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.Scraps and Jfacts. ? Paris, July 16: The news of the death of Hubert Latham, the famous Anglo-Frerrch airman, and one of the pion _rs of heavier-than-air aviation, who was killed by a wild buffalo on July 7, during a hunt in the French Congo, has caused sorrow throughout France where he was sort of national hero because of his brilliant contributions to French successes in aviation during its earlier and most difficult stages. The governor-general of French Equatorial Africa, Marshal Henri Morelin, in telegraphing the news today to the Minister of the Colonies, says Latham was out with a number of natives in the forest when he shot and wounded a buffalo which immediately charged him and gored and trampled him to death. Latham's death occurred on the Chari river near the Bahr Es Salamat. practically In the centre of the French Sudan, in the direction of Lake Chad. Latham was for a iong time convinced that he was stricken with an incurable malady and it was in order to fight this according to his friends that he temporarily abandoned aviation and sought health in the wilds of Africa. ? Campaign plans of Gov. Woodrow Wilson and his advisers, says a Washington dispatch, contemplates the throwing of Speaker Clark into * - a J the middle west ana soutnwesi cuiu of Representative Oscar Underwood Into the New England states to win votes for the Democratic ticket. Gossip of these details has followed the return of the speaker from Seagirt and the impending visit of Underwood to Governor Wilson during the present week. Speaker Clark will be expected to do all he can for Governor Wilson In those states which he carried In the preferental primaries, running to a straight line from California to Maryland. The speaker will be relied on, also to use all his acknowledged popularity in the middle west to help the Democratic ticket. Mr. Underwood, the politicians say, I has strength in the states of the northwest and he will be sent through them on speaking tours. His home state, Alabama, with the other southern states that supported him at Baltimore, are certain in the Democratic column and local speakers can attend to them. Mr. Underwood as a national Democrat is required in doubtful places. ? New York's police circles have been stirred to a very high pitch since Wednesday morning of last week, following a raid on the gambling joint of Herman Rosenthal, as the outcome of which Rosenthal was assassinated in front of the Metropole hotel early on Tuesday morning. Following the raid on his place, which was brought about by a "squealing" gambler who lost money in the place, Rosenthal squealnnHpo nlalmlne that he had been paying for protection from police Interference and charging that Liieut. Becker of the police force, was a silent partner In his place to the extent of one-fourth, the profits and produced documentary evidence to prove his charges. This evidence was pre- j sented to Assistant District Attorney Whitman, and was strong enough to warrant its presentation to a grand i jury. Police Commissioner Waldo ( hooted at Rosenthal's charges against the police and said there was less gambling in New York now than ever before, but at the same time wrote District Attorney Whitman to make a thorough investigation of Rosenthal's charges and evidence. Whitman had several conferences with Rosenthal and finally summoned him before the grand jury at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Monday night Rosenthal was in ' the cafe of the Metropole hotel with 1 several friends until about 3.30 a. m., when he was approached by a Strang- , er, who Informed him that he was wanted outside. Rosenthal proceeded 1 to the street and started away from the door. Almost immediately four or five men sprang from an automobile alongs the curb and began firing ; at R -nthal. He was hit by five , bullets and fell dead in his tracks. , The assassins jumped back Into the car, shoved a pistol into the back of the chaffeur and told him to drive like hell. The machine proceeded to Fifth ( avenue and turned north at a rapid pace, pursued by another car which the police impressed into service, but 1 the car of the assassins quickly lost i its pursuers and got away. The car , was later trailed by its number and its driver and owner arrested and a 1 confession forced from them, in which i they are said to have named the as- , sassins. Witnesses of the killing claim that two of the men in the automobile wore police uniforms and took part in the assassination of Rosenthal. One j theory is that the killing was the | work of police officers trying to protect themselves against Rosenthal. An- < other theory is that the killing was the < work of other gamblers who wanted ( to prevent Rosenthal from bringing their names and gambling joints be- ' * 1? ? A itimr A wnmnn Ic fll- 1 lore me ?iauu JU1J, ? ..? ? , leged to have stated to the district at- | torney on Wednesday afternoon that she saw the car used by the assassins standing in front of Lieut. Becker's i house for several hours Monday night, j District Attorney Whitman is quoted as saying that the efforts of the police to capture the automobile of the < assassins was but a pretense. ? Washington, July 17: Senator O'Gorman of New York charged in the senate today that railroad influence was behind Great Britain's protest against the Panama canal bill and he joined with Senator Lodge in declaring that the United States possessed full rights under the British treaty to give free passage to ships of American register. > These two speeches marked the debate In the senate on the Panama canal , bill. Both Mr. Lodge and Mr. O'Gorman declared this nation was not 1 bound by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty < to give foreign ships all the privileges ( granted American ships. Mr. Lodge favored a bill to rebate the tolls on 1 American ships, however, while Senator O'Gorman declared the United States possessed the full right to give , American vessels free passage, if desired. Senator Lodge conceded that if the case went to the Hague court the i United States will probably lose. The support today for the provision giving free passage to American ships, against which Great Britain has pro- 1 tested, was more emphatic than at any ( time since the senate began consideration of the bill. Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. Cummins and others declared that if the United States had to construe the < treaty literally in giving the vessels i of nations equal treatment, it would. \ by other terms of the treaty, be prevented from defending the canal in 1 case of war. "If a Japanese fleet ap- i peareu ai me ncaicni ciiuaiitc ui in*; canal," said Senator Reed of Missouri, "bent upon passing through to attack the city of New York, the United States would have no right under such a construction of the treaty, to take any steps against it." Senator Burton of Ohio, who made the first speech Monday in support of the British theory that the United States could give no special privileges to its own vessels, declared war would suspend the operation of the treaty. Senator McCumber, however, in a speech today against the free provision, conceded that it was his belief the canal would have to remain neutral even in time of war, and that the United States would be forbidden by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty from taking any measures to blockade or s use the canal for its own protection. Senator O'Gorman declared that railroad influence was behind the British protest. "I do not think British ship- ' ping is greatly interested." he said. < "I believe the railroads of Canada and j the railroads of the United States have , been enabled to secure the cooperation of the British office of foreign affairs ' to embarrass this government in the at- 1 tempt we are now making to secure ? legislation to keep railroad ships out ' of the Panama canal." "The only government that has assumed any special I burden under the treaty is the United < States," said Senator O'Gorman. "Eng- ( land and other countries have assumed no burdens beyond the payment of the 1 tolls and the agreement as to the terms < of its neutrality. There is nothing to | prevent England from remitting to its , merchant ships every dollar of the tolls paid the Panama canal. There is noth- 1 ing to prevent similar action by other I countries The only power that is , trammelled, restricted and curtailed in , the performance of its duties to its own citizenship is the nation that has spent ' $400,000,000 in the construction of this I great enterprise. He said Spain already had legislated "to reimburse Spanish ships for the tolls spent in going through our canal." Senator Lodge raised the question, "whether the United States would have a right to interfere if another country should undertake to pay the tolls of its ships when passing through the canal. No foreign country, he said, could interfere with any arrangement the United States might make for the payment of tolls. "If any government should undertake to do so, I, for one, would protest," he said. <?hr \|orhrillr (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Torkvllle as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVIIXE. ?. C.t FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1912. We are printing the story of Col. Stubbs in reply to the Sumter Item be cause ll is proper 10 uo ou. Unless Mr. Felder does a good deal better than he has done, the people will be confirmed In the conviction that he is only a dealer in near-proof. It will have to be conceded that the Augusta hearing developed more information about the dictagraph than it did about dispensary graft. One thing we are curious to see is how either party is going to develop a merchant marine without the help of subsidies. We think a merchant marine should be developed. Sam J. Nichols lays all the trouble that has befallen him in connection with the efTorts of Reed, alias Porter, to liquor. If the dictagraph record of the transaction shows anything It shows just that. The Rock Hill Record explains that it did not reproduce The Enquirer's reply to the Lancaster News, because the said reply was so stupid. We had not thought of that, which by the way is very considerate. The Record, In its issue of yesterday, reproduces what we said in reply to the News and Courier, Tuesday; but did not comment upon the stupidity of it. Detective Burns, who has the reputation of being the greatest detective in the world, says that Governor Blease is the greatest crook in the world, and if Detective Burns does not prove that Governor Blease is the greatest crook in the world he will lose ills reputation as the greatest detective In the world and leave Governor Blease with the reputation of having been the worst abused governor in the world. We had an awful time getting it passed; just passed by about three votes, and if Blease vetoed it, it would take a two-thirds vote to carry it over ms neaa. we oniy carnea 11 uy uuuui three votes. The foregoing: is the dictagraph record of an alleged reference of S. J. Nichols to the Piedmont and Northern railroad franchise. Wonder why there should have been an awful time about this matter, and just what constituted the awfulness of it? Surely they did riot have to buy any legislative votes, or anything of that kind. Some of the papers are printing only i part of the alleged dictagraph record In the case of Sam J. Nichols, and sev?ral have printed it all. While in the rase of these papers that have printed only a part there is ground for the charge that they printed only those parts that seemed best to further their political leanings, the truth of the matter is that there are few papers in the state that are able to handle the entire record. The Enquirer is one of those papers that are able to handle it all, and we are doing it because we believe that to do so is a matter of justice to our readers and the public generally. We are reproducing a communication that Mr. William M. Jones, of Spartanburg has written the Columbia State in defense of his nephew, Mr. S. J. Nichols; but in doing so we would like to have it understood that it is solely for the purpose of giving the other side of the question; and without any indorsement of the imputation that the State edited the dictagraph copy in a manner prejudicial to Mr. Nichols. Editorially the State explains that it had to cut ten columns of matter down to five columns, a thing that Is often necessary in making up a newspaper and somewhat unfortunate in the present case; but we do not believe that, in the cutting, the editor intentionally made eliminations that bore against Mr. Nichols. The dictagraph record made Mr. S. J. Nichols say that while in Washington he had set in to occupy the same bed with the editor of the News and Courier; that the editor of the News and Courier began abusing Blease and that he made the editor of the News and Courier get out of the bed. The editor of the News and Courier says there is no truth in the story, and we believe the editor of the News and Courier. It was Nichols's Scotch that ivas talking. The editor of the News and Courier rarely drinks anything stronger than coffee, and although he nay get things "awry" in his editorial columns sometimes, he is never a liar :here or elsewhere. Also, we venture hat a complete dictagraph record of ill his conversations with everybody, particularly strangers, would rarely show an unkind allusion to anybody. Having long ago lost all the faith we ever had in Mr. Thomas B. Felder, of course we were not seriously shocked it the result of that Augusta hearing. We will not claim that it would have surprised us if something had really been brought out, for with all the insinuation, vituperation and abuse that bas been going on it was almost impossible for reasonable people to be entirely confident. And then when it developed that Mr. W. J. Burns, the greatest detective in the world, was on the case, it seemed certain that If there was anything to develop that something would certainly be developed. But as the outcome of it all, it will have to be confessed that there was a complete fall down. Instead of destroying Governor Blease as he promised, Mr. Kelder put the committee n a position of considerable embar rassment and eliminated himself as a further factor in the situation. Anybody can see now, as The Enquirer suggested months ago, that Felder's activity has no other basis than personal malice and spite. He was chagrined because of Governor Blease's action in separating him from the balance of the big fees that were almost within his grasp in connection with the settling of the estate of the dead dispensary, and with a smallness that would be pitiable were it not so contemptible, he has merely been playing for even. And so Detective Heed, alias Mr. Porter, has decided that he would not come to South Carolina to face Mr. Nichols "because he could have no protection." He said over in Augusta that he would face Mr. Nichols, and he smiled when he was saying it. We I do not know exactly what to think about that. This writer has a slight personal acquaintance with S. J. Nichols, and knows a little more about him from general reputation. Mr. Nichols was born a gentleman and reared-as such, and ordinarily is as pleasant and agreeable a man as anybody wants to meet. If anybody is inclined to get the impression that he is a whisky sot, that impression is wrong. As may be seen from what has been and is being published, he has taken more whisky than was good for him at times; but in this regard is no worse than thousands of young men who have not had the Ill-lucH to fall into such unpleasant notoriety along this line. He is not quarrelsome under any circumstances; that is he is not a bullying seeker after trouble. But he has plenty of physical courage, and is quick to resent an intended insult. He will fight on occasion and he will fight fair, either fist and skull or with deadly weapons, whichever way the other fellow wants to fight. As to what would happen if Reed should go to Columbia, of course we do not know. We are quite sure that nobody would take any unfair advantage of him. He would certainly not be assassinated. The Nichols' are not that kind of people. But we have an idea that Mr. Reed would have to listen to some very uncomplimentary talk about himself that would come straight to his face, and it would be talk that would put him under the necessity of fighting like a tiger or cowering like a pup. Then maybe also if he could have been arrested and held on the charge of attempted bribery or something else he might have gotten a dose of that also. Anyhow we think Mr. Reed, alias Porter, was quite wise enough In not going to Columbia. The Nichols Frame-Up. While because of what we have already published and of what we will no doubt have to publish, we deem it fair to all concerned to reproduce the dictagraph record of that alleged conference at the Finch hotel and the same will be found on the first page of today's issue of The Enquirer. It is fair to explain, however, that while this record may be what it purports to be, an attempt at an accurate record of an actual conference, it can be presented here only as an alleged record of an alleged conference. As a matter of fact we do not think that there has been or will be any attempt to deny that such a conference was held; but there will be no admission that the record is entirely correct. There are a number of cases in the record where the stenographer evidently failed to catch proper names correctly, and where he Incorrectly recorded the names as he understood them. From this Indisputable fact it may be reasonably argued that the record is incorrect in other particulars and thus while the story as a whole Is Intensely interesting and probably as nearly correct as It was possible for human skill and ingenuity to get it, still it can only be taken for what it may be worth. Assuming that the story* is correct; and that Nichols said all he is represented as having said, it is fair also to take into consideration all the circumstances of the conversation, which circumstances include a certain amount of Scotch whisky, a certain amount of vain glory, and a certain amount of cunning cupidity. Either one of these three elements would be calculated to exaggerate the speaker's statements somewhat, and all of them together might subject the longbow to unusual strain. However all this may be, and however close and confidential Mr. Nichols may have been drawn to Mr. Porter through "Scotch," vanity and cupidity, it will have to be admitted that in most particulars he gave his friend, the governor some pretty strong recommendations, except in the matter of alleged inclination to be "one of the boys" under most circumstances, and taken altogether if the whole frame-up shows any real success in the accomplishment of the purpose for which it wa3 undertaken, getting evidence of crookedness against Governor Blease, that success is hardly appreciable. ? Washington. July 16: Heavy penalties for gambling in cotton "futures" are provided in the Beall bill, passed by the house today by a vote of 95 to 25. The bill has yet to run the gauntlet of the senate. Efforts were made to amend the bill to induce provisions prohibiting gambling in grains but these failed. The supporters of the bill asserted that the efficiency of the measure would be impaired by adding complicated administrative features. They pointed out that a measure now awaiting action in the house is directed against gambling in grain. The bill would prohibit all dealing in the cotton futures. and fix heavy penalties for purchase or sale of cotton not actually in existence. Heavy fines would be imposed for the use of the malls or telegraph for the dissemination of cotton speculative information. Representative Fitzgerald (Democrat) of New York led the opposition, declaring the bill was unconstitutional and would handicap the cotton producer and consumer. ? Shelby, N. C., special of July 18 to Charlotte Observer: "Frank Gladden has confessed." This is the report that spread over the county like wi'd fire and 'phone calls and inquiries came from the remotest sections of the county. Several men drove six and eight miles to town on the strength of the startling rumor. Gladden is in jail to be tried again for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon last December and the self-confessed murderer and negro, John Ross, who accuses Gladden, is in the cell next to him at the county Jail. Sheriff Wilkins quickly branded the report as false, but the rapidity with which it spread shows the truth in the old adage that "A lie will travel around the world while the truth is putting on its boots." Although Gladden and Ross are in adjoining cells, the white man refuses to talk to the negro who accuses him. ? The army worm has made Its appearance in Anderson county and the farmers are to hold a mass meeting to consider the best way of fighting the pest. . AFF.AJLRS* NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8. W. B. DuPre, Supt.?Wants to talk to you about electric cooking and its advantages. Carroll Furniture Co.?Is showing new furniture arrivals?newest styles and lowest prices. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Makes special offerings for Saturday. Bleached sheets at 25 cents each. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Again calls attention to ice cream freezers, which it can furnish in all sizes. Herndon & Gordon?Offer the best of everything in fresh groceries; also fruit jars and cans. York Cotton Mills?Will buy 500 loads of green pine wood, well split. Hugh G. Brown?Is announced as a candidate for re-election to the office of sheriff of York county. J. Harry Foster?Announces himself as a candidate for the office of solicitor of the Sixth circuit. Hugh G. Brown, S. Y. C.?Gives notice of sale of certain real estate in the town of Clover on salesday for August. National Union Bank, Rock Hill?Emphasizes the importance of systematic saving. It will help you. JL I1UII1DUII L/U. ACIUIIIUB >UU Ul LUC Ulg price reductions offered In al departments for ten days. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Closes Its big sale tomorrow with a large variety of special offerings. Cloud Cash Store?Puts men's E. & W. shirts on sale at reduced prices. Specials in mens' and boys' underwear. Loan and Savings Bank?Sound, safe progressive, offers you every banking facility and solicits your business. D. C. Clark, Chair. Com.?Invites the public to a picnic at Filbert under auspices of the W. O. W. The Enquirer will be glad to acknowledge additional dollar contributions to the Wilson campaign fund. So far the aggregate su m of $21 has been acknowledged; but there should be further contributions. The Rock Hill papers of this week print itemized statements of all the disbursements made by the city treasurer for the month ending March 31. It is not to be presumed that this publication is for the benefit of the newspapers so much as to let the people know where their money has gone and what for. If told that the publication cost $300, the Rock Hill newspaper men would smile and wonder at the motive that would induce any man to make such a statement. The Enquirer has several times called attention to the fact that the law requires the town council to publish an annual statement and it has also urged ^the desirability and importance of such statement; but no publication has been forthcoming. We have had nothing direct from the council in connection with the matter, officially; but understand that while some of the members are in favor of complying with the law, others decline to take action. There have been put in circulation rumors reflecting on the motives of The Enquirer for calling attention to the matter. If somebody will kindly assume the responsibility for these rumors we will gladly publish what they have to say and make such reply thereto as appears proper. In the meantime we will remark that whatever the motives of The Enquirer, the town charter requires the publication of art itemized statement annually, and fixes the penalty for failure to do so. In addition to this an act was passed at the last session of the general assembly requiring the publication of quarterly statements. It seems to us that these laws should be sufficient warrant to The Enquirer for calling attention to the failure of the council to publish the reports referred to. As to the good of publication, it may be that the taxpayer also has a say-so. He has a right to know where every dollar of his money goes to?how much for salaries, how much for clerk hire, how much for copying, how much for attorney's fees and how much for various other things. Of course it may be only a little notion of ours; but fjre have an idea that if this itemized state*Mnn? nfnt*a t-?iiV-?l laKnrl mnnthlv nnarf or terly or annually even the saving to the town would be more than enough to make the advertising changes a very small matter. But as we have already remarked the law In the case Is sufficient warrant for those who desire the publication of the itemized statements. DOG DAYS. The old question as to the beginning ai^d ending of dog days has been put up to The Enquirer again; but as The Enquirer makes no pretense of being an authority on this subject, it can only reproduce the information to be found in Webster's New International as follows: ' A period of from four to six weeks, variously placed between the early part of July and the early part of September; Canicular days;?so called because reckoned in ancient times from the heliacal rising of the Dog Star (Slrius.) Popularly, the sultry, close jjart of the summer, when dogs are supposed to be specially liable to go mad. The conjunction of the rising of the Dog Star with the rising of the sun was regarded by the ancients as one of the causes of the sultry heat of summer, and of the maladies which then prevailed. But, as the conjunction does not occur at the same time In all latitudes, and is constantly changing in the same region, there has been much variation in calendars regarding the limits of the dog days. Some dates have been given by Roger Long (16801770) as the beginning of dog days are: about 735 A. D., July 14th; 16th century, July 6th; 1660-1752, July 19th; after 1752, July 30th. Almanac makers vary widely. Hence dog day. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The rains are growing tiresome. ? There is no mistake about the fact that local dealers have cut the price of dry goods practically in half. Some wonderful bargains have gone out of Yorkville during the past week, and the season of low prices promises to continue for some days yet, as will be seen from the announcements in the advertising columns. ? Forty or fifty members of the Yorkville Board of Trade gathered in the rooms of that organization in the McNeel building last Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of having a general discussion of the work in hand. Mr. G. Hi O'Leary, the chairman, presided. There was no especial business up for consideration; but an informal discussion of matters in general de-. veloped systematic plans of transacting such business as might come up through the various committees already appointed. The chair announced a partial report on the committee recently appointed to look into the mat icr ui tuiiurtuiiK mc nut tit oiuc ui East Liberty street from Congress street to the Southern depot. The plan provides that the property owners pay one half the expense and the town pay the other half. All the property owners with one exception had agreed to go into the arrangement; but the matter had not yet been put up to the town council. As a matter of information it was stated that the town council is still tVrestling with the question of bringing the north and south road into town from the northern corporate limits. There is a right of way proposition to be settled and outside of this there is a prospective expense of about $1,500 for grading and a bridge or culverts. There was nothing before the meeting in a regular manner. It was duly announced to those present that the executive committee had rented the rooms occupied and provided proper furniture, and that the rooms would be open to members of the board, at all times for either business or pleasure. The executive committee of the board meets once a month, the whole board is to meet quarterly, and the various committees are at liberty to take up such business as they care to consider whenever they desire. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. W. S. Gordon has returned from Tlrzah. Master Floyd Allison of Yorkville, Is visiting relatives at Eastview. Miss Mary Brown of Chester, Is the guest of Miss Elizabeth Wilborn in Yorkville. Misses Maud and Mattie Smith of Hickory Grove, are visiting In Yorkvllle. Miss Lise Moore of Clarksville, Texas, Is visiting relatives In Yorkville. Mrs. J. H. Wltherspoon and children of Yorkville, are visiting relatives In Lowryville. Mlss Margaret Querry of Plnevllle, N. C., is the guest of Misses Fannie and Maud Stroup in Yorkville. Mr. W. H. Herndon and daughter, Miss Lllla, of Yorkville, left this morning for Virginia, on a visit to Mr. Herndon's sister, Mrs. Julia Elam. Mrs. Calvin Brlce of Woodward, ia visiting the family of Mr. J. M. Btfce on Yorkville, R. F. D. 4. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Baber left this morning for a short visit to Greers, in order to visit Mrs. Baber's brother, Hon. J. G. Greer and other relatives. Rev. J. W. Balrd of Covington, Tenn. is critically ill at the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. J. S. Brlce in Yorkville. Mrs. Balrd is with him. Miss Anna Lewis who has been visitlne relatives in Raleleh. N. C. has re turned to her home In Yorkvllle. She is accompanied by Miss Mary Frances Bowen of Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Henderson of Walterboro, are visltirg their daughter, Mrs. T. P. Burgess In Yorkvllle. Mrs. C. F. Williams and children, and Mrs. F. N. Wilson of Columbia, are visiting relatives In Yorkvllle. Chester Reporter: Of Interest to friends and relatives of the groom In this county will be the wedding of Mr. John A. Marlon, of Yorkvllle, and Miss Mary Kershaw Burnet at the bride's home in Camden Wednesday evening, July 24th. Mr. Marlon Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Marlon, of this city, and Is now engaged In the practice of law In Yorkvllle with Congressman D. E. Flnley. He is a bright young man with unusually fine prospects of success, and has many friends here who extend best wishes on this happy occasion. The bride-elect is a member of one of Camden's oldest and most prominent families. BETHANY CONGREGATION. The current issue of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian edited by Rev. Dr. R. M. Stevenson, formerly pastor of Bethany, Clover and Crowders' Creek churches, contains the following: "It was our privilege to attend and take part in the installation of Rev. W. P. Grier over the united charge of Bethany, Clover and Crowder's Creek churches on the fifth and sixth of this month. These charges having been our late charge, It was a great pleasure to be present and witness the cordial welcome extended to the new pastor. "Our mind ran back to the thirteenth of May, 1887, when a young man, not far from the age of the present pastor stood before the pulpit in Bethany and responded to the questions that were ..hen being propounded to him. Many changes have taken place since then. Drs. Ross and E. E. Boyce, who delivered the charges to pastor and people, have both entered upon their reward. Of the six elders in 1887 only one was present to greet the new pastor, Mr. W. D. Lessly. One other, Mr. W. S. Love, serves another congregation and the other four, Messrs. William McGill, William Oates, M. C. Lowrance and W. S. Plaxco have fallen on sleep. Mr. L. A. McGill of the board of deacons, as then constituted, remains and Is now an elder, Mr. R. N. McElwee, then a deacon, is now In Yorkvllle and the others, Messrs. T. P. Whltesldes, John E. Love and J. L. McGill have died. Then there was one congregation with 137 members, and no win substantially the same territory there are three with 400 members. The salary then was $425 and now $1,025. Then the contribution to foreign missions was $53. while in recent years the charge has been supporting a missionary, which we hope they will see their way clear to resume. "Brother Grier has a fine field for work. They are a people who appreciate their pastor and show him many kindnesses. It is a field, too, In which a pastor is permitted to see the results of his work. There were not many nnmmnnlnnA nt Rethanv when there were not additions to the church. Bethany is an example of a fact, that has not been recognized In some of our other old congregations, that strengthening the outposts does not weaken the centre. Two congregations have been organized from it and yet the mother church is stronger numerically and financially than ever before, while the other churches Jointly are as strong as the one church was before they withdrew and they are doing more for I the cause of Christ. "There is that scattereth and yet Increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet but it tendeth to poverty." THE MARRIAGE RECORD. The last installment on the marriage license record In the office of the probate judge of York county was printed on April 12 and Included 348 licenses. The total number of licenses issued during the year from July 1, 1911 to July 1, 1912 was 414, and the total number up to date is 430. Following is the total number of licenses issued from April 12 and up to last Wednesday: Anril 13?Lon W. Walters and Lula Thompson. April 13?Willie Archer and Mamie Robins (colored.) April 16?Briee Bailey and Frances Russell (colored.) April 17?Ben Currence and Sue I Archie (colored.) April 20?Young Belk and Perley Withers (colored.) April 20?Robert L. Creech and Rosa I Thomasson. April 23?Charley Sells and Lola Nannie. April 23?Will Izzard and Perley White (Colored.) April 23?George Beheler and Dory Robin. April 27?Thomas H. Love and Clara Mitchell. April 27?James Stroud and Rosa Klrkpatrick (colored.) April 27?Emmit McCarter and Lillian Gray (Colored.) April 27?Nathaniel Hill and Belle Meek. May 4?Frank Barber and Plumy Douglas (colored.) May 4?Jim Lindsey and Mary Ramsour (colored.) May 7?Jack Jackson and Ada Adams (colored.) May 8?Charlie Hudspeth and Josie Huffman. May 8?Will Craig and Llzer Kennedy (colored.) May 10?Charlie Baker and Etter Austin. May 11?Walter Steele and Hattie Lumpkin (colored.) May 11?Samuel Williford and Lillie Parish. May 11?Welton McDow and Llzer Erwin (colored.) May 11?Carter Moffat and Clarice Heftney (colored.) May 13?Robert M. Hare and Maud L. Steele. May 14?John G. Newson and Lula McCants. May 15?Sam Faris and Dalsie Rankins (colored.) 16?James McKnight and A. B. Gilmore (colored.) May 16?J. F. Cook and Lizzie Burnes. May 18?Brown Mobley and Viola Sealy (colored.) May 18?John Parker and Adllne Dover. May 18?James Smith and Irene Lowry (colored.) May 21?Hemphill Sanders and Carrie Stroud (colored.) May 21?James A. Barrett and P&telle B. Forbes. May 22?Frazler McMackin and Sadie Bollard. May 25?Willie Walker and Lugenia Vance (colored.) May 25?Samuel Grant and Callie Holman. May 25?Green Hunt and Dorly Bratton (colored.) May 27?Sam Davis and Perley Culp (colored.) May 29?Floyd Knox and Rosa Lee Nelson (colored.) May 30?Luther Clyburn and Mary Edwards (colored.) May 31?Richard Morris and Mary P. White. June 1?Ruben Workman and Janie Massey (colored.) June 1?John Lawrence and Mamie Ilunt (colored.) I June 4?W. H. Goodson and Ella Rodgers. June 5?John W. Hall and Laura Bell. June 8?John A. Price and Bessie J. Caldwell. June 10?John C. Thrift and Ollle White. June 10?Lewis Hucks and Flora Gordon. June 13?Timothy Broomfleld and Georgle McFadden (colored.) June 15?Joe Harris and Eliza Nash (colored.) June 15?David Lockridge and Lillie Swink. June 15?Randolph Harris and Sara Jane Knox (colored.) June 17?Mack Hill and Mary L. Wright (colored.) June 17?John Rainey and Carrie Mays. June 18?Alexander. Ratchford and Maggie Whitlock (colored.) June 18?Lewis S. Helton and Queene L. Pitman. June 20?Bersle Blanton and Ella Jones (colored.) June 21?John Llndsey and Ider Hall (colored.) June 22?Thomas Rodman and Harriet Cathcart (colored.) June 24?Dillard Jackson and Cora Jackson. June 26?Alick Kirkpatrick and Gussle M. Holley (colored.) June 26?John Q. Green and Norry Latham. June 26?Wm. Miller and Iva Tate (colored.) June 27?Austin Potts and Ella Stewart (colored.) June. 28?William G. Campbell and Lena Estelle Thompson. June 29?Charlie Davis and Edna Thompson * (colored.) July 1?Will Elates and Mary Johnson. July 1?John Purr and Prances Furr. July 2?Thomas M. Caldwell and Mlnnls L. Miller. July 3?Alexander Sanders and EJma Armstrong (colored.) July 5?John Sanders and Arcada Brown (Indian.) July 5?Lee Roseburor and Carrie Stephenson (colored.) July 10?James H. Ramseur and Lottie J. Campbell (colored.) July 10?George Hefner and Mary Ross (colored.) July 13?Malachi Agers and Eklner McConnell (colored.) July 13?Joe Neely and Daisle Cooper (colored.) July 15?J. L. Klzer and Mamie Bayne. July 15?John Earl and Clara Green (colored.) July 16?Guss Alexander and Hanah Bogan (colored.) July 1&?George H. Alnslie and Bessie Sutton. July 16?Julian D. Bradford and Sadie C. Graham. LOCAL LACONIC8. C. & N.-W. May Extend. Chester Reporter: It Is to be hoped that the recent agitation In C. & N.-W. railway circles will amount to more than talk. It is being proposed to extend the line from Edgemont across to Pineola where it will tap the road to Newland, the new county seat of Avery county. Concerning this the Charlotte Observer says: "There is renewed talk of the Carolina & North-WestPrn crpf tine nnt of TJMcromnnt on/) amine across to Pineola, where it would tap the road to Newland, the capital of Avery county. The railroad people have asked for a small bond issue and that being: voted, the extension of the road will be built, thus opening Newland to the state. At present Newland is more of a Tennessee than a North Carolina town. Excitemsnt Near Sharon. There was some excitement in the. Sharon neighborhood yesterday afternoon over the alleged conduct of a negro boy thirteen or fourteen years old toward a little white girl. While on her way to the home of a neighbor, the little girl passed the boy fishing on the creek, and became frightened at something she thought the boy said to her. She informed the grown people and upon investigation the boy was found and taken to the lockup at Sharon. He had made no attempt to run. As rumors of the matter began to spread the situation began to look serious, and at the suggestion of Sharon people Sheriff Brown sent to Sharon and had the boy brought to Jail. While the boy does not deny that he was fishing in the creek when the little girl passed he protests that he did not misbehave in any way. There is no danger of any violence unless it should appear that there is good ground for the same. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. Speeches Continue Along 8amt Lines With but Little Change. The state campaigners continue their daily county to county schedule, with but little variation in one meeting as compared with another. At 8t. George. The campaigners were at St. George, Dorchester county on Tuesday, and were heard by a big crowd of people who gave all the candidates respectful attention and who made no effort to howl down either of the candidates for governor. At Orangeburg. Orangeburg, July 17.?Gov. Blease opened his speech here today by saying that the newspapers had been giving unfair reports of the campaign meetings. He referred to the reports that he had made statements that were not fit for print and said he had not done one act in his life which he was ashamed for the people of the state to know. He said the dispensary investigating committee had said it would not hear testimony against his personal record and character and he challenged any man or set of men to go to Newberry and find out one thing against his character. "Hurrah for Jones," shouted a man in the crowd, and a storm of cheers for Blease followed. The governor's speech was very similar to those of the past few days. The governor's charges against Jones's supreme court and legislative record were received with enthusiasm and applause and at this stage in the meeting there was evidence of a strong Blease sentiment. A second rain came and adjournment was taken till after dinner. Blease was presented with flowers and amid loud cheers the crowd dispersed. Judge Jones was the last speaker of the day. The feature of this morning's meeting was the immense throng which assembled to hear the candidates. "Any man who will get up in front of an audience with a pistol on him in presence of ladies in South Carolina is not worthy to appear before the people of South Carolina." "If I am a common criminal, you put me in office and some people will be nut behind the bars instead of be I Ing allowed to address the honest yeomanry of South Carolina." These were statements made by B. B. Evans. He further said he would In a few days unearth a conspiracy that would "shock the people of South Carolina" which is being framed by men "supposedly of honor." He said he would prove this with facts?facts which he had gotten from a prominent and honest citizen. Evans' references to Lyon were only indirect. Lyon repeated the statements concerning Evans's "criminal record" and his alleged forgeries and in strong terms denounced the character of his opponent. Lyon was well received, as was Peeples. Two thousand or more people heard the candidates speak today. Chief of Police Fischere sat In the front of the stage and other officers were In the crowd. The crowd here today was the largest yet to greet the candidates. Some wore ribbons reading "100 per cent Blease." This Is carrying out Judge Jones's retort at Georgetown that Blease men were tagged like fertilizer sacks and an analysis would show them 100 per cent Blease. Factions in the county are warmly aligned and the meeting, was expected to be important. A short, hard rain came near breaking up the meeting, but umbrellas kept the crowd together, and when the sun came out the candidates for governor were heard by an enthusiastic throng. Judge R. E. Copes was among the Interested speakers at the meeting today. The Calhoun Meeting. The following is from the Columbia State's report of the Calhoun meeting at St. Matthews yesterday: So far as preference could be gauged by open manifestation, the division of sentiment in the crowd, as between Jones and Blease, was close. Blease men predominated, apparently, among the citizens from the Lexington side, Jones men seeming most numerous among the townsfolk and the planters from such sections as the Cameron neighborhood. No mention of the legislative committee hearing in Columbia today was made by any candidate. Gov. Blease denied in strong terms a report which he said was being circulated in this county that he declared at Barnwell that "Judge Jones had Jew blood in him, and Jews were no better than negroes." The governor said some of his strongest friends, in the state and without, were of Jewish blood, and he had no criticism of their race to make; nor did he undertake to say that Judge Jones had Jewish blood in his veins. Judge Jones made an earnest and moving appeal for the sinking of factional differences in the face of a critical condition of public affairs In the state. He said this was no day for the good people of South Caro lina to be fighting among themselves over non-essentials. That which was of most immediate necessity was that the law-regarding, law-loving citizens should get together and "redeem the commonwealth from the shame and humiliation under which she is now suffering." They could not afford, he said, even to appear to Indorse lawlessness or to allow friends of lawlessness to hold the reigns of government, but must raise up a new and general spirit of reverence for their endangered traditions, and restore public office to the plane of public trust, to be held and administered by liberty-loving and patriotic public servants. Gov. Blease made light of the fact that Judge Jones cited, in defense of his vote on the "Jim Crow" car bills of the nineties that J. H. Dukes and other prominent citizens of this section, some of them now Blease backers, voted as he did on these measures. He said these men perhaps voted once against separate coaches, while Jones voted against them throughout five years. Judge Jones, the governor asserted, would soon be retired to private life, unless Blease's friend, Magistrate Pink Caskey of Lancaster, should resign, in which case the governor, "out of pity for the old gentleman," might appoint Judge Jones to be magistrate. "Where was Judge Jones," Blease demanded, "last Sunday evening, when I was resting at the mansion? Ask him if he did not visit the office of the Columbia State and if he did not meet on the street two drunken men, whom I had put out of my house, and who later went to the State office and wrote dirty lies about me. I don't have to go to the State on Sundays to get my speeches written for the next week." The governor denied he was against reasonable support of state colleges. The state candidates speak in Columbia today and tomorrow's meeting is to be held in Chester. MOSTLY WHISKY TALK. S. J. Nichols Testified-Befors Committee Yesterday. Greenville Dally Piedmont Columbia, July 18?Testifying before the dispensary investigating committee Sam Nichols, the Spartanburg lawyer, claimed that he was sober when he told the detective that the report he had paid Blease for signing the interurban bill was a d? lie. He corrobor/Kntnvpanh'a tofltl. I UlCU IXIUV.I1 Ul l??C uiv.vuQiu.pt> H ?vw?. mony, which was taken while he was | sober. | He claims that he drank some of the detective's whisky and that he doesn't know what he said after that. Said the whisky had a peculiar effect upon him. In reply to a question from his attorney, he said it would have been possible for the stenographer to have changed the wording of the Interview. He read an article from a magazine which reflected upon the work of Burns. His attorney says he has In his possession a letter from a friend of Nichols In Washington, which reflects upon Burns' work in the Lorimer case. He says he paid much of Blease's campaign expenses In Spartanburg county before and will do so again this year. The library at the state house was well filled with spectators when the dispensary investigating committee assembled today at noon to hear the testimony of Sam J. Nichols, who was charged in Detective Reed's testimony with having been employed by him in the alleged scheme to buy a pardon for James Johnson, alias Gus DeFord, the notorious safe cracker. Mr. Nichols was present with his attorneys, his father, Capt. Geo. W. Nichols and Ralph K. Carson, W. M. Jones, C. P. Sims, Robert T. Gant, of Spartanburg; J. G. Hughes, of Union; W. S. Nelson of Columbia and C. C. Wyche of Spartanburg. All of the investigating committee were present except W. L. Daniel, of Saluda. Prior to opening the public session the investigating committee held a short executive session. They filed into the library at 12.20 and took their seats. Senator Carlisle called the meeting to order at 12.25 and announced that it was called chiefly to hear testimony of S. J. Nichols. Mr. Nichols gave the names of C. P. Sanders and W. M. Jones, as counsel who would appear for him today. Chairman Carlisle read in the record a statement that he had, at the request of Mr. Nichols, requested Felder to have E. S. Reed, the detective, present at the hearing today He also read into the record Felder's reply that Reed had left Atlanta for Chicago, but that if he were there he would not come Into South Carolina to testify. Mr. W. M. Jones, of counsel for Nichols, asked questions of Nichols to show that Reed, the detective, had come to Spartanburg, posing as a Chicago lawyer who wanted to represent the man DeFord in the South Carolina penitentiary, Reed, Nichols said, had been sent to him by a Spartanburg haekman. "Mr. Porter," was referred to C. P. Sims, of Spartanburg. ( Nichols went into the details of certain arrangements as made between "Porter" and Sims and himself as to representing DeFord, accounts of which have already been published. Nichols related certain things about his conversation with "Porter" in the Hotel Finch. Nichols corroborated certain testimony that had been taken by the dictagraph. He explained that he went into the "interurban's case and said he had told Reed it had been reported that he had paid Blease $30,000 for the signing of the incorporating act. He said he had told Reed this was a "damn lie." He said he had told the governor his refusal to sign this bill would hurt the Piedmont section, but had paid the governor nothing, and he had not even received a fee from the Southern Power company which he represented, for his work in connection with the interurban franchise. Nichols corroborated the testimony taken by the dictagraph that he said It was a He that Blease had received "graft." Nichols said he had borne much of the governor's campaign expenses in 1910 and he proposed to do this again. Nichols said when he went Into Reed's room in the Hotel Finch there were two quarts of Scotch whisky on the dresser, that he got drunk and that now he can't say what took place. He said that whisky had a peculiar effect over him and that the dictagraph testimony does not represent his "sane moments" or the facts in the case. He said he did not know what condition he was in when he left for Baltimore but thought the dictagraph told the truth when it said he was drunk. He said this whisky affected him as none had ever done and he felt after i he sobered* unusually bad. He was asked if he thought the whisky was drugged. He said he could not say. i Nichols said he did not know he was on his way to Baltimore until he woke i up on the Pullman In company with I his friends, T. B. Pearce, L. J. Jennings and Chas. Calvert Nichols said he never was offered any bribe by any- | body for anything. Nichols said if he told the dictagraph he was a delegate to Baltimore instructed for Harmon he must certainly have been drunk for he was no delegate at all. There was laughter on the part of all present when this statement was made. Nichols denied he never represented one Creen in securing a pardon. Nichols told of joining the campaign party in Barnwell. He said he went there with the intention of <ask!ng the governor if he would consider any pardons before the election. He said, nowever, that when he found the governor so busy he did not mention the matter. Witness said he saw the newspaper story that Felder had said Nichols had wired Reed to come to Spartanburg and get the pardon he went to the Blackville office * ana wirea Keea: ?rnings ao not iook good, come to Spartanburg at once," he said he was then cold sober. He Introduced the original message in evidence and said he had not wired Reed anything else. Mr. Nichols said he spent last Sunday here with Governor Blease and the first he knew of , any reported "crookedness" he read in Sunday morning's papers. He said when he went to SpaYtanburg he found Porter's answer from Chicago to the Blackvllle message, though in truth, he said "Porter" was in Augusta. This wire was introduced as follows: ? "Chicago, July 13th, 1912. "Sam J. Nichols, "Spartanburg, 8. C. "Your wire received today. Take it for granted paper ready. Am mailing New York draft twenty thousand as agreed. Wire immediately if papers were issued today. Signed "Henry N. Porter." Witness 8aid he had been told that the stenographer who took the records of the dictagraph was Tom Felder's stenographer. "Can not a stenographer easily i change notes so as to misreport state- * ments?" asked Attorney Jonea Mr. Nichols replied he thought ho could. Chairman Carlisle stated for Mr. Jonea that the stenrgrapher had never sworn to his notes as submitted to ^ the committee. " Witness said the name of the man who Is alleged to have had the fight with Mr. Hearon as mentioned in the testimony was wrongly reported, as were other names of Spartanburg people mentioned in dictagraph records. At one place in the dictagraph record Nichols had referred to the governor as necessarily sharing in the "profits," of the pardon, but witness J| said he evidently was referring to Sims " "i Vtrv ffAuatmAi ift* Tnnau aflid the stenographer hejf and In other places, put In the ^rd "Governor" to make the record mi^|arry. Mr. Nichols read from a magazine, the American Federatipnlst, a state- ^ ment from Geo. W. WfcVersham, attor""v general of file United States, to show that W. J. Burns "stacked the tards," (using Burns' own words) and had used "Improper" methods in the investigation of certain cases In the country. The attorney general, this article said, had reported on Burns' work, characterising certain of Burns' reports In a government Investigation as "evasive." Mr. Jones said he had a letter tending to show that the dictagraph as used in the Lo rimer case, was unreliable, and he said this will be introduced, if the writer of the letter, an M official In Washington and a friend of Nichols, would give consent for its use. FARMER8* UNION. Annual Mooting to bo Hold in Colum- * bio, July 24-25. Editor Yorkville Enquirer: The programme of the annual meeting of the state union Is now in the hands of the printer. The meeting will begin at 8.00 p. m., Wednesday, July 24th, and continue through the 26th. The reports of the various -standing committees at the openilng W session will be interest!rig. The night session of the 24th will be an educational one and will be open to the public. Except for some routine business, the entire day Thursday will be devoted to the study of "marketing." 4 At the morning session we expect to have Editor Hunnicuti 01 me ooumern Cultivator," discuss "Marketing, especially as applied to farm produce." At noon there will be an address by Hon. Charles S. Barrett, president of the national union. At 3.00 p. m., Hon. John L. Mc- Laurin will discuss "Cotton Warehousing, Marketing and Banking"' from the standpoint of the state warehouse system. At 5.00 p. m., Hon. T. W. Carter, president of the Mississippi Farmers' Union, also president of the proposed i national warehouse company, will present their plan of marketing the cotton crop. At 8.30 p. m., another plan of cooperative financing and marketing will be presented by a representative of the 8. 8. Trust company which is proposed to be organized. Among these three plans, and others that may be advanced, we confidently expect to be able to select one that will be effective. It Is possible that some two of these plans J may be worked out together more m satisfactorily than any one by Itself. w With all the preliminary work that has been done by the officers and committees of the state and county Unions, this bids fairs to be the most progressive meeting every held by the State Farmers' Union of South Carolina. In behalf of the officers and committees, and the great practical and increasingly important cause of "Marketing," we do cordially Invite every county Union to be represented, and all members In good standing to attend. By E. W. Dabbs, President MERE-MENTION. A terrific cloud burst did more than $1,000,000 damage at Denver, Col., Sunday night More than 500 persons were rendered homeless.Op- B eratlves of eleven cotton mills at New Bedford, Mass., went on a strike last Monday for higher wages A. Foster Higglns, banker, lawyer and capitalist of Greenwich, Conn., has withdrawn his support of Col. Roosevelt and will support Wilson for the presldency Joseph McCarthy, a m?ssenger for a New York cigar com- wf pany, disappeared last Saturday with cash and checks amounting to over $500,000. He was captured In Buf falo on Monday. There was only $222 In cash in the package he stole ^ One person was killed and fifteen or w more injured in the wreck of the Southern's New York and Memphis limited near Bristol, Tenn., Wednesday afternoon. Several cars rolled down a 25-foot embankment Forty Progressive Republicans of California sent a telegram to Senator John D. Works on Wednesday, asking him to resign his seat in the United States senate The third trial of Claude Allen, of the Hlllsville court house gang, was begun at Wytheville, Va? Wednesday The rivers and har- As bors bill, as agreed on by the conferees of the house and senate, carries W an appropriation of $32,000,000. This bill is frequently designated as the "pork barrel." The house on Wednesday passed the bill to create a department of labor, the secretary of ^ which shall have a place in the president's cabinet. More than 200 cars of cantaloupes were shipped from Scotland county, N. C., last Monday night Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations under Presdent Taft, has resigned his Job to Join the forces of Colonel Roosevelt One hundred and fifty Democratic congressmen will visit Governor Wilson at Seagirt, N. J., tomorrow Three men were killed and four Injured in a gas explosion in a coal mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., Wednesday.... One fireman was killed and several se- ^ riously injured at Atlantic City, N. J., Wednesday by coming in contact with a 5,700 volt electric light wire while fighting a blaze in the city hall tower. There have been a score or more of deaths and hundreds of prostrations from heat In Philadelphia, New York, ^ and other northern cities during the past ten days.