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I3SPKD ggKI-WEKEL^ l. m. grist's sons, Pubii?h?r?. j % ^autllg Jhirspape r: 4?r the promotion of the political, ?o$at, ^jrienltnral and Commercial Interests of the people. | 'E'"'N? ? t yr"1 r.* km"""" ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY. MAY 771915. lsfoT37. | Wien Billy Sund< ^ By ALEXANJ | Copywright, 1913, by the H. K. I CHAPTER VI. In the Courier Office. "Good morning, Mr. Nelson. I am glad to see you arrive at your desk so promptly each day. There is some tragedy In the north part of town reported thlst morning. I wish you toould investigate t.t once." Mr. Marchmount spoke these words to Reginald about a week after he had begun his work on the Courier. It needed little inquiry for him to find *unthara tVlA tmepdv had haD* ilic Ill/ltlV nnva V ? ? ?D ? pened, as the entire neighborhood was alive with the excitement. "Sure, an' it's too bad entoirely," an Irish woman explained, when Regl nald approached the first group he B came to and asked what had happened. "Sure, an' it's poor Mae, the purty girl. She's dead." "Dead?" responded Reginald. "How did she die?" "Ah," responded the other, pulling her shawl around her head and shivering in the wind, "there was some rascal back o' it, but, loike as not, they'll never catch him. Her poor mither is heart broke " The cottage in which the tragedy, whatever it might be, had taken place was one of three cot .ages built side by side, each exactly a copy of the other. The houses in that neighborhood were occupied almost entirely by the workers In the large factories near by. Reginald knocked, and a woman about middle age, with eyes red from weeping, came to the door. "I represent the Courier," said the reporter, stepping inside. "I have called to get the details of the death of the girl." Low as he spoke a woman sitting near a small stove in the room over Ijijii I The Mother Broke Down Utterly. i heard him. Her face was the picture ' of despair. She was wringing her hands. Tears were silently coursing down her cheeks. "Oh, my God! my God! Will the world know the shame of my poor Mae?" she shrieked as she heard the newspaper man make his inquiry. "Oh, Mae, why did you do it? Why did you do it?" Reginald spoke in a kind, sympathetic voice, seating himself on a vacant chair beside the stricken woman. She wept hysterically for a few moments. Then she became calmer. "How old was your daughter?" Reginald asked after a pause. The woman made an effort to control herself as she answered. "Twenty-one." "Tell me how it happened," Reginald looked inquiringly at the mother. Reginald's presence and his questions seemed to give relief to the woman. "Mae went to work yesterday just as usual," she began, wiping her eyes. "She looked as well as ever, and I thought to myself as she went out of the door that there wasn't a nicer or prettier girl in Bronson than my Mae."' Here the mother's voice weakened somewhat, but she braced herself and continued, "When she came home in the evening it was later than usual, and I asked her what kept her so late.'* "Where did she work?" asked Reginald. "At the Gregory factory." There was a pause. "She told me she had a bad headache and that she would not take any supper, and soon after she went to bed. In a little while I heard her groaning, and I came into her room, and she was lying in bed in great pain. I called the doctor at once, and he came in a little while and said she was poisoned." "What doctor did you call?" inquired Reginald. "Dr. Oracely. He did everything he could, but all he could do was to give her opiates to quiet her pain. She didn't think she was going to die at first and kept saying she would soon feel better, but as the night went on she got worse, and when she saw howsick she was she tried to tell me something, but it was too late." The mother broke down utterly as she repeated these words, and Reginald decided to leave. Before returning to the Courier office Reginald visited the Gregory factory to learn what he could regarding the girl. When he called at the office he found that Roland Gregory had not yet arrived at the factory, but he received permission to interrogate some of the girls who worked alongside of the unfortunate Mae. The girls at the factory had evidently heard of the tragedy, and they were iy Came to Town j == DER CORKEY | i'ly Co. ^ much moved at the sudden death of their fellow worker. In the afternoon Reginald attended the inquest. Dr. Gracely made a full report of the examination. Death had been caused by poison, evidently selfadministered. "There was a sad reason for the rash act of the girl," said the doctor. "Her case proves that some of the charges recently made In regard to abuses in factories employing women and girls are true. If only the death of Mae Morbray could arouse public sentiment to the absolute necessity of public control of such Industries the poor girl has not died in vain." The words of Dr. Gracely made a profound impression on Reginald Nelson, and in his account of the tragedy in the Courier he quoted the words of the doctor, writing up the story in such a vivid manner that for a number of days the tragedy was the chief topic of conversation. The week following Reginald departed for the Illinois town where Billy Sunday was closing a campaign. The young Englishman was delighted with this assignment, as he was anxious to meet the baseball champion, of whom Allan Rutledge had told him much. As soon as the evangelist knew that Reginald was the city reporter of the Bronson Courier, he gave the young Englishman a most hearty reception. "Glad to meet you, Mr. Nelson!" he exclaimed. "How is my friend Rutledge getting along in Bronson?" Reginald explained in what high regard the Iowa minister was held and told of the purpose of his own visit. "I suppose the Bronson devil is getting a little nervous," said Sunday, with a laugh. "He generally gets stir red up when he hears I am hiking his way." Reginald assured the evangelist that ample preparations were being made and that he could depend on a welcome to the Michigan city. "Our paper, the Courier, is planning to give you full space every day while you are in Bronson," continued Reginald. "The power of the press today is a marvel," replied Mr. Sunday, speaking earnestly. "The newspapers are helping me save men right along. I cannot be too thankful for the support they have given men." "You are a paying proposition for the newspapers," responded Reginald smilingly. "You bet," answered the other promptly. "You can look for hundreds of new subscribers to the Courier as soon as I get to Bronson. I tell you, Mr. Nelson, it pays a newspaper as well as a man to serve Jesus Christ." During the day Reginald interviewed prominent citizens of the place in regard to the Sunday campaign. From the mayor of the city down to the constable he found the verdict practically unanimous in the evangelist's favor. "The only people who are complaining now," said a leading dry goods merchant, "are the saloon men and the theatres. The saloons are losing thousands of dollars every week, but their loss is the people's gain." On his return to Bronson, Reginald wrote an account of his visit to Illinois, describing the Sunday tabernacle, the great crowds and the views of leading citizens in regard to the evangelist and his campaign. "Mr. Sunday will arrive in Bronson in two weeks and will begin the purging of our city," was the closing sentence. The day following the publication of Reginald's visit to the west Joy Graham was walking along the main street of Bronson when she met him face to face. "I have been wanting to see you," she exclaimed, extending her hand to him as they met. "I want to congratulate you on that account of your interview with Mr. Sunday in Illinois." Reginald Nelson blushed and stamered. He had not talked alone with the girl since the evening of the sleigh ride. His resolution to keep at a distance from her vanished into thin air. He forgot he had ever made any such resolution. He simply knew that Joy Graham, smiling and beautiful, was at his side, and he walked along with her, talking and laughing. Reginald was feeling happier than he had been since the fatal night when he attended his first meeting of the Tourist club, when suddenly they were confronted by Roland Gregory. Gregory frowned darkly when he saw the young pair and evidently enjoying each other's society. Glancing up just before they met, Reginald saw the scov.'l, and in a moment his own conscience was awake. He felt ashamed, humiliated, disgraced. His long battle with his heart had been lost. Joy Graham belonged to another, c nd yet he had been acting toward her as though she were heart free. Roland Gergory stopped in front of them, and Reginald broke away almost without a word. Joy looked after him in astonishment. "Joy, I really must forbid you keeping companj with that fellow. I don't like him, and you ought not to encourage him as you do." Roland Gregory's voice was harsh as he spoke. The girl turned to him in surprise. "What's the matter now, Roland?'* "You are my promised wife, Joy, and I think you ought to pay attention to my wishes." "I think I can choose my own company," replied Joy. "Now, Joy, dear," said the other, "don't let us quarrel. We never had any words before; and we must not let anything come betr-ven us. About this Nelson fellow, I )' ve good reason to believe he is a narried man and that he abandoned a wife in England." This speech''sank deeply into Joy's j heart. She was assured that Roland Gregory would never make any sucli assertion unless he had some proof. She was silent and walked along by his side with drooping head. The flattering account of Mr. Sunday's evangelism, which appeared in the Courier, and especially the statements that the saloons lost money every week that he conducted services in the Illinois town, aroused to action the evangelist's enemies. By clever manipulation Bud McCrea cajoled the city council into passing an ordinance prohibiting the use of all vulgar and violent language in public addresses in Bronson, the ordinance being meant especially for Mr. Sunday, whose pulpit mannerisms and language were now the subject of debate in almost every Bronson home. The Courier with black headed type called attention to this ordinance and held it up to scorn. This action on the part of Marchmount's paper aroused Bud McCrea to fury. He called at the Courier office the next day in high dudgeon. "What did you mean by ridiculing our councilmen when they are attempting to keep vulgarity and violence out of our city?" he demanded of the editor. For answer, Thomas Marchmount turned and looked at his visitor. The two men stared at each other for a moment, and then Thomas Marchmount burst out laughing. "I tell you this is no laughing matter. If we turn against you the Courier will soon see its finish." Bud McCrea snapped out this threat snarlingly. The editor stopped laughing. "Excuse me, Bud, but it is so ridiculous to hear you talking about fostering culture and morality in Bronson that I just had to laugh." "Your paper is doing all it can to give that man Sunday every advantage when he gets here. He won't do the town any good." "Let us wait, McCrea, and see. I admit he won't do the gamblers and saloon men any good." "You want to be practical, Marchmount," replied the other, drawing his chair a little closer. "I am afraid that fellow Rutledge has you off the track. You have been getting along very smoothly for a long time here." "I think Dr. Rutledge is getting me on the right track," answered the editor, with warmth. "We have been (rt D??/\norvr? Wo am tn/i IW lirgllgcill All iJl VUOVll. *T c (M '? iww slack today. What has been done about the murder of that poor girl Mae Mobray? Not a thing. My young friend from England, who is now our city reporter, has been doing a little investigating, and he is appalled at some of the social conditions in Bronoon. We need a purging here, and Billy Sunday is the man to do the purging." Bud McCrea was silent at this unexpected outburst from the hitherto compliant editor. He sat still for a few moments and then arose and buttoned his coat. "Mexk my words, Marchmount," he said as he turned to leave the office, "if you begin to fight us we will ruin you. That is all there is to it. We won't have any foolishness about it." At the end of his first month as a city reporter, Mr. Marchmount called Reginald into his private office and remarked dryly: "You are malting good, Mr. Nelson. For your extra work during the Sunday campaign I will allow you a 50 per cent increase in salary, and the increase will be permanent." Reginald stammered his thanks. "No thanks are necessary," said the editor. "You are more than earning the increase. You have brought new life Into our paper, and hereafter the Courier will be found on the side of the people every time." (To Be Continued.) A MAN WHO "DIED." Being the Story of a Man Who Made an Experiment. Once upon a time there lived a man who wondered what his neighbors thought of him. In order to find out he framed up a deal with his wife and pretended to die. The undertaker was taken into the secret and he laid the body out in a coffin and opened the lid in order that neighbors might take a farewell look at the late lamented. Scores came to sit in the parlor and talk in low tones about the deceased. Some talked in low tones about polltics and the crop prospect. Meanwhile the "dead" man listened with both ears. A thin, hatchet-faced old maid who loved gossip as a hog loves the other kind of slop, and who had for years peddled slander about the man who lay in their coffin, wiped away an imaginary tear and simpered to the wife: "I can sympathize with you in this sad hour, dear sister. The dear departed was such a sweet man and so kind and so good. I know your burden is heavy." And a hard-looking customer with bristling, close-cropped grey hair?a man who had fought and cussed and hated the chap in the coffin for almost half a century, cleared his throat and rumbled: "Yes, indeed. We shall all miss him. He was very dear to me, and I appreciate your feelings." Then the preacher placed his finger tips together and looked at the ceiling. The preacher had often referred to the cottin's occupant as a "poor lost soul" and a "black sheep." He believed and almost hoped that the departed was in hades, but it was his business to comfort, and he said: "Sister, there is One who cares for his soul. Let not your heart be troubled, for your husband is with him." Then the man in the cofiln kicked off the lid and sat up with a loud snort. "I don't mind being dead," said he, "and I'll go to hell if I have to, but I won't lie here and listen to a pack of hypocrites holdng a lying contest." The moral, of course, is that telling good lies about the dead is no more commendable than telling mean lies about the living?and also, as you have heard, all is not gold that gathers no moss.?Fountain Inn Tribune. Only One More Needed.?Now if one king, in addition to George and Nicholas would climb aboard the water wagon, how appropriate Burns' lines would be: "There were three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high. And they hue swore a solemn oath John Barleycorn must die." ?Greenville News. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS" As Traced In Early Flies of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Pas', and Giving tha Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The flrnt 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. 130TH INSTALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, May 25, 1864.) Our Dead and Wounded. Col. Coward of the 5th Regiment, , who was slightly wounded in the arm, returned to his home in this place on Friday last. We notice the arrival of several of our slightly wounded soldiers, daily, yet we are at a loss to get a full list of casualties. We find the following list of Co. Q, ( Palmetto Sharpshooters, up to the 9th inst., in the Columbia papers: Killed?Lieutenant J. W. Moore. Wounded?Capt. W. B. Smith, very slight, in leg; Sergt. Geo. H. O'Farrel, ' dangerous, in pelvis; Sergt. H. C. ' Connor, flesh, in arm; Sergt. McKinney, slightly, in face and hand; '? Private H. Moss, severe, in back; J. 1 H. McKlnney, slight, in knee; J. A. ' Cobb, slight, in foot. | The following list of casualties, : from the 5th to the 10th Inst., under , date of the 11th, from a member of j the 6th regiment, to a relative in this j place, has been kindly furnished us: J Company B, 5th Regiment, 3. C. V. Killed?W. Morris, D. Wilkes. Wounded?D. W. Johnson, mouth, severe; J. Chllders, head, slight; W. G. Stinson, arm, slight. 1 Company E.?Killed?W. E. McKnight, Henry Thomas, Sergt, Jones, , Capt. S. B. Meacham, supposed killed ! and in enemy's hands. ( Wounded?Sergt. J. M. Kirkpatrick, leg, slight; George Ross Burris, thigh, severe; T. E. Burris, leg and back, se- i vere; Sergt. M. S. Lindsay, foot and head, severe; W. B. Williams, hand, slight; J. B. Rawls, shoulder, slight; [ Wm. M. Whitesides, mortally, (since dead.) ' Company F?Killed?Sergt. R. Wil- j son. Wounded?Lieut. Gill, shoulder, severe; Lieut. Allison, returned to du- ; ty; Lieut. Campbell, head, slight; David McSwain, arm, slight; R. A. , Hagins, thigh, severe; D. W. Harrison, arm, severe; J. E. Neely, hand.' slight; R. H. McCants, shoulder, 1 slight; J. C. Farris, head, slight; J. K. Bates, finger, slight; J. J. Gard- 1 ner and E. R. Johnson, missing. Company G?Killed?Capt. Crowd er, Green Brown, J. P. Ferguson. ' Wounded?R. Beattie, head, slight. Company A?6th Regiment?Killed 1 ?K. N. Owens, J. C. Ferguson. ( Wounded?John Plack, hand, three ' fingers amputated; W. H. Crane,' shoulder, slight; J. B. Fudge, face, < slight; T. F. Clinton, shoulder, se- 1 vero; R. Blanks, thigh, severe; T. 1 Blaokstrom, head, severe; R. P. Workman, shoulder, slight; J. J. Wylie, i shoulder, slight. ? Company B?Killed?J. P. Miller. 1 Wounded?B. Merrit, in mouth, se- 1 vere; Phil. S. Bennett, leg, severe; S. I Kirr.brell, leg, severe; Martin Kim- I brell, finger amputated; A. A. Bar- i ron, foot, slight; W. C. Graham, leg slight; Jaires Spratt, face, painful; < J. J. Stewart, arm, slight; A. Balles, < foot slight; W. T. Pettus, hand, i slight. I Company K?Killed?Sam'l Brown. < Wounded?D. E. Dunlap, arm, se- I vere; Samuel McDlll, head, severe; < H. Carter, arm, severe; C. Boyd, face, < and arm, slight; W. Smith, arm, 1 slight; Cin. Rader, head, very se- I vere; T. W. Farrow, leg, slight; D. I A. Tail, leg, severe; Sergt. A. Dren- i nan, leg, slight. I Company I?Wounded?Lieut. L. ' Williams, wrist, severe; W. H- Ross, 1 face, severe. (Wednesday Evening, June 1, 1864.) ' King's Mountain Railroad. 1 The cars on this -oad will hereaf- < ter run every day (Sundays not ex- < cepted), until further notice. I (To Be Continued.) ? Announcement that he would | probably enter the political arena ( next year and tell the South Carolina i public fully of the details of opera- ( tion of the state hospital for the In- i sane, at Columbia, of what changes , and improvements were made by him, { and of the treatment accorded him ] by the present state administration, ] was made by Dr. T. J. Strait of Lan- i caster, recently removed superinten- < dent of the asylum, shortly before he | left yesterday afternoon for his for- i mer home after being succeeded by i Dr. C. Fred Williams of Columbia. < says a Columbia dispatch of Saturday to the News and Courier. Dr. j QtroH qqI/I Viia mlnrl nrna not fllllv * made up as to what effort he would make to carry to the public of this state his views upon the situation at the asylum, and upon the action of the administration. Early in the interview he forcast a political upheaval in 1916 that would have the asylum as the center of the vortex. Dr. Strait said that he did "not know whether he would run next summer for governor or llcutem-nt governor, or for congress from his district." That "some of the leading lawyers of this state hold the opinion that a superintendent of the asylu mcannot be summarily removed without cause, and that such action without cause would be illegal," was mentioned by the departing former superintendent during the interview. He did not express his own opinion as to the right of those in power to remove him. Dr. Strait said he desired to make it ; plain that he had not brought partisan politics into the government of the asylum, and that he had brought about "a considerably more efficient government at a less aggregate expense to the state than that which I found there." Discussing the economy of operation he had obtained, he declared a comparison of the monthly expenses of March, 1914, and March, 1915, showed he had saved $7,200 for that month. Among other savings he had obtained by institution of modern methods, he asserted the installation of bread cutters saved the state the cost of 82,000 loaves of bread in eight months immediately following the time when he assumed charge. Giving strict care to the amount of meat cooked for each meal, resulted immediately in a dally saving of 175 pounds, he said, which amount saved was further increased. HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE Items of Interest from All Sections of South Carolina. Three warehouses at St. Charles in Lee county, were taken into the state warehouse system last week. Col. John W. Ferguson, the oldest member of the Laurens county bar, died Tuesday morning. Eighteen dogs were killed by the n?AAn?tlllA ?\a1Iaa fPiiAa/lair thatr nnrn. VJICCII Vine [AMItC X IICOUUJ, ilivu V/H II ers not carina to pay the annual dog tax license. The Cllnchfleld Fuel company of Spartanburg, has secured an order for 100,000 tons of coal to be shipped to Europe in December. According to the report of the chief of police of Greenville, during the month of April, 220 arrests were made in that city, and fines totaling $1,05.75 were collected. During a heavy storm at Bennettsville Sunday night, the barn of G. W. Freeman was burned. An automobile, Btxteen bales of cotton and a quantity of feedstuffs were destroyed. A negro attempted to assault a white woman in Greenville Tuesday morning. The negro made his escape and has not been captured. A lynching Is probable In case he is caught. A large touring car owned by Dr. J. H. Nenzetta, was struck at a crossing in Greenville Tuesday, by Southern passenger train No. 11. The occupants of the automobile escaped injury. The car was demolished. The Enoree Manufacturing company of Enoree, Spartanburg county, Dne of the largest cotton mills In the Piedmont section, is to be sold at auction on June 7. No bid for less than 1350,000 will be considered. The mill, which went into the hands of a receiver several months ago, is capitalized at $700,000. The Spartanburg city council has passed an ordinance requiring every washerwoman or other person or firm engaged In the laundry business, to secure a certificate of registration from the city department of health. The ordinance goes into effect June 1. By a vote of 657 to 373, the voters of Spartanburg on Tuesday, rejected the ordinance proposed by the Christian Workers' league to require pool and billiard rooms to remove all blinds, partitions or other obstructions which shut oft the Interior from view. r~ 4Ua UIaviI T. T.lloa in IIIC oamc Cicvkiuu, i-iuju *-#. u?*vq was elected commissioner of public works over J. O. Erwln, by a vote of 757 to 304. Fire which was caused by a spark Prom a locomotive dropping on a warehouse in Anderson, Tuesday evening, destroyed property valued at {70,000. Among the buildings burned was the handsome new freight depot of the Piedmont & Northern railway, valued at $20,000, and containing freight valued at $8,000, and $4,800 worth of cotton. The loss is about tialf covered by insurance. William Johnson, a prominent farmer, living near Rivervllle, in Spartanburg county, accidentally killed his little ten-months-old son William Johnson, Jr., Saturday, when a switch with which he was chastising mother of his children, slipped from bis hand and struck the baby in the bead, penetrating its brain. The killing was purely accidental, and the father is prostrated as a result of the iccldent. In a speech opening a three day Chautauqua in Leesville, Monday, Governor Manning issued a warning igainst the reported secret organization of farmers in the lower counties of the state and urged them to organize in the "open like men." He declared that he knew nothing of such organization save that he had heard that it was forming and he recalled the past when he said men had ridden into office on the backs of farmers by means of organizations calculated to benefit the farmers. He urged that the farmers co-operate openly in all lines that might benefit them. A child of Wm. Palmer of Georgetown, is in a serious condition as a result of being bitten by a pet otter, the property of J. C. Lowrimore of Georgetown, Monday. It seems that the children of Mr. Palmer had persuaded the son of Mr. Lowrimore to take the pet otter to a nearby pond where they could watch It perform antics in the water. Upon coming out of the pond :he otter rubbed itself against the little child of Palmer and the child oecomlng frightened, struck it. The otter then became enraged, sprang jpon the child, biting away part of its :heek and severely lacerating its nose ind head. The Lowrimore child was lot attacked by the beast which was ater killed by Its owner. The otter, vhlch was valued at several hundred lollars, was captured near George:own more than a year ago and had lever before shown any signs of fe"oclty. The Palmer child will likely lie of its Injuries. New York Evening Telegram: Jas. Ffcrnum, a wealthy hotel keeper of Charleston, S. C., has the reputation )f being a sound sleeper, but he iwoke in a hurry early today in his oom at the Imperial Hotel, Broadway ind Thirty-second street, when a man anded with a bump on the floor of he room by way of the transom of he door. Mr. Farnum grappled with ilm and managed to notify the hotel nanagement, who sent Hug Burden, he hotel detective, to Investigate. Mr. 3arden found that the visitor was Dscle Chester, a negro bellboy, who ias been employed at the hotel for ibout seven years. Chester was accused of attempted burglary and tak?n before Magistrate Murphy In the forkville police court. He waived examination and was held for the grand lury in $1,000 ball. It was brought out n court that Mr. Farnum had about 11.000 in cash with him in his room, t Is asserted that Chester, knowing hat Mr. Farnum was a sound sleep?r, decided to get into his room by flimbing over the transom. When rnlf way over, however, the negro ost his balance and went tumbling nto the room, the noise being suficient to wake up Mr. Farnum. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Cheater. Chester Reporter, May 3: At the regular monthly meeting of the county commissioners this morning In the office of Supervisor D. G. Anderson, the contract for an Iron bridge for Cany Fork creek on R. F. D. No. 2, wes Qu/orrlo/1 tn A not in Urna nf Atlanta Ga., the bridge to cost the county $467 f. o. b Chester, which was $23 less than the next lowest bidder. This figure includes the iron-work painted. Bids were also submitted by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Co., of Roanoke, Va., and Mr. A. T. Holmes, the tetter's figures, however, being for a reinforced concrete Job....The venerable Mrs. Mary Ann Morrow, widow of the late Joseph Morrow, passed away Thursday afternoon at her home about two miles northeast of the city, and was buried at Bethany church graveyard Friday afternoon after funeral services by Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour, D. D., assisted by Rev. J. E. Jones. Mrs. Morrow, who was 83 years old, had been a member of the Presbyterian church for many years, and her long life abounded in acts of kindness and love. She was a Miss Crenshaw of Lancaster county, before her marriage, and is survived by the following children: David P. Morrow and Mrs M. J. Hardin of Chester; R. J. Morrow of Leesville; G. P. Morrow of Rock Hill, and Mrs. S. E. Crenshaw of Sumter, Fla There seems to have been a considerable mixture of hail in the rain that fell yesterday evening in most parts of the county, and at some points the hail was severe, though, fortunately, the damage to crops does not appear to have been heavy. In the Pleasant Grove section much of the fruit was beaten off the trees, while farther down, in the neighborhood of Rossville the hail was as large as a nickel in diameter, and after the storm had abated could be picked up in big quantities. Crops, however, do not seem to have been badly hurt Sheriff D. E. Colvin sent Deputy C. Y. Young to Union this morning for a negro, George Irby, who cut another negro severely yesterday near Lockhart, and was arrested by SherifT Fant. The officers here have been able to hear very little of the affair, but Irby's victim is understood to be dangerously cut, and will possibly die Eighty-one persons left here at one o'clock this afternoon on the special train for Charlotte to hear Dr. Chapman this afternoon and tonight Dr. W. R. Wallace, who was stricken with appendicitis week before last at Greenwood while attending the meeting of the State Medical association, and underwent an operation in that city, returned to the city yesterday afternoon and will be at the Chester sanatorium until he is able to be out The Inquest into the death of Rev. John Colvin and Samuel L. Sanders, who were shot down on the grounds of Prospect Baptist church near Carter's, Sunday afternoon, April 25, was concluded Thursday afternoon, when the jury of inquest with H. H. Shannon as foreman, brought in a verdict as follows: That Rev. John Colvin and Sam'l L. Sanders came to their death from gunshot wounds at the hand of Ely Spllivan, and that William Mobley, Jr., and William Mobley, Sr., were accessories. William Mobley, Jr., was already in jail, and his father, William Mobley, Sr., was arrested Friday. The latter, however, was released on $500 bond Saturday morning. * * Gaffney Ledger, May 4: Dr. John Pittman was summoned late Friday afternoon to attend a negro by the name of Hollls, at his home in the Midway section of the county, after an accidental discharge of a muzzle-loading shotgun, in the hands of his brother, had severely injured him. The physician found shot, about BB size, scattered oyer a good portion of the negro's anatomy on the front side, but the injtiry was not serious, although rather painful Limestone camp, No. 375, W. O. W., unveiled a monument at Providence Baptist church Sunday afternoon to the memory of the late D. L. Jones. Mr R. W. Mansfield of Spartanburg, the orator of the occasion, delivered a most interesting address A monument to the memory of D. R. Lavender, deceased, will be unveiled at Oakland cemetery next Sunday afternoon, by Cherry camp, No. 74, W. O. W., of which he was an honored member. The camp is making preparations for a most interesting and impressive ceremony on this occasion Miss Rosa Kirby is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Kirby, near Limestone, where sfie will spend the summer, after completing a year's work as a teacher at the Boiling Springs High school Local merchants were much pleased with business Saturday. "It was just like old times," remarked one, while another said, "We have done more business today than in a long time before." One firm reported that a comparison of their books for the present year with those of last year, would show that business this year has been equally good, if not better, than it was during the early part of last year. Rock Hill Record, May 3: S. D. Minter, who for the past three or four years, has been working with the Southern Power company at Catawba dam, has resigned his position on account of his health Miss Mamie Sherer of Yorkville route 4, has a position with the Carolina hotel Robert C. Moore and bride, who have been visitors at the home of his mother, Mrs. Selina Moore, left this morning for their home at Mullins, where Mr. Moore is putting in a sewerage system. Gastonia Gazette, May 4: Mr. M. C. Stroupe, a former citizen of Gaston county, dropped dead Saturday morning about 9 o'clock in Independence park, Charlotte. Mr. Stroupe was 65 years of age and lived with his son, Mr. J. D. Stroupe, on Clement avenue. He is survivd by his widow and four children A chicken snake seven feet long and five inches around was killed yesterday, by Mr. C. Q. Rhyne on the farm of Mr. W. N. Bell, near town. Mr. Rhyne brought the snake to town and exhibited it. Chickens and eggs had been disappearing and a search was made for the thief which resulted in the Killing oi the snake, which is an unusually large one Quite a good deal of excitement was caused Friday and Saturday on North Broad street by the strange actions of a dog belonging to Mr. G. W. Howell. It acted very strangely and it was feared that the animal was afflicted with rabies. It died of convulsions Saturday night and the head , was sent to Dr. A. C. Shore, state chemist, at Raleigh, for examination. A telegram from Dr. Shore to Mr. Howell yesterday, stated that the dog was not afflicted with rabies and in all probability died from strychnine poisoning. No one had been bitten by the dog but quite a number of the children in the nlghborhood had played with it Mr. Ed. Jones of Mount Holly, employed by the Southern Power company, to read meters at Belmont and Mount Holly, was seriously injured yesterday in a collision between the motorcycle he was riding and an automobile. The accident occurred on the Belmont-Mount Holly road in the vicinity of S. Mary's college Mr. R. B. Babington, secretary and treasurer of the Armstrong Hotel company, has Just closed a deal with Mr. C. W. Wilson, at present manager of a hotel in Tucumcart, N. M., and of a string of eating houses dpinnkiiik i" nut'k isiuiiu i aiii uau, i whereby Mr. Wilson is to assume the'i management of the Armstrong hotel as soon as it is completed. Mr. Wilson has had ten years' experience in the management of hotels in the west. During the year ending May 1, 835 cases were disposed of in Gaston la's municipal court, of which Judge A. C. Jones is presiding officer, and Mr. A. L. Bulwlnkle prosecuting attorney. A goodly percentage ol these cases were drunks and, as Gastonia and the county now have absolute prohibition, it is probable that the coming year will see a reduction in the number of cases docketed In yesterday's biennial municipal election. Col. C. B. Armstrong was reelected mayor of Gastonia for the next two years by a majority of 46 votes, over Mr. B. H. Parker, who entered the race Saturday morning. The final vote stood, Armstrong 604, Parker 558. The Armstrong ticket, which was the one named in the recent primary with the exception of one candidate nominated, was taken off and another substituted, was elected in its entirety with varying majorities. The change made in the straight ticket nroa in f ho no nHIHn to fnr ar?hnn1 r>r?m - mlsstoner from ward 3. Mr. Marvin Boyd was nominated in the primary, but was taken off and Mr. S. Settlemyer substituted. This was done, it is stated, because Mr. Boyd was a candiate for alderman on another ticket which came out Saturday, with the endorsement of the Republicans. Mr. Boyd is a member of the present board of city school commissioners and is understood to be a Republican in politics. There has probably never been as much interest manifested in a municipal election in Gastonla as was evidenced yesterday. There were 1,?66 voters registered and out of that number 1,180, or all but 86, voted for somebody. This was due to two things; first the fact that the registration was a new one and had only been closed a week previous, and also to the fact on Saturday, with the announcement by Mr. B. H. Parker that he was a candidate for mayor, an unusual interest developed in the contest for that office. At the opening of the polls at 7 o'clock, voting began with a rush and there was not a minute till nearly noon when there was not someone standing at the boxes ready to vote. At 10 o'clock only 320 votes had been cast, the delay being due largely to the fact that the poll holders had a new registration book to contend with. * * * Lancaster News, May 4: The county board of registration sits now the fill st three days in every month for the purpose of registering all qualified electors. Heretofore they were in session only one day in each month, but this being the year for the special election on state-wide prohibition, the last legislature made the change in the law so as to allow ample time for all qualified electors to register. A deplorable tragedy occurred on Midway in the cotton mill community Saturday afternoon. Gus Knight shot and instantly killed Johnson Gregory. The weapon used was a pistol and the entire contents, five shots, were fired Into the body of Gregory. Magistrate I. T. Hunter held the Inquest and the Jury found that the deceased came to his death from a gunshot wound, inflicted by Knight Four witnesses, including Dr. R. C. Brown, who held the post mortem, testified at the inquest. From the testimony it appears that the difficulty took place in a pool room, managed by Mr. W. R. Maree, near a door connecting it with a room used as a pressing club. It appears that Knight and one or two others were In the pressing club room, the door connecting the two rooms being locked. Gregory came to the-door, from the pool room side, and tried to force his way into the pressing club room. Maree unlocked the door and shortly afterward the difficulty commenced. Gregory had an open knife in his hand and cut at Knight before Knight fired, according to two of the witnesses before the coroner, but these same witnesses state that Knight struck Gregory before the latter cut at him. It is said that there are other eyewitnesses to the killing. Shortly after the shooting, Knight surrendered and will shortly apply for bail. Both men are married. Gregory leaves a wife and several children. He was a son of Owen Gregory. His remains were carried to Kershaw for interment Sunday on the mid-day train. It is thought that liquor was the cause of the trouble. COST OF THE WAR President of California University Names $46,000fi00fi00. Edgar Crammond of London, a high authority, estimates the cash cost of a year of the Europen war, to August 1, 1915, at $17,000,000,000, while other losses will mount up to make a grand total of $46,000,000,000. No one can have any conception of what $46,000,000,000 may be. It is four times all the coin in the world. If this sum were measured out in $20 gold pieces and they were placed side by side on the railway track, on each rail, they would line with gold every line from New York to the Pacific ocean, the two Canadian lines included. There would be enough left to cover each rail of the Siberian railway from Vladivostok to Petrograd. There would still remain sufficient to rehabltate Belgium and to buy the whole of Turkey, at her own valuation, wiping her finally from the map. "Or we may figure in some other fashion. The average working man in America earns $518 a year. It would take 90,000,000 years' work to pay the cost of the war; or 90,000,000 American laborers might pay it off In one year, if all their living expenses were paid. "The cost of a year of the great war is a little more than the estimated value of all the property of the United States west of the Mississippi river. It is nearly equal to the total value of all the property in Germany ($48,000,000,000,) as estimated in 1906. The whole Russian empire ($35,000,000,000), could have been bought for a less sum before the war began. It could be had, on a cash sale, more cheaply now. This sum would have paid for all the property In Italy ($13,000,000,000), Japan ($10,000,000,000), Holland ($5,000,000,000), Belgium ($7,000,000,000), Spain ($6,000,000,000), and Portugal ($2,500,000,000). It Is three times the entire yearly earnings in wages and salaries of the people of the United States, ($15,500,000,000). "The cost of the war would pay the national debts of all the nations In the world at the time the war broke out. If all the farms, farming lands and factories of the United States were wiped out of existence, the cost of this war would more than replace them. If all the personal and real property of half our nation were flestroyed, or If an earthquake of incredible dimensions should shake :lown every house from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the waste would be less than that Involved In this war. And in elemental catastrophe leaves behind it no costly legacy of hate? David Star Jordan, In San Francisco ""hronlcle. XV He who stoops to brush a banana :>eel from the sidewalk Is bent on dong good. I GENERAL NEW8 NOTES. 1 Itsms of Interest Gathered From All Arvund the World. A Petrograd dispatch says that ' Russia will float another $500,000,000 loan within the next two weeks. Clergymen of Glasgow, Scotland, are enlisting for the period of the war, to serve In the "citizen's training corps." The Canadian troops killed, wounded and missing, as the result of the fighting at Ypres last week, is report ed to be 6,000. The London Evening Echo has failed after an existence of six weeks. Its owners are reported to have lost 1260,000 In the venture. Governor Hatfield of West Virginia, has started a presidential boom in favor of Justice Charles E. Hughes of the United* States supreme court. Shipments of copper from Atlantic ports during the month of April totaled 37,000,000 pounds, compared with 80,000,000 pounds during the same months of last year. The editor of the Fatherland, a German publication of New York, has sent out circular letters to all German publications in the United States asking their views of President Wilson. Dr. Albert R. Blcksteln of Philadelphia., has been sentenced toy.^t^| Pennsylvania t penitentiary for oimvp1 thrue years for performing an Illegal operation. Secretary Redfield predicts that the balance of trade in favor of the United States at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, will total one billion dollars. A Winnepeg dispatch says that the Canadian government has put an embargo on the shipment of grain from the Dominion to the United States, unless it is for domestic use. Tlie building in Cleveland, Ohio, in whi:h John D. Rockefeller began business in 1860, has this week been torn down to make room for a bridge to be built by the city. Congressman Jos. A. Goulden of the 23rd district of New York, died in the Broad street station, Philadelphia. MnnHav while nn his wav to attend a I directors' meeting of a life insurance company. | Philadelphia police officers raided a cockfight near that city last Sunday, and made thirty-eight arrests. Many I of the men were wealthy and promlI nent socially and in business. A fine of $20 each was collected. Work on the construction of the government's Alaska railroad was begun at Ship Creek on Thursday of last week. The first spike was driven by Martha White, the first white I child born on Cook Inlet. One hundred Philidelphla citizens, I mostly councllmen, will accompany the Liberty Bell from that city on its trip to the Panama-Pacific exposition The city will pay for 100 tickets for the party. ?, The receiver of the City Trust, Safe Deposit and Surity company of Philadelphia, which failed ten years ago, has paid dejlosltors and creditors totaling 93,369, all of their claims, I amounting to $1,396,167.41, in full. ; Henry C. Frick. the New York capitalist, last week received from England a famous painting by Holbein, of Thomas Cromwell, painted In 1 1534. The portrait is valued at $235,000. In presenting the budget to the I house of commons, Tuesday, the chancellor of the exchequer, David LloydGeorge, estimated that if the war lasted the balance of the fiscal year, Great Britain in that time would require $5,682,170,000. A party of Chinese business men Is I making a tour of the United States for I the purpose of studying American I business conditions, with a view to promoting better business relations I between the two countries. John L Casper, a distiller of Kansas City, Mo., has been arrested at Fort Smith, Ark., charged with being I interested in blockade distilleries In I Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Casper is held under I a bond of $7,500. I Wall street, New York, was much interested Monday, over a rumor to the effect that the United States Steel I corporation had closed a contract for $160,000,000 worth of shells and other I war supplies for Russia and the other allies. Many of the rumored contracts are put down as "myths." An attempt to blow up an Immense tabernacle at Biederwolf, Md., with dynamite, was made early Sunday morning. A six weeks' evangelistic I campaign has been in progress and a I strong fight made on the liquor Interests and it Is believed the attempted explosions are the result of this fight. The Smith-Lever Appropriations^The total appropriations on account of the department of agriculture this year is $22,971,782, according to the Weekly News Letter of the agricultural department." This total, however, dos not include the sum of $1,080,000 available under the act of May 8, 1914, commonly known as the Smith-Lever extension act, for co-operative agrin ltural extension work between the states and the United States department of agriculture. Of this sum, $10,000 is granted outright to each state and the balance, $600,000, is allotted to the states on basis of their rural population, but these allotments are paid to the states only so far as they contribute equal amounts to offset them. In other words, "to obtain the total of $600,000, the states must likewise appropriate $600,000 to be expended in co-operative agricultural extension work." The Joint state and Federal fund must be expended in "the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and heme economics to persons not attending or resident In said colleges in the several communities and imparting to such persons information on said subjects , through field demonstrations, and otherwise." While the states are to expend this fund, the law provides that "the work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually o rrroa/l itnnr* Ku tYy* onnrnlnrtf o \ - "h* V v. v? upwi. OVVI Viui; wi u6it culture and the state agricultural colleges receiving the benefits of this act." The actual work of supervision of the expenditure of the Smith-Lever funds will be carried on through the states relations service, to which the entire farmers' co-operative demonstration work of the department has also been transferred. tfar The Kiel canal, which is Just over sixty-one miles in length, is the second longest ship canal in the world. The longest Is the Suez,