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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-10-27
HOW GEORGIANS MET
INVASION OF WEEVII
KILLS
BROTHER-IN-LAW
WESLEY McCASKILL SHOOTS W.
T. SMITH, JR.
Uses Latter's Pistol-Wrenches Pis-
tol Out of Assailant's Hand and
Then Fires Fatal Shot.

Camden, Oct. 23.-Wesley McCas-
kill, a prominent farmer who lives
near the Lee county line in this coun-
ty, shot and instantly killed his
brother-in-law, w. T. Smith, Jr.,
early this morning.
McCaskill had endeavored to collect
money owed him by Smith. The lat
ter, it is said, flew into a rage, pulled
his pistol and fired at McCaskill four
times, hitting him twice, once in the
head and in the back but inflicting
only flesh wounds. McCaskill lodged
behind tree and .wrenched the pis-
tol from the enraged mans hand.
Smith is then said to have advanced
upon him with his knife. McCaskill
fired with Smiths pistol, killing him
instantly.
McCaskill came to Camden immedi
ately and surrendered.
The dead man left no children. Nc
Caskill has a wife and eight children.
The coroner held an inquest to-
night.
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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS

Cowpens, S. c., June Is, 1915.
Mrs. L. ]. Hames,
Union, S. c.
Dear Madam:
notice in a recent issue of The
Times you gist list of soldiers fur
nished by Union county to the Rev
olution and the War of 1912. Being
native of Union county and greatly
interested in local history l hasten
to express my appreciation of the
work and you and your chapter are
doing and to offer any assistance
where l can give it.
/ notice you invite additional facts
and corrections. I will mention two
or three. 1 see the name of Samuel
Hodge, but no mention of his father
William Hodge. He was one of the
original settlers on the Pacolet, prior
to the Revolution. His house was
burned by the British and Tories a
short while before the battle of
Kings Mountain. When a small boy
one of his great grandsons pointed
out to me three pillars which were
then standing in tact. The site is
some so yards from the Hodge grave
yard. He was in the army part of
the time and was in the Battle of
Cowpens. Not many years ago, James
Vinson, a descendant of his (now de-
ceased) had the powder horn he car
ried on that occasion and that it had
a rough outline of the battle carved
on it. l suppose he is buried in the
Hodge graveyard. /
Capt. Jas. Steen was not killed at
Kings Mountain, though his descend
ant, Jas. P. Gossett, got his name on
the new monument that way. He
was killed by Tory in Rowan county,
N. c., after the battle of Kings Noun
tain.
Jesse James (Buck) was not buried
near Jonesville but at the Hodge
graveyard on the PAcolet. was
present, saw him buried, and the fun
eral was conducted by Rev. A. A.
James. al
One Revolutionary soldier OF. inn
portance is.@not named in the pulyi
lished list, j. e., Lieut.. Col. VIM. Farr.
/ have quite an interesting sketch of
hihi' iAS uiCu Ill L fOA anu Is DuTleQ III
a graveyard on the Scaife place, 13
miles from Union.
Adam and Peter Skain. Buried at
Skain burying ground. Graves un-
marked.
John Skain-Killed at Cowpens and
buried there-just off field. Grave un-
marked.
1t is said Adam Skain was carry
ing water to his dying brother, John,
at Cowpens, when a British officer
asked for a drink. After quenching
Johns thirst he went back and gave
water to the officer. The officer Of
fered Adam his gold watch. Skain re-
piled, "Never shall it be said that
Adam Skain plundered fallen foe."
Fraternally,
j. D. Bailey.
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VIM. Farr; Old Grindal Shoals, etc.
The society also received valuable
aid from Mr.. Mr.. S. S. Stokes, Rev.
l.. L. Wagnon and Mrs. B. G. Clifford.
The Fairforest chapter is now en-
deavoring to place markers which the
government will furnish to the graves
of all soldiers of the Revolution and
War OF 1872. Several markers have
already been ordered.
Mrs. L. ]. Hames, Regent.
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Possibly the flies that infest rats
do not carry the germ of infantile
paralysis, but it is not from any lack
of meanness ON their part.-Rochester
IN. W Democrat and Chronicle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19

life, that the claim of this book to any
considerable distinction rests. Young
Turberville may, or may not, be saved
from waywardness. One is not sure.
He has not yet been tried by matri-
mony. But all along the way of his
possible rescue one is perhaps too much
engrossed in the delightful Virginia
people that come and so, in the savors
of Virginia outlook and manners and
customs that open around him.
SAMARITAN MARY. BY Sumner
Locke. Illustrations by James Q.
Chaplin. New York: Henry Holt &
Co.
An unfailing fund of common sense
and good cheer. done up in a personal
ity of the rural type. has been the
inspiration of many a story writer and
the joy of many a reader. "Samari-
tan Mary" belongs to this order OF
romance and Mary herself is clearly
next of kin to the popular Martha
blythe Day." Mrs. Wigs" and "Dru-
silla With a Million" A country viii
lage forms a background for the mani
fold activities of Mary. An automo-
bile accident expands her role to that
of special providence in romance
which, without the beneficent minis
trations of Mary. would have faded of
into the nothingness of innumerable
other propitious beginnings in the
loves Of youth and maid. This is an
engaging story whose characters, all
are we'll worth ones acquaintance and
whose action is fresh and interesting
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Of the most absorbing aspects Of tn
great war.

Of the most absorbing aspects Of the
great war.
THE ART OF THE MOVING PIC
TCRES. BY Vache1 Lindsay. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
In a highly illuminating efficiency
Vachel Lindsay here brings order and
significance out of the present mean
ingless chaos of the moving picture. In
a clearly objective manner Mr.. Lind
say retraces the steps by which he him
self arrived at his theories concerning
the nature and mission of the moving
picture. He clears the ground for this
study by first classifying the great
formless mass of picture stuff. Out of
this he gathers three groups-pictures
Of o. action, CD intimacy, 60 SPLEEN
dor. The first of these are sourced in
physical force and high speed. From
the second come the small groupings
that embody the idyls, village comedies,
certain social dramas and the like. The
third is the medium of the fairy tale.
the stories of patriotism, the unstable
personality of large assemblies, the
spirit of the religious photoplay. Hav-
ing made this classification Mr.. Lind
say relates each group to art. thereby
bringing the moving picture under the
laws of production that control art.
The action play, in this view. Is sculp-
in-motion, the intimate picture is
painting lin otion, the splendor pic
ture Is architecture-in-m motion. Under
this hypothesis he discusses, with many
a concrete illustration, the proprieties
of each of these departments of art in
it's application to the moving picture.
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THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND
Being the VnOnlcial Chronicle OF q
Unit of 'F<ID." BY Ian Hay. author
of 1.-The Right Stuff" etc. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company.
Ian Hay-or, to give him his full
name, Ian Hay Beith-is both a real
soldier and real writer. The first
is attested to by the fact of his prompt
enlistment in the summer of 1914, by
his very active service at the front in
Flanders. and by his subsequent pro-
motion to the rank of captain. The Sec
ond claim for him rests on general
recognition of Ian Hay as an interest
ing and popular writer, as a Mans
abundant1y prove. This double role
leads one to expect something out of
the common from the war chronicle in
hand. The expectation is met in full
by this surpa ssingly vivid story of men
in the midst of war, rather than a
story of war itself. These are sketches,
safety valves" the writer calls them,
sent off to Blackwood's Magazine when
opportunity opened to do this: sketches
snatched at odd moments from the
midst Of things, and warm with all
sorts of poignant human interest. The
same glow of kindly humor and genial
fellowship is here as one finds in Ian
Hays stories of gentler theme. From
THE Back of the Front" and THE
Front of the Front" he gathers the
grewsome records and sends them out
in a thrilling series of war pictures.
From this purely personal point of
view and in a quite inimitable way the
writer has placed readers close to some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19
Stumbling Upon a Mine.

~ OLD was discovered in California in
VI 1s4s and in Colorado in 1858. The
discovery was accidental in both cases
and the fact created the impression that
mines were lying around loose" Ad-
venturers drifted about in hope of
| stumbling upon a mine Thayer, the
historian of those days. has given sew
eral instances of lucky stumbling
Three men. while looking for gold in
California. discovered the dead body OF
man who, evidently had been pros
pecting." Poor fellow" said one of the
trio, let's give him decent burial"
So they began to dig grave. Three
feet below the surface they discovered
signs of gold. The stranger was buried
in another place. and where they had
located A grave they opened gold
mine.
An adventurer who had drifted into
Leadville. col. aNoke one mornin.
without food or money. II" wet out
and shot a deer. whirh. ia it, dlin.,
agonies. kicked up the dirt and dis
closed signs Of gold. The porr man
staked claim and opened one of She
most profitable mines ever worked in
Leadville.
Dead Man claim" the name gwen
to another rich mine in Leadville. was
discovered by broken-doHn miner
while digging a grave.
A miner died when there were several
feet of snow OH the ground His com
rades laid his body in a snow bank
and hired a. man for $50 to dig a grave.
The gravedigger. after three days alb
sence, was found digging mine in
stead of grave. While excavating
he had struck gold. Forgetting the
corpse and his bargain. he thought only
of the fact that he had struck il rich"
An unsuccessful Australian miner
went up and down in Colorado for sew
cral months prospecting for gold and
finding none one day he sat down
upon stone and while musing over his
hard luck aimlessly struck another
stone with his pick. He Clipped off a
piece, and sprang to his feet The chip
was rich gold quartz. He hurried into
the little town of Rosita and went to
the assay office. where a teamster had
just dumped load of wood. He agreed
to saw the wood to pay for assayins.
his Clipped sample. The result of the
assay sent him back to his claim. When
he had taken Out of il S45O.000 he sold
the mine for 100000 ia cash and ST.
100000 in stock.
But these standings have been the
exceptions to the rule that mines are
found by painstaking. intelligent pros
pectors. They spend wearisome months
in exploring mountains and gulches
They are mineralogists. biologists and.
above all, practical explorers who can
tell from twist in the grain of the
rock or from the color of "A spar seam
whether paying gold" can be mined
in the region.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE-
GENTLY ADDED.

The following list. arranged by sub
jects. includes some of the latest addi-
tions to the Public Library.
The lists which appear in this column
each Sunday are reprinted. at the end
of the month, in the library's monthly
bulletin. Copies of this may be obtain
ed free at the library or will be sent
by mail for Ii cents year.
Fiction.
Benson, +. Fl. The History OF Richard Ray
nal Solitary.
Castle. Agnes and ESerton. The Hope CT the
House.
Comfort, W. L. Lot and Company.
Deeping Warwick. Love Among the Ruins.
George, W. l.. The Strangers Wedding.
Glasgow. Z. A. G. Life and Gabrielle.
Harris, c. NJ. W. The Co-cItizens.
Hughes, Rupert. Clipped Wings.
Jacobs. W. W. A Master OF Craft.
Kingsley. Mrs r. NJ. The Heart OF Philurs.
Lawson. Ellsworth. From the TnvaryinS star
Lunscy.
Iefevre. Edwin. H. u.
Lippmann. J. NJ Burkeses Army.
Maynader. q. H.. comp. Made to Order.
Mordaunt. EleDor. pscud. The Rose OF Youth
OKenham. John. Broken Shackles.
Oyen, Henry. The Mantrai1
Raine. W. NJ. Steve Yeager.
Sinclair. May. The Belfry.
Thurston, z. 7. The Passionate Crime.
Trevena, John. pseud. Moyle Church-towB.
Vachell. H. A. Spragge's Canyon.
Webster, II. h. The Real Adventure.
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support and their 'repertoires cover a
round year of events in their section
of the Palouse country. Boy curiosity
and energy are sufficient to see TO IT
that nothing worth while, from the boy
point of view. remains concealed. So.
in a secondary way, the story makes
one fairly intimate with all the not
ables of the town. including him also
in the various rough and-ready expert
ences. Mart Campin is a good mar
rator. Conscientious and circumstan-
tial, he gies everything its due with
out sacrificing, as so many conscien-
tious people do. his own sense of
humor and his own gift Of the pic
turesoue in the scenes about him. A
fine. breezy story with two real boys
to give it life and go.
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In summary he presents the essential
points of difference between the spoken
drama and the photoplay, differences
that must be taken into account both
in judging and constructing the NOV
ing-picture play. Beyond this point
Mr.. Lindsay roams far afield in visions
concerning the future Importance of
this particular art in social and COM
munity life. An admirably clear and
instructive study and a most readable
book.
A MANS REACH. BY Sally Nelson
Robins. Illustrations by Edmund
Frederick. Philadelphia: j. B. Lip
pincott Company.
The redemption of a young man
through the power Of woman's love
is not a very fresh theme. nor is 1t
a very stable basis upon which to
build convincing novel. However,
Mrs. Robins has, despite this handicap.
produced an interesting and entertain
ing story. In the first place she has
made group of uncommonly likable
people. And what is of equal import
they are true to various types of south
ern men and women who have cher
fshed the traditions Of the south, who
have preserved in themselves the social
charm of the day when the planters
chief business was the cultivation of a
spacious hospitality In this particu-
lar Mrs. Robins novel is triumph.
The situations and scenes, also, possess
in high degree this quality of local
color. AS a matter of fact, it is upon
this effect. upon this flavor of Virginia
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81 Graveyard of the Atlamtic.' %

it was found that the terrible batter
ing had untitled her for further use
and she was beached and stripped.
The destructive powers of these coral
reefs were never better evidenced than
in the ruination of the fine steel bark
Filippo Denegr. bound from Monte
Yideo to New York with a cargo of
bones. She went to her doom some
ten miles off shore. Wrecking tugs
succeeded eventually in bringing her
into st. Georges. still white of side
and symmetrical of spar. only eighteen
years old. but actually fit for little
more than the junk shop. She ended
her days in Tightening coal about the
ha rbor.
Today wells the mystery of the Rus
sian Dark Passat of Helsingsfors,
which. abandoned. was picked up at sea
by British steamer and towed into
Bermuda. No trace of the crew has
ever been found. The Passat was
formerly Norwegian vessel. built at
Arendal in 1878. her name meaning
trade winds. She. is now in use as a
coal hulk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19
Couldn't Lose It.

DK. SIMON F: HARRINGTON. tn.
~ chemical and food expert. said IL
a lecture in Chicago:
Z Hanging. or ripening. is good for
certain food. Pheasant is dry and
tough without little hanging. Pork
is the better for being hung. Even
beef must hang a little.
But not too much. don't believe in
any such overhanging. any such ripe
ness. as the Gorgonzola had
"A grocer found that two OF hi.
Gorgonzola cheeses were ripe to rotten
ness. so he put them outside the .shop
one, night in the hope that somebod
would steal them.
In the morning one was gone. and
the grocer was glad. That night he
put out the other one again Then. the
next morning. his wife heard him
cursing and swearing as he opened up
the shop.
What's the matter. JIM? she said
Isn't it gomez
Not only it amt gone Jim an
swered. but the other one has walked
back"
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and then steps out from the common
run in way of it's own. with thoughts
! that well spontaneously. with words of
| fresh choosing and gestures free. then
all feel the stir and thrill of this unique
individuality. be 1t person or book
1t is by virtue of such qualities that
Cam Clarke" steps away from the
average press of novels of life in the
! far west. Primarily this is the story of
two boys, Cam Clarke and Mart Cam
pin. Mart tells the tale. generously,
according Cam the title role. while
making it clear that this is a story
about Cam and me. We are the stars.
And stars of such Importance do they
turn out to be that their stage is the
whole of the frontier town in which
they live. all the townfoIks are their
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Cornish Place Names.

~ ORNISH place names are remarkable
" for the number of obscure Celtic
saints they commemorate. such as st.
Tudy. st. Cuby. St Uny, ST Enodoc, st.
Brisc and st. Finbarrow. A story is told
of Cornish candidate for ordination
who. when asked by the examining chap
lain where he was born. replied, "at St
Eval, giving the local pronunciation,
"Sandeval.' Good gracious" exclaimed
the chaplain, II know they have some
strange saints in Cornwall, but ! should
never have imagined that they would can
onize him.! There are three other Cor
nish villages whose names it would be
hard to match for Observation-Disclosures.
London Apprentice and Drunkards All
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ward full of bIossominr hoIlyhocks. as
colorful and attractive as was ever
the dooryard of a Breton inn. After
an. II docs NOT MAKE so inuch oi1eren nc
fiscerpinr eve which discovers tn, mic
turesque.
Col Overs method and style are to
d srea. eAlsht ms omn -. pa,n.s NJ;
uses aIn,ast entirely opaaue color
Sometimes lie employs broad washes
ana again ne dPplleS ina pig he't IN
crisp, snort 1. nia ,I re- .''';
phrdti.ei! itttit. "iiei SIi'' ~"
signlfes- inns IS nor great arr: out ~
is very pleasah, pastire ann y. uee5
conserve nu.n 'haI ~ ped ~, u aI.u
pIeasihg anu mus anoIos .eaa anu ~, 81
ing emo! hehI- 10 pdIhters such a.
these. 10 Whoin great ho1orS 10 noi
accrue cer'a'hiS 1eai nepL % sIa
tude Is over Lol; Dyer "dte, cot a
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and subsequent absence from the city
OF the sculptor, Richard e. Brooks Mr..
Brooks is now in Bermuda.
X
HE meeting of the Archaeological
League to be held in the studio of
Miss Saunders, the leagues secretary,
enormously announced for yesterday.
is to be held the afternoon of March
20 at o'clock. The address is 1919
G street. and there will be paper on
Leon Bakst
!:
HE American Institute of Graphic
:" Arts has instituted an open com
petition for a Shakespearean' book
plate. There will be three prizes:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19
After the Honeymoon.

EAT GEORGE JAY GOULD was de-
Avn Tending. at dinner in New York,
a marriage of a rational rather than TO-
mantle nature.
These romantic and improvident
marriages are very fine in the begin
ming. said Mrs. Gould: but later on
She shook her head pensively.
Love, she said. laughs at lock-
smiths. but later on the wolf at the
door does the same thing"
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~T. GEORGES HARBOR, Bermuda,
~ bears sinister reputation as 1.-The
graveyard of the Atlantic, and its
shores present scene of melancholy and
desolat;on not often equaled in her array
Of abandoned. rotting ships Of all ma
lions, nearly all Of which in times past
brought cargoes from far and wide.
Every year the feet Of decaying hulks,
their ravaged and yawning decks and
sides growing more ilapidated with the
wear and tear of time, receives reinforce
ments in. fresh victims Such wholesale
blight, such vast and hopeless dissolution.
has most depressing effect upon the be-
holder. The dismal scene. with gulls CIR
clirg like vultures overhead, seems like
death and despair personifed-the end OF
all things Bermuda's Gordon Of knifelike
coral reefs. extending twenty miles OF
shore on all sides. yearly proves the I'M
doing of mary unfortunate, confused SKIP
pers. who by slight detection from , taei !,
course stumble upon this deadly pittali
unguarded in mid-Atlantic.
With the rending. decorating fangs OF
the jagged white lodges clutching ship 8
bottom her roaming Of the seas may well
be considered at an end II wreckeIs sue
coed in freeing her from the saWnRe'
foam covered barrier and floating ner into
harbor salvation is not at all nigh Inc
cost Of repairs is SO prohibitive in Der
muda that her owners find themselves
swamped by the simple contemplation OF
them, and she Is almost always sold for
the benefit of all concerned.
At any rate. her hull goes to mark
another successful encounter i'll the
conquest which Bermuda perpetually
wages against the commerce or the
world After each wreck the shores OF
little St Georges harbor. or less fire.
ttnce of Ia milton arc Uttered
with one more skeleton of a ship. like
the carcass of huge animal picked
clean by wolves. Wreckers either burn
or break her up for the metal in her
construction. Or possibly. If her con-
oition warrants. convert her into
coal hulk for harbor use.
Each ancient ruin recalls to the
native thrilling incidents of fearful
gales. shipwrecks and destruction.
while the disintegration of years has
obliterated beneath the harbor the last
reminders of yet other fine ships that
have found their last resting place
here in past ages.
Only few blackened ribs show
ing at low tide tell the story of the
American full-rigged ship George H.
Warren. built at East Boston in 1854.
Soon after being launched she was
placed under German colors as pro-
lection from Confederate men of-war.
being renamed Ida. Under this and Nor
wegian ownership she continued for
the greater part of her career. In
1900 she got into trouble at Bermuda
and was purchased by new owners
there who wished to replace her under
the American flag. Legal complica-
lions arose. however. and a final
result the Ida, instead of resumins the
cargo trade. was burned for junk.
In the upper end of the harbor are
the remains of the one-time Boston
bark Lillian. built at Harrington, Me.
in 1879 and sold to New York men
shortly after she stranded on the reefs
in 1905 while inward bound with coal.
After being fioated into smooth water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19
A Matter of Course.

EOLA LA TOILETTE said in dis
u cussion of the divorce evil at the
suffrage lunchrooms in New York:
TOO many women accept divorce as
a necessary evil. as a matter of course
as a thing bound to come.
"A lawyer asked a young woman
witness the other day:
Are YOU unmarried
Good gracious. no. she answered.
Il amt even been married YETI"
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A Reminder.

DHILANDER C. kNOX, discussing in
Pittsburgh his candidacy for the
Senate, said:
Il have every cause to regard my
candidacy hopefully. But I'd be hope
full anyway. / am hopeful naturally.
I am like the Canadian recruit who
hung up IN his trench the motto:
when down in the mouth think Of
Jonah. He came out all right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19

besides bread and butter, occasionally
TIC i,Iustr,tor must live in his nicture
must make it, in fact. part of him
ser. re aISo maui w lea .ns
and transcri6ine the shirt OF things
1t is the latter. Ire said. that the Jap
ancse 40 ana IL Is 'his winch really
In illustration of these theories and
az evidencine tho merit Of coten1po-
rary illustrative work Mr.. Oakley
eho,yed h., ,ne.ns Of eteroonticop slides
rnrrodnct,ons ~ sixty -, more work G
hy cotemnorsry ;,l,,strators
~
A. .Anio'''o'' "
III oP'' ~ liz
N 80 '