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ISSUED SEHI-VEBEL^ l. x grist's sons, pabii>her>. } % ^ainilg 3jtwsp||ei[: ^or (hi; fromofion oj jpoliticat, gonial, ?gri<uttoiial and (eomnt^cial jnterssts of lh< |eopi<. { established 1855. york, 3. ct tijesdayvauqust 3, 1915. no. 627 ^TO\N( ILUSTMTIONSj CHAPTER XI. The Zweibund. On his second visit to the sick man lodged In the padded luxuries of one of the guest rooms at Mereside, made on the morning following the Grlerson home-coming, Dr. Farnham found the hospital status established, a goodnatured Swede installed as nurse, the bells muffled and Miss Margery play ing the part of sister superior ana | dressing it, from the dainty, felt-soled slippers to the smooth banding of her I hair. An hour later, however, it was the ? Margery of the Wahaska renaissance, joyously clad and radiant, who was holding the reins over a big English trap horse, parading down Main street and smiling greetings on every side. By one of the chances which he was willing to call'fortunate, Edward Raymer was at the curb to help her down from her high seat in the trap when she pulled the big horse to a stand in front of her father's bank. "I'm the luckiest man in Red Earth county; I was Just wondering when I should get in line to tell you how glad we are to have you back," he said, his eyes shining. "Are you, really? You are not half as glad as I am to be back. There is no place like home, you know." "There isn't, and there oughtn't to be," was the quick response. "I've been hoping you'd come to look upon Wahaska as your home, and now I know you do." "Why shouldn't I?" she laughed, and she was reaching for a paper-wrapped package on the trap seat when he got it for her. "You are going somewhere??may I carry it for you?" he asked; but she shook her head and took it from him. "Only into the bank," she explained; and she was beginning to tell him he must come to Mereslde when the sickman episode obtruded itself, and the invitation was broken in the midst, very prettily, very effectively. "I know," Raymer said, in instant sympathy. "You have your hands full just now. Will you let me say that it's the finest thing I ever heard of?your takiug that poor fellow home and caring for him?" Gertrude Raymer had once said in her^ mother's hearing that Miss Grler-1 son's color would be charming if it I were only natural. Looking into Miss Grierson's eyes Raymer saw the refu tation of the slander in the suffusing wave of generous embarrassment deepening In warm tints on the perfect neck and cheek. "Oh, dear me!" she said in pathetic protest; "is it all over town so soon? I'm afraid we are still dreadfully 'country' in Wahaska, Mr. Raymer. Please cut it down to the bare, commonplace facts whenever you have a chance, won't you? The poor man was sick and nobody knew him, and somebody had to take care of him." Like the doctor, Raymer asked the inevitable question, "Who is he. Miss Margery?" and, like the doctor again, he received the same answer, "I have not the smallest notion of an idea. Rut that doesn't make the slightest difference," she went on. "He is a fellow human being, sick and helpless. That ought to be enough for any of us to know." Raymer stood watching her as she tripped lightly into the bank, and when he went to catch his car the conservative minority had lost whatever countenance or support he had ever given it. True to her latest characterization of herself, Margery had a nod and a pleasant smile for the young men behind the brass grilles as she passed on her way to the president's room in the rear. She found her father at his desk, thoughtfully munching the unburned half of one of the huge cigars, and named her errand. "I want a safety-deposit box big enough to hold this," she said briefly, exhibiting the paper-wrapped packet. Jasper Grierson, deeply immersed in a matter of business to which he had given the better part of the forenoon, replied without looking up: "Go and tell Murray; he'll fix you out." As on any other business day, President Grierson was solidly planted in his heavy armchair before a desk well littered with work. He nodded absently to his daughter as she returned, and knowing that the nod meant that he would come to the surface of things ?her surface?when he could, she turned aside to the window and waited. Though she had seen him develop day by day in less than three of the thirty-odd years of his western exile, her father offered a constant succession of surprises to her. When she opened the door to retrospection, which was not often, she remembered that the man who had stumbled upon the rich quartz vein in Yellow Dog Gulch could scarcely sign his name legibly to the paper recording his claim; that in those days there was no prophecy of the ambitious present in the man, half drunkard and half outlaw, whose name in the Yellow Dog district had been a synonym for?but these were unpleasant memories, and Margery rarely indulged in them. Just now she put them aside by turning her back to the window and taking credit for the tasteful and luxurious appointments of the private office, with its soft-piled rug and heavy mahogany furnishings. Her father was careless of such things; totally indifferent to them in business hours; but she saw to it that his surroundings kept pace with the march of prosperity. Here in Wahaska, as elsewhere, a little judicious display counted for much, even if there were a few bigoted persons who affected to despise it. She was in the midst of a meditated attack upon the steamship lithographs on the walls?sole remaining landmarks of the ante-Clrierson period? 3CE I5IYNDC i-CDPHtgCS ccy*r/f/cffr/yr COAL rj jc*ftvfc/?3 MX* f when her father wheeled in his pivot chair and questioned her with a lift of his shaggy eyebrows. "Want to see me, Madgie?" "Just a moment." She crossed the E room and stood at the end of the big * Uo poo r*Vi mA^hnnirflllv for ? his checkbook, but she smiled, and * stopped him. "No; It isn't money this 8 time; It's something that ihoney can't buy. I met Mr. Edward Raymer at the front door a few minutes ago; does he have an account with you?" Jasper Grierson's laugh was grimly contemptuous. "The bank isn't making anything out of him. The shoe is on the other foot" "What is the matter? Isn't he making money with his plant?" "Oh, yes; his plant is good enough. But he's like all the other young fools, nowadays; he ain't content to bet on a sure thing and grow with his capital. He wants to widen out and build and put in new machinery and cut a bigger dash generally. Thinks he's been too slow and sure." "Are you going to stake him?" Margery waged relentless war with her birthright inclination to lapse into the "That's Where You Are Mistaken," 8he Objeoted Coolly. speech of the mining camps, but she stumbled now and then in talking to her father. \ "I don't know; I guess not. Somehow, I've never had much use for him." "Why haven't you any use for him?" "Oh, I don't know?because, until just lately he has never seemed to have much use for me, I guess. It's a stand-off so far as likings go. I offered to re-incorporate his outfit for him six months ago, and told him I'd take fifty-one per cent of the re-organization stock myself; but he wouldn't ' talk about it. Said what little he had was his own, and he proposed to keep 1 it." 1 "But now he is willing to let you ' help him?" ^ "Not much; he don't look at it in that light. He wants to borrow money ' from the bank and put up the stock 1 of his close corporation as collateral. It's safe enough, but I don't believe I'll do it." The chatelaine of Mereside came abruptly to the point. ' "I want you to do it," she said, de- ( cisively. * "The devil you do!" Then, with 1 the dry, door-hinge chuckle: "What's 1 in the wind now?" "I do want you to put him under obligations to you?the heavier the better. His mother and sister have ' guile UUl Ul men naj iu anuu ?nu I want to play even." Grierson wagged his huge head, and 1 this time the chuckle grew to guffaw. 1 "He ain't the man to go to his womenfolks when he gets into hot water. 1 He'll keep it to himself; and they'll 1 go on bluffing you, same as ever." Miss Grierson pulled on her gaunt- ' lets and made ready to go, leisurely, as befitted her pose. "That's where you are mistaken," she objected, coolly. "It isn't very 1 often I can give you a business tip, but this is one of the times when I can. ' When John Raymer died, he left an undivided half of his estate to his 1 wife, the other half to be shared ' equally by the children. At the pres- 1 ent moment every dollar the entire family has is invested in the iron plant. You will let Mr. Raymer get 1 himself into hot water, as you call it, and then, when I say the word, you'll reach in and pull him out." When she was gone, the president selected another of the overgrown cigars from a box in the desk drawer. UrvktA/l I*- ?i vwl hiinlr in thp h I (T armchair to envelop himself in a cloud of smoke. It was his single expensive habit?the never-empty box of Brobdingnagian cigars in the drawer?and the indulgence helped him to push the Yellow-Dog period to a remoter past. After a time the smoke cloud became inarticulate, rumbling forth chucklings and Elizabethan oaths, mingling with musings idomatic and profane. "By gad, I believe she thought she was fooling mc?I do for a fact! But it's too thin. Of course, she wants to make the women kowtow. but that ain't all there is to it? not by a jugful. But it's all right: she plays her own hand, and she's bully good and able to play it. If she's after Raymer's scalp, he might as well get ready to wear a wig. right now. I'll back her to win, every time." Accordingly, when Mr. Edward Itaynier came out of the president's room at the Farmers' and Merchants' )ank the following morning, he was reading upon air. For in his mind's eye there was a fair picture of a great ind successful industry to be built up>n the substantial extension of credit promised by the capitalist whose presence chamber he had Just quitted. (To be continued.) WHAT A SOLDIER CARRIES Science Does Little to Lighten Load of Modern Fighter. While the rifle of the infantrymen )f the world's armies has steadily lesstned in weight during the last 50 years ind while constant attempts have >een made in other ways to lighten he soldier's burden on march, it is levertheless a fact that the uniformed ighter of today carries very little if Lny less than he did a generation or wo ago. His gun and bayonet and lome other details of equipment that >ad an exact counterpart in the old trmies may be lighter, but modern nilitary necessities have added to his :arrying requirements. He must now face this marching oad: Magazine rifle, bayonet, scab>ard, rifle cartridge belt suspends, first lid packet, canteen strap, set of ilanket, roll straps, haversack, meat ;an (used as a frying pan), cup, knife, ork, spoon, one shelter tent (half), Ive shelter tent pins, one poncho (rubier blanket), one pair shoes, one lousewlfe (needle and thread), one ivercoat, one intrenching tool. These marching loads have varied rom 40 to 100 pounds in the past, and veigh about the same now. Of course in going into action much >f this load is discarded, some of it lever to be possessed by the owner ;gain, even though he escapes the batle peril. In the old days knapsacks vere always cast off by seasoned rdops, who grow calloused as to the loarding up of little trinkets and menentos that so appeal to the amateur oldier. After a battle these discarded knaptacks might be recovered, but it was lot likely. At any rate, while another cnapsack might be issued, it would lot be the one possessed by the soldier >efore the battle. Whenever a new levy of troops was nustered in and arrived in a camp vneit' vcicxauo wcic oiaiiuncu 111c lewcomers were greeted with mock iraise for their spick and span soldiery appearance, with special emphasis >n "How nice those knapsacks look!" rhis time-honored receptacle of everything a soldier desired or hoped to teep ever near him is no longer reck)ned in the latter day, universal flghtng equipment. The Japanese soldiers md the men of other armies carry a ong sack in which it is possible to tie nany things the fighter needs or hinks he needs?until the weight suggests a discarding. During the Japanese-Russian war he infantrymen of Nippon carried, Lmong other things, a hemp hamnock, a water bottle of aluminum, a supply of rice in a grass box and a :opper charcoal camp kettle of a pat?nted kind that enabled water to be soiled right in a gale of wind. While :roops on going into battle discard ev?rything not absolutely necessary to :hem for the fight and are thus lightened up some, they have to take on ;ome weight in the place of that reinquished, in the shape of an extra lumber of cartridges.?New York Sun. MASS OF MUD A MARQUIS Nurses Surprised When Wounded Soldier Was Revealed. The women of France in general lave been splendid in doing their bit luring the war. Numbers of society women have devoted themselves to nursing the sick and wounded and have done it very well. There are some of them, however, of whom the French medical corps have complained nitterly; those who joined the Red Cross "pour passer le temps," or to wear the becoming white uniform of the "Garde malade," or even to flirt. At a large hospital near Paris a wounded soldier was brought straight from the trenches. He was a mass of Iry mud and an overpowering stench ^rae from the clothing. The doctor jrdered that he should be undressed ind washed so that he could examine the wounds. The amateur women nurses in their Red Cross costumes tried to do so, but though the spirit was willing the flesh was weak and ane after the other had to give up the ittempt. An orderly had to be called in to do It, and did it so well that the mass of nud was transformed into a fine, well built young fellow with fair hair md mustache. The women nurses ran to attend to him, but he declined their aid. By the rules he was obliged to take his food from them. When they drew up to the bed card with the dietry they were further surprised to learn that he was the young Marquis de X, one of the richest unmarried men in France, and widely known in American salons in Paris. The ladies who refused to touch the dirty soldier when he was brought to the tiospital are now "so sorry."?London fllobe. Origin of Ice Cream Soda.?Several things besides submarines have had their earthly beginning at Elizabeth, X. J. Ice cream soda (or at any rate it is so claimed) originated at "the port." The story goes out there that there was once a man there who kept a soda fountain, and also sold ice cream out of a can, relates the New York Mall. Up to that time no one had ever thought of combining soda and ice cream. Those were primitive days, and the Elizabeth man did not have his fountain well cooled. One day a customer called for some soda water, and when he got it found that it was quite warm. "Scotty," said he, "if your soda water was as cold as your ice creani it would taste better." "Huh!" answered the soda-fountain man; "well. I guess I can make It so." He thereupon took a large spoonful of Ice cream out of the can and plunged it into the glass of soda water. The customer found it delicious, and next day he came along and demanded another glass of soda water with Ice cream in it. Some one else tried it una litre,1 it nnd the denier soon found that he had accidentally invented a new drink?or a new food, whatever it is. The fashion spread thence until it has covered the whole country. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHER As Traced In Early Files of Tb Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDA Bringing Up Records of the Past an Giving the Younger Readers of To day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl edge of the Things that Most Con cerned Generations that Have Gon Before. The first Installment of the notes ap peering under this heading was pub lished in our issue of November H 1913. The notes are being prepared b the editor as time and opportunity per mit. Their purpose is to bring int review the events of the past for th pleasure and satisfaction of the olde people and for the entertainment an instruction of the present generation. 148TH INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Sept. 28, 1865.) New Cotton. The first bale of new cotton receive in our market this season was brough to town on Wednesday of last wee by Mr. James Blair, and purchased b Mr. B. F. Rawlinson at 19 1-2 cents pe pound in specie. Garrison for Yorkville. About thirty men of the 56th Nei York regiment, arrived in town o Tuesday evening, last, as a garrlsoi The detachment is under the com mand of Captain Dubois, whoi we have heard spoken of in very com nlimenfn rv tmriB Wp hnvp been in formed the garrison will probably re main until the army Is disbanded. * Newspaper Favors. We return our thanks this we?ek fo late papers to Messrs. Chas. A. Frazie T. D. Gillespie and W. J. Yates, editor of the Democrat, Charlotte, N. C.; ed Itors of the News, and C. P. Aima Charleston; Mr. T. M. Dobson, Mr. A. 1 McConnell, Mr. Moses Alexander, M Rose's hack line and Mr. Miles John son of Yorkville. The Convention. We publish in today's paper a sy nopsis of the proceedings of the cor ventlon from the day on which it ae sembled to Saturday last, Inclusive. W have experienced great difficulty i procuring the proceedings owing to th irregularity of communication wit Columbia So far as we have hear< little business had been finished. The convention has adopted an 01 dinance repealing the ordinance of 8? cession and agreed to the followln constitutional clauses abolishing sla\ ery in the state: "The slaves in Sout Carolina having been de facto emanc pated by the action of the United State neither slavery nor Involuntary servl tude, except as a punishment for crim whereof the party shall have bee duly convicted, shall ever be re-estat lished in this state." TKa norloVi oifolAm n# KArvraonntn I A lie ^ai ion oj oiciu ui i c^icocinanw has been abolished with but eight dis senting votes. Hereafter each judich district except Charleston, will be er titled to one senator; Charleston wi have three?two for the city and or for the district outside of the cit limits. Under the existing apportlonmer made by congress, South Carolina I entitled to but four members. Th state having had a representation ( six members in the late Confederal congress, it Is necessary to re-arrang the congressional districts. A com mlttee has been appointed for the pui pose, but up to the present writing w are not advised of any report havin been submitted. We are inclined 1 the opinion from what we can lear that our own congressional distrU will be composed of York, Cheste Union, Spartanburg and Greenville. The governor, lieutenant governo secretary of state, comptroller generi and treasurer will doubtless hereaftc be elected by the qualified voters of tl state. Judges and chancellors are t be appointed by the governor, subje< to the confirmation of the senate. It is probable that the judicial dh iricis in tne stale win nerearret r designated as counties, a resolution 1 that effect having been submitted 1 the convention. A rumor is in circi lation that the change has been adopi ed. Married?On the evening of the 19t inst., at the house of the bride's fathe by Rev. R. Lathan, Mr. J. W. Pier* and Miss M. J. Miller. On the 21st, Inst., by Rev. Mr. Hai ris, Mr. W. M. A. Rhea and Mil Sarah J. Ingram, all of this district. On the 26th, inst., at the residen* of the bride's father, by Rev. 1 Lathan, Mr. J. Parks Wilson and Mil Mary Ellen McElwee, all of this dii triot. (Thursday Morning, Oct. 28, 1865.! Married?In this district, on Thuri day, the 21st, inst., by J. P. P. Cu rence, Esq., Mr. John H. Johnson ? Griffln county, Oa., and Miss Esth< Louisa Wallace of York district. On the 26th, inst, by Rev. M. Oate Mr. R. W. Smith and Miss E. L. Ne< lands, all of this district. On the 28th, ult., by Rev. J. B. Mai sabeau, Mr. D. E. Stevenson of Ar derson, and Miss Amanda E. Clark i York district. On the 28th of August, at the res dence of the bride's father, by Re M. Oates, Mr. J. A. Hope and Mi: Lizzie Whitesides, all of this district In Yorkville, on the 3rd, inst., t Rev. R. Y. Russell, I)r. James F. N< land of Union district, and Miss lot Sadler of this place. (Thursday Morning, Oct. 12, 1865.) The Postoffice. Up to this time we have received t information of the appointment of postmaster for our town. Mr. J. 1 Alexander, our former postmaster, hs forwarded an application for appoin nient, but has received no reply, F has, however, determined to open tl office and receive all letters havir thereon a United States postage stanr which may be tendered to him ar forward them to some point whei they can be regularly mailed. He al: proposes to take charge of and atter to the delivery of any letters whic may be left with him for that purpos ? Married?On the 5th, inst., by Re S. L. Watson, Mr. Hugh Tate of th TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES; t News Happenings In Neighboring; Communities. < j CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING t Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire of f Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Lan- 1 caster and Cheater. t ? Rock Hill Record, July 29: Tuesday ( evening at Mrs. Camp's boarding house , S district and Miss Margaret Sloan of Mecklenburg county, N. C. (Thursday Morning, Oct. 19, 1865.) I? Married?On Thursday, 5th, Inst., by Rev. W. W. Carothers, Mr. N. M. N. Guy and Miss Amanda Porter, of Chester district. Y (Thursday Morning, Oct. 26, 1865.) Married?At the bride's residence on ^ the 19th, Inst., by J. P. Hood, Esq., Mr. Jno. Montgomery and Miss Mary Sandlin, all of this district. (To Be Continued.) HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE . Items of Interest From All Sections of South Carolina. y Addison Jeflfcoat, a 10-year-old lad, o was drowned In Craft's mill pond near 6 Swansea last week, r d Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, a paymaster of the United States navy, is visiting relatives in South Carolina C. D. Holt of Spartanburg, collector for an insurance company, was knocked down and robbed in Sumter Tues d day night. lt J. O. Freeman of Greenville, has ^ been granted a patent on an Improved y metallc railway tie, which is designed r to replace wooden ties. E. M. Lancaster of the Columbia police force, has been suspended indefinitely by the mayor for conduct unbecoming an officer, j Eighty-one boy champion corn . growers of this state will attend the n agricultural institute at Clemson college, August 9 to September 4. i- Frank Menton, a negro of Leesville, i- has been committed to the Lexington county Jail in default of a $500 bond on the charge of peddling cocaine. J. S. Rogers brought to Florence last >r Wednesday the first boll of fully mar? tured cotton which has been reported 8 in Florence county this year. Employes of the weave room of the -! Anderson cotton mills are on a strike because the mill management has refused to Increase their wages. J. R. Miles, a white man about 36 years of age, Is in jail in Columbia, charged with attempted criminal as.. sault, his alleged victim being a 10year-old girl, i- Malflno Lorenzo, an Italian sailor, e has been awarded a verdict of $2,000 n against the Atlantic Coast Line rallie road on account of injuries which he h received while crossing the tracks of 1, the jullway company In Charleston. It is estimated that between 75 and 100 of the 250 children in the Epworth orphanage in Columbia are affected 8 with pellagra. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a surgeon of the public health service h and one of the best known authorities I- on pellagra in the United States, has " ueen assigueu iu ume cuaigc ui Lite pellagrins in the orphanage. ? George Fuller of Toccria, Ga., was n placed in jail at Easley last week, charged with breach of trust in the handling of $300, part of which is al11 leged to have belonged to a lawyer. Fuller's bride of three weeks, not be11 ing willing to become separated from him, was locked in jail with him last " Tuesday night. ie y The Mount Pleasant dispensary was re-opened Friday following the departlt ure of the First regiment from the Isle ( of Palms, where they have been in camp during the previous ten days. Mrs. Frederick Dipener of Saluda >e county, committed suicide Tuesday night by hanging herself with a rope made of strips of cloth. She was 62 years of age. Stanhope Sams, formerly of South g Carolina and later editor of the Japan Q Times, Tokyo, was sworn In last wees as a special agent of the bureau of for,t elgn and domestic commerce. His spe' clal duties will be to Investigate the markets for cotton and other wearing r apparel In Japan. The position pays $10 a day and traveling expenses. ;r I. M. Turbyfill, a well known man of ,e Spartanburg, took a bi-chloride of to mercury tablet by mistake last Mon2t day. He has a slight chance to recover. The Argentine training ship Presi3. dente Sarmiento, visited the port of )e Charleston last week. It was the first to time a ship of Argentina had ever cast to anchor in Charleston, i- Governor Manning has announced a t- reward of $50 for the capture of Chas. Robin, colored, who Is charged with the murder of Lucius Crittenden, a young k- white man at Lowndesville, Abbeville ir? county, a few days ago. It was at first :e reported that the negro was lynched following the killing of the young white r" man; but later It was learned that he 33 had made his escape. Two negroes attempted to hold up r?f? ' and rob Ben Still, a farmer, near Summerville, as he was returning from ss Augusta, Ga., Thursday. The farmer 3 had sold a lot of chickens In the Georgia city and had considerable money when attacked. The man killed one of his assailants, while the other escaped. The Southern railway proposes to spend something like $1,000,000 in and around Spartanburg within the next 1 r few months, the work to include double tracking, etc. St At the annual meeting of the South Carolina Farmers' Union, which was 3? held In Columbia last week, the following officers were elected for the next near: T. T. Morrison of McClellanville, president, to succeed E. W. Dabbs of Mayesville; J. Frank Williams of Sumv ter, vice president; J. Whitner Reid of gs Columbia, secretary and treasurer. M. W. Gramling of Orangeburg, was elect)y ed a member of the executive committee, to succeed R. M. Cooper of Wisie acky, who declined re-election. H. T. Morrison was elected delegate to the national Union convention and John L. McLaurin visiting delegate to the State Federation of Labor. 10 a Flies do not breathe through their Ft. mouths, but through notes in meir ts bodies. Their eyes are made up of 4,t 000 facets. Flies are able to carry le from sixty to seventy times their ie own weight. tg * ' tp In Switzerland, on the demand of id 50,000 voters, or of eight cantons, any re law passed by the Federal parliament jo must be submitted to the general body id of the people for acceptance or re:h jection. e. ? ? Smoking diminishes hunger, and v. should, therefore, be avoided shortly is before meals. I - * on West Main street, John H. Roper and Mrs. Jennie McClellan were married by Rev. W. H. Polk, pastor of the West Main street Methodist church.... Among the visitors In the city Wednesday wore Dra Munro, Crowell and Strong of Charlotte, throe prominent physicians of Charlotte, who came here to witness a clinic of Eh-. W. W. Fennell at the Fennell infirmary The local fire department had their annual picnic yesterday at McElwee's mill pond. Tho mayor, city manager and other city officials were invited and some of them participated. They report a good time. Gastonia Gazette, July 30: Tom Morris, a negro, was arrested about 6 o'clock this morning in the neighborhood of Hollywood cemetery, on complaint from the Gastonia dairy that he , had stolen a cow some time last night from the barn on the dairy farm near Dallas. Tom had the cow with him when arrested by Policeman Elliott of the local force. A hearing was had this morning before Esquire Morris and the negro was held under a heavy bond for triad at the next term of court. In default of bond he was sent to Jail. Morris has been up before for stealing bicycles Rev. J. H. Henderlite, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, has returned from Grover, where he conducted a very successful revival meeting Friends of Miss Lillian Watson, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Charlotte sanatorium yesterday, will be glad to learn that she stood the operation wen ana is recovering quite satisfactorily. Miss Watson was accompanied to Charlotte by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L, Craig and Dr. J. M. Sloan. Fort Mill Times, July 29: Fred Klmbrell of Columbia, was a visitor at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kimbrell, the last week Friends of Capt. W. J. Ardrey will be pleased to know that he is able by the use of a rolling chair to be out again. Mr. Ardrey, it will be remembered, suffered a broken leg several months ago at his home and has since been confined to his room Miss Nannie Lee Ardrey, a daughter of the late W. M. Ardrey of Provincetown section, and a kinswoman of the Ardrey families of Fort Mill, died Sunday afternoon at the home of her mother in Charlotte. A petition, soliciting signatures of men who are in favor of state-wide prohibition and who pledge themselves to support the issue in the election next September, has been circulated In FortMill this week. It is stated that a large majority of those to whom the petition was presented willingly atta< _*d their names to the paper Mrs. Bulow Hutchinson and children, of Charlotte, are guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Massey in Fort Mill, v Lancaster Newt, July 30: Mr. Thurlow A. Barr and wife of Savannah. Ga., have been visiting Mr. Barr's nephew, Mr. Henry Barr, of this place. They left for Charlotte Thursday morning to visit a brother of Mr. Barr's. Mr. Barr says that he has never been locked up In his life, although he was born in the Lancaster county Jail 51 years ago, when his father, Mr. James Barr, was Jailer. This is his first visit to Lancaster since he left twenty years ago. Mr. Albert Tinsley and fourteen Boy Scouts of the older troop, of which he is scoutmaster, will leave tomorrow night for a camping trip near Little ( Switzerland. The younger troop, which has been camping on the Monroe road, accompanied by Scoutmaster John H. , Poag, returned last night, after spend- , ing ten days very pleasantly in the j open The death in Kershaw last , week of Mr. John Boyd Magill is deeply , regretted in Lancaster, where he has | many friends and relatives. He was ( stricken with apoplexy and died within an hour's time. Mr. Magill was 68 , years of age and had lived in Kershaw | for more than twenty years. I King's Mountain Herald, July 29: 1 Ex-Sheriff Joseph Craton Byers died 1 Sunday morning at 11.30 at the home 1 of his daughtef, Mrs. Marshall A. Mowen in Shelby, at the age of 82 years. H.. had been in declining health for I several years, but ten days ago he was 1 seized with a malady from which he ! never recovered. The end was peace- 1 ful and quiet and a prominent and es- 1 teemed figure took Its flight to the 1 great beyond. Mr. Byers served hero- < icly and nobly in the Confederate l army; leaving Rutherford county as 1 lieutenant of Co. B, 34 North Carolina < regiment. Because of his soldierly de- < meanor he was advanced to captain 1 and loved his men who in turn loved 1 and respected him. He was the first i sheriff Cleveland county ever had and < filled this office with distinction and i honor A photograph on a tomb- ' stone is something new to the editor I or was up till Monday, when G. H. ] Logan took him out to El Bethel ceme- < tery and showed him the stone he (Mr. i ? * 1 ? J * ???? ?/? ?A (rrnvA I LiOgUIlJI IltUl JU3L CICVICU lu LUC OIL** w r of the late K. N. Hambright. Mr. < Hambrlght's photograph is there as ] pronounced as can be. It is burnt into < porcelain and sunk into a relief of j about a quarter of an inch on the front ; of the stone. The Coggins Marble i works, who made the stone, believe that i the photograph will last forever. < Clarence Carpenter, son of Bob Car- 1 penter of Bessemer City, was severely 1 hurt Sunday night in a railroad acci- 1 dent on train No. 35 just before it i reached the station at Concord. Mr. < Carpenter bought a ticket for Concord 1 at Kannapolis and went to board the i train, but was just a trifle late and the < doors were closed. 3 Gaffney Ledger, July 30: PYightened by an automobile, Mr. A. O. Allison's 3 mule ran away Wednesday shortly aft- < er dinner while being driven to a bug- 3 gy by Mr. and Mrs. Allison. Mr. Allison was thrown from the buggy, suffering a severe bruise on his head. Mrs. 1 ?i Mlison escaped comparatively unlnured, while the buggy was considera>ly damaged before the mule stopped annlng A second stroke of paralyils, following within a few days of the lrst, was the cause of Mrs. June T. Humphries' death, which occurred on ruesday morning at her home on Loran and Depot streets. It was known hat*her condition was desperate for teveral hours before death came Dr. James Edward Corry of Atlanta, a ecent graduate in medicine, has been ipending a few days in the city visitng Dr. J. G. Pittman. Dr. Corry, who :ompleted a course in both medicine tnd surgery. ia now connected with the 3rady hospital, of Atlanta, the largest nstitution of its kind in the south diss Marie Kirby, who was operated >n for appendicitis recently at a Sparanburg hospital, was brought home on Tuesday. She is now recovering rapdly. Miss Kirby is at the home of her >arents, Judge and Mrs. W. D. Kirby, >n Cherokee avenue Messrs. Roy 3rown and Ben Wilson, prize winners n the Cherokee county Corn club conest last year, have been appointed by Governor Manning as delegates to a :orn convention to be held in San iYancisco at the Panama-Pacific exposition It is the purpose of County Superintendent of Education Donald luggin to have every school in Cherokee county run at least six months out van* on/1 Iaho'or It rvAOflihlP '1 ilic J COI I UIIU IVIiQVt mm. Through his efforts petitions have >een put out in Ave districts asking hat additional tax levies be made for ichool purposes, and Mr. Huggin inends to visit a number of other dlsricts within the near future to make trrangements about circulating similar >etltiona * Chester Reporter, July 29: One of he largest crowds that ever gathered it Armenia was there yesterday for he W. 0. W. picnic, and everybody eports a good time. Hon. D. E. Flney, congressman from the Fifth dlsrlct, and W. T. Slaughter of Hickory Jrove, state W. O. W. organizer, were he speakers, and were presented by Ion. R. O. Atkinson. Mr. Flnley talked about various matters of national egislation, while Mr. Slaughter spoke m woodcraft Mr. W. P. Tlmmie, he well known contractor, died at his tome at 3 o'clock this afternoon, folowing a stroke of paralysis sustained donday night Dr. Q. B. White, vho takes an unusual Interest in the listory of Chester county and whose ntlmate knowledge of the subject has >een of much profit to numerous individuals, has been in correspondence for lome time past with Prof. James W. hooper, of Walla Walla, Washington, vho is seeking information about some >f his forbears. Some of Prof. Cooper's incestors lived more than a century igo about nine miles southeast of the :lty of Chester near the Peden's Bridge oad, and the land records of the couny show that one, Hugh Cooper, died n the year 1805 and that John Cooper vas his executor. Hugh Cooper had wo daughter, a Mrs. Ferguson and a M/iHoiiirhav Tf th#?rp fl.ro anV >ersons In the county today who know :hat they are descendants of either of ;hese two women, Dr. White would ike to be advised of the fact, so that le can give Prof. Cooper the informa:lon Friends of Mr. J. W. Wix and 'amily regret to learn that as soon as ;hey dispose of the business (in the /alley they will leave Chester and nove to Winston-Salem, N. C., where dr. Wlx closed a trade Monday with dr. J. N. Davis for a half-interest in he tatter's ladles' furnishings store, dr. Wlx Is offering his stock of goods for sale, and if he secures a buyer iromptly, will leave August 15th for lis new home Mr. John L. Tongue, 'ormer member of the county board of -egistration, died suddenly last night it the home of his parents, Mr. and !drs. O. W. Tongue, on Ashford street, 'rom an attack of acute indigestion. THE FAITHFUL TOAD. 3ne Weather Prophet That You Can Always Depend Upon. Our friend, the almanac, for we still regard it as friendly, although it has deceived us once or twice, advises us that it is warmer, that we are having showers and that "the long, low trill of the toad?yes, the common garden inad?loins the shrill staccato peeping Df the hylas." We are aware of the fact that it is warmer and that we had a shower or two, but we are relieved to hear that the toad Is coming, Most of the seed Is planted and the sweet peas have sprouted, but we shall not feel that everything is quite as it should be until the toad arrives to take charge of the garden. There is nobody else we would trust it to, nobody else too ugly to be Jealous of the [lowers, too stupid to be selfish and too lazy to be discounted. There is nobody else wise enough to eat the harmful insects, patient enough to wait for sprinkling time, generous enough to love every plant. It is ridiculous that some folks prefer the toad's flashy cousin, the frog. Not long ago the question was discussed in one of the magazines, and we were asked what gave us our sense of loathing for the garden toad, while the frog, which did nothing but play the dandy rnd the braggart, was uniformly treated as a good fellow. "If the toad erulped and croaked all night long," we were asked, "and made his home in slimy pools instead of in a melon patch, would they reverse their present order in our esteem?" It seems a foolish question, or at least a question directed to foolish people. The only thing a frog is good for is Ashing bait, and there is nothing very glorimio nhrmf that. Those of us who have gardens have never thought of putting Mr. Toad, our chief of police, in the same class with the vagrant frog. If i toad does not find our garden we go nut and And a toad. At least one man is known to have stolen his neighbor's toad and a number of toads nave been brought in from the woods ind placed in a residence under a :abbage leaf. It is to be hoped that :he almanac is right this time and that tve can soon turn our garden over to >ur faithful Mr. Toad.?Indianapolis Vews. Didn't Know Him Then.?Wifey?Do ,-ou recollect that once when we had a iuarrel I said you were just as mean as fou could be? IJjiKKv Veto mv rlpflr Wifey?Oh, Tom, how little did I enow you then! SOUTH PAY8 THE FREIGHT. American Cotton Used for British Defense. The Chronicle referred editorially yesterday to an article by Julius Chambers, the well-known writer of anti-German proclivities, in the pro British Brooklyn Eagle, in which the admission was made, that "but for the Lusltunia horror, American sentiment would, now, be largely pro-German." Mr. Chambers backed up this assertion with some statements of fact showing how the British "paper blockade"?an admittedly unlawful thing, in itself?has "completely destroyed American trade with neutral countries," and added: "Not a reader of this column will accuse its writer of pro-German sentiment, and, yet, the admission by the British ambassador that about 2,000 cargoes of American merchandise,, bound from Atlantic and Pacific ports of this republic to neutral European ports, have been held up in British harbors, is calculated to raise the bile of every true American patriot" Please note that Mr. Chambers does not speak as a pro-German; but quite the contrary. Perhaps, In reality, he Is pro-American; though this term seems to have grown into disuse?at least, it seems not to be recognized by those "neutrals" who see everything connected with this awful European war only through European glassea But Mr. Chamberlain said a great deal more than is quoted, and he said it well and to the point Let ue read some of it carefully and see for ourselves whether or not we have a Just grievances against Great Britain?regardless of anything Germany has done or refuses to do?and whether or not we feel called upon to make "any sacrifice" in order to help Great ?rltain and her allies crush Germany; while, at the same time, crushing the life out of the southern cotton planter in particular. Let Julius Chambers, in the Brooklyn Eagle?both anti-German from the heart?present the case as it is: "Records at the state department give the names of every British harbor and of the vessels therein. "By actual count at London alone 168 steamers and sailing vessels, carrying American cargoes, are virtually 'interned/ In slow processes 'prize courts' are alleged to be 'trying to 1 reach decision' as to values and liabilities. "Meanwhile, American goods to the value of many millions are kept from market "This is the policy of an alleged 1 friend! At Liverpool 110 ships with 1 American cargoes are awaiting adjudication. At Cardiff, 18 vessels, siml1 larly laden, for Dutch and Scandina1 vlan ports are undergoing similar detention. Omitting all the smaller t places, into which four to eight Asses' lean laden crafts have been taken, I find by actual count 28 such ships at - Hull, 21 at Leith, 22 at Manchester, 4 ' at Vllletta, Malta, 21 at Falmouth, 20 at Gibraltar, 7 at Glasgow, 7 at Newcastle, 8 Zanzibar (!), 16 at Swansea, 1 and from two to four ships at half a hundred other British porta "Is this a pleasant spectacle for any rational American to contemplate? "As the late Elbert Hubbard was wont to say: 'If this is the path of sanity, kindly direct me to the bug 1 house.' "One wonders how the British government would regard the seizure of English merchandise at New Tork 1 by order of the board of aldermen, or in Philadelphia by decree of the city ' council? Is it supposable that such meddling?to give the conditions their mildest term?would have been allowed to continue for a year without vigorous protest? "Now, the American people are assured, a firm stand against British impertinence will be taken. This recalls a story that Lieutenant-Oeneral Huyshe, a hero of the Indian mutiny, i used to tell about one of his fellow countrymen who had entertained a French guest The Parisian had flirt, ed with the daughter and was detect, ed in the act of eloping with the host's , wife, when the master of the house I called him aside and said: " 'You have lowered the moral tone , of my daughter; you are about to , elope with my wife. I warn you, a l little .more and you'll 'rouse the sleeping lion!' " 'Protests' inspired by grape Juice , and messengered by 'the dove of peace,' have become objects of ridicule and reproach in all parts of the world. They do not impress Japan , any more highly than Mexico. As for Germany, they are treated with ira, pertinent flippancy. "Let us see how England will en, swer a real declaration of American , rights! "On two historic occasions Great i Britain grievously erred in ignoring 'protests' against her conduct toward the people of this country. She threatened this Federal government with intervention when it was sorely beset by civil war; precedent would r justify making trial of her feelings at a time not less embarrassing. "Two thousand ships, carrying cargoes are 'interned' in nearly a hundred British ports. I use the word 'intern' because it most nearly describes the position of such vessels. It is not the correct legal term, I am aware: but such ships are as helplees as are the German liners at the Hoboken wharves. "Paralyzation of American trade is complete. England is responsible therefor." Keep it in mind that the above arraignment is not from a pro-German source, but from an avowedly anti, German source. Bear it in mind, that it is based on the record: the record of Great Britain's "friendship" for this country, as shown by its destruction of our commerce. Read it and ponder it well; not with pro-German or pro-British eyes; and then?wake up: you people who have a preponderance or American uiuuu 111 yvui icum. Must we, indeed, send all of our "notes" to Germany, and none at all? or none of any force?to Great Britain? What haa become of our unhyphenated Americanism??Augusta Chronicle. The principle of the automatic drinking fountain has been applied to the water cooler by the invention of a bubbling attachment.