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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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his guardian. He is from Easley.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.