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Scraps and .facts. ? Richmond Journal: The time was when turpentine was about the cheapest thing a housekeeper could buy. The biggest bottle in the house was sent for live cents' worth of turpentine. Now your sewing-machine oil bottle is big enough for that much. Indeed, turpentine has so grown in value that unless when you call at the paint dealer's and do not specify that you want the genuine article he will hand you out a substitute made largely of crude gasoline. Some years ago turpentine retailed for twenty cents a gallon, and now sells for ten cents a haif.ntnt Turnentlne is a southern product, and, while the demand has greatly increased, the output has largely fallen off. The value of the output in 1910, though much smaller than the previous year, was forty per cent greater than In 1909, all of which shows that the south has a very valuable industry, and one that demands scientific and careful handling of the pine forests that produce the resin and the turpentine to prevent the destruction of the trees. ? Havana, July 22: Four more skeletons were found today In the wreck of the Maine, making a total of eleven recovered In the last few days and leaving seventy-seven still unaccounted for. The skeletons were found on the starboard side of the main deck near the engine room. Others are to be seen pinned beneath wreckage but they cannot be removed for the present. The night that the Maine was blown up was a sultry one, as was told In the investigation, and the men were probably asleep on the deck as the sleeping accommodations on the ship were poor. The ship's bell was found today broken In two. In the ward room were found a revolver and a couple of safety razors. Most of the water has been pumped from inside the cofferdam and the pumping will probably be finished on Monday: alter that the work of exploration will proceed as rapidly as the mud dries. There are thirty feet of mud about the ship, but It will not be necessary to remove all this before exploring the interior. ? Mrs. Mary Trawick Proctor, aged 111 years, a real daughter of the American revolution, a woman who has lived In three centuries, when stirring events were making the history of nations, has just been located in an humble cabin in Bartow county, Georgia, says an Atlanta dispatch. TT ?,vU Q /loilffh ncr auic Luiiipaiuuno aic iivi UUUBUter, Miss Mary Proctor, aged 90, and two great-great-grand children, descendants of another daughter, all who are left of six generations of her family. Mrs. Proctor was born In Wake county. North Carolina. She is the daughter of Wiley Trawick, who left North Carolina about 1800 and later moved to Alabama, where Mary was married to Hiram Proctor when she was 19 years of age. She was Proctor's third wife. Her husband was a veteran of two wars, the revolution and the war of 1812. On a bed of straw, constituting a mattress so thin that the rough plank slats can be seen this daughter of the revolution lies, her form emaciated, skin wrinkled, almost a skeleton. Her aged daughter, never tiring of her feeble efforts to give her mother every feasible comfort. administers to her wints and tills the soil in a small cotton and garden patch nearby. The meager profits derived from this labor she adds to the 812 a month pension Mrs. Proctor receives for the services her husband rendered in the war of 1812. She was born but a few years after George Washington was elected president. George Washington was the only president who served before Mrs. Proctor became a native of North Carolina. She has lived under the administration of twenty-five presidents, including John Adams and William H. Taft. ? Richmond, Va., has been very much excited for some days over a murder sensation that has been boil irvg there since Tuesday night. Henry clay Beatty. Jr., took his wife to wtiom he had been married a year, out automobiling and brought back her bloody corpse. He told a story to the effect that at a point about five miles from the city, a negro suddenly shouted from the road. "You had better run over me." Beatty replied, "You have the entire road." The negro's reply was the discharge of a shot gun and Mrs. Beatty fell against Beatty. Beatty jumped out and grappled with the man, took the gun away from him, and took his dead wife into the city. That was the story as he told it. Next day. however, investigation showed a pool of blood in the road, and marks suggesting the lifting of the body into the automobile. The drip pan of the automobile, which would have caught the blood if the woman had been shot in the machine had very little in it. Inquiry at Beatty's home for the clothes of the dead woman disclosed that these clothes had been burned because the family did not want the companionship of such gruesome reminders of the tragedy. Later Paul Beatty, a cousin of the husband of the murdered woman told that some days before at the request of Henry, he had bought for Henry, a single barrel shot gun, and he thought this was the same gun. Then a young woman named Beulah Binford, said she bad commenced an intimacy with Beatty when she was 13 years of age, that a child had been born, and that it died after about a year of life. The intimacy had been broken off: but had been renewed later, and that she had been driving out with Beatty several nights during the previous week. Henry Beatty sticks to his original story, and appears to be quite calm. Paul has tried to commit suicide and has shown signs of much agitation. ? New York, July 22: Claus Augustus Spreckles, son of the late Claus Spreckles of California, and principal owner of the Federal Sugar Kenning company, of Yonkers, N. Y., today gave the most sensational testimony that has been developed during the congressional investigation of the sugar trust during the hearings here. Besides giving a most important side light on the conference between John Arbuckle and the late Henry O. Havemeyer. which is believed to have ended the great sugar war, he described, under oath, the vicissitudes of an independent sugar refiner. He said his plant in Philadelphia, before it was controlled by the trust, had been put out of commission several times by persons who threw sand in the machinery bearings and otherwise wrecked the plant. He swore that in the Yonkers refinery, after he had turned down trust overtures, dead rats were placed in vats of sugar ready for shipment and that whole vats of liquid sugar had been drained off in the night into sewers. The nuisance of dead rats continued until private detectives pointed out a number of his employes, whom he discharged, refusing to.pay their wages, in the hope that they would sue him and thus enable him to question them under oath as to who had employed them. Much to his disappointment, he was never sued. Mr. Spreckles declared that Henry O. Havemeyer, Theodore Havemeyer and John E. Searles, all then officers of the American Sugar Refining company, and now dead, purchased a half interest in all of the California refineries to end the Spreckles sugar war, for $2,225,000 in cash, and six months later sold this interest to the American Sugar Refining company for $5,000,000 in preferred stock, which at that time was worth $120 a share, or $6,000,000. Interesting points in Mr. Spreckles's testimony included his assertion that in four years he had made $2,000,000 on a na?anan fujai yiaiiiaiioii un a ta.in investment of $10,000. Since starting the Federal refinery, ten years ago. by a cash payment of $3,500,000 for equipment, he has paid 6 per cent dividends on that $3,500,000 regularly and had turned earnings amounting to an equal amount back into the improvement of the plant. Representative tlarrett. of Tennessee, asked Mr. Spreckles if he knew anything about the conference between John Arbuckle and Henry O. Havemeyer. which was supposed to have ended the sugar war. "Yes. something." he said. "Soon after that conference John Arbuckle came to me and said: 'I've just had a little talk with Henry O. Havemeyer. He said an understanding had been reached: that there was an overproduction of sugar, and asked me if I would reduce the output of the Federal.' I told him the Federal would work to its full capacity. He said: 'You must misunderstand Haveme.v er like I did. He Is a fine, cultivated man?why he plays the violin.' So did Nero play the violin.' said I, 'and Rome burned. "He told me we ought to reduce our output, that there was too much sugar; that by reducing the output we could reduce expenses, keep up the price of sugar and thus make more money. He said that was what the American was going to do." "Did you understand, from John Arbuckle, that he had reached an agreement with Havemeyer and the American company that the production of sugar was to be reduced?" "Yes." he said. "Did any one else ever try to get you to reduce the production of sugar?" "Yes, Mr. Warner, of the American company. He said it would create better feeling among the refiners generally and that an understanding could be reached. I think that both Arbuckle and Warner were sent by the American Sugar Refining company to get me to enter into an agreement." ?hc \lorkrillc (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.i TUESDAY, JULY 25,1911. Strange, is It not, that a real daughter of the Revolution, 111 years old, who has been living all her life in Georgia should just now be located for the first time? If "near" beer is near enough, then a license is worth $50 to people who want to sell without molestation, but if the beer is not "near" enough, the license is without value. The News and Courier has of late been printing stories about Charleston's famous mosquito fleet, and the fishermen eenerallv. which stories are being read with peculiar Interest throughout the state. The anti-Blease whisky folks who accuse Prohibitionists of responsibility for. the election of Mr. Blease will hardly claim that any of the Prohibitionists voted for that gentleman. Mr. Blease was elected, however. He must have gotten his votes from somewhere. Where? Why, of course, if there is no law against selling "near beer," "near beer" can be sold anywhere, and if "near beer," why not "nigh beer," and if "nigh beer," why not "light beer," and if "light beer," why not "heavy beer," and if "heavy beer" is not lager or porter, what is it? There are no mosquitoes on Sullivan's Island, so it is said, and the Isle of Palms is destitute of the animal, so where have the little singers in the dark gone? Surely, they are not all in Charleston or Yorkville.?Charleston Post. The mosquitoes that the editor of The Enquirer brought from Charleston in his suit case on his return from the press trip, have been dead for two weeks or more. There is very little actual cotton in the hands of the farmers, and In spite of the high price offerings were small. Of course, paper cotton won't spin, anyway. The bulls had the upper hand, and the bears could not make good. The market was stagnant. There was a compromise by which the differences of the big fellows were settled, and then the price was allowed to drop. Of course a lot of future cotton will be bought at the new figures and that will help to keep the prices down. But if the farmers of the south will hold on to their crop, prices will have to go up. There is no good, healthy market except when growers are in the saddle. According to the New York Sun, the Brewers' association, composed of Texas brewers as well as brewers outside of Texas, who sell their products in that state, admits that it spent more than $1,000,000 in the prohibition campaign that ended with the election last Saturday. The money it is alleged, was spent on newspaper advertising, hiring speakers, renting halls and paying railroad fare. The Prohibitionists charge that the brewers spent large sums of money paying poll taxes for people who would have otherwise not been allowed to vote, and that this was done in violation of the law which requires that all poll taxes must have been paid on or before January 31, preceding the election. It is claimed also that many aliens were voted. A pretty good way to judge of a man's character is by the way he meets his financial obligations. The fellow who is careless about paying his debts and who will not pay them if he can get around it is not much of a man. He may safely be put down as a bad citizen in almost every respect.? Greenwood Journal. Correct; but oh, how many bad citizens there are, measured according to this standard. Of course, we would not be considered as admiring a scoundrel of any kind, but there are gradations, and according to our mind, ine man woo ran pay wnai ne juaiiy owes and wont, is a worse man than the fellow who will pick your pockets, or burglarize your house. The one has at least the courage to jeopardize his skin and liberty. The other is a most contemptible and despicable coward. Most people will pay if they have the money; but there are some who do not think they are called upon to pay until they have so much money that they do not know what else to do with it. However, there would not be so many swindlers and bad men in the world, if those who believe in being square and upright would realize that it is their duty to help force the more careless up to a proper conception of duty. It is quite common to assume that Prohibitionists are too fanatic to have any political sense. The importance of destroying the state dispensary machine was very great five years ago. It was evident that the people were ripe for it, and it was evident also that if the thing were to be done it was then or never. Even so-called local option was preferable to the continuance of dispensary stealing. The local option crowd saw they could not succeed without the help of the Prohibitionists. and leading Prohibitionists like Mr. Eeatherstone, realized that they could not win without the help of the local optionists. The entire logic of the situation awarded the right of priority to the Prohibitionists; but the Prohibitionists saw and realized that the local optlonists were not going to stand by them. They were satisfied that the local optlonists being but little removed from the dispensary crowd on the moral questions involved, would stand vith the dispensary crowd rather than co-operate with the Prohibitionists. Mr. Featherstone saw advantage for the cause he represented if he should sink his personal ambition and advise Prohibitionists to direct all their efforts against the state dispensary. He did it. and the old dispensary machine tottered and fell. The local option crowd not only proved themselves utterly incompetent to handle the victory that the Prohibitionists put into their hands; but when their time came refused and failed to pay back to the Prohibitionists the debt they had Incurred. Of course, there are longhaired prohibition cranks, and men who want to lead the prohibition forces, who are not competent to do so; but Mr. Featherstone has proved that he is a broad, able prohibition leader, worthy of confidence, and there is every reason to believe that he would make the state a good governor, who would enforce the laws to the letter. To the announced purpose of the railroad commission to probe into the affairs of the Southern Express company, we say, amen. There has been a lot of fuss about Standard Oil, American tobacco and other monopolies, and these are no doubt bad enough; but if there is a stronger, smoother or more oppressive monopoly in this section than the Southern Express, we do not know what it is. The express organization includes all the essential principles of a trust, and we do not doubt that some of the larger and more objectionable trusts got their primary lessons from this organization. It is not our purpose to say what proper express rates should be, because candidly we do not know; but we feel confident that rates are three or four times as high as they should be. As a matter of fact the public knows but little about the express business, the inner workings of it and the tremendous profits it yields the stockholders, who never let go any stock; but that it is a "good" thing, a wonderfully good thing, even the simplest can have no doubt. In the conduct of its business, the Southern Express company is as autocratic and as dictatorial as the postofflce department; but nothing like as responsible. There has been some little improvement during the past few years; but hardly enough to notice. It is indeed, gratifying to know that the railroad commission is threatening an investigation; but we warn the public not to grow too enthusiastic all at once. Not only is the Southern Express company rich and powerful; but It is smooth? very smooth, and it may be powerful and smooth enough in the end to keep the public from knowing all the things it would like to know, and even most of the things it should know. But we Iiu^c IIIC IIOC01150IIUII IIUU Hi 10 RIUIIV monopoly will be full and thorough, and that it will be followed up by the legislation to which the people are entitled for their protection. The question raised by the circumstances resulting In the resignation of Mr. Leon M. Green from the staff of the News and Courier, is interesting to us solely from a journalistic point of view, Mr. Leon M. Green is a straight-forward, honest man and a good newspaper correspondent. We do not believe he has ever misrepresented anything from Columbia politically or otherwise, and we do not believe he would do so. But we do not believe a newspaper correspondent, especially one whose business it is to report executive department proceedings, should hold a position on the staff of the governor. We thought that when Kohn, Banks and Hoyt accepted positions on the staff of Governor Heyward they made a mistake. In this case we think that both Editor Lathan and Correspondent Green are right, except that Correspondent Green should have sent In his resignation to the News and Courier when he accepted a position on the staff of the governor. Inasmuch as he did not do it then, he is right In upholding his manhood by refusing to resign now under compulsion, and in giving up his position on the paper rather than the empty honor of a place on the executive staff. The force of the precedent that was established by Mr. Kohn's having held a place on a governor's staff is broken by Mr. Lathan's simple statement that he was not editor of the News and Courier at that time. We are aware of the fact that the News and Courier has been harsniy criticised by private individuals because of Mr. Green's manner of handling certain news in which Governor Blease was concerned, but we have attributed no importance to this and we do not believe the News and Courier has attributed any importance to it. It is a weakness of numan nature, especially of unschooled human nature to rebel and protest against unpleasant facts; but a newspaper that suppresses important and significant facts simply because they are unpleasant or likely to prove unpleasant to a considerable number of readers, is not worthy of the name. As we have said, we do not think that Mr. Green has sent any-, thing untrue to his paper about Governor Blease, and further we will say that we do not believe that his conduct or attitude has anything to do with this difference between himself and Editor Lathan. We think Editor Lathan is right in asking Mr. Green to resign rrom tne sian or me i\e\vs ana Courier or the governor's staff, and under the circumstances as explained, we think Correspondent Green is right in resigning from the staff of the News and Courier instead of from the staff of the governor. Although the decision of the supreme court in the case of Mr. p. H. Gadsden, does not justify as fully as we hoped, the professional conduct of that gentleman, brought into question by Circuit Judge Robert Aldrich, we are gratified to know that the court sustains the opinion we took occasion to express some time ago that Mr. Gadsden was and is incapable of intentional wrong doing. The court does indeed find that Mr. Gadsden committed a "breach of duty;" but is careful to say that the commission grew out of zeal f<?r the right of his client rather than out ol any errori to sec-tire personal benefit, and certainly the court could not say such a thins without stultifying itself unless it were clearly convinced of the fact. We think a lot of Mr. P. H. Gadsden, because we believe him to lie a man of a high sense of honor, and of great ability, and while we regret in a way that he has lieen made the subject of this censure, still we rejoice in the whole incident, and that a man like Mr. Gadsden happened to be concerned. The undisputed facts are that as the counsel of one heir to an estate, the wife, Mr. Gadsden made representations to another heir, a sister, concerning her rights and the value of the property in question, which representations turned out to be incorrect in certain particulars. The representations as to the value of the property were a matter of business opinion, and the representation as to the rights of the heir were based upon legal opinion. The value of the property afterward increased considerably, and, in the litigation that followed it was made clear that the representa| tions as to the legal rights of the heir in question were incorrect, it was in ruling 011 the matter that Judge Robert Aldrich delivered a very rebuking and caustic criticism of Mr. Gadsden. Still conscious of the integrity of his motives in all he did, Mr. Gadsden appealed the case to the supreme court; but later on, without his knowledge or consent, other attorneys compromised the whole matter to the satisfaction of Mr. Gadsden's client and the heir whom it was alleged Gadsden had wronged. But Mr. Gadsden would have none of this. The compromise, affecting only property, of course, was allowed to stand; but he requested the supreme court to pass on the rectitude of his conduct in the matter. Nobody else could have done it. That is, there was no prosecution, and could have been none. Mr. Gadsden could have let the whole matter drop without further risk, and it would have probably been forgotten. But he would not stand for that. He got It before the supreme court on its merits, with the state's side represented by the attorney general, and had the issue forced to a brass tack basis on both sides, asking no favor and granting none. As the result of it all, Mr. Gadsden's conduct was not fully vindicated. The court said he did wrong; but still he was victorious. In the same opinion in which Mr. Gadsden's conduct is cen sured, the court makes it clear that his motives were right?that tnere was no dishonesty or attempted chicanery, and after all Mr. Gadsden is victorious. But this is not the end of it. This is not a personal matter as appears on its face. An Important precedent is established. There are lawyers and lawyers and among them hundreds who knowingly and deliberately use their position and prestige to perpetrate fraud and commit crime. Ordinarily there is a poor way to get at them, be suspicion ever so strong. Men of this kind are not going to move against themselves as Mr. Gadsden did, and the bar association does not concern itself about such matters. But now since the ice has been broken, there will be closer question into these things and the shyster class of lawyears which has been having things so easy heretofore will probably have to be more guarded in their operations. The Near Beer Question. ' The old dispensary law prohibited the sale, under other than dispensary regulations of any beverage that contained alcohol and the present law prohibits in the same manner the sale of anv beverasre that will intoxicate if used to excess. It is in this difference that Mayor Duncan of Union bases defense of himself and his city council for licensing the sale of near beer In Union. In a long statement given out to the press a few days ago, Mayor Duncan says that when he went into office he found a number of people selling "near beer," which upon careful investigation, he found to be a beverage that was very close to lager in appearance, taste, odor and other characteristics; but which would not intoxicate if drank to excess. After thorough consideration of the whole matter, the mayor and council decided that it would be as good an idea as any to license dealers at the rate of $12.50 a quarter or $50 a year; but to give them to understand that if they should sell anything stronger they would be pulled and prosecuted. Some of the people, who according to the mayor, had been paying under a previous administration, decided to pay the license and stopped selling the beer. Others paid and continued to sell as they had been doing. The mayor takes pains to put himself down as a good citizen, who would not disobey the law under any consideration or permit anybody else to do anything of the kind. And maybe he thinks he is entirely honest in his estimate of himself. In the consideration of this matter, some strange things occur to us and one of them is that if "near beer" socalled does not come under the prohibition of the dispensary law, where would the city council of Union find power to prohibit its sale without a license, and why should those people who are alleged to have stopped selling because they did not want to pay the license have done so at all. Of course the city council of Union has a right to license any and all kinds of businesses; but to assume the right 10 specialize ana license sucn a suspicious business as this looks like getting dangerously close to the line. As to what '"near beer" really is, we do not know but we feel convinced thut it is the real article, with only the name "near" tacked 011 as a kind of subterfuge, and while we have no doubt that every "near beer" dealer keeps a lot of bitter, non-alcoholic stuff on hand to sell on occasion, we suspect that most would-be customers who fail to get genuine Budweiser, Schlitz or something else equally interesting, consider themselves as having been humbugged and fail to come back. Maybe they do it otherwise in Union, but we have an idea that most dealers who would put themselves in a position to be generally considered as in the regular beer business would hurdly be satisfied to continue in that position without the profits that usually accrue from the traffic. In giving expression to this view, we do not feel as if we are telling anybody anything they do not know. We are satisfied that nine readers out oi ten rum it uimcun iu repress armies and winks as they consider the situation. But is it not strange that people should lie willing to he so dishonest with themselves in any kind of a transaction? "Neer beer!" the idea. Isn't it a great joke though?" Liquor Wins In Texas.?The antiprohibitiou majority in the state-wide prohibition election held in Texas Saturday stands at tl. 104. a tigure too large to lie overcome by the unreported vote, according to figures compiled by the Dallas News of this morning. The total vote to date is: Against the amendment 234.101. For the amendment 227,997. The new figures indicate that the i final count will show the majority against prohibition to be in excess of 6,000. There Is a decided conviction I that there has been much fraud com- < milled bv the anti-prohibitionists, and I that there will be a bitter contest; but I that the liquor people will be able to | hold what they have is very probable, j LOCAL AFFAIRS, . i NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. D. C. Clark, for Com.?Announces that ex-Governor Evans will be one of the speakers at Filbert, Friday. John Dowry, Admr.?Requests parties : owing estate of Miss Jane- Templeton, deceased, to make settlement. Those holding claims against said estate are requested to present , them. Clover Drug Store.?Has a full supply of turnip seeds In variety, and also carries stock of best extracts and spices. J. H. Saye, Sharon?Calls a meeting of the orignal members of the Red Shirt organization of York county, to meet in the court house July 31st. F. E. Smith. Chairman?Announces an excursion from Yorkville to Johnson City, Tenn., on August 10th. Fare for round trip J3.50. Herndon & Gordon?Are selling lots of fruit jars, bread, ete? and have hams, (lour, snowdrift lard, soda, , baking powders, etc. J. C. Wilborn?Offers 245 acres?Allen Crosby home place, near Sharon for , sale. J. L. Williams & Co.?Call attention to their fall line of $15 made-to-order suits. Glenn & Allison?Have full stock of buggies and harness and offer a bargain in a Winship cotton press. Riddle Auto Co.?Is selling the Brush runabout and recommends It because of Its low cost, low up-keep cost, dependability, etc. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Says It stands ready to make satisfactory any article that might prove otherwise. Special prices quoted. Thomson Co.?Continues to sell Oxfords at 20 per cent discount and announces special prices on a variety of other seasonable goods. Loan and Savings Bank.?Asks if you don't feel a little uneasy without a bank account and suggests that you start one with It. National Union Bank?Offers its services to those who have money to Invest. It can give you safe and profitable advice. J. Q. Wray?Is well pleased with his special sale and says that there are many extra values left for those who will come for them. From Filbert Governor Blease will go to Flat Rock, Pickens county, where he Is to speak on Saturday. The water situation has become so critical in Charlotte that the author Hies are discussing me tin v latiuiiit.v ui borrowing oil tank cars from the 1 Southern railway and bringing supplies of water from Catawba river. WITHIN THE TOWN. I ? Eliza Wilson, a well known negro woman of Yorkville, died last night after an illness of about two weeks, . aged about seventy-five years. She was commonly known as "Free Liza," a name she has borne since the earliest ] recollection of the oldest citizen of the town, having come by it through the fact that her father had brought lib- | erty for himself and family from his owner, many years before the civil war. In slavery days "Free Liza" , worked around among the white peo pie at such odd jobs as she could get and managed to pick up a very comfortable living. She owned a small j plot of ground and a cabin on Lincoln street, near the orphanage, and has lived there for many years. i TO JOHNSON CITY. I The first excursion from Yorkville ( to Johnson City, Tenn., is to be run over the C. & N.-W. and the C., C. & ' O. railroads, leaving Yorkville on Au- ] gust 10. 1911. The route is by way of Lincolnton, ] from there to the C.. C. & O. at Bos- . tic and from Bostic across the Blue Ridge at Alta Pass, and thence along , the Nollchucky and on to Johnson City, making up one of the finest rail road trips In America. There are a great many people J throughout this section, who have heard 1 of the fame of the famous C., C. & O. route, and it would seem this excur- ] slon would afford the opportunity of j their lives to see it conveniently and at j little cost. THE RED SHIRTS. \ Attention is directed to the advertisement in another column calling a ] meeting of the surviving Red Shirts of , 1876 to be held in Yorkville on Mon- , day, July 31. This recalls stirring times of thirtyfive years ago, and of which a large proportion of the people in charge of 1 the affairs of York county today have but faint, If any recollection. In those old days, a call like that > published by Dr, Saye today would 1 have put the county In a tremble from ' the Catawba to Broad and from the North Carolina line far down to into 1 Chester, and on the day appointed the ] streets of Yorkville would have been i alive with red shirted horsemen, hurrahing for Hampton and reform. , Even the very boys were organized, < there being In the town of Yorkville ] about 50 chaps from 8 to 12 years old, uniformed with red shirts, across the breasts of which appeared in large letters the words, "Hampton Boys." Other boys from 12 to 15 were known 1 as "Evans Boys," and the boys from 16 on up belonged to the horsemen 1 crowd and could vote. At least many of them did. i There are living In the county today several thousand men, who were en- < thusiastic participants in those stir- , ring times and no one need be sur- ] prised if a repetition of the old call today?even though it be only a call for a reunion?meets with a response that is calculated to open the eyes of the young people of today. , The object of the meeting of July . 31, is merely to form a suvivors organ- | ization and to canvass the situation j with a view to having the county as J fully represented as possible at the s state reunion to he held in Columbia , on August 10 and 11. EVANS AND BLEASE. , From the announcement in another ] column it appears that Hon. John < Gary Evans of Spartanburg is to be 1 one of the speakers at Filbert next i Friday along with Governor Blease. ' Of course the principal thing the I picnic management is after Is a big s ITUWU UJ paUUIUKC lilt? icuraiiiucm 1 stands to pay the band and other ex- .' penses incident to the occasion and such surplus as may be realized for the various uses of the Woodmen camp; but there are those who see In the situation some political developments of a more or "less spicy nature. As to what the political relations between Governor Blease and ex-Governor Evans are, The Enquirer does not know; but there is gossip that they are not altogether friendly; that they are to a certain extent rivals and it has been intimated on the streets that it is because of this fact that there has been Insistence on the pres- a ence of Mr. Evans. a When the reporter suggested this matter to one of the picnic commit- * teemen yesterday, the committeeman r said that he had heard talk of a cer- a tain rivalry between ex-Governor t Evans and Governor Blease; but as to a whether there was anything to it he t did not know. He did know, however, \ that the committee had always been a inviting Mr. Evans to the Filbert pic- t nics, and that from that standpoint t' there was no special significance In v the invitation this year. 1 There is talk that while Mr. Evans ? does not especially desire iu ur gov- . ernor of South Carolina, having al- a ready enjoyed that honor, it is com- e moldy understood that he would not e in the least object to being United v States senator to succeed Senator Till- t man, in case that gentleman should d happen to drop out of the running and v if it is necessary to run for the gov- |i ernorship against Mr. Blease next summer in order to put himself in line ii for the senatorship running he would e not be averse to that. v But this is not given as a definite a and positive prediction of the proba- t' ble developments at the picnic next o Friday. It is only more or less specu- a lative talk. Everybody who knows o anything about York county politics c knows thai whether ex-Governor v Evans and Governor Blease be friend- m ly or unfriendly or political rivals, or S otherwise, with very few exceptions if their political followers and friends in n this county are the same to the extent is that either running alone would get tl 11 most identically the vote the other tl could get, and that If they happened to be opponents that they would only divide the vote that one or the other could get If they ran alone. If under these circumstances these two gentlemen should fall out and pull each other's hair, figuratively speaking, at Filbert, they would do a very foolish thin#, and In that view of the case It Is hardly reasonable to expect any scrapping. Both of these gentlemen have a right to be credited wl.li more sense. DINNER TO EX-SLAVES. There were eighty-six ex-slaves at the dinner thai was given to them In Yorkvllle last Saturday, and they spent a very enjoyable day of It, all by themselves. The occasion was rather unique. It was a public affair gotten up by private initiative with the help of small but numerous contributions from the local public. A young negro named Dave Lewis was the prime mover. He had the endorsement of Noah Banks, Hannibal Beatty, Pop Thomasson and other former slaves, who gave such assistance as they could, but there was also quite an element of opposition that could not reconcile Lewis's self-assumed activity. The dinner guests came from Yorkville and the surrounding country for a radius of five or six miles. They sat down to tables heavily laden with a substantial spread of good things, including fried chicken, boiled ham, pickles, preserves, bread, cakes, etc. Pop Thomasson Invoked a blessing and all fell to with keen relish and enjoyment. Noah Banks was the principal speaker of the occasion. He referred to the work of Dave Lewis as being creditable and highly appreciated, a more meritorious thing than any of the educated niggers had ever tried to do, and then assuming that the slavery negroes got along easier and bet- i ter in the world than the rising generation, explained that the reason of It was that their old masters and mis- J tresses had taught them to know their , places, to be polite and considerate, , and that they had followed their original teachings ever since. After the ex-slaves, among whom I were a dozen or more women, had concluded their feast, they called In < the members of the brass band, and 1 no others were asked to participate In i the occasion. I I ne report is mm mere was mi j abundance of food for the occasion i and everything passed ofT in a manner , that was eminently satisfactory to all , concerned. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mlas Julia Wltherapoon of Yorkvllle, Is spending sometime at Blowing Rock, < N. C. Mrs. E. W. Long and children of 1 Yorkvllle, are spending sometime at ' Lenoir. Mrs. David Gaston and son, David, of Blacksburg, are visiting relatives near yorkvllle. Mrs. D. W. Hicks of Gaffney, spent I Saturday and Sunday with relatives in I Yorkvllle. Mr. J. W. C. Shleder of St. George, Is ' visiting his son, Dr. D. L. Shleder, in ! yorkvllle. ; Miss Sudie Neely of Rock Hill, Is the ( ?uest of Miss Lottie Belle Slmril, near ( yorkvllle. Mrs. J. C. Blair of Bi&irsville, spent ' several days with Mrs. A. M. Grist In yorkvllle last week. Master Stewart Dunbar of Chester, Is visiting the family of Mr. W. M. McDonnell, in Yorkvllle. Mrs. H. W. Tate of Mint, Fla., Is , visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. , P. Moore, In Yorkvllle. I Misses Anna C. Schorb and Agnes < Hunter of Yorkvllle, are visiting Mrs. i T. B. Kell, in Fort Lawn. I Miss Margaret Grist, of Yorkvllle, Is ' visiting her grandparents, Mr. and j Mrs. J. C. Blair at Blalrsville. Mr. J. Donnom Witherspoon of Cross 1 Hill, spent Sunday in Yorkvllle with Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon. Misses Zula McKnight and Mary McFarland of Yorkvllle R. F. D. No. 4. ire spending sometime at Edgemont, ' I* C. - _ . . , Congressman Flnley returned to ' Washington yesterday after spending < ibout two weeks at his home in York- I vllle. Mrs. A. B. Hammond, Jr., of Colum- ' aia, is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. L. Geo. Grist, In Yorkvllle. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McConnell of ( Blacksburg are the guests of Mr. Rob. , ind Miss Kate Ratchford on Yorkvllle , R. F. D. 3. J Mrs. H. W. Young of Georgetown i ind Mrs. S. C. Colvin of Chester, are ] visiting their father, Mr. D. E. Boney, i n Yorkvllle. t Mrs. R. J. Mackorell and children, ' who have been visiting relatives In j Lancaster, have returned to their nome ' n Yorkvlile. Miss Thelma Inman, who has been visiting relatives in Rockinghom, N. 2., and Chester, has returned to her lome in Yorkvlile. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Moore, who have been spending several days at Dcean View, Va., returned to their lome In Yorkvlile, yesterday. Mrs. W. B. Wylie and daughter, Miss Rachel, and Miss Reba Cain of Yorkvlile, are spending sometime with relatives at Matthews, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Dukes and Mrs. 3. N. Ackerman and three children if St. George, are the guests of Mrs. P. W. Patrick In Yorkvlile. PUBLIC COTTON WEIGHER. At the last monthly meeting of the bounty board of commissioners, upon a petition signed by cotton producers ivlng within five miles of Yorkvlile, Mr. J. E. Burns was duly appointed public cotton weigher for this market, ind at the next meeting of the board, the probability is that petitions will se presented for the appointment of at east three other public weighers. The cotton weigher proposition is beginning to take on considerable importance in Yorkville, as it has at oth?r points in the state where platforms lave been established. Sentiment and nterest is divided on the subject. There are buyers that are opposed :o the idea of a public weigher, and tome that want a public weigher, and :here are cotton producers on both tides of the question. So far as The Enquirer has informa:ion there are no charges or intimation f unfairness on the part of the buyers n the weighing of the cotton; but hose in favor of the public platform dea claim that the present system is vrong in that it is the common rule n all things else for the seller to veigh or measure his goods, and if the ule is not to be observed in this case, here should at least be between the leller e i buyer a disinterested arbler, who shall adjust questions of dis>ute as to excess of water, bagging ind other points of difference that irise from time to time. Owners of platforms and warelouses, in some cases, argue that by eason of their extensive preparation ' md investment and the necessity of n laving the necessary help around them a my way, they should not be subjected a o the additional expense and incon- 0 'enience incident to public weighing c ind moving of cotton from platforms o warehouses, and the claim is also nade that the public platform idea kill increase insurance charges. On he otfier hand advocates of the public v ilatform idea hold that one effect of he private warehouses and platforms c Iready established is to give the own- j rs of such warehouses and platforms t, oi'toln nrlvanfappa over other buvers n iho have no such conveniences and a his advantage operates at last to the a etriment of the seller who otherwise ^ vould have the l>enefit of more comletition. Opponents of the public platform [lea claim that the support of It will v mail a cost of 10 cents a bale for a weighing where now weighing is free p nd that this will operate to drive cot- r on away from this market. On the v ther hand it is argued that the seller h t last pays all cost of weighing and p ther expenses, and while he cannot be sj ertain what he is now paying for d elghing under the public system he C ill know the price is 10 cents a bale. s< in Tar as the driving away of cotton li t concerned, he holds that there is no s! eed for anything of the kind. That it si i the price and conveniences mainly w hat bring cotton to a market, and e here is no business reason why this a new arrangement shouta drive cotton away; that If some cotton is driven away to vindicate this argument, the w pffect will only be temporary and that matters will soon regulate themselves. The application tor the appointment of additional weighers is being made lc on the ground that the county com- C missioners have the right to appoint pi "one or more" weighers, otherwise as h. many as they please, and if weighers ti In the emDlov of the movlnsr buvers h secure official appointment, take the w prescribed oath, give bond and have o' their scales tested periodically as re- tc quired by law, the public weigher idea ci will be complied with and there should at be no objection to their appointment, p On the other hand the movers In favor d; of the public platform hold the law as pi it stands, contemplates the weighing of 'p cotton by a disinterested weigher, w whose business and duty it will be to p treat all alike, that the provision of tf law authorizing the appointment of additional weighers was solely to take h care of the contingency under which g< the business of a market could not be p attended to by one weigher or at one pi platform, and that the appointment of st employes of private buyers as weigh- ai ers would only tend to circumvent the st law and by dividing up the weighing pi fees make the support of an independ- a ent buyer impossible. Taken altogether the situation is d< quite interesting, and although those ai who are after the establishment of a U public platform seem to have rather w the advantage at this time, just w what shape the affair might take be- ai fore it is finally settled, is not to be o; predicted with safety. It is the rule, d: however, that radical changes from it long established customs of any kind c< ire seldom accomplished without a w considerable amount of agitation and tl more often than otherwise there Is w considerable strife. c< rr LOCAL LACONIC3. U George W. Moore Dead. Mr. Qeorge W. Moore, formerly of (J. Blacksburg, and for many years aeonductor on the old Three C.'s railroad, ,.! died In Springfield, Mo., last Thursday H and was burled at Blacksburg on (ji Friday. ^ Death of Mrs. A. R. Banks. P; Mrs. A. R. Banks, formerly of York- {*' wille, died at her home In Ridgewood, " near Columbia, last Saturday morning, , after an illness of about a year. She s{ leaves a husband and three children, 81 as follows: .Mr. William Banks, a spe- 0 ?lal writer on the Columbia State. Mr. John M. Banks, a student, and Mrs. 84 James Allen Long of Abbeville. *1 Contribution to Erskine. n Rock Hill Record: Mrs. Anna B. Roddey, widow of the late Capt. W. L. Roddey, has given to Erskine college a fund of $6,000, to be held in trust? *3 the interest from this fund to be used 6" to establish four perpetual scholarships ai of $100 each. This is a gracious act, 1? for it will for all time help four young I' men to get an education. ol The Hill-Kennedy Case. U The supreme court on yesterday tf puousneu a ueciaiou 111 which 11 inuui- ui fU-3 the decree of the court below in bi what is known as the Hill-Kennedy rase, which went up from this county Si an the appeal of both parties to the ai litigation. The full decree of the court n was not published in the papers this ai morning and the nature of the modifl- ft nation cannot be stated until later. h Death of J. P. Duncan. ni Mr. J. P. Duncan, a highly esteemed p citizen of southwestern York, died at dl his home in Bullock's Creek township tl last Thursday, after a long illness with fti blood poisoning. Mr. Duncan was a native of Chester county, a gallant tc Confederate veteran, and a most ex- n< cellent citizen. He is survived by b, nine children, his wife having pre- jr ceded him to the grave about two ni months ago The funeral took place at te Sharon on Thursday afternoon, the ei services being conducted by Rev. W. it B. Arrowood, assisted by Rev. E. B. w Hunter. Six Confederate verterans n, acted as pall bearers. fe ???? fe MERE-MENTION. * A straw ballot taken by the World's Work, a New York magazine, in which 2,415 votes were cast, repre- ?> tenting every state in the Union in ct jouble its number of electoral votes, ai jives Woodrow Wilson 579 votes, Taft ta 102, Roosevelt 274, Harmon 96, LaFollette 91. Clark 45 for the 1912 |y presidential election... .A Mrs. Har- w mon and her 1-year-old baby were pi killed at Pleasant Hill, Ala., Saturday j0 by a stroke of lightning The at- w torneys for the defense In the Camor- bl ra trials at Viterbo, Italy, went on a j,, strike Friday and refused to appear in ^ court because of the alleged Insulting sa ittitude of one of the witnesses te Eighty-five horses and a score of auto- C| mobile trucks and wagons belonging p] :o a clothing concern, were destroyed ?pj ay fire In Chicago, Friday night jn Charlie Reese, a negro, at Bay Springs iv 3a., Friday night, killed his wife, a jr legro man, a negro boy, wounded a m legro woman and a white man and p, then killed himself. He had been Irlnklng. ... A Reading railroad train was derailed at Hlousoa, Pa., Saturday morning. The engine and four cars rolled down a 15-foot embankment. . The engineer was killed and two pas- Ll ivlators was seriously Injured The nude body of Miss Mary Prlddy, p iged 60, was found near the government light at Knob shoals on Great Kanawha river, Ohio, early Saturday G' morning. She was the keeper of the M ight house, and her death is a mys- a( :ery In an attempt to fly from P* London to Edinburgh and return be- re finning Saturday, two of the aviators G were hurled to the ground, and their cc machines wrecked. Neither of the '8 ivlators were seriously Injuied 3eorgla bankers and cotton men are "i Igurlng on a 2,000,000 bale cotton te ^rop in that state this year... .There lave been nine deaths from Asiatic ? :holera at Swinburne Island, New d? fork's quarantine station and there Is aI >ne genuine case of cholera at Belle- C ,'ue hospital In the city Nine ki torses, ridden by eastern tourists, G vere killed by a bolt of lightning in r? he Yosemite valley, California, Satirday. None of the riders were serl- * >usly injured.... Mohammed All Mir- ?I ta. the ex-shah of Persia, Is making a P* itrong effort to regain his throne and i few days ago he and his followers th iefeated a strong force of government 80 roops sent to check his advance to reheran. .. .The Turkish government stl s alarmed over news of a coming ilaughter of Armenians, but says It Is al inable to protect the Armenians be- wl ause of needing Its troops in Albania st4 ind Arabia Chas. B. Fisher, a ''e vealthy real estate owner of Spring- ?? leld, O.. died last week in the work- n? touse at Xenla. where he had been }v' lentenced to one year's imprisonment. icl 3e left $20,000 to religious organiza- ^ ions and 150.000 to friends of him elf and mother, and cut off two sons m without a cent Joseph Wenar, a >romlnent merchant of Porto Rico, low In New Orleans, says the Porto J)1 tlcans will soon declare their inde endence of the United States during the past year Mrs. E. H. Har- 1)11 Iman. widow of the railroad man, las received 5,000 begging letters. The otal amount asked for was $110,000.- ]e| 100 Yeggmen blew open a bank WI afe at Stevenson. Ala., Friday night ecj nd got away with $1,200. mostly in urrency and overlooked $5,000 In no urrency In an Inner drawer. Ml ? fol BETHEL VS. UNION. ce: Correspondence ot the Yorkville Enquirer. gr Bethel, July 24.?Bethel and Union tei rossed bats on the latter diamond th londay afternoon, the score being 9 r> 0 in favor of Bethel. The features f the game were the pitching of Meeks 8a nd the catching of Johnson and the rei II around good playing of Bethel, at leeks allowing only three hits. of , an thi ? Columbia, July 24: Gov. Blease pe as asked today what would be his do itltude toward betting, in case the ey 4a Qato hllaVi n mAtOAnolUan ' i wjci. i iu toiQutiou tz uiriiu^uiiiaii ace track at Charleston should be re- pa Ived. as it is intimated it will be. "T oci ave not changed my opinion, as ex- po ressed before my inaugurationr" he pa aid. "I am opposed to gambling and sui o not Intend to allow it at a track in harleston. Furthermore, I Intend to Co ee if I cannot prevent any bookmak- tic lg or other kind of betting at the de; late fair races this fall. I shall in- tlo truct my men to keep a careful atch and arrest both the bookmak- tin r and his patron in case there Is any wa ttempt at betting." pe> PRESIDENT IS PLEASED. oluntarily Gives Credit For Reciprocity to Democrats. Beverly, Mass., July 22.?That hiB mg, hard campaign In behalf of the anadlan reciprocity bill would have roved unavailing if the Democrats ad not helped him, was the declaraon of President Taft today following is arrival here at the new summer hlte house "Parramatta" at eight clock this morning from Washing>n. Without the aid of the Demorats, said the president, in the first atement he has made since the reeK^ rocity bill passed the senate yesteray, reciprocity would have been Imosslble. "The Democrats did not day politics' in the colloquial sense in hich those words are used," said the resident, "but they followed the dieite of a higher policy." For Secretary of State Knox and is assistants who conducted the neotlatlons and framed the pact, the resident said more than a word of raise. "Those Republicans," he lid. "who fought for reciprocity, nd some of whose votes were necesiry to the passage of the bill may roperly enjoy mutual felicitations on work well done." In his own Judgment, the president eclared, the agreement would mark n epoch in the relations between the nited States and Canada and those ho opposed the bill in congress ould find their prophecies disproved nd their fears allayed by its actual peration. Its passage by the Canalan parliament, the last step before becomes a bond between the two mntries, he hoped and believed ould be forthcoming. "The satlsfacon that the actual experience in its orking will give," he said, "we can mfldently hope will secure its perlanence. In a decade its benefits ill contribute much to a greater nited States and greater Canada. On the way from Washington, the resident had time for a long chat Ith Senator Penrose, who led the irht for reciprocity with Secretary of ie Treasury McVeagh and Secretary [Hies. Mr. Penrose left him at Philaelphla, Secretary Hllles at Newark, '. J., and Mr. MacVeagh deserted the arty at Boston. The president had een thinking about a statement, owever and "after sleeping over It," s he put it today, decided that it lould be written and that credit lould be irfven where credit was ue. In his statement the president re>rted to the use of the first person, nusual In statements from the White nuse, In order that it might appear tore truly his own. The statement follows: "That I am very much pleased with le passage of the Canadian reclprocir bill through both houses of conress goes without saying. I believe rid hope it will be followed by simlr action by the dominion parliament i my judgment, the going into effect f the agreement will mark a new poch in the relations between the hited States and Canada and it will ind to a marked increase in the trade etween the two countries, which will e in every way beneficial to both. "I hope the credit that belongs to ecretary Knox and his special aseistnts of the state department in the egotlatlng and framing of the pact nd their lucid explanation and de*nse of its terms, will not be wltheld. "In a sense, the bill passed was a on-partisan measure, though the Reubllcans who voted for it, probably id so on one economic theory and le Democrats who voted for it on nother. "I should be wanting in straightirward speaking, however, if I did ot freely acknowledge the credit that alAnmo tn tVi A riamAsiMils ?v?? i the houBe and the Democratic mlortty in the senate for their conslsint support of the measure, In an irnest and sincere desire to secure s passage. Without this reciprocity ould have been impossible. It would ot have been difficult for them to tsten upon the bill amendments af'cting the tariff generally in such a ay as to embarrass the executive and > make It doubtful whether he could gn the bill, and yet to claim popular Dproval for their support of reciprocy in its defeat. In other worda the emocrats did not 'play polities' in the illoqulal sense in which those words *e used, but they followed the dlcites of a higher policy. "We Republicans who have earnestsought reciprocity and some of hose votes were necessary to the usage of the bill may properly eniy mutual felicitations on a work ell done. To those who opposed the II, on the ground that It will do irm to the farmers, we can only say lat we who have supported the pasige of the bill look forward to the st of the actual operation of the reprocity agreement to disprove their rophecies and to allay their fears, fie satisfaction that actual experience its working will give, we confidenthope, will secure its permanence, i a decade its benefits will contribute uch to a greater United States and a "eater Canada." A QUE8TI0N OF PROPRIETY son M. Green Quite Staff of Newt and Courier. alumbla State, Tuesday. Charleston, July 24.?Leon M. reen, Columbia correspondent for ie News and Courier, has refused to :cede to the demands of his newsiper that he resign an appointment cently received upon the staff of ov. Blease and says he will resign as ^respondent immediately. His res-nation will be handed to the head ' the News and Courier's Columbiaireau, August Kohn, upon the latr's return from a Canadian tour. "I resign under pressure," said Mr. reen. CI cannot comply with the imand made on me. When I was >pointed on the governor's staff, I ac'Pted because of the honor, and I tow that the position was given in ie right spirit. For the paper I rep sented to seek to tell me that I lould resign either from the paper or om the governor's staff was, in my >inion, an encroachment upon my >rsonal rights. "I felt that I could still remain on e governor's staff, as I have always ught to give unbiased reports of of lal acts of the chief executive of the ate. "The position taken by the paper >pears to me. and I have no doubt III so appear to many others in the ite, untenable, for the particular ason that the position occupied here r the paper was that solely of a W8 correspondent. I had nothing aatever to do with the editorial polV of the paper. What I have been ndlng to the papers I represent was e news of the day here?nothing ore." Mr. Green joined the staff of the ate in the fall of 1907, shortly after s graduation from the university of mth Carolina. Since the spring of 09 he has been with the Columbia ireau of the News and Courier. Mr. Green Give* Out Letter. Mr. Green last night gave out the :ter below which he stated had been itten him by Robert Lathan, the Itor of the News and Courier. Mr. ithan said last night that he had thing to say concerning the matter, r. Lathan's letter to Mr. Green Is as hows: fr. Leon M. Green, Columbia, 8. C. "Lear Mr. Green: I have Just reived your letter of July 20 and reet very much to learn of your derminatlon to remain on the staff of e governor rather than on that of p News and Courier. "As I wrote Mr. Kohn, I do not rerd it as proper for a newspaper corjpondent to hold two such positions the same time; my understanding the matter being that the acceptce of an appointment as one of e governor's aids entails upon the rson accepting it a responsibility of ing all that he can to uphold whater the governor may do. 'I think It should be a rule of the per that no one of its staff should cupy any position which might exse him to the criticism that his imrtiality might be affected, whether ch criticism be well founded or not. 'It is the desire of the News and urler to do every public official Juse fairly and impartially, and In orr to do so think the ahove memned rule a good one. 'It Is true that Mr. Kohn was at one ne an aide to a governor but that is before I became editor of the par.