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, YORKVILIE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WEEELY. L H. orist's 80H8. pnbu.her..} % 4amilS Jpeirspage^: ^or th< promotion jjf th< political, gonial, Agricultural and Commercial Interests ojf th< |eogl<. j """ko'u wtv^riVJc^""'1 * ESTABLISHED 1885. YORK, S. C.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1915 " NO. 98. TARZi THE_ By EDGAR RIC1 Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mur CHAPTER XV. Heredity. When Jane Porter realized that she was being borne away a captive by the strange forest creature who had rescued her from the clutches of the ape she struggled desperately to escape. Presently she gave up the futile effort and lay quietly, looking through half closed lids at the face of the man who strode easily through the tangled undergrowth with her. The face above her was one of extraordinary beauty. It was a perfect type of the strongly t masculine, unmarred by dissipation or ^ degrading passiona One thing the girl ^ had noticed particularly when she had * seen Tarzan rushing upon Terkoz?the vivid scarlet band upon his forehead, from above the left eye to tne scaip, but now as she scanned his features -J| she noticed that it was gone and only / a thin white line marked the spot , ' where it had been. As she lay more quietly in his arms Tarzan slightly relaxed his grip upon her. Once he looked down into her eyes and smiled. The girl had to close her own to shut out the vision of that handsome, winning face. Presently Tarzan took to the trees and Jane Porter, wondering that she , felt no fear, began to realize that in , many respects she had never felt more secure in her whole life than now as she lay in the arms of this wild crea- t ture. When with closed eyes she com- | menced to speculate upon the future and terrifying fears were conjured by a vivid ime.gination she had but to ( r raise her lids and look upon that face 1 so close to hers to dissipate the last | remnant of apprehension. On and on they went through what \ seemed a solid mass of verdure, yet < ever there appeared to open Derore mis ; forest god a passage as by magic { which closed behind them as they passed. ] As Tarzan moved steadily onward j his mind was occupied with many | strange and new thoughta Here was 1 a problem the like of which he had ( never encountered, and he felt rather \ than reasoned that he must meet it as ] a man and not as an ape. It was the order of the Jungle for the male to | take his mate by force. But could ] Tarzan be guided by the laws of the beasts? Was Tarzan not a man? But < how did men do? He was puzzled i ?he did not know. i He wished that he might ask the ] girl, and then it came to him that she 1 had already answered him in the futile i struggle she had made to escape and to repulse him. I But now they had come to their des- i tinatlon, and Tarzan of the apes, with i Jane Porter in his strong arms, swung i lightly to the turf of the arena where ] the great apes held their councils and ^ danced the wild orgy of the dumdum, i Though they had come many miles, i it was still but midafternoon, and the < amphitheater was bathed in the half i light which filtered through the maze ] of encireline foliaee. ( ^ # The green turf looked cool and in- i % viting. The myriad noises of the jungle seemed distant and hushed to a 1 mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. A feeling of dreamy peacefulness stole over Jane Porter as she sank I down upon the grass where Tarzan had placed her. She looked up at his great figure towering above her. and there was added a strange sense of perfect security. "What a perfect creature! There could be naught of cruelty or baseness beneath the godlike exterior." With a bound Tarzan sprang into the trees and disappeared. Jane Por^ ter wondered where he had gone. Had he left her there to her fate in the lonely jungle? For a few minutes that seemed hours to the frightened girl she sat with - tense nerves waiting. She heard a sudden, slight sound behind her. With a shriek she sprang to her feet and turned to face her end. There stood Tarzan, his anns filled with ripe and luscious fruit. Jane Porter reeled and would have fallen, but Tarzan. dropping his burden. caught her in his arms. She did not lose consciousness, but clung to him. shuddering and trembling. Tarzan of the apes stroked her soft hair and tried to comfort and quiet hei as Kala had him when as a little ape he had been frightened by Sabor, the tiger, or Histah, the snake. Once he pressed his lips tightly upon her forehead, and she did not move. BT hut closed her eyes and sighed. ^ r?ne couin noi analyze ner reelings. nor did she wish to attempt it. She was satisfied to feel the safety of those strong arms and to leave her future to ^ fate. As she thought of the strangeness of it there commenced to dawn upon Jier the realization that she had possibly learned something she had never known before?love. She wondered and then smiled. Still smiling, she pushed Tarzan gently away. and. looking at him with a half quizzical expression that made her face wholly entrancing, she point ed to the fruit upon the ground and seated herself upon the edge of the earthen drum of the anthropoids. Tarzan quickly gathered up the fruit and. bringing it, laid it at her feet, and then he, too, sat upon the drum beside her and with his knife proceeded to open and prepare the various viands for her meal. L Together and in silence they ate. ocoasionally stealing sly glances at one another, until finally Jane Porter broke into a merry laugh in which Tarzan joined. "I wish you spoke English." said Ihe girl. Tarzan shook his head, and an expression of wistful and pathetic longing sobered his laughing eyes. \N OF APES I BURROUGHS isey Company. Tarzan had long since reached a decision as to what his future procedure should be. He had had time to recollect all that he had read of the ways of men and women In the books at the cabin. He would act as he imagined the men in the books would have acted were they in his place. Again he rose and went into the trees, but first he tried to explain by means of signs that he would return shortly, and he did so well that Jane Porter understood and was not afraid when he had gone. Soon he returned with a great armful of branches. Then he went back again into the jungle and in a few minutes reappeared with a quantity of soft grasses and ferns. Two more trips he made until he had quite a pile of material at hand. Then he spread the ferns and grasses upon the ground in a soft, flat bed, and above it he leaned many branches together so that they met a few feet over its center. Upon these he spread layers of huge leaves of the great elephant's ear, and with more branches and more leaves he closed one end of the little shelter he had built. Then they sat down together again upon the edge of the drum and tried to talk by signs. The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck had been a source of much wonderment to Jane Porter. She pointed to it now, ?nil Tnryjtn removed it and handed it to her. She saw that it was the work of a skilled artisan and that the diamonds were of great brilliancy and superbly set, but the cutting of them denoted that they were of a former day. She noticed that the locket opened, and, pressing the hidden clasp, she saw the two halves spring apart to reveal In either section an ivory miniature. One was of a beautiful woman, and the other might have been the likeness of the man who sat beside her except for a difference of expression that was scarcely definable. She looked up at Tarzan to find him leaning toward her, gazing on the miniatures with an expression of astonishment. He reached out his hand for the locket and took it away from her, examining the likenesses within with unmistakable signs of surprise and new interest. J His manner clearly denoted that he had never before seen them nor imagined that the locket opened. This fact caused Jane Porter to indulge in still more speculation, and it taxed her Imagination to picture how this beautiful ornament came into the possession or a wild ana savage creature of the unexplored jungles of Africa. Still more wonderful, how did it contain the likeness of one who might be a brother, or more likely, the father of this woodland demigod, who was even ignorant of the fact that the locket opened? Tarzan was still gazing with fixity at the two faces. Presently he removed the quiver from his shoulder and, emptying the arrows upon the ground, reached into the bottom of the baglike receptacle and drew forth a flat object wrapped in many soft leaves and tied with bits of long grass. Carefully he unwrapped it. removing layer after layer of leaves until at length he held a photograph in his hand. Pointing to the maniature of the man within the locket, he handed the photograph to Jane Porter, holding the open locket beside it. The photograph only served to puzzle the girl still more, for it was evidently another likeness of the same man whose picture rested in the locket beside that of the beautiful young woman. Tarzan was looking at her with an ovnr?selnn nf nnjjlwl hpwiljtprment in his eyes as she glanced up at him. He seemed to he framing a question with his lips. The girl pointed to the photograph and then to the miniature and then to him, as though to indicate that she thought the likenesses were of him, but he only shook his head, and then, shrugging his great shoulders, he took the photograph from her and, having carefully wrapped it, placed it again in the bottom of his quiver. For a few moments he sat in silence, his eyes bent upon the ground, while Jane Porter held the little locket her hand, turning it over and over in an endeavor to find some further clew that might lead to the identity of its original owner. At length a simple explanation occurred to her. The locket had belonged to L/>rd Greystoke. The likenesses were those of him and Lady Alice. This wild creature had simply found it in the cabin by the beach. But to account for the strange likeness between Lord Greystoke and this forest god?that was quite beyond her. and it is not strange that she did not imagine that this savage was indeed an English nobleman. At length Tarzan looked up to watch the girl as she examined the locket. She noticed that he was watcmns her. and. thinking that he wished his ornament again, she held it out to him. He took it from her. and. taking the chain in his two hands, he placed it about her neck, smiling at her expression of surprise. Jane Porter shook her head vehemently and would have removed the golden links from about her throat, but Tarzan would not let her. Taking her hands in his, he held them tightly to prevent her. At last she desisted and with a little laugh raised the locket to her lips and, rising, dropped him a little courtesy. Tarzan did not know precisely what she meant, but he guessed correctly that it was her way of acknowledging the gift, and so he rose, too, and taking the locket in his band, stooped gravely like some courtier of old and pressed bis lips upon it where hers had rested. It was a stately and gallant little compliment, performed with the grace and dignity of utter unconsciousness of self. It was the hall mark of his aristocratic birth. It was RrowinR dark now. and so they ate again of the fruit which was KsvtVt on/1 /I rt nlr fnt? thorn U nH h Pn Tarzan rose and, leading Jane Porter to the little bower he had erected, motioned her to go within. For the first time In hours a feeling of fear swept over her. and Tarzan felt her draw away as though shrinking from him. To reassure her Tarzan did the only thing he knew. He removed his hunting knife from its sheath and handed it to her hilt first, again motioning her into the bower. The girl understood and, taking the long knife, she entered and lay down upon the soft grasses, while Tarzan of the apes stretched himself upon the ground across the entrance. And thus the rising sun found them in the morning. When Jane Porter awoke, slowly the circumstances of her position crept one by one Into her mind. Then a great wonderment rose in her heart, a mighty wave of thankfulness and gratitude that, though she had been in such terrible danger, yet she was unharmed. She moved to the entrance of the shelter to look for Tarzan. He was gone. But this time no fear assailed her. for she knew that he would return. In the grass at the entrance to her bower she saw the imprint of his body where he had lain all night to guard her. She knew that the fact that he had been there was all that had permitted her to sleep In such peaceful security. She looked up to see his lithe form drop softly from a nearby tree. As he caught her eyes upon him his face lighted with that frank and radiant smile that had won her confidence the day before. As he approached her Jane Porter's heart beat faster and her eyes brightened as they had never done before at the approach of any man. He had again been gathering fruit, which he laid at the entrance of her bower. Once more they sat down together to eat. Jane Porter commenced to wonder what his plans were. Wquld he take her back to the beach or would he keep her here? Suddenly she realized that the matter did not seem to give her much concern. Could it be that she did not care! She could not understand it. Her reason told her that she should be torn by wild anxieties. Instead, her heart was singing. When they had finished their breakfast Tarzan went to her bower and recovered his knife. Motioning her to follow, Tarzan walked toward the trees at the edge of the arena and, taking her in one strong arm, swung to the branches above. The girl knew that he was taking her back to her people, and she could not understand the sudden feeling of sorrow which crept over her. For hours they swung slowly along. Tarzan of the apes did not ? hurry. He tried to draw out the sweet nleas ure of that Journey with those dear arms about his neck aa long as possible, and so he went far south of the direct route to the beach. Several times they halted for brief rests, which Tarzan did not need, and at noon they stopped for an hour at a little brook, where they quenched their thirst and ate. It was nearly sunset when they came to the clearing:, and Tarzan, dropping: to the ground beside a great tree, parted the tall Jungle grass and pointed out the little cabin to her. She took him by the hand to lead him to it, that she might tell her father that this man had saved her from worse than death; that he had watched over her as carefully as a mother. But again the timidity of the wild thing in the face of human habitation swept over Tarzan of the apes. He drew back, shaking his head. The girl came close to him, looking up with pleading eyes. Somehow she could not bear the thought of his going back into the Jungle alone. Still he shook his head, and finally he drew her to him very gently and stooped to kiss her, but first he looked into her eyes and waited to learn if cho ll'oro nlanoorl r\v* If oVin nrrvn 1 r\ Mo. o??v " vi v (/irunvu wi u our n \/uiu J v pulse him. Just an instant the girl hesitated, and then she realized the truth, and, throwing her arms about his neck, she drew his face to hers and kissed him? unashamed. "I love you?I love you," she murmured. Prom far in the distance came the faint sound of many guns. Tarzan and Jane Porter raised their heads. From the cabin came Mr. Philander and Esmeralda. From where Tarzan and the girl stood they could not see the two vessels lying in the harbor. Tarzan pointed toward the sounds, touched his breast and pointed again. She understood. He was going, and something told her that it was because he thought her people were in danger. Again he kissed her. "Come back to me." she whispered. "I shall wait for you?always." He was gone, and Jane Porter turned to walk across the clearing to the cabin. Mr. Philander was the first to see her. "Jane!" he cried. "Jane Porter! Bless me!" He scrambled to his feet and rushed toward her. He could not believe that it was she and alive. "Bless me! Where did you come W'U,.,.,. in lw* ii.^nl/1 VA11 been? How"? "Mercy. Mr. Philander," interrupted the girl," I never can remember so many questions.'' "Well, well," said Mr. Philander. "Bless me! I am so filled with surprise and exuberant delight at seeing ' you safe and well again that I scarcely know what I am saying, really. But. come, tell me all that has happened to , you." (To be Continued.) The agricultural department estimates that the American beet sugar [ production this year will total 866,200 I short tons, an increase of 122.00ft tons I over last year. The average American consumption of sugar is 83 pounds per i capitu. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Flies of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledae of the Thinas that Most Con* cerned Generations that Have Goner Before. I 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. 170TH INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Jan. 9, 1868.) Married?By Rev. R. Lathan, on the 24th ult., at the home of the bride's father, Dr. T. B. Whiteeides and Miss H. M. Leech, all of York district. In Union district on the morning of the 26th ult., by Chas. Petty, Esq., Mr. Pinckney S. Weber and Miss Mary Ann Lowry, all of Union district. On the evening of the 26th ult., by Chas. Pettey, Esq., Mr. Nathaniel Guyton of Union district, and Miss Mary Ann Martin of York district. On the evening of the 26th ult., by Rev. R. A. Ross, Mr. M. S. Carroll and Miss S. C. Neil, all of York district. On the 26th ult., by Rev. E. E. Boyce, Mr. J. Warren Pursley and Miss Lizzie Fitchett, all of this district. On the 5th inst., by Rev. J. M. Cline, Mr. J. F. Isom and Miss Rebecca Kidd, ail of this district. ^ On the 2nd inst., by Rev. T. R. Gaines, Mr. William Sherer and Miss Catherine Doster, all of this district. , On the 19th ult., by Wm. McGill, j Esq., Mr. James Williams and Miss . Eleanor Crenshaw, both of Cleveland county, N. C. ? On the 2nd Inst., by Wm. McGill, Esq., Mr. Cash and Miss Crow, both of Lincoln county, N. C. In Jefferson, Texas, on the 18th ult., Mr. Geo. W. Hudson, formerly of York district, and Miss Nannie Lockhart. (Thursday Morning, Jan. 16, 1868.) The Cotton Tax. Last year the wisest and best men everywhere said to the people, "Plant less cotton and more grain," and had the warning been heeded by all it is admitted that our condition would have been far better than at the present time. The seasons were favorable in most sections to grain crops and the wheat crop yielded abundantly from 1 the small quantity sown. If planters ( had made no money with which to pay 1 existing debts, they would have at a least produced enough provisions for J themselves and their laborers for t another year. r The warning is again repeated from f every quarter and we hope with the s sad experience of the past and the c irlnnmv nrnano/>tu nf tho /ntiiPfi ihnt fl some regard will be given It. Cotton fs is now at such a low price that If untaxed by the government it will not pay the cost of production. One of the most intelligent cotton factors of this state (not a cotton buyer) writes: "The new year opens with little prospect of an advance in cotton. The depressed condition of the manufactur- ' ing interests and the large supply of eastern cotton in Liverpool will keep prices down to a low figure." It is against this eastern and South American cotton that our planters have to compete, sections where the growth of cotton was stimulated during the war and sections where experience has fully proved that it can be grown profitably at the present low prices. Many will no doubt plant cotton under the impression that the present tax of two and one-half cents per pound will be removed. Our own opinion is that the smaller the amount of confidence placed in the doings of p >rime of their lives to God and to tneir > 'ellows. They have given away the i pitifully small salaries they have received. They come to the close al- I tiost destitute, and the churches ask 1 'or money to feed and clothe them. When a call is made for money to dart young preachers on the road, < here are many willing to contribute, i \lmost anybody is willing to help a i ^outh who is coming. There is al- < vays the possibility that he will turn ( >ut famous, and thai means adver- i islng and a sop to the conceit of the 1 >ne who helped him to get a star!, i 3ut there are few to help the worn- t >ut workers. The apportionment for i ?ged ministers is always a little short, s Phere could be no more bitter com- , nentary on the superficial character 1 >f our religion than the way in which i ve neglect these grand old prophets j vho have given their all in the set- 1 dee.?Fountain Inn Tribune. 1 congress upon inis mauer me oener < it will be for those interested. The re- ^ moval of the ta!x has undergone some r discussion already in that body and t we can discover from it but little jj likelihood of the expected relief being t granted. The house passed a bill, it is j true, repealing the tax on all cotton r after the present crop but the measure r met with violent opposition and finally assumed the shape of a political discussion. The bill went to the senate and a substitute was there proposed and adopted suspending the tax on r cotton during 1868. but insisting at the ? same time upon the continuance of the s tax thereafter and also to exempt the ' importation of cotton grown elsewhere 8 from any duty at all. Even should the i suspension become a law it will only % be such in all probability to induce the planting of a full crop and before , it goes into market the tax gatherer ' will again be after the planter de- r mandlng one-fourth of the value. We f have no confidence in congressional ( relief upon this matter. The Wash- 1 lngton correspondent of the Charleston c Courier gives the following account of the senate discussion on the repeal of the tax: "The discussion upon this measure exhibited in its most disgusting forms all the distinctive features of the Yankee character. In the beginning it was set afloat by avowed northern speculators whose only object was to get back the taxes already paid on the crop of 1867, supported by others who had advanced money upon that of the present year. The former got a vote today in the senate very nearly sufficient for their purpose and may yet succeed. The latter were quite successful as will be seen. It was amusing to witness how the gentlemen who are interested in the manufactures which contain the fabric, squirmed at the views of western men and again with what evident disgust a portion of the Radicals, especially the northern wing, viewed the suggestions of the southern renegades as to the necessity of a permanent repeal In the Interest of the "poor negro" One of these latter gentry (Mr. Fowler of Tenn.,) went so far as to say that without any tax whatever it would be found impossible to make cotton growing a profitable pursuit that not only the monopoly but the successful competition with the rest of the world fell with the institution of slavery and he ' spoke the truth! If any there be who have been led to believe that this measure is intended to relieve the | planters of the south?that is the ownpre of the soil?I can only say that they labor under a very preat mistake. The Yankees have now full j possession of the elephant. I command them to a prudent husbandry of their resources." Had we not better then, in truth, rrflke up our minds to abandon the growth of cotton? It will not pay. With our ports thrown open to the i importation of foreigm cotton duty free. | prices will become lower than they are i *t present. The people of the west i 1 nH nlrvnrr tka oon enoot rvf CnutVi r*o ? ina and Georgia are starving: on cotton already. Where will they get iread to subsist upon until September? How many in our immediate midst will jegin to feel.the pinchings of hunger >efore another bread crop can be proluced? The growth of corn, wheat, potaoea and of cattle, hogs and sheep vill give us a plentiful supply of provisions and something of value to pare in exchange for the commodities >f other countries. We may not be:ome rich all at once, but we are purluing a safer rood to prosperity than he one we now travel. We should ecognize now and forever the great :hange that the war and its results ave wrought in regard to the producion of cotton and endeavor to conform ?ur action to the stern decrees that hese slavery are daily pronouncng against us. With events we :ould produce cotton and pay expenses. Vith free labor we cannot. Why disuss the question further? (To be Continued.) EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT Vhat Various South Carolina NewsPapers Think of Various Things. Some employes gvt the business, vhile others are just ornamental. Each s paid in proportion to his value.? tbbeville Medium. * * * They Should. The papers that put It thusly, "Railoads ask more fair," probably did it >y mistake, but evidently the railroads hink they should get a little more :onsideration along that line too.? ?reenvillc Piedmont. * Can Be Put Out of Business. This is to be the last month of vhlsky-selllng in South Carolina, ex ept for the blind tigers, and if the >fflcers, from governor down, do their luty they will not do much more buslless in that line.?Newberry Observer. Journalistic Decorum. Certain persons like Emmallnc Panknlfst, Col. Roosev.elt, "Uncle Joe" Gannon, "Ty" Cobb and Henry Ford, >y their antics in public have long igo forfeited their right to dignified ournalistic mention. On the contrary, he practice adopted by many editors ecently of xoferring to the president's ir.nce as "Sister" Gait is not a demonitration of side-splitting wit or even >f good humored Jocularity, but pointed liacourtesy and very poor taste beildes.?Columbia Record. * ? Real Preparedness. One of our railway presidents diects attention to the Importance of laving our transportation system always ready, under a centralized programme, to mobollze for war purposes. This is perfectly right; the same thing s to be said of many of our great inlustries. Organization of our indusries, along with the railroads, is no ess needful, if we would be adequately >repared, than building a large navy md recruiting a large army. A cerain number of the advocates are nerely urging a large army and a bls;er navy. They should state their delires in that form, and not operate mder the guise of being advocates of genuine preparedness. Preparedness lot only means an adequate army and laval equipment, but also means the irganization of industries so that tupplies can be in readiness, and the irganization of hospitals and reliefriving agencies, so that human life nay be conserved. We have so much o learn about real preparedness, that is we look further and further into he subject we are likely to be disapjointed at our discovery of our true nilitary situation from the very beginling.?Anderson Daily Mail. ? ? ? A Grand Old Man. I In many respects Fountain Inn is i nerely a sordid village, similar to icores of others scattered over the itate. But in one vital sense the town s bigger than it looks. It has heart ind it has appreciation. We have a irophet here in town, and he is not vithout honor even among home folks, rhe town loves him, honors him, vaits upon his words. Dr. J. D. Pitts s finishing the course. His body is 10 longer strong and on his tine old ace there are lines that only long and dose associations with God could race. Those who do not hear him in :hurch find a sermon in his presence >n the streets and a benediction in his imile. There are many to say that if he time comes when he is no longer ible to preach, the town must and vill continue to pay his salary for the lonor of having him in the village. \nd while we are on the subject, why lot consider the case of all the fine old 'ellows who are worn out in the service? They have given their youth and TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES Hews Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOD (DICK BEADING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Cheater. Gaatonia Gazette, Dec. 3: A real estate development which promises to grow mio one ui me uiuai auiatuvc. md high class residence districts in Grostonla, is that known as Chesterplace. This property is Just now being put on the market and already a number of persons have purchased lots with a view to building homes in :ho near future A fine mule belonging to Mr. E. I* Wilson died Wednesday night from ptomaine poisoning, wperinduccd by eating moulded corn, it is stated that there is quite a good i ieal of moulded corn in this section i this year and owners of livestock should be careful not to feed It to :heir animals At the annual so-?- < slonof the Blue Ridge-Atlantic conference of the Methodist Episcopal * :hurch, which was held in Newton last < veek, Rev. P. C. West, formerly pas- 1 or at Black Mountain, was appointed I ;o the pastorate of West Airline Ave- i nue M. E. Church to succeed Rev. S. i 3. Stephens, who was recently trans- < ierred to the Tennessee conference, i 3ev. Mr. West and his family are ex- ' jected to arrive In Gastonia this week i )r the first of next Mildred, the I 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1 3. C. Hampton, died Monday night on 1 fSast Franklin avenue, and was burled < n Hollywood cemetery Tuesday afterloon, following funeral services conluctcd at the home by Rev. W. C. | Barrett, pastor of the First Baptist ( :hurch The small frame and ( iheetiron building on Main avenue lust east of the new government | juilding has been torn down. This , oom was occupied for many years by ( U Thompson & Son as a shoe shop, ( md has been used as a barber shop j ind for various other purposes. The , ot is the property of the First Nation- ( il bank and plans are being consld- , ?red for the erection on it in the near ( 'uture of a handsome, modern bank . juildlng. ( l Fort Mill Times, Dec. 2: From a I etter received in Fort Mill a day or 1 wo ago from the office of Governor ! Manning It is learned that Mr. J. ' Vf. Gamble soon Is to be appointed ?ame warden for Fort Mill township. I There are many little sore arms in Fort Mill this week as a result of :he wholesale vaccination of school < children several days ago Her 1 nany friends throughout this section nrlll regret to learn, -that Mra*?J. L. Spratt has been seriously ill for some lays at her home in Sprattville, this :lty. The Fort Mill "booster" club , loubtless thinks less of the Chautauqua , is a money-making proposition than ' t did one week ago. In fact it is beieved by many that a re-organization )f the said club with an entirely differ- , ?nt membership will be a necessity jefore another such list of attractions s contracted for. The chautauqua idvertlsed for Fort Mill for the last week was held in the school audi- . orium according to the advertised ' schedule of performances, and there was, of course, a difference of opinion , lb to the merits of the several attrac- . tions, some saying they were good, , vhile others expressed the opinion that ' the shows were scarcely worth the . ntioMrod Hut th*> nrlnrinal j/l iVCO VII'AI QVMI ...?r m ^ ^ rouble seemed to lie in the fact that ( lot a sufficient number of Fort Mill ( leople felt interested to the extent of ] foing out to sco Just how good or bad ( :hey thought the attractions were. , Hence the Chautauqua was a moneyosing proposition; that is for the 15 Fort Mill men who had guaranteed the Chautauqua people a certain 1 imount of cash in the way of door re- J leipts for the three days' attractions. ' The total receipts, it is understood, 1 amounted to about $125, and us a re- * suit of this the "boosters" were rejuired to go down into their jeans and ?ontribute $10 each in order to prevent ' the Chautauqua people from losing 1 money. However, it is conceded by ill that Fort Mill men as a rule are a ?enerous let and it was not expected ' that the aforesaid "booster" club would have a great deal to say about this ' latest act of generosity. * * * i Gaffney Ledger, Dec. 3: The peli- ] Lion asking for a white way lighting , system on Limestone street and in ( ither portions of the business district , if Gaffney was presented to the board , if public works at its regular meeting ( Monday evening Mr. W. M. Reynolds, 75 years of age and a Confeder- j ite veteran, died on November 21, at ] his home near Limestone mill, after be- | ng ill for several weeks. The remains svere buried at Goucher Nov. 22. He is , survived by five children and thirty- , four grand-children Hon. R. A. ] ri/ii?Mf?n who has been named county , chairman by Gov. Manning, has ap- | pointed the following men as delegates from Cherokee county to the Southern Commercial congress, which neets in Charleston December 13-17: Senator Richmond Stacy, Hon. J. G. Wright, Hon. Ben F. Ramseur, Mayor NT. H. Llttlejohn, E. S. Turner. J. A. Carroll, J. N. Lipscomb, R. C. Sarratt, Dr. W. C. Hamrick, H. D. Wheat, Edward Watson, W. J. Jenkins, R. T. Llnder, J. B. Hambright, W. G. Fowler j tnd T. K. Vassey On Tuesday < ifternoon, November 30, at 4 o'clock, Miss Era Black well and Mr. Thurman Wylle were united in matrimony at ] the home of the bride by Rev. B. L. i Ffoke of Blacksburg. i Chester Reporter, Dec. 2: The postifflce at Rodman was robhed Tuesday ' light. The matter was reported to i the sheriffs office yesterday, and two < if the deputies who were in that part if the county at work on another mat- ' ;er, are looking Into the case. A white ' tiobo was seen loitering around Rodnan Tuesday, and suspicion naturally 1 ittaches to him. We understand that < ibout seventy-five cents in money and < i small quantity of stamps were stolen, i We understand that Chester is I o have a post of the American Volinteers, a branch of the Salvation 1 \rtny. Capt. Sams, who recently came 1 lere from Florence, and who will be n charge, has rented a house from Mr. - J. T. Blgham on Columbia street Jesse Birch, colored, is in Jail here on the charge of killing John Carter, colored, at Amherst, Va., and is awaiting the arrival of officers. Birch acknowledges that ho is the man wanted, and will return to Virginia without a fight. Col. L. T. Nichols has laid off what Is known as a clock golf course at the fair grounds, and is rapidly becoming an ardent devotee of the great game Judge of Probate A. W. Wise reports that since taking charge of the office on January 5. he Has Issued 225 marriage licenses up to Dec. 1. King's Mountain Herald, Dec. 2: At thft hnmo nf thn hriHp'a na ronta nn route 5, a beautiful home wedding: was solemnized Wednesday night when Mr. Frank Weir of Patterson Grove, claimed Miss Ava Barber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beaty Barber, for his bride. Rev. J. R. Miller officiated 1 The Methodist preachers are all back. Rev. E. O. Cole, pastor of the local 1 church is back and is beginning his : second year as pastor of the King s Mountain and El bethel churches. Rev.. E. M. Graham of the Wesleyan Meth odlst is also back as pastor of the i King's Mountain and Bessemer City I churches. This is Mr. Graham's sec- < ond year and as evidence of his popularity his churches gave him a unanl- . mous call. Rev. B. A. Culp of Grace , church begins his sixth year....The ( sewerage work has begun. The Buck- , eye ditcher was set in motion Monday ; morning for a sure enough beginning. The first hole was dug In Railroad ave- ( nue opposite the Klotho mill. There ( began the first ditch. In all there will be 53,000 feet of ditching in which will ( be laid nearly ten miles of 8-inch terra 1 cotta piping. i Rock Hill Herald, Dec. 3: After a i long discussion and much argument, < the representatives of the colleges in the South Carolina Intercollegiate Ora- ] torical association, today decided to ; bold the next contest in Greenwood. < Pho vnto won to Iron attar 9 nVlnrlf thla Eiftemoon and it was impossible to as- \ certain just how the vote stood. It is ; known, however, that the Rock Hill ad- , vocates put up a hard fight. The con- 1 test has been held in Rock Hill for the past four years, being brought here ( ifter the Greenwood hotel was burned. Ever since the hotel was rebuilt | Greenwood has been making a hard | fight to get the contest back, it hav- ] Ing been held in that city exclusively ; until four years ago. Rock Hill peo- ( pie regret to learn that the contest will not be held here next year Miss Alice Adams of Sharon, is the guest of Mrs. J. P. Reid Miss Alice Mitchell left last night for Washington, D. C., to assume her duties in the office of Hon. D. E. Fin- ' ley. Lancaster News, Use." "J:* " Mr. J. A. McAteer of the Jacksonham section, who was in town today, tells us that i there is more grain being pown this i year between Lancaster and Monroe than ever before within his know- , ledge. Mr. McAteer on last Monday, , started from his home with a load of , wheat to be ground in Monroe. He | sold eleven bushels along the way and , could have sold more If he had cared ; to, so eager were the farmers to get , the wheat seed for sowing Missl, Mary Ferguson returned home Wednesday night, after spending several months in the Adirondack mountains. Her friends will be pleased to know that she is steadily Improving Mr. L. H. Rowell of the Tabernacle section, held a family reunion at his lome on Thanksgiving day. Mr Row?1! has reared a large family, there beng thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters, all of whom are married and were present, except one laughter, Mrs. Ida Hair, who lives in Texas. Origin of the Horee.?Whence came the horse? From Arabia, of course! \nd yet, there are places in South America, Australia and southern Russia where horses run wild in huge Iroves. So much Is the Russian tioree a wild animal that he can defend himself against the attack of the ravenous wolf. The wolves are cowards and attack in large numbers, and the horses in the herd, when they scent the enemy, form themselves in a circle, hoofs outward, and bespatter the 3teppes with the brains of the yelping pack. Surely the horses are the direct product of nature, entirely free from the touch of man's hand. Yet the scientists tell us that all the wild tiorses on earth, in whatever country, ire the descendants of highly domesti :aiea anunma umi wcic jnriuiimvi revert to their original state by many generations of untrammeled freeiom. ( Again we ask, whence came the ^ tiorse? And science offers the answer. ^ He has been uncovered in the rocks that were formed during the Eocene ^ Age, and he is different from his mod- ( ?rn descendant in two particulars. He was about the size of a small fox and 1e had four toes on each foot, and one | splint that indicated a fifth toe, in ] previous generations. He has been railed an Eohippus. Later developments of the "Hlppu8" were the 1 Drthlhippus, that had lost the splint, < the Mesohippus, which was as large t is a sheep and had only three toes, I ind so on until the size had almost reached that of the modern horse, and inly one toe was left, with two callo- 1 sities to indicate what the foot had l originally been. And that first little tiorse was found In Wyoming, United States of America!?Exchange. * * I A Snail's Pace.?"At a snail's pace" j is a common expression, and usually i signifies a very slow speed. But what 1 do you suppose is the actual pace i made by a snail in traveling? i It can be given in accunte figures, j One foot in four minutes, or at the \ rate of one mile in 16 days, if trav- 1 ollne continuously. ' These are figures given by George i Zahnizer, a civil engineer, taken from ? ictual observation. i A short time since Mr. Zahnizer was ( waiting for a train at a country sta- I tion. He had nothing In particular to 1 lo, and "killed a little time" by tlm- i ing a snail which was creeping along j :he ground. I The snail traveled Just exactly one ' 'oot In four minutes. Mr. Zahnizer ' las figured out that it would require I 16 days for that snail to move a mile. ' ?Kansas City Star. I PALMETTO QLEANING8 Current Events and Happenings Throughout 8outh Carolina. Dr. W. B. Milwee, a prominent physician of Greenwood, died last week, affed 89 years. The Duke interests of Durham, N. C. have purchased a vast tract of land near Great Falls in Fairfield county, which they propose to develop. It is probable that Columbia will be selected by the United States war de partment as a site where civilians will be trained for army service. Rev. 8. R. Gulgnard, rector of the Episcopal church at Laurens, has accepted a call to become rector of the Episcopal churches at Mount Pleasant and Sullivan's Island, Charleston. Dr. George Benett of Columbia, who has been spending some time In th's country after serving In Red Crops work In hospitals along the battle line of Europe, has again returned to the front. A Lexington county jury last week, awarded Mrs. Cynthia Williams a verdict of $20,000 against the 8. A. L. railway for the alleged killing of her husband by a train of the defendant company. O. L. Johnson, former mayor of Spartanburg, has announced his candidacy for re-election against Mayor I. F. Floyd, who will also stand for re-election at the primary which is being held in 8partanburg today. J. W. Chapman, an engineer employed by a lumber company in Colleton county, Is being sought by the sheriff, charged with the murder of Alec Grubbs, a negro. It is alleged that the engineer beat the negro who was stealing a ride on a lumber train, oVer the head with a pistol, crushing h's skull and then threw him into a deserted held, leaving him to die. The state board of law examiners have admitted the following to the practice of law in South Carolina: J. 0. Havird, Newberry; I. F. Betser. Columbia: W. O. Mordecal, Charleston; W. M. Levi, Sumter, C. C. Stogner, Hartsville; EL S. Hemphill, Chester; J. Q. Leatherwood, Greenwood; R. N. Ward, Greenville. Important changes in the law governing scholarships in state institutions ire recommended in a report prepared by a special committee of three after Investigations covering a period of 18 months, which was adopted at a meeting of the state board of education in Columbia Tuesday night. The board ilso received the annual report of W. H. Hand, state high school inspector. When the dispensaries in Richland county are closed on December 81, under the general prohibition act, the stock on hand will be worth from $80.000 to $40,000 in the opinion of L. L. Bultman, stats dispensary auditor. The next legislature will be asked, It is said, to dispose the extra stocUTln the various counties. Several counties will sell out their stocks before the first of the year. The postofllce department has announced that beginning February 1. rural delivery motor vehicle service will be placed in operation at Campobello, where there will be two routes, md Pacolet where there will be one. Both places are in Spartanburg county. The salary of the carrier on each route will be $1,800. A civil service examination for motor vehicle rural carriers will be held at theee places on January 8. Rather than go through life deprived )f his eyesight, W. R. Pinckney, a iurveyor of Ridgeland, and foreman of [he Jasper county grand Jury, commited suicide bv cutting his throat at ;he home of his brother, near Rldgeand, Tueeday night. Mr. Pinckney. md been informed by a specialist that ne would lose his eyesight as the result of some Infection and the theory s that he preferred death to blindness. He leaves a wife and one son. Delegates appointed to attend the inference to be held by the comm'ssion on Church and Country Life, created by the Federal Council of the [Churches of Christ in America at Columbus, Ohio, December 8-10, are: Dr. D. G. Phillips, Chester, Rev. A. 8. rhomas, Cheraw; Dr. H. N. Snyder, Spartanburg; Dr. J. B. Hunter, Prosperity; Rev. W. H. Mills, Clemson College; Rev. Geo. W. Quick. Greentrtile. The appointments for the house of representatives for the 1916 session >f the general assembly have been announced by the speaker, James A. Hoyt, as follows: Secretary to the speaker, Miss Kate Cantwell, Colum bia. General desk clerk, Ralph Arnold, Spartanburg. Journal clerk, R. E. Crawlie, Columbia. Bill clerk, J, A. Kainlner, Columbia. Pages, J. T. B. Sharpton, Edgefield: Lindsay Odmon, Chesterfield; John Radcllffe, Columbia; Ernest G. Sharpe, Lexington. Doorkeepers, W. N. Austin, Greenville: J. W. McCrelght, Columbia: B. G. Hoover, Orangeburg. Mall carrier, N. D. Pyles, Columbia. Senator Tillman has returned to his post at the capitol, being one of those present at the first day's session of the Democratic caucus of the senate last Monday, says a dispatch of Friday from Washington. The senator is occupying the same suite of offices ss chairman of the naval committee that he has occupied since the control t*t the senate passed from the hands of the Republicans. These offices are on the gallery floor of the senate wing of the capitol, the committee room being within a few feet of the senate chamber. and the senator's private office back of the committee room, commanding an admirable view of the east front of the capitol building and of the plaza and grounds which It overlooks. Senator Tillman will visit Charleston during the "navy days" of the Southern Commercial congress, ind Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, paymaster general of the navy, will be bis companion on the trip. Mr. B. R. Tillman. Jr.. is the present clerk of the senate naval committee, having succeeded Mr. J. B. Knight in that position when Mr. Knight became clerk if the western Federal judicial dls:rict of South Carolina. As clerk of the committee. Mr. Tillman is preparng data for a new edition of the navy 'ear book. Mr. C. G. Wyche of Prosperity, S. C.. is again with Senator nilman in a secretarial capacity. Mrs. rillman and Miss Tillman accompanied the senator to Washington, and will probably spend the winter with ilm at the Dewey hoteL