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11 i ' -1 Hi 1 \ I ??????????????? ????? ???? I YORKYILLE INQUIRER. I r ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLT. > -V .. _ ___ r ? . . - - ? , ? 1 1 ~ l * OEIIT'8 sons, Pnbli?h?ri, i % cfamilj Jleirspagei;: ^or the promotion of the political, gonial, ^grieulturat and ffommercial Jnteresli of the |Jto))l<. j W ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE. S, C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1915." ' , NO. I Novemb I ? I THE DETECTIVE ? 1 By HESKETH / Coflrrlght, 1913, by Hesketh Prich ? T CHAPTER XIV. ^ Men of the Mountains. W So the afternoon passed away, and A Info Itfo QTAflt aS It CUWC ' v tracts d gloomy pine woods. A wind which risen with the evening moanetf through their tops and flung the da<k waters of innumerable little lakes hgainst their moss bordered shores. 1 notipd that Puttick unslung his rifle andfraid It among the packs upon the bustard beside him, and whenever thJ road dipped to a more than usually somber defile his eyes, quick and resless as those of some forest r animal Jdarted and peered into the shadow^ The light of the sun was fading j^hen there occurred the one incidert of our Journey. It was not of real livortance, but I think it made an im^ession on all of us. The road along jwhich we were driving came ' suddesy out into an open space, and here l front of a shack of the roughest d?cription a man was engaged in cuttlif logs. As we passed he glanced up atis, and his face was like that of some medieval prisoner?a tangle of wild oeard. a mass of grayish hair and .mong it a pair of eyes which seemd to glare forth hatred. There was something ominous about the wolflh face. Itwas hardly dark when we arrived s the house, a long, low building of srprising spaciousness, set literally mong the pines, the fragrant brashes of which tapped and rustled upo the windows. Te went in, and while dinner was prparing Mr. Petersham, Joe and I w?t to his room where the wounded gane warden, Worke, lay upon a bed sinking a pipe with a candle sputterin' on a chair beside him. 'Yes, Mr. Petersham," said he in aswer to a question. "When you wnt away last fall I did think things settling down a bit. but a week m am while Puttick was on the eastern ^^^ndary I thought I'd go up to Senils .e, where last year Keoghan had j brook netted. I was making a Are 1^- boil my kettle when a shot was ed from the rocks up above, and the xt thing I knew was that I was hit etty bad through this knee. "It was coming on dark, and I rollinto a bush for cover, but whoever were didn't Are at me again. I don't link he wanted to kill me. If he had - ~ p_i.-owUi_have nut. the bullet irto. ray eart just as easy as in my leg. I tied p the wound the best way I could. <ucky the bullet hadn't touched any ?ig artery. Next morning: I crawled lp the hill and lit signal smokes till Puttick came. He brought me in here." "I suppose Puttick had a look round > for the tracks of the fella who gunned you?" asked November. "He did, but he didn't find out | nothing. There was a light shower ^>?>t<ween dark and dawn, and the ^^HP^^^und on the hill above there is ^^V^^D^ostly rock." - Such, then, was the story of our coming to Kalmacks, and for the next two or three days we spent our time fishing in the streams, the only move in the direction of the main object of uur visit being that Joe, whom Linda P insisted upon accompanying, walked over to Senlls lake and had a look at the scene of Worke's accident. The old tracks, of course, were long since washed away, and I thought, with the others, that Joe's visit had been fruitless until he showed me the shell of an exploded cartridge. "The bullet which went through f Bill Worke's leg came out of that. I found it on the hill above. It's a 45.75 central fire rifle, an old '76 model." "This is a ^reat discovery you and Miss Petersham have made." Joe smiled. "There's nothing much to it. anyway. She lost her brooch somewhere by the lake and was lookin' for it when I found this." Joe indik cated the exploded shell. "The mounP tains is full of 45.75 guns, 1876 pattern. Some years back a big ironmongery store down here went bust _ and threw a fine stock of them cali* ber rifles on the market. A few dollars would buy one, so there's one in pretty nigh every house and two and three in some. Howsoever, it may be useful to know that him that shot Bill Worke carried that kind o'a rifle. Still, we'd best keep it to ourselves, Mr. Quapitch." "All right," said I. "By the way. Joe, there's a side to the situation I don't understand. We've been here four days, and nothing has happened. I mean Mr. Petersham has had no word of where to put the (5,000 blackmail these criminals are de* NAVAL GUNNER ASHORE - J*TI I Gunners from the warships have been used extensively by the British in the land fighting near Ypres. One of them Is here seen astride his gun on an armored train. ier Joe. OF THE WOODS. PRICHARD. ard. manding of him." "Maybe there's a reason for that." "I can't think of any." "What about the sand?" ' 'The sand?" I repeated. "Yes, haven't you noticed? I got Mr. Petersham to have two loads of sand brought up from the lake and 3 laid all around the house. It takes a track wonderful. I guess It's pretty near Impossible to come nigh the 1 house without leaving a clear trail. But the first rainy night, I mean when 1 there's cain enough to wash out tracks." * "They'll come?" "Yes, they'll likely come." But as it happened Joe was wrong. * I believe that his reasoning was correct enough, and that it was the fear * of leaving such marks as would en- * able us to gather something of their ^ identity that kept the enemy from pinning upon our door the letter which Anally arrived prosaically enough in a cheap store envelope that bore the Prlamville postmark. The contents of this letter were as fol- < lows: Petersham, you go alone to Butler's cairn 11 o'clock Friday night, r Take the dollars along; youl be met r their and can hand it over. t Below was a rude drawing of a t coffin. t Petersham read the note out to Joe y and myself. 7 "Where's Butler's cairn?" he asked, c "I know it," said November. "But- 1 ler's cairn is on a hill about two miles west of here." c "I suppose you won't go?" said I. \ "With the money? Certainly not!" c "You can hardly go without it." t "Why not?" "You would be shot down." 1 "I'd talk to the ruffians Arst and c then if there was any shooting, I r guess I'd be as much in it as they s would." t "I suggest that we all three go," I e said. i But Joe would have none of this plan. "There's nothing to be gained by that, Mr. Quaritch. You bet these fellas'll keep a pretty bright lookout. If they saw three of us coming they'd shoot as like as not. "I was thinking I might slip right along to Butler's cairn and mayue get a look at the fellas." . "No!" said Petersham decidedly. "I vvun't kiiuw a: - Tun say yohrseif y&d"1 would be shot." "I said we would get shot, not me alone. Three mfcn can't go quiet where one can." And so finally it was arranged, though not without a good deal of argument with Petersham. g "That's a fine fellow." remarked Pe- ? tersham. v I nodded. ? "The kind of fe low who fought y with and bettered the Iroquois at their ^ own game. I wonder what he will r see at Butler's cairn?" It was past midnight when Joe ap- j peared again. Petersham and I both s asked for his news. 1 November shook his head. "I've r nothing to tell; nothing at all. I didn't < see no one." f "Where were you?" ( "Lying down on top of the cairn c Itself. There's good corners to it."' i "You could see well round, then, J and if any one had come you would t not have failed to observe them." "Couldn't be too sure. There was ' some dark times when the moon was ( shut in by clouds. They might 'a' ? come them times, though I don't think 1 they did. But I'll know for certain \ soon unless it comes on heavy rain, t There's a fine little lake they calls s Butler's pond up there. You take * your flshpole, Mr. Quaritch, and we'll t go over at sunrise and you try ror 1 some of them there trout, while I take ) a scout round for tracks." j This we did, but search as Joe y would he failed to discover any sign t at all. He told me this when he join- ' ed me at breakfast time. After I had caught a nice string of trout we walked back to Kalmack's, ' circling round the house before we en- j tered it. The sand lay undisturbed by any strange footstep, but when we s got in we found Mr. Petersham in a state of the greatest excitement. "One of the blackmailers has had a long talk with Puttick," he told us. "What?" "Incredible as it sounds, it is so." ( "But when was this?" "Early this morning, some time after you and Joe started. This is how it happened. Puttick had just got up and gone down with a tin of rosin and some spare canvas and tin to 1 mend that canoe we ripped on the ( rock yesterday. In fact, he had only just begun working when he was ( startled by a voice ordering him to hold up his hands." "By Jove, what next?" "Why, he held them up. He had , no choice. And then a man stepped , out from behind the big rock that's | just above where the canoe lies." "I hope Puttick recognized him." , "No. The fellow had a red hand- i kerchief tied over his nose and | mouth. Only his eyes showed under , the brim of a felt hat that was pulled , low down over them. He carried a . rifle, that he kept full on Puttick's chest while they talked. But I'll call j Puttick. He can finish the account \ of the affair himself. That's best." ] Puttick ans\vered to the call, and ( after running over the story, which was exactly similar to that we had just heard from Petersham, he continued: , "The tough had a red hanker tied , over his ugly face, nothing but his ~ eyes showing. He had me covered ( with his gun to rights all the time." . "What kind of a gun was it?" ] "I didn't see: leastwise I didn't no- . tice." ] "Well, had he anything to say?" i "He kep' me that way a minute be- I fore he started speaking. 'You tell j Petersham,' he says, 'it's up to him to I jay right away. Tell him unless he I roes at once to Butler's cairn and :akes the goods and leaves them there i >n the big flat stone by the rock he'll tear from us afore evening, and he'll lear in a way that'll make him sorry ill his life. And as for you, Ben Put:ick, you take a hint and advise old P nan Petersham to buy us ofT, and he ;an't be too quick about doing It | ilther. If he tries to escape we'll get lim on the road down to Prlamvllle." \fter he'd done talking he made me jut my watcli on the canoe?that I'd :urned bottom up to get at that rent ?and warned me not to move for half in hour. When the half hour was ip I came right away to tell you." "Tall or short was he?" "Medium-l<Ue." "Which wa;- did he go when he left rou?" "West; right along the bank." "You followed his trail after the lalf hour was over." Puttick opened his eyes. "He didn't eave none." "Left no trail! How's that?" cried 3etersham. But Joe interposed. "You mean he cep' to the stcnes In the bed o' the >rook all the time?" T "That's it. And, anyway, If I'd got 1 'ooling lookin' for his tracks I'd 'a' 1 rot a bullet In me same as Bill Vorke," ended the little man. 'They're all watching for us." (To be continued.) ? THE NEW BANKING SYSTEM ( Comptroller Tolls of It in His Annual Report. Comptroller Williams of the cur- t ency bureau, submitted his annual eport to congress Tuesday. It covers he beginning of the transition from he old national banking system to he new Federal reserve system, as veil as the operations of more than ,000 national banks which have be:ome part of the new system since his ast annual report was made. Aside from reviewing the provisions >f the new bank law and the steps by vhich it was put into operation, the :omptroller makes some recommendsions for new legislation. They are: An amendment to require uniform jy-laws for national banks. In that :onnection the comptroller declares nay bank directors fail to direct, and lays any director who does not atend a majority of board meetings in l year should be Ineligible for elecion. An amendment to permit signatures >n national bank notes to be printed nstead of made with pen and ink, vhich would permit the bills to be vashed and restored to circulation. That national banks be required to imit their deposits to ten times their 'omblned capital and surplus. That the comptroller be empowered o remove, with the approval of the lecretary of the treasury, any director ir officer of a national bank guilty of dolating any of the more important wtrvhstona of tfca.- batik lair and direct hat suit be brought against them in he name of the bank to recover for he results of any malfeasance in ofIce. Of the Federal Reserve Act and vhat it is expected to accomplish for he finance and commerce of the :ountry the comptroller says: "The Federal Reserve Act is detigned not only to cure weaknesses md defects of the currency system inder which we have struggled, and lometimes staggered, in the past, as ve have outgrown the conditions and mssed beyond the circumstances ^ vhich it was especially provided to neet, but to offer to the people of his country many new advantages c ind opportunities, while emancipating r jusiness from many evils, difficulties ind troubles with which it has been >urdened and from which it has found ? 10 escape." t * ^ V, tho nnmntrnllpr re- c Ai aume iciiaiii i-iiv s :ounts the activities of governmental igencles to aid the financial and busness world during the stress at the ? >utbreak of the European war. He { :overs practically the same ground as Secretary McAdoo did in his recent 1 eport to congress. The remainder of t he comptroller's report is given over j 0 statistics. There were 26,765 banks reporting .0 state and Federal officers in the < United States at the close of business c >n June 30. Those banks, including , ill kinds, had aggregate resources of !26,971,398,031, showing an increase of 1 nore than $1,200,000,000 in the year, c There were 772 more banks reporting ( han the year previous. The banks } showed loans and discounts amountng to $15,288,357,284. with individual t Jeposits subject to check without no- l ice amounting to $9,539,573,744. They s leld gold coin and gold certificates " :otalling more than $912,000,000. Withn the year ended October 31, 1914. he comptroller says, 319 applications , were received from persons wishing o organize national banks. Of these >26 were approved. r Newspaper Writing.?When Irvin i Uobb was questioned regarding his J iterary methods the other day in New ? STork, he made the following admis- ? don: 1 "I plug away at the machine about 1 'our hours a day. If I turned out 2.500 T words in that time, I feel good about ( t. I can't dash off stuff. I guess the 1 ?uys who talk about dashing off a f masterpiece don't dash more than an ' inch at a time. f "Newspaper training is good in one 1 way?it brings experience to a fiction i writer better and quicker than any ' sther occupation. It's bad in another < way, for it tends to too much speed in < writing and too much carelessness of 1 the finer points. 1 "I was once a 5,000-word man. L could write 5,000 words about a cat t fight, but I couldn't write more than t 5,000 words about the combined trage- | tlies of all the various worlds. No 1 subject nor plot couia wnns mure ] than 5,000 words out of me. Then it i happened that Dire Circumstances i forced me to write a page story about | the development of a mining camp in < Kentucky. It had to be 10.000 words ] long?just had to be. So I wrote 10,000 ? words, and now I could write 10,000 t words about eating a bag of peanuts j ?but I won't. t Cobb's description of his methods is : interesting, especially his assertion i lhat newspaper training "tends to too ( much speed in writing, and too much rarelessness of the finer points." < The worker on a daily newspaper is i ilways under the keen whip of necessity. He rarely, if ever, has time to } review or revise his matter, is never t ilven opportunity to consider the finer t |K?ints. No other class of brain work- r rs in the world labor with such haste { ind the marvel is that newspaper t English is kept at such a high stand- r trd. The reporter who can't grind out c 10,000 words per day and keep up the r pace seven days per week has mighty 1 ittle chance of holding his job.?Jack- A *on News. / * / / ( FOOTSTEPSOFTHE FATHERS is Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvllle Enquirer 1EWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Iringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl idge of the Things that Most Concerned Qeneratiene that Have Gone Before. The first Installment of the notes ippearing under this heading was >ubl|shed In our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared >y the editor as time and opportunity lermic. Their purpose is to bring nto review the events of the past for ;he pleasure and satisfaction of the >lder people and for the entertainment md instruction of the present generaIon. 101 ST INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Nov. 21, 1861). Carolina Rifles. A new company, under the above lame, was organized in this place on donday last. The following gentlenen were elected as the officers: Wm. B. Wilson, captain; J. W. Av>ry. 1st lieutenant; D. J. Logan, 2nd! leutenant; R. Hi Whisonant, 3rd leutenant; Walter B. Metts, orderly lergeant. * * * Editorial Correspondence. ?amp near Bull Run, Va., Saturday morning, November 9, 1861. Dear Enquirer: Since our return to he camp of the "6th" on Thursday, GREAT BRITAIN'S AV Pqsrr-y. Grahame White (center), in charg aln, and Lieutenant Porte (right), who tic flight In the America, In consultati he retirement of Gen. Scott from the tupervision of the northern army, the jontroversy in regard to Gen. Benu egard, various items of minor inter!st, and above all to us the progress ind result of the tight at Port Royal, lave been the chief topics of talk and {peculation. We regard the action of "Old Fuss ind Feathers," as of very little consejuence either way. The sanctlmoni)us homage and crocodile wail of the :ablnet over his "advancing years and nflrmities," is well set off by the flord and, we must believe, insincere :ompliments of the "old man eloluent" in return. "General: After rour long and brilliant career, you reire by unanimous approval of the abinet." "President: this honor >ver\vhelms me!" Alas! poor Yorick! sVere we to write an epitah for Scott, o be read by all posterity, it should >e: "Poor is the man who hugs the ihadow of a phantom until it turns in lis embrace to the corpse of a ghost." You will doubtless see, and I hope vill publish the card of Gen. Beauregard, in a recent number of the Richnond Whig.?This will be enough. There is not a purer patriot, as there s not a better general living, we udge, than Beauregard. Why a single sentiment aspersing his lofty name should be entertained, much less pubished at this critical time, is hard to inderstand; except that there is alvays during these luminous' nights of earth's history, as of her seasons, a nongrel pack of curs whose chief flory it is to bey the moon. We disniss this disagreeable subject with a single remark from Beauregard's card vhich may answer in the absence of ts publication. "If," says he, "certain ninds cannot understand the differ?nce between patriotism, the highest livic virtue, and office-seeking, the owest civic occupation, I pity them 'rom the bottom of my heart." We had the news last night that :hey were lighting at Winchester; and hat "Stonewall Jackson's brigade had >een ordered thither, and live reginpnts to Leesburir. This news com )orts with a dispatch, announcing the 'orward movement has been dete nined on by Lincoln. The design aplears to be, to weaken our ce ntre, scatter our forces, and conquer them jiecemeal. It ip enough to know that fohnson and Beauregard have masered every strategic movement they ire capable of;, and are ready to meet hem on any held they can occupy. Meanwhile, everything is as quiet on tur right as a. sleeping infant.?The . ircus is certainly advancing steadily ?if coming at all?though not a sign >t the storm a? big as a man's hand, s given. Our greatest anxiety is not for ourselves, but for our fellow-soldiers on he coast.?For the last three days he telegraphic olumns of the Richnond papers have been afflicted with liverse and contradictory accounts ot ighting at Port Royal. If the statenents of yesterday evening are to b" redited, several guns have been disnantled at flilton's Head, and seven 'Vdpettl men-of-war have passed up lie harbor towards Beaufort. In thh; vent not only our batteries, but our it fantry?our personal friends and acquaintances?must be in great jeopardy. Our greatest fear is that they may be cut off, for we do not believe ti e enemy can gain any permanent advantage, by this expedition. Notwithstanding this, it galls us to think that the insolent invader, ere this, may have set foot on the sacred soil of South Carolina. Every one of h ;r sons here, if the military status w mid permit it, would herald the privU.CTA r\f rnohlntr tn hpr rpanip with such a shout as we never raised before. We would a thousand times pre fer the most exposed and eventful campaign on her sea-border, to a winter of Inactivity and watching here. It is too, in the possibility of things, that we will be sent back soon to her defense. If the "5th'' comes they will bike at mg with them two pieces of the Calhoun artillery which are now permanently attached to our regiment, and manned by forty men from the different companies, under First Lieut. F. Q. Latham of the Pacolet Guards, and Second Lieut. Ed Fleming, of the Spartan Rifles. Corporal McKinney, and Privates Coward, Harris and Caldwell represent the Jasper Light Infantry. This little battery Is quite an accession to our regiment. We learn that the boys drill finely already. They can go through the motion of loading ten times a minute?They drill twice a day?with horses in the morning, without in the afternoon. Cooper Kuykendal was corporal of the corps, but owing to sickness, we regret to say has been discharged from service. We miss him much in "Mess No. 1." A member of the "Jaspers" has lateIATI0N STRATEGISTS MjSr WMMHBBHMHyj?iU^yW. * IF ; - <K e of the aviation forces of Qreat Britwas to have attempted the transatJ anon. ly been ventillating his mechanical trpnl"u In rrmUlnrr gimpph nines of wood from the battle-fields, which command a ready sale at from $1 to 55. They are, some grotesquely, some tastefully, and all elegantly figured; and they out smoke a meerschaum, for they have the flavor of glory about them. Our excellent regimental band has become "excelsior"' .under Capt. Weiss' skillful management. They make delightful music; and have learned a number of new pieces lately, some of which we understand are Capt. Weiss' own composition. We have just heard that our forces have captured 15.000 prisoners in Kentucky. It Is raining?a cold, icy rain. Showeringly, Our Corporal. (To be continued.) SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON Report of Ginning to December 21, 1914 as Compared With Same Date 1913. Win. J. Harris, director of the census, department of commerce, announces the preliminary report of cotton ginned by counties In South Carolina for the crops of 1914 and 1913. The renort was made uublic for the state at 10 n. m., on Monday. Dec. 21. The amounts for the different counties for the crops of 1914 and 1913 anas follows: 1914 1913 County Crop Abbeville 30,424 >30,833 Aiken 45,045 44,622 Anderson 51,961 66,452 Bamberg 25,940 25,776 Barnwell 56,791 53,506 Beaufort 7,763 6,949 Berkeley 15,086 12,815 Calhoun 28,526 24,840 Charleston 14,136 13,637 Cherokee 15,064 16,636 Chester 31.791 29,864 Chesterfield 30,749 27,025 Clarendon 45,357 37,371 Colleton 21,158 18,108 Darlington 40.134 34,325 Dillon 35,187 32,891 Dorchester 16,851 15,922 Kdgefield 29,943 30,819 Fairfield 22,116 23.690 Florence 42,662 41.084 Georgetown 4.684 3,462 Greenville 41,140 38 717 Greenwood 28.887 28 855 Hampton 20,261 18.097 Horry 10,232 9,042 Jasper 6.098 5,999 Kershaw 28.290 24,858 Lancaster 21.907 21 915 Laurens .... 35,366 40,213 Lee 38.985 34.968 Lexington 25.144 24,322 Marion 13.307 16 855 Marlboro 56 420 47 940 Newberry 30.694 35.798 Oconee 17.356 18,292 Orangeburg 77,689 73,370 r>i,.i 10 cia ifi .118 rirnnm <o,u*Mr . v . Richland 24 330 21.553 Saluda 22 631 23.691 Spartanburg 64,988 65.044 Sumter 48.474 38,423 Unh/.i 17.526 19.117 Williamsburg 32,420 24.148 York 36.204 37.166 Total 1,328,355 1,276,428 Xir Waterproof lap robes for automobile drivers, which remain In place should a wearer have to leave a car and walk about, have been Invented j in England. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READIN6 Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lan* caster and Chester. Gastonia Gazette, Dec. 29: Prof. Robert L. Keesler, who has for the past year held the position of organ1st at the First Presbyterian church, has, much to the regTet of that congregation, tendered his resignation to tone enect January isi. xnr. aeesier relinquished his position here to accept a similar one with St. Peter's Episcopal church in Charlotte Mrs. I. M. Beatty died yesterday morning at 10.20 o'clock at her home, 817 East Second avenue, of Blight's disease following an illness of some time. She was the wife of Mr. Raymond Beatty, who survives together With two children. She was a daughter of Mr. M. C. Crouch of Oastonla, and was 25 years old. Funeral services will be conducted at the Avon Wesleyan Methodist church this afternoon at 2 o'clock, the services being conducted by the pastor, Rev. E. N. Black. Interment will be in Hollywood cemetery A number of Oastonla merchants report business as up to the standard of last year and a few report even a better business than in 1913. This is perhaps not true in every line of business. The local merchants as a whole appear to be well pleased with the holiday trade. They had to contend with about the worst weather we ever experienced In this section and there was practically no let-up in it throughout the entire holiday shopping season Morris Bros. will, within the next few days, move their business from the corner of Main avenue and South street to No. 126 West Main avenue, the building occupied for several years past by the Gastonia Furniture company. Messrs. w ?? * ?Via n/\wnai? #f?Am Aiorns nave uwupicu mc winvu< which they move for nearly 27 years, having established their business there in February, 1888. The present building was erected by them in 1895. It was purchased a few months ago by Long Brothers and, after being remodeled, will be occupied by J. H. Kennedy & Co., druggists Attorneys A. Li Bulwinkle and R. G. Cherry, of the local bar, have formed a partnership for the practice of law, effective January 1. The firm name will be Bulwinkle & Cherry. The firm will have offices in the Realty building. Captain Bulwinkle is city prosecuting attorney and has been practicing his profession here for several years past. Mr. Cherry began his practice here several months ago. He is a young Gastonian and was educated at Trinity college, where he also studied law Mr. Harley Cloninger, son of "Big Andy*' Cloninger, who lives near Dallas, was married on December 29th to Miss Nellie Abernathy. The ceremony was performed by Rev. A. R. Beck, pastor of the Dallas Lutheran church, at his residence in Dallas. The marriage was a surprise to the friends of the young people, During the ten days of the Christmas holiday season beginning Saturday, December 19, and ending Monday, December 28, Register of Deeds A. J. Smith issued a total of 37 marriage licenses, 31 to white couples and six to colored couples. Gaffney Ledger. Dec. 29' Mr. D. C. V4~j n liver frNwt miles from Gaffney in the Macedonia section of the county, came to Gaffney yesterday morning suffering with a broken jawbone, received in a fight with Flake Allison, a young man who wished to marry Mr. Price's daughter. The Injured man received medical attention at the hands of local physi ~ J /.Amnllrtotlnna QOl In I'lctllS, <1I1U UIUC99 UUlllf/IIVOiiVHO 0V?, mmm he will recover within a short time. An account of the affair which terminated so disastrously for him, as given by Mr. Price, was as follows: Sunday afternoon Allison brought his daughter to Gaffney with the intention of getting married. Mr. Price objected to the proposed marriage^ and so telephoned to Probate Judge ,W. D. Kirby, asking him not to Issue a license to the couple. Upon their arrival the Judge explained the situation, and the young couple went to the home of a friend to await Mr. Price's coming. When he arrived Mr. Price placed his daughter in a buggy and carried her home. Yesterday morning the disappointed swain went to the home of his intended and began to reason the matter with her father. Young Allison was accompanied by his brother. Mr. Price, became exasperated and ordered his visitors to leave. The wouldbe groom accepted the invitation and started to leave, but his brother was more obdurate, whereupon the aggravated father seized an axe. Flake thereupon picked up a stone and cast it at Mr. Price, striking him upon the Jaw with such force that the Jaw was fractured. The young men retired from the scene while Mr. Price came to Gaffney for medical attention Golden Smith, a negro, was arrested Saturday charged with stealing a horse. It is alleged that he rode a saddle horse belonging to Mr. A. G. Susong of the Star Farm section of the county, from Gaffney to Blacksburg, without asking the permission of any one. The negro was arrested at Blacksburg, brought back to Gaffney and lodged in the county Jail Attending physicians yesterday held out no hope for the recovery of Mr. Mac Norman, who was shot In the chest late Saturday afternoon with a 32calibre revolver, by Jim Norman, his son. The shooting, according to both Mr. Norman and his son, was entirely accidental. The tragedy ocurred near the Kings Mountain battleground, in Cherokee county. Jim Norman was out in the yard practicing shooting at toy balloons in the air, u.slng a Smith & Wesson revolver. His father came out of the house, unknown to the young man who continued his target practice. One of the bullets which he fired at a balloon struck his father in the chest, just above the liver and penetrated to the spinal cord, paralyz ed him from the waist down. The injured man was carried to his home and Riven medical attention. Sunday morning he was.placed on a handcar and brought to Blacksburg, at which place he was put on a train and brought to Gaffney In the afternoon. He was carried to the City Hospital, where every effort has been made to save his life, but physicians entertain no hope. Mr. Norman is probably fifty-five years old. while his son appears to be about twenty-one. The young man is prostrated with grief over the accident. He and his mother are both at the hospital A change in rural route number 7 which becomes effective next Friday, January 1, shortens the route slightly and makes it a much better road, while at the same time a greater number of patrons will be served. The change occurs about five miles out from the city where a new road has recently been constructed Mr. Pinckney S. Webber died at his home in the Wllklnsville section of the county Sunday night following a long illness. He was about seventy years of age. Mr. Webber is survived by his wife and four sons, as follows: William. John. Vernie and Howry. He was a member of the Abingdon Creek Baptist church. Ho was also a Confederate veteran, having been a member of Company "F" lf>th regiment, South Carolina volunteers. Mr. Webber was a hard working, highly esteemed and honored citizen of the county. Lancaster News, December 29: On Christmas morning, as Capt. D. E. Penny, the popular conductor of the Lancaster & Chester railway, was leaving Chester, he was bit in the calf of the leg by a dog, which had gotten on the train. Captain Penny found the dog on the train after he had miliar* r?flt nf rtonnt hut ?ftpr in quiry could find no one who claimed I ownership of the animal. He accord-1 ingly took the canine into the baggage coach and while playing with it the dog snapped at his leg, one of the . teeth going Into the flesh. The wound being slight, he would not have been concerned about it, but having put the animal off at Fort Lawn, some one > suspected the animal might be mad and killed it. This excited the cap- 1 tain's fears, so he concluded to send ] the head of the dog to Columbia to t have it examined by the expert on hydrophobia Captain Penny was very * much relieved a few days afterwards * when informed that the examination t disclosed no evidence of rabiea I Mr a n Tavlnr has returned from Columbia, where he has been under* I going treatment In a hospital. Though I still confined to the house, he la con*| siderably Improved In health Mr. L. A. Johnson, son of the late Harold Johnson, who lived In Lancaster 26 years ago, has been on a visit to relatives in the county. Mr. Johnson was much Impressed with the great advancement Lancaster has made since he was here last Married, December 25, at Second Baptist church parsonage, Kelland B. Collins to Miss Bremle Crenshaw, Rev. 8. R. Brock officiating Mr. Luther Blackmon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Blackmon of Taxahaw, and Miss Theo Hln* son. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Hinson of Kershaw, were married Saturday, Dec. 26, Notary Public W. F. Estrldge performing the ceremony.... Lieut. C. M. McMurray. son of Mr. W. c H. P. McMurray of this county, a graduate of the Citadel academy, and c now in the United States army, has a left for Manila j # * Fort Mill Times, Deo. 24: The Rev. . S. P. Hair, one of the members of the * local committee appointed to circulate 1 petitions asking tne general assembly C to call an election for state-wide pro- ^ hlbition, is experiencing little dlfllcul- . ty in securing signatures to his peti- 1 tion. Several of the petitions have been f received by the local committee and it is the intention of the committee to c present the petitions to every qualified voter of the town and township. c Invitations have been received d in Fort Mill to the approaching mar- j rlage of Miss Zorada Bailes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bailes, of Low- c er Mecklenburg, and Mr. William S. a McClelland, of this township. The h marriage is to take place the evening c of December 30, at the home of Mr. . and Mrs. Bailes, four miles west of 1 Plneville Mrs. William Ingram died I Monday at the home or ner motner. Mrs. M. L. Kimbrell, In the village of the MUlfort Mill company, and the burial was made Tuesday in the city cemetery. Mrs. Ingram's death was due to pneumonia, from which disease she had been ill for about one week. Besides her husband, she Is survived by one child. STATEWIDE PROHIBITION Secretary Breed in Gives Out a Statement. Mr. J. K. Breedln of Manning, who is in charge of the movement that seeks for its object the enactment by the general assembly of a law that will enable the people of South Carolina to vote on the Prohibition question next summer has given out the following statement: ? "The reasons for prohibition urged 1 a few years ago are just as potent to- * day; but there are other reasons which t are appealing to the popular imagina- j tion, such as the diversion of money ( from the purchase of staples to the j :?dtchA<i**f Htpfr. .Wbr W?wi***hnvtnw ij no dispensaries have enjoyed a meas- 1 ure of trade in proportion to the pur chasing ability of the community; J whereas the towns with dispensaries i have divided with the dispensaries, t The prohibition issue is appreciated 1 by everyone in such concrete form as y that. Flour, shoes, bacon, a chicken t for Christmas dinner and a few inex- t pensive but heart-gladdening trinkets J -klUPM nn dim hand and 11- t quor and coarse, selfish indulgence on the other," Mr. Breedin has a heavy correspondence and keeps in close touch, he says, with conditions throughout the ' state. He said the example of Russia had made a great impression. "I have copied parts of George Kennan's article on 'Prohibition in Russia,' in the Outlook of December 16. The Russians have no alcohol of any kind now. The papers have mistakenly reported the czar's decree as banishing vodka only, but Kennan says 'the czar extended the order . . . and made it include not only vodka, but strong wines, beer?everything.* And Kennan's authorities speak strongly of t'ie successful working of prohibition tuere. "I can not read without admiration the finely phrased sentiment of the czar on the subject, and think we c might appropriate it. 'The success of ? the vodka monopoly was based on the e ruin of the spiritual and economic r forces of the people Our revenue a must be based on the inexhaustible 0 wealth of the country and the productive labor of its inhabitants.' That t succinctly states what I conceive to be t a fine discernment of statesmanlike f policy. J "My mail today brings so many as- ? surances of support that I may con- f servatively expect the general assem- 1 ki>, tha pofpronHum " p THE BREVITY OF ENGLI8H ? Require* Lets Word* to Expre** the ? Same Idea*. t! At the international road congress * last year the reports of all the sections were printed in parallel columns in v French, German and English, the h three versions being exact translations J' of each other, according to the Man- t| Chester Guardian. The English report o Invariably finished first, sometimes It b won. by a whole page. As a rule the French report was the most diffuse. c This brevity of English is partly ex- F plained by the fact that English is ? made up to an extraordinary extent of n words of one syllable. Its nouns, hav- r ing unlike the German, lost all their c inflections excent the possessive "s," j' have become mere roots, a very large c proportion of the monosyllabic. In p Germany a monosyllabic root practically always gets an extra syllable * tacked on by way of case-ending. In g thp spennd Dlace Enellsh has little of g the elaborate and explicit machinery of structure that French has, so It f, saves space in propositions and such b paraphernalia. Instead English has n what the grammarians call incipient a agglutination?that is, sticking words j; together in groups without either prep- o ositions or case endings to connect them. An example of the former kind g of brevity is a word like "earthquake" f< two syllables compared with the Ger- m man "erdbeben," three syllables, and ^ the French "tremblemen de terre," five syllables. An example of the terse- fc ness of English would be a phrase like C( "I have been to the house and have e] now come back;" every word a single al syllable. In a telegram this would be le just as intelligible in the form "Been ai house now back." You cannot carry tl that sort of thing far In any other European language. SHOULD SELL DIRECT Warehouse Commissioner Talks of Cotton and Finanot. An Interview with R. H. Paddtson, leputy United States shipping comnlasloner for the port of Now York, >ublished December 23, In the Cdum>la State, in which Mr. Paddlaon ipoke of the urgent demand abroad 'or American cotton, especially among he belligerents In the European war, las brought down upon the state warehouse commissioner, John L. ifcLaurln, some hundreds of letters, nqulrlng in most cases whether South Carolina might- not exploit this d?nand to advantage. Mr. McLaurln has drafted a letter In eply to all such Inquiries, In which is says, among oth"r things, that he leems it advisable that his powers be io enlarged as to enable him to negolate sales direct with foreign spinier*. "The reserves are exhausted," te says, "and they are obliged to lave our cotton." Mr. McLaurln's letter follows: Foreigners Buy Futuref. Dear Sir: I have your letter of reent date, In reference to shipment of otton abroad. I have written several rtlcles on this subject, and mRpFfth n close vou a statement alven out by ne, which wu published insthe Coumbia State of December 9, in which called attention to the fact that the terman and Austrian government* ioth were buying future* In the New fork markets to protect their manuacturers. When I was a member of the United States senate I was very severely rttlclsed for advocating ship subsilles. I recognised as far back as 900 that the south, producing the ihief export crop of this country, was .t a great disadvantage 'because we tad to depend upon foreign vessels to arry our products abroad. Germany, Cn viand, France and Japan were payng heavy subsidies to their ships, and he Inevitable result was to drive the . American merchant flag from the sea. U the time that I took this stand here was only one line of American ressels left, and this has now gone unler foreign flags. The fact is that a tonslder&ble portion of the money forested in foreign ships is American noney, and they went under foreign lags in order to participate in these lubsidies. But. under the terms of he subsidy, as soon as war is declared all of these ships become a part of Ha now A# iha AAiinimr wVinaa Maws hey are flying. In our extremity President Wilson s proposing that the government buy he ships outright and allow private jersons or corporations to operate hem. Tip to the President. It seems to me that if the Federal idministration had sufficient back>one to announce positively that colon, not being a contraband of war. vould be shipped to any country in he world, under the protection of the American navy, that none of the sountrles now at war would dare to i nterfere. As it is, it looks as if Eng? ng thir in connection with the fact hat the secretary of the treasury is responsible for exporting to the Bank >f England enough gold to have >ought one-half of the cotton crop, it leems that the south is expected to :ontribute at least one-half of this :rop to enable England to conduct the var to a successful conclusion. About he time that the treasury department nade this large contribution of gold o the Bank of England, the British ninistry gave notice to tne spinners hat they could not furnish funds for he purchase of American cotton, and hat they must consume their relerves. The effect of this, Just as this arge crop came on ' the market, was o cut prices half In two. If there had >een no war, the action of the secreary of the treasury alone would have lestroyed one-half of the value of the iotton crop of the south. I have never been able to see why, vhen England and all the other coun rles in Europe declared a moratorium he United' States should not nave lone the same thin? by suspending pecie payments. Two hundred mil- Ion dollars of gold was exported to England In August and September. Phis was equivalent to $800,0011.000 of taper money, enough to have bought he entire cotton crop at 10 cents per tound. The reason assigned for doing his was that It would protect Amerlan credit, but it seems to me that American credit could have been beter guarded by forcing a high price or our export products than by deluding this country of gold to protect K>nds and stocks in the New York exhange. It is far more important that >ur domestic debts, due our own banks nd merchants be met, than that bankirs and brokers in New York should a eceive all the aid from the Federal administration to maintain the price if paper securities. Wade Plan Misused. The Wade plan was "the tub thrown o the whale," and instead of helping he producer, merely furnishes a fund or the cotton spinners to buy at reluced prices. I have positive knowldge that, instead of lending this aoney to farmers to hold their cotton or an advance, it is being loaned to he mills to buy at present low aiuco. The only remedy I see Is to refuse to art with our cotton and enlarge the towers conferred upon the state ware louse commissioner under the warelouse act so as to permit the commisloner to negotiate bales direct with he foreign spinners. Their reserves re exhausted and they are obliged to ave our cotton. I have been watching the situation ery closely and I am satisfied that it j not so much the lack of ships as it i taking advantage of the war situsIon to charge enormous freights and hat no concerted effort is being made n behalf of the producers of cotton ut that all the efforts have been In avor of the consumers. I see by the market reports that otton Is bringing 25 cents a pound in iussla, Germany and other countries / t Europe. They not only have to ave the raw material to keep the illls going, but also to replenish their eserves. If the farmers will hold their otton and reduce their acreage at ?ast 50 per cent they will have time 3 study the situation and then the rop of 1915 will reward them for their rudence and intelligence. The farm i the primary source of wealth and re should not only practice dlversifiatlon but, what is more important, , cientiflc co-operation. Cotton being of eneral utility should be under govrnment control for the benefit of proucer and consumer. Why should a irmer market his cotton on a grade elow middling when it classes above llddling? Why should the market seed at $12 a I- ? Wa nrk/vn I* im K ?< rri *-t CT lUfl III UIIC lun 11 uc nycii IV to ui uigiiig 27 a ton in another place? Why should nmpressps and mills and warehouses , lake from 50 to 100 per cent on their lvestments, when the farmer is not etting enough out of this crop to pay >r the labor? Why is it that the iasa of cotton farmers are impoverihed while the middle people are enched? The new currency law is arranged >r the banks to help themselves by >-operative and scientific helpfulness nd we will never be aught save hewpsof wood and drawers of water uYitll II of the cotton states, through their glslatures, take control of acreage nd the handling and marketing of le crop. Sincerely, Jno. L. McLaurin. State Warehouse Commissioner.