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[ ^^ ^ ISSUED SEMI-WKKEL^ l. x. grist's sons, PobU.h.r., J % #milj Hewspageii: 4or tk^ {promotion of thi; gnlitioal, gonial, Hjrieultuna! and Commercial Jnttresis of ihn Jto|)ln. | E3TABMSHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY^, 1915. NO. 3 I iu UIA AUIU TDCWrU IVOVEMB THE DETECTIVE By HESKETH Copyright, 1913, by Hesketh Prlchi CHAPTER XVI. I The Capture. As we walked Joe gave me In little Jerks the story of his adventures. "I started out, Mr. Quaritch," he began, "and crossed the lake to the camp where Bill Worke was fired at ?you mind Miss Linda dropped a brooch there? I had a search for it, but I didn't find it, though I come across what I'd hoped to find?a lot of tracks?men's tracks. "Who had been there since Saturday?" "Huh! Yes: only about two days old. After awhile I built a bit of a fire and cooked a pinch of tea in a ^ tin I'd fetched along. Then after B lunk"?Joe always called lunch B "lunk" ?"I started back. I was coming along easy, not on the path, but in the wood about twenty yards to the L south of it. and afore I'd gone above B three or four acres a shot was fired at \ me from above. The bullet didn't strike me, but as I was in a wonderful poor place for cover?Just three or four spruces and hair a dozen sucks of wild raspberry?I went down, pretending I'd got the bullet, pitched over the way a man does that's got it high up, and I took care to get the biggest spruce trunk between me and where I think the shots come from. "Sometimes, if you go down like that, a man'U get rattled-like and ' come out, but not this one. Guess I'm not the first he's put a bit of lead into. "He lay still and fired again? 1 got me in the shoulder that time, and I gave a kick and shoved in among the raspberry canes in good earnest, had some of them whitey buds in my l mouth and was chewing of them, when the fella shoots twice more? 1 both misses. Then he kind o' paused, i and I guesses he's going to move to I where he can let me have it again. w "I see the black hat on him for a 1 moment and then I lets drive. I tried 1 to get up to have a look at him. "Surely that was risky. How could you know he was dead?" 1 "Heard the bullet strike and saw the hat go backward. A man don't never fall over backward when he's shamming. I couldn't get to him? fainted, I guess. Then you come along." I Evening had fallen before we ultimately arrived at Kalmacks. We approached tho houav with care and en- I tered by a window at the back, as 1 Joe thought it possible the front entrances might be commanded from the woods on that side. We went at once to the room where Worke was lying and Joe gave him a rapid description of the man he had shot. "That's Tomllnson," said Worke at / ' y ^j| GUtAH / / j/ "You'd boot join your hands abovo your head, Ben Puttick." once. "There's two brothers lives together. What have they been doing?" "You'll know that afore night," replied Joe. "What are their names?" "Dandy is the one with the black beard, while him they calls Muppy is a foxy colored man." "Thank you." said Joe. "Now, Bill, kif you keep them names to yourself I'll come back in half an hour and tell you who it was shot you." On Joe's appearance Linda started up and ran to him. "You're wounded!" she cried. "It's nothin' much. Miss Linda." But as we laid him down on the couch he seemed to lose consciousness Petersham brought brandy, and Linda, holding Joe's head upon her arm, put it to his lips. He swallowed some of it and then insisted upon sitting up. "I must bind up your shoulder. We must stop the bleeding." Linda's distress and anxiety were very evident. * - J - j a. -i..? ...... u Anu jut? nau IU give naj. mui uw capable and gentle hands Linda soon dressed the wound and afterward insisted on sending for Puttick to help him to his bunk. "So you've got it?" Puttick said. "I warned you. Lucky you're not dead." "Yes, ain't it?" returned Joe. Well I knew that soft drawl, which November's voice never took except ( in moments of fiercest tension. "You'd best join your hands above your head, Ben Puttick. Lock the thumbs. That's right!" Joe had picked my revolver from the table and held it pointed at Put lick's breast. "He's mad!" screamed Puttick. er Joe. OF THE WOODS. PRICHARD. ard. "Tie his hands, Mr. Quaritch. Miss Linda, will you please go away?" "No, Joe. Do you think I'm frightened?" "Huh! I know you're brave, but a man acts freer without the women looking on." Without a wr-'d she turned and walked out of the room. "Puttlck's going to confess, Mr. Petersham," went on November. "I've nothing to confess, you fool!" "Not even that story you invented about hte man with the red hanker o/.moo >iin fnr>p?the man who wasn't never there?" "What's he ravin' about?" cried Puttlck. "Have you forgot them long haired Tomlinson brothers that"? The effect of this speech on Puttick was instantaneous. Evidently he leaped to the conclusion that he had been betrayed, for he turned and dashed for the door. We flung ourselves upon him and by sheer weight bore him to the ground, where we quickly overpowered him, snarling and writhing. Some hours later we sat around November Joe who was stretched upon the couch. Puttick had been tied up and Imprisoned in the strongest room. "No, Mr. Petersham," Joe was saying. "I don't think you'll have much more trouble. There was only three men in it. One's dead; one's locked up, and I dare say we'll And a way of dealing with No. 3." "What I don't understand," said Linda, "is how you found out that Puttick was in it. When did you begin to suspect him?" "Last night, when Mr. Petersham didn't go to Butler's cairn. The fellas who promised to meet him never put in there, either. That was queer, wasn't it? Of course it could mean one thing?that some one told them that Mr. Petersham weren't coming. There was only us three, and Puttick knew. So Puttick must 'a' been the one to tell." "But, November," I said, "Puttick never left the house, for you remember you found no tracks on the sand. How, then, could he let them know?" "I guess he waved a lanteii or made some other sign they agreed on." "But why didn't you tell me all this at once?" exclaimed Petersham. "Because I weren't sure. Their not going to Butler's cairn might 'a* been chance. But this morning, when Puttick comes in with his yarn about the man with the red hanker across his face that made him hold up his hands anrJ threatened him when he was mending the canoe, I begun to think we shouldn't be so much longer in the dark. And when I went down and had a look around by the river, I knew at once his story was a lie, and that he'd got an interest in scaring Mr. Petersham away." "How did you know that?" "You mind Puttick said the fella come just when he was beglnnin' to mend the canoe? I took a look at the work he'd done on it and he couldn't 'a' got through all that under an hour. He's fixed a little square of tin over the rent as neat as neat. And then wasn't it queer the fella should have come on him there?a place he wouldn't be in not one morning of a hundred ?" "You believe he made up the whole story? And that no one came at all?" "I'm pretty sure of it. There wasn't a sign or track and as to the fella's jumpin' from stone to stone, there's distances of fourteen and sixteen feet between. Still he might 'a' done it, or he might 'a' walked in the water, and I were not going to speak till I were sure." "Go on. We're still in the dark, Joe," said Linda. "Well, Miss Linda, you remember how Puttick advised Mr. Petersham to pay or go, and how I told him to stick it out, and when I'd given him that advice, I said to you that I was going across to Senlis lake, and asked Mr. Quaritch to tell Puttick. I thought there was a good chance that Puttick would put on some of his partners to scare me. You see nobody knew which way I were going but you and him, so it'd be fair certain that if I was interfered with it would prove Puttick guilty." "That was clever, though you ran a Vinrrihlo Hslr Was tharfe anv narticil lar reason why you chose to go to Senlis lake?" "Sure. 1 wanted to see If any one had been over there looking for your brooch, On'y us and Puttick knew it was lost, and you'd said how your father had paid dollars and dollars for it. When a thing like that's lost woodsmen'!! go miles to try to And it, and Puttick must 'a' told the Tomlinsons, for there was tracks all around our fire where we boiled the kettle." "Do you think they found my brooch?" "Huh! No. I pick' it up myself five minutes after you drop' it. I only kep' it, pretendin' it was lost, as a bait like. I've told you what happened to me coming back and how I had to shoot Dandy Tomlinson. His shooting at me after I was down give me a surprise. for I didn't think he'd want to do more than scare me, but I guess it was natural enough, for Puttick was gettin' rattled at me always nosin' around." "It's all very clear, November, and we know everything except who it was shot Bill Worke." "I eruess Munov Tomlinson's the man." "What makes you think that?" "Fill was shot with a 45-75 rifle. Hoth Puttiek and Dandy Tomlinson carries 30-30's. Muppy's rifle is a 45-75." "How can you know what sort of rifle was used to shoot with? The bullet was never found." said Linda. "I picked up the shell the first time I was over with you." "And you never told me!" said she. "Hut that doesn't matter. What I'm really angTy with you for Is your making me promise not to go out yesterday and then deliberately going out yourself to draw their fire. Why did you do it? If you had been killed I should never have got over it." "And what 'ud I have done if you'd been killed, Miss Linda?" "What do you mean, Joe?" said Linda softly. "I mean that if one of the party I were with got killed in the woods while I was their guide I'd go right into Quebec and run a boarding house or become a politician. That's all I'd be good for!" (To Be Continued.) BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. One Hundred Years Ago Great Victory Was Won by Americans. Written for The Yorkville Enquirer: One hundred years ago today, a great battle was fought in the city of New Orleans, between American and British troops. And the strangest fact of all was that the two nations engaging in the fight were not at war when the fight took place. It was during the war of 1812. For two years the United States had been at war with England. Neither side had gained any really decisive victory. Commodore Perry and other American naval commanders had wiped out a number of English men-o'-war and merchant vessels; while on the other hand, the British had burned Washington and done much other damage on lund. Fourteen days before this battle, the Treaty of Ghent, by which peace had been declared, had been signed. How could the opposing armies in America know of the signing of this declara tion of peace in the Flemish town of Ghent? There were no cables under th? sea in those days; wireless telegraphy was an invention undreamed of?neither were there steamboats. The crossing of the Atlantic was a matter of weeks, not days. So for some time after the signing of this treaty the fighting went on England had numerous soldiers in America, and the Americans were putting forth every effort. This battle of New Orleans, fought January 8, 1815, wa3 not a great battie from point of numbers. It was decisive, however, and its outcome was awaited just as keenly as are the results of fights between the Allies and Germans and Austrians in Europe, today. Sir Edward Packenham, who commr.r.d'.-d the English troops at this battle of New Orleans, was regarded as being just as great a soldier as is Earl Kitchener or Sir John French, in England, at the present time. The flower of the English army was at his command?the English people swore by their general and his fine soldiers. On the American side there were a number of backwoodsmen, utterly untrained in the art of war. True, they had fought in previous battles, and many of them were veterans of the Revolution; but between fighting and plowing, they had never had the chance to be trained in military tactics, etc., as had their foes. Their muskets included a wide variety of manufacture; and their uniforms?if they could be termed as such, were never intended for active service. Andrew Jackson (Old Hickory) their commander, had a great deal of experience in fighting Indians, but not Tr?no-li?h Still he had the eouraee and determination to win; and furthermore possessed the love and esteem of his men. For several days English ships, filled with English soldiers, had been lying in the harbor of New Orleans. Old Hickory's troops were in the city ?every man he could rake and scrape, about 6,000 strong they were, and they were kept busy making barricades, etc., of bales of cotton. It was on a pretty morning that the English made their attack, their famous chieftain at the front. With drums beating and flags flying they advanced in solid formation; and and when the order was given, they made a rush to storm the cotton barricades. There were 12,000 of these splendid English troops?double the number of Americans. The cotton bales were not easily taken, however, and a withering fire from American guns met each and every attack. Charges of grape and canister were poured into them, and the eager Americans even rushed from behind their breastworks to grapple the enemy, whose musket fire and cannon shots did little harm. It was a short battle. In fact it lasted only 25 minutes, historians say. The pride of England could not withstand such fire. Sir Edward Packenham fell. His troops were disheartened. They broke and fled, leaving 2,600 of their number upon the field. The American loss was eight killed and thirteen wounded. Next morning the English ships had left the fair harbor of New Orleans. A few days later news of the Treaty of Ghent was received, and remaining English troops in the United States took their departure for home. It lacks only a few days of being 100 years since English troops set foot on American soil as foes. HABITS OF WORKING MEN. The American Workman Reveals Strongest Social Spirit. A professor of Columbia University has recently completed a test of character of 1,000 working men of different sections of the United States and his report reveals some interesting tendencies of the average laborer. Prominent among his discoveries was the revelation that nine men in every ten laborers occupy a large amount of their spare time in reading the newspapers, and that this number of them are subscribers to their local publications. Next to the time spent with his Family, tne American laoorer cnviues his spare moments in visiting friends and in reading newspapers. Of the thousand men investigated 29 nationalities and 164 occupations were represented and 300 of them belonged to trade unions. There were 580 church members, while 420 did not profess religion, six men in every ten are regular patrons of the picture shows and only three in ten used intoxicants in any form. Taking the one thousand men investigated as a fair example of the average laborer, the American workman reveals the strongest social spirit of any civilized nation on the globe. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS! i As Traced Id Early Files of Tbe J Yorkvllle Enquirer < NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY I . ( Bringing Up Records of the Paet and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowlidge of the Things that Most Concerned Generatiens that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 103D INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Nov. 28, 1861). Editorial Correspondence. Centervllle, Fairfax, Va,. Tuesday Evening, Nov. 19, 1861. Dear Enquirer:?A troop of Col. Jones' cavalry captured on Saturday evening, a captain, lieutenant and 26 privates of the 30th New York regl- ^ ment, while out on a foraging expe- c dition. The achievement was a bloodless one. A detail of five men from each company of the regiment, had been sent with five wagons after corn, to a place about three miles this side of Fall's church. They had stacked their guns some distance from the corn heaps, where a detachment of some ten other men were husking the corn; and Just as they had loaded the wagons and were about to return, the troops dashed up, surrounded them and secured about half the men, with the wagons, teams and corn?the others making their escape by virtue o leg-bail. The prisoners were detailed here until Sunday evening, when they started under guard "on to Richmond." Last night, while we were pacing the "dreary rounds" of sentinel to relieve a sick friend, the monotony was relieved by the sudden appearance on the stoney street of another squad of horsemen, riding two abreast with a Hessian each between them. These had been captured in a brisk little j skirmish at a picket station, two miles a this side of Fall's church, yesterday fl afternoon. They belonged to the e Brooklyn Chassieurs, and were on e one of the advanced posts of the c enemy. The skirmish took place be- a tween about fifty of them, and an f equal number of our videttes, under t Col. Jones. When our men suddenly j. appeared before them, they were in y an open space, but hastily retreated to a covert of dense forest, our troops a in hot pursuit . There they made a f stand; and the undergrowth being t too thick for cavalry, our videttes dismounted; and leaving a portion behind to hold the horses, dashed after them, emptying a well-aimed fire from their carbines into the bushes. Tho onemv nro rpnresonted to have I fought furiously; but in ten or fifteen minutes their case becoming hopeless, succumbed to our gallant, spirited horsemen. Lieut. Col. Lee of our cavalry, had his horse shot under him, while galloping up to the woods, and Trooper Chichester was killed? two or three being seriously wounded on our side. The enemy sustained a loss of six killed and eleven prisoners, three of whom are wounded. The prisoners were mounted behind, and the videttes left in "hot haste," bringing off a few guns, for the enemy's relief had already hove in sight. These prisoners are now in the guard house here, together with a deserter from the New York 30th regiment. We have conversed with all these men more or less, but did not ascertain anything of much Interest. Some of them are quite stubborn and silent; others pert and impudent, while some few are gentlemanly in bearing, speak in praise of their governfnent and general, and uphold their flag, but repudiate any feeling of disrespect or hatred to the southern people. Some say they wish the war was ended, and that the south might have seceded peaceably if she had gone about it in the right way. Others talk glibly of subjugating us, recovering their property and maintaining their government. All agree that all their troops now in the field are for the war; and all indulge in a very palpable chuckle of triumph over the affair at Port Royal. All farther, we believe, confess that McClellan is their last hope, and that if we whip him soundly, we conquer a peace. Of course we do not put the same in a n v r\t thooe can vine's that we do in the Bible. But as they draw such 1 | crowds of our soldiers to the guard J house to hear them uttered, they may t | Interest the reader when found in t print. McClellan's advancement this winter j is still a vexed question. It is said I that a party of northern capitalists waited on the government recently, and decided that If McClellan does not j advance, they must withhold the money. But he flatly refused to do jo; J because he would have to march up- 0 on the flower of the southern army, o well fortified and under our ablest t generals; and the result could be j: nothing but disastrous. Yet another j, rumor, confirmed by the prisoners, is t that the Yankees are making no prep- j; arations to go into winter quarters ( that they are being provided with c winter tents, and that an advance will 1 be made at the proper time. f Our army, while actively guarding s and strengthening their position, feel i now, "Animis opibusque pariti" for ^ fhft ff,o nnrl confident of victory when f he comes, under the smile of heaven, t we can gratify them either way, s whether he comt-s or stays; for those jj who think that the spirits of the sol- j, diery tlag under any hardship, wheth- a er of fighting;, marching, drilling or even drudgery and aelay, are ignorant of their metal, and the ardent patri- s otism which makes it malleable to any a condition of self-sacrifice s nd devotion. P A courier rode into town an hour n .... ? _ or two ago, ror an ine surgeons wno * could he spared at this point, to re- * port themselves at Evansport. He t brought the news that a light hud t commenced this morning early, be- 1 tween t lie enemy's war steamers on :he river and batteries on the oppolite shore, and our blockading batteres at that place. The courier said hat "a great many of our men were tilled or wounded," but thought that ve were victorious, though he was not jertaln of the result. The firing, vhich was very heavy, was distincty heard at this place. The Enquirer has brought us "L. M. 3.'s" very interesting account of the iffair at Port Royal. The Charleston, Columbia and Richmond papers furilshcd us with numerous details. Several of the S. C. colonels, we are nformed, made immediate applica:ion to be transferred to our coast; ind every mother's son of us would )e glad to assist in repelling the Invader from our native soil. But we Jo not believe any disaster Imminent, sufficient to require a transfer, while ve have every confidence in the abiliy of those at home to defend the itate. Nor is the sequence of Port rtoyal unattended by omens of good o inspire anew the patriot's confllence in the favor of Providence. l ms spacious naruor snuuiu nave uau i Fort Sumter frowning from amid Its vaves long ago; and this reverse vlll be a potent argument In the nouths of our future statesmen to iave It done. Besides "battlefields enlear uo to our sod." We all know vith what price we have cherished he recollection of Moultrie, Eutaw, ^owpens and King's Mountain. Some if the purest inspiration we ever inlaled with "the blessed air," was aught amid the ruins of the old itockade post at Ninety Six, the size if which was itself a failure. Now, he bombardment of Port Royal, alike vith the reduction of Fort Sumter, vlll fret our seaborder with a goldn edging, as if kissed by the sun of iberty itself. For the same heroism, he same devoted patriotism, the iame attachment to Carolina, the same ove of our rights, homes and liberies, and the same determination to lefend and maintain them, fought at >otih places. There is not a soul imong us that does not feel deeper n Its core, the patriot's growing love or his country; nor one that, for this ixpected and next to unavoidable re erse, covers under a moment's deipondency. The generous flames of reedom will burn brighter and still irlghter, and the spirit of our people vlll rise with every new trial of its inconquerable vigor and inspiration. Our sympathies are with the famlIat orhn hova Koon rl iron frnm thoir iea.-girt homes; our heart is with the itate in this her hour of new-enkindl(d indignation; but let no spasm of >xcitement seize the people. Let the aim of greatness amid great events, rnd the order and power that spring rom the prevalence of all heroic virucs among a people, rule in this leaven sent revelation; and if the vorst come to the worst, we will renact Thermoplea on Carolina soil, md leave to future ages at least the ;?nd example of a whole people deermlned to be free or die. Our Corporal. (To be continued.) AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Jp to the State to Supplement Funds Provided by Lever Law. The following letter from Represenative Lever is a reply to a letter from he editor of The Enquirer asking for :ertain information about the co-operative demonstration work, and more especially as to where the money eomes from. It will be noticed that dr. Lever again calls attention to the iressing importance of a state appreciation in order that South Carolina nay obtain the fullest benefit of what s known as the Lever Extension Act, he object of which is to bring infornation as to better methods direct to he homes of the farming population, rhe letter is worth careful conslderaion: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Washington, January 4, 1915. Sditor Yorkville Enquirer: I am very glad indeed to give you he information requested in your faror of the 2nd. instant. Farm demonitration work in South Carolina was, intil recently, conducted out of funds urnished Jointly by the General Eduction board and the department of igriculture. The General Education >oard supplied about one half of the unds and the department the other lalf, the total amount available being >666,000. Several years ago Clemson :ollege, out of its funds, began to conrlbute and co-operate in this work. During the last congress an amendnent was put on to the Agriculture ippropriation bill which prohibited he Department of Agriculture from icceptlng funds contributed by organzations such as the General Educaion board, but making it permissible or the department to accept funds :ontributed by state, county and mulicipal agencies, associations of farmrs, individual farmers, chambers of :ommerce and organizations of such :haracter within the state or county ind appropriated a sum equal to that leretofore available from the funds of he General Education board and the egular appropriation for the Departnent of agriculture for this purpose. >Ve, therefore, have available for the iscal year ending June 30th, 1915. ;666,000 of Federal funds, and in addiion to this there is an appropriation o the state of South Carolina of $10 00 under the terms of the Lever Exension act, and this is supplemented >y an amount appropriated by demon college?just how much 1 am not ible to recall. The General Education >oard, since July 1st, 1914, has not >een contributing any funds to the lemonstration work in South Carolina. trust this gives you the information 'ou wish and that it will serve your >urpose. I am enclosing you herewith a copy if the Agricultural Extension act reerred to above, together with a copy if my report upon the same. You will ibserve that the state will be called ipon by its legislature to accept the , provisions of this act and contribute ts share toward the work. It is of the lighest importance, in my judgment, hat the provisions of this Act should ?e accepted promptly and that a fund pe created by the state out of which ( o meet its pro rata share of the inreasing Federal funds. You will no- ! ice that there is an unconditional appropriation from the Federal govern- : nent which can be had only when the | tate has done certain things named n the act. When this act ripens j South Carolina will be entitled to over 100.000 of Federal funds, provided ( he state puts up the fund required by , he act. If the state does this we , hould finally have a permanent fund f more than $200 000 for farm demnstration and home economics work n the state. I do not believe there is < more effective agency of education I a the state than can be provided i inder the terms of this act. The truth i s that the demonstration work of the ? tate, handicapped for a lack of funds 1 nd trained men. is working a quiet < ut positive revolution in the agricul- I ure of the state. This act proposes to ] nlarge the scope of this work and to i lake it permanent. I sincerely trust ! hat every real friend of agriculture < /111 urge upon the legislature as 1 trongly as possible the acceptance of 1 he terms of this act. It means more i o the state than any other one thing I hat I see can be done. I Very truly, ! A. P. Lever. i TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANIiES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaira ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Rock Hill Record, Jan. 4: The Record learns this morning: that Mr. J. W. Lynch, who has had charge of the Rock Hill Gas Co.'s business here since its installation, will leave Wednesday night for Newtown, Pa., where he will take cnarge 01 me piani hi that place. Mr. Lynch has made many warm friends here who will learn with regret of this, but who wish him much success in his new place. His family will remain here for possibly two months and he will return later to move them to Newtown. He will be succeeded here by Mr. E. R. Guard, a most pleasant and affable gentleman who has been in the city for some time past with the company and who will take charge of the plant here At the morning service yesterday, the Rev. C. W. Boyd, rector of the church of Our Savior, notified his congregation that he had accepted a call to the St. Helena parish church at Beaufort, and that he would go there February 1st, to take up his new charge All of the public schools of Rock Hill resumed work today after the holidays. Mr. Geo. D. White has gone to Philadelphia to accept a position with Mr. J. H. Daingerfleld In the yarn commission business. Mr. White is a nauve or hock mu, uui iuu mc greater part of his life in Charlotte... Gaffney Ledger, Jan. 5: Supervisor-elect John M. Jenkins will take charge of the office today. The retiring supervisor, Mr. E. Felix Lipscomb, has made complete preparations to turn the office over to his successor. Mr. Jenkins is a competent civil engineer and has devoted much time and thought to problems that he will likely be called upon to face in the performance of the duties of supervisor. He is also an excellent business man and is capable of giving the county a thoroughly satisfactory administration of the office. Mr. Lipscomb, who will after today be ex-supervisor, was first elected to the office in 1906 for a two year term. He has been elected twice in succession since then, once for another two years term and the last time for a four year term. It has been truthfully said that Cherokee county's public roads have been developed to a greater degree than any other county in the this state. After today, Mr. R. F. Spencer of Gaffney, Route 6, will be coroner in Cherokee county, succeeding Mr. J. S. Vinesett. The retiring coroner held the office for sixteen consecutive years, during which time he performed his duties faithfullv and to the satisfaction of the people. Mr. Jasper Thomas, aged eightyone years, died at his home in the Thlckety section of the county Saturday, following a month's illness. The remains were buried Sunday at Beaverdam church, the funeral sermon being preached by Rev. A. D. Davidson. He is survived by his wife. Mr. Thomas was very highly respected in his community and had many friends in all parts of the county Cupid was affected but little in Cherokee county by hard times of last year, the number of marriage licenses being only four less than the number issued the previous year. There were 243 licenses Isstted in ^1914, -as compared with 247 In 1913 Several pages of the county auditor's 1914 tax return book suffered serious injury from Are early Friday morning, ^ncle Jake, the court house janitor, had made the Are as usual in the grate and left the room and the burning book was discovered a short while later. Various suggestions as to the manner in which the book became ignited have been made, but none are authentic Local registrars in Cherokee county, who are charged with the enforcement of the vital statistics law, are as follows: Gaffney? W. F. Smith, secretary of the board of health; Cherokee town ship?Dr. V. Al. KODeriB, tsiacKsourg, T. L. Neal, Cherokee Falls; W. R. Hambrlght, (3rover, N. C., Route 1; Morgan township?G. G. Scruggs Gaffney R. F. D. No. 9; J. Gardner, GafTney, R. F. D.; White Planes township?Thomas Lipscomb, Gaffney, R. F. D.; Gowdeysville township; Sam J. Strain, Wilkinsvllle; Draytonville?E. L Tate, Gaffney, R. F. D.: A. S. Goudelock, Gaffney, R. F. D.; Limestone township?H. F. Pritchard, Gaffney, R. F. D. * * Chester Reporter, Jan. 4: Messrs. A. G. Brice and W. W. Stokes are announced for the state senate to succeed the late P. L. Hardin, and it is not believed that there will be any other candidates. Both say they will make no speeches or do any extensive campaigning, but merely allow the voters to register their choice At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. W. McD. Westbrook Saturday, the stock of goods and the cash register were sold to Mr. W. R. Foreman, of Charlotte, for $1,350. Mr. Foreman, it is understood, will ship his purchase to Charlotte in a few days At the regular monthly meeting of the county commissioners this morning at the office of County Supervisor T. J. Cunningham very little was done except of a routine nature. It was decided to postpone the election of a clerk until the March meeting, and one of the commissioners will act in that capacity in the meantime. Resolutions were passed complimenting Col. Cunningham and Mr. R. L. Douglas, retirir supervisor and clerk respectively, for their SDlendid work. Supervisor-elect D. G. Anderson will take charge of the office as soon as his commission arrives, which will probably be tomorrow Mr. Joe S. Terry, accomDanied by Mrs. Terry, his sister, Miss Freddie Terry, his brother-in-law, Mr. Hendrix, of Columbia, and Dr A. M. Wylie, left last night for Baltimore where specialists will be consulted with regard to the paralysis that has troubled Mr. Terry since he was wounded in November Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Coolger will regret to learn that the latter was called to Hephzibah, Ga? this morning by the sudden death of her father. Rev. Charles M. Carswell At the regular monthly meeting of the Chester County Medical association Thursday afternoon, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr. Geo. A. Hennies, president; Dr. J. G. Johnston. vice president; and Dr. R. E Abell, secretary and treasurer... .The annual meeting of the Chester County Farmers Mutual Fire insurance association was held at the court house at noon today, and the reports of the officers showed the organization to be in most excellent condition. The association has now in force insurance amounting to $1,050,000, and new business is constantly being added. On motion the entire board of directors was re-elected, as follows: R. O. Atkinson, R. H. Ferguson, A. F. Pressley, J. M. Boulware. J. R. Reid, N. H Stone, A. M. McKeown and W. B Boyd. Hon. S. T. McKeown was reflected president, Mr. R. H. Ferguson, vice president, and Mr. Walter Simpson, agent and secretary. # * Gastonia Gazette, Jan. 5: The local of the insurance denartment of the Knights of Pythias held their ungual meeting last night in the lodge room. Officers were cnosen for the -nsuing year as follows: President, R. R. Babington; vice-president, T. L. Craig; secretary and treasurer, J. H. Kennedy; medical examiners, Drs. J. M. Sloan. H. F. Glenn and D. A. Garrison. The past year has been a most successful one. There has not been a Jeath In the local lodge nor has there been a single policy to lapse. Nine lew policies aggregating $12 000. were written during the year. At present there .ire in force among members of the local, lodge policies aggregating 58.1.500 Esquire W. Meek Adams performed two marriage ceremonies in his omce yesieraay. i ne coupies were | Mr. Sylvanus Clark, of Bessemer city, and Miss Ruth Pasour, of Dallas, and Mr. Luther A. Kiser, of Bessemer City, and Miss Lucy Clark, of Bessemer i City Mr. Ed Williams of the Southern's local shifting crew was ] called to Morgranton, Sunday night by a telegram stating that his brother-inlaw, Mr. Ernest Lewis, had been 1 killed In a railroad accident Senator Arthur M. Dixon left vesterday , morning for Raleigh to take his seat as a member of the upper house of ' the general assembly. Mrs. Dixon will < Join him there later. Representatives 1 Mauney and Puett have also gone to , take their seats. * 1 Lancaster Newt, Jan. 5: A meeting of the farmers of the county waa held in the court house yesterday and stepa were taken towards a reorganization of the County Fanners' Union. Mr. J. Whitner Reid, secretary of the state union, and Mr. B. Harris, of Anderson, its first president, addressed the meeting. Mr. Harris began his address by saying that he was not surprised at the small attendance because as a general rule farmers were not Interested in anything relating exclusively to their welfare, that if the meeting had been called for some other purpose the court house would have been full. Mr. Harris then addressed himself to the matter of organization and co-operation among the farmers. He referred to the work of the Orange and the Farmers' Alliance, wnai great t good these organizations had accomplished. He spoke of what the western farmers did when wheat went to ' 55 cents per bushel, corn to 20 cents t and oats to 15 cents per bushel. They organized and co-operated to hold with the result that prices immediate- 8 ly went up. Mr. J. Whltner Reld spoke c next, stressing the matter of organ!- ( zation, particularly the educational, ? social and business features. At the conclusion of Mr. Reid's address a ( temporary organization was effected \ by the election of Mr. M. B. Jordan as j president; C. L. McManus, vice president, and Mr. George W. Jones as sec- 8 retary News received here last y night by their parents told of the mar- c riage in Columbia late yesterday afternoon of Miss Euphemla Ganson daughter of Mrs. W. C. Hough, to Mr. ( M. B. Brittain of Palmetto, Ga., and t Miss Ruth Funderburk, daughter of c Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Funderburk, to Mr. James McLaurin of McColl. Both 1 young ladles left on the afternoon 1 train yesterday, Miss Ganson. presumably to re-enter the College for Women in Columbia, where she had been a student before Christmas, and Miss < Funderburk, It was thought to accom- < pany her to Kershaw and return on . the night train Edward Blake, the little son of Mr. and Mra R. P. Neal. J died December 24, of diphtheria. The \ funeral services were conducted at the { residence by Revs. J. F. Hammond and . J. M. Neal, after which the remains were laid to rest at Flint Ridge, De- * cember 25. t * c WOLF TERROR TO WOUNDED i Russian Officer Tells of Experience in t Prussia. t The presence of the wolf as a new t terror on the battlefields of East Prus- i sia and Poland is described in a letter t sent by a Russian officer to a Riga newspaper. Wounded In an engagement which ( had driven the Germans from their trenches, he found himself later to be 1 the only living soul left on the Held of dead. Pulling himself together and, 1 leaning on his sword, hd^w&lked aa best he could towards the supposed J shelter of his comrades in the woods. "Just as I reached the edge of the wood," he says, "I stopped In terror. 1 Ftom the distance there came the ^ J howling of a wolf. It sounded unutterably melancholy and dreadful in the still autumn night. Another wolf an- ^ in ih. an mo lonr.dra.wn dls mal note. The howling drew nearer. ^ Presently I heard It all around me, without pause, growing louder and ^ more exultant every moment. "I am no coward. 1 am a sportsman ^ and have killed many wolves In hunts, but what I heard that night I can never forget. The chaotic howling which 1 enclosed me like a chain kept coming closer and closer, drawing to the cen- j tre of the circle where I was standing. "I saw clearly there was no chance T of saving myself when the circle had closed finally upon me. I went run- j ning?how I managed It I don't know ?towards some bushes a hundred 1 yards away. I reach them and dropped to the ground. I was resolved to fight as long as I could. I had my 1 loaded revolver and my sword. "The wolves came nearer and their ^ howling filled the night. Now they were at the border of the woods. In ^ the darkness I could see dim shadows moving slowly between the trees. ^ "As they came out of the wood from different directions they drew together ^ into one great dark herd and stood thus for some minutes. Then another , wolf howled?from somewhere out on the battlefield, and all at once the pack began to move. Without haste, In a little deliberate trot they went past , mo nost tho vorv dumD of bushes where I was sitting with drawn revolver. Not one turned toward me. I ' watched each one as he went by, expecting that he would spring at me. I don't know how many there were, but there were very many?all trotting so quietly to the field where the dead bodies were lying. "I was mercifully allowed to lapse into unconsciousness soon after. At sunrise I was picked up, still unconscious, by a Cossack patrol." The World it All Right. There is nothing at all the matter, iny boy; The world goes plugging along In the same old way. from day to day, Singing her good old songs. Maybe her songs grow old to you. And maybe your hopes grow dim, But there's nothing at all the matter, my boy? It's only your foolish whim. There is nothing at ail the matter, my hov? You have only lost your hold; Get back to the life and back to the d strife, b Get back to your works enfold. o There is work laid out for your ti hands to do, So stick to your task with vim; tl There is nothing at all the matter, p my boy? * a It's only your foolish whim. p b There is nothing at all the matter, my boyStand till your task is done; o It's the way for a place in the world's w made race? P It's the way that the end is won. M There's a place at the top, but the w way is long: s1 Don't rail if vour star grows dim. Don't say that the world's all wrong:, a my boy? C It's only your foolish whim. ai '** The United States has 228,000 Bo- h hemians and Moravians. British Officer Tells of Harrowing Experience. A British officer tells how he was kept several hours prisoner in his own trench by a German Maxim in the following letter home: We are now in the midst of winter, with the most horrible weather you can imagine; it is snowing hard, and the roads and paths are knee-deep in mud and water. A few nights ago, in taking a position we had to wade ilong a road which was marked in the map as a river. Suddenly the 3ermans managed to find out we were on the road and started giving us ihrapnel. They really are wonderful, and the accuracy of their shelling is finished. PhAif Aral ahall lrlllari twn nrtOP fftl ows and wounded a number more. A !ew days ago we had rather an unpleasant experience in our dugout, vhlch was a covered trench. I suppose they spotted orderlies :oming and going, but anyway, they rained a Maxim on the entrance and cept us prisoners all day without any 'ood. Every half hour or so they ratled a few shots at us, which flssed >ver our roof, scattering the earth and ' andlng In the ditch forming the enrance. My first aid post was very badly ihelled a few weeks ago and I lost six >f my stretcher bearera We were iltting in a room when suddenly we leard the whistle of the shell, followid by an awful explosion. The whole vail forming the side of the room fell n on top of ua Three were killed ind three very seriously injured, vhlle I got off with just a slight concussion and a 24 hours' headache. Fortunately I had got my woundid away about half an hour before, ind there were only about two-thirds >f my party with me, or there would lave been a more serious casualty 1st Yesterday, the Germans had a :ouple of Zeppelins and an aeroplane >ver us and then shelled the trenches >n our right, like hades with high ixplosive-Uke bodies and "Krumps." phoir ?*ao 11 v had a had ttm? and I yonder when ours is coming'. Our arillery was quite unable to cope with he weight of guns they had up igalnst us. Their snipers axe deadly, :oo, and as soon as a man moves by laylight he gets shot All my business has to be done by light, which is the only time is is safe 0 move. It is not safe then, of course, >ut still things are more hopeful. But he cold nights are very trying, and low to get wet feet warm is an unsolved problem. In the Highland Brigade. ?ome listen to me, you who seek for our aid, nil I read you some names from the "Highland" brigade, OTio went to the front all the Germans to kill, - ^ tnd a batch of those wounded are now on Stobhill. find on the list O'Malley and Boyle, k. Murphy, a Kelly, a Riley, and Doyle; 1 Casey, a Carney, a Rorke, a McCann, 111 strapping young Highlanders every man. There are Rooneys and Dohertys there by the score, tnd Gallaghers, too, you will find them galore; Vhile Muldoons and O'Connors can also be had. Troth, the old boy himself couldn't hate such a squad, tnd, bedad, there you'll find Piper RIordan from Cork, The skirl of whose pipe could be heard in New York; knd Meagher who plays the great dum in grand style; Vho, I'll swear, never slept in the shire of Argyle. There is Driscoll, a bandsman, and Pipe Major Foy, Vith a Carney, McLaughlin, Maginn, ? and Malloy, In' O'Leary and Doogan, McBride, and McGlll, til hoochin' and dancin' about in Stobhill. fou can And, If you wish, a Delaney and Burke, UCarroll, a ciancy, a Toole and McGurk; l Foley, a Walsh, a McGulre, and a Quinn, U1 pledged to assemble some day In Berlin. 'here was Gunner O'Donnell and Sergeant McFall, Vho can both cut the tartan of ould Donegal; md Barney McLuskey, whose hair isn't dry, ind who says he belongs to the Island of Skye. t would do good to your heart to see Paddy McGee, 'he calves of whose legs are as thick as a tree, Lnd big Darby Doolan, who comes from Strabane, las his "wee deoch an' doris" whenever he can. don't think that Berlin need care for the Huns, Vith such fine "Highland soldiers" to handle their guns; ind I lately was told that von Kluck and his men ire praying the Lord not to meet them again. ?Glasgow State. Villa and Hungry Children.?Evionco that Villa is not the villain lack and heartless paintod by friends f the old regime in Mexico continues o accumulate. By his order, it is reported, more tian a million dollars' worth of stolen roperty, found in the National Palce warehouses and residences occuied by officials now fugitives, has eon restored to the rightful owners. Furthermore? The childless commander of the revli tionary forces spent a day last eek in an automobile at the capital, icking up and sorting out 60 little [exican war orphans, who, homeless, ere competing with the dogs in the :reets for a mouthful of food. They were washed, clothed and fed dispatch says, and sent by train to hihuahua city, there to be cared for nd educated at Villa's expense. The man who loves children, even if e is an ex-brfndlt, cannot be wholly ad.?Boston Globe.