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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. t I88OTEP SEMI-WEKHLT. i. m. grist's sons, Pubiiihen.) % Tamils jReurspapft:: ^or (he promotion of (hi; political, Social, ^jricuKural and Commercial Jn(erts)s of the |eogI{. j TE*"nglicopt'" yicram*0' I ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. a,l^RlDAY, APRIL!), 1915. ISTO. 29. S^CAI CUMBEI % /?> CHARLES J ~ Willi ILLUSTRATION! OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER XV?Continued. Callomb spent the night at the house | of Spicer South. He met and talked with a number of the kinsmen, and, If he read In the eyes of some of them a smoldering and unforgiving remembrance of his unkept pledge, at least they repressed all expression of censure. With Spicer South and Samson the captain talked long into tne mgni. ne made many jottings in a note book. He with Samson abetting him, pointed out to the older and more stubborn man the necessity of a new regime in the mountains, under which the individual could walk in greater personal safety. ^ As for the younger South, the officer I felt, when he rode away next morning, that he had discovered the one man who combined with the courage and honesty that many of his clansmen , shared the mental equipment and local . influence to prove a constructive lead1 er. When he returned to the Bluegrass he meant to have a long and unofficial talk with his relative, the gov- i ernor. The grand Jury trooped each day to the courthouse and transacted its business. The petit jurors went and came, i occupied with several minor homicide cases. The captain, from a chair, i which Judge Smithers had ordered l placed beside him on the bench, was looking on and intently studying. One morning, Smithers confided to him i that in a day or two more the grand jury would bring in a true bill against Samson South, charging him with < murder. The officer did not show surprise. He merely nodded. i I suDDose I'll be called on to go and i get him?" 1 "I'm afraid we'll have to ask you ^ to do that." "What caused the change of heart? I thought Purvy's people didn't want I it done." It was Callomb's first allusion, except for his apology, to their former altercation. ' For an Instant only, Smithers was a little confused. 1 "To be quite frank with you, Cal- ! lomb," he said, "1 got to thinking over ' the matter in the light of your own 1 viewpoint, and, after due deliberation, ' I come to see that to the state at large 1 it might bear the same appearance. 1 So, I had the grand Jury take the matter up. We must stamp out such law- 1 lessness as Samson South stands for. 1 He is the more dangerous because he 1 has brains." 1 Callomb nodded, but, at noon, he 1 slipped out on a pretense of sightseeing. and rode by a somewhat circuit- 1 ous route to the ridge. At nightfall he came to the house of the clan head. ' "South," he said to Samson, when he had led him aside, "they didn't ' want to hear what you had to tell the grand Jury, but they are going ahead to indict you on manufactured evi- ' dence." Samson was for a moment thought- 1 > ful, then he nodded. "That's about what I was expect- " ing." > "Now," went on Callomb, "we un- 1 derstand each other. We are working 5 ^ for the same end, and, by God! I've f had no experience in making arrests at the order of the court. I don't want it to happen again." "I suppose," said Samson, "you know j that while I am entirely willing to face any fair court of justice, I don't propose to walk into a packed jury, whose only object is to get me where I can be made way with. Callomb, I hope J we won't have to fight each other. What do you suggest?" "If the court orders the militia to j make an arrest, the militia has no option. In the long run, resistance would only alienate the sympathy of the world at large. There is Just one 1 thing to be done, South. It's a thing J I don't like to suggest." He paused, then added emphatically: "When my detail arrives here, which will probably be in three or four days, you must not be here. You must not be ' in any place where we can find you." ' For a little while Samson looked at 1 the other man with a slow smile of ' amusement, but soon it died, and his ' face grew hard and determined. "I'm obliged to you, Callomb," he 1 said, seriously. "It was more than I had the right to expect?this warning. ! I understand the cost of giving it. But it's no use. I can't cut and run. No, by God, you wouldn't do it! You can't ! ask me to do it." "By God. you can and will!" Callomb 1 spoke with determination. "This isn't 1 a time for quibbling. You've got work ' in Hn Wo hnth havo work to Ho Wo I can't stand on a matter of vainglorious ' f pride, and let big issues of humanity 1 go to pot. We haven't the right to ' spend men's lives in fighting each other, when we are the only two men ' in this entanglement who are in per- ' a feet accord?and honest." * PV The mountaineer spent some min- ' utes in silent self-debate. The working 1 of his face under the play of alternat- ' ing doubt, resolution, hatred and insurgency, told the militiaman what a 1 struggle was progressing. At last, ' Samson's eyes cleared with an expression of discovered solution. "All right, Callomb," he said, briefly, ! "you won't find me!" He smiled, as he added: "Make as thorough a search as your duty demands. It needn't be perfunctory or superficial. I'-iVery r>OUHl rauiu niu Sianu U(/CH V" you. I shall be extremely busy, to ends which you approve. I can't tell you 1 what I shall be doing:, because to do that, I should have to tell where I mean to be." "In two days, the grand jury, with much secrecy, returned a true bill, and a day later a considerable detacnment of Infantry started on a dusty hike up Misery. Furtive and inscrutable HollA man eyes along the way watched them S from cabin doors, and counted them. W They also meant to count them coining back, and they did not expect the totals to tally. LL?ftfie RLAND5 1B/ILLE BUCIO . 5 FRCVA PHOTOGRAPHS PLAT Back of an Iron spiked fence, and a dusty sunburned lawn, the barracklike facades of the old administration building and Kentucky state capitol frowned on the street and railroad track. About it, on two sides of the Kentucky river, sprawled the town of Frankfort; sleepy, more or less disheveled at the center, and stretching to shaded environs of colonial houses set in lawns of rich bluegrass, amid the shade of forest treeta Circling the town in an embrace of quiet beauty rose the Kentucky river hills. Turning in to the gate of the statehouse enclosure, a man, who seemed to be an easterner by the cut of his clothes, walked slowly up the brick walk, and passed around the fountain at the front of the capitol. His steps carried him direct to the main entrance of the administration building, and. having paused a moment in the rotunda, he entered the secretary's office of the executive suite, and asked for an interview with the governor. "Have you an appointment?" the secretary asked. The visitor shook his head. Scribbling a brief note on a slip of paper, he inclosed it in an envelope and hand tfU 11 IU 1119 tlUCOHUIKl. "You must pardon my seeming mysteriousness," he said, "but if you let me send in that note 1 think the governor will see me." Once more the secretary studied his man with a slightly puzzled air, then nodded and went through the door that gave admission to the executive's office. His excellency opened the envelope and his face showed an expression of surprise. He raised his brows questioningly. "Tough-looking sort?" he inquired. "Mountaineer?" "No, sir. New Yorker would be my guess. Is there anything suspicious?" "I guess not." The governor laughed. 'Rather extraordinary note, but send him in." Through his eastern window the governor gazed off across the hills of South Frankfort, to the ribbon of river that came down from the troublesome hills. Then, hearing a movement at his back, he turned, and his eyes took in a well-dressed figure with confidenceinspiring features. He picked up the slip from his desk and, for a moment, stood comparing Lhe name and the message with {he man who had sent them in. There seemed to be in his mind some irreconzilible contradiction between the two. With a slightly frowning seriousness the executive suggested: "This note says that you are Samson South and that you want to see me with reference to a pardon. Whose pardon is it, Mr. South?" "My own. sir." The governor raised his brows dightly. "Your pardon for what? The newspapers do not even report that you lave yet been indicted.'' He shaded :he word "yet" with a slight ephasis. "I think I have been indicted within :he past day or two. I'm not sure myielf." The governor continued to stare. The impression he had formed of the 'Wildcat" from press dispatches was warring with the pleasing personal presence of this visitor. Then hisforelead wrinkled under his black hair ind his lips drew themselves sternly. "You have come to me too soon, jir," he said curtly. "The pardoning power is a thing to be most cautiously used at all times, and certainly never until the courts have acted. A case not yet adjudicated cannot address itself lo executive clemency." Samson nodded. "Quite true," he admitted. "If I announced that I had come on the mat:er of a pordon, it was largely that I had to state some business and that seemed the briefest way of putting it." "Then there is something else?" "Yes. If it were only a plea for clemency I should expect the matter :o be chiefly important to myself. In point of fact, I hope to make it equally interesting to you. Whether you give me a pardon in a fashion which violates all precedent, or whether I surrender myself and go back to a trial which will be merely a form of assassination rests entirely with you, sir. iTou will not find me insistent." Then Samson launched into the Jtory of his desires and the details of conditions which outside influences Ho/1 Koon nnnrorlooc tr\ PomoHv_ho. cause they were outside influences. Some men of sufficient vigor and comprehension, acting from the center of disturbance, mu3t be armed with the power to undertake the house-cleaning, and for awhile must do work that would not be pretty. As far as he was personally concerned, a pardon after trial would be a matter of purely academic interest. He could not expect to survive the trial. He was at present able to hold the Souths in leash. If the governor was not of that mind he was now ready to surrender himself and permit matters to take their course. "And now, Mr. South," suggested the governor, after a half-hour of absorbed listening, "there is one point you have overlooked. Since in the end the whole thing comes back to the exercise of the pardoning power, it is after all the crux of the situation. You may be able to render such services as those for which you volunteer. Let us for the moment assume that to be true. You have not yet told me a very important thing. Did you or did you not kill Purvy and Hollis?" "I killed Hollis," said Samson, as though he were answering a question as to the time of day, "and I did not kill Purvy." "Kindly," suggested the governor, "give me the full particulars of that affair." The two were still closeted when a second visitor called and was told that his excellency could not be disturbed. The second visitor, however, was so insistent that the secretary Anally consented to take in the card. After a glance at it his chief ordered admission. The door opened and Captain Callomb entered. He was now in civilian clothes, with portentous news written on his face. He paused in annoyance at the sight of a second figure standing with back turned at the window. Then Samson wheeled and the two men recognized each other. They had met before only in jeans and butternut At recognition Callomb's face fell and grew troubled. "You here, South!" he exclaimed. "I thought you promised me that I snouian i nnu you. uou Knows i uiun i want to meet you." "Nor I you," Samson spoke slowly. "I supposed you'd be raking: the hills." Neither of them was for the moment paying the least attention to the governor, who stood puietly looking on. "I sent Merriweather out there," explained Callomb, impatiently. "I wanted to come here before it was too late. God knows, South, I wouldn't have had this meeting occur for anything under heaven. It leaves me no choice. You are indicted on two counts, each charging you with murder." The officer took a step toward the center of the room. His face was weary, and his eyes wore the deep disgust and fatigue that come from the necessity of performing a hard duty. "You are under arrest," he added quietly, but his composure broke as he stormed. "Now, by God, I've got to take you back and let them murder you, and you're the man who might have been useful to the state." (To Be Continued.) * GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. HiBiiuiaitrs uaoru un uic id lv rcuciai census, places the population of New York city at 4,327,095. The Central Railroad of New Jersey, was on Monday, fined 3200,000 by the Federal district court at Trenton, on conviction of rebating. A Copenhagen dispatch says that Prussian losses officially announced, brings the total up to 1,133,081 in killed, wounded and missing. Wm. Disston, president of the Henry Disston & Sons saw manufacturing concern, died at his summer home near Philadelphia, Sunday. Counterfeit gold pieces heavily alloyed with glass to give them the right ring, are reported from Chicago. The spurious coins have been in circulation during the past eight months. Wm. K. Pierce, a millionaire raldiator manufacturer of Syracuse, N. Y., committed suicide in Washington on Monday. Financial troubles is assigned as the cause. Otto Zinn, a restaurant owner, and two of his employes, were killed by thieves in Zinn's restaurant in New York early Monday morning. The men were killed with a butcher's cleaver. About a dozen members of the Aero club of America, have arranged to use hydro-aeroplanes in traveling from their suburban homes to their business places in New York city. j A railroad gateman at Wilmington,, Del., on Monday, attempted to commit suicide by heating a poker red hot and pressing it to his body over his heart. He fainted before finishing the Job. A constitutional convention was , convened at Albany, N. Y., Tuesday, , to revise New York's basic law. ExSenator Ftoot is president of the body, which will be in session for about four , monins. A dispatch from Genoa, Italy, says that word had been received there that | the Italian ship Lugi Parodi, from ( Baltimore January 22, with a cargo i of coal, had been sunk by a German submarine. i A violent earthquake shook a large I portion of Italy last Monday. Shocks 1 have been of daily occcurrence, but i the one on Monday was the most severe since the disaster of January 13, when so many lives were lost. Major John O. Skinner, a retired army surgeon, was on Tuesday presented with a medal of honor by 1 President Wilson, in accordance with an act of congress, for "gallantry in action" in an assault against a Modoc Indian stronghold in January, 1873. When between 3,500 and 5,000 wood , finishers of Chicago, went on a strike Monday, after a demand for an increase of wages, the Building Contractors' association answered with a , lockout that threw 3,000 more men out of work. Now 16,000 carpenters are threatening to strike. Three men and a woman were landed at Philadelphia Monday, having been taken off a water logged barge 50 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, ( by the Norwegian steamship Sosua. ( The barge broke away from its tug , Friday night and for thirty-six hours the party of four were kept continuously busy at the pumps. , Testifying before the United States commission on industrial relations at Chicago, Monday, the general manager of the Pullman company, testified that Pullman car porters were paid a I wage of 327.50 per month during the first fifteen Years' service. After that there was 5 per cent increase in wages. i The German authorities have refused to permit GifTord Pinchot, acting as a special agent of the state department at Washington, to proceed with his work as a member of the American relief commission in Belgium. It is stated that the refusal to allow Mr. Pinchot to work in Belgium is because his sister is the wife of a former British minister to Denmark. 1 A French war office statement says: "The military authorities have received precise information concerning the results of the bombardment carried out by British aviators in Belgium, March 26. A dirigible hangar at Berghen-Ste, Agathe, was seriously damaged as was the dirigible airship sheltered there. At Hoboken, the Antwerp naval construction shipyards were blown up, two German subma rines were aesiroyea ana a inira uamaged, while 40 German workmen were killed and 62 wounded." W A genius is a man who seldom makes good at it. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Torkrllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes ap peanng unuer lino iicaums waa |iuulished 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 pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 123D INSTALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, Nov. 11, 1863.) From Chattanooga. The following letter from an officer of the 5th regiment, S. C. V., has been handed to us. The writer did not intend it for publication, but as it contains much that is of local Interest, the party to whom it was addressed has kindly furnished it to us for the public: ^omn r\f Rth rairlmnnt Q P V Near Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 29, 1863. I take up my pen this evening, my heart burdened with sorrow, to give you the particulars of the battle of last night, in which our regiment was engaged. Our brigade with two other brigades of Gen. Hood's division were sent over Lookout mountain to intercept the large wagon trains of the enemy and to cut them off. We crossed the mountain after dark and marched down to where Gen. Law's brigade had a fight the day before. After passing Gen. Law's pickets we crossed a creek and formed line of battle, THE HOMES OF Photographic Evidence York C This photograph of a handsome a number that The Enquirer has had i provement that is being made along I LOWRY WILi This is one of the recent modern 1 $1,600. The building is of the Clemsoi room, and cloak room. It is located I southeast of Yorkville, in Bethesda to< O. Fyers, R. M. Bratton and Mansfield lian Agnew. The enrollment is about of 3 mills and the school runs seven i threw out skirmishers and advanced for a mile and a half down the railroad, when we came upon the wagon train and the pickets of the enemy, the latter of whom were soon driven back. Our regiment was ordered to get ready to charge. We could now see the Yankees trying to "whip" their trains out of the way, hear them forming their lines and bringing the artillery into position. As soon as the regiment on the left was formed, the command was given to "charge." We raised the "rebel yell" and charged forward in the face of galling tire, passed the wagon train which was parked in an open field, and moved forward without halting for three hundred yards, until we arrived at a gully some two feet in depth. Here we halted and opened fire and waited until the first regiment got on a line with us when we again moved forward until within a hundred yards of the enemy. A terrific fire by overwhelming numbers was opened upon us and we were compelled to lie down Hat on ihe ground. We returned the fire and held the position for one hour, and until nearly all our men were either killed or wounded, when we were ordered to fall back to the gully mentioned above, where we remained until nearly the last cartridge was exploded. My company fought until nearly all were killed or wounded and when the order came to retreat the little squad of brave men now composing Co. E, moved off in good order. I carried into the fight forty-one men, rank and file. The following is a list of casualties: Killed?Sergeant J. T. Collins; Corporal J. B. Humphries, and Private W. J. Minter. Mortally wounded and left in the hands of the enemy?Lieut. Wm. Crosby, thigh broken; Lieut. Felix H. Mullenax, in knee; Private W. J. Smith, in breast; D. W. Crosby, in abdomen; John Poag, in bowels. Sovcroli, mnnnrleit Cnrnnral -Tas. A. I Neil, in leg; H. H. Orant, in hand; W. A. Isom, in shoulder; J. Bradley Rawls, in hand; Martin Rawls, in arm; M. B. Poole, in side and a prisoner; Wm. Brakefield, in leg; S. P. Drum, in foot and prisoner. Slightly wounded?Sergt. M. S. Lindsay, in arm; J. A. Cubiness, in arm; Jas. Childers, in breast; H. B. Thomas, in side; R. B. Thomas, in leg; W. T. McDonald, in face; VV. C. Carson, in hand; James Lowry, in breast: Benjamine Moore, in arm. Missing?Privates M. S. Pool, J. W. Ciark. Our wounded had to be carried on litters on men's shoulders some live miles, so you can see why so many fell into the hands of the enemy. I never saw Lieut. Crosby after he was wounded. 1 was in command of the company and he was at his post on the left. He was wounded in the charge from the gully to the place where we came upon the enemy. Lieut. Mullenax and Bradley Rawls went and offered to bring him. oft but the brave fellow said to them, "Go on, you are needed in the front, and my thigh ia all broken to pieces ?you can do me no good." These are the last words he spoke to any of the company. Lieut. Mullenax was wounded on our advance line. He hobbled back to the gully with his leg broken. When the regiment fell back to the gully, and it was known we would ? i.. 1 a T ??Ktm nave to reireai, i went aim iu>u uuu I would try and carry him off on my back. He was willing at first, but he became apprehensive that we might both be killed and he told me to leave him -to his fate. I could not help shedding tears when we parted. Sergt. Collins was killed after we halted In the advance line. He and Humphries were both killed near the same spot. Collins was shot through the body. He asked some of the boys to turn him over on his face and let him die. Minter was killed in the first part of the charge. He was shot through the head?I did not see him killed? he was on the extreme left. W^D. Crosby and John Poag were wouoBed on the advance line and were not able to move. W. J. Smith was wounded Just as the charge stopped. He said he was killed?to tell his father he died at his post like a man, to tell his mother that he died like a Christian. He crawled back to the gully and was living when we left. n mn n oovarol V WAlind^d. Al. D. rwi wao ovtviv.j ?. and when he fell back to the gully, I could not see him. I suppose he tried to make his way back. When we retreated, his brother, M. S. Pool, would not leave him until he knew what had become of Miles, so I think he was taken prisoner. S. P. Drum was hit In the foot with a spent ball. When we retreated I saw him start back. He was very lame and has not yet come up. I fear the Yankees have got him. The following are the casualties in THE SCHOOLS of Modern Progress In Jounty. York county school building, is one of engraved to show the wonderful lmthat line in York county. SON* SCHOOL. auildings, erected in 1913 at a cost of i style, with work room, teachers' In District No. 6, about nine miles ivnship. The trustees are Messrs. S. Gordon, and the teacher is Miss Lil35. District No. 6 pays a special levy months. Company E, from our district: Killed?Sergt. J. H. Quinn. Wounded?Sergt. J. B. Moore, in breast, mortally; U. J. Fewell, through kidneys, mortally; Coporal Jaa H. Yearwood, thigh, severely; Private T. H. Lynn, thigh, mortally; (i. J. Knox, hip, mortally; Wm. Watson, shoulder, mortally; R. L. McCants, hand, slightly; John Smith, hand, severely; C. M. Parrott, thigh, severely; W. M. Hardin, hand, severely. J. D. M. Palmetto Sharpshooter*. We have been furnished by Lieut. J. W. Carroll, commanding, with the following list of casualties in Co. G, P. S. S., in the battle of Raccoon mountain, on the night of 28th, ultimo: Killed?Private W. A. Neal. Wounded?Henry Sarratt, in thigh, Severely; R. T. Gillespie, side of head, slightly; R. R. Robinson, end of finger shot off; D. F. Parish, in hand, slightly, and taken prisoner. (To be continued.) HOW TO GET DRUNK Expert Gives Sound Advice to New Beginners. From Dr. W. A. Evans, medical expert of "The World's Greatest Newspaper," and former health officer of Chicago, we learn how a sensible man ; would go about getting drunk. The shocked reader may object that "a sensible man wouldn't get drunk," but let's not argue about that. The : point is, that most men who indulge in , spirituous excesses are very stupid In staging the performance Whether they do it without premeditation or in a "going-to-get drunk-and-gosh-how1-dread-it" spirit, they blunder in the J execution, and suffer unnecessarily. ' So here is Dr. Evans' system?take it or leave it: To begin with, don't get drunk when you have a cold. The cold may be an excuse for a "jag," but it's a poor foundation for it. The same is true of weariness. \ Don't get drunk when you're tired, or ' - 1- ~ JJ ~ I U?1 J you simpiy auu itiuuuui icin^u^ ?.? natural fatigue. If you are tired when J the Inspiration strikes you, rest up for a day or two. Then, before starting the celebration, take a dose of salts or castor oil. Now, you're ready. If you must j get drunk, why go ahead and drink! But choose a clean, well ventilated place to do it in. Don't hang around a hot stove in a close room, on a dirty J floor sprinkled with sawdust and I pneumonia germs. You need fresh ( air?oxygen?to burn up the alcohol. 1 Before you reach the unconscious < stage, pick out the place where you're going to sleep it off. It should be a < well-aired room, cool, but not too i cold. Be sure the window is open, 1 and you have enough bedclothes to 1 keep you from being chilled when your < vitality ebbs low, as it will while ^ your system is working to throw off 3 the poison. s When you wake up, you'll have a 1 headache, a bad taste and a dry i cough. Take some calomel or com- < pound cathartic pills and one dose of < headache medicine, and drink a lot of < water. Now, take a little nourish- 1 ment?say a glass of milk and a cup f of coffee, then a package of chewing . gum. After that, get outdoors and ( take some exercise. In a day or two t you'll feel fairly decent again. < Vio rpnrlor nhiwtfl. ( "if getting drunk involves all that t trouble and inconvenience, why get S drunk at all?" s TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK HEADING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Rock Hill Record, April 5: At the meeting: of the Winthrop trustees, held last Monday evening, it was decided to begin the erection of the new gymnasium as soon as possible. Hook & Rogers, the architects, are now at work on the plans after consultation with Shattuck & Hussey of ( Chicago, specialists in gymnasium and swimming pool construction, and j are pushing these to completion as rapidly as possible. It is intended to make the gymnasium the most upto-date college gymnasium in the en- 1 tire country, as is Winthrop Training school, in its line. It will be remembered that the legislature recently appropriated 130,000 for this, with the proviso that a like amount be secured otherwise. Thirty thousand dollars 1 will, therefore, be used of the Peabody funds in hand to provide the $60,000 necessary. On completion of the plans 1 the contract will be let and the work \ begun as soon as possslble Rev. i K. H. Shlmmon of Urmia, Persia, a 1 rresbyterian minister, a graduate of ' Columbia seminary and a classmate of Kev. Jf. W. Gregg and Rev. Alex. Mar- 1 tin, is the guest of Rev. Mr. Gregg ' and family, and yesterday morning and evening Ailed the pulpit at the first Presbyterian churcn for Mr. ' Gregg. Mr. Shlmmon spoke most interestingly in the morning of Persia and what a great drawback the Mo- ' nammedan religion was to the country. Last evening he spoke on Persia 1 and the war. Mr. Shlmmon is a Uorolon huainAdq mAn hftiniT a TUST ' dealer, working all the week at his business in Persia and preaching on Sunday Mr. tend Mrs. Otis Patton ; returned last night from their bridal trip and are at home to their many j friends at the residence of Mrs. F. M. Beckham on Hampton street. * Gaffney Ledger, April 6: Jack Carpenter Camp, No. 810, United Confed- , erate Veterans, held its annual meeting in the sheriffs office at the court- ( house Saturday afternoon. All of the { officers were re-elected, and the following delegates were chosen: To ! the general reunion, which meets in ( Richmond in June, Messrs. L M. Peeler and Moses Wood; to the state re- j union, which meets in Columbia this { month, Messrs J. M. Daniel and L. . Baker. Miss Agnes Walker was chosen sponsor for the state reunion. , The officers of the camp are: D. A. ( Thomas, commander; Moses Wood, , 1st lieutenant; N. C. Snead, 2nd lieu- , tenant; B. F. Patterson, 3rd lieutenant; 1. M. Peeler, adjutant, and C. T. i Bridges, quartermaster As a result of being knocked down by a runaway team on Limestone street,. yes- , terday morning about 10.30 o'clock, , Mr. Lewis Humphries, a well known { Cherokee county farmer, suffered a fractured right shoulder and serious bruises about the back. He was carried to the city hospital by Dr. J. N. Nesbitt, who arrived upon the scene immediately after the accident, and j given medical attention. Dr. Nesbitt stated that Mr. Humphries' Injuries 1 are quite serious, and as he has only ' recently recovered from an attack of 1 pneumonia, he could not predict his J chances for recovery The con- ^ dition of Tom Hames, the negro who 1 waa ?hr?t four times more than a week ' ago, by Lewis Spears, another negro, 1 was reported to be critical yesterday j afternoon. In all probability he will die, so it was said. Spears is In the | county jail awaiting the outcome of ' Hames' injuries Friday will long j be remembered In the annals of Chero- ! kee county school history. The second annual field and fair day was a re- 1 markable sticcess in spite of the un- 1 favorable weather which prevailed the 1 greater part of the day. The athletic ' contests were carried on in a driz- j zling rain in the afternoon, but the spirit and ardor of the contestants : were not dampened. The exercises of * the morning, held at the Star theatre ; and courthouse, attracted attention J and interest, while the various ex- ' hibits of the county school fair, dis- I played at the Central graded school, ' were magnificent. Large crowds of people attended all of the various events of the day. The Central graded school of this city, proved its su- t periority in the field day events by making a total of 104 points, while its nearest competitor, the Cherokee Avenue school, also of this city, had 63 points to its credit. The standing of other schools competing in these . events were as follows: Sunnyside, J 44; Blacksburg, 10; Midway, 8; Clary Line, 5; White Plains, 6; Ashworth, 3; Buffalo, 3; Mrs. J. N. Littlejohn's private school, 2; New Pleasant, 1; Pleasant Grove, 1. Congressman A. 1 F. Lever of the Seventh district, de- , livered his address before an interested audience in the auditorium of the 1 Central graded school at 3 o'clock in 1 the afternoon Miss Minnie Mae 1 Moss of Blacksburg route one, and Mr. , Broadus R. Phllbeck of Moseboro, N. C., route two, were married by Probate 1 Judge W. D. Klrby, Friday, in his of- t flee at the courthouse. Yesterday < morning, the bride, accompanied by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moss, called on the judge and requested that he annul the marriage j upon the grounds that the girl had < been forced. According to the story, Mrs. Philbeck told Judge Kirby yesterday morning she met her husband * about three weeks ago. He immediately fell in love with her, but she did j not reciprocate the feeling, and intimated as much to him. The girl has ' been a student at Rock Springs j school, and on Friday she came to j Saffney with her school mates to participate in the school field and fair Jay exercises. Upon arrival here a y relative carried her to Philbeck, who f ii'rvr* fr tWa nnui*thnuua onH muHa flr rangements for the marrriage, which took place about 11 o'clock. The girl told Judge Klrby yesterday that she had no realization of what she was loing at the time she accepted Phil- c beck as her husband. The only thing 3he remembered was signing some 1 paper. She went home with him Fri- c lay night, under protest, she alleged t yesterday. Mr. Moss found his daughter Saturday morning and carried her lome. Or\ Sunday, Philbeck came to 1 Claffney and made application for :laim and delivery papers for his wife, a sut these were not granted. Chester Reporter, April 6: Mr. W. s 3. Hedgepath of Laurel, Miss., and n Vlr. V. B. Hedgepath of Durham, N. 2., are spending a few days here with their mother, Mrs. W. C. Hedgepath, >n Saluda street, who is seriously ill. v Mrs. Laura J. Crockett, widow if the late Stanhope Crockett, died t Saturday arternoon at tne nome or ter daughter, Mrs. F. M. Gale, at Richburg, pneumonia being the cause >f death. Funeral and interment a vere at Union A. R. P. church grave- s fard yesterday afternoon, funeral ? lervices being conducted by Rev. J. T. Dendy, of Rock Hill. Mrs. Crockett 1 vas sixty-six years of age and was a o levout member of the Presbyterian jhurch. She is survived by two laughters, Mrs. Joseph Stroud and s Mrs. F. M. Gale of Rlchburg, and one K ion, Mr. Amory Crockett of Florida, tl Miss Helen Beaver, aged fifteen, Q laughter of Mr. F. A. Beaver, died it her home near McLure street Frilay afternoon, after an illness of n eighteen days from pneumonia, and h vas buried at Evergreen cemetery Saturday afternoon, after funeral lervices at the home by Rev. H. A. Bagby, D. D Mr. W. L. Ford, one of the county's oldest and best citizens, passed away last Monday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John O. Wylle of Rlchburg R. F. D. 1, after an illnees of more than three and one htilf years, during which time he bore his sufferings with patience and fortitude. Interment was at Mt. Prospect church, of which the deceased had been a faithful member for more than fifty years Mr. Robert B. Anderson, one of Chester county's foremost citizens, died Thursday evening at his home in Rlchburg, attar hnvlnc hean in orraduallv de cllnlng health for about two years, and was laid to rest Friday afternoon at Mount Prospect graveyard, after funeral services by Revs. W. S. Goodwin, J. W. Neely and J. V. Davis. Mr. Anderson was born In the Heath's Chapel neighborhood and was seventy-six years old. At the outbreak of the Civil war, he enlisted in Co. F, Sixth South Carolina regiment, and served throughout the four years' struggle as a member of that command, no soldier ever rendering more loyal or valiant service to his country. After the war, Mr. Anderson settled down to the life of a farmer and merchant, and was unusually successful at these callings. * Gastonia Gazette, April 6: The Gaston la, N. C., government rifle club has received its certificate of membership In the National Rifle association of America and has made requlslton for guns and ammunition. These are expected to arrive within the next ten days or two weeks, and active practice on the rifle range will then begin. The membership of the. club has now reached a total of 65, and much Interest Is being taken by the members In the approaching activities of the club. Capt A. L. Bulwinkle, of the local military company, is having the local rifle range put in good shape for practice, which will begin as soon as the equipment arrives.... Mrs. M. M. Lyon died this morning at her home south of the town at the advanced age of 74 years. She was a native of Cleveland county. The funeral and burial will take place at Crowders' Creek church tomorrow at noon The J. L. Adams Drug store opened for business Saturday, In the quarters formerly occupied by J. H. Kennedy & Co., in the Adams building on West Main avenue. This is the fourth drug store down town and the fifth for the city. The interior of the store room occupied by the new firm was thoroughly overhauled, having been repapered, repainted, etc. A handsome new tile floor was laid. The furniture and fixtures are exceedingly handsome, being of genuine Circassian walnut throughout All together the interior is most pleasing to the eye and the store as a whole is one of the handsomest in this section of the state His hosts of friends here and elsewhere deeply sympathize with Mr. Charles Ford of this city, in the death of his mother, Mrs. Laura M. Ford, which sad event occurred Sunday night about 9 o'clock at Grover. Death was due to pneumonia from which disease Mrs. Ford had suffered for only a week. Prior to the attack, which proved fatal, deceased had enjoyed excellent health tor the past several years, despite her advanced age His numerous friends will regret to learn that Mr. T. M. Pearson is critically ill at his home on West Airline avenue. He has typhoid fever and has been confined to his bed tor the past six weeks. His condition is reported today as being critical. Lancaster News, April 6: The county board of education has decided to have no summer school this year, as a sufficient number of teachers have not reported their intention to attend. They propose to give a bonus of |50 to any district that will vote a levy of four mills for school purposes, or $25 to any district that will vote a levy of two mills. All new levies must be voted by May 1, and additional levies by June 1 Prof. and Mrs. W. S. Harsh man of Annapolis, Md., are the guests of Rev. E. r. Hodges. Prof. Harshman is professor of mathematics at the United States Naval academy. Mrs. Harsh man is a sister or Mr. iioages. rney have been spending some time in Florida and stopped over here on their return trip home Beginning last Thursday, April 1, the stores now close at 6 o'clock and will continue to close at this hour during the spring and summer Mr. William Thomas Hendrlx and Miss Mary Lee Sowell were quietly married in the study of the Baptist pastorium at Heath Springs on Sunday afternoon, A.pril 4. The ceremony was performed by Dr. J. W. H. Dyches, in the presence of a number of the friends af the contracting parties. CARE WAS PROFITABLE An Interesting Little Story With Valuable Moral. 'If I were a cobbler it would be my pride, The best of all cobblers to be; [f I were a tinker, no tinker beside Should mend an old kettle like me." It is a rule that a workman must follow his employer's orders as a writer in the "Living Age" says, but no one has a right to make him do discreditable work. Judge M., a wellknown jurist, living near Cincinnati, loved to tell the anecdote of a young man who understood the risk of do,ng a shabby Job, even when directed to. He had occasion to send for a carpenter, and a sturdy fellow appeared. "I want a fence made. There are some unplaned boards?use them. JTou need not take time to make a leat Job. I will pay you a dollar and i half." T ?? ?*. thn IuHo'a fnnnH thn mo n r?fl r A - 'ully planing' each board. Supposing hat he was trying to make a costly lob, he ordered him to nail them on ust as they were, and continued his vulk. When he returned the boards vore all planed and numbered, ready or nailing. "I told you this fence was to be sovered with vines," he said, sharply; 'I do not care how it looks." i "I do," said the carpenter, gruffly, 1 larefully measuring his work. When t was done, there was no other part >f the fence as thorough in finish as hia "How much do you charge?" asked he Judge. , "A dollar and a half," said the man, houlderlng his tools. ! The Judge stared. "Why did you : ipend all that labor on that fence, if lot for money?" ! 4/vk r,U ?* , rui me juu, oi?. "Nobody would have seen the poor ' york on it." j "But I should have known it was : here. No; I'll only take a dollar and . half." He took it and went away. Ten years afterwards, the Judge had , contract to give for the erection of 1 everal magnificent public buildinga ; "here were many applicants among j he master builders, but the face of ] n<? nf lh?m cftncht hla ovp "It was my man of the fence," he ; aid. "I knew we should have only < enuine work from him. I gave him i he contract, and it made a rich man ut of him." i It is a pity that boys and girls are < ot taught in their earliest years that ighest success belongs only to thost> rhose work is most sincerely and , horoughly done.?The Interior. t YORK COUNTY PENSION ROLL Soldiers and Widows Who Receive Aid From thp State MONEY NOW IN HANDS OF CLE8IL Then* is a Total of 258 on tha List, and tha Amounta thay Receive Range from $96 Down to %2BJEO? In the Aggregate, York County 8oldiera and Wldowe Will Get $8/481. Warrants for the 1916 pension distribution have been received by the clerks of the court in the various counties throughout South Carolina. The aggregate disbursements this year foot up $286,171.60, of which York county gets $8,481. Although many names have been removed from the pension roll by death, and a few have been added, the list now shows up a total of 3,918 soldiers and 4,788 widows. As compared with last year there is a net decrease of 146. Last ? nana(/inawa In fkn ftita Iautai* classes receive $24 each, and this year, because of the reduction In the list stated, they are entitled to receive $28.50 each. The total York county list as furnished to The Enquirer by Comptroller General Sawyer last Wednesday, is as follows: Class A?|96.00 [Those who, as a result of wounds received in said war, are physically helpless," or who, while in such service, lost both arms or both legs, or sight, or who are disabled by paralysis and who are unable to make a living, whose income or his wife's, does not exceed $150 per annum.] R. E. Harvey, L. L. Smith. Class B?|72jOO [Those who, while in such service, lost one arm or one leg, and whose income or whose wife's income does not exceed $150 per annum.] Robert Burns, W. E. Erwin, A. H. Merritt, W. H. Price. Class C No. 1-44&00 [Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds received during said war, or totally disabled from any cause from earning a living, whose income or whose wife's income does not exceed $160 per annum]. J. C. Beamguard, William Brown, J. H. Cook, J. F. Davidson, L. M. Dye, A. Dale, W. O. Glover, John Green, S. J. Harvey, J. T. Howard, William S. Moore, Joseph A. Pursley, E. S. Peeler, J. B. Rawls, H. H. Sherer, W. A. Sherer, Rufus P. Starnee, J. Y. Starnes, D. W. Thomasson, J. W. Taylor, J. T. Thompson, Jerry Walker, John WVay. Class C No. 2?92&SO. L 1IIU5C nuu nave icavnou vue a?v of sixty years, and whose income or his wife's does not exceed $76 per annum], J. J. Ashe, James M. Armstrong, W. P. Armstrong, W. H. Armstrong, William Ashley, A. H. Black, N. J. N. Bowen, W. M. Brackett, R. L. Brown, Ouion Bolln, John W. Barnhlll, Sidney Burris, John Clark, B. C. Chllders, J. R. Comer, J. F, Cordes, J. T. Crook, Samuel H. Dunlap, George W. Deas, John Dowdle, H. W. Fudge, J. B. Fudge, W. M. Gregory, D. S. Glenn, W. S. Garrison, D. A. Givens, J. R. Goings, C. Gardner, M. H. Hilton, A. C. Hogue, S. J. Hutchison, D. G. Howell, R. J. Hullinder, J. W. Huntley. J. H. Henry, James H. Hogue, S. B. Howe, R. T. Howe, A, Hudson, J. F. Hutchison, John C. Jackson, Samuel L Johnson, G. W. King, L. D. Lindsay, Lewis Lanier, T. H. Logan, J. R. Lucas, J. R. Massey, A. W. Moore, W. T. Morrell, D. B. McCarter, W. H. Mitchell, T. J. Mlskelly, W. J. McGill. J. T. McCammon, Elijah McSwaln, Robert C. Miller, S. J. Meek, Robert Merritt, J. H. Neely, J. E. Plaxico Joseph Parks, Josiah Pugh, Jackson Ramsey, E. L. Rayileld, T. J. Roach, W. S. Starr, K S, Snead, J. L Stewart, A. E. Smith, S. N. Sadler, W. T. Sturgis, J. G. Smythe, Paschal Sanders, J. M. Sweat, J. A. Stewart, W. I. Smith, Dallas Stephens, W. P. Wylie, Moses White. W. B. Whittaker, A. J. White. R. L Wood, J. J. White, R. P. Workman, L B. White, A. L Wallace, R. W. Westmoreland, Brown Wilson, J. A. Westbrooks, R. W. Whltesides, J. ixr TOnonti. Txhn IVlrkUr W W White, L. D. Wilkinson, R. J. Withers, A. W. Wright, D. D. Wright, D. N. Youngblood, D. F. Neely. Class C No. 3-*4&00. [Widows of those who lost their lives while in such service of the state or of the Confederate states, and whose income does not exceed $100 per annum]. Cynthia Abernathy, D. R. Carothers, H. A. Carr, M. S. Caton, Mary C. Choat, Mary Hambrick, M. J. Hughes, Jane Hill, Mary R. Lindsay, N. C. Lilley, Margaret E. McCullough, M. E. Minter, Sarah J. Martin, Nancy Quinn, E. C. Patterson, M. E. Thomas, M. E. Whitney, Martha L. Wallace, Mary G. Youngblood. Class C No. 4-42&50. [Widows above the age of fifty years, whose income does not exceed $150 per annum]. S. C. Adams, David C. Anderson, Elizabeth Allen, E. F. Aiken, Amanda Adkins, S. C. Ayers, Elizabeth Bolin, Sarah J. Burns, Nancy T. Byrd, Mary O. Bruner, E. J. Bennett, M. M. Bennett, Rebecca L. Black, Sarah E. Barnett, Emmeline Brooms, E. J. Bailey, T. C. Beckham, M. M. Bayne, Rebecca J. Carothers, Sarah Caton, Drucy Childers, Jennie Childers, Letltia Childers, Lucinda Chambers, Ann E. Clinton, M. J. Caveny, J. E. Craig, M. E. Carson, V. E. Davidson, M. M. Duffle, M. J. Brennan, Elizabeth Draffln, M. E. Doggert, Myra E. Dickson, E. J. Doster, Laura Drakeford, M. J. Donnan, E. J. Downs, S. C. Erwin, Octavia Felts, Nancy Ferguson, E. T. Ferris, Mary F. Glenn, Emily Garrison, M A. fiarvin. M. C. fiardner C. Gowley, Mary E. Hagans, Lula G. Hand, M. M. Hope, S. E. Hancock, F. L Huffman, Ellen Hendricks, S. E. Hood, Jane E. Howie, Sarah Harris, S. S. Harrison, M. E. Howell, M. E. lowers, Eliza Jones, Eliza Jones, Delia Johnston, Barbara Kyzer Alice Kerr, Harriett L. Klmbrell, Catherine Lathan, S. J. Lindsay, S. A. Lindsay, J. G. Minter, Elizabeth McGraw, Sallie I. McDanlel, A. I. Moore, Lucinda MulIInax, Mary E. Mills, J. G. Maloney, Jane Y. McFadden, X. J. Merritt, S. E. Moore, Ann E. Neal, Adeline Xeely, Sarah E. Xeely, Louisa J. Owens, Mary L. Outlaw, Mary A. Pearson, Susan Patterson, Margaret Pope, Sarah E. Partlow, Jane Pope, Martha Peak, X. Y. Rogers, M. S. Robinson, Martha Rainey, Elizabeth J. Ritch, D. M. Ritch. Rachel Spencer, Elizabeth 3ibley, Margaret D. Steele, X. J. Strickland, Margaret Simmons, Mary Smith. M. J. Tumley, A. J. Sherer, Martha Thomasson, Jane Turner, Salle C. Turner, M. A. Wilson, Pauline IVood. Margaret White, Maria White, ?ynthia Query. l^The things that come to those ivho wait are apt to be stale by the Ime they arrive.