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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,
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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
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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.