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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSPEP SKKl-WEHELT. l. m. oeist's sons. Pubiiihen. j % ^ainilj jflnrspapf r: Jj'or Iht promotion of (ho political, ?oqial, Jjjrieultal and Commti;cial Interests of the $eop4. J ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S.^f FRlPAY, JTJLY 30, 1915. ]STCXlii7 efePI MMMTIOKSJ CHAPTER X. Good Samaritan*. Since she had undertaken to show Wahaska precisely how to deport itself in the conventional field, Miss Grierson had telegraphed her father to meet her in St. Louis on her return from Florida. When Jasper Grierson traveled alone he was democratic enough to be satisfied with a section in the body of the car. But when Margery's tastes were to be consulted, the drawingroom was none too good. Indeed, as it transpired on the journey northward from St. Louis, the Anita's drawingroom proved to be not good enough. ts "It is simply a crude insult, the way they wear out their old, broken-down cars on us up here!" she protested to her father. "You ought to do something about it." Jasper Grierson's smile was a capitalistic acquirement, and some of his fellow-townsmen described it as "cast iron." But for his daughter It was always indulgent "I don't own the railroad yet, Madgie; you'll have to give me,a little more time," he pleaded, clipping the tip from a black cigar of heroic proportions and reaching for the box of safety matches. "I'll begin now, if you are going to smoke that dreadful thing in this stuffy little den," was the unfilial retort; and the daughter found a magazine and exchanged the drawing-room with its threat of asphyxiation for a seat in the body of the car. Half-way down the car one of the sections was still curtained and bulkheaded; of course, the occupant of the middle section must be ill. Quite suddenly her | interest became acute. Who was the sick one, and why was he, or she, traveling without an attendant? With Margery Grierson, to question was to ascertain; and the Pullman conductor, once more checking his diagrams in Section 11, offered the readiest means of enlightenment. A few minutes later Margery rejoined her father in the private compartment. "Do you remember the nice-looking young man who sat at the table with us in the Choteau last night?" she began abruptly. The gray-wolf Jasper nodded. He had an excellent memory for faces. "What did you think of him?" The query followed the nod like a nimble boxer's return blow. "I thought he paid a whole lot more attention to you than he did to his supper. Why?" "He is on this car; sick with a fever of some kind and out of his head. He is going to Wahaska." "How do you know it's the same one?" "I made the conductor take me to see him. He talked to me in Italian "Going in for the Real Brand This Time' Ain't You Madgef a?w1 aoIIa/I 'Porlnt q mia * " "Humph! he didn't look like a dago." "He isn't; it's just because he is delirious." There was a long pause, broken finally by a curt, "Well?" from the father. "I've been thinking," was the slowresponse. "Of course, there is a chance that he has friends in Wahaska, and that someone will be at the train to meet him. But it is only a chance." "Why doesn't the conductor telegraph ahead and find out?" "He doesn't know the man's name. 1 tried to get him to look for a card, or to break into the suitcases under the berth, but he says the regulations wont let him." "Well?" said the father again, this time with a more decided upward intlection. Then he added: "You've made up your mind what you're going to do; say it." Margery's decision was announced crisply. "There is no hospital to send him to?which is Waha-ska's shame. Maybe he will be met and taken care of by his friends: if he is, well and good: if he isn't, we'll put him in the carriage and take him home with us." The cast-iron smile with the indulgent attachment wrinkled frostily upon Jasper Grierson's heavy face. "The Good Samaritan act, eh? I've ' known you a long time, Madgie, but I never can tell when you're going to break out in a brand-new spot. Didn't lose any of your unexpectedness in Florida, did you?" Miss Margery tossed her pretty head, and the dark eyes snapped. "Somebody in the family has to think of something besides making 3ICEI 35 LYM)E I -CDfflOKS CQPY/t/CHTBY CMAJZLfJ JCWOM R3 30*3 ^ a money," she retorted. "Please lend ^ me your pencil; I want to do some j? wiring." All other gifts apart. Miss Grierson could boast of a decree of executive ability little inferior to her father's; did boast of it when the occasion offered; and by the time the whistle was sounding for Wahaska, all tne arrangements had been made for the provisional rescue of the sick man in lower six. At the station a single inquiry served to give the Good Samaritan intention the right of way. There was no friend to meet lower six; but the Grierson carriage was waiting, with the coachman and a Mereside gardener for bearers. From that to putting the sick man to bed in one of the guest chambers of the lake-fronting mansion at the opposite end of the town was a mere bit of routine for ! one so capable as Miss Grierson; and 1 twenty minutes after the successful transfer she had Doctor Farnham at the nameless one's bedside and was 1 telephoning the college infirmary for a nurse. Naturally, there were explanations i to be made when the doctor came down. To her first anxious question the answer came gravely: "You have a very sick man on your hands, Miss Margery." Then the inevitable: "Who is he?" ' She spread her hands in a pretty " affectation of embarrassment. "What will you think of me, Dr. ** Farnham, when I tell you that I have w * C4I1VJ HIV J U WIIIMII I? ?v*( biiv raft to be cashed. It was the slenderest of threads, and iroffln realized sweatingly how difflult it might be to follow. Assuming lat there had been a previous meetlg or meetings, or rather the passing cquaintance which was all the young 'Oman's later betrayal of the man lade conceivable, would the writer of iie accusing letter be willing to add to er burden of responsibility by giving fie true name and standing of the lan whose real identity?if she knew ?she had been careful to conceal in le unsigned note to Mr. Galbraith? iroffln read the note again?"a deckand, whose name on the mate's book i John Wesley Gavitt," was the de:ription she had given. It might, or might not, be an equivocation; but le longer Broffln dwelt upon it the lore he leaned toward the conclusion ) which his theory and the few known icts pointed. The young woman new the man in his proper person; tie had been reluctant to betray him -that, he decided, was sufficiently roved by the lapse of time intervenig between the date of her note and s postmark date; having finally deided to give him up. she had told only hat was absolutely necessary, leavlg him free to conceal his real name nd identity If he would?and could. Having come thus far on the road > convincement, Broffin knew what e had to do and set about doing it lethodically. A telegram to the clerk f the Belle Julie served to place the teamer in the lower river; and boardlg a night train he planned to reach icksburg in time to intercept the itnesses whose evidence would deter line roughly how many hundreds of tiousands of miles he could safely cut ut of the zigzag pourneyings to which tie following up of the hypothetical lue would lead. For. cost what it might, he was de?rmined to iind the writer of the unigred letter. (To be continued.) On Ladies Riding Straddle.?The writer of this squib has owned nothing i the way of live stock larger than setter dog, and if he ever owns a orse, mule, or even a donkey, that will ermit a young lady to ride astride s hack through the town's streets, it ill be shot immediately or sent off to lurope for cannon food. Such an anilal has absolutely 110 respect for itplf or the public morals.?Fort Mill 'imes. of common hardware." si Further search in the tightly rolled bundle was rewarded by the discovery of a typewritten book manuscript, unsigned. and with it an oblong packet wrapped in brown paper and tied with w twine. She slipped the string and re- ii moved the wrapping. The brick- a shaped packet proved to be a thick h block of bank notes held together by p heavy rubber bands snapped over the it ends. v While the little ormulu clock on the E dressing case was whirring softly and n chiming the hour she stared at the ? money-block as if the sight of it had T not the little atom of an idea?" u; Charlotte's father was a small man, with kindly eyes and the firm, straight- r? lined mouth of his Puritan forbears. 1X1 "Tell me about it," he said concisely. lc She told him. ? 1(1 A shrewd smile flickered for an in- w stant in the kindly eyes of Wahaska's best-beloved physician. "Almost anyone else would have p< found plenty of other things to do?or not to do," was his comment. "Are 01 you prepared to go on, Miss Margery?" w There were fine little lines coming OI and going between Miss Margery's straight black brows. "We needn't w do it by halves, doctor," she said decisively. "If it would be better to 81 wire St. Paul or Minneapolis and get * a trained nurse?" "?You'd stand the extra expense, ci of course," laughed the doctor. "You w are all the world's good angel when tt you set out to be, Miss Margery. And d' I'll send somebody before bedtime, ol Meanwhile, there's nothing to do but h: to keep your patient quiet; and he'll si do that for himself for a few hours. I h; gave him a bit of anodyne before I si came down." r< Margery went to the outer door with her kindly counselor, playing the part b of the gracious hostess as one who is, p; or who means to be, precisely letter- fl, perfect; and after he was gone, she n went slowly upstairs and let herself y softly into the room of shaded lights, ft The sick man was resting quietly, and p he did not stir when she crossed to b< the bed and laid a cool palm on his h forehead. d "You poor castaway!" she murmur- r< ed. "I wonder who you are, and to tl whom you belong? I suppose some- h body has got to be mean and sneaky tl and And out. Would you rather it j would be I than someone else who tl might care even less than I do?" n The sleeping man opened unseeing b eyes and closed them again heavily, d "I found the money, Carlotta mai; you didn't know that, did you?" he mut- B tered; and then the narcotic seized ci and held him again. tl His clothes were on a chair, and ir when she had carried them to a light a that could be shaded completely from w the bed and its occupant, she searched rr the pockets one by one. It was a lit- tl tie surprising to find all but two of h them quite empty; no cards, no letters, tl no pen, pencil, pocketknife, or purse; rr nothing but a handkerchief, and in it one pocket of the waistcoat a small tl roll of paper money, a few coins and B two small keys. h She held the coat up to the electric is and examined it closely; the workman- s< ship, the trimmings. It was not tailor- it made, she decided, and by all the little tl signs and tokens it was quite new. nr And the same was true of the other tc garments. But there was no tag or U trademark on any of them to show k where they came from. si Failing to find the necessary clue to ? the castaway's identity in this pre- p liminary search, she went on reso- ir lutely, dragging the two suitcases over it to the lighted corner and unlocking ci them with the keys taken from the w pocket of the waistcoat. ir The first yielded nothing but cloth- a ing, all new and evidently unworn. The second held more clothing, a tc man's toilet appliances, also new and h unused, but apparently no scrap of rr writing or hint of a name. With a o little sigh of bafflement she took the si last tightly rolled bundle of clothing ir from the suitcase. While she was lift- V ing it a pistol fell out. u In times past, Jasper Grierson's n daughter had known weapons and tl their faults and excellencies. "That o places him?u little." she mused, put- tl ting the pistol aside after she had c glanced at it: "He's from the east; he doesn't know a gun from a piece t< lseinated her. Then she sprang up nd flew to the door, not to escape, ut to turn the key noiselessly in the >ck. Secure against interruption, she ulled the rubber bands from the acket. The block was built up in lyers, each layer banded with a paer slip on which was printed in red be name of the certifying bank and tie amount. "Bayou State Security, 5,000." There were twenty of these lyers in all, nineteen of them unroken. But through the printed flgres on the twentieth a pen-stroke ad been drawn, and underneath was written <4,000." Quite coolly and methodically Marerv firierson verified the bank's count s indicated by the paper bands. There rere one hundred thousand dollars, icking the one thousand taken from & You Poor Castawayl" 8he Murmured. le broken packet The counting >5(pleted, she replaced the rubber ands and the brown paper wrapping, hen she repacked the suitcases, artnging the contents as nearly as tight be just as she had found them, icking the cases and returning the eys to the waistcoast pocket from hich she had taken them. When all was done, she tiptoed :ross to the bed, with the brown paer packet under her arm. The sick tan stirred uneasily and began to mtter again. She bent to catch the ords. and when she heard, the light r understanding leaped swiftly into le dark eyes. For the mumbled ords were the echo of a fierce threat: Sign it; sign it now, or, by God, I'll loot to kill!" The robbery of the Bayou State Selrity bank was already an old story hen Mr. Matthew Broffln, chief of le New Orleans branch of a notable etective agency, took over the case t the bank robbery a few days after is return from Central America, ince two members of his own staff ad fired and missed their mark in t. Louis, there was a blunder to be I ftrieved. After a week of patient groping, roffln was obliged to confess that the roblem of identification was too difcult to be solved on conventional nes. It presented no point of attack, /"ith neither a name nor a pictured ice for reference, inquiry was cripled at the very outset None of the oarding and rooming hoises he visitad lost a lodger answering the verbal escription of the miasing man. Very jluctantly, for bulldog tenacity was le detective's ruling characteristic, e was forced to the conclusion that le only untried solution lay in Teller ohnson's unfortified impression that le chance meeting at his wicket was ot the first meeting between the robon/1 4 Via vounir wAmnn with tha FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of Tbe Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Record* of the Past and Giving the Younger Reader* of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Thing* that Most Con- i cerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first Installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity per mit. 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. I 147TH INSTALLMENT. (Wednesday Evening, May 10, 1865.) The Enquirer?Suspension. ( From this date the publication pf The Enquirer will be discontinued. The cause is rendered necessary from the ' fact that we are unable to procure any ] exchanges or news matter with which , to All up the paper, and owing to the ( almost total suspension of the mails, And it impracticable to forward the paper to subscribers after it is print- 1 ed. I We regret this the more partly from | the fact that the publication of the 1 1 -A/Tiilnrlu paper una ueen wnuuuui icgumnj since the commencement of the war, but the circumstances by which we are surrounded compels us to yield. We are hopeful, however, that the suspension will be only temporary. To those who have paid for the current volume we beg to say we will furnish the paper for the time for which we have received compensation upon the publication being resumed. (Wednesday Evening, Aug, 17, 1865.) Ourselves. We resume the publication of The Enquirer this morning, with the expectation of issuing It regularly hereafter, on every Thursday, should we receive sufficient "substantial" encouragement to warrant it. The terms are $4 per annum; $1 for three months; or ten cents for a single copy, when paid in "greenbacka" If the payment is made in specie, we will make the proper discount and receive it at market value. Country produce of every description will be received at market prices, for subscription or advertising. Our terms are higher than before the war. This is rendered necessary from the fact that every article used in connection with the publication of a newspaper has advanced in price. Whenever circumstances justify it, we will reduce our price to the old standard. Subscribers who have already paid for the paper will be supplied for the period for which they have paid. Those on our subscription list who have not paid will be furnished with the present number, when it will be discontinued until we receive indemnity for the past and security for the future. The paper will not be furnished hereafter to anv Derson on indefinite credit. It is our purpose after the mails are 1 re-established throughout the country to enlarge the paper to double its pres- 1 ent size. From what we can learn we 1 think we shall be enabled to do this ' in about six weeks or two months. In resuming the publication of The ' Enquirer, we have considered more 1 the wants of our former patrons than ' our individual interests. However, we ' propose to continue the paper for the ' purpose of laying before the public the 1 many state papers atloat, which would * otherwise not reach a large part of the community. We will have little room ' for comment on matters of govern- ' rnent were such altogether allowable, but with the lights before us we shall ( continue to urge upon the people to lay aside former differences and a 1 generous emulation as to who can ' best serve the country in this her hour ! of trial. We are commencing the no- ( litical world anew, and great changes are upon us?we must set to work to 1 meet the emergency in proper spirit? to accept the terms of reconstruction, ' however humiliating they may appear and make the best use we may of our present opportunities. The institution of slavery is gone forever and it is useless, it is folly, it is criminal to distract the country with partyisms at this time. But one thing is left U9? to take the Amnesty Oath and enter at once into the sober duties of the citizen. It shall be our object to represent the district and it will be our pride to show it is as loyal to the old government as it was to the unfortunate principles of the four years' war. Married?In Yorkville on the 11th, instant, by Rev. L. A. Johnson, Lieut. J. S. R. Thomasson of Spartanburg, and Miss Jane, second daughter or W. I. Clawson of this place. In Yorkville, on the 2nd, instant, by Rev. J. Monroe Anderson, Mr. Wm. A. Elam of Mecklenburg county, Va., and Miss Sophia Jane, oldest daughter of Mr. Joseph Herndon of Yorkville, S. C. (Wednesday Evening, Aug. 31, 1865.) Shot. We learn that Dr. Alexander White, living on the west side of Broad river, was snoi wniie silling ui ins supper, one evening last week. The cause or particulars have not reached us. Fire. A fire occurred at the south end of Main street in this town on Wednesday night of last week, the 25th, inst., which resulted in the destruction of the large steam merchant mill of Mr. S. J. Kuykendal. The origin of the tire is not known. The loss is estimated at $3,500. * * * Married?In York district on the 24th, inst., at the bride's residence, by the Rev. J. A. Davis, Mr. J. D. Enloe of Bradenburg, Ky., and Miss Naomi Olndden. of York district. I * i Mail Service. We are pleased to learn from an exchange that the postmaster general has ordered mail service on the following railroads in South Carolina: From Kingville, S. C., to Wilmington, N. C.; from Kingville to Augusta. Ga.; from Florence to Cheraw; from Charleston to Florence; from Columbia to Charlotte; from Chester to Yorkville; from Alston to Spartanburg; from Newberry to Laurens, and from Charleston to Savannah. Proposals for carrying the mails in. this state and North Carolina from the 1st of January next, have been printed In pamphlet form and large numbers were sent to the governor on the 6th, Inst, from Washington, for general distribution. Married?In this district, on Thursday, the 14th, inst., by Rev. O. A. Darby, Rev. L. A. Johnson of the S. C. conference, and Miss Margaret Smith of this district. (To Be Continued.) TILLMAN ON CANAL WORK. He Is Enthusiastic Over What Has Been Accomplished. The Portland Oregonian published the following Interview with Senator B. R. Tillman on July 18th: Colonel George Goethals has "outGermaned" the Germans In efficiency In the construction of the Panama ca nal, according to Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina, who irrived in Portland Friday, to visit his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Hughes, for a week. To this efficiency he credits the success of the tremendous undertaking which he Inspected on his way to Portland. He tells of his visit as follows: "I spent a week in the Canal Zone, two days on the Atlantic or Gulf side md four days on the Pacific. Although In no way connected with the army, jxcept as a member of the appropriation committee, I felt it my duty to get is much Information as I could about ictual conditions there. "I became enthusiastic by association with the army officers, coast artillery officers and those of the regular infantry. The artillerymen are working like beavers at both ends to get the fortifications in good condition, and already have in place, ready for business, many heavy mortars and 12 and 14 inch rifles, so I feel convinced that iny hostile fleet attempting to enter at iither end would receive very warm treatment. "General C. R. Edwards is in command of the forces on the Isthmus. He s well able to see and know what the irmy needs. Having known General Edwards in Washington for many ^ears, I was not surprised at the grasp ind earnestness which he displayed. "But notwithstanding the fact that [ was an invalid, so to speak, by sheer jvill power I was able to stand up unler the strain. "I visited the camp of the Third inT fantry, detailed on the south side of the canal, and became convinced that 3eneral Edwards is the right man for the job on the Isthmus. "He is prepared to repel any invad;r from any source whatsoever, be he 3erman, Jap or what not. "Captain Hugh Rodman, of the United States navv. in eharere of the SDecial canal, then took me In hand and we ran Jown to Gatun dam on a special motor car belonging to the I. C. C., which means on the Isthmus, isthmian canal commission, and not Interstate commerce commission. "The engineers believe that eight months is enough, when they hope that the expense of dredging will cease. Of course I do not presume to put my ludgment against theirs, but the cracks n the earth on the north side of the canal Indicate that the mountain is moving toward the water, slowly causing the mud to press up from the bottom nf the canal, and the dredges are constantly at work?four or five of them? taking out this material. "I made a crude guess that It will require two or three years more and sev eral million dollars before the work will be completed. Since the 22,000 ton Finland came through the canal, on which I sailed for San FYancisco, enough earth has slid into the canal to prevent the Kroonland, her sister 3hip, from following, and I doubt seriausly whether the three battleships on which the Annapolis cadets are to visit the exposition will get through safely. "I was much Impressed with the wls3om of President Wilson In not permitting our battleships to go through the canal at this time, as they might have been prevented from returning to the Atlantic. "Admiral Rousseau had shown me the Gatun dam before I left Colon. "I did not see Colonel Goethals on the Isthmus, because he was in the United States at the time, but I did see Col. Warding, his assistant. I became impressed with one thing, after talking with some of mv old South Carolina friends whom I found thertf, that Col. 3oethaIs has had one idea predominate ?efficiency. "He has out-Germaned the Germans in this great work, and if a man was sent to the canal who did not make ;ood, Colonel Goethals told him to move on. It has been his religion. "The work impresses one in its magnitude and greatness at every step tak>n, and, in expressing my opinion, I believe it is as permanent as human ?nergy and skill and brains can make t. "Science has lent its aid, and modern ?ngineering with American leadership, tias accomplished a stupendous task." War Money.?The European war is now being financed on what may well be called a colossal scale. The Philaielphia Public Ledger refers to Great Britain's new loan of J5,000,000,000 as 'the greatest in all history for any purpose." rrne ma^nnuue 01 una man is considered a reminder to all belligerents, and especially to the foe, that England "is prepared to wage this conflict to a definite conclusion, no matter what the time, and no matter what the cost." The Public Ledger also refers to the financing by Prance in a way by which that country may keep its gold and yet provide ill the cash needed for the purchase if war munitions. The French plan has been mentioned in this paper. The French bankers are purchasing millions of American securities which are iwned by the French people, and these securities will be sent to the United States where they will be used as collateral for borrowing money that will ?o back to Paris. By this plan the * 1 ? ?.*11 Ka molnfolnaH nn [urriKn inurnei win nc uia..<.u...v- ? i steady basis. The Public Ledger jees in this French transaction the releasing of a large amount of Idle ?unds and the starting of still more \merican wheels, with the consequent llling of pay envelopes for thousands >t American workmen.?Charlotte Oblerver. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Qaston, Lancaster and Chester. Rock Hill Record, July 26: Mlsa Amelia Simpson returned this morn ing from a trip to California. She and her party were at the wharf at Chicago Saturday morning when the Eastland turned over and drowned 1,000 people. She says one can hardly imagine what a dreadful catastrophe it was A blaze Thursday night destroyed two cottages on Hutchinson street, belonging to Dr. W. G. Stevens and badly damaged another. An alarm was given by the Highland Park mill whistle and by the city's alarm system, too, but when the Are company responded they found there was no water hydrant in that section and they had to resort to a bucket brigade and succeeded in saving the third house before it had gained a great headway The condition of J. Ed Roddey, whose serious illness has been mentioned previously in the Record, remains unchanged. Lancaster Newt, July 27: The condition of Magistrate I. T. Hunter, who last week suffered a stroke of paraly sis, is somewhat improved toaay The condition of Mr. Walker Craig, who has been critically ill for the past several days, is regarded as better today Rev. H. R. Murchison preached a strong sermon Sunday morning, the last he will preach for a month, as the PTesbyterian church has given him leave of absence for the month of August, which he and his family will spend on their farm near Batesburg. Mr. and Mrs. Murchison and the children left this week. Mr. Murchison has four acres planted In tomatoes and will superintend the canning of these vegetables, of which there is said to be a splendid yield Miss Minnie Coley, sister of Mrs. E. H. Bost, who has been spending the summer here with her sister, was recently elected director of music in the Lancaster graded schools for the coming session. Gaatonia Gazette, July 27: Mr. Jns. Hudson died last Friday morning at his home about two and one-half miles from Dallas, aged 63 years. He is survived by his widow and six children, four daughters and two sons Geo. Baker, the 15-year-old son of Mr. Frank Baker, who lives south of Pisgah, was bitten on the hand by a copperhead snake last Thursday, while he was picking up apples in the orchard. He was given prompt medical attention and will recover Mr. A. J. Goforth, an aged and highly respected citizen of Belmont, died at his home there yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. His death was due to dropsy. Mr. Goforth had been in failing health for some time and death was not unexpected. Mr. Goforth was a prominent farmer of that section. It was impossible to ascertain his exact age, but he was a veteran of the civil war, enlisting in the Confederate army and serving throughout the struggle.... .Friends of Mrs. Neil Hawkins of route three, who underwent an operation at the city hospital a few days ago, will be glad to learn that she is rapidly recovering and hopes to be able to return to her home in a few days. Leonard, the 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mack Jenkins, was operated on at the Charlotte sanatorium last Wednesday by , Dr. Whisonant, having his adenoids [and tonsils removed. He was brought home Thursday and is doing nicely. * 0 0 Gaffney Ledger, July 27: Dr. R. T. Ferguson, driving an automobile, and a negro riding a bicycle, collided on North Limestone street Saturday afternoon. One wheel of the negro's bicycle was demolished, but he escaped unharmed. The accident was unavoidable Ensley Teague, a young farmer who lives about two miles from the city, was hit on the upper hip by a green snake while plowing in his field Friday afternoon. He was passing by some bushes when the reptile attacked him. Mr. Teague killed the snake and sought medical attention for his injuries. He was very ill for a time as a result of the bite, but he is now improving rapidly It is reported on the streets that the capital stock of the Broad River Mills at Blacksburg will shortly be increased and that 10,000 spindles will be installed if a proposition made by the directors to the business men of Blacksburg is accepted. Officers of the mill preferred not to discuss the matter at present, but admitted that there is a likelihood of the Increase being made The first commencement exercises of the city hospital, held at the courthouse Thursday night, were well attended, considering the inclement weather. Miss Terrissa Elena Hoyle, the nurse who was graduated, received the first diploma to be given by the institution. Dr. E. W. Pressley of Clover, delivered the commencement address Mrs. Jane Humphries, who suffered a stroke of paralysis some time ago and who had never entirely recovered, suffered a second stroke last Saturday and was in a very critical condition yesterday. Chester Reporter, July 26: At the meeting of the creditors of Mr. R. F. Sessions before Mr. C. W. F. Spencer -v* tt111 Ir* Kq nlf rnntcv U1 IVULIV 11111, 1C1VIGC Hi i/Miii.i which was held In this city Friday morning, Mr. M. I* Marion was appointed trustee, and Messrs. J. T. Collins, W. D. Robinson and J. Q. Hood, were appointed appraisers. It is probable that the stock will be sold the first Monday in September. The 1 schedule showed liabilities amounting to $16,9411.12 and assets (estimated) ( totaling $13,012.97 J. H. Evans, a negro who was arrested by the police last week for hoboing, is suspected from an unmailed letter that j he had in his pocket at the time of his 1 arrest of having killed another negro 1 at Catawba, N. C., while the two were ( engaged with others in a crap game. , The annual convention of the < Chester County International Sunday j School association, was held at Armenia M. E. church yesterday, and was well i attended, a large crowd, estimated by ' some as between four and five hun- J dred being present R. L. Atkinson , of Lowryvtlle R. F. D. 1, and Boyce Bankhead of Chester, were the winners of the two four-year scholarships at Clemson college as a result of the recent competitive examination in this county, according to announcement made Saturday by Hon. J. EI Swearingen, state superintendent of education. David Reid of Rlchburg, won the one-year agricultural scholarship from the county, and Jesse Wilson of Richburg No. 2, was the winner of one of the seven agricultural scholarships from the state at large Mr. J. H. Gladden tells of a remarkable mule, the property of Mr. F. L. Allen. There are two remarkable facts about the animal, one of which is its advanced age?32 years?and the other the fact that the mule has passed out of Mr. Allen's hands four times, and each time after a little Interval, has been re-purchased by him, at a cost all told of $290. As Mr. Allen's sons grew into manhood and started to farming for themselves Mr. Allen made them a present of the mule, and bought the animal back from each of them in the manner described above. Though having attained a ripe old age, the mule is still In good trim, and looks good for several years more of vigorous service William Johnson, a tramp painter who has been in the community for several weeks, was arrested last week by Sheriff Colvln's deputies and is being held on account of his resemblance to a description of a miirSarer oont nnt hv thA Maw York police. A wire from New York states that the criminal in question is still at large, and a photograph of Johnson will be sent to New York today or tomorrow. FIR8T BLOOD FOR BANK8. Justice Watts Makes Two Rulings Against Tax Commission, The case of the banks against the South Carolina tax commission will be carried to the supreme court for a decision, according to Thomas H. Peeples, attorney general. Decrees adverse to the commission were rendered yesterday by Associate Justice Watts in two cases brought by the People's National bank of Greenville and a Greenwood bank. In the case of the People's National of Greenville, "In behalf of itself and all other banks of the state," the decree ends as follows: "It is therefore ordered that the temporary restraining order heretofore passed be continued until the final hearing of the case. "It is further ordered that, during the pendency of this action, the defendants be enjoined and restrained from assuming or exercising any authority over the returns or assessments for taxation of the plaintiff bank, or of any other bank in this state, or from doing any of the acts complained of in the complaint, until the final order of this court. "Having brdered that the defendants be enjoined from retaining the returns of the several banks of the state it follows that the same should be returned by the defendants to the several auditors of the state, to the end that the assessments thereon, heretofore fixed by the auditors and county boards, be entered upon the tax duplicates for 1915; and it is so ordered. "I therefore conclude," says the decree, "that the tax commission Is without authority under the act to assess the property of the shareholders In a bank?state or national; the only method of taxing this class of property authorized by law, and that an effort upon their part to assess the property and franchises of a bank, which they are alone apparently authorized by the act to do, would contravene the constitution of South Carolina and the act of congress. "It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded in the complaint. "It is further ordered that a writ of mandamus do Issue from this court, under the hand of the clerk and the seal of the court, directed to Adolphus W. Jones, John P. Derham and W. Q. Query, commissioners of the South Carolina tax commission, requiring and commanding them to return to the county auditor of Greenwood county the return and assessment described in the complaint and directed also to J. W. Canfield, auditor of Greenwood county, requiring and commanding him to place the same upon the tax books of Greenwood county, for the purpose of taxation for the year 1915 in accordance with law." This decision was rendered in the case of the National Loan and Exchange bank of Greenwood and W. T. Bailey against the tax commission and the auditor of Greenwood county, which brought mandamus proceedings, seeking to prevent the commission from reviewing the assessment already filed with the auditor on February 20. The writ of mandamus as prayed for has been issued. Associate Justice Watts did not pass on the constitutionality of the tax commission act or the validity of the iii;i, atiyiug. "I shall advert to only two of the objections raised by the plaintiff to the act and to the power of the tax commission; the other objections I will not decide, as I do not consider that from my view of the case their decision is necessary-. The objections I shall consider are the third and fourth grounds as stated above and the fifth." ?The State, Wednesday. Uncle Sam Wants His Money Back.? The government will sue American citizens, who. though apparently able to do so, refuse to repay money expended for their relief when they were stranded in Europe at the war's outbreak. Many of those aided have reimbursed the government, but Secretary McAdoo says that a number had refused to pay. A provision of the congressional resolution appropriating funds to meet the emergency last summer, said: "American citizens to whom relief Is extended or transportation is furnished shall pay to or re-imburse the United States all reasonable expenses so incurred respectively on their account, # In 11?r AKU QAM II llliaiiuaujr auic IU uw au. Treasury officials say that no exact accounting has been made of the imount expended in relief work. Congress appropriated $2,750,000, and it is believed that more than $2,000,000 was used. HAPPENING8 IN THE 8TATE Items of Interest From All 8ections of 8outh Carolina. Governor Manning reviewed the First regiment In camp at the Isle of Palms, Wednesday. Several buildings were struck by lightning in Kershaw county, on last Tuesday. Anderson county farmers organized an alfalfa club last week, making the third to be organized In that county. Walter A. Johnson of Battle Creek, Mich., has been elected physical dlrec tor of the Presbyterian college, Clinton. Charles Patterson, colored, is in jail in Columbia, charged with the burning of a barn belonging to B. B. Langford at Blythewood, Sunday. Prof. A. Mason DuPre has been appointed a member of the Spartanburg county board of education to succeed W. O. Blake, resigned. O. P. Mills, president of the Mills Cotton Manufacturing company of Greenville, died at Cedar Mountain, N. C., last week, aged 75 years. Governor Manning has invited the governors of fifteen states to the Southern Commercial congress, which is to be. held in Charleston, December 13-17. Dr. Walter W. Wolfe, who was engaged in the practice of medicine at Port Mntte for thirtv vears or more. died in a Columbia hospital Sunday. He was 61 years old. J. R. Robinson, a young white man who was working as a lineman in Greenville, was killed Monday afternoon when 2,300 volts of electricity passed through his body. William Cleland, 10 years old, was drowned in the Tugaloo river near Madison last Wednesday afternoon. The body was later recovered, being taken In a fisherman's seine. The sixteen mills comprising the Parker Cotton Mills company, propose to close down their plants from July 31 to August 8, for the purpose, it is said, "of giving their employee a holiday." The act of the general assembly exempting bonds of the city of Columbia from taxation, has been held to be unconstitutional in an opinion recently handed down by Judge Ernest Moore, in the case of the Carolina National bank against P. B. Splgener, treasurer of Richland county. A. G. Prevaux, alias Graham Brown, was committed to Jail in Charleston last week, charged with being an escaped convict from the Dorchester county chalngang. Brown posed in Charleston as a state constable and raided quite a number of Charleston blind tigers by himself. W. A. King, mayor of Mt Pleasant, sent a telegram to Governor Manning, ' Monday, protesting against the closing of the dispensary at that place while the First Regiment was encamped at the Isle of Palms. He represented that the soldiers could get all the whisky V.rtt. ninfrnm Phorlrtfltnn Q nH thp only effect of closing: the dispensary at Mt. Pleasant was to cut that town out of the revenue. Kershaw Era: Newton Kelly and John Rabon, Jr., of the West Wateree section of Kershaw county, were In Kershaw last Saturday morning to take the southbound train on their return home. They had been In the vicinity of Chalk Hill school house in Kershaw county, where they organized on Friday a branch of the Farmers' Secret Organization. In conversation with the reporter for the Era Mr. Kelly stated that the organization was styled secret for mutual protection of its members, that it could best do Its work as a secret organization, and that there was no embodiment of harm in Its signification. He said further that Lee county was already thoroughly organized, and Kershaw county nearly so. Machine Gun In War.?While the great nations of the world are devising new military engines of destruction and increasing their stock of the old, our army continues to tread a path grass-grown by comparison with the roads traversed by the heavy armaments of Europe. Failure of our military authorities to take advantage of the great lessons of the present war cannot all be placed upon the should [ ere of congress. One great outstanding weakness of our present military system can be corrected with proper co-operation between army authorities and congress. The machine gun has proved itself one of the deadliest weapons in use by the warring forces. With this object lesson being thrown upon the world screen each day, an archaic organic organization of the machine gun complements of our service continues in force and little has been said of contemplated changes. Our army has at present a tentative machine gun organization consisting of two guns to each regiment. The crews of the guns are detailed from the various companies for temporary duty. There is no inducement for the men to acquire perfection in the handling of their weap ons. They are liable to transfer at any time, and as a rule remain but a short time in this branch of the service. Every German regiment has a machine gun company, comprising six guns, manned by four officers and 92 soldiers. The men are thoroughly trained in this service and remain permanently with the company. Enormous quantities of ammunition are expended In practice firing. Their drill is an exhaustive one, resulting in a perfection of gun handling which is marvelous by comparison with the crude efforts of our machine gun units. "And yet," the United States Infantry Journal said in a recent number, "we have muddled along for years. Are we waiting for a war of our own so that we may acquire the experience needed for solution of this question?" It is reported that there are now more than 50,000 machine guns in the German army, and their use is general In the allied armies. Each of our regiments should have a machine gun company with a permanent personnel, armed with at least six guns. It is hoped that congrees will provide the means for such a re-organization.? Philadelphia Public Ledger. 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