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C^GM
CUMBEI
/?> CHARLES J
with illustration:
of scenes in 1he*
CHAPTER IX.
Christmas came to Misery wrapped I
in a drab mantle of desolation. At I
the cabin of the Widow Miller Sally I
? lnM Shp I
was sitting: aione ueiuic uic ?-.
laid down the slate and spelling book,
over which her forehead had been|
strenuously puckered and gazed somewhat
mournfully into the blaze. Sally
had a secret. It was a secret which
she based on a faint hope. If Samson
should come back to Misery he would
come back full of new notions. No
man had ever yet returned from that
outside world usaltered. No man ever
would. A terrible premonition said
he would not come at all, but, if he
^ did?if he did?she must know how to
read and write. Maybe, when she had
learned a little more, she might even
go to school for a term or two.
The cramped and distorted chirography
on the slate was discouraging.
It was all proving very hard work.
* The girl gazed for a time at something
? ?? 41? nnS then a
sne saw in uie cuimis, ou? ?? ?
faint smile came to her lips. By next
Christmas she would surprise Samson
with a letter. It should be well written,
and every "hain't" should be an
'isn't."
The normal human mind 'is a reservoir
which fills at a rate of speed regulated
by the number and caliber of
its feed pipes. Samson's mind had
long been almost empty, and now from
so many sources the waters of new
things were rushing in upon it that
under their pressure it must fill fast,
or give away. i
He was saved from hopeless complications
of thought by a sanity '
which was willing to assimilate with- i
out too much effort to analyze. The
boy from Misery was presently less
bizarre to the eye than many of the
unkempt bohemians he met in the life
of the studios, men who quarreled i
garrulously over the end and aim of
Art, which they spelled with a capital
A?and, for the most part, knew nothing
of. He retained, except within a
small circle of intimates, a silence
that passed for taciturnity, and a
solemnity of visage that was often
construed into surly egotism.
He ."till wore his hair long, and
though his conversation gradually i
sloughed off much of its idiom and
vulgarism, enough of the mountaineer i
stood out to lend to his personality a
savor of the crudely picturesque. I
Meanwhile he drew and read and
studied and walked, and every day's
advancement was a forced march.
Lescott, tremendously interested in his
experiment, began to fear that the
boy's too great comberness of disposition
would defeat the very earnestness
from which it sprang. So one
morning the landscape-maker called
on a friend whom he rightly believed
to be the wisest man, and the greatest
humorist in New York. i
"I want your help," said Lescott.
l "I want you to meet a friend of mine
and take him under your wing in a
fashion. He needs you."
The stout man's face clouded. A
few years ago he had been peddling <
k his manuscripts with the heart-sickness
of the unsuccessful middle age.
Today men coupled his name with
those of Kipling and De Maupassant.
One of his antipathies was meeting
people who sought to lionize him.
Lescott read the expression, and, before
his host had time to object, swept
into his recital.
At the end he summarized:
"The artist is much like the setter
pup. If it's in him, it's as Instinctive
as a dear's nose. But to become effl
eient he must go a-fleld with a steady
veteran of his own breed."
"I know!" The great man, who was
also the simple man, smiled reminiscently.
"They tried to teach me to
herd sheep when my nose was itching
f for bird country. B:ing on your man;
I want to know him."
Samson was told nothing of the benevolent
conspiracy, but one evening
shortly later he found himself sitting
at a cafe table with his sponsor and a
stout man. almost as silent as himself.
The stout man responded with something
like churlish taciturnity to the
half-dozen men and women who came
over with flatteries. But later, when
the trio was left alone, his face brightened,
and he turned to boy from Misery.
"Does Billy Conrad still keep store
at Stagbone?"
Samson started and his gaze fell in
amazement. At the mention of the
name he saw a cross-roads store with
rough mules hitched to fence pailings.
It was a picture of home, and here was
p a man who had been there! With
glowing eyes the hoy dropped unconsciously
back into the vernacular of
the hills.
"Hev ye been thar, stranger?"
The writer nodded, and sipped his
' whisky.
"Not for some years, though." he
confessed, as he drifted into reminiscence.
which to Samson was like water
to a parched throat.
When they left the cafe the boy
felt as though he were taking leave
of an old and tried friend. By homely
methods, this unerring diagnostician
of the human soul had been reading
him, liking him, and making him feel
a neart-warming sympamy.
It was not until much later that
Samson realized how these two really
great men had adopted him as their
"little brother" that he might have
their shoulder-touch to march by. And
it was without his realization, too,
that they laid upon him the imprint
of their own characters and philosnk?
phy.
"I have come, not to quarrel with
you, but to try to dissuade you." The
Hon. Mr. Wickliffe bit savagely at his
' cigar and gave a despairing spread to
his well-manicured hands. "You stand
in danger of becoming the most cordially
hated man in New York?hated
LWtfir
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SEVILLE BUCIC
3 FRCM PHOTOGRAPHS
PLAY
by the most powerful combinations in
New York."
Wilfred Horton leaned back in a
swivel chair and put his feet up on his
desk. For a while he seemed interested
in his own silk socks.
"It's very kind of you to warn me,"
he said quietly.
The Hon. Mr. Wickliffe rose in exasperation
and paced the floor. The
smoke from his black cigar went be- ,
fore him in vicious puffs. Finally he j
stopped and leaned glaring on the )
table.
"Your family has always been con- ,
servative. When you succeeded to the ,
fortune you showed no symptoms of ,
this mania. In God's name, what has
changed you?"
"I hope I have grown up," explained ,
the young man, with an unruffled ,
smile. "One can't wear swaddling 1
clothes forever, you know."
The attorney for an Instant softened .
his manner as he looked into the
straight-gazing, unafraid eyes of his {
client <
?
"Ive known you from your baby- j
hood. I advised your father before
you were born. You have, by the
chance of birth, come into the control ,
of great wealth. The world of finance '
is of delicate balance. Squabbles in ,
certain directorates may throw the >(
Street into panic. Suddenly you (
emerge from decent quiet and run i
amuck in the china shop, bellowing ,
and tossing your horns. You make t
war on those whose interests are your
own. You seem bent on hari-kari. ,
You have toys enough to amuse. Why j
couldn't you stay put?"
"They weren't the right things.
They were, as you say, toys." The
smile faded and Horton's chin set
itself for a moment as he added:
"If you don't think I'm going to stay
put?watch me."
"Why do you have to make war?
to be chronically insurgent?"
"Because,,?the young man, who had
waked up, spoke slowly?"I am reading
a certain writing on the wall. The
time is not far oft when, unless we
regulate a number of matters from
within we shall be regulated from
without"
"Take for instance this newspaper
war you've inaugurated on the police,"
grumbled the corporation lawyer. "It's
less dangerous to the public than
these financial crusades, butdecidedly
more so for yourself. You are regarded
as a dangerous agitator, a marplot!
I tell you, Wilfred, aside from
all other considerations the thing is
perilous to yourself. You are riding
for a fall. These men whom you are
whipping out of public life will turn
on you."
"So I hear. Here's a letter I got this
morning?unsigned. That is, I thought
it was here. Well, no matter. It
warns me that I have less than three
months to live unless I call off my
dogs."
It is said that the new convert is
ever the most extreme fantic. Wilfred
Horton had promised to put on
his working clothes, and he had done
it with reckless disregard for consequences.
At first, he was simply obeying
Adrienne's orders; but soon he
found himself playing the game for
the game's sake. Political overlords,
assailed as unfaithful servents, showed
their teeth. From some hidden, but
unfailing, source terribly sure and direct
evidence of guilt was being gathered.
For Wilfred Horton, who was
demanding a day of reckoning and j
spending great sums of money to get ]
it, there was a prospect of things do- t
ing.
Adrienne Lescott was in Europe. |
Soon she would return and Horton ?
meant to show that he had not buried s
his talent.
* '
For eight months Samson's life had 1
run in the steady ascent of gradual *
climbing, but in the four months from i
the first of August to the first of De- <
cember, the pace of his existance sud- J
denly quickened. He left off drawing '
from plaster casts and went into a
life class. <
Tn tVitc noptA/1 .Qomann Vtnri hia flrat <
acquaintanceship with women, except
those he had known from childhood? '
and his first acquaintance with the
men who were not of his own art 1
world. 1
Tony Collasso was an Italian illus- 1
trator who lodged and painted in 1
studio-apartments in Washington
Square, South. His companions were
various, numbering among them a '
group of those pygmy celebrities of '
whom one has never heard until by '
chance he meets them, and of whom 2
their intimates speaks as of immortals.
To Collasso's studio Samson was 1
called one night by telephone. He 1
had sometimes gone there before to
sit for an hour, chiefly as a listener, 1
while the man from Sorrento bewailed 1
fate with his corterie, and denounced
all forms of government over insipid
Chianti.
But tonight he entered the door to
find himself in the midst of a gay and 1
boisterous party. The room was already
thickly fogged with smoke, and
a dozen men and women, singing
snatches of current airs, were inter- ;
esting themselves over a chafing dish.
The crowd was typical. A few very
minor writers and artists, a model or
two. and several women who had
thinking parts in current Broadway
productions.
At eleven o'clock the guests of hon- :
or arrived in a taxicab. They were Mr.
William Farbish and Miss Winifred
Starr. Having come, as they explained,
direct from the theatre where Miss
Starr danced in the first row, they
were in evening dress. Samson mentally
acknowledged, though with instinctive
disfavor for the pair, that
both were, in a way, handsome. Collasso
drew aside to whisper importantly:
"Make yourself agreeble to Farbish.
He is received in the most exclusive
society, and is a connoisseur of art.
If he takes a fancy to you, he will
put you up at the best clubs. I think \
I shall sell him a landscape." i
The girl was talking rapidly and |
loudly. She had at once taken the
center of the room, and her laughter
rang in free and egotistical peals <
above the other voices.
"Come, said the host, "I shall pre- ,
sent you."
The boy shook hands, gazing with
his usual directness into the showgirl's
large and deeply-penciled eyes.
Farbi8h, standing at one side with
his hands in his pockets, looked on
with an air of slightly bored detachment.
His dress, his mannerisms, his DearIng,
were all those of the man who has
overstudled his part. They were too
perfect, too obviously, rehearsed
through years of social climbing, but
that was a defect Samson was not
yet prepared to recognize.
Someone had naively complimented
Miss Starr on the leopard-skin cloak
she had Just thrown from her shapely
shoulders, and she turned promptly
and vivaciously to the flatterer.
"It is nice, Isn't it?" she prattled.
"It may look a little up-stage for a girl ]
who hasn't got a line to read into
the piece, but these days one must
get the spot-light, or be a dead one.
It reminds me of a little run-in I had
with Graddy?he's our stage-director, 1
you know." She paused, awaiting the 1
Invitation to proceed, and, having re- '
eeived it, went gayly forward. "I was
:en minutes late, one day, for rehears- <
il, and Graddy came up with that sar- <
eastic manner of his, and said: Miss <
Starr, I don't doubt you are a perfect- '
ly nice girl, and all that, but it rather
gets my goat to figure out how, on <
i salary of fifteen dollars a week, I
you come to rehearsals in a million t
iollars' worth of clothes, riding in a i
imousine?and ten minutes late!' "
She broke off with the eager little (
expression of awaiting applause, and, ]
laving been satisfied, she added: "I i
svas afraid that wasn't going to get a j
augh, after all."
She glanced inquiringly at Samson, j
.vho had not smiled, and who stood t
ooking puzzled.
"A penny for your thoughts, Mr.
South, from down South," she chalenged.
"I guess I'm sort of like Mr. Grad- j
3y," said the boy, slowly. "I was Just
wondering how you do do it?"
He spoke with perfect seriousness,
md, after a moment, the girl broke
nto prolonged peal of laughter.
"Oh, you are delicious!" she ex- 1
:laimed. " If I could do the ingenue 1
ike that, believe me, I'd make some (
lit." She came over, and, laying a 1
land on each of the boy's shoulder's
tissed him slightly on the cheek, t
'That's for a droll boy!" she said. <
'That's the best line I've heard pulled 1
ately." 1
Parblsh was smiling in quiet amuse- i
nent. He tapped the mountaineer on 1
he shoulder.
"I've heard George Lescott speak of ]
ou," he said, genially. "I've rather a I
'ancy for being among the discover- j
;rs of men of talent. We must see ?
nore of each other." j
Samson left the party early, and ?
vlth a sense of disgust.
Several days later, Samson was ,
ilone in Lescott's studio. It was near- .
ng twilight, and he had laid aside a ,
relume of De Maupassant, whose simile
power had beguiled him. The door
ipened, and he saw the figure of a
voman on the threshold. The boy
"ose somewhat shyly from his seat,
md stood looking at her. She was as
ichly dressed as Miss Starr had been, j
3Ut there was the same difference as ^
jetween the colors of the sunset sky
ind the exaggerated daubs of Collasio's
landscape. She stood at the door ^
i moment, and then came forward
vith her hands outstreched.
"This is Mr. South, isn't it?" she 1
tsked, with a frank friendliness in '
ler voice. '
"Yes, ma'am, that's my name."
"I'm Adrienne Lescott," said the '
girl. "I thought I'd find my brother 1
here. I stopped by to drive him up- 1
:own."
Samson had hesitatingly taken the
gloved hand, and its grasp was firm 1
ind strong despite its ridiculous I
imallness. 3
"I reckon he'll be back presently." <
rhe boy was In doubt as to the proper i
procedure. This was Lescott's studio 1
md he was not certain whether or not 1
it lay in his province to invite Les:ott's
sister to take possession of it. <
Possibly, he ought to withdraw. His <
deas of social usages were very vague, i
"Then, I think I'll wait," announced !
the girl.. She threw off her fur coat, 1
ind took a seat before the open grate. 1
rhe chair was large, and swallowed
tier up. I
Samson wanted .to look at her, and <
vas afraid that this would be impolite.
He realized that he had seen ]
no real ladies, except on the street, ]
tnd now he had the opportunity.
"I'm glad of this chance to meet
you, Mr. South," said the girl with a |
*mile that found its way to the boy's (
heart. After all, there was sincerity |
in "foreign" women. "George talks of ,
you so much that I feel as if I'd known
you all the while. Don't you think I
might claim friendship with George's
Friends?"
Samson had no answer. He wished
to say something equally cordial, but
the old instinct against effusiveness
tied his tongue.
"I owe right smart to George Lescott,"
he told her, gravely.
"That's not answering my question,"
she laughed. "Do you consent to being
friends with me?"
"Miss?" began the boy. Then, realizing
that in New York this form of
address is hardly complete, he hastened
to add: "Miss Lescott, I've been
here over nine months now. and I'm
just beginning to realize what a rube
I am. I haven't no?" Again, he broke
off, and laughed at himself. " I mean,
I haven't any idea of proper manners,
and so I'm aa we would say down
home 'plumb skeered' of ladies."
As he accused himself, Samson was
looking at her with unblinking directness;
and she met his glance with
eyes that twinkled.
"Mr. South," she said, " I know all
about manners, and you know all
about a hundred real things that I
want to know. Suppose we begin
teaching each other?"
Samson's face lighted with the revolutionizing
effect that a smile can
bring only to features customarily
solemn.
"Miss Lescott," he said, let's can p
that a trade?but you're gettin' all I
the worst of it To start with, you
might give me a lesson right now in ?(
how a feller ought to act, when's he's '
talkln' to a lady?how I ought to act
with you!"
Her laugh made the situation as ?
easy as an old shoe. "
Ten minutes later, Lescott entered.
x "Well," he said, with a smile, "shall B
I Introduce you people, or have you
already done it for yourselves?"
"Oh," Adrlenne assured him, "Mr.
South and I are old friends." As she
left the room, she turned and added:
"The second lesson had better be at
my house. If I telephone you some
day when we can have the school- J
room to ourselves, will you come up?" n
Samson grinned and forgot to be tl
bashful as he replied: "
"I'll come a-kitin'!" p
(To be Continued). P
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ftCMCDAI fclPWQ KIOTFft.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
Thos. W. Miller of Delaware, will
be the "baby congressman" of the n
64th congress. He Is not yet 28 years ai
of age. H
The Italian government has placed f?
orders In the United States and At- pi
?entina for 13,500,000 quintals (49,500,000
bushels) of wheat. p<
Governor Brumbaugh has begun an ai
ictive campaign with the legislature e<
of Pennsylvania to secure the passage ^
of a local option liquor law in that **
state. 11
Automobiles killed eighteen persons ^
on the streets of New York city durng
the month of February. Nine of
:hese were children under 18 years of
ige.
Major William Arthur, U. S. A., re:ired,
a native of Vermont, and a B
orother of the late President Chester
Arthur, died at Cohasset, Mass., M
ast week. ^
Madam Sarah Bernhardt, the noted l
French actress, who last week suf- th
'ered the amputation of her right leg,
s reported to be well on the road to m
ecovery. fC
A correspondent writing from Bud- a
ipest, Hungary, says that Austria's I>
osses in the first seven months of the 111
*rnr total 1 fiOflrtOO. althnueh officially H
osses of only 400,000 are admitted. N
The "Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes 7:
Corporation," which is to build model
lomes in Washington, is authorized <
jy a bill passed by the senate on MonJay.
It is to be a memorial to the
ate Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. tt
Because of the European war sltua- 01
ion President Wilson expresses some la
loubt as to whether he will visit the r<
Panama-Pacific exposition at San 111
Prancisco this spring. The president
s quoted as saying, "I am tied by the 18
? m
egs.
A memorial building at Lynn, (
Vlass., in which were stored many
-elics of the Civil war, Including the
lag carried by the Sixth Massachu>etts
regiment in the Baltimore riots u'
it the beginning of the war, were dejtroyed
by fire Monday.
e^
A report issued by the Commission q
;'or Relief in Belgium, with headquar- hj
:ers in New York, has announced
:hat up to February 3rd, 150,043 tons Q)
>f food supplies had been sent to Bal- ty
?ium. About 85 per cent of the sup!>lies
were wheat and flour.
One thousand convicts in the East- k:
;rn Pennsylvania penitentiary, have U
?ent a petition to the legislature now ir
n session at Harrisburg, asking the si
legislators to give favorable consider- s<
ition to any measure that has as its bi
abject the curtailment of the sale of m
intoxicating liquors. rr
The receipts of the treasury department
from all sources for the month cl
af February, totaled $43,636,272. The 01
sxpenditures for all purposes for the
month totaled $56,137,624, leaving a ?
leflcit for the month of about $12,- 81
500,000. The total cash assets of the
treasury on March 1st were $1,975,859,376.
The Hamburg-American steamship j
line and five of its officers have been T
Indicted by a Federal grand Jury in
N'ew York. The indictment charges
conspiracy to defraud the government
through false records and violation
of the customs laws in furnish- ?
P
Ing German cruisers supplies at sea.
The story that was widely circulat- t,
ed at the beginning of the war, to the
effect that large bodies of Russian y
troops were being rushed through p
Scotland to France, is now admitted y
by the British press bureau to have
been a hoax, originated by General s,
Kitchener for the purpose of bluffing
the German general staff. It is claim- l
ed that the hoax served its purpose.
The room clerk of the Windsor
hotel, Philadelphia, was notified by K
long distance phone from New York, L
Monday night, that if he would go to d
room No. 26 he would find the dead w
bodies of a man and a woman. The 'r
clerk did as directed and found the d
bodies. The woman was the wife of a
a. New York man and was married
last October. r<
The Harrison anti-narcotic law,
which went into effect last Monday,
is creating much comment throughout 01
the country. In Chicago the police p
say that 95 per cent of the habitual ''
criminals of the city are users of cocaine
and heroin, and express the fear 11
that the dope fiends will commit all
kinds of crime in efforts to get the u
drugs. T
As the result of a riot growing out p
of the beating of a woman by a
drunken foreigner, at Langeloth, Pa.,
Sunday morning, Charles Smith, a
desperado, who had no part in the
beginning of the riot, was killed, and ^
a trooper of the state police was fa- t|
tally shot. The officer received two p
wounds in the first fire, but chased t|
Smith for more than a mile before r,
he was finally killed.
In his annual report Superintendent
Maxwell of the New York city
schools, says in part: "It is now generally
admitted that the American
boy on leaving high school at or about li
18 years of age is at least two years T
behind the German or French boy of
similar age in his studies." Mr. Maxwell
says, "The American boy must
h:ivp enmnleted the soDhomore vear
iii college before he Is on a pur in. in- a:
tellectuul attainments with the grad- a
uate of the German gymnasium or J
the French lycee." tl
OOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS
s Traced In Early Files of The
Yorkvllle Enquirer.
EWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY
Iringing Up Records of the Past and
Giving the Younger Readers of To
day a Pretty Comprahenaive Knowledge
of the Things that Moat Concernad
Generations that Have Gone
Bafora.
The first installment of the notes apearing
under this heading was pubshed
in our issue of November 14,
913. The notes are being prepared by
le editor as time and opportunity perllt.
Their purpose is to bring into
eview the events of the past for the
leasure and satisfaction of the older
eople and for the entertainment and
istructlon of the present generation.
115TH INSTALLMENT
(Wednesday Evening, Oct. 15, 1862.)
Our Wounded.
Capt. L. M. Grist of Co. A, 12th
igiment, S. C. V., reached his home
t this place on Saturday evening, last,
[e Is much debilitated from the ef?cts
of his wound, which is still
ainful but mending slowly.
Lieut. W. D. Miller of the same comany,
is also home on sick furlough, as
re a great many other sick and wound1
from this district, who we hope and
klleve, will do far better than being
wit up in crowded hospitals. As a
tatter of humanity, if not economy,
te government should have adopted
lis course long ago.
From the 12th Regiment
The following promotions have been
anounced in this regiment, filling va
incies occasioned by the deatn or *joi.
arnes, viz:
Cadwallader Jones, colonel; W. H.
[cCorkle, lieutenant colonel; John L.
[iller, major. In company B, First
ieut. W. S. Dunlap is promoted to
ie captaincy, vice Maj. Miller.
The vote taken by the regiment for
embers of the legislature, resulted as
>llows?several, it will be seen, are not
indidates: J. C. Chambers, 55; John
. Miller, 31; A. Whyte, 31, G. W. Wllams,
28; A. A. McKenzie, 25; John
!. Adams, 22; John T. I?wry, 19; J.
. McElwee, Jr., 6; J. N. McElwee, Sr.,
John S. Bratton, 4.
[Wednesday Evening, Oct 22, 1862.)
Capt John A. Witherspoon.
We have a report in town as we go
> press, of the death of this gallant
Beer from the wounds received in the
,te battle of Manassas. Though this
ssult was looked for, the announcelent
will no doubt be painfully receiv1
by all our citizens. In our next
sue, we expect to be able to say
tore on this subject.
a* - ~ _
[Wednesday Evening, Nov. 5, 1862.)
8a It.
The increase of salt works around
a seems to have the effect of raising
le price of this necessary article,
very means is used to make it pay?
/en to selling it by the pound,
eorgia, Virginia and North Carolina
a.ve each made provision for their
eople, while we are left to the mercy
f the speculators who monopolize
le private supplies that occasionally
nd their way to the interior. What
le prices may be on the coast we
now not, but up here they are almost
ibulous, and must soon call for the
iterference of the government. The
jpply here is quite limited, and we
? but a poor prospect for saving our
aeon this winter. Our legislature
lay do something for us when it
teets, but it may be they are too late
>r many purposes, unless they purbase
instead of going into a system
f manufacture that would require
me to mature. Our friends on the
mat have no idea of the suffering for
alt in the up-country.
(Wednesday Evening, Nov. 12, 1862.)
8herifTa Election.
Mr. James Mason was on Monday,
LSt, elected sheriff of York district
here was little or no opposition.
(Wednesday Evening, Jan. 7, 1863.)
King's Mountain Railroad.
The board of directors of this comany
met at Rose's hotel on the 27th
f December, at 7 oclock p. m., the
>llowing members being present:
W. E. Rose, president. Directors?
7. A. Latta, Robt. Whitesldes, G. R.
^.tchford, Alfred Craven and J. B.
Zithers.
On motion of G. R. Ratchford and
sconded by Robt. Whltesldes, it was:
Resoived, That the petition of W. A.
atta be entered.
It was unanimously adopted, to-wit:
To the president and directors of the
- M. R. R. Co., the petition of W. A.
atta shows that the house near the
epot, known as the Thomas house,
'as built on the land of the petitioner,
1 gross violation of the terms of his
eed to the company, and said house
t present located, being a nuisance to
lis petitioner, he respectfully asks its
emoval. W. A. Latta.
On motion of W. A. Latta it was:
Recolved, That a dividend of 5 per
ent on the capital stock of the comany
be paid, at the treasurer's office
1 Yorkvllle, on and after the first
ay of January, next, out of the earnlgs
of the road for the past year.
The following communication was
nanimously received with regret:
'o the Directors of the K. M. R. R. Co.,
Gentlemen: I resign the office of
resident of your company.
W, E. Rose.
Dec. 27, 1862.
It was then:
Resolved, That W. A. Latta, Esq..
e unanimously elected president of
lie King's Mountain Railroad comany
until the next annual meeting of
le stockholders, by the board of dlectors
present.
Amount In treasury $21,248.52
Dividend declared 10,160.00
Balance left in treasury ..$11,088.52
The above was ordered to be pubshed
in the Columbia Guardian and
'he Yorkvllle Enquirer.
Alfred Craven, Sec'y.
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Salt for the Destitute.
Col. McCaw has deposited a sack of
alt at The Enquirer office and another
Bfnrp of Messrs. Darwin and
effreys, with instructions to dispense
tie same to needy families in such
quantities as may be necessary 10
meet immediate wants.
Mr. Editor: The members of Capt.
Harlan's cavalry acknowledge their
thanks to the following patriotic gentlemen
of Yorkvllle, who have contributed
the sums of money opposite
their names to purchase horses for
soldiers to fight for their country, viz:
Joel W. Rawllnson $50.00
W. I. Clawson 10.00
Richard Hare 10.00
J. A. Brown 5.00
a. R. Moore 5.00
T. A. Moore 6.00 I
M. Jones 6.00
B. T. Wheeler 10.00
J. Bolton Smith 6.00
W. P. McFadden 5.00
J. R. Schorb 5.00
J. C. Miller 6.00
P. D. Darwin 10.00
S. B. Moore 5.00
J. B. Allison 6.00
M. Elder 2.00
W. E. Rose 10.00
J. H. Witherspoon 10.00
J. Herndon 5.00
Rev. Robt. Latham 5.00
J. G. Lindsay 5.00
J. P. Moore 5.00
Wm. Caldwell 8.00
W. A. Latta contributed $100 and will
give more If necessary.
Edward Moore, 1st. Lieut.,
Capt. Harlan's Company.
Jan. 31st, 1863.
(To be continued.)
81TUATION AT 8UEZ
British Have Been Keeping Their
Troubles from Public.
Notwithstanding the rigorous censorship
on all press messages and
private letters and the re-asouring
statements Issued by the English authorities
about the situation in Egypt,
old Italian residents of the Egyptian
capital have brought to Rome, says a
correspondent, enough data to strengthen
the belief that in the Slnal peninsula
all has not gone as England might
have wished; that the colonial troops
defending the canal have on more than
one occasion met with crushing reverses,
and that the situation all along
the canal if not critical, to say the
least, extremely precarious.
As to the situation in the capital,
the Italians say that the city, which
up to a month or so ago, sported an
air full of confidence in the ability of
the colonial troops to prevent the invasion
of the country and went even
so far as to predict a brilliant season,
lives now in constant fear of some
dire calamity.
What is more ominous is the sullen,
hostile attitude assumed by the
native population since the holy war
was proclaimed.
Now and then a Christian gendarme
is found mysteriously slain in the dark
alleys of the fish market, and it is invariably
the short double-edged dagger
that splits -tti* hsawt-of the man
caught unawares. Of these murders
never a word is said, and the papers
are forbidden to refer to them in the
news columna
Signor Guelfo Civini, in a long dispatch
to the Corriere de la Sera, which
the English censor refused to pass,
relates a number of episodes with
which the English authorities never
acquainted the world. On January 17,
an Anglo-Indian column, 3,000 strong,
with six mounted pieces, advanced as
far as Bir-el-Dneldar.
Here the column met a few groups
of Bedouins, who, on being attacked,
retreated, i'he English officers decided
to pursue them when all of a sudden
a large group of enemies appeared
from behind the sand dunes. The
colonials fought bravely, but the
number of Bedouins increased until the
whole column was surrounded. Several
brilliant cahrges were delivered, and
finally the column succeeded in opening
its way for the retreat by leaving
on the field its whole artillery. In the
evening only half of the column returned
to El Kantara, whence it had
started.
Three days later another English
column 3,000 strong, left Geneffe for
Kubrl, a distance of some ten miles,
the ElKatara column, and if the
colonials were not completely surrounded.
it was thanks to their courage
and the brilliant bayonet charge
of the Canadian contingent. Large
groups of Bedouins well concealed behind
the high dunes attacked the column
from all sides, inflicting losses
estimated at 300 dead and 1,00 wounded.
The public never heard of these engagements,
and when several days
later a ship bearing 500 wounded,
reached Alexanderia, a communique
was issued saying that they were convalescents
who had gone to Egypt to
recruit.
COTTONSEED AS FERTILIZER
Contains Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid
and Potash.
The following answer was given to
an inquiry concerning the value of
cottonseed as a fertilizer and as feed
by G. S. Fraps, state chemist of
Texas:
The average composition of cottonseed
is as follows: Nitrogen 3.13 per
cent, pnospnonc acia i.&i ira w*.,
potash 1.17 per cent. With nitrogen
at 20c a pound, phosphoric acid at
6c a pound and potash at 6c a pound,
a ton of cottonseed would have a fertilizer
valuation of $14.96 per ton. I am
unable to tell you, however, whether or
not this fertilizer would give profitable
results on your black hog wallow
land. Land of this character usually
needs vegetable matter more than it
does fertilizers. That Is to say, it
needs applications of stable manure or
a rotation of crops In which a legume,
such as cowpeas, clover, etc., Is grown
to be turned or grazed off. Sometimes
It reacts to fertilizers and sometimes
it does not. If cottonseed meal gives
good results then the cottonseed ought
likewise to give good results. Whether
you should exchange for meal or not
depends upon the basis of exchange.
Good cottonseed meal has something
more than twice the fertilizer value
of cottonseed. It Is also of good feeding
value, and It would probably pay
you to use two pounds per day of
cottonseed meal for your horses nnd
mules to take the place of the more
expensive corn.
dt'* The Japanese governmet is investigating
the possibilities of developing
power for the industrial needs
of Korea by hydro-electric plants.
IULU UI LULAL tALHANhtS
News Happenings In Nelghborloj
Communities.
CONDENSED EON QUICK READINI
Dealing Mainly With Local AfFaira o
Cherokee, Cleveland, Qaaton, Lan
caster and Chester.
Chester Reporter, March 1: Mi
Mee-lv M. Estes died at his home it
the Sealy's Creek neighborhood Satur
day morning, at five o'clock, after i
short Illness from pneumonia, and waj
buried yesterday at Armenia aftei
funeral services by the Rev. W. T
Duncan. Mr. Estes was in his sixtletl
year and leaves a widow and the fol
lowing children: Messrs. John an<
Thomas Estes of Chester, and M. C
Estes of Winnsboro, and Mrs. W. A
White of Chester No. 3. Mr. Estes wsu
a good and useful citizen, an activ<
member of the Methodist church, an<
will be sorely missed in his communl
ty Postmaster J. W. Dunovant re
ceived a letter this morning from thi
fourth assistant postmaster general
stating that on account of condltioni
recently reported as existing on Ches
ter R. F. D. No. 2, this route will b(
discontinued after March 15th, unlesi
the desired Improvements have beei
made In the meantime... .A marriagi
of much interest to their many friendi
was that of Miss Sadie Mae Dickersoi
to Mr. David L. Stevenson, both o
Crosbyville, Wednesday afternoon. Thi
marriage took place at the Beave
Creek parsonage in the presence of i
few friends of the contracting partiei
the ceremony being performed by thi
Rev. E. D. Wells Mr. J. Fre<
Poag has sold his residence on Smitl
street to Mr. L. B. Dawson, and ex
pects to leave Saturday for Knoxvllle
Tenn., where he has accepted a po
sltion with Dr. Qeorge Johnson in thi
big Chero Cola plant that is to be es
tablished in that city. Mr. Poag &n<
family have been residents of Chestei
for several years Mr. Wallace H
Hafner, son of Mrs. Maggie H. Hafner
died yesterday afternoon after an ill
ness of about two months, his deatl
being due to a spinal affection, and wll
be buried at Evergreen cemetery thli
afternoon after funeral services at th<
home of Mr. R. D. Smyer on Collegi
street, by Rev. H. A. Bagby, D. D.
pastor of the First Baptist church
Mr. Hafner was thirty-four years o
age, and was a familiar figure all ovei
the county, having been for a numbei
of years in charge of the Standard 01
Co.'s wagon A wire was receive<
here Saturday, stating that Mr. A
Frazer Williams, formerly of thii
county, was supposed to have beei
burned to death in a fire that had destroyed
a big hay barn at LaCrosse
Wis., the night before, but a subsequent
message stated that an erroi
had been made and that Mr. Willlami
was "alive and well and happy.*'
Gaffney Ledger, March 2: Mr. Chris
Sanders won the first prize in the contest
inaugurated by Mr. W. R. Lipscomb,
Sr., for the beet essay on tin
subject of food products raised ii
Cherokee county. Miss Lottie Klrb:
of Wilkinsville, won the second prize
and Mr. William Wright the third.....
Invitations to attend the celebratloi
of the ninetieth anniversary of Mr
mv.nn.aa cIrunmr nn March 21st. haVI
X livuiao M|fvuw? W.? w? ?
been Issued. Mr. Spencer lives in th<
Daytonville section of the county, am
is probably the oldest white man ii
Cherokee. Nevertheless, he is ll
good health and spirits, and it is no
unusual for him to visit Gaffney
The prospects for the local militli
company to get mustered into the na'
tlonal guard of South Carolina hav<
brightened considerably within thi
past few days. Mr. H. M. Gaines oi
Blacksburg, the drill master, went t<
Yorkville Friday and confered witl
W. W. Lewis, colonel of the first regi
ment. Col. Lewis advised Mr. Gainet
to measure the young men for uniforms,
and this will be done at th<
meeting tonight. Col. Lewis will g<
to Columbia tomorrow to see Governor
Manning about enlisting the loca
company A solid train load oi
mules passed through Gaffney las:
week. The train was about twentyfive
cars long. The mules were shipped
from Atlanta, and were on thi
way to Europe, for the use of belligerent
nations.
Rock Hill Record, March 1: Th<
Rock Hill chamber of commerce proposes
to open a city market on Saturday,
April 10. The following farmeri
will occupy spaces in the market or
the opening day: E. P. Rawls, V. V
Jackson, S. L. Patterson, W. M. Newson,
J. M. Seagle, W. F. Rhodes, C. P
Sexton, We R. Holt, J. F. Bookout
W. V. Sturgis, W. H. Hill. W. L
Ratterree, R. F. Boyd and D. L. Rawls
Mrs. S. R. Brock, wife of Rev
Mr. Brock, of Lancaster, former residents
of Rock Hill, was operated or
Saturday at the infirmary by Dr. Pennell
The many friends of Mrs
John Eubanks will regret to learr
that she is quite sick at the home ol
her nephew, Mr. W. C. Whitner, or
Oakland avenue, with a trained nursi
i? Mrs Whltnpp la als<
HI aiiciiuutivvi w. *. ....? ?
real sick This morning at 3.30
Mr. and Mrs. Shapiro, who live or
East Moore street, were awakened bi
their baby crying1, and discovered theii
home to be in flames, they barely escaping
with their lives. The fire company
responded as soon as the alarn
was given, but the house was practically
destroyed before the alarm wai
given. The homes of Mr. J. B. Shivei
and Mr. S. W. Plyler, on each sid<
of the Shapiro home, were damage<
to some extent. All of the houses belonging
to Capt. W. A. Graham ant
were insured in the First Trust ant
Savings bank and W. A. Douglas &
Co. The furniture was Insured witl
the Peoples' Trust company. The firemen
had a stubborn fight to prevent
the adjoining buildings from burning
and did some mighty fine work, not
getting away from there until I
o'clock.
* *
Gastonia Gazette, March 2: At thi
final session of the meeting of thi
Cleveland District Dental society ii
Charlotte last Thursday, Dr. D. E
McConnell of Gastonia, was chosen foi
president the ensuing year. Dr. McConnell
was vice president last year
A marriage, the announcemen
of which came as a surprise to al
save a few of their most intimat<
friends, was that of Miss Violet McLean,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G
McLean, and Mr. J. A. Wilcox. Th<
ceremony was performed Saturday
night at the home of the bride's parents
on East Third avenue, and th?
taking of the nuptial vows was wit
nessed only by members of the famllj
and a few very intimate friends. Rev
J. H. Henderlite, pastor of the Firsi
Presbyterian church, performed th<
ceremony, which was solemnized a
8.30 o'clock Her many friends it
this, her native county, will learn witl
regret of the death at Phoenix, Ariz.
Sunday, of Mrs. Ida May Robinson
The only information with referenc<
to the sad event came in a telegrarr
to Mr. J. O. White, her half-brother
merely announcing her death. Relatives
and friends here knew that Mrs
Robinson was in declining health, bui
did not know that she was in a critical
condition, hence the news of hei
passing came as a shock to them
Mr. R. A. Helms, aged 66 years, died
at his home here early Saturdaj
morning following a protracted ill--**?
uaimo hud hw>n in very
11 COO. tut. livmm ..M%.
feeble health for some time, and suffered
a paralytic stroke a short tim<
before his death from which he nevei
rallied. The funeral and burial took
place Sunday at Ebenezer church, th?
services being conducted by Rev. Mr
Brown, pastor of the Methodist church
Mr. J. Cicero Walker, one ol
Kaaf Unnivn eitizen8
mtrtucii* me o uvwi. ??..w....
who had been for a number of years
conductor of the tram-car line between
McAdenville and Lowell, knowr
as the "dump," died suddenly at hi!
home about 3 o'clock Sunday morn
lllg Ui Iicixi t 1041UIC, CUO auavn K? vv
ably being brought on by an accident
which occurred Saturday afternoon,
although Mr. Walker did not think he
| waa hurt Mrs. Callle Peters, a
1 former resident of Gastonia, died at
her home near Lexington last Wednesday
night of tuberculosis, following &
long Illness. The body was brought
j to Gastonia on No. 11 Friday, accompanied
by the husband, Mr. Newton
Peters, and their children. The body
t was Interred In Shiloh cemetery, East
Gastonia, that afternoon, following
brief funeral services conducted at
the grave by Rev. J. J. Beach, pastor
.. of East Baptist church Mr. R. B.
j Bablngton left last night for Raleigh,
. In the interest of the bill now pendi
ing before the appropriations com31
mlttee of the general assembly, app
proprlating the sum of $10,000 for the
I romiinn Orthooaedlc hospital.
i This is a most deserving movement,
. and Mr.- Bablngton, the prime mover
1 in its projection, and many warm
!a friends of the proposed institution are
hopeful that the legislature will make
s* the appropriation asked for with
? which a beginning may be made toj
wards the accomplishment of tne great
. work in mind, that of caring for the
. indigent orphan children of the state
8 who have sound minds but deformed
I or crippled bodies At an early
9 hour Saturday morning, yeggmen, two
. or more, struck the town of Mount
g Holly and robbed the postofflce of $1,3
200 worth of stamps and $62 in money,
j as well as other valuables, and made
d a successful get away. No trace was
i?ft rs to how or where they went.
? Entrance was obtained by forcing the
f side door. A crowbar, pick-axe and a
Z big sledge were left behind. These were
? tools used to force the safe. The
[ sledge was used to remove the com*
blnation dial, the crowbar to open
Z the door, the balance was soon done.
? The inside of the safe will need overhauling,
for drawers and little vaults
are destroyed beyond service until
repairs are made. It appears that no
' explosives were used, no unusual noise
' was made. The night watchman went
B off duty about 3.30 o'clock, and it was
: after that time the mischief was done.
1 In the early part of the night the sup"
posed robbers were in conversation
;* with some of the citizens, famlliariz?
ing themselves with the lay of the
" land, and getting information. The
| postal Inspector has been sent for,
1 that he may go over the situation and
3 apprehend the culprits If possible
e It will be a matter of Interest to Gas3
tonlans to know that William West?
nedge, who was for a year or more a
resident of Gastonia prior to his mov*
ing to Charlotte a few weeks ago, Is In
r serious trouble there. On charges
r preferred by Mrs. Ed Love, of No.
J 1700 North Davidson street, he was
1 indicted in the Charlotte recorder's
- court last week on a very serious
9 charge and in default of a $2,000 bond
1 required for his appearance at Meck'
lenburg superior court for trial, was
r? committed to the county Jail. West
nedge was known here principally ber
cause of the fact that he was an ardent
9 follower of Pastor Russell, and distributed
that religious mountebank's
literature over the city weekly. He
gained a few followers here, most of
whom, it is stated, have since deserted
Russelllsm. Westnedge came
here from Philadelphia and was employed
as a mechanic in a local machine
shop. He was regarded by many
as a religious fanatic Miss Mary
Hildebrand and Miss Kate Padgett, of
the clerical force at Thomson's, left
last night for the northern markets to
purchase the spring and summer stock
of goods for that firm. Mr. J. F.
Thomson will Join them in a day or
two.
?;_ *
t Lancaster News, March 2: Married
> Sunday, Feb. 28, 1916, by A. T. Carnes,
i notary public, Mr. William McMurray
and Miss Fannie Well, both of Cedar
i Creek township A little orphan nei
gro girl, Beulah Harris, living with her
f aunt, Mandy Duncan, on the plantation
' of Mr. Moeller, near Lower Camp
i Creek Methodist church, was instantly
killed Friday afternoon by a gun fired
s by L. J. Duncan, a negro boy about 10
years of age. The load took effect in
i the lower part of the face. The boy
> Is the son of Mandy Duncan, who left
- the two children In the house while she
1 went over to Mr. Moeller's. The tragf
edy took place while she was away,
t The first news of the killing was from
the boy, who went for his mother and
* told her that some white man had shot
) the child. Subsequently he confessed
to having fired the gun, but said It was
done accidentally. He now claims that
he was un breeching the gun to see if
it was loaded and that while doing so
the gun went off. Coroner M. N. Johnson
held the inquest Saturday and the
jury found that the killing was accidental.
The boy Is now In jail and will
be tried at the approaching term of
the court... .Mrs. G. W. Cannon of the
Dixie section, passed away Wednesday.
She had lived to a very advanced age,
82, and was highly respected by the
people of her community. For 60 years
Mrs. Cannon had been a consistent
member of the Baptist church. The
remains were interred In Westslde
cemetery at 1 o'clock Thursday, after
funeral services, at which Rev. S. R.
Brock officiated. Mrs. Cannon is survived
by one son and six grandchildren
Just before going to press
we learn of the death of Mr. Judson C.
Craig, which sad event occurred this
morning at his home in Cheraw. Pneumonia
was the cause of his death. Mr.
Craig was a son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H.
Craig of the Unity section. Mr. Craig
was born and reared in this county. He
lived in Lancaster until about & year
ago when he moved to Cheraw. The
deceased was about 36 years of age, a
man of fine traits of character and a
consistent member of the Lancaster
k XTesuyieruui cuurvu.
! A New Kind of Bomb.?The Germ ana
1 have recently been throwing at some
1 of the British trenches a new bomb
[ that resembles a child's club, accord.
ing to the London Daily Mall's corret
spondent at the front. It consists of
? a stick rather over a foot in length
; with a black ball at the end. The
final task of a young cavalry officer
Just relieved of trench work, was to
5 carry a whole bundle of these to our
" scientific headquarters. He was careI.
ful to carry and lay down his "flrer
works" with great gentleness.
This bomb is only one example out
j of very many of the scientific energy
1 which the Germans are still bringing
} to bear on the problem of war. Their
scientific energy has never abated. I
> can give several examples. Their
f newer armored cars, which they now
" possess in great number, have bean
* freed from the one cardinal drawback
r of this form of machine. Previously
they were always liable to destruction
^ from any heavier gun owing to the
t extreme cumbersomeness in retreat.
1 There could be no better target than
1 a big heavy car, and these weigh just
about three tons, attempting to turn
In a narrow road. This weakness on
our part was in some degree overcome
by the device of backing into
action: but only those who have attempted
to back their cars know the
appalling difficulties of the Job when
precise or quick work is needed.
1
' After servinsr as Dostmaster at
\ Manoa. Pa., for 34 years, Samuel H.
. Moore Is out of the Job. For years
> he had been trying to get relieved
" from the position, but being unable
\ to secure some one to take the office
. the department would not release
; him. Finally when the law was passed
requiring fourth class postmasters
\ to take the civil service examination,
Mr. Moore refused to stand, and as
I no one couiu ue muuoeu to uin.e Liie
examination the office has been closed.