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ft A STUDY IN SCARLET # Bj Sir A. Conun Doyle. CHAPTER XI. A Flight for Fife. On the morning which followed his interview with teh Mormon prophet, J110. Ferrier went into Suit Lake City, and having found his acquaintance who was bound fo the Nevada Mountains, he intrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it ho told tho young man of the imminent danger which threatened them, and how necessary i^ vac that he should return. Having done this, he felt easier in his mind and returned home with a lighter heart. As he approached his farm ho was surprised to see a horse hitched to each of the posts of the gate. Still more surprised was ho on entering to lind two young men in possession of his sitting-room. One, with a long, pale face, was leaning back in the rocking chair, with his feet cocked up upon tlie stove. The other, a bullnecked youth, with a course, bloated features was standing in front of the w imiow, with his hands in his pockets whistling a popular hymn. Ilotli of tin'm nodded to Ferrier as ho entered, and the one in the rocking chair comiim need the conversation. "Maybe you don't know us," lie said. "Thiv here is the son of Elder Die her, and I'm Joseph Stangerson, who traveled with you in the desert when tlie Lord stretched out His hand and cat heed you into the true fold."' "As lie will all the nations, in His own good time," said the other, in a nasal voice. "He grindeth slowly, but exceedingly small." John Ferrier bowed coldly. He had guessed who his visitors were. "We have come," continued Stangerson, "at the advico of our fathers, to solicit the hand of your daughter for which ever of us may seem good to you and her. As I have but four wives and Brother Dre,bber here has seven, it appeas to mo that my claim is the stronger one." "Xay, nay, Bother Stangerson," cried the other, "the question is not how many wives wo have, but how many we can keep. My father has now given over his mills to me, and I am the richer man." "But my prospects are better," said the other, warmly. When the l,ou removes my father I shall have his tanning yard and his leather factory. Then 1 am your elder, and am higher in the church." "It will be for the maiden to decide," rejoined young Drebber, smirking at his own reflection in the glass. "We will leave it all to her decision." During this dialogue John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorwal, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors. "Look here,' he said, at last, striding up to them; "when my daughter summons you, you can come; until then, I don't want to sec your faces again." The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement. In their eyes this competition between tlieni for the maiden's hand was the highest of honors both to her and her father. "There are two ways out of the room," cried Ferrier; "there is the door, and there is the window. Which do you care to use?" His brown face looked so savage, and his gaunt hands so threatening, that his visitors sprang to their feet and beat a hurried retreat. The old farmer followed them to the door. "Lot me know when you have settled which it is to be," he said, sar donically. "You shall smart for this!" Stangerson cried, white with rape. "You have defied the prophet and the Council of Four. You shall rue it'to the end of your days." "The hand of the Lord shall be heavy upon you," cried youg Drebexclusion for poor attendance. That would save more of the lapgards? and many who have never had a chance because of their surroundings, ehiefiy their parents. An end should be made to letting children come to school just often enough to disturb the work of the regular attendants and not enough to do themselves any real good. An end should also be put to the whimsical action of Ignorant and prejudiced parents who keep their children from school altogether. State compulsion of education should stop parental compulsion of ignorance. John J. McMahan. Columbia, August 1 G. Memorandum: "Delenda est Carthago"?which beinir interpreted means, "The primary has got to bo reformed." The enlightened mind revolts at ho idea of ignorant parents compelling their children to remain in ignorance without availing themselves of the schooling offered freo by the Stato within the reach of every homo. Add to those that never go to school the large number that attend irregularly, and wo probably have half of the children failing to make proper use of the facilities provided for their education. Let us consider the meaning of it all, as if wo were explaining to the simplest mind that does not see the evil. The child Is not his own master, but is subject to his parent. Left to himself, the child will bo Ignorant and undeveloped. Ho will not have a compelling desire for knowledge, and will not apply himself to learn, t until he is made to taste a sample and perceive that It is good?acquire an appetito for learning, Meantime, unless made to go to school ho may prefer to idle at home. l'i'imitivo Tribal Education. In a state of primitive nature, with no law but the Individual will (if there ever was such an individualistic stago of man's progress) it rests wholly with the parent to compel either ignorance on-learning, and wej can not doubt that the instinct of I race-preservation secured for the child instruction in tho essentials of well-being according to tho then standards?just as in the animal creation the parent teaches its offspring how to obtain food and how to escape from its enemies. But in the earliest known times, thero is some sort of custom which none would defy and which is thus the cuunnounlty or common law. This customary law has from the beginning prescribed tho education which is the requisite of the times. Thus in iiioivi reiauons, the parent never neglects, and would not be allowed to omit, to givo his on tbe standard training for the chase and for war?tho great duties of citizenship at such a period of human society. Difficulties of Modern Discipline. In modern times, with tho higher developments in the main, there is a strange decadence constantly manifesting itself. There is more parental neglect, relatively, than among savages, and in tho more artificial training of the schools to lit for new con ditions of man's life, there is more difficulty in keeping alive in the child a zest for learning. Thus even after his taste is somewhat aroused and he has formed the general purpose to learn, he will have his periods of sloth, of reaction, of revolution against the labor of application, against regularity, against system, against obedience?the very things that ho needs to become inured to. If allowed to have his own way as his fancy changes, he will attend irregularly, will loiter and ho tardy. His latenesses and absences will suffice to destroy the effectiveness of his studying, the connecting links of his learning being lost. When present he will be inattentive to instruction, neglectful of tho assigned tasks, will not be seriously in earnest, will not view his obligation to get an eduea-| tion as a closed question, and will therefore dwadle and fritter away his time. If allowed to acquire such habits, he will be injuring instead of building up his character, and will be lessening instead of increasing his future usefulness. A largo part of the benefit of true schooling is the acquiring of correct and useful habits under compulsion?such as the habit of regularity, of system, of obedience, of self-control, of diligence, of steadfastness, of ability to do unpleasant things, and at last the ability to find pleasure in doing duties whether or not inherently unpleasant. This modification of natural desires to recognized duties has come to be best doscribed by a term derived from the classical name for the pupil in school, the ideal of all schooling being the resultant "discipline", the mental and moral acquisition of the true disciple or pupil. Regular Attendance. If the child goes to school spasmodically, he will havo more friction with the teacher than otherwise, for he will not be as well up in his studies, or as well trained to applying himself, or as accustomed to obey, and thus he will have to be the more controlled, punished if need be, and as a result of the corrections or punishments he will be angered and have further disposition to vent his resentment by staying away at will or altocrrOhnr I'nnr ntfnnHnnnn hrooila wnrao * WW* wvvviium.vv v^v>v.^ " ^? "V attendance. Irregular attendance ends in non-attendance. If the parent indulges him, let him be his own master, spoils hiin, he will do poor work at school or will stay away. Such is often the indulged child of parents who should know better and do better, and not very different in the misfortune of the neglected child of parents of a peculiar type of ignorance. tions (so necessary to enable the teacher to accomplish much when there is a largo number to teach). Classes are further rendered impossible by some children entering school later than others and dropping out sooner. Such a child can not go forward with his proper grade from year to year?having entered ana ien so Irregularly and done so little in the time at school that he must bo in a class by himself or start over again every year. Irregular attendance is harmful to the other children?those that attend perfectly, because it disorganizes the school, the discipline and the teaching. Many of our schools are afflicted with this ystematic lack of system. The principle of law, "So use your own as not to injure another's," would fully justify the absolute exclusion from school of every child that can not bo made to conform fully to the implied reduirement of attending regularly and seriously, from the beginning to the end. Most graded schools do this, in solf-dofenco. This protects the earnest pupils and may save some laggards. Hut the law ought to authorize the requirement of attendance without the necessity of resorting tc her; "He will arise and smite you!' "Then I'll start the smiting," exclaimed Ferrier, furiously, and he would have rushed upstairs for his gun had not Lucy seized him by tho arm anil restrained him. 'Before ho I could escape from her the clatter of horses' hoofs told him that they were i beyond his reach. "The young canting rascals!" he exclaimed, wiping the perspiration; < from his forehead; "I would sooner see you in you grave my gi*l than tlie wife of either of them." i t "And so would I, father," she answered, with spirit; " but Jefferson will soon be here." "Yes, it will hot be long before he comes. The sooner the better, for we do not know what their next move may be." It was inded, high time that someone capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter. in the whole history of the settlement there had never feen such a case of rank disobedience to the authority of the elders. If minor errors were punished so sternly, what would be the fate of this arch-rebel? Ferrier knew that his wealth and position would be of no avail to him. Others as well known and its rich as himself had been spirited away before now, and | there had never seen such a case of J lie was a brave man, but he trembled at the vague, shadowy terrors which hung over him. Any known danger he could face with a firm lip. but this suspense was unnerving. He concealed his fears front his daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, with the keen eye of love saw plainly that he was ill at ease. lie expected that he would receive some message or remonstrance from Young as to bis conduct, and he was not mistaken, though it came in an unlooked-for manner. I'pon rising next morning he found, to his surprise, a small square of paper pinned on the coverlet of his bed just over his chest. On it was printed, in .bold, straggling letters: "Twenty-nine days are given you for amendment, and then The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been. How this warning came into his room puzzled John Ferrier sorely, for his servants slept in an outhouse, and the uoors and windows had all been secured. Ho crumpled up the paper and said nothing to his daughter, but the incident struck a chill into his heart. The twenty-nine days were evidently the balance of the month which Young had promised. What strength vor courage could avail against an enemy armed with such such mysterious powers? The hand which fastened that pin might have struck him to the heart, and he could never have known who had slain him. Still more shaken was he the next morning. They had sat down to their breakfast when Lucy, with a cry of surprise pointed upward. In the center of the ceiling was scrawled, with a burned stick, apparently, the number 28. To his daughter it was unintelligible, and he did not enlighten her. That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and ward. He saw and heard nothing, and yet in the morning a great 2 7 had been painted upon the outside of his door. Thus day followed day; and as sure as morning came he found that his unseen enemies had kept their register and had marked up in some conspicuous position how many days were still left to him out of the month of grace. Sometimes the fatal numbers appeared upon the wallg, sometimes upon the floors; occasionally they were on small placards stuck upon the garden gate or railings. With all his vigilance John Ferrier could not discover whence these daily warnings proceeded. A horror, which was almost superstitious came upon him at the sight of them, lie .became haggard and restless, and his eyes had the troubled look of some hunted creature. He had but one nope in life now, and that was for the arrival of the young hunter from Nevada. Twenty had changed to fifteen, and fifteen to ten; but there was no news of the absentee. One by one the numbers had dwindled down, and still there came no sign of him. Whenever a horseman clattered down the road or a driver snouted at nis team, me old farmer hurried to the gate, thinking that help had at last arrived. At last, he saw live giving way to four, and that to three, then ho lost heart an<l abandoned all hope of escape. Single-handed, and with is limited knowledge of the mountains which surrounded the settlement, ho knew that ho was powerless. The more frequented roads were strictly watched and guarded, and none could pass along thorn without an order from the council. Turn which way he would, there appeared to be no avoiding the blow which hung over him. Yet the old man never wavered in his resolution to part with life itself before he consented to what he regarded as his daughter's dishonor. Tie was sitting alone one evening, pondering deply over his troubles, and searching vainly for some way out of them. That morning had shown the figure 2 upon the wall of liis house, and the next day would he the last of the allotted time. What 1 was to happen then? All manner of i vague and terrible fancies filled his Imagination. And his daughter?what was to become of her after he was goner was tnero no escape rrom mo , Invisible network which was drawn all around them? Ho sunk his head upon the table and sobbed at the thought of his own impotence. What was that? In the silence he heard a gentle scratching sound?low but very distinct, in the quiet of the night. It came from the door of the house. Ferrler crept into the hall and listened intently. Thero was a pause for a few moments, and then the low, inisdious sound was repeated. Someone was evidently tapping very gently upon one of the panels of the door. Was it some midnight assassin who had couio to carry out the murderous order of the secret tribunal? Or was it some agent who was marking up that the last day of grace had arrived? John Ferrler felt that instand death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart. Springing forward, he drew the bolt and throw the door open. Outside all was calm and quiet. The night was fine, and the stars wore twinkling brightly overhead. The little front garden lay before the farmer's eyes, bounded by the fence and gate; but neither there nor on the road was any human being to be seen. With a sigh of relief FerrSer lookeed to right and loft, until, happening to glance straight down at ills feet, he saw, to his astonishment, a man lying flat upon his face upon <1 e ground, with his arms and logs all r sprawl. (To ho continued.) ~tror7/rky and eggs. For Sale?Poland China pigs of tine breeding. Write for prices. S. J Summers, Cameron, S. C. For Sale?Registered C). I. C. Pigs, 2 to 3 months old at reasonable prices. R. P. Jones, Reynolds, Ga. (tarred Rocks, White Leghorns? Eggs, 36 for $1; chicks, dozen, 1.20; weaners, 3 5c; half grown, 5 0c. Marion Moseley, Jeffers, Va. MISCELLANEOUS. bogs?Wanted to buy trained bird dogs for cash. Write E. C. Stark, Commerce, Ga. I buy all kinds of empty barrels and bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, I George St., Charleston, S.' C. W aided?Ity every family. Return If not delighted. 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Pedestrians pasing tho Rrawley street crossing, of tho Southern railway at Spartanburg about 11 o'clock Tuesday morning found the mangled and decapitated body of a middleaged white man lying beside the track. Tie apparently had been killed by a train but no eye witnesses have been located. The man is believed to ho Perry D. Scruggs of Chesnee. Note hooks hearing that name were found in his pockets and a description of i in*, mini it'icpnunea 10 cnesneo, was said thero to fit Mr. Scruggs exactly. Swept by Storm. Goldfteld, Nov., was spent Saturday by a torrent from a cloudburst that caused tho loss of at least five lives, carried away several scores of dwellings and damaged merchandise estimated at $100,000. Tho town was in darkness Saturday night and at a lato hour rain was again falling in a volume amounting almost to a second cloudburst. ONE SHOT KILLS TWO MEN 1 llKOTHKKS AUK KIHKI> I PON WITH DKAOLY ICFFKCT ! Were Standing Timotlicr So Shot Lands in Shoulders ??f I lot It?Cor- | oner Illumes Two Others. Messrs. J. V. and W. II. Hogg, brothers of Kline, S. ('., eight miles I from Alendalo were shot and killed Monday night at "J o'clock. The load entered tho right shoulder of one of tho brothers and tho left shoulder of tho other. One shot ended tiio life of both men. The verdict of the coroner's jury places the blame for the double homicide 011 two men, "that Henry Hogg ( and J. Y. iiogg came to their death ( from gunshot wounds in the hands of , J. W. Hogg and \Y. A. Williams. I The fatal shot it is claimed, was ( fired from a window in the negro j waiting room of the Kline depot, ] where tho deceased had taken refuge. It is said the shooting grew out of an old grudge between tho two brothers 011 tho one hand and their cousin oti the other. Previous to tho shooting tho opposing factions, it is said, were Hoard speaking In heated terms when young Johnson lloyg, a brother of tho slain men, went into their store and told them that they were being waylaid. ( Tho throe men wont out into the , street, it is claimed, each armed with , a shotgun. They had hardly loft their door, according to the testimony, ( when a shot was fired from a window in the depot, llenry Hogg exclaimed, "Oh, Ivord, Velpo, we are shot." Seeing a man dart from the door of ( the depot John Hogg fired a shotgun that he was carrying, tho load taking effect in "Jim Hogg's back. The two wounded brothers staggered back ( to their store, Velpo falling across ( tho threshhold. Henry walked inside < and sat down on a box pitching forward almost immediately on his face , beside tho already dead body of his ( brother. It was thus that they were , found by their friends. Neither of , them lived longer than flvo or ten minutes. Each was shot in the ( breast, Henry, it is said, being hit with about thirty shot, while Velpo carried some fifteen wounds. Jim ( Hogg is not seriously wounded, the shot, being too small and the gun bav- ( ing been fired at too great a distance to penetrate deeply. WITIIDKA\\ S EN IK)KSE> 1K\T. Tillman Takes Mis Support lTom Sims for Marshal. Senator Tillman, according to a Washington dispatch to The News and Courier on Saturday, has notified the department of Justice that his official endorsement of J. L. Sims, of Orangeburg, as a oandidato to succeed J. Duncan Adams as United States marshall for South Carolina, lias been withdrawn. This information was given by the senior Senator in response to a question from The News and Courier's correspondent who has observed the activity of friends of Ex-Sheriff P.uford, of New. berry County, and asked Senator Tillman if tbere was any possibility of his withdrawing the Sims endorsement. In explanation of his course, Senator Tillman remarked that some people had been saying that Ve was trying to hog both offices, that is, the district attorneyship and the marshalship and he felt constrained to take this action to clarify tlio situnt'on. Senator Smith, who bad not actually endorsed Mr. Sims, but had agreed to acquisce In his nomination, was promptly asked what position be would take with regard to the marshalship In view of Senator Tillman's latest move. The junior Senator replied that lie bad nothing whatever to say for publication. The indications arc that Senator Tillmcn is concentrating all his! foT''P'i hrhtrwl t>ir? Tli n I'mAnd o?->rwi! I v. , Vft .. ?? v/ I II U I II1UUVI tcum I" dne.v for district attorney, recognizing the feet that during the pnc* :'?\v days Weston has gained ground h^< ily. Whether tho last mow. of the senior Senator will resu.t in n undors'ending between . 'n? and his colleague or only deepen tho cleavage between them remains to he seen. ? ( T TS INFEItXAIi MACHINE. ? Dyiiuni iters Vccr.i Del or nil nc<l to Got. I id of General ()tis. An In ornal machine vas sent by tho mail i Tuesday to C? 11. Harrison Grey Otli, owner of the ,os Angeles Tim?s, which was b^own p In October, 1910. by the McXan . i conspirators. T! o bomb, which \ is contained in a >o.\ four by flvn nches, was received it the Otis rc n uco Tuesday inor.iin :. Gen. ( ti . 1 "came suspicious id Inrnod it ovc to the pofW . I * ?? ? - live. ii uu.v >vu? i uoi uy oponod and was found to contain two sticks of dynar ite, each cut in "o pfeces. Fulmln; ng caps wore Imbed wi In each and an arrangement of sandpa^-vi* and mate' s I icd a devlco to explode the bomb when the box lid shbuld be 11 Tied. . Wo agreo with The Charlotte Observer that tho Ilarry Thaw case threatens to outdo tho famous Greene-Gaynor caso in the length of time before tho courts. J FIND OTHER CRIMES SCHMIDT CONFESSES THAT HE IS A COUNTERFEITER BELIEVED TO BE SANE ? H'toe lives Think Ilo Is Feigning Insanity Along Preconceived Plans? l>r. Ilrnest .Morel, a Dentist, Considered His Confederate in Counterfeiting, Is Also Jailed. Announcement was made late Moniay night by Police Inspector Fourat >f New York that another man waa under arrest thero In connection with Lho murder of Anna Auinuller, the jrlmo with which Hans Schmidt, the priest, is charged. Inspector Faurot late Monday night arrested l)r. 10. \luret, a dentist, of 301 St. Nicholas avonuo. The doctor was taken it his homo, which was left in charge of detectives. No. 301 St. Nicholas avenue is in the vicinity of I25t.h street and near St. Joseph's Church, where Cat her Schmidt w as arrested. Dr. Muret is about thirty years old. Schmidt, who confessed that he killed Anna Aunitiller with a butcher knifo as a "sacrifice to bo consummated in blood," was at the observation ward or the Tombs Monday under the watchful eye of Dr. McCuiro, the prison physician. Warden Col ton, of the Tombs, declares tho man is insane, one of the most dangerous men ever confined lit the prison, and in this view ho was upheld by Deputy Commission of Corrections Wright. Tho discovery of a counterfeiter's ilen, which Hans Schmidt, priest and confessed slayer of Anna Aumuller, Tuesday admitted was fitted up by him to make spurious money, led tho detectives, Coroner Felnberg and other visitors to bis cell in the Tombs, to express tho opinion that Schmidt Is anno and that furtl r Investigation will develop that counterfeiting was only one of his "side lines". They declared it is their belief be is feigning Insanity after carefully thought out plans of a master criminal ?'.? nd. To tho Rev. Father Kvers, "'haplain of the Tombs prison, to his attorney and other callers SchmiJ. admitted his connection with the Hat in West 13 \ tli street, where detectives found bundles of imitation $10 gold certifl cat oh. Dr. Ernest Arthur Muret, the dentist arrested Monday night u.^er tho raid on the counterfeiter's flat, Tuesday was held in $.r>,000 bail for hearing on the charge of having in his possession a revolver in violation of a State law. Through his knowledge of the law Muret forestalled tho plans of tho Federal secret service agents waiting to arrest him on a warrant charging counterfeiting. Hv waiving preliminary examination, Muret for the time helntr at least, escaped tho more serious charge v^'iUiam Flynn, chief of the secret service, announced that he had temporarily taken charge of the government's end of the case and would work with the Now York police In tracing the operations of Schmidt as a counterfeiter and also the connect tion Muret might, have had with tho fake money plant. Chief Flynn is working on clues furnished by the passing of much counterfeit money in Massachusets and Connecticut In April, 1012. MAGAZINE FOK FARMERS. To Re Published by the United States Government. The United States government is going into the magazine publishing business for tho benefit of tho farmers. This is the announcement made by the Department of Agriculture, which adds that the first issue of tho magazine will be out this mfonth, and that other Issues will follow regularly at monthly intervals. Tho publication will be devoted principally to . a detailed review nf ernn pnnillHnno v *. v- I J' VVUVIIi.lv/liO nationally and by states. .1 It Is the department's purpose to make tho periodical which will bear c the title of "Tho Agricultural Out- 5 look," a magazino of from 18 to 20 * pages. It will deal not alone with s the production and conditions of crops, but will instruct the farmer as to the marketing of his wares. Daughters Surprise Parents. ' While Miss Lizzie Jones and Mr. Earl Cavender wero being married at tho home of Rev. W. H. Bird, near i Center Point, Oa., Miss Estelle Jones, a young sister and the only other singlo daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. ~ I Jones, of Dalton, O.a., was being marI ried to Mr. Cephus Mallet, of Tilton, | at the home of Squire N. A. Brad- e ford, at Carbondale, both surprise weddings. p: I Biggest Man I>oad. >v Tails Mollanem, 30 years old, he- G lieved to he the largest man in the 11 U'rtrld Tnoo/loi. I * ? V.???1I , MIVVI I UVOMIV,! Ill <l liunpuni til Hancock, Mich., after an illness of a few days. Tie was seven feet anl eight inches tall and at one time travelled ' with a circus. Ho became tired of show life and engaged in farming. hi