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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
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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
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| 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.
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News Happenings In Neighboring Communities.
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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.
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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"