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p Y0RKY9LLE llQUSKER. F . ISSPKD SEMI-WKKKLT. t. m. QRisT's sons, PohU.h.r., j % 4Bmil8 Bemsjapeii: Jfor the ^promotion of (h$ jpotitical, JSontal, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of th< jpeogl^. | ESTABLISHED 1855. YORK, 8. C., FEIDAY, NOVEMBER 2671915 NO. 95. T ARZ THE I By EDGAR RIC <*m~ Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mi CHAPTER XII. Burial*. As it was now quite light the party, none of whom had eaten or slept since the previous morning, began to bestir themselves to prepare food. The mutineers of the Arrow had landed a small supply of dried meats, canned soups, and vegetables, crackers, flour, tea and coffee for the five they had marooned, and these were hurriedly drawn upon to satisfy the cravings of long famished appetites. The next task was to make the cabin habitable, and to this end it was first decided to remove the grewsome relics of the tragedy which had taken place J| there on some bygone day. 4L Professor Porter and Mr. Philander " were deeply Interested in examining the skeletons. The larger two they stated to have belonged to a male and female of one of the higher white ' races. <9 The smallest skeleton was given but passing attention, as its location in the crib left no doubt as to its having been the infant offspring of this unhappy couple. As they were preparing the skeleton of the man for burial Clayton discovered a massive ring which had evidently encircled the man's finger at the time of his death, tor one or tne slender bones of the hand still lay within the golden bauble. Picking it up to examine it, Clayton gave a cry of astonishment, for the ring bore the crest of the house of Greystoke. At the same time Jane Porter discovered the book in the cupboard, and on opening to the fly leaf of one of them saw the name "John Clayton, London." In a second book, which she hurriedly examined, was the single Jl*X name "Greystoke." "Why, Mr. Clayton," she cried, "what does this mean? Here are the names of some of your own people in these booka" "And here," he replied gravely, "Is the great ring of the house of Greystoke which has been lost since myj uncle, John Clayton, the former Lord Greystoke, disappeared, presumably lost at sea" "But how do you account for these things being here in this savage African Jungle?" exclaimed the girl. "There is but one way to account for it. Miss Porter." said Clayton. "The late Lord Greystoke was not drowned. aioH htro in this rahin. and this poor thing upon the floor Is all that Is mortal of him." "Then this must have been Lady Greystoke," said Jane Porter reverently, indicating the mass of bones upon the bed. "The beautiful Lady Alice," replied Clayton, "of whose many virtues and charms I often have heard my mother and father speak." With reverence and solemnity the bodies of the late Lord and Lady Greystoke were buried beside their little ? African cabin, and between them was ^ placed the tiny skeleton of the baby of Kala, the ape. As Mr. Philander was placing the frail bones of the infant in a bif of sailcloth he examined the skull minutely. % Then he called Professor Porter to his side, and the two argued in low tones for several minutes. "Most remarkable, most remarkable,' said FTofessor Porter. "Bless me!" said Mr. Philander. "We must acquaint Mr. Clayton with our discovery at once." "Tut, tut, Mr. Philander: tut, tut!" remonstrated Professor Archimedes Q. Porter. "Let the dead past bury its dead." And so the white haired old man repeated the burial service over this strange grave, while his four companions stood with bowed and uncovered heads about him. From the trees Tarzan of the apes watched this strange ceremony, but most of all he watched the sweet face and graceful figure of Jane Porter. In his savage, untutored breast new emotions were stirring. He could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so great an interest in these people?why he had gone to such pains to save the three men. But he did not wonder why he had torn Sabor from the tender flesh of the strange girl. He knew that she was created to be protected and that he was created to protect her. When the grave had been filled with earth the little party turned back toward the cabin, and Esmeralda, still weeping copiously for the two she had never heard of before and who had been dead twenty years, chanced to A glance toward the harbor. Instantly her tears ceased. "Look at dent low down white trash out dere!" she shrilled, pointing toward the Arrow. "They ull's t-desecratln' us right yere on dis yere perverted islan'." j Surely enough, the Arrow was being worked toward the open sea slowly through the harbor's entrance. "They promised to leave us firearms and ammunition," said Clayton. "The merciless beasts!" "It is the work of that fellow they call Snipes. I ain sure." said Jane Porter. "King was a scoundrel, but he had a little sense of humanity. If they had not killed him I know that he would have seen that we were properly provided for before they left us to our fate.'' "I regret that they did not visit us before sailing." said Professor Porter. "I had purposed requesting them to leave the treasure with us, as I shall be a ruined man if that is lost." ^ Jane looked at her father sadly. "Never mind, dear." she said. "It wouldn't have done any good, because it Is solely for the treasure that they } killed their officers and landed us upon this awful shore." ^ Tarzan had seen the consternation depicted upon the faces of the little group as they witnessed the departure of the Arrow, so as the ship was a wonderful novelty to him in addition, AN OF APES ;E BURROUGHS unsey Company. he determined to hasten out to the point of land at the north of the harbor's mouth and obtain a nearer view of the great boat, as well as to learn if possible the direction of its flight. A verv lieht land breeze was blow ing, and the ship had been worked through the harbor's mouth under flying jib, fore and main royals and mizzen spanker, but now that they had cleared the point every available shred of canvas was being spread that she might stajid out to set as handily as possible. Tarzan watched the graceful movements of the ship in rapt admiration and longed to be aboard her. Presently his keen eyes caught the faintest suspicion of smoke on the far northern horizon, and he wondered what the cause of it might be. At about the same time the lookout on the Arrow must have discerned it, for in a few minutes Tarzan saw the sails being shifted. The ship came about, and presently he knew that she was coming back toward land. At last the ship came up directly into the wind. The anchor was lowered; down came the sails. There was great scurrying about on deck. A boat was lowered, and into the boat a great chest was placed. Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in the branches of a great tree. In the stern of the boat, as it drew nearer, Tarzan saw the rat faced man. It was but a few minutes later that the boat toucnea tne Deacn. xne men jumped out and lifted the great chest to the sand. They were on the north side of the point, so that their presence was concealed from those at the cabin. The men argued angrily for a moment. Then the rat faced one. with several companions, ascended the low bluff on which stood the tree that concealed Tarzan. They looked about for several minutes. "Here is a good place," said the rat faced sailor, indicating a spot beneath Tarzan's tree. "It is as good as any," replied one of his companions. "If they catch us with the treasure aboard it will be confiscated anyway. We might as well bury it here on the chance that some of us will escape the gallows to enjoy it later.'' The rat faced one now called to the men Who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. "Hurry?you!" cried Snipes. "Stow it!" retorted one of the men in a surly tone. "You're no admiral, you shrimp!" "I'm cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab!" shrieked Snipes with a volley of oaths. "Steady, boys," cautioned one of tho men who had not spoken before. "It ain't goin" to get us nothin' by flghtln' among ourselves." "Right enough," replied the sailor who had resented Snipes' autocratic tones. "But by the same token it ain't a-goin' to get nobody nothln' to put on airs in thig bloomin' company neither.'' "You fellows dig here." said Snipes, indicating a spot beneath the tree. "And while you're diggin' Peter kin be a-makin' of a map of the location so'8 we kin find it again. You. Tom and Bill, take a couple more down and fetch up the chest." "Wot are you a-goln' to do?" asked he of the previous altercation. "Just boss?" "Git busy there!" growled Snipes. "You didn't think your cap'n was a-goin' to dig with a shovel, did you?" The men all looked up angrily. None of them liked Snipes and his disagreeable show of authority since he had murdered King, the real head and ringleader of the mutineers, had only added fuel to the flames of their hatred. "Do you mean to say that you don't intend to take a shovel and lend a hand with this work?" asked Tarrant, the sailor who had before spoken. "No,'' replied Snipes, simply, fingering the butt of his revolver. "Then." shouted Tarrant, "if you won t take a shovel, you'll take a pickax!" With the words he raised his pick above his head and with a mighty blow buried the i>oint in Snipes' brain. For a moment the men stood silently looking at the result of their fellow's grim humor. Then one of them spoke. "Served the rat Jolly well right," he said. One of the others commenced to ply his pick to the ground. The soil was soft, and he threw aside the pick and grasped a shovel; then the others joined him. There was no further comment on the killing, but the men worked in a better frame of mind than they had since Snipes had assumed command. When they had a trench of ample size to bury the chest Tarrant suggested that they enlarge it and inter Snipes body on top of the chest. "It might 'elp fool any as 'appened to be diggin' 'erabouts," he explained. The others sa.v the cunning of the suggestion, and so the trench was lengthened to accommodate the corpse, and in the center a deeper hole was excavated for the box, which was first wrapped in sailcloth and then lowered to its place, which brought its top about a foot below the bottom of the grave. Earth was shoveled in and stamped down about the chest until the bottom of the grave showed level and uniform. Two of the men then rolled the rat faced corpse unceremoniously into the grave after first stripping it of Its weapons and various other articles which the several members of the party coveted. They then filled the grave with earth and tramped upon It until it would hold no more. The balance of the loose earth was thrown far and wide and a mass of dead undergrowth spread in as natural a manner as possible over the new made grave to obliterate all signs of the ground having been disturbed. Their work done, the sailors returned to the small boat and pulled off rapidly toward the Arrow. The breeze had increased considerably, and as the smoke upon the horizon was now plainly discernable in considerable volume the mutineers lost no time In getting under full sail and bearing away toward the southwest. Tarzan wondered what the chest they had buried contained. If they did not wish it why did they not merely throw it into the water? That would have been much easier. Ah, he thought, but they do wish it They have hidden it here because they intend returning for it later. He dropped to the ground and commenced to examine the earth about the excavation. He was looking to see if these creatures had dropped anything which he might like to own. Soon he discovered a spade hidden by the underbrush which they had laid upon the grave. He seized it and attempted to use it as he had seen the sailors do. It was awkward work and hurt his bare feet, but he persevered until he had partially uncovered the body. This he dragged from the grave and laid to one side. Then he continued digging until he had unearthed the chest. This also he dragged to the side of the corpse. Then he filled in the smaller hole below the grave, replaced the body and the earth around and above it, covered it over with underbrush and returned ' to the chest Four sailors had sweated beneath the burden of its weight. Tarzon of I the apes picked it up as though it had been empty and, with the spade slung to his back by a piece of rope, carried ] it off into the densest part of the Jun- 1 gle. He could not well negotiate the trees ] with his awkward burden, but he kept | to the trails and so mode fairly good < time. For several hours he traveled until ( he came to an impenetrable wall of < matted and tangled vegetation. Then j iit- iu uit- iuwer urauciies, unu hi another fifteen minutes he emerged into the amphitheater of the apes, where they met in council or to celebrate the rites of the> dumdum. Near the center of the clearing and not far from the drum, or altar, he commenced to dig. This was harder work than turning up the freshly excavated earth at the grave, but Tarzan of the apes was persevering and so he kept at his labor until he was rewarded by seeing a hole sufficiently deep to receive the chest and effectually hide it from view. Now the natural curiosity, which is as common to men as to apes, prompted Tarzan to open the chest and examine its contents, but the heavy lock and massive iron bands baffled both his cunning and his immense strength, so that he was compelled to bury the chest without having his curiosity satisfied. By the time Tarzan had hunted his way back to the vicinity of the cabin, feeding as he went, it was quite dark. Within the little building a light was burning, for Clayton had found an unopened tin of oil which had stood intact for twenty years. The lamps also were still usable. As Tarzan approached the window nearest the door he saw that the cabin1 had been divided into two rooms by a rough partition of boughs and sailcloth. In the front room were the three men, the two older deep in argument, while the younger, tilted back against the wall on an improvised stool, was deeply engrossed in reading one of Tarzan's books. Tarzan was not particularly interested in the men, however, so he sought the other window. There was the girl. How beautiful her features! How delicate her snowy skin! She was writing at Tarzan's own table beneath the wondow. Upon a pile of grasses at the far side of the room lay the negress, asleep. For an hour Tarzan feasted his eyes upon her while she wrote. He longed to speak to her, but dared not attempt, for he was convinced that she would not understand him, and he feared, too, that he might frighten her away. At length she rose, leaving her manuscrift upon the table. She went to the bed upon which had been spread several layers of soft grasses. These she re-arranged. Then she extinguished the lamp, and all within the cabin was wrapped in Cimmerian darkness. Cautiously Tarzan intruded his hand between the meshes of the lattice until his whole arm was within the cabin. Carefully he felt upon the desk. At last he grasped the paper upon which Jane Porter had been writing and withdrew his hand, holding the pre- ' cious treasure. arzan folded the sheets into a small parcel, which he tucked into the quiver with his arrows. Then he sped 1 away into the jungle as softly and as noiselessly as a shadow. (To be Continued.) Things Science Can't Explain. What sleep is. How an eye sees. What electricity is. How a firefly lights its lamp. How a seed grows into a tree. Where the sun gets its heat. Why the compass points to the north. What makes u bird build its tirst nest. What happens when food is oxidlz- 1 ed in the system. What change takes place in iron when it is magnetized. What makes rain fall in some places and not in others. How a bloodhound tracks a man by the smell of his footprints. What makes nn apple fall to the ground and not fly off in the air. How a bird can fly in the dark through a forest without hitting the trees. How glands that are identical in structure secrete absolutely different fluids. Why iron alone, and iron only in particular states, is capable of being magneuzea. What happens when two volumes of hydrogen and one of oxygen are combined to form water. The difference between a live man and a dead man, or a live dog and a j dead dog?in other words what life | is.?New York World. 3ttiscfUanrous heading. I "**' ' ? i THE STATE OF THE COUNTY ? E General Conditions as Seen by the 1 Grand Jury. j The grand Jury finished up Its busl- t ness In connection with the present t term of the court of general sessions ^ on Wednesday afternoon and preliml- j nary to Its final discharge submitted j the following report, addressed to 1 Hon. Hayne F. Rice, presiding judge, 1 and signed by J. E. Burns, foreman: J County Officers?The committee t was present with the comptroller gen- t eral at the time that officer made his ( annual settlement with the county ( treasurer and auditor, and the settle- ] ment was satisfactory. The committee j did not undertake to make an exami- j nation of each of the county offices, Court House and Jail Committee? j This committee reports that it In- t spected both the court house and Jail e and found each in good condition, except that certain floors in the court f house are not In good shape, but it t was advised that the defects were to , be corrected. c Chaingang Committee?This com- r mittee reports having visited the chain- r gang and found everything In very t good condition and the prisoners ap- 0 parently well cared for. \ Committee on Public Schools?This r committee had no report to submit. -j Committee on County Home?The t committee visited the county home, a and found everything In satisfactory r condition, except that the roof of the ej new building leaks and has done so t] since It was Installed, and while there ? has been considerable negotiation be- B tween the contractor and the county commissioners relative to making the j proper .repairs, the trouble has not yet y been adjusted. r Committee on Roads and Bridges? rhe committee on roads and bridges f reports that one of its members has v recently visited the Roddey bridge over r Catawba river and reports it as being j. in good shape, except that it needs ( painting. Although the bridge has ? been completed several years It has . been of very little service to the traveling public as yet, owing to the fact that there is a steep and dangerous * bill on the Lancaster side of the river, ind although the supervisor of Lan- ? a 1 X 1 * 3 ~ Will 6 L'iUJltM llaO piUMHWU LU gl ttAJC 1IIC "It* iown at an early date, nothing has c been done to that as yet. He also c promises to put the road in good shape r to the North Carolina line. The roads generally in the eastern section of the a :ounty are reported as being in fair t :ondition, excepting small bridges and tl some of the roadside ditches. ti At the July term of court, in its a final presentment, we called attention t< to the bad condition of that part of c< the North and South road in York yi township extending three miles above tl Vorkville and to that part of the road nn beginning at the Bethesda township w line and extending to the Chester b county line, and also to the fact that n this road having been built by the r| chaingang at a great expense, the _ aw provided that it shall be kept in m mod condition by the townships Ihrough which it passes. We beg to report that that part of the road in York township, both above and below the w sourthouse, is now in fairly good conlition, but that part in Bethesda . ownship has received very little attention. although the matter has been ' 'specially called to the attention of the FJ upervisor of that township several imes since the matter was presented, p herefore, we recommend that the I\ :ourt take such action as may be J leccssary to cause the supervisor of 11 hat township to comply with the law. ? During several years past there has j1 )een provision for two weeks of ,T :ircult court in February and two [veeks in September, preliminary to l? :he regular spring and fall terms, re- n spectively. It has been our observation more frequently than otherwise he extra terms have fallen down with but a small amount of business and e sometimes with none. The expense s very heavy, and, in our opinion, tjuite useless. We recommend that the legislative delegation investigate c< the matter, and take such steps as y nay seem proper in the interest of lr [?oth efficiency and economy in the transaction of the legal business of S( the county. We would further recom- rr mend that in case the legislative ielegation does not deem it wise to repeal the law, that it have it so ? imended as to provide that a suffl- tl rient part of each term be devoted to 01 reneral sessions business to clear the fail of prisoners. Our attention has been called to the fact that, owing to the enactment of a " aw In our sister state of North Caroina, prohibiting the shipment of in- d; oxicating liquors -to Gaston county, n that state, large quantities oif liluors are* being shipped to Clover, In H :hls county, by express, in gallon packages for residents of Gaston t( :ounty, and receipts at that place sometimes amounting to a hundred ind more packages in one day, and t< :hat the persons who order their 11- ci juor shipped to Clover come there f? ind get It, and that the practice has trown to such an extent that the trafic has become a common nuisance, specially to citizens living along the pj public highway between Clover and 3astonia, and they have appealed to this body for relief, and it has con- 11 julted the Solicitor, who advises that g1 the law which allows the shipment b of one gallon of Intoxicating liquors j( each month to a single individual In this state does not apply to indlvidu- 01 lis of other states, and that each individual who comes Into this state % Frnm another state and carries back ? intoxicating liquors, whether one galon or forty gallons, violates that sec- cl tion of the South Carolina law which ir forbids transportatlng intoxicating li- oi luors, therefore this body urges the tj ifflcers of the law at all towns In this ? county to which such liquors are ship- 1 ped, for non-residents, to arrest such non-residents with the liquor in their p possession, and, in default of bond, cj to commit them to Jail. P This body has been informed that on the 21st day of October, 1915. an M altercation occurred between Ben- P jamin Xeely and Emery Ratterree of ? Ogden, in this county, and that as a result of said altercation Ratterree shot Xeely in the shoulder with a v pistol, and that up to this time no S( warrant has been issued for Ratter- J* rce or arrest made, and in view of " these facts we recommend that your a honor cause necessary steps to be g taken at once to have Ratterree ap- ?! pear at the next term of court to answer for his alleged offense against ? the law. o We beg to acknowledge the courteous treatment received at the hands of the court, and there being no further business, we beg to be disnissed. SIZE OF THE CROP. tl Senator McLaurin Discusses the Last ^ Dinner's Report. ^ Hon. John L. McLaurin, state ware- si house commissioner, has given out an o interview in which he discusses the " last ginner's report, as follows: The estimate by the census depart- p mcnt of about eight and three-quar- 0 ter million bales of cotton ginned to ? Xovember 14th, does not indicate, in w my opinion, a crop of more than 11.000,000 bales. The percentage of the cotton ginned cannot be compared ^ with any year since 1910 for several S( reasons: This was nn earlv cron. and the price of cotton and seed was high q( and the country, after the low prices of 1914, exceedingly short of money; the acreage was reduced, as well as the use of fertilizer, and everybody a pushed the harvesting of the crop to a the uttermost In order to sell theiri seed while they were green and heavy i 1 and also to take advantage of 12-cent 11 :otton. Of course I don't know anyhing from personal observation, outiide of Georgia, North Carolina and south Carolina, but from what I have ieen in these states I believe that ibout ninety per cent of the crop has >een ginned. Let any one ride on the rain, as I have, from here to Duriam, N. C., and they can not recall iny year when there has been so litle cotton in the field. If you take the average of seventyhree per cent and apply it to the 1 CM 1 roa crlvnn htf tVin oinnnra' ronnrt va e>i ? vit WJ WII? 5II1IIVIO IC|/UI t| t would give us only a 12,000,000)ale crop, and nobody will contend hat the amount ginned up to date is tot a much larger percentage than >f any crop we have ever grown. If he percentage this year should be he same as at this date in 1910, :ighty-one per cent, it would only five us about 11,000,000 bales. The [910 crop is somewhat analagous, but t my judgment a larger proportion las been ginned this year than ever >efore at this date, and I recall the 910 crop very vividly, because it 's he last year I have made much mon;y on cotton. The fact of the matter is that the armers have been trying to hold heir cotton and get a price which vill compensate them for the short rop, and the speculators and middle nen have been using the government eports and all of the efforts known o their trade to create the impresion abroad and at home that the agicultural department is under-estinatlng the crop. When I was in New fork a prominent man said to me hat he believed it was being system.tically under-estimated for political turposes, and that this was the genral impression in cotton centres. If hey proceed on that assumption, they re due a rude awakening, for I am ure that it is far from th^ truth. My crop of cotton will be about flfy per cent short of what it was last ear, which is due not only to the eduction of acrecge, but to fertilizer. It is a square issue between the armers and the middle men, and if re will withhold our cotton from the narket until it is demonstrated clearr that there is not sufficient to keep he spindles running at the present ate, the cotton will have to advance 9 such a price as to bring it out of torage and check the consumption, nd it will have to be over fifteen ents to do that. The actual conumption for this season runs about 8,000 bales a day, and the prices of otton goods are Improving; hence onsumption will tend to increase ather than decrease. Take the case of llnters. A year go you could buy linters as low as hree-quarters of a cent a pound, and hey were running after dealers to ake it at one cent a pound. Llnters re bringing today seven and one-half > eight cents a pound?more than otion was bringing at this time last ear. It stands to reason that if iese linters are being used for the lanufacture of ammunition, that, 1th the short crop, they must soon e exhausted, and there will be a de-, land for the low grade cotton cared over from 1914. Just think of it -that llnters are bringing almost as cuch middling cotton, and with this ict staring us in the face, and with he ability to borrow money on cotan, the farmer is not going to part rith it unless it shows a fair profit. The December report of the numer of bales from the agricultural deartment I think, will astonish the otton world and it is perfectly natural lat the buyers of cotton would use very effort to gket the price as low as aooIKIa KnfArn thnt rAAArt in "hey want to get all the cheap money hey can, so that when the advance nines late the average will not be so igh. It Is utterly Impossible in 1916, 1 the portion of the belt where the nil is deficient in potash, to make a irge yield, because this crop has been lade at the expense of the land. THOSE TIRED SOUTHERNERS ffeetive Refutation of a Familiar Slander. A radical newspaper writer in the >urse of a periodic attack in a New ork newspaper on a great business )8titution of the south, allows him?lf to speak of "The soyth, where len, women and children are 'tired.'" We think of Washington, the VirInian, as renowned for his advenlrous youth as for the sustained vigr of his maturity. It was in the Virginia legislature mt Patrick Henry's fiery eloquence i t the torch of national independence. It was a Virginian, who by his i ishing cavalry exploits in the Revoluon, won the name of "Light Horse i larry" Lee. 1 In South Carolina. Marlon and Sumt, destitute of almost all things ex- 1 ?pt guns and courage, checked Tarl>n'8 invasion by what a .historian ' ills "an irregular, harassing ware- I ire that for daring and dash, ingenity of plans, pertinacity of purpose 1 nd general effectiveness, is without a irallel in the war." For 32 of the first 36 years after le organization of the United States ovemment, the presidency was held y natives of Virginia?Washington, efferson, Madison, Monroe?all men f action. That southerner, Andrew Jackson, ho followed them, was never susected, either before or during his ight years in the presidency, of be- ' ig "tired." The successful defense f New Orleans was ascribed more lan to any other cause, to Jackson's ilmost frenzied energy." "Davey" Crockett, the tireless ex- 1 lorer and dauntless soldier, and Deltur, the conquerer of the Barbray ; irates, were southerners. Taylor, the driving force of the ( iexican war, with his victories of ' alo. Alto, Monterey and Buena Vista < -the last named against odds of four ( ) one?was a southerner. In the war between the states, the ' igor, energy, enterprise and re- 1 surcefulness of the southern men ere as remarkable as their courage. ( needs only to mention Robert R Lee nd "Stonewall" Jackson. Tennessee ave also to the Union cause the Nel- i sn of modern American history, David ] arragut. Even now we have in the White louse a southerner, who held the ixty-third congress in continuous ession from March 4 to October 24, irough a blistering Washington sum- . ler, when he was to all appearance, ie only person not "tired." i Of southern activity in the pursuits f peace, we need no other testimony lan the tremendous energy that has scovered from the utter wasting of the ivll war?lands devastated, houses estroyed or dilapidated, farms gone to ecay, the men who might have retored them killed or crippled?and ut of the desolation, somehow, the I len of the south have built up wealth nd prosperity again. ( One is indeed ignorant who suposes that southerners are not active r vigorous. In fact, the southern eople seem to be rather conspicuous ?r the very activity and vigor in rhich their critic assumes them to be icking.?Exchange. 1 j The congregation of the Main Street lethodist church of Oreenwood will Don began the construction of a new hurch building which will cost $50,- | DO. , T. P. Henderson of Greenwood, sold large herd of Jersey cows this we: k t prices ranging from 1160 to $205 < er head. Buyers from all sections of lie state attended the sale. i TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES i i News Happenings In Neighboring, Communities. n ? t CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING * F Oealing Mainly With Local Affair* ot e Cherokee, Cleveland. Gaeton, Lan- ( caster and Chester. Rock Hill Herald, Nov. 23: The city t force Is busy graveling North Acad- s emy street at present and the Indlca- II tlnns are that the street from the rail-1 a road north will be the best piece of I -v work yet done. And the. reason is ap- 1 parent when the cause is explained be- e low. The convict force, which Is used p in preparing for and leveling the grav- t el, was entertained at dinner yester- tl day by Dr. Fennell. B. W. Creed was n engaged by the doctor to cook up a 1j big pot of soup and other dainties and c the members of the force were given tl a dinner that would be relished by G any citizen of the city. Afterwards tl came cigars, etc., and Manager Bam- a well declares that he never saw the a "force" work as they did yesterday tl afternoon The residence of Wm. k Mitchell, comer West Main and Wil- C son streets, was badly damaged by Are this morning, the entire roof and a portion of the second story being consumed by the flames. The first floor will also need rebuilding as the plastering was water-soaked. The damage will probably be around <2,000 ^ or more T. L. Johnson returned e this morning from a business trip to C New York. When asked by a Herald man regarding conditions in the metropolis, Mr. Johnson stated that busi- rj ness was almost, if not quite, normal. c He stated that the people apparently w do not know a war Is in progress, judged from a business standpoint Of course, in some lines the business is limited on account of inability to w get supplies from the nations at war. ^ Since his last visit to New York con- n ditions have greatly Improved, he a; thinks While examining a pistol, loaded last evening, Lawrence Burgage of Ebenezer avenue,, was shot through the hand, the weapon being t< accidentally discharged. While ex- it ceedlngly painful, the wound is not a thought to be serious. ci * al Chester Reporter, Nov. 23: The congregations of the other churches of the city united with their Methodist brethen last night in a service of fare- no wejl to. Rev. J. C. Roper, pastor of w Bethel M. R church, and there was a hi congregation on hand that packed the tl house Congressman D. E. Flnley is said to have stated to a friend that there are to date seventeen applicants for the Chester postofflce, fifteen men and two ladies. Mr. Flnley was in the t: city Thursday, but so far as known " kmre out nothing that would Indicate who the next postmaster will be n The Calvary Baptist church (colored), p of which the Rev. J. S. Daniels is pas- ? tor, held a rally yesterday at which collections amounting to $346.14 were realized for church indebtedness Inexpressibly sad was the death of a Miss Josephine Winn shortly after noon yesterday. Ten days ago Miss Q, Winn was stricken while attending a religious gathering in Spartanburg, a, and though very 111 when she returned here, friends hoped that her malady would yield to treatment, and that she would be spared for many more years C1 of precious work in the Master's vine- la yard. It was pot to be so, however, w and yesterday shortly after noon, ol while loving friends watched and in hoDed the SDlrit went out and was m wafted home to glory Messrs.' w W. H. Ferguson's and T. H. Hardin's dl automobiles collided near Lowryville si this morning, and Mr. Hardin's ma- h chine was somewhat damaged by the Impact. Miss Colie Ferguson was thrown from her brother's machine, and scratched and bruised, but not se- n< verely Mr. C. L. King died Thurs- in day from the effects of hurts received bj the day before while in the discharge of of his duties as foreman of construe- T tion for the Hardaway Construction fo Co., on the Fishing creek Job in this w county. 38 th Gaffney Ledger, Nov. 23: The first m Issue of "The Negro Journal." a weekly h newspaper for negroes, edited by P. C. n< Little, assisted by A. Norris, R. B. p? Beatty and H. B. McFadden, appeared d< Saturday morning. The paper says it w Is published every Friday evening. It th contains eight pages, four of which are flj patented and the remaining four are ht filled with advertising and a small 0> amount of reading matter Mrs. hi Nettie Blanton, wife of Mr. Will'e n, Blanton. died on the 4th. after a short p, Illness. Mrs. Blanton naa Deen in oaa tn health for some time but was able to g, go on about her work and her death was entirely unexpected to her many friends The Rev. W. A. Hafner of Port Mill, preached at the Limestone gr Street Presbyterian church last Sun- ca [lay Ramsey & Son have been be awarded the contract for the 'erection Ri of a five-room cottage on Cherokee ot avenue by Mr. J. A. Hughes The of fire department was called out Satur- w day afternoon to extinguish a blaze at In the home of S. E. Turner, near Lime- lo stone. The flre was put out easily th by the use of chemicals. The damage th was slight. pr bj Gastonia Gazette, Nov. 23: Mr. J. th W. Ferguson of Clover route two, bi brought to the Gazette office Saturday ds a freak ear of corn, or ra?her a clu*-- to ter of ears. Around the main ear, and m forming a part of it at the base, are ar five smaller, but well-formed ears.... us Following an Illness of some time, m Mrs. Laura Wright died Friday night ar at her home. 1412 East Airline ave- dt nue, aped 35 years. Funeral services w were held Saturday afternoon at 2 th o'clock at East Baptist church and In- ex terment was in Shiloh cemetery n< At the 11 o'clock service Sunday morn- lo inp at East Gastonia Baptist church. In the pastor, Rev. J. J. Beach, who has gc served the church in that capacity with al preat faithfulness and success for the b< past six years, announced to his peo- m pie that he had accepted a call to the at pastorate of Southside Baptist church ht in Columbia, S. C., and tendered his at resignation to tike effect at the end of th this calendar year. in gf The Pecan.?Maybe the reader has it observed something aforetime in this or paper about the advisability of setting th out pecan trees, but the Observer be- b? leves it is a good thing to harp on. 7he business of pecan growing in 'forth Carolina has not yet passed vhat might be termed the ornamental tage, but in Georgia and Alabama it ias become a commercialized indusry. The Savannah News tells of a hlpment of paper-shell pecans from Llbany?a whole carload?that is expected to return $15,000 to the growr. Speaking for the state of Georgia, he News says that although the inlustry of pecan growing is compare ively recent there, it has been highly uccessful with every reason to beleve that pecan culture will be more nd more taken up as a money-making 'enture and for home consumption, 'he nut is highly nutritious and unqualed in flavor by any of the imiorted nuts. A very fine variety is now o be found on the local markets at hree pounds for $1, with practically 0 waste to the pound, and the extra trge, thin-shelled nuts from Bryan ounty and elsewhere nearby someImee bring 60 cents a pound. These reorgia grown paper-shells have put tie old-time imported pecans, which re very small and difficult to shell, lmost out of the market, although tiey still form a part of what are nown as "mixed nuts."?Charlotte >b server. EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT Ifhat Various South Carolina Newspapers Think of Various Things. That old standby, the split log rag, is still able to do some mighty ffective work, if used opportunely.? 'hester Reporter. Preparedness. The most Important preparedness Ight now is for 'the farmers of South brollna to prepare against the boll reevil.?Newberry Observer. Luke Knows. Luke Lea wasn't smart enough to rin, but he showed considerable acu- 1 ten when he said "political postlortems are never interesting."?News nd Courier. , mm* Quits 8o. The man who wouldn't pay ten cents > hear Bryan speak is the same fellow, 1 a few cases, who would walk quite , distance If the Commoner didn't ] large admission.?Greenwood JournL i A Long, Long Way. < "London Is 746 miles from Berlin by < tall route," says a news item. But I hat Londoners want to know is ow far is it from Berlin to London by tie military route.?Spartanburg I uurnal. < * W Plenty to Worry About. Congress, according to one author!lr, faces a deficit of one hundred mil- : on dollars, in its figuring to make , oth ends meet next year. That does ot tftcludeTirprogramme for military reparedness spending. Let's worry. -Charleston Post. e May Be Some Here. A New York woman wants one hunred thousand dolla'rs' love balm from man she missed. There are a lot of omen that would be willing to sell ut their men at a cheaper rate than lat after having lived with them while.?Greenville Piedmont. Won't Abandon French Styles. The Germans are preparing to deare independence forever of Parisn dominance in feminine styles thereat the Paris artists in this sort ' thing smile inwardly and declare i turn that the German government, aster in many things undoubtedly, ill meet its Waterloo in trying to ictate feminine taste?even among lbjects or the kaiser.?Spartanburg erald. For Washington's Place. Richard Carroll, the well known ?gro preacher and leader of his race South Carolina, has been suggested / J. G. Butler, a steel manufacturer ' Ohio, to take the place of Booker . Washington as national lecturer >r the negro race. This Information ill be received with interest and itisfaction by friends of Carroll iroughout the state. He is a good an and his influence is the very best, e is one of the sanest and safest ?gro leaders of his day, and the white sople of South Carolina have conflmce in him. Carroll's activities, hile they have been quite extended in its state, have by no means been conted to South Carolina. For years he is been lecturing and preaching all rer the country. It is gratifying to s friends, both white and black, to )te that he is being called more ominently forward in the great work iat he is engaged since the death of joker Washington.?Greenville News. A Vain Thing. Now cemeth the season when all >od candidates, and would-be good indidates, join or renew their mem;rship in the Odd Fellows and the ed Men and the Junior Order and her secret societies. This is the eve a campaign year, and those who ould make great sacrifices are now , lbued with thoughts of brotherly ve and friendship and charity and all e other principles and piffle and punk * at go with fraternal orders. Do the ospective candidates gain anything r this? Are the genuine members of e secret orders deceived by such ink? No. Nay. Also nix. Secret or>rs are splendid things. They do unld good. They are composed for the ost part of earnest, good men, who e trying to do good in the world and le the secret orders as one of the eans of accomplishing good. They e not easily deceived. They can 'tect the true from the false. They elcome all right-minded men into eir ranks, and are always eager to :tend the helping hand where it is ?eded; but they are resentful and of ntr mamnrv whon thov ono fiffnrta liP. g made to Impose upon them and the { K>d they are trying to do. Occasionly a candidate has gained votes by 1 donging to a secret order, but a great A any more have lost votes by Joining 1 the wrong time. The secret order us taken the money of the candidate, 1 id applied it to a good purpose, and 1 len the members have voted accord- t g to the dictates of their intellimce and their self-respect. For be < known that the members of secret ders are not simpletons, whatever i le candidates may think them to >.?Anderson Daily Mail. PALMETTO QLEANINQ8 Current Events and Happenings Throughout 8outh Carolina. ' The South Carolina Shorthand Writers' association held a meeting in Columbia yesterday. J. B. Friday, for more than thirty years in the mercantile business in Columbia, died this week. Candidates for admission to the bar of South Carolina will be examined in the state house on December 1. J. T. Collins, who has oonducted a department store in Chester for severe1 years, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The strike of operatives at the Brogon mills In Anderson, has been settled and it is understood the mill will resume operations next Monday. Carey Logan, a four-year-old white boy, was accidentally shot and killed by his elder brother at their home near Tucapau, Spartanburg county, on Monday. The National Guard association of South Carolina, proposes to meet In Columbia tomorrow for the purpose of discussing preparedness as outlined by President Wilson. A train of coal, consisting of 115 cars, arrived in Spartanburg over the C. C. & O., Tuesday. The train was broken up there and the coal will be shipped to foreign countries. Hinton Purvis, a cotton weigher of Wllllston, on Saturday night, killed John Bolln, his father-in-law, and himself received wounds at the hands of Bolln from which he died on Sunday. Bad blood had existed between the two men for some time. Rev. J. L. Harley of 8partanburg, for the past eight -years secretary of the Anti-Saloon league, has resigned his position. Mr. Harley is said to feel that his work In this state is finished Bince the state voted "dry" last September. The case of W. W. Huckabee, former sheriff of Kershaw county, who was deposed by Governor Manning several months ago for alleged nonenforcement of the liquor laws, was argued In the supreme court Tuesday. The court's decision has not been announced. "All things considered, the conclusion Is Irresistible that the legislature did not intend the right of wholesale druggists to handle alcohol under and In accordance with the then existing law," said the supreme court Monday, In a decision by Associate Justice Hydrick in the case of E. M. Matthews against the Atlantic Coast Line Railway company. The whole question In the case was whether the act of 1915 prohibits a common carrier from delivering a shipment of grain alcohol to a wholesale druggist to be used for lawful purposes. Spartanburg Herald, Tuesday: The gallon a month law, passed at the 1916 session of the general assembly, was ruled unconstitutional in Its application to interstate shipments by Judge Wilson in the court of general sessions yesterday. Upon this ruling, Judge Wilson directed a verdict of not guilty in the case of B. L. Turner, under Indictment for transporting 150 pints of beer from Union into Spartanburg county this past summer. The motion for a direction of the verdict in favor of the defendant was made by defendant's counsel, on the grounds of the unconstitutionality of the statute. The motion was resisted by the solici tor. Judge Wilson disagreed with defendant's counsel as to the unconstitutionality of the act as a whole, but igreed that it was not in accord with the constitution in so far as it related to movement entirely within the state. Judge Wilson ruled that the title >f the act does not conform to article 1, section 17, of the constitution, which provides that every act or res>lution having the force of the law thai] relate to but one subject and that shall be expressed in the title. The title of the gallon a month law states the subject of the act to be that of regjlatlon of alcoholic liquors into the state, but makes no reference to shipnents entirely within the state. Commenting upon his decision last night, fudge Wilson said that under his interpretation of the case, there could be 10 prosecution of defendants for shipment of whisky entirely within the state until the act is amended by the egislature. He Intimated, however, that the defect could be easily remelied. B. L>. Turner is alleged to have >ought about 150 pint bottles of beer n Union and to have checked them n a trunk aa baggage, rrom union 10 i point near Landrum, and it was there ielzed by the officers of the law as :ontraband. After the evidence for the rtate had been concluded, the defence nade the motion for a direction of the verdict, which was granted. Judge Wilson also held that since the whisky lad not been handled by the defendint in Spartanburg county, the alleged :rime had been committed entirely in Jnion county, and the case was thereore out of the Jurisdiction of the Spartanburg county court. Who Am I??I am more powerful han the combined armies of the vorld. I have destroyed more men than ill the wars of the world. I am more deadly than bullets, and [ have wrecked more homes than the nightlest of the siege guns. I steal in the United States alone )ver {300,000,000,000 each year. I spare no one, and I find my vie- imfcs among the rich and poor alike; he young and old; the strong and veak; widows and orphans know tne. I loom up to such proportions that [ cast my shadow over every field of abor from the turning of the grindstone to the movement of railroad rains. I menace thousands upon thousands if wage-earners In a year. I lurk in unseen places, and do Tiost of my work silently. You are varned against me. but you hoed me lot I am relentless. I am everywhere; n the home, on the streets, in the 'actory, at railroad crossings and on he sea. I bring sickness, degradation and leath and yet few seek to avoid me. I destroy, crush, maim; I give lothlng, but take all. I am your worst enemy. My name is CARELESSNESS.?Ex.