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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?"
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.