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Scraps and darts. ? Norfolk, Va., Nov. 7: The Seaboard Air Line railway has recorded In the office of the Norfolk county court two mortgages aggregating S150.000,000. The state taxes on the mortgages were IS,220. One of these mortgages Is for $25,000,000 of 5 per cent 40-year adjustment gold bond9 and mentions the* Fidelity Trust company of Baltimore and Van Lear Black as trustees. The other mortgage is for $125,000,000 refunding bonds, payable 50 years hence and bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent with the New York Trust company and Mortimer N. Buckner as trustees. It will be necessary to make 10 recordations in the state of Vir__ _?_ mi? ?" ha va tr? ginia. me iiiui igagco nui -be recorded 300 times. Alabama is the only other state besides Virginia in which the company owns property covered by the mortgage which charges a state tax. ? Memphis, November 5: J. A. Taylor, president of the National Glnners' association, today issued the following bulletin: "Complete returns indicate a maximum crop of 9,780,000 bales, not including linters or repacks. Minimum figures 9,486,000. The heavy falling off is over the belt except in Georgia and the Carolinas, where there is about as good a crop as last year on a little smaller acreage. Maximum report by states: Alabama 969,000; Arkansas 644,000; Florida 60,000; Georgia 1,870,000; Louisiana 2J9.000; Mississippi 958,000: Missouri and Virginia 58,000; North Carolina 648,000; Oklahoma 587,000; South Carolina 1,185,000; Tennessee 253,000; Texas 2,309,000. Total 9,780,000. The ginners say the small yield is largely due to the smallness of bolls and low yield of lint. As the crop is so near ginned, we will probably not make our December estimate. The cotton crop in 1908 was 11,681,829 bales while in 1907 the yield was 13,550,760. ? New Orleans, November 6: Passengers arriving on the steamer Farismlna from British Honduras tell of the scuttling of the Honduran gunboat, Tatumbla, and the murder of eighteen of her crew after she had overhauled a British steamer engaged in smuggling between Jamaica and Honduras. Six days ago the Tatumbia overhauled the smuggler 50 miles out of Port Cortez and twenty of the gunboat crew boarded the smuggler and her crew surrendered. Then the smuggler captain told Captain Zelella that there was plenty of good rum in the smuggler's hold. Zelella ordered a celebration and the prisoners became intoxicated, and when the gunboat's crew succumbed to the rum, they were flung overboard. Some of the smuggler's crew scuttled the gunboat. then escaped. Two of the sail ors who were flung overboard reached one of the floating lifeboats of the sunken Honduran war vessefi and reached Port Cortez with a story of the wholesale murder. The scuttling of the Tatumbla deprives Honduras of her "navy." ? Macon. Ga., dispatch of November 8: It was announced today at the convention of the Georgia branch of the National Farmers' Union, that $5,000,000 had been pledged In this state which will be used to keep up the price of cotton. Of that amount $3,500,000 has already been secured and is deposited in about 100 banks In different localities of the state, subject to the call of the 100 or more consolidated Union warehouses. By this plan the farmer will be enabled to meet all his obligations and will be able to hold his cotton. The money has been loaned to the Georgia division by Georgia banks and the additional $1,500,000 that is to be secured within the next few days will come through another Georgia banking source. This method will enable the warehouses to draw the money on deposit to their accounts, and assist the farmer on his distress cotton, at the same time allowing him to receive greater value for his cotton when it Is sold than if he was compelled to sacrifice it to meet his financial obligations. The Farmers' Union leaders here stated today that cotton would sell for 20 cents before Christmas. ? Charlotte Observer, Nov. 8; While visiting the South Carolina state fair at Columbia, Mr. E. B. Oresham, proprietor of the dining rooms at the Southern passenger station, was relieved Saturday night of $375 in cash, one check for $25 and a gold watch by a pickpocket or pickpockets. That, while unfortunate, is not an infrequent occurrence. The one which followed, however, is more rare. When Mr. Gresham called at the postofflce here yesterday morning for his mail he found in his mall box the check and his watch. They had been returned to him by the abductor in Columbia. This raises the question, was it a nice, gentlemanly, kind, thoughtful thief to whom Mr. Gresham fell a victim or merely an ironical person with a sense of humor when the Joke is on the other fellow. Clearly he could scarcely be called repentant, since he repented only of stealing what was likely to compass his capture. His contributions to the conscience fund were no doubt gratefully received and evidence of a more complete conviction of sin will be welcomed by Mr. Gresham, provided it comes in the form of $375 in cash. ? Washington, November 6: That Dr. Frederick A. Cook could not have reached the pole, and that Commander Peary did attain the goal that has cost the lives of so many intrepid explorers were statements made tonight by Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, retired. The officer was a member of the committee of the National Geographic Society that passed upon Commander Peary's data and announced their conviction of its genuineness. The lecture, delivered to scientists in the hall or the university club, created a profound impression, for it was practically the first utterance by an official of the Geographic Society, although give unofficially which has flatly and openly cast discredit on Dr. Cook. Admiral Chester contended that Dr. Cook erred in saying that at a certain point in his travels north he witnessed a remarkable sunset. If he had been at that point, the speaker continued, he would have found the sun high in the heavens. The testimony of the Esquimaux who accompanied Dr. Cook also was reviewed. This testimony, the admiral Insisted, showed conclusively that the party witnessed the sunset at 81 degrees north, a considerable distance from the pole. He also declared that Dr. Cook's party would have been compelled to travel 40 miles a day to have accomplished the trip, a speed that was impossible, even under the most favorable circumstances. The speaker made nu merous references to the nautical almanac to disprove Cook's contentions and to prove those of Peary. While tonight's lecture was intended only for scientists, Admiral Chester announced that he had in course of preparation a statement to the public, which he said would establish the truth of the matter. ?ht ^orhcillr (fnquim. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkvllle as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. 8. C.t TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1909. The editor of this newspaper has been a borrower also for years, yet we have never asked a dispensary official or liquor salesman to endorse our notes.?Bamberg Herald. Bullseye! "Senator Tillman ate lunch in Columbia Saturday, but just where we do not know."?Charleston News and Courier. And just how much he had to pay we do not know.?Columbia State. But that he did pay there can ne no reasonable doubt, for Columbia treats 'em all alike. SENATOR Tillman wants to know how is it, if that Columbia luncheon was a state affair, the Columbia Chamber of Commerce secured authority in the matter of issuing invitations, and why the whole state was not Invited. And after all, that is the real point in the whole matter. A ri'Mor was circulated throughout the world last Friday, to the effect that ex-President Roosevelt had been killed by a lion in Africa. The truth of the rumor, however, was promptly denied. The circulation of such stories about men of the prominence of Mr. Roosevelt, is a common occurrence. The cotton bull crowd has either taken profits and Jumped from under, or permitted a sharp decline for the purpose of shaking out the little pikers that have been trying to profit by the gumuie. A1111UU511 UICIC io iiu vcitainty as to what Is going to happen, It Is our judgment that prices will soon recover all that they have lost. Becavse of so much drunkenness during the first days of the fair, Governor Ansel ordered the closing of the Columbia dispensaries on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the situation was very much Improvd during those days. There was no liquor to be had except from the blind tigers, and the blind tigers not having fully anticipated the situation, were unable to meet the increased demand. The behavior of the crowds during Thursday, Friday and Saturday was capital. One of the doctors at the Columbia conference laid down the proposition that corn whisky causes pellagra. We have no quarrel with him If he will only let corn meal alone. The Almighty put corn here as one of His greatest blessings. Man made liquor out of it. If anybody has ever gotten pellagTa from corn meal, it was some poor unfortunate, who was compelled to eat the re-dried stuff that had been through the process of distillation. Our own home raised corn, fresh from the mill, is as wholesome a food product as exists in the world. Mr. Clarence H. Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, (Raleigh) has won the Patterson loving cup, annually awarded for the best literary production by a North Carolinian. "A Southerner in Europe," carried off the cup this year. The presentation of the cup was made at Raleigh on Thursday night, by the British ambassador at Washington, Hon. James Bryce. We have little knowledge of the different efforts submitted in the competition; but from our opinion of what Mr. Poe has done and can do, we are inclined to think that the committee has made no mistake. w r. nave ine coiumDia oiaie ior authority that one of the tightwads on the executive committee of the State Fair association, actually proposed to make an extra charge on all who desired to hear President Taft speak in the grounds Saturday, and the proposition received such serious consideration, that it would have probably been carried into effect had not Governor Ansel and Mr. W. E. Gonzales appeared before the committee and advised it that if the idea were not abandoned forthwith, they would arrange to cancel the president's fair ground appointment altogether. George Washington was the first president to visit Columbia and W. H. Taft was the second. Both were entertained in the State House, and both received all the honors that were due from a loyal people to the head of this great nation. There was no politics in the visit of Washington other than to show the people of South Carolina that he considered them as of as much importance as are the people of any other section, and we have but little right to assume that Mr. Taft has been prompted by any different motive. We cannot help feeling persuaded, how ever, that the visit will be of benefit both to the president and the people of South Carolina. Tiie pellagra fad served admirably the "urpose of getting a big crowd of estimable people to pay railroad fares and hotel bills during the Columbia fair; but little else was accomplished because, in our opinion there is very little to accomplish. Of course, we would not be so foolish as to suggest that there is nothing in this pellagra business, for several people have actually suffered and died from this disease or other diseases that could not be otherwise classified; but somehow we think that the Isolation of the pellagra germ is not nearly so important as is the finding of some way to put a stop to all the profitless agitation we are having among people who are suffering more from apprehension of the disease than they would suffer from the disease itself. Opt of fifty heroes discovered in the United States the past year, the Carnegie commission located twenty-two of them in Ohio. Yet the Ohioan who has endured more than any of them is omitted from the list. Has one of them, for fifty-three days, imperiled his digestion with a smile upon his face, as has Mr. Taft??Columbia State. That is pretty good, and we do not miss the point of it: but let us get down to the actual facts, leave out the hero suggestion and consider the good, common sense displayed. Mr. Taft has been at luncheon after luncheon and banquet after banquet; but, instead of trying to eat and drink all that has been set before him, we honestly believe that he has all along been confining himself to fruit and other simple diet. He did not eat enough at the banquet in Charleston or at the luncheon in Columbia to sustain a canary bird more than two and a half hours. He is hardly entitled to a hero medal; but he will come in all right for any medal that might be offered for good, horse sense. There Is always more or less poll lies ui me outie ran. 11 u.icu n# wc that politics was the principal object of the annual gathering:, and politics has not taken a second place yet. The principal difference is that the number of conventions of various kinds that furnish excuses for prominent citizens of professions other than politics has increased. A canvass of the situation by a newspaper man last week devel oped the following' among the probabh candidates for governor next year: "The greatest activity and the largest volume of talk had reference to the gubernatorial candidates. The week appears to have developed one entirely new entry and to have made definite the candidacies of several others. There appears to be now seven definite possible candidates who will enter the race for governor next summer. These are Richard I. Manning of Sumter. Lieut. Gov. Thomas G. McLeod of Bishopville, C. C. Featherstone of Laurens, John G. Richards of Kershaw. F. H. Hyatt of Columbia, Cole L. Blease of Newberry and Attorney General J. Fraser Lyon of Abbeville." Because there are so many people who are unable to take what they see In cold print any other way than literally, It Is ^erhaps very well to explain that the president did not mean to reflect upon the Presbyterians in what he said at the Charleston banquet the other night. There is in Charleston a certain gentleman, who is a close friend of the president; who was raised in the Seceder church, and who would probably find trouble by passing the right kind df a theolog'cal examiniation in any church; but who at one time or another has advised all the Charlestonians, who are seeking light, and many of those who are not, that the Presbyterians, and particularly the Seceder division, which he considers post graduates, control all the aiDroaches to the straight and narrow path. We have no doubt that this gentleman has more than once volunteered this information to the president, and as he was sitting at the president's right hand during the speech, there is little reason to mistake the direction of the reference. !t was all in good humor, and under the circumstances in the best of taste. The only thing about it that is regrettable, was that "the deacon" could not have been permitted to reply, because had this been possible, it would have meant another feature to the programme as delightful in its way as anythln- that had gone before. TAFT AND TILLMAN. They Are the Best of Friends Personally. The correspondent of the New York Sun, who has been accompanying President Taft on his trip through the country, telegraphed that paper the following from Augusta on Saturday night: United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina was traveling with the president as his guest of the day. At Columbia, the principal stop in South Carolina, the senator declined to attend the luncheon given in the president's honor, or take any part in the reception tendered by that city. The senator was peeved at the city of Columbia, not at President Taft. A week or two ago the reception committee sent the senator an invitation to the Taft luncheon to be given in the state capltol, and advised the senator if he expected to attend to send a check for $10. The senator fired back a letter declining to part with the ten spot. It wasn't a question of money but of principle with him. If the city of Columbia was going to give a banquet they ought to give it, he thought, and not call for contributions from outside guests, and if it was tn hp a atatp-vvidp affair it ought to be thrown open to the state. Columbia has never been warm toward Tillman. It is the home of the Gonzales family, between whom and the Tillmans there was a bitter feud that resulted in the killing of N. G. Gonzales, editor of the State, by Lieut. Gov. Jim Tillman, the senator's nephew, a few years ago. Tillman was acquitted, but the citizens of Columbia raised a monument to Gonzales' memory. The senator's spurning of the Columbia invitation has revived the bitterness against the Tillmans in that city. William E. Gonzales, the present editor of the State, and a brother of the man that was shot down, also was on the president's train today, but he and the senator remained in different cars. When the train pulled into Columbia early in the afternoon the senator declind an offer of an automobile, turned his back on the reception committee and started off uptown while the president, with Senator Smith and Gov. Ansel, who also had accompanied Mr. Taft from Charleston headed for the state fair grounds. Nothing more was seen of the senator by members of the Taft party until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when he again boarded the president's car upon Mr. Taft's in vitation and accompanied him as far as Trenton, the senator's home town. President Taft is the first president that had visited Columbia with the exception of George Washington. The big crowd that had turned out both at the fair grounds and on the streets gave him a flattering welcome. In his fair ground speech the president referred to South Carolina's "distinguished senators." The president's invitation to Tillman to accompany him through the state is a good illustration of how little Mr. Taft allows the animosities and personal spites of his predecessors to influence his conduct. The president in his speech at the fair grounds, again urged young men to go to farming rather than into the professions. "The accumulations, the concentratration of millions of people in 1 cities," said Mr. Taft, "is not healthy, and the improvements in country life, the suburban electric railways, the telephone, the rural delivery and ' the means of reducing the hard work of the farmers' wives by Inventions and co-operative arrangements, are reaching such a point, that it soon will become, I hope, more comfortable to live in the country than in the city." The president said both Senator Tillman and Senator Smith had suggested that the Federal government drain some of the swamp land on the South Carolina coast. "I am prepared to say," the president added, "that either senator was convinced that your great constitu- ? tional lawyer and exponent, John C. ] Calhoun, would exactly have found the way by which there could have been pried out of the national treasury the money with which to do that in South Carolina. But as we go ( along, as the necessities change, as the issues change, somehow or other ' our views of the constitution take on a little different color." j The crowd appreciated the thrust ^ and laughed. The Columbia luncheon was held in the house of repre- I senatives chamber in the capitol. Co- < lumbia's beautiful women had been | admitted to the gallery to "see the animals eat," as the president put ' it." NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Yorkvllle B. and M. Co.?On page 3, announce that on Saturday, November 13, they will Inaugurate a great clearance sale In their dry goods department and quote lots of prices that will Interest close buyers. R. M. Bamett, Pres.?Calls a meeting cf Bethel Farmers' Union, No. 311, to be held Saturday, Nov. 13, in the school house. Olive Camp, W. O. W.?Invites the public to a monument unveiling at Canaan church, near Smyrna, Nov. 13th. E. M. Hambrick?Warns all persons against harboring or employing his son, Je?se, who left his home without his consent McGill Bros.?Give notice that after Saturday 13th, their ginnery will be operated Fridays and Saturdays only. Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Says Lynchburg turn plows run lighter, wear longer, are better, and want you to see them about a Lynchburg. Thomson Co.?Has Fay stockings for ehJMren 35c naJr. three for $1. You are Invited to see the coat suits, cloaks, blankets, comforts, outings, rugs at 98c., clothing, etc. First National Bank, Sharon?Wants to distribute its good service so that It will reach everybody In reach of Sharon. It wants your business, no matter- how small. National Union Bank, Rock Hill?Tells of various things it makes It a rule to do for Its customers, not the least of which Is lending them money when they need It. York Supply Co.?Has received a car of Nos. 1 and X shingles this week, and has Iron roofing. See them for flour and mill feed. Herndon & Gordon?Have another lot of best seed wheat, rust proof oats, bagging and ties, choice fresh groceries. dried apoles and peaches and other good things. Chas. M. StiePf, Charlotte?Calls attention to the general satisfaction that StlefT pianos give their purchasers. See page 6. W. E. Ferguson?Offers his customers an extra choice grade of New Orleansmolasses?new crop, and calls attention to Luzlanne coffee. Carroll Bros.?Sell corn and cotton stalk cutters. See them. J. C. Wilborn?Will sell the Sep Huey place near McConnellsville, to the highest bidder In front of the court house on December 6. Mr. J. Darby Smith has harvested fifty bushels of corn off of one of the acres he has been working according to Dr. Knapp's demonstration plan. He worked five acres of corn, and although the report we have received does not pretend to absolute accuracy, the understanding is that the average yi triii win ceriniiuy nui uc icao liio.ii forty bushels. The C. & N.-W. ran a special train from Gastonia to Columbia and return last Saturday. The train was Jumped up ort the spur of the moment without any opportunity to advertise it; but it was well patronized, and was a great accommodation to people up this way, specially to those who were in Columbia and desired to get back Saturday night. Messrs. J. L. Meek, assistant general passenger agent of the Southern, and J. C. Lusk, division passenger agent, with headquarters In Charleston, were very much in evidence at the State Fair, and their services were invaluable to the traveling public. Both are past masters of courtesy, accommodation and efficiency in connection with passenger transportation. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Yorkvllle Graded school football team, will play the Chester team on the baseball diamond in Yorkville Saturday afternoon. ? A barn belonging to George Hymes, colored, and located in the western part of town, was destroyed by fire yesterday at about noon. The loss was about $100. ? During the morning service last Sunday, Rev. E. E. Gillespie, advised his congregation that he had decided not to accept the call he had received from Columbia, Tenn. He gave hi3 n^onle to understand that after nrav erful consideration, he had come to the conclusion that there is still a great deal of work for him to do in Yorkville, and he will remain here and try to do it. His decision has been the source of a great deal of satisfaction to the congregation of the First Presbyterian church, especially, and to the people of the town and surrounding community generally. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Carrie McCuen of Yorkvllle, spent Sunday in Blacksburg. Mr. Herts it Hall of Davidson college, visited his aunt, Mrs. Eugenia Drakeford, in Yorkvllle last week. Miss Josie Carroll, who has been visiting Miss Anna McCaw in Columbia, has returned to her home in Yorkvllle, Mrs. H. H. Crosland and son, Master Herbert of Bennettsvillle, are visiting relatives and friends in Yorkvllle. Mrs. W. W. Dixon of Winnsboro, came to Yorkville last week on account of the illness of her father, Mr. J. F. Wallace. Mr. J. E. Stroup of Davidson Collect, N. C., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stroup in Yorkville this week. Mr. John F. Gordon of Yorkvllle, has purchased a lot at Tlrzah with a view to erecting a building and going into the mercantile business at that place. Deputy Collector Suggs was in Yorkville and Clover yesterday, looking af ter the work of listing corporations subject to the Income tax Imposed by congress at its recent session. Mr. J. B. Wood, a well known and highly esteemed citizens of the Union neighborhood, four miles north of Yoj'kville, has been suffering for some time from rheumatism and his condition (luring the past week or ten days has been anything but encouraging. FOUND IN CANAU. The body of Mr. W. Norman Elder, whose mysterious disappearance from his home in Columbia on October 27, was mentioned In The Enquirer of last Friday, was found In the Columbia canal on Saturday afternoon, at about 5 o'clock. The find was made by one of the city waterworks' men, who happened to see something lloating a short distance from the new bridge at the waterworks and who, upon Investigation. found it to be the body of a manHe summoned the coroner at once, and there was no trouble In Identifying the body as that of Mr. Elder. Notwithstanding the long time that Mr. Elder had been missing, the body was not very badl.v decomposed. The coroner, however, said that from its condition. It might very well have been In the water for ten days or two weeks. Under the circumstances suicide was t very natural suggestion: but in the absence of positive proof this Is not a certainty. It Is a fact that for more than a year past. Mr. Eider has been subject to more or less pronounced attacks of mental aberration of an apparently harmless nature, and It Is piite possible that he may have fallen Into the canal while suffering from one ?f these attacks. Mr. Elder was born in Chester coun ty about 70 years ago, and came to York county In 1855. He served through the war, and after the war devoted himself to school teaching; farming and surveying until 1888, when he became a member of the Farmers' alliance, and arose to a high position in the councils of that organization. He was elected to the -"moral assembly in Jk ' 1890, 1892, and 1894, and received a majority of the votes cast for nominee for the constitutional convention in 1895; but lost the place by reason of a compromise arrangement whereby It had been agreed that the county should be represented by three Reformers and two Conservatives. He was afterward defeated for the senate by the late W. B. Love, and later moved to Columbia to take a position as bookkeeper in the state dispensary- Since the abolition of the state dispensary, he has been supporting himself mainly by Jobs of surveying. Mr. Elder leaves a widow and three children. His widow was Miss Sallie Lewis of Alabama, and the surviving children are; Mr. M. L. Elder of Pittsfield, Mass.; Mrs. J. P. Moore of Guthrlesville, and Mr. W. C. Elder of Sylacauga, Ala, The funeral took place In the Bethesda cemetery today, and was attended by a large number of neighbors and friends of the deceased. THE PRICE OF COTTON. In its issue of Sunday, the Columbia State published the spot cotton prices prevailing In a large number of local maraeis mrougnuui me siaie, unu me result was Interesting. Some of the markets and figures are as follows: Yorkvllle?Cotton 144; cotton seed 40 cents. Walhalla?Cotton 14; cotton seed 45 cents. Jefferson?Cotton 14.35; cotton seed 42 cents. Gaffney?Cotton 14; cotton seed 40 cents. Darlington?Cotton 133; cotton seed $30 per ton. Prosperity?Cotton 144; cotton seed 401 cents. Rock Hill?Cotton 14J; cotton seed 47 cents. Newberry?Cotton 141; cotton seed 401 cents. Kershaw?Cotton 14; cotton seed 44 cents. Springfield?Cotton 14 cents; cotton seed 401 cents. Clio?Cotton 133; cotton seed 45 cents. Summerton?Cotton 138; cotton seed 42 cents. McCall?Cotton 138; cotton seed 40 cents. Basley?Cotton 14; cotton seed 48 cents. Seneca?Cotton 15 cents. Dillon?Cotton 14J; cotton seed 481 cents. Bennettsville?Cotton 13|; cotton seed 45 cents. Florence?Cotton 14 cents. Lancaster?Cotton 144: cotton seed 43 cents. Anderson?Cotton 14; cotton seed 46 cents. Columbia?Cotton 148; cotton seed 43 cents. VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT. Through the courteous consideration of friends In Charleston, the editor of The Enquirer had the pleasure and : privilege last Friday night of being a truest at the grent banquet that was given by the city of Charleston to the president of the United States in the Charleston hotel, and incidentally, of coming up from Charleston to Columbia on the president's special train, and as there is no question of the statewide interest in the manner of the president's reception in South Carolina, a review of the incidents and impressions of the trip is in order. The Charleston programme included the reception of the president at the railway station on the arrival of his special train from Savannah at 5.30 p. m., a brief visit to the orphan house, a review of about a thousand troops, regular artillerymen, Infantrymen, marines and militia on Marion square and a parade through the principal streets to the residence of Mayor Rhett and wound up with the big banquet, everything having been so arranged as to give everybody who cared, and almost everybody seemed to care, the fullest opportunity to participate in the whole occasion to the utmost. During Friday morning there was little to be seen about the city that indicated anything out of the ordinary. There was a festoon of national colors , over the main entrance to the Charleston Hotel, and the Stars and Stripes were floating over a number of public and private buildings; but these were hardly suggestive of an attempt at decoration. Business of all kinds was going on as usual. Shortly after noon, however, there commenced a hanging up of flags and bunting, and within an nour. King street and the other streets along which it had been arranged that the parade should pass, presented continuous stretche- of patriotic colors, arranged with elegance and taste that was little short of marvelous. While the decorations were in progress, scores of policemen were busy roping the sidewalks off from the roadways, and within less than three hours, their work { had been completed along a distance | that seemed to extend for miles, j The president was not due to ar- ( rived until 5.30. The people began to ^ assemble at various points of vantage i before 4. Thousands collected in the r vicinity of the railway station, other i thousands around the roped off bor- t ders of the large Citadel square, and f still other thousands, these last made up mostly of ladies, In the windows c and over the shops and stores bordering 1 the route of the parade, The densest r masses .of humanity, probably, were t those around the Citadel square, where r it had been arranged that the review v of the troops was to take place. The v military began to assemble before 5 a o'clock, and as this point seemed to of- c fer a better opportunity for a view of s the president than any other, the peo- c pie?all kinds, white and black?men, s women and children literally thronged t the ropes that had been stretched to v hold them back from the big parade t ground. There were policemen every c thirty yards or less to keep the crowds In order, and mounted officers were continually riding along the lines; but all the people seemed good humored as well as "nod natured, and the police i had but few opportunities to show what they were there for. The president's train was about half an hour late and darkness was coming on when It. arrived at the station, where the reception committee, composed as follows, had been waiting for some time to receive the distinguished visitors. Admiral J. D. Adams, U. S. N., Hon. D. C. Heyward, E. W. Durant, Jr., J. C. Hemphill, P. H. Gadsden, E. W. Hughes. M. B. Paine. Jr., L. D. Slmonds, Julian Mitchell, J. N. Nathans, Jr.. J. M. Visanska, L. S. Brux, J. H. Jahnz. J. F. Rafferty, W. D. Clarke, Col. Frederick Marsh, U. S. A., Hon. J. Adger Smyth, W. L. Harris, T. R. Waring, E. H. Jahnz, J. M. Connelley, H. P. Williams, F. G. Davles, Dr. Edward F. Parker, J. H. C. Wiilbern, George W. Williams. Jr., U M. Pinck ney, R. M. Masters, Fritz Thee, F. S. Hanckel, chairman; Hon. R. G. Rhett, chairman general committee. President Taft's party, as It arrived In Charleston, consisted of the following gentlemen; Capt. Archibald W. Butt, United States army, A. D. C. Assistant Secretary Wendell W. Mlschler. Mr. Charles C. Wagener, stenographer. Dr. J. J. Richardson. Mr. Arthur Brooks, messenger. Mr. James Sloan, Jr. Mr. Joseph E. Murphy. Mr. Gerrlt Fort, assistant to the vice president of the New York Central lines. Mr. Robert T. Smalls, Associated Press representative. Mr. Robert H. Hazard, United Press representative. Mr. E. A. Fowler, representative of the New York Sun Press association. Mr. William Hoster, representative of the Hearst News Service. Mr. Sherman Allen, New York Herald representative. Mr. Harry L. Dunlap, representative of the New York World. There was about five minutes consumed at the station In Introductions and greetings, after which the President, Mayor Rhett, Capt. Butt, Governor Ansel and Mr. James Sloan, got Into Mayor Rhett's automobile and preceded by an escort of mounted citizens and followed by a dozen automobiles, the party moved oft at a Wnlalr nn/tn r\ f Ka /"YV? r? I uuaiv pace iv uic cnai icotuu v/iphan House, where greetings were exchanged between the president and the children. The feature of the visit to the orohan house was the greeting of a little 7-year-old boy, Arthur Reid, and the president's response. The little fellow said: "We thank you from our hearts, for giving us these few moments, and we thank the mayor for bringing you here. Your being here will be an inspiration to us, not only In this school, but in after years in the battle of life. We all wish you a happy time in this- city, a safe return to your loved ones and many years , In the White House." Very much pleased with the happily conceived address, the president replied: "Girls and boys. I am very much obliged to you for this cordial reception. It is an inspiration to look Into your faces and see how well nourished you are, how bright your eyes are, , and, I am sure; how happy you are under these/ auspices. I have no 1 doubt that you will use the opportu- i nlties that are being furnished you i by these good men and kind women to grow up and become useful mem- ' bers of society, useful boys and girls I in the world, and that you will also look back with gratitude to these good men and women who have made this possible. I thank your lady su- ( perlntendent for giving me tnis op- < portunlty of witnessing this scene. God bless you all!" From the orphan house, the party passed through lines of cheering crowds back to Citadel square. The sun had gone down, and It would have been quite dark except for the electric lights. The troops had been waiting for quite a while and the crowds of spectators were looking for an extended review; but this had to be dispensed with, owing to the lateness of the hour. The presidential party merely passed through the grounds, and waited until the procession could form for the monster parade which marched up King's 3treet to Broad. Here the troops opened ranks, lined up on either side of the street and allowed the presidential party to pass through to the residence of ( Mayor Rhett, which was the home of , the president during his stay In the city. The troops presented arms as the presidential party went through the lines and as the president went up the steps of Mayor Rhett's handsome home the parade was dU missed. All the houses In the Immediate vl- ( clnity were beautifully decorated and ( Illuminated, and the balconies and windows were filled with ladles, who had ^ posted themselves to get a glimpse of the president. Shortly after the arrival or tne pres- ' Ident at Mayor Rhett's, a delightful luncheon, not down on the published programme was served to about thirty guests, and opportunity was afforded for the presentation of a number of prominent ladies of Charleston. During the luncheon and while the president remained In the house, the Charleston Light Dragoons stood guard on the outside, policemen guarded the ?ates of the residence, and secret service men stood on the stairway, while people outside maintained that ail this 1 was unnecessary for the reason that the president was as safe in Charles- , ton, as he or any other man could be < mywhere. The only argument that ] seemed to appease them was that the | president had absolutely no fear or doubt about Charleston; but the se- l :ret service men considered the possi- ' plllty of having to deal wjth anarchls- J :ic assassins, who might have sneaked nto the city from elsewhere. 5 The leading feature of the presjient's entertainment, was the banquet { it the Charleston hotel, which wns one f if the most brilliant functions that has 1 seen tendered during the entire trjp. J The host was the city of Charleston, e ind the expenses were paid partly out i if the city treasury and partly hy con- ? ributlons from individual citizens. In ill there were present 175 guests, |niludlng a hundred Charleston people, md the others representing newspft- ? )ers and different corniqercial bodies c n various parts of the state. The t fuests began to arrive shortly after 8 J >'clock, and after introductions, rnintled in pleasant intercourse unt|l the 6 irrival of the president, when all were s narshalled in line and those, who had ' lot already met Mr. Taft were Intro- 8 luced as they entered the big banquet v tall, The banquet was majniy under the * lirection of Samuel Lapharn, and even ?, n Charleston where they are past g nasters pf such things, the snjoothless, the precision nnd the all round ? >erfection with which Jt was managed q ras a subject of comment. The table ? vas arranged in triangular form, wjth l sunken garden, a beautiful and elab- ^ irate conception within, and the guests o seated that practically every one uuld see the president from where he -j at. The first course, consisting of a ilue point oysters on the half shell ? ras on the table as the guests entered, ^ he other courses followed with almost 0 lock-like precision. Everything had fi been selected with the utmost care by the caterers and the preparation of the food was simply perfect; but not the least striking feature was the thoroughness with which the army of waiters had been drilled. They cleared away dishes and brought in additional courses with a celerity that was remarkable and without a bungle. Three kinds of costly wines were served, and while many of the guests drank freely, it was noticeable that many merely tasted it and others did not touch it at all. The president. It Is understood, never drinks In public, If at all. With the la^t course came cigars and cigarettes, and then the speech of the president, which is printed in full elsewhere in this issue. It has been reported that the president's voice went back on him out in Texas; but he has recovered it. He speaks with slow deliberation, and with wonderful distinctness. Every person in the room could hear every word he said, and there was no trouble in taking In his exact meaning, whether humorous or serious, and every word he said was enjoyed Immensely. His most striking characteristics seem to be his never failing good humor and his frank, open sincerity of expression. There was not a suggestion of politics in anything he said, his whole attitude being merely that of an ideal gentleman, talking to gentlemen among whom he thought of no difference. As soon as he concluded his speech, the president was escorted from * the dining room to Mayor Rhett's automobile and nobody had any other idea than he was to hurry to Mayor Rhett's home to bed. It developed next morning. however, that he took a spin over a considerable portion of the city. It came about like this. While rolling along at a smart speed toward the residence of the mayor, the president remarked that the air was fine. Mayor Rhett suggested that It was plentiful and that he might have some more of It. The president was agreeable, and nothing more was said about the matter until they got back to the house. Then after the secret service men had gone to their hotels, Mrs. Rhett having been spoken to in the meantime, the president, Mayor Rhett, Mrs. Rhett and Capt. Butt went out and got into the automobile again. They went spinning Into the upper part of the city along the Meeting street road and back down to the Battery, and had a regular lark of it. It Is said that the president chuckled over what would be the discomfiture of the secret service men, when they found out next morning what he had done. The presidential party appeared at the station next morning shortly before 9 o'clock, and was Joined there by Senators Tillman and Smith. The reception committee was still on hand to see the party off, and after the president had bade his friends good-bye, he took his position on the rear platform and continued to wave his hat as the train pulled out. There were crowds of people at all the stations to see the presidential train go by and there were stops at Summerville, Dorchester, Pregnall, St. George, Branchville, Orangeburg and St. Matthews, at which places the president made brief speeches from the rear platform. In every case the people were lined up in friendly eagerness, and Invariably they greeted the president with cheers. There were several thousand people at the Orangeburg station, and the stop here was a little longer than at other places. The negro pupils of Claflin college were ranged along up the track north of the station, some five or six hundred of them; but there was no stop for them. They could only see the president standing on the rear platform as the train was pulling out It was very nearly 1 o'clock when the train reached Columbia, and thousands of people, including several companies of militia were on hand waiting to see the president. The approaches to the depot had been roped off as at Charleston and the militia and police held back the crowds so as to keep the way open. The presidential party was quickly loaded into automobiles, and taken out to the fair grounds, the president constantly raising his hat in recognition to the rounds of cheers. From the fair grounds, the party was escorted back to the Capitol, where a delightful luncheon was served in first-class style to some 250 or more invited guests. The president made anather pretty speech at this luncheon, md what he said is printed elsewhere In this issue. Later in the afternoon, the presiJent's party left for Augusta, Governor \nsel and Senators Tillman and Smith, who had come up from Charleston, continuing on to Georgia by special invitation of the president. The president, who spent a part of last winter in .augusia, cans inai pi ace iiuiue. ne remained there during Sunday and yesterday, and left today for Sumter ind Florence, and from the last named siaces he will continue on up through North Carolina and Virginia to Washington. LOCAL LACONICS. Another Big Land Sale, Mr. J. C. Wilborn has sold the Eliott-Robinson plantation of 641 acres, learRock H411, to Messrs. John W. J'Neal and Q. Fletcher Riuff of Rock Hill. Robbed By Sneak Thief. A sneak thief entered the home of Mr. J. E. BJggers, about three miles lorthwest of Bethany last Wednesday norning, and stole his pocket book, :ontalning about 150. saw Mill Fire. Fire destroyed about $300 worth of sroperty at Biggers & McCarter'a saw n|ll, on the McOill lands about a mile rom Bethany last Sunday morning, >etween 8 and 9 o'clock. The origin of ne nre id unxnown, me engine (itvu lot been running since the (Jay before, ind there is a suspicion of incendiarsm. The loss included between 20,000 ind 30,000 feet of lumber belonging to dessrs. McOill Bros. Figures From th$ Ginners,?The ensus bureau yesterday issued & retort showing that 7,012,317 bales, :ountlng round bales ns half bales, hnd teen ginned from the growth of 1909 o November 1, as compared with 8,91,557 bales of 1908Round bales Included thjs year 109, 65, compared with 149,866 for 1908 i ea island 54,352, compared with 45.479 or 1908. The report shows the followng comparison of cotton ginned in the i tates up to November 1, compared I vith the same date Jn 1908. 1 State. 1909, 1908. < 'lorlda 45.260 43,234 I Jeorgla 1.385,524 1,387.541 i forth Carolina 370,826 373,713 South Carolina 789,960 821,608 Distributing of the sea island cotton or 1909: 1 'lorida 19,891 j leorgla 31,186 1 louth Carolina 3,275 ' Corrected statistics of the quantity ' f cotton ginned this season to Octo- 1 er 18, are 5,530,967 bales. { i , ? Senator Tillman did not attend the i 'aft luncheon in Columbia Upon the rrival of the train, he got off and out f the crowd, went out to the fair rounds, paid his way in, showed him- 1 elf, mingled with his friends and left i n the presidential train, continuing as 1 ir as Trenton, where he got off. i PRESIDENT IN COLUMBIA. Mr. Taft Haa Qraat Reception and Ev* ^ erybody Delighted. The special train from Charleston, with the presidential party on board, reached Columbia last Saturday afternoon at about 1 o clock, and was met at tne station by thousands of eaffer, interested people who were kept back I oeyond certain lines by the militia. ' i he president and members of his oartv were at once taken In automo oiled and carried to the fair grounds, where other thousands were waiting and to whom the president made a Jol,y speech, principally about the Importance of agriculture and pleasures of fifteen cents cotton. From the fair grounds the party went to the Capitol, wnere a splendid luncheon was served to the president and several hundred gue?ts. At the luncheon the president apoke as follows: / "Hour committee from Columbia called on ine in Augusta, before 1 had assumed the cloak of office, and were goou enough to Invite me to come here, * \ and 1 said 1 would come, and I am here. That is one promise of the ad- f* mini.tr&Mon that I have redeemed. (Laugnier and applause.) 1 don't claim any credit for it, because a man who would not come to Columbia when ne could and enjoy such a festivity and V weicome as this does not understand a ' good tning when he sees it. "I am greatly honored to be received by you in tnis, the hall of the house of representatives of bouth Carolina, in your magnificent Capitol. "1 am greatly honored to be received by your representative men of the state, not only by tne private citizens, but-by the governor, your senator, the chief justice and your congressmen, and 1 appreciate It to the full. "it is the first state in which I have been tendered a welcome within the Oaoitol wails of the state, and I take it a* an expression on your part of a desire to snow that it 1* the state and .he people of the state that welcome ma. "Another and most delightfu1 event of this reception Is the presence of the ladies?the real pride of South Carolina. "A gentleman from another part of the state?and I am afraid that in saying this I am betraying something that x ought not to say, but I cannot help it, anticipating a meeting with me in another part of the state at some time in the future, said to me, "Come there and we will show you the prettiest . women in South Carolina." I resented it, and but for my office and the dignity that necessarily attaches to It, 1 tremble for his fate. (Applausa) "We are verging in the right direction. There was a time when we had A banquets without the presence of that sex that we all love and whose influence and control we all secretly recognize. Now, we are letting them into see the animals eat' They show that patience, that sweet sympathy was the seitlbh side of man, that tolerance of tnose things about him that we don't even ourselves admire, by allowing this arrangement to continue for a while. But the next time I come to South Carolina I expect to dine with the ladies and the gentlemen. "My friends, I am not Inspired to say much today, because I feel so much more than I can say. There is some- ^ thing about South Carolina and her 9 traditions as 1 look into the faces of i her great men and think what she has done and the part she has played in all the great historical crises of this country, that makes me take this re ception at your nanas wnn a reeling that I am honored far beyond my desert*. (Much applause.) "I realize that It is because I represent the whole nation for the time being and that you. In your loyalty to the flag and country, and for the hospitality foe which your state is noted, express to me the feeling that rises in each of your hearts as you think of your country and as you think of the partriotlsm of yourselves and the j state. "I come to Columbia and look out from the steps of the state Ckpitol and see a city that has arisen since the civil war?not a city that did not exist before the civil war, but a city that, by its growth and its energy and ^ its taking on life shows that, while the civil war brought to it an evidence of the tremendous strength, the tremendous power of the self-sacrifice of its people, it did not destroy their hope for the future nor their willing-^ ness again to become a part of the great Union and to make that Union stronger and that country and na- J tion greater than ever before in its B history. And I count it a great prlv ilege to come here, representing the B nation that you love so well, and by 2 this meeting and your reception and ^ by what I say, to testify to the fact that while the past is as it is, and g while those thingB came out of it that 1 make us proud on both sides, there is before us in the future a united life in upholding our country, in elevat- M| lng the standard of citizenship, in making the character and the equality of opportunity of the individual that we are glad to seize as a common united people?not separated in any way by our past history, but more united, because, while we have the traditions?the memory leaves in our minds the awfulness of a separation that Is now forever ended. "And now, my friends, I am going to stop. This is the 246th speech I have made, but in no one of them have I felt so much satisfaction in expressing the truth as I know it." The State Flag.?"What is the significance of the crescent on the state flag?" is the question that has been asked quite a number of times in * South Carolina during the past week, and few have been able to give an anonro- Tho otata flflff* 1IIIVIII5C1IV CUIO null AMV 0VW?V were very much in evidence at the state fair and were admired by many. There is general lack of knowledge as to the state flag and few know 7 its history and especially so among the children of the state, for few of them would even recognize it It is the desire of Gov. Ansel that every one should know the state flag and especially so the children. His expressed wish Is that one of the % flags be found in every school in the state. A correct model of the flag has been made. This was done on the order of Gov. Ansel and the flags will be on sale in the state very soon. The textile department of Clemson college will also manufacture the flags during the present session, as was published in The State yesterday. The following history of the first flag designed for the revolting province of South Carolina in 1776, Is given by Gen. William Moultrie in his "Memoirs of the American Revolution," pp. 90-91 of volume L: "About this time the Cherokee sloop of war arrived, A little time after we were in possession of Port Johnson," (Fort Johnson was taken September 16, 1776) "it was thought necessary to have a flag for the purpose of signals," (as there were no nationau or state flags at that time) 'I was directed by the council of safe- ? ty to have one made, upon which, as the state troops were clothed in blue, and the fort was garrisoned by the flrnaf onH aor?rvr?H rnylmATlt whn WAfP a silver crescent on the front of their caps, I had a large blue flag made with a crescent in the dexter comer, to be in uniform with the troops. This was the first American flag which was displayed in South Carolina: on its be- ? ing first hoisted, it gave some uneasiness to our timid friends, who were looking forward to reconollation: they said it had the appearance of a declaration of war; and Capt, Thomborough, in the Tamer sloop of war, lying in Rebellion road would look upon it as an insuLt, and a flag of defiance, and ^ he would certainly attack the fort, but he knew the weight of our metal, he therefore kept his station and contented himself with spying us."?Columbia State. ? ? Wade Hampton Sellers, known throughout the state as the "blind tirckr If 1 n<r " u-qa KnnnH nvor In PnlnmKio ast Friday on the charge of gelling 11tuor. Sellers is the man who killed Nonstable Farmer in Columbia some time ago. He was tried on the charge A ind acquitted. When the warrant was worn out against him Friday, he was lotifled and immediately came and jave himself up, ? The attendance at the Columbia * 'air this year has broken all previous ecords. It is estimated that twentyIve thousand people went Into the grounds on Thursday.