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Scraps and _#acts. ? Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement issued last Friday showed the amount of cotton brought in sight during the previous seven days to have been 160,240 bales against 139,063 for the same week of last year, and 168,844 bales for the same week of the year before. The total movement since September 1 was 9,471,335 bales against 8,637,638 bales for the same period of last year. ? There was a five million dollar Are in New Orleans last Sunday night. It swept the river front from Louisiana avenue to Napoleon avenue, a distance of twelve squares, and wiped out the vast freight terminals of the Illinois Central railroad together with the Immense piles of merchandise there assembled. It is estimated that more than twenty thousand bales of cotton were burned. The full extent nf v.o inssps is not vet known; but #it cannot be much less than Ave million dollars. ? The Cuban government on last Friday unveiled a statue to Jose Marti, the leader of the uprising of 1895, and commonly regarded as the Washington of Cuba. The statue is in the centre of Central Park, the heart of Havana, and stands on a pedestal that was formerly occupied by the statue of Queen Isabella. President Palma and Maximo Gomez were among the conspicuous figures at the unveiling. The principal address of the occasion was delivered by Horatio Reubens of New York, an American who was associated with Marti, and who contributed much to the success of the Cuban revolution. ? Dispatches of the past few days from the scene of activity around Mukden indicate the progress of another battle of tremendous proportions between the Russians and Japanese. The especial object of the fighting it seems, is possession of the forks of the Hun river, about fifty miles below Mukden. The Russians undertook to establish their left flank at a point that would ensure control of the forks of the river on the breaking up of the ice in the spring. The Japanese met the advance with a counter movement, and during the past few days there has been heavy fighting with the advantage in favor of the Japanese. Snow was falling at last accounts and the wind was growing bitter. The indications were that unless the weather intervened the fighting would result in something decisive. ? Fire swept the southeastern portion of Hot Springs, Ark., last Saturday doing immense damage and causing the known death of three persons. The losses are variously estimated at from one million to two million dollars. Three charred corpses have been found among the ruins and, as several persons are reported missing, the death list may be increased. The identity of the victims has not been established. One of the bodies is supposed to be that of a female guest of the Grand Central hotel. The fire, which started at 3.30 o'clock in the morning, was the worst Arkansas has ever experienced, and in five hours had burned over an area of one square mile. Block after block of residences, business houses, hotels and other buildings were swept away and the entire town was panic stricken, although the fire was confined to the southern part of the city. Street car wires and telegraph and telephone poles were destroyed and these services were temporarily demoralized. ? Says a Tiflis, Caucasia, dispatch of Feb. 25: Details of the recent street fighting at Baku show that 35 persons were killed or wounded on February 20, and that on the following day the racial bitterness between the Mussulmans and Armenians reached a climax. Street murders were incessant and firing lasted all day long. Altogether a hundred people were killed or wounded. Bazaars and shops were plundered, and as the garrison was inadequate reinforcements < talions of infantry with artillery and two squadrons of Cossacks had to be called in, and they used their arms to suppress the outbreak. Further disturbances occurred on February 22. The residences of the wealthiest inhabitants were plundered and burned. The governor traversed all the quarters of the city exhorting the people to cease hostilities, and the Armenian and Mussulman clergy met and embraced in public and expressed a desire for a reconciliation of their peoples. The rioting- was thereupon suspended, but again broke out on February z4. ? Says a Washington dispatch of February 24: At the White House and at the state department, at the Russian, French. German, British and Italian embassies and the Japanese legation today where inquiries were made regarding the rumors of peace between Russia and Japan the most positive statements were made that if either of the belligerents were thinking of proposing peace, it was a sectet securely locked in the foreign office at St. Petersburg or at Tokio. The president has heard absolutely nothing of an avowed intention on the part of Russia or Japan to sue for peace at this time, much less of an actual proposal. Secretary Hay assured three ambassadors that while this government continued ever hopeful for peace and watchful of the opportunity to be of assistance whenever assistance might be asked b" the belligerents, there were no indications here that the time for peace was near. Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, said talk of peace was never more absurd than now. The ambassador has had positive information from the very highest officials in St. Petersburg that the war will be prosecuted with increasing vigor. It is expected that Gen. Kuropatkin, with the onrlncr /tumnuiirn U'lll upcjllllg Ul lilt .-.J.I ...b accomplish much, in view of the reinforcements he has receive.!. The emperor has every confidence in his military ability. Count Cassini declared the peace talk was preparatory to an attempt to float another Japanese loan. ? Piercing of the Simplon tunnel through the Alps was completed at 7.20 o'clock last Friday morning, according to a dispatch from Gondo, Switzerland. The work was commenced in 1898. The meeting of the two boring parties (Swiss and Italian) was signalled throughout Switzerland by ringing of church bells and salutes by cannon. Many unexpected obstacles were encountered, the most serious being hot springs, which threatened to wreck the whole enterprise, and a temperature which at one time rose to 131 degrees. Fahrenheit, making a continuance of the work impossible until the engineers found means of cooling the atmosphere. Now that the borers have met, it will enable the water accumulated in the north gallery to be drawn off. The work of preparing the tunnel for a permanent way will be pushed as rapidly as possible and it will not be content to eave state banks In the disadvantageous position in which they have been placed with reference to national banks. Corporations should be made to pay taxes Just as Individuals; but nothing is to be gained by trying to make corporations pay taxes beyond their just proportion. The idea might be popular enough wit - the thoughtless; but no individual has ever secured permanent advantage as the result of a wrong, and no Individual, corporation or state ever will. We are sorry to note that some of the newspapers are disposed to prfnt unfavorable criticisms of Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton association. Such criticisms provided they were made in good faith, were proper enough before Mr. Jordan was elected to his presen position, and we would not be understood that his official acts must be held above criticism even now; but we think that newspapers friendly to the objects of the association will do weil to confine their criticism of Mr. Jordan to his official acts. He may not be the best man who could have been chosen for the position he holds; but he has been chosen, and he should have fair support. Of course the success of the enterprise does not depend entirely on the ability and capacity of the president; but still much harm may be done by belittling the president in the eyes of the rank and file of the organization. In another column is reproduced for what it may be worth an alleged talk with an alleged Greenville man about the cotton association movement. We do not know a great deal about Mr. Harvie Jordan; but we certainly have no reason to question his motives. That he has been frequently mistaken there is no question; but when it comes to his sincerity, we think he is entitled to the benefit of all doubts. There were politicians in the state convention in Columbia, and the fact cannot be denied; tut still even the politicians cannot be entirely ruled out of an undertaking of this kind. Their talents are not so useful and valuable perhaps as are the talents of well balanced practical business men; but how are we going to get rid of them? And if we do get rid of them how do we know that we are not only just making room for others of exactly the same stamp. We are not going to say that the News had no right to publish such an article as we have reproduced; but we do think that the man who talks with so much wisdom ought to have permitted the use of his name. Otherwise we may be inclined to the conclusion, that maybe he is only a politician, of the class he decries so bitterly, and that his sympathy with this movement is not so strong as he would have the public believe. Down With the Aged. Dr. William Osier, who for many years has enjoyed the distinction of being one of the most eminent physicians in the world, theoretically, and who has recently been called to the position of regius professor of medicine at Oxford, delivered his farewell speech at Johns Hopkins last Thursday, and made the following declarations: 1 have two fixed ideas well known to my friends. The first is the comparative uselessnesa of men above forty years of age. This may seem shocking, and yet read aright the world's history bears out the statement. Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature, subtract the work of men above forty, and, while we should miss great treasures?even priceless treasures?we would practically be where we were today. It is difficult to name a great and farreaching conquest of the mind which has not been given to the world by a man on whose back the sun was still shining. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and loriy, mese urieen goiaen years ui plenty, the anabolic or constructive period, in which there is always a balance in the mental bank and the credit is still good. In the science and art of medicine there has not been an evidence of the first rank which Vesalius, Harvey, Hunter, Bycht, LaEnnec. Virchow. Lister. Koch?the green years were yet upon their heads when their epoch making studies were made. To modify an old saying, a man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty, or never. The young men should be encouraged and afforded every possible chance to show what is in them. My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life, if, as ? matter of course, men stopped worn at this age. In that charming novel. "The Fixed Period." Anthony Trollope discusses the practical advantages in modern life of a return to this ancient usage, and the plot hinges on the admirable scheme of a college into which at sixty men retired for a year of peaceful contemplation before a peaceful departure by chloroform. As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes, politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels, not a few of the bad sermons afld speeches. There are thousands of able men in this country who think Dr. Osier the very ablest of living Americans, and who, without being able to ravel It out even to their own satisfaction will accept every word the great doctor said as gospel truth simply because he said so. It requires very considerable temerity therefore to suggest that possibly the great doctor who Is himself well past forty, may be growing a little cranky. If we should attempt to dispute with Dr. Osier, we fear that we might suddenly lose our composure and be tempted to violent exclamations like this. "Holy Moses! The Great Julius Ctesar! The Immortal George Washington!" It is true that as we are able to see It now, the last named had begun to show considerable promise before he was forty; but the first named was well past sixty before he wrote certain books that can very ill be spared even today. It is all right, as Dr. Osier says, to encourage young men to their best efforts, for it is in the young men that the hope of the world rests; but to tell them that if they have not done their do by the time they are forty, they will not do it at all, is anything but encouraging, u is noi only discouraging, it is misleading. And considered purely from the academic standpoint of utility, the idea that men have passed their usefulness at 60 is absurd, for history read as it is?whatever Dr. Osier means by being read aright?shows that the vast majority of men who have accomplished anything notable by the time they are forty continue if they live and enjoy health, to be of service to the world after they are seventy or even eighty. For instance Johns Hopkins was 78 years of age when he gave J3.000.000 to found the famous university that Mr. Osier is now leaving. and we have an idea that no one will dispute with us that this was not only the greatest thing that the old man did in his life; but that he could not possibly have been Induced to do it at forty even had he had more millions then than later. The Goose of the Golden Egg. This letter from Comptroller General Jones to Mr. R. C. Alleln, cashier of the First National Bank of Yorkville | is of more than ordinary Interest at I this time: Answering your letter of the 22d instant, I beg to say that it has been repeatedly decided by the United States courts that it is not within the power of the state to impose a license tax upon national banking associations before they can do business in the state, and therefore the License Tax Act of 1804, applying to corporations, cannot be construed as applying to national banking associations. On its face, and taken by Itself, this would look like a mere acknowledgement that national banks are not subject to the corporation license tax of 1904, and that is all there is of It; but we think we see something more, and it is just as well perhaps to go into further details. As everybody is aware, the finances [of the state have been In a bad way for several years. There are those \vho claim that it could not be helped; that those in charge have been managing splendidly; that nobody could have done better, etc. There are oth ers wno irunK mar me respuuaiuie managers have been a little too liberal with the money of the taxpayers, and that the remedy for a private business In like straits would be the bankruptcy courts. When the lawmakers first began to realize the shortage last year, they sought a remedy not In cutting down expenses; but in raising more money and the expedient which seemed to commend Itself with most favor was to tax corporations, and accordingly they passed what is known as the license tax act. This act, which was put on the statute books last year, provides a special license on all corporations. In reality, of course, It Is a tax; but by a fiction of the law It is known as a license. Otherwise, It would be unjust taxation and therefore null and void under the constitution. For obvious reasons, It was Impracticable to put the machinery of the new law in operation last year and no effort was made to collect this tax until within the past few weeks, since when the office of the comptroller general has been giving the matter much of its attention. Many corporations have been paying up without much protest. All of them have been Impressed with the injustice of the thing; but they had no way of helping themselves, and there was nothing to do but pay. The framers of the national banking laws foresaw the necessity of protecting the Institutions they were arranging to create from unfriendly state legislation, and they did it thoroughly. They conceded to the states the right to tax National banks as other institutions were taxed; but they took care to provide that there should be no special licenses or other restrictions that might impose discriminating hardships, etc. And in their work they left no loophole. As to whether the framers of this corporation license law intended to include national banks or not, there is' no way of knowing. It is probable that they never so much as thought of the Federal laws on the subject; but now they have the matter forced on their attention In a way which will probably give them more or less concern. As the result of the letter of Cashier Allein, Comptroller Jones is at once brought to recognize a limit beyond which he cannot go. He may collect this double taxation from other corporations because they have no way to help themselves; but at the doors of the national banks he must stop. Otherwise he will get into an argument with the Federal government, and because he knows the result of that argument in advance, he very prudently prefers to remain where he is. But what about the state banks? The theory of the government has been to keep them on a footing equally advantageous with national banks. This ronont rlovolnnmonf flvPQ tho national banks a most decided advantage. Will the state government then Insist on making the state banks pay the tax? There are some no doubt, who will say yes, their judgment being characterized by the same disregard of justice that led to the original passage of the law. But will the state banks stand it? Not for long, we venture. They will find it more advantageous to give up their state charters in exchange for franchises under the national banking laws. And if this unjust license tux cannot be collected from the banks, why insist upon its collection from other corporations. The whole thing is clearly wrong, and the sooner this fact is recognized the better it will be for all concerned. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. D. Alexander?Offers some bargains In bicycle sundries. A few coaster brakes at (3 each. Strauss-Smith Co.?Has received a big shipment of ladies' and misses' ready-to-wear hats and invites the ladles to make a visit to its millinery department Foushee Cash Store?Invites you to give It your purse, and tells you that it will "put money in your purse." It wants you to remember the "New Idea" patterns. J. Q. Wray?Has a big new stock of the latest styles and shades in men's hats in derbies, crushes, Alpines and broad brims at correct prices. Opera House?Announces the production of "The Deacon," by students of the graded school at the opera house, this, Tuesday, evening, at 8.30. L. M. Grist's Sons?Give you some timely pointers in regard to commercial printing. See fourth page. York Furniture Co.?Wants to recover a nickel plated hub band, lost from a wheel of its hearse. Will pay reward. Star Drug Store?Wants you to buy and plant Landreth's garden seeds, which, it says, have the reputation of being the surest producers. It has full selection of seeds and onion sets. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Gives you food for thought if you are In the market for life Insurance. First National Bank?Wants you to deposit your money In either large or small amounts with it. It pays interest on time deposits. * T> Cnlnac ifllfO Vnil to Wfltch his I n. ? space for information In regard to wall paper. Interior decorations, etc. Glenn & Allison?Say that their Mr. Glenn Is now In the west buying mules for the local market and will have them here by the first Monday in March. W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Invites you to see Lamm & Co.'s new spring samples of spring clothing. He has all kinds of garden Reeds, seed potatoes, garden rakes, etc. G. H. O'Leary?Tells you about the "Perfection" oil stoves, which he says is the most perfect and satisfactory oil stove on the market. Jas. M. Starr?Sells Macmurphy's fertilizers and says they are used by some of the most successful farmers of York county. See him. Harry Miller?Requests subscribers to The Enquirer on his club to pay up at once. J. L. McGlll, President?Requests the members of King's Mountain Township Cotton Growers' association to meet at the Bethany High school on next Saturday at 3.30 o'clock. T. XV. Speck?Publishes some society notes that will interest the ladles. Louis Roth?Is prepared to furnish fertilizers made by the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., and Read Phosphate Co.. and also prepared agricultural lime. NOTE AND COMMENT. President Snencer of the York County Southern Cotton association, has called a meeting of the executive committee to be held in Yorkvllle on next Friday. Business of importance will be transacted. The Southern Cotton association Is having mude a membership button with proper device and mottoes. The Idea Is to have the buttons worn by members throughout the organization so they will know each other on sight. One of the legends on the button Is to be "25 per cent reduction; we'll do It." The Des Moines, Iowa, Register and Leader tella how during; the recent heavy snows, farmers turned out and cleared the roads of drifts In order that the rural mall men might continue to make their dally trips, and our own people should take a lesson from the circumstance. The rural mall came first as an experiment and now It Is generally recognized as a necessity. While It Is natural t? expect the rural mall carriers to make their trips as long as the roads are passable to other people, still there Is such a thing as expecting too much. The government will certainly not Insist on continuing rural delivery over roads that are unfit for the work, and if a carrier should be forced to give up his place by reason of the condition of the roads, there will be no disposition to give the place to Just anybody who might be willing to take It. The government expects the people to show appreciation of the service It Is giving by putting the roads In proper condition, and people Interested will do well to do their full duty in the matter. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? A portion of the fire department was called out at about 10 o'clock last Saturday night on account of a burning chimney at Dr. A. Y. Cartwrlght's. There was no damage. ? Tom Ballard, the well known negro barber, Is still confined to his house on Chester street, near the overhead bridge, suffering from a dropsical affection. He is In a very bad I way. ? The attention of The Enquirer has been called to the fact that while several bales of cotton were put on the market last week, the greater portion of the cotton that was brought to town was stored by the owners In warehouses. ? The Yorkvllle Graded school Invites the attention of the local public tonight to an Interesting comedy drama that is to be presented in the opera house, by members of the higher grades, assisted by several of the teachers. "The Deacon" Is the name of the play, and the full synopsis of It together with the cast of characters, as published in the advertising columns will give an Idea of what is In store for those who go out Patrons are assured that they will get double value for their money?first In two hours of entertainment, and second In whatever augmentation may result to the piano and library funds of the school. { ? "I expect to have roe shad tomorrow," was the rather guarded announcement that Mr. Louis Roth made in the advertising columns last Friday. Now, while roe shad are pretty high In price at this season of the year, still there are many people around York-1 ville who are very rona or mis mumsome delicacy, and it was not a great while after the paper was on the streets before Mr. Roth began to receive orders. During Saturday some customers came in from the country; but everybody was disappointed. Instead of the fish Mr. Roth received from his dealer a card, saying, "The weather has been so rough that it is impossible to ship shad today." When the reporter asked Mr. Roth why he had no shad he replied, "Because I advertise them. Every time I advertise I haf them they don't come." ? Next Monday is salesday for March and while no auction sales of land are being advertised, the probability is that the day will be a busy one. Many farmers who have not already completed their supply arrangements will be here to see about the matter and there will be more or less business in horse and mule flesh. ? A traveling bicycle artist gave free exhibitions at the court house corner last Friday afternoon and night. The tools of his trade consist of a buggy wheel and a safety bicycle. With these he took a position on the corner, called a crowd and began his show. He claimed that he was on his way from Washington to Jacksonville, Fla., and running out of money, was giving his exhibitions with a view to pursuing his Journey. The people did not take much stock in his story; but those who watched his exhibitions were convinced that he was a past master. He made his bicycle rear up, and go around on one wheel; he made it buck like a broncho and do other tricks. Then he stood on his head in the saddle, and guiding the handlebars with his hands, rode several times around the circle. He proved as expert on the buggy wheel as on the bicycle, his principal trick being some expert rope jumping while standing on the hubs of the wheel. During his performance he took up a collection, and the people contributed very liberally. THE GOLD WATCH CONTEST. a k..,, oovon himrtred votes were re /XWVUfc BV ? v?. celved In the gold watch contest since the last Issue of the paper, and these were divided among seven contestants. As the result of changes made since the last announcement, the voting now stands as follows: Bessie Adams 4 Sudie Allison 9 Isabel Arrowood 17 Benj. Black 148 Margaret Blaine 2 Ella Carroll 2245 E. P. Castles 260 Florence Cody 53 Emma Creasman 102 Bessie Farls 26 Clara Fleming 399 Mattle Ford 182 T. R. Gettys 2 Ava Greene 15 Nettie Green 312 J. F. Gorrell 80 Nannie Grist 265 J. Hamilton 22 Posy C. Hardin 25 V. M. Howell 4 Wilmoth Jackson 359 L. W. Jenkins 12 Mrs. J. T. Jones J 9 W A. Kennedy 11 Pearle Langford 43 Blanche Love 304 Lillian Mllholen 2 Clara Mitchell 67 Ella Neely 23 Ida Ormand 12 Minnie Palmer 2108 J. K. Roach 5 J. G. Shannon 7 Bessie Shurley 2 Fannye Smarr 913 Belle Smith 766 Lida Smith 560 W. H. Stevenson 553 Susie White 4 J. H. Wltherspoon 17 Edna Wright 17 J. T. Jones 1 Miss Fannye Smarr writes to say that she has decided to withdraw from the race and wants those of her friends who have been voting for her to know that she appreciates their efforts In her behalf. MIbs Smarr is now third In the running, and the efTect of the diversion of the votes that have been going to her will no doubt be watched with Interest by the other contestants. An error has crept Into the record of Miss Belle Smith. On Feb. 14, she was credited with 612 votes; on Feb. 17. she had 656; and on Feb. 21, 710; and on Feb. 24, 659. Investigation shows that the loss of 100 votes was due to a slip of the types, and the flgures today are correct. Sheriff Brown calls attention to the fact that some of the voters Insist on sending in coupons that are more than ten days old; but of course, he does not count them. To count them would be decidedly unfair to all concerned, because there are now outstanding more than enough of these old coupons to change the entire course and direction of the contest. No coupon is counted unless the postmark on the envelope shows that it was mailed within ten days of the date of publication. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. J. L. Williams spent Sunday and Monday in Kershaw. Mr. W. B. Williams is In Columbia on business this week. Rev. W. G. Neville, D. D., of Clinton was in Yorkville yesterday. Mrs. W. W. Miller of Rock Hill is visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Williams. Mr. O. E. Grist of Yorkville, has received a commission as notary public. Masters Arthur and Ollie Hart leave tomorrow for a short visit to Washington, D. C. Mr. Boyce V. Whlsonant of Wllkinsville, spent several days this week with Mr. J. P. WhUe. Mr. Mack Brice went down to Woodwards on Sunday on a short visit to his father's family. Mr. and Mrs. James Tiddy of Gastonla, visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tiddy in Yorkville this week. Mr. William Moore and bride of Blacksburg, spent Friday in Yorkville, the guests of Mrs. S. R. Moore. Mr. John A. Jenkins of the Lancaster Graded schools has been spending a few days in Yorkville with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jenkins. Deputy Sheriff F. E. Quinn has Just returned from Columbia, having gone down on Monday to take the crazy negro woman, mentioned last Friday to the asylum. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bivens of Albemarle, N. C., arrived in Yorkville on Friday on a visit to Mrs. S. A. McElwee and other relatives. Mr. Bivens returned to his home on Monday. Columbia State: The engagement has been announced of Miss Amanda Clawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Clawson of Yorkville. to Lieut. Thomas S. Moorman. Eighth Infantry, U. S. A., the marriage to take place on the 25th of April. There will be no cards and the wedding will be a very quiet one. Mr. Moorman is an old Columbia boy and his many friends here will learn with pleasure of his approaching marriage. He is now stationed at Fort Slocum, New York harbor. Batesburg special of Feb. 24, to the Columbia State: The many friends of Dr. E. K. Hardin and family were saddened today by their removal from this place, which has been their home for the past 30 years, to their new home at Clover, York county. Dr. Hardin graduated from Wofford college in the early 70s, and in two or three years came to this place and conducted a very successful school for six or seven years; then feeling that his field of usefulness would be broadened. he gave up his school and entered upon the study of medicine. Af ter having completed his meaicai course and having been licensed to practice, he settled here again, and has enjoyed a long and eminently successful career as a physician. Dr. Hardin has been a "potent factor for good in this town ever since his location I here. LOCAL LACONIC8. Death of Mrs. W. R. Hayes. Mrs. W. R. Hayes, died at her home near Hoodtown on last Friday, and was buried in the cemetery there on Saturday, the services being conducted by Rev. J. S. Grier of Sharon. Mrs. Hayes was about 59 years of age and had been in bad health for several months. Death of D. W. Hunter. Mr. John J. Hunter has received news of the death of his brother, Mr. D. W. Hunter, which occurred at Clark8ville, Texas, on February 19. The deceased was a native of the Bethel section of York county and went to the war with a North Caro- ( Una regiment. He moved to Texas shortly after the war and continued to reside In that state up to the time I of his death. He was 58 years of age i and leaves a widow and a grown i daughter. Besides Mr. John J. Hunter i of Yorkvllle, he leaves another survlv- I ing brother, Mr. S. B. Hunter of I Clarksville, Texas, and two sisters, i Mrs. W. I. Stowe and Mrs. R. J. Craig I of Gaston la, N. C. 1 Rock Hill In the Picture. Rock Hill special of Saturday to 1 Charlotte Observer: The Rock Hill delegation, consisting of Messrs. E. E. T* TTT n Tirn^ O. TaK? W/wwl ri/a^5, YV. D. vv nauu, 01,, uunu I* vwv. and W. H. Wylle, who went to Washington Saturday night to promote the bill which was passed in the house last week making Rock Hill one of the places at which Federal courts should be held in the proposed new western Federal district, returned today. They give encouraging reports of the success of winning out, and say If the bill passes this session Rock Hill will be In the picture, although there was a strong delegation present from Chester and Greenwood, both making a hard fight for what Rock Hill had apparently won, and which through opposition, they still hope to win. Marion to Johnson City. A press report from Chattanooga, Tenn., quotes Mr. John K. St. John, a civil engineer of Irwin, Tenn., as saying that the Southern Railway's proposed line, for which a survey Is being made between Marlon, N. C., and Johnson City, Tenn., will cross the Blue Ridge through McKlnney's gap, more than 4000 feet above tide, and that It will open a fine mineral and timber region, the latter Including hardwood and the mineral comprising not only Iron, but marble, mica and other stone, and perhaps coal. The routes, it is said, will be from Marlon to Spruce Pine, from which point to Johnson City the survey will parallel the South & Western railway. Some ovtlons for right of way have been secured between Marion and Spruce Pine. Drowned In Post Hole. .Rev. R. A. Rouse has a letter from Batesburg giving the details of a distressing tragedy which occurred there last Saturday. Little Annie, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Wright, lost her life by falling head foremost In a post hole. It seems that the child was playing about the premises with other children, and for some reason went apart from them. A few moments later they discovered her lifeless body where It had fallen into a post hole half filled with water. The body was still warm when found; but all efforts at resuscitation were without effect. It Is supposed thai when the child fell into the hole It was immediately strangled, and from the fact that Its body was so tightly wedged on all sides audible outcry was impossible. For Housebreaking and Larceny. A negro named Henry McElwee was committed to Jail yesterday on the charge of housebreaking and larceny and with one leg pretty badly shot up. The negro had been breaking into the houses of some of his neighbors ?at least his neighbors think he Is the o tiforranf n/ao flu/Am Gilt for his arrest. Magistrate Comer Issued the warrant and his constable, Mr. Peters, being unable to serve it because of sickness at his home, Mr. John M. Davidson was deputized to make the arrest. Mr. Davidson had reason to expect trouble and he took some help along. The negro was found in a house at Sharon, and when he came out he had his hand In his hip pocket. The constables thought he I was preparing- to shoot, and one of them shot first, putting a charge of shot In his leg. After being shot, McElwee attempted to run and was Anally held up at a wire fence, one of the barbs passing through his Hp. He is pretty sore, but otherwise is getting along very nicely. FIGHTING IN THE EAST. Bloody Work Going on In Northern Manchuria. After Aghting of the most desperate nature, says a Madyadanl, Manchuria dispatch of Feb. 27, the Russians yesterday remained in possession of the Che and Da passes against which the .Japanese had been flinging themselves madly from noon until dark. The Russians, who were greatly outnumbered, sustained repeated attacks, some units losing as high as 70 per cent in killed or wounded in hand to hand fighting with the bayonet, to which they were reduced, owing to having fired their last bullets. In order to hold Da pass the reserves were sent to the firing line. The Japanese turning operation in the region of Gauto pass was checked by a battalion of Russian infantry and several squadrons of cavalry who repulsed the Japanese with heavy losses. The Japanese also tried to advance on Nangou and Vanupudzi, but were repulsed. The present operations commenced Feb. 19, when the Japanese made a night attack on Haba pass, seven miles southeast of Tslnkhetchen. On Feb. 20, they attacked Vanzee pass, seven miles southeast of Tslnkhetchen positions, which are themselves far in advance of the general front of the army. The Russians made a counter attack, Feb. 21, and temporarily gained ground, but in the evening of Feb. 22, in the face of superior numbers, they were flanked and retired on the fortified line at Tslnkhetchen. The Japanese stormed Bereseneff hill throughout Feb. 23, simultaneously enfilading the Tslnkhetchen positions with artillery and outflanking the Russian infantry. The Russians evacuated Tslnkhetchen, Feb. 24, and retired fighting a ohihhAm r#qrcuarrl action and halting at Da and Che passes. Hettwakd Tai.ks of the Negro.? Governor D. C. Heyward was a guest at the fifth annual dinner of the North Carolina society in New York last Friday, and was one of the principal speakers. He devoted a part of his speech to the negro question, saying among other things: "As the negro is becoming more educated you find that he Is voluntarily abandoning work and congregating in the cities, that his tendency Is to go north, east and west; that today Pennsylvania, for instance, has a population of 56,845 negroes; New York 100,000; Missouri 101,000; Massachusetts 3,974; the District of Columbia 86,702 and New Jersey 69,844. i "Our movement therefore in its last analysis means the offering of a solution of this great problem in which from its very nature and relation to ; the other problem of Immigration we will have the aid of the thinking people of those sections politically opposed to the south. We offer a peaceful i solution, and with It the bringing I about of a development of resources that cannot but mean much in the commerce and growth of the entire i United States." < "AN ALLIANCE MOVEMENT." jreonville Man Talks of the Cotton Convention. "As In the old alliance movement, :he political grafter is going to be the parasite to ruin the Southern Cotton issoclation," said a well known cotton nan In Greenville yesterday. "The Ihlng has scarcely been organized, and it has been organized along good business lines too, and yet the politician is already In evidence. I did not go to the New Orleans meeting, but I happen to know something about the honorable Harvle Jordan of Georgia. He Is a politician and he is riding the association in an effo... to be elected governor of Georgia. In my opinion the greatest mistake the New Orleans people made, and It was the first and about the only one, too, was In electing Jordan president of the association. He has a way of firing communications into the press that are full or poor judgment and bad reasoning. The business world had come to re gard Harvie Jordan as a huge joke and when he was elected president of the association, the Wall street speculators snickered. And It was reasonable that they should. Who made himself more ridiculous than the Honorable Harvie Jordan on several occasions last summer, when he sung cut for 12-cent cotton and when the props were knocked from under him, he had to sing down to a 10-cent tune and now cotton is selling for 7 cents? He has cost the farmers of the south a mint of money. He showed he did not understand the cotton business, and was hopelessly lost In his estimates of the size of the crop. Can such a man inspire confidence?thd kind of confidence necessary to make the cotton association a power and a success ? "As for the state convention at Columbia several days ago, that was nearer home. I had an opportunity to watch it, and I watched it closely. It was badly crippled by political schemers; men who have got to be rooted out if the association is to be worth a cent. In fact its very life depends on freezing out the political grafter who Is eternally trying to help himself at the expense of the public. There were men at the state convention who would not know a cotton stalk from an Irish potato bush. They were there for a purpose, but not for the good of the farmer. They destroyed much of ;he confidence that was necessary to the welfare of such a gathering. I have no reference whatever to the cotton mill presidents, for they were specially invited and very properly accepted, the interests being so much in common. but I am after the fellow that wants to be governor of South Carolina, or congressman or anything else, who goes into the farmers' association with the idea that he Is bettering his chances of election. "For my part I fear -still lower prices. The farmers have fired their last gun. There will be nothing now to prevent a bear campaign, and the bears are going to put In some heavy work. They have been studying the situation. They know that at every convention there has been bickering and strife and discontent. I heard a prominent farmer say a day or two ago that he was disgusted with the turn of affairs and that he expected to sell his cotton as he saw fit. The association could go to pieces so far as he was concerned, because it had already been ruined by politicians and its effectiveness destroyed. "This of course is a gloomy view. It may be an exaggeration, but it serves to show the effect of unwarranted interference on the part of the man with an axe to grind. The association is by no means wrecked though it has been crippled and injured by some of its officers. There are strone men in it and I hope to see it held together and firmly established, but in doing this they will have to gag the politician'and the man with the axe to grind, gag them and throw them out. and as soon as possible. "I am afraid that hundreds of the farmers are going to sell with each little advance in the market. This relieves the situation. It gives the bears Just what they want and tney keep hammering at the market. That is my reason for fearing a further decline. The biggest gun of the farmers has been fired. It has proved to be weak and now I predict a bear movement of the most strenuous sort."? Greenville News. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Good Weather Puts Everybody In F'ine Humor?Wreck on the Southern? The Pig Pen Problem. OorrMpondeoc* of the Yorkvills Enoulrer. Rock Hill, Feb. 28.?The beautiful weather we have been having the past few days was hailed with much delight by our people, who have been shut in for the past month by the unusually severe weather. The ef'ect of the change in the weather is A ery noticeable. People look pleasant and seem to be Inspired with new Mfe. Business of all kinds is picking up and all out door work, which has been practically at a stand still, has been resumed. The sound of the carpenter's saw and hammer and of the mason's trowel is heard all over the city once more and Rock Hill is the same busy and hustling little city she has always been. Freight conductor, H. B. Collins of this city, whose train was wrecked ,':ast Friday afternoon about a mile below Westvllle, Kershaw county, has been "laying off" a few days as the result of inquiries received in the wreck. He, however, was not seriously hurt. The wreck occurred about 5 o'clock Frida" afternoon while the train, which was in charge of Conductor Collins and Engineer Smith, was making about thirty miles an hour down a slight grade. Eight care Jumped the track and turned topsy-turvy leaving only the engine, two care and the cab on the track. The accident is attributed to a broken fiange of one of the wheels. There were five passengers in the cab, some of whom were considerably bruised and shaken up and badly frightened; but none of these nor any one of the crew was seriously hurt. The track was blocked from 5 o'clock Friday evening until 10 o'clock Saturday morning, all trains from Ktngvllle going around by Columbia to reach Rock Hill. urw.ir Hill h?a not "et granted the Rock Hill Telephone company a franchise. Mr. Paul Workman, president of the company, met with the city council last Thursday night pursuant to the request of that body and submitted a copy of the franchise he desires. The franchise was not accepted and adopted by the council, however, inasmuch as it developed that Mr. Workman proposed to put into force the increased rates authorized by the franchise, on the first of March and to require a fee of 20 or 25 cents for all out-of-town messages. The council adopted a motion postponing final action in the matter indefinitely, and unless there is an unexpected turn In affairs it will be some time yet before the telephone people are granted a franchise. They, however, have proceeded to raise their ? ? /-n?AkioA nt? nn 1 ro nr>hlao qnH ruies, iiaiikiuoc u. >,? .... there is no little kicking among the subscribers, all of whom have received notice that on and after the first day of March, 1905, and until further notice rates for telephone service will be $2 per month for residence 'phones and $3 per month for business 'phones, which is an increase of 50 cents per month over the present rates. Notice has also been given that "flat rates" will be discontinued and all messages to out-of-town points will be charged for on a toll rate basis. This is causing no end of dissatisfaction and Judging from the present status of affairs, a large number of the subscribers will have their 'phones taken out and will discontinue the service altogether rather than pay the increased rates and be deprived of the out-of-town service too. What the end of It all will be, does not yet appear. The new hog ordinance will go into effect the first day of March and the board of health will no doubt encounter some trouble In enforcing it. Pens are unlawful unless they are forty feet square and are situated one hundred feet distant from any house that is occupied by a family. Of course this law, if enforced, will deprive cjuite a number of the privilege of keeping a hog at ail. Some claim they will continue to keep hogs as they have been doing unless the town will haul off all the slop and other stuff g, that will accumulate around the prem- ? ises as a result of not having a hog to feed it to; but the town will hardly agree to do this. With the Increased telephone rates and the new hog ordinance both on hand at the same time we predict that something will be "doing" pretty soon in this old town. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Dr. J. William Flinn, who has for many years filled the chair of moral j, philosophy in the South Carolina college has tendered his resignation to take effect at the close of the present * session. ? Ex-Sepator John L. McLaurln has sent out an emphatic denial of a story to the effect that he Is seeking a position 011 the cotton commission, It is proposed to get congress to create, and says he will not accept an appointment ^ on the commission, even If It should be offered to him. ? Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the South Carolina Cotton association made an address in Columbia last Friday night and secured pledges of considerably more than $1,000 for the benefit of the association. These Dromises of money came principally from fertilizer and cotton seed oil companies. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce promli'ed to try to raise at least $1,009. Treasurer Hyatt says he wants not -* less than $5,000 Immediately. ? Columbia special to the News and Courier: There was some talk of several counties holding special elections under the present provision of the Biice bill, which allows an option between the dispensary and prohibltloil. Cherokee county Is thus far the only county that has voted out the dispensaries under the provisions of the Rrtce bill, but It is suggested that other counties have such an election In view with or without the tax penalty. Governor Heyward has not had the occasion or the disposition to Impose the tax on Cherokee county, and this may te a sufficient inducement to other counties to go ahead with their elections, having faith In the necessary legislation being adopted In time. ? Col. James Lawrence Orr died at his hr.mo In nraanvllla last Siindcv night of erysipelas, after an illness of about one week. Col. Orr was born in Abbeville county In 1852, and wss graduated from the old King's Mountain Military school at Yorkville. He was one of the leaders of the 1871 movement and won fame by the courage aid strength he put forth in breaking open the doors of the Mackey house and leading the way for the , Democrats who afterward constituted the Wallace house. He campaigned the state for lieutenant governor against Tillman, and after the election of Tillman r-eturned to his cotton mill business. He was an able, patriotic, broad minded citizen, and leaves a record of which the state has a right to M proud. ? Columbia special of Feb. 26: Although there remains but a few days longei in which to pay the franchise - > tax provided for at the session of the legislature of 1904, the comptroller gener.il Is receiving hundreds of Inquiries on various points of the law apd very mall contains letters front correspondents and companies asking for informatiQ" as to the payment of the tax. But few protests have been made and practically all of the railroads and cotton mills and most of the banks have paid up the tax, but there are hundreds of smaller companies that have not made a return yet, and on many of these the penalty will fall. It was decided today that companies organized this month were liable for the tax. This will apply to the very last day of the month, but it Is hardly probable that the penalty will be enforced on cases of this kind. ? Edgefield has adopted this: "That it is the sense of the Edgefield Cotton Growers' association that In order to insure absolute fairness and to facll- . lute and promote the furtherance of , our p ans to bring about a general reductlcn in the cotton area this year, we recommend that all landowners should allow their tenants who rent land the option of paying one-fourth of their rental in corn and fodder and other crops, in lieu of requiring an all lint cotton rental, as has been the prevailing rule heretofore In the county." ? Columbia special of Feb. 25: The South. Carolina Cotton Growers' aasoelation will open an office In the National Loan and Exchange Bank building next Wednesday. It is planned by the officers of the association to have a stenographer In the office during the day and the officers will always be either within call or in the office. The office will be used as a distributing point for literature of interest to the farmers and It is expected that as soon as the township chairmen communicate with the state officers, giving the names of all who have signed the reduction pledge, a weekly bulletin will be issued. ? Lancaster special of Feb. 25. to the Greenville News: Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster, who was a member of the New Orleans convention committee that called on President Roosevelt this week to enlist his aid In the effort making to extend the cotton goods trade of the United States to foreign countries, is very hopeful of good results from the committee's visit to ' Washington. Col. Springs says that the president manifested much Interest in the plans of the convention as submitted to him by the committee, and he is confident that Mr. Roosevelt intends to do all In his power to help advance the present movement to find larger and better fields for the products if the cotton mills of this country. The colonel was also moet favorably Impressed with Mr. Roosevelt himself. He has no doubt that the president Is sincere In his declarations of friendship and good will toward the south. He believes that Mr. Rooaevelt Is honestly endeavoring to promote the Interests of this section as well as all other a He says the chief trouble with the president is his views on the negro question, but he thinks that In time he wil realize the error of his position on that subject. Evidence of such realization Is already apparent, Colonel Springs remarked, as shown by Mr. Roosevelt's Lincoln speech. He Is con- ^ vinced that the president Is really at ? heart a friend of the southern people, and before the end of his present admlnlf tration the fact will be fully demonstrated to the satisfaction of even the most sceptical. ? Giffney special of Feb. 24, to the News and Courier: Nick Dawkins of Asbury, was arrested last Saturday by Deputy Marshal Hallman and carried before Commissioner Bell, who bound him over for selling whisky. Talley, the negro barber, was arrested and tried before his honor, Mayor Gaffney, ** yesterday morning for selling whisky and was lined $25. He was also bound over to the United States court. This Is Talley's second offence. He paid the city $25 a few weeks ago. He will soon learn that he can't sell booze here as he did before the dispensary was voted out. Then there were constables to hunt him up. Now he has to deal with the police authorities, who can give the constabulary cards and spades and beat them. There is not the evidence of blind tiger now that the dispensary is gone that there was before the dispensary was voted out. Conditions are very different now from what they were before the state's great moral institution was voted out. When It was here the streets were full of drunken and straggering men, and the highways leading from Gaffney were actually dangerous to travel on a publie day. Now citizens come to the city, do their shopping In a decent orderly manner, and go home sober. Cherokee would not swap back for the dispensary at any price. The people do not mind paying the extra tax Imposed for voting the dispensary out. They do not like the spirit that put the tax on us, but the tax Itself is nothing. Ha 9 a Bigger Job.?The recent leg-' Islature missed an opportunity which may never come again. The Manning Farmer says: "The legislature of South Carolina, while waiting on the engrossing department before final adjournment last Saturday, might have endorsed Cole L. Blease for the position of grand duke to succeed the late Mr. Sergius, but they didn't" - i . . % is hoped to inaugurate the tunnel about March 20. The engineering of the Simplon is regarded as being one of the greatest engineering achievements of the age. Many difficulties were encountered and overcome. The length of the tunnel from Briga, in Switzerland, to Isello, on the Italian side of the mountain. Is about 12 miles. Work was begun over .?even years ago and according to contract the tunnel must be ready for traffic on May 15 next. The Swiss and Italian governments jointly financed the undertaking. share and share alike, at the cost of 115,000.000. As soon as the boring is thoroughly completed and the track laid a smaller tunnel is to be constructed, parallel to the larger- one, which will be increased in size, so as to permit of traffic both ways at the same time. (The \lorkiitlr (Bnquiw. yorkvill:; , s. c.: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1905. Dr. Wm. Osier is now 58 years of age. Wonder if he will ask a dose of chloroform at the hands of Oxford two years from now. Surely the state <>' South Carolina