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ISSUED SBMMTEEEL^ i. k. oeist'8 sons. pgbUihm.} S Jeirspaper,: j;or the promotion of the political, Social, ^jjrieulturai and Commercial interests of th< fhoplt- j ESTABLISHED 1855. YOBI^ILLE, a C., FRIDAY, APmL a3,'i915.~ NX). 33. 1 ' - 11 ? ' ?? I fBIA? A Vltf I AH k I H17HII k IIHrn I T Tnon**o nno Pa n au' Viqq n nAffi j When Billy SunA J By ALEXANJ | Copywright, 1913, by the H. K. 1 CHAPTER II. Reginald Nelson Gets a Job. At Townley's unflattering picture of his leading trustee Allan Rutledge looked somewhat blankly at the merciless diagnostician. His companion noticed the expression and continued: "I want you to pardon me for speaking so plainly, but remember it is the business of a physician to know the disease he is called upon to cure. Your church is merely a sample of what every influential church is in Bronson. In my own church the editor of our best daily paper, the Courier, is one of the leading members. His name is Thomas Marchmount. He is my chief trustee, but as a Christian he is a doubting Thomas and looks on the church exactly as Mr. Graham does. He would not be a member today had he not joined as a young lad many years ago. He absolutely refuses to use his immense influence to better our social conditions. His excuse always is, "As long as men are men you will have these evils in Bronson, and there is no use making trouble over It' " "I think I am beginning to understand what you are driving at," said Allan Rutledge quietly. "These men think that it is useless to fight against the evils which you claim are eating the heart and life out of our churches and community." "Exactly," said the other. As they walked down the main street the crowds kept growing, and soon it was evident that something was happening on the street. "What's the matter?" asked Allan Rutledge, as they stepped into a doorway in order to escape from the crush. "I think the strikers have been getting into trouble," answered Mr. Townley. "One of our factories which employes mostly women and girls have been having a strike lately, and the court has issued an injunction against picketing." Just then a number of policemen came along, each leading a young woman, whom they were evidently seeking to take to the city Jail near by. f / \ ~ \ "How ar* you Mr Nelson?" The girls had been arrested for disobeying the injunction of the court, as Mr. Townley had conjectured. Among them was the leader of the strike, a young looking woman, Lena Myers. A big. burly policeman was leading her along by the arm. "Friends." shouted Lena Myers, "we women are striking because we want to be able to live respectable lives." The crowd became attentive at once, and the girl continued: "Every one looks down on a bud girl, but we girls are compelled to go astray as long as"? "Shut up!" said the policeman who held her arm, giving her a shake and adding an oath to his peremptory command. The crowd jeered and shouted at the officers of the law, and its aspect became threatening. "You see we have many problems in Hronson," said Townley, looking after the crowd which followed in the wake of the policemen. Allan Rutledge made no answer, but to himself he said, "I can well understand that Socialism will grow in Hronson." On arriving in Hronson Nelson began to search for a boarding house and found a modest home on u quiet street, where he engaged a room from a middle aged couple. After moving his few belongings to his new home he had a feeling of rest and satisfaction, and his outlook on the future became more rose colored. He found the husband and wife with whom he was to lodge and board agreeable and kindly, and they at once took pains to make the young immigrant feel at home. Their name was Cameron, and Reginald could easily tell that his host was a Scotchman by his accent. He began the serious work of getting a job. He had not seen Albert Townley since he parted from him after his arrival. He decided first to visit the law firm of Millman & CJraham and present his letter of introduction. He easily found the office. A stately. important looking man about fifty years of age greeted Reginald cordially when his card was sent in. "I am Mr. f.raham," he said heartily. reaching out his hand. "You are Reginald Nelson, I believe. I am glad to meet you. My wife and daughter came over on the same boat with you from Kurope." Iteginald had not expected this cordiality and was somewhat confused. I ly Came to Town j ===== DER CORKEY $ ^ly Co. ^ <WM<w><'nrM<wM<ir>io I "They have been telling me about von." continued the lawyer, "You have come to make your home in Bronson, I understand." "Yes. I am an immigrant, and I expect to settle in America and spend my life here," "Good," replied Mr. Graham smilingly. "Our country needs strong, active young fellows like you. How old are you, Mr. Nelson?" "I was twenty-four on my last birthday." "What kind of employment do you wish?" I would like to get Into a newspaper office if possible," answered Reginald. "If that Is not possible at first I wish to begin somewhere at the bottom of the ladder." "Good," again repeated Mr. Graham, looking keenly at the young fellow. "I do not think there is an opening at present in any of our newspaper offices, but the agent of one of our railroad depots spoke to me just yesterday about needing a new clerk. Would you care to begin in a railroad office?" "It will be all right, certainly." Just then the door of the office opened, and Joy Graham entered her father's office. At the sight of the immigrant she blushed slightly and paused, but quickly recovering herself she stepped up to him, saying: "How are you, Mr. Nelson? I am glad to see you again." Mr. Graham had turned to his desk to write a note introducing Reginald to the station agent. Hearing his daughter's voice, he turned around quickly and saw the two young people shake hands with great cordiality. "What is it, Joy?" he asked abruptly. The girl dropped Reginald's hand. "I came in to ask you, papa," she said in a low voice, "if I might call at the jail this morning to see those poor girls who were imprisoned last nieht." "Do you mean. Joy, that you want to associate with those female law breakers who have been disturbing the pence of our city? No, no, child: let such people alone." "But I only want to take them a few llowers." "I could not think of allowing you to give those striking workwomen any encouragement. They have broken the Tnjunction law, and they must pay the penalty." There was a suspicion of a tear in her eyes as she turned away, but she said bravely: "All right, father. I would not go if you would not like it" After she had gone. Mr. Graham wrote the note of introduction, but Reginald imagined that he was not as cordial as before. With his heart still throbbing from his brief interview with Joy Graham and feeling that his note of introduction to the station agent gave him a footing of some sort among his fellowmen in Bronson. Reginald walked with light steps to the depot and was soon ushered into the presence of the station agent. "Have you had any experience?" queried the agent. "I have had quite a good deal of experience in office work in England. If you should need any typewriting done I have had a good deal of that to do." "Do you know shorthand and typewriting?" asked the agent quickly. "Yes. I learned that a year or two ago for amusement, never expecting to use it. but I am fairly proficient now." "You're just the man I want," said the agent, with decision. "I need some one to help rue with my correspondence and if you can run a typewriter I war.t you to begin work at once. Come in at 1 o'clock. That afternoon Reginald Nelson began his work in the railway freight office. He assisted the agent in caring for his correspondence and also attended to some minor clerical work. There were five other men in the office, the cashier, assistant cashier, the bill clerk, the rate clerk and the car number clerk, as the agent designated them when introducing Reginald. The conversation among the men turned to political matters and as a national election was approaching the interest in this subject was intense. Every political party seemed to be represented in the small office force, Reginald judged from the talk. Finally, something brought up the matter of civic affairs, and the discussion among the clerks waxed warm. "We have a fine lot of guys running this town, haven't we?" said the bill clerk, in a tone of disgust. "What's the mater with you and our city administration?" responded the cashier, who was a tall, handsome man, with an aristocratic air. "The sirrest of those girls last night was an outrage," said the bill clerk, angrily. "One would think we were living in Turkey instead of free America." Reginald Nelson stopped his work and listened to the conversation. "Those girls need not think they can defy our courts and get away with it." answered the cashier haughtily. "They tell me that the whole lot of the strikers are a crowd that is not much credit to Bronson." "They lie when they attack the character of those girls!" shouted the now thoroughly incensed bill clerk. "That's right, Mill," interposed the ~l 1. ,U.. ?r i?iir nn ft, iiinu mr uriniuri *?i the striking factory women. "Those girls ore all right, anil that >010 that you are huxxing around is a fine looking damsel, all right." The hill clerk blushed and was silent. "Well." responded the cashier apologetically, "I think that most of them may l?e all right, hut the pack they arrested need to he in jail." "You poor fool," exclaimed the other, "those girls are the very pick of the lot, and the rotten city administration knew It." "Right again," interposed the rate clerk, further. "I think I saw your girl among those who were Jugged, didn't I?" "I am not ashamed to have her put in jail for trying to improve conditions in that factory," replied the bill clerk stoutly. "I tell you it is no wonder the Socialists carried two wards at the last election." Reginald remembered the request of Joy Graham, in her father's ofllce and her desire to visit some girls at the Jail. "Prehaps I might take them some flowers for her," he said to himself. When they left the office Reginald joined the bill clerk. "I have a friend," began Reginald abruptly, "who wanted to take some flowers to those girls who have been put In Jail." "I thought you were a stranger here, sir," answered the bill clerk, somewhat ungraciously. "I met Mrs. Graham and her daughter on the boat on my voyage across the Atlantic," replied Reginald, "and I happen to know that Miss Joy Graham would be glad if the girls had some flowers. I thought if you would go with me to the jail this evening I will bring some flowers and have them distributed as a gift" The bill clerk looked closely at Reginald, much surprised at his proposition. After a short silence he answered in a somewhat more cordial tone: "That will be all right. The girls will appreciate the kindness. I will meet you at the Y. M. C. A. steps, and we will visit the jail together." That evening the imprisoned strikers enjoyed greatly their gift of flowers brought to them in the name of "a young lady of Bronson." The next evening after Reginald Nelson had accepted an invitation to attend the Central church he was walking slowly in the direction of the home of Allan Itutledge, the minister. The immigrant had been much impressed with the personality and cordial spirit of the Iowa clergyman and he was anticipating an evening of pleasure in his home. 1*1 Vyvlo/vr? woo fnrvl t r* cr rvPOl 1 ? nr^uiaiu n ripuu nao itvunp, Kvv%* liarly happy that evening. He had now completely mastered his duties at the railroad office and could perform them with ease so that his position as a clerk was secure. Besides, on that day he had two callers at the office. Mr. Townley had called for a brief visit and congratulated him on his success in getting a foothold so quickly. "I told you," said the minister, smilingly. "that you would find life and all that life means in the new world." But Reginald Nelson's other visitor was the one who had really shed a glow over that entire afternoon. To his astonishment and to the intense interest of his fellow clerks, Joy Graham entered the office and enquired for him. He was diligently at work In the agent's small apartment, busy at the typewriter, when she called, and the rate clerk ushered her into Reginald's presence. "Good afternoon," she exclaimed, cordially, as she greeted him. "This is where you are working, is it? I hope you like your place." The immigrant was visibly embarrassed. Joy Graham went on, in an apologetic tone: "Excuse me, Mr. Nelson, for troubling you at this time, but I have quite a favor to ask of you. Our Tourist club meets this week on Tuesday evening at my home and we are to visit London," repeated the girl, "We would like to have you with us and give us a talk on your great English city. Can you come?" "What is this Tourist club?" he asked. "A number of the young people of our church meet every two weeks, and we have been going around the world in imagination. We have traveled through Ireland and Scotland, and we are now visiting England. I remembered your descriptions of London, and we would all be delighted to have you with us next Tuesday evening." Joy Graham smiled at him and made a little bow as she concluded. "It will give me pleasure to meet with you," he responded. (To Be Continued.) No Cotton for Germany.?That cotton is kept from Germany and Austria just as effectively as if it were declared absolute contraband, is the tenor of a reply addressed by Attorney General Simon of Great Britain, to a conference of chemists and engineers who, on last Saturday, asked whether the government's action was sufficient to make it certain that no cotton reached those countries. The attorney general says: "The attorney general ventures to suggest that those for whom you write may be under some misapprehension either as to the law of contraband or as to the steps which in fact are being taken under the order in council of March IT.. The steps being taken under authority of that order in council have been extremely effective in stopping cotton from reaching Germany and the declaration of cotton as contraband would not alter the result in the very least so far as preventing cotton reaching Germany is concerned. "If .... .._l i? ,J. 11 ?lll ill llt'lC 10 Virv-Kiiru uuouiuiv | contraband, it can be stopped from going to a German port and can be stopped even from going to an adjoining neutral port, if it is in course of transit through that neutral port to an enemy country. These are exactly tlie circumstances in which, under the order in council, any article can be stopped, whether it is contraband or not, and of course, this order in council is being put into force in all proper cases. "To imagine that since March 11, anything can be gained so far as stopping the entrance of cotton into Germany is concerned by calling it contraband is, in effect, to suppose thsit a blockade is rendered more effective if you add that specified contraband articles will not be allowed to break that blockade. A blockade stops all articles whether they are contraband or not. and therefore any additional rulings would not have any practical consequences. What is true of Germany, of course, is equally true of Austria. "Your memorialists no doubt will readily believe that there may 1>? good reasons of quite a different kind for not making cotton contraband in view of tbe precedent which would thereby be created, but as a practical matter in the present war, any stoppage of cotton secured by calling it contraband is equally secured by the order in council." PRESIDENT ON NEUTRALITY Notable Speech at Associated Press Banquet. WILSON IS NOT AFRAID TO FIGHT America Has Higher and More Noble Work to Do Than to Mix Up With this European Row Merely Because of Partisan Preferences. President Wilson was the guest of honor and the only speaker at an Associated Press banquet in New York last Tuesday. His subject was the attitude of the United States as to the war in Europe, and was careful to weigh every word he uttered. He requested the newspaper men not to attempt to pharaphrase any of his utterances, but to wait for an approved transcription of his speech as taken down by the White House stenographer. Copies of the speech were presented to the press within a few hours after its delivery. The neutrality of the United States, Mr. Wilson said, had a higher basis than a petty desire to keep out of trouble. 'There is something so much greater to do than fight," he said. "Let THE HOMES OF Photographic Evidence York C This photograph of a handsome a number that The Enquirer has had provement that is being made along INDIA HO Located in district No. 7, about me (.aiattuu ru?ci wuhikk'v ? , and a term of seven and a half mon 1912, ufter the Clemson plan, at a class roms, a work room, etc. The mills. The trustees are R. S. Can the teachers are J. Robert Harrism us think of America before we think of Europe, in order that America may be fit to be Europe's friend when the day of tested friendship comes. The test of friendship is not sympathy with one or the other but getting ready to . help both sides when the struggle is over." The president was greeted with cheers when he appeared at the luncheon and constantly was interrupted by applause and expressions of approval. The president was introduced by President Frank B. Noyes of the Associated Press and was greeted with cheers. "I an deeply gratified by the generous reception you have accorded me," he said. "It makes me look back with a touch of regret to former occasions when I have stood in this place and enjoyed a greater liberty than is granted me today. There have been times when I stood in this spot and said what I really thought and I pray Cod that those days of indulgence may be accorded me again. "But I have come here today, of course, somewhat restrained by a sense of responsibility that I cannot escape. For I take the Associated Press very seriously. I know the enormous part that you play In the affairs not only of this country, but of the world. You deal in the raw material of opinion and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world." "It is therefore of very serious things that I think as I face this body of men. T do not think of you, however, as members of the Associated Press. I do not think of you as men of different parties or of different racial deriviations, or of different religious denominations. I want to talk to you as to my fellow citizens of th** United States. "For there are serious things as fellow citizens we ought to consider. The times behind us, gentlemen, have been difficult enough; the times before us an4* likely to be more difficult. because whatever may be said about the present condition of the world's affairs, it is clear that they are drawing rapidly to a climax, and at the climax the test will come, not only of the nations engaged in the present colossal struggle?it will come for them of course?but the test will come to us particularly. "Do you realize that, roughly speaking, we are the only great nation at present disengaged? I am not speaking of course, wi".h disparagement of the greater of those nations in Kurope which are not parties to be niesent war. hut I am thinking of their close neighborhood to it. I am thinking how their lives much more than ours touch the very heart and stuff of the business; whereas, we have rolling between us. and those bitter days across the water three thousand miles of cool and silent ocean. "Our atmosphere is n?t yet chanted with those disturbing elements which must be felt and must permeate every nation of Europe. Therefore, it is not likely that the nations of the world will some day turn to us for the cooler assessment of the elements engaged? I am not thinking so preposterous a thought that we would sit in judgment upon them. No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation, but that we shall some day have to assist in reconstructing the processes of peace. "Our resources are untouched; we are more and more becoming, by the force of circumstances, the mediating nation of the world in respect of its finance. We must make up our minds what are the best things to do and what are the best ways to do them. We must put our money, our energy, our enthusiasm, our sympathy into these things and we must have our judgments prepared and our spirits chastened against the coming of that day. "So that I am not speaking in a selfish spirit when I say that our whole duty for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto: "America First." L?et us tnina 01 America before we think of Europe in order that America may be fit to be Europe's friend when the day of tested friendship comes. The test of friendship is not now sympathy with the one side or the other, but getting ready to help both sides when the struggle is over. "The basis of neutrality, gentlemen, is not indifference; it is not selfinterest. The basis of neutrality is sympathy for mankind. It is fairness; it is good will at home. It is impartiality of spirit and of Judgment. I wish that all of our fellow citizens could realize that. "There is in some quarter a disposition to create a distemper in this body politic. Men are even uttering slanders against the United States THE SCHOOLS of Modern Progress In bounty. York county school building, is one of engraved to show the wonderful imthat line in York county. OK SCHOOL five miles north of Rock Hill, near had an enrollment last year of 4 5, ths. The building was erected ..1 cost of about $1,800, and has two district pays a special levy of 2 non, T. J. Steele and R. S. Poag, and and Miss Alice Garrison. iiB If It to excite her. Mfcn are Maying that if we should go to war upon either side, there will be a divided America?an abominable libel of ignorance. America is not all of it vocal Just now. It is vocal in spots. But I for one have a complete and abiding faith in the great silent body of Americans who are not standing up and shouting and expressing their opinions just now but are waiting to find out and support the duty of America. I am Just as sure of their solidity and of their loyalty and of their unanimity, if we act Justly, as I am that the history of this country has at every crisis and turning point illustrated this great lesson. "We are the mediating nation of the world. I do not mean that we undertake not to mind our own business and to mediate where other people are quarreling. I mean the word in a broader sense. We are compounded of the nations of the world. We mediate their blood, we mediate their traditions, we mediate their sentiments, their tastes, their passions; we are ourselves compounded of those things. We are, therefore, able to understand all nations; we are able to understand them in the compound, not separately, as partisans, out unitedly as knowing and comprehending and embodying them all. It is in that sense that I mean that America is a mediating nation. The opinion of America, the action of America, is ready to turn and free to turn in any direction. "Did you ever reflect upon how almost all other nations, almost every other nation, has through long centuries been headed in one direction9 That is not true of the United States. The United States has no racial momentum. It has no history back of it which makes it run all its energies and all its ambitions in one particular direction; and America is particularly free in this that she has no hampering ambitions as a world power. If we have been obliged by circumstances, or have considered ourselves to be obliged by circumstances in the past to take territory which we otherwise would not have thought of taking, I believe I am right in saying that we have considered it our duty to administer that territory, not for ourselves, but for the people living in it, and to put this burden upon our consciences, not to think that this thing is ours for our use. but to regard ourselves as trustees of the great business for those to whom it does really belong, trustees ready to hand over the eosmique trust at any time, when the business seems to make that possible and feasible. That is what I mean by saying we have no hampering ambitions. We do not want anything that does not belong to us. Isn't a nation in that position free to serve other nations, and isn't a nation like that ready to form some part of the assessing opinion of the world ? "My interest in the neutrality of the United States is not the petty desire to keep out of trouble. I have never looked for it, but I have always found it. I do not want to walk around trouble. If any man wants a senij>?that is?an interesting scrap ?and worth while, I am his man. I warn him that he Is not going to draw me into the scrap for his advertisement, but if he is looking for trouble and that is the trouble of men in general and I can help a little, why then I am in for it. "Rut I am interested in neutrality because there is something so much greater to do than fight, because there is a distinction waiting for this nation tnai no nauon nus ever yei s?i. That Is the distinction of absolute self-control and self-mastery. Whom do you admire most among your friends? The irritable man? The man out of whom you can get a 'rise' without trying? The man who will fight at the drop of the hat whether he knows what the hat Is dropped for, or not? "Don't you admire and don't you fear if you have to contest with him, the self-mastered man who watches you with calm eyes and comes in only when you have carried the thing so far that you must be disposed of? That | is the man you most respect. That is the man you know has at the bottom much more fundamental and terrible courage than the irritable, fighting man. "Now, I covet for America this splendid courage of reserve moral force and I wanted to point out to you gentlemen simply this: There is news and news. There is what is called news from Turtle Bay, that turns out to be falsehood, at any rate in what it is said to signify, and which, if you could get the nation to believe it true, might disturb our equilibrium and our self-possession. We ought not to deal in stuff of that kind. We ought not to permit things of that sort to use up the electrical energy of the wires, because its energy is not of the truth, its energy is of mischief. It is possible to sift truth. "I have known some things to go out on the wires as true when there wus only one man or one group of men who could have told the originators of the report whether it was true or not, and they were not asked whether it was true or not for fear it might not be true. That sort of report ought not to go out over the wires. "There is generally, if not always, somebody who knows whether that thing is so or not, and In these days above all other days, we ought to take particular pains to resort to the one small group of men or to the one man, if there be but one, who knows whether those things are true or not. The world ought to know the truth, but the world ought not at this period of unstable equilibrium to be disturbed by rumor, ought not to be disturbed by imaginative combinations of circumstances, or rather by circumstances stated in combination which do not belong In combination. "For we are holding, not I, but you and gentlemen engaged like you, the balances in your hands. This unstable equilibrium rests upon scales that are in your hands. For the food of opinion, as I began by saying, is the news of the day. I have known many a man go off at a tangent on information that was not reliable. Indeed, that describes the majority of men. The world is held stable by the man who waits for the next "day tb find out whether the report was true or not. "We cannot afford, therefore, to ???? Iwnaa nnnalHlo nor. Ifl Llltr I UIIIUIO Ul IIICO^VIIOIWIV Fv. sons and origins get into the atmosphere of the United States. We are trustees for what I venture to say is the greatest heritage that any nation ever had, the love of justice and righteousness and human liberty. For, fundamentally, those are the things to which America is addicted, and to which she is devoted. There are groups of selfish men in the United States, there are coteries where sinsters things are purposed, but the great heart of the American people is just as sound and true as it ever was. "And it is a single heart; it is the heart of America. It is not a heart made up of sections selected out of other countries. "So that what I try to remind myself of every day when I am almost overcome by perplexities, what I try to remember, is what the people at home are thinking about. I try to put myself In the place of the one who does not know all the things that I know and ask myself what he would like the policy of this country to be. Not the talkative man, not the partisan, not the man that remembers first that he is a Republican or Democrat, or that his parents were Germans or English, but who remembers first that the whole destiny of modern affairs centers largely upon his being an American first of all. "If I permitted myself to be a partisan In this present struggle, I would be unworthy to represent you. If I permitted myself to f<~ t?t ...e people who are not partisans, I would be unworthy to represent you. I am not saying that I am worthy to represent you, but I do claim this degree of worthiness, that before everything else I love America." Cowed the Bad Man. General Franks, a leader of many a dashing charge in India, held a unique position among his soldiers. Thev loved him for his courage, but were sometimes irritated by his strictness. Yet in spite of this exacting severity, he was unexpectedly lenient when a large occasion demanded it. One day when the regiment was [ "firing blank." a bullet whistled by him. He did not stop the firing, but when the number of rounds ordered had been completed he rode up to the line and said: "Boys, there's a bad shot in the Tenth. He nearly shot my trumpeter, and what should I have said to the boy's mother? I don't want to know the blackguard's name. The officers will not examine the man's pouches." This was on the eve of a campaign, and before action the senior major came to him and said: "Don't put yourself in front of the regiment tomorrow, sir. You know there are always one or two bad men in a regiment." "Thank you, major," was the reply. "It's verv kind of vou. I might have given you a step." When the Tenth was drawn up for the> filial advance he put himself at its head and called: "Boys, I'm tolud ye mane to shoot me today. Take my advice and don't shoot Tom I-Yanks until the flghtin's done, for ye won't find a better man to lade ye." The regiment answered with a cheer and carried the Sikh batteries with the bayonet rather than run the risk of shooting the beloved old fire eater at their head.?Washington Star. 1ULU Dl LULAL LALnAINUto News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affair* of " Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Lan- s caster and Cheater. Gaffney Ledger, April 20: While ] attempting to escape from the camp { near Thickety Saturday evening, ? John Phillips, a negro convict, was ? shot Just below the calf of his leg by -\ Mr. Harrison Thompson, a chaingang ] guard. Thompson used a pistol, and ( as the convict had a good start, the ( injury is not serious. It was quite j enough to induce Phillips to desist in ^ his flight, however. The convicts i were gathered in camp when Phil- { lips, known to the convicts as "Red," j loosened his chains with a crow bar. ? Removing the shackles he leaped to ? his feet and dashed off through a c cornfield. Two or three guards were j within the vlolnitv. hilt nil were un- , armed. Mr. Thompson rushed to his ] tent, secured his pistol, came out and fired. The bullet found its mark with the desired result, and Phillips was captured easily Mrs. Nancy A. McArthur celebrated her 91st birthday yesterday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. W. H. Smith. Several nieces and nephews were entertained in honor of the occasion. Mrs. McArthur, one of the oldest ladies in Cherokee county, has many friends throughout this section Miss Vanelia McCraw and Mr. Roy A. Humphries were married at the Baptist parsonage Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, the ceremony being performed by Dr. J. S. Dill. Mrs Humphries is the daughter of Mr. and Mra J. Virgil McCraw, while Mr. Humphries is a prosperous Cherokee county citizen Gaffney people were immeasurably shocked yesterday afternoon when the news spread that Mr. S. L. Fort had died at his home on Limestone street at 12.30 o'clock. He suffered an attack of meningitis three weeks ago, but he had improved to such an extent that he was able to sit up some three or four days ago. He suffered a relapse Sunday, but appeared to be improving again yesterday morning. He was eating dinner at the time he died, having just finished a bowl of soup and remarked upon how well it tasted when he fell back in bed and expired. He was thirty-one years of age. He is survived by his wife, ' who, before her marriage, was Miss Charlotta Barbour of Clayton, N. C., and three children, all girls, being: Virginia Jeffries, Jane Kennon and Mildred Barbour. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. S. C. Fort, three sisters, Mra W. H. Chadwick of Los Angelea Cal.: Mrs. W. A. Poole of Gaffney, and Mrs. C. P. Sullivan of Anderson; a half-sister, Mrs. Claude Jeflferie8 of Gaffney; and four brothera Messrs, William, Claude, Lawrence and Wendell Fort By a majority of one, the vote being 35 for and 34 against, school district No. 32, voted Friday a special additional two mill tax levy for school purposea This district is located in the northern section of the county. Petitions asking for elections upon the same questibn are being circulated in districts Noa 1 and 4, which are located on the York side of Broad river More than a year's supply of alcoholic liquors for one man was captured by Coke Duncan, ; chief of police of Blacksburg, in a trunk and handbag at that place , Friday night. Audie Beam, the man J who attempted to re-check the trunk . from Blacksburg to King's Creek, was arrested by Mr. Duncan upon a charge of transporting. He was fined J100 by Mayor Ed. Turner Saturday morning. A warrant charging Beam with violating the state gallon-a- ' month law has been sworn out, so when he gets clear of the Blacksburg ' entanglement, he will be held for the circuit court The trunk, which was a new one, was shipped from Union. It contained five or six gallons of i whisky, three or four gallons of 88 proof alcohol, and a few dozen bot ties of beer. The whisky and alcohol were In glass jugs. A new handbag which Beam was carrying was found to contain a quart or more of brandy. The trunk was completely filled with liquors with the exception of paper used for packing. Beam is a young man. His home is some three or four miles from Grover Capt James Moore, Co. M. Palmetto Sharpshooters, formerly of this section, but now a resident of Carrollton, Ga., is spending several days in and about Gaffney among relatives and old friends. Capt. Moore moved to Georgia during the '70's and has met with his unusual success Mrs. C. W. Payseur returned last night from Columbia, where she had been with her husband. Rev. C. W. Payseur, who is receiving treatment in a hospital. Mr. Payseur's condition has not improved recently. He is pastor of the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church, in this city David Bostic, aged thirty-five, died at his home near the Irene mill Saturday night about 1ft o'clock, after being ill for only a week. Pneumonia was the cause of his death. He is survived by his wife and several children. Mr. Bostic moved to Gaffney about sixteen years ago, coming from North Carolina The funeral services, conducted by Dr. J. S. Dill, were held at the home yesterday morning. Interment took place at Oakland cemetery. * * * Chester Reporter, April 19: The new county jail on McAliley street, is about completed, all that remains to be done before the building is ready for occupancy being a little painting on the interior Mr. John McCandless, who has been seriously ill for several days from a stroke of apoplexy, Is very unwell today, and family and friends fear that the end is not far off Mr. R. H. Ferguson of Wylie's Mill, who is spending a few days here at the home of Mrs. W. Ij. Ferguson on Columbia street and undergoing treatment by I Dr. W. B. Cox, is considerably improved The Chester sanatorium, | located on what was formerly the L. | D. Childs property on York street, is about completed, and plans to open Thursday. The Institution is equipped thoroughly with the most modern hospital furnishings and fittings. onrl q nnmhor nf tho momhArg nf fhp staff by visits to several of the best v hospitals in the country have made . sure that the equipment purchased 1 is the most modern that can be pro- f cured and the best that money can g buy A particularly sad death r was that of Mr. Frank Kee, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Kee, of the Lew- F isville neighborhood, who died at i Lancaster Saturday afternoon, fol- j lowing an illness of nine days from ^ pneumonia. Funeral services were ' held at Pleasant Grove M. E. church c yesterday afternoon, by Revs. E. T. Hodges of Lancaster, and W. S. a Goodwin of Richburg, and the remains were laid to rest in Pleasant ' Grove graveyard with Knight Temp- t lar ceremonies, the deceased having y been a member of Chester command ery, Xo. 7, K. T. Mr. Kee was thirty years of age and was a young e man of exemplary character and of t rich promises The goodly sum t of which represented the forfeited bonds of twelve men caught y in a little game in the wee sma' hours c yesterday morning by Officers Gayden and Jackson, materially enriched the city treasury this morning. t Rock Hill Record, April 19: Those in charge of the Chautauqua plans c have signed a contract for the use of e the land between the home of J. W. Anderson and Sidney Adams, and the s big show will be held there May 7 o to 14 J. Crawford Witherspoon t has been added to the office force of n the. Syleecau Mfg. Co Paul Brown, formerly with the Southern ll Ion here with the Singer Sewing Machine Co Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jates and children have moved to Baldwin, Ga., where they will reside n the future The Rev. Nathan datthews, who Is rector of a mission hurch near Chattanooga, preached resterday morning at the Church of )ur Savior and last night at Wlnhrop college. The congregation of he Episcopal church have extended i. call to Mr. Matthews, but he has tot yet made known whether he will iccept * * * Gastonia Gazette, .April 20: Folowing are the vital statistics for the :lty of Gastonia and Gastonia townihip for the month of March as ihown by the records in the office of Zital Statistics Officer W. M. Adams: airxns in me cny, wniie, , cuiureu, I; births in the township, white, 5; :olored, 1; deaths in the city, white, LI; colored 1; deaths in the township, vhite, 1; colored, 6. Total white >irths, 34; white deaths, 12; colored >irths, 7; colored deaths, 6 Rev. r. B. Pearson and family, who are ipending some time with Mra Pearion's mother, Mrs. M. E. Crawford, >n route three, wilj leave Friday for Jewells, in Mecklenburg county, vhere they will reside in the future. *ev. Mr. Pearson has accepted the >astorate of the Back Creek and Prosperity A. R. P. churches, two lubstantial congregations of that delomination located near Newells Idr. J. H. Separk, secretary of the ?ray Manufacturing Co., attended the Tieetlng of the American Cotton Manufacturing association in Memphis, Tenn., last week. He was ac:ompan!ed by Mrs. .Ldpark and Misses Blanche and Myrtle Gray. After the invention they went to New Orleans vhere they spent three days Notwithstanding the fact that Saturlay was an unusually splendid day 'or ploughing and the further fact hat the farmers were weeks behind vith their ploughing and other farm vork, quite a number of the mem>ers of the Gaston County Boys' Corn :hib were present Saturday morning it a meeting held in the county courtlouse for the purpose of discussing :he work of the club for the coming leason. Those who attended the neeting were immensely interested is indicated by the fact that some of ;hem in order not to stop a team ploughing in the fields, walked three niles to Gastonia. Every boy present igreed to make a germination test of lis seed corn. * Lancaster News, April 20: Hon. Bcorge W. Jones died from an at:ack of pneumonia at his home at Tones' Cross Roads .early Saturday morning On his first regular rip since his recent illness, Capt 0. E. Penny, the popular conductor >n the Lancaster & Chester railway, iod an experience with some paslengers last night which might have proved serious. Four negro men vent over to Fort Lawn yesterday presumably to find work at the lew dam near Great Falls, and tried to beat their way back to Lancaster. When they refused to pay their fare, ?apt. Penny had the train stopped ind put them off at Miller's crossing, whereupon they began to shoot at the train. Fortunately nobody was hurt. The negroes were strangers in these parts Perry Bailey, the leven-year-old son of Mr. Doc Bailey of the cotton mill village, while standing on the trestle looking at the lirship flight last Friday at noon, became frightened at an approaching train and jumped from the trestle to the ground below, sustaining palnr ful injuries.' Dr. R.*C. Brow# made the little fellow as comfortable as possible and though badly bruised, be expects him to be out again in a few days Mr. J. T. Hunter, who bad been ill from pneumonia for ibout two weeks, died Saturday morning at 6 o'clock, aged 64 years. Married. Sunday night, April 18, by A. T. Carnes, notary public, Mr. Lester Crenshaw and Miss Thelma Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. lames Bailey of this county. THE WAREHOUSE 8YSTEM Mabama is Seeking Information from Mr. McLaurin. "I can assure you that I have been igreeably surprised at how well the system has worked," said John L. McLaurin, state warehouse commissioner, in a letter to C. E. Thomas, Prattville, Ala., chairman of the ag-icultural committee of the Alaiama Bankers' association, who askid Mr. McLaurin for a copy of the South Carolina warehouse act, prior o a drafting of a bill to be presented o the Alabama general assembly prodding for a warehouse system for hat state. In his letter, Mr. McLaurin adopts an enthusiastic tone in lescribing the advantages of the sysem. The letter of the commissioner to Mr. Thomas follows: April 20, 1916. Mr. C. E. Thomas, Prattville, Ala. Dear Sir: Your letter received. I lerewith enclose a copy of the South Carolina warehouse act, with a statenent which I recently Issued on the natter of financing the receipts, and ilso my first report to the general issembly of South Carolina. In reply to your question as to vhether the workings have been latisfactory, I can assure you that I lave been agreeably surprised at low well the system has worked. I vas appalled at the task when the egislature placed the burden upon ne, but apparently insurmountable >bstacles, when properly approached, vere removed, and the system is iteadlly increasing in the confidence of he public, and, what is more imjortnnt, support of the present manigement has been intensified under he results achieved. The saving in nsurance alone will amount to a ~T Ln/1 ? KU R/.U4 AMil \%*%A cii h,f cum. x iiuu a uig lift III aiiu iiau 0 go to New York. Your state vould be spared this and you would >ave the benefit of our experience. There are many changes that I vould suggest in the bill. I have been n politics, and have had many bitter ights; so that my friends backed the ystem because it was I and my enenies fought it because it was I, protosing it, and afterwards, because I ?ad been placed in charge of it. iowever, the bill as we have It in South Carolina has proved a sucess. I will gladly assist you in drafting 1 better bill than we have here. For he country bank it is a splendid hing especially for a state bank if our law is similar to ours. Mr. W. G. P. Harding, of the Federal reserve board, has been of inesimable service to us and understands he situation all along the line. If ou will write to him, I am sure he an be of value to you. Sincerely, John L. McLaurin, State Warehouse Commissioner U. R. Brooks, brigadier general, ommanding the First brigade, Unltd Confederate Veterans, will not eek re-election at the annual reunin which is being held In Columbia oday. Col. H. H. Newton of Benettsville, will very likely be elected a the position.