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^ ISSPED SEMI-WKKHL^ _ t u geist's sons. Fabii.hers. } A 4aulilS S??w?[: |for tin promotion of th? political, JSoqial, Agricultural and ffommerciat Interests of thi| geopl^. ) established 1855. t~ YORK, S. a TUE8DAY, NOV"EMBER 30,"1915 NO, 96. TARZ, THE By EDGAR RIC1 4 ; Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mu: 1 CHAPTER XII. The Jungle Toll. Early the following morning Tarzan - ?-1*" firut Vii-vllcrHt nf thp cl ? UJVC| CLiIU niv in Oh mvugov w? new day, as the last of yesterday, was of the wonderful writing which lay hidden in his quiver. Hurriedly he brought it forth, hoping against hope that he could read what the beautiful white girl had written there the preceding evening. At the first glance he suffered the bitterest disappointment of his whole life. He was baffled by strange, uncouth characters the like of which he had never seen before! Why, they 4 even tipped in the opposite direction from all that he had ever examined either in printed books or the difficult script of the few letters he had found. For twenty minutes he pored over them, when suddenly they commenced is- to take familiar, though distorted + shapes. Ah, they were his old frlneds, but badly crippled! Then he began to make out a word here and a word there. His heart leaped for Joy. He could read it, and he would. In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again he found it very plain sailing. Here is what he read: West coast of Africa, about 10 degrees south latitude. (So Mr. Clayton says.) KeDruary a * .'J Dearest Hazel?It seems foolish to write you a letter that you may never see, but I simply must tell somebody of our awful experiences since we sailed from Europe on the ill fated Arrow. If we never return to civilization, as now seems only too likely, this will at least prove a brief record of the events which led up to our fate, whatever it may be. As you know, we were supposed to have set out upon a scientific expedition to the Kongo. Papa was presum{ ed to entertain some wondrous theory of an unthinkable ancient civilization, the remains of which lay buried somewhere in the Kongo valley. But after we were well under sail the truth came out. It seems that an old bookworm who has a book and curio shop in Baltimore discovered between the leaves * ? ?? - "1J C!?vn?laV* monuonrini n Ut U very uiu opaiiisn iiiaiiwii^ ? letter written in 1750, detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with a vast treasure of "doublooms" and "pieces of eight," I suppose for they certainly sound weird and piraty. The writer had been one of the crew, and the letter was to his son, who was at the time the letter was written master of a Spanish merchantman. Many years have elapsed since the events the letter narrated had trans~ pired, and the old man had become a respected citizen of an obscure ^ Spanish town, but the love of gold was still so strong upon him that he risked all to acquaint his son with the ? means of attaining fabulous wealth for them both. % The writer told how, when but a week out from Spain the crew had mutinied and murdered every officer and man who opposed them. They defeated their own ends by this very act, for there was none left competent to navigate a ship at sea. They were blown hither and thither for two months until, sick and dying of scurvy, starvation and thirst, they Itnsl Kaam mmnlrnH ftn Q flmflll i?l Pt iiau UCCU niwnvu Vii % ?? The galleon was washed high upon the beach, where she went to pieces, but not before the survivors, who numbered but ten souls, had rescued one of the great chests of treasure. This they buried well upon the is*? land, and for three years they lived there in constant hope of being rescued. One by one they sickened and died until only one man was left, the writer of the letter. ^ The men had built a boat from the wreckage of the galleon; but, having no idea where the island was located, they had not dared to put to sea. When all were dead except himself, however, the awful loneliness so weighed upon the mind of the sole survivor that he could endure it no longer, and, choosing to risk death upon the open sea rather than madness on the lonely isle, he set sail in his little boat after nearly a year of solitude. Fortunately he sailed due north and within a week was in the track of the Spanish merchantmen plying between |?T"~ the West Indies and Spain and was picked up by one of these vessels homeward bound. The story he told was merely one of shipwreck in which all but a few had perished, the balance, except himself, dying after they reached the island. He did not mention the mutiny or the chest of buried treasure. The master of the merchantman assured him that from the position at which they picked him up and the prevailing winds for the past week he could have been on no other island than one of the Cape Verde group. which lie off the west coast 01 Airica in about 16 degrees of 17 degrees north latitude. His letter described the island minutely, as well as the location of the treasure, and was accompanied by the crudest, funniest little old map I you ever saw, with trees and rocks all marked by scrawly X's to show the exact spot where the treasure had ^ been buried. When papa explained the real nature of the expedition my heart sank, for I know so well how visionary and impractical the poor dear has A , always been that I feared that he had again been duped especially when he told me that he had paid a thousand dollars for the letter and map. To add to my distress I learned AN OF APES E BURROUGHS [ nsey Company. that he had borrowed $10,000 more from Robert Canler and had given his notes for the amount. Mr. Canler had asked for no securi ty, and you know, dearie, what that will mean for me if papa cannot meet them. Oh, how I detest that man! We all tried to look on the right side of things, but Mr. Philander and Mr. Clayton?he joined us in London just for the adventure?both felt as skeptical as I. To make a long story short, we found the island and the treasure?a great iron bound oak chest wrapped in many layers of oiled sailcloth and as strong and firm as when it had been buried nearly 200 years ago. It was simply filled with gold coin and was so heavy that four men bent beneath its weight. The horrid thing seems to bring nothing but murder and misfortune to those who have to do with it, for three days after we sailed from Cape Verde islands our own crew mutinied and killed every one of their officers. It was the most terrifying experience one could Imagine. I cannot even write of it. They were going to kill us, too, but one of them, the leader, a man named King, would not let them, and so they sailed south along the coast to a lonely spot where they found a good harbor, and here they have landed and left us. They sailed away with the treasure today, but Mr. Clayton says they will meet with a fate similar to the muti neers or ancient ganeon, Decause isang, the only man aboard who knew aught of navigation, was murdered on the beach by one of the men the day we landed. I wish you could know Mr. Clayton. He Is the dearest fellow Imaginable, and, unless I am mistaken, he has fallen very much in love with poor little me. , He is the only son of Lord Greystoke and some day will inherit the title and estates. In addition, he is wealthy in his own right. But the fact that he is going to be an English lord makes me very sad. You know what my sentiments have always been relative to American girls ] who married titled foreigners. Oh, if he were only a plain American gentle- ] man! ] But it isn't his fault, poor fellow, ; and in everything except birth he would do credit to my darling old , country, and that is the greatest com- ( pliment I know how to pay any man. We have had the most weird experiences since we were landed here | ?papa and Mr. Philander lost in the 1 jungle and chased by a real lion; Mr. ( Clayton lost and attacked twice by i wild beasts; Esmeralda and I cornered in an old cabin by a perfectly aw- i ful man eating tiger! Oh, it was simply "terrifical,' as Esmeralda would say! i But the strangest part of it all is the wonaeriui creature wno rescuea ; us all. I have not seen him, but Mr. Clayton and papa and Mr. Philander ' have, and they say that he is a perfectly godlike white man tanned to a < dusky brown, with the strength of a wild elephant, the agility of a 1 monkey and the bravery of a lion. He speaks no English and vanishes as quickly and as mysteriously after he has performed some valorous deed > as though he were a disembodied 1 spirit. ' Then we have another weird neighbor, who printed a beautiful sign in English and tacked it on the door of his cabin, which we have pre-empted, warning us to destroy none of his be- 1 longings and signing himself "Tarzan of the Apes." We have never seen him, though we think he is about, for one of the sailors who was going to shoot Mr. Clayton in the back received a spear in his shoulder from some unseen hand in the jungle. The sailors left us but a meager supply of food, so, as we have only a single revolver with but three cartridges left in it, we do not know how we can procure meat, though Mr. Philander says that we can exist indefinitely on the wild fruit and nqts which abound in the jungle. l am very tired now, so i snail go to my funny bed of grasses which Mr. Clayton gathered for me, but will add to this from day to day as things happen. Lovingly, Jane Porter. T<> Hazel Strong, Baltimore, Maryland. Tarzan sat in a brown study for a long time after he finished reading the letter. It was filled with so many new and wonderful things that his brain was in a whirl as he attempted to digest them all. So they did not know that he was Tarzan of the apes. He would tell them. In his tree he had constructed a rude shelter of leaves and boughs, beneath which, protected from the rain, he had placed a few treasures brought from the cabin. Among these were some pencils. He took one, and beneath Jane Porter's signature he wrote, "I am Tarzan in me apes. He thought that would be sufficient, loiter he would return the letter to the cabin. In the matter of food, thought Tarzan, they had no need to worry?he would provide, and he did. The next morning Jane Porter found her missing letter in the exact spot from which it had disappeared two nights before. She was mystified, but when she saw the printed words beneath her signature she felt a chill run up her spine. She showed the letter, or rather the last sheet with the signature, to Clayton. "To think," she said, "that uncanny thing was probably watching me all the time that I was writing?oo! It makes me shudder just to think of it." "But he must be friendly," re-assured Clayton, "for he has returned your letter, nor did offer to harm you, and unless I am mistaken he left a very substantial memento of his friendship outside the cabin door last night, for I just found the carcass of a wild boar there as I came out." From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. Sometimes it was a young deer, again a quantity of strange cooked food, cassava cakes pilfered from the village of Mbonga, or a boar, or leopard, and once a uon. Tarzan derived the greatest pleasure of his life in hunting meat for these strangers. It seemed to him that no pleasure on earth could compare with laboring for the welfare and protection of the beautiful white girl. Some day he would venture into the camp in daylight and talk with these people through the medium of the little bugs which were familiar to them and to Tarzan. But he found it difficult to overcome the timidity of the wild thing of the forest, and so day followed day without seeing a fulfillment of his good intentions. The party in the camp, emboldened by familiarity, wandered farther and farther into the jungle in search of nuts "and fruit. Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his pre-occupied indifference toward the jaws of death. Mr. Samuel T. Philander, never what one might call robust, was worn to the shadow of a shadow through the ceaseless worry and mental distraction resulting from his herculean efforts to safeguard the professor. A month passed. Tarzan had finally determined to visit the camp by daylight. It was early afternoon. Clayton had wandered to the point at the harbor's mouth to look for passing vessels. Here he kept a great mass of wood high piled ready to be lighted as a signal should a steamer or a sail top the far horizon. Pmfpssnr Porter was wandering along the beach south of the camp, with Mr. Philander at his elbow urging him to turn his steps back before the two became again the sport of some savage beast. The others gone, Jane Porter and Esmeralda had wandered into the jungle to gather fruit and In their search were led farther and farther from the cabin. Tarzan waited in silence before the door of the little house until they should return. His thoughts were of the beautiful white girl. They were always of her now. He wondered if she would fear him, and the thought all but caused him to relinquish his plan. While he waited he passed the time printing a message to her. Whether he intended giving it to her himself he could not have told, but he took infinite pleasure in seeing his thoughts expressed in print, in which he was not so uncivilized after all. He wrote: "I am Tarzan of the apes. I am yours. You are mine. We will live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the Jungle. ' "I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle hunters. "I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter. I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the apes loves you." As he stood, straight as a young Indian, by the door waiting, after he had finished the message, there came to his keen ears a familiar sound. It was the passing of a great ape through the lower branches of the forest. For an instant ne listened lntenuy, and then from the jungle came the agonized scream of a woman and Tarzan of the apes, dropping his first love letter upon the ground, shot like a panther Into the forest. Clayton also heard the scream, and Professor Porter and Mr. Philander and in a few minutes they came panting to the cabin, calling out to each other as they approached a volley of excited questions. A glance within confirmed their worst fears. Jane porter and Esmeralda were not there. Instantly Clayton, followed by the two old men, plunged Into the jungle, calling the girl's name aloud. For half an hour they stumbled on until Clayton, by the merest chance, came upon me prosiriiit? loiiu ui cjsiuciaiua. He stooped beside her, feeling for her pulse and then listening for her heart beats. She lived. He shook her. "Esmeralda!" he shrieked in her ear. "Esmeralda! Where is Miss Porter? What has happened? Esmeralda!" Slowly the black opened her eyes. She saw Clayton. She saw the jungle about her. "Oh, Gabriel!" she screamed and fainted again. By that time Professor Porter and Mr. Philander had come up. "What shall we do, Mr. Clayton?" asked the old professor. "Where shall we look? Heaven could not have been so cruel as to take my little girl away from me now." "We must rouse Esmeralda first" replied Clayton. "She can tell us what has happened. Esmeralda!" he cried again, shaking the black woman roughly by the shoulder. "Oh, Gabriel, Ah wants to die!" cried the poor woman, but with eyes fast closed. "Lemme die, but doan' lemme see dat awful face again. Whafer de devil around after po' ole Esmeralda? She ain't done nuffln' to nobody." (To be Continued.) "Stonewall" Jackson, a well known amateur baseball player of Spartanburg, was shot and probably fatally wounded Friday by Broadus Campbell, a barber. Campbell shot Jackson alter ne nau aruert-u nit- muri u> om; out of his barbershop, Johnson refusing to comply with the demand. The South Carolina Shorthand Writers' association met in Columbia on Thanksgiving day, a number of members of the organization being present. The programme consisted of the reading of a number of papers, etc. The next meeting of the association will be held at Chick Springs on July 4 and 5, 1916. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowl edge of the Things that Most Con* cerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first Installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose Is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and Instruction of the present generation. 169TH INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, Jan. 2, 1868.) Our Schools. But few communities in the upper districts are favored with better educational facilities than are afforded within the precincts of our pleasant little town. The Klng*G Mountain Military school under the superintendency of Col. A. Coward as surviving principal is now entering upon its 13th year of an existence once prosperous beyond the usual measure of success alloted to such institutions. Like other institutions of learning, its influence and prosperity have been seriously deminished by the late years of dearth that have visited us; but the enter- ' prising proprietor still hangs out his banner and each session has marshalled under it a fair proportion of students. The advertisement in our columns presents interesting facts to those who are seeking for a high school for their boys and we speak fairly when we say there is none we can more highly recommend to parents. The Yorkvllle Female college will resume operations for the present year with the same competent corps of instructors employed during the last. A material reduction in prices of tuition and board has been made and arrangements are complete for as many as may come. The course of Instruction in this institution is thorough and the be3t recommendation we can give it is to refer to the excellent wives and pretty sweethearts it has furnished to the country. "We do speak what we do know" when we say this. Mrs. C. A. Neil advertises that the exercises of her school will be resumed on the third Monday in this month. She has had considerable experience as a teacher of youth and the patronage she has heretofore received is an index of the esteem in which she ( is held by her patrons. < Rev. J. T. Wilkins, assisted by Rev. Tillman R. Gains, proposes to commence a school at the brick academy on the second Monday in this month. The principal is a gentleman of education and the assistant is not with- ! out experience as a teacher. Langham academy. Rev. Mr. Lathan, ; the principal of this institution, announces that the exercises will be resumed on the 13th inst. Mr. Lathan's success as a teacher, has been very marked and we can without hesitation, commend him as a teacher. i Married?On the 26th inst., by Rev. T R RnlrH \f r R A Hfl^nnn nnrl Mifiq Mary E. Shaw, all of this district. , In Rush county, Texas, on the 7th of November, by Rev. Arch Wadklnson, Mr. Robert Patrick and Miss Fanny Clinton, yjungcct daughter of Minor Clinton, formerly of York district. j On the 15th inst., by J. D. P. Currence, Esq., Mr. Andrew Bremer and Miss Paulina Wagstaff, all of Gaston county, N. C. On the 17th ult., by J. D. P. Currence, Esq., at the residence of Miss Mary Duff, Mr. R. O. Howe and Miss O. F. Ragan, all of Gaston, N. C. On the 19th ult., by J. D. P. Currence, Esq., Mr. Franklin H. Youngblood and Miss M. A. Parrott, all of York district. On the 19th inst., by J. D. P. Currence, Esq., Mr. W. E. Jackcon and Miss M. A. Youngblood, all of York district. At Lancaster C. H., on the 12th ult., by Rev. J. N. Craig, Capt. B. J. Withcrspoon and Miss Mary L., daughter of Wm. Stevens. In this district, on the 24th ult., by D. D. Moore, Esq., Mr. Wm. I. Smith and Miss H. Rebecca Smith, both of Chester district. On the 17th inst., at 9 o'clock a. m . by Rev. W. W. Carothers, Mr. R. Walter Love and Miss M. Eunice, daugh er of Dr. Wm. Moore, all of this district. On the 17th inst.. at 6 o'clock p. m.. '?v Rev. W. W. Carothers. Mr. N. R. Campbell and Miss Margaret E. Wallace, all of this district. On Tuesday night. 17th ult., at the residence of Mr. Sam Jackson, near Marion. Miss, by Rev. A. L. Kline. Mr. T. J. Stroud and Miss Nancy Jenkins, formerly of York district. (To be Continued.) Old Cotton Bales.?The oldest cotton bale paragraph printed in last week's issue of this paper has stirred up no end of discussion. C. V. Truitt. presi dent of the Unity cotton mills, La Grange, Oa., challenges the claim of E. T. Wilburn of Laurel, Miss., to possession of the Methuselah of bales. Mr. Truitt writes: "Mr, R. M. Jones of this (Troup) county, has a bale stored in his father's home near La Grange that he inherited from his father who grew and picked the bale in 1N68. The ties are those originally used but the bagging has been renewed. The ties are about three times as heavy as those now used. This bale was exhibited at the St. Louis fair in 1914. The writer drew a sample from this bale about two months ago and found the staple grows better with age." And the Lesser-Goldman Cotton company of St. Louis, rises to remark: "If this (the Wilburn) bale was grown only 36 years ago, it is certainly an infant in comparison with a bale which is stored in our office. The bale came from West Point, Miss., in 1904 or 1905. The First National bank of West Point wrote us at that time i that this bale was grown about 1860 by slave labor and was owned by Mr. ' John Pedan of Oktlbeha county, Miss." Other states and counties are to l?e heard from. i Without questioning the claims of Mr. Trultt and the Lesser-Goldman Co., it still appears that their bales lack the one qualification that makes | the Wilburn bale unique. It inspires affection. Mr. Wilburn, it is declared, has become so attached to it that he prizes it above money. It has become so to speak, one of the household gods. As such it still remains a candidate for a place in the Cotton Valhalla.? Commerce and Finance. TOM WATSON ON TRIAL Well Known Editor Being Prosecuted By Federal Government. Selection of a Jury to try Thomas E. Watson, editor and publisher of Thomson, Ga., on the charge of * Hiding obscene matter through the mails was completed in Federal Court at Augusta, Ga,, last Friday and the first witness was on stand when court adjourned until Saturday. The case went to trial shortly before noon, Watson, who, as a member of the Georgia bar, acted as his own chief counsel, previously had demurred to the indictment, but had been over-ruled. In outlining the government's case United States District Attorney Donaldson asserted that It only was necessary to prove that Watson was responsible for mailing the matter objected to and that It was obBcene, as charged in the indictment. The matter referred to, he said, was "so obscene, vile" and otherwise improper that he was glad it did not devolve upon him to read it to the jury. Witnesses he said would have that "unpleasant task." Watson, outlining the defense, took the view that his purpose in publishing the articles should be taken into consideration. He declared his purpose was on the highest and that he was nghting as he had been for seven years, the fight that Luther, John Knox and others had made against the Roman Catholic church,"' The articles on which the indictment is based were published in connection with Watson's attack on the Catholic church. No ruling had been made when court adjourned on Watson's plea that his purpose in publishing the articles should ">e considered. Watson also had Indicated, according to a statement of the government prosecutor, made in arguing a point, that he intended to try to show that the mailing of the alleged obscene articles was not done by himself but the Jeffersonian Publishing Company, a corporation. J. M. Barnes, former postmaster of Thomson, was the first witness examined today. He testified that the Issues of Watson's publications containing the alleged obscene matter were mailed during 1911 and 1912. On cross-examination Watson was seeking to place his character as an author before the jury when on objection from the government, a lengthy argument was begun. Court adjourned before the argument had been concluded. Get the "Dictionary Habit."? Hoard's Dairyman calls attention to one subject that should have attention in this connection?the need for having and using a good dictionary in every home. Every bookshelf ought to begin with the Bible and a dictionary (not the cheapest, smallest one you can get either, but a really good one), ana men oiner dooks snouia oe added as fast as possible. We know , no better way by which the uneducat- j ed man may educate himself than by following the simple plan of keeping f a good dictionary on the center-table f and asking it to pronounce and define , every word he comes across in read- ^ ing. , The Importance of this subject is f further emphasized by Miss Elizabeth ( D. Abernathy in a letter we recently , received from her in which she points ] out that the text-book on agriculture , contains no explanation showing children how to pronounce pollenization, cotyledon, protein, etc., and other ^ words numbers of which she also , finds are not included in the child's [ school dictionary. Miss Abernathy * adds: "I am also a farmer, but formerly i I taught a country school. Ten years ago the hardest problem the rural school teacher had to solve was how to teach correct pronunciation. Children were forced to depend upon the teacher for help to call words In all their studies. These 'spoon-fed' pupils seldom learned to read well beyond the third reader. The teacher could do little but pronounce words for them." Get the "dictionary habit" yourself as you may need it, and by all means 1 insist upon your children acquiring it. I ?Progressive Farmer. \ Uncle Sam. Thousands of Europeans went back ( home across the great water to take t part in the war, but many thousands ( more wisely styled in this country, f refusing to take chances of being j shot, stabbed, gas-poisoned, starved, , slain or imprisoned. Many of them ( have crowded the naturalization t courts, praying Uncle Sam that he be ? their uncle also, and give them certi- t flcates of citizenship. And he will if ? they merit them. He is a great and ? good Uncle Sam?the whole wide j world's Uncle Sam: j To the German he is Unkal Sam. j To the Frenchman, L'Oncle Sam. t To the Italian, Zio Sam. t To the Croatian, Stric Simon (Sem.) To the Hungarian, Sam Xagybatya. , To the Pole, Wajazek Sem. f To the Slav, UJec Sam. I To the Dane, Onkel Samuel. < To the Swede, Onkel Samuel. f To the Finn, Seat Samulli. j To the Spaniard, El Tri Samuel. f iu ine ?>erDian, i_,ipnu unmrun i (Cem.) r To the Belgian he Is not only 1 Uncle Sam, but he is also Father I Sam, Brother, Cousin Sam and all 1 the other kinds of Sam one could s think of. For, indeed, he has been t lo that stricken nation the Sam-ari- 1 tan of whom Luke writes: r "And went unto him and bound a up his wounds, pouring in oil and I wine, and set him on his own beast, r and brought him to an inn and took 1 care of him. t TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING : Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lan- , caster and Chester. King's Mountain Herald, Nov. 25: ( Mrs. J. R. Miller and little daughter, | Vlda, left last week for Lassiter, N. C., | where they are visiting relatives I Rev. E. O. Cole has been returned by ] the Western North Carolina confer- i ?nce to the pastorate of the King's j \r<.nntnin qm/Y Dof Hol r?H 11 rnhoq nnd t Dr. J. R. Scroggs as presiding elder i if the Shelby district Capt. Dllling left Monday for Rlster, S. C., where he will spend several weeks ?n his annual deer hunt. ' Fort Mill Time?, Nov. 25: Followng the appearance of a case of small- < pox in a negro house near the old ? White ginnery, on Academy street, 1 Mayor B. E. Patterson has requested i i general vaccination of the citizens of < Fort Mill.. Something like 2,000 < raccine points have been received ? 'rom the state board of health and al- ( -eady a large number of the citizens lave been vaccinated. There is no ^ charge for the vaccination where the 1 party is unable to pay Mrs. T. B. 1 Rough of Kershaw, was the guest the ast week of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ca- * rothers Mrs. A. T. Neely and ( lttle daughter returned several days 1 igo from an extended visit to rela- e ives in Charleston Mr. John T. Windell of Yonkers, N. Y., is a visitor * n the home of his brother. W. H. Windle in Upper Fort Mill After 1 i six weeks' visit to relatives in Shel- 1 >y and Charlotte, N. C.. Mrs. Azile J Rarris has returned to her home In I his city Osmond Barber and ' 'amily of Barbersvllle, Lancaster 1 :ounty, are this week moving to Fort ( Mill and will occupy the Barber 1 Iwelling on Booth street. Fort Mill 1 people in general will extend a hearty ' welcome to Mr. Barber and his excel- , ent family. ' * Lancaster News. Nov. 26: The Lan- ( :aster admirers of Rev. J. C. Rowan, mstor of the Camden and Kershaw Presbyterian churches, will regret to earn that he will in all probability eave this section of the state to accept :he pastorate of the Second Presbyerian church of Charleston, to which le has been called.... Mr. J. D. Shute )f the Tabernacle section of this coun.y died, at his home Thursday morning it 3 o'clock as the result of a third itroke of paralysis. Mr. Shute was jorn, reared and spent his whole life n this community. He served through ;he war between the sections as a g&lant soldier... .About 5 o'clock Thurslay morning the Fork Hill school louse was found to be on fire and alhough every effort was made to save :he building, it was soon entirely conjumed. About sixty new desks had inly recently been installed and about lalf of these were saved from the flames Capt. D. E. Penny, who ias been ill during the past week, is low undergoing treatment in the Pryor hospital in Chester. t ? Chester Reporter, Nov. 25: The Chester county ,'colored fair ig in full alast, the annual exhibition having ipened yesterday. A considerable :rowd was on the grounds yesterday, ind even more are present today. The exhibits are numerous and good Vlarriage license was issued yesterday iy Judge of Probate A. W. Wise, to VIr. Henry C. Lindsay and Miss Ruth Zfhambers, both of Git's County Superintendent of Education W. D. Knox said this morning that he will :all the teachers of the county together ?arly in December to confer with regard to Field Day next spring The little son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. I McDill of the Hazelwood community, ivas painfully burned yesterday about :he face, neck and shoulders by pulling Jver a bucket of hot water that was sitting on a table in the kitchen. His jurns, while very painful, are not serious, however. Rock Hill Herald, Nov. 26: J. B. Duke, W. S. Lee, J. C. Thorn and E. C. Marshall of the Southern Power Co., spent some time in 'he ' y today. They dined at the Carolina hotel, havng as guests. J. M. Cherry, W. J. Rodley and J. S. White. They came hrough from Charlotte in Mr. Duke's jig car, going to Great Falls. They ;ame through from Charlotte for the purpose of visiting the Cherry farms tear the city and about an hour or Tiore was spent going over the alfalfa lelds A. C. Izard is digging out he foundation, preparatory to build- 8 ng a concrete sidewalk along his 8 juilding on Hampton street. Work 8 vas commenced this morning. t ft Gaffney Ledger, Nov. 26: A motion in the part of the defendants to have he case of Surratt, Hendrick, Green. ?t al, versus the board of trustees of ichool district No. 10, advanced from ranuary to the present term was irgued before the supreme court in Columbia Tuesday by opposing at orneys. Messrs. jc a. uooson ana w. r 5. Hill, attorneys for the trustees, ' 'avored the motion while O. W. Speer. ittorney for the plaintiffs, opposed it This was the original case that was r >egun more than two years ago. The f daintiffs opppsed any advance in the j late for the hearing because of the fact hat a second suit, having a bearing j jpon the first, has been instituted. Mr. C. C. Bulloch of the Wilkins- t dlle section of the county, has accept d a position with the Battery. Mr. $ tulloch is a young man of pleasing adIress and doubtless he will make many t riends in Gaffney In special ses- B (ion Monday night, city council decld'd to have the pavement on North limestone street extended to the rail- B oad. This will make five consecutive docks on Limestone street. Two a docks on Frederick street which have >een contracted for make a total of n seven blocks that Gaffney is certain o have W. R. Houser, J. Will r "alls and W. M. Goforth, three white nen from King's Mountain, N. C? were b irrested Saturday night near Antioch >y Will Hardin, constable, on charges a >f violating the "one gallon a month" aw. The three men were traveling in t in automobile in which there was one s gallon of contraband liquor, which they said they had purchased from a negro. At a preliminary hearing held in Gaffney Monday by Magistrate J. A. Whlsonant they were bound over to court, bond being set in the sum of 1200 each. This was furnished and the men were released The three pure Hereford bulls ordered from the west by the First National bank were received Wednesday after being on the road for more than ten days. One bull and five heifers which had been ordered were received a few weeks ago. The bank will advertise for application for the bulls, which are to be placed out In different sections of the county. A llvPfltoPlf ncpnt frnm Plomonn aaIIacta will act upon the applications. The animals, although owned by the bank, will be under the control and supervision of Clemson college. WHEN THE ZEPPELIN3 COME Sraphic Description of Air Attack on 1 London. 1 We were inside the glass area of the ' 3reat Eastern station, just about to iscend the stalra when station, hand- 1 jag, my friend Greenwood and the ' vhole world seemed swallowed up In I >ne stupendous bang; and the glass :ame down, and the flames went up oof high. "My God!" we said, and lowered. Poor Greenwood fled up the stairs with manlacle energy and bolted Llong the platform, I pursuing and laying silly, comforting things. Bang! And a blood-red glare shot 'rom South Place side. "Oh! my Hod!" shrieked Greenwood. Three nore bombs fell over Finsbury?then i pause. We breathed, "Thank God, It is jver." I had Greenwood by the arm. I vas sweating with my infernal bag ind coat, and also, I confess, in ablect fear. We trotted back along the jlatform to where dark forms flittered n the blackness. And then came an absolutely stunning crash almost on >ur heels and the "Down Signal" box >n the Great Eastern main line went laming to the sky. We could not bear t any longer. I felt I must see what vas doing. I crept downstairs. Bang! Bang! Bang! Out into the street I It was like daylight. Fires, flres iverywhere. London on fire! St. , raui 8 snowed black against a vivid ( flare In Cheapslde or Holburn, some- | vhere down there. It was marvelous. \ But most marvellous of all was that , Zeppelin In the sky. That silver-gray ; jhantom was pinned by four immense , learchlights from the four quarters of he city. Turn as it might they held ( t in view. And then marvel piled on marvel. ( <Yom the Greek Eastern hotel* roof :ame a crack, sharp, staccato?like a , )ig rifle?a sheet of flame and then, I lidn't breathe though shells soared ind burst below. "Too short, confound it. too short!" : stood there with my mouth open ind dry, my neck aching; and all the ime I was standing a few feet from i motor 'bus lying a mere tangle of )ld iron, with the shattered bodies of line passengers strewn around. Crack! Another, a little nearer, and he Zeppelin zigzagged slowly as jquirming. And then, quite suddenly, he four lights shut off and, another jegan swinging to and fro across the ?yes of the Germans in the air. Then it shut off, and a bigger gun langed and a bigger shell soared. Did t hit' T don't know. It looked as hough It went through; but In the tueer glare of the fires one can't be :ertaln. Then I ran back and got Greenwood iut. He was in a state of collapse, j So was I. Then began a most peculiar i ldventure. Fltes had dimmed as , ve groped our way, like two weary old nen, out of the station into a street i itrewn with broken glass, woodwork, rrease, blood and horrible messes tha' >ne doesn't like to think about. ( And we tottered slowly. (Bang! , 3ang! In the far distance) down the ; ncline into Liverpool street. It was ike descending into a grave. Pitch larkness and absolute silence reigned n the largest railroad terminus in the vorld. i How I got across that booking hall ( n the darkness, how I found the cloak oom man In darkness and in tears, , low I discovered a forgotten lantern | n an angle of the refreshment room , ind how I held my hat over it while ( he man wrote the ticket and I paid ny fourpence?what a tale it would ( nake if I had time! At last I started out and hurried last the ruined bus and around into 3outh Palace, where an ambulance learly ran over us in the dark, and so 1 o the city road, where the trains were unning in darkness, but rushing, hank God! I started home with Greenwood and ill down the street we saw old ladies itandlng at their gates admiring the light. If the Germans think they are icaring the people they are making a >ig mistake. There is something co- 1 ossal about their insensibility. And lext day I learned that Lloyds were 1 osers by 3,000,000 pounds for that one light's work. And looking around then I noted 1 vith deepest delight that the offices ! ?f the Peace society had been blown 1 o bits. Much laughter from passers>y. Yet they say the Germans have io sense of humor.?London Letter to Cew York Tribune. The Farmer's Creed.?It would be 10 easy matter to amend this "farm r's creed"?which is found In the breeder's Gazette: We believe in the good earth and ts soil. We believe that all men should love he soil and understand it. We believe that soil culture and 011 cultivation go hand in hand. We believe he nobly serves who nakes two blades grow where one :rew before. We believe that blood will tell. We believe that good seed should :o into the enriched soil. We believe that good animals hould crop the grass. We believe in the divine right of aan to labor. We believe in helping men get full eward for their toil. We believe in better farms, with letter roads passing by them. We believe in better rural schools .nd better teachers in them. We believe that the houswife is he better half, and that to her home hould come all manner of comforts. PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Events and Happenings Throughout South Carolina. The state board of education met in Columbia yesterday. Farmers of Horry county organized n 1(?rOat/\/tb o nnnnin In at nrnnb u it t coiuv.i\ aooiA.laiiuu iaoi w cri\. It is proposed to st&rt a broom factory In the state asylum for the Insane in Columbia. The corner stone of the new Masonic temple which is to be built In Columbia, was laid on Wednesday. A new school building for negro pupils will be erected in Columbia at an early date. The building will cost <31.263. Lemuel D. Dantzler, a breakmen fell from the top of a freight car in Orangeburg last Thursday and was crushed to death under the wheels. Unknown persons broke into the Southern depot at Orangeburg Thursday night and secured about $300 in cash. Mrs. W. S. Thomas, a well known woman of Florence, committed suicide Thursday, by shooting herself. Ill health is believed to have been responsible for the woman's action. The Citadel, Charleston, won the state football championship Thursday by defeating the University of South Carolina 3 to 0. Hundreds of people saw the game. The dead body of John McConckey a prominent white farmer of Bdisto, was found last week, after a search extending over several days. McConckey is believed to have been robbed and then murdered. Fire in Sumter Thursday morning, destroyed the large store of O'Donnell & Co., causing a loss estimated at iiDoui ?<o,uuu wun oniy jiz.uuu insurance. Thirty clerks are out of employment as a result of the destruction of the store. The Farmers' Tobacco and Storage warehouse of Conway, was seriously damaged by flre on Thursday. A quantity of cotton was burned by the flre. B. R. Swygert, a well known young married man of Columbia, is under arrest In that city, charged with criminally assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Cliff Godfrey, a well known farmer of Spartanburg county, was acquitted of the murder of Robert L. Hanna in Spartanburg Friday. Godfrey plead the "unwritten law" as his defense, alleging that he killed Hanna because Hanna had been intimate with Mrs. Godfrey. Twenty-live young men took the examination in Columbia Friday for admission to the United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md. There are now two vacancies from this state. The following took the examination: W. M. Kllllngsworth, E. C. Norman, Columbia; W. A. Rice, Clemson ColCharleston; W. M. Smith,' Williston; J. R. Saye, Sharon; K. E. Johnson, Florence; D. Harrison, Clemson College; A H. Donaldson, New York; G. B. Reynolds, Charleston; W. M. Bouknight, Johnston; G. Hi Able, Charleston; J. W. Jeffries, Spartanburg; J. M. Tatum, Cope; L. W. Montague, Allendale; J. R. Childs, Washington; J. B. Edwards, Anderson; J. F. Agnew, Due West; T. B. Hayne, Congaree; Edward McDavid. Jr., Columbia; H. C. Walker, Columbia; H. W. Carroll, Bennettsvllle; Sam Littlejohn, Jonesvllle; Hi L. Quattlebaum, Prosperity. A farmer can voluntarily enter into bankruptcy, but his creditors cannot by involuntary proceedings put him Into bankruptcy. Such waa the decision handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals at Richmond two years ago in the case of J. H. Counts, a farmer of Laurens. Based upon this decree a voluntary petition. In bankruptcy was filed last Wednesday with the United States clerk of court in Greenville. The petitioner, R. S. Fewell, is a farmer of near Rock Hill, and he seeks to satisfy his creditors by the act of bankruptcy. In his petition he gave his liabilities as $13,523.34, mostly secured claims and debts prefered by law. He valued his assets, including property and other holdings at $7,050. The bankruptcy act pertaining to farmers is described as class legislation. It gives the farmer an opportunity to protect his interest against possible bankruptcy proAAA^Utva I# V?n I a AnnnoaH tft anoh and LCCUtllgo, It <tv to WJ/J/WMVU WWV??| mmmm mi at the same time he may voluntarily put himself Into bankruptcy. The Republican cotton mills of Oreat Falls, In Chester county, was commissioned Wednesday by the secretary of state, with a capital of $1,200,000. The petitioners are: R. S. Mebane, H. B. Mebane, both of Oreat Falls, and T. B. Fuller of Durham, N. C. The company proposes to build and operate cotton mills at Great Falls. The new Republic cotton mills will absorb the present cotton mill of that name now operated at Great Falls, which is chartered under the laws of New Jersey. This mill will go into the new company at a value of $600,000, and the rest of the $1,200,000 capital of the new company will be paid In by the stockholders in cash. The Republic mill is located at Great Falls, on the Catawba river, the location of the Southern Power company's great water power plant. The present cotton mill was built by the Messrs. Mebane some years ago, and is not only modern in every detail, but the modern conveniences and comfort of the operatives have been provided for, and as i result it is generally stated throughnut that section of the state that the nperatlves of the Republic mills are a contented, happy and prosperous people, and there are always applications nn file for any vacancies which might >ccur in the list of operatives. The Messrs. Mebane built and gave to the mill children a fine school house, and he children are receiving all the edu national advantages of the times. The nanagement adopts the policy of encouraging their operatives to be thrifty md industrious, and to feel that there s no limit to the heights they may "each, and today one of the trusted cookkeepers of the company worked jp from the loom. It is understood hat several mills will be built by this company at Great Falls, all on the line >f the present splendid structure at hat point. This should give employnent to several hundred more ope atives. and means a considerable increase in the commercial and Indusrial life of that section of the state.