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Scraps anil jracts. ? Memphis, June 10: According to a story printed in a local paper, evidence tending to show that more than $100,000 worth of cotton was stolen front railroads during the season of 1909-10 is now in the possession of the Shelby county grand jury. If a true hill is returned, it is said a number of prominent men will be involved. The investigation is saiu u> ua.ied the fact that half a dozen or more negro dravnien were mere tools of the thieves-in-chlcf. It is said the drivers would receive the cotton and in place of getting it to the warehouses to which it was consigned, would deliver it to the place designated by the "fences." This place, it is stated, was equipped to remove every vestige of identification marks the bagging being taken off and destroyed and replaced with new bagging, the cotton then being disposed of. ? Beginning with September, 1908, there has been a monthly increase in wholesale prices, without a break, up to March, 1910, and during the latter month the prices were higher than at any time in the preceding twenty years, according to a report which has just been issued hv the national bureau of labor. The report is based upon an investigation of 257 commodities and says that the wholesale prices during March of the current year were 7.5 per cent higher than in March 1909. 10.2 per cent higher than in August, 21.1 per cent higher than the average yearly price of 1900, 49.2 per cent higher than the average yearly price of 1897, and 33.8 per cent higher than the average price' for the ten years 1890 to 1899. The wholesale prices In 1909 advanced three per cent over the prices of 1908, hut with this advance, they were still 2.3 per cent below the average of 1907, the year of hiehest prices within the period 1890 to 1909. Of the 257 articles investigated 125 showed an increase in the average price for 1909, as compared with 1908, 31 showed no change and 101 showed a decrease. ? Washington, June 12: The first concerted step toward suppressing graft in all its forms throughout the country, will be taken here this week when the organization whose future name probably will be the "National Anti-Graft Movement," will open offices in this city from which it will conduct its campaign. Harry W. Walker will be in charge. The movement is the direct result of the antigraft speech made last week by former Gov. Folk of Missouri, at a banquet tendered him by the Missouri Democracy. It is said that considerable funds already have been pledged to put the organization on a substantial basis, and that it will have the moral support of leading theologians representing all phases of religious thoughts. Among those who are said to be prominently identified with the movement. are Perry Belmont, Rudolph Spreckles, Augustus Thomas, the playwright, Jos. J, Willett of Alabama, and Norman Hapgood. The date for holding the first national convention it is expected will be fixed this week in Paris where Messrs. Belmont and Spreckles will hold a conference. ? Chicago, 111., June 11: Lesslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, speaking before the members of the Hawkeye Fellowship club, today, scored "insurgents" in the Republican party, declared "standpat" ideas the only logical principles of government and stigmatized the south as ignorant on political questions. Mr. Shaw's remarks regarding the south were given an unexpected dramatic twist when a southern born newspaper man, who was reporting the address, so far forgot himself that he shouted: "It is not so." "It is true," the former secretary responded, as he reiterated his statements. "The south is the best place in the world in which to make a speech," Mr. Shaw said, "because the people are so ignorant of political questions. It is not their fault. The burden of the great struggle is still upon them. But for all that, nowhere is there greater ignorance nor greater eagerness to know." Mr. Shaw took occasion to make this statement regarding the "insurgents" in the Republican party: "I have no more respect for those people who style themselves Republicans and are not, than for those Democrats who live in Florida and pretend to be Democrats and are not." ? Much significance is attached to the proposed visit of the Japanese battleship Meet to Mexico, according to dispatches received from Central America. The Latin-American press is inclined to regard the visit, which is to be made upon the occasion of Mexico's contennial celebration of her independence, as a bold diplomatic stroke by Japan, and prints rumors of special envoys being sent at the same time to carry on negotiations with Central American republics. Ell Lapiz of Celba, Spanish Honduras, in a recent issue, prints the following: "The Japanese lleet will visit Mexico in honor of the centennial of its independence. The Japanese government will at the same time send special envoys to visit Central and South American republics. It is rumored that Japan will take advantage of this visit to bring about a treaty relative to the canal in Nicaragua. It is also reported that England and Japan see the advisability of the move for future business expansion, and it is stated that England will furnish the money and Japan the labor." Central American politicians in New Orleans laugh at the report of a Nicaraguan canal, but take advantage of the opportunity to say: "Japan, like every other progressive nation, has her eyes on the commerce <>i our wonderful country." ? Washington, June 11: Although the cotton crop of the United States in 1909 was the smallest product since 1903, its value was 19.2 per cent more than that of 1908, and, measured by its yarn producing quality and by the financial results to the growers, it was the most valuable ever produced. This statement is taken from the proof sheets of the United States census bureau's bulletin on the production of cotton in 1909. The estimated value of the 1909 crop is $812,089,833, as compared with $681,230,956 for 1908; $700,9:76,011 for 1907; $721,647,237 for 1906, and $632,298,332 for 190.7. The difference between the 1909 and 1908 values is $130,858,877, an increase of 19.2 per cent, as stated. The figures as finally compiled for the crop of 1909, including linters and counting round us half bales, show 10,386,209 running bales, amounting to 10,315,382 bales, which is 3,271,924 bales, or 24.1 percent-less than the total for 1908. It is interesting to observe, the bulletin stales, that the value of the-cotton crop of last year was about one-half that of the corn crop in the country in 1909, as estimated by the department of agriculture; was nearly $100,000,000 more than the wheat crop, and was twice tin- value of the oat crop. The bulletin refers to a leading engineering and mining jour nal's statement that the world's i>ro duction of gold in 1909, amounting ii value to about $460,000,000, was th greatest ever recorded, and it point out that the sum stated is but slight); more than one-half the value of th American cotton crop last year. 5"lu' HtorkriUr (SiKimvfv. X. ? 'nt#*rnl at tin- I'ostotflce In Y < ?rk. vl 11 Mall Matter of the Second Class* YORKVILLE. S. C.t TUESDAY. JUNE 14. 1910. Clemson is killing flics with thi newspapers. OF course Tom Watson is welcomi to come in. It had gotten dreadful): cold out. Yor corn club boys have opportuni ties that your daddies never had. ant it is up to you to make use of thost opportunities. IT has already commenced, and th< next great forward step in agriculturi will be the improvement of soils witl less cost for fertilizers. This can b< done. It takes longer; but it is tremendously more profitable. Thf Illinois grafters are a lltth higher in price as compared with th< Pittsburg grafttrs; but as compared with the South Carolina dispensarj grafters, all of them are suggestive of a bent nickel to thirty cents. When Williamson announced hie corn growing plan there were manv predictions as to its tremendous vrlut to the state of South Carolina, and now most people are able to comprehend the verification of those predictions. The interburban trolley line scheme of the Southern Power company musl be kept in mind. It will mean tremendous development along new lines, and for those who are not thrown in the shade by their inability to keep along with the procession, a step upward. President Diaz of Mexico, is a great ruler, but if reports be true, Mexico is not much of a republic. The genera! election for the choice of a new president takes place this month, and the dispatches say that the president has the opposing candidate in jail. It is also claimed that more than 40,000 people have been killed for political reasons during the long administration of Diaz. Many of the Democratic congressmen consider that the postal savings bank law is the old United States bank proposition over again?the same that was squelched by the iron hand of Andrew Jackson?and the effect of th* law will be to facilitate the concentration of the currency of the country in the money centers. Some of the congressmen hope that the postal savings banks will not be patronized; but ir this hope, we fear, they are likely to be disappointed. Tub Democrats of the house who or May 26, succeeded in blocking a proposition to make immediately available the $25,000 appropriated for President Taft's traveling expenses in 1911, have abandoned their opposition, and the proposition will go through. The senate provided for the appropriation in the sundry civil bill, and an attempt to hold this bill up is not a task to be courted now, in the beginning of the hot weather. A building and loan association is nothing more than a savings bank which loans money only to its depositors and on more favorable terms than they could get money from anybody else. Managed by local men. and fairly conducted, a building and loan association is just about the best institution that can exist in any community Anderson Daily Mail. Every word of which has our endorsement. The first sentence explains the character and office of the building and loan fully, and the second explains the conditions necessary to success. Dr. Sambon, an Italian savant, is authority for the statement that corn is not responsible for pellagra, as has been supposed ever since the disease first attracted the attention of th* medical profession of Europe and tin United States. Dr. Sambon says thai pellagra is the product of a larva* that is found in swiftly running streams. The technical name of the newly discovered "bug" is the simullium. The doctor is authority for th< statement that the disease of pellagra cannot be due to diseased corn as tin malady is found in places where corr is never eaten in any form. The Anderson County Democratic Executive committee has adopted a resolution taking the matter of nominating magistrates out of the primary and by way of explanation of this action, the Anderson Daily Mail says i was because of the fact that these elections create more neighborhood strife than any other feature of th? primaries. It also gives another sufficient reason in the established principle in this state of removing judicia officers as far as possible from popular elections. Both these reasons ur? good, and it would be better if th< change were adopted throughout th< state. The magisterial primaries make lots of hot politics, make proper selections very difficult, and make it stil more difficult for the successful nominees to discharge their duties in c proper manner. A Princeton, Ky., dispatch says tha Jules Robinson, who was an important witness in the night rider trials has been assassinated from ambush That is the substance of the dispald that gives the information, except tlia it is stated that the dead man was ai ordinary "farm hand." The whoh thing suggests food for serious thought however. Here is a poor fellow wh< has information of a horrible natur< against the public welfare, and oi whose information the public depend! for its protection. The probability i; that he came by this informalioi through chance, rather than throng! design; he was at no fault. And here because of this information, this weight, this responsibility he carriet in behalf of the public, he is shot doui like a dog. This thing is not uneom - mon. In varying degrees it is one of - the commonest incidents of everyday 11 life. One of the most familiar dodges e of accused criminals of all kinds is to s get rid of the accusers, by deceit, vioy lence or otherwise. The public seldom e takes notice. What the state of Kentucky is going to do, we do not know; - but it seems to us that in a case like this it could well afford to exhaust all its resources in hunting down the as_ sassins of this poor witness and bring, ing them to answer for the crime. The Chester Lantern's lling at tne salaries of York county officials will have to be accepted as a true bill. With the exception of the clerk of the court, there is not a county | official, who gets pay anything f like commensurate with the service performed. The compensation allowed the probate judge, one of the most important officials of the county, is only about $600 a year, which is little short of a shame, notwithstanding the fact that the county has for many years been able to fill this office with men of the best character and ability, at such beggarly pay. The office of p superintendent of education, is also poorly paid, and if men looked at the salary alone the supervision of our , public educutional affairs would be left . to very indifferent ability. It is a fact that York county has long been backward in paying her public servants living salaries, and the situation should . be remedied. It*is true that good men may often be found, who will work for half pay; but it is no credit to a county like York, to allow anything of the Una nnd neither is there any economy in such a policy. 1 , Postal Savings Bank. Both the Republican and Democratic platforms were committed to the establishment of postal savings banks ? and the Republicans have succeeded in } putting through a bill by which such j an institution can be established. The Republican platform was rather , broad in its provisions, merely declaring for the establishment of a postal savings bank system, "for the convenience of the people and for the promo. tlon of thrift." The Democratic plat, form declared for the establishment of r postal savings banks only in the event I that it should prove impossible to secure u guaranteed bank, and in that event even, with restrictions that , would ensure the keeping of local de. posits at home. There have been three different I propositions under the consideration , of congress. One passed by the sen, ate; one proposed by the Republican caucus and one proposed by the Democratic caucus. The main point of difference involved the question as to what should be done with deposits. ! The senate bill provided that the de posits be loaned to local uaiiits, suuject to removal by the president lor ( loan to the government in case of war ( or other public emergency. The Ke! publican caucus bill provided a 5 per cent reserve fund to go to the government, 30 per cent to be invested in | government bonds, and the balance to be loaned to the local banks on tax supported bonds; but removable by the president practically at his pleasure. The main provision of the Democratic bill was prepared by CongressI man Finley. it set aside 5 per cent as a reserve fund, and left the remaining 95 per cent to be deposited in the local banks on indemnity security, and removable only by direction of con( gress. The most serious objection to the Republican proposition is the facility wtih which the aggregate deposits of the postal savings banks can be concentrated in the money centers of the country to the great hurt of local business. Also the making of tax supported bonds as the only basis of security for depos_ , nits ( lis puis U IUllU?lll(? UII vvwiuj , because as a rule they do not own ' bonds, and of course, there would be little gain in paying out cash fur ( bonds to be used as security for more cash to be loaned to their customers. This difficulty, however, is not insuper( able. We do not like the looks of the postal savings bank scheme as it will become a law; but after all it may turn out better than it looks like. Any kind i of a postal savings bank scheme in : this county, is more or less of an experiment and will have to be perfected i in practice. FLIES LIKE A BIRD. Chas. K. Hamilton Makes Round Trip From New York to Philadelphia. New York, June 13.?Charles K. 1 Hamilton arose from Governor's 1s; land in an aeroplane this morning and , sped without a break 88 miles to Philadelphia in a successful cross-country flight under the auspices of the New York Times and the Philadelphia , Public Ledger. He made the trip In one hour and 51 minutes, leaving 1 Governor's Island at 7.35 and landing i at Philadelphia at 8.36. Alighting at the aviation field, he delivered letters from Gov. Hughes and Mayor Gaynor to Gov. Stuart and ' Mayor Reyburn, accepted messages of I congratulation from them to bear in . return and started for New York , again, with only brief intermission lor ' food, fuel and oil. He had flown ap' proximately 70 miles of his return journey when a sluggish motor drove . him to descend in a swamp near South Amboy, N. J., at 13.55 p. m. The pro1 peller was broken there in landing, but ' after repairs had been made Hamilton i resumed his flight tit 6.30 and landed at Governor's Island at 6.39. Thus the return trip was made in one hour and 36 minutes at an estimated speed of , 54.96 miles an hour, which breaks the n.ciitvl in the CurtisM Iliirilt from L Albtfny to New fork. That Hamilton did not make the re, turn trip as easily as the outgoing trip was due only to haste. He neglected to clean his spark plugs, they 1 fouled, the engine balked, and he had i to come down on the banks of the I ltaritan river, two miles above South Am boy. Curtiss still holds the official record for speed, but Hamilton today took all . American records for cross-country I distance and duration, and, using his qwii figures for the return, his average speed is a new figure. The broken propeller was the second mishap of the . kind during the day. but he secured a , new prop tiller and with a new set of spark plugs tin- aviator was able to ? finish within hours, although 24 - hours were allowed in the terms of his 1 contract. During the whole of his first lap Hamilton never varied more than two 1 minutes from his time card and came down on the handkerchief laid to mark his landing spot with the precision of a homing pigeon settling on t its perch. ? Promoters are endeavoring to revive interest in the old Dorn gold mine 1 in Kdgefjeld county. This mine was opened by a man named Dorn in 1 s47. and was worked continuously until 1 rPhi? Qtnrv tliMt lmf lift It* j ore was taken <?ut at first; l?ut after a time the ore )>aid well and Horn K<?t a bin fortune. Suddenly the ore peter' ed out and operations were hrnimht to a stand still. There iias heen nothing , doing for a numher of years. The promoters are now telling a story that s may or may not lie true, to the effeet 11 that the superiutetulenls of the mine i wanted more liberal treatment ami 1 iiik unahle to net it from lite management, cunningly led the workings away from the ore lead into non-paying ; dirt. It is claimed that the old lead I has heen rediscovered, ami that the mine will turn out more gold than ever. 1 The former output is estimated tit from - S'.hmi.imio to $::.4mk?.(i'mi. LOCAL AFFAIRS, ' i VPW ADVERTISEMENTS. Baseball?Tomorrow afternoon be- 1 tween Hickory drove niul Yorkvllle. 1 A good game is assured. i Jas. E. Pcamguard?Is announced as a candidate for election to the house of representatives from York county. subject to the will of the Democratic party in the primary election. Yorkvllle Baptist Church?Invites you I to attend the protracted services be- -i pinning next Sunday evening. ( T. M. & H. E. Ferguson?Want to buy veal calves, turkeys, chickens, geese and rattle. J. E. Reamguard. See.?Asks for sealed bids for the construction of a school building at Clover. J. 1m Williams & Co.?Remind you of the sacrifice prices they are offering on all men's and hoys' clothing. W. E. Ferguson?Says he is always on the job of furnishing his customers with the best of everything in fancy and family groceries. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Insists that you investigate the companies and policies before you insure your life. You pay the freight. National Union Rank, Rock Hill? Points out that the question of your earnings is important, but the vital questiln Is, how much can you save? Star Drug Store?Is prepared to furnish you with the hest ice creams, all flavors and colors, in blocks, either at your home or at its fountain. Thomson Co.?Announces a splendid sale of white goods, bed spreads, sheets, pillow cases, embroideries, etc., beginning next Saturday and continuing seven days, making reductions of 25 to 50 per cent. The June number of The Christian Messenger was mailed to subscribers last Saturday. The unsettled condition of the weather during the past week or two, is interfering with the harvesting of the small grain crop. The state campaign meeting for York county will be held at Yorkville on Friday, July 1. It is not expected that county politics will begin to warm up much until after that date. COMMUTATION ROAD TAX. . The receipts for commutation road tax are coming slowly, but steadily. When it comes to paying taxes, there is only a limited number of people who ] try to be among the first. The tendency is to wait until the last minute and that always brings a rush during the closing days. The number of commutations paid by townships up to yesterday, was as follows: Bethel : 29 Bethesda ... 8 Broad River 22 Bullock's Creek 43 , Catawba 6 Eoenezer 125 Fort Mill 13 < King's Mountain 49 t York 36 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT.. The South Carolina School Improvement association offers fifty prizes to the schools of the state for the most decided material improvement made during a given length of time. Ten of the prizes are to be $100 each, and 1 forty are to be $50 each. Regulations ' concerning the fifty prizes to be awarded by this association are as ' follows: 1. Improvement must be made between November 1, 1909, and Decern- i ber 10. 1910. 1 2. Prizes will be awarded to schools where the most decided material improvements have been made during ' the time mentioned. t 3. Under material improvements are { included local taxation, consolidation, new buildings, repairing and painting c old ones, libraries, reading rooms or 1 tables, interior decorations, beautifying $ yards, and better general equipment. 4. No school can compete for any of these prizes unless it is a rural school. I No town with more than 400 population \ shall be eligible. . 5. All who wish to enter this contest must send yames and descriptions OI scnooi ueiore Kiipruveiucm.i aic made to the president prior to October 1st. 6. All descriptions, photographs and other evidences showing improvements must he sent to the president before December 15, 1910. The chairman of the board of trustees of any school that is competing for a prize must approve all descriptions before and after improvements are made. 7. Blanks will he sent to schools competing for the above prizes with questions to be answered relating to the conditions under which the improvements have been made. 8. Prizes will be awarded in checks December 31, 1910. The prizes are to be used for further improvements in the schools receiving them. Address all communications to Mrs. W. L. Daniel, President South Carolina School Improvement association, Saluda, S. C. BASEBALL NOTES. Hickory Grove and Yorkville will play ball on the Gra led school grounds tomorrow afternoon at 4.30, if the weather permits. The Yorkville baseball team went to Hickory Grove on Saturday and was defeated by the Groveites by a score of 3 to 1. Lattimore, pitching for Hickory Grove, struck out twenty-one batters. Howard Sm?th and John R. Logan, Jr., were the l attery for Yorkville. A team from Tirzah played the York Cotton mill on the mil' grounds Saturday afternoon, and were defeated by a score of 7 to C, ten innings being necessary to score the winning run. Clover made it three straights. As stated in The Enquirer of Friday, the game of hall on Thursday afternoon between the University of South Carolina and Clover, resulted in a score of 3 to 0 in favor of the latter. On Friday the score was 2 to 1 in favor of Clover, while on Saturday she overwhelmed the university to the tune of 12 to 1, It is generally conceded that the game on Friday was one of the best ever witnessed iti this section, the teams being unusually evenly matched. lrp to the ending of the fifth inning only one score had been made and it by the University team. In the sixth inning two scores were made by Clover and during the remaining three innings it was goose eggs for both sides. The batteries were, University?Harper and Simpson; Clover?-Wood and Chines. <?n Saturday afternoon what was generally conceded to lie one of the largest crowds ever assembled on the Clover grounds was on hand to witness what was expected to be a good ball game; but no crowd of fans was ever more sorely disappointed. During the first inning. Clover scored twice, ami as a result the University appeared to lose \ its grip and played rotten ball during I the remaining eight innings, getting only one man across the home plate, 1 while twelve runs were made for Clo- 1 ver, and others could have been, had it not had the appearance of adding I insult to injury. Ifatteries?Univer- I sity. Mills, Harper and Sinioson; Clover, Vanpelt and Gaines. Mills yield- \ ed !? hits, Harper 8 and Vanpelt 1. The \ Columbia papers were evidently loath to give Clover credit for licking the | University team, and inste;ul of desig- ] nutiug it as such, referred to it in its report of Thursday's game as "a crowd I of college boys." It is a fact that the I challenge to clover was signed "W. M. Craydnii, Manager, Univt-rsity S". ('. i liasi-hall Team," anil that hi- and liv?? t it hers nf tin- regular team were on hand and took part in all three games, ( and thi n- is litth- probability that tin- 1 result would have been different had the other three regulars been on the job, as Clover on this occasion as it does on all others, either in business or sport, went in to succeed and to do so fairly and honorably. SCARCITY OF CATTLE. "The reason the beef cattle have grown so scarce in this country, is that people sell the calves before they [juit sucking." fPhlo vprv nrAPtlcnl Ansvi'Pi* In n question recently naked in The Kiuiuirer, was Riven by Mr. Alonzo Rose, a well known butcher of Yorkville a few days ago, and pursuiiiR the subject further, Mr. Rose said: "Yes, that's all there is to it. People will sell a calf three weeks old for a jollar or a dollar and a half? I have bought them for 75 cents?rather than keep them a year and sell them for twelve or fifteen dollars. This kind of IhinR has been RoiiiR on for years and jrowing worse of late, and no wonder ?attle are scarce. It could not be anything else in the face of such a waste. Asked to suggest a remedy, Mr. Rose iaid: "About the only thing I can think )f, is an act of the legislature to prolibit the slaughter of calves under, say fix months old. You see it is about ike this. Something like 75 per cent )f the cattle increase in this county is Tom milk cows, and these cows are <ept entirely for their milk and but;er. The owners of the cows are as a ule not prepared to take care of the :alves and usually sell them for what night be offered. There are a few peojle, who understand what a profitable ;hing it is to buy up these cal.es and aise them; but most of the calves go :o the butchers, who sell them as veal, [f we could put a stop to the slaughter )f the calves, more people would drift nto the idea of providing pasturage, tnd in the course of a few years, beef would once more be plentiful. But as [hings are going now, the difficulty of jetting good beef is steadily lncreasng." As illustrating the profit in cattle -aising, Mr. Rose said that he has * - *- - - * -A * * O POUgni scruo raives ai ic?a man aim jold them for $12 In less than a year, rtithout being out anything for raising expenses that he was able to keep in account of. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Can anyone tell us when the first flying machine will visit Yorkvllle? ? Another new building or two on Congress street and things will look letter. ? '"Frying chickens" are in great demand in Yorkville, but they are very jcarce. ? The glorious Fourth is coming and lot even a game of baseball scheduled for Yorkville. ? The week-end crowd in Yorkville vas a little larger than for several previous Saturdays. ? Mr. Amos Keeter will probably befin his summer campaign in Yorkville ivithin the next week or two. ? The York Cotton mill Is now busy jetting things in shape for the inslalation of the weaving machinery. ? Rev. J. S. Corpening, pastor of the ?aptis* church at Rldgeway, S. C., vlll assist in a series of meetings to be jommenced In tho Yorkville Raptlst hurch on next Sunday evening, June 19, at 8.30 o'clock, and continue for leveral days. ? The new fire insurance map of the fown of Yorkville, for which a survey vas made by the Sanborn Map company during the winter, has just been ssued. It is quite a complete and satsfactory work, showing all the buildngs In the town In relative proporions, etc. Only the insurance agents lave copies, however. ? The first train stopped at the new 2. & N.-W. station yesterday, the juilding having just been completed tnd turned over for the occupancy of \gent E. W. Long and his assistant, Mr. Henry Summitt. The building presents a neat and trim appearance, vhich will be materially augmented ivhen the work of cleaning off the grounds is completed. ? What the state of the town's finances is, we do not know. There is a aw, (the charter under which the government is being administered) providng that the town council each year make a full statement of all receipts tnd expenditures. This law has been leliberately ignored, and the citizens if the town have no way of knowing ivhat is becoming of the taxes they jay. This is stated merely for the in,'ormation it contains and to explain ivhy we do not know anything of the :own's finances. What we started out ;o say, was that the most meritorious nove that has been made in Yorkville since the town has had a municipal government, was that move made last summer in the direction of fixing up he streets. We shall not say that the tvork was done perfectly, because it vas not. Anybody can see that. It nay have cost more than it should lave cost also. But under the circumstances it was creditable, creditable to [he town and creditable to the memjers of the council who supervised it. The sensible thing now is lo go on ,vith this work, provided the finances >f the town will admit of further progress. The question as to where to begin is very well calculated to arouse liftVrenees of opinion. There are pleny of places that badly need improvenent, and there is no difficulty about dtizens in all parts of the town being ible to make showings mai ineir streets need improvement worst. Rut ight on down Congress street is the ivay the work should progress. This section should be taken up next for the eason that it includes the remainder if the business portion of the town, :he portion in which most people ire interested. No, we are not running Ihe thing. We have not a thing to do ivith it. except to pay our part of the :axes, and to offer our suggestion as :o the best and most sensible way of expending the.money. . ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Mamie Hose of Yorkvllle, Is isiting relatives and friends in Columsla. Mrs. O. I*. Heath of Charlotte. Is in k'orkville on a visit to the family of dr. R. Ernest Heath. Miss Elizabeth Wilborn, who has jeen visiting in Chester, has returned :o her home in Yorkville. Mr. O. L). Anderson, Southern railvay agent at Camden, was in Yorkrille, Saturday, on business. Mrs. S. M. Jones and Miss Mary Brown Ol uncain, nil- m?- gucmo Mrs. i. C. Wilhorn in Yorkville. Miss Rose Samlifer, of Krskine colore. Duo West, has returned to her tome in Yorkville for the summer. Mr. Arthur Hart of Yorkville, left Sunday morning for Duluth, Minn., vhere he will make his future home. Miss lYanees Flnley of the College or Women, Columbia, has returned to jer home in Yorkville for the summer. Master William Marshall, who has been spending a few days in Clover, has returned to his home in Yorkville. Mr. Wilborn Cunningham of Waxhaw, N. C., spent several days last week, with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilborn in Yorkville. Miss Mary Eunice Grist left this morning for Bennettsville, where she expects to spend sometime with relatives and friends. Mr. Samuel Reid Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. T. Spencer of I^-sslle, has been elected to a position in the Rock Hill graded school. Congressman Flnley came down from Washington last Saturday to be with his family a day or two and attend to some personal business. Dr. J. R. Kennedy arrived in Yorkville on Saturday from Aurora, N. Y., and will spend the summer with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kennedy. Mr. D. R Finley. Jr., of the South Carolina university has returned to Yorkville to spend the summer, with his parents, Hon. and Mrs. D. R Finley. Mrs. D. E. Boney, who has been spending sometime in Aiken, has returned to her home in Yorkville. She is accompanied by her niece, Mi3s Lucile McCreary of Aiken. Mr. W. f?. White of F.rskine college, and Mr. Howard White of the College of Charleston, have returned to Yorkville to spend the summer with their parents. Dr. and Mrs. W. f?. White. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Beard and son, Mr. Howard of Columbia; M. B. Jennings, Esq, and Miss Rita Beard of Spartanburg, attended the funeral of little Alice Moore in Yorkville, yester day. Captain M. C. Willis and Hudson C. Miller, Esq., of Yorkville, left for Charleston, on Sunday, to attend the encampment of the coast artillery branch of the National Guard of South Carolina, at Fort Moultrie. Capt. Willis is acting quartermaster and commissary and Mr. Miller is acting sergeant major. The many Yorkville friends of Capt. J. J. Smith, of Clover were pained to learn on yesterday that he was dangerously sick, but we are pleased to be able to state that the Enquirer was advised this morning that his physicians report him much better and express the opinion that he will soon be himself again. Mr. W. D. Grist, editor of The Enquirer, left for Glenn's Springs this morning, accompanied by his little daughter, Miss Elizabeth, to attend the annual convention of the South Carolina Press association. It is Mr. Grist's purpose to go on the excursion over the C. C. & O. railroad to Dante, Va., leaving Spartanburg on Thursday morning, and returning- to that oltv Satnrrlnv night. He hopes' to be able to give an interesting story of his trip soon after his return. THE EPISCOPAL ORPHANAGE. "That persons brought up In orphanges are impractical, that they do not know how to do ordinary things, is a common remark. How could it be otherwise in a great institution?what opportunities have they to learn? That is the objection that we are striving to overcome in Yorkville by the 'cottage system.'" So said Deaconess Wile who, with Deaconess Gadsden, is In charge of the Church Home orphanage of the South Carolina diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the course of a rarely interesting address to a small audience- after the evening service in Trinity church yesterdaiy?an address in which the young deaconess described simply and clearly, interlarding her story with many touching and some funny incidents, about child life, the work that the "home" is doing, says the Columbia State of yesterday. The deaconess Is visiting the parishes throughout the diocese with the object of further interesting them in the "Bishop Capers' Memorial Cottage," which is to be erected on the grounds?the site of the home being that of the historic King's Mountain Military academy, once conducted by Col. Asbury Coward and the late Gen. Micah Jenkins, which the people of Yorkville donated to the diocese. It was first planned that the memorial should be in the form of a chapel, but the diocesan council at its Sumter meeting, upon petition of those having immediate direction of the orphanage, voted that a double cottage be erected instead. Deaconess Wile exhibited sketches of the proposed cottage, saying that it had been suggested that two memorial tablets to the late bishop, one on the wall of each wing, telling of him as a "bishop" and as a "general," respectively, should be placed. She has visited already the parishes of the low country, from Beaufort to Cheraw, exclusive of Charleston, and her reception has been encouraging everywhere. "One little parish," she said, "with only ten communicants, which has just finished building its little church. Hartsvil'e, leads the list, having pledged $50." The address outlining the methods of the work and education at the orphanage, was full of what newspaper men call "human interest stories" and bad weather would have been braved by a large congregation if they could have foreknown the beautiful narrative of helpful work for little ones that would be sketched. "Our first anniversary at Yorkville," said the deaconess, "was May 13, and since we left Charleston the number of the family has almost doubled?we carried 38 to Yorkville and now there are 66, ranging in age from 2.J to 17 years. We have two 'cottages,' each presided over by a 'cottage mother,' and the aim is to make them as much like homes as possible?as this is the only home life that'these little ones as children can hope to know. Five dollars a month are required for the support of a child, not including clothes, and we are wholly dependent upon voluntary contributions. "Last year the Thanksgiving offerings were doubled, but the family has doubled and they carry us only half the year. We have not a servant on the place?the children, assisted by six or seven elders, housemothers, teachers and deaconesses?do all the work and they are learning to cook and to do the household duties. There ....... on o?e,.a ,.f in on niirl we hone in time to make the orphanage largely self-supporting from the farm. Each child has a little garden of her own now." The deaconess especially stressed the endeavor to remove so far as may he the appearance of institutional life from the children's view, to make the life like home. "They wear no uniforms," she said, "one would not know, one of our children from other children in Yorkville?we try to hring them up In a natural way as other children are brought up. "The people of Yorkville have been ever hospitable and generous to us," she said. "Meeting a Presbyterian lady in the street one day she inquired, 'How is the orphanage getting along?' 'Splendidly,' I answered. 'Well, you know,' continued the lady, 'I can't feel that it's an Episcopalian orphanage, but that it's our orphanage,' and that is the spirit which the Yorkville people of all denominations show toward us." Of striking interest was the classification which the deaconess gave of the sources from which the children came, illustrating them with brief sketches of some of the little ones and their antecedents. "They come to us from four causes, death of parents, poverty of parents, desertion of parents or crimes of parents, and our aim is to refuse admission to none who are worthy of charity. One good woman has three or four children in the [ orphanage and she is working in a factory to help maintain them, though, on account of ill health, she can do little. Another little group were admitted to save them from degrading surroundings, they are among the most promising of the orphanage family now, and then there is a sad case of a wee little boy whose mother is dead and whose father?well, the little boy 'wonders when papa is coming again,' and the rest of the little tragedy best remain untold." On the bright side, the deaconess described a birthday of a little girl at one of the cottages, when a bright fire was built in the parlor fi>r the invited guests and a pretty little supper served, and a little "best friend" assisted the small hostess in receiving, and everybody played games and then sat about the fire and told stories?"it was b.at n.w.Vi r% ..n M?.F nn wai.m 1U?1o juoi aui II a an .MMII iiuir f)ii i would give?at least, it was in the merry time we had." A committee Is to he formed In each parish to press forward the memorial cottage buildings, which will allow the rooms in the main building to be used for their proper object?the further teaching of the manual arts, carpentry, printing and othe, trades. "The cottage, some one has said," the deaconess remarked, "is the form of memorial that the beloved bishop would have most wished for.' In fourteen of the parishes the committees have already been organized. After the address the deaconess remained for a conference about Sunday school work with some of the Trinity teachers and members of the congregation. LOCAL LACONICS. We will send The Yorkvlle Enquirer from this date till January 1, 1911, for $1.14. Reward for Incendiaries. Governor Ansel has offered a reward of $75 for the arrest of the party or parties, who burned the store of E. P. H. Nevins In Fort Mill township last spring. Negro Shooting Affray. Abe Seigel shot George Webb on last Saturday morning, near White Hill church. Both are colored, Webb was sitting on a mowing machine and Seigel coming up from the rear with a shot gun, fired a load of slugs Into his back, at a distance of only twenty or thirty feet. Webb fell, apparently mortally wounded, and after standing around for a short time, Seigel came to Yorkville and surrendered to Sheriff Brown. Seigel gives Webb's too intimate attention to his wife as an excuse for the shooting. Davidson-Abell. Chester Reporter, June 13: A quiet home wedding, attended only by intimate friends and relatives, will be solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Abell at Lowryvllle, Wednesday evening, June 15th, when Miss Frances, the oldest danerhter. will he married to Mr. Jas. L. Davidson of Chester. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. F. A. Drennan of Lowryville. Miss Abell has taught for several years in the city graded schools, and has hosts of friends who are delighted that she is going to return to Chester to remain permanently. Mr. Davidson is assistant manager of the C. & N.-W. Rwy., president of the Commercial club, and prominent In Chester's social and business life. Death of R. C. Stephenson. Mr. R. C. Stephenson, a native of York county, died at his home near Landsford, Chester county, Saturday morning, in the 76th year of his age, and was buried in the Old Stone graveyard near Langsford, Saturday afternoon, after funeral services conducted by Rev. J. Q. Adams, pastor, of Harmony Baptist church. Mr. Stephenson was born' about five miles north of Yorkville and moved to Chester after the war, where he has since resided. He was a member of company G, Palmetto Sharpshooters and served throughout the war. Mr. Stephenson is survived by his wife and one son, Mr. John R. Stephenson, and two sisters, Mrs. Monia Beamguard of Filbert, and Mrs. Martha Harvey of Charlotte. Mrs. Beamguard, and Messrs. J. E. Beamguard of Clover, and D. C. Clark of Yorkville No. 1, nephews of the deceased, attended the funeral. Rock Hill's Lighting Plant. Rock Hill special of June 11, to the Charlotte Observer: The board of public works of this city has bought a lot and closed a contract with Engineer Rucker of Charlotte for plans, specifications, etc., for a municipal lighting plant, the work to begin at once. Rock Hill is at present getting lights from a local company known as Rock Hill Water and Electric comnany, which is owned by Philadelphia capitalists headed by Martin Maloney of that city, wno nave a irancnise un me wain for ten years longer, but whose eontract for lights has expired and on account of some difference between the company and the city in regard to rates, and being unable to get together, the board of public works decided it best to put in a lighting plant to be owned by the city. Several months ago the city voted $285,000 in bonds for sewerage, waterworks and lights, but on account of trying to trade with the local concern nothing in regard to the construction has been done. This step taken by the board, it is now thought, will get the matter under headway. McElwee-AbernatHy. Pulaski, Tenn., correspondence Nashville Tennesseean, June 9: Of notable brilliance and beauty was the marriage on Wednesday evening, June 8, at 9 o'clock, at the Presbyterian church of Mr. Henry Quay McElwee of Montgomery, Ala., and Miss Elise Abernathy of this city. The church, which has a beautiful and ideal chancel, for such a scene, was decorated with palms, ferns, smiiax and Jackson vines, also with pink tulle lovebows, tied with pink satin ribbons and sprays of pink sweet peas. Mrs. Geo. White, T * nrno idnrl of tho nriro n o tiH an Vft with Mesdames E. E. Eslick and S. H. Woodward, a splendid programme of nuptial music. The Mendelssohn march was used as processional and recessional and during the ceremony the sweet strains of "Traumrie" were softly played. The bride, who is a young woman of patrician beauty, presented a picture of regal loveliness in an ideal bridal gown of white lace over white satin. The tulle veil, which enveloped her stately figure, was caught with orange blossoms to the lustrous braids of her soft brown hair. About her throat she wore the gift of the groom, a diamond drop necklace, and her bouquet was a chatelaine of bride's roses, valley lilies and maidenhair ferns. The matrons of honor wore respectively superb toilets of white crepe meteor, with embroidered front draped in real lace and white chiffon cloth with pearl trimmings. The ring ceremony was impressively said by Rev. M. S. Kennedy, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Pulaski. After the ceremony the bridal party and a number of special friends were entertained with a reception at the home of the bride. Here the decorations were | charming. In the reception rooms stands of pink fringed poppies, pink sweet peas and pink hydrangeas were effectively and artistically used with gardens of smilax and Jackson vines. Mr. and Mrs. McEIwee left on the midnight train for a bridal trip to Asheville, N. C., and from there to Yorkville, S. C., to visit the brother of the groom. The handsome young bride wore for traveling a gray lanorea ciom with self toned marquisette blouse with a hat of gold straw trimmed with corn flowers. A splendid and large collection of costly bridal gifts attested the cordial and affectionate interest which centered around the bridal pair. These occupied an entire apartment on the upper Moor, and consisted of silver, cut glast, Confederate souvenirs and many other lovely gifts. The bride's gifts to her maids were hand-.carved gold bar lace pins. MERE-MENTION. Governor Mann of Virginia, on Thursday, commuted the sentences of three negroes, sentenced to death by ' electricity on Friday, to life imprisonment. The negroes were convicted of complicity in the murder of an artist at Alexandria, in March of last year. ....Coal miners to the number of 3.000 are on a strike in Ohio A Commercial Congress, composed of Commercial clubs and trade bodies representing fifty-one towns and cities, was organized in Atlanta, Ga., last week. Its principal business will be advertising Georgia.... The grand jury i of Fulton county, Ga., on Friday, handed to the court forty-five indictments against "loan sharks" doing business in Atlanta Mr. Roosevelt and his party will arrive in New York on < ) Thursday from London, after an absence of nearly fifteen months... .Geo. Demont, a New Orleans lawyer, and three young Atlanta, Oa., men, are under arrest at Memphis, Tenn., charged 4 with hank swindling, by means of fraudulent checks A dispatch from Radajoz, Spain, Is to the efTect that the Portuguese army has mutinied and that King Manuel has abdicated the throne in favor of the Duke of Oporto. Manuel is said to have taken the step in the hope that the monarchy might be saved Yellow fever has broken out among the troops of the Ecuadorean army at Machala. Ninetytwo cases were reported on June 8th. ....Ahmed Samin, editor of the Sedai millet, was the victim or a political assassin at Constantinople, Turkey, Fri[ day Electric storms In Germany and Russia during Thursday and Friday, caused . more than forty-five deaths and over $1,000,000 damage to growing crops Frank Davis, secretary of the Grand Consistory of the Scottish Rite Masons of Louisiana, has been indicted at New Orleans, for embezzling $15,000 from the consistory (funds Work is well underway to . | reclaim 1,000,000 acres of swamn lands * within a radius of fifty miles of New , Orleans. The reclaimed land will be used for truck farms... .Fred R. Blee, driving his automobile at a speed of seventy miles an hour, crashed through a gate to a viaduct at Cleveland, O.. Friday, and plunged to the rocks sev- < enty-flve feet below. He was killed instantly A score or more dead and fifty or more hurt and a property damage exceeding $1,000,000, resulted from a fire originating on the waterfront of Seattle, Wash., early Saturday morning Eugene Edwards, a negro, shot Dee Fulmer, a white farmer, near Talladega, Ala., Friday, in a quar- < rel over a crap game..Four men were killed near Hebron bay, Ontario, Saturday, when a freight train crashed / into a landslide and rolled down a 100foot cliff Chas. R. Heike, secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar ^ Refining company, together with Ernest W. Gerbracht, were convicted in the Federal court In New York on Friday, on charges of defrauding the government out of customs duties by false weights. Heike, who is 65 years of age, faces a sentence of two years In prison and a fine of $10,000. Gerbacht, convicted on six counts, is liable to a sentence of twelve years and $40,000 In fines. Sentence has been postponed pending the filing of a bill particulars. Seven hundred men, women and children on board the steamer, Carolina, were thrown Into a panic Saturday afternoon, when that vessel collided with a barge in New York harbor. The barge sunk immediately, and the steamer was rushed to her dock to unload per passengers The United StateB department of justice has filed a suit against the Union Stock Yards company, charging a monopoly ^ Mrs. Russell Sage, has given the Audubon society $15,000 for educational work in several of the southern states, including North and South Carolina, noAPotla onH T7*lr?rirl a THa smith is raising a special fund for the protection of the robin Allen B. Paul, shot his wife to death at Richmond, Va., Sunday and then committed suicide, following an all night quarrel. President Taft's family will go to Beverly, Mass., on June 23 for the summer Sheriff Haskins of Charlemont, Mass., was shot to death Sunday by Silas Phelps, whom the sheriff was trying to arrest on a charge of assault. ... .Nearly 20,000 people are expected to greet Mr. Roosevelt when he arrives In New York harbor on Thursday More than 100 boats will take part in the harbor parade The office of the Montreal Herald, Montreal. Canada, was destroyed by fire Monday morning, entailing a property loss of $200,000, and a loss of life is estimated from thirty to sixty. The cause of the disaster was the crashing of a gigantic [ water tank through the roof of the building, carrying everything down with it The Atlanta Journal?New York Herald automobile tourists, who left Atlanta last Monday, arrived in New York yesterday afternoon. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The summer term of the Sixth circuit, Judge S. W. Shipp presiding, commenced at Winnsborp, yesterday. ? The Richland grand Jury has recommended an increase in the rural police force of the- county" to- put a stop to reckless automobile speeding. ? Tully Babb shot West Knight to death on the outskirts of Greenville, Sunday morning. Both were prosperous farmers and the shooting was the result of an old feud. ? Hon. E. Marion Rucker, for eleven years a member of the house of rep resentattves ana cnairman 01 me ways and means committee, will accept the position of professor of law at the University of South Carolina. ? Adjutant General Boyd was stricken with convulsions in his room In Columbia last Friday, and for several hours It was thought that he was dying. He recovered, however, and his physician expects him to get all right again. The- trouble is attributed to overwork and excitement. ? John M. Wise and M. C. Tldwell. young white men of Watts' Mill, Laurens county, were arrested and committed to the Laurens jail on Saturday, charged with the murder of Clarence L. White. The alleged crime was committed on the night of January 30. and young White died nine days later. ? Columbia special of June 11, to the News and Courier: About half of the candidates for state offices have filed their pledges with Chairman Wilie Jones of the Democratic committee. Up to Saturday noon there had been filed eighteen pledges. The last day for filing pledges is June 21, at 12 o'clock noon. Chairman Jones today called attention to the fact that candidates should bear in mind that the last possible moment of filing pledges will be 12, meridian, June 21, the day before the campaign opens at Sumter. Those who have filed pledges. In 'the order they were filed, are: James Cansler, railroad commissioner; R.H.Jennings, for state treasurer; Charles A. Smith, for lieutenant governor: C. C. Featherstone, for governor; T. W. Duvall, for lieutenant governor; R. M ? * r? ** Aicuown, ior necremi y <ji ou>i<;, u. m. Duffle Hampton, for railroad commissioner; J. Eraser Lyon, for attorneygeneral; A. W. Jones, for comptroller general; Thos. O. McLeod, for governor; C. L. Blease, for governor; 0. O Scarborough, for railroad commissioner; J. E. Swearingen, for state superintendent of education; John G. Richards, for governor; J. F. Brynes. for congress; J. E. Ellerbe, for congress; T. J. Johnson, for congress, and George S. Lagare, for congress. As there will be about forty candidates for state officers, the above list represents about half of the number that will file pledges. ? Union special to Columbia State, June 13: At the court of general sessions here this morning with W. B. Gruber of Walterboro, special judge presiding, the case of W. T. Jones was brought up in the form of a motion for a new trial on the grounds of after-discovered evidence. Efforts were made by the attorneys for Jones to postpone the hearing on account of the Illness of one of Jones' attorneys. Stanyarne Wilson, who was operated on over a month ago for appendicitis, the point being raised by the attorneys present that Mr. Wilson who was ill had looked after getting up the affidavits in the case and that he was better acquainted with the facts regarding the evidence. They requested the judge to continue the case until conference could be had with Mr. Wilson. The attorneys for the state took the ground that the attorneys for the defendant had had ample time to have made all their arrangements and to be ready at this term of court. Further, that by the delaying or tne ease it caused a further delay in Justice and that if the case would be continued this morning it would most probably mean that the case would not come up until the September term of court. Judge Gruber, af'er hearing the arguments from both sides in regard to postponing the motion, decided that the hearing must be proceeded with today. Attorneys for the defendant then proceeded to. hear the petition for the new trial and the affidavits in support thereof which were numerous and voluminous and the hearing of them occupied the morning hours. When court reconvened in the afternoon the state presented its affidavits for the purpose of showing why the motion should not be granted. Council for the defendant, as each affidavit was read, objected to such portions as was considered irrelevant or incompetent. In this way the whole afternoon was consumed.