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: YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. | I8SPEP gKMI'WKEKLT. p l. m OEIST'S BOSS, Pabu.h.r., [ % dfamilg 9??s|ia>?[: ^or th< {promotion of !h< folitiital, foqiat, &jgri<nttm;at and Commtijcial Jnterests of th< f topU. ) ^U""' established 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. O., FRIDAY, DECEMBER18, 1914. NO. 101 > Noyemi THE DETECTIVE By HESKETI Copyright, 1913, by Hesketh Prlc! P s I??? CHAPTER XI. Kheare roim?rr?. It was still early afternoon when we arrived in Lendeville, a few scattered farms and a single general store. Outside one of the farmhouses Joe paused. "I know the chap that lives in here," he said. "He's a pretty mean kind of a man, Mr. Quaritch. I may And a way to make him talk, though if he thought I wanted information he'd not f part with It." "Say, McAndrew," began Joe, what's your price for hiring two strong horses and a good buckboard to take us and our outfit on from here to the Burnt Lands by Sandy pond?" "Twenty dollars." "Huh!" said Joe, "we don't want to buy the old horses!" The Scotchman's shaven lips (he wore a chin beard and whiskers) opened. "It would no' pay to do it for less." "Then there's others as will." "And what might their names be?" inquired McAndrew ironically. "Them as took up Bank Clerk Atterson when he was here six weeks back." > "Weel, you're wrang!" cried McAndrew. "for Bank Clerk Atterson Juist walked In with young Simon Pointarre and lived with the family at their new mill. So the price is twenty or I'll nae hearnes sa horse for ye." "Then I'll have to go on to Simon Polntarre. I've heard him well spoken of." "Have ye now? That's queer, for he"? "Maybe, then, it was his brother," said Joe quickly. "Which r "The other one that was with Anderson at Red river." "There was nae one, only the old man, Simon and the two girrls." "Well, anyway, I'll ask the Pointarre's price before I close with yours.' "I'll make a reduce to $17 if ye agree here and now." November said something further of Atterson's high regard for Simon Polntarre, which goaded old McAndrew to fury. "And I suppose it was love of Simon that made him employ that fam lly," he snarled. "Oh, yes, that's comic. 'Twas Simon and no that grinning k lassie they call Phedre! Atterson? H Tush! I tell ye, if ever a man made a ? fule of himself? But here, despite McAndrew's protests Joe left the farm. At the store which was next visited we learned the position of the Pointarre steading, and the fact that old Pointarre, the daughters, Phedre and Claire, and one son, Simon, were at home. The door was opened by a girl of about twenty years of age. Her bright brown eyes and hair made her very good looking. Joe gave her a quick glance. "I came to see your sister," said he. "Simon," called the girl, "here's a m^n to see Phedre." "What's your business?' growled a man's voice from the inner room. "Who sent you?" "Can't tell that, but I guess Miss Pointarre will know when I give her the message." "Well, I suppose you'd best see her. She's down bringing In the cows. You'll find her below there in the meadow." Joe thanked him and we set off. A twig broke under my foot, and the girl swung round at the noise. "What do you want?" she asked. She was tall and really gloriously handsome. "I've come from Atterson. I've Just seen him," said November. "There are many people who see him every day. What of that?" "Huh! Don't they read the newspaper in Lendeville? There's something about him going round. I came thinking you'd sure want to hear," said November. The color rose in Phedre's beautiful face. "They're saying," went on Joe, "that he robbed the bank where he is employed of $100,000, and instead of trying to get away on the train or by one of the steamers he made for the woods." Phedre turned away as if bored. "What interest have I in this? It ennuies me to listen." "Walt!" replied November. "With the police I went and soon struck Atterson's trail on the old colonial post road and in time come up with Atterson himself nigh Red river. The police takes Atterson prisoner, but they found nothing. They they searched him and all round about the camp, they found nothing." "He had hidden it. I suppose." "So the police thought. And I thought the same till"?November's gaze never left her face?"till I seen his eyes. The pupils were like pin points in his head." He paused and added: "I got the bottle of whisky that was in his pack. It'll go in as evidence." "Of what?" she cried impatiently. That Atterson was drugged and the bank property stole from him. You see," continued Joe, "this robbery wasn't altogether Atterson's own idea." "Ah!" "No, I guess he had the first notion of it when he was on his vacation six weeks back. He was In love with a wonderful handsome girl. Blue eyes she had and black hair, and her teeth was as good as yours She pretended to be in love with him, but all along she was in love with?well, I can't say who she was in love with?herself likely. Anyway. I expect she used all her influence to make Atterson rob the bank and then light out for the wooas wnn me siuu. rxe uurs an wants. On his way to the woods she meets him with a pack of food and necessaries. In that pack was a hot* tie of drugged whisky. She asks him where he's going to camp that night, he suspects nothing and tells her, and jer Joe. OF THE WOODS. I PRICHARD. hard. off she goes in a canoe up Red river till she comes to opposite where he's lying drugged. She lands and robs him but she don't want him to know who done that, so she plays an old game to conceal her tracks. She's a rare active young worna* > she carried out her plan, gets L to her canoe and home to Lendev. .. Need I tell any more about her?" During Joe's story Phedre's color had slowly died away. "You are very clever!" she said bitterly. "But why should you tell me all this?" "Because I'm going to advise you to hand over the $100,000 you took from Atterson. I'm in this case for the bank." "I?" she exclaimed violently. "Do you dare to say that I had anything whatever to do with this robbery, that I have the $100,000. Bah! I know nothing about it. How should I?" * - - -1 -> Li- -i \ j ' joe snruggea ms snuuiuera. ? ncu I beg your pardon, Miss Pointarre, and I say good bye. I must go and make my report to the police and let them act their own way." He turned, but before he had gone more than a step or two she called to him. "There is one point you have missed for all your cleverness," she said. "Suppose what you have said is true, may It not be that the girl who robbed Atterson took the money Just to return It to the bank?" "Don't seem to be that way, for she has just denied all knowledge of the property and denied she had It before "Attorson isn't ths only man who'd break the law for leva of mo." two witnesses. Besides, when Atterson comes to know that he's been made a catspaw of he'll be liable to turn king's evidence. No, miss, your only chance is to hand over the stuff ?here and now. "To you!" she scoffed. "And who are you? What right have you"? "I'm in this case for the bank. Old " * ' ' ?- *? ? ?**11 />q n tol 1 MCAnarew kiiuws me ncu miu ?.?.? you my name." "What is it?" "People mostly call me November Joe." She threw back her head?every attitude, every movement if hers was wonderful. "Now, supposing that the money could be found, what would you do?" "I'd go to the bank and tell them I'd make shift to get every cent back safe for them if they'd agree not to prosecute anybody." November looked at her. "I was sure not thinking of you at all," he said simply, "but of Bank Clerk Atterson, who's lost the girl he robbed for and ruined himself for. I'd hate to see that chap overpunished with a dose of jail too. But the bank people only wants their money, and I guess if they get that they'll be apt to think the less about the robbery, the better. So if you take my advice?why, now's the time to see old McAndrew. You see, Miss Pointarre, I've got the cinch on you." She stood still for awhile. "I'll see old man McAndrew," she cried suddenly. "I'll lead. It's near enough this way." Joe turned after her, and I followed. Without arousing McAndrew's suspi cions, Joe satisfied the girl as to his identity. Before dark she met us again. "There!" she said, thrusting a packet into Joe's hand. "But look out for yourself! Atterson isn't the only man who'd break the law for love of me. Think of that at night in the lonely bush!" I saw her sharp white teeth grind together as the words came from between them. "My!" ejaculated November, looking after her receding figure, "she's a bad loser, ain't she, Mr. Quaritch?" * We went back into Quebec and Joe made over to the bank the amount of their loss as soon as Harris, the manager, agreed (rather against his will) that no questions should be asked nor action taken. The same evening I, not being under the same embargo regarding questions, inquired from Joe how in the world the fair Phedre covered ner tracks from the canoe to where Atterson was lying. "That was simple for an active girl. She walked ashore along the paddle, and after her return to the canoe threw water upon the mark it made in the mud. Didn't you notice how faint it was?" "But when she got on shore?how did she hide her trail then?" "It's not a new trick. She took a couple of short logs with her in the canoe. First she'd put one down and step onto it, then she'd put the other one farther up and step onto that. Next she'd lift the one behind, and so on. Why did she do that? Well, I reckon she thought the trick good U .~ J T# tis'll CHUUgll IU U11IIU AllCI OUI1, 11 iiv vi found a woman's tracks after being robbed he'd have suspected." "But you said before we left Atterson's camp that whoever robbed him was middle height, a light weight and had black hair." "Well, hadn't she? Light weight because the logs wasn't much drove into the ground, not tall since the marks of them was so close together." "But the black hair?" Joe laughed. "That was the surest thing of the lot and put me wise to it and Phedre at the start. Twisted up in the buckle of the pack she gave Atterson I found several strands of splendid black hair. She must 'a' caught her hair in the buckles while carrying it." "But, Joe, you also said at Red river that the person who robbed Atterson was not more than twenty-flve years old?" "Well, the hair proved It was a woman, and what but being In love with her face would make a slap up bank clerk like Atterson have any truck with a settler's girl? And them kind are early ripe and go off on their looks at twenty-flve. I guess, Mr. Quaritch, her age was a pretty safe shot. (To be continued.) CORN CLUB ESSAYS Two Best Stories in Connection With the Prize Acres. In connection with the Boys' Corn Club contest this year there was a competition for two handsome prizes offered by Mr. J. M. Cherry and the Neely-Marshall Mule company of Rock Hill. Mr. Cherry offered |5 cash for the best essay on the subject of "How I Produced My Corn," and the Neely-Marshall Mule company offered a prize of a set of harness worth 512.50 for the best essay on the subject of "How I Selected My Corn in the Field." Both prizes were won by Alex Campbell, of Tirzah. His two essays were as follows: "How I Produced My Corn." I sowed oats, vetch and clover on my plot on the 10th day of October, 1913. It came up early and grew off very fast. I then scattered over it, about the middle of March, about 300 lbs. of soda. The oats, vetch and clover combined grew about waist high. It was cut the 9th of May. We hauled twelve twohorse loads of good hay off of it. It was during a drouth and I could not get it broken up until the 10th of June and the following day worked it with a two-horse plow. I also harrowed it good with a disc harrow, also with a nn 11th of Tlino 'l OP rows were laid off "with a one-horse plow. I then took a two-horse plow and threw It back. I then took a straight shovel and bow and run two furrows to the row, after which I put in 800 pounds of kanit and acid, and run two more furrows to cover the fertilizer. I then planted the corn on the 10th of June and got a good stand in about ten days. I plowed it with a small plow on the second of July. The second cultivation was with a small plow and heel bow, on July 11. The third cultivation was made with a longer plow on the 18th of July. Then I applied 400 lbs., of 8-4-4 on July 22, and plowed the middles out to cover the fertilizer. The fourth cultivation was made on July 24, and again on July 30. I then put 300 lbs., of soda on it on August 6, and plowed the middles out on Aug. 8. My corn did not suffer for rain until it began to tassel, then it was dry for quite a while. I sowed clover and vetch about the middle of September and got a good stand. I am now pulling my fodder and I think I will get about 1,000 bundles. As my corn is too green to pull yet, my county agent thinks I will get 85 bushels of corn. Expenses. 400 lbs. kanit 3 3 60 400 lbs., acid 3 90 400 lbs. soda 8 10 Rent of land 5 00 Cost of labor 5 40 Total cost $31 30 Profit. Estimated value of fodder less pulling at $1.50 per hundred is $15 00 Estimated value of corn at $1 per bushel, is 85 00 Value of corn and fodder $100 00 Expense of production 31 30 Profit $68 70 "How I Selected My Seed Corn from the Field." One of the most important principles of farming is selecting seed. When I went to select my seed corn, I went through the field and hunted the low and healthy stalks. I tried to get stalks about the same distance apart and with two ears to the stalk. The ears should turn down, so as to prevent the damage of the weather, and the shock should cover the end of oar fn 1/apn tho InQPPtfl nilt AS WPll as the weather. When you have selected It the corn should be shocked and then re-selected. Effort should be made to have all the ears the same length and size. The grains should be sound and all of the rows should grow straight on the cob, and the cob should be about as wide as the length of two grains. The grains should cover both ends of the ear as near as possible. After it is selected It should be put in a dry place. The best way to dry it is to put it on racks or take strings and hang it up. It should be kept away from all kinds of insects until ready for planting. GOD SEND US MEN. God send us men whose aim 'twill be Not to defend some worn-out creed. But to live out the laws of Christ; In every thought, and word and deed. God send us, alert, and quick, His lofty precepts to translate, Until the laws of Christ become The laws, and habits of the state. God send us men. God send us men. Patient, courageous, strong and true, With vision clear, and minds equipped, His will to learn, his work to do. God send us men. God send us men. All truth to love, all wrong to hate. These are the patriots nations need. These are bulwarks of the state. ?Selected. ? The body of a man, later identified as that of Mat Edens, was discovered in a swamp near Easley. Thursday afternoon. Death was due to natural causes, the old fellow having wandered from his home and died. ? B. A. Morgan, president of the Bank of Commerce of Greenville, has announced that he will be a candidate to succeed J. T. Johnson as representative of the fourth congressional district, two years hence. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced Id Early Files o! Tbe Yorkvllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving tho Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generatiens that Have Gone 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. NINETY-EIGHTH INSTALLMENT Thursday Morning November 14, 1861. Editorial Correspondence. Warrenton, Fauquier, Va, Wednesday October 23, 1861. Dear Enquirer:?Another brilliant and glorious victory was acclaimed for the south near Leesburg, on Monday. For the numbers engaged on our side, we regard it as one of the most successful and gallant feats of the war. On Sunday night, or early on Monday morning, Oen. Stone's Massachusetts brigade and Gen. Banks' California brigade, with perhaps others, amounting In all to five or six thousand men?crossed the Patomac In boats with six pieces of artillery, and advanced towards Leesburg, driving In our pickets before them. Gen. Evans, with only a part of his brigade, consisting of the 8th Virginia regiment, under Col. Eppa Huntor, and a portion of the 17th and 18th Mississippi, under Cols. Burt and Featherstone, went out to meet them. He was supported by the Madison troopers, Captain Thomson; Ball's cavalry from Chesterfield, and Mead's troops from Loudoun, as well as by a few pieces of cannon; but the field chosen was so rough and densely covered with undergrowth, that neither artillery nor cavalry could be made available in the fight. He could command the services of only about 1,600 Infantry; yet with this handful of brave men, he went forth to meet an enemy between three and four times their number; supported by a field battery of six pieces, which they succeeded In planting on the only open space in the field, before the engagement. The picket firing, which commenced early In the morning, was succeeded about 11 o'clock a. m. by heavy firing all along the lines of battle. The tug of war?the deadly onsets?the vollles of musketry?the charges of bayonets?lasted until our gallant boys repulsed the enemy with frightful slaughter. Rallying again, the same terrific scenes recurred, when they were repulsed a second time, and finally a fit of the chronic, and it seems an Incurable disease of the Tankees, seized them? the panic spread, and In "confusion worse confused," they fled, divesting themselves of every incumbrance, to the banks of the Patomac, and not stopping there, we are told, many of tnem in tne garments wnicn vainer Adam wore, plunged Into the river and Bwam to the Maryland, or drowned. A large number?five hundred Is reported, took boats, which being overloaded, or from some other cause, sank with their cargo In the middle of the river. During the engagement, their battery was charged and taken by the 8th Virginia regiment; but was retaken, when the Mlssissippians rushing up with a shout upon their flank, the infantry fled percipitately, and the guns were secured to our side. The pride of the artillerists is said to have sustained them, and they stood to their posts until they were either shot down or made prisoners. The flght and the pursuit lasted until dark?the retreat must have lasted until bedtime. We have this Information from a member of the Madison cavalry who left Leesburg at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, and he says that our men were gathering In the prisoners until then. He and all we have conversed with, report our loss at about 100 killed and wounded. The enemy's loss is estimated at 1,200 killed, wounded and taken prisoners. The Madisonian horseman counted 200 of . their dead bodies lying on the field. ( and 510 prisoners as they came out ^ of the building in which they were ^ put at Leesburg, to proceed to Ma- 8 nassas. Our "orderly," who returned v from Manassas this morning, states t that 523 were near there, awaiting L dispatch of the proper authorities? t Col. Johnson having gone to Rich- r mond to ascertain what must be done j, with them. The boatload of 500 sunk, the 200 dead bodies, counted a on the field, and the 523 near Manas- j( sas, make a grand total of 1,223, and c it is quite reasonable to suppose that 0 the rough and shrubby nature of the f ground hid numbers of dead from ^ view of the Madisonian. s Among the prisoners are eighteen u commissioned officers, of whom are i, several majors and two colonels, t Among their killed was Gen. Banker, 0 senator from Oregon?the man who c said in their last congress that 20,- t 000,000 could whip 8,000,000 and hold d them under a despotism, and he f would promise to be governor of li Virginia. The very moment he sets d foot upon her soil, his vulgar and o violent ambition is made to bite the li dust. "Sic semper tyrannis!" 1 Col. Rurt of the 17th Mississippi regiment, was wounded; we have t been unable to learn how seriously, li You will remember that this regi- e ment and the 18th Mississippi, were o at first brigaded with ours, and were d with us on the 21st of July. We are fc glad that these brave boys have had s another chance at the enemy, and we $ heartily rejoice that they literally c covered themselves with glory. On h all hands they receive the well-merited mead of praise, enthusiastic, for p their intrepid conduct. p The papers report three instead of r five hundred Federals drowned In r the Patomac by rushing In excessive numbers into a small craft unable to bear up under them. The papers al- p so place their killed and wounded at n four or five hundred, instead of two, ' we give above. The Madisonian making the resultant loss about what trooper estimated our loss In killed | and wounded at 100; but the papers this evening give 300. Gen. Evans had 2,600 men, with Ave cannon; the Hessians 10,000 with Ave different < batteries, so the papers enlighten us. At any rate, the victory was a signal one, and the foe was driven 1 back beyond the river. Gen. Evans, however, fearing a renewed attack from still greater numbers, sent a courier down to our center for as- \ slstance, and we understand has been i reinforced strongly. The 6th is | among the regiments ordered to his relief. They left yesterday to arrive j at midnight, and remain three days, j but did not anticipate getting into a ' fight Our batteries at Evansvllle attacked two tug boats hauling in two BChooners laden, one with 432 bales of hay and 600 barrels of cement, the other with wood, on Saturday, last One of the tugs was sunk and both of the schooners with their carroes were captured, after being battered badly. On Monday, heavy firing at that place was heard here, which increased toward evening. It has been reported that the Pauner was burned and sunk on that occasion. It appears that tho enemy la trying to weaken our center by making demonstrations on both our wings, preparatory to an advance from Arllng- . ton Heights, or is trying to pave the way for flanking us or both sides; or It may be he has both ends In view. Before the repulse of Monday, the lecislve battle was thought to be two ar three weeks off, and that Is likely to defer it till a later day. It may retard McClellan so much that it will not come at all this season. In fact, Kentucky seems to be the most important point now. Rose:rantz Is retreating from the Kanawha valley towards the Ohio river, ind it Is thought will turn up In the lark and bloody ground one of these frosty mornings. The Yankees are :ollecting large numbers at various points In the state, especially Louisville and Lexington. The Confeder- , icy Is thought to be more vulnerable from that quarter than any other. ntru^ w..4 tk/... ??uu aiiuwb uui mat iiic/ ttic auuui ^ to put in execution their threats t igalnst Memphis in conjunction with i their pet design of laying waste our J :oast??McClellan is said to have ; sent 30,000 men westward recently, c rhis looks but little like hard fight- c Ing on his part, at least for this sea- * son. a One of those touching incidents of " ivar, which cast a shadow over the ^ heart of every feeling man and woman, occurred here this morning. Liieut.- Richardson of a Georgia regi- J ment, a noble, brave and pious young soldier, has been lying for some time j tery ill at the "Warren Green" hotel, i A*few days ago his brother started r Irom Georgia to visit him. He was * ielayed at Augusta twenty hours, and i it Richmond a day. He telegraphed t it both these places to know how his brother was doing; but it being found Q hat a reply would not reach him be- t lore his departure from these places, a lone was either time sent. He came ? >n with a sad and heavy heart, full t )f anxious forebodings, to the War- c enton junction, ten miles below this * >lace. There the conductor inform- t id him, that he thought his brother a vas better. Immediately his counten- a ince brightened with hope, and he j ionversed freely and even gaily all t he way to Warrenton. The physl- r :ians in attendance upon his brother net him at the depot, and as If by a f lingular Instinct singled him out from d he crowd. His form was erect, his J1 itep elastic, and a pleasing Joy was ^ lellneated In every feature of his face, t t was a sad, hard task to tell him a hat his brother, -the idolized play- * nate and companion of long, happy j 'ears was dead! When the fatal b vord fell upon his ears, his head ? Iropped to his bosom as if a bullet e lad pierced his heart. With tears a >f unutterable bitterness streaming P town his face, he was led to the room ? vhere, Just twenty minutes before, i lis brother had breathed his last. & )h! how sad!! Who that has lost a ^ larling brother or any loved one, will g tot subscribe with us v In sympathy. j* Our Corporal. a (To be continued.) c y p The Wade Plan.?Mr. Q. Ed Kestler g ?f Concord, N. C., has sent to the i Charlotte Observer an analysis of the n iVade plan as it affects the man who jj leslres to borrow the money. The Ob- v erver prints the communication n vithout comment, and we are doing v he same, except that according to our ? inderstanding, the 3 per cent referred d o is supposed to go back to the bor- C ower. The communication is as fol- f fi ows: c That 3135,000,000 supposed to be vailable under the Wade plan to be ent on cotton is impracticable, too " noHw on/1 olm/Mif n nnl/vno ttiiu auuuoi UOVICWO IU IIIC 11CCUO ? ] >f the south. In the first place very L ew farmers have 100 bales, the mini- ? num number to be lent upon. In the jj econd place the local bank must put a ip $25 out of every $100 to obtain the si oan and very few will do this. In the hird place the borrower, at the price f, t cotton today, does not get over 4 J a ents loaned on his cotton after all t( he details and costs of the plan are j,' leducted and it costs him 20 per cent a or the loan of the money. Let me il- w ustrate: Cotton now is 6.75. They y leduct 20 per cent from value of it, or c, n a 500-pound bale at 6.75 is 1.35, a eaving $5.40 the 100 pounds to be lent. N 'his for a 500-pound bale is $27. They deduct three per cent from w his to start with or 81 cents a bale, E eaving $26.19. They then take off an ^ lghth of one per cent for incidentals p r three cents, leaving $26.16. Then . educt storage and Insurance $2.50 a si iale and we have $23.66, then deduct ix per cent Interest for a year or ^ 1.42 and we get $22.24 loaned or 4} di ents a pound available, provided we ^ ave 100 bales. w The burdensome conditions of this fi Ian make it futile for any practical C urposes, to the banks and the bor- ^ owers. Thus it costs $4.76 to bor- ft ow $22.14 or nearly 20 per cent. pi ? ?? hi ? The South Carolina grain cam- jj] aign was brought to a close with the m teetlng at Marion, Friday. d< rOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES Mews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR (DICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaira ol Cherokee, Cleveland, Qaeton, Lancaster and Chester. Gaffney Ledger, Dec. 15: Mr. W. J. Mulllnax of the King's Creek section Df the county has purchased, through the S. L. Fort Realty Estate Agency, a. block of property on Peachtree and Depot streets. It is understood that Mr. Mulllnax will, in the near future, build two or three nice cottages on this property for rental purposes Mr. E. V. Phillips of the Draytonville section of the county on last Thursday killed a twelve months' old hog tha weighed 570 pounds gross. The porker was of the Berkshire breed....In a letter to the Ledger, Mr. R. C. Howard announces his resignation as rural free delivery carrier on route two. Mr. Howard has held this position for more than eleven years, during which :ime he has served his patrons faithCully and well. Ill health is the cause assigned for tendering his resignation. Carrie Virginia, the six-monthsjld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John tfughes, died at the home of her pa ents Sunday afternoon after being Hi with membranous croup for only a lew hours. The funeral and internent took place yesterday afternoon it Oakland cemetery Thomas lefferson Patrick, seventy-two years >f age, died Sunday morning following in illness of three weeks. While it lad been known that Mr. Patrick was n a feeble condition, his death came is a distinct shock to his many friends hroughout the county. He is survived jy three sons and four daughters, as 'ollows: A. M. Patrick, of Oaffney; a. B. Patrick, of Earl. N. C.; C. S. Patrick, of Saluda; Mrs. W. F. Gasion of Greenville; Mrs L. E. Wood, of 3affney; Mrs. A. I. Jolly of Ellenboro, v. C.; and Miss Nora Patrick of Gaffley. Mr. Patrick was born May 9, .841, eight miles south of Gaffney, in vhat was then Union county. He folowed agricultural pursuits through>ut his life with the exception of four rears during which time he served as i sergeant in the Confederate army, n the company commanded by Capain Felix Walker, 18th Regimci. South Carolina Volunteers. He was wounded in the mine explosion at Peersburg, Va., in 1863, but recovered vlthin a short time and continued his rallant service to the Lost Cause Within a few minutes after having ilmost been electrocuted when he placid both hands on the wires that carry :urrent for the city electric lights, vhich are charged with 2,300 volts of ilectriclty, Paul Wilkerson climbed lown a ladder from a telephone cable inassisted. The only material injury le suffered by his close contact with leath, with the exception of the shock vas severe burns on both thumbs and >ne linger of each hand. The mishap iccurred Friday morning shortly afer 11 o'clock, while Mr. Wilkerson, in sompany with Mr. S. M. Gault, manager of the local exchange, were 'clipping" the telephone cable in front if the Gaffney Manufacturing com>any on Railroad avenue. Chester Reporter, Dec. 14: Mrs. lane Paul, aged 79 years, died yesterlay morning at the home of her laughter, Mrs. T. M. Black, near Dvans. The deceased was born in cmA ntnc a li#AUn? < amiciu tuuiiij, anu woo a luo-iuug nember of Homer BaptlST'ctriiTch. Inerment will be today at Old Purity trith funeral services by Dr. H. A. Jagby. Mrs. Paul leaves three daughers and one son The county toard of education has appointed Dr. r. G. Johnston a member of the board if trustees for Court House school dlsrlct No. 1, vice Mr. L. D. Childs, reigned. Mr. J. R. Dye was recently .ppolnted te succeed Mr. G. Lang Anlerson, resigned, thus making the toard complete The following checks were received Saturday by bounty Superintendent of Education V. D. Knox from the state superinendent's office: $10 for establishing library In the Leeds school; $10 for /new libsary at Cabal; and $5 for the mlargement of the library at Great i'alls Mrs. Irene Lewis, widow ot he late Joseph Lewis, died yesterday norning at the home of her son, Mr. '. H. Lewis, near Lewis T. O., after . serious illness of about three months. Mineral and Interment were held tolay at Uriel Presbyterian church, lev. F. A. Drennan of Lowryville, beng in charge. Mrs. Lewis was sixty line years of age and Is survived by hree sons, Messrs. J. Stanley Lewis nd J. H. Lewis, of Chester county; nd Mr. Gray Lewis, of Tucker, Ga. ?he deceased was a member of Uriel 'resbyterian church and was greatly eloved for her sweet Christian charcter and abundant good works Irs. W. P. Grier and little son returnd Saturday to their home at Clover fter a week's visit to the former's iarents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bigham, n Columbia street Cards are out nnouncing the wedding of Miss Mary 'hompson McKeown and Mr. Hugh Itrong McKeown Wednesday evening, )ec. 23rd at 6.30 o'clock, the ceremony o be solemnized in the handsome xaded school building at Cornwell, irlth Rev. R. Roy Brown officiating, ssisted by Rev. R. I. McCown. The ride-elect is the daughter of Mr. and irs. A. B. McKeown and is one of the ounty's brightest and most talented oung women, while the groom is a opular and successful young farmer f the same community Mr. R. G. Imith and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. )ove were called to Simpson's T. O. ear Ridgeway, Saturday, by the eath of Mrs. Martha Abell, grandlother of Mrs. Dove. Funeral serK/vU nn/I l??nr iucra wcic nciu >caiciu<xyt aim uncilent was at Blythewood. Mrs. Abell . as the widow of the late Chas. A. ibell and was seventy-three years of ge She is survived by two grandaughters, Mrs. Chas. VV. Dove of thester, and Mrs. D. R. Dove, of impson's. The deceased was a faithLil member of the Buffalo Baptist hurch. * * Rock Hill Record, Dec. 14: The lany friends and acquaintances in his city learned with much regret tils morning of the death of Mr. James h Anderson, son of Mr. and Mis. Geo. >. Anderson, whose critical illness has een noted for the past several weeks i the Record. His death occurred bout 6.30 this morning. Mr. Anderon was about 27 years of age and bean life in a business way with the rightest prospects. After graduating rom the graded school of this city he ttended Davidson college and then iok up the work of bookkeeping in tie Peoples Bank of this city, later oing to Huntersville, N. C., to take position in the bank at that place, 'here his health failed him three ears ago and he has been on a deline since, but his condition only beame serious three or four weeks ago, nd this morning the end came [iss Kittie Dunlap was operated on lis morning at the Fennell Inlirmary \r> onnonHloltlu onH fho nnAMtlnn as reported very successful Rev. K H. Attaway, lately stationed at ort Mill, has arrived here with his imily, and has taken up his work as astor of the North Rock Hill circuit. Mr. L>add J. Lumpkin is quite Ick with an attack of grippe at his ome on Rock Hill Route No. 4 The lends of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. unlap regretted to learn that their aughter, Miss Isabelle, has typhoid ;ver An enthusiastic interest was lown this morning in the meeting hich was called for the purpose of nishing the details of the Community hristmas tree for Rock Hill. Twentyvo people responded to the call and Ith little difficulty the work was per(Cted and the final committee apolnted. Dr. D. B. Johnson called the leeting to order and acted as chairtan. Messrs. Timmons of the ehamer of commerce and Tucker of the Y. [. C. A. reported the work thus far' ane, and stated that the general nec k essary arrangements seemed to be | nearly finished... .W. W. Fltzpatrick, dairy expert from Clemson college, who spent last* week In Rock Hill and with County Agent McKeown visited I I a large number of farmers and dis- ' cussed the cream-route proposition with them, reports the prospects good for the establishment of a route of this kind here. ? # ? i Lancaster News, Dec. 15: Mr. M. J. Funderburg of Rum Creek, killed a | shoat last Friday that weighed 410 pounds net. Mr. Funderburg says that the hog didn't eat over five busheds of . corn Miss Eflle Hunter of Lani caster and Mr. Harry Gwin of Corki vllle, were married at the A. R. P. , parsonage on Sabbath evening 1 Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Hays have the sympathy of the entire community In i , the death of their three weeks-old i son, which sad event occurred at their home Friday last at 9.45 p. m. The c i remains were interred in West side r cemetery Saturday, the Rev. E. T. , Hodges conducting the funeral ser- J vice Saturday night. John Davis, * colored, who lives in a house in rear ? of Mr. R. S. Harper's machine shops, * Just after a violent quarrel engaged in with his wife, Sallte Brown, walked 1 Into an adjoining room and fell over a dead into the Are place. Sunday morn- , ing there was some suspicion of foul play on the part of his wife, in view of the fact that she had quarreled c with her husband and threatened vlo- r lence to him. So Magistrate John Lb f Oaskev. actlnir as coroner, summoned a Jury and held an Inquest over the E negTo. Several witnesses were exam- a lned, but there was no evidence that 0 the woman had offered any violence . to the man. Dr. R. C. Brown, who was * examined as a witness, among other a things, testified that in his opinion the man "died of heart disease brought on by undue excitement and that his neck was dislocated by the fall." The verdict of the jury of inquest was therefore, that "John Davis came to his death from heart failure, caused from undue excitement.".. Last Wednesday morning a man giving his name as Albert Parker, hired a horse and buggy from the livery stable of Mr. B. C. Hlnson at Monroe, promising to be back with them that night. As it turned out he did not expect to return the horse and buggy, but instead to confiscate the same to his own use. The man drove into Lancaster Monday night, distributing liquor advertisements, put up the horse and buggy at the stables of the Jones-Elliott Mule company. Chief Bell was Instructed to look out for the man, but he skipped before he could be arrested but he got the horse and buggy, also $10 paid by the owner as & reward for the return of the property Magistrate John L. Caskey's little boy, Pink, came very near being seriously injured or burned to death, Sunday. The little fellow was standing too near the fire place when his clothes caught from the flames. Mrs. Caskey happened to be in the room and reached the little fellow in time to put out the fire before he was burned. Gastonia Gazette, December 15: The friends of Mr. W. M. Wilson, head bookkeeper in the offices of Craig A Wilson, will regret to learn that he is quite seriously ill at his home on West Airline avenue as the result of a stroke of paralysis which he suffered at an early hour Sunday morning. Mr. Wilson's right side is paralyzed and he is unable to speak, although conscious. There has been very little if any change in his condition since Sunday, although he was able to swallow a few sips of water and seemed slightly better. His many friends will hope earnestly that he may recover.... There came- near being a serious accident at the new postofflce building on Main avenue, now in course of construction, yesterday afternoon when a a derrick used in hoisting the heavy stone, fell. A negro workman had a . narrow escape and the base of one ot \ the large front columns, two sections of which had been put up, was dam- " aged so It had to be removed, necessl- n tating the taking down of the column. a Mr. Doss Queen and Miss Addie Long were united in marriage at 10 0 o'clock Sunday morning, by Rev. J. J. y Beach, at his -residence on East Air- f line avenue. The bride is a daughter h of Mr. E. D. Long Most if not all the mills in Gastonia will give their n operatives two weeks for Christmas n this year instead of one as is usually g the case. This is due in some measure at least, to the fact that the weave g mills in the north which consume the tl yarns made here are going to close for tl two weeks during the holiday season, tl At 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, C] Mr. John B. Glenn and Miss Ada Al- w len were united in marriage at the ^ parsonage of the East Baptist church, cl by the pastor, Rev. J. J. Beach. They Ci were acompanied by Messrs. Joe Hill and Scott Quinn, and Misses Maud k Goble and Zoe Robinson. The groom a is a son of Mr. O. E. Glenn and the p bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. w P. Allen, both families living on route w three. N ' * ' P1 WOMEN AND WAR ?' la ir Mothers of the Race Pay First Cost On All Human Life. Men have made boomerangs, bows, la swords or guns with which to destroy m one another; we (the women) have tl made the men who destroyed and were c? destroyed! We have in all ages pro- li duced, at an enormous cost, the n< primal munition of war, without It which no other would exist. c< There is no battleflel don earth, nor tl ever has been, howsoever covered P with slain, which it has not cost the w women of the race more in actual lc bloodshed and anguish to supply than h: it has cost the men who lie there. f< We pay the first cost on all human tl life. tl In supplying the men for the earn- b< age of a battlefield, women have not tl merely lost actually more blood and m gone through a more acute anguish ci and weariness in the long months of s] bearing and in the final agony of 01 childbirth than has been experienced w by the men who cover It; but, in the long months of rearing that fellow, the women of the race go through a st long, patiently endured strain which a no knapsacked soldier on his longest Y march has ever more than equaled; tl while, even in the matter of death, in di all civilized societies, the probability l that the average woman will die in childbirth is immeasurably greater [ than the probability that the average male will die in battle. te There is, perhaps, no woman, wheth- ?? er she has borne children or be merely t8 potentially a child-bearer, who could look down upon a battlefield covered ... with slain but the thought would _ arise in her, "So many mothers' sons!' ? "So many young bodies brought into the world to lie there! So many months of weariness and pain while bones and muscles were shaped with- aj in! So many hours of anguish and h struggle that breath might be! So many baby mouths drawing life at women's breasts?all this, that men jv might lie with glazed eyeballs, and swollen faces, and fixed, blue, un- jj closed mouths, and great limbs tossed * ?this, that an acre of ground might be J mnnnrAri with human flesh, that next year's grass or poppies or karoo bushes may spring up greener and redder, *!, where they have lain, or that the sand * of a plain may have a glint of white I bones!" rj And we cry, "Without an inexorable cause this must not be!" No wo- S man who is a woman says of a human ' body, "It is nothing!" It is especially in the domain of 11 war that we, the bearers of men's nc bodies, who supply its most valuable munition, who, not amid the clamor T' and ardor of battle, but singly, and at alone, with a three-in-the-morning courage, shed our blood and face death le' that the battlefield might have its m food, a food more precious to us than our heart's blood; It is we especially J?1 who, in the domain of war, have our fle word to say, a word no man can say for us. It is our intention to enter Bl into the domain of war and to labor ln< there till in the course of generations, gr we have extinguished it.?From "Wo- ? man and Labor, by Olive Schrelner. i WONDERFUL NEW YORK ireat American City In a Class by Itself. J io'' ILLED BY WEALTH AND POVERTY. Rapid Transit 8yst*m Complete? Many Magnificant Raataurante? Bagging on tha Street, 8oma Mild and 8oma Dangarous?Simplicity of Traval on tha Subwaya?Fira in a 8kys?rapar?Spacial Naws 8arvica for tha Wealthy?Other Notes. Written for The Yorkville Enquirer. New York Is not only the largest :ity in America; but it Is probably the noat cosmopolitan city in the world. Nils word cosmopolitan as used here neans population made up from everywhere, and feeling as muoh at lome here as anywhere. If we should itart out to ask the people in the itreets, or those employed in the itores, or even the doctors, lawyers, Inanclers, brokers, hotel managers or ithers where thev were born and eared, he would And them coming torn all part* of the United States, louth America, Europe, Asia, Africa, ind the islands of the sea, and not one >ut of twenty would say that he was torn In the city. The same Is true to l large extent of Chicago and San Yanclsco; but nothing like that protortlon of aliens Is to be found in any tther city. A very large proportion of >opulat!on of the city of Washington las been made up of people who have Irlfted In from other parts of the lountry; but most of that population b American. The majority of the >opulatlon of Baltimore and Boston is latlve, and the majority of that porlon which is not native, has drifted In rom Massachusetts and other New Sngland states in the one case and rom Maryland and surrounding states n the other case. But all the New forkers that were born in the city or itate of New York are not nearly >qual In number to those who have :ome in from elsewhere. The Individual from anywhere who ettles in New York city and gets Into tusiness soon begins to feel that he Is is much of a New Yorker as anybody, .nd when he acquires property or beomes a legal voter, he feels as if he tad been a resident of the city all his Ife. And there Is nobody to challenge he proposition; nobody who would trant to challenge It In New York it nakes very little difference who a nan is, who his parents were, or anyhing of that kind. The all important hing is what he is himself, what he an do and how well he can do It. It b altogether a question of delivering he goods. If he can do that, he is ac ept&ble, and If he cannot do It, he inks to such level as he can maintain ilmself on, or drops out entirely, 'here is no place In the world, probblJt where the rule of the survival of he fittest enforces Itself so Inexorably s in the great city of New York. For a man to ever come to know lew York In all Its Ins and outs is 11 possible. He may have millions of loney, all the leisure time he wants, nd employ all the expert help he can irect; but one life time of three score ears and ten is too short for the task, 'or generations this great city has een the Mecca of all that is ablest, lost expert, most accomplished In aliost every line of human effort. The reat literary lights drift there, the reat scientists, the great financiers, tie great artists, the great lawyers, tie great preachers, the great doctors, tie great contractors, the great merhants, the great in everything. Along rith them go thousands of mediocrities rho think they are great. This great Ity also attracts many of the greatest rimlnals, including confidence men, windlers, gamblers and frauds of all lnda The city is the home of thousnds who go there for the especial urpose of losing themselves to the orld outside, and other thousands ho stop for no particular purpose, few York has a larger number of eople of fabulous wealth than any ther city in the world, and also a irger amount of abject poverty and ilsery. While New Yorkers generally are icking of that local pride which takes more Drovincial neoDle bras: on le towns in which they live, it is a imrnon thing to see people who have ved there a while, or who live there ew, show more or less pride in halltg from "New York," This probably )mes from a knowledge of the fact lat all the world realizes what a big lace New York is, and maybe a man ho hails from New York would be oked upon as being of some size im8elf. But of course this does not illow. While it is quite probable that te great city produces thousands of lorough-golng all-round men, it has sen said with some show of truth, lat although it cannot be denied that lany of the great specialists of the ty who lead the world In their reactive lines, have not got enough utside of that to raise an umbrella hen it rains. * But I did not commence this sketch > much with the intention of writing general essay on the city of New ork as of telling about some more of le striking things that impf-essed me aring the recent visit with Hon. John . McLaurin. * One evening about six o'clock as we ere walking up Broadway, our atintion was attracted by a most untrthly shrieking noise. It does not ike me long to get more or less acjstomed to the ordinary noises of le city. The street traffic of itself is matter of constant din and war. rith the surface cars running along i plain sight, tne eievatea cars imbling overhead, the subwav cars ashing along down under the earth, id at more or less frequent Intervals ?avy blasts coming from the subtermean workings that are continually >ing on below, one has a plenty to ;ep his ears occupied; but he can)t stop to listen to these things or ve them much attention, lest he beime jammed in the surging crowds knocked down by the swiftly passg automobiles. Rut the noise referd to comes from away up the street, long with the numerous other noises le would not have given It a second lought if there had been but a single )te of it But it came again and ;aln. I have never heard the plainve screech of a panther; but from scrlptlons I would say it sounded ce that. Presently the same kind of (ise came from far down the street, id then from points east and west, le streets were as light as day, and out this time I noticed all vehicles owding to the curbs on either side, ivmg me centre ciea-r. ?ic ystery was cleared up. Here came a eat motor drawn Are engine, its irnished silver or nlckle boiler renting the ray? of the electric lights all direction*, and hurrying along oadway at a terrific rate. Follower it came another truck carrying a eat extension crane and then a reel (Continued on Page Four.)