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-Scraps and .facts. ? New Orleans, August 27: The cause of Miss Mamie McLaughlin, the pretty 19-year-old New Orleans girl who killed Hugh Smith, Jr., a young saloon keeper and politician, who, she claims, betrayed her, has been espoused by the Era club, a leading woman's organization of Louisiana, which has received pledges of support from other similar organizations throughout the south in its efforts to clear the young woman. The Era club has announced that it will depend upon the "unwritten law" in defense of the girl. In a resolution on the subject the club ''hot'o Kuon invnrin umairo mai uivu ?m?v mw.. .m bly acquitted on grounds of the 'unwritten law." and there is no logical reason why this law should not apply to women. Another ground for appeal whi?h will l?e prosecuted by the club in the event the girl is convicted on her first trial, it is said, will be the invocation of the aid of the Federal courts on the ground that Miss McLaughlin was not tried by a jury of her peers in the absence of feminine members on the jury. A well known constitutional lawyer is said to have advised the club of the possibilities of this situation. ? Johnson City, Tenn., August 27: The movement inaugurated by the Carolina. Clinchfield and Ohio railway to bring "back home" native horn Virginians, Tennesseeans and Carolinians now living in the west has. in only two weeks' time, proved a most popular undertaking. Newspapers in the three states, people who have absent relatives and public officials are impressed with the value of the plan and are doing all they can to further it. Replies to inquiries at over 500 postofflces in southwest Virginia, east Tennessee and western North Carolina, made by the industrial department of the railroad, show that probably 10,000 young men removed from these sections in the five years preceding the building of the railroad. Their addresses are now being obtained by the railroad, and information concerning the new opportunities it has made possible, especially for farming, fruit and stock raising, is being sent them. As an immigration plan southern editors are saying that it is the most practical of any yet undertaken In the south; that the most desirable population for any country is the native born stock in these mountain sections. ? Washington, August 28: The treaty 1 between Japan and Korea, by which 1 the hermit kingdom is annexed as a sovereign part of Japan with an agreement entered into with the department 1 officials and Baron Uchida, the Japan- 1 ese ambassador to the United States. '' In addition to the text of the convention a declaration of the Japanese government concerning the effects of ' the annexation upon powers enjoying treaties with Japan is made public. Existing Korean schedules covering 1 imports from foreign countries, and regulations governing coasting trade, will be continued for ten years. The ^ United States specifically is acquaint- , ed with the fact that the copyright and patent laws of Japan will be extended to Korea. The treaty declares that the failure of the two countries to proceed as rapidly as was desirable toward a closer union led to the coal- j ition. The Korean imperial household ( is to he given peerages under the Ja- , panese regime, with annuities sufficient to maintain the dignity of their new honors. Titles and annuities also , will be conferred on leading Korean officials. This instrument is a lengthy ^ one. ? It has been announced that the postoffiee department would issue a new form of domestic money order in the near future. A principal feature ( of the new form will be a detachable coupon, to take the place of the ad- j vice on the present slips, and which . will be presented with the money or- ( der by payee or endorsee at the paying office. It is stated that the names of the remitter and payee will not appear in the body of the order, but the | sending of the coupon with the order . will serve to acquaint or remind the ; payee of the name of the person enti- i tied to credit for the remittance. The , order and coupon together are some- i what longer than the order now in use, but may be handled conveniently with commercial paper by banks and i business houses. The width is the | same as that of the present order, < Beginning with the earliest date at < which the government printer at 1 Washington will be ready to print and ship such forms, domestic money or- 1 ders of the new styles will he furnish- i ed to all postofflces in the United 1 States. It is stated that the orders I now in stock at the various postofflces in the country will he used up before the new ones will he asked for. ? Charlotte Observer, Monday: Much 1 interest centers about the mill city which is in process of construction at Great Falls. S. C. As nothing hut the 1 finest goods will he manufactured, j nothing hut the best labor will he employed. In order to keep this labor, a plant the erpial of any in the south is being erected. The houses are of four and six rooms each, with hot and cold water, sewerage, wide porches and generous yards. There is a fine titration plant in connection with the town which promises a splendid supply of drinking water. Messrs. Hal and Robert Mebane. the directing heads <* the big Republic cotton mill, are having elegant homes built on the top of the hill overlooking the mill village. By December, or earlier, the company hopes to be ready to begin manufacturing. This is a Sfioo.ooo proposition. The mill will have 25,000 spindles and accompanying looms, etc. When it is completed the company will plan the erection of two additional mills, to have 75,000 spindles and accompanying looms, etc. This means a further expenditure of about $1,500,000. All these plants will be driven by electricity transmitted from the Southern rowtr coni|iuii\ wmerpunri ucvcwpments. ? New Orleans, August 117: Secretary Hester's statement ??f the world's visilde supply of cotton, made up from special cable and telegraph advices, compares the figures of this week with last week, last year and the year before. It shows a decrease for the week just closed of 59,370, against a decrease of 97.376 last week, 1,445,569 last year and year before last. The total visible is 1,492,965 against 1,542,335 last week, 1,935,569 last year and 1,710,592 year before last, of this the total American cotton is 754,965, against 7S4.335 last week, 1,44.*.569 last year and 966,546 year before last, and of all other kinds, including Kgypt, Itra/.il, India, etc.. 728,000. uaainst 785,ooo last week. 490,000 last year and 744.046 year before last. The total world's visible supply of cotton as above shows a decrease compared with last week of 59,370, a decrease! compared with last year of 4ri2,604. and a decrease compared with year before last of 227,627. Of the world's visible supply of cotton as above there is now atloat and held in Great Britain and Continental Europe 711.000, against 1,631,000 last year and -959,000 year before last; in Europe 35,000, against 1.431,000 last year and 050,000 year liefore last; in India 455,000, against 201.000 last year and 407,000 year before last, and in the United States 282,000, against 253,000 last year and nn vnor ltpfnr** Inst <?lu llorkrillf drnquim. Entered at the Postoffloe In Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1910. York county has vindicated herself, Dr. Saye. A nor. trust has been formed. It will probably raise a howl. Ik Mr. Roosevelt really wants a third term as president, he will probably set it. Mr. Taft's hopes of a Republican party In Georgia, were badly jolted in last Tuesday's elections. "StrXNY" Jim Sherman and "Smile Won't Come Off" Taft seem to be scowling at each other. Wonder if Secretary Rallinger started those forest fires in the northDoeKono Mr Pinnhot rfltl tPll. Every citizen should realize that every slip of the law. every abuse of the right, but adds to his own insecurity. Political history of the near future: Oaynor. Wm? Democrat, mayor of New York city; governor of the state, 1911-12. It was a great mystery yesterday morning as to how many things in the county campaign stood; but now it is all as clear as day. Mr. Roosevelt says he is after the crooks of all parties. He has a big |ob and a wide field for operations. He usually gets what he starts after and the crooks are no doubt uneasy. There were some "currents" discernable in the county campaign, but they were mostly in disjointed shape. They did not connect as completely as two years ago. Tim people of the county have been loing their own thinking this time to a greater extent than for years. This, however, is an off year and let it not l>e forgotten that this amounts to something. j A New York cotton exchange "broker" objects to the idea of government interference with exchange methods. In a like manner crapshooters are always complaining of the unfairness of the police. IF Mr. Harmon is re-elected governor of Ohio, he will lie in line for the Democratic nomination for the presidency provided Mr. Bryan don't get it again. There would be a chance to fleet Mr. Harmon, but of course, there is no chance to elect Mr. Bryan. It is evident that the second race for governor will be between Featherstone and Blease, just as we predicted ill along, and we have but little doubt that Mr. Featherstone will win this day two weeks by an overwhelming majority. At Cleveland, o., the other day, former President Roosevelt said to the people: "I will make the corporations come to time and I will make the mob come to time. 1 shall insist upon honesty if it breaks up the best business of the land and shall insist upon order under all circumstances." This sounds very much like Mr. Roosevelt contemplates going into the governing business again. In our issue of July 12 last, we remarked that we believed the producers of raw cotton would have the refusal of 16 cents a pound before they were compelled to take 12J cents. The suggestion has been realized. We are now among those who believe in the possibility of is cents for a good portion of the crop just coining in, and if the farmers were half as well organized as are the spinners they would get is cents for all of it. "A votjo for Mr. Featherstone," says The Yorkville Cnquirer, "means a vote for the removal of that grog shop at North Augusta with which the people of South Carolina are standing in tho way of prohibition in Georgia." There should never have been a dispensary at North Augusta and the State protested "with all the vehemence of which it was capable" against its maintenance there, but the assertion that the North Augusta dispensary is a bar to prohibition in Aneuslsi is in the nature of the gro tesque. If The Enquirer is seeking the truth let it investigate Augusta. We do nut know all that it will find, but this much we cln know. It will find that whisky flasks are shipped into Augusta in carloads lots. It will find a brewery in full blast, and that liquor and beer are shipped front Augusta into Edgefield and Greenwood and as far away as Spartanburg. South Carolina. The Enquirer will find that beer drunk at barbecues in one or two dispensary counties in South Carolina is not infrequently shipped from prohibition Augusta: sometimes from prohibition Savannah. The nose of the .North Augusta dispensary has been out of joint since Augustans got busy at home. The Kuquirer. if seeking light, might also visit with profit. Savannah. Macon. Hrunswiek. and Atlanta. ?Columbia State. We have noted all that the State has to say: but we are not very much impressed with its points. of course, we do not doubt that Savannah. Augusta and other Georgia cities are getting beer and whisky in abundance and selling it wholesale and retail, and they would probably be able to get as much as they wanted even though there was not a drop to be had in South Carolina: but that in no wise relieves the contemptibleness of South Carolina's course in maintaining a groggery across the river to tread on Georgia's trade. J And we are unable to see in this a purely local question. We think that the responsibility for that North ( Augusta dispensary devolves upon all South Carolinians alike, and we would like to see the thing removed. We will anticipate the State in its further points by stating that we understand how, under state-wide prohlbi- 1 tion, Columbia, Charleston and probably a few other towns will be prohibition just as the State says that ( Macon, Savannah and Augusta are now: but we do not see that these towns will be any worse off in con- i sequence. Tiger liquor is no more debauching than dispensary liquor. It f has not been our observation that any town has ever been helped from whisky revenue. _ Should Organize. Many reasons might be cited why j the cotton farmers of York county have not kept up their Farmers' Union organization; but as we see it ^ there is no good reason for their remissness. On the contrary, there is every reason why there should be a ^ good, strong Union, and no reason why the Union should be neglected. j There has never been a time when the spinners were better organized than they are now, and although the principal and avowed object of the spin- l ners' organization is to keep up the price of yarns, reason and common sense tell us that the time will come when this same organization will bq used to keep down the price of cotton. Organization with the spinners is a plain matter of business and organization should be a plain matter of busines with the farmers also. The spinners organize for ^ the purpose of increasing their profits and that is why the farmers should j organize. It is not a matter of antag- t onism but a matter of protection on the part of both. r Of course, there are those who say that the mills would not take advan- t tage of the farmers if they could and neither would the farmers take advantage of the mills. This is very nice, benevolent talk, and we do not like to discourage any such sentiment; but as to how much there is to it, we will leave to the decision of the farmer, who may now have cotton that he produced with a view to realizing 12$ cents a pound; but for which he is now able to get 16 cents. Will he demand 16 cents for that which he expected to sell at 12$ cents? If so is that not seeking an advantage? On the other hand does any one suppose that there is a mill In this country that would pay 16 cents for cotton today if it could buy that cotton just as readily at 10 cents? We do not doubt that such curtailment as may now be going on is principally for the reason of forcing the price of yarns higher; but if the price of yarns were higher and this same curtailment would force the price of cotton lower, who doubts that there would be a resort to just'such a curtailment. And if organization is the weapon by which the price of yarns can be raised, how is the price of cotton to be protected except by organization? There are those who preach that the present situation is altogether the re- t suit of supply and demand, and who j try to encourage the belief that or- 1 ganization has not even been a factor to it; but there is nothing more ab- j surd. 1 Who is it that does not remember a I few years back when the price of cot- f ton was far below the cost of produo- | j tlnn, ana inp country was icciing iuc pinch so sorely that there was serious talk of actually burning cotton so as to diminish the supply and raise the price? During those times this writer heard a mill man say to a farmer from whom he was buying cotton at 6 cents, "I could pay you 10 cents just as easily; but, of course, I am not going to because I do not have to." And why did cotton go up? The reason was due more than anything j] to organization throughout the whole d south?organization that resulted in the dissemination of thought and in p intelligent action. There is no good v reason to dispute that proposition. Cotton is high enough now maybe; f but not too high. There have been s times when the difference between the e raw material and the manufactured t product was four or five times as great as it is now, and this difference was y principally at the expense of the far- f mer. b The time is coming when this dif- 9 ference will exist again unless the farmer takes the steps necessary to p protect himself. The only step lie can p take along this line is the formation of a rock-ribbed, iron-bound organi- c zatioti and maintain it through pros- j perity as well as adversity. o At this time, the farmers are asleep to their interests. n ? r THE VOTE IN 1908. t I It Was Lighter Than Usual and Totaled Only 92,586. * The total vote of the state two years ago was 92,586. We reproduce the figures by counties here for the pur pose of making comparative estimates, etc.: Abbeville 1.626 Aiken a.751 Anderson 3,813 Bamberg 1,192 Barnwell 2,1510 Berkeley 1,204 Charleston 5.14.S Calhoun 792 Cherokee 1,662 Chester 1,836 Chesterfield 2.2 SO Colleton 2.760 Darlington 2,520 Dorchester 1,4 06 Edgefield 1,736 Fairfield 1.512 Florence 2,431 Georgetown 1.4 67 Greenwood 2,296 Greenville 3,828 Hampton 1,754 Horry 3.2S7 Kershaw 1.405 I*a ncaster 2.367 Laurens 2,514 Lee 1,556 Ijexington 3,801 Marlboro 2,158 Marion 3,460 Newberry 2,617 Oconee 2.525 Orangeburg 2,219 Pickens 2.219 Kichland 4,266 Saluda 2.089 Spartanburg 5,669 Sumter 1.0X0 " ("nion 2..120 Williamsburg 2.1 OX \ York 3.23!* ^ Total 02.5S6 ? On account <>f the heavy rains in litns there were many voters who were It unable to get to the polls. The estimate g of the number of voters in the state in I 1!*0.x was 100.000. The vote for t'laremlon county is not given in the ttbove c table. Since the last election Dillon g county has been formeil ami as a re- tt suit the vote <>f Marion county will not be so large for the coming election. V LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. plover Opera H?>use?Announces the presentation of "The Deacon" on the evening of September 6. Cosmopolitan Magazine, New YorkWants a representative to look after Yorkville subscriptions and renewals. )r. Davies?Rye specialist, can be found at Dr. M. W. White's dental office on Saturdays and Mondays. All work guaranteed. Committee?Invites the public to a picnic at Beersheba church next Friday, September 2. Refreshments will be served. lVIII Cnmwrm and Robt. Dlllllao?III vite the public to a picnic at Philadelphia church on September 3rd. Carroll Bros.?Have fresh home ground meal, fresh lot flour, Perrl Walla tea at 50 cents a pound; six pounds good coffee for $1.00. fork Supply Co.?Advises you to plant southern grown rye seed. Will receive crimson and red clover, hairy vetch and rape seed this week, lank of Clover?Will pay $5 in gold to the person selling the first bale of new cotton on the Clover market. V. M. Kennedy, Agent?Has a full supply of school books and wants to supply you with books and school supplies. '. M. Brian & Co.?Talk about coffees, teas, baking powders, canned goods, shoe polish, flavoring extracts, etc. National Union Bank, Rock HillTells you that 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly, is a good investment for idle funds. It wants a visit from you. ?irkpatrick-Belk Co.?Fall goods of all kinds are arriving. Mr. Kirkpatrick is in the northern markets buying large quantities of goods for the fall trade, forkville Hardware Co.?Is determined to quit handling cook stoves and ranges and offers its entire stock at cost prices. The National Farmers' Union con ention will be held in Charlotte, bofinning September 6. George N. Wilson of No. 1 Filbert, eft at this office yesterday a raddlsh hat weighs 61 pounds. The state and county campaigns have lot been without certain depressing ffects on business; but after the next wo weens inmgs win urt'in n? iuuh letter. The registration books will he open lext Monday for the last day previius to the general election. People cho are not now registered and who fail to get their certificates next ilonday will he unable to vote in No ember. The scattering of nails along the Chester road recently, was the result >f accident, rather than design. Kegs hat were being hauled along the road n a wagon were broken open by being [nocked together, and their contents eere spilled on the ground. Mr. J. D. Clark of Yorkville No. 1, ound the "new breeches" he adverised last week as having been put in omebody else's buggy. Mr. \V. T. Mcclain of Yorkville No. 5, was the man vho would have been "in" another pair if breeches had Mr. Clark not insertd an ad. in The Enquirer. Immedlitely on seeing the advertisement, Mr. ilcClain sent Mr. Clark a card on ihich was written: "I have your new ireeches." VOTE TWO YEARS AGO. Following is the total vote at the arious precincts of the county in the lection of two years ago: Bethel 6C Bethany 140 Jiairsviue o< hillock's Creek 43 Jlover 237 ,'oates's Tavern 83 3benez6T 50 i'ort Mill 306 forest Hill 50 Hckory Grove 203 JcConnellsville 115 Newport 51 )gden 78 'iedmont 23 lock Hill No. 1 515 lock Hill No. 2 386 Sharon 93 Smyrna 77 Nrzah 75 Torkville No. 1 350 forkville No. 2 281 Total 3312 RACES FOR MAGISTRATE. There were contests for magistrate n only four of the nine townships toay. Bethel, Bethesda, Fort Mill and fork, and the results as far as It was iraoticable to collect them tonight rere as follows: At Bethel precinct the vote was 43 or J. D. Boyd and 66 for H. E. Johnon. There was no report from Forst Hill, the other precinct in Bethel ownship. In Bethesda township, D. P. Curry as nominated over R. J. Morrow and t. E. Conrad, the vote being as fol?ws: Morrow, 14: Conrad, 67; Curry, O In Fort Mill township. John \V. McJlhaney was recommended over V. B. Hankenshlp, 212 to 97. In York township, the vote was J. '. Comer. 306; R. L. deLoach, 272, and . J. Wallace 79, necessitating a secnd race between Comer and deLoach. The other magistrates were recommended without opposition as follows: I. L. A. Smith in Broad River; J. L. )uncnn in Bullock's Creek: T. C. teckhanv in Catawba; T. B. Glenn In Ibenezer, and A. J. Qulnn in King's lountain. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Nancy Witlierspoon of Guthiesville, is the guest <>f Miss Ola Alison, in Ynrkville. Miss Margaret Barron of Shelby, N. is visiting Mrs. \V. J. Fewell on 'orkville It. R 1>. No. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hill of Spuranburg, visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. ichorb in Yorkvllle this week. Mr. Alex Bigger of Yorkvllle R. F. ), No. 2, lias taken a position with he First National bank of Gastonia. Misses Annie Davies of Atlanta. Ga., ml May Russell of Rock Hill, are he guests of Mrs. J. K. Sadler in 'orkville. Miss Leila Dunlap of Yorkvllle, R. F. ). No. .1. visited her sister, Mrs. J. 1. Hubbard in Huntorsville, N. <\. list week. Messrs. D. \V. Bell of Gaffney, and \ J. Bell of Savannah, Ga., spent last Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Irian in Yorkvllle. Miss Margarite Smith, who has been isiting her aunt. Mrs. J. It. Killian, or some time, hits returned to her mint' in sneiiiy. Messrs. J. I,. Williams and W. Mason ,le('oinii'll ol J. I.. Williams & Co., of 'orkville, left last Saturday for the mrthern markets. Messrs. Claud and Ralph Rhyne of Vaeo, N c.. spent a few days in 'orkville last week visiting their siser, Mrs. J. R. Killiau. Master Rhyne Killiau of Yorkville, ius returned home after a visit to his randparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Chyne of Shelby, X. C. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Withers and hildreii oi' Norfolk, \'a., aiv the nests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Speek ml other relatives in Yorkville. Messrs. Joe " oinasson, Riirtiu 'otingblood and Hugh Jackson of Yorkvllle R. p. D. No. C, left yesterday to attend sehool in Laurendale, N. O. Mr. William Patrick of White oak, Fairfield county, has been spending some days with Mr. S. A. Mitchell and other relatives and friends in Mullock's Creek township. Mrs. Alex. Little and children, left yesterday for their home in Cornelius, ' N. C.. after spending a week with Mrs. ' Little's sister, Mrs. W. H. Chambers, on ' Yorkvllle R. F. D. No. 6. i Prof. Joseph McClain, who has been spending the summer abroad, stopped 1 over in Yorkville this week, to spend ja few days with relatives, before tak-i ing lip ins worn again, in Agues r>con Institute, Decatur, Ga. Mr. Robert I. Howell of Cussetta, : Chambers county, Ala., is visiting relatives in and around Yorkville. Mr. I Howell is a native of the Howell's , Ferry section, in what is now Cherokee county. He left this country about ' Kuklux times and has lived in Alabama ever since. i WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The York cotton mill, which has been shut down for some time past, , putting in weaving machinery, expects to resume operations within the next few days?about September 5. ? The carnival seriously crippled the Amuse-U theatre last week, most of , the patrons of the Amuse-U. spending their money at the carnival to see i shows that were not nearly so good. ' Mr. John Dobson is giving the people of Yorkville a good clean show, and I his patrons are showing growing appreciation. ? Rally day was observed at the York Cotton Mill chapel last Sunday. There is a large and flourishing Sunday school at the cotton mill and the attendance was good. The features of the occasion were an able and enteri taining address by Mr. Grady Hardin. and excellent music by the children ' under the direction of Miss Ida Ori maud, who has charge of the cotton mill school. ? The St. Louis Carnival company, which played in Yorkville last wek. i and which left for Rock Hill Sunt ay morning, is a well ordered and well ! managed aggregation. Mr. Weaver. 1 the manager, was the manager of the first street show that came to Yorkville, and he found on his arrival that he was still pleasantly remembered ! by most of the people with whom he became acquainted at that time. The ' show only did fairly well here. There 1 was a large attendance on the grounds ' afternoons and nights: but money was 1 rather scarce and receipts were slim. The balloon failed to go up Saturday. The reason was that on Friday the gas bag fell in a tomato -patch and was torn by the tomato s'takes. Repairs " or., nnt enninleterl in time for Satlir day's ascent. THE ELECTION. Alhough there was but little excitement In connection with the county campaign this year and the general opinion was that the vole would be comparatively light, the result of the election yesterday showed the surprls. ing total of 3,466 votes against 3.312 i two years ago?a gain of 156 votes. The weather yesterday was very I much like that of two years ago. It I commenced raining during the morn, Ing and showers fell at Intervals dur' ing the day. The down pour was not nearly so heavy as two years ago, | when many of the streams, especial' ly on the western side of the county. ; were so badly swollen as to prevent , many voters from reaching the polls. The rain yesterday was a benefit rather than a hindrance to the voting, be| cause it put a stop to fodder pulling and other outdoor work and eliminated all excuse for not going to the polls. There was unusual activity on the part of the candidates, especially during the few days just previous to the election. Rock Hill was regarded as the key to most of the different contests and that city was made the battleground. especially during Monday and yesterday. The work of collecting the returns was greatly facilitated by the kind ac1 commodatlon of the Piedmont Telephone company, and all the figures were in, in record breaking time, the complete result being known by 11 o'clock p. m. According to the figures as tabulated In detail elsewhere the result is as follows: Messrs. Thos. F. McDow, J. H. Saye, O. L. Sanders and J. E. Beamguard have been nominated as representatives in the house. Messrs. B. M. Love and J. J. Hunter are to run a second race for auditor. Mr. H. E. Xeil has been elected treasurer over both of his opponents. Messrs. Thos. W. Boyd and Clem F. Gordon will run a second race for supervisor. Messrs. W. A. Aycock and L. J. Lumpkin have been elected county commissioners. Mr. John 'Warren Quinn appears to have been elected superintendent of education over Mr. Minor R. Riggers by a majority or 27 votes. CLEAN OUT THE STREAMS. It looks as if the county board of commissioners and the township supervisors are going to make an earnest effort this year to enforce the law requiring that the streams of the county be cleared of trash, rafts, trees, timber, etc., during tin- month of August. The law reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina, all land owners or their agents of the counties of York, Greenville and Oconee shall remove from the running streams of water upon their lands all trash, trees, rafts and timber during the month of August in each year, and the supervisor of each of said counties is hereby required to give public notice, through one or more newspapers of his county, of this requirement during the month of July of each year. Sec. 2. Whenever any land owner or owners in the counties aforesaid, owning lands on any stream as above provided, shall neglect for thirty days tp comply with the notice given them by the county commissioners, as above required, or when any such land owner or owners shall be absent from the state and his or their agent or tenants shall neglect for thirty days after notice from the county commissioners to clean out such stream or streams, as above required, or if such land oWlicr or owners snuu reamc i>v>..n.. the limits of the state, or have no agent or tenant in the eonnty, shall neglect for two months after the receipt of notice from county commissioners by registered letter to have such streams so cleaned out, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to employ hands and have such streams thoroughly cleaned of all trash, trees, rafts and timber through lands of such person or persons in default, as economically as the work i can l?e properly done, and the ex- 1 pease of such cleaning shall be. and is hereby, made a first lein upon the 1 lands of such person or persons 1 in preference to all other liens i upon the same, except debts due the state, to be recovered by the county 1 commissioners by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction. Approved the 20th day of February, A. D. 1907. In addition to publishing of due notice of the law in the newspapers, the township supervisors have been notifying each land owner interested individually, serving upon them through the mails or personally the following fair notice. Public notice having been given by the county supervisor to all land owners, by publication, as required, in the newspapers of the county during the month of July, 1910, to remove from the running streams of water upon their land all trash, trees, rafts and timber during the month of August/ 1910, in accordance with the provisions of the above act, and the general assembly of South Carolina having further provided in section 4 of act No, 13f> of 1909 that the township supervisor "shall see that the law in reference to keeping the streams free from rafts is complied with ui township;" I hereby further notify you that unless the streams through your lands in this township are cleaned in accordance with the provisions of the above act, the said streams will be cleaned of all trash, trees, rafts and timber through your lands by the county and the expense thereof made a first leln upon your said lands In accordance with the provisions of the above act. A PRODIGY IN FIGURES. If Mr. Joe M. Taylor of Newport, had been as smart as a politician as he is expert in figures, he would probably have been elected as auditor of York county, or at least have gotten a much larger vote than he did get, for there is no Question of the fact that he is an arithmetical wonder. Mr. Taylor can receive dictation of a column of numbers, containing three or four figures each and give the correct sum immediately on demand for a total. Asked as to how much any given number of pounds of cotton will come to at any given price, he will give the correct answer immediately. Ask him the amount of the tax on any number of different pieces of property at any desired levy and without hesitation he will name the correct figures as soon as the example has been stated. It is so with almost any strictly arithmetical proposition that may be presented to him. He does not need pencil and paper. He has a slate or a blackboard in nis head, and he is almost infallible. In his rounds of the campaign, Mr. Taylor frequently had people around him testing his powers and he never slipped up. He astonished everybody with the quickness and readiness of his answers, and there was a very general opinion that if he had given his exhibitions from the stand, instead of more privately, these exhibitions would have become quite a feature of the campaign, and redounded to the very great benefit of Mr. Taylor in the way of votes. Mr. Taylor Is not able to explain his remarkable faculty as a lightning calculator except as a gift. He can see the figures in his mind almost the same as if they were on a blackboard, and can put them through the operations necessary to get the desired results. Discussing the matter with The Enquirer last Friday, Mr. Taylor said that he had first discovered his powers in this direction when a boy of 16, while going to school to Mr. J. H. Wilson. The class to which he belonged was being trained in mental arithmetic, and as he had no book, he had to borrow from others, until finally he began to realize that he could work most of the examples in his head, and he has been doing it ever since. When asked why he did not give exhibitions on the stand during the campaign, he said that he did not care to seek election on the basis of this remarkable gift alone, and as the result of his exhibition, a good many people might have been led to declare that the fact that he could make lightning calculations in his head was no evidence of his fitness for the responsible duties of auditor. The fact is that Mr. Taylor is a man of good, all round practical sense, and is well qualified in various ways to fill a responsible position. WINTHROP WINS. The State has won out in the now famous Rock Hill school case, says the Columbia Record, the effect of the decision being to permit Winthrop college to erect a modern practice school on the land that was in dispute for the last two years. As the case is one very much involved the facts as given by Associate Justice Hydrick in rendering his opinion, will be the best to draw conclusions from as to the various matters that were at issue: "The trustees of Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, desiring to huild and equip a model practice school building in connection with the college applied to the legislature for an appropriation of $20,000, stating that such a building, property equipped would cost $45,000, but that they could raise $25,000 of the amount needed. By an act approved February 18, 1907, the sum asked for was appropriated on condition that the trustees raise $25,000 additional for that purpose. The additional sum was raised and deposited in bank, whereupon, by the terms of the act the appropriation became available. "Under the terms of the act, the said sum of $45,000 was to be expended in erecting and equipping the building. Therefore, no part of it could be used in purchasing a site. It appears, however, that a friend of the college offered to give $25,000 for this school on condition that the trustees raise $20,000 mor?, making in all $100,000. "It does not appear that any other condition was attached to this offer? such as that the money was to be used only in erecting and equipping the building as was the condition with the appropriation. The trustees of the college reported this offer to the legislature. in 1908, and stated that they expected to raise the addiiional sum of $20,000. It appeared, however, at the time of the trial before the referee that they hail not succeeded in doing so. "As there was no suitable place on the college nroperty for the location of the practice school negotiations were commenced with the Rock Hill school district for the purchase of a lot of eight acres lying near the college which had been conveyed *o the school district by the Catawba Military academy. The negotiations resulted in an agreement between the trustees of the school district for the sale of the property to the college for $20,000 cash. The trustees of the school district were sharply divided (they were seven in number) as to the wisdom and expediency of selling the property ?four being in favor of it and three opposed to it. i "To prevent the consummation of the agreement this action was brought by the minority of the trustees of the '< school district, as such in their own I right as citizens and taxpayers with whom Alex I.ong, as chairman of the i board of trustees of the Catawba Mil- 1 Itary Academy aim as citizens aim taxpayer was Joined as plaintiff, 1 :ipailist the* majority <>f the trustees of ' the school district, the trustees of the I college, the school district as a corporation, the Catawba Military aead- ' e,iiv. as a corporation, Ira B. Dunlap, ' as secretary of the hoard of trustees ' of the Catawha Military academy to reform the deed of Catawha Military academy to the trustees of the school | district, and to enjoin the sale of the property to the college. 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"The cause of action for reformatior was abandoned on circuit and the facts are mentioned here merely tc explain the presence of some of the parties to the action. "Injunction against the sale by the school district was prayed for on the allegation that the price agreed upor was grossly inadequate and that the sale of the property under the circumstances alleged was an abuse of the discretion so gross as to amount to a breach of trust; and against the college, injunction was prayed for on the allegation that there was no necessity for the acquisition of the property by it, and that it was without power and authority under the statute to make the contract. The alleged want of power was predicated upon the ground that the college was prohibited by statutes from making the contract, and that, having no funds with which to pay for the property at the time of the making of the contract, it was void for want of consideration, and mutuality." After setting out several legal matters that would not be of interest to the general public, Justice H.vdriek sums up the questions raised in the grounds of appeal as follows: 1. Was the college prohibited by statute from making the contract? 2. If not, was the contract void for want of consideration and therefore for want of mutuality, because the college did not have In hand ut the time it was made funds sutfieient to pay for the property, and if so, could the plaintiffs take advantage of it and have the contract annulled, even though the college was, at the time of the hearing on circuit, able and willing to buy and pay for the property, without using any funds in which the plaintiffs as citizens and taypaxers were Interested? 3. Were the plaintiffs prejudiced bv the amendment allowed and the decreeing of specific performance between the contracting parties? 4. Can plaintiffs now?on this appeal?raise the point for the tirst time iiiiii it (inf.* nut :ionear that the con sent of the county hoard of education had heen Riven to the sale of the property by the district trustees, as required bv/the provisions of seclion 1213 of the code of 1902? Setting: out/the powers conferred on the hoardyof trustees of the college by 'the act of incorporation and cnn[ luain^tihat the hoard was competent to make the contract. Justice Hydrick then takes up each of the above questions and makes answer. The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed, which means that Winthrop college will have the new school built an the land. LOCAL LACONICS. Until January 1, 1911. We will send The Yorkville Enquirer Trotn this date till January 1, 1911, for 68 cents. 5 (6 j | | ' | ; x , M C. L. Blease |.w I John T. Duncan [to 1 > C. C. Featherstone % :?l| w F. H. Hyatt ; ? [ 00 ' w T. G. McLeod I | John G. Richards hi ,J E. W. Duval |5 $ 1 to c ,J C. A. Smith { * ? ^ ?1 '_ | For Secretary of State. g- i I? R- M. McCown = := ?^ B >m I For Comp. General. wj ^ ISf A- w- Jones ?5j . ^ ! For State Treasurer. 2 !? R. H. Jennings ^ g W. W. Moore . *< L?J 2 I % PJ , Chas. Newnham e 5" , , r -<o j g. SH > J. M. Richardson 5 ' > tO ? ~ y>" '^| For Supt. Education. __ !? J. E. Swearengen W :g 1= - T= 1 . Il t> T> \*L ? ^ 3 \_1?1 j J o* Q J. Fraser Lyon 2 3 ) to ??-rrr CO = ??? ?J ^ i , James Cansler a l i 1 9z G. McDuffle Hampton J K2 1 s 1 ?lJ j C. H Mahon ? $ H3 E , I O. G. Scarborough F* CD ? = -? == 5 Total Vote Cast For "*' ? : State Officers. ^ , g T. B. Butler J B* t 4| b ; -/-s * D. E. Flnley S 2P W , -K ^ 2 s U3 J. K. Henry S 3 r~3 = - J. E. Beamguard * * -?z~z?: oH ^ j S. H. Epps. Sr. ^ g; i ? ^ ^ James E, Gettys S 3 * oo e 3 1 J ** ^ ri _ J. S. Glasscock J _ ! J , Thos. F. McDow S | g* | O. L. Sanders - rt 3 2 R J J. H. Saye & 3 - *< U ^ C. W. Wallace ^ ^ = - <P For Probate Judge. m J. R. Williams = * rrrrr: ,5T .""l TI ? ? Thos. W. Boyd ? 1 3 *w n . -H ? -! M j : C. F. Gordon J i g ? M 3 i, ? I John F. Gordon S j , =|! I h <v > Minor R. Biggers | ? j 5" HH -5 '3^ i John Warren Qulnn 2 ^ mm _ "1 ="== : P" k. ^ Robt. L. Goflf 7 ^ ) M 1 f ^ John A. Neely j Hn tj s J | Harry E. Neil ? ?|L ? ... - ^ ? ! J. J. Hunter . CO - J ? I B. M. Love ? > CO > - I > . T. E. McMackin s s ? ) Joe M. Taylor W. A. Aycock 1 ? <-5 ?i o ? I 0 ; L. J. Lumpkin ? ** I G. C. Ormand jf > to B. - h-> a ? I* > I Jos. W. Smith - S ! ; ~ | Total Vote Cast For J i ' ? I County Officers. : Helms Granted Bail. ! An account of the killing of Aubrey | Culp by Gate Helms was published In ^1 I the last issue of The Enquirer, the same being taken from the Charlotte f Observer of Friday. The boys got ini to a fight while on their way to the > Gold Hill school on Tuesday of last week and Helms struck Culp with a dinner bucket, and Culp died from the i effects of the blow on Thursday. Mag istrate McElhaney immediately issued , a warrant for the arrest of Helms and [ he was committed to Jail. Congressman Flnley was retained for the de; fense and procured an order from . Judge Gage admitting young Helms to I ball In the sum of $1,000. ! Death of Mrs. Jeff D. Whitesides. I Mrs. Nannie Whitesides, wife of Mr. Jeff D. Whitesides, died suddenly at her home ten miles west of Yorkvllle last Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. i Death is supposed to have neen uue to malarial trouble, but it rame as a sudden and unexpected shock to the % family, neighbors and friends. Mr. Whitesides was In Yorkvllle when the news came to him, and the blow was all the more overpowering because he had left his wife only a few hours before apparently in the best of spirits. ? Mrs. Whitesides was the daughter of the late Wm. Plaxco, and was 44 ye&rs of age. She was a lady of many admirable traits of character, and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her. She leaves eleven children as follows: Wistar, Minnie, John, Willie, Andral, Lois, Sa.ve, Eula, Irene, Lee Dates, Jeff D. Her surviving brothers are Rev. W. A. M. Plaxco of Bartow, Fla., Mr. J. B. l'laxco of yorkvllle. and Mr. It. X. Plaxco of Bethany, There is also one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Whiterides of Hickory Grove. The interment took place at Smyrna on Sunday, the services being conducted by Rev. G. L. Kerr, assisted by Rev. J. L. Oates. Baseball Row. There was quite a serious row among some young men at a game of hasohall :it Hoodtown last Saturday, as the rpsult of which one of the young men Is laid up at his home at " Hickory Grove with dangerous wounds, and four others are under bond to answer to charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. The row grew out of the usual guy- j ing inseparative from the game, and baseball bats and possibly other weapons figured prominently. The game was between Hoodtown and Hickory