' ISSXTKD SEMI-WBKKL^ -==_ l. m grist's sons. Pubu?h?r?. | % Rami's JleirsjiapEr: ^or the |romoY/t.vtrrffrCKMLej 3C*/M??y mm men, w hen Grlswold gladly made room in the window seat for his transformed am-: glorified mistress of the fitnesses. As had happened more than once before, her nearness intoxicated him; end while he made sure now that the charm was at least partly physical, its appeal was none the less irresistible. "Are you dreadfully tired?" she asked, adding quickly: "You mustn't let us make a martyr of you. It's your privilege to disappear whenever you fee*, like it" "Indeed, I'm not at all tired," he protested. "It is all very comforting and homelike; so vastly?" he hesitated, seeking thoughtfully for the word which should convey his meaning without laying him open to the charge of patronizing superciliousness, and Bhe supplied it promptly. "So different from what you were expecting, I know. You have been thinking of us as barbarians?outer barbarians, perhaps?and you And that we are only harmless provincials. But really, you know, we are improving. I wish you could have known Wahaska as it used to be." "It Is all very grateful and delightful to ne," he confessed, at length. "I have been out of the social running for a long time, but I may as well admit that I am shamelessly epicurean by nature, and an ascetic only when the necessities drive." "I know," she assented, with quick appreciation. "An author has to be both, hasn't he??keen to enjoy, and well hardened to endure." He turned upon her squarely. "Where did you ever learn how to say such things as that?" he demanded. It was an opening for mockery and good-natured raillery, but she did not make use of it. Instead, she let him look as deeply as he pleased into the velvety eyes when t,he said: "It is given to some of us to see and to understand where others have to learn slowly, letter by letter. Surely, your own gift has told you that, Mr. Griswold?" "It ha:;," he acknowledged. "But I have found few who really do understand." "Which is to say that you haven't yet found your other self, isn't it? Perhaps that will come, too, if you'll only be patient?and not expect too m iny other gifts of the gods along with the one priceless gift of perfect synpathy. "When I find the one priceless gift, t ahnii oonfifipntlv pxnect to find ev erything else," he asserted, still held a willing prisoner by the bewitching eyes. She laughed softly. "You'll be disappointed. The gift you demand will preclude some of the others; as the others would certainly preclude it. How can you be an author and not understand that?" "I am not an author. I am sorry to say," he objected. "I have written but the one book, and I have never been able to find a publisher for it" "But you are not going to give up." "So; I am going to rewrite the book and try again?and yet again, if needful. It is my message to mankind, and I mean to deliver it." "Bravo!" she applauded, clapping her hands In a little burst of enthusiasm which, if it were not real, was at least an excellent simulation. "It is only the weak one who say, 'I hope.' For the truly strong hearts there is only one battle cry, 'I will;' When you get blue and discouraged you must come to me and let me cheer you. Cheering people is my mission, if I have any." GrLswold's pale face flushed and the blood sang liltingly in his veins. He wondered if she had been tempted to real the manuscript of the book while he was fighting his way back to consci( usness and life. If they had been alone together, he would have asked her The bare possibility set all the springs of the author's vanity upbubbling within him. There and then he promised himself that she should heai the rewriting of the book, chapter by chapter. But what he said was out of a deeper and worthier underthought. "You have many missions, Miss Margery; some of them you choose and some are chosen for you." "No." she denied, "nobody has ever chosen for me." "That may be true, without making me a false prophet. Sometimes when we think we are choosing for ourselves, chance chooses for us; oftener than not, I believe." She turned on him quickly, and for a single swiftly passing instant the velvety eyes were deep wells of soberness with an indefinable underdepth of sorrow in them. Griswold had a sudden con.'ictlon that for the first time in his knowing of her he was looking into the soul of the real Margery Grierson. "What you call 'chance' may possibly have a bigger and better name," she said gravely. Some little time after this Raymer, who had been one of the men introduced by Jasper Grierson, turned up again in the invalid's corner. Raymei suggested the smoking room anu u cigar, and Griswold went willingly. From that on the path to better acquaintance was the easiest of short cuts, even as the mild cigar which Raymer found in his pocket case paved the way for a return of the smoker's zest in the convalescent. Without calling himself a reformer, the young ironmaster proved to be a practical sociologist. Wherefore, when Griswold presently mounted his own sociological hobby, he was promptly invited to visit the Raynter foundry and machine works, to the end that he might have some of his theories ol the universal oppression of wage earners charitably modified. "Of course, I don't deny that we're a long way from the milennium yet," waa Kaymer's summing up of the conditions in his own plant. "But I do claim that we are on a present-day. living footing. So far as the men understand loyalty, they are loyal; partly to my father's memory; partly, I hope, to me. We have never had a strike or an approach to one, or a disagreement that could not be adjusted amicably. Whether these conditions can be maintained after we double our capacity and get in a lot of new blood. I can't say. But I hope they can." "You are enlarging?" said Griswold. Raymer waited until the only other man in the smoking den had gone back to the drawing-rooms before he said: "Yes; I caught the fever along with the rest of them a few weeks ago, and I'm already beginning to wish that I hadn't" "You are afraid of the market?" "N-no; times are good, and the market?our market at least?is daily growing stronger. It is rather a matter of finances. I am an engineer, as my father was before me. When it comes to wrestling with the money devil, I'm outclassed from the start." ( "Thoro are a ennri mnnv more of us in the same boat," said Griswold, leaving an opening for further confidences if Raymer chose to make them, But the young ironmaster was looking at his watch, and the confl- ( dences were postponed. "I'm keeping you up, when I dare say you ought to be in bed," he protested: but Griswold held him long ( enough to ask for a suggestion in a small matter of his own. Now that he ws.s able to be about, he was most anxious to relieve Miss Grierson and her father of the charge ( and care of one whose obligation to them was already more than mountain-high; did Raymer happen to know of some quiet household where the obligated one could And lodging ( and a simple table? Raymer, taking time to think of it, did know. Mrs. Holcomb, the widow of his father's bookkeeper, owned her , own house in Shawnee street It was not a boarding house. The widow rented rooms to two of Mr. Grierson's bank clerks, and she was looking for another desirable "lodger. Raymer himself would go and see her about it "It is an exceedingly kind-hearted community, this town of yours, Mr. Raymer," was the convalescent's leave-taking, when he shook hands with the ironmaster at the foot of thj stairs; and that was the thought { which he took to bed with him after Raymer had gone to make his adieouc to the small person who. in Griswold'a reckoning, owned the kindest of kind hearts. (To be continued.) GET READY Strong Appeal to Wipe Out the Whiskey Business. 1 The Ledger has always been an advocate of temperance. In fact we have advocated prohibition, not because we were addicted to the whis- ' key habit and not because we have always been a total abstainer, but because we are willing to refrain from ! I indulging in a social drink, if, by so j doing we would contribute in any manner towards keeping it away from the poor fellow who could not control 1 his love for whiskey. There is going to be an election on the whiskey subject in this State on September 14th next. At this time the question' is to be submitted as to whether or not 1 whiskey may be manufactured or 1 sold in South Carolina. We have no uneasiness as to the outcome of that election, but since Cherokee was the 1 first county in South Carolina to vote out the dispensary and gave the greatest majority of any county against it we earnestly desire that Cherokee roll up the greatest majority against whiskey in September. We don't believe the men of Cherokee have changed their idea concerning hu-1 manity's greatest curse Hon. E. Yates W**bb of North Carolina, in a speech in congress on this subject, said: "About ten years ago, I stood on historical Kings Mountain and 'I saw the smoke of thirty-eight government distilleries rising toward heaven. I saw no macadamized roads; scarcely a church of any note or dignity in the entire country; scarcely a schoolhouse where our boys and girls might obtain even the rudiments of an education. I saw saloons throughout the length and breadth of Gaston county. There were only two or three factories, giving employment to two or three hundred people. Two years ago, about ten years after the people had driven out this curse, I went back. I found macadamized roads in almost every paFt of the country; I saw magnificent churches of every denomination; I found school houses in every district of that county, where boys and girls might obtain an education to fit them for their duty in any situation. There was not the smoke of a single brewery, and instead of the smoke of thirtyeight government distilleries, I saw ascending to the glory of God in , business the smoke of forty-three of the largest cotton factories in the United States of America." L And he might have said as much concerning Cherokee county. No one , who is at all observant will deny that one of the very best things the people of Cherokee ever did was to vote , out whiskey. Let's repeat it next September and thus help our fellow man as well as ourselves?Gaffney Ledger. An increase of nearly 7 per cent in i the number of students in American colleges, universities and technologii en I schools in 1914 over the previous year is shown in the annual report of the Federal commission of education, which has just been made public. The i figures are 216,493, compared with 202.231 in 1913. The report shows that men still outnumber women {n higher education. There were in col leges 139,373 men in 1914 and 77,120 women, as compared with 128,64 4 men and 73,578 women in 1913. I r Walton P. Nlckerson, a Philadelphian charged with embezzling between $5,t 000 and $10,000 from his employers, r calmly admitted the charge and pro; posed to "blow of' his head in order that his insurance might make good ! his speculations. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of Tbe Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving ths Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl* edge of the Things that Most Con* 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 permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 150TH INSTALLMENT (Thursday morning, Jan. 25, 1866.) Married?On Thursday, 18th Inst., by Rev. W. W. Carothers, Mr. J. A. M. L. Stewart and Miss C. R. J. Neely, daughter of J. Milton Neely, all of this district. On the 11th instant at the home of the bride's father, by Rev. W. W. Ratchford, Mr. Jas. S. Lucas of York district, and Miss Sarah E. Lockhart of Gaston county, N. C. On the 14th ult, by Rev. W. W. Ratchford, Mr. T. Emberry Ford and Miss Miram A. Holland, all of Gaston county, N. C. In this district on Tuesday, the 23rd Inst., by Rev. W. W. Ratchford, Mr. J. B. F. Brison and Miss M. E. B. Brison, daughter of Capt. E. B. Brison of York district On Monday, 22nd Inst, at the residence of G. W. Williams, Esq., in Yorkville, by Rev. R. B. Anderson, Mr. J. R. Witherspoon and Miss Belle C. Williams, all of said place. On Tuesday, 23rd Inst., by Rev. M. D. Wood, Mr. T. Marion Dobson and Miss Fannie L. Brown, all of Yorkville. In Yorkville, on Tuesday, 23rd Inst., by Rev. M. D. Wood, Mr. H. Keller and Mra Sarinda Derrer. In this district on Tuesday, 23rd inst, by Rev. J. E. White, Capt William McAliley of Chester district, and Miss Mary R. Wallace, daughter of A. S. Wallace, Esq., of York district. New Advertisements. M. Alexander?Spectacles and goggles. A. F. McConnell?Dog lost. W. P. McFadden?Carriage factory. T. T. Youngblood?Auctioneer. Mrs. J. M. Jones?Notice this. Joseph Miller?$25 reward. A. Coward?Circular. Rev. L. A. Johnson, Mr. J. C. Kuykend^l and Miss Sarah McFadden, daughter of Mr. John McFadden. (We return our thanks for a liberal share of the wedding cake.) On the 4th of January, last, by J D. P. Currence, Esq., Mr. W. M. Huddelston of Prairie county. Ark., and Miss Nancy H. Huddleston of York District. (To Be Continued.) HARDING ON COTTON Wants Everybody to Co-Operate for Benefit of Producer. Washington, Aug. 4.?Conditions that confront the south in handling the uuuci i uawuaii wvhuw. F. Conner & Co.?Commission and forwarding merchants. ~Geo.~W. Williams & Co.?Merchants and bankers. Col. J. A. McLean?General orders No. 1. W. B. Metts, C. E. Y. D.?Notice to creditors. W. H. McCorkle?Auction sale. W. H. McCorkle?Cotton seed for sale. E. T. Swiftly, S. T. Agent?Government sale. L. D. Goore?Oh! You black Republicans. (Thursday morning, Feb. 1, 1866).. Important Order. Gen. Sickles, who has recently assumed command of the district of South Carolina, has promulgated his first General order, which will be found in another column. It makes a clean sweep of the legislature and courts of this state and is to be indefinitely the law of the land. Though stringent in many of its provisions. It is temperate In tone and probably the best we can expect while under military government. The people of this state labored under the impression that Gov. Orr relieved Mr. Perry as the chief executive of the state. It seems, however, that they were duped in this belief and that Gen. Sickles turns out to be the man after all. Major-General Devans, commandant of the sub-district of Charleston, has issued an order explanatory of Gen. Sickles, thi gist of which is: 1st. The diligence and energy on the part of the officers entrusted with its execution, will contribute materially to the promotion of its object?the general welfare of the country. 2nd. The provisions of the order will be enforced through the action of (district) provost courts, which decisions require the approval of the sub-district commanders. Judges must be selected from officers of intelligence and humanity. Appeals may be taken upon approval to district commanders. 3rd. The Jurisdiction of the provost courts, by orders already issued from department headquarters, Is limited to a fine not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars and imprisonment not exceeding sixty days (60 days) and all cases of offence charged to have been committed by persons of color or by white persons against them and all violations of this order in which the post commanders have not sufficient Jurisdiction (in the opinion of the sub-district commanders) to enable them properly to punish the offenders, will he reported to the district commanders as heretofore for trial before a military commission. * Unfortunate Affair. We are pained to learn through a private letter from Union that Mr. Jas. G. Fernandez of that district was shot and killed by a body of soldiers sent last week to effect his arrest. Mr. Fernandez, it seems, had some difficulty with members of the garrison of Unionville some weeks ago, in which considerable violence was manifested. Efforts to arrest him had failed until last week when a squad of men sent for that purpose, found him at his residence. Resisting the demand to deliver himself up he severely wounded one of the detail and thereupon received several shots which proved immediately fatal. Mr. Fernandez bore a high reputation for character and was much esteemed by those who knew him. We fear that the circumstances of his death if as reported, will exercise an unfortunate influence in the community in which he resided. * Married?On Thursday, 28th ult., by cotton crop of 1915 and conditions a year ago are contrasted in an analysis by W. P. G. Harding of the Federal reserve board, in the current issue of the Federal reserve bulletin. The condition of cotton today is much stronger, financial and other conditions are much better than a year ago, in Mr. Harding's opinion, and if the people of the south will not weaken their position "by unwise action," they have little to fear. "The cotton tragedy of 1914," says Mr. Harding, "will be succeeded in 1915 by nothing more serious than a drama." Mr. Harding warns the south, in its desire to see a broad market established for cotton, to do nothing to embarrass President Wilson in his conduct of international affairs. "It should be remembered," says Mr. Harding, "that the president owes a higher duty to the south, to the whole country and to mankind at this juncture than the estimate of cotton values. The president may be trusted to do his duty as he sees it, regardless of private appeals or public clamor." After comparing conditions affecting the market this year and last, Mr. Harding says: "Under the most adverse conditions conceivable, with demoralization in every money market, with high interest rates, with emergency currency being issued daily in large volume, with enormous gold shipments abroad, with crippled shipping facilities, without adequate insurance protection, and with ocean freights three to five times normal, we begas in August, 1914, to market a crop of nearly 17,000,000 bales of cotton. Financial institutions, already hard pressed and fearing all manner of unforseen contingencies, were unable and unwilling to make advances on cotton. In addition to this, the southern farmers, who have this year planted record-breaking food crops, were faced with a deficiency in home-raised foodstuffs, and were in many cases, forced to sell cotton to pay off pressing indebtedness and to secure adequate food supplies. "Attention is called to the fact that the high prices for cotton now prevailing in Germany and Russia, about 30 cents a pound, will attract cotton to those countries in spite of apparently insurmountable obstacles, Just as high prices paid for cotton abroad during the Civil war made blockade running a steady business. "There seems to be no question that ample funds can be obtained to finance in a normal way a much larger volume of cotton than was ? ?? ? * n?*<1 Ko Airan laxen care ui iasi year, anu 1.110.1. if Germany and Austria-Hungary should be forced to suspend cotton manufacturing entirely, statistics show that the mills of the United States, Great Britain, Spain, Russia, Italy, Japan, China and India have spindles sufficient to absorb every bal- ?of cotton that is likely to be cultivated. "It should be noticed that the. reduction in American cotton acreage this year amounts to more than 5,000,000 acres, and that Egypt and India have also made radical reductions In cotton acreage It is probable that the world's cotton crop, based on an average yield an acre, will be about 5,000,000 bales less than last year. "Cotton, unlike grain, is a commodity the market value of which depreciates in time of war, and the south, as a producer of that commodity has suffered. The actual position of cotton, however, is so much stronger than was the case a year ago, and financial and other conditions are so very much more favorable that there can be no doubt that if the south will keep cool and will refrain from weakening its own position by unwise action, the present nervousness regarding the market for the growing crop will soon disappear. "Even in the face of ail the adverse conditions during the last 12 months, the average price of cotton has been about what might have been expected for a 17,000,000-bale crop, had there been no war, and there is every reason to believe that the average price of cotton during the next 12 months will be higher. "The real question is: Will southern merchants and southern bankers and all others interested in southern trade co-operate in securing for the cotton producers the benefit of this average price, and will the cotton producers themselves do their part? M> knowledge of southern character and of southern business conditions Justifies a confident belief that an affirmative answer will be given." McLAURIN WRITES WILSON Thinks United States Should Bu) 1,000,000 Bales of Cotton. Senator John L. McLaurln, state commissioner of cotton storage warehouses, upon seeing the statemenl that the Federal reserve board would assist in financing the cotton crop, gave the Record an interview suggesting further that the United State* government, in pursuance of the propaganda for preparedness, take a million bales of cotton, properly prorated among the producing states. Following the interview, Mr. McLaurln has directed the following letter on the same subject to Presidenl Wilson: In his letter to the president, Mr McLaurin says: "As you perhaps know, South Carolina has been operating a state warehouse system since last October Vpry valuable aid has been rendered me in financing the warehouse receipts by Mr. Harding, of the Federal reserve board. I note with great satisfaction an Associated Press dispatch giving instructions to the banks how to proceed with regard to the certiflpfitpq "I have been in such close contact with the cotton situation for the past vear that I am going to venture a suggestion : "The borrowing power of our cotton is In proportion to the market price, and if much cotton is offered for sale in the open market, under present conditions, the price is bound to be so low that we will not be able to borrow enough to meet the debts incurred in making the cotton. It seems to me that there are two very practical methods which might be employed to give the price of cotton a bjost about the time that the crop Is coming on the market. This would fix the borrowing basis, and enable us to tide over the war situation. "First, I take it, from the statements that I have seen from Secretary Daniels and others, that this government will soon begin to place herself upon a proper military footing, and to do this will need large quantities of low grade cotton for the manufacture of explosives. This low grade cotton Is the heaviest burden that there is upon the market, and, as a ' business proposition, its purchase at present prices would be a good investI ment, and relieve the pressure on the i better grades. "Second. It must be realized that there is great dissatisfaction and a I sharp division of sentiment in the . ; United States over the action of Eng- ' land in shutting off the European markets from American cotton and as | a matter of diplomacy it would go far in changing the trend of sentiment that is setting very strong against her, especially in the south. j "As a matter of finance, if, with , , the purchases by the United States, ( 1 England could corner the available ] ; supply of raw material for gun cotton t and other explosives, she would not t ' only provide for the future of the al- ^ lies, but hold a tremendous advantage j over her enemies. ] "If a reasonable price could be fix- ^ ed. say 10 cents, to the present hold- , ors of cotton, England and the United e States would hold a monopoly In low ^ grade raw cotton which they could j manufacture for war purposes or for ^ future commerce at a profit. t "I cannot see how either this coun- c try or England could lose anything In r taking up a large part of this visible ^ supply of cotton at present prices, j. Both countries would be purchasing j supplies for war purposes, and would not be open to the charge of valorizing a commodity for political or other t ends. I am of the opinion that two o million of bales of cotton taken up in c this way would relieve the situation. \ "I am writing this letter for pure- c ly personal use, as I have felt for ( some weeks that too much agitation o of this question In the press was un- f wise and tended to invite difficulties I Instead of relieving them. 1 "I have watched your efforts to t maintained the neutrality of this coun- \ try, and admired the calmness and e wisdom with which you have acted. I In my humble sphere I have been do- t Ing what I could to sustain you, and I I am hoping that some way can be t found to ameliorate conditions which y seem almost inevitable In the south r without some artificial aid to sustain c the cotton market. After the break t in prices sure to come with the Octo- i ber movement It will be too late. I "With assurances of my highest re- ( spect and confidence, etc.?Columbia C Record. GENERAL NEW8 NOTES J Items of Interest Gathered from All i Around the World. Revised estimates of the damage at Erie, Pa., and vicinity by the storm of * Tuesday and Wednesday, places the figures at $6,000,000. The known total ( ! dead Is 28. Dohrman J. Sinclair banker, was j killed by a train at Steubenville, O., Friday. A year ago-an assassin fired ' two bullets Into his*- body In an at- j tempt to kill him. ( Psotmaster General Burleson has t passed an order to the effect that no i "grass widows" are to be given posl- ] tlons in the postal service until after ] they obtain divorces. < F. H. Juergens, 26 years old, Is held 1 under $2,000 bond at San Antonio, < Texas, charged with sending letters c through the mails threatening the lives ( of President Wilson and Col. Roose- 1 velt. He wants to enforce strict neu- t trallty. 1 The French chamber of deputies has passed a bill carrying an appropriation I of 120,000,000 francs ($24,000,000), to be used In the purchase of wheat I and flour for feeding the civil population. The limit of such purchases is 1 ' fixed at 209.000,000 francs. A Philadelphia man, whose heart ' was on the right side of his body and his other organs transposed, committed ^ 1 suicide last week through fear that 1 surgeons were eager to get his body for dissection. Because he died a , penniless pauper that is Just what will i happen to him. | Harry G. Hontz, of Lehighton, Pa., surrendered to the police at Salt Lake r City, Utah, Thursday, and confessed ' that he wrecked the Senlc Limited, on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, near Springville, Utah, last Monday, when several cars left the rails and many persons narrowly escaped injury. Hontz is mentally defective. ' J. Hampton Moore, former Republican congressman, is to be a candidate t for the mayorality of Philadelphia. The duPont Powder company has ] t announced that hereafter all of its I 50,000 employes will work only eight , hours a day and will run three shifts . of eight hours each. > Edmund M. Allen has resigned his position as warden of the Illinoh state prison at Jollet, on the ground that I the governor refused to allow him to occupy rooms away from the prison, and demanding that he occupy the rooms in which his wife was murdert ed by a prison trusty a few weeks ago. < The new state insurance commis- I sioner of Wisconsin has put an end to < the state insurance plan that has been ' worked in that state for several years ? past. The state plan is found to be a 1 ' failure and outside companies will 1 ' again do business in the state after ' present laws are modified so that they ' ' can do business on a fair basis. 1 Drs. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefel- ' ler Institute of Medical Research, and Henry D. Dakin of Lester Institute Paris, have discovered after exhaus- ^ tive tests, what they believe to be the ideal antiseptic, which if applied in ' time, will make infection on wounds impossible. The antiseptic is hypochlorite of lime with the addition of ' carbonate of lime and boric acid. WnnriArfnl results have been obtained ' | from the new antiseptic. I An Associated Press dispatch from t ! Tokio says: Now that the danger of ( i war with China is over, Japan and s ; Korea are engaged in making supplies 1 - for Russian and her allies. The war 1 brought big financial losses to Japan, ] t but the gaps are being filled in part by i i the furnishing of guns, ammunition t and general necessities to the armies at c i the front?particularly the armies of > Russia. Officially, Japan has given 1 increased practical expression to her friendship toward Russia by going to the limit of dismantling some of her r fortifications on the northeastern coast c of the empire. Big coast guns stripped c from these fortifications have been r shipped to Valdivostok and thence j forwarded to Russia to strengthen the i artillery of the armies of the czar. t rOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANBES Hews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Staling Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chaster. King's Mountain Herald, Aug. 5: Mr. R. W. McCollouh of the Dilllng tiill. died last Saturday at the age of >5 years, after a long Illness with pelagra. The remains were taken to he cemetery at Bethlehem church and ?uried Saturday, in the presence of a freat host of relatives and friends Ltr? Finvd Mnunev and Mrs. J. P. tiger went to Chicago last week to < rislt Rev. William Riser, brother and t ton, respectively J. S. Galllmore, 1 ton of W. H. Galllmore, was married i Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, to s diss Pearl Byers, daughter of Mr. W. 1 r. Byers. Both are of Elbethel sec- t Ion Mrs. Boyce McGlll, who lives J mt on the Cherryvillc road a few t nilee from town, is suffering from a i ery ugly wound in the lower part of I ier abdomen, caused by a cow hook- t ng her last Friday. ' I Chester Reporter, Aug. 5: Fire yes- c erday afternoon destroyed the houses y t Mary Washington and Luther Bell ( m Cemetery street. This property, c ve understand, is Just outside the :lty limits, and the Stonewall Fire 7o.'s line of hose lacked about 300 feet t if being long enough to reach the <; lames, as the nearest hydrant is on ? ,oomls street, some distance away, t ."he home of Sam Archie, Just beyond r he Eureka mill on the Lewis road , vas also destroyed, the Are occurring t arly this morning Mr. and Mrs. ( i. D. Refo, Jr., have gone to Manning c o visit the latter*s relatives. Mr. j tefo has accepted the principalship of j he Johnsonville schools for the next c ear The W. O. W. picnic at Rod- T nan last Friday was a delightful sue- y ess, a large crowd being present and f he best of order prevailing. Appro- r trlate talks were made by Messrs. W. j I. Newbold and M. L Marion of the r Chester bar. and W. F. Stevenson of t Theraw. 1 * * . * Rock Hill Record, Aug. 5: Mrs. Paul ( Workman will leave In a day or two y or Nashville, Tenn., where she will ( oln a party for a trip through the j vest, visiting all points of Interest, ^ he Grand Canyon of Arizona the two f expositions in California and all the ( arge citlea Mr. S. W. Draffln, one ( >f the good farmers of the Harmony j lection, brought to this office on Tues- < lay, some branches of a peach tree ( laving on them four different crops of { >eachea They were in stages of j frowth from the size of a small marble , :o the ripe. You had only to glance ( it them to note the four different and j llstlnct crops Mrs. R. L. Hoi- t oyd and sons have bought a lot on ( Hampton street from Mrs. Kate ( Hutchinson and will build a residence , in the same, plan* for which are now ^ lelng drawn Capt. Ross Tompkins, ( if the United States army. Is the guest ] if his mother, Mrs.'R. E. Tompkins, , in East Main street. Capt. Tompkins t ias been stationed in Texas for some , ime past, but will go from here the j atter part of August to Omaha to j le depot quartermaster, which Is a ( iromotion from his former duties. ( * * * < Lancaster News, Aug. 6: Mr. H. M. j Williams and family of Sanford, N. C., j vho motored from their home this j veek on their way to Lancaster, < vhere they are expected for a visit to j elatlves, became very ill and had to t itop Wednesday afternoon with Mr. Williams' kinsman. Mr. R. H. Nelson, t it Pageland. Mr. Williams and two f ihlldren, Master James and Miss An- j lie Belle, were stricken with ptomaine xiisoning, caused probably from poted ham which together with deviled ?ggs and watermelon, made them very | ill. The lunch, of which this food vas a part, was eaten about noon Wednesday near Southern Pines. Two nembers of the party, Mrs. Allie ' Sesbit and Mr. David Williams, es- < japed the effects of the poisoning. I After an illnees of only two days, ? little Mary Franklin, daughter of Mr. I ind Mrs. J. B. Wylie of this place, < lied early Thursday morning 1 Miss Connie Porter left last night for ' Detroit, in which city she has ac- ! :epted an excellent position as teach- < ?r of domestic science. Miss Porter, who Is a pamcuiany uucmcu }vuu? woman, is a graduate of Winthrop college and taught In the Woman's college of Due West the past session. She will stop in New York city, Cornell and other places en route to Detroit. * * * Gaffney Ledger, Aug. 6: Acting upcn the authority given them by an act passed by the last session of the general assembly, the board of county commissioners recently appointed Mr. I. Q. Sarratt cotton weigher for his town of Gaffney,-to serve until his successor shall have been elected and ;iualified Clerk of Court T. M. Caldwell on yesterday received the re- " '" M *T * nrVin li'U q ' miliuur iur n. u 01 unu, nnw under a three year sentence for bigamy when he commited suicide in the county Jail last Monday, while being held ?n a charge of arson. His body was juried Tuesday at the Smith graveyard in the Macedonia section of the ?ounty. The remittitur will be filed in the clerk's office Horace Sanders, i young white man, was sentenced to lerve thirty days on the county chaining by Magistrate Bridges on a charge of petit larceny. He plead ?uilty to stealing a pocket book, containing J2 from the home of Mr. Irady Love while the latter was abjent Mr. and Mrs. R A. Dobson eft yesterday for a ten day's visit to Mrs. Dobson's parents, Judge and Mrs. D. A. Williams of Lancaster \mong the local Masons who attended 1? i,**~ XIo annin rie Hireling ui mc iiiunrcuui *?&u?rv...*, listrict at Spartanburg Monday night, 1 vere J. E. Brockman, J. F. Fincken, ( ?. T. Hawkins and L. S. Wood. 1 t Fort Mill Time*, Aug. 5: Report I cached Fort Mill Saturday of the loath at Huntersville, N. C.t Thursday, if Oscar E. Bass. Mr. Bass was a C esident of Fort Mill up to about five 1 rears ago and was well known to the 1 >eople of this city and Immediate sec- t ion. Pellagra was said to have caused a Iiis death Members of the local :roop of Boy Scouts were given a much sn Joyed feast of watermelon at the lome of Scoutmaster Carothers Monlay evening. The boys are looking forward with great interest to their annual "hike," which will begin this rear on the 9th instant. The Scouts, iccompanled by Scoutmaster Caroth;rs, will be taken for a two week's stay in the mountains of North Carolina Alfred Sulledge, probably Port Mill's oldest colored resident and i veteran wood-chopper, died at his iome in "Maybe" hollow early Saturlay morning, after an illness of only :wo days The police officers of Port Mill have seized a number of ihipments of whisky during the last veek, in most instances from parties iving across the North Carolina line, rhe North Carolinians, under the law >f that state, can receive but a quart >f whlaky each nrteen days, ana many lave been taking advantage of the South Carolina gallon-a-month law ind having the booze shipped to Fort dill. The shipments seized recently >y the local officers were made up of >lnts and half-pints, and this was aken as conclusive evidence that the edplents were in for selling the stuff, fence, many returned to their homes >mpty handed Miss Eliza Prather, or many years a resident of the Gold iill conn:unity of this township, died tf pellagra on July 19, at the home of ler sister, Mra C. T. Crook, in Macon, la. Miss Prather was about 63 years if age. Gastonia Gazette, Aug. 6: On account of ill health and resulting orlers from his. physician, Mr. J. M. Ihuford, alderman from ward 2, has leen forced to resign his position, his eslgnatlon becoming effective at once. The voting on the question of isluing 3160,000 worth of bonds TueaIny was very quiet. A light vote was xist over the county, not more than ,800 votes being cast, of which about ,200 were for bonds as against 600 ipposed to bonda These figures are tot official, since the canvass will not >e taken till Monday. The above acts, however, will give an approxlnate Idea of the vote. Of the amount, 150,000 will be spent in building good oads; 150,000 in the repair and mainenance of roads already built, and 150,000 to cover the floating Indebtedless of the county. Certain parts of he county which have not had any vork in their section will be attended 0 at once. Notable among the roads 8 the highway leading from Dallas to Jastonla. This is one of the first nacadam roads ever built in Gaston county and it has not been repaired lince Mr. Otto Rupp, the butcher, lad a narrow escape from a serious accident Wednesday afternoon when reurnlng from Spencer mountain in his luto delivery truck. A pair of mules litched to a wagon became frightened it his machine and backed or pulled Into the road directly in front of him. He oould not stop his car and rather :han hit the mules he steered his machine down the till. It turned over >nce or twice, but fortunately the wooden top to the truck saved Mr. Rupp from being crushed. The auto came back to town under its own x>wer Registrar of Vital Statis:ica W. M. Adams, gives the following Igures for July; Births in Gastonla, !?; in Gastonla township, 10. Deaths n the city, 8; in the township, T. Ifr. C. M. Crowder has as his guest for 1 few weeks his brother, Mr. W. M. Urowder of Westville, Okla. Mr. Crowder is on his first visit to this >art of the country since he left In [865, just after the surrender. He lived 'or a few years in Louisiana and rexas, and went from there to Oklaloma, where he has made a success as i farmer. Mr. Crowder is a native of Cleveland county, but has many relaives and friends in Gaston, and will ipend several weeks in this section cefore returning to his home. HOW TO KEEP HEALTH Silly Sunday Idea Applied to Every Day Lifo. Billy sunaay inunaenngs nn? uw lecessarily confined to evangelization. \ Chautauqua lecturer on health has aken up the same kind of pyrotechnics ind stirs big audiences with "Run until your old tongue hangs out! If you ain't run, walk?but do something to iiake you breathe, you discouraged old wrecks. You're feeling blue because Kou are all full of poison. You need }zone?go out and get it." Then the speaker gets his thousands if hearers to their feet and shouts, 'Now, exhale." The sound of expiring lir fills the big tent. "Now breathe in for a minute?if you can't, you're lead," The crowd tries it "Why, you've gone through life living on a thimbleful of oxygen," Sundayesquely cries the health exhorter. "Learn to breathe if you want to get rid of that tired reeling. You walk as though your shoes were filled with lead. Persons afflicted with tuberculosis are sent to high altitudes. They go up and have to breathe deep. Now, why couldn't the fools learn to breathe on the level. "Eat vegetables and run after them ?running will make you breathe. But Jon't run for beefsteaks or the sugar oarrel?run the other way. Go without breakfast, too, you old hogs. I'll bet some of you sneaked In a breakfast in me. Well, you had better not if you want that fit feeling." "How about tomatoes?" some one celled. "Eat a barrel of them every day, ind if you can't get the fruit, eat the irines," was the answering shout. It is needless to add that the health ?vangellst "gets the crowd to going" ind sways It effectively. We, perhaps, are Just beginning to jnderstand the art of modern ora:ory effort. Billy Sunday has founded i new school of it. Transfer it to the Bolitical field and let us see what will ;ome of It. Suppose that flattery is lot lavished on the voters, the custom 'rom time immemorial, but that they ire called "hogs," "yellow dogs" and >ther startling epithets that have been nade popular In the pulpit. There may >o more ways than one to "rouse the >eople."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. John Marshall, secretary of the Charleston county dispensary board, ias Informed the governor that sales n Charleston county dispensaries for he month of July were $65,199.61, igainst $53,138.51 in July, 1914.