0^O&)Y AT rLOWSNOK \lGf*^H^. Oflin lil.'-J. H. Ou Hedge, N. <\. Wits "Hot to * the xtroets of Hwm* thU ||V Jtmx Kenijedy of thl* ??'L',UH1\ wa* Immediately ar* m js now In prison. The , i.Mik i>la<*? at or noar the of Hasi Kvans and Harlee ' one ??f the malu tllurOJnfhfar?? C\-lty. ulM>ttt U otlM,r wind WH* stnter Smith & Wesson pistol. ^1," hall taking effect in Oiilledge's |i -jjIy u'licii Chief of Police Krniison ar ,r(Ml |?. found in (lulledge's hand a j> chIIImt Smith & Wesson "slde hut " never heen tired, (julledge a tiagiuan etween florem-e and Wadeshoro, N. and fas about twenty-five years -old. He ?a* a Moson and a Shrlner. Kennedy ?> ilnguum "ii the same system, run dM on passenger trains lietween Flor Iflirt', CliarUwtoJi and Savannah. < q*li?. coroner's Jury rendered a ver dict alM?ut !' o'eloek tonight to the ffffct dial tinlledge "came to his death from a minshot wound iu the hands j s. *' Kennedy." flulledge's ImmI.v was taken In charge ?f by Vaughn's undertaking estab lishment and is a waiting disposition Instructions from his family. (Jul ^?.'c was unmarried. . Atkinson Not Guilty. I ? I Jtisliopvillc. Sept. lil'.?The trial of Henry II Atkinson charged with kill lii).' Ills wife, resulted In the acquit tal of tin* defendant. The case l>egau WeriiH?day and consumed the latter liarf ?>f the week. J One night last .June Mrs. Atkinson nas killed with a shotgun and shortly after the funeral her husband was' lodged in jail. There was a cloud of mystery surrounding the unfortunate affair and intense Interest was mani fested in the cose. The solicitor Philip Stoll, and T. <}. McIx^kI repre sented the State, while T. II. -Tntum ? Printer Jtouham and Frank Kelly were attorneys for the defendant. Judw Frank 15. (Jury presided. The court ro.mi was (tacked to the doors at oven s(>?siuu. many women attend in:.' tile trial. . MANY AIRPLANRN BKINti BUILT I'nrlv 8am Soon to Have 20,000 Ma rhino* Heady For Army. ? ii'iin'ii ii Washington, Hept. 21,?The dovorii mout \* wanting no time In tin* orea tion of vast ulr lleoU. It wun learned Unlay that the Signal Coriw In having 5,(MM) high-type, Un proved battle plants built In French factories, froiu the latest HrltlMli and French models. Tlwwi machines are two seated. They carry two machine guns. and are believed hy Signal Corp** officers to be superior to anything tlu? Germans are turning out. Tho ma chlnea may la* delivered to Pershing's army within three months. Besides theae every atrplano fac tory In the United States Is at work and many other factories hiv turning out parts. As far away as Iami Angel es and San Francisco two factories are producing large iiuiuIkms i?f com plete machines. In Oakland, Cal., en glues are being made In large quan tities. On the l'acUtc coast dozens of mills arc turning out the spruce strips for the wooden parts of airplanes. Two English-model laittie pianos re cently arrived In Washington. Those machines have seats for a pilot and an observer. They carry machine gnus and have photographic and wireless apparatus. Signal Corpjf atllclals say the rutted States soon will have between 20.(MK) and 22,000 lighting and observation planer, and this Is only a beginning. Plan Soldiers' Newspapers. Washington. Hept. 11).?Plans for publication of a soldiers' weekly news pajH?r in every National Army and Na tional Guard camp beginning with the week of SeptcmlHM* 110, under the aus pices of the National War Work Coun cil of the Y. M. ('. A. were announced today by John Stewart Bryan, publish er of the Kichiuoud-News Leader. He has arranged the details of co operatioii among many other publish ers which will make the work possi ble. Among contributors will be Colonel Roosevelt and many of the best known newspai>er workers and cartoonists. .President Wilson has 'endorsed the plan. The general management of the paper will be under the personal di rection of Mr. Bryan and the co-opera ting publishers will compost' an ad visory board. The plans grew out of a conference In Washington in July at which Mr. Bryan wAs assigned by tho War Work Council to visit all camps in the South la?foro going to Eu rope. New Enterprise. The Miner's Mercantile company of Lancaster county near Kershaw, has Ikmmi commissioned to do a general merchandise business. Capital sb>ck is $r?.000. Petitioners are A. II. Blake tiev and H. I*. Pellet of Kershaw. 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IT is often to some fortunate acci dent that we owe the preser vation of an ancient town house, such as the slackening or arrfcst at some period of the town's prosper ity, or the acquisition of the building -for the purposes of some society' or in stitution more permanent In its nature than the family. It is largely owing to causes such as these that the French city of Boyrges is still so rich in buildings of the medieval and Renaissance periods, says a writer in Country Life. Bourges proclaims by its name the antiquity of its Importance. It Is one of those tribal capitals so numerous In France, which still preserve the name of an otherwise forgotten peo ple, while the title it bore In the days of the Roman empire has long ago pussed out of use. The circumstance Is all the more remarkable in this cafte, that It was no indistinctive "Augusta," "Caesarea" or "Colonla," but the eel tic "Avarlch"?Latinised "Avaricutn" ?that was superseded by the designa tion of the Biturlges, which likewise survives, still further corrupted, In the form "Berry." The province of that name, occupying us it does the very center of the realm of France, has been described as constituting a com pendium or epitome of the whole by th*? varied nature of its conformation and produce. Within its boundaries are to be found rocky hills aud heaths, woodland and marsh, upland and low land pastures and well-watered plains, with soils and aspects favorable for viticulture and corn growing, for the orchard, the market garden and the rearing of cattle, sheep and poultry. In addition to its yield of timber, wool, hides, hemp and all manner of food stuffs, Berry Is not lacking in iron ore, easily got. Thus provided with all the staple needs of civilization, It formed in early times a self-supporting unit, which, moreover, was largely Isolated from surrounding districts by an all' impenetrable fence of forest?and swamp, Once Leaders In Gaul. If the true heart of France has had its seat rather in the He de France j and Paris than in Berry and Bourges, there have been times when the latter, too, have formed a determining factor | In the national destinies. When the jurisdiction of Rome hardly extended beyond her walls, the Biturlges held the hegemony of Gaul, and In Caesar's day their power t*roved one of the hardest nuts he had to crack before his conquest could be completed, while the wealth they had amassed through their position on the direct route from Italy to the ocean was an object of de^ sire. The town, situated on rising ground surrounded at all points but one by a belt of swamp, was strongly defended by walls and towers of tim ber and stone, on whose Imposing aud not unpleasing mien Caesar comments. But neither natural nor artificial de fenses served to avert capture and subsequent sack aqd destruction. Avarictira, however, rapidly regained_ her prosperity under Roman rule, and abundant if fragmentary remains prove her importance as a center of art and civilization, an Importance which she never wholly lost In the dark ages which followed. In the later middle ages Bourges blossomed again into a rich crop of ar tistic production, including the noble Cathedral of St. Etienne and also the great Palac* of John, duke of Berry, the luxurious and art-loving uncle of the mad Ivlng Charles VI. which, with his neighboring castle of Mehun-sur Yevre, were reckoned the wonders of the age,, but have both disappeared with the exception of unimportant fragments. Later still followed ttte Interesting group of domestic and mu nicipal architecture. It Is probably no accident that It should have come into being in that same fifteenth century which saw Bourges for a brief space once more at the center of the nation's uffnlrs. During the paralysis of the capital and of the kingdom at large through In ternal discord and foreign Invasion, the remnants of national force gath ered themselves together Into the cen tral province before the final effort to recover the lost ground. The unity of the kingdom once more assured and the royal authority ex tended the court abandoned BourgeR forever for the pleasant banks of the Loire and the morjp, stirMng life of Paris, and the old provincial city?not situated on a main artery of traffic ei ther then or after the advent of rail ways?sank back into a secondary plane. It lived on. not wholly un eventfully ; for during the wars of re ligion it suflfcred many things?havoc wrought on the cathedral by Mont gomery's Huguenots, and bloodthirsty St. Bartholomew reprisals; yet in the main a quiet, unexciting existence. How Hotel de Vllle Was Built. It Is somewhat remarkable that up to the period to which our subject be longs so Important a city as Bourges, and one so given to building, should have remained without a hotel de Vllle. But such Is the fact, and the city fathers were content to hold their meetings In a church chapel known as "la Comtale" from Its foundation by one of the counts of Berry. This church was damaged and Its chapel de stroyed in 1487 by one of those de vastating fires so common in medieval towns, whose timber houses, crowded In narrow and tortuous' streets, offered such ready food for the flames. The whole northern quarter of the city, which was then reduced to ashes, was promptly rebuilt, and the municipal ?Authorities seized upon this opportu nity to house themselves worthily. The original building of the hotel de vllle standing at the back of the court and still substantially Intact was then erected. In the sixteenth century Im portant additions were made. The building Is rectangular, contain ing one long and one square room on each of Its two floors, and an octagonal stair tower projecting Into the court to connect them. The last forms the'; principal feature In the elevation, and on it were lavished the richest decora tive efforts. This tower was orlglnalljr surmounted by an open story,, or "bel vldere," to which the now useless tur ret stairs led, and which provided a. point .of observation over the town,, useful for the detection of incipient flres. This was removed during a res toration and replaced by the present cornice and conical roof. The great hall within has a. richly molded timber celling and Is adorned by a noble stone chlmneypleoe. On Its mantel a frieze of quatrefoil losenges Is decorated In every panel with a belled sheep (Brebls clarlnee) repeat* ed from the arms which the city took from Us cloth Industry and which were once carved on the central shield sup ported by a shepherd and sherpherdess. It was not till the middle ot the seven teenth century that Bourges was granted by royal patent the privilege of bearing three fleurs dp lys In chief like several other cities?Abbeville, for instance. Above the frieze dainty birds perch among the sprays of a crisply cut wreath of thistle, and high er still the masonry yet bears the traces of the lilies of France consci entiously obliterated by some repub lican enthusiast. THAT PAYS To make a success, team work must be mutual?each party must bear his part of the load. Your team is willing to do its shar, but dou you treat it fairly? 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