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YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUBD SKBII'WHEHLY. l. m. orists sons. publishers, j % ajfaiitil!! Dficsgapn]: .Jjfor the promotion of (he political, .Social, ^jjrieulturnl and Comnurria! Jnteresls of the jpfopll. J T E 8? o'L!E0' v' . J 1" K"T""c 1 established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., A JIJL Y 07l9t 5~ NXDTsi." e$<?0] . 9 HLU5TPAT ION 5^ ?ig CHAPTER III. lo Triumphe! Once safely in the street Kenneth Qriswold, with a thousand dollars in his pocket and the packet of banknotes under his arm, was seized by an imnniao tn Rome extravagant thing to celebrate his success. It had proved to be such a simple matter, after all? one bold strike; a tussle, happily bloodless, with the plutocratic dragon whose hold upon his treasure was so easily broken; and presto! the hungry proletary had become himself a power in the world, strong to do good or revll, as the gods might direct. This was the prompting to exultation as it might have been set in words; but in Griswold's thought it was but a swift suggestion, followed instantly by another which was much more to the immediate purpose. He was hungry; there was a restaurant next door to the bank. Without thinking overmuch of the risk he ran, and perhaps not at all of the audacious subtlety of such an expedient at such a critical moment, he went in, sat down at one of the small marbletopped tables, and calmly ordered breakfast. Since hunger is a lusty special pleader, making itself heard above any pulpit drum of the higher faculties, it is quite probable that Griswold dwelt less upon what he had done than upon what he was about to eat, until the hue and cry in the street reminded him that the chase was begun. But at this, not to appear suspiciously incurious, he put on the mask of indifferent interest and asked the waiter concerning the uproar. The serving man did not know what had happened, but he would go and find out if M'sieu' so desired. "M'sieu" " said breakfast first, by all means, and information afterward. Both came in due season, and the hungry one ate wniie ne usiciieu. Transmuted into the broken English of the Gascon serving man, the story of the robbrry lost nothing in its sensational features. It was very evident that the plutocratic dragon did not intend to accept defeat without a struggle, and Griswold set his wits at work upon the problem of escape. "It's a little queer that I hadn't thought of that part of it before," he mused, sipping his coffee as one who need not hasten until the race is actually begun. "I suppose the other fellow, the real robber, would have figured himself safely out of it?or would have thought he had?before he made the break. Since I did not, I've got to do it now, and there isn't much time to throw away. Let me see?" he shut his eyes and went into the inventive trance of the literary craftsman?"the keynote must be originality; I must do that which the other fellow would never think of doing." On the strength of that decision he ) ventured to order a third cup of coffee, and before it had cooled he had outlined a plan, basing it upon a crossquestioning of the Gascon waiter. There had been but one man concerned in the robbery, and the sidewalk gossip was beginning to describe him with discomforting accuracy. Griswold paid his score and went out boldly and with studied nonchalance. He reasoned that, notwithstanding the growing accuracy of the street report, he was still in no immediate danger so long as he remained in such close proximity to the bank. It was safe to assume that this was one of the things the professional "strong-arm man" would not do. But it was also evident that he must speedily lose his identity if he hoped to escape; and the lost identity must leave no clue to itself. Griswold smiled when he remembered how, in Action of the felon-catching sort, and in real life, for that matter, the law-breaker always did leave a clue for the pursuers. Thereupon arose a determination to demonstrate practically that it was quite as possible to create an inerrant fugitive as to conceive an infallible detective. Joining the passers-by on the sidewalk, he made his way leisurely to Canal street, and thence diagonally through the old French quarter toward the French market. In a narrow alley giving upon the levee he Anally found what he was looking for; a dingy sailors* barber's shop. The barber was a negro, fat, unstuous and sleepy looking, and he was alone. "Yes, sah; shave, boss?" asked the negro, bowing and scraping a foot when Gristwold entered. "No, a hair cut." The customer produced a silver half-dollar. "Go somewhere and get me a cigar to smoke while you are doing it. Get a good one, if you have to go to Canal street." he added, climbing into the rickety chair. The fat negro shuffled out, scenting tips. The moment he was out of sight Griswold took up the scissors and began to hack awkwardly at his beard and mustache; awkwardly, but swiftly, and with well chosen purpose. The result was a fairly complete metamorphosis easily wrought. In place of the trim beard and curling mustache there was a rough stubble, stiff and uneven, like that on the face of a man who had neglected to shave for a week or two. "There, I think that will answer," he told himself, standing back before the cracked look, ng-glass to get the imnoral offopl "Arid it is dpcpntlv original. The professional cracksman would probably have shaved, whereupon the first amateur detective he met would reconstruct the beard on the sunburned lines. Now for a pawnbroker; and the more avaricious he happens to be. the better he will serve the purpose." He went to the door and looked up and down the alley. The negro was not yet in sight, and Oriswold walked DICE 33LWC | CO?Y/?/C#r3r CKMLCJ 3C/f/BATfi3 JOJYS rapidly away in the direction opposite to that taken by the obliging barber. A pawnbroker's shop of the kind required was not far to seek in that locality, and when it was found, Griswold drove a hard bargain with the Portuguese Jew behind the counter. I The pledge he offered was the suit he was wearing, and the bargaining concluded in an exchange of the still serviceable business suit for a pair of butternut trousers, a second-hand coat too short in the sleeves, a flannel shirt, a cap, and a red handkerchief; these and a sum of ready money, the smallntss of which he deplored piteously before he would consent to accept it. The effect of the haggling was exactly what Griswold had prefigured. The Portuguese, most suspicious of his tribe, suspected everything but the truth, flatly accused his customer of having stolen the pledge. And when Griswold departed without denying the charse, suspicion became conviction and the pledged clothing, which might otherwise have given the police the needed clue, was carefully hidden away against a time when the Jew's apprehensions should be quieted. Having thus disguised himself, Griswold made the transformation artistically complete by walking a few squares in the dust of a loaded cotton float on the levee. Then he made a tramp's bundle of the manuscript of the moribound book, the pistol, and the money in the red handkerchief; and having surveyed himself with some satisfaction in the bar mirror of a riverside pot-house, a daring impulse to test his disguise by going back to the restaurant where he had breakfasted seized and bore him up I | town. The experiment was an unqualified success. The proprietor of the hankneighboring cafe not only failed to recognize him; he was driven forth with revilings in idiomatic French and broken English. "Bete! Go back on da levee w'ere you belong to go. I'll been kipping dis cafe for zhentlemen! Scelerat! Go!" Gristwold went out, smiling between his teeth. "That settles the question of identification and present safety," he assured himself exultantly. Then: "I believe I could walk into the Bayou State Security and not be recognized." As before, the daring impulse was irresistable, and he gave place to it on the spur of the moment. Fouling a five dollar bill in the mud of the gutter, he went boldly into the bank and asked the paying teller to give him silver for it. The teller sniffed at the money, scowled at the man, and turned back to his cash book without a word. Griswold's smile grew to an inward laugh when he reached the street. "The dragon may have teeth and claws, but it can neither see nor smell," he said, contemptously, turning in his steps riverward again. "Now I have only to choose my route and go in peace. How and where are the only remaining questions to be answered." For an hour or more after his return to- the riverfront, Griswold idled up and down the levee; and the end of the interval found him still undecided as to the manner and direction Griswold Went Out Smiling Between His Teeth. of his flight?to say nothing cf the choice of a destination, which was even more evasive than the other and more immediately pressing decision. His first thought had been to go back to New York. But there the risk of detection would be greater than elsewhere, and he decided that there was no good reason wny ne snouin incur it. Besides, he argued there were other fields in which the sociological studies could be pursued under conditions more favorable than those to be found in a great city. In his mind's eye he saw himself domiciled in some thriving interior town, working and studying among people who were not unindividualized by an artificial environment. In such a community theory and practice might go hand in hand; he could know and be known; and the money at his command would be vastly more of a molding and controlling lnlluence than it could jKissibly be in the smallest of circles in New York. The picture, struck out upon the instant, pleased him, and having sufficiently idealized it, he adopted it enthusiastically as an inspiration, leaving the mere geographical detail to arrange itself as chance, or subsequent events, might determine. That part of the problem disposed of, there yet remained the choice of a line of flight; and it was a small thing that finally decided the manner of his going. For the third time in the hour of aimless wanderings he found himself loitering opposite the berth of the Belle Julie, an up-river steamboat whose bell gave sonorous warning of the approaching moment of departure. Toiling roustabouts, trailing in and out like an endless procession of human ants, were hurrying the last of the cargo abroad. "Poor devils! They've been told that they are free men, and perhaps they believe it. But surely no slave of the Toulon galleys were ever in bitter bondage. . . . Free??yes i free to toil and sweat, to bear burdens and to be driven like cattle under the yoke! Oh, good Lord!?look at that!" The ant procession had attacked the final tier of boxes in the lading, and one of the burden-bearers, a white man, had stumbled and fallen like a crushed pack animal under a load too heavy for him. Griswold was beside him in a moment. The man could not rise, and Griswold dragged him not untenderly out of the way of the others. "Where are you hurt?" The crushed one sat up and spat blood. "I don't know; inside, somewheres. I been dyin' on my feet any time for a year or two back." "Consumption?" queried Griswold, briefly. "I reckon so." "Then you have no earthly business in a deck crew. Don't you know that?" The man's smile was a ghastly facewrlnkllng. "Reckon I hain't got any business anywhere?out'n a horspital or a hole in the ground. But I kind o' thought I'd like to be planted 'longside the She 8aw Hie Confusion, and Charged It to the Card Reading. woman and the children, if I could make out some way to git there." "Where?" The consumptive named a small river town in Iowa. In Griswold impulse was the domi! nant chord always struck by an appeal to his sympathies. His compas( sion went straight to the mark, as it , was sura to do when his pockets were not empty. I "What is the fare by rail to your town?" he inquired. "I don't know; I never asked. Somewheres between twenty and thirty dollars, I reckon; and that is more money than I've seen since the woman died." Griswold hastily counted out a hundred dollars from his pocket fund and thrust the money into the man's hand. "Take that and change places with me," he commanded, slipping on the | mask of gruffness again. "Pay your fare on the train, and I'll take your job on the boat. Don't be a fool!" he added, when the man put his face in hands and began to choke. "It's a fair enough exchange, and I'll get as much out of it one way as you will the other. What Is your name? I may have to borrow it." "Gavitt?John Wesley Gavitt." "All right; off with you," said the liberator, curtly; and with that he shouldered the sick man's load and fell into line in the ant procession. Once on board the steamer, he followed his file leader aft and made it his first care to find a safe hiding place for the tramp's bundle in the knotted handkerchief. That done, he stepped into the line again, and became the sick man's substitute in fact. It was toil of the shrewdest, and he drew a breath of blessed relief when the last man staggered up the plank with his burden. The bell was clinging its final summons, and the slowly revolving paddle-wheels were taking the strain from the mooring lines. Being near the bow line Griswold was one of the two who spring ashore at the mate's bidding to cast off. He was backing the* hawser out of the last of its half-hitches, when a carriage was driven rapidly down to the stage and two tardy passengers hurried aboard. The mate bawled from his station on the hurricane deck. "Now. then! Take a turn on that spring line out there and get them trunks aboard! Lively!" The larger of the two trunks fell to the late recruit; and when he had set it down at the door of the designated stateroom, he did half absently what John Gavitt might have done without blame: read the tacked-on card, which bore the owner's name and address, written in a firm hand: "Charlotte Farnham, Wahaska, Minnesota." "Thank you," said a musical voice at his elbow. "May I trouble you to put it inside." Griswold wheeled as if the mildtoned request had been a blow, and was properly ashamed. But when he saw the speaker, consternation promptly slew all the other emotions. For the owner of the tagged trunk was the young woman to whom, an hour or so earlier, he had Riven place at the paying teller's wicket in the Rayou State Security. She saw his confusion, charged it to the card-reading at which she had surprised him, and smiled. Then he met her gaze fairly and became sane again when he was assured that she did not recognized him: became sane, and whipped off his cap, and dragged the trunk into the stateroom. After < which he went to his place on the lower deck with a great thankfulness throbbing in his heart and an Inchoate resolve shaping itself in his brain. Late that night, when the Belle Julie was well on her way up the great river, he flung himself down upon the sacked coffee on the engine roomguard to snatch a little rest between landings, and the resolve became sufficiently cosmic to formulate itself in words: "I'll call it an oracle," he mused. "One place is as good as another, Just so it is inconsequent enough. And I am sure I've never heard of Wahaska." Now Griswold the social rebel, was, oefore all things else, Griswold the imaginative literary craftsman; and no sooner was me question or niB ultimate destination settled thus arbitrarily than he began to prefigure the place and Its probable lacks and havings. This process brought him by easy stages to pleasant idealizings of Miss Charlotte Farnham, who was, thus far, the only tangible thing con- < nected with the destination dream. A , little farther along her personality , laid hold of him and the idealizings ; became purely literary. 1 "She is a magnificently strong , type!" was his summing up of her, made while he was lying flat on his ] back and staring absently at the flit- ] tering shadows among the deck beams overhead. "Her face is as readable as only the face of a woman instinctively good and pure in heart can be. Any man who can put her between the covers of a book may put anything else he pleases in it and snap his fingers at the world. If I am going to live in the same town with her, I ought to Jot her down on paper before I lose the keen edge of the first impression." ] He considered it for a moment, and then got up and went in search of a pencil and a scrap of paper. The dozing night clerk gave him both, with , a sleepy malediction thrown In; and he went back to the engine room and scribbled his word picture by the light of the swinging incandescent. He read it over thoroughly when it was finished, changing a word here and a phrase there with a craftsman's fidelity to the exactness. Then he shook his head regretfully and tore the scrap of paper into tiny squares, scattering them* upon the brown flood surging past the engine room gangway. "It won't do," he confessed reluctantly, as one who sacrifices good literary material to a stern sense of the fitness of things. "It is nothing less than a cold-blooded sacrilege. I can't make a copy of her if I write no more while the world stands." (To Be Continued.) Passing of the Rifle.?"In this war, i the rifle is a toy. The Infantry sol- 1 dier is used merely to occupy trenches that artillery has won," said a Rus- 1 sian officer a few days ago. Now from Holland comes the report that the Germans arc replacing rifles by machine guns wherever possible, and that one hundred thousand are already in use. If these stories are true, the soldier of tomorrow will not bear rifle and bayonet, but will carry under his arm a yard of iron pipe and several yards of leather belting filled with ammunition. He will squirt death at his enemy as if he were spraying flowers with a hose. The Germans regard a machine gun merely as an im- ? proved automatic rifle with a water jacket. They point out that the guards at Waterloo carried a weapon heavier and more clumsy than the latest machine gun, and that in modern trench warfare, with its charges against barbed wire entanglements, the soldier who can fire a hundred shots to his opponent's five has twenty times the chance to live through the fight. The rifle seems doomed to follow the longbow as the principal arm of infantry. In providing themselves with thousands of machine guns, the Germans 2 have anticipated the allies, just as they did in the use of heavy field artillery, torrents of high explosive shells and gas. They have been the masters ( of making today the weapons of tomorrow. In this war without precedent, imagination, not tradition, shows the way to victory. The Ger- s man physicists, chemists and me- l chanical inventors may yet save their a country from the destruction prepar- r ed for her by her diplomats and ruler, t ?Philadelphia Public Ledger. I "Artillery" Ear.?The war has developed what might he termed an "artillery ear," especially among the soldiers in that branch of the service, which enables them to judge accurately what kind of a shell is being fired at them, and whether or not it is aimed at their battery or at some other spot. Many lives have been saved by this gradually developed oral alertness. The men have learned to pay not the slightest attention to a shot that gives off the peculiar sound indicating that it is aimed at some other position. Because of the confusing noise of the artillerist's own battery, the squad tending it usually is divided into two groups, one of which listens for the shells of the opponents, and gives the warning to dive for the shelter back of the guns. The men learn to talk with pauses between each word, listening meantime for the tell-tale whistle of the dangerous shell. The big howitzers give nearly half a minute's warning. As'an officer puts it, one can hear the shells from these guns, and still cut off a slice of wurst and take a swallow from one's "field bottle" before seeking shelter. The shelter in this case must consist of about three layers of heavy wood and two yards of earth and stone? else the shelter and artillerists are gone. At the present time there is practically no hydro-electric power development in China. Such electrical plants as have been Installed are almost altogether driven by steam. The immense delta plains of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, are not, in a general sense, suitable for hydro-electric plants, but in Fuklen, Yunnan and parts of Shantung provinces, water power stations may be ultimately in- stalled. I FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Record* of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of 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 per uiii. ineir purpose is iu unng uau 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. 143D INSTALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, Feb. 11, 1865.) James E. Quinn. We are pained to record the death on the 7th Inst., of Mr. James E Quinn, one of the few noble and unselfish spirits whose name will be handed down to time in colors as bright and enduring as the soldiers' garlands. From the beginning of this struggle be has labored earnestly and Incessantly to ameliorate the sufferings of the poor, to feel the destitute and to be a, father to the fatherless. Bright is the record his good deeds have left behind him. From the resources of a moderate income, he distributed charities to the needy that the millionlire would call enormous. No soldier's sick wife ever left his premises without help and comfort, and a heart gladdened by his kindness. The poor will miss him but he reaps his heavenly reward. The News. Sherman has been for the past week, steadily and cautiously advancing from the Savannah to the Edlsto. Skirmishes between the cavilry forces of the two armies has occurred dally with trifling results. The snemy forced a crossing at Benneker's bridge over the South Edisto, on Saturday with cavalry and occupied the village of Blackvllle; thus cutting the South Carolina railroad between Branchville and Augusta. The latter place Is believed to be his objective point, though his movements are veiled In so much mystery that his real destination Is difficult to ascertain. Our forces are reported for these -easons to be scattered over a lengthy line and concentration will not be jasily attainable when his designs are unmasked. The country is admirably idapted to scouting parties and on the boldness and vigilence of Hampton's ind Wheeler's gallant riders will depend much of our success. The latest news from the front will ue found in the proper column. * Fifth Regiment, 8. C. V. Near Richmond, Va., Jan. 30, 1865. Messrs. Editors: Please publish the 'ollowing list of casualties in Co. B, ith Regiment, S. C. V., from the 6th >f May to the 31st of December, 1865, ncluslve: Killed In the battle of the Wilderiess, May 6th, 1864: Privates W. S. Horris, D. W. Wilks. At Fort Harrison, Sept. 30, 1864: privates James V. Garrison, Thomas r. Stevenson. At the battle of Darbytown, Va., )ct. 7, 1864: Corp. Wm. G. Stlnson. Died of wounds: Privates John B. 3rown, wounded June 22, 1864, and lied July 3, 1864. Henry Ratterree, vounded Aug. 16, and died Aug. 22, .864. John C. Brandon, wounded Sept. 30, and died Nov. 18, 1864. Captured: At the battle of the iVilderne8s, May 6, 1864, Sergt. Winield S. Taylor; Privates Wm. Z. Kell, rhos. J. Evans. Near Spottsylvanla C. H., Va., May 16, 1864, Private James Shaw. G. A. Patrick, Capt., Co. B, 5th Regiment, S. C. V. Wednesday Evening, March 16, 1865.). The Enemy in Lancaster. Lancaster, S. C. March, 12, 1865. The flood has swept over us and left i wide belt of ruin in its track. Desontinn as rnmnlete as ever clad the lombre ruins of Ninevah or Babylon narks the pathway of the destroyer hrough many portions of this district, n many places the houses are all >urnt for several miles along the highvays; not a vlstage of fence or the lemblance of a living being is left, t is as desolate as if some poisonous >last has spent its furious contents, >lackening and charring everything n its flight. The heaviest sufferers >y the enemy were In the southeastern jortion of the district through which i portion of the enemy's infantry )assed. Kilpatrick's cavalry entered this / llage on the morning of the 28th of February, and left on the 4th inst., and venture to say a better organized tang of thieves never existed. Every touse was searched from cellar to rarret and all portable valuables itolen. What could not be carried iway was in many instances carried ;o their camps and destroyed. Not a lorse, mule nor colt was left on the ine of march; those not fit for cavilry or artillery were shot. About 150 carcasses of such animals were eft in the streets and the suburbs of he village. Kilpatrick's headquar :ers were here, which fact probably ipared us from the torch as that would lave interferred w-ith his comfort. It ifforded but little protection in other espects, for officers and men seemed o regard plunder as their principal )bject and highest success. The jail vas the only building burned. After he main column had left a party of ibout 100 returned Sunday with the ivowed object of burning the village put the timely arrival of a part of IVheeler's cavalry put the villians to heir he^ls. Many citizens in the country were ibused in their person. Whipping and langing by the neck to extract conessions of hidden valuables was the :ommon practice. All who were suspected of having coin concealed were nade to suffer. One gentleman, Mr. Adams was shot on his own premises and while struggling in the agonies of death the demons stood over him and prevented his agonized family from administering to his wants. A Mr. Belk was also murder1 ed. The lifeless body of C. B. Northrop, Esq., a well known member of the Charleston bar, who had taken refuge here, was found, after the enemy left, concealed in a ravine, some distance from this place. Singular to say, his wife and family are reported to have gone off with the murderers. Mrs. Mary Barnea, when asked to receive and entertain a party of the villians, nobly replied, "You may burn and destroy what you And here, but E will not permit you to enter my house." The torch did Its work to completion and the defense less iaay was maue iu suner every personal abuse that vicious Ingenuity could suggest. Such are a few of the instances of the suffering to which our people were subjected. It is but a sample of affairs elsewhere in the district. To destroy was the watchword everywhere and had the enemy remained long enough, probably not a brick or stone would have stood In in the whole of Lancaster occupied by them to tell that it was once inhabited. Kilpatrlck's cavaJry numbered about 6,000 and Sherman's entire force will probably not exceed 40,000 men. They do not seem disposed to fight?are much demoralized from indiscriminate pillage, and when once our brave boys encounter them we believe it will be the easiest and most complete rout of the war. The enemy seems to have crossed the Pee Dee and the last of their columns gone into North Carolina. Sherman is reported to be at the county seat of Rockingham and moving toward Fayettevllle, from whence it is supposed he will move toward Wilmington. Report goes on further to say that Gilmore has advanced a considerable force from Charleston in the direction of Florence?probably thinking we were green enough to leave a , few Yankee prisoners there. Let him beware lest Florence prove a danger- 1 ous place for him. Who knows but that he may stumble upon something dangerous there? (To be continued.) CHURCH AND LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Rev. T. T. Walsh Questions Editorial Statement. The following communication was received from Rev. T. T. Walsh, roctor of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal), Yorkville, on Monday of last week: Editor of The Enquirer: In your issue of June 25th, you make the following statements: "The established Church of England has revenues amounting to millions from various liquor sources." With reference to curtailment of the llnnAi* trotfln vnn oav "Tho Irinor uraa willing to make the sacrifice (of income from it) and so were some of the nobility; but the Church of England exerted its powerful influence secretly and openly to hold things as they are, and so the movement fell through." That some of the clergy of the Church of England have individually expressed themselves in opposition to "prohibition" is probably true. But this is my first information that the Church of England as such, has either secretly or openly opposed curtail| ment of the liquor traffic, in fact it is directly contrary to official statements which I have read. i It is possible that a few buildings owned by the Church of England, have been sub-leased to persons who sold liquor. . Some churches in this country also, have found themselves in this predicament and were helpless until the leases expired. I am only surmising, whereas your statements are positive. It is presumed that in making statements so unequivocal and far reaching, you are prepared to substantiate them. I therefore ask that you furnish your readers with your authorities bearing out these most serious charges against the Church of England. In the same issue of your paper you commend the Charlotte Observer because It does not "write learnedly upon a subject upon which it is not well Informed" and state that it is a good rule for newspapers to follow. I therefore infer that you are "well Informed" on this subject and will not cite mere newspaper gossip or magazine articles, but will verify your statements from official sources. Respectfully, T. Tracy Walsh. The foregoing was received during the absence of the editor, as was also the following, with which Rev. Mr. Walsh favored us later: York, S. C., July 1st, 1915. Editor of The Enquirer: I sent a copy of your editorial statement concerning the Church of England and the liquor traffic, to the British ambassador, at Washington. A copy of the reply Is enclosed, and I request that you publish it. Respectfully, T. Tracy Walsh. (Copy). British Embassy?Washington. June 29th, 1915. Dear Sir: In the absence of the ambassador, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instance and to inform you that, as far as I am nersnnnllv awitrc there is no around for the statement contained in the article which you enclose. Yours very truly, (Signed) A. S. Hudson, Secretary. Rev. Thomas Tracy Walsh, Rector, Church of the Good Shepherd, Yorkville, S. C. As we have absolutely no information on the subject under inquiry except such as we have been able to glean from Aasociate Press dispatches and other newspaper gossip, we regret very much our inability to comply with Rev. Mr. Walsh's request. The statements we made are altogether in line with all the information we have as to the attitude and status of the established Church of England; but like the honorable secretary of the British embassy, we will have to admit that "so far as we are personally aware," the situation may or may not be as described. In view of the failure of Lloyd-George's efforts, however, to secure the abolition of the liquor traffic in England under such circumstances, we confess that the reasons ascribed for that failure strike us as quite plausible. While we cannot say certainly at this time, our recollection is that the Associated Press dispatch from which we got the information, was also printed in the Charlotte Observer. Editor Yorkville Enquirer. A dictating phonograph has been invented to enable a military aviator to record his observations and still j have his hands free. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES ! t! 1< News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. 5 CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot |( Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaeton, Lancaster and Cheater. Chester Reporter, July 1: Misses Bertha Stahn and Julia Phillips left 8 this morning to Join a party at Nashville, Tenn., for a trip to the exposition. They will visit Denver, Colorado n Springs, Salt Lake City, the National F park, Frisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, a the Grand Canyon and many other points of interest Yesterday was c the last day for filing state income tax returns for the year, and the books of w County Auditor M. C. Fudge show that ft the following persons will pay the amount of tax after their names: Mrs. A. M. Aiken, $10.15; A. L. Gaston, " $15.00; Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour, D. D.t a $22.80; Mrs. A. D. P. Gilmour, $16.92; hl J. G. White, $48.34; Dr. S. W. Pryor, $29.00; A. G. Brice, $4.14; R. B. Caldwell, $9.82; Dr. W. M. Love, $3.00; S. i, M. Jones, $45.00; J. L. Glenn, $5.00, , Chester Machine & Lumber Co., $24.90; T. H. White, $23.00 Mr. A. M. McKeown of Blackstock, died at his home on that town yesterday af- .. ternoon after a lingering illness and u was buried this morning at Hopewell b< A. R. P. church graveyard, Rev. R. I. c McCown conducting the service. Mr. McKeown was 59 years of age and was a worthy and respected citizen tl Mr. J. I* Glenn received a letter yesterday from Mr. Paul Dana, written from London, June 16. Mr. Dana w wrote that he had just returned from Namur, Belgium, and left Mr. J. L. tl. Glenn, Jr., there and that he was quite well. He further stated that Mr. Glenn was expecting to leave for England ei sometime soon; in fact, just as soon as the committee could get some one to take his place Supervisor D. ai G. Anderson announced this afternoon cl that the steel bridge at Cany Fork will h) be ready for traffic by four o'clock this afternoon. at King's Mountain Herald, July 1: er Conductor Harris of freight train No. . 77. was arrested here a few davs aeo for blocking the Mountain street e< crossing over Ave minutes, and was tc fined $10 and costs by Mayor Cllne. A. M. Long holds the toga as the champion gardner of this section, cl He has just finished marketing 35 n bushels of silver skin onions which . he raised on 35 short rows. The largest one weighed 26 ounces. He has B five short rows of cucumbers. He $] picked the fruit clean on Friday, then went back Monday and gathered 29 dozen marketable cucumbers ac News comes from Eldorado, Ark., that tj, 1. W. McGlll is married and will be here in a few days to visit relatives. Mr. McOill is a son of Mr. and Mrs. tfl J. T. McGill of King's Mountain, and d< has been in the middle west about four and a half years W. F. Goforth had a serious accident last week m when a young horse kicked him in the c< side in the region of the floating ribs. o) He was in the wheat field and had mounted the older horse and expected 11 to lead the younger horse by a reign si to dinner. The younger horse got too ^ much reign and gained sufficient lead to give him the proper range of heels and he kicked Mr. Goforth oft the tr other horse. a, ? ? Lancaster News, July 2: Little ? Louis Hay, the 3-year-old child of ri Mrs. Delia Dunlap of this place, fell m off the porch while playing yesterday ct evening and got several bruises and his collar bone knocked out of place. Medical attention was given and he Li is resting well this morning Mr. 8C J. E. Bowers of the mill village, died this morning at 3 o'clock. He had w been in bad health for quite a while, tr He was a native of the county and or was about 60 years of age. Before moving to the mill village several years ago, he had lived all of his life In the Primus section of the county. su He is survived by his wife and three children. He was a member of the Baptist church The trustees of na the Tradesville school, have elected nj Capt. C. A. Plyler principal, and Miss Belle Shuler assistant, for the next session of this school, which will open ti( ,ts sumruur term sometime in July, of rhls school has an 8-mill tax and re- In ceives state aid of $200 Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Payseur left today for a la three months' trip in northwestern Canada, at Vancouver, B. C. They go oy steamer to Alaska and return through the Klondike and Yukon 411 country, back by San Francisco and pe Los Angeles, then home by Salt Lake -n wity and the great lakes Mr. Jess _ Price died at his home in the mill tillage Wednesday, after a long illness co with dropsy. The remains were taken vi :o Zlon church for burial. The funeral jt, was conducted at the graveyard. 8-1 Gastonia Gazette, July 2: Within la the next thirty days a new industry wl for Gastonia will be in operation. Mr. ^ A. H. Cook & Co., manufacturers of leather belting have leased the second 1oor of the Long building and expect th to begin operations shortly. This new ln Irm has been drawn to Gastonia by the large number of cotton mills and b)> ather industries in this section that te use belting. Mr. Cook has been in mi Gastonia for the last two or three lays looking over the Held and making final arrangements for beginning business Mr. Grier Hawkins and Miss ca Emily Gobel, both of Gastonia township, were married at 8.30. o'clock last ., night by W. M. Adams, Esq., in his 11 jfflce in the Rankin building Mr. gr 0. D. Carpenter, president and general manager of the Harden Manufacturing Co., whose plant was destroyed by fire some weeks ago, was In the city da yesterday en route to Charlotte on a business trip. In conversation with the Gazette, he stated that it was his purpose to rebuild his plant as soon as possible. The building will be constructed anew from the ground up. N'ew and improved machinery will be installed and driven by electricity. Mr. Carpenter was very optimistic over lei :he prospects, despite his recent loss, m In Fort Mill Times, July 1: The re- yy mains of Miss Annie Jones, eldest laughter of the late Robert Jones, were brought to Fort Mill Saturday fe ifternoon from Greensboro, N. C., and ca interred in New Unity cemetery. Miss th ? * >L 1 EV.U.., 1,1 Junes UftLlll uauncu niuaj, iuhwttIng an illness of several months. She was a sister of Charles Jones of Fort th Mill, and Mrs. D. O. Potts of Pleas- pr int Valley, and with her parents resided some years ago in this city Miss Ella Beaty of Winnsboro, Is the at ijuest in this city of her sister, Mrs. de VV. A. Hafner Mrs. C. E. Ross de and son, Arthur Young, are visiting relatives in this city Mrs. Chas. Klueppelberg arrived Tuesday from se Ashburn, Ga., for a visit to relatives {0 In this city Mrs. W. L. Readon ;tnd little son of Greenville, are guests m in the homd of Mrs. Readon's parents, ac Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Harris, in this ra city Prof. L. W. Dick, at one time fn co-principal of the old Fort Mill icademy, spent Friday in this city. Mr. Dick has for the last several years W field the superintendency of the pub- su lie schools of Hartsville The local traded school will, it is stated, shortly lie equipped with sanitary drinking In fountains, the installation being the gr ?ift of the Parent-Teacher club. Con- st( nection will be made with the city water system and the total cost of the connection will be about $75. fo * Ta Gaffney Ledger, July 2: The numer- q< >us friends of Col. T. B. Butler, who underwent an operation at the city fiospital recently, will be glad to all Inlaot ponnrt t rnm hot nstitutlon Is to the effect that his ge condition is so far improved as to be ?xtremely gratifying to the attaches "n )f the hospital The city council ou laa granted a license to Mr. S. V. 'ash of Limestone mill, as public aucloneer for Gaffney, which position has jng been held by Mr. R. F. Spencer. No clue has yet been unearthed .8 to the Identity of the one or ones irho entered and robbed the store of 'olleson & Webster Friday night last, nd on the same night the residence f Mr. R. C. Sarratt. GENERAL NEW8 N0TE8 kerne of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. By a vote of 14 to 17 the Wisconsin enate has defeated a woman suffrage esolution. An explosion destroyed an illumilating rocket plant near Marseilles, "ranee, Thursday. About 70 workers re reported missing. During the past year the Chicago ourts granted 3,458 divorces. There ere 33,897 marriages in the city durig the year. The destruction of the Austrian sublarlne U-ll, in the Adriatic sea, by French aviator a few days ago, has een reported from Rome. John D. Redmond, the leader of the ish Nationalist party of Great Britin, says there are 120,741 Irishmen 'om Ireland in the British army. Miss Katherlne Page, daughter of nited States Ambassador Page, Is to 6 married in London In August, to harles G. Loring of Boston. The agricultural department reports tat the H tsslan fly is doing immense image to the wheat crop in several estern states. Major General Go.'thals, builder of ia Pnnnmn rnnal ta tn r?tlr? frnm le army and on January 1st, will iter private business in New York. William Thomas, a wife murderer, id Wm. B. Stewart, murderer of the lief of police of Ronceverte, were &nged at Moundsvllle, W. Va., Frlly. Both were negroes. The bankruptcy business of the Fedal district court of Pennsylvania, uring the year ending June SO, total1 $8,170,796 in liabilities, against >tal assets of $1,872,066. A group of New York bankers, Inuding J. P. Morgan & Co., the City atlonal bank, and the First National tank, are negotiating with the ritish government for a loan of 100,000,000. The Negro Industrial and Historical isoclatlon opened a national exposlon at Richmond, Va., yesterday, to >ntinue to July 25, to cemmemorate le 50 years of negro freedom and to emonstrate negro progress. Sigmond H. Welhenmayer, a wealthy anufacturer of Hagerstown, Md., immitted suicide Thursday because f despondency over the death of his r- year-old son, who was accidentally lot by a companion about six weeks jo. The Studebaker corporation of Deolt, Mich., has taken out life insurice on the lives of 6,500 of its emoyes, with a New York company, be amount Involved totals several illlon dollars. The insurance is to >8t the employes nothing. According to advices received at aredo, Texas, July 1st, 300 Carranza >ldiers, their wives and children, ere killed in the wreck of a military ain near Monte Merelos, Mexico, i June 20. Too high speed caused the :cident. "There will be no more enthusiastic pporter of President Wilson for re- * tmlnatlon in the next Democratic itional convention than William Jenngs Bryan, and there will be no an whose support after the nomlna>n will be more necessary than that Mr. Bryan," said Senator Kern of diana, in a Washington interview at Friday. General Villa is quoted as having Id: "I am willing to take part in ly movement which will bring about ace in Mexico. However, I state nphattc&lly, most emphatically, that will have nothing to do with any nvention or. arrangement in which ctoriano Huerta takes part. If uerta takes the field in Mexico I id my followers will fight until the st drop of our blood soaks into the Mte sands of our prairies. Huerta ,n never be." George Joseph Smith, charged with e murder of three wives for their surance, has been declared guilty r a London, England, jury, and senneed to be hanged. "You will hang e before your"re done, my lord," is Smith's excited outburst while istlce Scrutton was summing up the se. The prisoner followed this with: fou cannot hang me for murder; re done no murder. This is a dlsace to a Christian country." Four fishermen were drowned in the tlantlc off Ocean City, Md., Thursiy. LOCKS OR 8EA LEVEL. ie Wisdom That Was Shown In Building tho Panama Waterway. The slides in the Panama canal have d some persons to say that it was a istake not to build a sea level canal, i discussion that criticism Mr. Chas. hiting Baker, editor of the Englering News, recently said that the w engineers who urged a sea level nal now dislike to be reminded of e fact "Bad as the slides are and costly as e work of cleaning them away is oving to be," said Mr. Baker, "they juld be vastly greater if the canal Culebra cut were made 85 feet eper, as it would have to be in orr to lower the canal to sea level. Jt even that Is not the worst In a a level canal there would be slides contend with not only In the nine lie long Culebra cut, but all the way ross the isthmus?in the deep mosses along the lower Chargres river, r example, where in some places e soft mud is a hundred feet deep, hen at Panama I myself saw a de move Into the cut that was being ade for the Gatun locks foundation, which half an acre or so of soft ound flowed down the slope like IT molasses. "We owe a great debt of gratitude r our correct choice to President ift, President Roosevelt, Colonel lethals and the late Alfred Noble id other great engineers, who threw I the weight of their Influence in vor of a lock canal. There is no dls ni in me engineering proiession am this assertion, and the public ght also to understand it"