Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 23, 1915, Image 1

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^^0 ^ ISSUED SEKI-WEBKL^^ L. m. grist'S sons. Pobii.her.. ( % 4au,ilB H?nspapn[: ^or thi> promotion of th< jpolitiijat, gonial, Jgrieullural and Commercial Jnteresta of Ihq ESTABLISHED I85r?. YORKVILLE, 8. C.."FHilXAY. JTJX,Y 33,1915. " iST0.~59r DlDSlMTIONSj CHAPTER VIII. Griswold Emergent. Half an hour or such a matter after the hue-and-cry runaway from the curb in front of the saloon two doors above. Mr. Abram Sonneschein, deal. er in second-hand clothing and sweatshop bargains, saw a possible customer drifting across the street, and made ready the grappling hooks of commerical enterprise. There was little suggestion of the tramp roustabout, and still less, perhaps, of the gentleman, about the per son who presenuy emerged irom i?c ^ Sonneschein emporium. A square farP ther on he selected a barber's shop of cleanly promise. An hour later, reaching the retail district, he strolled p&st many brilliantly lighted shops until he found one exactly to his liking. A courteous salesman caught him up at the door, and led the way to the designated departments. By this time Mr. Sonneschein's hesitant and countrified customer had undergone a complete metamorphosis. No longer reluctant and hard to please, he passed rapidly from counter to counter, making his selections with manlike celerity and certainty and bargaining not at all. When he was quite through, there was enough to furnish a generous traveling wardrobe; a head-to-foot change in garmentings with a surplus to fill two lordly suitcases; so he bought the suitcases also, and had them taken with his other purchases to the dressing room. All traces of the deck-hand Gavltt, and of the Sonneschein planter-customer having been obliterated, there remained only the paying of his bill and the summoning of a cab. Oddly enough, the cab, when it came, proved to be a four-wheeler driven by a little wizen-faced man whose thin, highpitched voice was singularly familiar. "The hotel Chouteau??yis, sorr. Will you plaze hand me the grips? 1 can't lave me harrses." The driver's excuse instantly tied the knot of recognition, and the man who had just cremated his former identities swore softly. All things considered, it was the Griswold of the college-graduate days ?the days of the slender patrimony wntcn naa capnanzeo me mciaij ginning?who presented himself at the counter of the hotel Chouteau at half-past nine o'clock on the evening of the Belle Julie's arrival at St. Louis, wrote his name in the guest-book and permitted an attentive bell boy to relieve him of his two suitcases. The clerk, a rotund little man with a promising bald spot and a permanent smile, had appraised his latest gue>st in the moment of book-signing, and the result was a small triumph for the Olive street furnishing house. Next to the genuinely tailor-made stands the quality of verisimilitude; and the keynote of the clerk's greeting was respectful affability. "Glad to have you with us, Mr. Griswold. Would you like a room, or a suite?" "Neither; if I have time to get my supper and catch a train. Have you a railway guide?" "There is one in the writing room. But possibly I can tell you what you wish to know. Which way are you going?" Without stopping to think of the critical happenings which had intervened since the forming of the impulsive resolution fixed his destination, Griswold named the chosen field for the hazard of fresh fortunes, and its direction. "North; to a town in Minnesota called Wahaska, Do you happen to know the place?" The clerk smiled and shook his head. "Plenty of time is there?" Griswold asked. "Oh, yes. Your train leaves the terminal at eleven-thirty; but you can * '>* ? ? <? L'> olruiitai* onv t imo o ftor eight o'clock." Seated at a well-appointed table in the Chouteau cafe, Griswold had ample time to overtake himself in the race reconstructive, and for the moment the point of view became frankly Philistine. The luxurious hotel, with its air of invincible respectability; the snowy napery," the cut glass, the shaded lights, the deferential service; all these appealed irresistably to the epicurean in him. It was as if he had come suddenly to his own again after an undeserved season of deprivation, and the effect of it was to push the hardships and perils of the preceding weeks and months ino a far-away past. He ordered his supper deliberately, and while he waited for its serving, imagination cleared the stage and set the scenes for the drama of the future. That future, with all its opportunities for the realizing of ideals, was now safely assured. He could go whither he pleased and do what seemed right in his own eyes, and there was none to say him nay. In this minor city of his hasty selection he would find the environment o ro-ii't'it iiwr <if hiu hook and for a renewal of his studies. Here, too, he might hope to become by unostentatious degrees the beneficent god-in-the-car of his worthier ambition. raising the fallen, succoring the helpless and fighting the battles of the oppressed. Further along, when she should have quite forgotten the Belle Julie's deckhand, he would meet Miss Farnham on an equal social footing: and the conclusion of the whole matter should be a triumphant demonstration to her by the irrefutable logic of good deeds and a life well-lived that in his case, at least, the end justified the means. The train of reflective thought was broken abruptly by the seating of two other supper guests at his table; a big-framed man in tire grizzled fifties, Dicr 3SLYNDE rCDffloas ' C(?>Y/?fCffr3YCHAfiLrj 3CMMCP3 50AJ | and a young woman who looked as If j she migni nave sieppeu mo uivuimt before out of the fitting rooms of the i most famous of Parisian dressmakers, i Griswold's supper was served, and for a time he made shift to ignore the couple at the other end of the table. Then an overheard word, the name of the town which he had chosen as his future abiding place, made him suddenly observant. It was the young woman who had named Wahaska, and he saw now that his first impression had been at fault; she was not overdressed. Also he saw that she was piquantly pretty; a bravura type, slightly suggesting the Rialto at its best, perhaps, but equally suggestive of sophistication, travel and a serene disregard of chaperonage. 1 The young woman's companion was undeniably her father. Gray, heavybrowed, and with a face that was a life-mask of crude strength and ele- 1 mental shrewdness, the man had be- ' queathed no single feature to the alert- ' ly beautiful daughter; yet the resem- 1 blance was unmistakable. Griswold 1 did not listen designedly, but he could ( not help overhearing much of the talk ' at the other end of the table. From it he gathered that the young woman was lately returned from some Florida winter resort; that her father had ' met her by appointment in St. Louis; 1 and that the two were going on to- 1 gether; perhaps to Wahaska, since 1 that was the place named oftenest on 1 , the lips of the daughter. It was at this point that the apex of ' fninsrme conienimem was pusocu emu the reaction set in. He had been spending strength and vitality reck- 1 lessly and the accounting was at hand. The descent began when he took himself abruptly to task for the highpriced supper. What right had he to order costly food that he could not eat when the price of this single meal would feed a family for a week? After that, nothing that the obsequious and attentive waiter could bring proved tempting enough to recall the vanished appetite. Never having known what is was to be sick, Griswold disregarded the warning, drank a cup of strong coffee and went out to the lobby to get a cigar, leaving his table companions in the midst of their meal. To his surprise and chagrin the carefully selected "perfecto" made him dizy and faint, bringing a disquieting recurrence of the vertigo which had seized him while he was searching for his negro treasure-bearer on the levee. "I've had an overdose of excitement, I guess," he said to himself, flinging the cigar away. "The best thing for me to do is to go down to the train and get to bed." He went about it listlessly, with a curious buzzing in his ears and a cer tain dimness of sight which was quite disconcerting, and when a cab was The Porter Knew the Calling of the Red-Faced Man by Intuition. summoned he was glad enough to let a respectfully sympathetic porter lend 1 him a shoulder to the sidewalk. The drive in the open air was sufficiently tonic to help him through the 1 details of ticket-buying and embarkation; and afterward sleep came so quickly that he did not know when the Pullman porter drew thj curtains to adjust the screen in the window at his feet, though he did awake drowsily later on at the sound of voices in the aisle, awoke to realize vaguely that his two table companions of the hotel Chouteau cafe were to be his fellow travelers in the Pullman, i The train was made up ready to leave, and the locomotive was tilling the great train shed with stertorous hissings, wimi u mi-iaitu man 3ii|jijvii through the gates t?? saunter over to the Pullman and to peek inquisitively at the porter. "Much of a load tonight, George?" "No, sah; mighty light: four young ladies goin' up to de school in Faribault, Mistah Grierson and his daughter, and a gentleman from de Chouteau." "A gentleman from the Chouteau? When did he come down?" The porter knew the calling of the red-faced man only by intuition; but Griswold's tip was warming in his pocket and he lied at random and on general principles. "Been heah all de evenin'; come down right early afte* suppeh. and went to baid like he was sick and tarr'd or somethin'." "What sort of a looking man is he?" "Little, smooth-faced, narr'-chisted gentleman: look like he might be?" But the train was moving out and the red-faced man had turned away. Whereupon the porter broke his smile 1 In the midst, picked up the carpet- I covered step and climbed aboard. (To be continued.) TOWN AND COUNTRY LANDLORD Bditor Yorkville Enquirer: , The above subject has been discuss- ' ed in my hearing practically ever since I was old enough to remember | anything, and as a rule, has always met with the expression that smacks of disapproval, except those directly interested. It hnn lnnp- hppn mv ohsprvation that I where you find an ideal rural community, you find the white landlord living on his plantation, not a place containing 500 to 2,500 acres; but generally from 50, 60 and up to 200 acres. Take, for instance, a country school district of about nine square miles, which, as you know, contains 5,760 acres. Let 50 to 60 white families own their different plantations within this district. Couple this with our more modern way of farming and you will see, as a rule, a community that is prosperous?good roads, good schools, the Sunday school second to none, church attended regularly and r social features up to the standard, f Everybody will be on an equality?no c turning backs or heads, which is as J good as to say, "You are nothing but a poor old farmer, far beneath my 1 notice, and I will not speak to you." t How often have I seen so-caJled c ladies avoid speaking or showing any e signs of recognition to their poorer a sister neighbor in public. Think back a few years, you so-called aristocratic- ( leaning ladies and gentlemen, and re- 7 member how often you have snubbed J different dozens of deserving, but poor- k er people! u The big landlord, no matter whether p he lives on his plantation or in a C town, is entirely, as a rule, not as c generous or public spirited in propor- J Lion, as if his holdings were divided e up equally among a half dozen or s more white farmers. The negro ten- e mt suits his taste better, and how lit- C tie does he think how much trouble a his dusky tenant may give his poorer t white neighbor. r In my experience, about 60 per cent C of the negroes are unreliable as to t word, act or anything else and about a the same per cent will steal, if given I the smallest chance. Besides, the A most of them keep from one to four r worthless hounds, allowing them to t run at large all the time and make \ their living from their white neigh- t bor"s hen nests, guinea nests, slop g tub or some other place where they are c not wanted. t The crying need in most every sec- e tion of York county, with which I am e more or less familiar, is more land- C owners, smaller sized farms, worked c ind controlled by the resident owner, t The big landlord, owning from 500 s to 2,000 acres or more, no matter if he d lives on his plantation or in town, is C most invariably a hindrance to the r community in which his farm is io- t cated. I could go further and say, in a lots of Instances that his farm is a o menace to the community In which it h is located. p Land will never be cheap in York a county again. It has increased on the e market value from 100 to 500 per cent | 3 according to location, in the past 15 years. In some cases it has increased t 1,000 per cent during that period. e I know, personally, several farmers n who are now past the meridian of life C ind have been renters from the begin- t tiing of their career. The rent paid t by them would in the aggregate, buy C eacn one a nanasome rarm. rney j know it, have known it all along, but C have failed to take advantage. They o have a chance yet. Every renter In t all of York county has a chance to v own a farm of his own. The chance t lies in the doubling of energy, better R management. Cut out the loafing and R live at home. y In conclusion. I wish to say that I s have no particular individual in mind s in this discussion; but should there t be anyone who wishes to take ex- p ception, I trust The Enquirer will give a them space in its columns. C Wlstar Keller. t Yorkville, R. F. D. 1, July 19, 1915. t - . q "World Without End." "Daddy," asked the young hopeful, who, relates the Kansas City Star, was stretched out on the floor with the dally paper in front of him, "where's P-e-t-r-o-g-r-a-d ?" "Why, that's the capital of Russia, son." "I thought that was St. Petersburg." "Well, St. Petersburg used to be. but Petrograd is now." "Why did they change?" "Well, they didn't really change capitals. They changed the name of the capital. What used to be St. Petersburg is now Petrograd." "Why did they do that, daddy?" "Well, you see, Russia and Germany are at war and it made the Russians mad to think their capital had a German name. So they changed it." "Was it a German city?" "No, St. Petersburg was the German name. It meant Saint Peter's city. Petrograd is a Russian name. It means Peter's city in Russia." "Don't they have saints in Russia?" "Why, yes, I suppose so." "Then, why isn't it St. Petrograd?" "Well, because?well, perhaps because the czar didn't want his capital named after St. Peter. Perhaps he wanted it named after Peter the Great." "Was Saint Peter a German?" "No, Saint Peter wasn't a German. He was a Greek, or a Russian or a Jew." "Then why was St. Petersburg named German after Saint Peter?" "Well, Peter the Great, who built the city named it St. Petersburg to honor St. Peter." "Then Peter the Great was a German?" "No! He was a Russian king or czar or whatever they called them then." "Why didn't he name it St. Petrograd, then?" "Well?well?confound It. I don't know. Mary, doggone it, why don't you entertain your child awhile, I want to read a minute." Cloth images of animals which can he tilled with sand have been invented to serve as playthings for children at the seashore. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS Is Traced In Early Files of Tht Yorkvllle Enquirer. YEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDA1 Bringing Up Records 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, L913. The notes are being prepared by h/* ^wTltno n o tfrriA onri nnnnrfnnltv nftr nit. Their purpose Is to bring Into evlew the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and nstruction of the present generation. 146TH INSTALLMENT. The Surrender of Lee. Interesting Details of the Event. We copy from the City Point corespondent of the New York Times the ollowing particulars of the surrender if General Lee. The letter is dated ^pril 12th: I am able to lay before you the lighly interesting and important deails of the surrender through the :ourtesy of Col. Tal. P. Shaffner, the minent telegraph engineer who was ,n eye-witness of the whole scene. " It will be recollected that Gen. Irant's first letter to Lee was dated the th (Friday), the day of the battle of ^armvllle, and the correspondence was ;ept up during the following day and ip to 11 o'oclock on Sunday, as already lublished. In response to General Jrant'8 letter. General Lee appeared in the picket line of the second corps, ^{Iao'o ^Ivioinn with a lAttar n/lrlrAflfl d to Gen. Meade, requesting a cesation of hostilities while he consldred Gen. Grant's terms of surrender. Sen. Meade replied that he had no uthority to accede to the request, but hat he would wait two hours before making an attack. In the meantime Jen. Grant sent word to Gen. Meade hat he would be up in half an hour .nd the matter was turned over to ilm. A flag of truce proceeded to tppomattox Courthouse shortly after loon and at about 2 o'clock p. m., the wo generals met at the house of Mr. Vilmer McLean. Gen. Lee was atended by Gen. Marshall, his adjutant :eneral; Gen. Grant by Col. Parker, me of his chief aides-de-camp. The wo generals met and greeted each othr with dignified courtesy and proceedd at once to the business before them. Sen. Lee immediately alluded to the onditions of the surrender, characerized them as exceedingly lenient and aid he would be glad to leave all the letails to Gen. Grant's own discretion. Sen. Grant stated the terms of paole, that the arms should be stacked, he artillery packed and the supplies nd munitions turned over to him, the fflcers retaining their side arms, torses and personal effects. Gen Lee promptly assented to the conditions nd the arrangement of surrender was ngrossed and signed by Gen. Lee at .30 o'clock. Gen. Lee asked Gen. Grant for an in erpretation of the phrase "personal fleets," and said many of his cavalrymen owned their own horses. Gen. Srant said he construed it to mean hat the horses must be turned over o the United States government. Sen. Lee admitted the correctness and ustice of the interpretation, when Sen. Grant said he would instruct his fflcers to allow these men who owned heir horses to retain them as they yould need them for the purpose of illing their farms. Gen Lee showed a rreat sense of gratification of such a ;enerous consideration, and said it yould have a very good effect. He subequently expressed a hope that each oldier might be furnished with a ceriflcate of his parole, as evidence to irevent him from being forced into the .rmy until regularly exchanged. Gen. Srant assented to the suggestion and he printing presses were soon put o work to print the documents retired. In regard to the strength of his rmy, Gen. Lee said he had no idea of he number of men he would be able o deliver up. There had been so nany engagements and such a heavy oss by desertion and other causes vithin the last few days and the rereat so rapid that no regular morning eports had been made since leaving 'etersburg, but it is generally beieved by the best informed officers hat Lee surrendered eighteen or wemy uiousiiiiu nit-u. kjl me arm;, mrses, wagons, and there is yet no ifficial count. Gen. Lee informed Gen. Jrant that his men were short of pro-isions whereupon Gen. Grant orderd 25,000 rations to be distributed to hem. Thus subsequently ended the nterview. Both generals were the mpersonation of dignity and courtesy n their bearing. Lee is in fine health ind though apparently impressed with he vital effect and importance of the ict he was performing, he was cheerul and pleasant in his demeanor. The louse where the stipulation was signed was a fair brick structure with leat grounds and quite neatly furlished. The room in which the interview took place was a comfortable )arlor about 18 by 20 feet and adorned >y the usual furnishing common to the iverage Virginia houses. Both generals were in full uniform. >ee wore a very fine sword. Grant vore no side arms, having left camp he day before with the intention of >eing gone only a few hours, but on he contrary, being gone all night. Alien the two generals first met hey were attended only by the staff fflcers already mentioned, but during he interview several of our officers ?ntered and were introduced to Gen. ^ee, who received them cordially and nade no objections to their presence, rhey were Maj. Generals Ord and Sheridan, Brevet Maj. Gen. Ingalls, Brig. Generals Williams, Rawlingsand Barnard and Lieut. Cols. Parker, lent, Badeau, Bowers, A. G. A. Porn.1 T I Tnl ?*i, nauuh ix, aim v_aj?i. l/iiiluiii. i ?? F\ Shaffner, Esq., was the only civilan present. It should be said that Gen. Grant lad anticipated the surrender for several days and had resolved beforehand lot to require the same formalities vhich are required in a surrender be > tween the forces of two foreign naI tions or belligerent powers; that they were our own people and to exact no . conditions for the mere purpose of ' humiliation. After the interview, Gen. Lee returned to his own camp, about half a mile distant where his leading offlr cers were assembled awaiting his return. He announced the result and the I terms whereupon they expressed great satisfaction at the leniency of the conditions. They then approached him in order of rank and shook hands, ex1 pressing satisfaction of his course and their regret at parting, all shedding tears on the occasion. The fact of surrender and the liberal terms were then announced to the troops and when Gen. Lee appeared among them he was loudly cheered. On Monday between 8 and 10 o'clock a. m., Gen. Grant and staff rode out In the direction of the rebel lines and on a hill beyond the courthouse where a full view of the rebel army could be obtained. Gen. Lee was met, attended by but one staff officer and order- i lies. The generals halted and seated on their horses, conversed for nearly i an hour upon the prospects of the fu- i ture, each seeming to realize the mighty influence which the events of the present were to have upon it. i Gen. Lee signified very emphatically ! his desire for a cessation of hostlli- 1 ties and indicated his Intention to do i all Jn his power to effect that end. i The best of good feeling prevailed and i this was the last interview between < the two commanders. Gen. Grant re- . tun ed to McLean's house and soon I after Gens. Longstreet, Gordon, Pickett ; and.' Heth, with a number of staff of- i fleets arrived, and after recognitions i and! introductions, an hour of very i frle4dly intercourse took place during 1 which many scenes and incidents of by-^one college days and days of service together in the regular army were I revived and retold with much good i nature. I Gen. Grant gave Gen. Lee and his I principal officers passes to proceed ' whither they wished. The parties * soon separated and early on Tuesday ] morning, Gen. Grant and staff left the I scene of the great event for their ] headquarters at City Point, arriving at ] 4.30 p. m., today. Gen. Meade was ! left j in command to superintend the I details of the surrender, which would ] occupy several days, the work of pro- < viding each man and officer with an 1 individual parole being a slow and i tedious affali^part of them written and part printed, by portable printing presses which accompany the head- , quarters. ( The completness of the destruction < of Gen. Lee's army may be inferred j from the fact that two weeks ago his , army numbered not less than 65,000 , men, that we have captured from him ( 25,000 prisoners; that his killed and ( wounded are not less than 14,000 and , the balance of the army deserted on ( the retreat or fell into our hands at the | surrender. ( The congratulations at headquarters , this morning were very hearty. , As the various gentlemen on the staff appeared at their homes and as commemorative of their triumphant ! return, Brady, the eminent photographer of New York, preserved the groop generals and all for the admiration of all their friends in this and future generations. (To be Continued.) POWDER Something About the Material that Now Has Right of Way. The lady who asked at the country store for "powder" was met with the polite query, "Pace, gun or flea?'' The first and third varieties are still what they were of yore, but the gunpowder is really powder no longer, except when it is used for the manufacture of fireworks. That used for the modern high-power artillery is in the form of cylinders, sticks or blocks, some of tkAm ryf C(TA III*. Ill Ul l,UUOIUCiaUlC D16C. A single grain of the powder, for instance, for the great 16-lnch gun to be set up at Panama is as big round as a broomstick and three inches long. Germans make their powder in strips that look like thick tape. They cut it off in lengths and tie it up in bundles which fit into the breeches of their big guns. The British powder is made in long sticks which looks like macaroni without the large single hole, while the French powder looks like flat pieces of chewing gum. The bigger the gun the bigger the grain of powder. For the rifles the men carry, the grains are half as big as a pinhead; for the largest guns they are three inches long and three-quarters of an inch thick. Every grain is perforated lengthwise. Small grains have a single hole, while the larger sizes have seven. These holes regulate in a wonderful way the rapidity with which the powder will burn. If you light a scrap of paper all around the edge it will burn toward the center and the burning surface will steadily decrease. If, however, you make a hole in the center of the paper and start the conflagration there the flame will steadily grow, and the most rapid burning will take place Just before the fire has reached the outer edge. This is the exact principle which governs the arrangement of the perforations In big gunpowder. The burning starts along the surface exposed by the perforations, and spreads always faster as the hole is enlarged, burning faster at the instant it is consumed. It is not intended that the charge in big guns shall exhaust its force instantly. The beginning of the explosion starts the projectile on its way. The explosion continues, and as the projectile gains speed the force behind it continues to push. The powder is burning faster and pushes hardest at the instant the projectile i reaches the mouth of the gun. At < that instant also it burns out and ex- < hausts itself. Its work is done. It is wonderful to reflect that gun- i powder Is almost pure cotton. It re- i quires but little juggling?scientific juggling, to be sure?to convert the harmless crop of the cottonfleld into the most effective of modern smokeless powders. Those big grains of can- 1 non powder which look like pieces of stick candy are but cotton refined to 1 this form and treated with nitrate. All nations make their powder of the same materials, the only difference being in the mechanical form the product takes.?London Tit-Bits. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Chester Reporter, July 19: Mr. Earle Stevenson, who was wounded at the shooting in Winnsboro on June 14th, and who has been at the Magdalene nuapiuu siiiuu mtu. nine iui iicaiiuciii, will be able to leave this week. Mr. Stevenson was badly wounded in the left arm, and had a close call, but is now mending rapidly, and will soon have his strength back County Treasurer S. El Wylie reports that the total commutation tax collected in Chester county this year amounts to $4,482.50. Last year the total collected was $8,270, which shows that this year's collections are oft about 50 per cent. Mr. John Dove, one of the county's oldest citizens, died Friday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. A. Weir, on the Key place, three miles east of Chester, and was buried Saturday afternoon at Bethlehem M. E. church near Cornwell. Mr. Dove was a member of Co. F, 23rd South Carolina regiment, and made a brave and faithful soldier Mr. El J. Dye, a well known citizen of the county, died at the home of his brother, Mr. J. C. Dye, six miles south of Richburg, Saturday evening, and was burled yesterday afternoon at Mt. Prospect M. E. church, after funeral services by Rev. J. B. Davis Mrs. J. A. Hafner. who is sick with typhoid fever at her home on Pinckney street, is progressing satisfactorily. Mrs. H. M. Williams, who also has fever, has thus far failed to manifest typhoid symptoms, but is believed likewise to be sick with typhoid At a meeting of the county board of education Thursday evening, it was decided to arganize two new school districts, Lando district, No. 31, and Pryor district, No. 32. The former will comprise the territory around the town of Lando, and the latter will consist of several miles of territory around Dr. S. W. Pryor^s central farm on the Lancaster road. Dr. S. W. Pryor was sleeted a member of the board of trustees of Courthouse district, No. 1, to succeed Dr. J. G. Johnson, resigned. Gaffney Ledger, July 20: J. P. Burjess, a mill operative 36 years of age, lied at his home on Railroad avenue Saturday morning after several months' illness. Death was the result )f a complication of diseases. He Is survived by his wife and four children L. D. Bonner of the Gouchsr section of the county, was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 or to serve ten days on the public works of the county by Magistrate Phillips upon being convicted Friday of having sold the flesh of an animal that had not been slaughtered in the regular manner. Mr. Bonner had a calf that was injured by a mule kicking it while it was in the stable. He Immediately slaughtered the animal and sold a part of the meat to the county chainSang, neglecting to tell the circumstances of the calf's death. According to the st^te statute, the flesh of an xnimal that has met accidental death may be sold, ^providing the manner of Its death is tpld the purchaser at the time of the sale Is made. Mr. Bonner neglected to state the facts to Mr. L. P. Allison, the chaingang boss, who made the purchase, and the latter filed complaint against him. Mr. Bonner bas given notice of appeal from the injLeistrftte's decision. He dead isr norance of the law requiring him to state the nature of an animal's injury before being slaughtered, and says his Infraction of the law was of the letter and not the spirit Mr. G. W. Speer has been appointed by Federal Judge J. T. Johnson as referee in bankruptcy for Cherokee county. Mr. Speer held this position for several months, until it was abolished by Judge Hi A. M. Smith when he consolidated Spartanburg, Union and Cherokee counties into one district. A new Federal district was recently made with Mr. Johnson as judge, and be has appointed a referee for each :ountyl Talmage Moore, the 19year-old son of Mrs. Robert Moore, Branard street, died Friday night in a Charlotte hospital, following an illness of about four months. He is survived by his mother and two sisters, Misses Pacolet and Bonnie Moore All of Gaffney was saddened when it became known that Mr. W. D. Cooksey had died in a private sanatorium at Columbia Saturday, following a short illness. Death was due to a complication of diseases. Rock Hill Record, July 19: Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Douglas have returned from their bridal trip to the mountains of North Carolina, and are at home to their friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Black on Academy street Rev. C. Fritz Beach filled the pulpit of St. John's M. E. church yesterday morning for Dr. P. B. Wells and he preached a splendid sermon. There are many farmers in York county and Julius Friedheim Is one of them. Last week he harvested his millet from a plot one and onefifth acres. He got 8,240 pounds from this piece of iand?four tons and an eighth. This shows what York county land can do, provided it is well drained and in good shape. This crop was sown on April 18, and he expects to get another cutting from the same stand. ? Gastonia Gazette, July 20: At a congregational meeting held Sunday at the Loray Baptist church, a call was extended by that congregation to Rev. G. P. Abernathy to become their pastor. Mr. Abernathy lives at Dallas and is at present pastor of I?ng Creek and High Shoals Baptist churches. At a recent meeting of the city school board the following teachers for the city schools were elected for the session of 1915-16: Principal, Central school. W. P. Grier; principal Loray school, Boyce M. Weir. Teachers: Mrs. M. D Iseley, Misses Gertrude Boland, Emmie Roberts, Mary Huey, Marie Horton, Carrie Roddey, Delia Nolan, Pearl Gall, Mary Powers, Reft >"ca Adams, Winnifred McLean Lute Lee Owen, Jean Withers, Mar garet Tiddy, Bessie Pegram, Maude Wllkins, Jane Morris, Claudia Cashwell. Edith Mason, Mary Rice, Minnie Lee Pedin, Pearl Gallant, Carrie Potts, Carrie Morris, Ella Lewis, Cora Hart, Mildred Rankin, May Withers, Eleanor Reld, Ella Bradley, Sallle Sumner, Florence E. Mitchell and Vada Petit. Billy Hamick, a well known negro wood-chopper living on Mr. Luther Bess" farm near Pasour*s Mountain, accidentally shot and killed himself last Friday. He was cleaning and oiling a 31, revolver when it was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking him in the side. The accident happened about noon and death followed about nightfall Mr. R. A. Love, a former Gastonian, who now holds a position as general manager of a large cotton mill at Trenton, Tcnn., is spending a few days in tho city on business Mr. J. A. Gullick of Belmont, who has been critically ill from typhoid fever for the past three weeks is now improving rapidly. He is thought to be out of danger. Lancaster News, July 20: Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning the alarm of Are awakened many of our citizens. A dense smoke hung heavy over the business section of town, so dense that the fire could not at first be located. It soon, however, was found to be issuing from the Moore building on Gray street, occupied by Mackorell's grocery store, and must have been smouldering for some time before it was discovered for it had gained such headway that great damage to the stock of goods resulted before the dames could be extinguished. Much of the goods that was not burned was watersoaked. It |o thought that the fire had its origin in the celling and defective wiring has been suggested as a possible cause. Superintendent Lingle tells us IIICLI LCI1 VI LWC1VC OLI1UUIO lit LAIlUUSirr county re-opened yesterday. We hope they are well attended and that community interest will be centered upon the school In each neighborhood "Aunt Nancy" Mcllwaln, a respected colored woman, who has been suffering from pellagra, for the past year or more, died last Thursday In the city of Washington, where she had been taken by one of her daughters for treatment. She was one of the old regime, and was held in high esteem not only by the people of her own race, but by the best white people of the community... .The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Rollings of Santuc, died last Tuesday, after an illness of about two weeks. The remains were Interred next day at Neely*s Creek. Chester News, July 20: Mr. David Mcllroy, who, It will be remembered, came to Chester direct from Ireland about a year ago, and who lived on Saluda street for some time, afterwards purchasing a farm near Blackstock, has received word that his son, a young man of 27 years of age, had been killed In the European war, "somewhere in France." This young man joined the British army when he was about 17 years of age. He was a member of the Royal Irish Rifles. Mr. Mcllroy has not as yet received particulars as to the death of his son. GENERAL NEWS NOTE8 Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Three men were killed by lightning in St. Louis, Mo., Sunday. At Allentown, Pa., Sunday, George Schaffer, 6 feet, 7 inches tall, married Mrs. Aggie Kern, 6 feet, 2 Inches tall. Turkish army officials have ordered 25,000 Greek inhabitants of Alvali, Asia Minor, to leave that city at once. Emperor William's personal losses on account of the decline of stocks, since the war began, are reported to have totaled 120,000,000. British losses in the Dardanelles up to July 19, are given by Premier Asquith as totaling 42,434 officers and men. The foreign trade of France for the first three months of this year, shows a decrease of $557,000,000, as compared with the same period of last year. Miss Catherine Barker, aged 19, of Chicago, said to be the wealthiest young woman In the world, with an estate of $30,000,000, is to be married July 31, to Howard Spaulding, Jr., also of Chicago. Ten thousand people welcomed Harry K. Thaw when he reached his home at Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday. Thaw says he made enough money speculating in Wall street to more than pay his expenses while in Matteawan. Frank Klug, supposed to have been murdered by Nich Georgian at Milwaukee, Wis., on August 22, last, surprised his family last week by walking into his home. Georgian is serving a 25year sentence for the "murder," and Klug is "legally dead." The war department is making a test of the efficiency of motorcycles for army use. A dispatch is being relayed from Washington, D. C., to the Presidio in San Francisco. The first rider left Washington Monday, and is expected to deliver his message tomorrow. Among those mentioned as possible members of the civilian advisory board of the navy department, besides Mr. Edison, the chairman, are Orville Wright, O. P. Stelnmetz, Chas. M. Schwab, Henry Ford, Nicola Telsa, John Hayes Hammond, Jr., and Hudson Maxim. Col. Roosevelt says: "Recently, in certain circles, some popularity has has been achieved by a song entitled, 'I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier'? a song which ought always to be sung with a companion piece, entitled, 'I Didn't Raise My Girl to Be a Mother.' The two would stand on precisely the same moral level." Governor Manning on Friday, issued paroles to J. W. Grumbles, Wilson Spears, Alex Adams and Fred Mills. The four paroled men are said to be in bad health. The torpedo boat destroyers Lamson and Reid arrived in Charleston this week. They will take members of the Florida and South Carolina militia on a summer cruise. The Russians punished patricides by first scourging the criminal, then sewing him up in a leathern sack made air-tight with a live dog, a cook, a viper and an ape, and thus casting him into the sea. 0 HAPPENINGS IN THE 8TATE Item* of Interest From All Sections of 8outh Carolina. George A. Derrick, former auditor of Lexington county, died suddenly this week. The governor has appointed E. A. Bethea supervisor of Dillon county, to succeed J. B. Smith, deceased. Local managers of Western Union Telegraph offices in the state held a meeting in Columbia this week. Judge Mendel L. Smith, who is suf fering with typhoid fever In a Columbia hospital, Is said to be recovering rapidly. It is estimated that Spartanburg county farmers have already marketed 6,000 bushels of wheat of the new crop. Frank Proveaux, a white man, who lives in Colleton county. Is in Jail at Walterboro, charged with attempted criminal assault. The South Carolina Sheriff's association held a meeting in Greenville this week. Governor Manning was one of the principal speakers. Miss Edith L. Parrott, state agent of the home demonstration work in South Carolina, is attending the state meeting of Oklahoma demonstrators. During the month of June there were 50 deaths at the state hospital for the insane. It is said that 36 of these deaths were due to pellagra: Mrs. R. H. Kennedy, who has been organist at Christ church in Greenville for 37 years, has resigned the place and has moved to New York. M. J. Morris, assistant chief of the Charleston Are department, was killed last Saturday when am automobile in which he was racing to a Are, collided with a police automobile The Columbia Duck mills, one of the most valuable milling properties in the state, have been sold to the Mount Vernon-Woodberry Cotton Duck com pany for $550,000. J. W. Elder, a member of the Spartanburg fire department, was probably fatally Injured Tuesday afternoon when he fell from the second story of the Are department's quarters to the ground, sustaining Injuries to his back. John K. McPherson, a prominent Laurens county fanner, who was shot by Will Martin, also well known in that county, a few days ago, died of his ' wounds Monday. The principals in the affair are related by marriage. Three members of the Richmond Volunteers, company E, second South Carolina regiment, who were bitten by a mad dog while in encampment at Greenville are receiving Pasteur treatment and are said to be now out of danger. Governor Manning has recommended C. T. Mason of Sumter county, to Secretary Daniels of the navy, for appointment as a member of the national inventions board. Mr. Mason is the inventor of the high tension magneto and is said to be a cloee friend of Thoa A. Edison. Gordon Poteat and EL M. Poteat, Jr., sons of Dr. E. M. Poteat, president or Purman University, Greenville, were ordained as ministers of the gospel in Greenville Sunday night. Their father preached the ordination sermon. Both the young ministers will go to the foreign field. The body of a man badly decomposed, was found in a Texas Oil company tank car in Charleston, Tuesday, while employes were cleaning out the car preparatory to sending it out The car had been loaded with gasolene. Owing to the condition of the body, it could not be ascertained whether the man was white or black. Greenville News: Condemnation proceedings which the United States will institute for land in the western part of this state, the land being in Spartanburg, Oconee, Pickens and Greenville counties, have been filed with Clerk Knight of the Federal court for the western district of South Carolina. There are some 60 or 70 different tracks with about three or four hundred claimants to the various tracks of land which the government is to purchase for a forest reserve, or rather a continuation of the great forest reserve of North Carolina. The department of justice, not wishing to have any flaws in the titles when they shall be secured, demands that the papers be served individually upon each of the claimants and this means that United States Marshal Lyon, will have a Job on his hands serving all these papers. South Carolina is the only state in the union, according to the department of justice, where notice could not be served by newspaper notices; but here this cannot be done in the opinion of the department and so the papers must be served in person. Prices for most of the land have been agreed upon and the government will take the rest, paying whatever the jury thinks is just and proper in the case. These cases will likely come up at the next term of court in the fall. Columbia Record: Mack Flowers, the 11-year-old wanderer whom the police have been caring for during the past week, will be committed to the state reformatory at Florence. The legal steps for the transfer of the custody of the lad are now being taken by the police recorder, W. P. Etchlson. The commitment papers will be filed with Sheriff McCain, who will dispatch a deputy to accompany Mack to the reformatory, where, the authorities hope, he will be transformed into a better lad and a more useful citizen in after years. He was wandering aimlessly about the country, "swinging" freights and "riding the blind," according to the story he related to the recorder. Mack was asleep in the union passenger station and was sent in by Patrolman Yon, who "hit the nail on the head" when he said he thought the lad was a tramp. Mack said his father was a shoe-maker at Marion. He was going home after a wandering of three years, but it is probable that he will be better off at the reformatory than anywhere that he might go unaided. Mayor P. W. Johnson, editor of the Marion Star, wrote Recorder Etchlson that the lad's father was physically and otherwise in no position to give the son the necessary influence for the making of a good and useful citizen. The recorder wrote the lad's father and Mayor Johnson at the same time, stating the case; but so fair the elder Flowers has not replied to the letter and the authorities are proceeding without the counsel or advice of the father of the little Mack.