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?(tnp.6 and .facts. ; - . |i ? Fire destroyed about 1,200 feet of ji wharfage along the Charleston water j i front wSf Thursday night, causing loss t to the amount of $1,500,000. The de- j li ^ ? i.?lr ?< struottow .pioniaeo more man nan ?? | the city's terminal facilities along the t Cooper river to the east of the passed- | j ger station. 0 ? The house of representatives pn J c Friday night recorded its opposition to , t any increase in membership, recom- 1 t mitting to the census committee by a i vote of 146 to 142 the Siegel bill to in- c crease its size from 435 to 300 mem- t bers. vote was taken on a motion n to recommit'offered by Representative ? Fairchild of Indiana, a Republican i member of the census committee, afUy' nine hours of debate and wrangling I over the parliamentary procedure. : Previous to recommitting the*bili the : j house rejected, 140 to 146, an amend- j ment by Representative Barbour, California; to authorize reapportionment a.ithrv,it ariv inwi.aso in membership. Another amendment, offered by Repre- ! sentative Tinkham. Republican, Massachusetts. to 'decrease the number- ( ship to 423, was smothered under an avalanche of "noes." Eleven South- i ern stat^fc jvhlch Mr. Tinkham chart?- ! ' ed had "disfranchised negroes, would | , have lost 33 seats and Massachusetts ' one under his amendment, while a gain of 24 would have been split among a dozen states which made considerable , gains in population during the last decade. ? The slump in the German niark writes a correspondent from Doom, j Holland, is beginning to affect the ; former .German emperor who is en- s deavoring to combat unfavorable li- r jiancial conditions by reducing his r .household and other radical measures. i Jpoday ten members of his staff were 1 dismissed, including the chief gardener. whose place had been taken by William himself. Gardening now has ( become a hobby with the former ern peror, who appears to have tired on 1 v sawing ahd chopping wood. General t Von Gontard, the ex-kaiser's first t chamberlain today gsive out a state- . ment saying that William's financial position would no longer allow him to 1 give monetary support to many of the J \ poor* of Holland and Germany who v continually apply at Dooidi Castle fori . aid. '"The Prussian government has j seized all the estates and the entire t capital of the Hohenzob-rns r ial nego- i tint ions for an arrangement still are proceeding." the statement added. "The kaiser's only means consist of f,.nm CoprnMiiv iiinl :<s the jniuu.ii,it ii uiu ,, rate of CJerhian currency is so low that f a'hundred marks is little more tlwn two florins, it is evident the money ' received is barely sufficient to pro- i vide-for the kaiser and the crown j prince." I f ? Presentation cf labor's case in the senate interstate commerce committee's investigation of general railroad ' conditions \va* begun Saturday by \ frank J. Warne, statistician for the x railroad brotherhoods. Charges were made by Mr. Warne that misleading ; oiid incorrect figures regarding rail- ' >ad operation receipts and net in- I come had been presented to toe com- | siittee during icaent months by the railroad executives. The executives, s fie said, had submitted 'statistical lal- a j$cies.' A mass of information and t detailed changes designed to prove inaccuracies in the executives' figures v were presented by thr witness, who 1 declared the railroads had not suffered j r heavy losses from government control. ( &nd said their revenues during the t war were the largest in history. Mr. 1 Warne declared that to secure rate in- r Ureases from tlio interstate connm rce < commission, the railioads had spent f eaoessiva ?amounts for maintenance j without necessity and that the "land ( grants" railroads profited doubly dur- v iffrnHrtcnr control period by reeeiv- ' ing rates without any reduction for iomi irrnnts from the govern- , CTIfu iuuu w ment. In recent years tlic roads, Mr. AVarne stated, had made largo exp.11- ; (figures l'??r permanent improvements. 1 paying1 for them out of operating rev- j ejvjues and charging them as expenses , op.' operation. He also charged that roads had manipulated maintenance 1 accounts so as to affect favorably or e adversely their net operating revenue t and income result. These were depressed arbitrarily, he said, during ' periods when the carriers were seek- ?' ing rate increases la fore the inter- j state commerce coin mission. , ^ ? I. ? .More than Half a million American , railroad njen were on Saturday ordered tojl initial* a strike October 3n while v other unions, whose memberships li bring the total to about 2.000,000 ] announced unoftlcially that tiie.v were preparing to follow suit and make the j w;j|lk out general on the same dates. Under this'fnogram the tif up would | be complete, according to union pre- , . tliatior.s, by November 2. The iirst stnke was "fixed for 0 a. in., October 3u, ' except (?ne Texas line, whose train- c in?i were authorized to go out Oct- j ol?er 22." The railroads listed in the lirst group on wliieh the strike is to v become1'effective touch 42 of the 4S < states with a trackage of 73,000 miles i ! out of the total lTnitcd States track- -j ag? of approximately 2<M,UU0. The Ne*v Kngland states comprise the ' group that is virtually untouched in ( r the lirst walk out. The strike orders i were issued to the big five brother- | hoods, oldest and most powerful oi me railway unions, and they specifically v included mail trains in llie walk out. Their provisions instrueled s.tiikers In s keep :?^vay from railroad property vyilli < a warning that "violence of any ha- ( turf will not he tolerated hy the organizations." The strike was an- " nounecd following an overwhelming '? vote said to lie upwards of 'jo per rent. '| favoring a strike because of a 12 per; . Cent, wage reduction authorized hy the Cntlcd Statts railroad lalior hoard l' July 1, and after it was declared In e tlie* association of railway xecutives >j in session here yesterday that a fur- ! titer reduction would he sought hy the ' railroads. It was said that the strike v decision was made before the an- .. nouneement of this further intended t cut. ' Printed inslructions for lite eonduet of the strike issued in Chicago j 1 were dated Kriday, October it. <> I ?William J. Simmons, imperial wiz- ti zard of tlte K. K. K.f made a long I statement before the rules committee j of the house last Thursday on the subject of the Ku Klttx organization and l! his eonneetion therewith, lie denied p most emphatically that the organizatlou was mimical to the laws of the , country either in theory or in fact and ; declared if it should be so held lie s would destroy it at once, lie c'aimcd n ?-ili.. . .i " m i> i v:i 11. u, .. that xric* cii' iim...v - - liad misrepresent! d it in many partie- . ulars and where they had told the truth they had exuKKerated it. ]] it ^iive the total nit tuhorship at ! >s than i n a hundred thousand. ? xplainini; tiiat (j he had assented to representations ot having passed the hair million mark 11 for the effect to he produced <?:i pros- t pectivc applicants for nicmhersiiip. ! It After three hours of talking he eon- , eluded with: "I want to thank those who helievi in tne and synipathi/.e with " nie. 1 have no malice in my heart towitrd any one. I say to my persecutors. ' 'You <loii"ti know what you are doiny. You are ignorant. lik?- th<- persecutors tl of Christ.' As our Savoir said. I say h now.: 'leather, forgive them, f- r they ,, know not what they do.'" Then in1 lo. ? 1 Kjjl'IOinK iin* I'll.HI III.Ill iii.n tin* 'UkIi lit' ltll back in :i I'aint, lroni1' \ k-hicli ho soon after recovered. lie was inn hie to appear for eross-examinaion Friday and the investigation was iostponed until Monday, JSarlier durng Thursday's proceedings Senator "liomas E. Watsoi\ demanded the right o come to the aid of Simmons and t??!tl din to ask if the senate and house appropriation committees were not at hat very moment recommending appropriations for lawyers of from oo to ooo for alleged services in onnection with shipping hoard litigaion. This was hy way of an answer o tho exaggerated amounts that Simnuns and others were said to he reeiving as salaries. Simmons had tes- | ified that his own salary was $1,000 a aonth. (Thr ilovhvillr (Enquirer. Entered at the Fostofflce at York, as Mail Matter cf th? Seconi Class. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1921. Warren S. Stone," president of the I .rotherhood of Locomotive HnRinccrs, ; lays the strike can he prevented by the ailroads if they will call off their denand for wage reductions or by the government taking over the railroa The cotton exchange gamblers beat lown the(|irice of cotton about a cent esterday on the strength" of the hreatt ned railroad strike. If it bad tot been that, how> ver, it would have ?een something else, if the strike does | ome, of course, tln^ juice of cotton s ill go down much more. Kverythingj rill go down except food and clothing, iut then it is reasonably eertain that j be government will lake o\< r the1 'ailroads before it will jiermit the ' tiike. . _ * From the report of that Chicago conen nee between the railroad manugenent and railroad labor, it is beginliug to look as if the preliminary trontises of voluntary reductions of reight rates were largely for the i>ur?ose of enlisting liulilic sentiment in lupport of the movement to reduce the vages of the railroad workers. As to vhother railroad wages are too high v.* da not know. That dejtends on nany considerations. We do know, lowivcr, that when freight rates are icyond the public reach, the result is a, :iiivv.iiu\vn in the volume of traffic. md we have never been sure whether he object in raising the freight rates vas more to meet increased labor' barges than it was to depress' busiicss in furtherance of deflation. The ailroad management is telling the rcpescntatives of labor that if tlie labor ost is reduiM d freight rates will be rclueed. As to whether there is any ither way of settling the matter cx ept to fight it out, we will have to rait and see. Of the three men who were convicted if the brutal murder of William liraz11, the Columbia taxi driver, in Lexngton county, during the summer? viiby. Fox and Gappins?C. O. Fox is he only one who is likely to pay the xtreme penalty next Friday. The at- , orneys for Gappins and Kirby gave lotices of appeal, which notices acted is stays of execution. Friends of Fox ictitioned tlie governor to reprieve Fox intil the execution of the sentences in lie ease of tlie others. The petition vas entirely reasonable; but being a awyer, and a stickler for the forms of aw, the governor declined to interfere. The attorney for Kirby gave notice- of ippeal; hut failed to p rfeet tlie apical by filing the ease with exceptions, t is held now that* unless the appeal s withdrawn, it acts as a stay of exeution until it is dismissed by th?- sunt in court, .lust what will be done, vhether Kirby will be executed Friday, r whether tile execution will be dcayed indelinitely remains to In; seen, 'hat Gappins will not be executed unil tlie end of the regular proveduits is easonablv certain. i koathrs of Tho Y??i'lc vil'u Ihnpiiror, i'ill not a yroat ileal of pleasure an<l atisfactioii niit <>l' that intorostini; ami oinprelionsivo letter of Itaviil F. St. 'lair. .Mr. St. Clair is a eur respondent f 1?>iik experioneo ami wide i eput ition ixl knows what lx- is talking about., 'In- ability ami titnoss of .Mr. Slovnoii as a leader has all aloiur been woil nxh istood by a largo number of his oiistituoiits in tho Fifth ilistriot, ami 'ho Yorkvillo Kiniuirt r has pr< viously xplaimd how* it is that in eongress. rhieh is really a moh, hut a w oan ver ox|loot to get anywh ro oxoopt 1 " \. <*?ii ?li11u: . 111 < HI ^ 11 ir ,m ii <>i . '? tin* I ill* . .Mr. Kiev- IIskii is lint due <i'il i nary recognition. Jle's a in w nemhcr, and as such must he content > list?*ii anil Irani rutin-!" than direct, tut fn?m Air. St. flair's story, wliieli s true, his brains and al'ililiis are roviiiK I'MUal to his opportunitr and. t a er it leal moment lie has led ; li" way through a most difficult I ituation. <>f course it would !?? l'elarkahlc indeed if Air. St? vensnn Mould Me un.anituously ace> pud as th Hinocratic leader at this time, because t is hardly to he expected that older urn of less liness are ^oim* to stirrener tin-ir )?r< relatives to a eanparnively new man. Jtut nevertheless tin act i'mains that Air. Stevenson is lakiiiK them listen, and the more they' stea the hctter it will be for the Dein era tic party. It has heeii a cood many years since .>i -<i-1<t : Ill" mm I I i*r? I?f-I?n It III' rothcliioiiils ,ii"| the |-;ti]; 111 i n;iIV- ' Hills li;iv? C' llli' li> :iii ;i<*tll:i 1 strik- . 'hi' I Spit in rh*" I *?f \ Kiifiiiii-i i'J: ( > ? ??uiiii'^nl\ n nli <1 as 111? iu? -11 powerful union in America. Heretofore it has been ably and conservatively directed, and generally it has gotten about what it wanted. Railroad executives have always regarded this broth- ' erhood with respect, if not with fear. There has too been a feeling of deep, jealousy on the part of the railroad ex- i ecutives against the brotherhood. This ! feeling has been shared by executives j in all other labor employing enterprises. Kmployers generally cultivate the | thought that to them belongs the pre** 1 tnr* r?nn lOgMUVCS (II IIXIIIK w.ifi'-c, nwiiii.ih dilions, etc., and if this prerogative has not actually belonged to the brotherhood of locomotive engineers, it has ( at least been shared by them. ^11 other unions look up to this brotherhood, and all employers who have to do with organized labor, look upon the brotherhood as th(.- most powerful of all guilds. The brotherhood lias never been considered as arrogant or anything of that kind; but it has been business-like. It has never asked any favors; but has demanded .rights. The fight now on has been brewing for many .years, and it had to come. The real Issue is not so much whether the railroad men are I to get $;i, ?.r), $7 or $10 a day; but whether employers or employes are to have most to say ?t 1 tout the fixing of wages and conditions of labor. "f course the matter might bt s? ttled by compromise; but if it goes on to a finish, by the time it is over, the country will at least know there has been som< tiling of a war between capital and labor. The Great Railroad Strike. \ While there is still good reason to hope that the threatened railroad strike may be averted, is probably just as wt II for everybody in this country to realize at the outset some of I he eoiisr i|ueiu e.s I hat are to lie fa<* - cd if it goes on. l'rovi?l? <l there is no compromise l>< fore the strike actually goes into.effect, tln? country is to go up- against wliat will probably be 1 lie most desperate and far reaching industrial struggle this country lias ever known. The issue down at (lie bottom is between capital and labor?between those who earn their incomes from their own exertions and those who get their incomes through returns from money invested. That describes the issue as between the immediate principals in the fight, the various railroad labor unions on the one hand and the railroad executives on the other, liut those who are now unable to see further into developments, will, if the tight goes on, be ma do to feel that every man, woman and child in America is deeply concerned. Those who have not thought of it before will take an elementary look on the extent to which they are individually concerned with the transportation problem. I^et them consider how much tin y eat conies over the railroads, what ?3"< s not cme over the railroads and the effect on the prices of that which does not come over the railroads, if the supply that does come over the railroads is cut off. Likewise let them apply the same, consideration to articles of wearing and all ether uses. The railway brotherhoods claim that they are going to stop practically every wheel. The spokesmen for the railway executives claim that it is impossib'c that the strike shall extend to all of their trains. They do not expect to operate the railroads as well without the brotherhoods as with them; but they say they will continue operations in some kind of fashion. If raiinad transportation should, be stepp'd throughout the country for thirty ?i;iys there will he want and (listless almost ev< rywhere. In fact this will happen in far less time. Food will become scarce, prices of everything will k'o sky liiuh, and there will l>e suffering and distress. It will not take a great deal of suffering to make the people ugly, and when the people get utrlv, violence will ( develop, and a Ion;? with violence, pi I luge and inc( ndiarisin. I tut <>f course there is reason to hope i that some just agreement might he reached before tin worst comes to the worst. The ablest minds of America have he. n eonsidi ring all the pnssihilities of stteli a situation for lo these mapy years and some of them may he ready with a remedy. ? ? Absolute ces ation ol train service, with a niiniminn force only sufficient | to guard against lire and damage t" I railroad properly on duty in siiops and | depots, was 11n 1 i<iled by the drastic regit!.iI ions issued by the railroad i in eoiineetion with their sirik'- mil r, aecnrdiug to a t'liiongo! I'ispati b of last S.i<mil iv. The brother- j hoods' instructions numbers did not . sp( i if.v what s? i vice, if any, was to remain in operation after tin* last man j Wn'ks out Nov lillx ; 'J. I'lidei* tile list of duties of members, N'o. " says; "All | men on strike will k< p away from the i i oinpani' s' properly i \eept sueli un-H j del- gab I certain duties to be pei form " MM... , V -..III T 1 I >\ 11|?' Ulie>ll>. ? - , wltii'li llie shopecral'ls* unions and other oi Hi" remaining organizations, vviiicii will walk out Iris n??l yet j decided. According t?? 15. .VI. .! w.-II. j presidi nt of Hi" railway i inploycs' de- j I ;11-1111? 111 of tin- Ann rieau * 'ration of Labor. that is olio ol ic ipiestinns to 1>" determined at th" . >1 < i? crafts' for thcins. Ives. "I do not understand that t!i" train service allows for tii" operation nt a sinyI" train,'' Mr. J"W"!i said j in point in out tin* brotherhood rl;ius"s saying that employes had "idi nli"tilly th" ram" right to r? fuse' to iH-rfortn service on .a mail train as ( op a freight train. The puhlic had! h it r t into walking clothes, it1 looks like tin absolute tie tip of all train:-," lie added. "The force per-! mitt, d to remain on duty in past >lrik< s to ) ot< et prop* rt\ il< p> lid* d on i the < irelimstalna : of t lie strik"," Mr. Jewell : ttil. I'suall; a snittll fo "< \va> lift on ditty around simps to prevent' i' i. rior.i I ion of en moment. I said, a nd ii small in;ct * is k< |?i at union st-ilioiis anil ?lt j ii- in yuan! auainst any; actual suffi line on tlic |Nirt of strikers. I The men allowcil I . remain ; t work in j our organism lion." Mr. Jewell suiid, | "will In- ili ciil. ! i.a win a v. m?< I In iolii|i!>'l' M 1'ku I' ll |iiias. \W aii'1 j 11 111 til! >it Inn; many thai will be,I l?ut not many." I LOCAL . AFFAIRS., n e w "advie rtis eIvTe nts. If you have lost it or found it hr want to soil it or want to buy it all you have to do is to advertise in The Yorkvillc Enquirer whicji covers York county and counties adjoining, ft. \\V Wilkerson of Hickory Grove No. 1 had j a do},' to stray away last week and advertised for it in The Yorkville Enquirer Friday, lie found the dop Sun any ai inc nomc 01 .ur, nuncu ?u" lives near Peorsheba church. John S. Hartness of Sharon, lost an automobile tire last week. He advertised "in The Enquirer Tuesday and found it at the home of Mrs. Gibson, who lives near Clover. A member of The Enquirer staff advertised for a typewriter desk in The Enquirer last Friday. He located* the one lie wanted Saturday night. The Star Theatre, -?-J. Q. Wrny, Proprietor?Constance Kinney today and Mabel Normand tomorrow. York Supply Company?Received this week. MeConnell Dry Goods Company? Great railroad strike may mean much to your pocket book. L. M. Grist's Sons?Annual subscription getting campaign. C. S. Pratt, Sharon?We sell shoes that tit your feet and wear. -P. .M. Grist's Sons?Special dinner set premium offer. Gi.wrison-Paris Seed Company, Rock Kill?.'ust received it 600 bushel shipment of seed wheat. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. ?i.? i??? t Inn nf the re i 11C u IIU lu>1b |MlifitWM v?v>? ... ?..w - corfl in The Yorkville Enquirer the following real estate transfers have been Indexed in the office of the York | county auditor: Catawba T. K. Mi-Mack in, clerk to J. I!. .lohnson, < t a I., trustees, 2 lots premises and power vested in nie by decree Witherspoon property. Aliller-Jtoddey Realty Co., to Georgia 'Garrison, 1 lot, $200. Misses Manunie and Ornie Steele to E. \j. Childers, 1 lot, $900. Ebenczer Tile people's Trust Co., to Li. R. Mickle, 3 lots, $500. (i'ong Real Estate Co. |ots>. # THE MARRIAGE RECORD Sinco the last publication of the record in The Yorkville inquirer, the following marriage licenses have bVen issued by the judge of probate to the following: Oct. 12- Louis Crosby, 21 and Maud McLilly, 19, Bethel township, (colored). Oct. 12?J. Marion Sandil'er, 25 and Xellie C. Moore, 25, McConnellsville. Oct. 14?Landus Moore, 22 and Pearl Gardner, 20, Bethel township, (colored i. Oct. 15?John E. Taylor, 32 and Viole Whitley, 19, Concord, X. C. ' Oct. 15?Tonf Crawford, 35 and (Iattie AndersdtJ, 23, York to.wnship, (colored). Oct. 15?Thomas S. Sutton, 54 and Catherine MasfcCy, 45, ltock Hill, (colored). THE WEST ROAD Within another month at least, fair weather prevailing, the new West road between Smyrna and Hickory Grove I will be completed and all will be in readiness to continue the road work from Hickory Grove to Sharon and thence to Yorkville. Contractor HiyTI stetler and his large road force have i lost no time since they began construeI tion work on York county's newest road project and they have pushed the work forward at a remarkable rate. The biggest improvement that has been made in the little village of 1 Smyrna since the .village was established is the new overhead bridge over the Southern railroad which has just been built by the bridge forces if the railroad connecting with the west road and eliminating a grade crossing that has been a source of great danger and ! fear since the railroad was built mure than thirty years ago. Building of the West road eliminates all of the numerous gradi? crossings between Smyrna and Hickory Grove save one. This crossing mar uic corporate limits of tin; town of Hickory drove, is not considered a very dangerous place and traffic is in little danger on its account. Smyrna people fed much gratified and relieved on account of tin building of the overhead bridge at Smyrna. It is strongly constructed ami is iiigh above the railrii.nl tracks below cliininatiiig t?ny possibility of an accident it a place where lor years there have been from t me to time many narrow i scapes front death, Contractor lluffstctb r himself having been the lstst P i s ni to narrowly avert being crushed to death lin re when liis automobile was struck by u train several weeks ago. Alosl of the topsojiing work on 11 to new road between Smyrna and Hickory drove have lie n done and it is stated thttl j II grading work has been completed, .'robably two miles of the road yet remain to be top soiled and there is considerable "dressing up" to bo done although e\in now one can drive an automobile over the road practically all the way from Hickory drove to Smyrna. II is said thai the new road bed at Smyrna and Hickory drove when completed will le so nttieli smoother and r... .... iv..1,1 , . .I ..I,., tli iii tin. siilewa'ks that 'I he; ) ?a lit!?>11 of tile population will !! ' it!" in:i<l to walk iti rather than tin- sidewalk. Tin1 ! ! < s< lit i > :i< 1 between Smyrna ti<l liit l\i?r\ ( i<.v?* lies eh*so l>y the i shh noes of mo: t of the farmers living hejwenu llic tw plates while til'' now survey puts t ho highway furl hot* aw.:\. Tin it is t;ninu I" he some little dillii-ully in hiiildini; rtiilway erossinirs ill front of fjtoh liottso (o oolltleel Willi j tin- now roail in 111 * voiit tliat different resident want such a eloso oonnor- I tiou; luil iioImhIv up tiiat way is worrying a ureal ileal nlm'it that. l'?'ip!o living alontf tho .now route | are protnl of tin- i ail ami .say thai they are at last ah-nit to realize a! dream of twenty years of the time! when tin re would he a u""d road throtiuii the extreme western end of I The road has not hecn connected with ("lopikee county and probably 1 V. i'l no* !? he- some time because of I lie I'ael that the highway :t111h?">i*iI i< s | of the * wo counties have not decided delimit !y upon the route it will follow. WITHIN THE TOWN ? .s'Kivwunt fpiticl ia selling al $."> n I eord in York\il!e and it Is said that i' is pretty hard to yet at that price. - John iVividson, well known farmer) of York No. I. is serving temporarily! as night i>?>li? ? officer in Yorkville. The hot dot; elands and the balloon men and the fellows who make your i I. . ? . .. .. . .t ir, ?f Mu.ir c'i i re i I?.? I 11 I Willi' I'll W ?I i ' ...... . of busiucHS yesterday. l'ractieally ;ill of the local merchants got more or less business out of the circus. ? In a holly contested g. me of football (,'ii the high school tieUI Friday afternoon the I.-11 caster ami Yorkville schocl teams tied?t to <>. Quite a number of pupils of the I* neaster school accompanied their team to Yorkville while the numlrr ol' local looters was quite large. ? Three cases of scarlet fever have been discovered among primary grade pupils in the Yorkville Graded school. 1 >? |J?,. I lllKMt'll III HI. .1. I/. .>11 WUIMII, .?.->. T. Tracy Walsh and J. S. Briee, Esq., have the disease. The school trustees have dismissed tin- first, second and third grades for the balance of the week. The three little jhitients are reported doing nicely. ? Five hundred seats for the new auditorium on the sccopd floor of the new town hall now in course of construction have been purchased from the Steele Furniture Company of Detroit, .Mich., a branch of the Central Seating Company, it was announced Monday. The seats cost the town $3.50 each and 'will be installed as soon as the painters have completed their work in the building. ? Several score members of York Lodge No. l lfj, Independent Order of I Odd Fellows attended services at j Charlotte Street Baptist church, Sunday morning on account of the special 1 sermon for Odd Fellows preached by | Uev. F. A. Biles, pastor of the church i and himself a member of the fraternity. Jtev; Lilcs preached a powerful j sermon which made a profound impression on all hid hearers. A e.<rtlec| lion of $ ts was contributed by the Odd 1 Fellows for Itcv. Lives. Approximately GO bales of cotton I the property of Lowry At .Moore, cotton buyers of Yorkville, were either totally | or partially destroyed by fire which was discovered between 1 and. 2 o'clock : Sunday morning at the public platform off East Madison street beside the Carolina Ai North-Western railway (racks. While there are a number of theories as to the origin of tlie fire there is nothing definite. The cotton was insured for its full value. Howe's Grwilef London Shows and Van Ainburirs Wild Animal circus which exhibited in Yorkville yesterday entertained severalr thousand peot ?ii. Ivt-ii intPi nii.g Tllf. .show arrived in Yorkvillo early Stinol.'iy morning and everything was in readiness yesterday morninV when the hour lor the street parade arrived, i Th" parade which was several hundred yards in length attracted ttic* intcr, ests of iuiudreds of people who lined the streets and was a most interesting spectacle. The claim is made that the show carries the largest street parade of any traveling circus in the i country today. Fine horsemanship, : tine horses and wonderful exhibitions | of wild animal training feat red the 1 show which was undoubtedly the largest and be^t that has appeared : here in years. The numerous clowns amused and the acrobats and trapesc artists performed many stunts which I produced a tin ill. The crowd was an orderly one and about half of those in 1 town attended the show. The circus management calculates that it about ; made expenses out of its appearance here. The circus left early this morning for Union where they exhibit to: day. ABOUT PEOPLE T. \V. Quinn. of Charlotte, spent Sunday in Yorkville. L. \V. Jenkins, of Spartanburg, spent ' Sunday with his parents. Mr. and -Mrs. \V. \V. Jenkins, in Yorkville. Miss iteuluh Gardner, of New York, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. VV. S. Dickson, in Yorkville. Mrs. It. M. Dratton, of Yorkville, is ' visiting lu r lirother, Dr. C. ?>. Dratton, at Palestine, Texas. Jei ie.; You 'hlood of 'roy, N. C., ( visited the family of his fc thcr, \V. PJ Vour.ghlood at Sharen this webk. (>. Frank ffarl of Columbia visited the f :r.i!y of hi.; father G. NY. S. Hart [ yesterday. %* ' * f I T I /\ f I nen _ .Mr. :'ii(i .Mrs. j. rj. .- iii-iiiii ui ?-n ? eola, Fla.. ;ire the guests of Mr. and Mis. E. A. I-iull, in Yorkville. J)r. John I!. Itowen, of Washington, D. C., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. X. J. X. iiotven, in Yorkvill , this week. Kev. F. Kay Kiddie of Kowryvillo, was among the visitors in Yorkville I yesterday. Mrs. J. If. Wit Inn-spoon, of Clinton visited Mrs. I'hoehe Witherspoon in i Yorkville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I!. A. Correll of Yorkville spent Sunday with Mrs. Osborne at Klaeksliil'*g. Mr. and Mrs. <!. It. ltoyd and children of Lenoir net ntly visited the family <>f Mrs li. A. Correll in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Kendrick and ? hildren of Alh<nnarle, X. C.. spent Sat* urdav in Yorkville with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. M ill. .Mrs. C. C. Wharton and Mrs. Joe P. j Wharton, of (ireenwooil, spent Sunday tit Yorkville, visiting the family of J. i II. K. .It nkins, Jr. o. Frank Hart, grand secretary of South Carolina Masons, made an ofj lieial visit to the Masonic lodge at lioodtown Monday night. Miss Janet Fairies of llclmont, X. C.. and Millie MeXeill of Ko< k Hill retctilly \ c ited Miss Mary Bigger on King's Creek Xo. 2. Messrs. I.oj and Linden Mergers of King's Mountain X. recently \ist(I their parents Mr. and Mrs. J. E. I'.iggers on King's Creek Xo. 2. .Mrs. Mart l.ueiiula Sniitli. who has been visiting relatives ill llock Hill, , lias returned to the home of le r son, Mr. Itobert Smith, on Filbert Xo. 1. .Mr. John S. S.tndifcr, who has ln-en ! seriously ill with typlioid f- ver for { many weeks at his home in Yorkville, I is :i!.?!? to ltd out ana in. l-'rii tuls ami ;i< i|ii.:iiit:im rs will W j nlail to know that Mis. Luther llartnc - (fornu i'l.v Mis Julia .MoKiiiirhl). <>l' <!:ist<iiiia, who lias 1 ii*#n seriously ill, is iio\\ on the i'oail to recovery. Ili'V. Mr. .1. L Mali's, pastor ami | Kiili-r John Warn a Ijuinn left this 'inoiiiinn to nprtsiiil Yorkvillc A. It. I', i lunch at tin* fall imtiin,?r of tin* ("ataw ha prcshyti ry at Unity in Lancaster county. .I.tnii' Wilson, (5-ytar-oM daughter of !h v. Ji. Wilson, Jr., of McConnells\ i 1 It-, w s tak'-n to tlu; l'Yrtiiell inlirinir.v l?y Mr. White-sides yesterday for an lnvatlon for app nuii-.tin. She is geltinn nloitt; nicely. .Mr. W. 1'. Mavis, puMishor of the Lancaster Uitiz n was a visitor in Yorkvillc. l ist Friday. Mr. Mavis canto >v r with tin- Lancaster llinh School loot ha II team, which played the Yorkvt ie ti-atn Friday afternoon. 'I'lc condition of .1. S. I trice, Ksip, v l. i ! : l ei n II at his home in York \ illo for ninny v.i Us eontinuos to improve sl?t\vl\ hut steadily. Mr. Mr ice, tIk'ii : It still very weak.and unable to < .nsiiicr business matters <>:' :my kiml, is sper.dintr initeh of liis time on hi.*- I front piazza. Southern ("In istian Advocate: Kev. It. II. Sharpe ren ntly uiui* i went nil ; operation fur nppendieitis in the IVn- j mil liti?ii 11 ni Itoi-k llill. ilv eon- I \ iti anil rapidly irmii tin* yporation rtid it was < to I that lie would soon . he at home again but .Messrs. Kobia-1 < ' son and Leitner, two of the Fairfield ' I circuit stewards were In the Advocate , office on Friday and reported that J r.rother Sharpe had developed a case ; of pleurisy and is at this writing at t lie home of Dr. Walker, in Yorkville. Hrother Sharpe will have the sympa- j thy and prayers of his many friends, | I who wish for him an early and com plete recovery. CIRCUS ANIMALS Charlie Mugivan, fat and. forty and Irish and general manager and part I owner of the Howe's Great London Shows and Van Amburg's Wild Animal | I shows which exhibited to two large ! | crowds in Yorkvllle yesterday was in j 1 good humor when a couple of news- j paper men dropped round to tho^big 1 ; top late yesterday afternoon and the ! gonial Irishman spent considerable, : time talking circus and showing his visitors the apimals and giving out some facts about them. Charlie is one of those showmen who is a showman because he couldn't help it if he 'wanted to. He has been in the show game ever since he was knee high and as he expressed it yesterday, "it just comes natural now." Charlie's brother Jerry Mugivan is the largest show owner in the world. He owns practically all the stock in the big show that exhibited in Yorkvillc yesterday; he owns the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and he has a number of other organizations exhibiting in various parts of; the country now. I Despite the fact that he was well ; over military ago, Charlie Mugivan I I was one of the first to enlist in the I 106th Engineers when tTncle Sam got j into tiie World War and he was over' sears in France and (Jerinany for many j months. After getting overseas he ! figured that he could best do bis bit | by organizing a circus for the soldier j lads and this he did. The big show traveled all over the war area showing day after day to crowds yf from 10.000 to 20,000 soldiers. Name and fame of Mugivan's circus was far and wide and there are no doubt many soldiers in this section who will recall it. This has been a hard year on circuses according to Mugivan. Short ?> ! i.i'ii'ni! fin- nuviciiltural I I I UJir. ...... I products are responsible. "When | farmers nortli, south, east or west don't get good prices f? r tlieir proj ilucts they can't come to see tiie cirj ous," said Charlie. "We haven't made any money in 1 weeks and in fact, we have broken j even in mighty few towns. Cut of twenty-seven towns in North Carolina that we have played recently we made a little money in five. In the others we suffered a big loss. We were agreebly surprised at the attendance in Yorkville and while we didn't make any money here why we will break about even. Our daily oxpensa is about $4,000 and of course you see that lots of people have to pay the price of admission to get that much money ' every day. "But it has been a bad year and if i the railroad's strike comes it'may be a j good tiling for us. "This show is strong on animals," Charlie went on to say: "People all over the country like to see animals Nand next year we ? e going to start out with an exclusive wild animal show. The acrobatic stuff and other athletic features don't go so much any more and we are going to give the people just \vhat they want. Of course the clowns arc still a good feature. They always have been and always will be. Appeal strongly to the kids, you know." Conducting his visitors into th,e menagerie of the big show, Charlie got to talking wild animals. "See that big lion over there? That's Brutus. lie is about eight years oia | and is one of the finest specimens of a I male lion in captivity. Brutus is feeling: badly now. We had to pull one of his tfe'th?a big jaw tooth the other day. Brutus got in a row with one of , the lionesses and the old girl bustea i Brutus's jaw and we had to pull his tooth. Brutus won't act. He probably never will act. Too mean. Just keep him for breeding purposes. We couldn't duplicate him for a thousand dol'ars." Charlie showed his visitors a lioness and her four cubs. "Those little fellows are only a few weeks old," ho said. "There are three males and a female.- The males are much more valuable to the circus thar. the females. We won't begin training them for a year or two yet. Doesn't pay to start with them two early. Like human beings they learn more as they gVow older and we will let them grow awhile before we begin their training. "This big hippopotamus over here is . named Vic. We bought him from the National Zoo* in Washington. An expensive booker he is, too. We paid $4,2(10 for him. He is a lazy old fellow; but pretty good natured. His favorite food is dandelions and they are hard to find in some localities. We feed him bran' as a substitute. He likes apples and other fruits and lie is fond of candy. "Ilippa don't live in captivity very long as a rule but Vio appears to be in good health and we hojie that he is going to with us a long time." Charlie tried to open Vic's big mouth hut the hipp wouldn't open so he callul "Louie.*' the German animal trainer to the cage. Vic opened his big front for Louis without any trouble and the trainer placed iiis hand far down in the sea behemoth's mouth and rubbed his gums. The animal seemed to like it. ' i?i... i... .iiiii1,.m " ?:iiil y Mil i? \, ii*" i? I'l'c..,, .?... Limit'." so ( 'iiarlie called "Dad"' ono of the fir us roustabouts to go get apples [ lor Vie which the bit; hipp ate with j tIn* keenest relish. "I.ost a couple of young pumas this I morning," said Charlie as he halted his visitors in front of a cage of j pumas or American lions. "They were only a few days old. The mother ! got mad at them this morning and killed them. Wicked b *asts those pumas. They are as vicious as shakes and we have a lot of trouble with | them. , ; j one thing about tlu ni though, they I 'are cheap. Out west in the Rocky .Mountain country we can buy them in | jany quantity. They are numerous out) i there you know and lots of trappers [ make a living catching tlieni for cir- I discs and r.bos. Had a chance to buy I a couple of beautiful specimens for $15 j I each last summer. I was busy when j the fellow eanu' around and didn't do 1 ' ....i- <V.|. 1 11. liJIUT 1 DWU^WI lilt' ouiiii; ]MU *w. | $Jt>0 each. "Wf'vc had pretty hard luck with [ | animals in 1111 past year or s<>," Charlie : went on to say. "We've lost four big .'ions worlli $1,000 ;<n* more each and i just a short time ago one of our finest. camels died. "Funny thing about a camel; but j ; when he gets si; k you can't do anyI thing for him. .Most any kind of ani- ! i ma I except a camel can lie doctored ' ami etired when lie is sick. Hut when I tiie eann l in is down there is notlfing lo do but let him die." Turning to a cage of monkeys he said: "You have ben told differently perhaps; but some of the meanest animals we have to deal with are the | monkeys. ??f course some species of tnonks are not as dangerous and mean a:s others; 1 ?ut y.m had better watch any KMill <>f a monkey all the time. "Vuu wouldn't think that those polar I boars over there live on condensed milk, would you? Well, that's all they pet. In their native haunts, they live on fish hut of course we can't feed tin m on fish in going about the country so we feed them condensed milk. They are a r *sky looking quintet as you will obsorye. Polar bears are pretty mean and are much harder to train than our common black or brown bears. Put this 'Louie' can train anything. That German is one of the greatest animal trainers in the world." "That zenra over mere is a mean little fellow. Can't do a great deal with him. He is more stubborn than a dozen mules." f "How did you ever manage to train those pigs to do stunts?" Charlie was asked. "Why," he replied, "pigs are easy. They , haven't got any sense when they 'are born and they never acquire any. All you've got to do is to hold a bucket in front of a hog and the sonof-a-gun will do any kind of stunt you want him to do, thinking he is going to get something to eat out of the bucket. "The meat bill for the wild animals is one of the big expense items in the circus," said Charlie. "Takes hundreds of pounds of meat and they must have it every day. Horsemeat is the best meat for wild animals but we can't get that in many localities so we Just fe^d 'em bull." HERE AND THERE ? "Wishee de sofee collee heem had nebber been," said Jim Lee, Chinese laundry man the other day. "All de young men and all de oiler menses dey tYi-uiii nuu i uiiirc anu wanucc ui iiwiiicr. Me no gettee.de cojlee bizness me had got when dey was only stiffee coilees." ? "I.noticed beggars always follow a circus," remarked an observer this morning. "I saw two one-legged men soliciting alms in the streets in Rock Hill Saturday although there was no show in Rink Hill that day. Rut I j noticed the same two doing business In : Yorkville early yesterday morning. Hard looking, bard boiled professional beggars." A * ? Two colored women livhig In wide-' ly separated sectlorui came to Yorkville for the circusfyesterday. They had not seen each other for some time. This was the conversation heard on the street: . "Howdy Liza." "Howdy." "How's yo' all?" / "Ah is sorter poorly. All is been bavin* series put in mah arm foh to cure d<* rheumatic an' ah hurts All de time." ? "I have been a resident here twelve years and I want to say that this is the . most represents five body of men of all classes and callings that I have ever seen together in a public meeting," declared Rev. T. T. Walsh addressing members of the Loyal Order of Moose , J and their invited guests at the Moose I banquet held in Yorkville, last Thursday. evening. Rev. Walsh said that he wanted to congratulate ah organization that could brin^ together such a large | representation of the leading citizens I of the t^wn oC all occupations and j callings. | ?Cotton is getting rather thin in | York county fields because of the | energy oi me conon picgers during ,tne past month and while occasionally one strikes a field which gives the appear| ance of hardly having been picked over ; at all, those fields are the exception rather than the rule. Inquiry among I farmers in all sections of York county ; is that they are paying from 75 cents . to $1 per hundred to cotton pickers. ! However becau-se of the lightness of j the crop most of the cotton is being picked by members of each farmer's family. ? "The peddlers are cleaning the country o" eggs," remarked J. D. Hope^ well known Sharon merchant the other afternoon. "It used to be that farmers of the : unwinding territory brought I scores of dozens of eggs to Sharon ^xnd we did a pretty good commission business in eg^s. But. now peddlers drlv. ing in automobiles ecoul all of western I York county for eggs, buy them at the farmers' door and curry them to Rdck Hill, Chester, Charlotte and other larger towns. It is about as hard to buy eggs in Sharon or Hickory Grove now as it is to buy them In a larger I town." : ?Numbers of ex-servicemen of York and adjoining counties are going to Iiock Hill, this week to see -the government Clean Up Squad that is arranging to give physical examinations to'all men in bed physical or mental v condition believed to be the result of i their war service. There are a num; ber of veterans in York county, it is [ said, who are in bad physican shape ' and whose infirmities date back to ' their service days. The Clean Up ; Squad arrived in Rock Hfll Sunday and will be engaged in examining' both white and colored soldiers at tho Chamber of Commerce Hall until Saturday night. Officers of the four | posts of tbo American Legion in York county are very anxious that all exservice men who are disabled will go to see tire Cleap Up Squad. ? Dody Phillips of Chester who played such great baseball in Yorkville the past summer as a member of the American legion Larrupers is setting college football athletics in South Carolina on lire. Phillips is unquestionably the greatest football player in any college-ir. tho state, lie is attending Ksskin? Theological Seminary at Due West. A Due West dispatch of |iriuay lowing 01 r.rsKine uercai jot Charleston college at Duo West Thursday says: Phillips, and the other ion men of the Krskine team romped through a.id over rnd around Charleston college's eleven he *e yesterday to" a 71 to 0 victory. The playing of the whole Krskino team was splendid, | and Phillips, Shannon a."d Kennedy tore through the Charleston line at will. Phillips doing some especially tine broken field running, one of his runs being for .18 yards, through the whole Charleston team. In fact, it seems to take "the whole Charleston team to stop the great back. ? A Yorkvillc man had his little son pi relied oil his shoulders in front of tlie Mackoroli-Ferguson Company's store yesterday morning as the circus parade went by. Listen to a few;of the questions the little fellow asked and his father's answtrs: "Daddy, what are thorn big things?" "Elephants, my son." "Daddy, what is an elephant?" "Those bit,' things you see," my son. "Daddy why do they have two tails?" "I don't know niy son; but they are not both tails?one of them is a trunk. "Can you put clothes in the trunk, daddy? "No son, it is not that kind of a trunk. The elephant puts his food in his mouth with it and drinks water through his trunk." "Well, daddy, I don't see any mouth." "No son, the mouth is under the trunk. "Ain't that funny, daddy? I am plad my mouth is not under any trunk. Ain't yon glad your mouth is not under a trunk, daddy?" "Yes, son, I couldn't answer your ?iuestions if my mouth was under a trunk." Then the balloon man came alontr iml ilm f;ilhi.r in nrder to keen thp son from asking further questions that possibly lie couldn't answer bought (Continued on Tago Eight.) \