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YORKVILIE ENQUIRER. IgggED SEMI-WEEHLT. l M. qrist'8 sons, p?bu.hen.} % c#amilS t>?raj8J?t: ^or the promotion af th< political, gotfat, SgrUuttur^t and dIoinmei;ciaI Interests oj th< feopt^ { ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1915. NX). 22. U (5e CA CUMBE /& CHARLES. WITH ILLUSTRATION OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER XL Drift afternoon, swinging along Fifth avenue in his down-town walk, Samson met Mr. Farbish, who fell into step with him, and began to make conversation "By the way, South," he suggested after the commonplaces had been disposed of, "you'll pardon my little prevarication the other evening about having met you at the Manhattan club?" "Why was it necessary?" inquired Samson, with a glance of disquieting directness. "Possibly, it was not necessary, merely politic. Of course," he laughed, "every man knows two kinds of women. It's just as well not to discuss the nectarines with the orchids, or the orchids with the nectarines." Samson made no response. But Farbish, meeting his eyes, felt as though he had been contemptuously rubuked. His own eyes clouded with an impulse of resentment. But it passed, as he remembered that his ~1 tha noppssi tv Of Win JJIU110 lllVUIfWU V..V ^ ning this boy's confidence. At the steps of a Fifth avenue club, Farbish halted. "Won't you turn in here," he suggested, "and assuage your thirst?" Samson declined, and walked on. But when, a day or two later, he dropped into the same club with George Lescott Farbish jjined them in the grill?without invitation. "By the way, Lescott. ' said the interloper, with an easy assurance upon which the coolness of his reception had no seeming effect, "it won't be long now until ducks are flying south. Will you get off for your customary shooting?" "I'm afraid not" Lescott's voice became more cordial, as a man's will, whose hobby has been touched. "There are several canvases to be finished for approaching exhibitions. I wish I could go. When the first cold winds begin to sweep down, I get the fever. The prospects are good, too, I understand." "The best in years! Protection in the Canadian breeding fields is bearing fruit Do you shoot ducks, Mr. South?" The speaker included Samsan as though merely out of deference tn his nhvsical Dresence. Samson shook his head. But he was listening eagerly. He too, knew that note of the migratory "honk" from high overhead. "Samson," said Lescott slowly, as he caught the gleam in his friend's eyes, "you've been working too hard. You'll have to take a week off, and try your hand. After you've changed "Don't You See That This Thing Is a Frame-Up?" your method from rifle to shotgun, you'll bag your share, and you'll come back fitter for work. I must arrange it." "As to that," suggested Farbish, in the manner of one regarding the civilities, "Mr. South can run down to the Kenmore. I'll have a card made out for him." "Don't trouble," demurred Lescott, coolly, "I can fix that up." "It would be a pleasure," smiled the other. "I sincerely wish I could be there at the same time, but I'm afraid that, like you. Lescott, I shall have to give business the right of way. However, when I hear that the flights are beginning, I'll call Mr. South up, and pass the news to him." Samson had thought it rather singular that he had never met Horton at the I/escott house, though Adrienne spoke of him almost as of a member of the family, however, Samson's visits were usually in his intervals between relays of work and Horton was probably at such times in Wall street. It did not occur to the mountaineer that the other was intentionally avoiding him. He knew of Wilfred only through Adrienne's eulogistic descriptions, and. from hearsay. liked him. The months of close application to easel and books had begun to tell on the outdoor man in a softening of muscles and a slight, though noticeable. pallor. The enthusiasm with which he attacked his daily schedule . % . *? 1 ?~ a,, u curried rum iar, anu maut- |nugress iihcnomenul, but he was spending capital of nerve and health, and Cenrgc I^escott began to fear a breakdown for his protege. He discussed i the matter with Adrienne, and the r girl began to promote in the boy an interest in the duck-shooting trip? an interest which had already awakened. despite the rifleman's inherent LWtfc RLANDS NEVILLE BUCKo a 3 FRCVA PHOTOGRAPHS PLAY contempt for shotguns. r\y\ T'H likP it. all rieht." he < 1 icvnvii a v? w said, "and I'll bring back some ducks, r if I'm lucky." s So, Lescott arranged the outfit, and t Samson awaited the news of the com- I ing flights. 1 That same evening, Farbish drop- <! ped into the studio, explaining that I he had been buying a picture at Col- a lasso's and had taken the opportunity t to stop by and hand Samson a t visitor's card to the Kenmore club, a He found the ground of interest fal- f low, and artfully sowed it with well- * chosen anecdotes calculated to stlm- a ulate enthusltsm. t On leaving the studio, he paused to f say: I "I'll let you know when conditions c are just right." Then, he added, as though In afterthought: "And I'll ar- f range so that you won't run up on t Wilfred Horton." 8 "What's the matter with Wilfred 8 Horton?" demanded Samson, a shade 1 curtly. 1 "Nothing at all," replied Farbish, ^ with entire gravity. "Personally, I ' like Horton immensely. I simply 1' thought you might find things more d congenial when he wasn't among c those present." Samson was puzzled, but he did not ^ fancy hearing from this man's lips ' criticisms upon friends of his friends. ' "Well, I reckon," he said, coolly, > "I'd like him, too." v "I beg your pardon," said the other. c "I suppose you know, or I wouldn't * have mentioned the subject. I seem t to have said too much." "See here, Mr. Farbish," Samson * spoke quietly, but imperatively: "if ' you know any reason why I shouldn't 1 meet Mr. Wilfred Horton, I want you 8 to tell me what it is. He a friend of my frienda You say you've said too 8 much. I reckon you've said either too * much or too little." 1 Then, very insidiously and artis- 1 ,lnon" ooomin? all the while reluct- 8 ant and apologetic, the visitor pro- f ceeded to plant in Samson's mind an c exaggerated and untrue picture of c Horton's contempt for him and of Horton's resentment at the favor 8 shown him by the Lescotts. Samson heard him out with a face enigmatically set, and his voice was 8 soft, as he said simply at the end: "I'm obliged to you." Samson did not appear at the Les- 8 cott house for two weeks after that. r He had begun to think that, if his 1 going there gave embarrassment to the girl who had been kind to him, 1 it were better to remain away. "I don't belong here," he told him- * self, bitterly. "I reckon everybody that knows me in New York, except ^ the Lescotts, is laughing at me behind my back." r He worked flcerly, and threw into ^ his work such fire and energy that it j came out again converted into bold- c ness of stroke and an almost savage j vigor of drawing. The instructor j nodded his head over the easel, and ^ passed on to the next student without j having left the defacing mark of his f relentless crayon. To the next pupil, j he said: "Watch the way that man South draws. He's not clever. He's element- t ally sincere, and if he goes on, the j first thing you know he will be a portrait painter. He won't merely draw t eyes and lips and noses, but character and virtues and vices showing out through them." ^ And Samson met every gaze with smouldering savagery, searching for j some one who might be listening at j him openly, or even covetly, instead of behind his back. The long-suffer- { ing fighting lust in him craved opportunity to break out and relieve the pressure on his soul. But no one ( laughed. , One afternoon late in November, a i hint of blizzards swept snarling down . the Atlantic seaboard from the polar j floes, with wet flurries of snow and , rain. Off on the marshes where the ( Kenmore club had its lodge, the live j decoys stretched their clipped wings, , and raised their green necks restively ( into the salt wind, and listened. With j dawn, they had heard, faint and far ] away, the first notes of that wild chorus with which the skies would ring until the southerly migrations . ended ?the horizon-distant honking of high flying water foul. , Then it was that Farbish dropped in with marching orders, and Samson, , yearning to be away where there were open skies, packed George Lescott's , borrowed paraphernalia and prepared , to leave that same night. j While he was packing the telephone ] *""" Como/\n A rHipnnp'a voice at the other end of the wire. "Where have you been hiding?" she demanded. "I'll have to send a truant officer after you." "I've been very busy," said the man. "and I reckon, after all, you can't civilize a wolf. I'm afraid I've been wasting your time." Possibly the miserable tone of the voice told the girl more than the words. "You are having a season with the blue devils," she announced. "You've < been cooped up too much. This wind I ought to bring the ducks, and?" J "I'm leaving tonight," Samson told her. "It would have been very nice of 1 you to have run up to say good-by," she reproved. "But I'll forgive you, ] if you call me up by long distance. 1 You will get there early in the morn- | ing. Tomorrow, I'm going to Philadel- , phia over night. The next night. I : shall be at the theatre. Call me up after the theatre, and tell me how you like it." , It was the same old frankness and ' friendliness of voice and the same j old note like the music of a reed in- J strument. Samson felt so comforted ( and reassured that he laughed through i the telephone. ' "I've been keeping away from you," ( le volunteered, "because I've had a apse into savagery, and haven't been it to talk to you. When I get back, 'm coming up to explain. And, in the neantime. I'll telephone." On the train Sampson was surprised 0 discover that, after all, he had Mr. iVilllam Farblsh for a traveling companion. That gentleman explained hat he had found an opportunity to jly truant from business for a day >r two, and wished to see Samson comfortably esconced and introduced. The first day Farbish and Samson lad the place to themselves, but the next morning would bring othera The next day, while the mountaineer was out on the flats, the party of nen at the club had been swelled to 1 total of six, for in pursuance of he carefully arranged plans of Mr. farbish, Mr. Bradburn had succeeded n inducing Wilfred Horton to run lown for a day or two of the sport le loved. When Horton arrived that ifternoon, he found his usually even emper ruffled by bits of maliciously troached gossip, until his resentment igalnst Samson South had been anned into danger heat. He did not ;now that South also was at the club, md he did not that afternoon go out o the blinds, but so far departed rom his usual custom as to permit limself to sit for several hours in the lub grill. And yet, as is often the case in careully designed affairs, the one element hat made most powerfully for the uccess of Farbish's scheme was pure .ccident. The carefully arranged meetng between the two men, the adroitly ncited passions of each, would still lave brought no clash, had not Wilred Horton been affected by the flushng effect of alcohol. Since his college lays, he had been invariably abstemiius. Tonight marked an exception. He was rather surprised at the corliality of the welcome accorded him, or, as chance would have it, except or Samson South, whom he had not -et seen, all the other sportsmen vere men closely allied to the politial and financial elements upon which ie had been making war. Still, since hey seemed willing to forget for the ime that there had been a breach, ie was equally so. Just now, he was ? *- UIA4 eeiing BUCn Dilitfiiifsa im mo rvcnuckiari that the foes of a less personal sort seemed unimportant. In point of fact, Wilfred Horton had ipent a very bad day. The final straw tad broken the back of his usually inruffled temper, when he had found n his room on reaching the Kenmore l copy of a certain New York weekly taper, and had read a page, which hanced to be lying face up (a chance arefully prearranged). It was an tern of which Farbish had known, in idvance of publication, but Wilfred vould never have seen the sheet, had t not been so carefully brought to his ittention. There were hints of the trange infatuation which a certain 'oung woman seemed to entertain for l partially civilized stranger who had nade his entree to New York via the tolice court, and who wore his hair ong in imitation of a biblical characer of the same name. The supper at he Wigwam inn was mentioned, and he character of the place Intimated, lorton felt this objectionable inuendo vas directly tracable to Adrienne's 11-judged friendship for the mounaineer, and he bitterly blamed the nountaineer. And. while he had been >rooding on these matters, a man actng as Farbish's ambassador, had Iropped into his room, since Farbish limself knew that Horton would not isten to his confidences. The delerated spokesman warned Wilfred that iamson South had spoken pointedly >f him, and advised cautious conduct n a fashion calculated to inflame. Samson, it was falsely alleged, had iccused him of saying derogatory hings in his absence, which he would jardly venture to repeat in his pres;nce. In short, it was put up to Horon to announce his opinion openly, or ?at the crow of cowardice. That evening, when Samson went o his room, Farbish joined him. "I've been greatly annoyed to find," le said, seating himself on Samson's jed. "that Horton arrived today." "I reckon that's all right," said damson. "He's a member, isn't he?" Farbish appeared dubious. "I don't want to appear in the guise jf a prophet of trouble," he said, "but you are my guest here, and I must warn you. Horton thinks of you as a gun-fighter" and a dangerous man. He won't take chances with you. If there is a clash, it will be serious. He loesn't often drink, but today he's do Ins it. and may be ugly. Avoid an altercation if you can, but if it does ?ome?" He broke off and added seriously: "You will have to get him or he will get you. Are you armed?" The Kentuckian laughed. "I reckon I don't need to be armed imongst gentlemen." Farbish drew from his pocket a magazine pistol. "It won't hurt you to slip that into yr>ur clothes," he insisted. For an instant, the mountaineer 3tood looking at his host and with eyes that bored deep, but whatever was in his mind as he made that scrutiny he kept to himself. At last, he took the magazine pistol, turned it over in his hand, and put it into his pocket. "Mr. Farbish," he said, "I've been in place before now where men were drinking who had made threats ? >rn (no* rvin 1 ikUb ,?a.i a avaUa/1 i4p>Aiii;3i inc. x iiiiurv jfuu ai c cacucu xbout this thing. If anything starts, hp will start it." (To be continued.) Railroad Mail Pay.?We are reliably Informed that in 1860, the King's Mountain railroad, operating between Chester and Yorkville, 23 miles showed sjross earnings of $800.15 per mile of road and mail pay per mile of road, 160.87. In 1914, we find the Carolina & N.\V. railway operating over the same route, extended to about 134 miles, shows gross earnings per mile of road, $3,623.39. Mail pays the road per mile, $65.71. It is interesting to note that the general business along this line of road has increased from $800.15 In 1860, to $3,623.93 in 1914, while the mall pay indicates an increase from $60.87 to $65.71, or only $4.84 per mile. The mail in 1860 was carried in pouches in baggage cars and in 1914, it was carried in regrular mail cars, or pquipped postofflces on wheels, in which the postofflce attendants work to facilitate the delivery enroute. It has been stated that the Panama railroad, owned by the government, received last year for carrying mails, about $5,215.00 per mile of road, or about 28 times as much as is paid the privately owned railroads in the United States for carrying mail. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS i I As Traced In Early Files of The; Yorkvllle Enquirer. i , ) NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY | Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving th# Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. I The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, ' 1913. The notes are being prepared by < the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the 1 pleasure and satisfaction of the older < people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 117TH INSTALLMENT 1 (Wednesday Evening, May 13, 1863.) Sale of Negroes. At an estate sale in the upper part of ' this district, on the 4th, instant, the < following negroes were sold (S. Q. ' Brown, Esq., auctioneer) at the prices annexed, on a credit to the first of January, 1864, with Interest from date ?they were the property of Charles Hopper, deceased: Judy (unsound), 51 years old, $125. Betty, 31 years old, $1,260. Dolph, 25 years old, $2,425. Griff, 22 years old, $2,300. Philo, 28 years old, $2,176. Bruce, 12 years old, $1,700. Dave, 14 years old, $2,010. Bill, 10 years old, $1,800. Harriett, 18 years old, $2,700. Reid, 7 years old, $1,200. Celey, 2 years old, $560. As the average is about $1,800, from unsound 51, to precious 2, we can hardly attribute the high prices to a plethoric currency. * Death of Gen. T. J. Jackson. Though the public mind was not altogether unprepared, the news of the death of this distinguished man has fallen most startllngly and painfully on the general ear. He died at Guinea Station, some fifteen miles distant from the bloody field so recently the scene of his prowess, at a quarter past 3 o'clock p. m., on the 10th, inst., from the combined effects of his wound and an attack of pneumonia. Among our great and distinguished generals, there are none who so completely filled the public heart as "Stonewall" Jackson. The enemy even 1 * J rt n fhov VlO/f were lurctxi tu coicvm ao ?*? been taught to fear him, and it will now be their boost, as It is our misfortune, that a great and shining light has been extinguished. It is a terrible dispensation of Providence, one that calls forth the exercise of all our philosophy, In these trying times. The patriot soldier has fallen with the notes of worldly triumph sounding in his ears, but the country whose idol he was, feel assured from his past life, that a greater triumph awaits him in another and a better world. Gen. Jackson was, we think, a Virginian by birth, we have not the material at hand for any lengthy sketch of his life?his services are too fresh to be forgotten?to other sources we leave the mournful duty. (Wednesday Evening, May 20, 1863.) More Liberality. We wish we could "cumber" our columns weekly with cases as noteworthy as the following, which has been handed in to us: "Mr. Wm. A. Robinson of Clark's Fork, York district, has been furnishing corn to soldier's families at J1.00 per bushel." This shows more liberality than "subscribing" corn to the government at $2.50 a bushel, and mileage, by many persons who told the soldiers' wives they "had not a grain to spare above their actual wants" a month before. (Wednesday Evening, May 27, 1863.) Food for the Army. We have not seen any statement from the proper quarter of the amount of corn and bacon that has been shipped from this district for the army, but we believe it is fully up to, if not beyond its proportion. There is such a thing as "riding a free horse too hard," and so we think there will soon be room for speculation, if the drain of the district is to be carried out. We have allowed large quantities of corn to our North Carolina neighbors, besides what we have "subscribed" to the army, and now the article can hardly be attained at 12.50 by "soldiers' families" and it is assumed that no other families are allntuoil tn nnv fho nou' r?rnn nf wheat is so promising that the old hour was coming in at reduced prices, when, lo, it is understood that the , "government" wants several thousand pounds. We have boasted of our lib- i erality long enough, so much has < been conceded to us, but as sense of? J hunger we were going to say?justice ; to our common people, requires that t they should at least have a share of ' the "breadstuffs" at living prices, J even if they must go without meat to ( grease their vegetables. We commend '< this to our friend's (Col. McCorkle) j notice, and through him to the swallow-all department. Terrible Calamity. On Saturday morning, last, a loud 1 noise like the rumbling of thunder was distinctly heard at this place, i which it seems was correctly accounted for as being caused by the blowing < up of the powder mill located 14 miles 1 from Charlotte, on the Catawba river. 1 The Bulletin can give no particulars i as none of the operatives were left ' to tell the melancholy tale. The following Is a list of the killed: < Supt. Cha8. Klueppelberg, John N. 1 Lee, George Hutchison, Christopher ' Ounce, John Ochter. The mill house is entirely destroyed, but the princl- i pal portion of the machinery is uninjured. The president, S. W. Davis, ] was absent. i / T?r??l ,, TP,.,.., 1 T..1., 0 1CC9T I v ?*ruiirauaj uyciuiift, JUi^ o# IOUO,/ i Acknowledgment. General Hospital, I Camp Winder No. 4 I June 26, 1863. 1 Mr. Editor: It is with much pleasure that I hereby acknowledge the re- 1 ceipt of a box containing 28 shirts, < 21 pairs of drawers, and one pair of < socks contributed by the ladies of Al- 1 Hson Creek and Tirzah churches, T through their agent, Rev. Mr. Lathan, I for the use and benefit of the sick and wounded South Carolina soldiers in J^| this hospital, and in behalf of the same, I herewith return my warmest thanks ind promise thai the clothing shall be promptly and economically appropria- ri ted. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. R. Bratton. D (To Be Continued.) /^PklPBAI MCVA70 MHTCQ _ ucncnnb hi.vtu ii v bw> ^ I tr Items of interest Gathered From All se Around the World. S. C A Stockholm dispatch says that Rus- ^ da and Germany have arranged to ex- fr :hange 200,000 war prisoners. The Panama canal is again open for traffic after a slide of earth which pi :losed the canal on March 6th. lo The Red Cross division of the Emerfency Aid committee, New York, has Qf iroted $1,000 to buy wooden legs for el eigless Servian soldiers. n< cu Two American physicians have died T1 n Servla from typhus fever. Nine out da >f twelve American Red Cross nurses f' ps lave beam stricken with the disease. m A Danish oil tanker, from Phlladel- P* D >hla to Stockholm, Sweden, was held rQ lp by the Germans in the Baltic a few m lays ago, and taken to Swinemunde. til A New York barkeeper was on Sat- fr irday fined $10 for sending wine, label- m ?d "medicine," through the mails as a P? jarcel post package. m The city of Philadelphia is advertls- th ng the sale of $2,000,000 of school j* jonds, the proceeds to be used for buy- ar ng new sites and erecting school build- pi ngs. wl Tl John B. McManus, an American, was ha tilled by Zapatistas in Mexico City, on sil ?Yiday. He was shot to death In his da cc yrwmex Airaf urhlnh Q StflleS fla? _ ? was flying. nt Governor Gates of Vermont, has Hi ligned the prohibition referendum bill ge ecently passed by the legislature of se hat state. The election will be held in w Vlarch, 1916. Ti The Spanish government has issued ed i decree forbidding the exportation of ed >lls, fish, fresh meat, cattle, eggs, poul- m :ry, beans, lentils, wheat, flour, Jute, M inseed, etc., from the empire. w< The British home secretary announc- j*5 ?d to parliament a few days ago that " England would soon raise the ban on mportatlons of sugar from America ind other neutral countries. The members of the crew of the bt steamship Dacia, recently seized by a pj French warship and taken to Brest, ire on their way to New York, where jn :hey will arrive next week. p( A new submarine, the L-3, for the th United States navy, was launched at N Fore River ship yards, Quincy, Mass., or yesterday. A second submarine, the L-4, will be launched March 29. A Copenhagen dispatch says that M :he Duke of Brunswick, son-in-law of th Emperor William of Germany, is suf- w ,'ering from a nervous breakdown due .. :o the war, and is probably incurable, m A Socialist member of the Saxe- of Joburg diet and editor of the Gotha J1 Vo'Ksblatt, has been sentenced to b3 jerve three months in prison for sarmstic remarks about Emperor Willam. ce The Volksblatt has been suspended. C A son was born to Governor and Mra Whitman at the executive mansion at P Albany, N. Y., Thursday. The house J? )f representatives voted to "extend the H privileges of the floor" to the newcom- ti *r in the official family. * (., Dr. Herman Bodenhelm, a New York c< chemist, was arrested in St. Louis, Mo., a* Thursday, charged with transporting p guncotton in a checked trunk on a pas- jJ jenger train. It is said there is enough & )f the explosive in the trunk to blow k i train or a railway station all to bits. b< During the first six months of the Bj operation of the Panama canal, 496 cc jhips of all classes, passed through the W waterway, carrying cargoes totaling n? 1,367,244 tons and paying tolls amount- nc ng of 32,126,832. There were 252 ves- cl sels westbound and 244 eastbound. in Charles A. Schleren, ex-mayor of Brooklyn, N. Y., died Wednesday, aged 73 years. The next day his widow, also iged 73 years, died. The wife had been R jnconscious for three days and did not w <now of the death of her husband, or They had planned to celebrate their hi golden wedding in November next. sa Peter Krakus and Bernard Montvid, field by the Wilmington, Del., police J-J >n the charge of murdering a policenan, are also suspected of being the t1 nurderers of a priest and housekeeper f? it New Britain, Conn., on February nt 22. The chain of circumstantial evi- y* dence against the suspects is strong. The judge of the county court of Lawrence county, Pa., has refused to ?rant liquor licenses to nine applicants ^ ind the county will continue "dry*' as R It has been since 1911, shortly after a he revival campaign by Rev. Billy Sunday, the 7,000 converts of the meeting do>ng much to wipe out the liquor traffic, -pi Five officers of the International tii Lumber and Development company, se jonvicted in the Federal court at F Philadelphia, on charges of using the w mails for fraudulent purposes, and bj sentenced to the Eastern Pennsylvania di penitentiary, have been granted a 30- R day respite by President Wilson. The C< ?ang cleaned up more than $6,000,000. R The Wm. P. Frye, the American ^ ship sunk by the Prinz Eitel Fried- Bi rich, was built at Bath, Me., in 1901, W ind cost $150,000. Her cargo included bj 158.306 bushels of white Walla Walla wheat and 25,276 bushels of red wheat. The cargo was valued at $262,000. The vessel was sunk January 28, in the ? south Atlantic. th Clarence H. Mackey, a New York capitalist, has leased for a long term cf years as a shooting preserve, Gardners' Island. off the easterly coast of I Long Island. Gai diners' Island includes ^ 5,000 acres and came into the posses- th slon of that family in 1639, when Lyon , Sardiner bought it of Wyandanch, / chief of the Mashanketts, and gave in exchange, "One large black dog, one sun, some powder and shot, some rum p ind a few Dutch blankets, the value , ' >f Ave pounds sterling." The island s now valued at $3,000,000. A Moral Lesson. re A man quarreled with his friend, of "I have been much deceived in you," C. said the man. And the friend made a face at him p, want au'ov A little after, they both died and Jcame together before the great Jus- ^ tice of the peace. It began to look c black for the friend, but the man for E, a while had a clear character and f*1 tr was getting into good spirits. th "I find here some records of a Pj quarrel," said the justice, looking in m his notes. "Which of you was in the wrong?" te "He was," said the man. "He spoke hs ill of me behind my back." "Did he so?" said the Justice. "And pray how did he speak about your er neighbors?" Pc "Oh, he had always a nasty ton- jj* ?ue," said the man. pa "And you chose him for your nt friend," cried the Justice. "My good ^ fellow, we have no use here for ? ' fools." So the man was cast in the pit and the friend laughed out aloud in the ch Jark and remained to be tried on sther charges.?From the Fables of Robert Louis Stevenson. ro OLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES' s " o bws Happenings In Neighboring;; Communities. J > INDENStD FOB QUICK READING S ? a oaling Mainly With Local Affairs ot ? Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Lancaster and Cheater. d Gaffney Ledger, March 12: Mrs. T. Ramsey of Cowpens, is receiving e&tment at the hospital. Mrs. Ram>y is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Smith of the Macedonia section of ^ tierokee county Miss Maud Geta ot Blacksburg, is recovering nicely i, om an operation at the city hospital. ^ ..Laying the tracks of the new side , les of the Southern Railway com- ? iny, Just north of Gaffney, was com- ~ eted yesterday, and the new Inter- * eking tower and interlocking switch t, stem will be put into operation with- , a very short time. The telegraph , flee will be moved to the new tower ther tomorrow or the first part of n' >xt week, and ticket agents will oc- w ipy the office at the local depot. 0] here will be two ticket agents, one iy and one night man County ^ ipervisor John M. Jenkins, accom- a, mied by the board of county com- lr issioners, Tuesday, inspected the A opoaed change in the road between ni lacksburg and Gaffney. The new ^ ute begins about two and one-half jjj lies northeast of Gaffney and con- j0 nues to the iron bridge over Broad ai ver. Upon the return of the party om the tour of inspection, the com- a( issioners held a meeting in the su- a| rvisor's office, but the question of tr aking the change was not decided. a, ....Although this is the last week of e schedule for the spring term of Smith, who is presiding, yesterday gj Smith, wo is presiding, yesterday, fe inounced that if necessary to com- tj ete the business, the present session Q1 ill be carried over into next week. V( tie business of the court is being c] indled with as much dispatch as posble, but those in attendance yesteriy, thought it quite probable that the ^ ?urt will have to be re-convened nl >xt Monday morning if all the busi- ^ as is to be transacted W. B. gl amrick and Ambrose Willis were each Qj ntenced to pay a fine of $25 or to a rve thirty days upon the public r| orks of the county in police court, e] uesday morning. They were convict- j] I upon charges of carrying conceal- q I weapons. Both are young white c] en who have been living in the g aud section of the county. They ^ ere arrested here Monday morning C) r local policemen, charged with steal- f( g cothtonseed from Mr. L. D. Mc- p raw, of Cleveland county, N. C., and ^ jon being searched, a pistol was w und on Hamrick and a slung-shot o: 1 Willis. It is probable that they will 0| s tried again by Magistrate William liillips, who issued the warrants for n eir arrest, both on charges of steal- tl g and of carrying concealed wea- ei >ns. Local officers are of the opinion 0 at the two men can then be taken to ^ orth Carolina and be tried again up- bi i the same charges. ti ti King's Mountain Herald, March 11: G rs. Wright Harmon returned from tl e city hospital at Gastonla last week, h; here she had been for an operation, w ....Mr. E. Westmoreland of Bel- s< ont, died on March 7th, at the age . 65 yeans. The burial was at Grover, G uesday. The funeral was conducted ir ,r Rev. J. D. Miller, at the home of ir >hn Westmoreland, son of the de- oi ased Tillman Clark, who re- d >ntly left his home near Grover, to ci ke work with the Standard Oil com- . my at Columbus, Ohio, was brought rr >me deed last week. We haven't oi arned the particulars of his death, fi e was a nephew of L. F. Neal of s< ing's Mountain James D. Mc- tl 111 has resigned his position at the t< Dra mill store, and has become ticket P rent at the Southern depot. Mr. N. D Watterson and daughter, Miss ti lllie, have taken the place made va- a> uit at the Cora store That ft ing's Mountain is to have another E iptist church, known as the Second t( iptist church, was decided upon in a bi inference at the Baptist church here ti rednesday night of 'last week. The w >w church will be located somewhere si >ar the Cora Mill, and the present ft lurch will hereafter be known as the k irst Baptist church of King's Moun- E Jn. 11 b Chester Reporter, March 11: Mr. G. . Ball made a new record locally, hen he put up a building yesterday, ^ rather had it done, and moved with 1 s entire force and working outfit the q .me day. The shoe shop Is in full ving today, Just as if It had been in 9,1 ie present location all the time J* rs. Lucy Ann Anderson, wife of W. " . Anderson, of Halsellville, after a a w days of serious illness, died at her u >me Sunday night in the sixty-ninth C( sar of her age. Interment was at ntioch Methodist church Tuesday orning, the services being conducted 11 r Rev. E. D. Wells. Besides her L lsband, she leaves one son and four w LUghters Mrs. Nancy Shannon oss, wife of Mr. John Roes, died at n 'r home at Cornwell, Monday, from si ie effects of a stroke of paralysis T )out three weeks ago, and was buried tl uesday morning at Woodward Bap- b st church graveyard, after funeral P rvices at the home by Rev. J. E. reeman of Blackstock. Mrs. Ross tl as 67 years of age, and is survived tl f her husband and the following chil- f< en: Capt. H. S. Ross, Mr. B. J. E oss, Mrs. W. T. Castles, Mrs. J. Edw. T ornwell, and Misses Ollie, Nonie and J ebecca Ross Messrs. W. A. Lee, n r. C. Hardin, S. A. Brakefleld, J. L. K rown and I. N. Grant, officers of the . r. O. W. camp at Armenia, assisted ci IT Messrs. Claude Stevenson, captain, V >hn Brown, Sr., Arthur Bailey, Stew- ft t Brakefleld, Ira Grant, Will Hudson, oi im Hudson, Lyles Grant and Curtis ii alley, the camp's degree team, were ri ie guests of Cedar camp, No. 5, W. , W., of this city, Monday evening, id conferred the degrees of Woodaft on two candidates in a most iproved style. About 100 were pres- Ii it, and the degree work was followI by an enjoyable little luncheon, ie evening being one that was great- t, enjoyed by all present Lemuel ickson, Jr., a little 12-year-old negro, . as arrested Monday, in connection nil me uunung 01 me umn un ur. M. Durham's plantation, spoken of Monday's Reporter, and has since ^ ade a confession to Sheriff Colvin. t, * * * F Rock Hill Record, March 11: At the gular monthly meeting of the board 0 directors of the Community Y. M. A., held on Tuesday afternoon, the d officers were re-elected for the lar beginning March 1, as follows: It resident, D. B. Johnson; vice presi- . :nt, R. C. Burts; recording secretary, A. Barber; treasurer, George A. each. The terms of three directors iving expired, J. A. Barber and R. ' Burts were re-elected, and Prof. ff C. Coker elected for a term of j. iree years Mrs. Warner H. Nosand of New York city, but who for e past two years has been living in aris, France, arrived here Tuesday c, orning to make her home with Mr. < id Mrs. C. K. Schwrar. She is the liner's sister Allen Paul, a ^ acher in the High school here, has id to return to his home at Beaufort o) 1 account of sickness. His many iends wish him a speedy recovery. Anderson Huey, who for sev- y al months has been an efficient and ipular parcel post clerk and carrier 9( the postoffice, has accepted a polion with the Millhouse Drug commy at Union, and will assume his ' sw duties Monday. His host of ? iends regret to see him leave the . ty, but wish him success In his new isltion. P, * " pi Fort Mill Times, March 11: In a iecker tournament Friday, between hi >rt Mill and Pineville, in which Fort ai ill was represented by Zenas C. fc ler, and Pineville by W. M. Mor- pi w, the honors came to Fort Mill by n? score of eight to two games l somewhat unusual and disgraceful ight, as viewed by some, was the peratlons Sunday, of a force of emloyees of the Southern Power coinany engaged in erecting a pole line long the streets of the town ,'ashler T. B. Spratt, of the First iational bank, has been confined to is home in Sprattville for several ays with 'grip Mrs. E. L. Ligon nd children of Shelby, N. C., are uests in the home of Mrs. Ligon's lother, Mrs. Alice Harris, in this city. W. I* Hall and family on Monay, moved to the B. D. Springs planition, four milee north of Fort Mill. Gastonia Gazette, March 12: One of tie most tragic events in the history f Gastonia, and one which has sadended hundreds of hearts, occurred esterday morning about 10 o'clock, rhen little William David Jenkins, le young son of Mr. and Mra Geo. A. enkins, was fatally crushed beneath pile of falling lumber In the lumber ard of T. A. Henry, on West Main venue and near the unfortunate lite fellow's home. He died at 4.30 clock in the afternoon, the end comlg suddenly and unexpectedly. Just cactly how the accident occurred Is ot known, as no one saw it. Together ith Thomas Henry, the little five-year Id son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Henry, e was playing on top of a pile of ressed lumber under one of the sheds t the yard. The lumber slid, throwig him off and falling on top of him. n employee of the yards who was earby, heard the crash and a cry for elp and ran at once to his rescue. He fted the lumber from the little felw's body, but could not hold it off id take the child out, too. A workLa n on top of Borkley's ' building :ross the railroad, heard the noise id ran quickly to the rescue, exacting the injured child, who was in i unconscious condition. He was cared to the residence of Mr. Henry ist across the street and medical asstance was given him within a very >w minutes. An examination showed lat no bones were broken and the ily visible signs of Injuries were seeral flesh bruises about the face and iest. However, the weight of the imber had crushed his chest. Injuring im internally At the home of It. C. C. Lytten on West Airline aveue, yesterday morning at 8.16 o'clock, [re. Elizabeth Clonlnger, Mrs. Lytten's randmother, died at the advanced age r nearly 90 years, of cancer, following long illness. She had been beddden for the past six months. Funral services were held at the home at L o'clock this morning, Rev. F. R. ook, pastor of West End Methodist hurch, officiating, and burial was in hiloh cemetery The J. L. Adms Drug Store is the name of a new sncern for Oastonia, which will open >r business about March 20th, occuylng the quarters just vacated by J. [. Kennedy & Co. Mr. J. Lean Adams, ho has been identified for a number f years past, with the drug business f Oastonia, until he sold out the Adms Drug company's business to Mr. orman Morrow a few months ago, Is le proprietor. Workmen are busily n gaged repairing, re-papering and therwlse remodllng the interior of le room to be occupied and it is to e refitted throughout with new fixires made and installed by the Naonal Show Case Co., of Columbus, a. Mr. Fred Seagle, formerly with le Adams Drug company, and who as more recently been in Ashevllle, 'ill be with the firm and an expert ida fountain man has been emDloyed. Company B, better known as the aston Guards, underwent the annual ispectlon Tuesday, the Inspection beig conducted by Col. Thos. Strlngfleld t Waynesvllle, and Capt. R. C. Langon, U. S. A. It is understood that the ampany made a splendid showing. The city council at its regular leeting Tuesday night, passed an rder for an election to be held on the rst Monday in May to elect a mayor, jven aldermen and seven members of le school board for the city of Gaa>nia, as required by the charter rof. Edgar Long of Erskine college, ?ue West, S. C., is spending a day or vo here, having been summoned on ccount of the illness of his mother, Irs. L. H. Long SherifT W. N. avis and Mr. Geo. A. Jenkins went ? High Point Sunday, and brought ack a negro whom Mr. Jenkins idenfled as Gus McKinney, who has been anted by the Gaston county officers ince December 17, 1910, on which date IcKinney is charged with having llled Odus Nixon, another negro, at Irwin Lindsay's place near the Arngton mill. The negro was arrested y the High Point authorities on the jspicion that he was Hence Thompan, who is wanted in York county, . C., but he could not be identified as hompson. He was held at the reuest of the Gaston officers for the >ason that his description tallied very losely with that of the much wanted us McKinney, and efforts to establish is identity will, of course, be made t the trial, which will probably come p at the term of criminal court which anvenes next week. Lancaster News, March 12: Mr. Wilam McDonald of Kershaw, came to ancaster this week to take a position ith the Catawba Fertilizer company. ...The friends of Captain D. E. Peny will regret to learn that he is quite Ick at his home on Main street he panelling completing the organ of le First Baptist church has recently een added and gives a finished apearance to that handsome instrument. At the office of Dr. G. W. Poovey, lie Lancaster County Medical assoclaion was organized this week. The following officers were elected: Dr. J. >. F*underburk, president: Dr. W. C. witty of Kershaw, vice president; Dr. . A. Winstead. secretary and treasu?r. Dr. R. C. Brown was elected deleate to the State Medical association. Miss Sudie Neely, who, until reentiy held a position with the J. T. Fylie company, is now with the Jones lercantile company The condition f Mr. N. P. Robinson, who is undergoig treatment at the Charlotte sanltoum. is very satisfactory. THE ARGONNE FOREST mportant Area of This War a Beautiful and Historic Region. The national geographic society lus describes the Argonne forest, one f the most hotly contested pieces of attle ground in all the theaters of the resent war: The Argonne forest is a ragged knot f low mountains, sharp, rocky and eeply cleft. This forest lies across le path of the Lorraine passes into "ranee. It stretches from the southast to the northwest for a distance f thirty miles, generally parallel to ae FYench-German boundary, though rell within FVench territory, and aries in width from one to eight miles. : lies between the sources of the isne, on the east, and the river Aire, n the west. The railway from Metz ) Chalons and Paris runs through ne of Its sharp-hewn passes. This narrow, rock-bound tangled >rest belt is rich in military history, s exceedingly difficult paths have ?veral times stopped the foreign inader, and the Frenchman, with a amewhat warm stretch of fancy, has ailed it the French Thermopylae, fhile no such tragic "last stand* has ert been made within its area as that hich consecrated the Grecian pass, rie of the holiest natural monuments P history, its defiles have been the leaters of several famous military [aerations, among them the battle of almy. On this battlefield, the French, with >.000 raw, undisciplined, unconfident \nor>ri r-vt a nnnncoH r?n fipntArnhPr 20. /HOV?l|/iO Uj/puuvu, w*. '02, in the wonderfully contorted isses of the Argonnei, 160,000 Austrii imperialists and Prussians, who id been pursuing an easy course into ranee, and victory remained with the rench, a victory followed by the roclamation of the republic. Argonne forest is well wooded and is an elevation ranging between 600 id 900 feet. The ground within the irest is unfruitful, rich alone in stone, quant scenic beauties, and all man-1 >r of legend and fable. HAPPENING8 IN THE STATE Items of Interest from All Sections of South Carolina. Florence is the first city in South Carolina to have a Jitney bus. The case of Albert Tolbert, convicted in Greenwood last week for the murder of his wife, has been appealed to the supreme court. George Hodges, one of the oldest citizens of Horry county, is dead, at the age of 83 years. He leaves sixteen children. A petition asking for compulsory education has been filed with the clerk of court of Spartanburg county, signed by more than 1,100 voters. The Greenville board of charities and corrections, has re-elected W. R. Neely as jailer, and T. E. Pike cm superintendent of the Greenville county home. Eighteen young women received diplomas as graduates of the Baker training school for nurses in Charleston, at the first commencement of the institution, held Thursday night. H. M. Greer of Belton, for many years proprietor of the Belton hotel, one of the most noted hostelrles in the state, died last Thursday, aged 62 years. The South Carolina railroad commission has issued an order permitting the Southern railway to discontinue trans No. 43 and 44, between Atlanta and Charlotte. Mill Creek is the first shool district in Richland county to secure a majority of the registered voters asking for compulsory education under the law enacted by the recent legislature. According to advices from Columbia, the fight for the creation of Heyward couniy, proposed 10 oe iormea out 01 parts of Aiken and Edgefield counties. is to be renewed. W. J. Goodlet was fined $600 in the court of general sessions for Greenville county, last week, upon his being convicted of selling liquor. Two hundred dollars of the fine was suspended during good behavior. Os8 Irby, a negro, died in Greenville Thursday, as the result of pistol wounds inflicted by Clint Carter, colored. Irby was shot while he was attempting to phone for a policeman to protect him from Carter. Lewis W. Parker, formerly president of the Parker cotton mill merger, a $10,000,000 corporation, anc. who for the past few weeks, has been practicing law in Greenville^ is in a critical condition in a Baltimore hospital. It is reported that he is suffering with cancer of the throat J. F. Pace, a special officer of the S. A. L. railway, was arrested in Columbia early Friday morning, and held under $200 bond, on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Pace is alleged to have attempted to draw a pistol on a policeman when the officer arrested him for disorderly conduct Fourteen young men of Greenville, all of prominent families, were arrested in that city last week on charges of playing "keeno," a gambling game, in Greenville pool rooms. A fine of $26 was imposed in each case and some of the youths had five charges against them. The cases were worked up by two detectives hired by the city. G. D. Brown, superintendent of education of Newberry county, has accepted the appointment as supervisor of mill schools, and win enter upon his duties July 1* The position of supervisor of mill schools was created by an act of the last legislature!. The salary attached to the position Is $2,000 per annum and $600 Is allowed for traveling expenses. Fire in Columbia, Friday, destroyed the Masonic temple, inflicting losses of about $90,000, covered by $80,000 Insurance. The brunt of the loss fell on the R. L. Bryan Co., printers, who had their quarters in the building. The bookstore of the R. L. Bryan Co., which was established in 1844, was destroyed, but will be re-established immediately. The type forms for the state senate permanent Journal, which were in process of publication by the Bryan company, were destroyed by the fire along with the copy. As a result of the loss there will be much delay in getting out the journal In bound volumes. The origin of the fire is unknown. It is understood that the Masonic temple will be rebuilt. Greenville News: The city of Greenville owes the hoboes the most abject apologies, that Is, all who have been captured and fined the usual 3030, which Is the customary medicine handed out to those who ride into the city fare-less and who get pinched for doing so, and the officers pinch a good ? ? ??- no of tha hft_ mtiuy, r w me icii^iuj yooi. ???v ?wboes have been sent to the streets in most cases, for 30 days, simply because they didn't have the necessary $30 to avoid such. Naturally had they had that amount, they would have purchased a ticket and hence wouldn't have been hoboes. I', was discovered yesterday morning during the session of recorder's court, that there is no such ordinance to the effect that one shan't hobo. Of course one can't beat a hack fare or a street car ride; but beating the trains into the city Is perfectly legal, so far as any city laws to the contrary are concerned, or at least the officers of the court were unable to dig up any ordinance to that effect yesterday. It is estimated that several hundred hoboes have been caught redhanded, as it were, and after hotfooted chases for the most part and when tried received the sentence which deprived them of their liberty without due process of law. Had the hoboes been able to employ attorneys, very naturally some of them would have been able to And the statute did not exist; but not having the necessary coin, they went lawyer-lees and put in thirty days making little ones out of big ones. The fact that the time of the hoboes amounted to nothing does not change the fact that they were robbed of it illegally. Columbia State, Saturday: The special committee of the senate, "to investigate and report on economies that might be effected in the state printing and the advisability of establishing a state printing plant," organized in Columbia yesterday, by the election of C. D. Lee of Darlington, as chairman >.nd Niels Chrlstenaen of Beaufort, a* secretary. The third member is Louis Appelt of Clarendon. The secretary was instructed to address a letter to the head of each state department, asking for a list of all state institutions and one to each of the county supervisors, asking for a statement, giving the total amount spent each year, exclusive of all advertising for all printing, giving separately, in so far as it is possible, approximately the amounts for pamphlets. for ruled blanks and for office stationery, and a letter to the secretary of state in each state of the Union, asking: for a copy of laws regulating the public printing. The secretary was also instructed to cause the dissemination of a news story that would notify manufacturers of printing machinery and dealers in printing material that the committee wants estimates on the cost of a plant and of supplies. The secretary was directed to invite the state printers to meet the committee and inform them as to the extent and value of their plants that are used to handle the public printing. The house of representatives refused to agree to the senate resolution, but at the suggestion of its ways and means committee, created a committee of its own, consisting of Representatives W. R. Bradford of York. W. H. Query of Spartanburg, and W. W. Harris of Laurens. Since then Mr. Query has vacated his place on the committee by accepting a membership in the state tax commission. Mr. Bradford, at the ftumrestion of th? ? speaker of the house, James A. Hoyt of Richland, is writing to the chairman of the ways and means committee, J. T. Liles of Orangeburg, requesting that he recommend a representative to succeed Mr. Query. The house committee has had no meeting as yet.