T. M. Foster, J. X. Ford, J. A. Floyd, Andrew Friday, L. M. Gaston, James GroVes, J. L. Grier, G. F. Hovis, M. V. Hovis, E. M. Huffstettler, W. Hawkins, J. C. Hoffman, J. H. Hoffman, Thomas Hoffman, W, B. Harris, George Jenkins, Rufus Jenkins, E. W. Jenkins, Michael Kiser, Caleb Kiser, W. A. Larving, A. C. Lineberger, J. Lingerfelt, J. J. Lewis, W. F. Lewis, Alex Linier, G. M. Logan, D. Miller, E. R. Mendenhall, J. W. McKee, A. R. McCay, J. T. Murphy, A. McCarver, W. A. Miller, Andrew Mauney, J. L. Mcintosh, J. A. Morris, Christ Neal, Peter Xeal, Julius Xeagle, S. A. Nichols, D. Ft. Pasom, John IJerkins, A. A. Rhyne, J. H. Ratchford, Alfred Rhyne, Ambrose Rhyne, George Rhyne, W. A. Smith, Jno. Schrum, J. W. Stone, Peter Smith, Lawson Smith, Noah Smith, Thomas Saunders, L. L. Suggs, R. F. Stowe, M. C. Whitesides, W. A. U'ialt, E. L. Whitesides, \\". E. Whitesides. Martin Willis, S. Hand, T. Hamilton, II. D. Stowe. Lert?y Stowe. H. D. S. To the Ladies of Yorkville. We hereby acknowledge the receipt of several boxes containing articles contributed by you, for the sick and wounded soldiers of the 5th regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. For this testimony of your kindness and sympathy, we tender you, in behalf of this regiment, and its sick, especially, our warmest thanks. For your generosity and benevolence, we can not bestow upon you too much praise, nor to highly extol your earnest exertions in behalf of this regiment, prompted as we feel assured by a knowledge of the present unhappy condition of our beloved country, and by motives of purest patriotism to aid her now in that way, which is most appropriate to your sphere of society, and we trust you will ask no higher reward in return than the assurance that your contributions are the source of comfort and consolation to the sick and wounded of our regiment, reminding them that they are not forgotten by those near and dear to them at home?for whose homes and firesides they have gone out to battle?inspiring them with newcourage and zeal to "dare to do or die," in defense of all that is most dear to us and enabling them to drive back with defiance, the vile mercenaries of Lincoln, should they ever again attempt to place their unhallowed feet upon southern soil. Yours with highest Respect, A. \V. Thomson, M. D. J. R Bratton, M. D. (To be Continued). GERMANY'S BIG GUNS They Have Been of Remarkable Effect Against Allies. One of the surprises of the war hits been the extraordinary mobility and effectiveness of the German siege artillery. The advance of the German forces into France has been described as a succession of sieges, and the speedy capture of one fortress after another was owing to the tremendous power ana accuracy or the attacking gunfire. Siege operations, writes a contributor to the Scientific American, are usually long-drawn out, because of the time it takes to change the solid firing platforms, as the lines round an invsted city, or fort, are drawn closer. To overcome this difliculty, the Krupps designed a new type of howitzer, mounted on a carriage that can be readily moved from point to point, and can even accompany the ordinary field artillery into the battle line. The great gun is reinforced with a heavy jacket of hardened steel that measures eleven feet in length, and it has to be carried on a specially designed btd. The gun is moved in two separate pieces to the firing line, where the carriage that contains the firing platform and compressed air recoil brake is first put in position. The truck mat curries me gun usen is then moved up from the rear. The gun is pulled from that truck to the firing platform, and adjusted to the recoil brake. The spare wheels are then drawn back, and the arm is ready to fire. The two sections are much too heavy to be drawn by horses, and so the Germans haul them with gasoline tractors, and use the Diplock wheel construction to support the excessive weight of the gun. The Diplock wheel, or pedhail, is not a new Invention. It has been used to carry great loads over soft ground for many years, and resembles the "caterpillar" form of traction that is often used on excavators and engines that must move across open fields. The pedrail has a series of platforms hinged to the usual wheel tire, to offer a large supporting surface on yielding ground. These "feet" are ciUrnsy in appearance, but on soft and light soil, where the ordinary wheel would not move an inch, they will travel about as well as they would on a hard road. The rapid advance of the kaiser's army was owing to the support of this wonderful artillery. The allies could withstand the assault of German infantry, but they had no guns that could vie in range and power with these great howitzers, and they had scarcely fallen back to one position before the heavy guns of the Germans were again within rangfe, and making their position untenable. It was the gasoline motor and the pedrail that enabled the invaders to move long-range cannon over ordinary farm lands at the rate of thirtyfive miles a day, and bombard each intrenchment of the French and English line as fast as they were thrown up. The Germans have also some still heavier siege guns with which they reduced the strong fortresses of Liege, Xamur and Maubeuge, to heaps of ruins. These mighty cannon are said to throw a projectile that weighs over a ton. Whenever the gun is to be discharged, the tiring party has to retire a hundred yards or more, and explode the piece by electricity. The strain on the gun is so tremendous that it can hardly be fired more than t.i.ofnrp it becomes use-1 loss. That Is, therefore, a limit to the number of fortresses that can be taken by such means. War's Awful Death Cost. Conservative estimates place the losses of the Allies for the first live weeks of the war at 150,000, and those of the Germans fur the same period at 1100,000, declares Leslie's Weekly. According to the best information Germany has more than 2,000,000 men on her various battle lines, so that in five weeks she has lost say ten per cent of her engaged forces. The total number is appalling, yet by comparison the losses on either side have not been heavy. In our own battle of Gettysburg there were 82,000 Federals and 73,000 Confederates engaged, and the total losses were Federals 24,000, or 20 per cent, and Confederates 20,450, or 2S per cent. At the battle of Sadowa, in lNOfi, the defeated Austrians lost 44.400 out of 210,000 engaged, or 21 per cent. At Waterloo, in 1815, the defeated French lost 24 per cent of the 124,000 men engaged, and the victorious allies 10 per cent of their 214,ooo. in their case, however, little of the lighting was clone by the Prussians, the brunt of the losses bring borne by the British and Belgians. At Zorndorf, in 175S, the Prussians had 37,000 men and lost 11,000, or 30 per cent, while the Russians, with 50,000 men, lost 24,000, or 4S per cent. The loss of 200,00 men to the kaisei | is not serious from a military standpoint. The war footing of the German army is 4,200,000. Therefore, the losses are under 5 per cent, and thanks to small calibre rilles and aseptic surgery, half of the wounded will be back with their commands in a couple of months. In the meantime a word from the emperor will replace them immediately with recruits from the large number of men lit for military duty, but not included in the regular army and reserves. German partisans say that if forced to do so, Germany can raise, arm and equip 7,000,000 men. t Learn to use your head as well as your hands. A trained mind will go on doing valuable work long after the days of manual labor are over. AS TOLD BY OUR EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING. Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Chester Reporter, Oct. 12: Owing to diiticulty in disposing of its product brought about by the war situation, the Southern Manufacturing Co., overall manufacturers, of this city, will run only half-time until further notice. This plant is one of Chester's most valuable assets, giving employment to about thirty-tive or forty young women, and with the execution of one week during which business was suspended on account of luck of material, has lost practically not a day's time since its establishment Mr. Fred Hardin continues seriously ill with typhoid pneumonia at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hardin on Fast Lacy street The city council held a special meeting Friday afternoon to meet and hear .Mr. F. H. Hickok, special representative of Clawson Bachman, of Philadelphia, who was about a year and a little more ago granted a franchise to erect and operate a gas plant in this city. Under the terms of the franchise, work on the plant and mains was to begin within one year after the necessary ordinance was passed, and the plant was to be finished within two years. The year expired on September 11th, and as ail know no work was done. After some debate council granted a six months' extension of the franchise Mr. David H. Simpson, who was for a short time agent of the Southern Express Co., in this city a few years ago, died Thursday afternoon at the Westbrook Sanitarium in Richmond, Va., after having been in declining health for about eighteen months. For the past four years Mr. Simpson had been connected with the Gem hotel and restaurant in Charlotte, and about a year ago became sole owner and pro prietor of the establishment. The deceased was thirty-eight years of age and leaves a widow and three children The Peoples' Bank is preparing to occupy its handsome new building this week. The building has been practically completed for several days, all that prevented occupancy being the non-arrival of the marble wainscoting. This has now arrived and been put in place, and the transfer will be made in a day or two. # Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 13: "It is the best exhibit for first year girls that I have ever seen," was the comment of Miss Edith L. Parrott, state agent in charge of the club work, regarding the Cherokee county tomato club girls exhibit at the court house Saturday morning. "Every exhibit is worthy of the highest praise, and if Cherokee county is not proud of her tomato girls, she certainly should be," remarked Miss Parrott. And this seemed to be the general opinion of the hundreds of visitors who inspected the exhibits. The exhibits consisted of canned goods and preserved fruits of all kinds, neatly labeled with the club label on which were the names of the members and "4 H," representing "Improvement of Heart, Head, Hands and Health." The displays were judged Friday afternoon by Mrs. F. VV. Carpenter, Mrs. J. Harvey Witherspoon, Mrs. Tom Clarkson and Mrs. ttnsn Wilson, who awarded the nrizes according to the merit of the various exhibits Sheriff W. W. Thomas returned from Raleigh, N. C., Thursday night with requisition papers for Morgan Hill, a white man who had been arrested at King's Mountain, charged with assault and disturbing religious worship. The sheriff went to Shelby where Hill was being held and returned with him Friday. He is now in the Cherokee county Jail. A preliminary will be held within the next few days. The offense with which Hill is charged is shooting a negro preacher while he was conducting a baptism near Grover a few weeks ago. According to figures obtained from the county auditor' books, the value of taxable property in Cherokee county has increased $62,768 within the past year, for the year 11)13 the value being $5,589,653, and for 1914 the value is $5,652,421. The total tax realized upon this amount will be $122,112. The poll tax will amount to $4,405 and the dog tax to $1,156.50, giving the county a total resource amounting to $127,673.50 With Judge Km est Moore of Lancaster presiding, the fall term of the court of common pleas for Cherokee county convened at the court house yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. Court stenographer T. C. Perrin was in his place. This is the lirst session of court for Crerokee county since the order of holding criminal and civil court was changed last summer New sports for the school children are being introduced at the Central Graded school by Professor J. Harvey Witherspoon. the superintendent, who has organized a football team among the boys, and a basketball team among the girls Miss Nancy Jane Skates and Mr. Robert Martin, both of Cherokee Falls, were married late Thursday afternoon by Probate Judge W. D. Kirby at his - ? Vfr M IlOme Oil C.licrui\trc .... | D. Amos, a prosperous farmer who lives near tlie city, brought to the Ledger ollice Saturday, a cotton stalk on which there were 44 large bolls, it was of the Vanderbilt's Improved Best Variety. Mr. Amos planted one-half bushel of this seed on one-half acre of land. From this he is confident that he will obtain a heavy bale of the lleecy staple Mr. Kelley Davis, a respected citizen of the Limestone mill village, died at his home Saturday night, after an illness of about two weeks' duration. He was about fiftyfive years of age, and is survived by his wife and seven children. He is also survived by a brother, Mr. L. L. Davis, of this city. The funeral was conducted at the home yesterday afternoon by Rev. J. W. Shell. He was buried at Oakland cemetery with the honors of a respected member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics fraternity. * t * Rock Hill Record, Oct. 12: The second annual meeting of the Arcade-Victoria Fair, held Saturday at the Arcade village was an unqualified success, about 2,000 people being present during the day which was a highly enjoyable one in its every aspect. The people were happy, the exhibits were fine, the speeches were good?this with ideal weather carried things to ultimate success. The success of the occasion is due in a large measure to the initiative of I'rof. J. 1.. t'arbery, head of the mill village improvement work, I which he is carrying on for the gov-1 ernment. He has had loyal assistants as well as the heartiest kind of co-op- ( eration from the mill officials and op- j tora Tho uviotiL'ors! i\n this onrnsion ! were: President Alex. Long, President) \V. J. Roddey, Prof. Carberry, Col. K. J. Watson, Dr. D. B. Johnson, Miss Ethel' Thomas <>f Charlotte, Miss Mary E.| Frayser of Winthrop, Prof. C. It. Hurts, Community Secretary Tucker, Demonstrator McKeown, Rev. F. E. Cox, Mr. Hi M. Sides, former demonstrator in that village, and Mr. Joe Sparks of the Columbia State. Music was furnished) by the Carliartt band during the day j and a splendid dinner was served at 1.30 Elijah Ivy, colored, better known to most of Rock Hiliians as "Uncle Liege," who had been a servant at the home of Mrs. W. I* Roddey for the past 25 years, died Saturday night. He was possibly 75 years of age or more and moved here from Lancaster county At a meeting of the teachers of the city schools last Thursday, an important step was taken to prevent truancy among the pupils. Hereafter a student who is truant?that is, absent from school without his parents' knowledge or consent?will come back the following Saturday and make up the day's work. One teacher will be in charge of all truants each Saturday and in this way it will not entail very much extra work on any one teacher. Parents are urged to co-operate with the teachers in this effort to prevent truancy. Friday, Oct. 16, will be given as a holiday for the schools that they may attend the fair. They will not be excused to attend other days. Quite a number of the students will enter the various contests. Mr. J. Turner Jackson, grocer at the Aragon Mill, died very suddenly this morning of heart failure. His remains will be buried here Tuesday. He had been in his usual good health and his death was quite a surprise to those who knew him Messrs. Ely Parker of Sumter and Tom May Parker have been in the city several days with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Parker. They are selling brooms manufactured in Columbia, and Mr. Tom M. Parker is district manager of the upper part of the state. They also have the state of i Tennessee as their territory Mr. VV. R. Neely of Edi moor, who had for several days been in a Charlotte hospi- 1 tal for treatment, returned to his home yesterday Mr. Eugene S. Mills is now associated with Friedheim's big I store, in the shoe department The third quarterly meeting of the chamber of commerce was held Friday night, with a fair attendance. Light refreshments were served and live new direc 11.Vlr. W I RnH. iui a cicwicu clo luiivno. *>.*.< . ** . w, > dey, Rev. P. W. Gregg, Dr. D. B. Johnsun, Mr. P. C. Poe and Prof. R. C. Burts President Johnson has received requests from the United States department and also from the Panama Pacific exposition, asking for an exhibit of the Winthrop college farm school < at the exposition in San Francisco next year. The United States commissioner < of Education has also asked-Winthrop ] college if it cannot offer some scholar- i ships to Venezuela pupils One of 1 the most practical features of the 1 Young Women's Christian assc .ation work at Winthrop is a lunch room conducted by the students tor the purpose of serving lunches to the students. The i lunch room is conveniently situated on i the basement floor of the Main build- * ing near the town girls' study room, and is fitted out with an oil-stove, sirtk, shelves and necessary cooking utensils, I china and silver. Soup, crackers, tea, cocoa, sandwiches and salads are served, the prices varying from 5 to 10 cents. The association has no other . ?1 . U ? l..?,.h than that Itf uesigu in liic iuiiv.il i uum ?.? ?* vii^c w*. community service, and lunches are served at cost. Besides meeting an actual need, the lunch room otters an opportunity to the students in charge for training in economy, "making ends meet," and business efficiency. The work at present is in the hands of a very efficient committee with Miss Agnes Bryan as chairman. Chester News, Oct. 13: When the fact became generally known here last 1 week that the big Springstein mill was to close down indelinitely, there were ( certainly some blue people in Chester, as the pay-roll of this plant semimonthly turns loose considerable money. This feeling among the people existed until late Saturday, when the owner. Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster, arrived on the scene. He quickly realized the situation, especially of the employees, who in all likelihood, at least 'he most of them, would have been unable to have secured work and hence poverty in the very near future i appeared as a spectre. He knew that their getting employment out of the city would be a difficult undertaking, since so many of the mills are closing down. So he transferred the force to i the Eureka mill, his other large mill here, and last night had the wheels ' running night and day. This mill does 1 not make gingham, so Col. Springs decided the mill shall run, at least, several months night and day. He says , that he is willing to finance the mill to ' his limit in order to provide for his faithful employees who have remained i by him for many years Mrs. Su- j san Jackson, widow of the late John t__i j:?i ?? .u.. u.' n * JUCKSIIIl, UlCU ill. llic liumc ui iut, i>. v>. Shilyey near Fort Lawn, Sunday morn- i ing at the age of 70 years. The funeral services were held at the house by Rev. J. R. Moore, pastor of the Fort Lawn Baptist church, yesterday at noon, and the burial occurred in the Fort Lawn cemetery A charming event of Thursday evening in Edgmoor, was the marriage of Miss Willette Walker, the lovely and attractive daughter of Mrs. Hattie P. Walker and Mr. Roy Murphy, son of the late Dr. E. Y. Murphy Mr. J. C. Houlbrook passed away at the Wylie Mill, Thursday evening at the age of 43 years. His body was sent to his home at Maiden, N. C., for burial Dr. M. J. Walker of Yorkville, counselor of the South Carolina ' Medical association, for the Fifth District, came to Chester, on October 5th. l He met a number of doctors and or- . ganized the Fifth District Medical association, which includes the following 1 counties: Chester, York, Lancaster, j Cherokee, Fairtield and Chestertield. j Every doctor present was enthusiastic and the new association bids fair to be ( very successful. The following officers < were elected: President, Dr. E. W. ] Pressley, Clover; 1st vice president, , Dr. Frank Ferguson, GafYney; 2nd vice * president, Dr. Sam Lindsay, Winns- 1 boro; secretary and treasurer, Dr. G. A. i Hennies, Chester. The lirst meeting , will be held in Rock Hill, on Wednesday, November lsth. * * < Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 13: "Capt." N. F. Pence of McAdenville, died sud- J denly about 11 o'clock last Friday t night. Upoi. retiring he told his wife t that he was feeling better than he had for several weeks. An hour or so later 1 he was dead from heart failure. "Capt." Pence was wounded at Gettysburg and lay on the held and in a corn crib nearby for eleven days without food and with only rain water to drink. A Yankee surgeon found that gangrene had developed, and cut off his arm. Deceased was 74 years old and was born in Stanly county. Lost Saturday he was married for the second time, his bride being Mrs. A. F. Stack, who survives together with several sons and daughters. The funeral was held this afternoon in Lowell Mr. V. F. Stephens, city letter carrier, left Thursday for Biltmore, where his family resides, in response to a message announcing the illness of one of his children. Mr. C. O. Hill, formerly city carrier here, but now on a rural route at Flat Rock, is expected to be transferred here October 15th to take Mr. Stephens' place. With the arrival Saturday afternoon of the long-iooked for desks and TURCOS NOT AL I,,,, ' .'y i to ^rvwiraw.w f-a-* That the French Turcos are not aJv been called Is evidenced by this photogr caring (or a wounded German soldier. the rapid placement of the same, the Central school will open Friday, October sixteenth. Several carpenters are hard at work putting the desks together and also placing them in the various buildings secured for teaching. Three teams were used yesterday and part of today in hauling the desks from the P, & N. freight depot Friends . of Mr. G. O. Page, editor of the Kings Mountain Herald, will regret to learn of the death of his father, Mr. J. S. Page, which occurred at his home at Stedman, N. C., on Saturday, the 3rd. The deceased was 78 years of age, a Confederate veteran, and a highly esteemed citizen of his community Miss Macie Whitesides, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Whitesides, underwent an operation Friday for appendicitis at the City Hospital. ? 0 0 Lancaster News, Oct. 13: Mrs. Elizabeth Snipes died at the home of her son, Mr. Sanford Snipes, last Friday. ~ ...A? rC CVio nro u o oiltr NVtUJ iu jcaio ui age. uuc naa u. consistent member of the Baptist church and the remains were laid to rest, Saturday afternoon, at the Union Baptist church, after funeral services by Rev. S. R. Brock The regular fall term of the circuit court convened on yesterday, with Special Judge C. M. Eflrd of Lexington, presiding. Solicitor J. K. Henry and Stenographer Harry McCaw were, as usual, at their places. Owing to the extraordinary session of the legislature requiring the presence of Solicitor Henry in the engrossing department, all cases where the defendants are out on bond were continued until the next term of the court Mr. J. W. Knight has been on an extended trip through Chesterfield county, and reports a big yield of cotton, corn and peas. He was impressed with the tine hogs and cattle ind the general prosperity of the county The many friends of Mr. John T. Green, will be grieved to learn of his indisposition. Last Saturday night, he suffered an attack of acute indigestion, which affected his heart quite seriously for awhile. But we are pleased to be able to report that his condition today showed considerable improvement The annual session of the Lancaster Bihie society was neia, Saturday evening, in the Presbyterian church. Despite inclement weather, the church was well filled and the meeting was a very interesting one. FIELD OF CHALONS Historic Battleground that Ha* Witnessed bloody Struggles. It was said in a recent dispatch from Europe that possibly Gen. Joffre had retreated purposely to choose lighting ground east of Paris so as to bring the French troops to the field of Uhalons as an inspiration to them. This is probably a fantastic notion. At all events the great plain round Chalons was in the year 451 the battlefield where the Roman legions under the general, Aetius, and the Christian Visigoths, under King Theodoric, defeated Attila, "the scourge of God," and saved Rome for a time. It was Rome's last victory. Twenty-five years later the Roman empire of the west was extinguished by Odoacer. There is a broad expanse of plains around Chalons and a few years ago there were and may be still grassy mounds and trenches about five miles from Chalons, which showed, according to tradition, the ancient fortiflcatios of Attila's camp. The Visigoths held the North of Spain and all Gaul south of the Loire. They, with the Franks, the Alemanlc and kindred tribes, held the whole or Western Europe from the Scandinavia country iown to and including Spain, and the ngniiicance of the battle of Chalons is .hat it was a triumph of Germanic civilization over the onset of the nomidic tribes of Central Asia, of which then the Huns were far and away the iominant representatives. The distinction of the Germanic tribes compared with the Carmatic and Slavic nations was their personal freedom and regard for the rights of man, and the respect they paid to women. In the battle of Jhalons these traits and this civilization triumphed and saved Europe for what it is today. Attila crossed the Rhine near Cojlentz. He conquired everything in his jath and reached Orleans in France, which he besieged. The Roman Gen. \etius collected all his forces, enlisted King Theodoric as his ally, and advanced to the relief of Orleans. Attila raised the siege and retreated to the river Vlarne, along which the battle of the present war in the French centre raged, tfere on the plains of Chalons the Ronans and Visigoths met him. The Ronas under Aetius were on the right wing, King Theodoric assailed the right )f Attila. As he rode at the head of lis columns he was struck down by a lavelin. His death, however, seemed :o inspire his troops, and his cavalry, -harging over his body and backed by :he infantry, routed the Huns, and then wheeled and attacked the Hank of the :enter. Attila withdrew to his camp, where, under the shelter of his en;renchments he repulsed the onslaught jf Theodoric's battalions. The Roman \etius had not pressed his advantage in the Huns' left, but with their right irushed and their centre driven in, they were virtually defeated. The battle ended here, and Attila withdrew, unmolested and lived to nake other assaults on the western world and its civilization. But the virtual victory over him and his retreat saved Europe from Asiatic domination. \nd this is why the battle of Chalonslur-Marne is classed by Creasy as one if the fifteen decisive battles of the world.?Indianapolis News. WAYS PITILESS /ays the ferocious savages tbey have aph, lu which some of them are seen