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Scraps anil ^acts. ? How much time does it take the human stomach to oldest an ess? That is the question the Wisconsin supreme court has just been called upon to decide. Ward E. Hedger was sentenced to a life term in the state prison for wife murder last spring, and this question was the essential feature of the case of the state. Hedger was admitted by the defense to have been In his home at a certain hour. The time at which his wife ate breakfast was also fixed. According to experts, the egg was not an hour on the way to digestion when the woman died. This would bring her murder within the time that Hed ger was in the house. ine supreme court refused to grant a new trial, though the entire case against Hedger hinged on circumstantial evidence, with the egg the chief feature in the evidence. ? In its report of the cotton crop of Louisiana and Mississippi, the New Orleans Picayune of yesterday says: "Now that the first killing frost of the season has occurred and in many places the first freeze, the work of accurately estimating the cotton crop will soon be begun. The crop, it is conceded, will be somewhat larger than was anticipated some months ago when it was thought that frost would occur earlier and put a stop to the maturing of the crop. While it seems that the crop ranges from 25 to 50 per cent below normal, it will still exceed that of last year in all probability. Undoubtedly the boll weevil was the cause of a greatly reduced yield. Many farmers will resort to greater diversification, but in few instances is there any talk of abandoning cotton raising. The infected stalks will be burned and cotton will be planted and raised next season under approved scientific methods. although the acreage in a good many sections will be reduced." ? New York. October 30: Through quick work with his revolver. Robert /*dler. the special policeman in a West Twenty-third street dancing academy, who late last night shot and killed one man and probably fatally injured another while the dancers were in the mazes of a waltz, broke up for the time being the Geehr gang, a band of gun fighters. Six of them, led by Charles Hunt. cherished hatred against Adler and, according to the police, went to the dancing academy to "get" him. When Adler stopped at the door, six hands reached for as many pistol pockets. A shot was fired and a door near Adler's head was THoh Arllpr's nistol fl.qsh ed and Hunt crumpled up and fell, shot through the head. He never moved again. Three other shots were fired at Adler. but all missed. William Morris, one of the band, then lunged forward with pistol raised, but the special policeman was too quick and shot him through the head. The remainder of the band fled. Morris will rrobably die. ? New Orleans. October 28: Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton made up from soeclal cable and telegraphic advices, compares the figures of this week with last week, last year and the year before. It shows an increase for the week just closed of 275.319. against an increase of 300.176 last year, and an increase of 283,244 year before last. The total visible is 3.020.818. against 2.745.499 last week, 3.716.383 last year, and 3.280,124 year before last. Of this the total of American cotton is 2.438,818, against 2,195.499 last week. 3,304.383 last year and 2,741.124 year before last, and of all other kinds, including Egypt. Brazil, India, etc.. 582,000, against 550,000 last week, 412.000 last year and 539,000 year before last. The total world's visible supply of cotton as above shows an increase compared with last week of 275.318. a decrease compared with last year of 695,565, and a decrease compared with year before last of 259.306. Of the world's visible supply of cotton as above there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and continental Europe 1.581.000. against 2.122.000 last year, nnd 1.694.000 year before last: In Egypt 142.000 against 123.000 year before last: In India 191,000. against 103.000 last year, and 149.000 year before last; and in the United States 1.107.000 against 1.368,000 last year, and 1.314.000 year before last. ? Washington. October 29: The population of Minneapolis was announced tonight by Census Director Durand to be 301,408. In connection with the figures Mr. Durand charged that individual enumerators had fraudulently returned 4,668 names. These, of course, were not counted in the final report. The announced figure is a gain of almost 4 9 per cent of the population of 1900, which was 202.718. Mr. Durand said that as originally forwarded to the bureau the report contained 306,076 names. But while more than 4,000 of these had been eliminated there was no evidence, he said, of any concerted attempt on the part of the enumerators or of the supervisor of any group of private individuals to pad the census returns. The greater part of the names eliminated were in two out of 196 enumeration districts in the city. "The enumerators for those two districts may not have deliberately intended to defraud, but it scarcely seems possible that they should have failed to note that they were, to say the least, interpreting the instructions very loosely," said the director. "The overcounting in these two districts resulted almost altogether from repetition of visits to lodging houses and hotels. Not content with enumerating all the people who were present in such lodging houses and hotels on the census day or on the day of the first visit of the enumerator, these enumerators counted very large numbers of people who were not present at the first visit ot on the census day, but who came to the lodging houses subsequently." ? Pittsburg, Pa., October 30: Mischievous boys dreaming tonight of gates they will seize as Hallowe'en trophies, would not in the wildest nightmares imagine such enormous gates as are being made in Pittsburg for the Panama canal. They will be the largest gates in the world. Any one of the ninety-two of them, for there are to be forty-six pairs >n all. will be about as high as a 6-story building, as wide too ieeu as many city buildings are and 7 feet deep, or thick. The structural steel that will go to make them will weigh 60,000 tons, or more than eight times as much as was used to build the Eiffel tower in Paris. The mighty portals, designed to admit a world's commerce from one ocean to another, will cost {5,500,000. The builders are the McClintic Marshall Steel Construction company, a half of whose independent plant here has been given over entirely to the gate contract. Of the 60,000 tons of steel requited the heaviest single pieces will weigh about eighteen tons. The thousands of individual pieces, numbered and fitted to go together as children's blocks, will be shipped by steamer via Baltimore and with them will go over 400 skilled structural steel builders from Pittsburg to set them up. The advance guard of experts leaves here in December and the first work will probably begin early in 1011. It will take three years to complete the job. ? Merely "getting the money" will not satisfy the United States government in under-valuation custom fraud cases where there is evidence to convict the offenders. The treasury department on Saturday oflicially expressed its policy in a reply sent to a man in New York who asked if the government would be willing to settle all cases on a money basis. The reply, whivri was approved by Secretary MacVeagh. is in part as follows: "It is not the policy of the department to permit guilty parties to escape as long as the department received "the cash which is coming to it.' On the contrary, every casa presented tor action is treated upon its own nieriis and it is beyond the jurisdiction or authority of this department to promise immunity to any person who violates the law. In cases where compromises are accepted it is because the department of justice in concurrence with this department believes that the settlement of the question is in the interest of public justice. There is no au hority of law by which this department can decide as to whether upon conviction the guilty parties shall escape the added penalty of imprisonment. It should lie borne in mind, however, that there are many cases in which civil suits for additional duties and forfeiture proceedings for penalties may he maintained, but in which the evidence would not justify convictions upon criminal proceedings. In such cases it is proper for this department to accept the duties or penalties or both without regard to the question of criminal prosecution." Since Secretary MacVeagh set in motion an investigation into the extent of the undervaluation, queries have been pouring into the department asking whether payment of the money would satisfy the government. flic ^(orltviUc (fnquirtr. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. TORKVILLE. S. C.J TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1910. More birds mean less bugs and insects. A few more weeks and the question of better roads will receive much consideration. South Carolina has much to be thankful for this year. Including good cotton and corn crops. Tn the game of corn raising, every contestant who really tries his best, always come out a winner. Every voter in the August primary should remember that oath to support the nominees next Tuesday. The "Has Been" and "Also Ran" clubs will receive large additions to their membership next Tuesday. There is no reason why some York county farmer should not lead the state in the corn raising contest next year. Mr. Roosevelt bossed the convention at Saratoga, but he will probably find that bossing the voters of the state is a different proposition. The man who speculates in Wall street with other people's money is about as big a fool as the fellow who ?JiL 1 ^ ^ ^ ,1 piays wiin an uiuuaucu fsuii. Says Joseph W. Bailey: - "Don't fine the trusts, put those who form and control them In the penitentiary." But first, you must catch your hare. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan may not believe in miracles, but he certainly knows how to turn watered stock into hard cash on a commission basis. Newberry needn't be so stuck up about its postal savings bank. York county has a number of banks that are just as safe and pay bigger interest on deposits. A license on guns, more general land posting and shortening of the open season would probably benefit the farmers by decreasing the number of partridges killed. A man got on the roof of a house at Somerset, Ky? and disturbed the occupants in the early morning by crowing like a rooster. He said he was born in North Carolina. If on his way from Cincinnati to Panama. President Taft will take the C. C. A- O. route to Charleston, he will be impressed with the fact that some big digging has been done in this country aso. It will be no easy thing to beat the South Carolina boy who has made 228 bushels of corn on an acre; but thenis certainly glory enough in success to warrant the undertaking. There were sixty arrests for drunkonnoaa in AnHorson nil show dav. ac cording to a dispatch, and we take the liberty of suggesting to the Daily Mai! that if shows are to be as demoralizing as all that, the authorities had better prohibit their coming. There should be at least two hundred boys in the Corn club for next year's contest, and if the boys could only see how much pleasure and satisfaction there is in it for them, there would be five hundred. Maybe poor Chas. \V. Morse is very properly in the penitentiary. We are inclined to think that such is the case; but at the same time there is reason to believe that he is there more as the result of intrigue among enemies, who are as 1 ad as he is. than as the result of the impartial operation of the law. Among the people who conspired to convict Morse, we have no doubt that there are quite a number who are guilty of all the crimes that are charged against him and whose interest in getting him out of the way was based on the fact that he was too smart for them. MERE-MENTION. Rev. E. O. Hanks of Pulaski county. Ky.. died last week, and by his own request, made previous to death, was buried in an upright position. He declared that lie wanted to be standing upright on judgment day Justice Stafford of the equity court at Washington, on Friday declared that South Dakota divorces were no good in tlie District of Columbia A Pittsburg. Pa., newsboy stole a pocketbook containing $4on, and after spending $100 of the money, tore up the remainder, declaring to the police, "(lee, it's too much like work to spend money." \n Alliance. O.. woman is suing her husband for divorce because he hasn't spoken to her in three years. She told him three years ago never to speak to her again and tie has complied with her request. The government secret service has discovered that there is a "deceptive counterfeit" of tin- $|ao gold certiticate in circulation The ltepuhlican leaders of Ohio are so badly split that it looks as though Governor Harmon will easily l>e re-elected next Tuesday Two preachers. Tints-. Sirunk and Isaac J'erry. were admitted to the state penitentiary at Frankfort. Ky., Friilay. t<> serve sentences if ten and five years for criminal assault and manslaughter 10. F. Shelby, a hanker of Medina. <?.. was found guilty Friday of embezzling $1.1,(Mia from the estate of Paul Oliver, an imbecile, for whom he was guardian The friends of ('has. \V. Morse, tin convicted New York hanker, now in the Federal prison in Atlanta. On.. are making strenuous efforts to secure a conditional pardon from President Tuft Chas. E. Ellis and Edwin It. Graves were sentenced by the Federal circuit court at New York Friday, to serve three years each in the Federal prison in Atlanta, for fraudulent use of the mails. They were promoters of the Kernit Manufacturing company, which claimed to manufacture a substitute for rubber from the hoofs and horns of cattle.. . . Jefferson county. Kentucky, will vote next Tuesday on tne question 01 issuing $500,000 in bonds to be used in establishing a modern system of rural schools H. Nathan Secreest was arrested in Chicago last week by secret service men. charged with counterfeiting 1.500,000 pesos In Nlcaraguan notes A memorial meeting] held in Paris, Friday night, in honor of the memory of Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish republican leader, who was executed at Barcelona, Spain, a year ago. was broken up by a gang of anarchists, who charged the assembly with sticks and chairs The international convention of the Young Men's Christian association, in session at Toronto. Canada, last week, showed an American membership of 4 96.000 men and boys and property owned to the value of $60,000.000 B. T. Corkwell. motorman in charge of one of the cars which collided near ^ort Wayne Ind.. a few weeks ago. has become violently insane. Forty persons were killed by the collision. Florence Burns Wildrick and Fdw. W. Brooks were convicted in a New York court Friday, of trying to work the "badger game" on Chas. W. Hurlburt. a lawyer, a few weeks ago. They are liable to prison sentences of twenty-five years each. The woman, under the name of Florence Burns, was nequitted a few years ago of the "haree of murdering a man in a hotel. ....At Steubenville. O.. Friday. Judge Richards created a sensation by denniinflrn' f rnm the bench the testl mony of the defense In a "speak easy" fnse. as a mass of perjury T. \V Evans a farmer, was killed at Elkmont. Ala.. Friday, by being struck near the heart hv a torpedo which had been placed on the railroad track by the depot agent "just to hear it evplode." The express wagon drivers of New York and Jersey City are on a strike for more pay and shorter hours. Several riots occurred Saturday between strikers. strike-breakers and the police five men were arrested at Acapulco, Mexico. Saturday, on suspicion of be ne the parties who dynamited the building of the Eos Angeles (Cal.) Times several weeks ago. HICKORY GROVE NOTES. Death of Mr. John B. Smith?Address at the School?Personal Mention. Corrospondencp The Yorkvtllo Rnnnlr?>r Hickory drove. October SI.?Mr. John Smith died very suddenly Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. On Saturday evening, he attended the ovster supper given by the Hickory Groye school in the W. O. W. hall, and seemed to be in his usual health. He ate heartilv of the refreshments served. Late Saturday ntgnt, lie compiaineo 01 feeling sick, hut afterwards became better, and his trouble was not thought serious until he was found the next morning dead. He leaves a widow and three children, one boy and two girls fo r"iiiirn his death. He was a member of the W. O. W. He was buried today st 1 o'clock by the Brotherhood of the Woodmen in the cemetery at Hickory Grove. The funeial services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Whittaker The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Slaughter has been blessed by the advent of another little erirl born October 14, 1910. The little girl has our best wishes for a happv and useful life. Mr. W. T. Slaughter has lust returned from a visit to Piedmont and Anderson. He reports that he organized another good camp of the W. O. W. on this visit. He snent a few hours in Greenville, and was much impressed with evidences of growth and development in that city. Mr. John Henderson of Waterloo, is visiting: Mr. and Mrs. John Leech of this place. Mr. T>. M. Ellen of Bishopville, is visitine friends in this place. Mr. E. L. Warth of Columbia, is visitine Mr. Tom Pmith here. Miss Bailie Allison and Mrs. S. T. Cade, spent Fridav in Yorkville. Mrs. .T. N. McDIIl and Mrs. Laura Allison, have just returned from Chester. where thev visited their brother, Mr. T. M. Whisonant. Miss Minnie Ola Wilkerson, is vis'ti"" friends in this place. Miss Lillie Mae Martin of Fair Forest. is visiting relatives here. Mr. T. M. Whisonant of Chester, snent Fridnv and Baturdav with Mrs. Msrrison Wvlje and Mr. W. H. Whisonant of this place. Mr. Thos. F. McDow of Yorkville. made a very interesting sneeoh in the Hickory Grove school house on the evening of October ?Sth. He savs unM1 the teachers are paid hotter salaries, schools will never be what thev shou'd. for there isn't eunuch money in the profession to entice nur most useful men and women into the business. There was a fairlv frond audience nut to hear Mr. McDow, and they all were ' cry favorably impressed with his address. The Postage Problem.?President Taft and Postmaster General Hitchcock reached an agreement yesterday on the recommendations the president will make to congress regarding a change in the second-class postage rates as affecting magazines and other periodicals. Mr. Taft will recommend that the magazines be required to pay the rate of 1 cent a pound on all reading matter and a much higher rate, to he determined later, on the adver tising pages. Each magazine will be required to send a copy of its current issue to the postofflce department each week or month as the case may he. The publication will he dissected. The reading1 matter and the advertisement section will he carefully weighed and the amount of postage computed bv the number of magazines sent out. Newspapers will not be affected. The average haul of the newspapers is but 300 miles, while the average haul of the magazines is 1,100 miles. The hauling of magazines in the mail has proved costly to the government, declared both the president and the postmaster general, and it has entered largely into the deficit shown each year in the postofflce department. The adoption of a new rate for the magazines. Mr. Hitchcock believes, will entirely wipe out the deficit and put th? postal establishment on a selfsustaining basis. President Taft is looking forward to a 1 cent rate for letter postage and hopes to recommend it before he leaves the White House. The president is determined to push his plan for placing second and third postmasters under the civil service. He ' Ml make the recommendation to congress in his forthcoming message and hopes for favorable action. ? Columbia State, Monday: Another world's record for corn production has been broken in South Carolina. A 15-year-old boy residing in the I'ce Dee section of the state has produced 228 bushels and three pecks of corn on one acre of land. Resides the money that he will receive from his crop he is to get over $500 in prizes and a trip to Washington. The unknown boy, for his name will not l?e announced for several days from the Washington office of the I'nited States Farm Demonstration work, is a member of one of the llovs' Corn clubs and his record is sworn to by witnesses. The official announcement and the boy's own story of how he secured such a marvelous yield will be printed by tin- State within the next few days. The unknown boy has broken all world's records for production of corn by a boy and he is within 27 bushels of the great yield of 255 bushels by Drake, the Marlboro county farmer. The boy is the son of a minister ami the record-breaking yield was grown upon the parsonage Hie? /,f hfi flppnm plishcd such an unusual feat is of exceptional human interest. The hov trrew the corn under the direction 'of the I'nited States i'arin Demonstration work, of which Ira \V. Williams is at the head in this state. The largest yield last year was lfil'i hushels, which was secured hy ltasconihe I'sher. He will send an exhibit to the South Atlantic States Corn exposition, which is to !? held in Columbia from December r. to s. LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Miss A. C. McPheeters?Has a 5-room cottage on Railroad avenue for rent. Mrs. E. B. Hunter, Pres.?Invites the public to an oyster supper at Sharon next Friday evening. Williamson Bros., Outhriesville?Are ready to grind your corn on Saturday afternoons. Victor Cotton Oil Co.?Will discontinue its ice wagon after next Saturday. Ice furnished at ice house. Amuse-U Theatre ? Programme for this evening includes two unusually good pictures. Be sure to see them. Southern Sub. Agency, Raleigh, N. C. ?Wants to send you its catalogue of magazines and clubbing offers. W. L. Caldwell, Exer.?Requests persons indebted to the estate of John Caldwell, deceased, to make settlement, and those having claims to present them. Loan and Savings Bank?Advises you to be sure to save a part of your income. You will need it some day. It wants your deposits. L. R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives notice that Mrs. C. L. Gwin has applied to him for letters of administration on the estate of Miss M. E. Wylie, deceased. Thomson Co.?Tells all about its big lines of underwear for men, women and children, hosiery for ladies, outings, etc. Farmers' Wholesale Grocery?Again calls attention to the good qualities of rice flour as a hog fattener. j J. L. Williams & Co.?Begin November with a blaze of bargain offerings in coats, shoes, etc. York Supply Co.?Thanks those who /have paid their accounts and reminds others that all accounts are due November 1st. Field Seeds. W. M. Kenneflv. Agent?Will soon vacate his store room and offers, bargains in groceries, tinware, crockery, etc. T. w Tnbnson?Has all kinds of chewing and smoking tobaccos, mackerel, roe herring, cranberries. Heinz's nickles, etc. p?in' c?0?.o?\ dvises narents to s^e that their children keen their eio.,n jt hag brushes and dentifrices. Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Can supnly you with heatlr.g stoves, stove pip"rates, shovels, etc. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Tnvites attention to wool blankets, shoes for men, women and children, and clothing for men and boys. Mr. Ira Hardin of Blacksburg is hardly eligible to membership in the Boys' Corn club, being 78 years of age; but he has the distinction this year of having made forty bushels of corn on half an acre. Travel has been very heavy on the Rock Hill division of the Southern railroad all summer, and during the past few weeks the trains have been frequently so crowded that a large proportion of the travelers have had to stand up. Cars with a seating capacity of only seventy, have had to carry a hundred or more people. Boys who desire to join the Corn club, should notify Mr. John R. Blair, county demonstration agent, Sharon R. F. D. No. 1. Mr. Blair will take names and keep the boys informed as to what is doing. The club is a big thing now in a way; but by this time next year it will be a big thing in a number of ways. Mr. J. Frank Ashe of MeConnellsville, one of the farmers who is interested in the Yorkville creamery, said the other day: "I am in this thing principally for the benefit It will be to the fanners of the country. If it sue- I ceeds, it will be of great advantage in agricultural development, and if it J fails the loss will be greater to the farmers as a whole than to the stockholders. There is no good reason why the creamery should .iot be a success. Its success or failure depends entirely upon us farmers." There is no reason to complain of the manner in which the Floral Society of the Presbyterian church is handling the chrysanthemum show. The ladles are making a success of it; but they nan An a irroot A a 1 mnW if thev will. V C4.1I uu IV p>? V?V MV1.. * I The end to be attained would fully justify an all the year round campaign among the ladies of the county. The greater the number who can be interested, the greater the success of the enterprise. And there is practical good to be accomplished. The culture of llowers is not to be despised even from a dollar and cents standpoint; but this is not the most important consideration. The man or woman who does not appreciate the extent to which flowers contribute to the pleasure and interest in life, has not yet learned how to live. Some of the knockers of the flower show have a habit of saying, "there is no use to try, the prizes are awarded before the seeds are planted, etc." That is buncombe. It is silly. The judges do their work as honestly as is possible, and to the best of their ability. That they make mistakes is possible; but we are frank to say that it is not probable. Sometimes it is necessary to make very close analysis to decide between two competing exhibits, and it is admitted that after the judgment is made, there may be room for honest difference of opinion. This is reasonable and to be expected. The same thing occurs in every line of endeavor. But to assert that there is partiality is simply absurd. the people who make the assertion, might do well to examine themselves and see whether or not they are tinged with just a little envy. It is often the case that we ourselves are guilty of the shortcomings that we charge against other people. That is Scripture. The way to get the greatest success and the greatest benefit out of the flower show is for everybody to pull together and do the best they can. There is no real danger of unfair discrimination. Even if it were attempted, it would show up and the public would not stand for it. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Shandon hotel now has a dining room that pleases Mr. and Mrs. Sadler very much. It is really just about all that could be desired. ? Miss Maggie Moore, postmaster at Yorkville, has installed a machine for postmarking letters and conceiting stamps. It docs the work in a third of the time required by the old method and a great deal better. The rental on the machine is about $60 a year. ? The cold weather of the past few days has brought out trade in a manner that has astonished the dry goods men. All of them have been unusually busy during the- past few days. Mr. \V. M. MeConnell made the statement yesterday that last Saturday was the best day he has known since he has been connected with the dry goods trade, and other merchants talk the same way. Every dry goods house in town experienced the trouble of not having enough clerks to wait on the trade. ? The annual chrysanthemum show of the Floral Society of the Presbyterian church, which was in progress when the last issue of The Enquirer went to press, continued through the afternoon up till 10 o'clock at night, and .is has been indicated, proved a splendid success. The exhibits included some of the finest specimens that have yet been produced in Yorkville, and among them were furnished a i number of unmistakable evidences of very material progress and improvement in the art of floriculture. There were present quite a number of out of town visitors and all of them were delighted. Flowers sold freely at good long prices. The features of the evening were the presentation of prizes and the also the production of the laughable farce "Hunting a Servant." The prizes were presented by Col. I. W. Johnson. The farce was a big success. The day's receipts amounted to $140, and everybody connected with the show has cause to feel good over the success of all the details. THE CREAMERY. There was a meeting of the directors of the Yorkville Creamery asso ciation in Yorkville this morning, for the purpose of perfecting arrangements looking to putting the plant in operation next Monday. Mr. Bun Brydges. The Enquirer understands. is to be the manager, at least until the business is gotten in good shane, and Mr. J. Ed Mason of Bloomington, Ind., is to be the butter maker. Mr. Brvdees understands the business end of the proposition In all Its details and Mr. Mason Is an experienced butter maker, who can give the Kest service possible. Messrs. Brvdges and Mason have en^a^ed during the past few davs laving out milk routes to facilitate the delivorv of milk, and attending to other details with reference to making the right kind of a start. VOGEL'S BIG CITY MINSTRELS. Minstrelsy has been, and promises to continue to be. the favorite form of amusement for four-fifths of the theatre-going public?and well It should be ?for no manner of a performance can include such a variety of material nee?ssan' for the edification of the multitudes: besides it is the cleanest and best of all amusements. Then, there are no waits. Promptly at the appointed hour the curtain rises, and from that moment until the final you have fun without a Mush. Pongs of sentiment l<v the world's greatest vocalists, comic ditties bv the best comedians on earth, who also furnish humor without a taint. 1 ne swivs iih.VC i'?-eii suiii;, jwm-a uaic been told; the Adonls-like person in the middle has his friendly repartee with the various comedians with the bones and "Tambos." Personal grace has been shown and beauty added because of the handsome paraphernalia us<?d in the first part settings. The sentiment of the halladist may have caused you to be possessed of a feeling of intoxication; the festive wit of the comedians has amused you; the charming acts of the first part in its entirety has possibly astonished you, yet the glamor, frolic and fun rolls on without a hindrance. There's no tiresome overture, but on *he contrary the various novel feats gathered from all quarters of the globe commence, and ere the finis has been reached you have, with your brother auditors, proclaimed minstrelsy the king of amusements. This organization will appear at the Yorkville opera house on Monday night, November 7. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. J. L. Strain of Cherokee county, was In Yorkville yesterday. Miss Mattle Ratteree of Yorkville No. 1, is teaching at Islandton, in Colleton county. Mr. J. P. McMurrav of the Loan and Savings bank, has been quite sick for the past few days. Mr. James D. Grist of Yorkville, left yesterday to enter Wofford Fitting school at Spartanburg. Miss Mamie Ferguson of Yorkville No. 5, has charge of a school at Silver, In Clarendon county. Dr. George Walker of Baltimore, Is in Yorkville on account of the illness of his brother-in-law, Mr. G. H. O'Leary. Mr. Ira Hardin of Blackshurg, was In Yorkville yesterday, having come down to examine the record as to some land. Miss Eunice McConnell, who has been spending some time in Yorkville, returned to Montgomery, Ala., on Monday. Mrs. J. M. Ferguson of Yorkville, has been quite sick for several weeks and is not improving as her husband and friends would like. Mr. G. H. O'Leary of Yorkville, has been ill for several days, and the family has been quite uneasy. He is considerably better today, however. Rev. J. L. Oates and Elder J. B. Plaxco of the Yorkville Associate Reformed church, left yesterday to at- , tend the fall meeting of presbytery at New Stirling, N. C. Mr. J. S. Wallace of Wofford Fitting school, has been spending the past few days at the home of his father, Mr. G. R. Wajlace of the Beth-Shiloh neighborhood, having come over on account { of the death of his aunt, Mrs. Mary Turner. i Mr. P. B. Parks, the new superintendent of the Lockmore mill and family, of Morganton, N. C., have arrived ( in Yorkville. They are accompanied ] by Mrs. Parks's sister, Miss Johnsie | Sims, who will reside with them. , The following Yorkville people left ( last night for the State fair: Mrs. Jas. Beckham. Miss Mamie Rose, Mr. Wal- . ter Rose. Mr. Sam M. Grist, Dr. A. Y. ( Cartwright, Messrs. B. F. and H. D. Marley. A number of others are to 1 leave this evening. 1 Mr. Joseph Lewis of Yorkville, is < critically ill at the home ot his sister, Mrs. Hattie Berry. His health has been had for many months; but he recently sustained a stroke of paralysis, and yesterday it was thought that he was dying; but the information this morning was that he was resting somewhat easier. Mr. Lewis is about 62 years of age. Chester, October 28: Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buice, who were married in Fairfield county on Monday by Rev. J. R. Millard, have arrived at their home here and received the usual congratulations of many friends. The bride was Miss Alice Scott, daughter of Dr. J. Austin Scott of Monticello. She had made several visits recently to Chester and formed quite a circle of admiring friends. The groom, a native of York county, has been a resident of Chester for the past three years and is a salesman In the dry goods firm of Joseph Wylie & Co., and popular in social affairs here. BOYS' CORN CLUB. The first annual meeting of the York County Boys' Corn club, which was organized in the court house at Yorkville on February 19, last, under the personal supervision of Professor Ira W. Williams, was held at Winthrop college last Saturday, pursuant to previous announcement, and the day was full of interest, pleasure and profit to all who had the good fortune to be present. The special object of the meeting was to award prizes to members of the corn club making the best yields on their respective aires, and to the buys t submitting the best ten ear exhibits in the seed selection contest; but this was only one of the many features of an unusually interesting day. President Johnson of Winthrop, who has all along been seconding the efforts of Prof. Ira W. Williams, state agent of the Farmers' Co-operative nnmnnotroHAn u-nrl/ In Cnnth Pn ml In I* in the promotion of the Boys' corn club movement in York county, had, with the assistance of members of the Winthrop faculty, prepared a particularly entertaining, instructive and appropriate programme for the occasion, and that programme was carried out in masterly detail to the great pleasure of all the visitors. Winthrop's part of the programme consisted of carefully prepared talks on subjects relating to domestic and rural economy, health, comfort and pleasure in the home. By way of variety there was some delightful vocal and instrumental music, a masterly recitation by a member of the faculty, and along with the mental feast, a final straight shot to the hearts of the visitors by the good old, never failing method of serving an excellent and bountiful picnic luncheon. President Johnson was Just a little disappointed in the number of his visitors. and also that they were all men and boys. In all there were not more than fory or fifty. He had prepared for a hundred, and the programme had been arranged for the mothers and sisters of the corn club boys as well as for their fathers and brothers. "We had hoped," said the hospitable doctor in his address of welcome, "to have your mothers and sisters here, as well as your fathers and hrothers. arid our nrenaratlon has been made on a basis of that expectation. We were expecting also fully a hundred people and have prepared accordingly. We are delighted to have you, and if there had been more boys and more parents, we would have been still better pleased. However, it is understood that the Boys' Corn club is now an established Institution; that there will be other meetings and on the next occasion we hope the attendance will be larger." The meeting was held In one of the society halls, on the third floor of the east wing of the college, and taking advantage of permission that had been announced during the morning, the girls of the various classes came in and joined the audience at such times as they were not otherwise employed. Through this means the hall with a seating capacity of several hundred was kept pretty well filled all during the exercises, and it is fair to say that the girls, about seventy per cent of whom are from the rural districts, showed as much interest in the programme as did the corn club boys and their fathers, and that means that the Interest and attention were perfect. The first speaker was Prof. L,. A. Nevin of the horticultural department on the subject of "Harmful Insects and Fiincmia Orowths and How to Com bat Them." His talk was necessarily on general lines; but there was a lot of valuable Information In it. In the first place he asserted that while this may not be an ideal country for fruit growing, it is a matter of very little trouble and very little intelligence to produce much better fruit than has ever been produced here. The principal reason why our people do not have good fruit is because they pay no attention to it. For one thing the nurserymen do not pretend to send good trees to the south. The best trees go to the north and west and the leavings arc sent here. It is because we do not know any better and the nurserymen ar aware of the fact. Then if a man sets out a fruit tree, he must do it with the expectation of spraying It. If he is not going to spray it, he need not set It out. because it will do no good. There are two general classes of harmful insects. They include the class that bite and the class that bore and suck. The biting class must be poisoned, and the sucking class must be suffocated. The best poison Is a mixture of lime and sulphur. For suffocating sucking insects, use almost any kind of cheap oily substance. But don't put the lime and sulphur mixture on trees during the growing season, for it will kill them. It Is best to spray twice a season, once after* frost and the second time Just before the buds begin to swell in the spring. If there is to be but one application, it should be in mid-winter. Trees sprayed with this mixture while they are growing will die. The lime and sulphur mixture is also good for San Jose scale. Prof. Nevin advised the planting of only budded trees. He said both peach and apple trees should be cut off 18 or 20 inches above the ground at planting, and as the shoots come out later, they should be kept pruned down to four or five of the best. Dead limbs should be pruned off as soon as they are discovered. He also gave specific directions for planting, insisting that the holes be made large enough to take the roots without doubling or bending. He discussed pear blight, and stated that the only remedy was to cut off the blighted parts and burn them. It blighted parts are not to be burned at once there is no need to cut them aff. Miss Hyde talked on the subject of 'Rural and Community Life," discussed the general and almost universal tendency to wastefulness and gave details as to how many little savings ?ould be effected in the kitchen and else*where. The talk was one that aeeded to be heard to be properly appreciated. The talk on the subject of 'Waste Places in the Home" by Miss IVhittemore was also full of practical common sense suggestions that would be appreciated by intelligent houseteepers. Miss Spencer recited a selection from [an Maclaren's "Dumtochsky," with mpressive effect, and Dr. Boyd read i most Interesting and instructi/e pajer on "Health and Hygiene in the Inme." She discussed principally flies, nosquitos and dust, showing the parts ?ach of these nuisances play in the ransmisslon and propagation of vari>us diseases. "Art in the Home," was the subject ?f an interesting and sensible paper )> Miss Isles. She laid the foundaion of her talk on the theory that order, jystem and harmony, or the opposite lave their influences on human lives, uul went into details as to how artisic effects are best to be secured. She lad a number of pictures that she coniidered to be especially appropriate for he decoration of different rooms? jictures that could be had at a cost of [0 cents each, and made clear her easons for recommending them. She ilso gave some interesting suggestions vith reference to the mounting and langing of pictures and furnished radical illustrations as to why. Prof. Ira W. Williams, who can nake an interesting, practical talk on any occasion, seemed to get inspiration from what the other speakers had said, from his audience of bright, intelligent girls who will one day be highly trained mistresses of South Carolina homes, from the boys who had been working so faithfully to make two ears of corn grow where only one grew before, and was at his best. He made a most capital talk that covered a lot of interesting ground; but probably the most telling point in it all was based on the achievement of one of his demont stration friends who this year made 228 bushels of corn on an acre at a net profit of $130. He did not give the name of the party who did this; but he drew a striking comparison between the life of such a man working ten acres of corn and the life of the man who works it. l store at $50 a month, and called the attention of the girls to the wisdom of marrying a farmer. This farmer he showed had an Income of $1,300 a year over living expenses and the $50 clerk who could hardly call his soul his own, had nothing left after paying board for himself and wife. He reviewed some of the things that South Carolina farmers had achieved during the past few years in the way of extraordinary progress and argued that they had only begun to learn how to farm. Then he took som" of the specimen ears of corn that the boys had brought in the seed selection conj test and demonstrated the points desired in the highest breeding. The leading nofnt.he explained was a pure, straight I breed?a corn that was all ite or all yellow. There are two kinds of cobs, red and white. In the case of a pure red cob corn, all the cobs would he red. and in the case of a white cob corn, all the cobs would be white. There must be no mixture with some red and some white. The ? must be no blue grains either. All of the grains must he the same color. The rows must he even, straight, close together, and the cobs must be filled out to both ends. Thrt grains too. must be neither too long o** too short and tight on the cob. The long grain is nreferable to the short grain; but too long a grain Is obtectionable. He snoke in high appreciation of what the York county boys had dope this year, and told them that he honed that next year there would he more of them in the club and that they would he able to do still better. At the conclusion of Prof. Williams's address. President Johnson announced the prize winners as follows: First prize for the largest yield on an acre. Ray Bankhead. son of Mr. E. M. Bankhead of Sharon No. 1, whose yield was 73 bushels and 6 pounds, at a cost of 23 cents a bushel. He was awarded a Rock Hill buggy worth $75. Second prize for the second largest yield. Paul Anderson, son of Mr. R. M. Anderson of Rock Hill No. 1. whose yield was 66 bushels and 11 pounds, at a cost of 36 cents a bushel. He was I awarded merchandise to the value of J $27. Third prize, for the third largest yield. Clyde Good, son of Mr. W E. Oood of Hickorv Grove R. F. D. No. 1. who Droduced 65 bushels and 30 nourds at a cost of 47.3 cents a bushel. He was awarded merchandise worth J1S. The first prize of 15 for the ten best ears of corn, went to Ward Mitchell, son of Mrs. S. A. Mitchell of Rock Hill R. F. D. No. 1: the second prize of 33. to drier McFadden. son of Mr. .T. A. McFadden of Rock Hill R. F. D. No. 6, and the third prize of $2 to Lester Zlnker. son of Mr. H. J. Zinker of Rock Hill R. F. D. No. 1. In connection with the Boys' Corn Hub meeting. there was also a meeting of the Winthrop Rural and Home Institute work, and prizes were awarded as follows: The prize for the best loaf of bread went to Miss Ruth McLurkin. The one for the best pound of butter went to Miss Margaret Fewell. The first prize for the best pair of chickens went to Miss Constance Wroton. the second going to Joe Miller. The first prize for best sofa pillow top was won by Miss Margaret Massey and the second by Miss Margaret Craig. The first nrize for the best apron went to Miss Pusie Bell Rabb. and the second to Miss Alice Anderson. Following is a complete list of the Corn club boys who participated In the contest, togetner wnn me yieiu nmuc hy each: Earl Glasscock, Catawba No. 2, 62 bushels. Prlnton Arrowood, Hickory Grove No. 1, 55 bushels. Clyde Good. Hickory Grove No. 1, 65 bushels and 20 pounds. Sep A. Lesslie, Lesslie No. 1, 383 bushels. Newman Barley, Rock Hill No. 6, 258 bushels. Paul Anderson, Rock Hill No. 1, 66 bushels and 11 pounds. "Ward Mitchell. Rock Hill No. 1, 48 bushels and 10 pounds. Grier McFadden, Rock Hill No. 6, 61 bushels. Le?ter Zlnker, Rock Hill No. 1, 46 bushels and 30 pounds. Maldeau Zinker, Rock Hill No. 1, 57 bushels and 50 pounds. Ray Bankhead, Sharon No. 1, 73 bushels and 6 pounds. Ralph Cain, Sharon No. 1, 52J bushels. Gary Good, Sharon No. 1, 53 bushels. Chalk Pratt, Sharon No. 1. 61 5-7 bushels. Lewis Good, Yorkville No. 1, 40 I bushels and 10 pounds. William Glenn, Yorkville No. 8, 35 bushels. Robert Jones, Yorkville No. 1, 50 bushels and 6 pounds. Banks Stephenson, Yorkville No. 1, 53 bushels and 28 pounds. Clyde Ratchford, Sharon No. 1, 52) bushels. R. V. Allen. Clover No. 2, 37 bushels. Roy Marley, Yorkville No. 7, 52 bushels and 15 pounds. Boyce Plexlco, Clover, 40 bushels and II pounds. Tom Good, Bullock's Creek, 50 bushels. Porter Purcell, Sharon, 41 bushels 10 pounds. LOCAL LACONICS. Death of Mrs. J. N. Gaston. Mrs. J. N. Gaston died at her home at Edgmoor last Sunday morning, and was buried yesterday, the services being conducted by Rev. R. A. Lummus. Mrs. Gaston was Miss Mary Patton of Catawba, and was about 30 years of age. She is survived by her husband and four children. Death of B. B. Whitesides. Mr. Baxter Boyce Whitesides, died at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. E. Whitesides, about six miles north of Yorkville last Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The deceased was a son of the late Major T. P. Whitesides, and was in the 42d year of his age. He was unmarried, and since the death of his father, has been assisting his mother on the farm, until his health gave way a few years ago. He was a good natured, kind-hearted young man and well liked by all who knew him. The funeral took place at Bethany last Sunday, the services being conducted by Rev. R. M. Stevenson. He is survived by his mother, and two brothers and two sisters as follows: J. Erskine and R. Newton Whitesides, Mrs. W. M. Stowe and Mrs. J. W. Quinn. The Fireless Cooker. The interesting "institute" work in connection with the Boys' Corn club meeting at Winthrop last Saturday, included a demonstration of the "fireless cooker," a scientific contrivance that is well worth the investigation of housewives over the country. There is no purpose to attempt a description of the j cooker here, further than to say that It consists of a metal or asbestos lined air-tight box in which cooking commenced on the range is completed with results that make for economy and hygienic excellence. The contrivance can I be made by almost any intelligent boy of 15 or 16 years of age, who is at all ? handy with the saw, hammer and ' plane, and is not expensive. The use i -..,1 . !..? ia l.OBf understood as the result of a practical demonstration and this the Winthrop authorities are always glad to give to any housewife who may be interested. The use of the tireless cooker is taught in the "practice home" on the grounds of the college. The "practice home" consists of an ordinary two story cottage of six or eight rooms in which the members of the senior class are taught all the details of housekeep- < ing from managing an incubator and I caring for chickens to planning, pre- ] paring and cooking meals and keeping I the dining room and parlor in order, i The instructor in charge takes great < pleasure in explaining all the approved 1 methods in housekeeping to visitors. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Charleston college will play football with Davidson at the State fair tomorrow. Roth teams are strong and the game will be worth while. ? Columbia Mate: The sum of $224,644.95 has been received since .he first of the year from the sale of fertilizer tags. This fund goes to Clemson college. The total amount received from the tax last year was approximately $202,000. The total amount received to this date last year was $185,396.16. It is estimated that approximately $240,000 will be receiv eu uunng ine year irom trie tax. ai the annual convention of the State Farmers' Union there was a resolution passed indorsing the proposition of increasing the number of free scholarships at Clemson college. The argument used was that the scholarships have not been increased, although when the free tuition was first granted on this basis only $150,000 was received from the tag tax. This means that the farmers of South Carolina have used nearly 1,000,000 tons of fertilizers this year, as there is a tax of 25 cents on every ton sold. It Is expected that the matter of increasing the scholarships at Clemson will be brought up at the next session of the general assembly. There may be a movement started to use part of the $250,000 for agricultural high schools to be located in several sections of the state. ? Gaffney, October 29: A case that has excited much interest, not only in Gaffney, but in other parts of South Carolina, was disposed of yesterday. Dr. L. M. Harrison was tried artd convicted on three counts, Issuing a worthless check, obtaining money under false pretenses and attempting to break Jail, This case has been very interesting, not only now, but when Harrison was captured. He came to Gaffney some months ago and succeeded in getting a diaft on a bank at Winter Park, Fla., indorsed by a prominent citizen of this city. He then disappeared, and nothing was heard from him for a long time. When the1 draft was sent to Winter Park, it was found that there was no bank there and that Harrison was unknown there. Harrison is wanted In four South Carolina towns. Some three months ago a communication was received from Jacksonville, stating that Harrison had been captured mere ana wouia De turnea over to South Carolina authorities. An officer was sent for him and brought him back to this city. A few weeks after Harrison was placed in jail, Sheriff Thomas walked . into his cell and found the doctor busily at work upon the steel bars of the cell. He had succeeded in cutting two bars and only one was left between him and freedom. Harrison is a scholarly looking man and is a graduate of the medical college of the University of Maryland, having served two years as interne at a Baltimore hospital. ? Aiken Journal and Review: Paralleling the boys' corn clubs, Aiken county, S. C., has a group of girls' tomato clubs and the Aiken Journal and Review records an example of success in one instance which ought to be preserved for a few years until this particular young lady gets older; the only objection to its publication then being that there would probably ensue such a rush of attentions from eligible bachelors as might seriously embarrass. From one-tenth of an acre she canned no less than 505 cans of tomatoes, which, considering her age and sex. is doubtless somewhat of a record. "As the seed for such a plot of land," comments the Journal and Review, "costs very little, depending on the grade of representative in each district, and as it does not take much labor to cultivate such a small plot, and as the cost of canning is very lit tic, inc ^I'MI VII outu an UULiclj 10 a?im proximately very great. Taking out the tost of the cans?about two cents each-"-and figuring the selling price at ten cents per can. the lowest estimate on this one-tenth of an acre would be $30." When it is remembered that what our contemporary terms "not much labor" appears in a very different light to the small cultivator, It would seem that the producer of more than 600 cans of tomatoes is entitled to distinguished mention, at any rate. More noise will be made about the Aiken lad whose acre of corn yielded 144 bushels, a figure which will be near if not at the top of the state contest to be decided in December, but we hold that his little neighbor has accomplished an equally notable feat. ? Columbia, October 29: The dispensary "gratt" cases will be called at Chester on November 7. This information was obtained here tonight, being the first definite announcement as to the date for the trial of the notorious cases connected with the old state dispensary. That witnesses of the state have been subpoenaed to appear on November 7, at Chester, was also learned tonight. The indictment to be pressed at Chester is that containing the "conspiracy" charges. Written across the ba k of this indictment are the following names: Jodie M. Rawlinson, Joseph B. Wylie, John Black, James S. Farnum and H. Lee Solomons. In brief, the indictment charges that the state of South Carolina was defrauded of $133,000 by an alleged conspiracy, the nature of which is set out. The witnesses written on the back of the original indictment here were: Smith, Thorpe, Collins and Wylie. To this number may now be added Moton A. Goodman. Joe Wylie, formerly a member of the state board of control, has already turned state's evidence and testified in two cases here. The Indictment charges that the state board and whisky agents conspired together to defraud the state, and that the members of the board received for their individual use. and not for the benefit of the state, rebates in addition to the compensation allowed by law. The "rebate schedule" Is made a part of the indictment. That schedule says that on whisky selling for $1.47 a gallon, the board got in rebates $1.50 per barrel, and so on up the line. Three dollar whisky netted the board $25 a barrel in rebates, says the indictment. Case goods had their figures, too. Between March 6 and March 22, 1906. the board Is said to have "cleaned up $24,000, and from March 22 to the end of the year. $108,000, making $133,000 in all. Jodie M. Rawlinson and John Black, members of the old state board of control, are the ones mentioned for trial at Chester, as is Lee Solomons, formerly a whisky agent. John T. Early has testified f.s has Joe Wvlie, and Moton Goodman furnished certain evidence In connerr'on with the "Hub" Evans case. John Black was placed on trial here, but a copy of a newspaper found in the room of Jurors halted the trial, which Judge Memminger declared to be a mistrial. Tomorrow, or early next week, it is expected that Attorney General Lyon will make a statement as to his plans for the trial of the cases. Other than that the cases will be pressed there has been no definite announcement by the attorney general. The Information furnished the News and Courier correspondent tonight is unofficial, but absolutely authentic. The second week of Chester's term of court begins on November 7. ? Franklin. Pa., October 30: Word tonight from the home of Joseph C. Sibley is to the effect that neither the former congressman nor his wife has more than the slenderest chance of recovery. Mr. Sibley blames himself for Mrs. Sibley's condition, for her breakdown resulted from the charges brought against her husband as a candidate for the Republican congressional nomination in this district. She urged him not to run. Dr. H. P. Hammond, who is in charge of both patients, says that two weeks ago Mrs. Sibley had a slight chance for recovery, but that hope now has been practically abandoned. Her chief trouble is mental and she is confined to her bed. Mr. Sibley is able to sit up, but attempts to walk result In attacks of dizziness from heart weakness. He eats but little. An audit of Mr. Sibley's $4 2,500 primary election expenses is set for November 14, but it is not believed he will be able to appear. On August 22d Mr. Sibley and three Warren county men were arrested 011 a charge of conspiracy to lebauch the voters of Warren county. He is now under $1,000 bail for trial it the December term of court.