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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMX-WEEKLT. l. m. GRIST'S sons, Pobu.h.n,} & 4anti,8 $?ra|W: ^or th< framotion oj[ fli< |otili?;aI, facial, ^jri^lfupl and (ffammerciat Interests of to* feojtj. . j 11,1V,?;","?p,'rI"T1[l" * ESTABLISHED 1855. . ~ YORK, S. C.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER IO, 1915 " JJO. 99. TARZ THE_ By EDGAR RIG n i Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mu CHAPTER XVI. The Village of Torture. As the little expedition of sailors toiled through the dense Jungle searching for signs of Jane Porter the futility of their venture became more and more apparent, but the grief of the old man and the hopeless eyes of the young Englishman prevented the kind hearted D'Arnot from turning back. He thought that there might be a bare possibility of finding her body or the remains of it, for he was positive that she had been devoured by some beast of prey. It was slow work. Noon found them * but a few miles inland. They halted J for a brief rest then, and after pushing on for a short distance further one of the men discovered a well marked trial. * It was an old elephant track, and Al D'Arnot, after consulting with Profes" sor Porter and Clayton, decided to follow it The path wound through the Jungle in a northeasterly direction, and along it the column moved in single file. Lieutenant D'Arnot was in the lead and moving at a quick pace, for the trail was comparatively open. Imme,, x"'? u J PrAfpflflftr aiaieiy ueuuiu uiui v?u.? m - ? Porter, but as he could not keep pace with the younger man D'Arnot was a hundred yards in advance when suddenly a half dozen black warriors rose about him. D'Arnot gave a warning shout to his column us the blacks closed on him, but before he could draw his revolver he had been pinioned and dragged into the jungle. His cry had alarmed the sailors, and a dozen of them sprang forward past Professor Porter, running up the trail to their officer's aid. They did not know the cause of his outcry, only that it was a warning of danger ahead. They had rushed past the spot ' where D'Arnot had been seized when a spear hurled from the jungle transfixed one of the men, and then a volley of arrows fell among them. Raising their carbines, they fired into the underbush in the direction from which the missies had come. By this time the balance of the party had come up, and volley after volley was fired toward the concealed foe. It was these shots that Tarzan and Jane Porter had heard. Lieutenant Charpentler, who had been bringing up the rear of the column, now came running to the scene and pn hearing the details of the ambuscade ordered the men to follow him and plunged into the tangled vegetation. In an instant they were in a hand to hand fight with some fifty black warriors of Mbonga's village. Arrows and bullets flew thick and fast. Queer African knives and French gun butts mingled fer a moment in * savage and bloody duels, but soon the ^ natives fled into the jungle, leaving the Frenchmen to count their losses. Four of the twenty were dead, a dozen others were wounded, and Lieui tenant D'Arnot was missing. Night was falling rapidly. * There was but one thing to do? make camp where they were until daylight. This work was not completed until long after dark, the men building a huge fire in the center of the clearing to give them light to work by. When all was a safe as could be made from the attack of wild beasts and savage men Lieutenant Charpentler placed sentries about the little camp, and the tired and hungry men threw themselves upon the ground to sleep. The groans of the wounded, mingled with the roaring and growling of the great beasts, kept sleep except in ^ its most fitful form from the tired eyes. It was a sad and hungry party that lay through the long night praying for dawn. The blacks who had seized D'Arnot t had not waited to participate in the fight. They hurried their prisoner along, the sounds of battle growing fainter and fainter as they drew away from the contestants until there suddenly broke upon D'Arnot vision a good seized clearing, at one end of which stood a thatched and palisaded village. A cry went up within the palisade. A great throng of women and children rushed out to meet the party. And then began for the French officer the most terrifying experience which men can encounter upon earth ?the reception of white prisoner into a village of African cannibals. They fell upon D'Arnot tooth and nail, beating him with sticks and stones and tearing at him with clawlike hands. Every vestige of clothing was torn from him, and the merciless P blows fell upon his bare and quivering flesh. But not once did the Frenchman cry out in pain. A silent prayer rose that he be quickly delivered from his torture. The death he prayed for was not to be so easily had. Soon the warriors beat the women away from their prisoner. He was to be saved for nobler sport than this, and, the first wave of their passion having: subsided, they contented themselves with crying out taunts and insults and spitting upon him. Presently they gained the center of the village. There D'Arnot was bound securely to the great post from which no living man had ever been released. A number of the women scattered to their several huts to fetch pots ' and water, while others built a row of fires on which portions of the feast were to be boiled. The festivities were delayed, awaitW* ing the return of the warriors who had remained to engage in the skirmish with the white men, so that it was quite late when all were in the AN OF APES E BURROUGHS neey Company. | village and the dance of death com mencea to circie arounu me uuumeu officer. . Half fainting from pain and exhaustion, D'Arnot watched what seemed but a vagary of delirium or some horrid nightmare from which he muBt soon awake. He closed his eyes and held his teeth firm set. He would not cry out He was a soldier of France, and he would teach these beasts how an officer and a gentleman died. Tarzan of the apes needed no Interpreter to translate the story of those distant shots. With Jane Porter's kisses still warm upon his lips he was swinging with incredible rapidity through the forest trees straight toward the village of Mbonga. He was not interested In the location of the encounter, for he judged that that would soon be over. Those who were killed he could not aid; those who escaped would not need his asslstnace. It was to those who had neither been killed nor escaped that he hastened. And he knew that he could find them by the great post In the center of Mbonga's village. Many times had Tarzan seen Mbonga's black raiding parties return from the northward with prisoners, and always were the same scenes enacted about that grim stake, beneath the nanus UKIU UI uiou; m?. Tarzan had looked with complacency upon their former orgies, only occassionally interfering for the pleasure of baiting the blacks. But heretofore their victims had been men of their own color. Tonight it was different White men, men of Tarzan's own race, might be even now suffering the agonies of torture. On he sped. In a few minutes he swung into the trees above Mbonga's village. Ah, he was not quite too late! The figure at the stake was very still. Tarzan knew their customs. The deathblow had not been struck. He could tell almost to a minute how far the dance had gone. In another instant Mbonga's knife would sever one of the victim's ears. That would mark the beginning of the end, for very shortly after only a writhing mass of mutilated flesh would remain. The stake stood forty feet from the nearest tree. Tarzan colled his rope. Then there rose suddenly above the fiendish cries of the dancing demons the awful challenge of the ape man. The dance halted as though turned to stone. The rope sped with a singing whir high above the heads of the blacks. It was quite invisible in the flaring lights of the campfires. D'Arnot opened his eyes. A huge black, standing directly be fore him, lunged backward as though feiled by an invisible hand. Struggling and shrieking, his body, rolling from side to side, moved quickly toward the shadows beneath the trees. The blacks, their eyes protruding in horror, watched spellbound. Once beneath the trees the body rose straight into the air, and as it disappeared into the foliage above the terrified negroes, screaming with fright, broke into a mad race for the village gate. D'Arnot was left alone. He was a brave man, but he had felt the short hairs bristle upon the nape of his neck when that uncanny cry rose upon the air. As he watched the spot where the body had entered the tree he heard I the sounds of movement there. The branches swayed as though under the weight of a man's body. There was a crash, and the black came sprawling to earth again, to lie very quietly where he had fallen. Immediately after him came a white body, but this one alighted erect. D'Arnot saw a clean limbed young giant emerge from the shadows into the light and came quickly toward him. What could it mean? Who could it be? Some new creature of torture and destruction doubtless. D'Arnot waited. His eyes never left the face of the advancing man. The frank, clear eyes, did not waver beneath his fixed gaze. D'Arnot was reassured, but still without much hope, though he felt that that face could not mask a cruel heart. Without a word Tarzan of the apes cut the bonds which held the Frenchman. Weak from suffering and loss of blood, he would have fallen but for the strong arm that caught him. He felt himself lifted from the ground. . There was a sensation as of flying, and then he lost consciousness. When dawn broke upon the little camp of Frenchmen in the heart of the Jungle it found a sad and disheartened group. As soon as it was light enough to see their surroundings Lieutenant Charpentier sent men in groups of three in several directions to locate the trail, and in ten minutes it was found, and the expedition was hurrying back toward the beach. It was slow work, for they bore the bodies of six dead men, two more having succumbed during the night, and several of those who were wounded required support to move even very slowly. Charpentier had decided to return to camp for re-enforcements and then make an attempt to track down thenatives and rescue D'Arnot. It was late in the afternoon when the exhausted men reached the clearinn by the beach, but for two of them the return brought so great a happiness that all their suffering and heart-breaking grief were forgotten on the instant. As the little party emerged from the jungle the first person that Professor Porter and Cecil Clayton saw was Jane Porter standing by the cabIn door. With a little cry of joy and relief she ran forward to greet them, throwing her arms about her father's neck and bursting Into tears for the first time since they had been cast upon this hideous and adventurous shore. Professor Porter, burying his old face in the girl's shoulder sobbed like a tired child. Jane Porter led him toward the cabin, and the Frenchman turned toward the beach from which several of their fellows were advancing to meet them. Clayton, wishing; to leave father and daughter alone, Joined the sailors and remained talking with the officers until their boat pulled away toward the cruiser, whither Lieutenant Charpen tier was bound to report the unhappy outcome of his adventure. Then Clayton turnd back slowly toward the cabin. His heart was filled with happiness. The woman he loved was safe. As he approached the cabin he saw her coming out. When she saw him she hurried forward to meet him. "Jane!" he cried. "Heaven has been good to us Indeed. Tell me how you escaped?what form Providence took to save you for?us." He had never before called her by her given name. Forty-eight hours before it would have suffused Jane Porter with a soft glow of pleasure to hear that name from Clayton's lips. Now it frightened her. "Mr. Clayton," she said quietly, extending her hand, "first let me thank you for your loyalty to my father. He has told me how noble and self sacrificing you have been. How can we pver reDav vou?" Clayton noticed that she did not return his familiar salutation, but he felt no misgivingB on that score. She had been through so much. This was no time to force his love upon her, he quickly realized. "I am already repaid," he laughed, "just to see you and Professor Porter both safe, well and together again.'' The girl bowed her head. There was a question she wanted to ask. "Where is the forest man who went to rescue you? Why did he not return?" "I do not understand," said Clayton. "Whom do you mean?" "He who has saved each of us?who saved me from the gorilla." "Oh!" cried Clayton, in surprise. "It was he who rescued you? You have not told me anything of your adventure, don't you know. Tell me; do." "But the woodman," she urged. "Have you not seen him? When we heard the shots in the Jungle, very faint and far away, he left me. We had just reached the clearing, and he hurried off in the direction of the fighting. I know he went to aid you." Her tone was almost pleading, her manner tense with suppressed emotion. Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered vaguely why she was so deeply moved, so anxious to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. He did not suspect the truth, for how could he? In his breast, unknown to himself, was implanted the first germ of jealousy and suspicion of the ape man to whom he owed his life. <4Y*7a ?Af oon V?Im " hp TAnliAd quietly. "He did not Join us. Possibly he Joined his own tribe, the men who attacked us." He did not know why he had said it, for he did not believe it. But love is a strange master. The girl looked at him wide eyed for a moment "No!" she exclaimed vehemently, much too vehemently, he thought "It could not be. They were negroes. He is a white man?and a gentleman!" Clayton was a generous and chivalrous man, but something in the girl's defense of the forest man stirred him to unreasoning Jealously, so that for the instant he forgot all that he owed to this wild demigod, and he answered her with half a sneer upon his lip. "Possibly you are right, Miss Porter,'' he said, "but I do not think that any of us need worry about our carrion eating acquaintance. The - ?1--1 I ~~ cnances are mat. ue 10 oumc uau unmerited cast-away who will forget us more quickly, but no more surely, than we shall forget him. He is only a beast of the Jungle, Miss Porter." The girl did not answer, but she felt her heart shrivel within her. Anger and hatred against one we love steel our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. (To be Continued.) Returned. He has come home again, to pace once more The yew-hedged walks behind his garden walls? To watch in peace the twilight shades draw on Amid the silence of a drowsy world. . . But yester-eve I passed him in the lane? Ah, pitiful! a crushed and creeping thing, That children shriek and fly from when they meet. As from some frightful spectre of a dream! Thank God, 'was dark, 'twas very dark, And thus I needed not once more to rend my soul In looking straightly at the shrapnel's work, Striving to keep the horror from my face. . . His share is done?full measure, brimming o'er; Naught left but to sit patient in the sun And wait the kindest hand of all to lead him hence. Bravest of many brave was he, honored and acclaimed. . . Alas! his mother hears him weeping in the night! ?Birmingham Age-Herald. Chief of Police Sam M. Duncan of Newberry, has been appointed chief state constable to succeed W. C. Cathcart. Policeman John Livingston of the Newberry police force has been elected chief of police of that town. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK HEADING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Chester Reporter, Dec. 6: Mr. J. GColvln of R. F. D. 2, returned Saturday morning from McKenney, Va., where he had been for three weeks at the bedside of his father-in-law, Mr. D. E. Cornwell, who is seriously unwell. Mr. Cornwell's condition remains unim fjruveu.. . n uiiu riagc nvcuoc ttm~ issued yesterday to Mr. Joe Davis Proctor of Rodman, and Miss Minnie Anderson of Chester... .Mr. C. K. Bell arrived here Friday evening from Memphis, Tenn., and his family will follow shortly. Mr. Bell has accepted a position with the Fennell Electric Co., and has entered upon the discharge of his duties. Mr. Bell is a brother of Mr. J. M. Bell and left here about thirteen years ago for Tennessee. Gov. Manning has appointed the following Chester county citizens delegates to the meeting of the Southern Commercial congress in Charleston next week: Z. V. Davidson, J. EL Hamilton, A. M. Aikln, John Frazer, Chester; A. H. Wherry, L. M. Wooten, Lewis; D. S. Hollis, Rodman; T. L. McFadden, S. A. McWatters, Fort Lawn; W. H. Hamilton, J. D. Glass, Edgemoor; J. W. Whiteeldes, Jesse Jordan, Joe W. Anderson, W. B. Gladden, V. L. Mlllen, Richburg; S. A. Abell, G. J. Steele, Jr., J. W. Lowry, Lowryville; G. L. Kennedy, A. Ross Durham. Blackstock We understand that Mr. J. L. Phillips and Dr. W. G. Stevens of Rock Hill, have rented Mr. L. T. Eberhardt's drug store room on the corner of Main and Wylie streets and will open for business shortly. Mr. Phillips is the proprietor of a successful drug store in Rock Hill, and Dr. Stevens is a well known physician and business man. * Gaatonia Gazette, Dec. 7: A telephone message from County Superintendent of Schools F. P. Hall, to Mr. S. N. Boyce, chairman of the county board of education, announces that the bond election in Belmont today carried by a safe majority. The election was authorized by the county commissioners and provides for the issuing of $25,000 in bonds for the erection of new school buildings in the Belmont district. The election also provides for a tax of 45 cents on each poll and 15 cents on each >100 of real and personal property to provide for the funding of the bond issue Rev. H. M. Wellman, the new pastor of West End and Franklin Avenue MethodiBt churches, arrived In the city Saturday and preached at both churches Sunday Gastonians will welcome the news contained in the following communication received this morning from Mr. E. O. Jennings, commercial agent of the P. & N. lines: "On December 10th, we will inaugurate a thirtyminute schedule on the Gastonia car line; one car operating from the square to Groves and return; and the other car from the square to Gary Mill and return. Cars will leave the square at 6 a m., and every thirty minutes thereafter during the day; cars will leave Gary Mill and Groves at 6.15 a. m., and every thirty minutes thereafter." Lancaster Newt, Dec. 7: Mr. C. L. McManus came near losing his dwelling by fire Saturday night. Mr. McManus went with a lighted match into one of the rooms where there were three or four bales of seed cotton. A spark from the match ignited the cotton. The fire was put out with water, but not until several hundred pounds of the cotton had been burned, also some bed clothing and wearing apparel belonging to the family Rev. J. H. Thayer, D. D., will leave Thursday morning for the Baptist state convention at Greenville, stopping on the way at Williamston with his friend, Mr. James P. Gossett, president of the Brogon mills The many friends of Sheriff J. P. Hunter are glad that he is able to be out today after being confined at home with grippe for the past week -.The members of the Second Baptist church met in conference on Saturday night, and extended a call to Rev. R. W. Patftp nf PaaalarH S P Mr Pfttna comes to us well recommended and we , think the church and community at large very fortunate In securing his services. Gaffney Ledger, Dec. 7: The Cherokee County Good Roads association met at the courthouse yesterday and amended the good roads bill that it proposes to submit to the next session of the general assembly for passage. The meeting was presided over by J. B. Hambright, county chairman Superintendent of Education Huggin and R. E. Grabel, agricultural agent of the Southern Railway Co., are visiting the county schools in Cherokee this week organizing Boys' Pig clubs A marriage which caused some surprise to their many friends was that of Mr. ( iJoyd Beam, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beam of this place, and Miss Ethel Pearl Houser, also of this place, which occurred at Gastonia last Saturday evening, Rev. C. M. Robinson of this place, who was in Gastonia at the lime performed the ceremony. 9 m 9 Rock Hill Herald, Dec. 7: The poultry raisers of this community have organized the Poultry Producers' association of York county. The object of of the association is to produce better poultry and eggs and to secure markets for the surplus poultry products at a profitable price. The officers of the organization are P. B. Parks, president; C. C. Cleveland, vice president; W. R. Whitfield, secretary, and J. S. Comer, treasurer A meeting has been called for Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock of all citizens interested in a community Christmas tree, to be held in the chamber of commerce hall. DR. BLACK'S FAREWELL Evangelist Wind* Up Meeting With Powerful Sermon. By a Reporter for The Enquirer. Basing his sermon on the 17th and 18th verses of the third chapter of Exodus, Rev. William Black preached what was perhaps the strongest sermon delivered during the ten days' evangelistic services which were brought to a close at the First Presbyterian church Tuesday evening. The church was comfortably filled with people from the town and the community surrounding, representing all of the religious denominations. Preliminary to the sermon of the evening was the usual choir and congregational singing, prayers and a Scripture lesson from Exodus 3:1 to 10. Prefacing: the Scripture reading, Dr. ( Black pointed out that the answer to the question, "What shall I do to be saved?" is to be found in the language of Matthew 10:32: "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father, which is in heaven." "Trust in the Son of God; confession of the Son of God, are essentials to personal salvation. Do both?trust him and confess him," said the speaker. Reading the Scripture lesson from Exodus 3, de- ] scriptive of how God selected and called Moses to deliver the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, and how Moses put forward his various excuses as to why he should not be expected to perform this great task, and how each excuse was answered by God from the midst of the burning bush, Dr. Black told his 1 hearers that Moses performed the greatest task that was ever given to man to do. How he went down into Egypt, after forty years of sheep tend- : ing and without an army, working as ^ God's agent, he performed miracle after miracle, and foretold the coming of pusseu such a. ittw auu ? uuun a?iu>.b c them Is North Carolina and Alabama, i If the 'go-betweens' Is eliminated and ? the purchaser thus forced to buy his t liquor himself, It will greatly simplify the problem for courts and juries. I "A strong effort will be made by ? the city authorities and others to have |; the general assembly pass such a law r at its next session. "As the matter now stands the i liquor cases have been disposed of as P follows: Nine pleas of guilty entered, | two convictions, two acquittals, one a mistrial, afterwards nol prossed, and e three nol prossed without trial."? 1 Anderson Dally Mail. j plague after plague, until finally Pharaoh was willing to let the several million Hebrew children leave Egypt on the start for the promised land and how they were Anally allowed to escape across the Red sea, and after 1 forty years of wandering, were taken across the turbulent Jordan under the leadership of Joshua and Caleb, and all of it being due to faith in Cod's prom- i ises. The speaker said that when a I person became a Christian, God always has something for that person to do. If this were not true, then the Christian would immediately sail away to heaven. At this point Prof. Burr rendered a solo, "In the Morning," which especially fitted in the preacher's sermon of the evening, the first lines of the song being as follows: ( "We are pilgrims looking home. Sad and weary, oft we roam; , But we Know twin an De wen In the morning." Exodus 3:7-10: "And the Lord said. I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters; for I know their sorrows. And I come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." "This is a wonderful text," said Dr. Black. "A most wonderful text. I will divide it into two grand divisions. First, God tells Moees, 'I have surely seen the affliction of my people and have heard their cry,' and, second, 'And I am come down to deliver them.' " Continuing, the evangelist told how the Israelites had been in Egypt for more than 450 years and how they had increased from seventy souls who went down into Egypt with Jacob until now there was several million and how they had been reduced to slavery and subjected to the most abject poverty and sore straitB until finally they began to cry unto God for help and deliverance from their bondage; how Jehovah had heard their prayers, and how Moses prepared for his task in leading thi Israelites out of Egypt by his forty years of life in Egypt. God had seen, too, the sins of his people while they were in bondage, but through his love for them he overlooked their shortcomings and how when they cried to him for help, he heard their cries, just as he hears the pleas of his children .oday when they call on him when in distress. "Wonder if any woman or man here ever had their sorrows at home," said Dr. Black. "The wayward son, the wayward daughter, the drinking husband, the outcast woman. God's eyes, directed by love, sees all these things. He knows and sees because of his lov-. ing heart. And when God sees our sorrows he prepares for action and is ready to come to our relief whenever he is asked to come into our lives and hearta God doesn't tell us that he has troubles of his own. No, he is always ready to help us when we are in trouble." Dr. Black illustrated the love of God for us by the wonderful love displayed by mothers for their children when they are in danger or in illness?how < ha mAthar Inva I a tha Pron fPflt nf fl 11 . human love. "But this,'* he said, "Is but a poor picture of God's and Christ's love for us. "The children of Israel were to leave Egypt on the night of the Passover? the night when the blood of the lambs was.sprinkled on the door posts. They were to be ready to start for freedom at midnight after the passage of the death angel, and those who had the blood on the door posts were to be spared. The Israelites were saved by the blood of lambs. We are saved by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. We have but to accept htm as our perhbhal Saviour and put our faith in his shed blood. Won't you unsaved men and women, boys and girls do this tonight.' The death angel may pass your way before tomorrow. Jesus' blood is offered to you now?tonight. Trust in Jesus now.'* Upon the invitation of the evangelist quite a number in the congregation expressed a desire to accept Christ as their Saviour and several signed the cards indicating their desire to unite with some one of the several churches in Yorkville. Just before the close of the service, Dr. Black expressed his pleasure at having been here at this time. "I have done the best I could," he said, "and if you didn't like my ways, please love Jesus anyway. Trust him, believe in him." Continuing he said. r a comession inai uues xiui icou iu church connection is of no value. If you have made a profession of faith, keep close to the Lord, join the church of your choice and get to work." Dr. Black extended his thanks to the local pastors and the members of the various churches, to the choir, ushers, etc., for their hearty co-operation during the ten days' meeting. During the meeting some sixty-odd persons signified their desire to connect themselves with some of the various local churches. Dr. Black and Prof. Burr left Wednesday morning for Bllenboro, N. C., where they were to begin a series of meetings Wednesday evening. LIQUOR CASE NOL PROSSED Party Who Acts as Agent Between Blind Tiger and Buyer Can't be Convicted. Concerning the disposition of the other liquor cases on the police docket yet untried, City Attorney Sullivan has made the following statement: "After conferring with Mayor Godfrey and the detectives, I have decided to nol pros the three remaining liquor cases," stated Mr. Sullivan. "I do this in view of the verdict of not guilty in the case of Lee Brown yesterday afternoon. We had an excellent jury, as we have had in all the cases and all the defense relied on was that, although Brown delivered the liquor and received the money, he had previously bought it from some one else and was merely the agent of the buyer. "I think the Jury could have decided either way, that is, that he was the dealer or the agent of the buyer," continued Mr. Sullivan. "Evidently the jury concluded he was the agent of the buyer, and under a decision of the supreme court which you may remember went up from the city court here, one who acts as the agent of the buyer only can not be convicted of any offense. "The same defense of agent of the buyer can be raised and probably would be in two of three remaining cases, and there has been a mistrial in the third case. I am satisfied from the verdict yesterday afternoon that the same verdict would be rendered in the three cases left. It is very difficult to convict 'go-betweens' under the present law. The legislature a Bhould help us eliminate the 'go-be- ( tweens' by making it against the law c to buy intoxicating liquors for an- 1 other. Several states have already ' 1 u - 1 ? ,1 T tklnb ^ MR. WILSCN 79 CONGRESS President Delivers Notable Anneal Message. IMPORTANCE OF FOLL PREPAREDNESS. Would Have all American Government* to Get Themselves In 8hape to Stand Together?Very Emphatic in Denunciation of Disloyalty. President Wilson in his annual address to congress last Tuesday dealing mainly with national defense, proclaimed an advanced pan-Americanism grown to guardianship of the Monroe Doctrine to "the full and honorable association" of all the Americans. Although in the longest address he das yet delivered to congress, the president touched upon a variety of subjects, the predominating note was the necessity of a policy of military preparedness to meet the readjustment of the next generation as they will affect the American continent He emphasized his point by saying: "Unless you take It within your fiew and permit the full significance af it to command your thought, I cannot And the right light in which to set forth the particular mattA* that lies at the very front of my whole thought as I address you today. I mean national defense." The point was not overshadowed vhen the president in the most unmeasured terms he ever has employed aefore congress denounced naturalized Americans who by their sympathies for the Europen belligerents have en1 q n troroH Amoriran nAiitrnlltv Whtlft congress cheered him loudly, he rererrdd to them as having "poured the Doison of disloyalty Into the very ar:eries of our national life," and as :hose who "would turn in malign reaction against the government and the people who had welcomed and nurtured them." With evidences of deep reeling the president expressed "the even deeper humiliation and scorn vhich every self-possessed and houghtfully patriotic American must reel when he thinks of them and of the liscredit they are dally bringing upon la" While the president's outline of :he administration plans for the army Lnd navy passed without a ripple of ipplause, and his references to panVmericanism were only punctuated vith evidences of approval, Republicans and Democrats alike joined in an emphatic demonstration at his words if condemnation for those he assailed 30 unreservedly. The president took up pan-Americanism at the very outset of his message. "All the governments of America," le said, "stand so far as we are concerned. upon a footing of genuine equality and unquestioned independence. We retain unabated the spirit vhich was so frankly put into words ay President Monroe. We still mean to nake a common cause of national ndependence and of political liberty n America but that purpose is now aetter understood so far as it concerns ourselves." The moral, the president said, was hat the states of America were jiot ibstfle rivals but co-operating friends ind that their association was likely :o give them a new significance in vorld affairs. "Separated they are subject to all he cross currents of the confused politics of the world of hostile rlval ies," he said. "United in spirit and aurpose they cannot be disappointed in their peaceful destiny. This is pan-Americanism," he said. "It has 10 spirit of empire in it. It is the embodiment, the effectual embodl nent or the spirit or law ana mae>endence and liberties and mutual i lervice." Great democracies, the president laid, are peaceful, not seeking war, ind without thought of conquest or lominlon. "But Just becausq we demand unnolested development and the undisurbed government of our own lives lpon our own principles or right and iberty," he said, "we resent from whatever quarter it may come the iggression we ourselves will not pracice. We insist upon security in prosjecting our self-chosen lines of naional development. We do more han that. We demand it also for ithers. From the first we have made :ommon cause with all partisans of liberty on this side of the sea and have leemed it as important that our neigh>ors should be free from all outside lomlnation as that we ourselves should >e; have set America aside as a whole or the uses of independent nations ind political freedom." From that point the president emihasized the need of & national trainng for defense in harmony with American ideals and institutions and hen referred briefly to the plans outined for the army and navy for which le urged congress to sanction and put ; nto effect "as soon as they can be >roperly scrutinized and discussed." Frequent demonstrations of ap>roval greeted the president's declariction of the manifest duty of Amerl- ( :a to remain "studiously neutral" to- i vard the warring nations abroad, his j issertion of friendship for Mexico, his lrgent recommendations for an in reased merchant marine, the suggesion of legislation for furthering the ( nterests of the people of the Philip- , >ines and Porto Rico and his recomnendations for increasing govern- J neni revenues. But chief attention centered about he delineation of the plans for naional defense, the proclamation of jan-Americanism and the virility of he president's attack upon Amerl:ans who, he said, had brought the rood name of the government into conempt. He delivered his denunciation n crisp phrases and congress seemed o hang on every word. Cheers rose rom every part of the hall when he :oncluded it and demonstration reached its climax when the president urged mactment of laws to purge the nation >f its internal peril. "There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit," he said, 'born under other flags, but welcomed under our generous naturalization aws to the full freedom and opportulity of America, who have poured the >oison of disloyalty into the very areries of our national life; who have lought to bring the authority and ;ood name of our government into :ontempt, to destroy our Industries vherever they thought it effective for heir vindictive purposes, to strike at hem and to debase our politics to the ises of foreign intrigue. No Federal aws exist to meet this situation because such a thing would have seemed incredible in the past. Such creaures of passion, disloyalty and anirchy must be crushed out. They are lot many but they are indefinitely nalignant and the hand of our power ihould close over them at once." There was rapt attention throughout and members generally comment>d favorably on the message. Repubicans, however, and some Democrats opposed some of the president's sugrestions for increasing revenues. His :oncluding suggestion relating to an nquiry Into railroad laws was revived with Interest and administraion leaders already have undertaken 0 carry out the proposal. "The transportation problem," the (resident declared, "is an extremely erious and pressing one in this counry. There has from time to time of ate been reason to fear that our ailroads would not much longer be ,ble to cope with it successfully, as 1 present equipped and co-ordinated. suggest that it would be wise to rovide for a commission of Inquiry o ascertain by a thorough canvass of he whole question whether our laws s at present framed and administer.1 are as servicable as they might be o the solution of the problem." Keen interest in the president's adress was shown by the foreign rep resentatlves in the diplomatic galleries, where every embassy and legation was represented. All appeared pleased with th message and the Latin-Americans expressed special gratification over the references to pan-Americanism. ( PALMETTO QLEANINQ8 Current Events and Happenings Throughout 8outh Carolina. The Baptist state convention will meet in Greenville tonight M. B. Leopard of Laurens county, has gathered 22 bales of cotton off 17 acres tnis year. Floyd McCroy a 16-year-old white boy, is under arrest in Greenville charged with a number of thefts. Governor Manning accompanied by members of his staff, will attend the Southern Commercial congress in Charleston next week. Sales at the Charleston county dispensaries daring the month of November totaled $78,374.69 as cam pared with $38,082.61 ip November 1914. Postal receipts at the Greenville postoffice for the month of November total $6,778.24, an increase of $1,636.48 over the month of November 1914. The Southern Commercial Secretaries' Association Is to be held In Charleston next week In connection with the meeting of the Southern Commercial Congress. Robert Mack for 60 years in the employ of the Atlantic coast line railway as a fireman and engineer died at his home in Florence this week aged 69 years. Simeon G. Gowan, formerly of Spartanburg, but now of Washington, D. C., plead guilty to murder in the second degree In Washington, Tuesday. Gowan killed his wife on the afternoon of October 10, 1914. The supreme court on Tuesday refused the petition of George F. Musladln candidate for alderman In Charleston in the recent primary asking f for a recount of the aldermanlc vote ? in his ward. The general election In i Charleston will be hold Tuesday. J John Sharp Hughes, a white man, ? shot and probably fatally wounded c John Sims a negro. In Union Mondav . afternoon. Hughes says the negro cursed him and attempted to shoot him. The men were seen together In a dispensary a short while before the shooting. O. Q. Sloan of Lexington, was awarded a verdict of $9,000 against the Seaboard Air Line railway by a Lexington county Jury this week for alleged injuries. Sloan, who was in the employ of the railway, is alleged to have been injured when a certain piece of pipe on an engine which he was working broke and caused him to fall. Spartanburg, -December 7: Spartanburg's recall election here today Mayor John P. Floyd was re-elected, but Commissioners John P. Fleder and C. B. Walker were defeated by J. T. Hudson and O. T. Gallman. Messrs. Hudson and Gallman were commissioners until November ISth, last when they retired through act of the legislature reducing the number of commissioners from four to two. Mayor Floyd was opposed by Former Mayor O. L. Johnson. The vote is as follows: Floyd 725, Johnson 698. For commissioner, Hudson 720; Gallman 721; Fielder 618; Walker 596: The election was ordered by the governor only a week ago, making the campaign short. Columbia State: In the month of October the lowest death rate was recorded since the bureau of vital statistics of South Carolina was begun in January, the rate on an annual , basis being 12.9 per 1,000 Inhabitants. h The number of death was 1,762. There were 3,386 births, making a rate of t 24.8. Florence county came first in a the birth rate with 44.1. The causes h of death in September as compiled by _ C. W. Miller, chief clerk, show that f 124 deaths resulted from pellagra and n 122 from pulmonary tuberculosis, j, These deaths were distributed as fol- n lows: Pellagra?White men, 11; white a women, 21; negro men, 20; negro wo- a men, 72. From tuberculosis?White men, 12; white women, 17; negro men, 34; negro women, 59. There were 99 deaths during September from ? typhoid fever, this being the largest . toll this year from that disease. Oth- 1 er causes of death were: Diphtheria, n 20; cancer, 45; malaria, 54; pneumo- d nla, 22; diseases of the circulation, ? 217; diseases of the kidney, 136; intestlnal diseases, 107. n The estimates of the navy department for the Charleston Navy Yard 8 for the next fiscal year, as sent to h congress Tuesday by Secretary of the t: Treasury McAdoo from information ^ furnished by Secretary Daniels, total . $87,000. The items being $50,000 for 11 maintenance of dikes and dredging, * $25,000 for erecting a shop and $12,- r 000 to continue dredging. Recom- j, mendations of the river and harbor engineers for South Carolina Include the following: For Charleston harbor $70,000, with which it is proposed to h complete the 28-foot project, and $10,- p 000 to maintain the Ashley river pro- , lect and restore channel' dimensions. The engineers declare that the Char- n leston improvements have greatly c facilitated vessel movement and in- n creased traffic, especially since the . opening of the Panama. Canal. To maintain Waccamaw river improve- t( ments and continue dredging to Con- tl way to form a 12-foot channel. $20,- 8i 500. For continuance and mainten- s ance of Winyah bay improvements, . $100,000. For continuance and main- d tenance of the Santee river and Els- ti therville Minim creek canal projects, fl $16,000, and the same amount for a maintenance on Wateree river. For , maintenance Congaree river, $25,000. a For maintaining the island waterway c Deiween unariesion ana mcuieuau- ri ville, including restoration of the a channel depth, where it has deterio- ,. rated, $15,000. 11 Laurens, December 7: The Lau- w rens county school department is per- si fecting plans for the opening of night h schools early in January in a majority p ){ the rural districts. Superintendent ij ji Bducation Sullivan says the pro- n gramme is well under way and he e.. v pects fine results from the efforts this t< >eason. At the monthly meeting of the o: teachers Saturday, a majority of the \? 120 teachers present indicated their o; willingness to assist in conducting n: these schools when they open next ai nonth. B. L. Parkinson, superintend- tl ;nt of the Laurens city schools, and c John Fewell, principal of the Watts g niils school, will open night schools at & he Laurens and Watts mill villages n January 3, according to the present r< programme. At the recent meeting of p the county teachers and trustees, tt there were present several persons who ittended the night schools in Young's township last winter, and these were nvited to express their opinion of the ivork of the schools. Two men stated ir that they were "pupils" of one of these 1' schools, and both learned to read and r< vrite during the term last winter, C( ind one of them stated that he recently P( vrote his first letter to his mother. P 3ne trustee expressed the opinion hat these schools were not needed in 1 lis community, while a number of ithers spoke in favor of the schools, Si saying they knew the good that had ? leen accomplished in their section P' ust In one session, and they were ft leartilv in favor of extending and pro- p noting the plan. 1! EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT What Various 8outh Carolina News* Papars Think of Varioua Things. A certain woman has said that she considered $40 a fair allowance for a year's supply of shoea What would that woman do when you turned her loose In a millinery shop??Greenville Piedmont Something la Prohibiting. The United States Internal revenue report for the fiscal year of 1915 reveals the fact that the number of persons taking out government tax receipts as retail liquor dealers was 12,295 lees than the previous year, making at $25 each a decrease of $875,878. Wholesale liquor dealers' tax receipts decreased (72. Wholesale dealara In malt * > ? ?" mk??v 114UVI9 UUV4 UUflUU ?,?464, and special tax receipts fell off 1,070, making a total of 16,170 fewer government tax receipts for the year 1916 than for 1914. The report shows, further, that the tax levied on makers of Btllls and on manufactured stills and worms amounted to leas than half the sum of the year before.?Abbeville Medium. The Child's Reading. If we would teach a child to like that which is good in reading, we must establish the liking In kls early years, it is not enough that we shall tell him n later days that certain books are rood and bid him read them. When tie is grown up he will choose that which he likes and our work Is to toad lim to like good thinga We cannot >egln too early. The nursery tales should be those which have fed the children of many an age and clime. The song, the hymn, the poem should )e those that are worth reading and eelting. Let us make the beautiful story and myth and hymn a part of he child's early environment More han this, let us remember that In :eaching the children to read good >ooks we are re-lnforcing them against he ills of life. Accompanied by noble houghts they shall go to their drudgsry and toil with a brave spirit and nake melody in their hearts even when heir hands are rough with toll, they ihaJl dwell with the great and good ind tber moments of leisure shall be ich because of these good times of heir youth.?Manning Times. A Blow to British Prestige. The defeat of the British expeditioniry force In Mesopotamia, under Gen. Downshead, Is a very serious affair md may have far reaching effects. Tne announcement of the reverse was suppressed as long as possible by the intlsh censor, but the details publlsh>d from German sources were too clrlumstantial to be Ignored, and they lave been confirmed In practically full particulars. The expedition, which had ipproached within striking distance Bagdad, seems to have been de oateo in open bat tie by the Turk*, breed to retreat, and driven back uphx It* baee more than a hundred miles iway, with heavy loes in condition ilmoet approaching a riot The casuallee of the British were nearly 6,000 nen. The object of the expedition was mportant a* a phase of the general var, and had it been successful, might lave been turned to heavy account >ut it could hardly be esteemed an issential of the great campaign against he central empirea It is in another ispect that the reverse is serious to the British, that being in the blow It drivers at the prestige of British authorty and power *n Asia. The suhdoct . md dependent people in the seaaJot-. indent empire, for so long subject to exploitation by the progreeslve races >f Europe, are feeling out their itrength in the opportunities of the rreat war and every success they gain s certain to Increase their confidence ind inspire them to new efforts to veaken the yoke that they have borne n western service. To Great Britain, rith its far flung empire, stretching to he remote confines of the east, such i reverse as this in the very heixt of Isiatlc Turkey, whence the spretd of he story will carry to the bordirs of ndia and affect millions of British ubjecta may prove to be exceedingly langeroua In ordinary tlmee it would >e but a temporary check, to be reIressed shortly enough by the gather tig of new and crushing forces, as was he case in the Soudan, for example, >ut, engaged in Europe to the utmost f her resources, perhaps, Great BritJn may find It no easy task to recover a Asia the footing that has been lost 'civre a i caiuuiuuii imo cume u> (no ribee and peoples of that continent hat the old dominion haa slipped off nd that their heads are out of the alter. This was not a German led eslstance such as the Dardanelles deense may be considered, but wholly a ative affair, and the magnitude of it s certain to make a very deep 1mress upon the lighting tribes of Asia nd arouse dangerous ambitions and splrations.?Charleston Post ? The national council of the Boy Icouts of America, through an auhorized committee, held a special rieetlng In New York last Wednesay, to consider a statement Issued by Srnest T. Seton in which he said that e had resigned as chief scout After he meeting the council Issued this tatement: "Mr. Seton did not resign; e was deliberately dropped by the naional council of the Boy Scouts of imerica on the question of Amerlcansm. He is not an American citizen, le not only resented suggestions and equeets made by many of his friends i the Scout movement that he beome an American citizen, but went urther and objected to the Boy Scouts landbook including a chapter on atriotism. His term expired February, 915. The national council at its anual meeting did not re-elect him beause of the belief that in a movelent for making men as citizens of Lmerica, there should be no doubt as o their citizenship and patriotism of he leaders of the movement. Any tatement that the dropping of Mr. leton or his alleged resignation was ue to anything else than this is not rue. In fairness to Mr. Seton, the ofce was left vacant until he could be fforded a reasonable opportunity to eclare his intention of becoming a itizen of the United Statea This he efused. In response to Mr. Seton's ttempt to resign, he was Informed lat inasmuch as he held no office there 'as no office from which he could reign and the matter was Anally closed ist July. Mr. Seton promised explicitly by letter that he would quletr proceed with his own work without lising any issue. He has seen At to iolate his promise without any notice i the executive board or any of its fficers at a time and under conditions rhich make necessary this statement f fact. The aims of the Boy Scout lovement are today exactly the same s have been since the organization of le movement in this country in 1910. haracter development and good citienship through wholesome outdoorctivitie8 is the objective. The movelent at its October meeting deAnitely ;-affirmed the policy of being a nonnlitl rM> 1 nnn.mlllto rv nnt ontl. mill* iry, organization." ? Cotton ginned prior to December 1. mounted to 9,711,453 running bales, icluding 93,361 round bales and 77,51 bales of sea island, the census bu;au announced on Wednesday. That umpares with 13,073,386 bales, or 82.2 er cent of the entire crop, ginned rior to December 1, last year, 12,088,12 bales, or 86.5 per cent in 1913, and 1,854,451 bales, or 87.9 per cent in >12. The average quantity of cotton Inned prior to December 1, in the last ) years was 10,691,933 bales or 83.4 er cent of the crop. Included in the innings were 93,361 round bales comared with 39,682 last year, 86,878 in 913, and 73,030 in 1912.