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MggED SEMI-WKKHLT. __========== l. m obist's sons, Publishers.} % ^arnilj J1 rirspapct;: JJor the promotion of the political, Social, gjjrieultural and Commercial Interests of the jleopM. { SINGLE COPY, PI YE CENTS. ESTABLISHED 1855. " YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY.'MARCH 3, 1915. NO. 18. C^CAI CUMBE /& CHARLES 1 WITH illustration; OF SCENES IN IHE 1 CHAPTER VIII. The boy from Misery rode slowly toward Hixon. At times the moon struggled out and made the shadows black along the way. At other times it was like riding in a huge caldron of pitch. When he passed into that stretch of country at whose heart Jesse Purvy dwelt he raised his voice in song. His singing was very bad, and * ? *?> Knt If nerved ! trie oanaa ibckbu iuuc, .. its purpose of saving him from the 1 suspicion of furtlveness. Though the > front of the house was black, behind its heavj Bhutters he knew that his ' coming might be noted, and nightriding at this particular spot might be 1 misconstrued in the absence of frank 1 warning. The correctness of his inference ' brought a brief smile to his lips when < he crossed the creek that skirted the ! orchard and heard a stable door creak 1 softly behind him. He was being fol- 1 lowed again?and watched, but he did not look back or pause to listen for the hoofbeats of his unsolicited escort. i On the soft mud of the road he would ' hardly have heard them had he bent > his ear and drawn rein. He rode at a < walk, for his train would not leave until five o'clock in the morning. < There was plenty of time. It was cold and depressing as he trudged the empty streets from the 1 livery stable to the railroad station, ! carrying his saddlebags over his arm. f At last he heard the whistle and saw the blazing headlight, and a minute later he had pushed his way into the i smoking car and dropped his saddle- i bags on the seat beside him. Then, i for the first time, he saw and recognized his watchers. Purvy meant to J have Samson shadowed as far as Lexi Ington, and his movements from that 1 point definitely reported. Jim Asber ry and Aaron Hollis were the chosen I spies. He did not speak to the two enemies who took seats across the car, I but his face hardened, and his brows > came together in a black scowl. "When I gits back home," he promised himself, "you'll be one of the fust folks I'll look fer, Jim Asberry, damn ye! All I hopes is thet nobody else don't git ye fust. Ye b'longs ter me." The sleeping car to which he was assigned after leaving Lexington was almost empty, but he felt upon him the interested gaze of those few eyes that were turned toward his entrance. He engaged every pair with a pair very clear and steady and undropping, until somehow each lip that had started to twist in amusement straightened. and the twinkle that rose at first glance sobered at second. Yet. for all his specious seeming of unconcern, Samson was waking to the fact that he was a scarecrow, and his sensitive pride made him cut his meals short i "You Are a Dear, WilfredT" in the dining car, where he was kept busy beating down inquisitive eyes with his defiant gaze. He resolved after some thought upon a definite policy, but to him new?and a discovery. He would change nothing in himself that Involved a surrender of code or conviction. But, wherever it could be done with honor, he would concede to custom. It was late in the second afternoon when he stepped from the train at Jersey City, to be engulfed in an unimagined roar and congestion. Here it was impossible to hold his own against the unconcealed laughter of the many, and he stood for an instant glaring about like a caged tiger, while three currents of humanity separated and flowed towards the three ferry exits. Then he saw the smiling face of Lescott, and Lescott's extended hand Even Lescott. immaculately garbed and fur-coated, seemed almost a stranger and the boy's feeling of inf timacy froze to inward constraint and diffidence. But Lescott knew nothing of that. The stoic in Samson held true, masking his emotions. "So you came," said the New Yorker, heartily, grasping the boy's hand. "Where's your luggage? We'll Just pick that up and make a dash for the ferry." "Hyar hit is." replied Samson, who still carried his saddlebags. The painter's eyes twinkled, but the mirth was so frank and friendly that the boy. instead of glaring in defiance, grinned responsively. "Right, oh!" laughed Lescott. "I thought maybe you'd bring a trunk, but it's the wise man who travels light." He followed Lescott out to the foot of Twenty-third street, and stepped with him into the tonneau of the painter's waiting car. Lescott lived with his family uptown, for it happened that, had his canvases possessed no value whatever, he would still k have been in a position to drive his motor and follow his impulses about the world. If he did not take the boy to his home, it was because he understood that a life which must be not only full of early embarrassment, but positively revolutionary, should be approached by early stages. Consequently the car turned down Fifth LL?ftfie RLAND5 SEVILLE BUCIt, 5 FRQftft. PHOTOGRAPHS PLAY ct avenue, passed under the arch and 1 drew up before a door Just off Washington square, where the landscape painter had a studio suit. There were sleeping rooms and such accessories as seemed to the boy unheard-of luxury, though Lescott regarded the * ? kio place as a maKe-snm nuu? iu mo home establishment "You'd better take your time in selecting permanent quarters," was his careless fashion of explaining to Samson. "It's just as well not to hurry. You are to stay here with me, as long as you will." "I'm obleeged ter ye," replied the boy, to whose training in open-doored hospitality the invitation seemed only natural. The evening meal was brought in from a neighboring hotel, and the two men dined before an open fire, Samson eating in mountain silence, while his host chatted and asked questions. "Samson," suggested the painter, when the dinner things had been carried out and they were alone, "you are here for two purposes: First, to study painting; second, to educate and equip yourself for coming conditions. It's going to take work, more work, and then some more work." "I hain't skeered of work." "I believe that. Also, you must keep out of trouble. You've got to ride your fighting instinct with a strong curb." "I don't 'low to let nobody run over me." The statement was not argumentative: only an announcement of a principle which was not subject to modification. "All right, but until you learn the ropes let me advise you." The boy gazed into the fire for a few moments of silence. "I gives you ye my hand on thet," he promised. At eleven o'clock the painter, having shown his guest over the premises, said good-night and went up-town to his own house. Samson lay a long while awake, with many disquieting reflections. Meanwhile Lescott, letting himself into a house overlooking (he park, was hailed by a chorus of voices from the dining room. He turned and went in to join a gay group just back from the opera. As he thoughtfully mixed himself a highball, they bombarded him with questions. "Why didn't you bring your barbarian with you?" demanded a darkeyed girl who looked very much as Lescott himself might have looked had he been a girl?and very young and lovely. Now she flashed on him an affectionate smile, and added: "We have been waiting to see him. Must we go to bed disappointed?" George stood looking down on them and tinkled the ice in his glass. "He wasn't brought on for purposes of exhibition, Drennie," he smiled. "I was afraid if he came in here in the fashion of his arrival?carrying his saddlebags?you ultracivilized folk might have laughed. A roar of laughter at the picture T ^OPAtt'o OfiQIimntlnn "No! Now, actually with saddlebags?" echoed a young fellow with a likable face which was for the moment incredulously amused. "That goes Dick Whittington one better. You do make some rare discoveries, George. We celebrate you." "Thanks, Horton," commented the painter, dryly. "When you New Yorkers have learned what hese barbarians already know, the control of your oversensitized risibles and a courtesy deeper than your shirt-fronts?maybe I'll let you have a look. Meantime I'm much too fond of all of you to risk letting you laugh at my barbarian." Several months were spent laboring with charcoal and paper over plaster casts in Lescott's studio, and Lescott himself played instructor. When the skylight darkened with the coming of evening, the boy whose mountain nature cried out for exercise went for long tramps that carried him over many miles of city pavements, and after that, when the gas was lit, he turned, still insatiably hungry, to volumes of history, and algebra, and facts. * A sloop-rigged boat with a crew of two was dancing before a brisk breeze through blue Bermuda water. Off to the right Hamilton rose sheer and colorful from the bay. At the tiller sat the white-clad figure of Adrienne Lescott. Puffs of wind that whipped the tautly bellying sheets lashed her dark hair about her face. Her lips, vividly red like poppy petals, were just now curved into an amused smile, which made them even more than ordinarily kissable and tantalizing. Her companion was neglecting his nominal duty of tending the sheet to watch her. "Wilfred." she teased, "your contrast is quite startling?and, in a way, effective. From head to foot you are spotless white?but your scowl is absolutely 'the blackest black that our eyes endure.' And," she added, in an injured voice, "I'm sure I've been very nice to you." "I've not yet begun to scowl," he assured her, and proceeded to show what superlatives of saturnine expression he held in reserve. "See here, Drennie, I know perfectly well that I'm a sheer imbecile to reveal the fact that you've made me mad. It pleases you too perfectly. I make you happier than is good for you. but?" "It's a terrible thing to make me hatmv isn't it?" she inouired. sweetlv. "Drennie, you have held me off since we were children. I believe I first announced my intention of marrying you when you were twelve. That intention remains unaltered and inevitable. My reasons for wanting to needn't be rehearsed. It would take too long. I regard you as possessed of an alert and remarkable mind? my own." Despite the frivolous badi one worthy of companionship with nage of his words and the humorous smile of his lips, his eyes hinted at an underlying intensity. "With no desire to flatter or spoil you, I find your personal aspect pleasing enough to satisfy me. And then, while a man should avoid emotionalism, I am in love with you." He moved over to a place in the sternsheets, and his face became intensely earnest. He dropped his hand over hers as it lay on the tiller shaft. "God knows, dear," he exclaimed, "how much I love you!" Her eyes, after holding his for a moment, fell to the hand which still imprisoned her own. She shook her head, not in anger, but with a mannor r\f contlo Honlnl until he released her fingers and stepped back. "You are a dear, Wilfred," she comforted, "and I couldn't manage to get on without you, but you aren't marriageable?at least, not yet." "Why not?" he asked. "In the first place, you are one of those men whose fortunes are listed in the top schedule?the swollen fortunes. Socialists would put you in the predatory class." "Drennie," he groaned, "it's not my fault that I'm rich. It was wished on me. If you are serious, I'm willing to become poor as Job's turkey. Show me the way to strip myself, and I'll stand shortly before you begging aim." "To what end?" she questioned. "Poverty would be quite inconvenient. I shouldn't care for it. But hasn't it ever occurred to you that the man who wears the strongest and brightest mail, and who by his own confession is possessed of an alert brain, ought occasionally to be seen in the lists?" "In short, your charge is that I am a shirker?and, since it's the same thing, a coward?" Adrienne did not at once answer him, but she straightened out for an uninterrupted run before the wind, and by the tiny moss-green flecks, whlr?h mfimonts nf erest seriousness brought to the depths of her eyes, he knew that she meant to speak the unveiled truth. "Besides your own holdings in a lot of railways and things, you handle your mother's and sisters' property, don't you?" He nodded. "In a fashion, I do, I sign the necessary papers when the lawyers call me up and ask me to come downtown." "You are a director in the Metropole Trust company." "Guilty." "In the Consolidated Seacoast?" "I believe so." "With your friends, who are also shareholders, you could assume control of the Morning Intelligence, couldn't you?" "I guess I could assume control, but what would I do with it?" "Do you know the reputation of that newspaper?" "I guess it's all right. It's conservative and newsy. I read it every morning when I'm in town. It fits in very nicely between the grapefruit and the bacon and eggs." "It is, also, powerful," she added, "and is said to be absolutely servile to corporate interests." "Drennle, you talk like an anarchist. You are rich yourself, you know." "And against each of those other concerns various charges have been made." "Well, what do you want me to do?" "It's not what I want you to do," she informed him; "it's what I'd like to see you want to do." "Name it! I'll want to do it forthwith." "I think when you are one of a handful of the richest men in New York; when, for instance, you could dictate the policy of a great newspaper, yet know it only as the course that follows your grapefruit, you are a shirker and a drone, and are not playing the game." Her hand tightened to the tiller. "I think if I were a man riding on to the polo field I'd either try like the devil to drive the ball down between the posts, or I'd come inside and take ofT my boots and colors. I wouldn't hover in a ladylike futlity around the edge of the scrimage." She knew that to Horton, who played polo like a fiend incarnate, the figure would be effective, and she whipped out her words with something very close to scorn. "There's my hand on it, Drennie," he said. "We start back to New York tomorrow, don't we Well, when I get there I put on overalls and go to work. When I propose next I'll have something to show!" (To be Continued). Bacilli or Bullets. Modern science has done much to banish disease among soldiers, and the scourges of smallpox, malaria and cholera, which in former campaigns have killed more men than bullets, have lost much of their menace for fighting men. There still remain, however, diseases such as dysentery, pneumonia and enteric, which are likely to break out among bodies of troops unless careful precautions are taken by the men themselves. Dysentery is one of the most terrible of camp diseases, and during the South African war. it killed thousands for during the campaign, out of 22,000 casualties, bullets accounted for only 8,000 and disease for 14,000 Dysentery, which is an inflamation of th? internal organs, is generally caused through impure water. Soldiers at the front have been given directions to boil the water they drink, whenever possible, though, of course, there are obvious difficulties in the way of providing every soldier with the necessary heating apparatus. Pneumonia is a disease which seldom fails to attack an army fighting under severe weather conditions. Sleeping in rain-sodden trenches or on damp ground is all part of "Tommy's"' day's work, and it is not surprising that this complaint should re suit rrom sucn exposure, as cur William Osier, the medical expert, points out, the resisting forces of the body are lowered when cold and rain come, and lonp, exhausting marches have to be carried out, and thus the weary soldier falls an easy victim to pneumonia and kindred complaints caused by severe chills. Enteric, or typhoid, is one of the most fatal diseases connected with modern warfare. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced Id Early Flies of The Yorkvllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Reco.de of the Paet and Giving the Younger Readera of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Qeneratiens that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our lBsue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the I older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 114TH INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, Sept. 10, 1862.) 17th Regiment, S. C. V. The following are the casualties in Co F, (Capt. Avery) in the battle of Grovertown, on Friday, the 29th of August: Killed?Privates O. L. Wallace, W. A. Parker, Jonathan McClain. Wounded?First Lieut. D. J. Logan, seriously; Lieut. E. P. Moore, flesh, leg; First Sergt. R. C. Guntharp, both thighs, flesh; Fifth Sergt. Wm. Dunovant, flesh, arm; S. C. Lowry, flesh, thigh; J. E. Hetherington, breast, seriously; Jas. Garvin, two fingers off; G. W. Moore, one finger off; Robert Hayes in hip, slightly; Jerry Green, in head, slight; A. Dover, arm broken; Joseph Seapock, in shoulder; Wm. Martin, in leg, flesh, slight; Jas. La.th am, hip, slight; J. Wilkerson, slight; Reuben Roberts, in breast, not severe. Gen. Evans' brigade nearly annihilated. J. W. Avery. Capt. Palmetto Sharpshooter*. List of casualties in the Jasper Light infantry, on the 30th of August: Killed?John Neil of the Citadel, who Joined the company during the battle. Wounded?Lieut. Carroll; Sergt. O'Farrell, slightly; Corp. Gillespie, in arm. Privates?J. D. Dickson, in arm; H. Ramsey, mortally; Jaa Gun, slightly; W. B. Williams, arm broken; Jas. Walsh, severely, in the leg; L. T. Harris. W. B. Smith, 1st Lieut. Commanding J. L. I. Fifth Regiment, 8. C. V. The following is a list of the casualties in the King's Mountain Guards: Wounded?Lieut. A. P. Black, in leg; Corp. W. E. Campbell, in foot. Privates?J. R. Barber, in thigh; E. A. Gettys, in thigh; J. J. Dunlap, in thigh; Wm. A. Jeffreys, in back arid thigh; David McSwaln, in neck. _ J. J. L. Gill, Commanding Co. F. (Wednesday Evening, Oct. 1, 1862.) Our Wounded. By a dispatch from the Rev. J. M. Anderson, dated Warrenton, 26th, ult., we regret to learn that John J., son of Mr. Dudley Jones, of this place, died on the 25th, ult., aged 33 years. His right arm was amputated. William B., son of Geo. W. Williams, Esq., whose right arm was so badly shattered at the same battle (Manassas), as to require amputation, reached his home in this town last Monday evening, and is doing very well. The following is a list of the casualties in Co. F, (Capt. Avery) 17th regiment, S. C. V., in the battle of Sunday and Monday, at Sharpsburg: Killed?None. Wounded?Capt. J. W. Avery, in knee, slightly; M. Scatee, in face, slightly burned; Phillip Seapock and Jacob Seapock, severely; Smith Sanders, in arm, severely; M. Sweeney, in leg, severely; Clark, in arm, severely; Sergt. Caveny, wounded and in prison. The following is an extract from a letter from Capt. John L. Miller, dated Smlthfleld, Va., Sept. 22: "I am glad to say that none of my men were killed. W. C. Childers was shot through the foot, Martin Holbrooks, a little piece of his thumb shot off; W. C. Manning was shot through both thighs; J. L. Smith through the neck?the two latter fell into the hands of the enemy. I think they were both mortally wounded. A great many others were stunned by shells but nothing serious. Capt. Erwin was killed, Lieut. Kerr severely wounded in the hip, and fell into the hands of the enemy. Maj. McCorkle was unhurt. I did not hear of but one man killed In Capt. Grist's company?W. S. Traylor. I received a painful flesh wound In the left thigh. Capt. Barnes was shot through both knees." (Wednesday Evening, Oct. 6, 1862.) 12th Regiment. A list of the killed and wounded in the battle of Sept. 17th, 1862, In Maryland, of Companies A, B, and H: Co. A?Lieut. John T. Parker, commanding: Killed?Private S. R. Pratt. Wounded?Sergt. Wesley C. Crepes, seriously, in leg and taken prisoner; Private R. M. Allison, slightly; W. H. Carnes, slightly; J. N. Clark, severely, in side and taken prisoner; S. E. Jackson, severely, in head; J. W. Lawrence, severely, in thigh and taken prisoner; R. N. Whltesides, severely, in shoulder, and taken prisoner; W. S. Traylor, mortally. Co. B?Capt. John L. Miller, commanding: Wounded?Capt. John L. Miller, slightly, in leg. Privates J. L. Smith, mortally; W. C. Chllders, severely, in foot; Martin Holbrook, slightly. Missing?A. J. Wallace. Co. H?Capt. F. A. Erwin, commanding: Killed?Capt. F. A. Erwin, Private J. L. Roach. Wounded?Lieut. R. M. Kerr, severely, in thigh; Sergt. J. N. Steele, slightly, in head. Privates W. W. Patterson, severely, in thigh; J. H. McCannon, severely, in thigh; J. N. Henry, severely. In arm; S. Carder, slightly, in hand; D. A. Button, slightly, in thigh; W. J. Kimbrell, slightly, in leg: S. P. MeCullough, slightly, in foot; A. J. Bell, slightly, in abdomen; W. C. McCammon, slightly, in thigh; John Harris (Indian), severely, In leg; 1 James Harris (Indian), slightly, in foot. Total killed In regiment, 22; wounded, 78, missing, 2. W. H. McCorkle, Major 12th Reg., S. C. V. (To be continued.) TAFT SCENTS DANGER Ex-President Thinks United 8tstes May ba Forced to Move. Morristown, N. J., February 23.? The United States is threatened with a serious invasion of its rights as a neutral by the warring nations of Europe and in preserving its commerce with those nations is face to face with a crisis, in the opinion of former President Wm. H. Taft. In the solution of that crisis, should It arise, no jingo spirit must be allowed to prevail, Mr. Taft advised; neither pride nor momentary passion should influence Judgment "When the president shall act," Mr. Taft declared, "we must stand by him to the end. In this determination we may be sure that all will join no matter what their European origin. All will forget their differences in selfsacrlflclng loyalty to our common flag and our common country." Mr. Taft's reference to the situation confronting the United States was made at the conclusion of an address yesterday before the Washington association of New Jersey. Quoting a reservation in the treaty of Algericas, proclaimed in 1907, and entered into by the United States and eleven European nations, Including most of those now at war, Mr. Taft said: "Our interest in the present war, under the conditions that exist should be limited as set forth in their reser- ! vation, to wit: " "To preserving and increasing the commerce of the United States with 1 the belligerents; to the protection as to life, liberty and prosperity of our j citizens, residing or traveling in their countries, and to the aiding by our 1 friendly offices and efforts in bringing those countries to peace.' "Our efforts for peace," he continued, "have been made as complete as possible, for the president has already tendered his good offices, by way of mediation between the powers, and they have not been accepted. "In preserving the commerce of the United States with the belligerents, ' however, we are face to face with a crisis. "* je planting of mines in the i open sea. and the use of submarines to send neutral vessels to the bottom without Inquiry as to their neutrality when found in a so-called war zone of the open sea, are all of them a variation from the rules of international law governing the action of belligerents towards neutral trade. "When their violation results in the destruction of the lives of American citizens or of American property, a gr.ve issue will arise as to what the duty of the president and congress in meeting the critical issue thus presented in maintaining our national honor on the one hand, with due regard to the awful consequences to our 90,000,000 of people of engaging in this horrible world war, on the other hand will be very great. It involves on their part a judgment so momentous in its consequences that we should earnestly pray that the necessity for it may be averted. "If, however, the occasion arises, we can be confident that those in authority will be actuated by the highest pa triotic motives and by the deepest concern for our national welfare. We must not allow our pride or momentary passion to Influence our Judgment We must exercise the deliberation that the fateful consequences in the loss of our best blood and enormous waste of treasure would necessarily impose upon us. We must allow no jingo spirit to prevail. We must abide the Judgment of those in whom we have entrusted the authority and when the president shall act we must stand by him to the end. 'This 183rd anniversary of Washington's birth, should bring to our minds the third great achievement of his presidental term, the maintenance of a policy of neutrality through a general European war. He maintained it throughout his official life as president against mighty odds and under conditions that tried his soul; and in his farewell address he restated and i re-inforced it as a legacy to the Ameriican people." | g , DAY OF THE QUILL PEN When Writing Paper Was Poor and I Envelopes Were Unknown. The constant mending required by 1 quill pens must have proved a severe trial in the days when no others were available, says the London Chronicle. ; Alexander I. of Russia thought it nec- I essary to employ a man whose sole 1 duty consisted in cutting pens. He was { required to have a supply of not less i than 100 quills always ready. This number was by no means ex cesslve, for Alexander would never use | Vi*v (inmA tftfUa Fvon fho turltlnP I of a signature spoiled a pen, In his ] opinion, for subsequent use. The quill cutter, who received a salary of ?340 a year, accompanied the czar on all his ] Journeys, including campaigns against I Napoleon. Writing implements changed con- ( slderably for the better during Sir i Walter Gilbey's long spell of life. "Though quill pens are still in use," he ! remarks in his "Recollections of Sev- ( enty Years," "I remember the time i when one seldom saw any other kind. ( Steel pens in their early days were ex- , pensive and ill made, and few people ] used them. The paper we had seventy ' years ago may have been partly to j blame. It had neither the substance ] nor the surface we take as a matter of 1 course nowadays. "I remember when envelopes came j into use, and what a boon they were | considered after the old system of < closing letters with wafers or wax. ] Before envelopes were Invented letters ] were always written with an eye to 1 the position of the wafer or seal, a ' blank space being left to correspond | with the space where this would be i put on the outside, lest the written < portion should be torn in opening."? j New York Sun. in California a street railway 1 company uses motion pictures to in- J struct its employes how accidents oc- i cur and how to prevent them. I TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES 2 8 News Happenings In Nelgblinrlng J . Communities. % CONDENSED FOt QUICK READING J 1 Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of ? ru""1'" AImmUiuI. Gaston, Lan- F caster and Cheater. f< Gaffney Ledger, Feb. 26: Dr. Arch a C. Cree of Gaffney, has accepted the r position of secretary of the Georgia t] Baptist mission board, to which he was y recently elected by a convention of 5 delegates held in Atlanta. He will g assume his new duties May 1st. Un- ^ til that time he will continue acting a enlistment secretary of the home mis- Y sion board, which position he has filled y very acceptably for several years. w Recently Dr. Cree has been working in g] Alabama and other southern states in a the interests of the home mission ^ board. In a letter received from him ^ yesterday by friends in the city, he stated that he expected to be in Gaffney for a few days' visit to relatives the next few days Dule a< Eubanks, alias Dule Edwards, who es- T caped from the Cherokee county Jail S several days ago, was captured in S Union by Rural Policeman Thomas h McDaniel. He was returned to the c< Cherokee county Jail Tuesday, and the tl reward of (15.00, which had been of- la fered by Sheriff W. W. Thomas for his y capture, was paid to Mr. McDaniel. si The class of philosophy of edu- aj cation at Limestone college were de- ol lighted last Saturday by a visit from ai Prof. J. Harvey Witherspoon. He in came to listen, but he was prevailed w upon to talk. And in a most inter- pj esting impromptu address he told the 8i senior class how the profession of b< teaching was a calling peculiarly suited e to women; he spoke of the qualiflca- gi tions necessary for successful teach- m ers, and gave practical suggestions to m young women about to enter the pro- g\ fesslon. Prof. Witherspoon is a wide- ei awake, progressive, energetic teacher. ., He understands the needs for a closer q co-operation between the public f schools and the colleges, and he is a doing what he can to bring about this 8< desired relationship Miss Janie p Ham rick and Mr. Geo. W. Cloniger, both of Gastonia, were married last week by Probate Judge W. D. Kirby, at his office in the courthouse C Mary Jane Ellis, wife of Rev. J. L. L Ellis, died at her home in this city lo Wednesday afternoon, very suddenly. H She had been slightly unwell for sev- bi eral days, suffering with cold, but was w up and about the house. Shortly be- pi fore 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, w Mrs. Ellis laid down to rest, and with- R in less than twenty minutes, she was M dead. Mrs. Ellis was seventy-one s( years of age. She is survived by her ir husband and four children; one boy hi and three girls, as follows: John Ellis, S Mrs. Ella Hammett, Mrs. Harriet Car- S ter and Mrs. Margaret Tate. She is ni also survived by twenty-three grand- s< children, all of them living in Chero- 01 kee county. A . - - .. II Chester Reporter, Feb. 25: Mr. Ad- q dlson Kitchens, a former citizen of d( this county, living in the Rossville neighborhood, who left here about flf- w teen years ago for Phillips county, t( Ark., died January 1st. Mr. Kitchens a was in his 80th year, and had num- tl' bers of friends here who will learn tj with regret of his death Mrs. d Annie Hood left yesterday morning ai for her home at Tuscaloosa, Ala., ac- ^ companled by " her gftmd-daughter, ^ Miss Adelyne Hood, after spending T several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. w( J. Q. Hood There seems to have a| been some sort of misunderstanding b, or disagreement at Fort Lawn Tuesday p in regard to the municipal election, fe and as a result, the voters of the C] Cousar faction remained away from t( the polls. Only thirteen votes were g( cast, and these went for Mr. W. L. t( Abernathy, who was duly re-elected. B The candidates for warden on the h Abernathy ticket, Messrs. R. L. Gooch, T. B. Kell, W. B. McFadden and G. W. McKeown, were also elected, only one n candidate for warden on the Cousar Q] ticket, Mr. E. Christopher, receiving ^ any votes Deputy James G. Howze came in last night from Wilmington, N N. C., with Henry Huey, colored, who jj broke Jail here September 27, 1912, w and was captured Monday in Wilming- c] ton, the officer making the arrest C( thereby earning a reward of *30, oj which had been offered for the negro w by Sheriff * Colvln. Huey became boisterous and disorderly one morning ^ on the south-bound Southern passen- t[ ger tsain, and when Cornwell was w reached the conductor appealed to Constable W. A. McNeill to arrest the Q] negro, and a pistol duel ensued, in in which several shots were exchanged a, but neither of the combatants was n. -. xt .i- j wounuwi. nucy ueu iniu mc nuvuo ^ and remained at large for some time, m finally being arrested at Gastonia. He was in the county jail awaiting R trial when he managed to break Jail, R along with Charles Carter and Na- C( thanlel Alexander, the two latter, how- m ever, being shortly afterward re-cap- el tured. Huey is a negro of magnificent tr proportions?about six feet in height tj. and weighing about 200 pounds?and cj will make Superintendent McKeown ta one of the best rock-breakers the V( gang has ever had Prof. W. H. fc McNairy, superintendent of the city q, graded schools, when asked yesterday, m how many white children of this city C( between the ages of 8 and 14 are not a, in the public schools, said he was un- q able to give the number exactly, but f0 would estimate the number at 100 at ta least; and then went on to state that V( with the facilities and equipment on ta hand, the schools of the city could easily take care of this additional number without having to add more than one extra teacher Will R. R Yongue and Olin Varnadore, two vj Chester county men who have been in m jail for several weeks at Lexington, q N. C., on the charge of horse-stealing, there being two cases against Younge ^ and one against Varnadore, were ja placed on trial Monday and both en- j? nlpas nf irulltv. Varnadore was ut sentenced to two years in the peniten- 8C tiary, while Yongue received five g years in one case and had sentence suspended in the other. In addition aj to the cases at Lexington, Younge has h( similar charges against him at Golds- j t>oro, N. C., Johnson City, Tenn., and rignal, Ga. dt m King's Mountain Herald, Feb. 25: U3 Mr. Prank Rudlsill was married at sti Sheldow, la., on February 11, to Miss th Maude Wilson of that place. Mr. to Rudisill is a son of Mrs. A. R. Rudisill fh jt King's Mountain A revival Bi meeting has been in progress at Grace m Methodist church for the past ten se clays. There have been about 50 pro- a fessions and eighteen accessions to the yc church. Pastor B. A. Culp is doing ki the preaching Mr. and Mrs. P. H D. Herndon returned Tuesday night th from Union Level, Va., where they had re visited his parents The Kiser ss Lumber Co. has begun work on a brick in building 20x50 feet, the front of which p. will be used for an office and the rear M for warerooms. It is situated on their w lot between their present plant and to L. P. Meal's stables M. L. Sum- ju mers and his corps of helpers have re- Ti moved the old stumps alongside the ar railroad ' etween the fountain and the to freight uepot. This was done in or- ci ~ n ?ifau A# _1 JCI iu f^ivc wdfiwiia a ucuci ?a. j ui backing up to cars for loading fertili- ar ser. etc J. W. Layton and Miss rn Hattie Randall were married by Esq. ag Kendrick, Saturday night Dr. J. ru 3. Hord and son. Otto Hord, left Mon- co Say morning, for New York, where the se loctor will attend a clinic for several of weeks. Dr. Hord goes to New York su ?very four years to take a special post- he graduate course. Otto will take in the in dghts. ta se Rock Hill Record, Feb. 25: The de- at partment of industries of the chamber th }f commerce, of which Alex. Long is ch Jlroetor, with J. B. Johnson as chair- be aan of the committee on new Indus- Li tries, has announced that another in- ini ustry has been secured for Rock [ill. The secretary has been correpondlng for some time with reference d the location here of a plant by the 'exas Oil Co. Mr. Merrltt of the iouthern railway, has been active in ettlng this company to locate in Rock [ill. The matter has been kept quiet y request of the oil company, for the eason that negotiations were under ray for one or two pieces of property, 'he plant will be located near the allroad beyond the Victoria mill Irs. A. J. Glenn, wno nas Deen in me 'ennell infirmary for several weeks ar treatment, was able to leave to reurn to her home on Bast White treet this week Fred Dunlap has esigned his position as manager of tie Smith-Fewell Co., and will, after larch 1, engage in the brokerage uslnesa He will be succeeded at the mith-Fewell Co. by John Reld Irs. A. J. Bynum left this morning for n absence of two months. She will islt her daughter, Miss Ida Bynum, at Winston, N. C., for several weeks, and ill later go to Pittsboro, N. C., where he will spend some time. While way she will attend the marriage of er son, Fred Bynum, to Miss Page of berdeen, N. C. Fort Mill Times, Feb. 25: In a transction consummated last week, Oscar . Culp purchased the interest of W. J. tewart in the grocery concern of tewart & Culp, and the business will ereafter be known as the Culp Groery Store. Mr. Stewart retires from le business to take charge of his irge farm in lower Fort Mill Mrs. 7. J. Powell of Shelby, N. C., was jmmoned to Fort Mill several days ?o on account of the serious Illness f her grandchild, the infant of Mr. nd Mrs. T. M. Mauney Sam W. [erritt, who has been ill for several eeks of pneumonia, continues to imrove slowly, and the attending phycian expects that he will be able to s out in a short time Miss lizabeth Mack of Decatur, Ga., is a nest in the home of her grandmother, Irs. Hattle Mack, in this city [iss Macy Potts of Steel Creek, is a nest this week of Miss Mary Caroth s, at the tetter's home in this city. Rev. and Mrs. Robt. G. Lee of reenville, were among the visitors to ort Mill Sunday. Mr. Lee delivered highly interesting and instructive ;rmon Sunday evening from the resbyterian pulpit. * Gastonia Gazette, Feb. 26: William . Harris, aged about 24 years, died at owell Friday afternoon, of tubercuisis. He was a son of the late Cicero arris and leaves a widow and several rothers and sisters. Funeral services ill be conducted Friday afternoon, robably at the Baptist church, of hich he was a member. The pastor, ev. I. T. Newton, will officiate [r. C. S. Stowe, concerning whose ab?nce from home an article appeared i Tuesday's Gazette, returned to his ome near Dallas, Tuesday evening, o far as we are able to learn, Mr. towe merely went away on a busiess trip for a few days and for reams of his own, did not inform any fie as to his destination Mrs. deline Patterson Russell, widow of le late Mr. George E. Russell, died at le home of her daughter, Mra P. G. obb, aged 66 years. The cause of Bath was paralysia Mrs. Russell suf red a stroke of paralysis about six eeks ago, from which she recovered > some extent. About three weeks go, she came from her home on route iree to the home of her daughter in le city, and grew worse, until yestera.y morning, when she passed away s the result of another severe stroke. Ira Russel^,was before her marriage, [iss Adeline Patterson, daughter of hoa and Nancy Patterson, and was orn and reared in this county. She is iirvived by four children. Her husand died about six years ago. Mra .ussell had been for many years a ilthful member of Olney Presbyterian riurch, where the funeral and burial >ok place at 1 o'clock this afternoon, ;rvices being conducted by the pas>r, Rev. G. A. Sparrow Mrs. lanche Cline died last night at her ome, No. 708 East Franklin avenue, gred about 22 years. The funeral will b conducted at 10 o'clock tomorrow lorning by Rev. F. W. Cook, pastor f West End Methodist church Ir. H. F. Caldwell, aged 31 years, died irly yesterday morning at his home, o. 1423 Ozark street, following a long lness from tuberculosis. The funeral as held at Sandy Plains Baptist hurch yesterday afternoon, being inducted by Rev. J. J. Beach, pastor f the East Baptist church. Interment as in the cemetery at Sandy Plains. rne residence 01 airs, aiary r-tuck in the Union neighborhood, was le scene of a quiet but pretty home edding yesterday evening, when Miss [ary Ethel Patrick became the bride r Mr. Samuel Pinckney Stows. The ivited guests included only relatives nd near friends of the contracting irtles. While columns entwined ith ivy, {lotted plants and flowers, lade a beautiful altar before which le vows were said, the bride's pastor, ev. G. A. Sparrow, officiating epresentative Mauney of Gaston >unty, according to a telephone comlunication from Raleigh to the Gazte last night, was scheduled to inoduce in the house of representatives lis morning a bill authorizing the tizens of the towns of King's Mountin and East King's Mountain, to ite in an election to be held on the lurth Saturday in April, 1915, on the jestion as to whether they shall relain separate towns in different junties as at present, or be combined id thrown into one county, either leveland or Gaston. The bill calls ir a new registration in King's Mountin and at Dilling's, which is the iting precinct for East King's MounIn. Lancaster News, Feb. 26: Rev. J. . Thayer of Lancaster, has been inted to preach the baccalaureate seron to the graduating class of the Itadel at Charleston, June 23 r. S. B. Roberts of the Creek section, et with a painful accident one day st week. While engaged in bulldg a fence, a negro who was helping m, accidentally hit him on the hand > heavily with a maul as to break >veral fingers and bruise his hand idly. Mr. Roberts suffered consider>ly, but the wounded hand Is now waling rapidly The home of Mr. D. Blackmon, about two and a half lies east of Lancaster, was entirely stroyed by fire at an early hour this orning. Mr. Blackmon and his fam/ narrowly escaping with their lives, iving but little of the contents of le house. The fire was thought have originated from a defective le in the kitchen Master Johnnie irton, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and re. W. Hi Bartor^ of the Antioch dion, died last Friday nignt, arter prolonged Illness. He was a bright >ung boy and was loved by all who lew him. He had a case of diabetes, e was a member of the Antioch Bapst church. The remains were laid to at In the Antioch cemetery last iturday evening, funeral services beg conducted by his pastor, Rev. B. Carson The friends of Mr. J. Men McMurray in this county, here he formerly lived, will regret hear of his death which occurred st beyond the county line in the rzah community Monday night.. .Th inual election of policemen for the wn of Lancaster, came off last night, tiief of Police H. W. Bell was re- 1 ected, and Messrs. David R. Williams 1 id E. P. Mobely were elected police- I en Miss Hannah Knight, an ( red lady, died at Great Falls on Feb- ' lary 15, and was buried at Westslde metery on February 17, after funeral i rvices by Rev. S. R. Brock. While , Hr>in?lnir at thia fiin?rnl Mr. Rrock iffered an attack of vertigo and had > not been assisted by those standS near, would have fallen. He was ken to his home, where he was veral days In recovering: from the tack... .Married, on February 23, at e parsonage of the Second Methodist lurch. Mr. David Harman of Greens>ro, N. C., to Miss Martha Stroud of measter, Rev. C. W. Burgess offlciatS HAPPENING8 IN THE STATE Items of Interest from All 8ections of South Carolina. R. R. Hafner has announced hla candidacy for mayor of Cheater. Receipts at the Greenwood poetofllce during 1914 were $3,000 In excess of those of the year prevloua The steamer Greenbrier, laden with cotton, left Charleston last Thursday, for Bremen, Germany. The 117th company of coast artillery, U. S. A., now at Brownsville, Texas, has been ordered to Fort Moultrie, Charleston. S. T. Westberry, J. W. H. Duncan and James S. Verner have been appointed members of the Richland county dispensary board. C. F. Rizer, a merchant of Bamberg county, has donated a handsome gymnasium to the Carlisle Fitting school, a Methodist institution at Bamberg. The South Carolina Belgian relief ship St. Helena, laden with more than 7,000 tons of foodstuffs, left Charleston Saturday afternoon for Rotterdam, Holland. The strike of employes of the Gluck mill of Anderson, is still on, not a wheel in the big mill having turned since the operatives walked out more than two weeks ago. Hon. John P. Grace has announced his candidacy for re-election as mayor of Charleston. MaJ. T. T. Hyde entered the mayorallty race several weeks ago. George Harper, a well known citizen of Anderson, died at his home in that city, Friday afternoon, aged 74 years. He was for many years a prominent figure in the South Carolina Methodist conference. Farmers and business men of Florence are considering the erection of a canning factory in that city. Numbers of farmers have pledged themselves to plant from five to ten acres of sweet potatoes for use In the canning factory. An aged white man, arrested in Spartanburg Friday, on the charge of begging on Main street, was found to have more than $100 in his possession when searched at the police station. He was required to put up a bond of $15, which he forfeited. David Perkins, a young white man of Chesterfield, shot himself through the lung with suicidal Intent Thursday night. He had been drinking heavily for several days and had declared to several friends his intention to kill himself. The wound will very likely prove fatal Judge M. L. Smith has appointed Augustus M. Deal of Columbia, stenographer for the court of general sessions of the Fifth Judicial circuit W. H. McFeat is stenographer for the court of common pleas of the Fifth circuit The additional stenographer #/\w kif An o a4 a# f k a la at WO0 ^IUV iUCTU AAA Vi VMV MM?l. general assembly. The salary Is $600 per year. A young man posing as a son of Governor Richard L Manning, passed a bogus check for $5 on an Aiken merchant a few days ago. The young fellow also pretended to be a representative of the Manufacturers' Record, and talked quite optimistically of business conditions. An Augusta, Ga, paper printed an Interview with the bogus representative. The bogus check and a copy of the Augusta paper were sent to the governor's private secretary. Members of the dispensary board of Barnwell county, appeared before Governor Manning last Thursdav to show cause why they should not be removed from office. The hearing was attended by more than fifty Barnwell county citizens. The testimony of several witnesses was taken. Messrs. B. F. Peeplea V. S. Owens and 8. A. Wise, members of the board against whom charges have been preferred, declined to take the witness stand. The hearing was continued until the 4th of March. Governor Manning on last Friday, telephoned Mayor Grace of Charleston, as follows: "My attention has been called to an article in the public prints announcing your present programme for the enforcement of law after first of March. This statement practically admits that violations of the laws will be allowed by the city officials after that date. I urge you to not condone violations of the law: neither you nor I am responsible for the laws on the statute books, but we are both charged with enforcing them. Our duty Is plain." Spartanburg, Feb. 26: The Clinchheld Navigation company has been formed and will have a fleet of vessels plying in and out of Charleston engaged in coastwise trade. This announcement was made here this afternoon by C. E. Bockus, president of the Cllnchfleld Fuel company, who has Just returned from New York, accompanied by C. M. Bamett, representative of the company at Norfolk. The first boat of the Clinchfleld's fleet has Just been purchased at Ashtabula, a Lake Erie port, at a cost of $250,000, and will be delivered in Charleston early in May. The vessel has a capacity of 3,000 tons. In the past the Cllnchfleld people have been forced to charter vessels needed in their coastwise trade between Charleston and Florida and Texas ports, but the business has so increased the decision to operate its own vessels was reached some months ago. Charleston Post, Tuesday: Robert Smalls, one of the most prominent figures of negro politics in the state, who died at Beaufort, last Tuesday, was well known here. He was born a slave at Beaufort, April 5, 1839.' As a slave, during the civil war, he was wheelman of the Confederate steam boat Planter. When the officers of the boat came ashore to sleep In the city, Smalls and a crew of nine negroes ran the boat down the bay and delivered her to Federal gunboats lying outside the forts. He afterwards acted as pilot in the United States navy until July, 1863, and from then to the close of the war, was captain of the steamer "Planter." He was a member of the South Carolina constitutional convention in 1868, and a member of the South Carolina house of representatives, 1868-70. In 1870-5 he was a state senator, and later congressman from this district during Reconstruction days. In recent years he had been collector of customs for the port of Beaufort.