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Scraps and .facts. m ? Dr. Seale Harris, professor of medicine in the university of Alabama, at Mobile, talked to the president last Tuesday about the ravages of consumption among the negroes of the south. He expressed fear und added that his opinion was concurred in by the medical fraternity generally of the south, that the negro race was likely to become extinct in this country through the ravages of disease, asnaxlallv r>n n Slim nt Ion Statistics showed, he declared, that the death rate among members of the negro race In America was greater than the birth rate. ? The machetes which was an implement of the Spanish troops In Cuba and the Philippines, says a Washington dispatch, appears destined to be adopted more generally by our own troops. Some five thousand of the huge knives have been issued to the troops in the Philippines, by whom they are to be used in cutting paths through the thick underbrush, rather than as weapons. They have become indispensable in that capacity, and it has now been decided, on the recommendation of the general staff of the army, to extend the machete to field artillery troops at home and add that implement to the Individual equipment of the light artillerymen In the field. ' The machete in such Instances will be worn in a shesfth or scabbard at- 1 tached to the belt. The machete Is 1 considered of special value to the members of the mounted batteries, of which there are several in this 1 country, all of them destined sooner ' or later for duty In the Philippines. ( ? Aristocratic society, says a Rome dispatch, Is greatly shocked over the latest escapade of Princess Elvira, one of the daughters of Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, who has repeatedly become consplc- uous In an unpleasant manner. She Is thirty-four years old and some time ago eloped from her- father's house l with the painter Folchl, with whom i she went to America. After some * months the couple returned to Eu- i rope and lived In great seclusion un- der an assumed name, at San Ger- 1 vaslo, a remote suburb of Barcelona. 1 A few days ago she came to Flor- I ence to attend to some business and t while In that city the princess was ' arrested as the result of a halrpull- I Ing match with a woman shopkeeper. The princess went to the shop to get some furs which had been re- j paired. She complained about the f price and the difference of opinion , led to a lively scuffle, In which the t shop woman came out second best. ( She had the princess arrested, but ] the matter was settled out of court. | ? Dispatches from Manila re?>re- t sent the existence of great excitement j there as the result of the resurrec- j tlon of the old story, to the effect , that the United States has agreed to , sell the islands to Japan. It Is stated that for some time past large numbers of Japanese have been wandering about the islands in the guise . - of peddlers and it is claimed that they are In reality spies, engaged In j gathering information of a character that will be of value to Japan in the event of purchase or in case war " should develop. There are a large number of Filipinos who greatly desire Independence; but very few of them contemplate with satisfaction the Idea of falling under the dominion of Japan. The American authorities at Manila have been doing all they could to assure the natives that the United States has no idea of selling them to Japan. Cables from London, however, are persistently re-lterating a story that an arrangement is under consideration, whereby the Philippines are to be neutralized under the Joint protection of the United States. Great Britian and Japan. ? Washington, April 10: Secretary Bonaparte is turning his attention to the subject of naval recruiting. He believes, there is not enough activity in that direction, basing his opinion on the fact that the service lacks some five thousand men of the authorized numerical strength. He thinks it is impossible to obtain this number of men who are now lacking, and in addition, to get the three thousand by which it is proposed to increase the enlisted force. Mr. Bonaparte's criticism of the system is that the effort to canvass the country for enough recruits has not been sufficiently systematic and thorough. He has the plan of employing as recruiting officers some of the retired officers who are anxious to be assigned to active duty, and who could perform this work. uoflvti nftlt'HrS whose services are greatly needed on ship- ; board. The secretary desires to have } legislative authority, at least, for In- , creasing the enlisted force, whether | or not there is a definite appropria- i tion for the additional men. He does not propose to lower the standard of i recruiting in any way, but rather to ( make greater efforts to get recruits, i The situation is sufficiently serious, | he believes, to require some special < application of activity by the recruit- ! Ing parties. i ? Says an Austin, Texas, dispatch I of April 10: Cotton picking in some i localities of western Texas will not be i finished for two months yet. When * the fact is considered that the crop of last season was matured and ready for picking nearly eight months ago ( and that a new crop is now being 1 grown, an idea ina.v be had of "the ( scarcity of labor in that part of the , state. According to the statement of i A. C. Wilmet, who is a member of the state legislature from Snyder, Scurry county, situated in the far western part of the state, the sue- | cess of cotton growing in that region , has caused a big boom in agricultural lands throughout his section. He | says that in his county, which was . considered a few years ago to be , worthless, except for cattle grazing ( purposes, more than twenty thousand | bales of cotton were raised last sea- ( son, and that not more than one-half i of it has been picked up to this time. | "The land of my county produces < marvelous yields of cotton, and the i farmers are unable to find sufficient < laborers to pick it." he said. "It will | be the latter part <?f May before the i picking is finished. Many fields are . still white with the fleecy staple. | Farmers are paying from $1 to $1.25 I per 100 pounds for pickers. This is i a high price, when it is considered I that in the so-called cotton belt of ' the state pickers are paid only forty I cents per 100 pounds for their work. 1 The yield averaged one bale per I acre In my county last year, while in I the central and eastern portions of i the state the farmers made only about one-fourth of a bale per acre. A big part of western Texas is adapt- , ed to cotton growing, and it will be but a few years until the cotton region will have spread to that part of the state and Texas will have more than doubled her present yield of cotton. Although Scurry county Is remotely situated from railroad transportation facilities, the land values there have more than doubled within the past year. Only a few years ago lands there were selling for $1 and $2 per acre. These same lands are now selling for 515 and $20 per acre, and in a few years more they will be worth $40 and $50 per acre." (The ^lorkrillc inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.i FRIDAY, APRIL 13,1906. It is claimed that if congress will take the tax off of alcohol used for mechanical purposes, kerosene oil will have to go down to 7 cents a gallon to compete with it in the generation of power for explosive engines. Thirty thousand dollars will be a mere bagatelle, compared with what congress has spent on some of the Revplutionary skirmishes of minor importince that occurred in the north; but still the people of this section will be jlad indeed to see recognition, even to ;hls extent of the battle which saved :he cause of American liberty?King's Mountain. Referring to Senator Daniel's complaint that the south does not get the -ecognitlon to which she is entitled, the lenator should be reminded that the remedy lies in either one or two tnings ?the south must either defeat the Republican party or join it. There is fery little Federal recognition to be lad outside of the Republican party, , ind this must necessarily remain true ?o long as the Republican party con:inues In power. The subject of another Hague con- 1 ,'erence is now under consideration imong the powers. Russia is the prime nover again, and she wants to hold he conference right away; but several )f the mother powers, notably Great 3ritain and the Uplted States, are said o be somewlmt - reluctant to go into he matter until they are advised as to I ust what particular questions are to )e submitted. It is quite probable that 1 :he conference, if it is held at all, will 1 lot meet before next fall. I l Senatvir Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, nade the great speech of the rate bill lebate last Wednesday. The principal fround of difference between the conending interests 011 this question is vhether or not mandates of the interitate commerce commission should be lubject to review by the courts. Senitors Spooner, Knox. Aldrich atid others have held that the right of appeal, 'tc.. being guaranteed by the constltu:!on, congress has no power to abridge hat right even in a matter like this. , t Is pretty generally appreciated that . f the railroads are to be allowed to apical from every d&lslon of the inter- ' date commerce commission, there will )e no end to the litigation that will irise and the effort to establish equi- , able rates will be an interminable 'arce. That Spooner and Knox are jreat lawyers, there is 110 question; but io is Senator Bailey a great lawyer, one >f the greatest or his geiieraiion. n lad been announced beforehand that he senator proposed to show that congress had the power to regulate the lurlsdlctlon of the courts in this mater, and the announcement had been received with more or less derision. However, everybody recognized that ' Senator Bailey could be depended upon to give them something worth thinking about, and when he took the floor, not only was almost every senator in tiis seat, but the galleries were crowded. The real question at issue was whether or not congress could take iway from the inferior Federal courts, the power to suspend the orders of the Inter-state commerce commission pending the final adjudication by the supreme court. Among other things. Senator Bailey reminded his colleagues that the Inferior courts were creatures not of the constitution: but of congress iiid it seemed unreasonable indeed to issume that a creature should be greater than its creator. He cited precedent to show where congres had not only denied the courts the right to issue injunctions. but had even denied them the right of issuing the writ of habeas I'orpus. He also cited cases where the right to punish for contempt had been limited. He held that it was the duty >f the Federal courts not to make the law for congress, but to obey the law [ ongress makes for them. He contended also that if it were not possible to find commissioners equal to some of the Federal judges, then the country Is I..I., I.. Ulu u,uu.ntl IA I HUIII* III (I L/<(U tt UJ JLA*?J I'j/v v V>1 was able, elo<|uent and logical, and when he finished. Senator Knox was one of the first to congratulate him. The applause was great and came from all quarters. Before he concluded. Senator Hale, of the opposition, intimated that a satisfactory amendment would no doubt be agreed upon. Tor Federal grand jury of St. I.ouis has indicted K. (J. Lewis, F. J. Cabot tnd W. K. Miller, publishers of the Woman's Farm Journal, for conspiracy to defraud the government in mailing lit the St. Louis postotfice, a larger number of papers than they are allowed to mail under the laws governing postage on newspaper circulation. Unier the law, a publisher has the right lo mail one sample copy for each bona fide subscriber. A bona fide subscriber is one who has either paid or agreed lo pay within the subscription period, tine year or less. The Farm Journal had been sending tail 000.000 copies a month. The postotfice officials were satisfied that the paper bad nothing like 300,000 bona tide subscribers, and they were unwilling to rely on the statements of the publishers as to what their bona fi<le circulation really was. The matter of looking up the facts of tin- case was referred to inspectors and the inspectors adopted the plan of having postmasters to ascertain from the individuals receiving the papers at their respective offices, whether they were bona title subscribers or the paper was only being sent to them, on the sample copy basis. As the result of the reports of these postmasters, it was calculated that the Farm Journal had all a right to send out not exceeding 282,- tlu 650 copies at the second class rate of 1 an cent a pound. The time for the usual pa monthly mailing of the Journal came tlu around last week, and after the nuin- a I ber mentioned had been placed in the on postoffice, the postal officials gave the tio publishers to understand that addition- an; al copies would be received only at the so rate of 1 cent each. The publishers ' put up $3,000 under protest and mailed ag the additional 300,000 papers. In the tri meantime warrants were sworn out no charging the publishers with consplra- Th cy to defraud the government, and the is case promises to prove of great Inter- Th est especially to that class of publish- A ers engaged in the business of taking tlu advantage of the second class postage eqi rates for the benefit of publications In- th< tended primarily for the circulation of of questionable advertising matter. The tlu incident is also of very considerable in- of ttrest to the public at large. Up to a few years ago a large portion of the public had the idea that failure to pay for a newspaper which may have been sent to them without authority; but _ which they had received from the post- j office, brought them in danger of com- jn plications with the Federal authorities, sai It now however, appears that it is not ^ the innocent recipient of such a paper; tor but rather the publisher who sends it Ing to him without authority, that is ^ trenching upon the law. The rigid en- jej, foreement of this law by postmasters am generally would not only curtail the we circulation of fake advertising sheets of the kind here involved; but it would tnf also materially reduce the number of ' 1 political and personal organs of every character, and leave undisturbed only those newspapers and periodicals which cot rest their claims for support solely on rJ the service they are able to render P8, . , dai their patrons. gp * * ? brt The Tax Question. lly There has been a mighty stew about Th tax assessments this year, and while it ^ is safe to say that the equalization rer about which there has been so much syi talk, and which has been the goal of the assessors, is still a long way off, it oltj cannot be denied that valuations have Hij been reduced to a better average ed, standard than for a good many years past. But It has been like pulling eye |,|a' teeth, for while many people continue cid to claim that all they want Is equali- did t ro zation, as a matter of fact, the rial de- nit sire of not a few of them is to escape raj with as little taxes as possible. As to in what their neighbors may be paying In excess of a just proportion is a matter e0| of not much concern to them or at era least it is fair to say that the average J die man is more interested i.i the fellow q& that is paying less than he is in the rec, fellow who is paying more. he Hut after all, it is nothing but the same old selfishness of human nature. gol There are lots of people who insist on hei bfing distrustful of their fellows, and QU( when It comes to making returns many an( of these reduced the figures to the low- ^ est possible notch, not that they object so to paying their fair share of the taxesj die but for fear that they may pay more than their neighbors. And when a whole community, a whole township a whole ^ county, proceeds along this line, it is quite natural that there should be work cut out for the board of assessors. wo The returns this year have been better and more liberal than usual. Everybody who is best acquainted with the an( subject is prepared to corroborate this qui statement, and the reasons are obvious. At least some of the reasons are ob- ^ vlous. m the first place, at no other inf tax assessment period is a real estate ml returning year since the adoption of the ^ plan of returning real estate once each a < Four years, has the country been in a a c more prosperous condition. In the tee pr< second place, no other comptroller gen- to eral has had the nerve to go into this am heavily loaded proposition at the right sa' time and make an honest effort to secure full and complete returns on a ba- gQ| sis of actual values. And In the third yet place, so far as York county Is con- 1 cir( cerned It has not previously happened voj just at such a Juncture as that through ev? which we are just passed that the lav county had a new auditor who was so J? unsophisticated as to assume that the to higher officials meant just what they tht - .. said, and on this assumption mane a eer really persistent effort to carry out In- go| structions. thf We do not mean to make or cast any unl reflections on anybody. We are not in coJ that kind of humor just now. But we an( want to state that in our opinion there del lias always been a lot of empty humbug ^el about this matter of making up tax [J returns. It has been common for comptrollers general to give imperative ca> and specific instructions to auditors ?r and for auditors to give imperative and jng specific instructions to Individual cit- thf izens and for individual citizens, in the me face of all this to go ahead and return ^ a part of their property at about one- ,nc fourth of Its value. Then the auditors, des except in a few cases would say noth- tov tie* ing, the boards of equalization would ^ * say but little more and the comptrollers Gf general would say less than either. ] That we fear, has been the case In a 'u' mc great many of the counties again this m year; but not so in York. In the first in place the auditor has done all he could ar< to have returns made up as near to time jjjj values as possible, and the boards j|0 of equalization as a rule have devoted th< themselves principally to raising the jjbf lower returns toward the higher instead of lowering the higher returns toward the lower, and have given more attention than usual to securing the ] listing of property that had not been qui listed at all, and putting all of it at gai wa something like a respectable valuation. ()f The statement that the returns are in titl better shape this year than usual, is n,t made on the assurance of several mem- ^ bers of the board of equalization. The tht law provides that property be listed in ho detail. It is specified that the infor- tu< mat ion "same as last year" Is not acceptable. The taxpayers have been told that for years; but many of them ant insisted in making their returns "same an as last year," and in most cases such |H*: returns have been allowed to stand. pe Assessors claim that when the town- Wl ship returns came to them for equalization, great bunches of them were so jj/ marked and not knowing what last pr? year's tigun s were, they could do noth- for ing. But this year the returns were in j'1 fiirill'uo ***< mill llinl'P . was a basis of equalization. On many wa of the returns, it is true, tin- makers s,t forgot or omit ted to list numerous j'^1 buildings, mules, cows, watches, pianos, p.,, vehicles, etc., and these the assessors pot had but little time to look up; but tak- sJ,a en altogether, there was quite an im- .j*1" provemeiit over former practices, and jui the result generally is more creditable. Ne I hit with all this we do not want to J*'1 ha< create the impression that the situalion is at all like it should be. In a scl matter like this there is 110 need for '** ' people to try to deceive themselves and there is no need for us to try to de- ... coive them. We have not yet arrived the at anything like equalization. While in the ease of hundreds of small lax- (<j, payers, and not a few large ones.*their tio la listed for taxation at some price, j ;re are hundreds of others, both large d small who have listed only a rt of what they have. Some of i se have been uncovered and raised little, and some have been assessed a basis beyond their just proporn; but still others have escaped J ything like a fair assessment and it goes. The common inclination Is not to Itate this matter. This is especially It? Ul IIIUBC miu ??vj u.?c t paying their share of the taxes, j ey claim the more a thing like this stirred up the worst it smells, lis is true only to a certain extent, little stirring has served to give i people some appreciation of what jallty actually means, and a trough stirring might be the means ' bringing more people to .help bear ?ir just proportion of the burdens the government. ' ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. I owning Tragedy?Death of an Infant. rrespondence of the Yorkrille Enquire*. Iock hrlis April 12.?The jubilee celebration of the fiftieth anniver*y of the founding of Methodism in ( ck Hill, was begun at St. John's ' iirch, Thursday evening. The pasthe Rev. Watson B. Duncan openr with a splendid historical sketch "Methodism in Rock Hill." He was , lowed by the Rev. Dr. J. W. Dani who spoke on "Methodist Doctrines 3 Polity." Both of these addresses _ re highly interesting, and were listed to intently by a large audience, select choir rendered fine music for occasion. Che City Drug Store, which for two irs past, has been conducted by Dr. D. Austin has changed hands, Mr. J. >yd Phillips, having bought out the icern. ^ rhe mortal remains of Mary Stewis vidson, the beautiful little baby lighter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy rings Davidson of Kershaw, were | >ught here and Interred in the fam- , plot in Laurelwood cemetery. ! ursday afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Denof the Presbyterian church at Keriw conducting the service. The paits have many friends here, who npathize with them in their affiicn. r rom Johnson, the thirteen-year; son of- Mr. S. L. Johnson, of the ghland Park mill village, was drownWednesday afternoon, in a small id near Capt. Iredell Jones' residence, seems that the boy with others about age were out strolling, when he deed to go into the water. The others I not go in and when the boy got into uble, they were too small or too ich frightened to assist him. They 1 in search of help, but were slow finding it, so it was about an hour 'ore the body was gotten out of the ter. He could not swim and either t beyond his depth or was taken with imp. V negro man, named Will Mitchell, d Wednesday night at his home in kland, under circumstances which luired the calling of the coroner, and will hold an inquest today. Mitchell 3 his wife retired at the usual hour, er having eaten a hearty supper, me time in the night the wife heard * husband making some kind of a eer noise and when she got a light 3 examined him, he was dead. There re all sorts of rumors on the street ong the negroes this morning, but far as any evidence goes, the man d from natural causes. UNDER LAVA AND ASHES. the Country Around Vesuvius a Scene of Great Desolation. rhere Is reason to believe that the rst part of the volcanic eruption Vesuvius is over. There has been marked cessation of the showers ashes and sand, th* lava is cooling 1 earthquake shocks are less freent; but all the same the eruption s been a notable one and no miste. Phe whole Vesuvian district, incltid- e r, an area of hundreds of square g les Is as bleak and as barren as 5 desert of Sahara. In many places > Is piled with ashes and cinders to a iepth of from two to ten feet, and v :ountry which, a few days ago, was ming with a busy and more or less >sperous population, Is now unable c show up a living thing for miles t rt miles, except a few straggling e diers, pushing their way over ? hot cinders in the hope of find- * : unfortunates who may not have f tten out of danger while they were r : able. ( rhe people of the Vesuvian district ? accustomed to eruptions of the c cano, and they understand that / ;ry earthquake, or upheaval of t a mua, cinaers or asnes is noi 10 taken as a signal to flee for safety. v >st of them pay as little attention t blinding showers of hot cinders as ?y would to a heavy shower of ( nl-tropical rain. There was no j tainty to what the mountain was ng to do this time, and most of j > people remained In their homes j til driven out by the actual outne of the lava. li rhe eruption steadily grew more ^ 3 more violent, the shower of cln- j rs and ashes grew heavier and j. ivler and at length the roofs of the ne too well built peasant houses f jan to fall in from the heavy loads ^ it were piled upon them. In most ies the inmates had fled to Naples ^ points further up the peninsula; r t in some cases they were still hold- >] ; their ground and were burled In >ir homes. There have been nu- ^ rous cases of this kind; but exact- t how many will probably never be j own. In all it is estimated that >re than 5.000 houses have been j itroyed, Including of course entire t vns, but the loss of life has not f ?n great In proportion. There have m fewer fatalities than in the case { any similar eruption. j Vaples and other nearby cities are 1 of refugees who have neither mey or provisions, and the govern nt is doing all it can to assist those the greatest distress. Provisions ? being forwarded in large quail- ' es, and troops are being kept on c ? scene to assist In the preserva- ? n of order. Having lost all of . Mr property and in many cases ber uncertain as to the lives of rela- t es and friends, many of the refu- t is are difllcult to keep in order. H t MERE-MENTION. , In a speech on the railroad rate estion the other day, Senator Morn took the position that the only * y to regulate rates was by means c competition and that the compe- % [on could best be had by develop>111 of the various waterways of the iintry Col. Thomas Johnson, r e of the few surviving members of j ; Confederate congress, died at his . me In Montgomery county, Ken.l/if loot Co.obn. ncrml nlnotir.uiv I l?.OU ?'U IMIUJ , UgCU IllllCiJ -OIA irs There has been mere than * 00 eases of typhoid fever in Pitt's- a rg, Pa., since January 1 The tl-Hearst Democrats of New York 1 ? turning to Wm. J. Bryan as the t st nominee of tlie Democratic parfor the presidency Several mocratic senators have been to the ' lite House to confer with the pres- I lit on the rate question and Sen- I >r Bailey is disposed to criticise H m severely, holding that if the sident has any communications 11 tlie senate he should send them I the regular way Speaker r iiiioii lias written a letter in which frankly confesses that he does not lit to undertake tariff revision; but t tlie same time expressing the opin- s i that tariff revision will soon have ^ come and that the Republican rty will have to do it. if it stays in r .ver The Mississippi river lias a ge of Itfi.X feet at Memphis Wednea- j i", aliout 2.x feet above the danger . r A man named Nathan Isaacs nped from the middle span of the w Williamsburg bridge over East t or, New York last Wednesday. He , 1 a fall of 1X5 feet before he struck water. He was rendered uncon- r ous and his clothes were torn to tat- g s. but lie was immediately picked v by the crew of a ferry boat, and it . thought that In- will recover all right. .It Is said that Baltimore is becoming I greatest centre in the country for j collection of anarchists from all r the world... .The row between tlie inese and Russians over the evacua- ' a of Manchuria remains unsettled, c LOCAL AFFAIRS, ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. r ). E. E>urant. Guthriesville?Wants to t buy a good stock sow with litter of |; young pigs. . iV. C. McLure. R. P. D. 5?Has two first-class milch cows for sale. Ino. R. Hart, Captain?Gives notice of a armory drills next Tuesday and v Friday nights. Inspection Saturday, Feb. 21st, 8 p. m., at armory. c forkville Banking & Mercantile Co.? e Calls attention to Its new goods, la- e dies' shirt waists, clothing, straw hats, shoes, groceries, etc. ^oan & . Savings Bank?Has excellent 8 facilities for handling accounts of c people who are saving money for a j special object. [. W. Johnson?Says to ring up 32 when vou want Swift's hams and 1 breakfast strips, postum, grape nuts and other edibles. 3ank of Clover?Invites you to open an account with It and pay your bills with checks. Cancelled checks are the best receipts. <Mrst National Bank?Tells an Incident about a man who didn't deposit his money In a bank. There is a moral in it. Dobson Bros.' Cash Store?Invites the ladies to see its sailor hats. New goods just received, including flowers, shapes, plumes, etc. fork Drug Store?Has White Rabbit and Paas eggs dyes?5 cents a. package. Eight colors, 100 shades. Hrauss-Smlth Co.?Calls the attention of clothing buyers to the fine assortment of ready-to-wear clothing it is showing. Prices lower than is usually expected. \nish&e Cash Store?Will have special sale of alarm and eight day clocks next Monday at eight o'clock. Thomson Company?Tells Its customers that it is always on the lookout for the latest and best things in dry j goods for its customers. f WITHIN THE TOWN. 1 ? Sunday is Easter. ? Court convenes next Monday. f ? Congress street needs to be paved. ? Business has been rather dull dur- 1 ng the past week because but few far- 1 4 ners have been in town. ? ? Some cotton has been moving with- ? n the past few days; but there has t >een nothing like a general rush to sell. ? Mr. R. E. Montgomery has comnenced the erection of a two-story resdence on his lot on South Congress itreet. ? The paving of Congress street beween Jefferson and Madison will cost iome money, but it will be worth all t costs. ? The fire department has been called >ut twice this week, both times on ac'ount of burning trash. There was a daze In the rear of the store of Mr. IV. M Kennedy Tuesday afternoon, tnd on the premises of Mr. W. P. Har ison Wednesday afternoon. In both nstances the department was on the frojnd in good time and the damage vat' slight. ? Mr. L. L. Smith, youngest son of dr. C. B. Smith of Yorkville, died at he home of his sister, Mrs. J. M. Ferguson in this place this morning it about 7 o'clock. Mr. Smith came ip from Caper's Chapel, near Lowryrillj. In Chester county last Saturday . vitti the expectation of remaining , iver until Monday. Measles devel>ped shortly after his arrival and vith Ihem other complications. He frew rapidly worse and nothing that ould be done seemed to afford relief. r>v. J ?1 ... tkl.tir.nna lilt utttiiacu noa auuui uiii i/-vuv rears of age and was unmarried. The emairis will be taken to Caper's Chapel for interment. CALENDAR I. In all there are seventy eases on Calndar 1 of the court of common pleas. Some of these have been pending for 'cars, und the probability is that .rnong them are quite a number that trill never be tried at all. Included in he number are some thirty or forty ases that will probably be tried'someIme; but even of these there are sevra that are more or less dormant. But he:*e Is plenty of business for the ap>roaching term of the court?much nore than is likely to be disposed of. )nly a few of those cases coming first in the calendar will be reached, tmong the new cases docketed since he last term of the court: but which rill not be reached at the approaching erm are the following: L. Carlisle Hope against L.. C. Hope. 5. W. S. Hart, for plaintiff; John R. lart for defendant. R. Andral Bratton against J. W. laas. W. B. McCaw, for plaintiff; ohn R. Hart for defendant. O. W. Hartness by his guardian ad Item, J. F. Wallace against the Sealoard Air Line Railroad. Finley & ennings, for plaintiff; Glenn & Mctedden for defendant. The McNeel Marble company vs. M. 2. Whitesides. Finley <fe Jennings for ilaintiff; J. S. Brice for defendant. E. F. Bell against the Western Union telegraph company. Finley & Jen lings for plaintiff; Evans & Finley, rhos. F. McDow for defendant. J Catawba Power company against S. g V. Barron. Wilson & Wilson for ilaintiff; Spencers & Dunlap for deendant. Catawba Power company vs. Eliza J. 3arron. et al. Wilson & Wilson for daintiffs; Spencers & Dunlap for deendant. Cornelia E. Scott against J. L. Moss, finley & Jennings for plaintiff; J. S. trice for defendant. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. The county board of equalization las been wrestling with the tax return ( juestton all the week, and as to vhether or not it will get through tolay, cannot be definitely stated at his time; but that it will adjourn either this afternoon or tomorrow, now leems reasonably certain, except In . he event of development of new coningencies that are not now foreseen. The main part of the board's work las been to hear complaints from inlivlduals in the various townships vho think that the. raises that have >een marked against them by the various boards of assessors have been oo high. Some of these complaints lave been justified and some have teen more or less ludicrous; but In ach case the board accorded patient id painstaking: lieu rings, and then lid its best to reach u just and proper (inclusion. There were cases in which the comilainants came before the board with iltchforks. figuratively speaking. They lad only been paying on such and uch a valuation for years, and their issessments had been raised to figures eyond the value of their lands. These laims were frequently met with good latured oiTers to take the lands oil heir hands at 60 per cent over asessed figures; but so far as has been leard there have been no transfers to nembers of the board. Some of the complainants seemed o have the idea that their township oards had personal grudges against hem, and there were strong iutimaions to that effect; but as all the nembers of the board had had expeiences of that kind until they had ;rown callous to such charges, they . cere able to hold the issue down to tie question of the actual value of the iroperty under consideration, as com- , >ured with the property adjoining, tc. It was shown in some cases that han they ought to be and that certain > ertain pieces of property were lower ither pieces of property were higher n proportion. The board was able to ealtze this fact fully and it was made o appreciate that this thing of equalisation is a difficult and seemingly in- I erminable problem. It is a matter of common remark ; imong people who have talked to the i arlou's members of the board, that all if them have given the matter of qualization long and careful consid- I ration, and most of them are able to five the average business man points md still hold ud their end of the (lis- i usslon. That is, where they consider t advisable to talk. As a rule they ire not disposed to discuss the subject innecessarlly. Most of them also, are jersonally sensitive to criticism of heir rather delicate work; but there s very little evidence that any of hem have allowed themselves to be nfiuenced by criticism, however unriendly or thoughtless. Am a means of securing equallzalon among the townships, it was deeded on Thursday to add up the acreige returned in each township, and Ind the average price per acre at vhich it is assessed. This involved a remendous amount of work; but when t is completed as it was expected it vould be some time today, there will >e no difficulty in arriving at a correct )asis of equalization as between the rarious townships. HON. W. B. LOVE. Hon. William Beatty Love, former epresentative of York county in the feneral assembly, first In the house md afterward In the senate, died at lis home at McConnellsville last ruesdny night about 9 o'clock, after i long period of bad health. Mr. Love was a son of the late Luther Love, and was born in the HcConnellMvllle neighborhood about ifty-seven years ago. He lived In the letghborhood of his birth practically ill his life, and by occupation was a I ~TT" I I 1 ' ? -flflK B Mm^Om * T - BBP^T^f " v WII .LI AM BRATTY LOVE. 'armer. He was twice married, the Irst time to Miss Susan McCleave, of he same neighborhood and the sec>nd time to Miss Laura Baskin of Abjevllle, who survives him. His wec>nd marriage was on December 29. L903. Mr. Love entered public life at the nceptlon of the Farmers' Movement n 1892, and was elected to the house n the primary of that year as a prollbitionist. He was re-elected two rears later, and In the primary of ?e%. tKn oanflip T*rf-? iojju wua ciccicu. iv/ vnv. mv-lwvs., - ~ ;elvlng 1.646 votes as against 1,407 or Hon. W. N. Elder, his opponent, ie served in the senate for one term ind did not stand for re-election; iut afterward served a term as mem>er of the board of penitentiary directors. Upon his retirement from political ife, Mr. Love devoted himself to his arming and business interests, and vas getting along nicely until about wo years ago when, without warning, le received a stroke of paralysis, vhlch unfitted him for the discharge >f his usual duties, and from which le never recovered. The surviving children, the result if the first marrige, are one son and hree daughters as follows; Mr. John .love, Mrs. J. D. Smith, Misses Dora ind Jane Love. He also leaves two trothers and one sister, Mrs. R. N. dcElwee of the Beersheba neighbormod, Mr. Walter Love, living in Jeorgia, and Mr. F. P. Love of Mc?onnellsville. The funeral took place Wednesday Lfternoon at Olivet church, of which he deceased was a ruling elder, and i he service was conducted by Rev. J. 1. Swann, the pastor, assisted by Rev. f. K. Hall. There was a large congregation of people In attendance. MUNICIPAL REGISTRATION. Following Is a list of the citizens of rorkvllle who had qualified themselves o vote In the approaching municipal lection up to, today at noon: J. H. O'Leary, J. J. Carroll, I. N. Moore, J. B. Allison, y. B. Moore, Jos. C. Dickson, L Y. Cartwright, Frank Tlddy, V. H. Herndon, J. L. Sanders, V. F. Marshall, L. R. Williams, }uinn Wallace, John A. Latta, ( f. R. Lindsay, W. G. White, . W. Johnson, G. W. Williams, y. W. Jenkins, W. H. McCorkle, I. I. McCaw, R. J- Latta, B. Pegram, B. Frank White, iugh G. Brown, J. R. Connolly. r. K. Lowry, D. E. FInley, . A. Sherer, C. F. Sherer, 3, M. Grist, W. C. Latimer, 3. A. Crawford, A. Rose, j \ E. Smith. Walter Rose, L F Wood, W. H. Snider, ( L B. Jennings, R. S. McConnell, , I. C. Strauss, J. M. Starr, ?has. W. Smith, L. G. Ferguson. ,1, W. White, R. J. Withers, | t. B. Lowry, J- A. Tate, I A C Willis. W. T. McKnlght. , T. Schorb, J. M. Ferguson, , 3. M. Stanton, T. F. McDow, , V. E. Hurt, M. L. Carroll, I r. P. White, J. F. Jackson, , V. L. Williams, Jno. W. Miller, J. H. Sandifer, J. J. Hunter. I. C. Glenn, W. M. Kennedy,Sr. , W. Louthlan, D. E. Boney, I !. M. MoNeel, R- C. Alleln. , . R. Hart, T. W. Clawson, , V. P. Harrison, H. A. D. Neely, ( V. T. Jack3on, J. S. Jones, ! \ E. Quinn, W. Adickes, ) T Wood, W. H. Fowler, I r." W. S. Hurt, J. J. Wallace, . V. W. Lewis. G. W. Sherrer, , os C. Rose, Dr. J. D. McDowell. | ). E. Wilklns, W. B. McCaw, f >. E. Grist, Dr. R. A. Bratton, t V. M. Steinmeyer.J. S. Sandifer, i V. L. Bratton, James Tidily, no. E. Carroll, K. B. Lowry, 1. R. T. Bowen, John H. Wheeler, . C. Allen, J. L. Williams, 1 1. J. Caldwell, W. R. Latimer, 1 . N. O'Farrell, Charley Herndon, I 1. E. Montgomery,J. J. Keller, 1 . R. Logan, R. W. Lowry, . C. Comer, J. F. Youngblood, s . S. Wagoner, Dr. M. J. Walker, t V. B. Williams, B. F. Smith, j os. F. Wallace, L. G. Baber, 1 V. H. Hudson, W. L. Baber, i V. S. Nell. W. B. Steele, '. C. Black. Dr. J. I. Barron, a . C. Wllborn, Louis Roth, t V. C. Ewart, H. H. Beard, c . <J. Wray, J. O. Allison, e Vm. Dickson, D. L. Scheider, u . S. Brlce, G. L. McNeel D. Grist, F. M. Sandlfer, s M. Grist, E. G. Sandlfer, t V. E. Ferguson, W. M. McConnell, t '. C. Duidap, J. D. Mlskelly, e V. H. McConnell, W. R. Carroll. v ABOUT PEOPLE. J. B. Bell. Esq., of Gaffney, Is In Yorkvllle today on business. N< Miss Kittle Blair of Blalrsville, is In Yorkvllle, visiting Mrs. A. M. Grist. M Mr. and Mr. M. C. Willis returned yesterday after several days visit to s . , mi Columbia. . vC Mr. W. G. Jackson of Forest City, go X. C., is assisting Mr. H. H. Beard in the telegraph office. Mr. John B. Whitesldes was in Yorkvllle on Tuesday for the first time for th quite a while. w Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Covington of ^ Wllkesboro, N. C., are the guests of w Mr. A. Rose's family. Mr. John W. Ferguson, superintendent of Bradstreet's Charlotte agency, th is in Yorkvllle today. ci Miss Robbie Lee Morrow of Gastonia, is visiting Mr. D. T. Wood's "jj family in Yorkvllle. fa Sunt .1 C Alton r?f the Graded tli School, spent Monday and Tuesday In Anderson, on business. L Mr. A. M. Barriett of Clover, was li< among the graduates who received a diploma, as a graduate in pharmacy q at the South Carolina Medical college, fc Charleston, on Wednesday. ai Miss Minerva Burns, who has been ^ at the point of death at the home of ej her brother, Mr. A. A. Burns, in the hi Beersheba neighborhood for some time past, died yesterday afternoon. Her cj malady was consumption. The fu- r* neral occurs today. The towing of the big dry dock a' Dewey to the Philippines is of especial ci local Interest, because of the presence P1 of a Yorkvllle boy. Assistant Paymaster Dobson, on one of the convoying tj ships, the Brooklyn. The flotilla is now S in the Mediterranean and news has just been received that a few days ago a terrific storm came up off Malta and y( the Dewey broke her tow line. The d< tremendous shell pitched and tossed at g an alarming rate for twenty-four hours; but the Brooklyn kept close to ai her and as soon as the sea was calm enough to admit fastened the line p, again. The dry dock is now safely in b tow once more and is proceeding u smoothly on her way to her destination, with a long tiresome trip still ?| ahead. II CI LOCAL LACONICS. C Jones's Mill Property Sold. Pursuant to advertised notice, Mr. j"r J. C. Wllborn on yesterday sold the |S Jones's mill place, 2j miles south of Yorkvllle, at public auction. He had n also advertised a lot of second hand n ginning and saw mill machinery, and 0 agricultural Implements, and there ^ was quite a crowd of bidders on the g ground. The land, about thirty acres was bought by Mr. M. C. Willis for ei $1,105, a little less than $38 an acre. Most of the personalty brought good w prices, and upon the whole the sale tl was quite satisfactory to all concern- w ed, especially to Mr. Jones and Mr. ^ Wilborn. "V ? - ? U York's Rural Routes. Mr. Washington Wilkinson, an in- \spector of the rural route service has been putting In this week going over 41 various routes in this county, and will ^ probably be In this section for some si weeks. His business so far as is known, P is to note the patronage of the various ^ routes, the condition of the roads, etc. 0| Most of the York county routes can hi easily pass the reputed dead line of 2,000 pieces of mail a month, and have. a| a good deal left over. There are some ri few routes, however, which will give ^ the 2 000 limit a close shave. Not only the mall men but the people generally n" are very much Interested lr. the sltua- gi tion. Death of Mrs. J. N. Roberts. News was received here yesterday of the death of Mrs. Cynthia J. Roberts, wife of Mr. Jasper N. Roberts of Mc- g Adenville, which occurred in the Pres- n byterlan hospital at Charlotte on Wed- B nesday afternoon, as the result of an ai Internal cancer, from which she had Q1 been suffering for quite a while. Mrs. ^ Roberts was a daughter of the late J. Harvey Dickson, and was born in York tc county on February 28. 1846. She was sJ married to her husband shortly after tf the war, and continued to reside in this e, county until about twelve or fifteen years ago when the family removed to a McAdenville. Mrs. Roberts is survived j| by her husband and eight children. Her surviving brothers and sisters are: ?r Messrs. J. W. Y. Dickson, M. L. Dick- cl son, A. Y. Dickson, J. C. Dickson, E. A. u, Dickson. Miss T. A. Dickson. Mrs. J. R. Stephenson, Mrs. M. L. Ratchford. Hers is the first death among her fath- a* er's children. The funeral took place ci at Lowell yesterday afternoon. ci THEY'LL MAKE UP. cl e< Washington Opinion That Roosevelt jf' Will Eventually Capture Tillman. n| Recent Indications, says a Washing- gi ton dispatch, point strongly to the bi probability that the closing days of w the protracted railway rate fight in the b< upper house of congress may be mark- . art Kv q ronnnnll lotlnn hotu/iion Prpfll. , cu "" ?vvwiivi..m.mw.. wvvnvvu (]( dent Roosevelt and Senator Ben Till- e| man. m While the South Carolinian still stoutly declares that he sees no rea- g( son why he need confer with the pres- ^ ident or anyone else outside of con- s't gress on how he should manage the ^,1 administration rate measure, those who tr have watched the situation closely be- w. lieve they see a change that augurs m well for the Hepburn bill. ^ There appears to be a lessening of the line about the South Carolinian's f., mouth as he is called upon to make ^ his daily disapproval. He is less harsh in his criticism of the chief executive. it partakes no longer of a personal h bitterness. But Mr. Tillman is known to feel .f( deeply the slight put upon him by the . president a few years ago, when a . White House dinner invitation to meet Prince Henry of Germany was recalled . because Tillman struck his colleague upon the senate tloor. The South CarDll dun has advanced so far in his " treatment of the president's name as ' not to declare that he will never visit the White House, as was his wont " months ago. It Is known that the president would P welcome a call from Tillman. He has forgiven the year of open warfare that * lias been carried on against him on the Pr race question, and while he can, of J1* course, never forget the abuse that acjompanled It, mutual friends say he is J5' willing to bury the hatchet. n It is positively said that but one a thing now stands In the way. This is J*1 in apology from the president to Till- :? man for the withdrawal of the dinner nvltatlon because the senator had af. itruck a despised colleague who had *v'' ipenly branded him on the senate floor is a liar. co, wl * * so Looking For tub Main Chance.? an Phe clique of big senators who will pr enow what the final vote on the rate co >ill will be are to have "a good thing" in n the stock market. to That was the fact when the sugar at ichedule was being played with. No fr< >ne knew what was going to happen, th ret some senators are credited with wl laving made fortunes on orders sent In arly in the day from this city. th Curious stories are afloat in the sen- til tte concerning a big scheme to make eri Millions out of the final vote and It gh an be done In a very effective way by th nough Republicans standing together ex it a garrison finish. th' One very important senator Is now sis laid to be busy, not only for himself, er< >ut for a coterie In the attempt to ye lave forty-five senators ready for the sti mergeney of the last aye and nay no ote. lai OLD BEN AND YOUNG LYON. )blest Roman of Th?m All 8landered By Stripling Upstart. r. Editor: Like the crawfishes, I'm getting careder en scareder, en madder en adder," as this thing goes on. I tell ?u, I "feel it in my bones" that we are ting to have a "high old time" this immer. The fur is going to fly. and any of us will have to supply the fur. ot that I'm at all afraid, but that Old ?n will come out on top. No, sir, not at. But what I'm afraid of, is that hile we farmers are saving the state id Old Ben and the dispensary, that itton will just tumble down to nohere, and then we'll be! Mr. Editor, it's a plumb shame that e can't have peace and the chemically ire in the dear old state; but that its inquisitorial committee, and espeally those callow youths, Lyon and hristensen, must be forever stirring ;> strife. Old Ben had just settled all iin<ra with hl? mnnlf?atn nn<1 fpnm the istnesses of Caesar's Head to the batements of the battery In Charleston, holy peace (like the chickens) was ?glnning to brood?when here's a yon In the path! But It's not a real an after all, only one of these little illows that will Ly (He) on to the last. They have the effrontery to charge Id Ben with "rebates." Why. every ?ol knows that there were no rebates id how could they be charged? Let's ok back a little. You and your read's all know how things stood in the irly nineties; that the old aristocracy ad bankrupted the state and laid her roud emblems in the dust. Something ad to be done, and done quickly; our lildren must be educated, our credit ^stored and the Old Palmetto seal lade honorable' once more. Old Ben Id it all. He tore his hair over It for time in utter despair. Ah! 'twas a rials my countrymen! But then aptarcd a "Ugiit in the west;" here' came le whisky houses, those big-hearted incerns, with generous offers of help; ley would credit the Old Palmetto tate if no one else would; they would iucate the children; they'd do it and Ive "rebates" besides. Old Ben was touched. "God bless ?u, my noble friends," he said. "O, on't speak of it!" they chorused. "But hat have you there?" broke In Old en, eyeing certain bags suspiciously. "These," they answered, patting them (fcctionately "these are a little mat- , ?r of 'rebates.' " "Don't speak of them, my noble lends; let me never see them again," urst out our noble governor. And here's the record. I ask, that he ever iw them again? Or, where's the recrd what ever became of them? I'm Ick and tired, Mr. Editor, with all tills ttle book-keeping business when it rimes to great affairs of state. It is '1 very well to make McCall and Mctirdy and Bliss and Cortelyou produce lelr books, but to drag Ben?and the tate?and the dispensary's accounts ito the light after this fashion?sir, it i unpatriotic?it is sacrilege. And they complain that Old Ben has ot helped along their little three-for-quarter committee. Why, sir, I canot imagine what they want. Wasn't Id Ben the very first one to smell something rotten up the creek?" And Idn't he come all the way from Washigton to testify? I ask, sir did he not It upon the very tiptop of the speakr's desk, where, all friends and foes, auld see him. and give them a piece of is mind? "Not the kind of witness we ant," did they say! Verily. He gave lem enough, much more than they anted, and they wont bother him gain. That piano? O. bother the piano! Ve'll have music enough this summer, ithout Its sweet strains. Mr. Editor, please let me tell young lr. Lyon a few things: 1. All your so-called "facts" won't mount to a row of pins in this camalgn. 2. "do, west, young man, go est," (as the immortal Horace Greely ild.) 3. One look, young friend, and the Icture of South Carolina today Is nough for the people; and you are just astlng your time trying to have It therwlse. When the people see our ummlng mills; our elegant schools, all -owded with eager young faces; our edit restored; our land at peace; and. rx>ve alt: the proud Palmetto emblem ilsed to honor and affection once lore, close to the beating heart of the atrlot (with the bottle), when things ok on the like of that, there's nothing lore need be said or done. Old Ben's Dt the coonskln and gone on. Civitas. Rural Retreat, S. C. .? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Saluda, April 11: "State Senator lugene S. Blease, charged with the iurder of his brother-in-law, Joe en Coleman, in October last, was ^quitted tonight after a trial lasting rer one day. No more dramatic :ene has ever been witnessed in the &luda court house than when Blease >ld in tears and sobs of his friendlip and love for Joe Ben Coleman, ieir associations for many years his certions to secure Coleman a poston, and then of the ruin of his home nd appalling weight of shame and Ishonor the information of his wife's (fidelity brought him. At the conusion of this dramatic scene the sit- 0 atlon was rendered even more dralatic when the defendant swooned 3 he was leaving the stand and *beime as limp as death. He had to be irried to the jury room where he imained during the entire time of le arguments, attended by a physlan. The arguments were concludi by eight o'clock at which time udge Prince delivered his charge, le Jury returning at 9.30 o'clock toIght. Blease and Coleman married sters and it was the alleged Intimacy etween Coleman and Blease's wife hich led up to the tragedy in Octoer last. ? Greenville, April 10: Sixty thousand >llars Is to be spent in improving and llarging Clemson college. A resolution aklng the appropriation of the board ' trustees held at the college yesterday, enator Tillman was seen for a few loments at the Southern railway atlon here yesterday afternoon on Is way back to Washington. He was avellng on the northbound vestljled. "Yes, we have made up our inds to spend every cent we can on ie college?that ts on permanent imrovements," said Senator Tillman. We did not consider any small lings at the meeting today. We had ily the big things in mind. In view ' the fact that there are several undred applications each year for ?oms in excess or the accommodat>ns at the college, the trustees deded that these boys who were beg turned away had (o be educated, here was nothing left for ua but to illd additional barracks, and that ill be one of the big things to come it of the sixty thousand dollar ap opriatlon. We have directed among her things that at least 200 bed ioms shall be provided, which will ake the college large enough to supy the demand for a few years at ust." Senator Tillman did not have me to go into details as to the im-ovements. He said that the plans id to be made first and then a betr Idea will be given. One of the 'inclpal things, however, outside of e new dormitory, is the erection of new power plant and fertiliser lilding. The idea of the trustees Is reduce operating expenses by centlizing the power plant, for heatnig well as for lighting purposes. This ill add greatly to the efficiency of e mechanical department of the liege. The fertilizer department, hlch la really a state department lely, will be Improved and enlarged, id it is almost a certainty that the intlng school will be added to the liege course. This department will a great measure be made to pay r Itself, for a great deal of Hterure of various sorts is distributed the institution, and in addition e "Hill" has a quantity of job work, ilch Is now being done elsewhere. addition to the fund coming from e legislature as a result of the ferIzer bag tax, the United States govnment has made arrangements to re 15,000 annually for six years, e money to be used In agricultural periments under the direction of e college authorities. Instead of : hundred students, more or less, mvded, Clemson will In another ur accommodate eight hundred ulents, perhaps more. Still, It will t be as large as a number of slml* institutions In other states.