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CHAPTER VII-Continued.


II was about three o'clock when
Samson started. 1t was near six when
he reached the ribbon Of road that
loops down into town over the noun
tain. His mule was in a lather OF
sweat. He knew that he was being
spied upon, and that word Of his COM
ing was travelling ahead OF him. What
he did not know was whether or not
it suited Jesse Purvy's purpose that
he should slide from his mule, dead'
before he turned homeward. If Tam
arack had been seized as declaration
of war, the chief South would GER
tainly not be allowed to return. II
the arrest had not been for feud rea-
sons, he might escape. That was the
question which would be answered
with his life or death.
The "jailhouse" was small build
ing Of homemade brick, squatting at
the rear Of the courthouse yard. AS
Samson drew near, he saw that some
ten or twelve men, armed with rifles,
separated from groups and disposed
themselves behind the tree trunks and
the stone coping Of the we'll. None or
them spoke, and Samson pretended
that he had not seen them. He rode
his mule at a walk, knowing that ne
was rife-covered from a half-dozen
windows. At the hitching rack direct
ly beneath the county building, he
flung his reins over a post, and, swing
ing his rifle at his side, passed eau
tiously along the brick wall to the
Jail. The men behind the trees edged
around their covers as he went, keep
ing themselves protected, as squirrels
creep around a trunk when hunter
is lurking below. Samson halted at
the jail wall, and called the prisoners
name. A tousled head and surly face
appeared at the barred window. and
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"When ! Whistles Like a Whlppoor'
will, Fetch Me That Cum"
rb,r bain,t none, Samson"

Thar hain't none, Samson"
There hain't nothin' in the world,
Sally, thet l prizes like l does tibet
gun. Hits got job ter do. Thar
hain't but one person in the world I'd
trust hit with. Thet's you l
wants We ter keep hit fer me, an ter
keep hit ready. d. They thinks
round hyar I'm quittin' but I hain't.
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slightly; Sergt. Mcknight,

Dunlap, slightly; Sergt. Mcknight,
severely wounded.
1 have been unable to obtain lists
Of casualties in the different companies
from our district. But suppose you
will be furnished them at an early
date
Lieut.. John A. May, Of Company II,
(Capt. Erwin) was killed dead on the
field.
The condition Of my arm prevents
me from writing anything whatever.
This being written by the kind hand
Of another. l. M. q.
Ito be continued.)
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HIGH COST OF LIVING
A Few Items on Which the Prices
Have Not Been Advanced.

To show that for many staple
articles the housewife pays far less
than did the housewife of a hundred
years ago, a comparison of present
day prices in England with those Of
1S14-15 is given by the Cooperative
News:
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Governor Manning has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the
South Carolina Interdenominational
Sunday school convention which
meets in Newberry April 20, 81 and
22.
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III A trap to electrocute insects
which may be used in connection with
an electric light fixture, has been in
vented in Germany.
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FOOTSTEPS OF The Fathers
As Traced In Early Files Of The
YOfkVille Enquirer
news and VIEWS OF YESTERDAY

Bringing Up Reeo, dc Of tho Past and
Giving tho Younger Readers Of To-
day a Pretty Comprehensive knowl-
,dse of tho Things that Most Con-
cerned Generations that Have Gone
Before.
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STATE SUPPLY BILL
Carries Total Appropriation Of $2,463,
1882.
Columbia State, Wednesday.

Columbia State, Wednesday.
The appropriation act as signed by
Gov. Manning, carries a total Of $2,-
463,759.S2, which will require a state
tax levy Of seven mills. The total
amount for general state purposes
carried in the act is $2,013,759.S2. The
total under the one mill levy for pen
sions is 100000. The total under the
one-half mill levy for the state hos
pital for the insane is $150,000. The
states finance board, consisting Of the
state treasurer, the comptroller gen.
eral and the governor, is given the
right to borrow not more than $780,
900 for the general purposes Of the
state government.
Following is a recapitulation Of the
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1S14-15 1914-1

r. The finest grained modelling clay
i'm the world comes from Italy.
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Under the section for the Catawba
Indians there Is a provision to allow
the governor to appoint financial
agent.
Under the head Of the department
Of education there Is an appropriation
Of $4,000 for salary Of mill school
supervisor" and $500 travelling ex-
penses for travelling expenses Of su-
pervisor of mill schools
The following proviso was added
upon the head Of the state depart
ment Of agriculture:
Provided, That hereafter the COM
missioner Of agriculture, commerce
and industries be required to submit
to the general assembly an estimate Of
all necessary amounts for the proper
conduct Of his department as all other
state officials are required to do"
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Camp Simons-

st. Pauls Parish, June %, 1852.
Dear Enquirer-We send you the roll
of the Carolina rifles as they now stand
re organized for war; We have no
stirring news to write you, but are
in expectation Of warm work at any
moment, as the enemy, from best ac-
counts are making great preparation
for the reduction Of our great me-
tropolis. We await their onset with
confidence in our ability to maintain
our position. Yours, l..
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GastonIa Gazette, FOB. Is: A meet
ing will be held at the city hall Fri
day night Of this week at 7.30 o'clock
for the purpose Of discussing the ad-
visibility Of organizing a government
civilian rifle club, and all who would
probably be interested in such an or
ganization are requested to be pres
ent. 1t Is understood that Capt.
Bulwinkle of the CASTOR guards, has
rendered the use free Of charge Of his
company's rifle range here should a
club be organized. Rifles and ammu-
milton are furnished by the war de-
partment on very favorable terms and
the cost Of membership, it is under
stood, will be very small. -. AT a
meeting Of the creditors Of Mr. A. R.
Sherman. proprietor Of the Gastonia
Clothing Co., held yesterday, in the
office of Mr.. P. w. Garland, Dr.. T. A.
wilkins was elected trustee in bank
ruptcy. .....Mr. R. c. Patrick, trus-
tee, on Saturday, sold the stock Of
Berry & Frazier, bankrupts, to the
Interstate Store Co., Of Greensboro,
their bid being the highest. The price
was $1,2S0. This was about so cents
on the dollar The Berry & Frazier
stock was a line Of S, 10 and 25 cent
goods. The firm did business here for
about year, failing the first Of jan
uary 1t is understood that the pur-
chasers, in the event the sale is con-
firmed, intend to open the business
here and continue to operate 1t at the
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

received the following from a constitu-
ent:
Dear Sir: seen in the paper where you
was wanted TO play game of what we calls
'cow-pasture pool and that you wouldn't. It
IS good thing you did. because we did not
send you up to Washington for such purpose.
P. S.-Please send me some free seeds.
During the recent discussion of the
issuing of emergency currency notes
there was a great deal said about call
money" in New York. One of Wingo's
constituents saw the items and wrote
the representative that if there was
money on call in New York he would
like to call for his at once, and please
remit his quota at once.
For one post Office in Wingo's dis
trict there were two applicants, tus-
band and wife, who both stood the ex-
animation and made the same average
When he was asked to decide he re-
piled to both that while he might take
his chances of mediation in Mexico or
even Europe, to come between husband
and wife required more nerve than he
possessed.
At one time Mr.. Wingo was a colonel
in the Arkansas State Guard and at an
annual enca mpment a sham battle took
place. Shortly before the battle a big
freshman who was in the company from
Wingos home town came up with a
dapper little lieutenant of another
company, and, saluting. said:
Colonel, 1 have captured spy
What must 1 do with him?"
"Oh," replied Wingo, carelessly, ST
don't care-drown him in the creek!"
About fifteen minutes later as he was
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

water, and in almost the twinkling of
an eye, totally annihilate some of the
greatest ships afloat.
Already has a Russian naval officer
perfected the plans for a 'submersible
cruiser" which can be lowered in the
water until her decks are awash, pre-
senting little or no target to an enemy,
and rendering her gray-painted self
almost invisible. A craft such this,
should it prove practical, equipped
with the new heavy oil burners
type of smokeless engine recently per
fected-would give to the great battle
ships of the world a type possessing
many of the advantages which now
make the submarines the most dreaded
form of maritime war engine.
AS matter of fact, any of the ma
tions now at war may possess a sub
mersible cruiser or a giant form OF
submarine, for all the rest of the world
may know about it. And, just as Ger
many produced in the trenches before
doomed Liege a monster siege gun OF
a type never before seen, so she, or
any Of the other nations, may suddenly
wave the wand of war and SOW the wa
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

would have begui1ed a st. Anthony
himself from his anchorites cell
But Aunt Dinah possessed not only a
most correct taste in culinary mat
ters, but also a large brood of grand
children of various ages and sexes-a
brood whose wealth of appetite was
equaled only by the proverty in its sup
plies.
But Dinah was fully UP to the occa-
sion. Every time the mistress was not
looking she would annex a small pat
of butter, half a cake, a few chops or
sundry other things not likely to be
missed.
The mistress knew of this petty pill
fering, but preferred to appear ig-
norant, because Aunt Dinah was q
pearl of great price" even if black
one. But one day Dinah plainly saw
that the mistress Just as clearly OBJ
served the stealing of a pot of cher
rieS.
Laws, Miss SARAH" she cried, 81
knows you is shame of me. but I
knows, too. you is more shame of yer
self for watching" ---,-----.-------
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

tiers of the seas with some hitherto I'M
heard-of form of submarine.
This gigantic possibility in the con-
struction of submarines has even at
this early date given rise to weird ru-
mors. 1t is practically certain that the
U-9 sank the three British cruisers in
the North sea. She is a small torpedo
boat, even as the submarines go today,
and was an ideal craft for operations
in the spot where the cruisers were at
tackled. She may or may not have been
aided by other ships of her class.
Yet the report became current that
the deadly work of September p had
been done by a gigantic submarine,
400 feet over all, and armed not with
torpedo tubes, but with a single 49,
inch rifle, carrying a 2,S00-pound pro
jectIe propelled by the stupendous
force of a 25O-pound charge of Maka-
rite, an explosive named after the ILL
fated Russian submarine expert Maka-
rolf, who went down with the cruiser
Petroplofsk, torpedoed off Port Arthur.
But, needless to say, the naval experts
give this report scant credence.
Some idea of the rapid development
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

the idea OF Jersey selling straWberrles
from the field in the latter part of Sep
TENDER, but Drukker stuck to his point
and invited the doubling Thomases to
dine with him few nights later.
In the meantime he had wired for sew
eral quarts of berries to a trucker near
his home who made a speciality of late
berries The strawberries came and
were served for dinner. much to the
surprise of the gentlemen, who found
it difficult to credit their own senses
Raspberries and strawberries in Oc-
tober are now getting to be quite a fad
among those up-to-date farmers who
know how to do the stunt, which con-
sists in pulling off from the plant the
early blooms. ------- r------
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23
From New Jersey.

Representative d.
H. Drukker of New
Jersey gave a few
friends a surprise
one evening the
other month. He
had been discussing
agriculture W / t h
some members, and
remarked that he
had enjoyed straw
berries raised in
the open in his ma =
tive state.
The other con =
gressmen hooted at
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23
"CoW-P aSture Pool"

r e p resentative
Otis T. Wingo of
Arkansas has en-
joyed some funny
experiences in his
life. When he first
came to Washing
ton as a member
he was invited to
go out in the coun-
try for a game of
golf, but declined.
This story got
back home in the
local papers, and
in a short time he
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

making his way across the field a drag
gled specimen of humanity tottered up
to him.
What is the matter?" asked Wingo.
"Matter Matter" shouted the lieu
tenant You told that blankety-blank
Irishman to drown me in the creek and
he came pretty near carrying out your
OrderSw
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23
Human Nature.

R e p resentative
G. w. Taylor of
Alabama tells a
good story about a
colored cook who
presided over the
destinies of the
Xxi t C h e n of a
neighbor. un t
Dinah was fat and
forty, even if not
fair. Her wames
were poems, her
baked ham a
symphony, while
her fried chicken
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23
Inside information.

r ep r e s e NATIVE
William J. MacDon-
aid of Michigan is
from the famous
Calumet dis trict,
where the largest
copper mines in the
world are now be-
ing worked on
three-fourths time
on account of the
war.
One day when
NJ a C Donald was
making a speech
for a friend the
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

subject happened to be the currency.
After his lengthy dissertation on the
topic an old fellow in the audience rose
and shouted:
What on airth does you know about
money, anyway, man Why, you amt
got enough to pay your hotel bill"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

sippi to illustrate this point.
A northern visitor came to the state,
hired a boat and a dusky son of Ham
to punt him about in its muddy waters.
But the boy pretended to be ignorant
of the art of rowing.
Look here, Jim, can't you row?' ask
ed the white man, in surprise.
Fur de lands sake, Mr. Smith," ex-
sin!1 ed linn, Er course can't rO'-I
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

There was the Russian Delphine, IN
1904, sunk by a swell, and from whose
matches twenty-three corpses were taken.
There was the British Al. the same
year, struck by a steamship and flooded.
Thirteen of her crew persisted. And the
British AS, one year later, was the vic
tim of petrol explosion which killed
six men.
There was the French Faradet which
sank, with thirteen fatalities, and the
japanese No. 6. which sank with all
hands April Is, 1910, off Kuro, carrying
with her fourteen men. Those are but
few of the most notable instance aud to
avoid this ever-present danger the
makers of submarines have tried every
sort of device.
First they struck upon the scheme OF
sending up trapped crew, one at a time,
by shooting them through the torpedo
tubes. But there was always one man
who had to perish-the last to go-for
no one remained to perform the Office of
setting the mechanism to work for him.
But within the past few years has
come the Submarine escape dress. The
nearest prototype to this equipment may
be found in the smoke helmet of modern
fire fighting. 1t consists of a plain tin
helmet, with q front lookout glass to
which is attached a loose canvas jacket
which reaches to the waist Attached to
the Jacket is a contrivance containing
oxylithe powder, which, in contact with
water, generates pure oxygen, and at the
same time abSorbS carbonic acid gas, so
that the wearer of this continuance is
sure of a supply of fresh air.
This dress may be donned in twenty
seconds, and when once in place life can be
supported with its aid for more than two
hours. In the event of a collision and
the filling of the submarine with water
the crew can escape through the coming
tower, and with a buoyancy provided by
the generation of oxygen in the helmet
float slowly though steadily to the sur
face.
In the case of the submarine itself, a
specially constructed dock is used foF
raising the sunken boat to the surface.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23
Wasn't a Lion.

Representative H.
D. Stephens of Mis-
sissippi is a typical
southerner in ap-
p e a r a n C e and
speech. Every Wis
itor to the south
has noticed the pc
culiarity of the
darby in eliminat-
ing the "r" from all
words in which it
occurs. S t e p hens
tells of an incident
W h | C h happened
down on the AIissis-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

in place of the single screw of earlier
days.
marine those seeking to improve this
! form of fighting craft have been held
back by the necessity of solving
good many vital problems which had
TO be overcome.
| Compared with other difficulties the
problem of submergence, involving, as
! it did, the operation of sinking a heavy
metal bulk beneath the surface and
raising it at will, was accomplished
with surprisingly little difficulty To
accomplish this the submarine boat of
today is fitted with ballast tanks; and
when the craft is travelling on the
surface, or, as they term it going
light" it can be made to sink so that
the decks are 'awash" or about level
with the waves, by the simple expedi-
ent of flooding these tanks If 1T be-
comes necessary to dive or to dtsap-
pear entirely beneath the surface, this
is done with the aid of horizontal rud-
ders, controlled by electric mechan-
ism, and not by taking more water
into the tanks.
The periscope solved the difficulties
of learning what was going on upon
the surface when the boat was sub
merged. The periscope is an instru-
ment which protrudes above the sur
face and, through lenses, casts into
reflection of the sea surface. Modern
periscopes have a range of sixty de-
grees of vision, and can be operated
to sweep all degrees of the horizon.
With those problems disposed Of the
inventors We're face to face with
third-the question of propulsion. Va
rious forms of gas and petrol engines
were tried out. But in the case of
petrol the slightest leak would make
of the submarines veritable death
traps So until that question was solved
it was quite usual to find half a dozen
white mice among the crew of a sub
marine These little animals, swung in
a cage high upon an overhead beam,
could instantly detect the presence OF
gas, resulting from petrol leak, and
would squeak warning in time for
the boat to rise to the surface. Elec-
trical engines are used almost entirely
now for running submerged, and the
petrol danger has been abolished by
the installation of heavy oil" engines
for surface running.
But over the heads of submarine crews
there still turks one ever-present dam
ger-the likelihood of disaster which may
happen when the boat is submerged and
cut off all chance of raising her. The
history of submarines is filed with such
instances. A score of such disasters have
been recorded in the past decade.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

in the size of the submarine boats of
the nations may be gained by a COM
parison between the first craft of this
character launched by skeptical Eng
defense, and the ones which are adj
mitted today as being her highest type
of submerSible.
X
The first of her submarines, launched
in 1901, was sixty-t three feet over all,
with a beam of eleven feet nine inches
and a displacement of a scant 40 tons
When running awash this boat was
propelled by gasoline engines. Her
speed was eight knots on the surface
and six knots submerged. AS a means
of navigation she had a periscope and
two compasses. For use in the single
torpedo tube of which her entire arma-
ment consisted, she carried five short
and three long eighteen-inch torpedoes,
one always in place in the tube. And
even then, this pigmy "waterbug" was
a formidable enemy.
The "E" class of British submarines
today are a vastly different engine,
however. They are approximately 176
beam and of 500 tons displacement
Upon the surface, they make fifteen
knots an hour. The armament also has
been improved, a greater number of
tubes having Deen- provided, and in
place of the old eighteen-inch torpedo,
six of the new twenty style
are to be found on each boat. These
weapons carry in their war-head 800
pounds of gun-cotton and travel under
their own mechanism, when once
launched, at a speed of thirty-six
knots.
On these new boats two extra peri
scopes have been added, as well as a
small flying bridge" abaft, to permit
the crew to come up ION deck" for a
breath of fresh air. The submarine of
the latest class also has two propelIers
Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-23

ULES We R N E,
decades ago, wrote
= of the then unbe-
lievable adven-
lures of Capt.
Memo and his IA
bled submarine,
the Nautilus. Sep
TENDER % of
year the 'Unter-
seeboten, Number
Nine"-or, to give
it the more IA
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No super-dreadnought can withstand
he attack of q submarine torpedo, and
he ultra battleships only safety lies
4 flight. Awask, or submerged, the
ubmarine travels invisible, and since
ne sinking OF the Aboukir and her
pnsorts every man aboard the thou
md armored bulls of the warning ma
les must keep constantly before his
1iud the fear that without warning or
Ign, Gny minute Of tho day or night.
Loudly Or fair, ne and his hundred sal
1rmen brothers Of war may be wiped
rom the face OF the shifting sea at
no tick of q single moment!
The United States government real
time when the British admiralty
coffed at the idea, declaring that a
ubmarine was but a weapon of defense
Or weaker nation. But Great Brit
marine was launched at Barrow-in-
'urniss November 2, 1901. Today the
United States has ffty-one of these
raft built, or building and eight, one
'oing type, authorized, while Great
britain in January, 1914, had seventy
wo built and twenty-five building.
Germany at first held an opinion akin
90, became convinced, and at the be-
inning of this year she had twenty
Dur built and twelve building.
France, the first nation to actually
make of a submarine-or rather a So
allied "submersible"-an engine of
Far. had a the same time seventy-five
,uilt and eighteen building; Japan,
thirteen built and two building; Rus
IA thirty built and twenty-five build
ng. and Austria about eight built;> so
hat somewhere in the seven seas to-
ay there are approximately 324 of
hese mosquito war vessels, each capa-
lie Of doing untold damage.