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Scraps and .facts. ? Philadelphia, April 10: James, alias, "Reddy" Gallaher. a notorious burglar with a long prison record, was kilted with a club this morning, after a desperate struggle, by a householder whose home he had attempted to enter. Samuel Zeanquenian was awakened shortly after midnight by his wife, who said a man was trying to get into a neighboring house. Zeanquenian went to his cellar and picked up a long, heavy club. By this time the Intruder, failing to effect an entrance in the other house, had appeared at Zeanquenian's cellar window. Zeanquenian sprang at the stranger and a desperate struggle ensued. The burglar managed to secure possession of the club, but before he could use it, Zeanquenian closed in on him and recovered the weapon. The burglar then ran to tne street iUliuncu ? by Zeanquenian. who struck the intruder down. Uttering a moan of pain the burglar managed to crawl on his hands and knees about a block from the scene. There he was found lying unconscious with a fractured skull and removed to a hospital. He died shortly after being admitted. Central office detectives Identified the body at the morgue as that of James Oallaher, a notorious criminal, who since his first conviction in 1887, has served four terms for burglary and was released early this year after serving two years in the Eastern penitentiary for a bold daylight jewelry robbery. Zeanquenian was held to wait the action of the coroner's jury. ? Washington, April 10: Halley's comet was seen here today for the first time on its present visit, those favored with this primary view being Prof. Asaph Hall of the naval observatory, and ids assistant. It was about 4.30 o'clock in the morning when through the big 26 inch telescope at the observatory, they obtained a sight of the wanderer of the heavens which for the past three-quarters of a century has been hidden from the eyes of the inhabitants of this globe. For about 15 minutes the comet remained visible. In about three weeks, when the comet will be visible to the naked eye, it will rise two hours and forty minutes before th*? sun. Todav it came up an hour ahead of the great luminary. The comet, therefore, will be visible for a longer and longer period each day, although those who wish to see it will be obliged to rise early. Popular apprehension regarding harm to the earth and its inhabitants during the visit of the comet to this portion of the universe is unfounded. A statement, issued tonighi by Willis L. Moore of the weather bureau, says that the result of a collision between the earth and a comet would depend upon the mass of the comet, the velocity of the bodies and the angle of Impact, but that in the present case a collision would be impossible owing to a safety margin of some 13,000,000 miles between the tracks of the earth and the comet. The tail of the comet through which the earth probably will pass will be noticeable only as an absolutely harmless luminous gas or dust. It may produce electrical and magnetic effects that can be detected only by self-recording instruments. ? fJntnrie. Okla.. Aoril 8: The inter ference of friends probably prevented a physical clash late tonight between Governor C. N. Haskell and Adjt. Gen. Canton, of the Oklahoma National Guard. A revolver was taken from Gen. Canton, but witnesses of the encounter say he did not draw it on the governor. The trouble between the governor and the adjutant general resulted from the Republican committee held here today. The first regiment band had been engaged to furnish music for the occasion, it being the opening of Congressman McGuire's campaign. Gen. Canton gave an order that the band should not appear in military uniform and forbade the use of the regiment's instruments. The band was playing when it received the order. The members discarded their uniforms, obtained other instruments and later reappeared on the streets. When Governor Haskell's attention was called to . the band incident, he sent Congressman vi/irsnir^ a letter .if jinolnew and in it set forth that the order did not meet with his approval. About 11 o'clock tonight. Gen. Canton sought Governor Haskell, witnesses declare, at his apartments in tne Royal hotel. The meeting occurred in a stairway landing. near the apartments. Witnesses testify to the violence of Gen. Canton's language, but declare he did not draw his pistol. With emphatic gestures, he is declared to have said: "1 want you to understand you cannot countermand my orders, and if you do you will pay for it." Gen. Canton's gun was taken from him by bystanders, who later removed the officer to his rooms out in the city. Gen. Canton later reappeared on the steps, but did not enter the hotel. ? Jackson, Miss., April 8: Senators Banks and Tucker made frantic efforts to lay hands upon one another during the senatorial bribery investigation late today, and a personal encounter between the angry, shouting men was only averted by strenuous work on the part of other senators. Tucker, who is counsel ior ssenaior ituuu, ungciru uy the use of the shorter ami usher word, rushed at Banks. Banks, white with anger, rushed toward Tucker, other senators intervened and roughly pulled the men apart. The quarrel came suddenly and unexpectedly. L. C. Dulaney, charged by Senator Bilbo wltn having paid him a bribe, had been on the stand. He had denied the charge flatly, and was being cross-examined by Senator Tucker of counsel for Senator Bilbo. The witness was unshaken in his denial of any crookedness, but declared that Bilbo repeatedly hinted that he could be bribed, and repeatedly asked for and received bottles of liquor. He declared that Representative Cowart intimated that he would not Inaverse to selling his vote. Then came the explosion. Dulanev was asked by Tucker if Percy had not paid the expenses of all senatorial candidates ex rept Vardaman. Senator Anderson, who was a candidate, arose, stern and angry. "It is an absurd and insulting question." said Dulane.v. A number of senators were on their feet demanding recognition. President Pro Tem Dean was pounding for order, a dozen men were shouting, and above the uproar could be heard the trembling voice of Senator Anderson, shouting: "I resent that question: I resent the insinuation that 1 permit any one to pay my expenses." From the rear of the senate, slender Senator Hanks came rushing to the front. In a lull in tin' uproar. he got the floor and shouted: "Any man who says or insinuates that anybody paid the expenses of my friend. Congressman B.vrd, is a liar, as false as hell." Senator Tucker made a rush at Banks, and Banks charged to meet him. Senators turned over tables and chairs to get between the angry solons. It looked like a personal dif Acuity could not be averted, but some rough handling of the two belligerent senators ended in their being jerked apart. After another wrangle, the question was withdrawn. Then several senators demanded that the newspaper men be "instructed" not to mention either the quarrel or the wrangle between Senators Hanks and Tucker. "It was stricken from the record," said President Pro Tern Dean, "and the newspapers cannot print anything not in the record, or the result of anything not in the record, including our little personal disagreements." Then every one apologized. Dulaney was excused, and when things quieted down it bit, the testimony was resumed. Several witnesses testified to Dulaney's good reputation for veracity and integrity. At the night session \V. W. Mitchell. '* ?1 Di???iurviilo Spnutnr Bilbo's home, testified that he knew Senator Bilbo's reputation for truth and veracity, and that he would not believe the senator on oath. YV. A. White, an attorney from Biloxi, told of trying out Senator Bilbo in 1908. A bill was drawn and sent by a man named Bob Moseley to Bilbo. Moseley returned and said: "Bilbo did not give me a chance to make him a proposition, he made us one." Robert Moseley, formerly town marshal of Biloxi. said: "I went to see Bilbo, and when I explained the bill he took out a little book, figured a while and said. 'It will cost you three hundred dollars.' I offered him a check, but he said he wanted money." JThc \IorknIlr (Enquirer. Kntertd at the Postofflce in Yorkvllle as Mail Matter of the Second Class YORKVILLE. S. C.i TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1910. The Republican dissenters from the Payne-Aldrlch tariff law, are generally agreed upon the proposition to establish a tariff commission to have charge of all matters arising in connection with the tariff. The stand-pat crowd is violently opposed to any such arrangement. The argument of the Mississippi woman to the effect, that there is no real wrong in hunting up and buying bribable legislators, for the reason that a man wno can ue Duugm is tuiiuin ?.< begin with, is not real easy to answer: but still it is not to be denied that even the buying of corrupt senators Is rather disreputable business. Thf. inter-state commerce commission is after the Pullman company, and has made a ruling that hereafter there must be differential charges as between upper and lower berths. As the commission sees it, if $2 is about the right figure for a lower berth, then $1.50 is enough for an upper berth. The commission seems to be under the impression that the Pullman rates generally are too high. There is no abatement of the war talk on the northwest coast of South America. Peru and Ecuador are the principals: but the outlook is that Chile and Colombia may also be mixed up in the coming struggle. The most convincing evidence of the coming disturbance is the fact that Peru and Ecuador have been at peace for about twenty years, and that is a rather long stretch of good behavior for those countries. THKY keep on talking about war with Japan, unless the United States ceases her aggressive reach for trade with China and the far east. We don't want any war with Japan: but we do think that the United States has as much right as anybody else to trade with the far east, and we think that the United States is going to exercise that right, war or no war. This country has not been in the habit of giving up any clearly defined right, merely because some other country would talk of war. They are having a big time in Charleston this week, in connection with the presentation of the silver service that the state has given to the battleship South Carolina. The great battleship reached Charleston Sunday night from Havana, and on Monday was greeted with salutes from the big guns of the fortifications. The presentation of the silver service was made by Governor Ansel today, and these festivities of the occasion will continue during the week. There are a large number of people in the city from all parts of the state. Says the Charleston News and Courier: "We reprint elsewhere from The Yorkville Enquirer a paragraph furnishing corroborative proof of the fact that old Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina, as he always said he was. Those pesky Charlotte papers will do their best to belittle it, of course, but they will have what they themselves would denominate a 'sweet time' doing it." The so-called corroborative evidence referred to. is just like all the evidence the South Carolina papers have been able to muster up? no account.?Charlotte Chronicle. There is no fact that will change the inscription on that Waxhaw monument, the record of which would be just as true as it is, if it should read that George Washington was born in North Carolina. In a war between such men as Prof. Hopkins of the Chicago university, and Secretary James Wilson of the agricultural department, it is probably just as well for the little fellows, who in reason cannot know as much as men of this calibre, to take to the bushes: but somehow, we are inclined to think that the Chicago professor is unnecessarily harsh. The detached propositions that the professor quotes, might bear the construction ne puts upon them, if taken alone; but whether they can boast of great learning or not, most practical farmers in this country knowvery well that what Secretary Wilson says in regard t<> the matters about which he has expressed himself, is true, of course, everybody admits that the constant taking off of crops will xhaust soil, and nobody knows better than tiie cotton farmer for instance, that continued planting of cotton without tiie application of stable manure, or without rotation in legumes to be plowed under, will impoverish land. Hut Secretary Wilson has never claimed the contrary. He has been preaching, and is still preaching rotation of crops, and everybody in this country who has observed at all, understands full well that there is no better known way of building: up soil. The truth of the business is that Secretary Wilson has been able to get ?iuite a lot of instruction direct to the farmers without going by way of some of the universities that would like to have a rake-off from some of the money he is spending, and his department has grown so much bigger than any private college or university, that he is making a little jealousy, it is only within the past dozen years or more that the people of the country as a whole, have been able to get a practical realization of what the agricultural department is for anyway. Tiik fight over the bull corner that Patten and his associates are attempting to run on May cotton, promises to be one of the most interesting and exciting contests the speculative market has known in a great many years. British spinners have the bear side, and they are wonderfully aggressive. They sent over a ship load of five or six thousand bales of cotton last week, and on Sunday there arrived 6,799 bales more. It is stated that including what they have sent, their engagements for reshipment to the United States amount in all to about 50,000 bales, and it will be up to Patten and his associates to take all this cotton, if it comes and pay for it. or else suffer the collapse of their corner. There seems to be no question of the fact that big things are doing, and as the fight seems to b.e one between the professional giants, rather than one between opposing Interests in the general public, the situation Is especlaly interesting. SAYS WILSON IS UNSCIENTIFIC Chicago Professor Scores Secretary of Agriculture. Chicago, 111., April 8.?Character izing the teachings of Secretary James Wilson as "damnable," "abominable" and "disgraceful," Prof. Cecil G. Hopkins, of the university of Illinois, delivered a stinging criticism of the department of agriculture here today in an address at the city club. Prof. Hopkins dismissed the secretary himself from his consideration by simply saying: "He is an unscientific man." Here are some direct quotations from Secretary Wilson cited by Prof. Hopkins as "abominable and false:" "Practically all soils contain sufficient plant food to produce good crop yields: this supply will be indefinitely maintained. "So far as the present outlook is concerned the nation possesses ample resources in its soil for any conceivable increase in population for several centuries. "The soil is the one indestructible, immutable asset that the nation possesses. It is the one source that cannot bo exhausted: that cannot be used up. "From the modern conception of the nature and purposes of the soil it is evident that it cannot wear out, that so far as the mineral food is concerned it will continue automatically to supply adequate quantities of plant loon ior crops. "As a national asset the soil is safe as a means of feeding mankind for untold ages to come." After he had cited these quotations, Prof. Hopkins said: "Can you blame the farmers for continuing to wear out their land when these are the teachings promulgated from the highest authority in the United States? And these false teachings are all the more damnable because the common soil type of abandoned farms in Maryland, only a few miles from Washington, contain only 160 pounds of phosphorus in the plowed soil of an acre, while the richest black prairie soil of Illinois with a value of ?200 an acre, contains more than 2.000 pounds of phosphorus in the same stratum." As a remedy for the rapid wearing out of the farms. F rof. Hopkins suggested pulverized phosphorus rock, as such is to be found on the public domain. Narrowly Escaped Three Tariff Wars. ?The great thinkers of the American Protective Tariff league who joined enthusiastically in support of the double tariff, no doubt hoped and expected that the additional rate of 25 per cent ad valorem would be imposed on the products of some of the countries with which we deal. The extreme protectionists discovered several years ago that it would be a gr? at scheme to have a maximum and minimum tariff, the Dingley rates answering for the latter, anj something like prohibition serving for the former. Some more moderate protectionists entertained the idea that we could extort special favors from some countries by threatening them with the extra 25 per cent. The result of the maximum provision in the Pa.vne-Aldrich law is that we have narrowly escaped three tariff wars which would have inflicted serious damage on our foreign trade, and we have gained nothing. We could not extort special and exclusive favors from foreign nations, because they could not have made such concession to us without involving themselves in difficulties with other countries. We had reciprocal trade agreements with Germany and France which had to be abrogated under our new tariff law. but we have avoided commercial wars with them by what amounts in substance to a continuance of the agreements. We have averted a tariff war with Canada on terms not yet disclosed, but the intimations are that the Canadian concessions are very slight? little more than an excuse to enable President Taft to avoid imposing the penalty of 25 per cent upon Canadian goods, which must inevitably have provoked retaliation against our goods.? Philadelphia Record. The Real Corn Belt.?The highest discovery the south has made these last live years is that we are in the corn belt?that we. are, in fact, the real corn belt. In point of temperature. sunshine and rainfall, we have advantages over the west, and every time individual southern farmers have set out to beat the west in yields they have done it. The western papers have been advertising the champion corn farmer of the corn belt last year, and he made only 15f> bushels on an acre, one of our southern readers made 22G bushels on an acre, it only remains now for us to set out to do on a large scale what we have already succeeded so overwhelmingly in doing on a small scale. We have the advantage of the west in three points?temperature, sunshine. and rainfall. They have the advantage in one point?humus in the soil. We can get this humus. And tho best way to get it is by growing nitrogen gathering crops, cow peas and clover, greatest of all?in addition to maximum ouantities of sta Me manure.?Raleigh (X. (\ > Progressive Farmer ami (Jascette. The Loss of a Million.?Although James A. Patten, of Chicago, is quoted as having said that he was here for a "tight to a finish" in the cotton market, the expected activity on the exchange was not in evidence today in tho early trailing. In fact, it was a day of calm. Neither the hulls nor the bears made any show of light, hut both sides were in arms, ready for the combat. It was what the traders call it "waiting market." and the waiting soemed to >e principally for Mr. I .ittcM in hegin hostilities. "I am here for a Ughl to a linisli 'villi McFauden." Mr. I alien said today. referring to George H. MeFadtleii. the cotton opt rut or. "Is it true that you lost more than $1,000,000 in tile leeent slump?" he was askt d. "Make it two millions if you want to," he replied. "Losing the millions in this sort of a light is no more to me than losing a dime would he to you. When a man has a< much cotton coming and going as I have, he has no time to tigure up how every little lluctuation in the price atTects his profits. It is not worth while.? New York dispatch April s. LOCAL AFFAIRS, " a NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. r Shannon & Hope, Sharon?Havo u lot of one and two-horse wagons jj which they offer to close out at de- ^ llvered prices. Hugh G. Brown, S. V. C.?Gives no- c tlce of sale of certain real estate t under writs of fieri facias levied c on as the property of R. Lee Kerr, on . salesday for May. G. H. O'Leary?Is showing a line of n Vudor porch shades and hammocks and wants you to see them. J. L. Williams & Go.?Are talking about a new line of Panama hats at $5 each and want you to see s them for Oxfords?all prices. a Yorkville Hardware Co.?Has all the v paraphernalia necessary for the tennis court?it is a good, clean P game; and also has hammocks at r from $1 to $7.f>0 each. g Herndon & Gordon?Give housewives a pointer on what to cook these days, when the question is a hard a our iu sruic. ? York Drug Store?Wants you to be e sure to not forget to remember to buy your melon seed from it and plant a big crop. a Farmers' Wholesale Grocery?Invites t tobacco users to see it for the weed j, in boxes or by the pound. It has ' big Variety at right prices. Yorkville B. & M. Co.?Offers reduc- v ed prices on Stetson and Douglas Oxfords for men. and also for boys and misses and tells you that it will save you money. n Thomson Co.?Calls special attention s to its lines of ladies' lingerie \val.-\s j, in desirable patterns at a variety of prices. New notion arrivals. National Union Bank. Rock Hill?Asks d you to make a supposition as to your s past savings and leaves you to imply the benefits that would be yours now. c Standard Oil Co.?On page four tells II about the new Perfection blue flame tl oil stove and its advantages as a c cooker. , d As much more good work done on jj the roads this summer as was done last summer, and there will be a pretty good showing. There is no question of the fact, that York county is dropping ^ into the right wrinkle on the road question, and that much satisfactory progress is being made. From the reports that have been sent e out from Chester during the past few days, it appears that this business of ll monkeying with jurors has gotten a S little t<>o common down that way also. One thing is certain, and that is that unless the courts put a stop to this interference with Jurors they cannot pre- ? serve their integrity. People who have been about a great deal, say that the Yorkvllle and Rock Hill road from Yorkvllle to Tirzah, mainly through John F. Williams's ter- r' ritory in Ebenezer township, is the best road in the county of equal length. There is some macadam work on it; but the "sand-and-clay" portion shows a up equally as well. n "The Chester Cook Book," previously mentioned in these columns, was shipped last week to the Ladies' Aid So- n ciety of the Chester Baptist churcn, a under whose auspices it was compiled and published, and the volume is now n on sale in Chester. We have not been n advised as to what the selling price will s be; but think the book would be good I . ? .1..11., .. ? In. ll vtij uc ai a ui;uai a vuiuuic. x cupic ?uterested, should address Miss Edna 11 Carroll, Chester, S. C. u If people who know how to put two and two together and draw the only conclusion that can follow the opera- '' tlon, they can easily look around them ^ and see that the prospects for Yorkvllle real estate and the general develop- ei inent of the town are better than they have been for years. As already pointed out, the proposed erection of a hand- n some block of buildings on the hotel lot is not without significance, and the ? erection of more buildings on the Nichols lot will also help. The erection of ^ these buildings will mean that they 'sl will soon be occupied by business peo- el pie, and the more business people there ? are, the more business there will be. p The outlook for Yorkville is fine. The venture of the Rock Hill Buggy a company into the field of automobile ^ manufacture, while not at all surpris- a ing to those who know the history of b this enterprising concern, is and should ^ be a source of gratification not only to the people of Rock Hill and York coun- ?' ty; but to the state of South Carolina a: as well. It would have taken a far- w seeing man indeed to have dreamed of s' such a thing as far back as twenty ^ years ago, when the people of this sec tion had to look so dependency to the a north for every finished product of skill- 'r ed labor and capital; but during the 0 past twenty years Mr. John Anderson '< has demonstrated that be is in every s> respect abreast with the foremost, and c' while many may be more or less aston- a ished at the fact of York county turning out automobiles in competition with the world, and almost everybody is able to apreciate that since this thing S) has developed, it is very natural that John Anderson should have been the jt man to bring it about. That the Rock ]< Hill automobile will be a success, we sincerely hope and heartily believe. S( * In SUNDAY AUTOMOBILING. Automobiling has become quite a si feature of Sunday recreation all a through this section, and as the advancing spring dries up and makes the A roads better, the number of automo- T biles to be seen is showing a material increase. c Nearly all of the locally owned auto- jr mobiles are to be seen on the streets of the town <m Sundays, especially in me >, afternoon, and along with them is an jt occasional car from Chester, Clover, Hock Hill, Gaffney or other surrounding t points. j] The Yorkville cars in addition to the run about town, go to Clover, Gastonia, tli Rock Hill. Chester. King's Mountain s| battleground and other points, and the a cars from surrounding towns suit their pleasure about stopping over for a few tt hours or passing on through. a There are three or four times as jl many automobiles throughout this locality now, as compared with a year b ago, and as the season advances, the tl probability is that there will be still fc fertile!* ineresise. McMACKIN TO RETIRE. Mr. T. E. McMackin will not !> in V trie mw this summer fur re-election to tli?. oliice of superintendent of educa- M tion. ei "Yes." said Mr. McMackin. when lie M was asked tliis morning for a continuation nf n rumor to this effect, "I have O definitely derided that I will not stand s| for re-election, and if you care to. you vl may say it in Tin- Etuuiirer, so those (' who may lie thinking of running need have no further concern on my ac- tl count." tl Mr. McMackin went on to say that trim is Koinrt out of the office, because of ai reasons that sire satisfactory to himself. and wliien are of no special public s| concern, lie likes the work all riulit, ki and wishes tilings were so lie could in Ko on with it; but it is not that way, N and he has just decided to <|uit. Tilsit Mr. McMackin is si capable of- la fleer, there is no question. He has ai shown himself to be a hard, conscien- in tious worker, who does his duty as he Hi sees it. and tile people of York county ill be lucky if they are able to secure s bis successor a man who is in every espect his equal. Of course, as to what people will do i a primary election, there is no preicting with certainty, under any cirumstances, but there is every reason a believe that if Mr. McMackin should are to continue In the office of supertitendent of education, there would be o trouble about his doing so. THE MULE AND THE AUTO. While it is a fact that mules are not o much disposed to be frightened at utomobiles now-a-days as they were, irhen automobiles first made their apearance, still there is an occasional unaway and smashup, because teams et frightened at automobiles. Speaking of the subject not long ago, farmer owner of an automobile made ome interesting remarks to ubout this ffect: "The law of the road as annlvlne to utomobiles is satisfactory enough to he automobile owner, and I think it < equally satisfactory to the driver of he team, especially as it gives the drier of the team every advantage. You now that the driver of the team has nly to raise his hand and give a sigal to make the automobile take the ide of the road, stop and shut down is engine. "It is a common thing for team rivers to bring the automobiles to a top, when it would have really been etter to allow them to go on. Of ourse, the other fellow does not see I that way; but as a matter of fact, he average experienced automobilist an tell better what a team is going to o than the driver can. I have freuently met teams that I could ave passed without difficulty, and . ithout frightening them, if the drivers /ould have only let me alone, and aved lots of pitching and rearing and reaking of harness after I had been rought to a stop. "The truth about the matter is that very team owner knows, and I know earns bettor than I do automobiles, hat the management of a team in a cary place, depends more upon the river than It does upon the team, lowever, I will have to own up that did not fully realize this before I ownd an automobile. Then when I was riving my best team of mules or my est horse, I always regarded the auimobile as a holy terror, and would ave driven a mile out of the way, ather than meet one." WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Mr. James M. Stroup Is erecting handsome cottage on Wright ave ue. ? Mr. John S. Jones is to erect a eotige on Church street, between the ssldence of Mr. W. H. McConnell nd the old cemetery. ? Citizens of Yorkvllle qualified for luniclpal registration, but who have ot yet received their certificates hould apply to Mr. Thos. W. Clawson. ? Dr. R. L. Douglas met quite a irge number of census enumerators in he court house at Yorkvllle last Satrday, and gave them instructions as 3 the taking of the census. ? Mr. S. M. McNeel has purchased iom Mr. R. J. Herndon, the latter's rick building on the Parish Hotel )t. and Mr. McNeel is now the ownr of all' the original hotel lot. ? The plain truth about the matter is hat the spring trade is holding up very icely. The dry goods people, especialr, are doing better business than some f them were really exacting. ? It is reported that Mr. John J. richols is to erect two or more new tore buildings on his lot on East Librty street, and there is talk of still ther new business buildings in prosed. ? Work on the passenger station nd freight house of the Carolina and 'orth-Western railroad is forging head ouite rapidly. The building will e ready for the occupancy of Messrs. ,ong and Summit soon. ? At a recent meeting of the board f directors of the Yorkville Cemetery ssociation Mr. It. E. Montgomery as elected to till the vacancy occaoned by the death of Mr. Jos. F. Wallace. Mr. Montgomery accepted. ? The continuous vaudeville perform nce in the graded school auditorium i the interest of the Church Home irphanage last Friday night, was irgely attended and was a delightful access artistically, as well as finanlally. The proceeds amounted to bout $100. ABOUT PEOPLE. W. W. Dixon, Esq., of Winnsboro, pent Sunday in Yorkville. Mrs. J. B. Scott of Yorkville No. 3, i visiting Mrs. L. H. Ferguson at aylors. Mrs. W. L. Frasier and children spent jveral days with friends in Rock Hill, ist week. Dr. S. D. Steele of Yorkville, spent Livfiiii uu) a ium ? Willi iriuuvfa t Waxhuw, N. C. Mr. J. W. Williams of Birmingham, la., is the guest of the family of Mr. D. Turner in Yorkvllle. Mr. Wirt Pegraill of Steele Creek, N. ., visited his brother, Mr. J. B. Pegram i Yorkville last week. Mr. Herbert Wright of Clover, is in lew Orleans this week, attending the nperial council of the Shriners. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Love and Mrs. E. '. Love of Itock Hill, are the guests of Irs. J. K. Sadler in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilborn, and nughter, Miss Elizabeth of Yorkville, pent several days last week with ivltives in Chester. Mrs. M. J. Pursley and little daugh r, Janie Erfvin Pursley, of Bethany, re spending mis ween wuii me laniy of Mr. T. E. McMuckin. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Raines of Coluniia, are spending a while in Yorkville, ie guests of Mr. John C. Dickson's imily on Yorkville No. 1. Mrs. Lou Wilson, and little grandaughter, Virginia Wallace Williams f Columbia, are the guests of Mrs. 1J. Steele in Yorkville. Mrs. E. W. Davison and daughter, iss Dorothy of Iialtimorc spent sev al days in Yorkville, last week, with [is. Thus. ! '. McDow. Mrs. J. K. Alston, Misses Maggie ist, Annls O'Leary, Lesslie Withernam and fleraldine Lowry of Yorkj I It*, are spending this week in harleston. Mr. UIIU i?l I r?, ?? . |i(|fm u trough Yorkvillo yesterday evening on leir way to their home at 1^-sslie. af r a visit to Mr. ami Mrs. (trior Lesslie t Howling Green. Miss Grace Dickson, who has boon loading some timo in C'olutnbia, the Host of law sistor. Mrs. M. A. Raines, us rotuniod to "nor homo on Yorkvillo o. 1. Hook Hill Record: Mr. T. <\ Dunp, of Yorkvillo, cashier of the I stun id Savings bank, spent Friday night the city on his return from the linkers' association at Aiken. KeV. 10. K. Gillespie and Mr. it. I,. Devinney leave today to represent the First Presbyterian church of M Yorkville, at the spring meeting of Fethe! Presbytery which meets at ki Aimwell church, Rlehburg. H Mr. William D. Lesslie of Clover R. F F. D. No. 1, has issued invitations to H the marriage of his daughter, Miss L Loula Flolse to Mr. J. Walter Summerford. The ceremony is to take a place at the home of the bride's father ( j on Wednesday afternoon, April 27, at $1 3 o'clock. i < Mr. George M. Trout, a traveling jn typewriter expert, with headquarters . in Charlotte, spent last week in York- 1 vllle, overhauling typewriters and made quite a pleasant Impression on all with di whom he came in contact. He takes (j| machines down, repairs broken parts, makes all necessary adjustments, and " puts the machines back in first class In condition, all for $3. Mr. Trout car- |n rles letters of recommendation from some of the largest typewriter and ' ' adding machine companies in the s* country, and all these letters come In r? very nicely by way of introduction, his (c skill and ability as a workman serve him still better. He knows his busi- al ness thoroughly, and he left all his rc customers with the idea that he was w more concerned about giving them a first-class job than he was about pock- 1 eting the price. In fact, he did quite a '' number of little jobs for different peo- ai pie in a first-class manner without n, making any charge at all. On leaving, Mr. Trout said it was his purpose to st make regular trips to Yorkville In the M future, but would hardly be back again ^ in less than a year, unless sent for in p the meantime. , e< TAKING THE CENSUS. m With the break of day on next Frl- U1 day, the 15th instant, a host of 70.000 interrogators, men and women, white. P' and colored, will be turned loose In ^ pursuit of the people of the United States. On that day Uncle Sam will e( begin the numbering of his children In ? preparation for the thirteenth census. He estimates that he has a family of e< about 90,000,000 men, women and chll- P' dren, and he already has employed and 11 will then put to work a body of enumerators considerably greater than the standing army. The law provides that the enumeraflnn oholl Kocrin on thn 1 hilt It Iq net so peremptory about the commencing time as about the closing time, and already intimations have been received ci that in some instances the work may be P' postponed until Saturday. This is due to the fact that the 15th falls on Fri- w day, and among the 70,000 name tak- si ers there are some who are supersti- ?< tious as to this day of the week. The enumeration will cover all of the r( forty-five states and two territories of it the Union proper and also Hawaii and h' Porto Rico. Alaska, the Philippine islands and Guam will not be included^ ^ as especial arrangements are made for dl numbering the people of those depen- ei dencies. ?t Under the statutes governing the J1 work, the entire enumeration must be completed within a month, and in the 01 cities the work is limited to fifteen days, al It is expected that some of the returns 'e from the cities will be received as early ^ as the first week in June, but the exact population of the entire country will b( not be determined before some time in September. The census officials will, however, know within a few thousand 31 of the number long before the close of the summer months. They will be able P' to reach a substantially accurate conelusion by their pay rolls, but this will tr be more or less speculative, and the figures will not be given out Director E. Dana Durand is counting upon a roll of not fewer than 90,- ?( 000,000 names. This estimate is based 'J1 upon calculations of his experts, and make allowance for an increase ac- ln cording to the tendencies shown in the ?j last three previous censuses. Between ?* 1870 and 1880 the increase in the pop uiauon was ju per cent; Deiween lasu and 1890, 25 per cent; between 1890 95 and 1900, 21 per cent. If the decrease F should continue at the same ratio there would, be a falling off this year of the " rate of gain to 17 per cent. The immi- al gration figures for the past decade have been greater, however, than for any ai of the previous ten-year periods. Mak- V. ing allowances for this augmentation al from the outside it is calculated that the increase for the past ten years will a| be about 18 per cent, and as, in round ^ numbers, the figure for 1900 /as 76,- 'n 000,000, it is now calculated that there ~ will prove to have been an addition of ni about 14,000,000 souls. Much interest is felt as to the showing regarding the purely native in crease. The enumerations between 1870 1,1 and 1900 show a startling tendency to- Pj wards "race suicide," and it is Mr. Du- a rand's fond hope that the reports of his pl 70,000 subordinates may be able to " check this apparent decline. Man of a figures that he is, he does not, how- . ever, permit his optimism to shade his facts, and until the actual returns show 1 something better, he will hold to his pI ninety-million estimate. P' There will be some innovations in j" the next census, and they are expected . to improve the reports. For instance, la the country farmer is to be afforded an y opportunity to consider in advance the "J statements he shall make as to the ? conditions prevailing with reference m to his holdings, and the same advant- ^ age is to be given heads of families! in cities as to the enumeration of their ^ households. In both cases sheets are to he nnsserl around before the official a^ calls of the enumerators in the hope that both ruralist and urbanite will be more complete in their returns than th otherwise they might be. There also is to be unusual care in the supervision v' of the work of the enumerators. In the cities supervisors will camp on the sheels of the men with the pencils during the first day of their work and in " the country districts the sheets them- m selves will be especially scrutinized. The inquiry will comprise three prlncipal branches; population, agrlcul- jjj ture, and mining and manufacturing. 60 The questions will cover the acreage, the value and the product of farms, in/-?!.. .1 ( ?wv nn oannnln 1 nnnmuru tliin nt it n I - mals, as it will be capital invested,, the T)f value of products, and the number of ni employes of mining and manufacturing m plants. The enumerators will want to know XVI a good deal about you for the population volumes. They not only will insist upon knowing your sex, but will expect you to reveal your age, and will ask you to tell whether you are white, black, mulatto, Chinese, Japanese or w'' Indian; whether you are married or of single, and if married how often; tri whether you are American or foreign "" born: and if the latter, that you give K'] not only your nationality, but your race and mother-tongue. Then, if you sh are a woman, you are to tell how many children have been born to you: and, po in any event, you are to tell all about th your education, your parentage and au your employment. All this information T1 Is to be for the general average and for the ear only of one of the enumerators. He Is sworn not to reveal any of I* the awful truths. 'e? The mere getting of the information will cost the government the pretty sum of $5,500,000. Of this amount $4.- 1,1 500,000 will be paid to enumerators, and m; the remaining million to supervisors. ? With a few exceptions the enumerators in will be paid on the basis of the work re." done. In the country the remuneration m< will be from 20 to 30 cents for each eri farm reported, while the pay for names ios will range from 2 to 4 cents. Th<? ills- ?t tricts will ii vera Re 1.300 names, 1.100 bo in the country and 1,600 in the cities, mt (n the southern states there will be two ga enumerators in some districts, one ri\ white, and one black. All told there will an be about 1.600 negro enumerators, hut or! iome of them will be employed in the ? northern states. In the south the ne- ia> ?roos will he visited hv enumerators of thj their own race, as will also the whites tot hv their own peoplp. There also will hp wl about 600 women enumerators. in fm nolnt of numbers New York will lead ve the list with 6.600 enumerators, while du Nevada will close the procession with de eighty-six. jui The results of the labors of this army ap of neontp will he published in 12 or 16 sa; volumes, which will come out from tal time to time for two or three years af- du tor the completion of the work in the jui Peid. All the tabulation as well as the tei General preparation of the matter for an the printer will be done in Washington tin under Mr. Dura nil's supervision. vei LOCAL LACONICS, r. Hal Pride Dead. Mr. Halcott Jones Pride, a well tiown and popular citizen of Rock ill, and assistant postmaster, died last riday afternoon after a brief illness, e was 42 years of age. ula Mill to Dissolve. The Lula Manufacturing company, corporation of the state of North xrollna with a capital stock of ISrt.OOO, operating a cotton mill of ),000 spindles at King's Mountain, is i be dissolved. This action was tat-n at a meeting of the stockholders | pld in tha company's offices last Frlxy afternoon. At a meeting of the rectors February 18 a majority of le stockholders adopted a resolution i the effect that it would be to the iterest of the corporation to be dls)lved and called a meeting of the ockholders to take action upon the (solution. This was done Friday afrnoon and at this meeting, nearly I the stock heintr renreaetif ed the solution to dissolve was adopted ithout dissent. The Lula Manufaculng company was organized in <99 and began operations in 1900 rid for a while did a profitable busless. but the death of three large ockholders and directors, namely !r. A. Portlier of Washington, Mr. H. . Klueppelburg of Charlotte and Mr. . S. Baker of King's Mountain, plac1 the responsibility of operating the illl, through a period of panic times, pon the remaining directors. Durig the past two and a half years the lant has been operated at a loss and le directors who have been carrying le responsibility of operation refus1 to go any further without the aid f the other stockholders, and finally ley decided upon a plan to have the irporatlon dissolved. Tha necessary apers are now being prepared for ling with the secretary of state. LYON ROASTS LANAHAN. lolds Firm to Record In Dispensary waae. "It can scarcely be controverted," lid Attorney General Lyon, Saturay In speaking of the Lanahan lalm incident, says a Columbia dlsatch, "that the evidence before the ato dispensary commission shows lat Lanahan & Son, through those rho represented them, overcharged the Late for goods sold, and bribed at least ne state official to make the purLiases." This statement was made as the >sult of the published interview with 10 representative of the Lanahan rm in Baltimore to the effect that le company had never overcharged le state of South Carolina and that le $14,000 which was paid to the Ispensary commission had been glvi for sums due the company in this ate which were tied up by an ininction. "The story sent out from Bultilore " continued the attorney generI, "is thoroughly inaccurate and mlsading. The testimony taken before le dispensary commission and other /idejice obtained by that body shows syond a doubt that the Lanahan imnany did overcharge the state of auth Carolina *n the extent of thousrids of dollars." "Tiln /in Jn n# T nr?n lin? ???? *? ? xkc waav ui uauaiian ?Lin uu upsal to the supreme court of South arolina and there was nothing In le way of having the findings revers1 by that court, yet the company id abandoned its appeal. "The findings of the dispensary )mmission was made after a careful ispection of such books as Lanahan Son had produced and after hearg the testimony of Mr. Lanahan and ie of his employes and the affidavit ' Joseph B. Wylie and the testimony ' Lewis \V. Parker and others taken ;fore the legislative Investigating >mmlttee. Also there was Jarres S. arnum, who represented Lanahan , this state and who Wylie said paid Im $900 to buy the goods from Lanlan. Farnum afterwards pleaded illty to having conspired to cheat id defraud the state in connection ith his dealings with the old state spensary. "The compromise was not brought lout by the recent act of the general isembly with reference to the windig-up of the affairs in the counties reilnlng the dispensaries, for the Lanain company made overtures toward ittlement before the act was passed or ifore it was even thought of. It is irther a fact that parties representing ie Lanahan company proposed a com:omise by which Lanahan was to landon his appeal to the state sureme court from the findings of the unmission and pay in addition thereto jout $9,000." The Lanahan company recently paid ie attorney general the sum of $14,000. he statement was at the time, in the *ess dispatches, that the company had actically admitted that they had ('ercharged the state of South Caroaa to the extent of thousands of dolrs during their dealings with the ate. This brought an emphatic denial om the Lanahan company. Lanahan Son had a claim against the comission for about $6,000. There was an rerjudgment against the firm of $23,i0. The firm had a claim against the tunty dispensaries for $21,000, The *m agreed to wipe out their claim rainst the commission and accept the im of $6,000 from the state for its $6,0 claim and its $21,000 claim against e county dispensaries. The following is a part of an affidat by Joseph B. Wylle, a member of e dispensary board of control: "J. Farnum paid deponent $900 in cash 1 900 cases of Hunter rye, this being inahan's goods. This payment was ade in November or December, 1906, id goods were purchased on 19th day September. 1906, to the amount of 0 cases and on November 15, 1906, 0 cases were puichased. All of these tyments made to deponent bv Farnum pre in accordance with schedule herebefore referred to and were arranged rsonallv between deponent and Farjm In Columbia, S. C. The agreeent as to the schedule of rebates was rreed nnon shortlv after deponent ?nt on board." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. -Columbia, April 7: The new state up. containing the county of Dillon, ill be issued soon by the department agriculture, commerce and indusles. There is no map now with Dillon it. There will also be published a od roads map for this state. The ap will be on plain white paper, owing the roads in color. -Rock Hill, April 8: The corresndent of the News and Courier had e pleasure today of a spin in the first itomobile built in South Carolina, le "Rock Hill," a four-cylinder, 30, anufactured by the world-known )ck Hill Buggy company, of this city, on the streets today, and Mr. J. Wes> Anderson, superintendent of the ctory, and air. u. n. aicrauapn or tne cFadden Auto company, are showing e biggest and one of the handsomest ichines in the country. -Greenville, April 11: Fire resulting the destruction of Lewis W. Parker's sidence occurred here early yesterday jrning. The building which was eeted at a cost of $35,000, was a total is. Many valuable household effects re saved from the Humes. A stubrn fight put up by the fire depart nt was unavailing as the fire had ined great headway before the ar'al of the fire department. The lount of insurance held on the propty is not stated. - A signed statement was given out d Thursday by Juror N. W. Bigham, nt on the opening day of the present in, he was approached by a man, 10 talked with him with a view to luencing hint in behalf of Jim Stensun, who was to be placed on trial ring the term on the charge of murr. This juror states that an<4ther ror told him that he, too, had been preached by the same man for the ine purpose. Solicitor Henry has ten the matter in hand and will conct a rigid investigation by the grand ry of the whole business. The mat has caused considerable comment inng the people of Chester and over ? county, and the progress of the instigation is awaited with interest. ? Spartanburg, Apiil 8: Mrs. Martin L. Hanna rushed Into a burning building this morning with a sack covering her head and saved the life of her young child. The youngster was playing with matches in a barn when some dry hay caught lire, and before he could get out, the entire building was enveloped In flames. The mother, who was working in a nearby garden, rushed to the scene and saw the child would be burned to death unless prompt action was taken. She picked up a sack and covered her head, defied flames, and rushing In, carried the lad from the burning building. Neither the child nor the mother was hurt, save a few slight burns. It was a heroic act, and displayed a true motherly love. ? Columbia, April 11: The dispensary commission and attorneys are assembling to begin this afternoon the taking of testimony along an entirely new line. Instead, as heretofore, conducting the Investigation to defend itself against a half million dollars In claims against the state, the testimony wil ba on claims against .. man} uuuaes aggregating over $800,000. The largest claim Is against the Richland Distillery, owned and operated by former Georgians, which Is for over $600,000. The next largest claim Is against the Grabfelder company of Louisville, for $57,000. Three other claims, one against the Acmo Brewing company of Macon, are for over $15,000 each. Bluthenthal & Bickert of Atlanta were summoned to answer the state's claim for $32,000. This is the firm concerning whom it is reported generally over the state that Attorney Felder had agreed to protect. ? Gaffney Ledger: The meteor which is supposed to have fallen in the Ararat section last Friday week has been creating quite a good deal of talk since the story appeared. Numerous opinions have been advanced. Some people have even claimed that they had gotten possession of it. Others (who claim to be authority on all scientific subjects) have stated that no meteor has fallen. The matter is not yet settled and discussions are still waxing warm In the city as to whether or not It was really a meteor. A learned professor of astronomy states that Halley's comet is always accompanied by a meteoric shower. This would seem to lend color to the report of the meteor. However, there are people who would not believe that a. uicinii nan laueii, even inougn 11 was shown to them. Perhaps if more fall and In this immediate section, they can have ocular demonstration of the fact. ? The people of Pacolet township, who have raised a howl because a negro had been appointed as census enumerator for their district, were made to feel perfectly at ease last Friday morning, when Superintendent of Census Pritchard made known that such would not be the case, and that a white man would be appointed. The matter will be adjusted satisfactorily to all parties, and It is thought that nothing further will be heard of it. Some persons living in this township threatened not to give desired Information to a negro census taker and petitioned that a white man be appointed. The negro stood the examination successfully and received the appointment, and the citizens objected, and the outcome may be that a separate man will be appointed to take census of negroes. The negro will only call upon members of his race. This arrangement Is entirely satisfactory to all parties concerned, and Superintendent Pritchard will In all probability make an appointment of a white mar. during the next few days. ? Rock Hill Record: The T. C. Thompson & Brothers, of Charlotte, have beein awarded a contract by the Republic Cotton Mills, at Great Falls for the erection of a reservoir, cotton warehouse, office, store building, hotel, superintendent's house, three overseers' houses, twenty three-room houses, fifteen six-poom houses and handsome residences for Messrs. R. S. Mebane and H. B. Mebane, the entire operations to cost J 100,000. The buildings will be completed within the next few months. Work will begin immediately on them, and as soon as the side tracks can be finished the materials will be placed on the grounds. The buildings to be erected at Great Falls will constitute the settlement for the Republic mill, the new 25.000-snindlp rntfnn mill ?r> ho erected by the Mebanes, and Dukes and others who are interested with them in the hydro-electric improvements of the Southern Power company. The building of this mill and mill settlement will be followed immediately by the construction of two other larger mills, the total splndleage of the three to aggregate 100,000 spindies, with full accompaniment of looms, cards and other machinery. The new town of Great Falls will be as thoroughly up-to-date as any in the entire country. ? Greenville, April 9: Inexplicable as to motive, crude in execution and pathetic in every detail, is the crime of forgery and money raising committed and admitted by 13-year-old Rose Trotter, an intelligent white girl, who was brought to Greenville late today from her home in the mountain fastnesses and tried before Commissioner Blythe. United States Secret Service Agent Henry E. Thomas, who ferreted out the case, in talking to the corres fuuucuk. unci me preliminary trial, said that several weeks ago he received from Chicago headquarters a letter the Trotter girl had written to Sears, Roebuck & Co., inclosing a (2 bill which had been raised to $20. Armed with this evidence and data he came to Greenville and from here went to Marietta, in the upper part of this county, where, after a few hours' search, he had very little difficulty in effecting the girl's arrest. On her arrest the girl frankly admitted raising the bill, declaring that she believed herself Innocent of any crime. She is a brightfaced little lass with deep blue eyes and hair with a tinge of Titian. She was held in $500 bond before the commissioner, but was not jailed. She was placed in custody of Deputy Marshal Corn, who took her to his home, where she will be held until Monday, her fatner being expected here at that time to put up bond. The girl's parents can not fathom the motive in raising the bill, as they told the officers that she had good clothes?plenty of them?and had everything she wanted in reason. Mr. Trotter is a well-to-do farmer. The letter to the Chicago house contained an order for a hair switch, hair tonic. mi, 11 iwuuii, id^ui nun n trunk. MERE-MENTION. A 6-year-old girl flagged a Southern Pacific passenger train from running into a burning trestle near Ramos, La., Saturday, and saved the train William M. Holland, night watchman for an Atlanta, Ga., Ice factory, was shot to death by an unknown assassin early Friday morning... .The Peruvian government has negotiated a loan of ?340,000 in France, for use in case of war with Ecuador, which now seems probable.... By a vote of 162 to 110, the house of representatives on Friday voted for the building of two more battleships, to cost 16,000,000 each Fred H. Brooks, geologist for the United States geodetic survey, says that the coal area of the country is 509,000 square miles, of which only four-tenths of one per cent, has been used John Berry, a yeggman, caught in the act of robbing a safe in a Wall street, New York, skyscraper Friday night, hit the nightwatchman with a lead pipe, and then tried to make his escape by sliding down a waterpipe, eight stories to the ground, fell and cracked his skull Thos. F, Walsh, a multi-millionaire of Colorado, died suddenly at his home in Washington, D. C., Friday night Chas. Collins and L. L. Lemeine, rivals for the affections of a young lady at Tilden, L?a., fought a duel Friday night. One of the men was killed instantly and the other was fatally shot... .Sixty-three mules were burned to death In the stables of a coal mine at Shafton, Pa.. Saturday morning' Six negroes are in jail at Cleveland. Tenn.. charged with dragging a sick woman from her bed and throwing her in a well.... Private John Allen, ex-congressman from Mississippi, is to be tried, along with a number