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9 r YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WKEHLT. L. m. grists 80H8. Pubiuhen. ( % ifusjajq: <$or th< promotion of thi> political, Social, ^jri<nttnpl and dlominerciat Interests of the |)eopt<. ( "J"' established i8c5. YORK, S. C.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1915 2SXX103. TARZ. THE By EDGAR RIC ^ 1 Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mu CHAPTER XIX. .The Outpost of the World. WUh the report of his gun, D'Arnot ' saw the door fly open and the figure of a man pitch headlong within on to the cabin floor. It was Tarzan. With a cry of anguish D'Arnot sprang to the ape man's side and, kneeling! lifted the black head in his arms, calling Tarzan's name aloud. There was no response, and then D'Arnot placed his ear above the man's heart. To his Joy he heard its steady beating beneath. The bullet had struck a glancing blow upon the skull. There was an ugly flesh wound, but no signs of a fracture of the skull beneath. D'Arnot breathed a sigh of relief j and went about bathing the blood from L Tarzan's face. __ Soon the cool water revived him, and presently he opened his eyes to look > in questioning surprise at D'Arnot. rThe latter had bound the wound with pieces of cloth, and as he saw that Tarzan had regained consciousness he rose and, going to the table, wrote a message, which he handed to the ape man, explaining the terrible mistake he had made and how thankful he was that the wound was not more serious. Then he handed Tarzan the two messages that had been left for him. Tarzan read the first one through with a look of sorrow on his-face. The second one he turned over and over, searching for an opening. He had never seen a sealed envelope before. At length he handed it to D'Arnot. The latter opened it and handed the letter back to Tarzan. Sitting on a camp stool, the ape man spread the written sheet before him and read: ^ To Tarzan of the Apes: Before I leave let me add my thanks to those of Mr. Clayton for the kindness you have shown in permitting us k the use of your cabin. That you never came to make fiends f with us has been a great regret to ua We should have liked so much to i see and thank our host. ) There is another I should like to thank also, but he did not come back, though I cannot believe that he is dead. 1 do not know his name. He is a great white giant who wore the diamond locket upon his breast. If you know him and can speak his language, carry my thanks to him and tell him that I waited seven days for him to return. Tell him also that in my home In America, in the city of Baltimore, there will always be a welcome for him if he cares to come. I found a note you wrote me lying among the leaves beneath a tree near the cabin. I do not know how you learned to love me who have never spoken to me, and I am very sorry if it is true, for I have already given my heart to another. ?n? i Urn?- that I am always your friend. Jane Porter. Tarzan sat with gaze upon the floor for nearly an hour. It was evident to him from the notes that they did not know that he and Tarzan of the apes were one and the same. ? "I have given my heart to another," ^ he repeat<?d over and over again to himself. ' For a week they did little but rest. Meanwhile D'Arnot coached Tarzan in .^1 French. At the end of that time the two men could converse quite easily. W One night as they were sitting within the cabin before retiring. Tarzan turned to D'Arnot. "Where is America?" he said. D'Arnot pointed toward the northwest. "Many thousands of miles across the ocean," he replied. "Why?" "I am going there." D'Arnot shook his head. "It is impossible, my friend," he said. Tarzan thought for a long time. "Do any white men live in Africa?" he asked. "Yes." "We shall go there tomorrow,** announced Tarzan. " ri' A mnt cmila/1 ar*ri- chonk hia head. . "It is too far. We should die long before we reached them." k "Do you wish to stay here. then, forever?" asked Tarzan. t "No." said D'Arnot. * "Then we shall start tomorrow. I do not like it here longer. I should rather die than remain here." "Well," answered D'Arnot, with a shrug. "I do not know, my friend, but that I also would rather die than remain here. If you go I shall go with you." "It is settled then," said Tarzan. "1 shall start for America tomorrow." HS "How will you get to America without money?*' asked D'Arnot. "What is money?" inquired Tarzan. to?k a l?n? time to make him understand. t "How do men get money?" he asked I at last, f "They work for it." * "Very well. I will work for it." | "No. my friend," returned D'Arnot, t- "you need not worry about money. nor need you work for it. I have enough for two, enough for twenty, much more than is good for one man, and you shall have all you need if ever we reach civilization. So on the following day they started north along the shore. Each man carried a carbine and ammunition, besides bedding and some food and cooking utensils. The latter seemed to Tarazn a most useless encumberance so he threw his away. "But you must learn to eat cooked food, my friend," remonstrated D'Arnot. "No civilized men eat raw flesh." "There will be time enough when I reach civilization," said Tarzan. "I do not like the things, and they only spoil the taste of good meat." For days they traveled north, sometimes finding food in plenty and again going hungry for days. They saw no signs of natives, nor P were they molested by wild beasts. > Their journey was a miracle of ease. Tarzan asked questions and learned rapidly. D'Arnot taught him many of AN OF APES E BURROUGHS I nsey Company. the refinements of civilization, even to the use of knife and fork, but sometimes Tarzan would drop them in disgust and grasp his food in his strong brown hands, tearing it with his mo- l lars like a wild beast. Then D'Arnot would expostulate , with him, saying: "You must not eat like a brute, Tarzan, while I am trying to make a gentleman of you.'' i On the journey he told D'Arnot about j the great chest he had seen the sailors j bury and how he had dug it up and j carried it to the gathering place of the upes and buried it there. I "It must be the treasure chest of Professor Porter," said D'Arnot. "It , is too bad, but, of course, you did not ] know." i Then Tarzan recalled the letter writ- < ten by Jane Porter to her friend, the , one he had stolen when they first came j to his cabin, and now he knew what was in the chest and what it meant to j Jane Porter. < "Tomorrow we shall go back after , it," he announced to D'Arnot. "You ( may go on toward civilization, and I will return for the treasure. 1 can go j very much faster alone." < "I have a better plan, Tarzan," ex- , claimed D'Arnot. "We shall go on to- j gether to the nearest settlement, and j there we will charter a boat and sail , back down the coast for the treasure, j That will be safer and quicker and , also not require us to be separated. , What do you think of that plan?" { "Very well," said Tarzan. "The treasure will be there whenever we go ( for it, and while I could fetch it now ; and catch up with you in a moon or < two. I shall feel safer to know that you are not alone on the trail." > In one of his talks with D'Arnot < Tarzan mentioned Kala, his ape j "mother." ] "Then you never knew your mother, Tarzan?" asked D'Arnot in sur- ] prise. < "Yes. She was a great tine ape, i larger than I and weighing twice as much." t "And you also knew your father?" , asked D'Arnot i "I did not know him. Kala told me ( he was a white ape and hairless like myself. I know now that he must j have been a white man. j D'Arnot looked long and earnestly < at h^s companion. < "Tarzan," he said at length, "it is , impossible that the ape, Kala, was ] your mother. You are pure man and, t I should say, the offspring of highly bred and intelligent parents. Have you not the slightest clew to your past?" i "Not the slightest," replied Tar- j zan ?" "No writing in the cabin that might j have told something of the lives of its ] original inmates." I "I have read everything that was , in the cabin with the exception of jone t book, which I know now to be writ- i ten in a language other than English. Possibly you can read it" 1 floKnH thn llttlo hlnplr dia_rv t from the bottom of his quiver and handed it to his companion. D'Arnot glanced at the title page. "It is the diary of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, an English nobleman, and it is written in French," he said. D'Arnot read it aloud. Occassionally his voice broke, ami he was forced to stop reading for the hopelessness that spoke between the lines. Often he glanced at Tarzan, but the ape man sat upon his haunches like a carven image, his eyes fixed upon the ground. Only when the little babe was mentioned did the tone of the diary alter from the habitual note of despair which had crept into it by degrees after the first two months upon the shore. Then the passages were tinged with a subdued happiness that was even sadder than the rest. < One entry showed an almost hopeful spirit:^. Today our little boy is six months nlfl Ho hiitt prahhpH mv nen in his chubby fist and with his ink begrimed i little fingers has placed the seal of j his tiny finger prints upon the page. Upon the margin of the page were j the partially blurred imprints of i four wee fingers and the outer half 1 of the thumb. When D'Arnot had finished the I diary the two men sat in silence for < some minutes. \ "Well, Tarzan of the apes, what | think you?" asked D'Arnot "Does not ] this little book clear up the mystery of your parentage? You are Lord , Greystoke.*' 1 Tarzan shook his head. < "The book speaks of but one child." he replied. "It's skeleton lay , in the crib, where it died crying for i nourishment, from the first time I | entered the cabin until Professor Porter's party buried it, with its father and mother, beside the cabin.'' A week later the two men came suddenly upon a clearing in the forest. ' In the distance were several buildings surrounded by a strong palisade. Between them and the inclosure stretched a cultivated field in which a number of negroes were working, i Tarzan started straight across the I field, his head high held and the tropical sun beating upon his smooth, brown skin. Behind him came D'Arnot, clothed in some garments which had been discarded at the cabin by Clayton i when the officers of the French cruiser had fitted him out in more presentohlft fochinn Presently one of the blacks looked up and, beholding Tarzan striding toward him, turned, shrieking, and made for the palisade. In an instant the air was filled with ] cries of terror from the fleeing gardeners. but before any had reached the palisade a white man emerged from the inclosure, rifle in hand, to discover the cause of the commotion. ( "D'Arnot cried loudly to him: , "Do not fire! We are friends!" "Halt then!" was the reply. "Stop Tarzan!" cried D'Arnot, halting the ape man in his tracks. "He thinks we are enemies." Tarzan dropped into a walk, and together he and D'Arnot advanced toward the white man by the gate. The latter eyed them in puzzled bewilderment. "What manner of men are you?" he asked in French. "White men,*' replied D'Arnot "We have been lost in the jungle for a loner time." "I am Father Constantin of the French mission here.*' said the other. "I am glad to welcome you.'' "This is M. Tarz&n, Father Constantin,'' replied D'Arnot, indicating the ape man, and as the priest extended his hand to Tarzan D'Arnot added, "And I am Paul D'Arnot of the French navy." Father Constantin took the hand which Tarzan extended in Imitation of the priest's act, while the latter took In the superb physique and handsome race in one quick, keen glance. Thus came Tarzan of the apes to the first outpost of civilization. For a week they remained there, and the ape man, keenly observant, learned much of the ways of men, while black women sewed upon white luck garments for himself and D'Arnot that they might continue their journey properly clothed. Another month.brought them to a little group of buildings at the mouth >f a wide river, and there Tarzan saw nany boats and was filled with the >ld timidity by the sight of many men. Gradually he became accustomed to :he strange noises and the odd ways >f civilization, so that presently none night know that two short months before this handsome Frenchman in mmaculate white ducks, who laughed ind chatted with the gayest of them, nad been swinging naked through primeval forests to pounce upon some anwary victim, which, raw, was to ippease his savage appetite. The knife and fork, so contemptu>usly flung aside a month before. Tar;an now manipulated as exquisitely as lid the polished D'Arnot So apt a pupil had he been that the roung Frenchman had labored assldupualy to make of Tarzan a polished gentleman in so far as nicety of manners and speech was concerned. "Heaven made you a gentleman at Peart, my friend,'' D'Arnot had said, 'but we want its work to show upon the exterior also." As soon as they had reached the Utile port D'Arnot had cabled his govsrnment of his safety and requested i three month's leave, which had been granted. He also cabled his banker for funds, and the enforced wait of a month, under which both chafed, was iue to their inability to charter a vessel for the return to Tarzan's jungle ifter the treasure. At last, however. D'Arnot succeeded in chartering an indent tub for the coastwise trip to rarzan's landlocked harbor. It was a happy morning for them both when the little vessel weighed inchor and made for the open sea. The trip to the beach was uneventful, and the morning after they dropped anchor before the cabin Tarzan, ( garbed once more in his jungle regalia ind carrying a spade, set out alone for he amphitheater of the apes where ay the treasure. Late the next day he returned, pearlng the great chest upon his jhoulders, and at sunrise the little . essel was worked through the harpor's mouth and took up her northward Journey. Three weeks later Tarzan and D'Ar-" lot were passengers on board a French Jicttiner uuuuu IUX uyuiu), aiiu aiici i few days in that city D'Arnot took rarzan to Paris. The ape man was anxious to proceed to America, but D'Arnot insisted :hat he must accompany him to Paris first, nor would he divulge the nature af the urgent necessity upon which he based his demand. (To be Continued.) FORT MILL MATTERS Lots of Christmas Booze, but General Good Order?Farewell to Rev. W. A. Hafner?Sunday School Celebration?Better Times for the Mill People?Personal Mention. 'orreapondence The Yorkvllle Enquirer Fort Mill, December 27.?Christmas was celebrated in Fort Mill this year in a joyous spirit, free from any accidents, and in an unusually orderly manner, only one arrest being made, and that of a helpless drunk at the railway station. Evidences of drinking were rarely seen and from the fact that the local express office has, in the past three weeks, handled more than 1,200 gallons of the stuff, K h c* lnna nrrp?t a nnon ra of ill in nro ro. markable. The Methodist Sunday school celebrated with a Christmas tree and ?ach member was bountifully rememjered. This Sunday school has shown remarkable gTowth of activity and numbers under the direction of Su[>erintendent A. O. Jones the past rear, the pfesent average attendance being 150. The Men's Bible class with E. L>. Hughes as teacher, also has become a splendid organization, now ?nrolling about 75 adults. Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church was held a beautiful, yet sad, service, the occasion being a farewell service by the three congregations of the town in honor of the work done by the retiring Presbyterian pastor, Rev. W. A. Hafner, who leaves this week for his new field at Gaffney. Appropriate talks were made by W. M. Carothers, J. D. Fulp, Rev. E. Z. James of the Methodist church, and Rev. S. P. Hair of the Baptist church. Mr. Hafner responded feelingly to the words of appreciation. A splendid sign of the prosperity of the times is evidenced by the fact that the Fort Mill Manufacturing company has an order for 283 cases of ginghams to be shipped out at once. Quite a contrast is this to the omens of depression one year ago when the mills did not turn a wheel for three months and the merchants daily watched for Sheriff Brown to pay them a call. Mrs. James D. Fulp left Monday for a month's visit to her sister, Mrs. W. IT nunii^? a TII .. n. luiiiips ai run iviyers, r ia, Hon. W. R. Bradford of Columbia, is spending1 his Christmas vacation with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Oldham. Mr. and Mrs. \V. A. Watson of Charlotte, are the guests of Capt. and Mrs. J. W. Ardrey. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beaty of Wirinsboro. are visiting their daughter, Mrs. W. A. Hafner. Miss Florence Boyd of Meridian, Miss., is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Boyd. Mrs. J. B. Elliott and little son are visiting Mrs. Elliott's sister, Mrs. R. Gr. McLees and Mrs. E. S. Reid at Chatham, Va. BLEASE IN ANDERSON Big Crowd Listens to Former Governor. VARIOUS LIVE TOPICS DISCUSSED Warns the People that the Warehouse is in Dangers-Does Not Believe in Tax Commission?Refers to the Isenhower Case Recently Tried. Farmers' Tribune, December 21. Saturday afternoon former Governor Cole L. Blease delivered an extemperaneous talk to as many voters as could find room to stand or sit in the Anderson courthouse. Tne speech was one of the best that Anderson people, who have heard the "Idol of the masses" make many, have ever listened to. The former and next governor talked a few minutes less than an hour, and there wasn't an instant of the time when there wasn't the closest attention given to his utterances. Sheriff Joe H. M. Ashley called the meeting to order and presented the speaker In a way that characterizes that official's methods. He used only a dozen and a half words, saying that "You are here to hear ex- and next Governor Blease, and he will now speak to you." Mr. Blease preluded his remarks by saying that he was always pleased to address an Anderson county audience ?and he had spoken to many of them. He was pleased because when he talked in Anderson county he realized he was speaking in a white man's county. It had not been many days since he had made a speech in another county for the purpose of proving that all the honorable white men of the state stood for what Anderson has always stood for?the protection of the white women and the sanctity of the homes of the citizenry of the state above all other thinga Had the incident which he was defending occurred in Anderson county only one man would have been killed, and that would have been a man only in form? Jule Smith, the negro rapist. "Twelve white men of York county, selected from a venire of York's representative citizenship, after having all the facts and law presented by South Carolina's best counsel and court, have endorsed the declaration that I made to the congress of governors at Richmond, Virginia, and declared that the supreme law of God and man was the protection of the sanctity of his Womankind." Governor Blease said that when he was in office he was hailed as "the lawless governor of South Carolina," and said that of the 1,700 convicted UI11UI lUUtllCB LIlcLt lie IlcLU ptW UltXI UUU pardoned not one had been recorded as having: been convicted of crime since he left the governor's office. On the other hand, the administration now in control has made an almost continuous extollation of itself ?both before and since Its election? that it was the only living exponent of law and order. Now compare this with the record of your lawless governor: According to reports in the newspapers there have been 15 white women criminally assaulted this year; there have been seven white men feloniously shot by negroes in the last 90 days; when the attorney general makes his report, compiled from the reports of the various solicitors of the state, you will see recorded one of the greatest statistical reports of bloodshed, crime and despoliation that has ever been set forth in the annals of our state. "Law and order! You may talk all you wish or may of law . and order, but enforcement of law means that one must turn women and little children out of their homes into the snow and into the night, at the behest of a corporation, then thank God that I don't enforce it, and if it be lawless for a number of sober-minded husbands and fathers to summarily execute a negro despoiler of the purity, virginity and sanctity of the womankind in South Carolina, 1 must admit I am lawless in principle." When he was governor every time a cross-road commissary was broken into: everv time a statute was violat ed; wnenever there was a parole or a pardon issued?no matter upon how worthy a cause?there was a hue and cry In the newspapers of lawlessness and lack of respect for law, said the speaker. Do you see any of it now, with an increase of crime a hundredfold? No. It's a matter of which side the fence the dog- barks on. Speaking of the manner in which the present administration is even trying to purloin credit for the few good things they are doing for the masses of the people, former Governor Blease took as an illustration the night schools among the mill villages of which the state department of education has been doing so much talking, and the newspapers have been devoting so much space to recently. The bill in the legislature making it possible for the establishment of these night schools was introduced in the senate by and passed when Cole L. Blease was senator from Newberry county and in all his public life Cole L?. Blease has always advocated and worked for every measure that would promote educational advancement of the white children of the working and all other classes in this state. The newspapers made a big hurrah and sensation about the sad and tragic affair in Winnsboro last June. Declared it an issue between the respect and upholding of law and the constitution and the reign of the mob. It was a terrible sacrifice brought on by a power making the protection of the sanctity of white, womanhood a secondary consideration. Had the prosecutors?or persecutors?been able to secure a verdict against that boy Isenhower there would have been glaring headlines across front pages, "Daw and Order Vindicated," but when South Carolina citizenry represented by a York county jury, returned their divine-inspired verdict, a few paracraohs would suffice to report the re suit, and it was buried and forgotI in a day. "You have heard about this committee of the last legislature finding a condition amounting to 'graft' in doing the printing for the state," said Mr. Blease. "Well, I wrote a message to the legislature three years ago pointing out and distinctly stating that the very conditions existed that this committee is beginning to discover." The daily press this morning announced that the present governor of the state had displayed his principles of mercy and his regard for delicate balance of justice by recessing from participation in the affairs of the Commercial congress in session Charleston to parole a convict on recommendation of Solicitor Robt. A. Cooper and Supervisor Humbert. When Blease paroled a prisoner it was "disregard for law"?what is it when these exponents both recommend and perform that function? Speaking of the lawlessness of Bleaseism, the former governor said it was peculiar that nine-tenths of the crime of the state was by antiBleasites, and thought it really a shame that those high-bred? highminded? high-cultured? antis should allow themselves to be led astray and advised into criminality by Blease's paroled people. "They are even stealing my thunder," said Gov. Blease. The former governor touched on the part the present administration is attempting to load the people to believe it played In adjusting differences between the corporations and those who produced on their capital. Mr. Blease told of the Aiken-Augusta trolley car strike, in which he had been importuned, as governor, to send militia to assist in defeating the strikers' ends; ! of the Columbia street railway strike; of the Spartanburg strike. In all of them there was no disorder, no trouble and the men won out, assisted by the consideration of their rights by the executive department of the state. In the last Columbia strike an officer was smashed in the head by a railway a official and other disorders occurred. You know how it was here. Gov. Blease told his audience how C the last legislature tried to fool them on the tax levy proposition. They had ? pretended to hold to the same levy c Imposed by the session in power when Blease was governor, of 5} mills, but r had made a state levy of 5} mills, a . one-half levy for the asylum and a one mill levy for pensions Under Blease the whole levy, including the * old soldiers' pension, amounted to 5| 2 mills. The last legislature In reality Imposed a 7 mill levy and shameless- k ly wasted money In appropriations and c Kw M?*Aa?l/vn a# naoloaa nffl/tAfl I They "loaned" Clemson last year $85,- {| 000. Will any of it ever be paid s back? This year that school will h probably borrow $100,000 and Winthrop will ask $100,000 to keep even. . And what good are the offices ere- b ated by the last legislature to the masses of the people of the state? "I challenge any gentleman in the legislature to meet me in joint debate P and prove where any of those 60 well- n paying jobs created by them do the tax P1 payers a dollar's worth of good," declared Governor Blease. ol What has the board of charities ac- ir complished other than to give fat jobs y< to partisan pets? Is it necessary to take a little board of trade secretary e] and give him a salary equal to that di of the governor to have hiui run C( around and tell supervisors that it is better to work white and negro prisoners separately; and to tell sheriffs s and jailers that it's a good thing to keep the jails clean and advise that the penitentiary be cleaned up. Some of these little officials hired to visit Si penal institutions know nothing of jails except to go there to visit their H kinfolks or friends possibly. When Blease was governor he wrote ci supervisors to separate the races, and S when they did not he paroled the tli white prisoner worked with negroes. And he cleaned out the penitentiary himself when he abolished the hosiery v( mill. ? What has the "tax commission done? Revised the levy on banks. Who pays? The poor man who does business with the banks, of course. If they wanted P1 to do something which would benefit the whole people, why did they not fix the legal rate of interest at 6 per bi cent, or even compel the living with pt the legal 8 per cent rate and stop the iu practice of usury that is going on? m When railroad, bank, fertilizer and other taxes are raised the borrower w and consumer pay them in the end. w, The former governor said he had ht heard that day that John J. McMahan, Cl a Columbia lawyer and politician, was trying to get the endorsement of legislators for the position of state warehouse commissioner. The man who is now commissioner, Jno. L. th McLaurin, is the father of the system; he is a fifty or sixty plow farmer and one of the big cotton growers of the state. What is to his interest is to the F1 interest of every man who grows a w bale of cotton. To put a partisan th political wire-puller at the head of bi the system means sure death to one w of the greatest measures of economic legislation in the history of the state, ki The extra session of the legislature ui called by Blease made possible the w passage of the measure. Senator m McLaurin was the only man in the ui legislature well enough posted on the matter to frame the bill and fight it ia tijrough. Farmers and business men see the great good of the system, and , it would be a crime for the legislature to kill it by displacing the best man who could possibly head the system. y Mr. Blease complimented Sheriff Ashley highly on his handling of the ar recent strike situation, and said that ra recently he had heard that a prominent re circuit Judge remarked that he con- S sidered Ashley of Anderson and Rec- 88 tor of Greenville^ two of the most ef- tr flclent sherilTs in the state. The Fanners' Tribune was given re appreciated praise. S The ex- and next governor eloquent- m ly pleaded for purity of the ballot and h< spoke scathingly of the vote-seller hi as not only betraying the trust of his tx franchise, but selling the freedom and liberty of his children and his family, b, "Don't vote for the man, vote for the gt ? ?1 1 ~1 ? A "1? n^A ornMn VAH OnH principle. non. uvu wu ^uiuv /vu ^ vote according' to your conscience, and ty for the men who will not betray you m but for men who will see that you and j8 yours are protected and given your. righiB" _____ df ' m la STATE VITAL STATISTICS di la Record of Births and Deaths During Ten Months of Past Year. lif The total number of births and deaths in South Carolina from Janu- tQ ary 1, to October 31, as compiled by T1 the bureau of vital statistics, is: m Births, 37,642, being a rate of 28.1 per 1,000 inhabitants; deaths, 20,704, rate of 15.4. This does not include still- dr deaths, numbering 2,263 and 2,362 stillbirths. C( The counties of Beaufort, Charles- br ton and Richland recorded more C) deaths than births. Horry county came first in the per cent of births, ki at a rate of 47.5 for the ten months. th By counties the number of deaths ^ and births is as follows: County. Deaths. Births Abbeville 389 825 a Aiken 427 693 Anderson 837 1,629 ^ Bamberg 207 355 da Barnwell 286 538 P? Beaufort 471 463 af Berkeley 347 577 Y. Calhoun 261 476 Charleston 261 496 Cherokee 298 724 af Chester 412 729 ar Chesterfield 265 818 Clarendon 400 1,027 th Colleton 378 710 wi Darlington 497 1,115 te; Dillon 264 511 M Dorchester 210 351 m; Edgefield 345 640 to Fairfield 266 676 ed Florence 678 1,502 sa Georgetown 399 437 ou Greenville 1,028 1,884 be Greenwood 463 754 la! Hampton .. .. 149 387 Horry 343 1,026 w] Jasper 116 236 ar Kershaw 285 608 kl Lancaster 329 720 ne Laurens 601 925 Ti Lee 326 769 ye Lexington 295 633 ta Marion 304 650 by Marlboro 421 798 ap Newberry 374 750 sa Oconee 291 702 wl Orangeburg 754 1,636 sa Pickens 275 795 In Richland 1,501 1,413 wl Saluda 181 397 an Spartanburg 1,032 2,147 Sumter 685 1,105 m. Union 357 703 cu Williamsburg 483 1,093 wi York 514 963 mi The excess of deaths in Richland by county is due to the large number of in: deaths occurring in the state hospital po for the insane and the deaths in hos- he pitals. go ed ? The trustees of Tuskegee Institute ch last week selected Major Robert R. tei Moton, commandant of cadets at Pa Hampton Agricultural institute, at I9 Hampton, Va., to succeed Booker T. st< Washington as president of Tuskegee. Hi Major Moton Is a negro, born on a Virginia farm, his mother a cook and his father a slave on the same planta- ha tion. Some years after the Ci\il war, mi he worked his way through Hampton, ac and after his graduation, he was re- H. talned in the position of commandant pa of cadets. He was an intimate friend en of Booker Washington, and stands sa high in the estimation of all the prom- su inent white men who are particularly pa interested in negro education. to PALMETTO QLEANINQ8 Jurrent Events and Happenings Throughout South Carolina. Governor Manning is preparing his nnual message to the legislature. The first snow in two years fell In Charleston last week. C. M. McCurry has been appointed LUditor of Florence county to suceed Hi L?. Darr, deceased. Fire last week destroyed the Westainster Shuttle works, destroying roperty valued at $5,000. Walt Morgan of Greenville, was illed near Westminster on December 2, when he was run over by a train. Hurley Harvey shot and killed his insman, Henr- HbccIua in Hampton ounty last week, following a quarrel. John Robertson, a negro, was killed i Columbia Friday, when he was truck by an elevator In the Jerome otel. The Charleston board of trustees as passed a resolution endorsing a ond issue of $260,000 for school urposes. Wallace Bird died in & Sumter hosital last week of gunshot wounds iceived at the hands of an unknown erson. James R. Stuart, an artist, a native f South Carolina, died at his home t Madison, Wis., last week, aged 81 ears. Fire which broke out in the Farm-s' warehouse at Newberry on Tuesiy, burned more than 115 bales of >tton. R D. Ferrell, an employe of an in1 ranee company in Spartanburg, >mmltted suicide in his home Monty by inhaling gas. The governor has appointed J. S. illey of Orangeburg, solicitor of the pst judicial circuit to succeed P. T. 1 ildebrand, deceased. George C. Wheeler, a well known tizen of Saluda, committed suicide unday night by shooting himself trough the head with a pistol. Sam Jones, colored, charged with lllng a negro in Laurens fourteen :ars ago, has been captured by the dice at Offerman, Ga. Albert Lacy, a white painter ot ( nderson, about 35 years old, comitted suicide in that town Tuesday r drinking poison. S. G. Owen, formerly of Spartan- 1 lrg, but who for a number of years ist has lived in Washington, D. C., ' us been sentenced to life lmprisonent for the murder of his wife. Peter Hamilton, colored, charged 1th criminal assault upon & white oman at Easley several weeks ago, is been sentenced to die by electroition on February 4. Governor Manning has offered a reard of 1100 for the capture of Green ood Rogers, a negro serving a. life mtence for arson who escaped from e state farm in Kershaw county veral weeks ago. The negro Graded school building at orence was destroyed by fire last eek. There were 1,600 children in ie building at the time of the fire it no one was hurt. The building as insured for $10,000. Bub Pou, a young white man, was lied at Ward, Saluda county, Sat-day night and Fred Kneece, also hite, is in Jail charged with his urder. The cause of the killing is lknown. The board of directors of the News td Courier Co., of Charleston, have ed -notioe of an increase la capital ock from 660,000 to 6109,200. The rectors propose"to Issue 649.200 of eferred stock. William P. Holland, for many years i engineer on the Atlantic Coast Line ilway, died last week from injuries icelved when he Jumped from the cond story window of a Florence .nitarium where he was undergoing eatment , Henry C. Cuttino, a well known al estate dealer and collector of umter, committed suicide Tuesday | orning by snooting mmseit in me ;ad with a pistol. Despondency over lancial matters is supposed to have ien the reason for the act Charley Smith, 9. white man, was irned to death is a fire which deroyed the boarding house of a Mrs. cLendon at Clearwater, Aiken coun, Saturday night. Another unknown an who had been with Smith all day missing. Fannie Blackwell, the 12-year-old lughter of Andy Blackwell of Mlln's store, Spartanburg county, was owned in Obed creek near her home st week. The girl and her little other fell into the creek from a foot g. The boy barely escaped with his 'e. P. D. Lincoln of McClellanville, a rmer rural policeman, was stabbed! death at that place last week by tios. W. Graham, a farmer. The two en quarreled and Lincoln shot at raham three times with a pistol when e latter drew his knife and stabbed e former to the heart. Lincoln was inking. Mrs. Mabel Mack, administratrix of e estate of the late Cecil Mack of irdova, Orangeburg county, has ought suit against the Atlantic sast Line railway for $40,000 on acunt of the death of Mack, who was lied by a passenger train while in e discharge of his duties as a mail trrier several months ago. Record of the death of Laura Green, negro, believed to be the oldest resl?nt of Jacksonville, was placed on e in the city health department toiy, says a Jacksonville, Fla., dlsitch of December 27. It gave her as 115. She resided in Jackson lie 16 years, coming' here from narleston, S. C., where she was born jcember 23, 1800. She died, two days ter celebrating her 115th birthday inlversary. Columbia State, 22nd: Changes in e law governing the state cotton irehouse system were discussed yesrday at a conference between Gov. anning and John L. McLaurin, comIssioner. The two officials are said be in full agreement on the proposchanges in the act. Mr. McLaurin id yesterday that he would not give it his annual report until it had en placed in the hands of the legisture. George B. Perkins of Boston, Mass., ho was convicted in Columbia, Januy 1, 1915, of manslaughter for the lling of F. W. R. Hindeman, busies manager of the Jacksonville mes-Unlon, and sentenced to three ars in the Federal prison in Atlan, Ga., has been granted a new trial - the United States circuit court of ipeals at Richmond, Va. Perkins is id to have been crazed by drink nen he killed Hindeman and at the me time seriously wounded Captain gram of the steamer Mohaw, upon nich the shooting took place, and lother passenger. Edward E. White, an assistant flre:in at the State house in Columbia, t the throat of Mrs. Ada Geddings th whom he boarded early Tuesday orning and then committed suicide cutting his own throat. White was fatuated with the woman and is supsed to have become infuriated when received information that she was >ing to leave Columbia. White killa woman in Columbia under similar ^ rcumstances in 1898 and was senneed to life imprisonment. He was j ruieu i>> iuriiivr uuvcinui oirtujc m 13 during good behavior and abmtation from the use of intoxicants. i was drunk when he killed Mrs. g 'ddings and himself. f The state insurance department f s just passed through one of the J [>st successful years in its history, I cording to a personal letter from F. e McMaster, commissioner, accom- e nying his annual report to the gov- I nor. During the year, the letter p ys, there has been collected from In- y ranee companies and other com- t nies licensed by the department a li tal of $179,617.14. This has been r turned into the state treasury as collected. Under the act establishing the insurance department, there hai been collected specifically for lti maintenance, $16,313.40. Under the amounts appropriated there has been expended by the department $7,315.86. Under the act of 1904, providing: for investigation of incendiary fires and inspection of buildings, a balance ol $676.35 was brought forward and there has been collected $2,749.66. During the year this amount has been expended. On account of the act per*>o/1imt<Ano in li^onfiA foAO ATI account of investments in the state, companies have received in abatements a total of 135,724.25. Nathan Riley, a young man of the Bethlehem section of Saluda county, had a narrow escape one day last week. While hunting squirrels in a remote part of the woods he climbed a tree to run some squirrels out of a nest. After getting nearly to the nest, he slipped down the tree, wedging his leg just above the knee into a fork of the tree so tightly that he was unable to free himself. He called for help, but there was no one near. He clung to the tree in this position for about five hours before he was found by some wood cutters. At that time he was so exhausted that he was unable to hold himself up any longer. It was found necessary to climb the tree and tie his body to the trunk, and afterward build a scaffold up to him and cut the limb off before he could be extricated. When he was finally taken down his leg was blade from the knee down. He had scoped all the skin from the Inside o. his hands in his effort to hold to the >S^e, and had torn his clothes nearly off while trying to get loose. In addition to the pain of staying in this cramped position for several hours, he was nearly frozen, having gone up the tree without his coat and shoes on and it being a cold, raw day. CLOVER CULLING8 Christmas Trade Best in Town's History?An Ordinary Christmas? Woodmen Elect Officers Junior Officers?Poet office Rushed?Personal Mention. ?rrwpuitd?ao? The YorkvllU Kaquovr Clover, December 30.?That the Christmas trade this year was the best in the history of the town is the concensus of opinion of Clover mer:hants who have been interviewed upin the subject during the past few lays. People from far and near did heir Christmas trading here this year ind the merchants had no trouble in lisposing of the very heavy stocks of loliday goods which they had on hand, rhe streets were literally lined with people Christmas eve and it was all :he many extra clerks could do to wait >n the trade. All in all, it was a very orderly Christmas in Clover. There was plen? - * AtditAnna Kiit flAmfthnV y Ul II4UU1 1U OT1UVUW i/uv .? t seemed to be the good fellowship )rand of stuff and the police had no trouble at all to keep down boisterousiess. Receipts at the express office ihow that the supply this year was Lbout as large as usual despite the 'act that the gentlemen from No'th Zfaliny were deprived of theirs. The liquor belonging to North Carolina people which was held up here following the decision of Judge Rice to the effect that North Carolina people zould not have their liquor shipped :o Clover and received by them here, is still in the keeping of the express igent. There are many gallons of it fcll neatly stacked in the depot and It has met with the longing gaze of many Polks in this vicinity who are now suffering with that "morning after" feeling. Pine Camp No. 44, of Clover W. O. IV., on Monday night, December 20, sleeted officers as follows: J. A. C. Love, consul commander; G. W. Knox, id visor lieutenant; J. E. Beamguard, rlerk; W. B. Stroup, bookkeeper; J. P. Slfford, escort; B. L. Love, watchman; T. J. Bradford, sentry; W. L Brison, manager. Clover Leaf oouncll, No. 23, Jr. O. (J. A. M., has elected officers for the ensuing term as follows: Councilor, A. M. Enloe; vice councilor, O. Lee Jackson; Recording secretary, Jaa. A. Barrett; assistant recording secretary , L. M. Barrett; financial secretary, W. B. Hag&ns; treasurer, 8. J. Matthews; conductor, J. ?1 Jackson; warden, G. W. Adams; inside sentinel, H. B. Enloe; outside sentinel, J. S. Hop[>er; trustee, G. W. Adams. The force at the postofflce was unjsually busy during the holidays, the amount of mail of all descriptions -ecelved here and being sent out from nere exceeding that of last Christmas. Messrs. B. R. and S. H. Love and Viisa Tula Love of Clover, have returned home after a visit to relatives ind friends in Rock Hill. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Currence have returned to their home in Asheville, sT. C., after visiting relatives here. Mise Emma Currence, who is teaching at Nichols, S. C., Is spending the holidays at her home here. Cadets J. B. Klndrick, H. L. and G. (V. Suggs, DeLoach Whitesldes and (V. A. Matthews of Clemson college, ire spending the holidays with their mrents. R. E. Allen, who is teaching at r^nweil. N". c.. is soending the holidays vith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Vllen, here. Miss Bessie Jackson who is teachng at Dillon, S. C., is at home for the lolidays. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McArthur of West Point, Miss, are visiting the 'amily of Mr. W. P. Smith here. Misses Jean Pressly of Due West, md Louise Smith of Lander college, Ireenwood, are with their respective >arents here for the holidaya M. S. Barnett of Charlotte, spent Christmas day with relatives here. Paul, Clarence and McElwee Stroup ind James Pursley of Erskine college, ire spending the holidays with their >arents in Clover. Miss Bleka Beam guard of Chicora :ollege, Columbia, isx spending the lolidays with her paronts, Senator and rtrs. J. E. Beamguard, here. Miss Mattie Wilson of Clinton, is risiting her parents in Clover. Misses Fannie and Ava Allen are spending the holidays at home here. Dr. and Mrai R. E. Stevenson of Camden, visited Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Campbell here this week. Miss Maud Youngblood of Atlanta, xa., is spending the holidays with her nother in Clover. Carl Matthews of Davidson college, s spending a few days with his father lere. Misses Mell and Willena Neil are ipending a few days at their home lere. H. L Dickson and Theodore Paris rislted relatives at Grover this week. George, Henry and James Sifford of he University of South Carolina, Coumbia, are spending the holidays vith their parents here. Joe W. Matthews, who is with the Southern Power Co.. at Greensboro, N. spent Christmas at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. S. R Clinton of Gas onla, visited relatives ana rnenas nere his week. Sam Brison of Chester, spent Sunlay with relatives and friends here. Misses R&tchford and Dickson of feasant Ridge, visited the family of dr. M. L. Dickson here this week. M. T. Williams is spending a few lays in Baltimore, Md. W. W. Bindeman was a visitor In lock Hill this week. The general board of the United itates, headed by Admiral Dewey, has lied a report in which it lays down the ollowing rule for the upbuilding of the Lmerican navy: "The navy of the Jnited States should ultimately be qual to the most powerful maintaind by any other nation in the world, t should be gradually increased to this >oint by such a rate o'f development ear by year as may be permitted by he facilities of the country, but the imit above defined should be attained lot later than 1926." GENERAL NEW8 N0TE8 | Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. 1 Admiral George Dewey celebrated his 78th birthday at his home in 1 Washington Sunday. ? There is a strong movement in Eng- ' , land to make the Hon. David LloydGeorge premier of the British empire. x-reBiaeni tvnson n&s most poeiiive' ly banned the making of moving pictures of himself and bride at this time. The board of health of Nefo York city, after January 1, will permit the sale of horse flesh for food In meat shops of that city. Mrs. Josephine del Drago of New York, has contributed S2.000.000 for the relief of Italian soldiers and their families in Italy. Two ladles and a man were killed in on automobile accident on a grade crossing at Avoca, N. Y., Christmas day. Thieves stole 11,000,000 worth of stocks from a mail wagon at Wilmington, Del., Thursday night, December 23. Te securities were recovered. A dispatch of December 22, tells of an explosion in a powder factory at Muenster, Meetpholla, Germany, In which 300 of the 600 women employes were killed. The Victor Talking Machine company of Camden, New Jersey, gave a turkey and two quarts of cranberries to each of its 8,600 employes last Thursday. A bulletin issued by the census department shows that the lowest death rate, lS.ft per 1,000 of population, ever known in the history of the country, now existis in the United States. When congress reconvenes on January 4, bills will be introduced calling for an investigation of the high prices of gasoline all over the oountry. E. C. Miller, a prominent cltlsen of Charlotte, ft. C., aged 63 years, was killed in his automobile on a Southern railway crossing at Cornelius, Mecklenburg county, Christmas day. Two hundred members of the crews of the interned German ships at Norfolk, Va., were allowed to attend Catholic churches at Norfolk on Christmas day. The men had not been on land since October 12. Major Gen. Goethala in an official statement, issued December 21, says he is unwilling to predict when the Panama canal will again be opened to ships of deep draft Small vessels are now going through. A dispatch of December 21 from Johnnesburg, Union of South Africa, says that General Christian De West and 118 others convicted of high treason last June, have been released from prison. Representatives of the British government last week placed orders with New York agents for 126,000,000 pounds of copper, valued at $28,000,000. This is the largest single order eyer placed in this country. Governor Craig of* North Carolina, last week issued an order to the warden of the penitentiary and superintendents of convict to permit all "trusties" to go to their homes from Friday to Monday. The Pittsburgh, Pa. Foreign Trade commission has been unable to place orders for 16,000,000 shells of Sfc Inch calibre, for several foreign governments. Other contracts for sheet steel and barbed wire for 1918 delivery were also refused. W. B. Davis, 94 years old, of Springfield, Mo., the father of 41 children, on Christmas day was married to his fourth bride, Miss Mary Bacon, aged 39 years. Davis has 23 children and 192 grand-children living. There are between 20,000 and 20,000 cases of typhus fever in Mexico City, according to a report received at Washington. The Red Cross and Rockefeller Foundation will begin a campaign against the scourge If the Carranza government will sanction the work. The German reichstag on December 21, voted a new war credit of $2,600,000,000. The loan was approved by the 19 Socialist members of the body. The Socialist leader declared that all endeavors for peace had failed because of the annexation aims of both sides. . A furious storm swept over New York city early Sunday morning. During the progress of the storm there was snow, hall, rain and lightning. At times the wind attained a velocity of 90 miles an hour. Property losses were enormous Nine lives were lost A traveler arriving in New York from Poland, says that there are more than 4,000,000 people of that country who are absolutely destitute and dependent on a small loaf of bread and a pint of soup for dally sustenance. Very few have adequate clothing for the wintry weather. A report Issued by the American Commission for the Relief of Belgium, says that by the end of this month a shipload of supplies will have entered Belgium or will be on its way for every day of the month. During October the commission collected $4,323,175 for Belgian relief. E. M. Bumphrey, a Chicago lawyer, died in that city Friday night from "petromortis," an automobile gas poisoning. Bumphrey went to his garage for his automobile and an hour later his dead body was found. The automobile engine was running and the room was full of gas fumes. A dispatch from Berlin under date t of December 22, says a trip of Emperor William to the western front has been postponed because of a "slight UIne8a"' An official message received at London says the emperor is suffering from "zellgewebentzuendung," more frequently called "bindegewebentzuendung." Other dispatches describe the malady as cancer. A New York dispatch says that German interests recently made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the control of the Union Metalic Cartridge company of Bridgeport, Conn. The German interests are said to have bid $17,000,000 for the plant, more than twice its value. The deal was blocked by a New York banker, according to the dispatch. Col. E. M. House, confidential adviser to President Wilson, has gone for another visit to Europe to carry special messages and information to the various ambassadors of the United States and also to gather such information as he can in regard to the possibility of peace among# the belligerent nations. By the failure of the Pittsburgh, Pa., Bank for Savings last week, 40,000 school children were due to lose the $169,000 in savings deposited with the bank. A day or two later Henry C. Frick, the Pittsburgh capitalist, announced that he would personally make good the deposits of the school children and that they would be paid in full on January 3. During the ten and a half months ending June 30, according to the annual report of Governor Goethals, 1,088 ships passed through the Panama canal, with a total canal tonnage of 3,843,033 tons, and a cargo tonnage of 4,969,792 tons. Of the total number, J 530 vessels passed from the Atlantic to i the Pacific, and 558 from the Pacific to m the Atlantic. M Mrs. Thomas D. EL Edwards, wife M of the American consul at Juarez. B| Mexico, is getting the credit for putting an end to street rioting and store ^B looting in that city on December 21, when 300 Villa soldiers went on the rampage because Villa had skipped out without providing for their pay. ^^B Mrs. Edwards went among the rioters, found out what the trouble was and B then made arrangements to get them ^B^H paid oft by the Carranza consul gen- ^B^B |