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YORKVI LIE ENQUBiER. ISSUED 9BMI-WKKELT. l. m. qrist's sons, Pobii.h?r.. [ % dfami's JJeursppeii: <^or th? firomofion of th< jpolitioal, ?ociat, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of th< feojl^. { established I85r>. ~YORK, 8. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER"387I915 ISTO. 787 #TRAN( v HLU5TMTIQN5J to CHAPTER XXVII. The Quality of Mercy. On no leas ail authority than that of the great doctor who came again from Chicago for a second consultation with Doctor Farnham, Andrew Galbraith owed his life during the two days following his return to consciousness to the unremitting care and devotion of one person. Seconding the efforts of the physicians, and skillfully directing those of the nurses, Margery threw herself into the vicarious struggle with the generous s?lf-sacrifice which counts neither ^ cost nor loss; and on the third day she had her reward. Her involuntary 4 guest and charge was distinctly better, again, so the two doctors declared, the balance was inclining slightly toward recovery. ? It was in the afternoon of this third day, when she had been reading to him, at his own request, the sayings of the Man on the Mount, that he referred for the first time to the details of the accident which had so nearly blotted him out. Upon his asking, she related the few and simple facts of w^lnlmUtnty hnr me rratue, muuraiij uuuiuuwag ?v. own part in it, and giving her companion in the catboat full credit. "The writer-man," he said thoughtfully, when she had finished telling him how Griswold had worked over him in the boat, and how he would not give up. "I remember; you fetched him out to the hotel with you one day; no, you needna fear I'll be forgetting him." Then, with a shrewd look out of the steel-grey eyes: "Howlong have you been knowing him. Maggie, child?" "Oh, for quite a long time," she hastened to say. "He came here, sick and helpless, one day last spring, and? well, there isn't any hospital here in Wahaska, you know, so we took him in and helped him get over the fever, ^ or whatever it waa This was his room while he stayed with us." Andrew Galbraith wagged his head on the pillow. "I know," he said. "And ye're doing it again for a poor auld man whose siller has never brought him anything like the love you're spending on him. You're everbady's good angel, I'm thinking, Maggie, lassie." Though he did not realize it, has sickness was bringing him day by day nearer to his far-away boyhood in the Invernessshire hills, and it was easy to slip into "He'? Trying to Hide and That'a What They've Been Waiting For." the speech of the mother-tongue. ^ Then, after a long pause, he went on: "He wasna wearing a beard, a red beard trimmed down to a spike?this writer-man, when you found him, was he?" She shook her head. "No; I have ^ never seen him with a beard.' The sick man turned his face to the wall, and after a time she heard him repeating softly the words which she had Just read to him. "But if ye forgive not men . . . neither will your father forgive. . . ." And again, "Judge not that ye be not Judged." When he turned back to her there were new lines of suffering in the gray old face. "I'm sore beset, child; sore beset," he sighed. "You were telling me that MacFarland and Johnson will be here tonight?" r"Yes; they should both reach Wahaska this evening.' Another pause, and at the end of it: "That man Broffln; you'll remember you asked me one day who he was, and I tell't ye he was a special officer for W the bank. Is he still here?" "He is: I saw him on the street this morning.' Again Andrew Galbraith turned his face away, and he was quiet for so 1 *i *!?? .k. .k?..?kl k? lUllg ct inner IIIU.I one iiiuu^ui nc nau fallen asleep. But he had not. "You're thinking something of the writer-man, lassie? Don't mind the clavers of an auld man who never had a chick or child of his ain." r Her answer was such as a child might have made. She lifted the bigJointed hand on the coverlet and pressed it softly to her flushed cheek, and he understood. "I thought so; I was afraid so," he said, slowly. "You say you have known him a long time; it canna have been long enough, bairine." . "But it is," she insisted loyally. "I / know him better than he knows himself: oh, very much better." "Ye know the good in him. maybe; there's good in all men, I'm thinking now. though there was a time when I didna believe it" "I know the good and the bad?and the bad is only the good turned up DICE 3SLYNDE rCDfflOES 1 erwj?M?#r or cnaal?J XMSAOfJ JO/K3 side down." Again the sick man wagged his head on the pillow and closed his eyes. "Ye're a loving lassie, Maggie, and that's a' there is to it," he commented; and after another interval: "What must be, must be. We spoke of this man Broffln: I must see him before Johnson comes. Can ye get him for me, Maggie, child?" She nodded and went downstairs to the telephone, returning almost immediately. "I was fortunate enough to catch him at the hotel. He will be here in a few minutes," was the word she brought; and Galbraith thanked her with his eyes. "When he comes, ye'll let me see him alone?just for a few minutes," he begged; and beyond that he said no more. It was after the click of the gate latch had announced Broffln's arrival that Margery drew the shades to shut out the glare of the afternoon sun, lowering the one at the bed's head so that the light no longer fell upon the instruments of the small house telephone set mounted upon the wall beside the door. "Mr. Broffln is here, and I'll send him up," she said. "But you mustn't let him stay long, and you mustn't try to talk too much." The sick man promised, and as she was going away she turned to repeat the caution. Andrew Galbraith's eyes were closed in weariness, ana ne am not see that she was standing with her back to the wall while she admonishea him, or that, when she had gone to send the visitor up, the earpiece of the house telephone set had been detached from its hook and left dangling by its wire cord. Miss Grierson went on into the library after she had met the detective at the door and had told him how to find the upstairs room. When the sound of a cautiously closed door tola her that Broffln had entered the sickroom, she snacked the receiver of the library house phone from its hook and held it to her ear. For a little time keen anxiety wrote its sign manual in the knitted brows and the tightly pressed lips. Then she smiled and the dark eyes grew softly radiant. "The dear old saint!" she whispered; "the dear, dear old saint!" And when Broffln came down a few minutes later, she went to open the hall door for him, serenly demure and with honey on her tongue, as befitted the role of "everybody's good angel." "Did you find him worse than you feared, or better than you hoped?" she asked. "He's mighty near the edge, I should say?what? But you never can tell. Some of these old fellows can claw back to the top o* the hill after all the doctors in creation have thrown up their hands. I've seen it. What does Doc Farnham say?" "What he always says; 'while there's life, there's hope.' " Broffin nodded and went his way down the walk, stopping at the gate to take up the cigar he had hidden on his arrival. "So Galbraith's out of it, lock, stock and barrel," he muttered, as he strode thoughtfully townward. "I reckoned the story o' that shipwreck. And now I ain't so blamed sure that It's Raymer a-holdin' the fort in them pretty black eyes. The old man talked like a man that had just been honeyfugled and talked over and primed plum' up to the muzzle. "Why the blue blazes can't she take her iron-molder fellow and be satisfied? She can't swing to both of 'em. Ump!?the old man wanted me to skip out on a wild goose chase to Frisco in that bond business, and take the first train! Sure, I'll go ?but not today; oh, no, by grapples; not this day!" It was probably an hour beyond Broffin's visit when Margery, having cnrnocafnUv marl thp Qir?k marl to sleep, tiptoed out of the room and went below stairs to shut herself into the hall telephone closet. The number she asked for was that of the Raymer Foundry and Machine works, and Raymer, himself, answered the call. "Have you heard anything yet from Mr.?from our friend?" "Not a word. But I'm not worrying any more now. I've been remembering that he is the happy?or unhappy ?possessor of the 'artistic temperament' and that accounts for anything and everything. I'd forgotten that for a few minutes, you know." "Well?" she said, with the faintest possible accent of impatience* "He has gone off somewhere to plug away on that book of his; I'm sure of it. And he hasn't gone very far. I'm inclined to believe that Mrs. Holcomb knows where he is?only she won't tell. And somebody else knows, too." "Who is the somebody else?" Though the wire was in a measure public, Raymer risked a single word. "Charlotte." None of the sudden passion that leaped into Margery Grierson's eyes was suffered to find its way into her voice when she said: "What makes you think that?' "Oh, a lot of little things. I was over at the house last night, and there is some sort of teapot tempest going on; I couldn't make out just what. But from the way things shaped up, I gathered that our friend was wanted in Lake Boulvard, and wanted bad? for some reason or other. I had to promise that I'd try to dig him up, before I got away." "Well?" went the questioning word over the wires, and this time the impatient accent was unconcealed. "I promised; but this morning Doetor Bertie called me up to say that it was all right; that I needn't trouble myself." "And I needn't have troubled you," said the voice at the Mereside trans mitter. "Excuse me, as Hank Billingsly used to say when he happened to shoot the wrong man. Come over when you feel like it, and have time. You musn't forget that you owe me two calls. Good-by." After Margery Grlerson had let herself out of the stifling little closet under the hall stair, she went into the darkened library and sat for a long time staring at the cold hearth. It was a crooked world, and just now it was a sharply cruel one. There was much to be read between the lines of the short telephone talk with Edward Raymer. The trap was sprung and its Jaws were closing; and in his extremity Kenneth Griswold was turning, not to the woman who had condoned and shielded and paid the costly price, but to the other. "Dear God!" she said softly, when the prolonged stare had brought the quick-springing tears to her eyes; "and I?I could have kept him safe." (To be Continued.) AN AILMENT OF ROYALTY Cotton Being King it Not Subject to Ordinary llle. A wealthy Texan, on a visit to New York, awoke one morning feeling ill. 1 He became alarmed, summoned the hotel manager, and explaining that his throat was in a terrible shape and he ' feared he was in for a siege of ill- ( ness, asked him to call a specialist in 1 haste. The specialist came, asked various questions, examined the throat and ' pondered as medical men do. Then he wrote a prescription. "What is it I've got?" inquired the ' patient reebly. "It's unquestionably a case of crico-arytcnoldeus posticus," replied the physician. 1 "Oh, Lord!" exclaimed the patient. ' The physician gave the prescription to the hotel manager and within 1 a short time the patient was gargling ' with a liquid a bell hop furnished. Next morning the Texan was almost well. The physician called, expressed gratification, said it wouldn't be necessary for him to make another visit and collected $25 for his services. "Doc.," said the Texan, "what was it you said I had?" "Crico-arytonoideus posticus," replied the medical man. "There's some mistake, Doc.," the Texan declared. "There must be. I got that medicine of vours and the 1 hotel people fixed it up but they tell me the druggrist charged only 5 cents." ' "Well; that's about right," said the 1 doctor. "Only 5 cents for medicine to knock ' out a disease like that?" "Yes." "Doc.," pleaded the Texan, "just between friends and as man to man will you tell me what is the United States 1 of the crico-thing-a-majig business I 1 had?" "My dear sir," replied the physician, "I don't mind in the least. Crico- ; arytenoideus posticus is a form of sore throat and the treatment I pre- 1 scribed?" "I know the stuff," exclaimed the Texan, "I thought there was some- ' thing familiar about it. It was borax." ' "Yes," said the doctor. "Borax?5: cents worth of borax in water. An excellent household remedy for crico- 1 nrvtenoideus posticus." 1 i All this is a preliminary to the dls covery that cotton in various parts of South Carolina is suffering: from anthracnose. W. T. McLain, who has a plantation In that state, took a cotton stalk with a dozen blasted bolls to W. D. Grist, editor of The Yorkville Enquirer, and that grentleman without ' hesitation pronounced the disease anthracnose. Prof. H. W. Barre, botan- i 1st at Clemson college, confirmed his diagnosis. It seems as if cotton had as many ailments as a fashionable woman. 1 Hitherto its troubles have had rather coarse names such as rust, weevil, worms, etc., but such an aristocrat of the vegetable kingdom is entitled to diseases with more high sounding names hence anthracnose. The name i is imposing until you study it ety- i mologically. Then it suggests boils? boils in or about the nose?for anthrax medically means boils and nose means nose. No one supposed cotton had a nasal appendage but the scientists have odd i ways of naming the parts of things. At any rate Prof. Barre says anthracnose has done $1,000,000 damage an- , nually in South Carolina for the last i five years. He traces the introduction of the disease to supposed highly improved varieties of seed bought at high prices. So far as he knows there is no way of getting rid of tho trouble except by destroying or plowing under , diseased stalks and rotating crops. | If that fails why not try borax or ( whatever is good for boils??N. Y. j Commerce and Finance. A Great Scheme. Explosions in powder mills are fre- 1 quent, as everyone knows, but they 1 occur not nearly so often as formerly, owing to greater precaution, and when they do happen there Is little or no dl- 1 rect liability on the part of the manufacturers in them, being purely accidental. Despite that fact, however, 1 the powder companies assume the ' burden of paying for the damage done by explosions to private property In the vicinity of the mills, which property, in New Jersey at least, by law, can be no nearer than one mile of the ( powder mills. Naturally the articles most easily broken are glass ware and crockery, with an occasional breaking of plaster. , The leading powder company has the name of paying for such damage without delay and with considerable grace, which fact is taken advantage of by certain householders with a curious idea of thrift or with the idea of "putting one over on the corporation," who. accordinr to airents of the now der makers, store up all the household ware broken in ordinary domestic use until there is an explosion in the mill and then send the bill to the powder company. It is claimed that a few people, desirous of having the house newly plastered, have deliberately torn down a shaky part and then waited for the next explosion. Nvhich is duly blamed for the damage. Despite that knowledge, the agents say the powder company pays the bill. Recently the Aetna Explosives paid $8,000 on account of one explosion for window breakage in the city of Gary, Ind., which is near its mills.?Wall Street Journal. i FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced in Early Flies o! The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl* edge of the Things that Most Con* cerned Generations that Havs 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. 160TH INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, May 23, 1867.) York District Bible Society. Yorkville, May 20, 1867. At a meeting of the executive committee of the above named society, held this day, it was: Resolved, That the secretary publish the following synopsis of the proceedings of ,the society and of the executive committee adopted at various times to wit: Rev. S. L. Watson was elected president and Judge W. C. Beatty, vice president of the society. The executive committee by election consists of Rev. R. Lathan, James Jeffreys, Esq., P. B. Darwin, Esq., S. E. Moore and Rev. 1* A. Johnson. Rev. W. T. Capers was duly appointed to preach the next anniversary sermon. Resolved, That the executive com- 1 mittee make known to the ministers Df the gospel throughout the district that they are requested to canvass their respective congregations, learn their destitution as to the Word of Sod, and make arrangements with the executive committee for remedying such destitution. < Resolved, That the next'meeting ot the society be held on the second Wednesday, the 9th day of October, next, in the Presbyterian church at Yorkvllle, at 11 o'clock a. m. The executive committee announce to the public that James Jeffreys, Esq., the depository of the society, has a good supply of books of different sizes and in various bindings, which are offered for sale at catalogue price of the Parent society or given to the destitute, S. E. Moore, Secretary. Married?On the 14th inst., by Rev. . S. L. Watson, Mr. J. Lessley Wright and Miss Emily E. Laney, all of this district. On Thursday 16th, inst., by Rev. J. Kendrick, Mr. John A. M. Estes of Union district, and Miss Laura T. Smith of York district. On the 14th of March, by Rev. Wm. Banks, Mr. Thos. Peden and Miss Sallie J., oldest daughter of the late Dr. Judson and Mrs. Martha McCreary. On the 7th inst., by Rev. Wm. Banks, Capt. Osmond Barker of Chester district, and Mrs. Mary Hood of Dallas county, Arkansas. On the 9th Inst., by Rev. Wm. Banks, Mr. Nelson T. Ford and Miss Priscilla McWalters, all of Rocky Creek, Chester district, S. C. (Thursday Morning, May 30, 1867.) Married?In Charlotte, N. C., on the 23rd Inst., by Rev. A. Sinclair, Mr. S. Anderson McElwee of Yorkville, S. C. and Miss Jennie E., daughter of Dr. F. M. Ross of the former place. On Monday morning, 27th Inst., by Rev. H. R. Dickson, Mr. Lawson D. Goore and Miss Kate, daughter of B. F. Briggs, Esq., all of Yorkville. (Thursday Morning, June 6, 1867.) Married?On Sunday, 19th inst., by Rev. M. Stowe, Mr. R. P. Workman and Miss Sallie Crook, all of York district. (Thursday Morning, June 13, 1867.) Married?On the 4th inst., by Rev. M. Oates, Mr. Calvin Whisonant and Mrs. Nancy Whitesldes, all of York district. On Thursday, 6th inst., at the resiJ ? DnKln^An VlV UCIItC U1 iUI. Ytf UUICJ IVI/UIIIOVII, *-> J James Blair, Esq,, Mr. Clint Jones and Miss Elsey Carter, all of this district. (Thursday Morning, June 27, 1867.) Gold Mines. The long dormant mineral resources of South Carolina seem to be attracting at this time a considerable share of attention abroad. Within the past few weeks several gold prospects have been sold to northern companies at figures which would indicate that said propositions are of a decidedly captivating nature. The northern and western sections of this district offer rare inducements, we are informed, for investing in gold mining adventures. The Broad River boundaries are pronounced to be rich in fine Bpecimines of the yellow ore. The Dwners of this property cordially invite those who have the means to come and dig it out and pay a reasonable toll. * The Yorkville Female Academy. The spring term of this institution closed on Thursday, the 26th inst. In the evening the large hall, decorated with festoons and wreaths of evergreens, was filled with young people and their friends?the faculty, clergy and superintendent of the King's Mountain institute, sitting on the platform, flanking two fine pianos. Rev. R. B. Anderson, president of the col lege, regretted to inform the audience that he had been disappointed in the hope of having an orator for the occasion and that the faculty under the circumstances, could only request the young ladies to invite their friends to an entertainment of music and to witness the delivery of prizes and diplomas. Miss Emma Manigault, the accomplished teacher of music, deserves great praise for the brilliant success of her pupils and the young ladles will please accept our hearty thanks for the refined enjoyment the entertainment afforded. Mr. Anderson, in bestowing the prizes to the most distinguished pupils, took occasion to thank his lovely pupils generally for the diligence and good conduct they had exhibited during the term. In conferring the diplomas, he expressed sorrow that one of the graduates whose proficiency was highly commendable, was prevented by sickness from being present. The president then gave each of those who had completed their college education a beautiful copy of the Bible accompanying the gift with words of counsel and invoking upon them the blessings of heaven. Yorkville is fortunate in having her female college so well directed. Rev. Messrs. Anderson and Dickson with Misses Josephine and Emma Manl-| gault constitute a corps of teachers of which any female college on the continent might be proud. (To be Continued.) SILOS PROFITABLE Custom of "Canning" Food for Cattle Has Proven Worth. In preparing winter luncheons for their herds the beef cattle men, as well as dairy farmers, "imitate June" by backing silos full of succulent feed says a Madlsow, Wis., dispatch. Silage has become as essential to the profits on a beef cattle farm as in the dairy business. Many Wisconsin stockmen who have tried this form of feed appreciate the feeling of the Iowa feeder, who said: "I could feed cattle without a shed, and without much corn, but I couldn't feed cattle any more without a silo." Silos have solved the problem of profitable beef making on high-priced land. Cattle men found that the carrying capacity of the farm can be doubled by the use of them. This year with a probability of some soft corn at harvest time, silos on beef cattle farms will be a double protection. They not only guarantee a supply of feed for the herds, but I J 1 % M A? ? insure against loss ui cruya. aii auucu advantage in having them is that silage-fed steers are finished with much less shelled corn or other grain. Too, the silage gives a finish that is up to the standard, when fed with a protein feed, as cottonseed meal and good clover or alfalfa hay. Cutting down the waste in cattle feeding means adding to the profita When .com is husked and the stalks left standing in the field, approximately one-half of the food value is lost. Bven when the fodder is cut, and kept under the most favorable conditions, it loses much of its nourishment This waste is increased by the portions of the stalks left uneaten when fodder is fed. Not so with silage. The entire com plant is cut into the silo. Protected there from leaching and evaporating, even the Juices of the crop are saved. When this giant can of com is opened the coarsest parts of the stalks are cleaned up by the stock. The succulence of silage keeps the animals in good health, so that they make the most of the feed eaten. An authority estimates that in beef production, from one-third to one-half a pound more of gain can be counted on with a succulent form of feed than will be obtained from the same food in dry form. Usually valued at 13.50 a ton in the silo, silage has been shown, by experiments, to be worth as much as $6 a ton in beef cattle feeding. Only those farmers, however, who have cut down their feed bills and increased the profits on their otnor ornrvo r?Q n ^tillv Q nnrool at a thP DfcVVI VIVF" vw,? ? money value of silage. CANADIANS AT THE FRONT American Soldiers Equal to the Beet the Allies Have. "The life of the Canadians at the front takes one back to the tales of the North American Indian which were the delight of our youth," writes Maurice Barres, the French academician, who is on a visit to the fighting lines as the guest of the French staff. "This week," he explains, "I saw the huts of the Canadians, built of trees sawed lengthwise, exactly like the log cabins which they build for hunting boxes or the log houses they inhabit sometimes in the prairies north of the Great Lakes. "A survival of the old Indian romance Is found in the Canadian army. Trappers In khaki were shown me, who make use of the thousand tricks of their trade against the enemy. They hunt him with the wlldness of the old scalp hunters, toned down by English humanity. ruuuwillK ill me wane ui vreiiiia.no crawling across the corn fields, the Canadian manages to creep along without causing a single leaf to move. They remain for hours on the watch, lying on their backs and studying the ground around them by means of a little mirror. Should the Germans, measured by the long silence over the still fields, venture out, he is pounced upon, bound with rope in a couple of seconds. The other day, after a series of such frightful exploits, the Canadian scouts threw over into the German trenches a number of little cards, inscribed: 'It is useless for you to send out any more patrols; you have Canadians in front of you.' "I know of course, that among these volunteers there are many modern Canadians, business men, professional men, workmen. All are not sons of trappers or backswoodsmen. But it is a fact that they have more initiative, more ingenuity and more enterprise than European soldiers. And to look at them, what tenacity there is in their expression! "In a huge open-air depot. I was examining their military transport vans. all marked with the maple leaf, when my eyes fell on a little tent covered with weird stripes and figures in green paint. " 'What is that?' I asked. " 'A Canadian officer's tent.' " 'But those green signs?' " 'Oh, nothing! The background has merely been arranged so that, from above, it will seem to form part of the meadows and woods.' "But I had recognized, amid the splashes of paint, various heiroglyphics which again took my mind back to the days of the Redskin?the cat's head, the blackhand, and finally the Swastika, that talisman which has come down to us from the farthest ages.'' Compared with India's 314,000,000 dark skinned natives there are only about 300,000 white persons scattered all over the country. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES ? i News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READIN6 Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Fort Mill Times, Sept. 23: Mrs. J. T. Young and little son, Kenyon, are visiting in the home of T. K. Lee in Nashville, Tenn Mrs. H. R M&ckl 1 Tnao/Yoir fnr PinhmnntT Vo to I spend the winter In the home of her son, Rev. Edw. Mack W. L. Ferguson and family, who came to Fort Mill a short time ago from Concord, N. C., have moved into the Halle cottage on Booth street Her many friends will regret to learn that Mrs. M. A. Meacham has been seriously ill for some days at the home of her son, S. L. Meacham, on Confederate street Miss Minnie Garrison, who has been spending a few days with friends In Pineville, returned to Fort Mill Saturday and on Monday assumed her duties as teacher of the first grade in the local public school In a meeting Tuesday evening the board of trustees of the Fort Mill public school elected T. G. Moser, a well known resident of the town, to the vacancy on the board brought about several weeks ago by the resignation of R. F. Grier. B. M. T?ee and family, who came to Fort Mill some weeks ago from Finlay, Texas, with the intention of residing in lower Fort Mill have returned to the Lone Star state and will again reside at Finlay, where Mr. Lee will engage in railroad work. Announcement is made that Fort 1 Mill is soon to have another mercantile establishment, a grocery and meat market combined, with Messrs. Herbert Harris and Jas. H. Patterson as proprietors. The new concern prob- ? ably will occupy the Ardery building v on Main street, until recently occupied by the Stewart & Culp grocery firm. About all the cotton that has been ginned in this immediate section up to this tiipe has been sold on the local market, the prevailing price being around 10 cents per pound. Seed have been selling at from 30 to 40 cents per bushel. Reports from some sections of the county say that the cotton has been greatly damaged during the hot weather of the last two weeks and that there will be little if any top crop. King's Mountain Herald, Sept. 23: The two dredge boats used in draining Buffalo and Muddy Fork creeks have been sold to a Greensboro company for the sum of $5,000. This drainage work was done for $30,000 lees than was anticipated. The bond issue was for $108,000, but when the work was completed the treasury showed a balance of $30,000. No settlement has yet been reached with the buyers of the bonds for the $30,000. The proceeds of the boats will be used In maintaining the channel... .The first bale of new cotton was sold here Saturday. It was grown on the farm of Thos. Hamrlck near Patterson Grove church by Oliver McSwain and was sold by Mr. McSwain to the Phoenix mill at 10 1-4 cents Willie Weir has sold his farm near Patterson Grove church to George Gold. Mr. Weir is casting around for another place with his affections set somewhat toward Virginia Lee- Woodrfl, who lost his position as agent for the Southern here last spring on account of shortage in his account, and who has been missing in these parts for several weeks, was apprehended and arrested by detectives in Port Arthur, Texas, a few days ago. He is now in the Shelby Jail in default of $1,500 bond, charged with embezzling $1,500 of the a Southern's money while agent here. A severe shock visited the Bethlehem section Friday morning and a pall of sadness prevailed when the news arrived that Miss Millie Dixon was dead and would arrive in King's r Mountain on train No. 36, Friday morning Mrs. J. T. Wilson took ' her little daughter, Fay, to a CharIntte annntnHiim lnat week where the r little girl underwent an operation for both appendicitis and abscess in the 8 side. She ia getting along very nicely but is till in the hospital. * f Chester Reporter, Sept. 23: Rev. Thomas Jenkins, alias Herbert Scott, 0 the negro who was mentioned in Mon- 8 day's Reporter in connection with the alleged fleecing of Hllliard Adams, an T Edgemoor negro, was arrested at 8 Blackstock Tuesday morning by Deputies Howzer and Young, and com- 8 mltted to Jail Tuesday morning. A gentleman who had read the story about Jenkins in the Reporter of the day previous, phoned the sherifT that r Jenkins had passed Cornwell shortly 8 before, and the information proved to ^ be correct, as the deputies when they were pulling into Blackstock found J Jenkins seated in a yard playing with two negro children, and had no trouble in effecting his capture. He at first entered a general denial, but later ^ acknowledged that he was Jenkins and had been evangelizing at Edgemoor The annual meeting of the Home Builders' Loan association was ^ held at the offices of Messrs. Marlon & Marion, and reports of the officers -3 4UA A.M..1A.4IA. 4A UA U A ' Biiuwtru me ur?Uiua.?iiun iu uc in a. prosperous condition and business c growing. On motion Messrs. Robert Frazer, A. N. Webb, J. T. Perkins, M. L. Marlon, W. A. Corklll, H. E. McConnell, M. D., and J. C. Stewart were ? re-elected members of the board of j directors, and Mr. M. R. Clark was added to the board. The directors met and re-elected the following officers: ^ Robert Frazer. president; J. T. Perkins, vice president; W. A. Corklll, secretary and treasurer, and Marlon & Marion, attorneys Mr. Joseph Burdell of Lewis, aged 79 years, died ? Monday in a Columbia hospital, after having been In infirm health for a imber of years. Funeral services g were held at Uriel Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon by Rev. A. D. P. * Gilmour, D. D? and Interment was in t Uriel graveyard. c Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 24: Follow- v ing a desperate illness of four weeks r from typhoid fever, Mrs. Alice Horsley passed away at 11.15 o'clock Tuesday night at her home in the New Hope i section, aged 53 years. She is sur- 1 vived by her husband, Mr. Lee Hors- t ley, and four children An un- C known burglar caused considerable excitement in the early hours this morning on West Airline avenue when he entered the residence of G. C. Andrews and later the Franklin hotel and the hotel annex. His operations awakened the occupants of these houses a.bout 4 o'clock and police headquarters were notified by phone at once. Policemen Rankin and Hord responded. When they arrived at the Franklin hotel between Dallas and York streets a man was seen to Jump from :he porch and run. Several shots were fired at him but he got away. A few minutes later the bloodhounds' from tl)e city hall were brought and put on his trail. They went down by Tanyard row, where some suits >f clothes taken from rooms in the Pranklin hotel were found, the burgar having evidently dropped them In lis haste to get away Messrs. 2raig & Wilson are Just completing in immense new barn on their farm n the eastern edge of town. It is 70 'eet wide, 72 feet long and 50 feet ligh at the center. It stands on the lite of their old barn but is very nuch larger. The loft will hold an mmense amount of roughness. Mr. it. L. Fite had charge of the work, t is practically finished with the exreptlon of the painting. It is underitood that Messrs. Craig & Wilson ntend to build another large barn on he Dixie farm just north of town. )n this farm they feed a large num>er of cattle At the home of Mr. r. J. Hord in West Gastonia, Mr. Am>ro8 Royster and Miss Pearl Fraley, >oth of Bessemer City, were married Wednesday, Rev. W. H. Neese ofllclatng. Gaffnev Lodaer. 8eot. 24: A freight vreck that tied up traffic on the Southern railroad for several hours ruesday, occurred at Thlckety, beween the station and the bridge over rhlckety creek. Three bo* cars were iverturned and one derailed, but no >ne was Injured. The cause of the ac:ident Is unknown Immediately ollowlng the conclusion of the chapel ixerclses, the registration and classilcatlon of students at Limestone colege was taken up yesterday. _ The egular class and other routine work if the session will begin this momng. The chapel exercises yesterday urere opened by the president. Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, speaking a few words of incouragement to the students to bering the year's work promptly and vlth vigor Mr. Lionel Poole of the Wilklnsvllle section of the county, vho won the scholarship to the Citadel las gone to Charleston to enter the nstltutton. He is a graduate of the 3unnyslde High school, which is conildered one of the best in Cherokee ?unty Mr. A. L Peeler of Great rails, has bought the J. T. Brown arm, consisting of 21 acres, about two nlles from GaJFney on the Union road, he trade being made through the A. 'j. Hallman Real Eatate agency. Mr. 3eeler already owned a farm adjoining he Brown place. Lancaster News, 8ept. 24: The town :ouncil Is to be congratulated upon he improvement made by grading ievera.1 of the streets of the town. The ecent work on Meeting and White itreets has made those streets much nore attractive... .Mr. M. L. Sweatt's lew Ford "Jitney," the first to be > p era ted in Lancaster, has already terved a useful purpose and may be lad on short notice. The convenience ind reasonable price of such service vill doubtless give Mr. Sweatt a liberal patronage Mr. A. T. Walters if Mount Pleasant, came to Lancaster oday for a visit to his children In his county. He is now with his rrandson, Jailor A. T. Carnes. His losts of friends in Lancaster, where le spent the beet years of his life, ire always glad to see him. Quaint 8ayings. The wise man speaks softly. The ool makes a big noise. The woman with a close mouth aises the devil with her eyes. Often the man who follows his own nclinatlons never has far to go. The fellow who rushes through life nisses all of the fun behind him. A good deed is like the dollar spent it home. It often returns to you. Get out and hustle. Opportunity iever comes to you fellows who wait br It. Be generous with your compliments jid you may even get one yourself ome day. They say love is blind, and hanged if ve don't believe it when we look at ome people. The world loves a lover?that Is, .11 except dad, who foots the bill. When weary or reading of this war, ry the Bible?and read of other wars. Wealth does not always bring happitess, but it gives it a powerful big hove. Now, altogether! Everybody boost or the town and the community! And 'ou boost yourself when you do it. The wise man seldom thinks he is a ool, but the fool, Invariably considers iimself a wise one. When you see your neighbor's smllng face you are seeing in him what le ought to see in you. If we had our choice of being either ich or happy, we would unhesitating y decide in favor of both. The aentleman is never without a riend and the grouch is never without an enemy. Your choice. The old sport who talks in his sleep las a hard time convincing his wife hat dreams go by opposltes. When a woman asks you for your andld opinion of her frock it's time to le like a constable or a senator. Some people doubt the existence of i hereafter, but they'll sure recognize he brand when they get there. "a dri of sixteen accents love and k woman of thirty invites it," sayt a. | yit. And the old maid of fon.vj ;rabs it. "Never swap horses In the middle of l stream" is grood advice; but "gret a rood horse and don't swap is better. Don't muss up your hair or scramble ^our brains because some fellow :alled you a liar. He may have told he truth. A man once told us that no woman ould ever make a fool of him, but he vas the town fool and the woman was lot needed.?Uncle Josh. There are 26 museums of safety and nstltutions for the study of industrial lygrene in the world, 22 in Europe, hree in the United States and one in Canada. PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Happenings and Events Throughout South Carolina. R. A. Dunnford, a 16-year-old boy of Charleston, was drowned last week off a wharf In that city. A co-operative creamery will be established in Spartanburg within a short whlla . Mary Graham, a little white girl of Columbia, was seriously burned when her dress caught fire from a Jack-o'lantern last week. Tom Anderson, a well known young man of Spartanburg, waa seriously ^ injured in an automobile accident In Greenville last week. B. Rivers, a laborer employed by a Charleston construction firm, waa killed while at work in that city last week. Charles F. Lynch, a well known citizen of Charleston, waa seriously injured last week when he was run into by an automobile. H. T. Hinnant was badly scalded and Engineer R. C. Johnson was slightly injured in a wreck of a Southern freight train near Columbia last week. George W. Rlsh, a prominent farmer of Lexington county, was found guilty with recommendation to mercy of the murder of J. Calvin Goodwin, his brother-in-law, last week. Aiken county has found It necessary to bcTrrow $6,000 with which to tide over until tax money begins to come in to relieve stringent conditions In that county. Governor Manning last week, honored extradition papers for the return to North Carolina of Madison Franklin, who is wanted there to answer to a charge of murder. The man Is under arrest at Marion in this state. Joe Malloy, a negro who was convicted of the murder of two white boys in Marlboro county several years ao>A will Ka AIAAIsaaiiIA/I OantemKar afiw, n in uc vswiti/vttvw ocj/icuiuvi 29. Four Cheater negroes will be electrocuted the same day. Col. Ivy M. Maulden of Pickens, state bank examiner, and W. W. Bradley of Abbeville, assistant bank examiner, were in Columbia last week and called on Governor Manning. Col. M&ulden said he would consolidate the reports of the conditions of all the state banks this week. According to a telephone message received in Orangeburg last week, Mr. Tobie Keller, son of Mr. Qeo. Keller, residing near Elloree, met death while bathing in a pond near his home yosterday, by having his neck broken after having struck the bottom 'of the pond while in the act of diving. The deceased was about 21 years of age. W. J. Bryan, accompanied by John L. McLaurln, state warehouse commissioner, called yesterday afternoon at Governor Manning's offlce, according to a Columbia dispatch of Friday. They were cordially met by 0. K. La^ Roque. private secretary to the governor, who said that Governor Manning was at his farm in Barnwell county. Mr. Bryan expressed regret at the absence of the governor, who was unable to return to Columbia in time to introduce the former secretary of state . at his lecture last night in the Columbia theatre. The largest negro society hall In the city was crowded last night to hear leaders of the "Colored Progressive club" urge their race to vote for Messrs. Danner and Marscher at the recall election next Tuesday, says a Beaufort dispatch of Sept. 23. One speaker said It is reported on tne streets that he is being paid $600 for his work for these candidates but that there is not a word of truth in it. Another leader also denounced another such rumor in reference to himself. Both urged their hearers not to sell their votes. A leader stated that it was also rumored that "whites" from the up country would come down on election day and prevent them from voting, but that they must not believe it. Several speakers urged that this was an opportunity that may never come again and the negroes should stand together and support those who want their votes and vote against those who do not want them. A watch repairer suggested that his people should think and act for themselves and not follow leaders, upon which B H. Houston. a principal political negro worker. moved to put the speaker out, which motion was lost, however. Among the speakers were ex-Sheriff George Reed, Blythewood, Colt, Clials, Kennedy and Washington. ODD8 AND END8 Some Things You Know and 8om# You Don't Know. Building the best system of roads in the world has cost France about $612,000,000. The wood utilization and preservation studies of the United States department of agriculture have been broadened to include tests of foreign woods of commercial importance to American industries. When a recently patented automobile fender touches any object it shuts ofT the power of the car to which it is attached and drops a curtain to prevent the object being crushed by the wheels. A Virginian has patented an implement which can be used to hold a Ashing pole on land or in a boat, to signal with a bell when a Ash has been hooked, to dig bait and to cut and clean Ash. A combination lock that encircles the handle of an umbrella and prevents it being opened by any person ignorant, or rne comoinanun is iuc invention of a Lodon cafe coat room attendant An aeroplane that its two New Jersey inventors claim is automatically stabilizing has four supporting planes, substantially cross shaped in cross section and tapering to a point at the front. According to two French scientists, ten per cent of the chickens of that country have tuberculosis, and the disease among poultry runs as high as twenty-eight per ce"t in some other nationa An electrical annunciator device, operated by push buttons on chairs throughout a hall, is working successfully in Holland to auction eggs without the usual noise and confusion of such sales.