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/ YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. | ISSUED SSMI'WEKHLY. l. m. grist's sons, Pobii.h?r., j % Ifamtlg lit imager,: 4?r thif promotion of th$ political, JSoijtal, Sflri^ultural and Commercial Interests of llt< jpeogfy | ""Vwo^oiv'nrac^m."'' ' established 1855. YOBKVILLE, S. O., TUESDAY, DEOEMBFR 1, 1914 NO. 96 Novemb THE DETECTIVE By HESKETH Copyright, 1913, by Hesketh Prich CHAPTER VI?Continued. Without more words Joe turned back into the woods, and we went i after him. Hidden in a low marshy spot about half a mile from the house, we came upon the body of the dog. It was evident she had been shot ?more than that, the carcass was hacked about in a horrible manner. "What Ho vou sav now. Mr. Evans?" inquired Joe. "What do I say? I say this: When we find the thief we'll likely find the marks of Rizpah's teeth on him. That's what made him mad with rage, and"?Evans waved his hand. We returned to breakfast at Mrs. Rone's cabin. While we were eating, Evans casually brought out a scrap of the worsted he had detached from the nail outside. "Seen any one with a necker like that, Mrs. Rone?" he asked. The young woman glanced at the bit of wool, then bent over Danny as she fed him. When she raised her head I noticed that she looked very white. "There's more'n one of that color hereabouts likely," she replied, with I jj^ "Guess the oarns's c.7. Cc.i't turn! -<J Ci k !" another glance of studied indifference. "It's not a common pattern of wool, "said Evans. "Well, you're all witnesses where I got it. I'm off. It's my business to find the man with the pink necker." Evans nodded and swung off through the door. November looked at Sally. "Who is he, Sally?" Mrs. Rone's pretty forehead puckered into a frown. "Who?" "Pink and gray neckqr," said Joe gently. A rush of tears filled her red brown eyes. "Val Black has one like that. I made it for him myself long ago." And he has a rifle of some English make," added November. Mrs. Rone started. "So he has, but I never remembered that till this minute!" She looked back into Joe's gray eyes with indignation. "And he smokes 'Nugget' all right, too. I know it. All the same, it isn't Val." "It's queer them bits of worsted on the doornails," observed Joe judicially. Her color flamed for a moment. "Why queer? He's been here to see m? us more'n once this time back. The nails might have caught his neck_ RUSSIAN AERC Ueirnau transport removing a Itu was used later on a German aeroplat t ?er Joe. j 8 OF THE WOODS. ___ b PRICHARD. t ard 11" er any day," she retorted. "It's just possible." agreed November in an unconvinced voice. "It can't be Val!" repeated Mrs. E Rone steadily. When we were out of sight and of earshot I turned to November. ^ "The evidence against Black is 0 pretty strong. What's your notion?" t "Can't say yet. I think we'd best e Join Evans; he'll be trailing the thief." n We made straight through the f woods toward the spot where the 1 dog's body lay. As we walked I \ tried again to find out Joe's opinion. s "But the motive? Haven't Mrs. b Rone and Black always been on good ^ terms?" I persisted. v Joe allowed that was so and added, a "Val wanted to marry her years ago." "But surely Black wouldn't rob her, ? especially now that he has his c chance again." v "Think not?" said Joe. "I wonder!" 13 After a pause he went on: "But it g ain't hard to see what'U be Evans' v views on that. He'll say Val's scared 3 of her growing too independent, for j1 she's made good so far with her traps, r and so he Just naturally took a hand s to frighten her into marriage. His ^ case agin Val won't break down for want of motive." s "One question more, Joe. Do you ? really think Val Black is the guilty ^ man?" b November Joe looked up with his 1 quick, sudden smile. "It'll be a shock n to Evans if he ain't," said he. 8 Very soon we struck the robber's n trail and saw from a second line of tracks that Evans was ahead of us j, following it. t "Here the thief goes," said Joe. i* "See! He's covered his moccasins a with deer skin, and here we have e Evans* tracks. He's hurrying, Evans is. He's feeling good and sure of the * man he's after." e Twice November pointed out faint c signs that meant nothing to me. w "Here's where the robber stopped to light his pipe. See! There's the n mark of the butt of his gun between tl TO. ? tkori a LUtrst IUU19. lUC siiun o bum buv?v. Must 'a* had a match, that chap," he said after a minute, and, standing li with his back to the wind, he made e' a slight movement of his hand." "What are you doing?" I asked. it "Saving myself trouble." He turned a at right angles and began searching ^ through the trees. "Here it is. Hung up in a snag. Seadog match he a used." Then, catching my eye, he ? went on: "Unless he was a fool he'd ^ light his match with his face to the f< wind, wouldn't he? And most right a handed men 'ud throw the match ^ thereabouts where I hunted for it." n Well on in the afternoon the trail t< led out to the banks of a wide and ^ shallow stream, into the waters of which they disappeared. Here we tl overtook Evans. He was standing li by the ashes of a fire almost on the bank. r< He looked up as we appeared. "That g you, Joe? Chap's took to the water," said the game warden, "but he'll have e: to do more than that to shake me a off." "Chap made this, too?" inquired November, with a glance at the dead h fire. s< Evans nodded. "Walked steady till jj he came here. Dunno what he lit the t] fire for. Carried grub. I s'pose." tl "No: to cook that partridge," said Joe. I I glanced at Evans. His face dark- p] ened. Clearly this did not please him. S "Oh, he shot a partridge?" "No," said Joe; "he noosed it ^ back in the spruces there. The track g of the wire noose is plain, and there tl was some feathers. But look here, Evans, he didn't wear no pink neck- f er." n E Evans' annoyance passed off sud- p denly. "That's funny," said he, "for tl he left more than a feather and the ? scrape of a wire." The game warden ^ pulled out a pocketbook and showed v us wedged between its pages another t strand of the pink and gray wool. "I ? (PLANE CAPTURED BY T ssian aeroplane captured by General voi te. ound it where he passed through I hose dead spruces. How's that?" I I looked at Joe. To my surprise he hrew back his head and gave one of lis rare laughs. ' "Well," cried Evans, "are you still ure that he didn't wear a pink lecker?" . "Surer than ever," said Joe, and I egan to poke in the ashes. Evans eyed him for a moment, ransferred his glance to me and ,inked. Before long he left us, his ist words being that he would have tis hands on "Pink Necker" by night. (To be continued.) THRILLING AIR FLIGHT Eye-Witness Describes Battle Between French and German Airmen. Gabrielle Delagarde, correspondent of he New York Globe, cables from Lmiens, France, an interesting account f the battle between aeroplanes over hat city, hitherto but briefly mentiond. The dispatch follows: I have witnessed what is probably the nost stirring spectacle in modern warare?a combat in the air. It was about 0 o'clock in the morning, and I was alklng with some officers in a cafe on he principal street of Amiens, when I aw people crowding to the sidewalk efore our door, with noses in the air. aeroplanes often fly over Amiens, but s we heard the people repeating the irord "Taube," we decided to go out nd see. High above us, like a hawk in the unny blue sky, sailed the enemy?not >ne, but two, and presently three. The rowd became restless, and most of the romen disappeared. The entire city ecame hushed. /vn 1 /-v?i avrtt aoI ana nf Knmho hp v_/1C<u , 1V/UU CAplUOlUIlO Ul wvtuwo wv :an to succeed one another as we matched, fascinated. Then a newsboy houted, "There's another." A flash of iale yellow wings appeared in the sun. t was a French biplane. It rose and ose, while the crowd grasped. Officers tood staring through their glasses. Still the biplane climbed upward. )ne Taube, probably unarmored, flew oward the north. Another plane moved lowly just above us. while still anther sailed southward. We heard the xplosions of the bombs which this last 'aube dropped on the gas tanks. The iplane now was quite near the second 'aube, and the faint rattling sound of litrailleuses descended from the sky. The colonel beside me shook the houlder of a captain, shouting, "Give le your glass, quick." The captain, trembling with excitelent, contended himself with exclaimig: "It's marvelous?marvelous, brave, le is going to get it?he is hit. No, he i keeping on." ( The crowd yelled. Some of the people pplauded and others had tears in their 1 yes. All traffic stopped. Back came the other Taube from the j ttack upon the gras tanks. The French ( iplane, caught between two foes, turnd, all gilded with the sunlight, and harged toward the new enemy. They rere very close to one another, when \ tie swift French machine leaped above tie German, still firing. We heard the litrailleuses distinctly. In the mean- 1 Ime the other Taube had come above i nd was rushing to the aid of its com- j ide. Then the French machine dropped 1 ke a wounded bird, and we experienc- I d a moment heavy with anguish. Bui i tie biplane had not been hit. A thoua,nd yards a.bove the earth it caught ' self and began to rise again. But now ' French monoplane was seen coming i 3 the rescue, and immediately the , 'aubes turned and disappeared. The street was wild with emotion, nd every one talked with every one I Ise. The news spread like lightning tiat two workmen in the gas factory , ad been killed and two wounded, that >urteen horses were killed in a stable ? J 4 ?- ? rkA/\r\1& Vio/1 1 I1U LWU WUUUUCU auu uiai |uwu jund French bullets lying in the street ear the station. Pursuit of the Gerlans was quickly ordered but it was jo late. In the afternoon I counted six French iplanes sailing over the city toward le north, perhaps for new aerial batles somewhere behind the German nes. Th? War Balance.?A rough-and?ady estimate of the fortunes of the reat war at latest accounts is furnish I by comparison of the areas overrun y the opposing armies in Europe?the stent to which they have been able to irry the war into the enemy's country. The allies occupy Bukowina and early all of Galica, an area close to 9,000 square miles. Elsewhere their oldings are slight, possibly 300 to 400 [juare miles in Alsace and 3,000 or lore in East Prussia. The total may e something like 33,000 square miles lough the area varies more swiftly in le eastern than in the western field. The German alliance occupies nearly II Belgium, say 11,000 square miles, nd about 8,000 souare miles in France, low much they have in Poland is uesswork, but probably no more than ,000 miles. The total is not far from 5,000 square miles?which a day's ews from the eastern field might reatly increase or diminsh. On balance of hostile population held, tie German arms show more successiil. In spite of heavy emigration to [olland, England and France, there are o less than 6,500,000 people left in telgium, and the slices of France and ! 'oland occupied by German arms are tiickly settled. The Russians in Gali- . ia and Bukowina control some 7 000 00 Hungarian subjects, less war emi- > ration, but the edges of East Prussia j hich they hold are sparsely peopled. . 'ndoubtedly a larger population of the Hies is within the German lines than 1 tie reverse.?New York World. I HE GERMANS ?' JU9 : v W " ^ ( ( i Hindenburg at Lotzen. The englni 1 < 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 Knowl idge of the Things that Most Con- a cerned Generations that Have Gone r Before. t A The flrst installment of the noteB 1 appearing under this heading was f 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 a 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. NINETY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT Editorial Correspondence. t Warrenton, Faquler county, Va., Monday Morning, October 14, 1861. Dear Enquirer:?A few days ago, Mr. t , an ex-sheriflf of Fairfax colinty, 1' who was taken prisoner by the Yan- o kees in May, carried to Washington, o confined for some six weeks and then c set at liberty on his patrol of honor, o made his way within the lines of our t army. He states that McLellan has o 100,000 mon on this side of the Poto- a mac, and 30,000 in and around Wash- I ington. Some regiment or other If we may credit him?and we have no rea- t son to doubt his word?is continually s in a state of mutiny and rebelion. The s "grand army" shattered and shivered 0 at Manassas, has never yet recovered d its unity, concord and subordination, 1< without which mere numbers and b splendid equipments are powerless .to s achieve victories. McClellan, sensible t of his weakness, will perhaps not be r ready to advance unaer rour wecivo a from this date. The ^ex-sherifT had ti other important information to com- n municate, which however, was only for fi Beauregard's ears. f; When we contrast the status of "ye d grande armie," with the law-abiding fl spirit, the patriotic ardor and the unity n of determined purpose of the southern n army, well may we pride in the vigor of our new born Confederacy; well fl hope for brilliant achievements and b victories, and for final triumph. All c that our generals want is fair fight, h Every day's delay adds to their strength g and will for awhile, from the tides of s restored volunteers who are going in ^ from the hospitals. Our sick list is b rapidly decreasing, and will soon be-- l indeed now?almost "the little end of p nothing whittled down." Our regiment, Ji for instance which was once reduced d below four hundred "for duty;" can t< now bring eight hundred upon the field n any day. A kind Providence is, and has been 0 In all this thing, and "we knew it not." j Had the foe bided his time; had he n waited a month longer, when our ranks c, were more than decimated by sickness, n the struggle had been far more desperate and terrible with us. But lnso- t] lent and proud and over-confident, he j burried against our army, just from t, tearful farewells and God-speeds, with t] the glow of patriotism kindled at the a Jomestic altars new upon their cheeks. ^ with a father's blessing on their heads. a and a mother's and sister's kisses lin- t] gering about their lips. They came and n fought, but fell or fled. Disorder and p panic seized upon them as they fled; g and some, had their legs failed them a not, had the zeal to have fled to the g] N'orth Pole! What was the conse- y luence? We have had a profound calm, q in which to wrestle with that far more g] fatal foe?-disease. The invading hosts ? )f fanaticism and sickness were divided ^ ind we permitted to conquer them ^ piecemeal. But the dreamy and heart tl 3ickening gloom of this period?a period fraught with much sorrow, actual or sympathetic, to us all?is rap- ^ idly passing away. Now as the health w ind resources of our army are almost complete and daily augumentation, McClellan, we are told, is about to bring on w the northern hordes again. A wiser j than we is not only fighting our battles j for us, but choosing the time, place and tj circumstances of the conflict. Laus Deo! D Another gentleman, we have been ^ told, who was arrested in Baltimore for g smuggling quinine and other medicines icross the lines, made his escape to this ^ county recently. He reports a strong ^ feeling in the northern army against the further prosecution of the war Soldiers even go so far as to say that their w generals may bring them here, but they will not fight again. Whatever credence may be attached to such statements, it ^ is quite certain that the "old wreck" is imongst the breakers of anarchy, as J well as in the maelstorm of despotism. This county, which is the birth-place if Chief Justice Marshall, delights in ^ doing honor to the memory of the great jurist. They have placed a full length life-likeness of him upon the wall ol ' the court house, just over the judge's seat. This fine portrait was painted for 01 the county, by W. D. Washington, a " young artist of Washington city, for ' the sum of five hundred dollars. The chief justice is represented as occupy- p' ing his seat on the bench of the su- ^ preme court, having on his "robe of state,*' and the inevitable blue stock- 'a ngs and knee buckles of his day. r( rhere is great benignity and calmness, 01 .'UII5IUCIUUIC VIYttCllJ, auu ??. imic c*.?vlofty sense of justice delineated in his face. The work honors the young art- a: st. B By the way, his honor, we are credi- n< uly informed, had a penchant for col- V lecting choice wines and storing away al i few bottles at a time, in his cellar, c< ivhere they would remain for long rr >*ears. In this way he had collected li julte a quantity at his death, some ol tl which was said to be 30 or 40 years tl jld. This wine became famous among cl summer travelers who visited this fi dace and the adjacant springs, the de- bi mand great; and the price rose as high A is ten dollars per bottle. A veracious ci gentleman has told us that saw a dozen "i fast young men empty as many bottles h me evening at this pice. Such is toe c< influence of a name, or as FalstafT has si It, a "love of each." ft We have had the pleasure these few hi lays, of meeting Mr. Youngblood, ex- is sheriff of your district, and Mr. Mason, ^ >ur "Prince of Orderlies," in Warren- w ton. Mr. Youngblood will return in a few c* lays with Mr. Thos. Nance, who owing a) o sickness, has been discharged from he service. Sergeant Mason, without applying, eceived a discharge on account of his vound. He brought on the 5th, twenty >oxes filled with all kinds of clothing vhen he came, and merits the hearty hanks of the regiment for seeking 0 be troubled with so much luggage. 1 letter from camp informs us of what ve would have known anyhow, that vhen he reached there, "the Jaspers rowded around him as though he were i brother to us all."' We cannot but egret parting with him, after this brief >ut pleasant reunion. He has visited Varrenton to attend Dr. Meek until he s a^le to travel, when both will start or Yorkville. Many of us may never ee his face again; but every Jasper's lean will De warm wun a. uummuv a .flection for him as long as It is warm irith life. Yours at random, Our Corporal. (To be continued.) WAR'S MONEY COST Authority on Economics Says Peace Must Come Soon. The great event of last week was he flotation of the huge English oan of $1,125,000,000. Just think f It! Nearly three times the cost f the Panama canal. And yet, acordlng to the statements of high fflclals of the English government, his will pay the expenses of the war n the present footing for less than . year, says Roger W. Babson, in 'hiladelphia Ledger. When one considers that England oday has only a few hundred thouand in the field, and has not yet ent to the continent any of the 1,00,000 recruits which she is now rilling, it can be seen that this great Dan will serve only a short time at est. But this is not all. English tatesmen are telling their people hat Just as soon as the 1,000,000 aw recruits go to the continent an dditional million must be drilled to ake their places. What does this lean? If to support a navy and a ew hundred tnouBanu men cww rom $4,500,000 to $5,000,000 per ay, It does not take a statistician to sure what it will cost to support a avy, a gTeat transport system and early 2,000,000 men. As readers know, I am not a pacist, nor do I preach disarmament, ut I am sure that in the present onflict the rulers of all these nations ave absolutely lost their heads. The reat late war here in the United tates a generation ago, which wrecked most of our railroads and rought* on the terrible panic of 873-7, was merest child's play comared to what has already taken place i Europe, from a financial and Inustrial point of view, yet, according 3 their own statements, they have ot yet got under way. Let me give just one illustration f whtt I have in mind: Last week met the publisher of a well known lachinery journal who has Just ompleted his round among certain tills of the east. To my great surprise, he told me lat he had actual knowledge of 80,000,000 worth of Russian contacts that have Just been placed in lis country for shrapnel. By using few statistics relative to these orers, I find that each shell will cost bout $20 landed in Russia and that ley are discharged per gun at the ite of six a minute, or, say, 1,000 er three hours. If a battery of 24 uns was at work, this would mean cost of about $500,000 just for the tiells in a three-hours' engagement! /"hen we first hear of such a $80,00,000 contract, we think that it innlrt lfppn the Russian armv sud I?ed with shrapnel for the rest of le war. When we take penclal and aper to figure the cost, we find that le (80,000,000 can be used up in a ery short time. With two sections t the army engaged In a three-hour attle twice a day, this (80,000,000 ould last only 40 days! I care not what the statesmen of le various nations talk about a long ar, I can say authoritatively that le bankers of these nations know lat the war cannot be long. During ie last week I have not only talked 1th a well known English banker, ut last Friday morning, had breakist with a director of one of the reat banks of Berlin, who has Just rrived in this country. Although e Is sure that Germany will not be efeated, and declares that Ameriin readers are being grossly misled s to the causes and conduct of the rar, yet he Insisted that It must be lort. In fact, as I Interviewed ankers of all nationalities in New ork the last week, I found them greed that the attempt of either de to fight this war to a finish leans financial bankruptcy for Eujpe. It is all very well to talk about ie unlimited supply of available len; how England can draw upon er colonies and even Japan; while ie Germans have countless numbers f Mohammedans in reserve; but either the Japs nor the Turks can ght without huge sums of money, fhy, for England merely to transort a small army of Japanese to urope and maintain them for 60 uys would cost nearly a billion dolirs. So I say that the rulers of Eu)pe have actually gone crazy. No ne of them dreamed of such a war. "Wumgush."?In the American Magzine this new word is given by Gillette urgess as one that is very much ceded in the English dictionary, 'umgush is defined as?An insincere (Tection of cordiality; hypocritical impliments. Woman's flattery of wolen; pretended friendship. A feminine b. Do women criticise each other to leir faces? Do they find fault with leir chocolates, their looks, their lothes, their jests? No, not until the ont door is closed; till then they slober wumgush, so says this same author, nd yet, if one man offers another a garette, the tobacco may be called rotten" without peril or danger. Men ave small use for wumgush; their jmpliments are profane ridicule and mulated enmity. A man calls his best iend a "damned fool;" a woman calls er worst enemy "my dear." Wumgush i the frothy foam of society chatter. Wumgush is the sunshine through hich fly the wasps of sarcasm. W Panama will establish two agrijltural schools and later may have n experiment station. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Chester News, Nov. 27: Joe Rose, an Italian workman, was held up yesterday morning, while sitting at a fire, I whirh hp hart maHp in the wnrwia npnr Lewis, and robbed of a fine gold watch and six dollars. In addition he was badly kicked in the back and chest. Rose said that he was on his way south from Philadelphia, Pa., after work. He got off the train at Rock Hill and could not get any work there so he thought he would journey through the country to Chester, thinking probably he would secure some kind of employment. He reached Lewis about night and tried to secure quarters, he said, but was not successful. He has not been in the United States very long and does not speak English fluently and it is rather difficult to interpret his language, which is a split between the Italian and English, with most of the split on the former. He was asleep by the blazing fire in the woods, when six colored people, two with revolvers, walked up. One asked him if he minded their warming by the fire. He said no. One of the party next wanted to know what time it was. When he pulled out his watch, one of them jerked it from him. The next thing he knew he was being KiuKeu auuui uy me wnoie crew, i ney then went through his pockets and got a bag containing six dollars in silver and currency, then disappeared The third bale of cotton to be stolen u> Chester within the past few weeks was taken Wednesday night from the yard of Mr. B. Frank VVilks, a prominent farmer, who lives about seven miles out on the Fishdam road. The robbery was a bold one. The thief drove into his lot, only a stone's throw from the house, loaded and drove off. He tried to follow the tracks of the wagon, but when they reached the main road they were absorbed by the countless other tracks and the clue was lost. * Chester Reporter, Nov. 26: The following are the prize winners of the Chester County Girls' Canning clubs for the past year: Best Record?Annie Grant, Chester, No. 3; Marion Clinton, Edgmoor, No. 2. Best exhibit for state fair?Janie Ferguson, Bascomville, No. 1. Best Record Books?Isabella Blanks, Richburg, No. 2. Best History of Year's Work?Angie McNeil, Cornwell, No. 1. Best jar of tomatoes in glass?Etta Belle Meador, Chester, No. 5 A letter received from Rev. H. A. Bagby, D. D., yesterday morning by Mr. John M. Wise stated that Dr. Bagby expects to arrive in Chester Friday evening, Dec 4th, to take up his work as pastor of the First Baptist church of this city. Dr. Bagby, wife and younger son expect to spend one or two days in Louisville, Ky., with relatives en route here, and Mrs. Bagby and son will also stop off in Greenwood, Dr. Bagby coming on to Chester alone, where he will be joined V. in o /loiro lo tar At uy in o laiiu i y a itn uaj o taivi the meeting of R&thbone Lodge, No. 79, K. of P., Monday evening the following officers were nominated for the ensuing term of twelve months: Jas. H. Glenn, C. C.; C. L. McDill, V. C.; John M. Hemphill, Prelate; H. H. Withers, Keeper of R and S.; W. L. Murphy, M. at A.; Jos. A. Walker, Sr., M. of W.; J. M. Wise, M. of F.; J. L. Miller, M. of W The many friends of Mr. Wallace McAliley, formerly of Chester, will be glad to learn that he has recently been promoted to be manager of one of the big Childs restaurants in New York. Fort Mill Times, Nov. 26: Just whether he had the left "hind" foot of j a graveyard rabbit tucked away in his J vest pocket was not learned, but E. H. Philips, a farmer of the township, had things coming his way on Saturday. By j bringing the largest number of people , in a two-horse wagon to a sale here, he was presented with a $5 Stetson hat. 1 He had 29 people in his wagon. A little \ later he secured an <18 suit of clothes ] gratis by being the holder of ticket No. 13 which drew the prize, and the same night his fine Jersey cow gave birth to , twin heifer calves A highly interesting address was delivered Sunday morning from the pulpit of the local j Presbyterian church by Rev. Palmer i C. DuPose, relative to existing condi- ( tions in China and her accomplish- , ment8 of the past few years, coupled wit han appeal for support of the work j being done there by the Christian J churches of America. Many of those 1 in his congregation found his comparisons quite startling. Mr. DuBose is . located at Soochow in the mid-China j mission of the Presbyterian church.... . An important meeting of the Foreign Missionary society of the Presbyterian ' church was held Monday afternoon at . the home of Mrs. W. B. Meacham when a special programme was, carried out and a special offering made for the causes In which the society is Interest- ] ed Prof. W. H. Hand, the state < high school inspector, paid the Fort ] Mill school an official visit Tuesday, , * ?" UlflwaoHrKT an/i inaf rnn_ 1 ?LI IU IIUU1C tX 11 IlilClCOUllg U.UU ?iioki uv 4 tive talk to the teachers and pupils of ] the advanced grades. j 1 Gaffney Ledger- Nov. 27: It was re- ! ported from Spartanburg yesterday 1 that Arthur Hasty had been found < guilty of violating the dispensary laws 1 by the court of general sessions for 1 that county. A number of counts con- 1 tained in the indictment gave Hastv a J total of $750 in fines or 18 months on 1 the county chaingang. He was at one 1 time a resident of Cherokee county.... * Mr. J. W. Abbott had a small wreck 1 Tuesday morning while driving his au- s tomobile on route 7, but fortunatelv he 1 escaped uninjured while his machine j was not very seriously damaged. The ' accident occurred about a mile from the city. Mr. Abbott miscalculated a curve and drove into the bank by the side of the road. The front part of his ( car was considerably bent and twisted < RUSSIA This photograph shows a great body tral Galicia. | as a result of the collision A real old-time corn shucking at the home of Mr. W. A. Haas on route eight, was enjoyed by from fifty to sixty people last Tuesday. About five hundred bushels of corn were shucked. A delightful event of the day was the anoetizing meal served at dinner time by Mrs. Haas and her able assistants, one of the features deserving notice being the fact that everything served, with the exception of the flour bread, was produced by Mr. Haas on his farm. The presence of a number of young ladies o 1a iKo a otaao Klonooa r\f fha aaaQ _ UUUVU IU 111V H>gl V VUUIV IIV.OO ut ttiv w\. w* sion, among them being Misses Lonie Self and Clara GalTney Professor J. Harvey Wltherspoon, superintendent of the city schols, is chairman of a committee which will make arrangements for entertaining the county teachers association at its first meeting for this year, to be held at the Central school on December 5th. Every effort is being made to make this meeting successful A grand total of $183 had been reported to Mr. D. C. Ross, the chairman, for the Cherokee County Belgian Relief fund committee Wednesday by various members of the soliciting committee. It is expected that reports from the outlying sections of the county will increase this total to a very creditable sum. All contributions must be sennt to the chairman by next Monday, as the fund will be sent to the Columbia headquarters on that day. A complete report of the contributions later. Rock Hill Record, Nov. 26: The kindergarten class at the Winthrop Training school entertained over one hundred little children from the mill villages at a beautiful end bountiful dinner yesterday at noon at the Training school. It was a beautiful sight from a human stand point, and to say that the dinner was enjoyed is to put it mildly. The affair was aranged by Miss Macfeat, who had the cordial co-operatton of the mothers of the Kindergarten children. There was a bountiful supply of turkey, cranberries, vegetables, fruits, bonbons and cakes Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Neil returned Tuesday afternoon from their bridal trip north and are at home to their friends at the residence of Mrs. J. J. Waters on Hampton street. ? Gattonia Gazette, Nov. 27: Rev. F. W. Cook, the newly appointed pastor of West End and Franklin avenue Methodist churches, has arrived in the city with his family, and is at home at the parsonage adjoining the West End church, 701 West Franklin avenue On Wednesday, the 25th, at the home of the bride's parents near Mount Olivet Methodist Episcopal church in this county, Mr. George S. Jenkins and Miss Hester M. Bess were united in marriage by Rev. S. B. Stephens, the ceremony being performed in the presence of nearly a hundred invited guesta Mr. Jenkins is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, Mount Olivet congregation, while the bride is an active member of the Lutheran church. Both are quite popular as was evidenced by the large number of friends at their marriage. They will be at home on the groom's farm near Mount Olivet church Mr. William Morton and Miss Etta Ledford were united in marriage Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at the bride's home near the Armstrong mill. Rev. J. J. Beach, pastor of the East Gastonia Baptist church, performed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Morton will make their home on route three Rev. H. H. Jordan, the new pastor of Main street Methodist church, accompanied by Mrs. Jordan and their three youneer children, Miss Margaret and Masters Charles and Frank, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon from their former home at Morganton, and are at home at the parsonage on East Main avenue Mrs. Ed Dunn died at her home in Mount Holly yesterday morning at 4 o'clock following an ilness of some time, aged 40. Funeral services were conducted at 11 o'clock this morning at Mount Holly by Rev. S. L. Cathey, pastor of the Presbyterian church of that place. Surviving deceased are her father, Mr. William Moore, of Mountain Island; her husband and two children, Fred and Katherine; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Norwood, of Hickory, and one brother, Mr. Lee Moore, of Washington. .. .George Theus, a well-known colored barber, was found dead in bed at his home early yesterday morning. So far as known he had been in good health the day before and the end came to him suddenly. George was 55 years old and was born in Savannah, Ga. He had lived in Gastonia for many years, plying the barber's trade. He was prominent in colored church and fraternal circles and was somewhat of a leader among his race locally. His funeral yesterday was attended by an immense crowd of colored people 1 Mr. Henry Craig will suceed Mr. J. R. Beam as jailer as soon as the new county officers assume their duties tvhich will be the first Monday in December. Mr. Beam, who has held this [>osition for a year or more, since Mr. 3. R. Rhyne resigned to enter the in:ernal revenue service, will conduct a general mercantile business at the Dunn Mill, occupying the large store room recently vacated by Mr. R. P. Parker. ? Lancaster News, Nov. 27: Miss Lila ftarper and Mr. Ernest Helmes, both )f this countv. were married Tuesday, November 26, by Rov. W. S. Patterson Mr. M. L. Beckham, statistican 'or Lancaster county, reports that 17,113 bales of cotton were ginned in Lancaster county this year, up to November 14, against 16,985 up to the ame time last year Yesterday ifternoon, the horses hitched to a carriage driven by Mr. Lewis Evans, ivho was returning with some friends from a hunt in the country, took fright near the cotton mill and ran iway, overturning the carriage. Mr. Evans was thrown from the vehicle ind had a leg broken in two places, ibove and below the knee Mr. W. D. Flemming of the Elgin section, sent two horse loads of as fine purple :op turnips to town today as we have jeen in a long time. They went like lot cakes at 5 cents per dozen. <t#' A recently patented anvil for :racking nuts is mounted on a dish to ;atch the nut meats. | N CAVALRY PENETRATI ^ J |" I * ** ot the so-called Irrealstible cavalry of REPORT OF GINS South Carolina Cotton Turned Out Up to November 14. The following preliminary report of cotton ginned in South Carolina up to November 14, as compared with the same period of last year, was made public by Hon. Wm. J. Harris, director of the census on November 21: Crop County 1914. 1913. Abbeville 25,587 22,968 Aiken 38,588 37,798 Anderson 44,488 51,958 Bamberg 22,645 22,049 Barnwell 50,568 44,216 Beaufort 6,012 5,169 Berkeley 11,901 9,677 Calhoun 23,439 19,356 Charleston 9,343 8,802 Cherokee 12,200 12,761 Chester 25,831 23,094 Chesterfield 25,177 22,388 Clarendon 38,406 31,154 Colleton 17,272 14,344 Darlington 31,943 26,939 Dillon 28,649 24,209 Dorchester 13,906 12,859 Edgefield 24,816 24,597 Fairfield 17,336 18,044 Florence Hii Georgetown 3,774 2,411 Greenville 33,772 Greenwood 24,129 Hampton 17,819 *5,331 Horry 6,640 .'aA Jasper 6,159 4,859 Kershaw 21,329 Lancaster .. 17,113 Laurens 29,628 Lee 23,663 27,789 Lexington 18,937 Marlon 10,909 Marlboro 47,055 Newberry 25,059 ?! $!? Oconee 13,695 Orangeburg 6*>3?7 59,555 , 15 005 11.83U Pickens W 16 982 Richie ? ? 18 612 Saluda 49 539 Spartanburg J4.19 Mg Sumter 13 818 Union .. ".625 i Williamsburg 25.929 2g'96g Total ...... " *.1.090,995 995,393 HISTORIC IRON CROSS Dates Back to tha Cruaadea Though Revived in 1813. Shortly after the outbreak of the pan-European war, dispatches from Berlin conveyed the information that Kaiser Wllhelm had revived the Order of the Iron Cross and was decorating certain officers and sollders who ha distinguished themselves on the French frontier with the insignia of the noble order. The militant crown prince was one of the first German officers to receive the coveted badge of honor. His father, who hitherto had tried to hold 'the crown prince s warlike tendencies In check, had deemed the son s activities around Metz worthy of recognlTo many the revival meant nothing, for it had never existed to their knowledge There is little written about It Nevertheless it is one of tbe old military honor legions in existence, says the Chicago Tribune. thi,SXr? siege ot issslss' ???aT!3afs the Templars and the Hospitallers, as the English and French army orders OJ SSlS. The latter had well ormedicine, and with little food. To relieve the situation, a cor"P|"?y of ship captains, headed by attain WalDot von Bassenhelm, citizen Bremen, waa organlradto render ?ch assistance as they could to the flgnt lne Teutons. They used canvass tents for hosiptals and went first under the S&fSKSST BittC The "chivy Irlc order then b?hnd through rich becuMta untU irrvKj?- agsg ters were tranrfeired m A. am. Mr wa n great favor with the pope at the "stiteen years later the Crusaders. SSL was "'frantically50antl-ChrtBtlan The astesrswsy? Ldettand? among the Bremen trading ^onM??hy3 racesTntermlrfgled^nd Prussia became "SI""' superior de^ra"?v gsttsss st o? LhttTkc^^,Uw-"a? baTe "gn0ofdUthedo^eb~" lCn-'",; ist.ll a cross in the shape of a cross Dattee much like a Maltese cross or nlus sign except that the arms ?flb cross become wider as they extend further. The cross is made of ir?" xiritvi silver edges and mountings. One side Is entirely plain. e ?their which UsPtPand'forb WISTTrowr^t '"c'enfre VW S'ara tS. tboenThen'hnoS..?omW.bmS """the date of the founding of the orNG GALICIA in... 1.1 ii ?~ 4 S ^:^k* v :?HP>^K^V^^illS m \ SXTIXEBlI jf Russia crossing a broad plain la oao