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^ ^ ISSUED SEMI-WEKEL^ L. M. obist'8 sons. Publisher.. } H <^aatilg Jleirspa per: /or the promotion of the ^political, Social, Agricultural and ffommerrial Interests of the f)eop!e. { 1E*"' no"*coW, "At: cram"?' ? ESTABLISHED 1855. YOBKVILLE, 8. P.", FMDAY^ APRILT8,~1915." INTO. 31. &CA CM /& CHARLES WITH ILLUSTRATE OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER XVII. ^ Before the mountain roads were mired with the coming of the rains, and while the air held its sparkle of autumnal zestfulness, Samson South wrote to Wilford Horton that if he still meant to come to the hills for his inspection of coal and timber the time was ripe. Soon men would appear bearing transit and chain, drawing a line which a railroad was to follow to Misery and across it to the heart of untouched forests and coal fields. With that wave of innovation would come the speculators. Besides, Samson's fingers were itching to be out in the < hills with a palette and sheaf of 9 brushes in the society of George Les* cott For a while after the battle at Hixon the county had lain in a torpid paralysis of dread. Many illiterate feudists 0 on each side remembered the directing I and exposed figure of Samson South seen through eddies of gun smoke, and believed him immune from death. With Purvy dead and Hollman the victim of his own hand, the backbone of the murder syndicate was broken. Its heart had ceased to beat. Those Hollman survivors who bore Lie potentialities for leadership had not only signed M ?" ? ofraiH tn pieoges 01 p?u;e, uui mic break them; and the triumphant Souths, instead of vaunting their victory, had subscribed to the doctrine of order and declared the war over. Souths who broke the law were as speedily arrested as Hollmana Their boys were drilling as militiamen and ?wonder of wonders!?inviting the sons of the enemy to join them. Of course, these things changed gradually, but the beginning of them were most noticeable In the first few f months, just as a newly painted and renovated house is more conspicuous than one that has long been respectable. Hollman's Mammoth Department Store passed into new hands, and traf# ticked only in merchandise, and the town was open to the men and women of Misery as well as those of Crippleshin. These things Samson had explained in his letters to the Lescotts and Horton. Men from down below could still find trouble in the wink of an eye, by seeking it, for under all transformation the nature of the individual remained" much the same; but without seeking to give offense, they could ride as securely through the hills as through the streets of a policed city? and meet a readier hospitality. And, when these things were discussed and the two men prepared to cross the Mason-and-Dixon line and visit the Cumberlands, Adrienne promptly and definitely announced that she would accompany her broth er. No argument was effective to uissuade her, and after all, Lescott, who had been there, saw no good reason why she should not go with him. ? At Hixon. they found that receptive | air of serenity which made the history of less than three months ago seem paradoxical and fantastically unreal. Only about the courthouse square where numerous small holes in frame walls told of fusillades, and in the inHPS ---terior of the building itself where the W woodwork was scarred and torn, and f the plaster freshly patched, did they find grimly reminiscent evidence. Samson had not met them at the town, because he wished their first impressions of his people to reach them uninfluenced by his escort. It was a form of the mountain pride?an honest resolve to soften nothing, and make no apologies. But they found arrangements made for horses and saddlebags, and the girl discovered that for her had been provided a mount as evenly gaited as any in her own stables. When she and her two companions m came out to the hotel porch to start, they found a guide waiting, who said he was instructed to take them as far as the ridge, where the sheriff himself would be waiting, and the cavalcade struck into the hills. Men at whose f houses they paused to ask a dipper or water, or to make an inquiry, gravely advised that they "had better light and stay all night." In the coloring forests, squirrels scampered and scurried out of sight, and here and there on the tall slopes they saw shy-looking children regarding them with inquisitive eyes. The guide led them silently, gazing in frank amazement, though with defenential politness, at this girl in corduroys, who rode cross-saddle, and rode so well. Yet, it was evident that he would have preferred talking had ^ not diffidence restrained him. He was a young man and rather handsome in a shaggy, unkempt way. Across one cheek ran a long scar still red, and the girl, looking into his clear, intelligent eyes, wondered what that scar stood for. Adrienne had the power of melting masculine diffidence, and her smile as she rode at his side, and asked, "What is your name?" brought an answering smile to his grim lips. "Joe Hollman, ma'am," he answered: and the girl gave an involuntary start. The two men who caught the name closed up the gap between the horses, with suddeny piqued interest. "Hollman!" exclaimed the girl. f "Then, you?" She stopped and flushed. "1 beg your pardon." she said, quickly. "That's all right." reassured the man. "I know what ye're a-thinkin", but 1 hain't takin' no offense. The high sheriff sent me over. I'm one of his deputies." "Were you"?she paused, and added 0 rather timidly?"were you in the b courthouse?" 1 He nodded, and with a brown forefinger traced the scar on his cheek. "Samson South done that thar with his rifle-gun." he enlightened. "He's a BP funny sort of feller, is Samson South." "How?" she asked. "Wall, he licked us, an' licked us so plumb damn hard we was skeered ter LL?f TM AX?r\C KMNLO NEVILLE BUCIC ? FRCM PHOTOGRAPHS PLAT fight ag'in an* then, 'stid of tramplln' on us, he turned right 'round, an' made me a deputy. My brother's a corporal in this hyar new-fangled milishy. I reckon this time the peace is goin' ter last. Hit's a mighty funny way ter act, but 'pears like it works all right." Then, at the ridge, the girl's heart gave a sudden bound, for there at the highest point, where the road went up and dipped again, waited the mounted figure of Samson South, and, as they came into sight, he waved his felt hat and rode down to meet them. "Greetings!" he shouted. Then, as he leaned over and took Adrienne's hand, he added: "The Goops send you their welcome." His smile was unchanged, but the girl noted that his hair had again grown long. Finally, as the sun was setting, they reached n roadside cabin, and the mountaineer said briefly to the other men: "You fellows ride on. I want Drennie to stop with me a moment. We'll join you latter." Lescott nodded. He remembered the cabin of the Widow Miller, and Horton rode with him, albeit grudgingly. Adrienne sprang lightly to the ground, laughingly rejecting Samson's assistance, and came with him to the top of the stile, from which he pointed to the log cabin, set back in its small yard, wherin geese and chickens picked industriously about in the sandy earth. A huge poplar and a great oak nodded to each other at either side of the door, and over the walls a clambering profusion of honeysuckle vine contended with a mass of wild grape, in Joint effort to hide the white chinking between the dark logs. From the crude milk-benches to the sweep of the well, every note was one of neatness and rustic charm. Slowly, he said, looking straight into her eyes: "This is Sally's cabin, Drennie." He watched her expression, and her lips curved up in the same sweetness of smile that had first captivated and l helped to mold him. 1 "It's lovely!" she cried, with frank | delight. "It's a picture." i "Wait!" he commanded. Then, turn1 ing toward the house, he sent out the long, peculiarly mournful call of the whippoorwill, and, at the signal, the door opened, and on the threshold Adrienne saw a slender figure. She had called the cabin with its shaded dooryard a picture, but now she knew she had been wrong. It was only a background. It was the girl herself who made and completed the picture. She stood there in the wild simplicity that artists seek vainly to reproduce in posed figures. Her red callico dress was patched, but fell in graceful lines to her slim bare ankles, though the first faint frosts had already fallen. Her red-brown hair hung loose and in masses about the oval of a face in which the half-parted lips were dashes of scarlet, and the eyes large violet pools. She stood with her little chin tilted in a half-mild attitude of reconnoiter. as a fawn might have stood. One brown arm and hand rested on the door frame, and, as she saw the other woman, she colored adorably. Adrienne thought she had never seen so instinctively and unaffectedly lovely a face or figure. Then the girl came down the steps and ran toward them. "Drennie," said the man, "this is Sally. 1 want you two to love each other." For an instant, Adrienne Lescott stood looking at the mountain girl, and then she opened both her arms. "Sally," she cried, "you adorable child. I do love von!" The girl in the calico dress raised her face, and her eyes were glistening. "I'm obleeged ter ye," she faltered. Then, with open and wondering admiration she stood gazing at the first "fine lady" upon whom her glance had ever fallen. Samson went over and took Sally's hand. "Drennie," he said, softly, "is there anything the matter with her?" Adrienne Lescott shook here head. "I understand," she said. "I sent the others on," he went on quietly, "because I wanted that first we three should meet alone. George and Wilfred are going to stop at my uncle's house, but. unless you'd rather have it otherwise. Sally wants you here." "Do I stop now?" the girl asked. Hut the man shook his head. "I want you to meet my other people first." As they rode at a walk along the little shred of road left to them, the man turned gravely. "Drennie," he began, "she waited for me. all those years. What I was helned to do bv such splendid friends as you and your brother and Wilfred, she was back here trying to do for herself. I told you back there the night before I left that I was afraid to let myself question my feelings toward you. Do you remember?" She met his eyes, and her own eyes were frankly smiling. "You were very complimentary, Samson." she told him. "I warned you then that it was the moon talking." "No," be said firmly, "it was not the moon. I have sinee then met that fear and analyzed it. My feeling for you is the best that a man can have, the honest worship of friendship. And." he added, "I have analyzed your feeling for me, too, and, thank flod! I have the same friendship from you. Haven't I?" i-or a moment, sne oniy nouueu; uui her eyes were bent on. the road ahead of her. The man waited in tense silence. Then, she raised her face, and it was a face that smiled with the serenity of one who has wakened out of a troubled dream. "You will always have that. Samson, dear." she assured him. "Have I enough of It, to ask you to I do for her what you did for me? To I take her and teach her things she has the right to know?" "I'd love it," she cried. And then she smiled, as she added: "She will be much easier to teach. She won't be so stupid, and one of the things I i shall teach her"?she pased, and ' added whimsically?"will be to make you cut your hair again." But, Just before they drew up at the house of old Spicer South, she added: "I might as well make a clean breast of it, Samson, and give my vanity the punishment it deserves. You had me in deep doubt," "About what?" "About?well, about us. I wasn't quite sure that I wanted Sally to have j you?that I didn't need you myself. I've been a shameful little cat to Wilfred." "But now??" The Kentuckian : broke off. "Now, I know that my friendship for you and my love for him have both had their acid test?and I am happier than I've ever been before. I'm glad we've been through it. There are no doubts ahead. I've got you both." "About him," said Samson, thoughtfully. "May I tell you something 1 which, although it's a thing in your 1 own heart, you have never quite ' known?" She nodded, and he went on. "The thing which you call fascina- ( tion in me, was really just a proxy, Drennle. You were liking qualities in me that were really his qualities. Just because you had known him only in gentle guise, his finish blinded you to his courage. Because he could turn 'to woman the heart of a woman,' you failed to see that under it was the 'iron and fire.* You thought you saw those qualities in me, because I wore my bark us shaggy as that scaling hickory over there. When he was getting anonymous threats of death every morning he didn't mention them to you. He talked of teas and dances. I know his danger was real, because they tried to have me kill him?and if I'd been the man they took me for, I reckon I'd done it. I was mad to my marrow that night?for a minute. I don't hold a brief for Wilfred, but I know that you liked me first for qualities which he has as strongly as I?and more strongly. He's a braver man than I, because, though raised to gentle things, when you ordered him into the fight he was there. He never turned back or flickered. I was raised on raw meat and gunpowder, bu.t he went in without training." The girl's eyes grew grave and thoughtful, and for the rest of the way she rode in silence. There were transformations, too, in the house of Spicer South. Windows had been cut, and lamps adopted. It was no longer so crudely a pioneer abode. While they waited for dinner, a girl lightly crossed the stile, and came up to the house. Adrlenn'e met her at the door, while Samson and Horton stood back, waiting. Suddenly, Miss Leseott halted and regarded the newcomer in suprise. It was the same girl she had seen, yet a different girl. Her hair no longer fell in tangled masses. Her feet were no longer bare. Her dress though simple, was charming, and, when she spoke, her English had dropped its half-illiterate peculiarities, though the voice still held its bird-like melody. ( "Oh, Samson," cried Adrienne, "you two have been deceiving me! Sally, s you were making up, dressing the part t back there, and letting me patronize j you." Sally's laughter broke from her throat in a musical peal, but it still held the note of shyness, and it was Samson who spoke. "I made the others ride on, and I . goi rainy iu iiicc-l yi?u juai o.?v when I left her to go East." He spoke with a touch of the mountaineer's over-sensitive pride. "I wanted you first to see my people, not as they are going to be, but as they were. I wanted you to know how proud I am of them?just that way." That evening, the four of them walked together over to the cabin of the Widow Miller. At the stile, Adrienne Lescott turned to the girl and said: "I suppose this place Is pre-empted. I'm going to take Wilfred down there by the creek, and leave you two alone." Sully protested with mountain hospitality, but even under the moon she once more colored adorably. Adrienne turned up the collar of her sweater around her throat, and, when she and the man who had waited, stood leaning on the rail of the footbridge, she laid a hand on his arm. "Has the water flowed by my mill, Wilfred?" she asked. "What do you mean?" His voice trembled. "Will you have anything to ask me when Christmas comes?" "If I can wait that long, Drennie," he told her. "Don't wait dear," she suddenly exclaimed. turning toward him, and raising eyes that held his answer. "Ask me now!" But the question which he asked was one that his lips smothered as he pressed them against her own. Back where the poplar threw its sooty shadow on the road, two figures sat close together on the top of a stile, talking happily in whispers. A . girl raised her face, and the moon ] shone in the deepness of her eyes, as ; her lips curved in a trembling smile. "You've come back, Samson," she said in a low voice, "hut, if I'd known how lovely she was. I'd have given up hoping. 1 don't see what made you come." Her voice dropped again into the tender cadence of dialect. "I couldn't live withouten ye, Samson. I jest couldn't do hit." Would he remember that she had said that before? "I reckon, Sally," he promptly told her, "I couldn't live withouten you, neither." Then, he added, fervently, "I'm plumb dead shore I couldn't." THE END. ? The Clinton Oil and Manufacturing company was partially destroyed by (Ire Saturday night. The loss, which will amount to several thousand dollars, was partially covered by insurance. I i.ti> There are 2.000 Slavs in the I * nit - j ed States. '1 FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS Is Traced In Early Files ot The Yorkville Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and (Tiuinn that Vnnnnup Patarlatr* n( To. day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first Installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring 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. 125TH INSTALLMENT (Wednesday Evening, Nov. 26, 1863.) Fifth Regiment State Troops. Branchville, Nov. 22, 1863. Our regiment left its encampment in Greenville district, on Thursday morning last, before day, taking the :ars about 5 o'clock a. m., and after i long and boisterous passage reached this place on Friday night about ten j'clock. The next morning we removed to our camp a short distance Tom the depot, where we will probTHE HOMES OF Photographic Evidence York ( This photograph of a handsome a number that The Enquirer has had provement that is being made along I II BULLOCK'S CI This building, cgnstructed along in 1911, at a cost of approximately $1, of the consolidation of Bell Creek, Cot No. 15. The trustees are Messrs. J. E M. Bankhead. Prof. Clarence D. Gue the teachers. The school is in the K and an enrollment of fifty. The term of the best schools in the county. ibly remain for a while though our >perations may not be confined to any jarticular quarter. At least, it is not jroper that more should be written of >ur programme, were we entitled to >eep behind the curtain. Sufficient to jay that the country is not unproected, and this point is not being negected by any means. The change of position together with he rough riding and exposure of the jox cars at night, has caused severe :olds throughout the camps, but a lit,le rest will probably relieve them. Dur locality is now a very convenient >ne for news, but the Charleston pa>er will give your readers particulars 'ar more reliable than the many runors of the camps, though you shall )e apprisea 01 an maiiers oi lnieresi is they may occur or may be proper o be written. The well-doing of the egiment will be probably the only nterest of the present letter. The present title of our headquarters s "Gamp Williams," in honor of our polonel, who it may be proper to state, ivas not present at the christening his evening. The compliment is well leserved and we doubt not will be properly appreciated. Branehville, heretofore a busy little 'burg," is almost deserted, the postmaster and telegrapher apparently composing the "authorities of the people," except at car time when these lignities seem "lords of all they sur-> tey." The hotel keeper and servants ire not forgotten for they disappear is fast as their scanty fare, and the traveling's shin plasters. While writing, artillery are passing js to the front?this movement with :he shelling of Charleston, looks as :hough our "Iron Grays" will yet have l trial of mettle with the Yankees if hey dare carry out their threats of in attack inland. We have every reiance in their ability and willingness to do their duty. We have had services today in pamp at the quarter of Capt. Gill's pompany this morning. Capt. Lowry's this afternoon and tonight a call for the same purpose at Capt. Hardin's, >n the right of our regiment, thus ipeginning in the center with Chester ind ending on the left and right. The services were conducted by our chap lain, Mr. DePass, assisted by Rev. Mr. Bryce of Fairfield. These meetings are full of interest and we have in earnest from our growing acquaintance that they will be kept. Others than the ministers are invited to take part in the >rayer meetings, ind thus all denominations have and take a common?I should say?Christian interest. Our last third of the regiment has been furloughed hone for twelve Jays, so we may soon look on "boxes from home." as foregone conclusions; however trnr sportntion is now direct, and we ran see our friends and hear from them more frequent than when away in our mountain fortresses. The thanks of the regiment are due the railroad conspirators for the careful manner in whicli they avoided running off by traveling at the rate of two miles and hour; and many of the furlough soldiers who were re turning to their duti< i? acknowledge the condescension of certain conductors receiving pay to which they were not justly entitled, from the $ll-amonth soldier. When the railroads declare another dividend, we hope they will not be denied the lion's share. E. (Wednesday Evening, Jan. 6, 1864.) The following officers for York district, were appointed by the legislature during its late session: Magistrates?Joseph McCosh, William McGill, J. D. P. Currence, John McKnight, John G. Enloe, A. F. Love, A. Hardin, H. L. Killian, B. J. Patterson, Smith Sanders, Richard Sadler, John R. Wallace, S. B. Byers. Commissioners of Free Schools?S. H, Anthony, Allen Robertson, John M. Brison, R. S. Moore, J. M. Hope, G. L. Riddle. uuiiuniHHionerH 10 Approve ruuno Securities?James Jeffreys, George Steele, H. F. Adlckes, S. Rufus Moore, John H. Adams. Commissioners of Public Buildings ?John F. Lindsay, John B. Withers, Stanhope Sadler, W. L Clawson, E. A. Crenshaw. Commissioners of Roads?Samuel G. Brown, Thomas McGill, W. H. Carroll, S. P. Sutton, Samuel Blair, S. N. Miller, Franklin Brown. t Married?In this place on the evening of the 12th, inst., at the bride's residence, by the Rev. E. G. Gage, Mr. H. Calvin Conner and Miss Ellen O'Leary, all of Yorkvllle. (To Be Continued.) lfy Sarcasm may make good repartee, but it doesn't make friends. ' THE SCHOOLS of Modern Progress In bounty. York county school building, is one of engraved to show the wonderful imthat line In York county. * * *5 > jfC 1^,.T S N I Ym i H I I i II BDH^HyHirr v ^ jpmJ 1?^ * ? 4 J *EEK IcHOOL. the lin^jf Clemson plans, was erected ,500. The present school Is the result :ton and Bullock's Creek, In district , McAlilley, J. C. Klrkpatrick and E. !ss and Miss Anna Cherry Schorb are iural Graded class, with $200 state aid i is eight months. Altogether it is one ? Greenville News: Declaring that he had purchased morphine from every drug store in the city but two, one of which he had never tried, a man giving the name of Hamp Roland, talked for several minutes with a Greenville News reporter, and declared that he had, within the past week or two, secured prescriptions for whole bottles of morphine, paying 25 to 50 cents for the prescription, and $1.25 per bottle for bottles containing 60 grains each of the drug. He stated that at one time he used as much as two bottles per week, but that he had cured himself practically, taking now only four grains per day. At the same time in another cell, raving and moaning and calling upon the Dord to have mercy upon her, was a poor deranged woman who claimed to be the wife of Roland, piteously crying - ? 1-1 ~ O* ?I,A Un A iur mure inorpiiuie unci sue nau taken seven grains. She gave the name of Jennie Martin, alias Jennie Roland. According to her story, she has been taking the drug for 25 or 30 years and it requires, according to her statement, about sixteen grains daily, the two together taking three 60-grain bottles per week. The man talked with some intelligence and was perfectly free in telling all about his trouble with the drug. He stated that several years ago he was injured on the railroad, his back being hurt and that the physician gave him morphine. He stopped a minute and said: "A doctor ought to be mighty careful about giving it to a person, and not give it unless it is absolutely necessary." He could not work without taking morphine, he said, after he was injured and gradually increased the dose until he was taking two bottles each week, or about 15 grains a day. He then began to decrease the dose, after he had been a slave for several years, and said that now he had worked down to four grains a day. He believed that in six months he could cure himself entirely, though he said that three days was the longest he could go without it and that if it were taken away from him he would be in a terrible tlx, that his nerves would completely break down and he would ; be helpless and miserable. He told how easy it was to get the drug before the new Federal law went into effect, stating that many a time he had sent the 12-year-old son to the drug store and purchased a bottle of CO grains, paying 40 cents for it. He said that he had purchased the drug fmm all but two drutr stores of the city, that one he had never tried and that at the other he was turned down. No prescription was required, he said, only the purchase price, 40 cents. Since the new law has gone into effect he stated that the drug was harder to get, that some physicians would not write a prescription, though he said that there were some who would do so, charging from 25 to 50 cents each for them and that one physician charged $1 for a prescription. The drug also, he stated, has gone up, and that the last bottle which he had as well as others which he told of. cost $1.25 each. One druggist in the city, who refuses to deal in the drug, says that the price for the medicine should have been 50 cents per bottle, or at least, that is the price he could sell it at. Her Goodness Unappreciated.?Katherine's uncle had come to pay them a visit, says Harper's Magazine. After the first greetings were over and he was comfortably seated with little Katherine on his knee, he asked, as uncles often do, if she were a good little girl. "Yes," was the child's prompt reply, "but nobody knows it." ?Jesse West, a white youth, aged 14 years, is in Columbia unable to get employment legally, without first a a i ?? ?'? n rrroo t i\ nnf 51 u IKtuunK wiiic "lie iv 14*? his guardian. He is from Easley. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES? o d News Happenings In Neighboring ^ Communities. ch CONDENSED FOK QUICK HEADING [ r Ooaling Mainly With Local Affairs ot y Cherokee. Cleveland, Gaston, Lan- s easier and Cheater. a 2 Gaffney Ledger, April 13: The physican attending Mr. Lewis Humphries at the city hospital, yesterday reported that his condition was mucn j, improved and that his chances for re- b covery are good. Mr. Humphries suf- c fered a fractured shoulder and other c injuries on April 5th, when he was f knocked down by a runaway team on 7 limestone street Mr. Forest Hug- a gin, rural free delivery carrier on p route two, made a record-breaking \ trip Saturday, covering his entire n route in exactly two hours. Number c two is the regulation length, twenty- n four miles, and one hundred and forty p patrons are served by it. Mr. Hug- p gin left the local postoffice Saturday y morning at 9.20 o'clock with an aver- c age mall, and he had completed the n round trip by 11.20 o'clock. He used \ an automobile While plowing in v a Held near Limestone mill Friday af- a temoon, Mr. N. W. Driskill turned up n a "Texas toad" or horned lizard. The y little animal is about two and one- e half inches in length, and has short u spines all over his body, while two ci well developed horns protrude from its o: head. The toad is quite a curiosity in tl this section of the country, and It may l be seen at the Ledger office. About ci two years ago Miss Mayme Driskill g returned from a visit to some friends f< in Texas. She brought two of the a hunioH tnuild Imnk with her_ ?nd kent n them for some time, but both finally p made their escape. It is presumed f< that the one plowed up Frlduy after- tl noon is one of those brought here by \ Miss Driskill, and it is thought that si the other may be living in the ground K within the neighborhood where Mr. jy Driskill made his discovery A jy warrant has been issued for the ar- d rest of A. D. Hammett, a white man v of the Grassy Pond section of the ti county, on a charge of selling bad h meat to a local market man. It is al- w leged that Hammett sold a cow to the y market man, who sent some negroes after it. The negroes found a dead cow, and upon the instructions of the ti white man, skinned the animal and o brought the meat to the market man. b The dealer in meats discovered im- e mediately that something was wrong t< with his latest purchase. He sent it b back into the country and had a war- tl rant issued for the arrest of Hammett. 31 Becoming despondent as a result w of continued ill health, Mr. Tom C. a Huskey, a farmer of the Macedonia r section of the county, attempted to n commit suicide last Saturday after- a noon by cutting his throat with a n razor. He succeeded in making three a deep gashes, starting from the left b and going to the right, severely In- .a juring the wind-pipe without severing d it, however. Dr. J. N. Nesbitt render- s ed medical assistance to the injured tl man. Mr. Huskey had been in ill o health for several months, being un- si able to work. It is said that he acted a rather peculiarly during the day Sat- ti urday, but gave no intimation of wish- & ing to end his life. Late in the after- e noon, he made the attempt out in the f( yard of his home, cutting three gash- 0 es across his throat, from which he \ suffered a serious loss of blood. He is p now in a serious condition. mr. hub- a key is somewhat more than middle- 0 aged. His failure to sever his own a wind-pipe was caused by the dullness p of the instrument with which he made w the attempt J. Harvey Wither- p spoon, superintendent of the city b schools, was re-elected to serve next a year by the trustees of school district <j No. 10, at a special meeting Friday ti night. Mr. Witherspoon has rendered very satisfactory service to the trustees and a majority of the patrons during the present year. No other elections were made by the trustees * Friday night A1 Lipscomb, a negro on the Cherokee county chaingang, made his escape from the gang Saturday, while working near Thick- 11 ety. He was captured Sunday morn- d ing about 11 o'clock at the Bonner h place, near Goucher, by Sheriff W. W. t, Thomas, Deputy Sheriff H. H. Lockhart and a posse. The negro had been " hiding in the swamp Saturday after- I noon and night, and had succeeded in t; getting only a few miles away before . his re-capture. 11 d Rock Hill Record, April 12: Paul v Barron returned last night from > Jacksonville, Fla_, where he was called last week owing to the critical illness s of his brother, R. L. Barron. The lat- * ter is a little improved when last f heard from, although his condition is ^ still serious The following Winthrop students have been elected to ? serve as student government officers il for next year: Margaret Doyle, pres- c ident; Margaret Stem, vice president of the south dormitory; Mable Mann, house president of north dormitory; Gordon Field, house president of tl Johnson hall; Loretta Jervey, house n president of east dormitory When Dr. R. E. Sumner and W. H. Hope 11 take the oath as members of the board ii of health, the board will organize by g electing a chairman and a secretary. The other members are R. E. Barron, J. L. Phillip sand Dr. J. R. Miller, h These men have authority to elect a health officer, subject to ratification Q by the council. There are many applicants for the job Rock Hill's lfirst "market day" on Saturday was a o glittering succcess. The farmers came g in and Rock Hill ladies were out in force. It was a pleasing sight. We felt sure our women would contribute to n the success of the day. And it was an encouraging sign to see them "go to p market" with their baskets. The Oakland section contributed quite a num- 11 ber of buyers. A picturesque feature S was added by the presence of two t| girls, Misses Myrtle Hayes and Alberta Garrison, members of a Canning club, in their uniforms. The girls disposed tl of a load of canned tomatoes. John T. Roddey sold a beef cow to A. F. Davis n for $6.70 per 100 pounds, and "Jim" White auctioned off a lot of Berkshire 81 pigs. The value of thig market to d our people will show itself right along 0 if it is continued. Too much praise t] cannot be given John T. Roddey for his interest in the matter. As a citizen Y he contributed the use of his Main street lot. As president of the chamber of commerce he pushed the plan through. Secretary Timmons of the chamber rendered very valuable ser- k vice in helping the plan along. The market days will now be Tuesday and Saturday from S to 10 o'clock. Those who had produce for sale were: W. F. s< Rhodes. John Shurley, R. F. Boyd, John Mitchell, Hiram Bookout, Jim n Bookout, Will Jackson, S. H. Faris, Ed. Rawls, Mrs. S. L. Patterson, Chas. Sexton, Misses Myrtle Hayes and Alberta Garrison. * * Chester Reporter, April 12: Mr. John McCandless, who had a stroke of paralysis Thursday afternoon, is seri- " ously ill at his home two miles northeast of the city At the meeting of the state board of education in Columbia last week, Messrs. D. L. Rambo and John E. Nunnery were re-ap- kl pointed members of the county education board of Chester county A deal was consummated Friday b> which fifteen of the city's best known business and professional men pur- m > 11." S3 , rv, \1f XV uniinru nit* nuvujr mcauc iumu mi. ??. [f A. Comwell. The new owners will spare no trouble or expense to make the Savoy as Rood as any other picture la theatre in the state, and announcements of important new service may OI be expected shortly Marriage license was issued Saturday by Judge of Probate A. XV. Wise to Mr. Grover a Cleveland Wilkes of Halsellville, and Miss Janie Leona Allen of Baton Rouge There are nine cases of smallpox, all of the patients being colored, in the Cornwell neighborhood, J but Dr. George A. Hennies thinks that g< he situation is well in hand, and that here is but little danger of a general utbreak. Drs. Hennies and McFaden vaccinated sixty persons yesteray near Cornwell, and Dr. Hennies xpects to renew the campaign of vacillation today. A vigilant quarantine as been instituted, over the houses of he sick. The patient near the couny farm has about recovered, and there ias been but the one case in that leighborhood Figures contributed o a report from Commissioner E. J. Vatson by Col. T. J. Cunningham, how that Chester county has a wheal creage this year of approximately ,400 acres as compared with 365 acres ist year. ? t * Gastonia Gazette, April 13: The resbytery of King's Mountain, emracing the counties of Gaston, Linoln, Cleveland, Rutherford and Polk, onvenes for its spring meeting in the "irst Presbyterian church tonight at .30. The sessions will be opened by sermon from the retiring moderator, Lev. T. E. P. Woods, principal of Vestminster school. After the serlon a new moderator and temporary lerks will be elected to serve at this leeting. The stated clerk of the resbytery is Rev. S. L. Cathey of Mt. lolly Spring communion service fill be held in the First A. R. P. hurch next Sunday morning. Preiminary services will commence Wednesday night at 7.45 o'clock. Serices will be held Thursday, Friday nd Saturday at 4 p. m., and 7.45 p. ?. The pastor, Rev. Dr. J. C. Gallofay, will be assisted by Rev. R. C. avidson of Mooresville It is nderstood from a private letter revived from the Rev. A. S. Anderson f Waynesville, that he has declined ie call recently tendered him by the oray Presbyterian church to be[>me its pastor. This will cause eneral regret. Mr. Anderson was jrmerly pastor of the Loray church nd made a host of friends throughut the city generally Mr. T. M. earson, whose illness with typhoid ?ver was mentioned last week, coninues desperately ill at his home on yest Airline avenue A peculiarly id death was tnat or miss jeniuo Kathleen Morris, daughter of Mr. and Irs. S. S. Morris, who passed away londay at noon after a brief but esperate illness of hardly a week rith rheumatism. Had she lived un1 next month, the deceased would ave been fifteen years of age, and 'as a favorite with both old and oung. Lancaster News, April 13: The inint son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ellis f the mill village, who was seriously urned two weeks ago, died from the fleets of the burns last Tuesday afMmoon. The little boy would have een two years old had he lived unil May 29, proximo. The funeral ervices were held at the home and re re conducted by Rev. S. R. Brock, fter which the little one was laid to est in Westside cemetery The lany friends of Dr. R. L. Frank Kee re anxious because of his serious illess with pneumonia. His parents nd his uncle, Dr. T. J. Strait, have een summoned to his bedside , congregation which filled the auitorium of the Presbyterian church unday afternoon, enjoyed thoroughly fie home mission programme carried ut by the children of the Sunday chool. The church was darkened nd a single light gleaming from a ill lighthouse cleverly designed by Ir. John H. Poag, the popular and fflcient superintendent, shone on the aces of the children and also carried ut the idea of the "Light of the Vorld." which was the keynote of the irogramme. A choir of ten voices, ccompanied by Mr Thomas Beaty n the organ and Miss Mildred Green nd Mr. R. M. McDermid on the vioin, made sweet music. Then there .'ere recitations and responsive readigs, as well as other attractive numers. Spring flowers were used In bundance and added a pleasing ecorative touch, so appropriate to he season and to the occasion. SUBMARINE IN STEEL TRAP. lodies of 30 Germans Found in Craft Held by Steel Net. The effectiveness of the steel sublarine traps which have been put own to guard the British rivers and arbors has been shown by the fact hat two German submarines have een caught in the Firth of Forth, n addition a third has been sunk off he coast of Haddingtonshire and a ourth was rammed last Wednesday, isabled, captured and towed to Leith, fhere the crew was taken prisoners. To description of these nets can be iven and no information of their efectiveness has been allowed to go orth by cable, but at this date, since Zing George himself has inspected ne of the captured submarines and t is talked about freely no harm can ome from the letting the world know f it. The first of the submarines, one of he very large type, was caught in the et of the Firth of Forth which held t at the bottom until it was found by ispectors. Engineers and divers with reat dredges went to work and suceeded in lifting the machine and towig it to a dock. When the hatches were finally pened an investigation showed twenK-nine dead German sailors and their fflcers. In addition there were four cotch fishermen. Today the names f these men stand very high in thei?ative land. It was apparent that the submarine, ound on a voyage of destruction up he Firth came upon the men fishing, he took them prisoners and ordered hem to steer their craft safely up to point where they could accomplish heir mission. It has been asked: "Did the fisheries knowing of the traps, the huge teel nets stretched here and there eliberately steer the submarine into ne of them?" They were caught and riey died.?London dispatch to New ork Sun. Fool Things We Are Doing. We throw away water and buy whisy. We raise rats and buy corn. We throw away ashes and buy jap. We raise hickory bark and buy jpe. We raise dogs and buy hogs. We raise wood and buy coal. We raise corn and buy bread. We raise ticks and buy beef. We raise weeds and buy vegetales. We raise cotton and buy clothes. We raise molasses and buy sugar. We raise hookworms and flies to ill people. We raise cottonseed to kill our >gs. We raise San Jose scale, coddling toth and bark louse to kill our frut ees and buy fruit. We raise blackberries but are too 7.y to pick them. We build school houses but we send jr children abroad to school. We send our boy out to hunt with $40 gun and $20 dog after a ten cent ime, and then cry hard times. Do you understand??Exchange. I' It takes an optimist to get more iod out of a thing than there is in it. REPORT OF GRAND JURY Final Presentment to the York County Court of General Sessions. Before discharging the grand Jury Tuesday afternoon, his honor, Judge Groen briefly addressed the members of that body, regarding the powers and duties vested in them. The grand Jury, said Judge Green, is the board of directors of the county government, and is clothed with all the powers that the directors of any corporation possesses. It is their duty to not only pass upon bills handed them by the solicitor; but to act upon violations of the law and Irregular! lies wnicn come unaer ineir own personal or collective attention. The welfare of the county Is entirely In their hands and by the oath which each member of the body took, they are intrusted with the most solemn obllgationa The following, signed by James E. Burns, foreman, was presented to the court before the grand Jury was discharged from further attendance upon court: "To the Court of General Sessions, his Honor Hal cot t P. Green, Presiding: "We, the grand Jury, having passed on all bills handed us and returned same to court with our findings, beg leave to submit the following: "We have, for the purpose of facilitating our work and in the interest of York county, divided our body into committees, as follows: County officers?J. E. Burns, J. C. Cork, S. B. Pratt. Chalngang?F. C. Black, J. C. Smith, Geo. A. McCarter, S. A. McSwain. Courthouse and jail?B. R. Smith, J. J. Jones, S. E. Sturgis, R. Y. Grist. Roads and bridges?Sam M. Grist, J. A. Shillinglaw, M. W. Latham. Public schools?J. C. Cork, Geo. A. McCarter, S. B. Pratt County home?W. H. Dunlap, J. L. Brandon, W. L. Crawford, W. P. Boyd. "The report of the county supervisor was received and referred to committee on county offices, with instructions to examine and report at subsequent term of court. ' "We beg to call attention to the fact that at the fall term of the court of 1913, the grand jury recommended that the two McMackin children at the county home should be placed where conditions would be favorable for their proper care and training. This grand jury is advised that no action has yet been taken in the matter, and it begs to ask that the recommendations of the former grand jury be complied with or this grand Jury be advised why no action has been taken. "A petition signed by citizens of Sharon, York township and YorkvUK calling attention to the condition of the road leading from YorkvlUe to Sharon, the road from near M. A. Helton's to the Howell's Ferry road, and the Howell's' Ferry road commencing on Locust hill in York township, and asking that said roads be put in passable condition and kept so. Mr. A. L. Black, township supervisor, appeared before us and stated that he had arranged to have the Yorkvllle and Sharon road put in passable condition and would give the other roads attention with as little delay as pos sible. The petition referred to is attached. "We have not visited the Jail or county home during this term, but they will receive attention later. "Thanking your honor, the solicitor and the court officers for oourtesy shown, there being no further business, we beg to be discharged. "J. E. Burns, Foreman." April 13th, 1915. BIROS ARE DISTURBED Much Shooting Has Disturbed the Feathered Flocks of Europe. Even the birds have gone wrong in Europe. Man's madness has upset their lives and habits and the very few ornithologists in England and France who can stick to their study of birds, in spite of the war, are scratching their heads about it, says William G. Shepherd, a United Press correspondent in Europe. The pathways of the birds, as they fly to the south in winter and back again, in the spring, have been mapped out for years in Europe. But the birds have forsaken their old routes and the bird men say it is because of the war. Shore lights, and even the lights of the town, it seems, are guides for the birds in their long southward Journeys and, this year the lights are gone. The same light that would direct a little feathered fellow toward sunny Italy would also direct a huge Zeppelin toward an English coast town. So all the folks of the air, whether covered with feathers or canvas, are traveling In the dark this year. The canvas birds can carry their own lights, in a pinch, but the other kind must get along as best they can, without lamps. There is no doubt that the birds found their way to the south, as usual, but they groped their way, and it was probably slow traveling. Their return to the north, when spring comes, will be as difficult. The bird men have proved, beyond a doubt, that the birds are disturbed by the sounds of firing. The Rev. Charles Kent of Thetford, one Saturday night recently, heard a terrific chattering of the pheasants and small birds around his house. There was terrific fuss in birdlom. Thp prips were shrill and wild. The birds left their beds in the trees and flew about in terror. Their ears were catching sounds in the air that the rector and his family were missing. But, when the rector picked up the Sunday morning paper, he saw that Ihe German Zeppelin had bombarded the coast, some miles away, during the very hours of the birds' excitement. He was so impressed that he wrote a letter to the Times about it. whereupon many other residents of that part of England said that all the birds, in their neighborhoods, had conducted themselves In the most extraordinary manner during the raids, even though the writers, themeseives, had not been able to hear the sounds of shooting. At a distance of 97 miles the pheasants shrieked themselves hoarse over sounds of firing. Whether the birds will become tired of the incessant firing on the continent and impatiently leave the war districts remains to be seen.