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MEM HAPPENINGS ML News Note? of General Interest Prom All Parts of the Stet?,. DR. J. H. CARLISLE DEAD. President Emeritus of Wofford Col . lege Passes Away at Age of 84 Years. Spartanburg, Special.-Dr. James H. Carlisle, aged 84 years, president emeritus of Wofford College and one of the most prominent educators in the South, died at his home here Thursday morning at 7:30 o'clock. The funeral was held Friday at 4 p. m., in the College chapel and was at tended by hundreds of prominent citi zens from all sections of the State. All schools and colleges in the city were , closed and during hours of fu neral all places of business were closed. The last time that Dr. Carlisle ap peared in public was during the sum mer school for teachers at Wofford College, when it was the pleasure of the teachers to hear an interesting address on school life of long ago, and on Washington's visit to South Carolina after he had been elected President of the United States. Prior to this time he had not made an ad dress in public for many months. The commencement at Wofford last June was the first commencement missed by Dr. Carlisle for more than two score of years. When he was a member of the faculty he always occupied a seat on the rostrum dur , ing the commencement season, and after he retired from the active pres? idency of the college, he never miss ed an exercise. Last June, however, he was indisposed and it was impos sible fdr him to attend any of the exercises at the college. Dr. Carlisle was president of Wof? ford College from 1875 to 1902, when he resigned and became president emeritus. Following his resignation Dr. H. N. Snyder was elected. He was bern May 4, 1825. L - ' . Corn Prizes Awarded. Bishopville, Special-The Lee coan ty Boys' Corn Contest association, organized under the bureau of plant industry of the United State depart ment of agriculture, held a meeting here October 16, to award, the differ -ont prizes offered, which were as fol lows : Best 10 ears of corn, prize of $105 won by L. W. Northcutt; second best 10 ears of corn, prize of $5, won by E. Fulton Peebles; third best 10 ears of corn, prize of $2.50, won by Eld ridge H. Mixon. Best five ears of ?om, prize of $7.50, won by Eldridge McCoy; second best five ears of corn, ^prize of $5, won by Thos. A DuBose; third bsst five ears of corn, prize of $2.50, won by Ethan Baker. Best ear o? corn, first prize of $5, won by Marant Truluck; second best ear of ?corny prize of $3, won by Lawton Eeasley; third best ear of corn, prize of $2, won by Walter Richburg. There was also a prize of $3 offer ed, to any boy cf the county regard less .of being a member of the contest association for the beat ear of corn, which was won by Harvey Ford. Two other prizes were also offered for the best and second best ear of the prolific variety with stalk, first rize, $3 and second $2, won by Henry Green and Ralph Green. The association is composed of 27 hoys, of which number 14 entered the .contest. Thirty-four boys entered the inde pendent one ear contest. The judges were: Ina W. Wilhams, /Columbia; W. S. Wheeler, St. Charles and L. L. Baker, Bishopville. Much interest was taken in the ex hibition as was shown by the attend ance of about 300 people. After the awarding of prizes, Mr. Williams lec tured on the selection of seed. Jury Gives Verdict Against Lancaster Lancaster, Special.-The jury in "the case of Mrs. Roma Stogner against the town of Lancaster, suit -?or damages for personal injury sus tained by being thrown from a buggy on the streets, returned a verdict Tuesday night for. the plaintiff for 15212.50. The amount sued for was $4,000. _ - York Fanners Prosperous.. Yorkville, Special.-It is generally .conceded that fewer farmers in this .section are holding cotton this fall ithan at any time since the war. Those 'who owe accounts ar. selling their cot ton and paying up, and those who liave no accounts are selling and euther putting the money in the bank? ?or keeping it at home, but compara tively speaking the large majority are v .depositing it. most of them on certi ficate. It is estimated that the depos its in the eight banks of York county at this time amounts to close around 32,000,000, the largest in the history of the count v. : To Establish Creamery at Marion. Marion, Special.-The question of establishing a creamery here is being agitated by Messrs. Gibs and Sim mons of the Elgin Creamery Com vpuny of Elgin, 111. They propose to put in a plant here to cost $0,000. Several local business men have al ready become interested ia-the pro ject and subscribed stock. It is thought that the required amount of anoney will be raised. NEWENEMY?O COTTON Anthracnosea Pin gus in Seed That is Destroying Millions of Value in the Crop. Columbia, Special.-Startling in its nature and of vital importance is the announcement that comes from Clem son College to the effect that the cot ton anthracnose is causing a loss to the State of nearly $5,000,000 annu ally. More startling still is the state ment that the disease is spreading rapidly and that many of the farmers of the State, in all sections, are losing from one-fearth to one-half of their crops. i The announcement came in the na ture of a letter from H. W. Barre, the botanist at Clemson, to Commissioner "Watson, who made a request for a re port; on the investigation of the cot ton anthracnose while on a recent vis it to the institution. During the past year the experi ment station at Clemson has made a thorough and exhaustive study of thu ravages of the anthracnose and have collected data of a conclusive and convincing nature which shows that something must be done to check it and must he done at once. 'tin the majority of cases," says the latter, "the original infection can he traced to seed of some so-called improved variety purchased from seed houses or individual cotton breeders. In a number of .cases an thracnose has appeared this year where cotton has not been planted be fore.. The seed which were used in planting the fields, when they could be obtained, were found to contain the anthracnose fungus. We have in this way triiced a large number of cases of anthracnose to various seed houses." The estimated annual loss in Geor gia from anthracnose is estimated at $14,500,000. "The remedy," states the report, "of course must be in the form of a preventive. The seed are acting as a distributing agent. This we are pre paring to do and by co-operating with the various other agricultural inter ests of the State, we hope that some plan can be perfected which will ac complish this. First then we must in duce the farmer to secure clean or disease free seed." Pine Yield of Corn. Aiken, Special.-Recently J. A*. Shuler, one of Aiken county's fore most farmers, harvested three acres of the finest corn ever grown here abouts, and perhaps the equal of any grown in the State. The three acres netted 348 1-2 bushjj^ an average of 116 1--8 bushels to ?ST acre. In ad dition to the corn narvested, 1,800 bundles of fodder were stripped from the field, averaging 2 1-2 pounds each. The land upon which this remarkable yield was gathered is not extraordi nary land but average rich upland, and Mr| Shuler ascribes the magnifi cent Veld, to the mode of cultivation and fertilisation, exclusively. Similar, land last year made ?.yield of about 25 bushels per acre. Mr. Shuler is so enthusiastic over the field this year that hei inteds to carry out the prin ciple on a wider scale next year, and perhaps plant the entire corn crop, using the same methods and fevtlizer. The land is now planted in peas, and a yield of about 20 bushels is expect ed. The pea crop was considerably cut off by dry weather. Anderson Will Pay $800 For Earle Street Property. Anderson, Special.-The case of the city vs. B. P. Mauldin and F. G. Brown, involving the strip of land on Earle street in what is intended to be the extension of Peoples street, will not be tried at this term of the court. An agreement has been reached be tween the city and the present hold ers of the property, fixing the value of it at.$800. The city will take pos session at once, and the Peoples street bridg? over the railroad will now be pushed to completion without delay. K'egro Children Burned. Newberry, Special.-Two children of Belton Denebc, colored, living on Mr. Jno. M. Ruber's plantation in No. .1 township, this county, were burned to death a few days ago. Denebo and his wife had left their three children alone in the house and during their absence one of the children acciden tally knocked over a kerosene lamp. The oil caught fire and the flames spread rapidly. Bingham and Avant Guilty of Homi cide, j Charleston, Special.-i' Guilty of manslaughter" read the verdict re turned at 4:15 o'clock Friday after noon at Georgetown, S. C., in the trial of Dr. G. C. Bigham and A. B. Avant, charged with the killing of the young wife of Dr. Bingham at Murrells in let on this evening: of September 4. A\ motion for a new trial was overruled and the judge sentenced the defend ants to a. term of three and a half years at hard labor in the peniten tiary. The prisoners were admitted to bail in the sum of $1,500 pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. Won" Blue Ribbons. Lexington, Special. - Magistrate Thos. L. Harman returned from Batesburg Friday night, where he has been exhibiting his fine thoroughbred horses at the Tri-County fair. He brought back many blue ribbons, win ning a number of prizes. Mr. Har man has a pair of country-raised 3 year-old colts that' are said to be as fine as there are in the country. HR expects to exhibit these atth^??j?^ hore ^^^^^^tiS^^^S^^g THE HUNTING ? The Farmer's -Cartoc WHO OWNS A Pressing Problem That Most I Aviator Has the Right of Wa Ownership ol Which in Ev Old Ro?an Law, Extern New York City.-How high must an aviator fly to be safe from the con sequences of illegal trespass? and a great many other questions, not burning now but considered as soon to be hot ones, were treated by Lyt tleton Pox, a lawyer, ia an address to members of the Aero Club of Amer ica. The answer was that the aviator would have to be out of sight He must dodge the police. The old Roman law which gives to the owner of land absolute ownership also of the air above it is responsible for this. The law must bc changed, ho added, or the courts wih be ruin ously congested. As matters stand, there having been no changes in tho law for several hundred years, a man in a flying machine has no rights that a man with a plow is bound to re spect. The question is how best to bring the attention of the judicial system to this unfair discrimination against the flying portion of the race. No man can fly as things now stand without technically breaking the law, unless he gets special privileges from the landowners. It ls a problem that bristles with novelty, says Mr. Fox. In the event of pedestrians being hit by ginger pop bottles dropped by .the passing aviator or by other objects, includ ing the aviator himself, the man be low would have redress at law. Mr. Fox believes the Aero Club should urge the Wright brothers, for in stance, to consent to be sued by the owner of land over which th?y have flown (and thereby trespassed), so as to bring the whole subject before the courts for settlement. The ?ilt should be.a friendly one, he sdkr, the object being to modify, if possible, the law of aerial trespass. Another way might be to condemn the air by legal procedure, and thus knock over the historical fossil. A discussion that followed the ad dress of the evening resulted in the members arriving at the firm belief that the air should be considered a highway, ami there was preliminary talk concerning an attempt at legis lative enactment. To avert suits for aerial trespass Mr. Fox suggests that the State con demn and buy a stratum of air as a highway for flying machines. The fact that Count Lambert in his flight across Paris violated a police regula tion forbidding aeroplaning over the city shows that the French have al ready applied the law to cover one phase of the question. By leaving the aerodrome for his Paris flight Lambert incurred a penalty of $4; COFFINS TOO CHEAP, The Burial Casket Men Say Coi With Increased Cincinnati, Ohio.-The burial cas ket manufacturers and jobbers, in convention here, are dissatisfied be cause the cost of dying has not kept pace with the increased cost of living. They deprecate cut-rate funerals, and are proposing to establish uniform prices for the retail trade in coffins. "We coffin makers want the under takers to help us out more than they do," said one delegate. "We want the undertakers to make stiffer bills, and then we can get more for our goods. Why should we have to pay double what we used to pay to live and let people die cheaply? It Isn't FOREGOES CLOISTER 1 Miss Swanson Discovers Him li Seek to Procu St. Louis.-Miss Elsie Swanson, of St. Louis, renounced her aspiration to become a nun because she believed her duty was to search for her father, whom she had not seen for eleven years. She found him in the County Jail at Joplin, a few minutes after he was convicted of burglary and lar ceny and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Swanson did not recognize his daughter, but she picked him from a crowd of prisoners in the main cell 1 Kentucky State Troops Guarding the Burley Tobacco Region. Lexington. Ky.-Night riders have again become active in the Burley to bacco region. Governor Willson has ordered out State troons and they are scattered in the counties where night rider warn ings have been given. In Mason County warnings were left at tho homes of Fred Adams and Harry Allen, tjoth of whom were giv five days tn which io pool their ?ns or suffer the consequences of lr refusal. Stub Ends of News. .' celebration, Valley, closed ?d in a suit ires of Unl for E. H. not credit 'ates will 'ap??ese of thc ^gent sen Annual Job? -v. - >n by Godwin, in the Pittuburg Dispatch. ? THE AIR? ie Settled at Once is Whether an y O?er Private Property, the ery Gase, According to the ls Upward MeMtely. at the Rheims meet an aviator was Anea for reckless driving. * The military airship will necessl ,tate new provisions in international law to meet the new problems of in ternational relations which it will raise. Prance has now seven air ships, Germany eleven and Italy five In course of construction. Given a fleet of Zeppelins arriving unan nounced above a British port, will the act constitute a cause of war? If the aeroplane develops the power to carry explosives for dropping on an enemy's fleet, will the practice be permitted under the rules of war? The interesting fact in connection with the suggested regulation of air travel is that it is already made nec essary by an invention only yesterday in its Infancy which threatens a re vision of the statute books along with its revolution of traffic. In advocating arrangements for a test suit, Mr. Fox seems to believe that atter the existing legal status of an aerial trespasser has once been clearly outlined the law may be ' so modified that the air will be pro nounced a public highway. Legisla tion of that kind, however, would bo unfortunate If it were not very accur ately limited. There is a wide differ ence between navigation of the sea and navigation of the ali'. If a trans atlantic steamship is badly handled those who are on -board her may suffer, and she may injure an other craft which ls on the same level. There ls practically no chance, however, that she will hann anybody or anything directly under her, at the bottom of the ocean. She* can discard ashes, ballast or any other material without, fear of doini; mischief / If such things are dropped from atv-airship, there will always be a possibility of danger-a" danger which is enhanced by the temperamental characteristics of those who engage in aerial naviga tion for sport. Editorially the New York iTimea says: "Will the invasion of the jdr by aeroplanes be repelled by suits for trespass? "We think not. The first success ful human flight made the air a high way-a possibility not contemplated in the Roman law. Besides, there can be no effective possession of the upper air by a land owner. Where posses sion neither is nor has been, ?there should be no ownership. At any rate, this is. assumed in Germans and Switzerland, which have passed] stat utes establishing rules of the ^aerial road." MAKERS COMPLAIN si of Dying Has Not Kebt face Cost of Living. ' fair and it isn't logical. Therh are too many undertakers. They are cut ting each other's throats to get! busi ness, and, what is more to the point, they are cutting prices. Another thing, the supply of coffins is greater than the demand; that's what makes 'em so cheap. "If a man wants a decent: burial he ought to be made to pay a decent price for it. It isn't as though it was a steady drain on the family purse. Coffins are bought only occasionally, and when the occasion arises they ought to be willing to do the thing handsomely." ro FIND LOST FATHER _ i \ rt Jail as Burglar and Will Now re His Parole. room. Father and daughter wept In each others', arms. She will now try to obtain a parole for him, and as he was convicted solely on his own j ad mission of guilt it ls possible her plea for clemency will be granted. Miss Swanson, who is twenty-one years old, is the ward of the Rev, C. C. Stahlmann, who took her from the custody of her father when she was ten years old, Swanson having been declared unfit to care for her. She was educated in a convent here. Bergen Connty, N. J., Begins Work on $000,000 Improvement. Hackensack.,N. J.-Bergen County has received $37,920 from the ?uto fees paid into the State fund, and to thc Brewster Construction Company, of Hackensack, was awarded four contracts amounting to that sum for work to be done on roads much trav eled by New York autoists. The Board of Freeholders at a re cent meeting voted to establish a road system that will cost about $000,000 and insure excellent roads in tie dis trict close to New York. The Field of Sports. Frank Kramer defeated "Jack* Clarke in straight heats In their championship cycle race. . Curtis Redden, captain of the 1903 Michigan eleven, arrived at Ann Ar bor to assist "Hurry-Up" Yost in coaching. Pat Dunne has been engagedjto act as presiding judge at a meeting ?f 110 days to be h "ld at Tamp a, Fla., this winter. At West Pjint, N. Y" the polo team of Squadron A, of New York, defeat ed a picked team of army officers by a score of 8 % to 7. sai api ag? r: Wliat Poor Hoads Cost. It cost a little over a bi: li on dollars to haul the Harm crops of America to market last year. With good roads, roads such as are to be found in some parts of America and in all parts of Prance, the marketing of the crops would have cost $4 00,000,000. Six hundred million dellars per year, then, ls the price we pay in this land of the free for having Impassable roads. Did ever a nation spend so much for so doubtful a luxury be fore?. With American roads lying open and fathomless before the eyes of dur foreign critics, what mon strous injustice it is to talk of Ameri can dollar worship! Most men of middle age can recall! the annual picnic known as mending the roads. Just why it got that name no one has ever explained, for in prac tically every case th 3 picnic left the roads in worse condition than before. I The law In many States prescribed that each resident of a rural district j must pay a certain road tax in labor each year. The payment of this tax was done under the supervision of a local officer known ?is the pathmas ter. The customary time of payment was in the early summer, just before haying time, when there wasn't much else for the men and teams to do. The neighborhood turned out with horses and plows and harrows, ripped up divers sections of highway which th? year's travel had packed to a more or less navigable condition, rounded them up nicely ir the middle, scratched them smooth with the har rows. You were never expected to work very hard at these festive occa slons, and the pathmaster who in sisted on real work soon found him? self unpopular. It was just as well, for since nobody had any real notion of roadmaking, the more work the worse results. And yet the roads of America are vastly better than they jnce were, and the improvement is going cn apace. The United States Govern ment is lending a hand by setting its spare scientists to work teaching the people of different regions how to make the best roads at the least cost. The States are doing vastly more. New York in 1905 voted to spend $50,000,000 on her highways, and while no other State is Investing in roads at that rate, all are doing some thing. Cities are finding it good busi ness to improve the roads leading out. into the farming region; the farmers are beginning to tax themselves in a rational fashion for highway improve ment, and many philanthropists have passed by the conventional college and library donation to spend their surplus funds on good roads. Historic mudholes are being slcwiy filled up, stone and concrete are replacing the crazy wooden bridges, and a hundred Inventions have been made to help get the best results for tte lowest ex pense. Some of these last deserve atten tion. Macadam roads have long been accepted as the standard of highway construction. But macadam roads of the old pattern, with crushed stone eight inches thick, cost from $6000 to $10,000 per mile. Now it has been found that three or fou:- inches will do quite as well, and the cost is cut squarely in two. In some parts of the central States, where crushed stone is rare, it has been found that the v^ry clay which makes the roads almost, impassable is the oest of track making material when burned. In yet other regions the farmers have discovered how to make good roads by the simple expedient of rolling or dragging them after eaci rain, and in yet other places a mixture of sand and clay, costing $300 or $400 per mile, is found almost as good as the best macadam. It is well that the road-making ma terials are abundant and -varied. For there are roads enough in the United States to reach eighty-six times around the earth at tho equator and nearly all those roads are bad. The advocates of good highways will find ample room for their missionary enterprise for a generation to come. .^-Rocky Mountain News. One of the Beauties. One of the beauties of the good roads movement is its almost self acting geometrical progression after it has been once started intelligently. One demonstration of the advantages of Improved highways makes it much easier for many other demonstrations to be made. It looks as thou gh Louis iana is to become one of the leaders in the movement In the South.-Man? ufacturers' Record. Name Signs For Villages. The office window suggestion (writes a correspondent) that vil lages should be labeled with their names "fore and ait" is an excellent one. As ? rule, the name of a village is discoverable if you happen to see the postofflce, which is usually labeled "So-and-so postofflce," but, as often as not, the postofflce is hidden in creepers, or round a corner. In a few districts the name of the place is ?marked. If I remember rightly, for instance, some at least of the vil lages between Canterbury and Whit stable - where, as somebody re marked, "they make the oysters" have their names consciously stuck up. If local councils won't do it, surely every village has some mag nanimous inhabitant with a paint pot who would do it for mere honor and glory.-London Chronicle. Another. French Revolution. France is not only ceasing to be the most warlike, but the most ro mantic of nations. Statistic!; of in sanity in the Department of the Seine, just published, show that "shattered love" plays an ever-de creasing part in causing madness, and that drink and pecuniary reverses are the chief causes now.-Boston Her* 1 Uncle Sam grew financially fat of! of industrious inventors last year, the records showing that revenues in fees from this source were sufficient to pay $1,887,443 in expenses for run jning the United States patent office and leave a surplus of $8&,476. This startling fact is emphasized in the an nual report of Edward B. Moore, commissioner of patents. The total number of applications of all kinds, including inventions, designs, patents, trade marks, labels, prints, etc., reach ed 73,026. An epoch^in steel manufacture was marked last year when for the first time in the history of steel making . in the United States, the production ? of open hearth steel passed that* of Bessemer steel. The tonnage of both, however, was much lower than in the previous year. The United States geological survey makes this comment in its report on the production of ore, pig iron and steel of 1908. The year also marked a great depression in the iron industry. Since the middle of 1908 it has been steadily but slowly recovering. The demand for iron and steel products, the report points out, was reduced over 50 per cent as com pared with the previous year. ?. Dana Durand, directo* of the census, has forwarded a commission as supervisor of the census to Eu gene T. Long, of Hallettsville, Tex., j for the ninth district of that State. .For the purpose of affording prompt relief to the needy storm suf ferers at Key West, the army post at that place is to issue rations for a few days, the cost of which will be borne by the American National Red | Cross society. In the meantime the organization has undertaken an in vestigation on its own account and one of ita experts, J. C. Logan of . Atlanta, Ga., has been directed to proceed immediately to the scene of the disaster and report to Washing ton the extent of relief and rehabili tation necessary. Anticipating that proposed action Wednesday in Chicago of attorneys of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, convict ed of defalcation in connection with government improvement of the har bor at Savannah, Ga., to procure a further allowance of counsel fees, to be paid out of the Carter fund now in the hands of the receiver, the Su preme Court of the United States Tuesday issued an order staying pro ceedings in the United States circuit court for the northern district of Illinois so far as such an application concerned. The fund consists of money the government is attempting to obtain from Carter on the claim that it was procured through defal cation. The public health and marine hos pital service has detailed Assistant Surgeon General J. W. Kern and Passed Asistant Surgeon C. H. La viuder as its representatives at a con ference on pellagra to he held at Col umbia, S. Cy November 3 and 4. Believeing that the time has come for definite action looking to the con servation of the nation's great natur al resources, leaders in this movement from all parts of the country will gather in New Orleans on November 1, next, when the first important step towards putting the principles of con servation into practical effect will be taken. With the return of the President next month interest will be revived in the new Tariff law, particularly with rgard to the application of the new "maximum," or general tariff rates, to those countries which he may regard as possessing tariffs of a discriminatory character against pro ducers of the United States. Nicaragua, not withstanding the insurrection within her borders, is fully carrying out with the United States Government her agreement for the settlement of the claim of the George D. Emery Company in annul ment of the latter's timber concession in Nicaragua, and Monday night made the first payment of $50,000 on the $600,000. The use of the words "So help me God ! ' at the end of oaths may be Dro hibited in the courts of the District of Columbia if Congress passes a law which is now being drafted by the commissioners of the District of Col umbia. The bill under consideration is similar to one enacted by the Mary land Legislature and leaders of the bench and bar in Washington are be ing consulted as to the desirability of recommending its enactment by Congress. The reserve torpedo flotilla at the Norfolk navy yard has been disband ed. The torpedo boat Bailey, now at the Norfolk navy yard, has been or dered placed in commission for the trip to the navy yard at Charleston. On its arrival there the vessel will bo placed in reserve and assigned to the reserve torpedo flotilla at that yard. The War Department has taken steps to send the Thirty-sixth Com pany, Coast Artillery corps, at Fort Moultrie, S. C., to Fort Dupont, Del, about November 10. KS GOT< HARLINC Before insuring elsewher Old Line Companies. H?f?LlflG hi The Farmers Y?RKTOWNJELEBRATIO? "Cornwallis Is Taken," Bings Ont Again-Memories Rekindled By 5,000 People Pmding Their Way to the Secluded Spot. Yorktown, Va., Sp?bial.-Quaint old Yorktown, for the second time within the period of its national fame Tuesday commemorated with fitting; ceremonies that glorious event in American history with which its name is identified. Here was laicl one hundred and twenty-eight years ago to a day the cornerstone of liber* ty upon which a great action has been built. , "Cornwallis is taken!" Those sim ple words sent broadcast from hera this date three years more than a century and a quarter ago meant that the burdensome yoke of British rule had ^been cast off by the long? suffering American colonists and that a new republic, destined to become powerful, had been born. Yorktown today is a village of less than one hundred peop2e. It is a? though the stage setting for that final drama of the Revolutionary wac had been reserved as the actors left it, a relic of antiquity as well as a monument to American patriotism. The descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and an offspring of that organization, the> Yorktown Historical Society bf thc* United States recently decided to hold an annual celebration here this October 19 and henceforth on thia date, and probably five thousand peo ple responded ' . ?fe" ir appeal. Where the fact iorictown is still witii out r??: .Aoad communication is taker* into consideration, the attendance; was remarkable. To most people present the exer> cises were the least part of the cele* hration, although there was a parade of - mounted horsemen and horse women, led by the Fort Monroe bantt and the soldiers and sailors, than ? parade of the school children and-af terwards public speaking from a grandstand erected in front bf the historic old Nelson mansion. The parade began at 1 o'clock and was full of inspiration. '. The school* children of York county, who wera grouped before the grandstand^ then sang "America," after which Col. Oswald Tilgham of Easton, Md., a direct descendant of Lieut. Col. Tench1 Tilgham, aide-de-camp to General Washington, who carried the famous0 massage "Cornwallis is taken" to the Continental Congress La Philadel phia, made an address. He also read the correspondence between Washing ton and Lord Cornwallis and the terms bf capitulation. Preparing to Sell Whitney Poweir Property. Asheville, N. C., Special.-In tho United States circuit court; Tuesday Judge Pritchard considered, a num* ber of phases of the receivership mat ter of the Whitney Company, the $10, 000,000? power company near Salis bury, which on February 3, 1908, up? on the complaint of A. O. Brown ?: Co., of New York, was placed in thc? i hands of John S. ? Hendeison an<$ Charles W. -Smith\as receivers. In the suit of the Bankers Trusfr Company of New York against the? j Whitney and its subsidiary companies which was filed Monday to foreclose the $5,000,000 bond issue, which it holds as trustee, Judge Pritchard Tuesday named A. H. Price of Salis bury as special master to take the testimony, go over the accounts of tho receivers, and inventory the property , I of the company, preparatory to a de- j I cree of sale. He set the first Monday in December as the date for the Whit ney Company to answer the suit be fore him. The' bill alleges that de fault has been made in payment of interest on bonds due May 1, and No vember 1, 1908; and May 1, 1909, amounting to approximately $450,000. The property will probably be sold within three months._ Seven Killed in Boiler Explosion. J, El Dorado, Ark:, Special-Seven employes were killed and three other persons were severely injured when a boiler of the plant of the Griffin Saw Mill Company near El Dorado exploded late Monday. The steam register, it is said, fail ed to indicate the overpressure, the explodion, which could be heard for several miles, following, wrecking a. large section of the plant. Rebel Movement Serious. Bluefield, Nicaragua, Special-Gen eral Estrada, the rebel leader, who has proclaimed himself Provisional President of Nicaragua, returned to this city Tuesday after having estab lished outposts to the north of Rama and sent a detachment of 500 of his- . best men to meet the expected ap proach of the government forces. President Zelay's army is report* ed to be impeded bv heavy rain. To Scale Mount McKinley, Seattle, Wash., Special.-Steps aro taking to organize 'a party ' of ama teur mountain climbers' to scale Mount McKinley, Alaska, the tallest peak in North America. Asahel Cur tis, an expert climber says: "The as cent of Mount McKinley is feasible if undertaken by a properly equipp ed expedition. There must be at least five experienced men. The route of Dr. Frederick A. Cook is best, that is, by steamer to Tionek on Cook in let and then up the Sushitna river in a power boat." D SEE ? & BYRD e* We^reprcscnt the Bes* & BYRD* Bank of Edgefield