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ISSX3TEO SEMI-WKEKL^ ^ l. x oeist s SOBS. pBbii.h.r.. | % 4amilS 35??|)S|>Ht: 4" <M $romotion #)( th< |oIiliiiaI, Joqiat( ^gri^lfur.al and Commercial Interests of thi; |eapl<. j p ESTABLISHED 1855. YORK, S. C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER i,~1915 NO. 79. "" I e$<?P] #-FRAN( 1 mii5TMrio?5j CHAPTER XXVIII. ^ The Pendulum-Swinging. To a man seeking only to escape from himself, all roads are equal and all destinations likely to prove uniformally disappointing. Turning his limn the iron works in the days of defeat, with no very clear idea of what he should or where he should go, Grlswold pushed through the strikers' picket lines, and, avoiding the militant suburb, drifted by way of sundry outlying residence streets and a country road to the high ground back of the city. In deserting Raymer he was actu* ated by no motive of disloyalty. On p the contrary, so much of the motive as had any bearing upon his relations with the young iron founder sprang from a generous impulse to free Raymer from an incubus. If it were the curse of the Midas-touch to turn all * things to gold, it seemed to be his own peculiar curse to turn the gold to dross; to leave behind him a train of disaster, defeat and tragic depravity. The plunge into the labor conflict had merely served to afford another striking example of his inability to break the evil spell, and Raymer could well | soar* him. On the long tramp to the hills the events of the past few months marshaled themselves in accusing review. No human being, save one, of all those with whom he had come in contact since the day of dragon-bearding in the Orleans bank had escaped the contaminating touch, and each in turn had suffered loss. The man Gavitt had given his name and identity; the mate of the Belle Julie had sacrificed what little respect he may have had for law and order by becoming, potentially, at least, a criminal accessory. The little Irish cab-driver had sold himself for a price; and the negro deckhand had endured his mess of fried fish. The single exception was k Charlotte Ffcrnham, and he told himself that she had escaped only be*cause she had done her duty as she saw it And as the bedeviling thing had begun, so it had continued, losing none of its potency for evil. In the little world of Wahaska, which was to have been the theatre of Utopian demonstration, the curse had persisted. The money, used with the loftiest intentions, had served only as a means to kuJ"" 1 m u Deftly the Man Catcher Worked Them Open. an end, and the end had proved to be the rearing of an apparently impas^ sable wall of bitter antagonism between master and men. And the secret of the money's origin and acquisition, which was to have been so easily cast aside and ignored, had become a soul-sickness incurable and even con^ tagious. Griswold was beginning to suspect that it had attracted Margery Grierson; that it had subconsciously, if not otherwise, thrust itself into Charlotte Farnham's life; and the days lately past had shown him into what depths it could plunge its wretched guardian and slave. Now that the plunge had been taken and he had been made to understand that he must henceforth reckon with a base and cowardly underself which would not stop short of the most henious crime, he told himself that he must have time to think?to plan. Caring nothing for its roughness, he followed the country road into a valley forest of oaks. After an hour of aimless tramping he began to have occasional rear-hand glimpses of the lake; and a little farther along he came out upon the main-traveled road V leading to the summer resort hotel at the head of De Soto bay. Still without any definite purpose in mind he pushed on, and upon reaching the hotel he went in and registered for o rAnm Worn ho rirow tho u* inHtt w shades and lay down, and since the week of strife had been cutting deeply into the nights, when he awoke it was evening and a cheerful clamor in the dining room beneath told him that it was dinner time. It is a trite saying that many a gulf, seemingly impassable, has been safely bridged by sleep. Bathed, refreshed and with the tramping stains removed, Griswold went down to dinner with the lost appetite regained. Early on the following day he sent a note to Mrs. Holcoinb by one of the inn employees; but the copy of the Daily Wahaskan laid beside his breakfast plate made it unnecessary to telephone Raymer. The paper had a full account of the sudden ending of the lock-out and the resumption of + work in the Raymer plant and he read it with a curious stirring of self-compassion. As he had reasoned ICE 35LYNDE KJMOKS ctyy/7/afr or cymj&j-j sotmctt sons | it out, there was only one way in wmcn the result could have been attained so quickly. Had Raymer taken that way, in spite of his wrathful rejection of the suggestion? Doubtless he had; and on the heels of that conclusion came a sense of deprlcation that was farily appalling, and the healthy breakfast appetite vanished. Griswold knew what it meant, or he thought he did. Margery was gone out of his life?gone beyond recall. After that, there was all the better reason why he should grapple with himself in the fallow Interval; and for two complete days he was lost, even to the small world of the summer resort, tramping for hours in the lake shore forests or drifting about in one of the hotel skiffs, and returning to the inn only to eat and sleep when hunger or weariness constrained him. On the whole, the discipline was good. He flattered himself that the sense of proportion was returning slowly, and with it some saner impulses. Truly, it had been his misfortune to be obliged to compromise with evil to some extent, and to involve others, but was not that rather due to the ineradicable faults of an imperfect social system than to any basic defect in his own theories? And was not the same imperfect social system partly responsible for the quasi-criminal, attitude which had been forced upon him? He was willing to believe it; willing, also, to believe that he could rise above the constraining forces and be the man he wished to be. That he could so rise was proved, he decided, on the morning of the third day, when he chanced to overhear the hotel clerk telling the man whose room was across the corridor from his own that Andrew Galbraith still had a fighting chance for life. In the pleasant glow of the high resolve the news awakened none of the murderous promptings, but rather the generous hope that it might be true. It was late in the afternoon of this third day, upon his return from a long pull in the borrowed skiff around the group of islands in the upper and unfrequented part of the lake, that he found a note awaiting him. It was from Miss Farnham, *nd its brevity, no less than its urgency, stirred him apprehensively, bringing a suggestive return of the furtive fierceness which he promptly fought down. "I must see you before eight o'clock this evening. It is of the last importance," was the wording of the note; and the heavy underscoring of the "last," and a certain tremulous characteristic in the handwriting, stressed the ur gency. It was still quite early in the evening when the inn conveyance set him down at the door of his lodgings in upper Shawnee street. To the caretaking widow, who would have preparted a late dinner for him, he explained that he was going out again almost at once; and taking time only for a bath and a change, he set forth on the cross-town walk. It lacked something less than a half hour of the time limit set in Miss Farnham's note, but he attached no special importance to that. He knew that the doctor's dinner hour was early, and that in any event he could choose his own time for an evening call. It nettled him angrily to find that the premonition of coming disaster was still with him when he crossed the courthouse square and came into the main street a few doors from the Winnebago entrance. Attacking from a fresh vantage ground it was warning him that the town hotel was the stopping place of the man Broffln, and that he was taking an unnecessary hazard in passing it. Brushing the warning aside, he went on defiantly, and just before he came within identifvine ranee of the louneers on the hotel porch an omnibus backed to the curb to deliver its complement of passengers from the lately met northbound train. Griswold walked on until he was stopped by the sidewalk-blocking group of freshly arrived travelers pausing to identify their luggage as it was handed down from the top of the omnibus. Alertly watchful, he quickly recognized Broffln among the porch loungers, and saw him leave his tilted chair to saunter toward the steps. Then the fatal thing happened. One of the luggage sorters, a clean-limbed, handsome young fellow with boyish eyes and a good-natured grin, wheeled suddenly and gripped him. "Why, Griswold, old man!?well, I'll be dogged! Who on the face of the earth would ever have thought of finding you here? So this is where you came up, after the long, deep, McGinty dive, is it?" Then to one of his fellow travelers: "Hold on a minute, Johnson; I want you to shake hands with an old newspaper pal of mine from New York, Mr. Kenneth Griswold. Kenneth, this is Mr. Beverly Johnson, of the Bayou State Security bank, in New Orleans." Thus Bainbridge, sometime star reporter of the Louisianian, turning up at the climaxing instant to prove the crowded condition of an overnarrow world, much as Matthew Broffin had once turned up on the after-deck of the coastwise steamer Adelantado to prove it to him. While Griswold, with every nerve on edge, was acknowledging the introduction which he could by no means avoid, Broffin drew nearer. From the porch steps he could both see and hear. Bainbridge, cheerfully loquacious, continued to do most of the talking. He was telling Griswold of the streak of good luck which had snatched him out of a reporter's berth in the south to make him night editor of one of the St. Paul dailies. Johnson was merely an onlooker. Broffln's 1 eyes searched the teller's face. Thus far it was a blank?a rather bored blank. "And you are on your way to St. Paul now?" Griswold said to the newspaper man. Broffln, whose ears were skillfully attuned to all the tone variations in the voice of evasion, thought he detected a quaver of anxious impatience in the half-absent query. "Yes; I was going on through tonight, but Johnson, here, stumped me to stop over. He said I might be able to get a news story out of his sick president," Balnbridge rattled on. "Ever meet Mr. Galbralth? He is the bank president wbo was neia up iasi spring:, you remember; fine old Scotch gentleman of the Walter Scott brand." "When did you leave New Orleans?" Griswold asked; and Broffin made sure he distinguished the note of anxiety. "Two days back; missed a connection on account of high water in the Ohio. Might have stayed another 12 hours in the good old levee town if we'd only known, eh, Johnson?" And the again to Griswold: "Remember that supper we had at Chaudlere's, the night I was leaving for the banana coast? By George! come to think of it, I believe that was the last time we foregathered in the ? Say, Kenneth, what have you done with your beard?" Something clicked in Broffln's brain. The final doubt was cleared away. Griswold was the man he had seen and marked when the two were saying good-by on the banquette in front of Chaudlere's. Broffln's right hand went swiftly to an inside pocket of his coat and when it was withdrawn a pair of handcuffs, oiled to noiselessness, came with it Deftly the man-catcher worked them open, using only the fingers of one hand, and never taking his eyes from the trio on the sidewalk. One last step remained; if he could only manage to get speech with Johnson first? During the trying interval Griswold had been fully alive to his peril. He had seen the swift hand-passing, and he knew what it was that Broffin was concealing in the hand which had made the quick pocket dive. He knew that the crucial moment had come; and, as many times before, the savage fear-mania was gripping him. In the cold vise-grip of it he had become onoe more the cornered wild beast. After the introduction to Johnson his hand had gone mechanically to his coat pocket. The demon at his ear was whispering "kill! kill!" and his Angers sought and found the weapon. While he was listening with the outward ear to Bainbridge's cheerful reminiscences, the little minutiae were arranging themselves; he saw where Broffln would step, and was careful to mark that none of the bystanders would be in range. He would wait until there could be no possibility of missing; then he would fire?from the pocket. It was Johnson who broke the spell. While Bainbrldge was insisting that Griswold should come in and make a social third at the hotel dinner table, the teller picked up his hand-bag and mounted the steps. Oriswold's brain fell into halves. With one of them he was making excuses to the newspaper man; with the other he saw Broffln stop Johnson and draw him aside. What the detective was saying was only too plainly evident. Johnson wheeled short to face the sidewalk' group, and Griswold could feel in every fiber of him the searching scrutiny ^ to which he was being subjected. When he stole a glance at the pair on the porch, Johnson was shaking his head slowly; and he did it again after a second thoughtful stare. Griswold, missing completely now what Bainbrldge was saying, overheard the teller's low-toned rejoinder to the detective's urgings: "It's no use, Mr. Broffln; I'd have to swear positively to It, you know, and I couldn't do that. . . . No, I don't want to hear your corroborative evidence; it might make me see a resemblance where there is none. Wait until Mr. Galbraith recovers; he's your man." Grlswold hardly knew how he made shift to get away from Bainbrldge finally; but when it was done, and he was crossing the little triangular park which filled the angle between the business squares and the lakefronting residence streets, he was sweating profusely, and the departing fear-mania was leaving him weak and tremulous. Passing the stone-basined fountain in the middle of the park he stopped, jerked the pistol from his pocket, spilled the cartridges from its magazine, and stooped to grope for a loose stone in the walk-border. With the fountain base for an anvil and the loosened border stone for a hammer he beat the weapon into shapeless inutility and flung it away. "God knows whom I shall be tempt a Vrtlf navfl" Via awan r\A^l r> iwl IKa vu iw AIM ucAVi iic wttiiru, aiiu me trembling fit was still unnerving him when he went on to keep the appointment made by Charlotte Farnham. (To be Continued.) How to Live to 100.?Henry F. Swanback, tho oldest Odd Fellow in America, who lives at the age of 100 in Greenwood, Neb., was a boyhood friend of Bismarck. His grandfather lived to be 117. Following are his rules for living to be 100: "Go to bed early and get up early. "Never sleep in a heated room. "Keep fresh air in the sleeping room. "Sleep out of doors in summer? winter, too if it can be arranged. "Drink plenty of fresh water. "Use very little red liquor. "As old age comes on take, each morning, a small wineglass of onethird glycerine and two-thirds good whisky. "Smoke as often as you please, but do not inhale the smoke or blow it out through the nostrils. "If you are unfortunate enough to lose your wife get another. It is not good for man or woman to live alone. "Don't worry over anything. Worry kills more people than disease. "Keep an even temper at all times. Be careful at all times. "Keep the feet dry and the head clear. "N!a\'pr e**i t A little* phiplfpn will not harm one, but must not be eaten too often. "Eat plenty of fresh fish. "Do not drink coffee. "Keep away from sweet stuff. It ruins the stomach and kidneys. "Take plenty of outdoor exercise. Walk a great deal. "Follow these rules, and any normal man, barring accidents, can live to be one hunired.?American Magazine. PICTURE OF A CHARGE Awful Silence Precedes Fierce Attack. HOW THE BRITISH SOLDIERS FIGHT. Graphic Story of Fatal Incidents on the Battliefield When, Amid 8hot and Shell, Men Lock in Deadly Embrace on Modern Battlefield. wnen quiei, tense quiei, aemta uunu along the scarred line of the trenches, and the breezo ruffles tho dandelolns | that have grown up between the ghastly heaps that fringe the wire entanglements, thea the man who has had experience with trench warfare knows that something is under way, says the New York Evening Post. It may be only the charge of a company, hoping to Improve the section of a traverse to which they cling with bitter determination; it may be a battalion's attempt to strengthen out a partiallywon zone; It may be the lurid charge of a brigade or division intended to occupy so much as a square mile of enemy ground. The tense quiet always precedes It. An uncannily vivid picture of this aspect of the fighting on the western front In Europe Is conveyed in the story of one advance by "Action Front," in the Westminster Gazette. All the night before there had been a steady movement of troops from the rear into the support and advance trenches, until every brown burrow was packed to capacity with waiting humanity. Further back, where the guns were emplaced under a skilful cover, the motor lorries were depositing the last loads of the huge supply of ammunition which would be required for the Impending "curtain of Are.'' "An aeroplane droned high overbad and an 'Archibald' (anti-air craft gun) or two began to pattern the sky about It with a trail of fleecy white smoke-puffs. The 'plane sailed on and out of sight, the smoke-puffs and the wheezy barks of Archbald' receding after it. Another period of silence followed. It was broken by a faint report like the sound of a faroff door being slammed almost at the same instant there came to the ear the faint, thin whistle of an approaching shell. The whistle rose to a rush and a roar that cut off abruptly in the thunderous bang. The shell pitched harmlessly on the open ground between the forward and support trenches. "Again came that faint 'slam,' this time repeated by four, and the 'bouquet* of four shells crumped down almost on top of the support line. The four crashes might have been a signal to the British guns. About a dozen reports thudded out quickly and separately, and then in one terrific blast of sound the whole line broke out in heavy Are. The infantry in the trenches could distinguish the quickfollowing bangs of the guns directly in line behind them, could separate the vicious swish and rush of the shells passing immediately over their heads. Apart from these the reports blended in one long throbbing pulse of noise, an indescribable medley of moaning, shrieks and whistling in the air rent by the passing shells. The Trenches Astir. "Along the line of front marked for the main assault the guns suddenly lifted their fire and commenced to pour it down further back, although a number of the lighter guns continued to sweep the front parapet with gusts of shrapnel. And then suddenly it could be seen that the front British trenches were alive and astir. The infantry, who had been crouched and prone in the shelter of their trenches, rose suddenly and began to clamber over the parapets Into the open and make their way out through the maze of their own entanglements. Instantly the parapet opposite began to crackle with rifle fire and to beat out a steady tattoo from the hammering machine guns. The bullets hissed and spat across the open and hailed upon the opposite parapet. Scores, hundreds of men fell before they could clear the entanglements to form up in the open, dropped as they climbed the tarapet,. or even as they stood up and raised a head above it. But the mass poured out, shook itself roughly into line, and began to run across the open. They ran for the most part with shoulders hunched and heads stooped, as men would run through a heavy rainstorm to a near shelter. And as they ran they stumbled and fell and picked themselves up and ran again?or crumpled up and lay still or squirming feebly. "As the line swept on doggedly it thinned and shredded into broken groups. The men dropped under the rifle bullets singly or in twos and threes; the bursting shells tore great gaps in the line, snatching a dozen men at a mouthful; here and there where it ran into the effective sweep of a Maxim, the line simply withered and dropped and stayed still in a string of huddled heaps among and on which the bullets continued to drum and thud. The open ground was dotted thick with men, men lying prone and still, men crawling on hands and knees, men dragging themselves slowly and painfully with trailing, useless legs, men limping, hobbling, staggering, in a desperate endeavor to get back to their parapet and escape the bullets and shrapnel that still stormed down upon them. "The British gunners dropped their ranges again, and a deluge of shells and shrapnel burst crushing and whistling upon the enemy's front parapet. The rifle fire slackened and almost died and the last survivors of the charge had such chance as was left by the enemy's shells to reach the shelter of their trench. Groups of stretcher-bearers leaped out over the parapet and ran to pick up the wounded, and hard on their heels another line of infantry swarmed out and formed up for another attack. As they went forward at a run the roar of rifles and machine puns swelled again, and the hail of bullets began to sweep across to meet them. Into the forward trench they had vacated the stream of another battalion poured and had commenced to climb out ir. their turn before the advancing lines was much more than half-way across. This time the casualties, although appallingly heavy, were not too hopelessly severe as in the first charge, probably because a salient of the enemy trench to a flank, had been reached by a battalion further along, and the devastating enfilading fire of rifles and machine guns cut off. Under the Curtain of Fire. "This time the broken remnants of the lines reached the barbed wires, gathered in little knots as the individual men ran up and down along the face of the entanglements looking for thP Innpq nut nloaroot hv tha au/nnnlnrr shrapnel, streamed through with men still falling at every step, reached the parapet and leaped over and down. The guns had held their fire on the trench till the last possible moment, and now they lifted again and sought to drop across the further lines and the communication trenches a shrapnel curtain through which no re-lnforcements could pass and live. The following battalion came surging across losing heavily, but still bearing weight enough to tell when at last they poured In over the parapet. "The fighting fell to a new phase? the work of the short-arm bayonet thrust and the bomb-throwers. The trehch had to be taken, traverse by traverses. Sometimes a space of two or three traverses was blasted bare of life and returned untenable for long minutes on end by a constant succession of grenades and bombs. And all the time the captured trench was pelted by shells, high-explosive and shrapnel. In the middle of the ferocious Individual hand-to-hand fighting a counter-attack was launched. A swarm of the enemy leaped from the next trench and rushed across the 20 or 30 yards of open to the captured front line. But the counter attack had been expected. The guns caught the attackers as they left their trench and beat them down In scores. The shrapnel and the rifles between them broke the counter attack before It had well formed. "But another was hurled forward Instantly, was up out of the trench and streaming across the open, before the Infantry had finished re-charging their magazines. Then the rifles spoke again in rolling crashes, the screaming shrapnel pounced again on the trench that still erupted hurrying men, while from the captured trench itself came hurling bombs and grenades. Smoke and dust leaped and swirled in dense clouds about the trenches and the open between thetm, but through the haze the ragged front fringe of the attack loomed suddenly and pressed on to the very lip of the trench. Beyond that point it appeared it could not pass. The British infantry, cramming fresh cartridge clips I into their magazines, poured a fresh cataract of lead across the broken parapet into the charging ranks, and the ranks shivered and stopped and melted away beneath the fire, while the remnants broke and fled back to cover. "With a yell the defenders of a moment before became the attackers. They leaped the trench and fell with the bayonet on the flying survivors of the counter attack. For a greater part these were killed as they fled; but here and there groups of them turned at bay, and in a dozen places as many flghts raged bitterly for a few minutes, while the fresh attack pushed on to ihf. next trench. A withering fire poured from it, but could not stop the rush that fought its way on and in to the second-line trench. From now the front lost connection and cohesion. Here and there attackers broke in on the second line, exterminated that portion of the defense in its path or was itself exterminated there. The movement spread along the line, and with a sudden leap and rush, the second line was gained along a front of nearly a mile. "In part, the second line still held out; and even after it was all completely taken, the communication trenches between the first and second line were filled with combatants who fought on furiously, heedless of whether friend or foe held trench to front or rear, intent only on the business at their own bayonet points, to kill the enemy facing them and push in and kill the ones behind. Fresh supports pressed into the captured positions, and backed by their weight, the attack surged on again in a fresh spasm of fury. It secured foothold in great sections of the third line, and even without waiting to see the whole of it made good, attempted to rush the fourth line. At one or two points the gallant attempt succeeded, and a handful of men hung on desperately for some hours, their further advance Impossible, their retreat, had they attempted it, almost equally so, cut off from re-inforcements, short of ammunition, and entirely without bombs or grenades. When their ammunition was expended they used rifles and cartridges taken from the enemy dead in the trench; having no grenades, they snatched and hurled back on the instant any that fell with fuses still burning. They waged their unequal flght to the last minute, and were killed to the last man. "The third line was not completely held or even taken. But by now the second trench had been put in some state of defense towards its new front, and here the British line stayed fast and set its teeth and doggedly endured the torment of the bombs and the destruction of the pounding shells, until the following day brought with the dawn fresh supports for a renewal of the struggle. The battered fragments of the first attacking battalion were withdrawn, often with corporals for company leaders, and lieutenants or captains commanding battalions whose full remaining strength would hardly make a company. Two lines of trenches were taken; the line was advanced, advanced it is true, a bare one or two hundred yards, but with lives poured out like water over eacn foot of the advance, with every inch of the ground gained'marking a wellspring and fountain-head of a river of pain, of grief, of broken bodies and lives, and hearts and homes of a suffering beyond all words, of a glory above and beyond all suffering." ? Sol Penton, a notorious negro character of Ridgeland, made his escape from the Jasper county chaingang last week. The police of a city in Bohemia require managers of motion picture shows to exhibit pictures of persons who are wanted for various crimes. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES Hews Happenings in Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOD QUICK HEADING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Lancaster and Chester. Chester Reporter, Sept. 27: Judge Geo. W. Gage and Mr. Joha A. Hairier delivered interesting addresses at Cedar Shoals Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon. There were also interesting exercises by the children. About 325 bales of cotton were sold here Saturday, the prevailing price being 11$. There was a large crowd in the city, and merchants report good business Prof. F. O. Tarbox of Clemson college, was in the city Saturday and arranged with McAliley Bros., for their farm at Evans to be the demonstration farm for corn purposes in this district. The state has been divided into districts for the purpose of improving the seed ?rn used by the farmers, and a farm will be selected in every district for the purpose of growing seed corn. The Qid Morris variety will probably be used, and the corn will be cultivated according to the best methods. In addition to the big fields of the standard variety test patches of other varieties will also be grown, the object being to demonstrate which variety or varieties may be best suited to different portions of the state. McAliley Bros, will be expected to grow a large quantity of corn, and have the same handled and taken care of in the best manner. Farmers from other parts of the district, which includes Chester, Tork and Lancaster counties, will have the opportunity of buying select seed corn here, instead of purchasing from seedmen, or going to their cribs as many do and taking out the number of ears required for plafiting without a thought as to selection A room on the second floor of the W. H. Hardin building, used by the Chester Drug Co., as a place for storing cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum, etc., was hrniron intn and robbed last night. Mr. Woods was unable to state definitely just how much stock was stolen. Gaffney Ledger, Sept. 28: Benjamin F. Patterson, a respected Confederate veteran, died at the home of his son, Adolphus, in this city Wednesday night as a result of an attack of heart failure. He had apparently been in his usual health and had worked as usual Wednesday. He ate a hearty supper Wednesday evening. The attack which ended his life came shortly before 12 o'clock. He was 71 years of age. He is survived by his second wife and eight children. Mr. Patterson served in the Confederate army throughout "the war. He was one of the defenders of Fort Sumter and was at the surrender at Appomattox court house in Virginia in 1865. He was a good farmer and an honest, upright business man Mrs. W. H. Crocker and daughter, Miss Clara, who have been ill at their home in the city for the past month with typhoid fever, are convalescent A collision between an automobile driven by Mr. Carroll Phillips and Mr. T. J. Alexander, riding a bicycle, occurred on Frederick street at the railroad crossing Saturday morning. Mr. Alexander suffered a sprained arm and the front wheel of his bicycle was broken by the accl dent. No blame was attached to Mr. Phillips, who was driving slowly on the right side of the street Miss Lulu Kurth, violin teacher at Limestone college, who Is a native of Germany, received a letter last week stating that her brother, who was in the artillery corps of the German army, had been killed by a bullet through his heart. The large number of friends Miss Kurth has made here will sympathize deeply with her in her bereavement... .The Blacksburg High school began its 1915-16 session last Monday, September 20, under the most encouraging circumstances of its history and with most favorable prospects for a very successful year. Vexatious problems solved and old troubles have been adjusted. The city now has one of the finest schools in the south and the management enjoys the confidence of the whole community. Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 28: In the Gaston superior court, now in session for the trial of civil cases, the case of Capps vs. Dellinger was concluded Friday evening after consuming two days of the court's time. The Jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintifT against tne aeienaam, u. r. Delllnger, for the sum of $1,000, the face of a fire Insurance policy Miss Lula Whitesides, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Whitesides, left last night for New York city, where she will enter White's Bible school to prepare herself for foreign missionary work. Miss Whitesides is a member of the First A. R. P. church and is a young lady of a most lovable Christian character und a charming personality Mr. D. J. Gardner, superintendent of the Armstrong mill, brought to the Gazette office Saturday quite a curiosity in the shape of an "apple snake." The reptile was found by Mrs. A. A. Stanton, who lives near the Armstrong mill, and was coiled in a small cavity in an apple. It was about the size of a very coarse sewing thread, and was about seven or eight inches in length, and was very much the same In appearance as the "cabI baire snake.'1 which are sometimes found in cabbage. This is the first instance which has come to our attention of there being snakes in apples. The apple in which his snakeship was residing was among a lot that had been brought down from the mountains Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Rhyne, wife of Mr. G. M. Rhyne, who lives near Olney Presbyterian church, v,as found dead in bed about 3 o'clock Saturday morning by her husband, who went to see how she was, she having been slightly unwell for several days. Apoplexy was given as the cause of death by her physician. For two or three weeks she had been a little unwell but kept going and appeared to feel better when she retired Friday night Gastonia's vigilant police department landed a blockade still Friday night running inside the city limits. In fact It was in the Gastonla's negro quarters. Policeman Hord had gone to the house of Mel Fite to arrest him on a charge of C shooting at his wife. Mel wasn't At home and the officer waited around in the hope "hat he would turn up soon. c While he was waiting he did a little j, exploring in an outhouse where he found a complete distilling outfit of the modern type of a capacity of about 1 ten gallons. Fite appeared in a short ? time and was arrested and taken to the city Jail by the officer. Early Saturday morning the officer went a back and got the still and placed It 11 at the city hall where It attracted 11 quite a crowd of the curious. In mu- 1 nlcip&l court Saturday morning Flte was found not guilty of the charge of P shooting at his wife and there was not I sufficient evidence on which to indict t him for "stilling." so he was released. II * * Rock Hill Herald, Sept: 27: At St 1 John's parsonage on Saturday morn- i ing, the pastor, Dr. P. B. Wells, united r in marriage, John R. Lucas of Broad 1 River townshin, and Mrs. Lula Stev- c enson of Bullock's Creek township. In what proved to be a most v successful effort the people of the r Carhurtt mill village opened their fair 1 season in Rock Hill last Saturday af- r ternoon and evening. Plans had not u time to be made so that all the exhibits possible were collected, but a ii glance tnstfe the community house 0 gave one enough of an idea of the po?- t: sibilities of such a gathering to feel ^ that all such activities are of great p, value to everyone in touch with it, and to the city as well Much sympa- u thy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. W. R. a Whitfield of Winthrop college, in the ? loss of their infant daughter, Mary t Florence, who passed away at 9.30 this q morning, after an Illness of two days. Toxic poisoning was the cause of death which, in its suddenness, falls all the more a grevlous blow upon the young parents Sunday night r shortly after 8 o'clock, the cars driven by Dr. I. A. Bigger and Miss Mary Barxtelle, collided, both cars being A n *m n npa/1 m/vna svs* load TKa AAOIinOnffl C uaiuagcu iuui c v/i icoo, xuv wvujamivo escaped with slight injuries. Dr. Big- 2 ger was driving down Hampton, the c other car coming toward Main. A 1 horse and buggy was hitched in a front of the First Baptist church and 8 Dr. Bigger had to pass* around It However, the other car was to the left of the center of the street The cars met with a resounding smash, which brought people forth from the adjoining residences in a hurry. Luckily no one received any injuries to speak of and the excitement soon abated. The cars had to undergo repairs, however. J. E. Held, O. K. Williams and T. A. Win gate have returned from a trip to Jacksonville, Tampa and other points in Florida The funeral of the infant of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gaddy, East Main street, whose death occurred Saturday afternoon, was held Sunday afternoon, the interment following in Laurelwood cemetery * Lancaster News, Sept. 28: The work on Mr. M. S. Witherspoon's new residence on Main street is progressing rapidly. The slate roof has been put on and the carpenters are now i weatherboarding the house Last ( Saturday afternoon near the L. & C. g railway tracks between the depot and ? Bear Creek, Steve Ghent, in a difficulty g severely cut with a knife, Jim Street. j Ghent has been arrested and gave g bond for his appearance at court. Street's wounds, though severe, are ^ not necessarily dangerous... v .Mrs. t Lula Ingram, wife of Mr. James In- t gram of the Creek neighborhood, died t Sunday night, September 19th. She a was about 35 years old and leaves a j husband and four children, the young- ^ est a babe three days old. She was a e member of the Methodist church and ^ her remains were buried Monday at 0 Zlon church Rev. S. R. Brock has t resigned the pastorate of the Second ^ Baptist church, his resignation to take effect next Sunday night, which ends the assoclational year. Mr. Brock has ^ served this church very acceptably during the past year and many are the 0 regrets that the relation of pastor and 8 people an about to be dissolved. Mr. Brock has been faithful and earnest in the work in the mill community. Jj Mra Brock's continued illness prevents Mr. Brock's active participation In pas-, toral work in a community which needs much of his time and this is 8 one reason Mr. Brock felt that he could c no longer keep up the work. The Lancaster friends of Mr. and Mrs I Brock will be pleased to know that mey win remain in L?an easier ana uu? Mr. Brock will continue to serve his other charges in this county. VALUABLE MAPS Are Offered at 8mall Cost by United States Geological Survey. York county school teachers who are not familiar with the many and various maps published by the United States Geological Survey will be interested to learn of a small map of the United States which is sold by that ^ bureau at the nominal price of 1 cent. fl This map shows rivers, lakes, state f boundaries, state capitals and princlpal cities, but not the less important features, whose numerous names and symbols tend to create obscurity and confusion. This map does not show q heights or mountain ranges. It meas- v ures about 8} by 12 inches and its i scale is 260 miles to one inch. Five f copies of this map are sold for three t cents if an order for them) is Included e in any order for maps amounting to c $3.00. b The survey publishes also maps of t the United States on larger scales, y one on a scale of about 190 miles to ti the inch for 5 cents, and one on a scale of about 110 miles to one inch, r with contours to show relief, or with- o out contours, for 15 cents retail. The p wholesale price for these maps are 3 a cents and 9 cents, respectively. n A relief map of the United States n measuring 18 by 28 inches, on a scale f, of 110 miles to the inch, is sold for 15 t! cents, or for 9 cents if an order for it n is included in an order for maps p amounting to $3. This map shows the tl rivers, principal cities, and state a boundaries, and is shaded in colors to t show the heights above sea level of all parts of the country. Orders for these maps should be ad- 0 dressed to the Director. U. S. Geologi- c cal Survey, Washington, D. C., and ac- v companied by remittance in cash or w postal money order. G PALMETTO GLEANINGS lurrent Happenings and Evaito Throughout 8outh Carolina. L. L. Bolick, chief of police of leorgetown, died suddenly In Co* umbia, Sunday. Although cotton is bringing 12 cents ?er pound and better in Spartanburg, omparatlvely little has been sold by Spartanburg county farmers. Lucile Richardson, Richard Watklns nd George Simmons were seriously nliira^ vhtii a twn.itnrv frnm? dwel Ing in Charleston collapsed suddenly Tuesday. Rev. J. B. Bozeman has resigned his osltion with the Connie Maxwell orthanage, Greenwood, to take an lnerest in the Times, a newspaper pubIshed in Union. R. C. Frey, mail carrier on Spartanturg R. F. D. No. 3, was seriously Inured Tuesday afternoon, when his notorcycle Jumped from under him n a sand bed, seven miles from that :ity. Bob Skinner, a young white man, iras shot in the leg by Frank Taylor, a legro, on the outskirts of Sumter, 'uesday morning. Taylor has been arested. The cause of the shooting Is nknown. Governor Manning has declined an ivitation to deliver an address on the ccasion of the anniversary celebralon of the battle of King's Mountain, rhich will be held at King's Mountain, r. C., on October 7. J. W. Rouse, superintendent of edcation of Hampton county, was shot nd seriously wounded by Angus M. Irabham at Brunson, Hampton couny, Monday morning, following a uarrel. Governor Manning has designated \ Ylday, October 8, as "Fire Prevention >ay," and suggests that people in vaious sections of the state meet and liscuss ways and means to prevent Ires. J. P. Smith is in Jail in Newberry, harged with bigamy. He married the 0-year-old daughter of a Newberry ounty farmer a few days ago and It ras later discovered that he has nother living wife. He admits his rullt. Secretary of the Navy Daniels fcas greed to let the Atlantic fleet stop In Charleston* during the meeting of the Southern Commercial congress In that lty on December II. Mayor John P. J race of Charleston, was largely Intrumental in securing the consent of Secretary Daniels. The executive committee of Ersklne ollege, consisting of T. H. White of Chester, Rev. R. O. MlUer of Sard la 1. C., Dr. F. Y. Pressly of Due West, V. J. Roddey of Rock Hill, and J. A. enkins of Spartanburg, met In Due Vest last week and in co operation rlth the student body the honor sysem was unanimously adopted. Members of the South Carolina 1fle team who will compete in the lational rifle contest at Jacksonville, la, October 8 to 14, are: Oapt. E. B. Cantey, Sergt. O. W. Potts, CapL Danel Miller, Sergt J. A. Owen,. First jleut. T. B. Marshall, First Lieut. G. C. Green, Capt L. M. Wingard, Capt 1. W. Parks, Private J. F. Davidson, Sergt. R. L. Bull, Corp. W. L. Pope, Second Lieut. C. T. Ulmer, Corp. Gallard Pinckney, Sergt William Belk, Sergt. Peter G. Marshall. Mayor C. E. Danner and Councilnan W. F. Marscher of Beaufort won he recall election which was held in hat town Tuesday by a vote of 144 o 75. There were 158 white votes .nd 66 negro votes cast In the election. >ractlcally the whole of the negro uie wits vast u?uiiibi inc rcuui. iuc lection was orderly and the result ms accepted quietly. This Is the end if a political fight which has been in irogress for several months in Beauort. MaJ. Gen. R H. Teague of the South Carolina division, United ConfederateVeterans, has appointed a committee f one member from each congresslonJ district, to revise the state pension aws and make recommendations to he next general assembly. The comnittee will meet in Columbia October 7. The members of the committee are: 7ol. Alfred Aldrich, Barnwell; Capt ohn Aarons, Charleston; C. B. Johnon, Easley; MaJ. J. M. Hough, Lanaster; Col. D. P. Coker, Fountain Inn; Jen. H. H. Newton, Bennettsville; Col. >. W. McLaurln, Columbia. Arrangements are being completed or the big political meeting and piclic at Dukeland park Saturday, Ocober 2, says a Greenville dispatch of ["uesday. Indications are that this trill be the biggest gathering of peo>le in Greenville In many months. It s estimated that between ten and Ifteen thousand people will be there in that occasion. The meeting Is to be veil advertised and from several counles of the Piedmont section visitors /lAIMfAfffAi Tf lo vorv lit? CAJJCtlCU IV V,yilTCA?v. AV AO trobable that special low round trip ates will be offered on the Piedmont fc Northern railway. Cole L. Blease nd John L. McLaurin are to be the rincipal speakers. The speaking, it s announced will commence promptly t 1 o'clock. Would Provont War.?The Fort Mill Mmes invents a scheme to stop the mr. "Let's pass a law," says the Mmes, "requiring the millionaires to orm the first line of defense hen they could promptly buy off the nemy and we wouldn't have to fight." lood scheme, but a former Dillon usiness man goes the Times one beter. He has a scheme that will preent war. Talking with the editor of he Herald some months ago he said: Let's prevent war by reversing the ules of warfare and forming our lines f battle in this manner: Kings, emerors and presidents first: diplomats nd confidential agents second; cablet members, senators and congressten third; bankers and manufacturers ourth. then nav the lahnrlns: classes heir usual wages to stay at home and lake supplies for the army." This lan, thinks this clear-thinklrg genleman, will put a stop to the wars, nd we believe he is right?Dillon lerald. ? Robert Hanna, a large land owner f the Enoree section of Spartanburg ounty, is dead as the result of pistol rounds inflicted by Cliff Godfrey, a rhite tenant on the Hanna place, lodfrey is in jail.