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.Straps aiul .facts. ? Rev. Gustavus A. Hoffman, of St. Louis, is defending a $5,000 suit on a note he made to help the Bible College at Columbia, Mo. When he heard that the higher criticism discrediting the Jonah and the whale story was being taught, Mr. Hoffman refused to pay the note. He had been financial secretary of the institution, I but was dismissed two years ago. [ When the case is called. Mr. Hoffman says, he will summon J. W. McGarvey, president of the Bible College of the Kentucky university at Lexington; J. W. Lord, editor of the Christian J Standard of Cincinnati; F. W. Cablett, president of Bethany college, West Virginia, and D. R. Dungan, president of the Bible College at Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa, as his witnesses. Consequently, it remains for a jury of laymen, under the direction of Judge Mcllhinney of St. Louis, to decide once and for all whether the story of Jonah is a myth, as taught in the Bible College of Missouri. ? Spencer, N. C., special of June 11, to the Charlotte Observer: The large safe of the St. Clair Mercantile company, at Norwood, Stanley county, was blown open and robbed by yeggmen about midnight last night during a terrific thunder storm. The cracksmen took advantage of the storm and broke the front door of the store open with a crowbar, after which they blew open the safe by dynamite and nitroglycerin. An unknown quantity of cash and a number of valuable checks were taken. A number of tools belonging to the robbers were found in the building this morning, when the robbery was discovered by members of the firm. The work of the cracksmen bore marks of experts, though there is no clue to the guilty parties. Officers are making a desperate effort to locate the robbers, who escaped from the town without being seen. By a clever ruse the noise of the heavy thunder was taken advantage of at the midnight hour and the reports of the explosives used on the safe were not noticed by persons sleeping near the store. Thinking it was thunder, the robbers were allowed to do their work. ? Galveston. Texas. June 11: A. M. Hammerstein, a Berlin naval architect of the German government, arrived here today from Bremen. He is just back from a long sojourn in Japan. He says Japan is preparing for war, and there is every evidence that the United States is rapidly losing in favor in the Orient. Hammersieui explains, that though an internal strife in Japan might prolong the opening of conflict with America, it is plainly evident the feeling of distrust against this country is cemented and it is conceded the Japanese believe they could whip the United States. He says Japan has set aside a hundred million dollars for army and navy equipment. The greater portion is for the navy. Hammerstein declared that while the lower classes of Jtpanese are openly bitter against the United States, in official circles there is a suppressed feeling, mixed with concelt, that bodes no good for America. He says the Japs display a remarkable knowledge of the naval power of this country, but he is confident that American vessels will never meet defeat from Japan. ? Senator John Tyler Morgan, the grand old man of Alabama, and of the south, died at his home in Washington last Tuesday night at 11.15 o'clock. Senator Morgan was bom at Athens, Tenn., on June 20, 1824, and went to Alabama with his father's family in 1824. After securing a fairly good academic education, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He joined the Confederate army as a private in May, 1861, served through the war with considerable distinction, coming out as a brigadier general. After the war he resumed his law practice, and was elected to the United States senate in 1877, a member of which he continued up to the time of his death. Senator Morgan was one of the most scholarly men in the senate and one of the most able and patriotic. He was the father of the isthmian canal idea so far as this government is concerned, and had it not been for his efforts the probability is that work would not have commenced for uronopatiiine Vflt Hp 'A IWilVS stood for the Nicaragua route; but when the latter route was accepted gave it up gracefully. He was a poor man except for his salary as a United States senator. He declined to receive compensation for any service that he performed outside of his senatoriaJ duties. The literary work he did for the magazines would have brought him thousands of dollars each year; but he always declined to receive any compensation whatever. In the belief that Senator Morgan would hardly live out his term, when his people re-elected him last summer they at the same time elected his alternate. ? Charlotte Observer: The work of building the South and "Western railroad. from Spruce Pine to Marion, progresses slowly but surely. There is light in 22 tunnels and the laying of rail, between Marion and the Catawba river, has commenced. Four miles of track, from Spruce Pine to Altapas, is in operation. It is said that it will be about eighteen months before trains will cross the mountains, coming from Spruce Pine to Marion, but if the time for hauling coal direct from the coal fields to the cotton mills is so close at hand the people of the Piedmont region have cause to rejoice. The completion of the South and Western will mean much to the people of this section of the south. Some of the men who control the Seaboard Air Line road are building the South and Western. This spells something good for Charlotte. The new line will strike the old Carolina Central at Bostlc. in Rutherford county. It is safe to say that, by the time the South and Western touches at Bustle, the Carolina Central track between that point and Monroe will have been put in first-class condition. It is believed by men who have minds for .railroad details that the Seaboard people will improve the Carolina Central clear to Wilmington and make that the port to which coal will be hauled. In the construction of their road the South and Western people are building for the future, and preparing to haul heavy trains at a maximum cost. There are to be no trestles: culverts and fills will be used. The watershed ir> worif Inutuniu i? Iwinif xnrveved so that no mistakes will be made in puttins in culverts. More than 2.000 men are at work on the South and Western. The construction is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible under the circumstances. It has been said that the number of .accidents and casualIt lea on that road have been greater than was ever known in this section of the country. The death rate has been something like four or five a week. Thirteen persons were killed up there by a powder explosion sometime ago. ? They are having a rare old social and military row at West Point. The trouble had its origin in an incident that occurred some weeks ago at a big review. There were lots of girls at the Point on that occasion, ami during the manoeuvres, rain began to fall. Anyhow, a number of cadets had loaned their overcoats to their best girls, and their best girls were wear. ing those overcoats with it pride that could be brightened only by the envy of the girls who had no overcoats to wear. Presently on the orders of the commandant of the cadets, an officer came along and ordered tlie ladies to give the coats up. Some did so. others realized that each coat was marked with the name of the owner and to give it up meant punishment for their sweetheart. They indignantly refused to give up the coats, wearing them away in triumph and then sending them back as quickly and as secretly as possible. But the tiling did not end there. Mrs. A.vres. wife of Lieutenant Colonel Chits. O. Ay res, has a very sharp tongue. as has since become well known, and she used it on this occasion with biting effect. She attacked Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Howze. commandant of cadets. Col. Hugh I.,. Scott, superintendent of the academy, Col. Stephen C. Mills and Capt. I?. W. Oliver. She was so bitter in fact that these officers appealed to the secretary of war for protection and the secretary wrote Mrs. Avers a letter in which he said some pretty warm things, among others that she must hereafter keep off the West Point reservation. Now. Mrs. Ayres has a son at West Point, and this made the secretary's letter very hard; but probably worse than this, as the good lady claims, her social position b was established a hundred years be- v fore she was born, and it is very hu- t miliating for a lady of her position n to be so treated. That is not all yet. s Unable to hold Mrs. Ayres to account, (i the offended officers have been talk- t ing about court-martialing her has- v band. Mrs. Ayres has met this with a the declaration that she will sue the i officers mentioned, Howze, Scott and a others for a hundred thousand dollars 11 damage and then Col. Ayres has said i that he would rather be court mar- I tialed by crocodiles than army om- i cers. The mess continues to grow i worse as it grows older, and all be- i cause the foolish officers tried to keep t the young cadets from being too f friendly with the young ladles. s _________________________ v ?hr \|orkrillc (guquirrr. ; t YORKVILLE, S. C.i J FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1907. The development of the Catawba Power company not only at the Great c Fall';, but at Neely's Ferry in this a county are worth all they cost in y money as an object lesson in the value N of brains. And what a source of pride r it should be to everybody to know that j all this big work has been accomplish- ? ed by southern brains! l i The Bond Question. ? While The Enquirer is decidedly of j * * * 11 crckt criwwl opinion mai wit: wu; v?o.,? w ? roads In this county is to issue bonds in sufficient amount to build them, it would not be understood to suggest that the responsibility of the people would end with the issuance of the bonds. The successful prosecution of work of any kind calls for competent, efficient management, and a work of such magnitude as the construction of good roads throughout this, county must, to be successful and satisfactory, be under the supervision of men of breadth and business experience. It is not a task that can be performed with economy or credit by men of ordinary capacity. If the people of York county should decide upon a campaign of road building, the first step suggested by ordinary prudence would be organization of the county government along lines that would insure an administration that would be equal to such an undertaking. Then a well digested plan of development laid before the people as intelligently and as frankly as possible. That the proposition of road construction by means of bonds involves many points upon which objectors may confuse the people who are really favorable to action along this line, is obvious. In the first place, it will be out of the question to secure the immediate improvement of all the roods, and many people who may not see immediate, direct benefit to themselves can be induced to object on the ground of favoritism to some other local ity. Then again, the argument against placing a debt on posterity, notwithstanding posterity is to get the benefit of the value received, and will be inclined to praise the wisdom of its fathers rather than grumble, can also be used with effect. There will also be much kicking from the people who pay but little taxes, and with it all the proposition involves a very long, hard campaign. We have no hesitation in saying that there is absolutely no hope for extensive road improvement under present conditions. There must be a raising of standards all along the line, and this is something much easier talked about than done, for several j reasons, one of the most important being that the men of the finest and best abilities are not inclined to make a scramble to get into the public service. , It is a fact, however, that if a movement were inaugurated that looked like a large bond issue, it would not be a great while before the leading , business interests of the country would 1 begin t?? take a hand. It would not be j willing to risk in inexperienced hands , the expenditure of such large sums as I would be involved in a work of such j magnitude. j THE CASE OF HAYWOOD. Defense Subjects Orchard to Merciless I Cross - Examination. Boise, Idaho, June 11.?The attack of the Haywood defense on the testinio- < ni.inv of Murrv Oivharil troes on un- l remittingly, and the witness will probably be continued on the stand two | full days more. Orchard withstands ( the strain with remarkable fortitude and at the end of six days shows no in- | dication of mental or physical flagging. , Today began with the dynamiting of Fred Bradley in San Francisco. The . defense made a long and determined i effort to expose several features of it | to doubt and improbability, and to vitiate it all by revealing the hand of < the Pinkertons. , Then the play went back to Denver for the winter of li?04-0f> and the spring , that followed, and there was an ex- , tended effort to show that Orchard had practically no communication with the leaders of the Federation; that he re- \ ceived no pay for the Bradley crime or anything else, and that with Steve , Adams, in a condition of extreme pov- ] erty extending over a period of several months, lie was reduced to the nec- . essity of stealing a sheep from the j (Jlobeville stock yards that he might have food. Orchard, to a laughing court room, confessed that he stole the sheep, but stoutly denied that it was because of want. He insisted that all through that supposedly hard winter and spring , he continued to draw money from Pet- j tibone through Adams, and explained ] that if he did not see Federation of- . tieers often it was because he was "ly- J ing low" to avoid capture. This (Jlobeville inquiry depeloped an- , other shocking crime. At this Denver ( suburb there was a diabolical plot? orchard swore it was inspired by Max . Mahalick; the defense claimed that Or- ' chard was its author?a plot to dynamite a boarding house wherein IsiO , non-union men lived, and in preparation for tiic murder enhloc Orchard. ( Adams and a man named Joe Mahalich , hroke into magazines and stole 600 pounds of dynamite which they lugged j home at night and buried in their eel- , lar. The crime was abandoned, Or chard said, in one of those flashes that ' make his testimony remarkable because Haywood intervened and forbade him to have anything to do with it. Carrying out the lines of testimony tending to show that orchard, regardless of the great hold which it is pre- I sumed he had on the Federation lead- i ers. was frequently without funds, the 1 defense showed that from late in 1903 I until the middle of 1904. orchard con- i tinually drew strike relief supplies at > Cripple Creek and then dramatically i invited orchard to explain the incon- t sistency to the jury. Orchard replied i that Haywood. Moyer, Parker and Da- t vis all advised him to draw the sup- ' plies, because if he displayed money | he would excite suspicion. t The examination next reviewed the < earlier attempt on Governor Peabody : and the making of the bombs to kill I him and the plots against Judges Gab >ert and Goddard, with an effort everywhere to lighten and cast doubt upon he testimony. Orchard told a dranatic story of the first attempt to asassinate Peabody?an early morning ] Irive through the snow to place the >omb iuhI await for the victim, who was spared by the unexpected appearnce of two coal wagons, which, coning from an alleyway, were driven cross the trigger string at the monent that Peabody was crossing the nine. Orchard brought Mrs Steve Ulams into the play today. He said ' 1 1 A U'oro U'ntnh IUU Willie lit; ? (! nuum.1 v.. . ^ ....... ng Judge Goddard's house. Mrs. Vdams went wltli them a couple of imes as a blind to divert suspicion rom them. Mrs. Adams, who had a ; eat among' the witnesees, laughed vhen Orchard told the Incident. Orchard, who confesses that he hestated at no crime and took a hundred , lesperate chances in those he commited, made an interesting contribution o the psycholgical study of his perlonality when he called himself a cowird. He said he was too cowardly to penly kill Judge Gabbert: that he retarded all his acts as cowardly. In five minutes today Orchard showid more emotion than at any time since le began his testimony. It was when 1 he defense, in a rough-shod digression, asked him if he had not desertd his Cripple Creek wife and left her n poverty that compelled the sale of let* washtub to buy bread. Orchard's j ips quivered, and with tears near, he alteringly denied that he had done so ind said that the Federation leaders lad promised to care for her in his ibsence. MERE-MENTION. The manager of the United Express lompany's building in New York, had i scrub woman arrested Monday on i. charge of stealing a cake of soap, alued at one cent The 200th anil versary of the establishment of the episcopal church was celebrated at Stratford, Conn., Wednesday... .A fire>ug caused a $200,000 fire at Girard >hlo, Wednesday morning Every irphan child of New York city was riven an automobile ride Wednesday, dure than 2,000 cars were used for the jurpose Emperor William of Ger nany has degraded and ordered tne canishment from Germany of his cousn, Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia, >n account of immoral conduct President Roosevelt and family have jone to Oyster Bay for the summer. The preliminary- hearing in the :ase against Dr. and Mrs. Rowland for he alleged poisoning of the latteris Irst husband, will come up at Raleigh, V. C., next week Two men were tilled and a dozen injured by the fallng of an elevator at the Lehigh Coal md Navigation company's plant in Philadelphia Wednesday Eighteen Missouri railroads have petitioned the Jnited States district court to restrain he state from putting the recently naeted two-cent rate law into effect. Secretary of State Root has accepted an invitation from President Diaz of Mexico, to visit that country luring the summer months Conederate Memorial Day exercises were teld in the Confederate section of the \rlington National cemetery at Washngton last Sunday. John G. Capers >f South Carolina, was the orator of he day J. Pierpont Morgan is rejorted to be negotiating for a $4,000,000 trt collection in Paris, which he will nove to the United States if he makes he deal....The clothing of a sixteen,-ear-old girl were set on fire by a discarded cigarette on a Philadelphia street car last Sunday. The girl's clothing was burned off of her and she vill die as a result of her wounds.... jovemor Hughes has vetoed the recently enacted 2-cent rate law passed >y the New York legislature The nternational Harvester company, often eferred to as the "harvester trust" is jnder investigation by the United States district attorney at Chicago. Garfield Thompson, a negro, has >een appointed as gauger for the Scott-Price distillery at Nashville, I'enn. The distillery proprietors hreaten to close their plant unless the tegro is removed... .Four negroes, one nan and three women, were drowned n the Manatee river, Florida, Wedneslay F. H. Therow, a lumber dealer of Columbus, Miss., was killed by John Parker Tuesday night. The tilling was the result of the alleged inimacy of Therow and Parker's wife. Mrs. Theodore Elsey was shot to leath by masked burglars in her home it Osyka, Miss., late Tuesday night in he presence of her invalid husband.... Miss Marian Fish, daughter of Mr. and " XTn?ir Vnrlr wo Q VIIS. Oiuyvcsktlll r inn, i^cn xvin, inarried Wednesday to Albert Z. Gray. The bride's trousseau was made In Prance and valued at $250,000. A brilal present from the father to the aride was $1,000,000 The Mississippi supreme court has confirmed the verdict of the lower court in which Mrs. Angle Birdsong was convicted of billing Dr. Thomas Butler of Monticelo, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Mrs. Birdsong will probably tie pardoned. LESSLIE NOTES. Weather and Crop Conditions Unfavorable?Personal Mention. Correspondence ot Die Yorkrille Enouirer. Lesslie. June 13.?Owing to unfavorable weather conditions cotton is very backward in this immediate section. The farmers around here are reeling blue on account of continued rain, which is interfering with the aarvesting of small grain. Corn is doing fairly well. Some hail fell hereon Monday night during a heavy rainstorm, but did little damage to crops. Mr. U. M. Pursley, who is in the <aw mill business at Kalb, S. C., was joined there last week by his family, ivho expect to spend the summer at that place. Mr. Cliff Gallant of Charlotte, visted relatives here last week. Miss Lillie Roddey, who has been visiting here, returned to her home at Rock Hill today. Miss Lois Millen of Rodman, who lias been visiting Mr. T. P. Lesslie, returned to her home Monday. Miss Martha McAlpine is visiting at the home of her uncle. Rev. Oliver iohnson. Rev. Oliver Johnson, T. F. Lesslie ind Miss Mattie Belle Simpson, attended commencement at Due West ast week. Misses Bessie Lesslie and Lessie Simpson, who attended Due West Feinale college, are at home. Messrs. C. B. Betts, R. E. Gettys and I. N. Lesslie, are home from Erskine .'allege. Misses Jennie and Bessie Gettys, vt11u. i iwvii,. .,nd I,ouls*> Martin, re turned last week (mm Winthrop. Miss Gussie Lesslie of Rock Hill, is risiting her grandmother, Mrs. C. J. Lesslie. Miss Alma Wright of Rock Hill, is spending a few days with her uncle, Mr. I>. T. Lesslie. THE FINLEY NEIGHBORHOOD. (torri'Simndenre ot the Vorkvillc Knguirer. Finley, June 11.?Cotton is good in this immediate neighborhood, and so Is corn, especially on uplands. Bottom land corn has suffered from overflow, nid bed worms have done lots of dain<ge. Crops generally are very good and up to this time there has been no suffering on account uf too much rain. Mr. Robert Harris lias typhoid fever ind his friends are helping his crop i long. Mr. Walter Hays has been quite sick: but is now better. Mason Smith has returned from LMinton, where he has been attending school. Mrs. B. A. Correll has returned to lier home at High Shoals. N. C., after spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Crosby. She is iceompanied by her little sister, Ruth. Miss Blanche Love attended the commencement at Winthrop last week. ? Kleven members of the crew of he battleship Minnesota, including six iiidshipmen. fresh from Annapolis and ive seamen, were drowned at Norfolk ast Monday night or Tuesday mornng. The men started ashore in a steam launch to attend a ball, and were mi afterward heard from. It is bought that the steam launch may lave been run down by a big ship in lie darkness; but this is not known. Hie names of the midshipmen were I'bilin 11 Field, from Colorado; Wal er (\ I "1 rich, Wisconsin: F. P. Hol nmb. Delaware: W. H. Stevenson, Vkiirth Carolina. This is tlie heaviest ost the navy has sustained in ofllcers dure the Spanish war. LOCAL AFFAIRS, t c NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Herbert L. Wright, Admr.?Gives no- I tiee that he will apply for discharge v as administrator of Emily E. Wright, s deceased, on July 15th. L. R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives 8 notice that L. B. Brown has applied I . to him for letters of administration j on estate of Dr. D. G. Thompson, . deceased. Mrs. Sarah C. Ashe?Having made her r final return as administratrix of es- t tate of Jno. It. Ashe, dec'd. will ap- . ply to the probate court for final discharge on July 14 th. r D. E. Boney?Invites you to make a I close investigation of the Farmers' e Mutual Insurance companies and . iudere them on their records. J L. Williams & Co.?Has a complete line of Crown trousers, ranging In t price from $2 to $5 a pair. They say t Crown trousers are the best the money will buy. 1 York Supply Co.?Has Mason's fruit c jars In pints, quarts and half gal- s Ion sizes, extra rubbers and caps . and jelly tumblers. See them for cotton bows. Thomson Co.? Has just opened up t new line of men's shirts and wants j you to see them. Shirts from 50c to . $1.50 each. Lace curtains up to $6.50 pair. ' Star Drug Store?In taking of its stock t of stationery says that "quality j counts," and tells you how it counts in business and elsewhere. { First National Bank?Says your bank t account will be carefully guarded and judiciously handled if placed . with it and it will be safe. Carrol 1 Bros?Reminds you that sow- I ing peas will be easy if you will l use a Buffalo-Pitts or tongueless y harrow for the work. York Drug Store?Claims that almost s since the day fountain pens were in- ( vented the Waterman has stood as ( the best. Pens at $2.50 to $15 each. , M. W. White?Quotes an old adage and aDDlles the moral to his brokerage business. Ixian and Savings bank stock Wi. ed. Dobson Bros.' Cash Store?Is ready to supply you with embroidered and chiffon hats in the latest styles. Remember. the laundry basket leaves Wednesday mornings. Judge James Aldrich will preside at the next term of the circuit court for this county. The traffic congestion on the railroads has been relieved and business is now being transacted with satisfaction. The trains are making very good time. Traveling men who have covered a large portion of the state during the last two or three weeks, say that the crops are better in York than in any other county in the staite. Mr. E. D. Smith of the South Carolino branch of the Southern Cotton association will conduct a month's campaign in this state during July, in the interest of the association. His York county date is July 27th. There is some very good cotton to be seen along the Southern railroad between Rock Hill and Chester, especially on the farms of Messrs. J. B. Johnson at Ogden, and Mr. T. L. Johnston at Smith's Turnout. The cotton on both of these farms has been thinned to a proper stand and is growing off nicely. There are some large fields on the railroad, however, that have not yet been thinned to a stand. Corn f?oMc??olUf nrottv nmir nil tlip wav < ft ......, ?.... K.?* . - down into Chester county. THE MONUMENT. j The monument to the Confederate j soldiers of York county, a photograph ] of which was published In our issue of J last Friday, is twenty-five feet high, , and was built and placed by the , Yorkville Monument Works, pfi^ici- ' pally of Lancaster county granite. 1 The inscriptions are as follows: South side die, crossed swords; and i on cap, "Lest we forget." On third base?"1861-1865." * I On second base?"Our Confederate i dead." * I East side?"Those for whom they < died, have erected this monument to recall to their children and fellow- i countrymen how worthily they lived, I how nobly they died, and in what tender reverence their memory survives." North side?"Erected by Winnie Davis Chapter, U. D. C., 1906." I West side? "In eternal remembrance of the soldiers tried and true, Who loved the Hag of a nation's trust And died in a cause, though lost, still i just, And died for me and You." WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The board of directors of the Loan and Savings bank, has declared a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent ...tvl? T.,l?# 1 of pa,>auir jui) ? Mr. A. G. Floyd, who died In Spartanburg on Tuesday, a sketch of i whom appears elsewhere In this issue, commenced business after the war In J the room now occupied by Mr. Sam M. Grist as an insurance office, and in partnership with Mr. T. M. Dobson. < They brought their goods from Charlotte in wagons at first; but upon the restoration of the railroad began deal- ! ing direct with New York. They were doing very nicely here; but in 1870, Mr. ( Floyd decided to move to Spartanburg. ? Columbia special to Charlotte Observer, June 12: A unanimous per ( curiam order was filed in the supreme ] court Tuesday, (the opinion to be filed later) which is of special interest to school districts throughout the state, and incidentally instructive to taxpayers who oppose school movements on , the ground that they Increase taxes. The case in which the order was filed wms that of Attorney C. E. Spencer against W. 15. McCaw as chairman of the Yorkville board of school trustees, in which Mr. Spencer questioned the 1 constitutionality of the act of the last legislature extending the limits of the Yorkville school district from a radius , of one mile to a radius of two and a half miles, bringing in a cotton mill and its village, on the ground that this act was special legislation, air. rspencer appeared on his own behalf while Mr. McCaw represented his board. The contention of the defense, which appears to have been sustained by the court, is that the constitution of 1895 specially provides for special lpgisla- 1 tion in tlie case of school districts. At every session of tlie legislature for the past ten years or more such special acts have been passed, and a decision in Mr. Spencer's favor would have created a profound stir throughout ( tlie state. There lias been talk from ttiine to time of passing some general law to relieve this call upon the time and attention of tlie legislature, but ' this has never been successful in either house. CONCRETE VS. STONE. There is still some question in the i minds of many builders and prospective ! builders in this locality as to the comparative merits of concrete and masonry. especially as to durability, there being no room for dispute in the mat- i ter of economy. I There are people who hold all kinds | of iik-us as lo uie uunionuy 01 con- | eivte. In times past, it was held that it would not stand permanently in water. Everybody now knows better. Then it was held that concrete would not stand lire. A circumstance in connection with the recent burning of San Francisco was that most of the stone houses crumbled, while those hat were constructed of reinforced oncrete stood intact. During a trip to Great Catawba i'alls some seventeen years ago, this rriter was impressed with the thouands of dollars worth of dressed stone itill to be seen in the old canal locks, le wondered why somebody did not laul them away for use elsewhere, t seemed that they would bear transtortation for many miles and still >rlng a good price. When going over he same ground a few days ago, our epresentatlve took occasion to ask dr. A. W. Leland, the Catawba Pow- I oAmnonu'o rooMont oncrinoAr QOTT1P- ] hlng about the matter. "Oh. yes," said Mr. Leland, "we used \ tome of those stones In the foundation 1 >f the power house; but we afterward egretted It. We already knew that :oncrete was as good. Now, we are latisfied that concrete Is not only :heaper but better." In view ol this statement by an engineer of such recognized ability as Mr. ?and?a statement that concrete Is >oth cheaper and better than stone for foundation work, even where the Iressed stone can be had without cost, t would seem that prospective build>rs need not worry themselves about he matter any more. Of course, it will be understood that llmenslon stone will still have Its jlace for building work of all kinds; , jut people who have doubt about the i visdom of substituting concrete for 1 itc-ne wherever stone would have oth- ( ?rwise been used, may as well aban Jon that doubt, especially as to the i standpoint of durability. BLUE IN ARKANSAS. "Well, you can just say what you i alea.se about it, but the farmers on this ' side of the Mississippi river are away fonder better off than they are on the jther side," said Mr. H. C. Strauss, 1 ivho is just back after a stay of several weeks in Arkansas, to the reporter yesterday morning. 'The cotton planters of that country ire as, blue over the prospects as they :an be," continued Mr. Strauss, "and the merchunts and supply people are n about the same spirits. I talked with ' justness men and farmers from Texas, Indian Territory. Oklahoma and Ar- 1 Kansas and they all described about the same conditions, most of them saying that even with the very best of iveather conditions from now until the jottcn crop is harvested, there Is not the possibility of more than half the normal crop. "I spent considerable time at Newport, Ark., which Is located in a cotton pelt that ordinarily produces good fields, but it will not do it this seaion. Last week I noticed a number of ;otton planters in town, carrying Pandsful of little cotton plants, just taken from the fields. I inquired what that meant, and was told a story about like this: " 'Well, we are up against it. This potton is the result of the third planting, and unless we can secure additional supplies from the merchants, ne will simply have to give it up and et the merchants who have been supplying us hold the bag. We can't ivork out the present crop without additional supplies. We will have to Pave additional seeds to plant for the fourth time.' "I asked one of the biggest merihants of Newport what he was going to do about the situation, and he replied that they had agreed with the planters to accept one-third of the ;rop as their part of the year's work. You see we can't help ourselves,' said the merchant. 'If the farmers had inly offered us a sixth we would have had to accept that; we are at their mercy and have to take Just what they after us,' " Mr. Strauss is glad to be back home again and while he finds great pleasure In an occasional visit to Arkansas, and has many friends out there who are always giad to see him, he is of opinion that York county is quite good enough for him and is quite sure that the farmers of this section of South Carolina are decidedly better oft than are their farmer brothers west of the Mississippi. Mr. Strauss told about the business being done by a large cotton oil mill located at Newport, and remarked that among other points to which the mill was shipping cotton seed hulls was Newberry, Anderson and Sumter in this state. The hulls sell for $12.50 at the mill. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. R. J. Mackorell and two children are visiting relatives in Lancaster. Mrs. J. J. Clinton and daughter, of Bethesda, are visiting relatives at Newberry. Miss Nellie Schorb of the Chester graded schools, is at home for the summer vacation. Misses Maggie Lee Erwin and Florrine Carothers of Rock Hill, were VAflrt'lllo vlultnra VPatATflflV Messrs. Edward Flnley and Joe Hart are at home from the South Carolina university, for the summer. Mrs. J. Bratton Lowry of Tampa, Fla., arrived in Yorkville this morning on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Lowry. Dr. T. R. Carothers of Rock Hill, came over yesterday to see Mrs. John F. Gordon, whose condition is not as favorable as could be desirel. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Strauss returned to Yorkville Wednesday night after a visit of several weeks to relatives and friends in Arkansas. Miss Kate Crosley of Abbeville, Miss., is in Yorkville on a visit, and is the guest of her uncle, Mr. G. H. O'Leary. Mr. George L. Riddle and granddaughter, Miss Martha Riddle of Zeno, left yesterday for a ten days' visit to Mrs. M. J. Clark at Dandridge, Tenn. Miss Georgia Richards, who has been with the Dobson Bros.' Cash Store during the spring season, returned to her home at Stanley Creek, N. C., Wednesday. Mr. J. Q. Wray returned to Yorkville last night from Spartanburg, where he went to attend the funeral of his uncle, Mr. A. G. Floyd, which occurred yesterday afternoon. Miss Nannie Youngblood, who is taking a special course in an Atlanta hospital, arrived in Yorkville yesterday to assist in nursing her sister, Mrs. John F. Gordon. Mrs. Lizzie Kirkpatrick of Lowry ville, passed through Yorkville Wednesday en route to Blacksburg, having been summoned there on account of the death of her sister, Mrs. Jane Gwinn, which occurred Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Grist have ' tho murrlocp at I ISSUCU 111* IIUIK'II.I nr ilir >..< . their daughter. Miss Nannie to Mr. Henry Herbert Crosland. The ceremony is to take place at the home of the bride's parents, at 9 a. m., Tuesday, June 2f>. Cards have been received in Yorkville, announcing the marriage of Miss Bessie Renwick Carlisle to Dr. Robert Moflfatt Kennedy, which will take place at the home of the bride, Newberry. S. C.. Wednesday evening. June 2Gth, at a quarter to eight o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Grist of Yorkville, left last Wednesday night for the annual meeting of the South Carolina State Press association at the Hotel Seashore, June 13 to lf?. Mr. Grist is to read a paper on the subject of "Linotypes in the Office of a County Paper." Mr. William Finley, and two daughters of Godley, Texas, are spending a Tew days with the family of Congressman Finley. Mr. Finley has been living in Texas since 1877. He came hack on a visit about thirteen years igo and this is his second return. This time he went to the reunion at Richmond. and came from there here. He ivas a member of company B, Twelfth regiment, and was in service from the beginning to the end of the war. He 1 will remain in this section for a week < w more, and is especially anxious to renew acquaintances with his old com- , ades of the Twelfth. The closing exercises of Clemson :ollege took place on yesterday mornng. There were seventy graduates, imong them being three from York :ounty, each graduating with the decree B. S. Following are the names: Sdward A. Crawford, McConnellsville, igriculture; Eaton L. Sanders, McConlellsville, civil engineer; William H. Wylie. Rock Hill, electrical. On Monlay there was a competitive drill par:iclpated in by a majority of the eight jompanies made up of the school, the prize being the honor of beating the ichool "flag during the next session. Company C, of which E. A. Crawford ivas captain, was declared the winner. Lancaster News: Mr. John A. Jentins of Yorkville, for the past three ^ears principal of Lancaster's Central fraded school, has accepted a position n connection with the National Union bank of Rock Hill and will enter upon bis new duties about July 1. Much to the regret of the officials and patrons >f the school, Mr. Jenkins was not an ippllcant for re-election as principal. A young man of pleasing manners and fine moral character and an excellent teacher and disciplinarian, Mr. Jenkins made an enviable record in Lancaster, both as-a citizen and an educator, and the community is indeed loath to give him up. Good, up-to-date, ill-round teachers like Mr. Jenkins ire in much demand nowadays and the profession, therefore, upon which be has reflected credit, as well as the cause of education, sustains a distinct loss by his entrance Into another field r>f endeavor. DOWN AT CATAWBA FALLS. It would be a source of much pleasLire to The Enquirer If it could give its readers a comprehensive idea of the tremendous developments completed md In progress by the Southern Power company at Great Catawba Falls, it was with this end in view that a representative was sent there a few days ago; but with all the information uuiainai/ic, ?ii 1 u mc icpicsciuamc uuu only to ask to learn anything he wanted to know, there is no good reason for hoping that any description which can be written will give a satisfactory idea of the work that has been accomplished. This same representative was in the same vicinity about seventeen years ago. On that occasion he made the trip by rail to Rlchburg and thence fifteen miles in a buggy, over a country so rough as to emphasize its probably inaccessibility forever. And the scene of the Great Catawba Falls was something calculated to inspire awe. Few people in this part of the country, who had never seen the cataract were able to form any conception of its wild grandeur. There was plenty of suggestion of power; but on a basis of the existing scale of other surroundings, even the imagination did not seem to picture the Idea of a dam across the river. In the first place it did not appear necessary and in the second place many of our boldest engineers would have been inclined to declare It impossible. The Great Catawba Falls as they are called, are really a series of cataracts formed as the river is breaking through the last belt of foothills that separate the broken country to the north frcm the low lying fiat plains to the south. This series of cataracts is about three miles in length, and the water in its mad Course of swirling and tumbling from head down to foot, makes the equivalent of a perpendicular fall of something like 130 feet. The volume of water at this point is something tremendous too, and in several respects these falls exceed anything of the kind In the southeast. Rising out of the river at the head of the falls, is a great hump of rock, known as Mountain Island. This island is about three-quarters of a mile wide and three miles long. There are in reality two cataracts, one on each side of the river, and the stream Is so evenly divided that both are about equal in volume and power. The cataracts commence at a point just above the island and end at a point Just below. Within a few hundreds yards after the divided steam reunites, it takes up its broad, deep course as smoothly and as sluggishly over many long stretches as tnrougn tne comparatively level plateaus above. Many of our readers are aware that during the first quarter of the last century, the South Carolina legislature spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the prosecution of a great scheme to make the Catawba navigable from the ocean to the mountains, and before the undertaking fell through most of the obstacles at this point were removed by a canal around the Great Falls. The canal was a great work for those days. It was only about six miles long and twelve or fourteen feet wide; but It meant almost as much for South Carolina as the digging of the Panama ditch today means for the United States government. A series of great locks was constructed, near the lower end of the canal, and a few boats were gotten through, but there was still a lot of work to be done at Landsford and other shoals higher up, and for some reason the scheme was abandoned. The Southern Power company has made some use of the state's old works; but not a great deal. The engineering. it seems, was all right; but the whole thing .was on rather too modest a basis for present purposes. Where a narrow channel was sufficient for small freight boats, It required a river bed to carry the water necessary to develop 40,000 electrical water power. The canal went entirely around the shoal water; but for present purposes It suited best to build a mighty dam across one prong of the river and turn the entire current Into the canal. That is what has been accomplished. Standing now on top of this dam and looking over the course along which the great cataract once dashed, there is now to be seen only a long stretch of jagged, water polished rocks, with here and there a pool of stagnating water that came over the spillway during the last freshet. Following the course of the canal, the water proceeds leisurely with only enough fall to carry It along with hardly a ripple until It reaches the great bulkhead, a mile below. The bulkhead is practically another dam. It is fifty or sixty feet thick at the 1 -? ?1 un *n ohnnt tort nr UttMe, uuu liuiiung u|v tu .v.. twelve feet at the top. The length Is 650 feet. It Is built much higher and stronger than will probably ever be necessary. There seems to be no reasonable possibility that there can ever be a freshet so big as to flood past the spillway of the dam referred to a mile above. But it seems that nothing has been left to chance. The great power house standing down In the tremendous gulch below the bulkhead, contains something like a million dollars worth of machinery, and If anything should happen to this power house even now, there would be distress in many cotton mill localities. Later on It would be much worse. Therefore no labor or expense that prudent foresight seemed to suggest has been spared. There was an implied promise In the article published Tuesday, to the effect that the power house would be described later. It will be undorstood, however, that the description must necessarily be very general. A complete technical description would fill a large book, and that book would have to be written by Mr. Lee, the chief engineer, or Mr. Leland, his able first assistant. But to begin with this power house Is probably the most expensive, substantial and durable building of Its size to be found in South Carolina. It Is doubtful as to whether the government fortifications at Charleston or the buildings In the navy yard represent more labor or expense or Include more perfect materials. There are no frills about It. It is as neat as a pin; but no effort at ornamentation was made. The foundation, which goes away down Into the earth. Is built of crushed stone and concrete. The walls are of brick, the hardest obtainable, and each one apparently selected with reference to a high standard of perfection. The roof Is of tiles, made of re-lnforced ,u !? In UIKlL'rCie, itliu inn r in nu n..vu ... . building except the window frames and supporting columns, even the floors being of re-lnforced concrete. There are numerous braces of Iron In the building: but not one that seems to be superfluous. The machinery of course, starts with the great water wheels. These are outside?ten of them in a row. The nearest approach to them Is In a long tunnel, down under the surface of the water. This tunnel runs from one end of the building to the other. There Is water overhead and on the side; but there Is fifteen to eighteen feet of concrete between the water and the interior of the tunnel. The great wheel shafts enter from the wa ter wheels outside to the generators a and exciters inside. There is a good ? deal of noise, of course, but nothing t like as much as might reasonably be i expected from the operation of so ( much and such tremendous machin- i ery. I On a level with the tunnel; but sep- I erated by a thick wall of concrete, are a the generators, eight of them, side by . side, "and each capable of generating 5,000 electrical horse power. Between the two gangs of generators, which i are arranged four on a side, are two 1 tremendous exciters in the middle, t On the same floor are a number of f great transformers, each large enough J and heavy enough to load a freight i car, and throughout the building is l placed any number of electrical ap- t pliances of different kinds, and of the I ? * ? t- Kin u'pUop haa Kfflt* 1 uses Ul VM1ILII mis nmv. .... knowledge. "We are not on as large i a scale as Niagara." said Mr. Leland, ? "but we are more modern. We have 1 appliances and improvements that Ni- 1 agara hasn't got." A very important t feature of the equipment is the light- \ ning arresters. These represent all ' the best known improvements, and < are very complete. The only damage t that is now anticipated from light- ning is the blowing out of fuses, and J this can usually be repaired within a J very few minutes and without serious delay. Up to the present time there are still thirty or forty men employed about the power house, placing ma- J chinery and completing details of in- ( terior construction: but after all has < once been perfected five or six men * will be able to look after the whole < plant. 1 The Neely's Ferry plant of the Ca- I tawba Power company was a big } thing in its day. The reference is to ' the time when It was the only one of 1 Its kind In this country. The plant ? Just completed at Great Falls, with < four times the power capacity of the J Neely's Ferry plant is so large as to ' make the latter look like something ' to play with. But as large as are * these two plants, the outlook is that ' they will both be eclipsed by the big I plant now under construction at the < mouth of Rocky Creek, down below. J The site of the new plant is at the < lower end of the island, where the I stream that was divided three miles 1 above, comes together again. It will 1 be remembered that one division of < that stream is now dry, the water i which formerly ran tnrougn u nav Ing been diverted around part of the old canal route, and after being used to turn the wheels at the power house above, comes back Into the river by way of Rocky Creek, Just below the point of the Island. The island itself Is now about four times as largo as It used to be. The railroad now .fallows the tall water from the pover house down across Rocky Creek, a nd along the bank of the river below tiie island to the point where the new i works are being prosecuted. J Already a great deal of work has been done. There Is a temporary i suspension bridge across the river, i Down below, a hundred yards or so, a < coffer dam extends out Into the stream j and below that a line of rock piers Is < being pushed across for the railroad, i Already the dummy engine can make I Its way to the middle of the river, t Still further down there Is a big ma- I chine shop and brass foundry. In be- < tween the upper suspension bridge i and the machine shops below there Is i a scene of busy activity, suggestive of the Idea that the workmen are not l there for long. Several hoisting en- I gines, located on the high bluffs above Me constantly puffing and straining at , the great derricks, which lift Immense boulders out of the excavations that are being made for the new pow- 1 er house and for the foundation of the new dam. The boulders are carried high up on the hillside, to he brought back later on for use in foundation work. Great steam drills are at work ' boring into the immense rocks and at frequent Intervals there are tremendous discharges of giant powder. These tear up holes almost deep enough to niae a rreigni car. .ium now, or at least last Monday, they were installing a great air compressor. It was being put on a substantial concrete foundation the same as If It was intended to stay there forever; but fs only for temporary use instead of steam In operating the derricks, drill# and other machinery. It of course, will be operated by electric power. Up on top of the mountain above, less than three hundred yards away, but not even In sight of the river bank, Is a large hotel like that at the upper works, the home of the engineers and bosses In charge of the works. The laborers occupy very comfortable shacks along the bluffs. Everything moves along with an order and system suggestive almost of military precision. But as suggested before. It Is almost Impossible to give a satisfactory description of what Is being done down there. This writer frankly admits that the task Is beyond his capacity. It Is easy enough to write of millions of money. The amount Invested and to be Invested here is somewhere between two and three millions. Prom forty to one hundred thousand electrical horse power suggests ideas that are almost astounding. But even with all this, the individual who would take In the whole work and surroundings in a way to comprehend them thoroughly. must visit the locality In person, and he must go prepared to stay several days. I LOCAL LACONICS. We Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January 1st, 1908, for $1.08. Ice Cream at Sharon. The Young People's Christian union, of Sharon, are to give an ice cream sunDer on the lawn of the Associate Reformed manse this afternoon and tonight from 4 to 9 o'clock. Burned By Lightning. A cabin occupied by Andy James on the farm of Mr. S. M. Inman on the outskirts of Yorkvllle, was destroyed by Are last Tuesday afternoon. The Are was set by a bolt of lightning, there was no one in the house at the time, and the entire contents went up in smoke. Winthrop Model School. Columbia State, Thursday: The work on the model school building at Winthrop college will be commenced shortly, according to President D. B. Johnson, who was in the city yesterday. President Johnson was here to call a meeting of the building committee of the trustees but on account of the absence of the state superintendent of education the meeting was postponed. The last general assembly appropriated $50,000 for this building, the rest of the money coming from individuals. ^-i U- I.. I in Cnn* I luitl r r um vaianua vuiivuwh w vi ??.* The railroad that the Seaboard Air , Line has been building for some time past between Catawba Junction and Fort Lawn is about complete. The junction between it and the line that i the Southern Power company had been using for more than a year between Fort Lawn and the river, eleven miles, was being perfected last Tuesday. < The understanding is that the Sea- i board is to operate the whole line be- i tween Catawba Junction and the . Great Falls, and it Is quite possible ( that the road may be carried further, i The principal object of the building, j of course, is because of the developments of the Southern Power com- ( pany. < In Her Ninety-Third Year. Fort Mill special of June 12, to the Charlotte Chronicle: Mrs. S. H. Parker died here on Monday morning in her ninety-third year. She was the oldest woman in York county, having t been born near Mooresville, N. C.. Nov. 15, 1814. For the past twenty years . she has made her home with her 1 granddaughter, Mrs. Jones, of this place, and has enjoyed unusually good I health until the past few weeks when < her system broke completely down and she died practically of old age. 1 For the past seventy years she has < been a widow, her husband having died before the civil war. She has out- < lived her four children and her nearest I kin was her granddaughter with I whom she lived. J Dnuiara nn fh* Catauuha. The Charlotte Observer gives the 1 following list of developed water pow- 1 ors along Catawba river: The first plant of any consequence on the Ca- i Lawba Is the Rhodhiss mill at Granite f Falls. This plant has developed about i 1,500 horse power. Other plants below { are: The Long Island mill with 300 f horse power; the Monbo, 150; Moun- t tain Island, 1,000; the Tuckaseegee, 250; the Catawba Power plant, 10,000, ind the Great Falls, 30,000. On the South Fork, which empties. Into the Jatawba, In Gaston, runs the foll'owng named plants: The Elm Grove 'ottcn mill, 300 horse power; the Danel, 400; Laboratory, 200; Lincoln, 300; ..ong Shoals, 300; High Shoals, 500; iardin, 150; Spencer Mountain, 500, ind McAdens, 500. runeral of Dr. Neville. Greenwood special of Monday to the ^'ews and Courier: The buiiai of Dr. iV. G. Neville, president of the Presbyerian College of South Carolina, was lelo here today shortly after noon. Lhe tuneral party came over on the seaboard vestibule and the burial folowed immediately after the arrival of hat i in Thera ur?ra a number of persons from a distance to pay their u.st tribute of respect to the dead min- . ^ ster and college president. The burial lervices were conducted by Dr. James i. Thomweli of Fort Mill, assisted by Dr. W. M. McPheeters of Columbia, md Dr. J. Lowrie Wilson of Abbeville. The following acted as palloearers: Dr. Hugh K. Aiken of Laur- ^ ms; A. M. Aiken of Chester; Congressman Wyatt Aiken of Abbeville; T. Glllam Aiken of Spartanburg; S. K. Seville of Trenton; J. F., Jesse C., and VI. C. Neville of West Union. Tribute to Dr. Neville. News and Courier, yesterday: "The Presbyterian people of South Carolina having resolved that their jollege at Clinton should be rals?d to a high place in the edu- * national world, sought for the dl ection of Its aitalrs a minister of approved ability, learning and piety in >vhose selection no hazard of failure, n a task recognized to be of large proportions and calling for severe toil and >acrihce, would be incurred. The choice two years ago fell upon the Rev. W. G. Neville, who for a long time had been the pastor of the church in Yorkville, where he was loved with i devotion surpassing that usually found even in the congregations of a pranch of the church whose filial loyilty to pastors is notable. Already Dr. Neville is dead. He only lived long inough to see the great work that he tiad undertaken well begun and for the friends of the college to understand with gladness that he was conspicuously ntted to be its head in its early ind formative days, when its struggles ire severest and its obstacles heaviest to overcome. The successful establishment and growth to large influence ind usefulness v,' the Presbyterian College of South Carolina are, of 4 jourse, assured. The denomination of o'iiristlans who have adopted and pledged themselves to maintain it is strong and is multiplying in numbers and resources. The state of South * Carolina is prospering as it has never prospered before, and it seems certain ^ that when its population is three or tour times what it Is in this year of 1907, and that date Is not so far dlsr tant, each of the church colleges now lirmly placed will be a rich and well equipped institution, bountifully supported. The Presbyterian college is >ne of these whose future seems so sure of realization, and when the fruition of its hopes shall come in the accumulation of wealth and Increase In teachers and students, in its lines ^ jf character will be preserved the record of piety, culture and manly goodness of William Q. Neville. Brief was the day given this servant of Cod to add to the talent entrusted to his keeping, but he returns it to his master multiplied an hundred fold. Death of A. G. Floyd. * Information of the death of Mr. A. G>. Floyd, which occurred at his home in Spartanburg last Tuesday morning, was published in the last issue of The Enquirer. The following sketch of Mr. Floyd, who leaves many relatives and acquaintances in this county, appeared in the Spartanburg Journal of Tuesday afternoon: "Colonel Andrew Gordon Floyd, a pioneer merchant of Spartanburg and one of its best known citizens, died at his residence on North ^ Church street Tuesday morning, June 11, at 11 o'clock. His death was sudden and cams as a great shock to the members of his family and friends. Several years ago Colonel Floyd suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never entirely recoHfeed, though "T he was able to be at his place of business on North Church street. Tuesday morning he had a second stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Floyd called up her son. Mayor John Floyd, over the telephone and notified him of his father's condition and summoned medical aid. Before Mayor Floyd could reach his father's home he had passed away. Although he had been in bad health for several years as the result of a atnrtlra nf nnrnlvaia Colonel Flovd was able to be at his place of busl- ? ness regularly every day. No later * than Saturday he was at his store. He complained slightly of a bilious attack and when night came he was forced to leave the store and return to his home, where he received medical attention. Sunday he was much improved and Tuesday morning he was ? thought to be doing fairly well, when he suffered a second stroke of paralysis, resulting in his death. Ool. Floyd was one of the best known citizens in the city and county. He was the pioneer merchant of Spartanburg, having engaged in the mercantile business in this city thirty-seven years. He was born in York county in 1832, and moved to this city in 1870 and opened a general merchandise store in which business he was engaged up to the time of % his death. He was a most successful business man and he leaves a large and valuable estate. Col. Floyd was a stockholder and director of the Merchants & Farmers Bank. While he always manifested great interest in public matters and took a deep interest in t the welfare of the city, county and state he never offered himself for political office but twice, when he ran for alderman many years ago and was elected both times. Col. Floyd is survived by his wife who before marriage was Miss Susan E. Hall and six children who are as follows: John F. Floyd, W. M. Floyd, Andrew A. Floyd, Jr., and Brian Floyd, Mrs. Frank Hodges of this city, and Mrs. W. H. Darden of Gainesville, Ga. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The South Carolina Fire Insurance Agents' association will meet In Columbia next Tuesday afternoon in annual session. ' % ? Sculptor Ruckstuhl, who built the equestrian statue to Hampton on the Capitol grounds, Columbia, has been awarded the contract for a 110,000 statue of Calhoun to be placed in the Capitol at Washington. ? Columbia State: The Colonial Dames of South Carolina offer a prize every year for the best essay on some subject of colonial interest. This past year the 'subject was: "Religious Life of South Carolina*?1670 to 1775." Competition for the prize was limited to certain colleges for women in the state. The faculty of each college was asked ^ to select the best essay from those submitted by students of that college to represent the college In the competition. President D. B. Johnson of Winthrop has just been informed by Mrs. Langdon Cheves, vice president of the Colonial Dames and now acting nresident, that Wlnthrop's repreeenta- * tive in the contest, Miss Grace Dell James of Blshopvllle, has been awarded the prize by the committee of award nf the Colonial Dames. Mrs. Cheves jsks President Johnson to notify the young lady of her success "with our congratulations and thanks for the careful work as well as ability which she has shown in the treatment of the ^subject." ? APPRECIATION**OF YORKVILLE. A Veteran Expresses Himself as to the Town and the Ladies. Editor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. ^ I feel that we, old soldiers, would appear very ungrateful were we to fail ^ ownnooo our thonlfu ti\ thai fnwn of Yorkvllle for the royal manner In ivhich we were entertained on the day >f the unveiling. I desire especially that the noble lalies who prepared and served such delightful refreshments with their own fair hands know of our appreciation. Such efforts on their part to give us pleasure and cherish our memories m make us feel that even though we did lot win, our toil, privation and fighting were not in vain. I feel proud of Yorkvllle and of her loble women. The Influence of these splendid women for good will continue ifter the last of us have answered thi ^ neat roll call "up yonder," and It Is i pleasure and satisfaction to know hat they will all be with us there. An Old Soldier. Flnley, S. C., June 11.