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* issxrap SKMI-WKKKL^ l. m. oeist's sons. PaMuhen.} S ^ntjlj Jleurspaper: Jfor the promotion o)f the political, Social, tjjrieultural and Commercial Jnterests o([ the people. j TER*/IN('"K??(lplrE"vJ"CE^l,cl * ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE78. O., P'RIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915. NO. !1 CO6CA am ZT. /~HADTPS vi ,*s i WITH ILLUSTRATION OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER IV. * George Lescott had known hospitality of many brands and degrees. He had been the lionized celebrity in places of fashion. He had been the guests of equally famous brother artists in the cities of two hemispheres, and, since sincere painting had been his pole star, he had gone where his art's wanderlust beckoned. He had followed the lure of transitory beauty to remote sections of the world. The present trip was only one of the many like it, which had brought him into touch with varying peoples and distinctive types of life. He told L ? himself that never had he found men ( at once so crude and so courteous as r these hosts who, facing personal * perils, had still time and willingness to regard his comfort. The coming of the kinsmen, who would stay until the present danger passed, had filled the house. The four beds in the cabin proper were full, and some slept on floor mattresses. Lescott, because a guest and wounded, was given a small room aside. Samson, however, shared his quarters in order to perform any service that an injured man might require. It had been a full and unusual day for the painter, and its incidents crowded in on him in retrospect and drove off the possibility of sleep. Samson, too, seemed wakeful, and in the isolation of the dark room the two men fell into conversation, which almost lasted out the night. Samson went into the confessional. This was the first human being he had ever met to whom he could unburden his soul. The thirst to taste what knowledge lay beyond the hills; the unnamed wanderlust that had at times brought f him a restiveness so poignant as to be agonizing; the undefined attuning of his heart to the beauty of sky and hill; these matters he had hitherto kept locked in guilty silence. ? In a cove or lowland pocket, stretching into the mountain side, lay the small and meager farm of the Widow Miller. The Widow Miller was a "South;" that is to say, she fell, by tie of marriage, under the protection of the clan head. She lived alone with her fourteen-year-old son and her sixteen-year-old daughter. The daughter was Sally. The nun rose on the morning after Lescott arrived, the mists lifted, and the cabin of the Widow Miller stood revealed. A tousle-headed boy made his way to the barn to feed the cattle, and a red patch of color, as bright and tuneful as a Kentucky cardinal, appeared at the door between the morning-glory vines. The red patch of color was Sally. She made her way, carrying a bucket, to the spring, where she knelt down and gazed at her own image in the water. Before going home she set down her bucket by the stream, and, with a A quick glance toward the house to ' make sure that she was not observed, climbed through the brush and was lost to view. She followed a ^ path that her own feet had made, W and after a steep course upward came _ upon a bald face rock, which stood ? v out storm battered where a rift went through the backbone of the ridge. This point of vantage commanded the other valley. Down below, across the treetops, where a roof and a chimney from which a thread of smoke rose in an attenuated shaft. That was Spicer South's house and Samson's home. The girl leaned against the gnarled bowl of the white oak and waved toward the roof and chimney. She cupped her hands and raised them to her lips like one who means to shout across a great distance, then she whispered so low that only she herself could hear: "Hello. Samson South!" } She stood for a space looking down and forgot to laugh, while her eyes grew religiously and softly deep, then, turning, she ran down the slope. She had performed her morning devotions. 1 That day at the house of Spicer South was an off day. The kinsmen who had stopped for the night stayed on through the morning. Nothing was said of the possibility of trouble. The men talked crops and tossed horseshoes in the yard; but no one went to work in the fields, and all remained within easy call. Only young Tamarack Spicer, a raw-boned nephIew, wore a sullen face and made a a great show of cleaning his rifle and pistol. Shortly after dinner he disappeared. and when the afternoon was well advanced Samson, too, with his rifle on his arm, strolled toward the stile. He sauntered down the road, but, when he had passed out of vision, he turned sharply into the woods, and began climbing. His steps carried him s to the rift in the ridge where the white oak stood sentinel over the watch tower of rock. As he came over the edge from one side his bare feet making no sound, he saw Sally sitting there, with her hands resting on the moss and her eyes deeply troubled. She was gazing fixedly ahead and her lips were trembling. At once Samson's face grew black. Some one had been making Sally unhappy. Then he saw beyond her a standing figure, which the tree trunk had hitherto concealed. It was the loose-knitted figure of young Tamarack Spicer. "In course." Spicer was saying, "we don't 'low Samson shot Jesse Purvy, but them Hollmans '11 'spicion him, an' I heered just now thet them ^ duwgs was trackin, straight up hyar from the mouth of Misery. They'll git hyar against sundown." ^ Samson leaped violently forward, i with one hand he roughly seized his ' cousin's shoulder and wheeled him i about. "Shet up!" he commanded. "What d?n fool stuff hev ye been tellin' Sally?" LWffie RLAND5 NEVILLE BUCIC S FROto PHOTOGRAPHS PLAY .. For an instant the two clansmen stood fronting each other. Samson's face was set and wrathful. Tamrack's 1- .noriinir "Hain't I WHS OUi IJf auu got a license ter tell Sally the news?" he demanded. "Nobody hain't got no license," retorted the young man in the quiet of cold anger, "ter tell Sally nothln' thet'll fret her." "She air bound ter know hit all pretty soon. Them dawgs?" "Didn't I tell ye ter shet up?" Samson clenched his fists, and took a step forward. "Ef ye opens yore mouth again, I'm a-goln' ter smash hit Now, git!" Tamarack Spicer's face blackened, and his teeth showed. His right hand swept to his left arm-pit Outwardly he seemed weaponless, but Ml Couldn't Live Wlthouten Ye, Sameon. I Jeet Couldn't Do Hit." Samson knew that concealed beneath the hickory shirt was a holster, worn mountain fashion. "What air ye a-reachin' atter, Tarn'rack?" he inquired, his lips twisting in amusement. "Thet's my business." "Well. Kit hit out?or git out ye self, afore I throws ye offen the clift!" Sally showed no symptoms of alarm. Her confidence In her hero was absolute. The boy lifted his hand, and pointed off down the path. Slowly and with incoherent mutterings, Spicer took himself away. Then only did Sally rise. She came over, and laid a hand on Samson's shoulder. In her blue eyes the tears w jre welling. "Samson," she whispered, "ef they are atter ye, come ter my house. I kin hide ye out. Why didn't ye tell me Jesse Purvy'd done been shot?" "Hit tain't nothin' ter fret about, Sally," he assured her. He spoke awkwardly, for he had been trained to regard emotion as unmanly. "Thar hain't no danger." She gazed searchingly into his eyes, and then, with a short sob, threw her arms around him, and buried her [ face on his shoulder. "Ef anything happens ter ye, Samson," she said, brokenly, "hit'll jest kill me. I couldn't do withouten ye, Samson. I just couldn't do hit!" The boy took her in his arms, and pressed her close. His eyes were gazing off over her bent head, and his lips twitched. He drew his features into a scowl, because that was the only expression with which he could safe-guard his feelings. His voice was husky. "I reckon, Sally," he said, "I could not live withouten you, neither." The party of men who had started that morning from Jesse Purdy's store had spent a hard day. The roads followed creek-beds, crossing and re crossing waterways in a rashion tnat gave the bloodhounds a hundred baffling difficulties. Often their noses lost the trail, which had at first been so surely taken. Often, they circled and whined, and halted in perplexity, but each time they came to a point where, at the end, one of them again raised his muzzle skyward, and gave voice. Toward evening, they were working up Misery along a course less broken. The party halted for a moment's rest, and. as the bottle was passed, the man from Lexington, who had brought the dogs and stayed to conduct the chase, put a question: "What do you call this creek?" "Hit's Misery." "Does anybody live on Misery that ?er?inai yuu nu^iu ou.-ptv>, The Hollmans laughed. "This creek is settled with Souths thicker'n hops." The Lexington man looked up. He knew what the name South meant to a Hollman. "Is there any special South, who might have a particular grudge?" "The South's don't need no parti'lar grudge, but thar's young Samson South. He's a wildcat." "He lives in this way?" "These dogs air a-makin' a beeline fer his house." Jim Hollman was speaking. Then he added: "I've done been told that Samson denies doin' the shootin' and' claims he kin prove an alibi." The Lexington man lighted his pipe, and poured a drink of red whisky into a flask cup. "He'd be apt to say that," he commented. "These dogs haven't any | prejudice in the matter. I'll stake my life on their telling the truth." An hour later the group halted again. The master of hounds mopped his forehead. "Are we still going toward Samson South's house?" he inquired. "We're about a quarter from hit now. an' we hain't never varied from the straight road." "Will they be apt to give us trouble?" Jim Holland smiled. "I hain't never heered of no South snhmlttln' ter arrest bv a Hollman." | The trailers examined their flre[ arms, and loosened their holsterflaps. The dogs went forward at a trot. (To be Contihued). HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE Items of Interest from All Sections of South Carolina. An unknown negro tramp was killed by a train near Manning, Saturday afternoon. He went to sleep on the track. R. L. Cunningham has resigned as Federal demonstration agent for Chester county. His successor has not been appointed. Miss Rebecca S. Albergoati died at the home of her brother-in-law in Orangeburg, Monday night. She had been teaching school for more than 60 years. President Wilson has nominated the following South Carolina postmasters: James A. Clardy, Laurens; B. B. James, Union, and J. W. Geraty, Young's Island. In a second primary held Tuesday, P. W. Johnson, editor of the Marion Star, was elected mayor of Marion, defeating M. T. Baker, the incumbent, by a majority of 42 votes. AtfUIUlilg IU 11IC ICpUH U1 LltC LUILI of police of Greenville for the month ending: January 31, there were 225 arrests and fines, amounting: to $1,947.50, were collected. Officials of the Atlantic Coast Line railway have announced the completion of a new roundhouse at Florence, It is said to be the largest of its kind in the south and cost $100,000. Sixteen negro gamblers were arrested in a house in Greenville Monday. Twelve of the sixteen plead guilty and were fined $10 each or twenty days, most of them taking the days. Mrs. Mary Thorn of Arrowood, Spartanburg county, known as the "Mother of Arrowood," died Saturday, aged 80 years. She leaves thirteen children and fifty-six grand-children. According to information received at Charleston, the South Carolina Belgian relief ship, the British tramp steamer, St. Helena, is due to arrive in Charleston, between February 8th and 10th. Mills Moore of Greenville, was found guilty of larcany in the Spartanburg police court, Monday morning, and was fined $150. He stole a number of grips from the union passenger station in Spartanburg. J. J. Taylor, a young merchant of Graniteville, Aiken county, has been arrested, charged with the killing of William McCullough in Augusta, Ga., Sunday night. The cause of the killing is a mystery. The executive committee of Anderson college has been authorized to issue $75,000 worth of bonds on the property and to perfect plans looking to a canvass of the state for $100,000 for the institution. Notice from the city government of Greenwood, Monday, stating that a number of hands would be employed by the city at 50 cents a day, brought 100 negroes to the city, all anxious to secure employment. All were given work. J. A. Edwards, W. V. Culler and J. L. Gibson have been re-appointed members of the Orangeburg county board of registration, by Governor Manning. Messrs. Edwards and Culler had been removed from office by former Governor Blease. The Spartanburg delegation in the general assembly have introduced a bill in the legislature, authorizing the city council of Spartanburg to purchase a hospital for negroes with funds received irum me sajt- ui a. ucgiu cemetery in Spartanburg. The cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship at the battle of Manila Bay, which has been stationed at Charleston harbor for some time, will leave that port about February 15. Four days' inspection of the ship by visitors will be permitted before she takes her departure. Employes of the Clifton mills in Spartanburg county, have petitioned the general assembly not to raise the age of the child labor law from 12 to 14 years unless a compulsory education law is passed requiring school attendance for children up to 14 years. The petition was received as information. The city council of Spartanburg has passed an ordinance forbidding any one from taking up his or her residence in a block that is entirely occupied by citizens or either color, rne ordinance also prohibits the operation of a dance hall, school or church for persons of one color in blocks wholly occupied by persons of the other race. Leading clubs of Charleston which serve alcoholic drinks to their members and friends, have decided to install the locker system of handling intoxicants in an effort to help Governor Manning enforce the dispensary law in Charleston. At present the clubs have open bars. Magistrate E. Potter of Cowpens, has brought mandamus proceedings against Supervisor J. J. Vernon, supervisor of Spartanburg county, for the payment of his salary while acting as magistrate for Hve months after his removal bv Gov. Blease. on June 2, for incapacity, misconduct and neglect of duty. The magistrate contends that his removal by the governor was not legal and he therefore continued in office. Judge Sease, before whom the case was argued, has not announced his decision. Shooting and Being Shot.?"In the early days," said the instructive person, "they used to go out and shoot a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner." "An" at de present time," said Erastus Pinkley, "if you goes prowlin' lookin' foh a loose turkey you's liable to git shot yose'f." FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of Tbe Yorkvllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Reco.ds of the Paat and Giving the Younger Readera of Today a Pretty Comprehenaive Knowledge of the Thinga that Moat Concerned Generatiene 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 Attanfa a# +Via no at tf\T Ill IU review VIIC CVOlllO VTA M?v |/uwk a. w the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and Instruction of the present generation. 108TH INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, Jan. 16, 1862). Married?On the 7th Instant by Wm. McGill, Esq., at the house of the bride's father, Mr. Samuel McCarter and Miss Mary A. Niel, all of this district. (Thursday Morning, Jan. 23, 1862). Editorial Correspondence. Camp Near Centreville, Fairfax, Va., Wednesday night, Jan. 15, 1862. Dear Enquirer: We hasten to record a brilliant victory gained by the indefatigable and glorious "Stonewall" Jackson a few days since, over the enemy under their "crack" General Lander, at Romney. You have doubtless seen accounts of the skirmish at Bath, and the shelling of Hancock, Maryland. These acts were a portion of the successful strategem by which the Hessians have fallen an easy prey to our "young Hickory," and eventually lost, we hope their foothold in the Shenandoah valley. To be explicit, Gen. Jackson some ten or twelve days ago conceived the Idea of driving Lander from Romney. For this purpose he advanced towards Romney until he had arrived nearly at Bath, when he turned aside, made the attacks upon Bath and Hancock, marched thirty miles into Maryland; then turning round, came upon Romney In the rear, caught the Yankees napping, fell upon them and smote them "hip and thigh," killing a large number, taking a thousand prisoners, and capturing a million dollars' worth of property! You may regard this Joyous news as reliable; for we have just received it from Dr. Harolds, chaplain of the first Virginia, who had it from the lips of Adjt. Gen. Cooper himself, who stated that a portion of the property had gone on to Richmond. Vfypn we reflect that this splendid achievement has been effected in.jnidwinter, with a force whicff must have been inferior to that of the enemy, and after a march which could not have been less than one hundred and fifty miles, during which the frozen Potomac was crossed twice, we recur for a parallel at once to the glorious field of Trenton in the old Revolution. With a scanty supply of blankets (the papers say they were without blankets) and with no tents, the boys bivouaced on the snow at night, and marched all day, it is said with unbounded cheerfulness and alacrity. The enemy was completely surprised and routed. His loss was therefore great, while our's was trifling. The news is, however, too fresh for particulars to have reached us. We are not informed even of the day of the battle. Gen. Jackson in this splendid manoeuver and surprise has added new laurels to his already enviable reputation. We are impressed with the notion that this decided service to his country, may be the fruits of his personal piety. During the summer, while his headquarters were at Mrs. Utterbach's near here, he was known to retire daily to his room for the purposes of reading his Bible and private devo tion. While his headquarters were at Mr. Steuart's?the present office of Gen. Beauregard?Mr. Stuart having occasion to enter his room one day, found his Bible spread open upon a table and the general in one corner upon his knees. Who knows but that in some moment when his pure and lofty soul was kindled with sacred Are from the altar of prayer, he conceived the daring enterprise? And who can tell that the Providence which broods with out spread wings over those whose "ways please God," did not lead to the triumphant issue? There are things in Heaven and earth?things useful too, in war as well as peace?which were never dreamed of in Hardee or Macomb, or even in the "Army Regulations." It is a pleasing task to speak of such facts as these, in connection with our officers; and we will, therefore, mention a little circumstance that pleased us very much, which occurred with Gen. Johnston the other day. An ambulance, carrying some sick soldiers and their knapsacks, was passing along the extremely muddy streets of Centreville. One of the knapsacks was jostled out and tumbled into the mud; when the kind general, perceiving it, quietly waded into the slush, replaced the knapsack in the ambulance, and resumed his walk, without saying a word or letting the invalids know even what he had done. Such trivial acts often evince more real greatness, than those grand deeds, which require a worldwide fame. If the Yankee papers may be believed e-d, "the rebellion is to be crushed out in ninety days." By the 25th instant, all their generals will be ready, and their advances will be made down the Mississippi, upon Bowling Green, on the coast of Texas, from Ship Island at Port Royal, and in rear of Norfolk; while McClellan will slowly but surely press his invincible columns upon Manassas! This simultaneous advance everywhere, is to crush "treason," like an eggshell in a giant's grasp. All this is quite modest and becoming after the Trent humiliation. A neonle who can bluster as thev did in this affair, and then hack down as ignominiously as they did?giving up in their scare all they gained by capture, yet conceding nothing to England for the outrage; such a people bray them in a mortar, will be foolish still. Our generals appear to be looking for a grand advance over these slushy roads and fields still. We heard today that an attack upon Winchester, Occoquan and Fredericksburg, at the same time, is expected at an early day. This may be, but it appears unreasonable to us. The truth would seem to be, that McClellan is desirous of holding this army here, while he operates on the southern coast. These specious appearances of a general fight, have, also a tendency to prevent the re-organization of the twelve months' volunteers into war troops under the provisions of the Bounty or Furlough bill; and so far to disturb the army which McClellan will have to meet next spring when he does intend to advance in our opinion. T? in hichlv imnortant that this army should be one solid wall of war-troops, at the opening of the next campaign. Nothing can induce McClellan to risk his fortunes and his cause on these snow-clad plains, but a serious and extensive effort to gain this important end. If large numbers of the twelvemonths' volunteers should re-enlist for the war here, and be furloughed home at the same time he might come out, even through these snows, with the hope of over-coming our fragmentary army.?Unless this be the case, he will wait a few months, both for fairer skies and firmer roads, and in order to meet our forces in the same fragmentary condition; where the one year troops begin to receive discharges and return home. But we hope he will be egregiously mistaken, if he thinks that our high-blooded and patriotic boys will imitate their three-months' hirelings; and turn their backs upon his bristling columns of bayonets, advancing to lay waste their own altars and fire-sides, and murder their loved ones. We are still out of our huts, though many regiments have been housed up a month or so. It snows whenever it pleases?the weather is cold and disagreeable?and tents are mere apologies for shelter from the rain, snow, sleet and wintry blast. We were amused the other night after lying down, when a good friend of "Mess No. 1," who had pinned our well-windowed tent from prow to stern, said with an evident air of satisfaction: "Well, she's safe as a coon in the hollow with the hole stopt." But "Robin Red-breast'' was unlucky, for he was not ensconced in his blankets, before the falling snow was settling on his feet. There is now a perfect slush under foot. It rained a heavy shower today; but the mixed snow and sleet on the ground was melted only enough to make it completely uncomfortable.? We feel for "Stonewall's" gallant boys wherever they are. The battle they are fighting tonight with the wet frozen earth, and the icy winds will be an unrecorded "Romney." In view of their heroic deeds, we close, Bravo-ly Our Corporal. .-4T0 be continued.) REFUGEE8 IN HOLLAND Many Towns Springing Up Through Settlement of Belgians. All over southern Holland, says an Amsterdam letter, new towns are arising. They are the homes of the clusters of Belgian refugees. The largest of these places boasts a population of 13,000, while another has 10,000. I have recently taken a trip to this refuge village of 13,000, men, women and children, and many odd sides of life are to be found there. The new Belgian town is near Harderwijk, in Gelderland. It is built on the wind swept, heather grown, moorland. Every building is of wood and the whole is enclosed by a city wall of good strong barbed wire?to make the Job of policing it easier. The wooden buildings, which have been constructed by the hospitable Dutch government, are little better than sheds, but they have double walls covered with a kind of rainproof asbestos and are stout and servicable. Two hundred and fifty persons lodge in each "apartment house," there being a room to each five residents. Huge stoves give good heat and keep them warm and cosy. The town, for better policing, is divided further by barbed wire into three parts. Hussar's guard the lines of wire Inside and out. Not all the fugitives are properly appreciative of what is done for them and disorders make It necessary from time to time to shut up a culprit in one of the two prison sheds?"Caledonia," for the men, or "The Congo" for the women. These stand in the middle of the town and have an especially formidable wall of barbed wire all their own. There are several dining rooms, each capable of seating 1,000. Here the inhabitants without regard to previous condition of poverty or affluence, eat seated on benches, pulled up to the long tables. In the kitchen sheds, nearly ten large stoves cook, cook cook, all day, for it takes a lot to feed 13,000. To guard against fire in this wood town, no cooking or smoking is allowed in the other buildings. The one luxury is electric lights; which is plentifully supplied everywhere. Other buildings include a school, a church, an assembly hall and a postoffice. In a little store the few refugees who have brought money with them and still have some left, can make their frugal purchases. Many of the inhabitants of this town were at first lodged in the quar ters of Dutch soldiers at Oldebroek, which the latter vacated to house the thousands which came limping- over the border from smoking Belgium. The first refugee camps, it is found, must be vacated for sanitary reasons, especially those in Zeeland, Llmburg and North Barbant. The Dutch government appoints a burgomaster for each of the refugee towns, although there is a measure of "home rule." Below the burgomaster are the parish priests, each at the head of the flock which he shepherded from their sacked homes. The priests constitute a kind of town council and choose reliable men, who keep order in the various houses and tell the people's grievances to the burgomaster. The burgomaster also has a quaint custom of making the round of the town once a day, when any one who has something to say can speak to him face to face. A coin-ln-the-slot machine has i been invented for checking umbrellas, canes or small packages in public places. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaira of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaeton, Lancaster and Cheater. Chester Reporter, Feb. 1: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Porter, who have been making their home In Chester for the past seven years, expect to return to Union, Wednesday or Thursday to live. Mrs. Lula Russell has rented the boarding house opposite the postofflce that Mr. and Mrs. Porter have been conducting At the meeting of the Walker-Gaston camp, U. C. V., at the court ftouse, Saturday, the following officers were re-elected for the ensuing year: W. H. Edwards, commander; S. T. McKeown, 1st vice commander; J. H. McDaniel, 2nd vice commander; J. W. Wilks, 3rd vice commander; W. D. Knox, adjutant; W. H. Edwards, historian; Rev. D. G. Phillips, D. D., chaplain. The camp will meet again in April, at which time the delegates to the two reunions will be elected. Mrs. Maggie R. McKeown, widow of the late J. Moses McKeown, died Friday at her home at the Springstein mill, and was buried Saturday morning at Armenia, after funeral services by Revs. T. H. Roach and J. H. Yarborough. The deceased was about 45 years of age, and is survived by three daughters, Mesdames Wylle Bigham, Arthur Bigham and Chalmers Gaston, and one son, Mr. Geo. Hv McKeown; also two brothers, Messrs Obadiah Roberts and Robert Roberts, and four sisters, Mesdames W. M. Quinton, J. J. Dodds, W. O. Roberts and Jane Clark Mrs. Jane McFadden McCosh, widow of the late R. H. McCosh, died Saturday afternoon at four o'clock, at her home on Columbia street, and was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery yesterday afternoon, after funeral services by the Rev. H. A. Bagby, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church At the regular meeting of the Chester County Teachers' association, which was held at the College street building in this city Saturday, Friday, April zna, was aeciaea upon as me date for County Field Day, and Messrs. D. L. Rambo, Joe P. Moore and Kenneth Johnston were elected a committee to co-operate with the various township vice presidents and complete arrangements for the occasion. Prof. Joe P. Moore, principal of the Rlchburg High school, extended the association an invitation to hold the Field Dav exercises at Richburg, but it was decided by a vote of 16 to 10, to have the exercises in Chester The series of meetings under the leadership of Mr. S. D. Gordon, the famous writer and lecturer on religious subjects, which are being conducted under the auspices of the various churches of Chester, began at the opera house yesterday morning, with a crowd present estimated at 1,100, and during the day, Mr. Gordon addressed crowds almost equally as large at 4 o'clock In the afternoon and 7.30 In the evening. The two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Griffln at the Wylie mill, was severely burned about the face Saturday, by falling into the fireplace. Mrs. Griffln succeeded in snatching the child^out of the Are In time to save it from being fatally burned, but had both of her hands badly burned in the effort Mr. M. S. Lewis, president of the Citizens' bank, received a telegram Tuesday evening from John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, stating that the application of the Citizens' bank for admission into the national system had been duly approved. The charter for the institution is expected this week. Rock Hill Record, Feb. 1: The Rock Hill fire department gave their annual banquet Thursday evening at the Carolina hotel, and with the members of the present city council, the excouncilmen, the public works commissioners and the newspaper representatives, they enjoyed the "spirits" of the evening and then sat down to a feast royal, served by Manager Stone of the hotel Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Barron arrived in the city this morning from from their bridal trip and are at home to their friends at the home of the former's mother, Mrs. A. A. Barron, on Oakland avenue The many friends of Mr. Arnold Friedheim regret to learn that he Is quite sick at his home on East Main street. He was taken sick yesterday afternoon... .A congregational meeting was held yesterday at the Oakland avenue Presbyterian church for the purpose of electing deacons, and the following were elected: Herbert M. Dunlap, Dr. J. R. Stokes, J. Thorn Neely and A. D. Gilchrist The many friends of Joe Campbell, who has been Hi for some time, were glad to see him out on the streets again Friday Walter Jenkins has accepted a position with the Independent Real Estate and Insurance Co., and will assume his new duties this morning. Sam Watson Barber came home| from WofTord college Saturday afternoon and is in the Fennell infirmary for treatment. * * * Gaffney Ledger, Feb. 2: Rev. C. W. Payseur, pastor of the Cherokee avenue Baptist church, has resigned the pastorate of all country churches that he held last year, and will devote his entire time to the city church in the future. A number of the country churches that Mr.' Payseur resigned j have secured pastors, while others are yet unsupplied Carl Sarratt, the 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Sarratt of the Grassy Pond section of the county, died at the home of his parents, Friday evening, following an illness of about one hour. The young man was taken ill about sundown and had expired by six o'clock, before a doctor could be secured. He was an unusually fine specimen of manhood., and had many friends in all parts of the county. The funeral and interment took place at Grassy Pond church on Sunday An unusually large amount of chicken stealing was reported to the city police last week, apparently a gang being at work. The police have been working upon the cases reported, and have rescued a number of fowls that had been among the missing. Yesterday, in the police court, five negroes pieaa guiuy wncn attuocu u> chicken stealing and were sentenced to thirty days each Mrs. E. C. Ramsey died at her home in this city last Thursday afternoon, following an illness of Ave weeks, during which time she was suffering from a complication of diseases. She was sixty-two years of age. She is survived by her husband and six children The case of the people of the West End section of the city versus the board of trustees of school district No. 10, in the matter of the selection of a site for a new school building, will be appealed to the state supreme court, according to a statement made by Mr. G. W. Speer, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs have ten days from the date the decision of Judge Sease was filed in which to serve notice of appeal, and thirty days from that time in which to file the grounds for the appeal Mr. Joe D. Blanton died at his home on Route 8, Friday, as a result of an attack of pneumonia, from which he had been suffering for about ten days. He is survived by his father, Mr. William Blanton, his wife and three children. The funeral and interment took place Saturday at Grassy Pond Baptist church, Rev. C. W. Payseur conducting the ceremonies. * * Gastonia Gazette, Feb. 2: At the regular meeting of the visiting nurse committee of the Woman's Betterment association, held last Wednesday, Miss Price, the visiting nurse, made her report for the month of January, as fol lows: Total number visits, 162; treatments, 22. Found everything In verj good condition with the exception of t great deal of whooping cough. Verj few cases of serious illness wer< treated during the month Mr William P. Edwards died at his hom? at the Holland mill yesterday morning at 11.30 o'clock, In his 64th year. H< was a native of Catawba county, ant was born December 23, 1861. He it survived by several children. Fun era services will be held this afternoon a the home, conducted by Rev. H. H Jordan, pastor of Main street Metho dist church and interment will be it Hollywood cemetery Miss Stelh Flowers and Mr. Chas. I. Watts wert married last Wednesday at the hom< of Esquire R. R. Mauney on the Bessemer City-Cherryville road, Mr Mauney performing the ceremony...., Mr. and Mra Fred M. Howell and children left vesterday. for the Bethel sec tion, to visit relatives. Mr. Howell expects to return to Gastonla today. Mrs Howell and children will remain foi some time James A., the twc months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. D P. Carpenter, died Sunday morning al 7.30 o'clock, and the body was shlppec yesterday morning to Southside, and taken to Pisgah cemetery, two mllei from that place, for burial. Lancaster News, Fab. 2: Miss Carrie Barrett, the charming daughter of Mr. A. N. Barrett of Oakhurst, and Mr Luther L. Horton of Heath Springs were quietly married in the study ol the Baptist pastorlum, Sunday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. Mr. Horton la a progressive young farmer, son of Mr, D. V. Horton of the Flint Ridge community, where they will make their home. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. W. H. Dyches A very interesting ceremony was held at the court house Friday night, the investiture service, whereby the two patrols who have been in training for the past several months, became fullfledged Boy Scouts. Addresses were made by Rev. H. R. Murchlson, Mr. John T. Green, Dr. J. H. Thayer and Rev. E. T. Hodges, each of whom spoke on an important phase of the work. Mr. R. S. Stewart, after a few appropriate remarks, presented the badges which had been awarded to every boy who had successfully passed the examination and his period oi probation. The older boys belonging to the patrol, are in charge of Mr. A. Tinsley, and the younger boys are trained by Mr. John H. Poag Mr. Harry W. Dixon suffered a stroke of paralysis Friday night, at his home in Charlotte, and has been in a critical condition ever since, never having regained full consciousness. Mr. Dixon's wife was Miss Helen Tompkins, a niece of Mrs. Charles T. Connors, and she and her husband have a number of friends in Lancaster, who will learn of his illness with regret. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. Mrs. Margaret Garwood died at an old ladies' home in Philadelphia, Sunday, aged 108* years. The case of Leo M. Frank will be heard by the United States supreme court on February 23. The Chicago and Northwestern railroad has placed an order with the United States Steel corporation foi 27,000 tons of steel rails at $28 a ton. A London dispatch says that both Greece and Italy are endeavoring to buy some of the German and Austrian ships interned at Mediterranean porta Twenty boys and girls were injured at an orphanage in New Orleans, when a building collapsed Sunday, during a heavy wind and snow storm The lower house of the New Jersey legislature has passed unanimously a bill to submit a constitutional amendment for women suffrage to the voters of that state. The national Republican committee has reduced representation in the national convention from southern states by 89 delegates less than there were in the 1912 convention. Chicago bakers have put the price of bread up to 6 cents a loaf, on account of the rise in the price of flower. Bakers in other cities will probably follow Chicago's lead. National banks throughout the country are being notified by John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, that overdrafts should be entirely stopped, and asking them to take steps to that end. Dan S. Lehon and C. C. Teder, Burns' detectives, and Arthur Thurman, a lawyer, were acquitted in Atlanta, Ga., Monday, of the charge of subornation of perjury in the Leo M. Frank case. The New York police took a traveling bag from the baggage room of the Grand Central station Monday, the property of "St. Louis Billy," a well known yeggman. The bag contained enough "soup" to have blown the station to atoms. Revenues collected by the government in January failed by 18,116,427 to meet the month's disbursements. The trial of 1,100 voters, who are charged with bribery, alleged to have been committed at the last November election, are on trial at Pikeville, Ky. The Arkansas house of representatives on Monday, passed a state-wide prohibition bill by a vote of 74 to 22, after defeating all amendments. The same bill is pending in the senate and its passage is assured. June 1st was fixed as the date for closing all saloons. Edward J. Smith, a hotel sneak thief and gun fighter of New York, was arrested in a Philadelphia hotel Sunday, charged with thefts of Jewelry in New York hotels aggregating $12,000. The Philadelphia police are said to have gotten a tip on Smith's identity from a girl whom he had Jilted. A statement Issued by the postofflce department, says that the names of more that 100,000 persons have been added to the list of postal savings banks deposits since the European war began. On January 1st, tho deposits in postal banks was approximately $59,000 to the credit of 497,000 persons, an average of $119 per capita. Before the house postofflce committee Monday, Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts, declared that 48 of the 53 Democratic members of the house who lost their seats last November were opposed and defeated by the Menace, an anti-Catholic organ, published in Missouri. The occasion was to authorize the postmaster general to bar froia the mails scandalous, scurrilous and libelous publications. The chief of police of East Newark, N. J., going home early Sunday morning, discovered a bomb with a lighted fuse, on the piazza of an Italian's home. Running to the piazza, the officer pinched the fire from the fuse and left the bomb. Hiding himself he watched and later arrested two men who were bending over the bomb to discover the reason for its non-explosion. INCIDENT OF THE OLD DAY8 How Jim Crow Legislator* Considered Resolution to Expel Rsporter. In looking over the flies of The Enquirer for December, 1869, for material for "Footsteps of the Fathers," the | editor came across this incident that i seems to throw some light on the aarKnesa or ine oia aays: As the correspondent of the Charles i ton News walked into the house this 1 morning just before it was called to ; order, he surmised from the "black looks," (blacker than usual) of the members that something unusual was afoot. The surmise was correct. | Shortly after the house was called to . order, C. D. Hayne, the postmaster of Aiken, who has no nose, offered the following resolution: Resolved, by the house of represent tativee that the reporter of the Charles| ton Daily News and all other persons i connected with said paper, be and they are hereby excluded from seats on the floor of this house, and that the speak er be requested to instruct the clerks ' of the house to withhold from all such ' persons all information in reference to ' the proceedings of this body. Barney Burton, colored, from Chee' ter: "I secon* dat." R. M. Smith (Democrat), "I call ' for the yeas and naya" Wilder, colored: "Mr. Speaker, read , mai resolution aguin. Tomlinson: "I did not hear the resolution on acount of the noise in the house; please have it read again." i (The clerk read it.) "Now, Mr. Speaker," continued Tomlinson, "I trust that such a resolution as this will not | be adopted. I trust that the dignity and self-respect of members will pre' vent the adoption of that resolution. Only consider, I ask, how small and > contemptible it would be to adopt it." DeLarge, colored, said: "I hope the resolution will not be adopted. I see no necessity for it. I am willing to ! accord to the press that freedom and ' privilege guaranteed to it under the laws of the state and of the United States. I am aware that it sometimes . carries abuse to an extreme that com| pels the condemnation of all good men; but I care nothing for what any newspaper in this or any other state says in relation to my official actions. Let the newspapers say what they please. If you adopt this resolution, I it will look as if you were afraid of somebody. It is foolish to act so. If i you exclude this reporter from the . floor, there is no power to prevent him from occupying a block in the galarles, , unless he be guilty of disorderly con, duct." 1 Jt. "T thot th. OI1IUS, CUlVimi. A luu V v V?M?? %?? resolution be Indefinitely postponed." Hayne, colored: "I withdraw the [ resolution." R. M. Smith: "I withdraw my motion for a call of the yeas and nays." 1 Sims, colored: "I withdraw my mo' tlon to post pong." 1 Burton, coIdfV "Mr. Spoker, I offer * de follerln' resolution: ' % . H I "Resolved, By the house of repre, sentatlves, That the reporter of the , Charleston Dally News Is hereby ex. pelled from the floor." ' Driffle, colored: "I move that the k resolution be laid on the table." "Burton, colored: "What fur you do , dat?" Driffle'8 motion was put and carried, very few voting against It, and of those who did vote no, four-fifths were ! colored. BULLET8 ARE TRICKY i One Chsnce 8hot That Brought Down Three English Officers. It has been truly said that once you Are a bullet from a modern rifle no one can forecast where it will ultimately come to rest. Even when a bullet has an uninterrupted course it is capable of upsetting all known calculations of its flight and range. ! Before the battle of Omdurman a sick officer was carried across the Nile and placed under an awning no less than 5,600 yards from the nearest point of possible Are. This should easily , have insured him a margin of safety, but it didn't. A stray bullet ate up the intervening three miles of desert air struck him in the head and killed him. Shortly before another battle in the Sudan, General Sir Archibald Hunter, Colonel Hacket-Thompson, C. B., and another officer were reconnolterlng through an opening In the wall of a ' disused sakleh, or waterwheel. The hole in the wall was so small that the officers had to stand one behind the ' other to see anything. The officer, whose name is not given i in the incident, was in front using a i pair of binoculars, while Sir Archibald ' Hunter was in the rear. The glint caused by the setting sun shining on the glass of the binoculars attracted the attention of a dervish, who, with others, was retiring along the Nile. He i stopped, took rapid aim and fired. [ It was a very good chance shot, for ! it sped through one of the lensee of the binoculars, through the brain of the officer holding them, killing him ? tk. ??? tkwvnofk tlia ah mi Map nf VII IUC OJWl., waiuu^u Vi.v WColonel Hacket-Thompson and Anally lodged in the breast of Sir Archibald Hunter, where it remains to this day. ?London Mail. A Newspaper Cross. Every craft has its crosses. One of the sore aAlictions of the newspaper business is found in the fact that people generally think it's no work to get out a paper. One of the hardest jobs every editor does?though generally the pleasantest?is to read his exchanges. But it is hard work, and it must be done. For the editor who gets a day or two "back" in his exchanges never catches up. And the thing that makes him maddest, though he will look up and meet the stranger with a smile who does it. Is for a man to come in, saying; wen, i ottw yuu were sitting- there doing nothing but reading, so I thought I'd just pass the time of day with you!" Remember this, you who would have business with the editor: "It's all right to come in when he's reading or writing or editing copy; but don't get it in your head that when he's reading his exchanges you have come in the Idle hour. How can an editor get any ideas if he doesn't read others' ideas? Do you think he sits down and thinks 'em up out of his head? Well, he doesn't He reads a score of papers every morning, and from one or two he gets a suggestion or two. Sometimes he finds an item that makes him mad; then he writes well; sometimes a vagrant item, a pay local, a telegraphic head, an advertisement, starts a rich train of suggestion. But the sure way to wreck the train, and make your paper stupid and inane, is to come bustling: in when he is reading the exchanges. He is doing the best work of his day.?Emporia Gazette.