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CHAPTER VI.
Quicksands.
On the morning following the rescue
of the mate, Charlotte Farnham
awoke with the conviction that she had
been miraculously saved from incurring
the penalties dealt out to those
who rush blindly into the thick of
things without due thought and careful
consideration.
But the Puritan conscience was not
to be entirely silenced. Reason sits
in a higher seat than that occupied by
the senses, and reason argued that a
man who would forgive his enemy and
instantly risk his life in proof of the
ft forgiveness, could not be a desperate
* criminal. Conscience pointed out the
alternative. A little careful investigation
would remove the doubt?or confirm
it. Somebody on the boat must
know the deckhand or know enough
about him to establish his real identity
Charlotte worried over the wretched
entanglement all day, and was so distrait
and absent-minded that her aunt
remarked it, naming it malaria and
prescribing quinine. Whereat Charlotte
dissembled and put on a mask of
cheerfulness, keeping it on until after
the evening meal and her aunt's early
retiring. But when she was released
she was glad enough to go out on the
promenade just forward of the starboard
paddle-box, where there were
no after-dinner loungers, to be alone
with her problem and free to plunge
once more into its intracies.
It was possibly ten minutes later,
while she stood leaning against a
stanchion and watching the lights of
a distant town rise out of the watery
horizon ahead, that chance, the final
arbiter in so many human involvements.
led her quickly into the valley
of decision. She heard a man's step
on the steeply pitched stair leading
down from the hurricane deck. Before
she could turn away he was confronting
her; the man whose name on the
Belle Julie's crew roster was John
Wesley Gavitt
Griswold's appearance was less fortuitous
than it seemed to be. As a reward
of merit for having saved the
mate's life, he had been told off to
serve temporarily as man-of-all-work
for the day pilot, who chanced to be
without a steersman. His watch in
the pilothouse was over, and he was
on his way to the crew's quarters below
when he stumbled upon Miss Farnham.
Mindful of his earlier slip, he
passed her as if she had Deen invisioie.
She let him go until her opportunity
was all but lost; then, plucking courage
out of the heart of desperation
she spoke.
"One moment, if you please; I?I
want to ask you something," she faltered;
and he wheeled obediently and
faced her.
Followed a pause, inevitable, but
none the less awkward for the one
who was responsible. Griswold felt
rather than saw, her embarrassment,
and was generous enough to try to
help her.
"I think I know what you wish to
say; you are quite at liberty to say
it," he offered, when the pause had
grown into an obstacle which she
seemed powerless to surmount.
"I thought perhaps?I had hoped?
oh, for goodness* sake, why did you
do it?" she burst out, no longer able
to fence with the weapons of indirectness.
He answered her frankly.
"It was the old story of one man's
overplenty and another man's need.
Have you ever known what it means
to go hungry for sheer poverty's sake?
?but, of course, you haven't?"
"No," she admitted.
"Well, I have. I was hungry that
morning: very hungry. I know this
doesn't excuse the thing?to you. But
perhaps it may help to explain it."
"I think I can understand?a little.
But surely?"
He stopped her with a quick little
gesture.
"I know what you are going to say
?that I should have been willing to
work, or even to beg, rather than
steal. I was willing to work; I was
not willing to beg. I know it is all
w ruiiK nuiii yuui puim ui view, uui i
should be sorry to have you think
that I did what I believed to be
wrong."
"But think of it: if you are right,
everyone else must be wrong!"
"No; not quite everyone. But that
is a very large question, and we needn't
go into it. I confess that my method
was unconventional: a little more
summary than that of the usurers and
the strictly legal robbers, but quite as
defensible. For they rob the poor
and the helpless, while I merely dispossessed
one rich corporation of a
portion of its exactions from the
many."
"Then you are not sorry? I saw
you yesterday afternoon and hoped
you were."
He laughed unpleasantly. "I was
sorry, then, and I am now; for the
same reason. I have lost the money."
"Lost it?" she gasped. "How?"
"I had hidden it. and I suppose
someone else has found it. It is all
right, so far as the ownership is concerned:
but I am still self-centered
enough to be chagrined about it."
"But you must have returned it in
the end. You could never have been
content to keep it."
"Do you think so?" he rejoined. "I
think I could have been quite content
to keep it. But that is past: it is
gone, and I couldn't return it if I
wanted to."
"No," she acquiesced; "and that
makes it all the harder."
"For you to do what you must do?
But you mustn't think of that. 1
shouldn't have made restitution in
any event. I*et me tell you what T
did. I had a weapon, as you have
read. I tied it up with the money in
a handkerchief. There was always
the chance of their catching me, and
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I had made up my mind that my last
free act would be to drop the bundle
into the river. So you see you need
not resitate on that score."
"Then you know what it Is that I
must do?"
"Assuredly. I knew it yesterday,
when I saw that you had recognized
me. It was very merciful in you to
reprieve me, even for a few hours;
but you will pardon me if I say it
was wrong?"
"Wrong!" she burst out. "Is it generous
to say that to me? Are you so
indifferent yourself that you think everyone
else is indifferent, too?"
He smiled under cover of the darkness.
"I know you are not IndifTerent;
you couldn't be. But you must be
true to yourself, at whatever cost.
Will you go to Captain Mayfield
now?"
She hesitated.
"I thought of doing that, at first,"
she began, postponing to a more convenient
season the unnerving reflection
that she was actually discussing
the ways and means of it with him.
"It seemed to be the simplest thing
to do. But then I saw what would
happen; that I should be obliged?"
Aomin ho ntnnned her with a Res
ture.
"I understand. We must guard
against that at all hazards. You must
not be dragged into it, you know, even
remotely."
"I wrote a letter to?to Mr. Galbralth,"
she confessed.
"And you have not sent?"
"No. If I had, I shouldn't have
spoken to you."
"To be sure. I suppose you signed
the letter."
' "Certainly."
"That was a mistake. You must
rewrite it, leaving out your name, and
send it. All you need to say is that
the man who robbed the Bayou State
Security is escaping on the Belle Julie;
that he is disguised as a deckhand,
and that his name on the steamer's
books is John Wesley Gavltt
That will be amply sufficient."
She was silent for a moment. Then:
"Why mustn't I sign it? They will
pay no attention to an anonymous letter.
And, besides, it seem? so?so
cowardly."
"They will telegraph to every river
landing ahead of us within an hour
' "One Moment, If You Please."
after your letter reaches New Orleans;
you needn't doubt that. And
the suppression of your name isn't
cowardly; it is merely a justifiable bit
of self-protection. It is your duty to
give the alarm; but when you have
done that, your responsibility ceases.
There are plenty of people who can
identify me if I am taken back to
New Orleans. You don't want to be
summoned as a witness, and you
needn't be."
She saw the direct manlike, wisdom
of all this, and was quick to appreciate
his delicate tact in effacing the question
of the reward without even referring
to it. But his stoicism was almost
appalling.
"It is very shocking!" she murmured;
"only you don't seem to realize
it at all."
"Don't I? You must remember that
I have been arguing from your point
of view. My own is quite unchanged.
It is your duty to do what you must
do; it is my affair to avert the consequences
to myself if I can manage it
without taking an unfair advantage of
your frankness."
"What will you do?"
"It would be bad faith now for me
to try and run away from the 'earner,
as I meant to do. So far, you have
bound me by your candor. But beyond
that I make no promises. My
parole will be at an end when the officers
appear, and I shall do what I can
to dodge, or to escape if I am taken.
Is that fair?"
"It is more than fair; 1 can't understand."
"What is it that you can't understand?"
"How you can do this; how you cati
do such things as the one you did last
night, and still?"
He finished the sentence for her?
"and still be a common robber ol
banks, and the like. I fancy it is a
bit puzzling?from your point of view.
Sometime, perhaps, we shall all understand
things better than we <]t
now, I lit to that time, and beyond it.
I shall be your grateful debtor for whaf
you have done tonight. May 1 g?
now?"
She gave him leave, and when lu
was gone, she went to her stateroom
to write as he had suggested. An hour
later she gave the newly written letter
to the night clerk; and the thing was
done.
In the ordinary course of things,
Miss Parnham's letter should have
reached New Orleans in time to have
procured Griswold's arrest at any one
of a score of landing south of Memphis.
When the spires of the Tennessee
metropolis disappeared to the
southward, he began to think that her
resolution had failed.
He had no means of knowing that
she had given her letter to the night
clerk within the hour of their interview
on the saloon deck promenade;
nor did he, or anyone else, know that
it had lain unnoticed and overlooked
on the clerk's desk until the Belle
Julio reached Cairo. Such, however,
was the pregnant fact; and to this
purely accidental delay Griswold owed
his first sight of the chief city of Missouri
lying dim and shadowy under its
mantle of coal smoke.
The Belle Julie made her landing in
the early evening, and Charlotte was
busy up to the last moment getting
her own and her aunt's belongings
ready for the transfer to the upper
river steamer on which they were to
complete their Journey to Minnesota.
Hence, it was not until the Belle Julie
was edging her way up to the stonepaved
levee that Charlotte 'broke her
self-imposed rule and slipped out upon
the port promenade.
The swing stage was poised in the
air ready to be lowered, and two of
the deckhands were dropping from
the shore end to trail the bowline up
the paved slope to the nearest mooring
ring. There was an electric arc
light opposite the steamer's berth, and
Charlotte shaded her eyes with her
hands to follow the motions of the
two bent figures under the dripping
hawser.
One of the men was wearing a cap,
and there was a small bundle hanging
at his belt She recognized him at
once. At the mooring ring he was the
one who stooped to make the line fast
and the other, a negro, stood aside.
At that moment the landing stage fell
and in the confusion of debarkation
which promptly followed, the thrilling
bit of byplay at the mooring ring
passed unnoticed by all save the silent
watcher on the saloon desk.
While the man In the cap was still
on his knees, two men stole from the
shadow of the nearest freight pyramid
and flung themselves upon him. He
fought fiercely for a moment, and
though he was more than doubly outweighed,
rose to his feet, striking out
viciously and dragging his assailants
up with him. In the struggle the
bundle dropped from his belt, and
Charlotte saw him kick it aside. The
waiting negro caught it deftly and
vanished among the freight ypramids;
whereupon one of the attacking pair
wrenched himself out of the threeman
scuffle and darted away in pursuit.
This left but a single antagonist for
the fugitive, and Charlotte's sympathies,
deserted her convictions for the
moment. But while she was biting
her lip to keep from crying out, the
fugitive stepped back and held out his
hands, and she saw the tfleam of polished
metal reflecting the glerc of the
arc light when the officer snapped the
' handcuffs upon his wrists.
It was with a distinct sense of culpability
oppressing her that she went
back to her aunt, and she was careful
not to let the invalid see her face.
Fortunately there was a thing to be
done, and the transfer to the other
steamer came opportunely to help
her to re-establish the balance of
things distorted.
She was sorry, but, aft^r all, the
man had only himself to blame. None
the less, the wish that someone else
might have been his betrayer was
promising to grow later into remorseful
and lasting regret when, with her
aunt, she left the Belle Julie and
walked up the levee to go aboard the
Star of the North.
(To be continued.)
The Deadly Railroad Crossing.?Mr.
Fairfax Harrison, president of the
Southern Railway company, has had
printed for distribution among the
people throughout the territory of the
Southern's lines, a placard giving
warning of the danger constantly to
be encountered at the grade crossing.
Mr. Harrison has compiled a list of
accidents occurring to automobiles at
grade crossings during the year ended
June 30, and the result ought to
make the public take pause. In Alabama,
Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia,
there were 69 grade crossing accidents.
North Carolina leading with 27.
Twelve people were killed, 58 were injured
and 69 machines were demolished.
The public will give I'resident
Harrison credit for the uttera ice of a
truth when he says that "most of the
accidents to automobiles at railroad
crossings could be avoided if there
were the same restraint of experience
and attention at the wheel of the automobile
as at the throttle of the locomotive."
Mr. Harrison has decided
ideas as to the matter of paying damage
suits for these accidents. He says:
"It does not suffice the public in any
moral sense that the fund made up of
the revenues collected by the railroad
is usually made to respond to
damages for consequences of such accidents.
Suicide to collect life insurance
has never been deemed honorable,
while no one would deliberately
sell the life of a mother or wife, son
or brother for money; on the other
hand, the collection of damages out of
railroad revenues, as a punishment for
an avoidable accident, when there can
be no real compensation, is an economic
waste." The statement is made
that last year 3.80 cents of every dollar
of revenue collected from the public
went in payment of damage suits
of all kinds. President Harrison con
eludes with a sensible suggestion
which the Observer willingly jmsses
along. He says that "words of caution
and common sense around the
family dinner table can have more intluence
and save more lives at railroad
crossings than all the warning
whistles ever blown by a locomotive
engineer."?Charlotte Observer.
i Chocolate Soldiers.?The soldiers
weakness for sweetmeats, to which
Mr. Bernard Shaw called attention
when he wrote "The Chocolate Soldier,"
has been abundantly conflrmr
ed during the present war, says the
j Westminster flazette. The -juantity
of sweets consumed by our army in
France has been prodigious, while
from Cairo comes the news that the
i Australians have absolutely eaten the
place out of chocolate. On the troop
ships which brought them, too, it was
the same. Thus Captain Bean, the of?
ficial correspondent with the force,
writes: "Our canteen had five times
the demand for sweets and soft drinks
that was expected, and one-fifth the
1 demand for beer."
FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS
As Traced In Early Files of The
Yorkvllle Enquirer.
NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY
Bringing Up Records of tha Past and
Giving tha Youngar Raadera of To*
day a Pretty Comprehenaive Knowledge
of tha 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 t~a 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.
145TH INSTALLMENT
(Wednesday Evening, April 19, 1865.)
The Mails.
At a public meeting of the citizens
of Yorkville and vicinity held in the
courthouse on the 14th instant, a
project was instituted for the furnishing
daily mails to the village postofflce.
The removal of the railroad has inflicted
serious embarrassment upon
the community in the way of news,
and the "man about town" is compelled
to fold his hands in idleness
and close his lips once ripe in speculations,
upon army movements simply
because he has no news.
A subscription for the purpose of
furnishing the latest reliable news
daily is being taken up here; and any
of our country friends anxious to enjoy
the benefits can fork over to the
committeemen and get their money's
worth in due time.
Married?On the 6th inst., by Rev.
S. L. Watson, Sergt. W. A. McCallum
and Miss Cynthia A., daughter of
MaJ. A. A. McKenzle, all of this district.
*
From Virginia.
The Fight at Petersburg, Retreat,
Pursuit, and Capitulation of Gen.
Lee's Army. Gen. Lee a Prisoner of
War. Officers and Men in Tears.
Sad details, etc., etc.
The news which we have to present
to our readers today is bad, bad, bad!
We have scarcely the heart to tell the
story for we know when it goes forth
tc the country and the full weight
of the disaster is realized, there will
be lamentation in every patriotic
household in the land. Strong men
will bow their heads and weep, women
will go to their closets and pray; and
there will be heaviness and weariness
of soul.
Thank God, however, all is not lost.
While the army of Northern Virginia
no longer exists except as a memory,
its honor still lives, its spirit is still
unsubdued, its men are defiant and
brave and sometime and somehow
there will commence a recuperation
of strength and regenerateion of energy,
that is destined to reiterate to the
whole civilized world the old historic
truth that a great people striving with
all their might for freedom and independence
can never be subdued.
Stoneman'i Cavalry.
Stoneman's cavalry, which has been
hanging around upon the upper borders
of this district for several days
past left an Monday morning, going,
it was supposed, to Raleigh. Although
the existing truce disarms them for
mischief we are nevertheless glad to
be rid of their close proximity and
welcome their departure.
*
The Catawba Bridge Burned.
On Wednesday last, a small force of
the enemy's cavalry estimated at about
400, reached the railroad bridge over
the Catawba and succeeded in destroying
it before our forces came up.
They were a detachment from Stoneman's
command and retreated in the
direction of Lincolnton.
Stoneman is said to hold Lincolnton
with a heavy force of cavalry for the
temporary suspension of hostilities;
his proximity to us need cause no
alarm for the present.
*
The Camden Raid.
The recent raid upon Camden consisted
of negro and white troops from
Foster's command, the proportion of
negroes being about one-third of the
whole force. They burned at Camden
and elsewhere about fifteen locomotives
and a large amount of rolling
stock collected there from other mads
in the stare The sunDlies had been
previously removed with the exception
of a quantity of government sugar.
This was partly distributed to the citizens
by the commission there and tho
enemy did not disturb it. About 30
hogsheads fell into their hands and
were destroyed. They returned toward
Florence and Charleston.
12th Regiment, S. C. V.
We are under obligations to Lieut.
Martin V. Darwin of Co B, 12th regiment,
S. C. V., who was paroled at
Appomattox, C. H., Va., on the 10th
instant, for the subjoined list of the
officers and privates of Cos. A and B,
and their status at the time of the
surrender of Gen. Lee:
Co. A: Paroled?Capt. J. T. Parker,
Wm. P. Hobbs, S. W. Robinson, Robt.
A. Latta, Jas. Galloway, Wm. Lee, W.
E. Gunn, R. E. D. Currence, W. E.
Adams, J. M. Lindsay, Wm. R. Simms,
N. M. Sandlfer, R. A. Rhea, J. F.
Parker, (drowned) J. A. Hall, Jas.
Doster, S. W. Watson.
Missing?Lieut. J. A. Watson, Orderly
Sergeant J. J. Thomlinson, Robt.
Plaxico, J. Webb Parker, S. M. Scott,
Wm. F. Beard, Geo. W. Pearson, Jno.
L Davies, Thos. Crawford, Robert
Coonrod, Wm, Coonrod, N. B. Roach,
W. E. Jackson. Wm. Kidd, E. C.
8 rr\\ 11 r T P I
I'nce, jas. I IllMIiassuii, iy. uuyi-i, <1. v>.
Chesser, J. McLean.
Killed?Ross Galloway.
Wounded?Sergt. J. G. Love, Jas.
Hlair, Jno. W. Doster, T, M. Gwlnn.
* *
Co. B: Paroled?First Lieut. M. V.
Darwin, Sergt. M. W. Whitesldes,
Corp. E. P. Castles, Corp. W. Westmoreland,
Privates J. R. Arrowood, J.
T. Bigham, E. C. Childers, E. S. Dar-1
win, J. S. Chambers, S. Hagans, Martin
Holbrook, J. B. McFadden, J. E. McKnight,
R. McKnight, J. W. Templeton.
W. T. Wallace, W. P. Wylie.
Missing?Sergt. R. G. Whitesides,
Corp. I. B. Whlsonant, W. W. White,
J. L. Wood. W. H. White, J. Chllders,
S. Childers, J. A. Kincaid, J. D.
Kell, Lewis Farmer, M. A. Moore, M.
R. Nichols, J. D. Stuart, Edward
Smith, J. M. Whitesides, J. P. Whlsonant.
Private A. F. McConnell of Co. Q,
Palmetto Sharpshooters, has kindly
furnished us with the following roll
of his company, showing the status of
members at the time of the surrender:
Paroled?Capt. W. B. Smith, Lieut.
J. W. Carroll, First Sergt. E. M.
Kirkpatrick, Second Sergt. D. C. McKlnney,
Third Sergt. H. C. Conner, I
Fourth Sergt. R. C. Stevenson, Firtn
Serjrt. O. J. Gwlnn, Corp. J. T. Hall,
Corp. R. T. Gillespie, Corp. R. H. Harshaw,
left on the road sick; Corp. Jno.
P. Hambright, Privates J. M. Adams,
Bo&twright, D. H. Carroll, T.
Carroll, J. D. Dickson, E. Davidson,
W. P. Dye. L. M. Elliott, R. H. Gilflllen,
Jno. Graham, Jno. M. Howe, D.
J. Howe, J. J. Miller, Jno. Mlskelley,
H. Moss, A. F. McConnell, A. C. McKnlght,
T. McKeown, G. H. O'Leary,
J. L. Rainey, Jno. J. Smith, R. P.
Smith, T. C. Williams, J. H. Gwlnn,
Sam'l. Hamel, P. Manning.
Missing?J. Cobb, J. Kersey, R. R.
Parrish, Henry Sarratt, W. Wilkerson,
C. D. Gwlnn, W. Whitesldee.
(To be Continued.)
AN ACT
To Submit to the Qualified Electors of
the 8tate of 8outh Carolina tha
Question of the Prohibition of the
Manufacture and Sale of Alcoholio
Liquors and Beverages in the State
and to Provide for the Carrying of
These Provisions Into Effect
Be it enacted by the state of South
Carolina:
Section 1. That on Tuesday, the 14th
day of September, 1916, an election
shall be held pursuant to law submitting
to the qualified electors of the
state of South Carolina the question as
to whether the manufacture and sale
of alcoholic liquors and beverages shall
be prohibited or continued in this
state as now provided by law, and
such election shall be held and conducted
under the laws and In the manner
prescribed for regular elections.
Sec. 2. Each person favoring the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors
and beverages in South Carolina,
and voting on this question, shall
cast his ballot "For Manufacture and
Sale of Alcoholic Liquors and Beverages
in South Carolina," and each person
opposing the sale and manufacture
of alcoholic liquors and beverages In
Soilth Carolina, and voting on this
question, shall cast his ballot "Against
the Manufacture and Sale of Alcoholic
Liquors and Beverages in South Carolina."
One ballot box at each precinct
shall be provided, and all the provisions
of law of force in regard to general
and special elections shall be applicable
to and cover the manner of
conducting this election, and ascertaining
the result thereof: Provided,
That the supervisors of registration of
the respective counties of this state
shall open the books of registration of
the respective counties of this state
shall open the books of registration in
each county up to 30 days of the date
herein provided, and shall in all counties
comply with the provisions of section
206, code of laws of South Carolina,
1912, volume I, prior to said election.
The supervisors of registration shall
be entitled to receive in consideration
for extra services the same compensation
for the year 1916, that the law
provides for a general election year.
Sec. 3. If the majority of the ballots
cast be "For the Manufacture and
Sale of Alcoholic Liquors and Beverages
in South Carolina," any laws existing
and of force at the time of such
election, shall be and remain in full
force and effect.
Sec. 4. Should the majority of the
ballots so cast be "Against the Manufacture
and Sale of Alcoholic Liquors,
and Beverages in South Carolina,"
then the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquors and beverages in this
state will be unlawful, except as
hereinafter provided, and the authorities
in every county in this state, now
or hereafter vested with the control
of dispensaries, where dispensaries
for the sale of alcoholic liquors are
now operating under existing laws,
shall proceed to wind up the affairs
of such dispensaries and shall close
the same on or ebfore the 31st day of
December, 1915 and no liquor shall
be bought or contracted for or received
by any county dispensary board
after the result of said election is declared
by the state board of canvassers.
Sec. 5. The manufacture and sale of
alcohol shall be allowed and permitted
as now provided by law.
Sec. 6. The words "alcoholic liquors
and beverages'' as used herein shall
be considered any liquor, beer, beverage
or compound, whether distilled,
fermented or otherwise, by whatsoever
name known or called, which will
produce intoxication, or which contains
in excess of one percentum of alcohol
and is used as a beverage.
Sec. 7. All arts or parts of acts Inconsistent
with the provisions of this
act be, and the same are hereby, repealed:
Provided, nothing in this act
contained shall be construed to repeal
any law defining the offensive and
any penalty, fine or provision for the
enforcement of law not inconsistent
herewith, but such provisions, penalties
and fines shall remain in full
force and effect.
Approved the 16th day of February,
A. D. 1915.
The Farmers' Creed,?I believe in a
permanent agriculture?a soil that
will grow richer than poorer from
year to year.
I believe in 100 bushel corn and in
50 bushel wheat, and I shall not be
satisfied with anything less.
I believe that the only good weed is
a dead weed, and that a clean farm is
as important as a clean conscience.
I believe in the farm boy and in the
farm girl, the farmer's best crop, the
future's best hope.
I believe in the farm woman and
will do all in my power to make her
life easier and happier.
I believe in the country school that
prepares for country life, and a coun* ??
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love deeply and live honorably.
I believe in community spirit, a
pride in home and neighbors and I will
do my part to make my community
the best in the state.
I believe In the farmer, I believe in
farm life, I believe in the inspiration
of the open country.
I am proud to be a farmer and I will
try earnestly to be worthy of the
name.
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News Happenings In Neighboring
Communities
CONDENSED FOR (DICK READING
Dealing Mainly With Local Affaira of
Cherokee," Cleveland, Qaaton, Lancaster
and Cheater.
Cheater Reporter, July 12: The
Chester County Alfalfa association met
at the courthouse Saturday morning
and arranged for the purchase of
seed and lime. Several of those on
hand announced that they are going
to put in several more acres of alfalfa
and reports were had from others who
expect to become alfalfa growers.
Chester county has not made the
progress In alfalfa growing that some
of the other counties of the state have,
but County Farm Agent Riley thinks
that there are signs of progress
The remains of Mr. C. S. Pudge, who
died suddenly at Albany, Ga., Thursday,
arrived here Friday evening and
were taken to Rlchburg and interred
Saturday at Union A. R. P. church
graveyard, the funeral service being
conducted by Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour,
D. D Mr. William Mayfleld, one
of Chester's oldest and most highly
esteemed citizens, died Saturday evening
at his residence on Mobley street,
after a few days' illness. Mr. Mayfleld
had been in declining health of late,
but the final summons came suddenly,
and was a great shock to family
and friends Mr. T. J. Caldwell,
deputy clerk of court, is now engaged
In re-Indexing all unsatisfied real
estate mortgages in the clerk's office
from January 1, 1896, to January 1,
1912, and all real estate deeds from
January 1, 1871, to January 1, 1912, to
make the same conform to the indexing
system that the county adopted on
this latter date, and which is of a
character to greatly facilitate all
kinds of investigation of record
Gaffney Ledger, July 13: Feeling
that the county was getting the worst
end of the bargain in the matter of
exchanging prisoners with the town,
Supervisor J. M. Jenkins last week
notified Mayor N. H. Littlejohn that
the town must send all convicts to the
county chaingang or else not send any.
The supervisor had the approval of
the entire board of county commission
era in the course he took. After receiving:
the notice, Mayo** IJttlejohn
ordered all the town prisoners, five in
number, returned to the custody of the
city. According: to the mayor's understanding
in the matter, it has been
customary for the town to send its
convicts to the county gang unless
they were needed on the city street
force. The county authorities concluded
that the town of Gaffney was
taking advantage of this arrangement
by keeping the able-bodied, strong
men on the street force and sending
the weaker men and boys to the county
road gang. Acting upon this conclusion
the mayor was notified that
all or none of the city prisoners must
be turned over to the county, and the
mayor decided that hereafter the town
will work its own convicts T. H.
Lockhart, since the present city administration
assumed office more than
a year ago a private citizen but for
fourteen years before that time a
member of the local police force, was
again elected policeman by the city
council in<,special session Friday night.
He was also assigned the duties of
building inspector. Mr. Lockhart assumed
his new duties Saturday morning
Mr. Duke Hicks, who was
recently appointed substitute carrier
and clerk for the local postofflce, Is
this week delivering the mail on a
city route for Mr. Sherwood Rogers,
the regular carrier, who is taking his
vacation Mr. S. F. Parrott, deputy
internal revenue collector, spent the
week-end in the city with his family
on Limestone street. Mr. Parrott has
recently undergone several operations
and was for a time unable to perform
his work, but he is now practically recovered.
Gastonia Gazette, July 13: Cherryvllle
is still rent and torn over the
proposition of a site for the new
school building. As was noted two' or
three weeks ago the matter was
brought before the county board of
education but that body found that it
had no jurisdiction. The new administration
of Cherryvllle wanted to put
the new school building, for which
bonds in the sum of $20,000 were
recently issued, on a site different
from the one occupied by the present
building. Recently the new board,
having procured a new site, began
work on the building. Immediately
the opposition took the matter before
Judge Webb and procured a temporary
restraining order. Trie question as iu
whether this restraining order shall
be made permanent, pending a hearing
of the case at the September term
of court, will be argued before Judge
W. F. Harding in chambers on Thursday,
July 22, probably in Charlotte.
Both sides have retained able counsel
and the case promises to be a hard
fought one A wedding which
came as a distinct surprise to the
friends and relatives of both parties
was solemnized Saturday afternoon at
the manse of the Presbyterian church
in Clover, when Miss Hattle Hanna
became the bride of Mr. J. P. Thomas.
Mrs. J. D. Smith and her son,
Mr. W. L. Smith, bookkeeper for Craig
& Wilson, while driving Sunday afternoon
on Craig & Wilson's farm east of
town, were the victims of an accident
which resulted in Mrs. Smith sustaining
a serious injury to her back
and other bruises. Mr. Smith escaped
with slight bruises. In making a turn
on a narrow road the horse- they were
driving, backed into a gully which was
about fifteen feet deep, precipitating
the vehicle and its occupants to the
bottom. The top of the buggy was demolished
and one shaft was broken.
The horse was uninjured except for
minor bruises.
Lancaster News, July 13: Lemuel
Johnson and Perry Small, aged about
twelve and nine respectively, grandsons
of Coroner M. N. Johnson of the
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Perry's father, Mr. Andrew Small,
were playing with a shotgun last Tuesday
afternoon and a careless handling
of the weapon came near costing the
lives of themselves and another child,
Mr. Small's baby. They unbreached
the gun, took a shell from It and then
tried to replace the shell. When It
did not slip easily into place they began
to hammer on it and the explosion
which followed burned both boys
about the face and' eyes and the shell
narrowly escaped hitting the baby, who
was playing on the floor nearby. A
hole In the floor very close to where
the little one sat showed where the
shell went through, but she did not
recognize the danger she had been in
and tried to tell of the accident in
her baby way, saying, "Gun went
boom, boom." The injuries to both
boys were very painful but it is
thought that their eyesight will not be
hurt permanently The week's religious
meeting, conducted by the Rev.
J. C. Rowan of Camden, came to a
close Sunday night In the open air at
the courthouse square, in the presence
of the largest congregation, composed
of all the denominations of the town,
ever as?embled together in Lancaster,
there be.'ng about 500 people present.
Rock Hill Record, July 12: Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Thompson of Richmond,
Va., announce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Ha^ei Marie, to Mr.
Thomas Walker Hue/ of Rock Hill.
The wedding will take place in the
early fall The 16-months-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Thornberg
of the Manchester mill village,
died Sunday night and will be buried
In Laurelwood Tuesday morning
J. O. Anderson returned Friday night
from a ten days' business trip to New
Tork. He reports things going good
up there and that they do not seem
to know anything about a war going
on In the matter of the now famous
Woodland park ditch, a Jury in
condemnation proceedings met Friday
night to consider the property of &
E. Poag. This Jury awarded Mr. Poag
$160.
THE CITY OF ARRA8
Center of Recent Fighting an Old and
Prosperous Place.
Over the hundreds of miles of bodystrewn
battlefields in Europe^ no more
deadly spot could be found during recent
fighting than Just to the north of
Arras, where for more than a month
and a half the French have driven
home innumerable fearless, determined
assaults against almost impregnable
field works. More lives nave oeeu
lost to the square yard of fighting area
here, according to dispatches, than upon
any other part of the endless battle
line. Arras, the point from which
the French have been strongly forcing
the fighting, is described in a statement
recently issued by the National
Geographic society.
"Arras, the capital of the French department
of Pas-de-Calals, Is one of
the oldest and most important towns
In northern France, and Is situated on
the right and southern bank of the
river Scarpe, rt its junction with the
Crlnchon, partly on heights and partly
in a fertile pialn. A low line of heights
extend to the north of the town, where
the present German line runs almost
due north to Tpres, in Belgium. Arras
is one of the principal stations on
the French Northern railway, being
about 137 miles distant from Paris by
rail. Brussels lies 97 miles to the
northeast of this advance German outpost,
while the Important city of
Amiens is 38 miles to the north-south-1
east.
"One of the leading grain markets
of France was held in this busy city
before the war. It lies well In the oenter
of a rich agricultural, grazing and
industrial district, and has always been
Important for its trade and manufactures.
Chief among the factory products
of Arras, were beet-sugar, agricultural
implements, hosiery, lace, pottery
and leather. As early as the 4th
century, this little town was famous
for its woolen manufactures, a fame
that it has lost to the great woolen
centers of Britiannia across the water.'
It later became famous wherever lux- '
uary held footing for the manufacture
of tapestries. Some of the most beautiful
worked hangings were produced
here up to the 15th century, and so superior
were the tapestries of the place,
that they were commonly known as
arras. The commerce of the city is
important in grain, flour, oil, wine and
brandy products.
"The lower town was compactly
built, its generous-appearing homes
being constructed of hewn stone. Most
of the streets were laid out broad and
straight, and Arras made an impression
of prosperity and progressiveness
upon the visitor, 'mere were a number
of fine squares, bordered by beautiful
public buildings. It had a population
of 25,000 at the outbreak of the
war, a population to which bitter necessity
was unknown.
"Many an important action in northern
France has been fought in and
around Arras, a site where the Latin,
Celtic and German elements have
struggled since the foundation of the
Roman empire. The city belonged to
the Spanish branch of the house of
Hapsburg until 1640, when Louis XIII,
of France, captured it after a long,
severe siege. It was ceded to France
by the Treaty o! the Pyrenees. The
French Revolution and the Invasion of
the Germans in 1870-71 caused much
suffering among its people. Arras was
the birthplace of Maximilien Robespierre,
the inspired leader of the 'Terror'
in Paris, and also of Joseph Lebon,
originally of the military, who
led the celebrations of the horrible
rites of the revolution In his native
city."
Titles of Future Kings.?The various
titles by which the heirs apparent
to the important thrones of the world
are:
Italy?Prince of Piedmont.
England?Prince of Wales. Duke of
Cornwell and Duke of Rothesay.
Austria-Hungary?Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Belgium?Duke of Brabant.
Bulgaria?Crown prince.
Denmark?Crown prince.
Japan?Crcwn prince.
Montenegro?Prince of Montenegro.
Holland?Princess of Holland.
Nnrwav?Crown Drlnce.
Roumanla?Prince of Roumania.
Russia?Czarevitch and grand duke.
Serbia?Prince of Serbia.
Spain?Prince of Asturias.
Sweden?Duke of Scania and Prince
of Sweden.?Kansas City Star.
A safety pocket to hold a watch
securely features a new apron for
workmen.
UPPER AND NETHER MILLSTONES
How England'* High-hsndedn*** Affect*
the 8outh.
While on the brink of a possible
open breach with Germany, may it be
held nut of place if we, at the same
time, consider our grievance against
Great Britain in the matter of It* destructive
attitude toward American
commerce; in particular Its paralysing
effect on the chief Industry of the
south?
Within the past ten days, the south'*
chief money product, cotton, has depreciated
in value about $10 per bale;
yesterday's future quotations being
8.83-5 against 9.74-6 on July 1st, while
spots were quoted at 8.50 as against
14 1-8 a year ago?a net decline in
8pots since the European war began
of about $30 a bale.
There mnv be those, of course, who
will argue still, that cotton Is, even
now, selling at as good price as we
have any right to expect, under normal
conditions, for a 16,000-000 bale
crop; and this may be, to some extent
true.
But this does not say it all. Let us
consider whether or not, even under
present abnormal conditions, we might
be receiving considerably more for our
cotton?but for Great Britain's unwarranted
and unlawful interference with
our trade in this "non-contraband"
product If so, we still have a grievance,
and a very serious one.
According to the latest Issues of the
"Weekly Report" published by the
American Association of Commerce
and Trade at Berlin and as republished
in the New Tork Commercial, cotton
is at 30 cents per pound, steel production
is increasing, coal is moving freely,
and the supply of wool is Insured.
The "Report" says in part:
"Conditions for the import of American
products via neutral countries to
Germany are worse than ever and I
am afraid they will have to be stopped
entirely, as England now retains every
shipment to neutral countries, especially
to Scandinavian ports, and only
permits the delivery on part of the
steamship company to the holders of
the bill of lading, after an amount
equal to double the value of the
goods has been deposited with a bank
as a guarantee that goods will actually
be consumed In neutral countries
and not reshipped to Germany or Austria.
"In Genoa, cotton destined for Germany
accumulated in large quantities
and it is figured that a volume aggregating
$10,000,000 in value Is detained.
"Under the pressure of England,
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export of cotton.
"In view of the limited supply on
hand, the price of raw cotton haa
reached enormous limits, as in Bremen
SO cents per pound was asked
May 31st.
"Since the entrance of Italy Into the
war, cotton mills have increased their*,. *
prices by about 26 per cent. .
"However, the supply for military
use Is absolutely insured, and even in
case of the war lasting a long time, the
army and navy will be amply provided.
In the territory of the enemy, occupied
by the Germans, as in Belgium,
northern France and in Russian Poland,
such quantities of cotton goods
have been found that these volumes
alone cover the demand for military
use.
"Interested circles, as cotton merchants
and brokeis, are curious whether
the United States will undertake
any steps to secure shipments to Germany.
These circles claim that in
view of the last record crop and the
b.-lght outlook for the next, Americans
have a vital interest to sell to Germany,
and much more so as Germany
is one of America's best customers."
Have Americans a "vital Interest"
to sell to Germany; particularly the
people of the south, who are most concerned
about the price and movement
of cotton??if they may be entitled to
any consideration at all at the hands
of their own government? Let's see:
At present the stock of cotton on
hand in Augusta is about 80,000 bales,
as against about 14,000 a year ago.
This stock of nearly six times as much
cotton is worth only about three times
as much money today as those 14,000
bales were worth a year ago. The
actual market depreciation in value of
those 80,000 bales on hand in Augusta
has been $400,000 In the short period
of ten days.
Cotton is selling in Augusta today
at $42.50 a bale, while in Germany it
is selling?where it can be had at all
?at $150 per bale.
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Britain's unlawful embargo on cotton
?which she has no more right to enforce
as between neutral countries
than she has to say China shall not
sell her tea to Sweden?has placed a
terrific burden upon this country; particularly
upon the south? Can It be
offset, or In any way atoned for, by
the profits of the DuPont Powder
works or the Bethlehem Steel company?
We may have a serious grievance
against Germany for the "frlghtfulness"
of her method of warfare; but
how does this lessen our grievance
against Britain for her high-handed
assault upon American commerce?
What of the south's grievance If she
must sell at a terrific loss her next
crop of cotton?as she did her last?
with the resulting effect of almost inevitable
bankruptcy for tens of thousands
of otherwise perfectly solvent
people, who are at peace with the
world, and in no wise responsible for
the present European holocaust??
Augusta Chronicle.
Description of a Bride,?A Missour
newspaper that shall be nameless here,
perpetrates the following in reporting
a wedding:
"The bride is a young lady of wondrous
fascination and remarkable attractiveness,
for with manners as enchanting
as the wand of a siren and
a disposition as sweet as the odors of
flowers and spirits as joyous as the
caroling of birds and mind as brilliant
as the tresses that glltteringly adorn
the brow of winter and with heart as
pure as dewdrops trembling in violets,
she will make the home of her husband
a paradise of enchantment like
the lovely home of her girlhood, where
the heaven-toned harp of marriage
with its harp of love striking cnoras
of devotion and fond endearments
sent forth the sweetest strains that
ever thrilled sense with the rhythmic
pulsing of ecstatic rapture."
The rivers of Europe are estimated
to be capable of supplying 46,000,000
horsepower, Russia's share being 12,000,000.