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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.