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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. I I8SPKD EMI-WEgHLT. ' l. m grists sons, Pubii?h?r.. ( % <Jp"niIg Scirspapfr: ^or the promotion of the $olitii[at( fecial, ^jrienltura! and Commercial Interests of th< |e:pt<. J 1"Viio'^Mr*!'"ti ESTABLISHED 1855. YOBKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1914. NO. lOO Novemb THE DETECTIVE By HESKETH Copyright, 191S, by Hesketh Prlchi v. L? CHAPTER X. The Hundred Thousand Dollar Robbery. "I want the whole affair kept unofficial and secret," said Harris, the bank manager. November Joe nodded. He was seated on the extreme edge of a chair in the manager's private office, looking curiously out of place In that prim, richly furnished room. "The truth Is," continued Harris, "we bankers cannot afford to have our customers' minds unsettled. There are, as you know, Joe, numbers of small depositors, especially in the rural districts, who would be scared out of their seven senses if they knew that this infernel Cecil James Atterson had made off with a hundred thousand dollars. They'd never trust us again." "A hundred thousand dollars is a wonderful lot of money," agreed Joe. "Our reserve is over twenty millions, two hundred times a hundred thousand," replied Harris grandiloquently. "Have you ever seen Atterson?" "No." "I thought you might have. He always spends his vacations in the woods, Ashing usually. The last two years he has Ashed Red river. This is what happened. On Saturday I told him to go down to the strong room to fetch up a fresh batch of dollar and Ave dollar bills, as we were short. It happened that in the same safe there was a number of bearer securi- , ties. Atterson brought me the notes I had sent him for with the keys. That was about noon on Saturday. We closed at 1 o'clock. Yesterday, Monday. Atterson did not turn up. At Arst I thought nothing of it, but when it came to afternoon and he had neither appeared nor sent any reason for his absence I began to smell a rat. I went down to the strong room and found that over $100,000 in notes and bearer securities were missing. "I communicated at once with the police, and they started to make inquiries. The constable at Robervllle replied that a man answering to the description of Atterson was seen by a farmer walking along the Stoneham road and heading north on Sunday morning early." At this point a clerk knocked at the door and, entering, brought in some lettera Harris stiffened as he noticed the writing on one of them. He cut it open, and when the clerk was gone out, he read aloud: Dear Harris: I hereby resign my splendid and lucrative position in the Grand Banks of Canada. It is a dog's dirty life. Anyway it is so for a man of spirit. You can give the week's screw that's owing to me to buy milk and bath buns for the next meeting of the directors. Yours, truly, C. J. Atterson. "What's the postmark?" asked Joe. "Rimouskl. Sunday, 9.30 a. m." "It looks like Atterson's the thief." remarked Joe. "I'm inclined that way because Atterson had that letter posted by a con?con?what's the word ?" "Confederate?" "You've got It. He was seen here in town on Sunday at 10*30, and he couldn't have posted no letter in Rimouskl in time for the 9.30 a. m. on Sunday unless he'd gone there on the 7 o'clock express on Sunday evening. Yes. Atterson's the thief, all right. And if that really was he they saw Stoneham ways he's had time to get thirty miles of brush between us and him, and he can go right on till he's on the Labrador. I doubt you'll see your $100,000 again, Mr. Harris." "H'm!" coughed Mr. Harris. "My directors won't want to pay you $2 a day for nothing." "TWO aouars a aay: saiu due, m his gentle voice. "I shouldn't 'a' thought the two hundred times a hundred thousand dollars could stand a strain like that!" I laughed. "Look here, November, I think I'd like to make this bargain for you. I'll sell your services to Mr. Harris here for J5 a day if you fail and 10 per cent of the sum you recover if you succeed. Well. Harris, is it on or off?" I asked. "Oh. on. I suppose, confound you!" said Harris. Twenty hours later Joe, a police trooper named Hobson and I were deep in the woods. We had hardly paused to interview the farmer at Roberville and then had passed on down the old deserted roads until at last we entered the forest, or, as it is locally called, the "bush." "Where are you headed for?" Hobson had asked Joe. "Red river, because if it really was Atterson the farmer saw I guess he'll have gone up there. None of them trappers there now in July month, so he can steal a canoe easy. Besides, a man who fears pursuit always likes to get into a country he knows, and you heard Mr. Harris say how Atterson had fished Red river two vacavacations. Besides"?here Joe stopped and pointed to the ground? "them's Atterson's tracks," he said. "Leastwise, it's a black fox to a lynx they are his." "But you've never seen him. What reason have you?" demanded Hobson. "When first we happened on them about four hours back, while you was lightin' your pipe." replied Joe. "they come out of the bush, and when we reached near Cartier's place they went back Into the bush again. Then a mile beyond Cartier's out of the * Vimr nnmo on tn tho rnnri 'A CH \f\ What can that circumventin' mean? Feller who made the tracks don't want to be seen. No. 8 boots, city made, nails in 'em, rubber heels. Come on." I will not attempt to describe our Journey hour by hour nor tell how November held to the trail, following it over areas of hard ground and rock, noticing u scratch here and a broken twig there. The next morn 1 er Joe. OF THE WOODS. PRICHARD. Bird. ing November awakened us at daylight, and once more we hastened forward. For some time we followed Atterson's footsteps and then found that they left the road We moved on quietly and saw that not fifty yards ahead of us a man was walking excitedly up and down. His head was sunk upon his chest in an attitude of the utmost despair. He waved his hands, and on the still air there came to us the sound of his monotonous muttering. We crept upon him. As we did so Hobson leaped forward and, snapping his handcuffs on the man's wrists, cried: "Cecil Atterson, I've got you!" "By the way, I'd like to hear exactly what I'm charged with," said Atterson. "Theft of (100,000 from the Grand banks. May as well hand them over and put me to no more trouble." Hobson plunged his hand into Atterson's pockets and searched him thoroughly, but found nothing. 'They are not on him!" he cried. "Try his pack." From the pack November produced a square bottle of whisky, some bread, salt, a slab of mutton?that was all. "Where have you hidden the stuff?" demanded Hobson. Suddenly Atterson laughed. "So you think I robbed the bank?" he said. "I've my own down on them, and I'm glad they've been hit by some one, though I'm not the man. Anyway, I'll have you and them for wrongful arrest, with violence." November was fingering over the pack, which lay open on the ground, examining it ana its contents witn concentrated attention. Atterson had sunk down under a tree like a man wearied out. Hobson and Joe made a rapid examination of the vicinity. A few yards brought them to the end of Atterson's tracks. "Here's where he slept," said HobBon. "It's all pretty clear. He was dog tired and Just collapsed. I guess that was last night It's an old camping place, this. But where has he cached the bank's property?" For upward of an hour Hobson searched every conceivable spot. But not so November Joe, who, after a couple of quick casts down to the river, made a Are, put on the kettle and lit his pipe. At length Hobson ceased his exertions and accepted a cup of tea Joe had brewed. "There's nothing cached round here, and his trail stops right where he slept. He never moved a foot beyond that nor went down to the river, 100 yards away. The chap's either cached them or handed them to an accomplice on the back trail. I think "Cocit Attorson, INt got you I" he'll confess, all right, when I get him alone." He stood up as November moved to take a cup of tea over to Atterson. "No, you don't!" he cried. "Prisoner Atterson neither eats nor drinks between here and Quebec unjess he confesses where he has the stuff hid." "He won't ever put you wise," said Joe definitely. "Why do you say that?" '"Cause he can't. He don't know himself." "Bah!" was all Hobson's answer as he turned on his heel. November Joe did not move as Hobson, his wrist strapped to Atterson's, disappeared down the trail by which we had come. "Well." I said, "what's next?" "I'll take another look around." Joe led the way down to the river, which, though not more than fifty yards away, was hidden from us by the thick trees. It was a slow flowing river, and In the soft mud of the margin I saw, to my surprise, the quite recent traces of a canoe having been beached. Beside the canoe there was also on the mud the faint mark of a paddle having lain at full Ion prf Vi Joe pointed to it. The paddle had evidently, I thought, fallen from the canoe, for the impression it had left on the soft surface was very slight. "How long ago was the canoe here?" "At first light?maybe between 3 and 4 o'clock," replied Joe. "Then I don't see how it helps you at all. Its coming can't have any thing to do with the Atterson robbery, for the distance from here to the camp is too far to throw a packet, and the absence of tracks makes it clear that Atterson cannot have handed the loot over to a confederate in the canoe. Isn't that right?" "Looks that way," admitted Joe. "Then the canoe can be only a coincidence." November shook his head. "I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that, Mr. Quaritch." Once again he rapidly went over the ground near the river, then returned to the spot where Atterson had slept, following a slightly different track to that by which we had come. Then taking the hatchet from his belt, he split a dead log or two for a Are ar.d hung up the kettle once more. I guessed from this that he had seen at lettoi Buuio uayngni in a inaiier intti was still obscure and Inexplicable to me. "I wonder if Atterson has confessed to Hobson yet," I said, meaning to draw Joe. "He may confess about the robbery, but he can't tell any one where the bank property is, because he's been robbed In his turn." "Robbed!" I exclaimed. Joe nodded. "And the robber?" "'Bout five foot six, light weight, very handsome, has black hair, is, I think, under twenty-five years old and lives in Lendeville or near It" "Joe, you've nothing to go on," I cried. "Are you sure of this? How can you know?" "I'll tell you when I've got those bank bills back." (To be continued.) INCOME TAX PAYERS In All There Are 367,598 Individuals in This Class. The first oomplete compilation of returns under the income tax law, was made public last Friday, in the annual report of the commissioner of Internal revenue. It showed returns for the colletclon year of 1913 by 357,698 individuals as follows: Net Number income. returns. $1,000,000 and over 44 500,000 to $1,000,000 91 400,000 to 600,000 44 300,000 to 400,000 84 250,000 to 300,000 94 200,000 to 250,000 146 160,000 to 200,000 311 100,000 to 160,000 786 76,000 to 100,000 998 60,000 to 76,000 2,618 40,000 to 50,000 2,427 30,000 to 40,000 4,553 25,000 to 30,000 4,164 20,000 to 25,000 6,817 16,000 to 20,000 11,977 10,000 to 16,000 26,818 6,000 to 10,000 101,718 3,333 to 6,000 114,484 " 2,600 to 3,333 79,426 Returns were made by 278,835 married persons, 55,212 single men and 25,551 single women. The normal tax of 1 per cent on all taxable incomes produced $12,728,038. Incomes of more than $20,000 a year and subject to sur-tax produced $15,525,497. The figures show that most of the individuals with large net incomes live in districts near the cities of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Detroit. More single women, as well as more single men paying the tax were found in New York than anywhere else. Married women made separate returns in every collection district except in the Fifth North Carolina Returns were filed by 1,426 Americans abroad, representing a total net income of $19,843,399, and 425 returns were made by non-resident aliens representing incomes amounting to $7,317,842. There were 316,909 corporations doing business in the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30. They reported capital stock aggregating $64,071,319,185, an increase o\?er the previous year of about $2,333,000,000 reported by 305,336 corporations. The net income of the corporations for the year was $4,339,550,000, or nearly 7 per cent on their capital stock, with bonded and other indebt edness amounting to $7,136,215,096. The net income reported for the year showed an increase of more than $500,000,000. The commissioner announced that failures to make proper returns were few and cases of false or fraudulent returns still fewer. The commissioner pointed out that "bootlegging" had increased to a marked degree in states with prohibition laws. Wedding Etiquette.?The parents of the bride are supposed to furnish everything for the wedding but the bridegroom?in other words, they have to pay the bills for decorating the church or home, for the wedding feast and the Invitations. Also for the carriages, except the one that brings the bridegroom and his best man. The bridegroom furnishes the ring and the license, and?last, but not least?himself. In some communities the bridegroom also buys the bouquets for the bride and her attendants, while she sends him and the best man the tiny sprays of flowers they are to wear at the ceremony. It seems that the burden of expense rests with the bride's father, but he is usually satisfied to put up for all these "fixing" if it ends there. At least it is not considered good form to call upon him for a few months! And it is better to postpone the time many months further along if nothing very alarming happens to you, and the little plans for meeting living expenses hold good. Parents are apt to feel inclined to help, if they see that the young folks are trying to live within their means; but the man who has had to make all his own money usually thinks that his daughter's husband ought to be in a position to support himself and wife. A rich man made the remark that his daughter expected to strike in with as much as he and his wife had now, after many years of work and saving. tir Steered by a triple vane, a bomb adopted for British military aeroplanes rights itself and plunges vertically no matter from what angle It may start. -t-w-That some kind of vegetable and, possibly, even animal life exists on the moon, has been indicated by observations recently made by a Harvard astronomer. ptettllatKOUjg Reading. COTTON FOR GERMANY Six Ships to Transport First Consign msnt of 40,000 Balss. The fleet of ships under Amerlcai registry, which Is being chartered foi the especial purpose of carrying cottoi to Germany, has been Increased to six and more ships are in sight. All of th< six are either loaded or are being load ed hurriedly at southern ports for th< first shipment of cotton to German: since the war started. The Greenbrier, with a cargo of 6,00i bales of cotton, was expected yesterda; by her operations at New York to sal last night from a southern port. Th< Carolyn, with a cargo of similar size is expected to sail on Monday fron Savannah. Both are destined for Bre men. In addition to these two the Berwint is now loading at Charlestan for Rot' terdam with a cargo of 6,000 bales o; cotton destined for Germany by expresi provision with the British, Holland anc American governments. It has beer arranged that this ship will return t< this country with a cargo of dyestuffi from Germany. It was learned yesterday that thre< other ships whose engagement for thli trade has not been previously announced are loading with cotton at the south These are the Denver, the Pathflndei and the Kanawha. The Denver is at Savannah and li the largest of the fleet. She will carrj a cargo of about 10,000 bales to Bremen The Pathfinder and the Kanawha ar< loading at Gulf ports for Bremen. Eacl will carry at least 6,000 bales. All oi thaaa oVtina If (a will h a xri left port before the end of December. The entire wax risk insurance on al the ships has been taken by the government war risk insurance bureau The regular marine insurance has beer placed with the usual companies. Practically the entire quantity of cotton to be transported, totalling about 40,000 bales, has been paid for or wil have been paid for before the shipi leave American porta The cost pric? is more than $1,500,000. The cost of transportation is said t< be about 2} cents a pound, a rate whicf is unprecedented, but which shippen are readily willing to pay in view ol the risk and the tremendous difficult; of obtaining American vessels, insurance and the obstacles previously ir the way of a guarantee of a safe passage from the fleets of Great Britain anc the allies. The shipment to Rotterdan on the Berwin, it is understood, will b< paid for on arrival at that port largelj through the exchange of dyestuffs. The efforts of those engaged in th< chartering of the six vessels to star shipments of cotton to Germany hav< been untiring and against many obsta clea They believe that the present accomplishment means the beginning o. substantial shipments to Germany.? New York Sun, December 11. 8UEZ CANAL. It Was Not the First Artificial Water way in That Locality. That the Suez canal, figuring so ver; prominently in the military operation! to which Turkey is a party, is not th< first canal that joined the Red sea wit) the Mediterranean, is briefly told in i statement prepared for the press b; the National Geographic society: "From the morning history, the wes has sought to break into the east bj way of Suez. Somewhere during thi years 1350-1300 B. C., the Egyptian! under Setl I and Rameses II, joined th< Nile by way of Lake Timsah to th< Red sea, thus opening a waterway, th< archetype of the present canal, fron the Mediterranean, over the Suez isth mus, to the Orient. This canal wai choked by sand in the course of ages Necho, about 600 B. C., began a cana from ancient Bubastis, and Darius Hy staspls, one hundred years later, com pieieu tut; wurn, unue iiiui e uriiigiui the Red sea and Nile together. A1 though nearly choked up at the begin ning of the Christian era, it was navl gable to a degree as late as the Battl< of Actium, and some of Cleopatra'i ships escaped this way to the Red sea "Trajon restored the canal. It fel into disuse and choked up again. Am ru, the Islamic conqueror of Egypt, re stored it for the last time in the sev enth century, connecting Cairo wltl the Red sea. Napoleon caused the ol( route to be surveyed, but was forced t< drop the poject. After him, Metier nich, the great reactionary prime min later of Austria-Hungary, stimulated < Suez canal commission in 1847. Noth ing, however, came of it. "As the world well knows, the Sue; canal was built by the man who fallec to build the Panama canal?Count Fer dinand deLesseps. Its original deptl was 26} feet, and its bottom width 7: feet. It could accommodate ships o 24 7-12 feet, but it was in operation i: years, beginning in 1869, before vesseli of such draft sought passage. By 1891 its depth had been increased to 29j feet, and when the United States an nounced its intention to make a cana 41 feet deep and 300 feet wide at iti narrowest bottom point, at Panama, th< work at Suez was extended so as ulti mately to give bottom width of 134; and a depth of 36J feet. It was expect ed that this enlargement would b( completed by next year, but the wai has interrupted operations. "How much larger than the averag< demands for a canal the Panama wa terway has been made is strikingly shown by a statement from Suez to thi effect that only one per cent of th< ships seeking passage by that rout< have a draft of 28 feet. "In 1869, ten vessels passed througl the Suez canal. In 1912, 5,373 shipi steamed through, of 20,275,120 net torn nage, and paying for this privileg* around $25,000,000. Seven out of every ten of these vessels flew the Britisl flag. England has dominated the cana ever since the Khedive, in 1875, sold hii 176,602 canal shares for $20,000,000, t( the British government. These shares are now worth close to $200,000,000. RURAL CARRIER SYSTEM. Committee on Postoffices and Pos* Road* Refuses Material Changes. The scheme of Postmaster Genera Burleson to take the rural free delivery carriers out of the civil service wa^ rejected by the house committee on postoffices and post roads last Friday. Numerous other suggestions of the postmaster general were also rejected. Ail Bcruuius iu wuugirao mo caiiiiiai.c( for the approaching: fiscal year th( postmaster general recommended thai the present rural free delivery system be abolished and that contract routet be established in place of the government routes. Among other recommendations he urged the abolition of the position of assistant postmaster, the reduction of auxiliary clerk and carriej pay from 35 to 40 cents an hour, tc 30 cents, a reduction in the number ol promotions given clerks and carriers as well as railway mail clerks, each year, and a reduction in the number ol high salaried clerks in all offices throughout the country. Practically the only one of these recommendations which has a chance before the house committee is that for the abolition of the position of assistant postmaster. The committee favors the two division plan for postofflces, which the postmaster general approvis Under this plan there would be a division of finances and one of mails with the postmaster supervising both It is not the plan to oust assistant postmasters from the service, but to assign them to other positions where their services can be better employed. Congressman Madden of Chicago, w;is r^suonsible for the adverse action with respect to Mr. Burleson's proposition to abolish the merit system in 'he rural free delivery service. "This proposition," Mr. Madden said "involves an attempt on the part of the postmaster general to build up a great political machine in every state of the union, over which he will have control. Under the civil service laws, as they now stand, he cannot use the postal service for political service. If he Is allowed to remove 45,000 rural carriers : from the civil service and place them under a contract system he will have a machine, the like of which has never been seen In this or any other country. Even If he can save $18,000,000 a year, as he professes, the damage created by i such a machine In the Ion? run would r far excel the savin?." NEW8 OF THE DAY s Various Current Happenings of More e or Less General Interest f Senator Norris continues to Insist j that the senate lnvestl?ate the recent y election expenses of Senator Penrose 1 of Pennsylvania, and Senator-elect i Sullivan of Illinois. Senator Norris ' 4nalata fVint Qonafnr Ponrnao nraa olo^t. I ed by a slush fund contributed by the liquor interests The city council of Philadelphia has'appropriated $60,000 to be used in giving work to the needy unemployed of the city A coroner's Jury at Mlnersville, Pa., has exhonerated Mrs. Nicholas Demedio of the charge of murdering her husband, a wealthy Italian. The woman killed her husband in a duel.... A milk company at Atlantic City, N. J., proposes to furnish patrons with milk through a pipe line from a central station, the patron to secure milk by a nickel-in-the-slot device. A relief ship for the benefit of the destitute Jews of Jerusalem, will probably soon be started from New York, being fitted out by Jewish or j ganlzations of that city. The Turkish . government has given permission for . such a ship to carry supplies...... 1 A Montana beet sugar grower says granulated sugar will go to $8 t to $10 a hundred pounds within the I next eighteen months Joseph | Smith, president of the Reorganised Church of Latter-Day Saints, died at > Independence, Mo., Thursday, aged 1 82 years. Smith was a son of Joseph | Smith, prophet and founder of the r Mormon church. The new head of the reorganized church is Frederick 1 M. Smith, son of Joseph Smith, secj ond Rev. Chas. L. Merriam was | killed and his wife fatally injured | when an automobile in which they * were riding was struck by a passenger train at Haekensack, N. J., Thurs4 day... .Adylett Turner, 12 years old, ' was overcome by gas and fell in a bath tub and was drowned at his father's home in Elizabeth City, N. C., Saturday The postofflce at 1 North Charlotte, a Charlotte, N. C., suburb, was robbed by yeggmen, Saturday morning. The thieves got away with about $1,300 worth of booty, including 60,000 stamps Congress will probably adjourn December 22 to 28th for the Christmas holidays The New York stock exchange on Saturday, resumed its regular functions after being closed ' since July 30 The house rules b committee by a vote of 5 to 3, has s voted down Representative Oardner's } demand for a hearing on his resolution for an investigation of the na1 tion's military preparedness Watkins Lewis, a negro, was burned to death by a mob near Sylvester, La., t Friday night, accused of complicity in f the murder of Chas. M. Hicks, postmaster at Sylvester. Lewis was the fifth negro lynched In Caddo parish within ten days, and the eighth in a year A delegation of Rumanian bankers are reported to be in London, en route to New York, to consult bankers with a view to bringing about a settlement of the European war At a joint, meeting of officers of the International Sunday School association and the World's Sunday School association, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, plans were made to send a Bible to each soldier in the fighting armies of Europe.. ... Colorado has contributed a tralnload of twenty cars of flour, more than 1,000,000 pounds, for the relief of the Belgians. A second trainload Is to be started soon from Denver, via New York The city clerk of Elizabeth, N. J., on Friday refused a marriage license to Mrs. Arthur Irwin, to marry John Gerlock. Irwin died on Thursday Heavy clouds made the city of Philadelphia so dark at 3 o'clock, Friday afternoon, that street lights had to be turned on in order to keep street traffic moving The report of Gen. Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs of the war department, shows that at the close of the last fiscal year, there were a total of 119.261 enlisted men and 8,792 officers in the militia of the United . States. In nearly all states the num, ber of enlisted men Is below the prescribed minimum More than 1,l 000 churches of all denominations of , New York city, have combined forces J to keep the unemployed of the city j during the winter. IN A RAIN OF SHELL8 1 Russian Sailor Tells of Horror of * Naval Battle. r At the battle of Tsushima, when the Japaneee destroyed the Russian fleet, s Captain Semenoff was on the flagship ~t Suvoroff. He had no definite post, and f took notes until the sinking of the vesi sel. Extracts from his story are as i follows: j "The first shells flew over us. At , this range some of the long ones turned a complete somersault, and j could be clearly seen with the naked eye, curving like so many sticks thrown \ in the air. They flew over us, maki ing a sort of wail, different to the or# dinary roar. j "After them came others short of us 3 ?nearer and nearer. Splinters whistled through the air, Jingled against the side and superstructure. Then quite close and abreast the foremost funnel, rose a gigantic pillar of smoke, water and flame. I saw stretchers being k carried along the forebridge. "Shells seemed to be pouring upon us incessantly, one after another. It 1 seemed as if these were mines, not t shells, which were striking the ship's side and falling on the deck. They burst as soon as they touched any thing?the moment they encountered the least impediment in their flight. Handrails, funnel-guys, topping lifts of i the boats' derricks, were quite suflli cient to cause a thoroughly efflch n L burst. i "The steel plates and superstruc tnrfis nn the unner deck were torn to pieces, and the splinters caused many casualties. Iron ladders were crumpled > up into rings, and guns were literally > hurled from their mountings. "In addition to this, there was i the usual high temperature and f liquid dame of the explosion, which , seemed to spread over everything. I i actually watched a steel plate catch [ tire from a burst. Of course, the steel i did not burn, but the paint on it did. "Such almost non-combustible materials as hammocks and rows of boxes, drenched with water, flared up in a moment. At times It was impossible to see anything with glasses, owing to i everything being so distorted with the , quivering, heated air. "A man reported that the after-turret had been blown up, and almost , simultaneously there resounded above . us a rumbling noise, accompanied by the sharp clank of falling iron. Somei thing large and heavy fell with a crash; the ship's boats on the spardeck were smashed to bits; burning , debris fell all around us, and we were i enveloped in an Impenetrable smoke. "The fore-bridge was struck by numerous projectiles. Splinters of ...Ul-U In 1Q PffO D1IQ T1. BI1CT1I9, WI1ICII ^cucuaiwt 111 tut DV titles under the mushroom-shaped root > of the conning-tower, had destroyed all the instruments in it, and had broken the compass, but luckily the telegraph to one engine and the voicetube to the other were still working." TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGE! News Happenings Id Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOI QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Loeal Affair* of Chsrokse, Cleveland. Gaston, Lancaster and Chastar. Qaffney Ledger, Dee. 11: Rev. J. A. Bledsoe and family left yesterday, for Fairfield, where Mr. Bledsoe was assigned the pastorate of the Methodist church by the conference recently held in Sumter. He has been pastor ol the Gaffney circuit for the past four years, during which time he has served a number of country churches faithfully and effectively. Mr. Bledsoe's successor in charge of the Gaffney circuit is Rev. R. L. Keaton David Hamrlck, eighty years of age and a Confederate veteran, passed away at the home of his son, Mr. Jas. Hamrlck, In the CampB Creek section of the county, Tuesday. He is survived by several children. The funeral and interment took place at Mount Pleasant church, of which he was a member, Wednesday Mr. T. W. Pickens, who has been conducting a tin shop on Limestone street for the past several months, will discontinue the business and go to Mexico in a few days Carpenters are at work constructing an additional sleeping room at the county Jail. This improvement was recommended by the county errand Jury at the last session of court, as upon Investigation, it was found to be needed An unusually large number of the members of Cherry camp, No. 74, Woodmen of the World, attended the regular meeting held at the camp hall, Tuesday night. Several excellent impromptu talks by members of the camp were highly enjoyed by those present, but the election of officers to serve the coming year was the most Interesting feature of the meeting. The election resulted as follows: N. S. Burgess, council commander; L. C. Warmouth, adviser lieutenant; G. D. Harris, banker; L. T. Vinesett, clerk; W. Baker, escort; R. L. Byars, watchman; G. O. Lemons, sentry; J. N. Nesbltt and J. G. Pittman, camp physicians; T. Davenport, manager. The Installation of these officers will take place at the first meeting In January Hal E. Jefferies, a prominent and prosperous planter of the Gowdeysvllle section of the county, suffered a stroke of apoplexy at his home Tuesday afternoon about sundown, and died Wednesday morning at 9.30 o'clock, without having regained consciousness. He was apparently in his usual health, having been attending to business on Monday and Tuesday, and the stroke came suddenly. Medical aid was unable to revive or rescue him. Mr. Jefferies was forty years of age. He is survived by his wife and nine children, as follows: Johu R., Genie, May, Hattie, Paul, Harry Allen, George, Eb and Roy; his mother, Mrs. John R. Jefferies, and the following brothers and sisters: J. B. Jefferies of Newport, Ark.; J. Eb Jefferies of Union; George D. Jefferies of Washington state; Dr. John L. Jefferies of Atlanta, Ga., John R. Jefferies of Manila, Phllliplne Islands; Mrs. Louise Burbage of Columbia, and Richard M. Jefferies of Walterboro Figures compiled by Prof. J. Harvey Wltherspoon, superintendent, show the total enrollment of pupils In the city schools at the end of the third month to be 1,422, the enrollment at each school being: Central, 536; Cherokee Avenue, 493; Night school, 173; Granard Street, (colored) 193. There Is a total of 452 children enrolled in the first grades of the city schools, and a total of 106 pupils enrolled In the high school. * * Gastonia Gazette, Dec. 11: Mrs. Mary C. Costner, wife of Mr. F. L. Costner, died at the city hospital on December 5, following an illness of five weeks from typhoid fever and a complication of diseases. She was born April 15, 1879, and was therefore, 35 years, seven months and 20 days old. Mrs. Costner was before her rtarriage, Miss Mary Lynn, daughter of the late William Lynn. She is sur vived by . her husband and the following: children: Mrs. W. B. Smith, Janie, Roy, Edna, Lucy, Maud and Mildred, all of whom are at home. The following brothers and sisters also survive: Meesrs. John, Rufus and Newman Lynn, of Dallas, Gastonia and King's Mountain, respectively; Mrs. Lucy Rhyne of Southside, and Mrs. Fannie Parker of Gastonia The Gastonia city schools will adjourn for the Christmas holidays next Friday, December 18th, and will resume work on the Wednesday following Christmas, December 30. Most of the teachers who live away from Gastonia, will spend the holidays at their respective homes Rev. E. W. Black, the new pastor of the Gastonia Wesleyan Meth[ odist church, will preach his first sermon here, Sunday morning. Mr. Black comes to Gastonia from Rock Hill. Rev. C. A. Hendrix, for several years past, pastor of the Gastonia church, was sent to Cherryville and Long Shoals According to the report from the department of commedce bureau of census, there were ginned in Gaston county this season up to December 1st, 6,843 bales of cotton as against 10,976 for the same period last year. * * Chester News, Dec. 10: Mr. L. P. Perry was held up by three negroes early this morning at the railroad crossing and robbed of 14.10. Sheriff Colvin has gotton up cards reading as follows, which he has sent all of this section of the state in an effort to apprehend the men: "Three negroes held up a white man, L. P. Perry, this morning about 6 o'clock, near the S. A. L., C. & N.-W. and Southern railroad crossings and robbed him of $4.10. One negro drew a shovel handle on him, while the second held him and the third negro robbed him Miss Susie Hamilton was quietly married to Mr. Howard M. Peek of Savannah, Ga., last night at the home of the former's aunt, Mrs. W. F. Strieker, on Pinckney street, by the Rev. W. J. Nelson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Rock Hill. The home was made attractive with fragrant autumn flowers Mr. Jos. Lindsay, Chester county's Federal cotton ginners' statistician, announced today that up to December 1, 29,428 bales of cotton had been ginned, against 26,965 for the corresponding date last year One of Chester county's grand old ladies, Mrs. F. J. Carroll, passed away yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr. Abe B. Brown, in the Armenia community at the age of 86 years. The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, by Rev. W. T. Duncan, at the Armenia M. E. church, and the interment occurred in the graveyard of the church. * * * Fort Mill Times, Dec. 10: Rev. S. P. Hair, of the Fort Mill and Flint Hill Dn?\4la? nkurnkna {a fKtia ntOAlr In uapiioi CllUICilCOl AO VlfiO fT wn Charleston, upon attendance of the state Baptist convention William Belk arrived Sunday morning, from Parksville, Tenn., and is visiting relatives in Fort Mill and the township. Mrs. Allen Graham returned with her children to her home in Greenville, after a visit to her parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. S. Kirkpatrlck, in this city Mr. Ellis Glasscock, a retired Arizona ranchman, on a visit to relatives in the east, was a guest in this city the last week, of J. J. Balles The lot and damaged store building occupied before the recent fire by the Mills & Young company, has been sold by the owner, R. A. Fulp, to J. W. Ardrey and It is understood that bids are beine received for the immediate rebuilding of the store room. Mills & Young will again occupy the building The finishing touches to Fort Mill's waterworks system have been in progress this week in the laying of cement gutters on Main street where the paving was removed to put down the pipe line. The big tank on I Ardery hill had 19 feet of water in it | at last reports and the pressure gauge at the office of the local telephone company showed that with this amount . of water in the tank, there was a pres| sure of 60 pounds on the Main street line. The pressure will, of course, increase as the big tank Alls Jim Campbell, a well known colored man of the town, died Sunday morning, | after an Illness of about one week.... Rev. D. H. Attaway and family expect to leave Fort Mill during the week for Rock Hill, Mr. Attaway having been assigned to the pastorate of the North Rock Hill circuit at the recent session of the state conference. Chester Reporter, Dee. 10: A tele' gram received yesterday afternoon, by ' Dr. Q. B. White, president of the ; Peoples' National bank, from T. P. | Kane, acting comptroller of the cur' rency, stated that the institution's ' charter as a national bank had been mailed out from Washington, and upi on receipt of the telegram, the institution was authorised to change Its books and open for business as a national bank, which instructions were duly carried out. The Peoples' National bank, No. 10663, will be the new name of the institution Seven white hoboes, who were taken into custody yesterday, by the police, were escorted to the city limits on Columbia street, yesterday afternoon and politely, but firmly, Invited to make themselves scarce about Chester Out* of-town parties have been figuring with Mr. T. Lk Eberhardt for the room shortly to be vacated by the Shleder Drug Co., who will occupy the stand now occupied by Mr. W. McD. Westbrook; and there is considerable probability that there will be a new drug store opened at this stand shortly after the first of the year Richard M. Relghley, who shot and killed Freeman A. Wright at Great Falls in the spring of 1913, and when arraigned for trial, was adjudged Insane, died at the state hospital in Columbia, yesterday, and will be brought to this county for interment today. * * King's Mountain Herald, Deo. 10: Mr. Plato Durham Hemdon and Miss Cornelia Lynn Floyd of this place, were married December 8, the Rev. J. R. Miller, officiating... .Mr. O. A. Rhea - * aui- I.J u.* nr^i Ui HUB puiw, was uiui isu iasi II CM nesday, to Miss Ruth Warllck of Lincolnton. Mr. and Mrs. Rhea will reside at King's Mountain Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Hay of King's Mountain, anticipate moving to Barnwell, S. C. Mr. Arthur Hay of Galveston, Texas, will shortly arrive to take charge of Mr. Hay's brokerage and insurance business here Rev. J. R. Miller and Mr. D. F. Hord left Tuesday, for Raleigh, where they are attending the Baptist state convention Mrs. B. 0. Cole returned to Charlotte, Monday morning, after spending several days with her husband, Rev. E. O. Cole, pastor of the Methodist church. Mrs. Cole will remain in Charlotte with her sister, Miss Adna Gariington, who is under the care of a physician and will be unable to leave for a few weeks. If all goes well, they will join Mr. Cole in King's Mountain after Christmas. ess Reck Hill Record, Dec. 10: Mr. W. W. Fltzpatrlck, a government expert, located at CI em son college, is in this city this week for the purpose of trying to Interest the farmers nearby in the establishment of a "cream route," the idea being to get the farmers to try out a plan of furnishing cream to a collector, to be furnished free by the government, this cream to be sent in to some central station and the farmers to be paid once a week for the cream on the basis of butter fat it contains. The government proposes to collect this cream from any number of cows, from one up. The agent will collect the cream three times a week. Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce hall, Walnut Camp, W. O. W? of this city, gave a banquet with several hundred members and a few invited guests present. This is an annual affair and is always enjoyed. Mr. M. G. Bryant was toastmaster of the evening and after the blessing by Rev. J. I. Spinks, all partook of a feast of roast beef, ham, turkey, dressing, cranberries, macaroni, coffee, ice cream, cake and fruits, furnished by the "old reliable," J. N. McElwee, which was greatly enjoyed. * Lancaster News, December 11: Mr. Robert Jones and Miss May Caskey of the Douglas section, were married on nlwVit TWamhnp 10. n t the lliuiouaj iuquv, . ? home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Green, by their pastor, Rev. H. R. Murchison. Immediately aiterwards an informal reception at the home of the groom was enjoyed by a number of the friends of this popular couple Miss Lois Phillips and Mr. D. B. Mahaffey were married last night, December 10, by Rev. S. R. Brock. The wedding was solemnized at the home of the bride's mother, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. Miss Phillips is organist of the Second Baptist church and has a wide circle of friends. The groom is a popular boss of the spinning room at the Lancaster cotton mills Mr. Julian Giles, who is with the Chattanooga Moving Picture company, for which he poses in lots of funny pictures, is here to spend the holiday season with his homefolks Mr. M. L. Beckham Informs us that the number of bales of cotton ginned in Lancaster county this year to December 1, is 20,033 against 19,671 to same time last year. THE WAR IN EUROPE News Paragraphs Tailing of Happenings at the Front. A London dispatch of December 10, describes an attempted raid by six German submarines on the admiralty harbor of Dover. Three of the submarines are alleged to have been sunk and the others drivn off by the coast batteries. A German prize court has decided that five Norwegian ships, laden with wooden pit props, consigned to English mine owners, captured by German war vessels, to be lawful prizes of war. Dr. Karl Liebknech, the Socialist member of the relchstag, who was the only one to vote against the war credit, explains his action in an article just published in Berlin. He says: "This war was not desired by any of the peoples affected nor was it kindled to promote the welfare of the Germans or any other people. It was created by the common action of the German and Austrian war parties in the obscurity of semi-absolutism and secret diplomacy in order to anticipate their adversaries. At the same time the war is a Napoleonic attempt to unnerve and crush the growing labor movement." Gen. Louis Botha, premier and commander of the British forces in South Africa, has announced that the rebellion is practically over since the capture on December 4, of 700 rebels and the surrender of 200 others. The sultan of Zansibar has nptifled the British government that it will contribute $700,000 to the nation's war fund during 1915. Two steamers, with 1,000 horses each on board, sailed from Newport. News. Va., Saturday. One to England and the other to France. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan are said to have petsu&ded Chas. M. Schawb to cancel his contract with the British government to furnish twenty submarines at $350,000 each. Up to date, France has issued $200, uuu.uuu in treasury notes ior war purposes. So far the government has not found It necessary to have recourse to a loan. A dispatch from Petrograd says: Wounded Russian officers in the Tlflis hospitals, describe the extraordinary physical endurance of the Turks, who march barefooted through the snow and shoot standing or kneeling, but rarely from trenches. They dread only the bayonet charges. The Turks are said to have lost heavily. Four hundred thousand French youths, aged 19 and 20 years, have gone into training throughout the republic for war service. FARM NOTES AND RESERVE Avalllbfllty of Agrteultaral Piper for Dlscoant. AGT. VH. INGLE EXPLAINS SITUATION Mora Responsibility Rssts With Looal Bank Whioh Must Aot Circumspectly in the 8pirit of the New LawReserve Authorities Find it Necessary to Qo 8low. One of the questions awaiting settlement by the directors of the Federal reserve banks, certainly those situated in the south, has been the attitude the governing boards of such regional reserve banks would assume with reference to farm notes and other collateral in which the agricultural, banking and commercial interests dependent upon cotton are so largely Interested. The issue was recently submitted by Commissioner E. J. Watson, president of the 8outh Carolina Cotton Congress, acting for the cotton growers of the south as a whole, and was answered? so far as the question could be answered at this time?by Mr. William Ingle, the Federal reserve agent at Richmond. Va, for the fifth district bank of which Charlotte is a component part. This letter of Mr. Watson's was first sent to Mr. w. Q. P. Harding of the reserve bank In Washington and referred by him to Mr. Ingle. Mr. Ingle Repliee. Mr. Ingle's letter is of Interest throughout this section by reason of the fact that It forecasts what will unquestionably be the attitude of the heads of the Federal reserve boards throughout the cotton belt.- It follows: "In the presence of & new law, which In many material ways radically differs from an older measure which has been tried and found wanting, it is clear that those charged with Its Interpretation and administration must avoid moving too quickly, If they are to be spared confusion. If not worse. While therefore it Is easily appreciated that those hoping to be the beneficiaries of the act may feel that we have been altogether too deliberate, I assure you that both in Washington and in Richmond the chief purpose Is to make the law as promptly useful as conditions permit. In writing your letter you evidently had In mind two ideas, both calculated to aid cotton growers, and through them the southern merchants and banks, namely the cotton pool fund and the Federal reserve act. "You, of course, understand that the two things are In no wise related, the cotton pool fund being simply an emergency measure, while the reserve act Is to be continuously with us. The socalled Wade plan invites the banks in the northern or creditor section of the country to help their brethren In the cotton growing states, but in offering the same it Is assumed that the southem banks will take, shall I call it the first risk, with their own customers. In other words, the class A subscribers are perfectly willing to help in the situation if the banks subscribing to class B certificates will assume the very nominal risk, If any attaching to the transaction. "I understand that the machinery of the Wade plan is now set up and ready for use, and that in consequence, a southern bank, wishing to aid Its local clientage in carrying their cotton will upon subscribing to $25,000 class B certificates receive an additional $75,000 from the class A contribution. The planters are only required to follow the plan outlined by those in charge, the particular feature of which is that the pledged cotton shall be deposited In some proper warehouse. Obviously, a planter's own barn is not such a proper place. Reserve Banks Ready. "It is also proper to state that reserve banks are now in position to accept from their member banks as a banking transaction notes made by planters against pledge of cotton properly stored and insured, such notes to be handled in the first instance by the planter's local bank, which in turn will discount it with the reserve bank. As the rate charged by the reserve bank is always public property, and as it is fair to assume that a local bank, in connection with the current and usual business of a customer, Is making a fair profit on his account, there is no reason why an extravagant rate- of interest should be charged a planter on b^^ emergency transaction. I grant it, hagKttk ever, that the only thing eontrojjK the limit of such a charge by a PHd bank would be public opinion fqpiied^ t in the light of knowledge of all eond|flfc "It possibly is fair to say that information is that not a little- of present difficulty arises from the luctance of a very great number of t?P? ' southern nlanters to warehouse their cotton, they feeling that their own banks should take care of an emergen* cy credit in exactly the same manner as they do with the ordinary operations of a palmy season. We learn that in consequence an enormous amount of cotton is lying around either in the fields or under improvised sheds, practically unprotected, while its owners are disposed to feel aggrieved over the fact that no one seems willing to help them, when they, on the other hand, are declining to take the most reasonable steps suggested. "It is only fair for such farmers to bear in mind that loans granted with the idea of helping them carry their cotton are to And their way into the hands of reserve banks, where obviously it cannot be known just how good, as a matter of credit, the maker of the particular note may be, and where, in consequence, an advance may be made on actual values. If your organization could succeed in enlightening the average tenant farmer on this particular point it would be most helpful, as otherwise such farmers are apt to lose not the little additional warehouse carrying charges, but a very large percentage of their entire crop. Sound Collateral Defined. i ininK i nave rainy wen responded to the other points raised in the letter. No bank unacquainted with the net worth of the maker of a note can afford to loan credit based upon a crop lien or chattels with or without record, when the property Itself is under the physical control of the maker of the note. If you will apply this principle to such things as stock supplies or any staple commodity so situated, you can see that collateral so sought to be assigned does not really give the security upon which a distant bank could make an advance. In such situations, a farmer can make his own note to his local bank. The local bank, however, could follow its own programme in taking liens or such other security as it might deem best for its own protection. "Practically stated, you have two situations between which to differentiate. The nno nrnanfnhla to tha raaarva hank would be where the farmer will deposit cotton in an independent warehouse, and pledge the receipt with his note to his local bank. Such a note, as also the note of a farmer based upon his net worth and in connection with his seasonal operations, would be acceptable for rediscount. On the other hand, no note purporting to pledge cotton or any other commodity, when such commodity at any time is under the physical control of the maker of the note, would be so acceptable. "If I have not clearly stated the situation in a way which will permit you to be helpful to those seeking advice at your hands, please write me further."?Charlotte Observer.