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Scraps and |acts. ? It has been settled that Miss Alice Roosevelt will go to London to witness the coronation of King Edward VII: but it is understood that she is to have no official status save simply that of a young American girl. The British people would be glad to treat her as a princess: but her father is not willing for any such violation of American traditions. ? Liverpool Daily Post: The printing of the Bible is the most strictly guarded work in existence?a fact which appears strange until we reflect on the mischief an inaccurate Bible might bring about. The King's printers and the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge, give to the world all the Bibles printed in the United Kingdom, except some printed by special license. A few years ago the question arose whether the word "spirit" in Matthew 4:1, and Mark 1:12, should have a capital "S," it having been previouslyprinted with a small one, and, although the word was obviously wrongly printed, it was not until after the ruling powers at the universities and the King's printers met in solemn council that leave was given to use the capital letter. Nothing sanctioned by authority in 1611 may be changed without creating something akin to a revolution in the places where Bibles are printed. ? Information, it is said, has been conveyed to officials of the navy department direct from the White House, that the president, after a conference with four naval officers, announced to a prominent caller that he had practically made up his mind on two important points involve^ in the appeal of Admiral W. S. Schley. It is stated that the president has been convinced that Admiral Schley was actually and technically in command of the American fleet during the battle of Santiago, and that, while he may not have exerfiaaA hi? nuthoritv to the fullest ex tent, he was in supreme command so long as the flagship New York was beyond signal distance. It is further alleged that the president will hold that the criticised acts of Admiral Schley, prior to July 1, 1898, seem to have been condoned by the navy department until after credit was given him by the public for the victory of July 3. Secretary Long and Captain Lemly are understood to have received this information with considerable surprise. ? Manila papers received by the steamship Empress of China*have particulars of the recent attack by bolomen on a company of the Ninth infantry in Samar, which resulted in the death of seven of the 18 attacked, and wounding of eight others, five seriously. The detachment from Company E was struggling through a thicket near Dapdad Pueblo when a laTge band of bolomen rushed upon them. A bloody hand to hand combat ensued. The detachment clubbed their rifles and standing back to back they swung them at the heads of the enemy. Several eventually managed to bring their rifles into play and the bolomen gradually fell away, leaving the small force of Americans with but three of them unwounded. The bolomen lost heavily. A detachment of native soldiers, attracted by the sound of the firing, hurried to the scene, but arrived too late to take part in the combat. It is believed the unexpected arrival of these reinforcements caused the bolomen to retreat, thereby saving the detachment from annihilation. ? Washir^ton Post, January 29: Senator Quay and Senator Vest are friends again. For 20 years Vest and Quay were the Damon and Pythias of the senate. They lunched together, they talked together, and once a year regularly Vest traveled with^Quay in a private car to Florida, Where the two men fished for tarpon. One day, when Quay had been seeking admission to the senate upon a governor's certificate, the question of his admission had to be voted upon. Vest, sacrificing personal friendship to conscientious conviction, voted against Quay. The decision refused to Quay the right to be seated, but the decision was reached by one majority. If Vest had voted for his friend, Quay would have at once been sworn in. From that day until yesterday the two friends were separated. Quay went to Florida alone and even the families ceased to visit each other. Yesterday, however, Quay went to Vest, who was sitting feebly in his chair, and reached out his hand. Vest took it and a moment later the two senators were chatting together as they used to do long ago. ? Realizing that she has ruined her husband, Mrs. Soffel does notv wish to bring further disgrace and humiliation upon him. She now desires a change of venue when she faces justice^ In tears and with piteous pleadings*, she made this request to Assistant District Attorney John S. Robb, Jr., of Allegheny county, in the hospital here,I today, says a Pittsburg dispatch of Wednesday. She said she would go anywhere to have the punishment meted out to her for her disgraceful crime. She is willing to meet any fate the law may place upon her, but does not want the punishment administered in the luuri uuunc avivss iuc oncci uvui uv? old home. She begged in the name of her husband, who is Mr. Robb's friend, and told him that her husband was in no way to blame for her shameful conduct. Mrs. Soffel told the attorney she was not a bad woman. She said that while she knew that she had been charged with a crime against the state, she had never sinned. She pleaded that her act was brought about through her sympathy for the Biddies and not her passion. Mr. ltobb told her he was a friend of her husband and would like to lighten the burden of his sorrow and disgrace, but could not make any definite promise to her at this time. ? Says a Washington special of Monday to the Charlotte Observer: The Amos Owen Cherry Tree company people are fighting for an early adjustment of their difficulties with a desperation that is apparently born of an ardent desire to prevent the submission of their case to the courts. Their latest move, which had for its object an immediate compromise, was made in this city this afternoon. The compromise proposition was submitted to District Attorney Holton by Senator Pritchard and K. J. Justice, attorneys for the de fendants. The most important provision of the proposition, which was submitted in writing, was to the effect that the defendants would pay over to the army of claimants all the funds the company now has on hand, about $30,000. Mr. Holton was then, according to the terms of the compromise, to go to the attorney general in company with the attorneys and acquiesce in the proposed settlement. The district attorney declfned to entertain for a moment any form of compromise, and suiting his action to his words, Holton left tonight for Shelby, where he will personally conduct the prosecution, when several of the cases are taken up for preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner. Two of the - ' muAn .ncorporators or tne concern, r*.ev. mw. Bright and his daughter, will no* be given a preliminary hearing until the llth instant, in Jackson county. One other arrest is yet to be made, and it now seems that all of the cases, about 15 in number, will certainly be taken up for trial at the June term of court in Charlotte. The maximum punishment is $500 fine and 18 months' imprisonment, and it is this punishment that the defendants' are now facing, as all attempts at compromise met with signal failures. She {(orkvillc (gitquitrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.t SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1902. Gastonia and Rock Hill are two of ,1- """O* ni-nonornna tnwna within a 11IC lllVOt |/l VU|/Vt VMW hundred miles, and neither of them permits the legal sale of whisky or receives any revenue from the traffic. The house has passed a bill requiring the publication of quarterly reports from the county board of commissioners showing amounts paid, to whom and for what. All county officials who have had experience in the matter, are satisfied that this is a measure of economy. Senator Tillman has our thanks for a copy of the latest edition of the Congressional Directory, corrected up to December 5, 1901. In it Senator John L. McLaurin is officially designated as i Democrat, notwithstanding the conspiracy on the part of some of his colleagues to brand him as a Republican. Yorkville has made more progress during the last ten years than during any previous twenty years of her history. There was a time when grogshops were the most conspicuous institutions in the town, and if a dispensary were established now, there might come a time when it would jvershadow even our cotton mills. The consolidation of the South Caroina nn<l Qeoreia Extension with the Southern ifteans the greatest good for the greatest number. It will put York. llle and other towns along the line on in equality with Rock Hill, Blacksburg, Gastonia and Chester as to freight rates. It will hurt none of these towns except in so far as it deprives them of the advantage that they now have of Yorkville. \ EDiToit^Marshall. of the Gastonia Gapzette, promises to give us two issues | week, commencing in April. He suggests also that he has the idea of a daily under consideration. We are somewhat dubious about the daily proposition, because we hardly believe that it will be supported; but we are sure that hundreds of subscribers to The Gazette will welcome a doubling of the frequency of its issues. The Tirzah dispensary made a soj of almost every drinking man who lived within a radius of three miles. This was brought about largely by the treating of patrons of the dispensary who were on the way home with their bottles. Since the removal of the dispensary, the sottishness referred to has almost entirely disappeared. Just consider the quantity of likely material a dispensary would have to work on in Yorkville. General Joseph Wheeler is investing heavily in a "kickless" gun, recently indented by a Michigan man named McLain^v^he McLain device makes use of the ghse$_emitted at discharge from the muzzle tcPpreveri't recoil at the butt. It is claimed that the velocity of the bullet Is not interfered with. Guns are to be made in all sizes from small arms to field pieces, and the great advantage from the gun is accuracy of fire. j There is a paragraph going the rounds of the press to the effect that Pat Sheedy, who is probably the most famous gambler living, recently lost $25,000 at faro in Charleston. We hardly believe that there is much founda tion for the story. It seems to be intended as a kind of an advertisement to the gamblers that Charleston is the place for them just now. But if a man like Pat Sheedy can be done out of $25,1)00, others less expert should have sense enough to stay out of the game. Senator Appelt has been making a successful effort to secure the passage of a bill to properly regulate the traffic in seed cotton throughout the state. Some of the counties have such laws; but as to whether they would hold under the new constitution is more or less doubtful. The habit of a certain class of croppers of disposing of seed cotton after dark is far too common in some localities, and the thing should be regulated. It is necessary also that there should be regulations as to the sale of corn. One of the sorest needs of this state, is a compulsory education law. It may look hard, and even undemocratic, to force people to do what they do not want to; but where a man is unwilling to give his children the benefit of a reasonable amount of education voluntarily, he should be forced to do it, especially since education is free. Our statesmen should never lose sight of the fact that they are building for the future more than for the present, and it is well for them to remember that unless education is enforced among the whites, the day will come when the blacks will control the state. We are glad to note the killing of Senator Herndon's bill providing for the letting of public advertising to the lowest bidder. To the Inexperienced the proposition appears fair enough?as fair as the letting of a bridge contract. But there is no fairness about it. It is seldom the case that the advertising value of two newspapers is exactly the same. It is rare that the advertising value of two newspapers covering the same territory is even nearly the same. Numerous elements enter into the question of value of an advertising medium. Among a given number of papers every individual has his idea not only which paper he would like to favor; but which is calculated to give the best advertising results. With a public official it is not a question of favoritism, or rather should not be; but of reaching the people interested with the information to be given lout. Take York county for instance, and it will be found that local papers I circulate in every neighborhood. In some instances the people take the papers and pay for them, and in others the papers are sent without authority. These facts have their significance in determining relative advertising value ?which paper has the best standing in a given neighborhood, etc. It is right and proper that official advertising should go to the paper that is confessedly most popular with that portion of the public that is capable of intelligent discrimination in such matters, and it is not right to ask that <mper to give its services at priced that would be acceptable to the less important, less expensive and less meritorious bidder. In killing this bill we think the senate has done an act of justice to tne newspapers and done credit to itself. Dl?pennary v*. Saloon. There has been a great deal of discussion during the past ten years as to the comparative superiority of the dispensary and the saloon from the standpoint of morality, and although most people seem to be agreed that the dispensary is the less objectionable, we are doubtful as to whether this is true. The drinking of whisky as a beverage is harmful under any circumstances. Whether taken in large or small quantities, the stuff befuddles minds, blunts moral sensibilities and degrades the drinker in the eyes of those of his associates who may be total abstainers. There is no good ground to deny this proposition. It Is recognized as an indisputable fact by all rational people, including whisky drinkers themselves, next day after a debauch. Men of laudable ambitions and high aspirations, who feel their responsibility to others along with themselves, do not drink whisky. Although they may have tippled a little in time, enough to fully realize tne evils and the. dangers, in the final struggle between gullet and paunch on the one side and duty on the other, duty" always wins out. It is true that in addition to debauching men as individuals, the open saloon furnishes a rendezvous for the mental weaklings and irresponsibles of a feather to congregate and imbue one another with all of the more vicious characteristics of each. This condition is so plain that It is runy unaersiooa ui all men, and it is not necessary to furnish affidavits in order to make the average individual agree on the pernicious effects of the system. We have been told that in the case of a dispensary, where the purchaser is not permitted to drink his whisky on the premises, he goes home to his own family, opens the bottle, takes a small drink and puts the remainder away in his sideboard for future use, and that thus has the great moral institution done away with all of the more pernicious features of the saloon. To the man or woman who does not drink whisky, and who has not personal knowledge of the inside facts, all this sounds plausible and practicable. Instead of looking upon the state liquor shop as an evil, they bring themselves to feel that it must really be a benefaction, and that any community is necessarily better off with than without such an institution. But how different the real facts. There is no question of the fact that the dispensary is a quiet, respectable place. There is seldom any disorder to be seen in one. Of itself, it bears testimony of all that its advocates claim for it. But examine into the details of its day's operations. During the 12 hours its doors are open, there will be hundreds of visitors. Follow up the sales, and in one or two cases, perhaps, it will be found that a bottle is carried home and laid away unopened. A large per cent, of it goes immediately to back lots and back rooms to be drank by two or three parties who may have bought it in partnership and who will stay together until all are drunk. Then take a look into the nights. With the dispensary develops dozens of resorts in which liquor drinking, gambling, etc., are the drawing and cohesive elements. The tigers help to bring about such conditions as have been described. There is no doubt of that. But the tiger business is illegitimate and is more or less restricted. The dispensary has the full sanction of the law, and notwithstanding protestations to the contrary, the whole aim and object of the law is to encourage the sale and consumption of whisky to the utmost limit. MERE-MENTION. The British claim to have captured DeWet's last field gun a few days ago. A strong corporation has been organized to bore for oil near Rome, Ga. Edward and John Biddle were interred side by side in a single grave at Pittsburg, Pa., last Wednesday morning Andrew Tomach broke into a saloon at Hazelton, Pa., last Wednesday night, and killed himself drinking whisky. It is thought that he poured down a gallon The peace suggestions of the Brussels government to Great Britain with reference to the termination of the Boer war, have been made public together with Great Britain's reply; out as yet there seems to be no promise of Important developments Six firemen met their death in a great fire at St. Louis last Tuesday There is an oil find excitement at Marietta. Ga., 20 miles from Atlanta. TUB GENERAL ASSEMBLY. V. ork of the House and Senate In Annnal Session. Columbia, February 6.?The house has finally disposed of the child labor bill. After a debate of two days, at times rather personal and bitter, the measure was killed by a majority of two votes. The vote was taken Wednesday on a motion to indefinitely postnnnfl Q?/1 WQQ GO fAllAWQ* yv??c ?*<U ???w UO J.UI1V II w Ayes?(Opposed to the bill)?Messrs. Ashley, All, Austin, Banks, Brown, Bryan, Butler, Campbell, Carter, Coggershall, Colcock, Dantzler, Dean, Dennis, Dodd, Dorroh, Durant, Estrldge, Fox, Fraser, Galluchat, Hollis, Humphrey, James, O. L. Johnson, Keels, Kinard, Little, Lockwood, Lomax, Lyles, Mauldin, McCall, McCowan, Moffett, Morgan, Moses, Nesbett, Nichols, W. H. Parker, Prince, Pyatt, Ramkin, C. E. Robinson, R. B. A. Robinson, Rucker, Stackhouse, Seabrook, Thompson, Wolling, Wells, Whaley, Williams, Wingo?54. Nays?Speaker Stevenson and Messrs. Bacot, Beamguard, Bivens, Blease, Bolts, Bostick, Croft, Crum, DeBruhl, Dunbar, Elder, Gaston, Gourdin, Halle, Hill, Hough, Izler, Jarnlgan, Kinsey, Lide, Logan, Mason, WcCraw, McLaughlin, McLeod, F. H. McMaster, Jno. McMaster, Mishoe, Morrison, Morse, Murchison, W. L. Parker, Patterson, Rainsford, Richards, Richardson, Robertson, Sanders, Seigler, Sinkler, M. L. Smith, Stroman, Tatum, J. F. Thomas, Jr., W. J. Thomas, Towill, Webb, West, Weston, Woods?52. Those present and not voting, being paired with absent members, were: Dominick, aye, with Eflrd, no. Hardin, no, with Wilson, aye. Woodward, aye, with Gunter, no. Kibler, aye, with W. J. Johnson, no. Spears, no, with Cooper, aye. Mr. J. B. Smith was present but not in the hall when the vote was recorded. He would have voted no. Absent and not paired?Cosgrove, del!oach, Freeman, Lofton, Stron, Theus, Vincent. ^: This ends tne talk about child labor prohibition for this session and perhaps fnr snmp vPArs tn rome. The senate has spent considerable time on the house bill to place domestic fowls under the provisions of the general stock law, and while the measure passed the upper house the senate inserted amendmentsHo which the house has refused to agree and the bill may yet die In conference. The senate nas passed Senator Ilderton's bill to regulate the reserve fund for employes established by certain railroads. The bill is Intended to perfect the existing laws covering the sudject, but It provoked not a little discussion and consumed a good deal of the senate's time. Once more the effort to establish the office of state bacteriologist has failed, a bill to that effect having met Its end in the house. The greater part* of the first three days of this weeic' lias been taken up with matters of liftle general interest, the above named measures being the principal questions jup for discussion. Tomorrow the general assembly goes to the Charleston exposition for two days, so that after tonight there will be no more legislation until Monday. RALLY FOR THE RIGHT. Here Is the Bugle Call to Those Who Love their Nelgbors. Editor Yorkville Enquirer: I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your timely, judicious and convincing editorial on the establishment of a dispensary in Yorkville. When I read the edUprial, I felt like shouting. I knew^TOur: paper would take the stand it has, when I heard of the unnecessary agitation of this question, for you have; always been consistently and conspicuously on the side or order and good morals in this great fight. But knowing that the expression of approval from a grateful public is apnreclated, I was forced to tell you what was in my mind. Your paper has exerted a wide influence for good in this fight. As you intimate, the agitation of this question is very uncalled for. We have settled this question by. tvjro decisive victories since the dispensary was introduced in the state. In fact, the question of the legal sale of whisky was settled in Yorkville long before the dispensary was ever thought of. But as you know, the forces of evil are always ready to take advantage of the least encouragement. So it becomes us always to be ready to meet these forces. Public sentiment is a strong check on these forces. The Enquirer has had a fine opportunity to give strength and character to public sentiment in the past, and it has improved its opportunity. May it long live to continue to do this in the future. Yours most cordially, W. G. Neville. Yorkville, S. C., February 6, 1902. INVITATION TO CUBA. We Will Take Her an n TerritoryThen ns a State. Representative Newlands, of the ways and means committee, who was the author of the resolution annexing Hawaii, on Wednesday, introduced a n + uoonliiHAn invltlno- ihta ronilhUr f\f jvr.ft.v IWOVIUiiVll 1*1 > HH'b Cuba to become a part of the United States, first as a territory, then as a state of the Union, to be called the state of Cuba; also authorizing a 5 per cent, reduction of duty on the present crop of Cuban sugar, in consideration of Cuba's granting preferential rates to the United States. The resolutions confine the 25 per cent, reduction of duties to the period prior to January 1, 1903. The provision as to annexation is as follows: "That in the meantime the republic of Cuba is Invited to become a part of the United States of America, and her people to become citizens of the United States with the assurance that Cuba will be entitled at first to a territorial form of government under the constitution and laws of the United States, with a delegate in congress to represent her peoDle. and that ultimate statehood will be granted when, In the judgment of the congress, it Is advisable to admit Cuba, including such other West Indian islands belonging to the United States as may be deemed advisable, as a single state In the union, to be called the state of Cuba." Mr. Newlands, in explanation of his resolution, said: "All those who have appeared lo voice Cuba's need and requirements have indicated that an invitation to 1 Cuba of annexation would be accepted. J "Annexation by force would not be justified. It must be accomplished, if at all, by the free act of the Cuban j people. At present there is no machinery in Cuba by which the popular will can be tested. B^ut the Cuban constitution has been adopted. The Cuban congress will meet in February, Cuban government will be organized, and the United States will then leave government and control to its people. Cuba then will be in a position to express her will, and It is only necessary to tide ^ over the present emergency by a tern- q porary measure, such as I have introduced, reducing the duty on Cuban sugar one-fourth for one year and in- ^ viting Cuba to become a part of the United States under a territorial form of government, under the constitution, her people to be citizens, not subjects, with the assurance that ultimately statehood will be granted." 1 CHEROKEE NOTES. All Sorts of Happen lugs of Local and General Interest. I CorresiKHidenc* of tbc Vorkville Enquirer. Etta Jane, February 5.?Last Saturday and Sunday we. had a high river and a very heavy sieet last week, "5 which was somewhat of a reminder of that of February, 1858. Yesterday, John and Terry Estes had a runaway scrape in whicn their buggy I was pretty generally torn up and the occupants thrown out, but fortunately neither of them hurt. The coldest spell of the season is now I on us, and the late sown wheat is being badly frozen out. Some of our neighbors who thought their wheat J killed early in the winter, found it coming up just before the present spell set in. Miss Annie Miller is teaching school at this place. She has 43 scholars ln(s attendance and seems to be getting along nicely with her work. Mr. Newton Burgess and Mrs. Mary Varnadone were married by J. R. 1 Poole, magistrate, at Sunnyside, last t Sabbath. r Rev. W. H. White preached at Salem ^ last Sabbath. He has been extremely fortunate as a minister in filling his appointments. During his ministerial s life of fourteen years, he hap- only fail- c ed four times to fill nis appointment, . and he has been engaged all the time at one place or another. Our people still hope soon to see the t railroad graded through this section 12 j years ago, finished up and put in working order. 1 Those prophets who are disposed to a speculate on the future, say this will be c a good crop year. Tne ground nas . been so thoroughly frozen this winter that they think it will be easily worked and more productive. "So mote it be." t His many friends and acquaintances ] in Yorkville and York county, will be pleased to note that J. B. Bell, Esq., is taking a high stand among his profes- S sional brethren at the Gaffney bar. He 1 is a York county man and sprang from f that good old Hibernian stock that has made that one of the leading counties 8 in the state, both in intelligence and property. Captain Bell is a hard stu- % dent and in his practice has generally t been successful. The Gowdeysville township commit- r tee, of this county, has completed the rolls of the soldiers sent from this section to the war between the states. A few names may yet be behind; but they are very few, if any. I Those intending to visit Dallas, Tex- r as, on the occasion of the Confederate reunion in April next, will do well to c write to John F. Worley, chairman of r the Committee of Information of the j Texas Reunion association, and have his committees secure places to board while in the city. Name the number to a be in your party for whom you want I accommodations secur.ed, and the price j you are willing to pay per day, and the committee will make all the arange- 1 ments for you and notify you. You t need not think you can do this upon your arrival in the city at the beginning of the reunion exercises, for the thousands and tens of thousands that c will crowd the city at that time will I make it Impossible to do so. j. l. s. t li SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. c President's Day. a Washington special of Wednesday to t the Charleston News and Courier: ^ President Roosevelt and the members >] of the cabinet who are to accompany \ him to Charleston next week, are mak- t lng active preparations for the journey. It was definitely decided today that four and perhaps five members of the cabinet will go, although there is still some uncertainty about Postmaster General Payne. The president has had several confidential talks with Senators Tillman and McLaurin within the past two or three days, and as those senators have been very reticent concerning their visits to the president, the inference is that he has been seeking suggestions concerning his visit to Charleston. The president and all the 4 members of the party are talking very, enthusiastically about the trip, and t they anticipate having a good time. The itinerary of the trip has been ar- C ranged. The Journey will occupy four n days. The special train bearing the presidential party, consisting of Mr. h and Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt, a Miss Carew, Attorney General Knox, Postmaster General Payne, Secretary C Hitchcock and Secretary Wilson, to- i' gether with member of their families, R and Secretary Cortelyou, will leave on Monday for the south, arriving Tues- a day evening, February 11, at the Pine 11 Forest Inn, at Summerville, S. C., ^ near Charleston. The party will be 1 the guests for the night of the Pine f Forest Inn, which is owned by Captain n F. W. Wagener, the president of the- ? exposition. The party will go to "S Charleston on the following day, Feb- v ruary 12, Lincoln's birthday, when the Is president will be the central figure in C the exercises at the exposition grounds a and the guest of honor at a banquet at p Lilt; isiianeaLUii nuttri 111 kite cvkiaug' *? During the time of the banquet Mrs. o Roosevelt will hold a reception for the tl lady managers of the exposition and Si other ladles of Charleston. The invlta- f? tlon list Is limited to 500. The party . will spend the night at the St. John ho- ' tel. Departure for Washington will be made on Thursday, February 13, and tl the party will arrive here sometime on ^ Friday. The management of the Southern road has placed a splendid special train at the disposal of the al president and his party. rr Fur the Benefit of the Veterans. T The following paragraph is from b: Columbia State: Following is the text di of the bill which exempts ex-Confeder- hj ates from municipal licenses, there being such an act relating, to the country sc districts: Section 1. That any person ni who was a bona fide soldier or sailor tc in the service of the Confederate states d) In the war between the states, may expose for sale or sell, as nawker or ped- hi dler, any goods, wares or merchandise bl in any county or town in this state, without taking out the license required . by chapter XLIII, volume 1, revised statutes, 1893, of South Carolina: Pro- P< vided, He make to the clerk of the re court of common pleas of the county jj, in which such goods are to be sold, satisfactory proof that he was such soldier ra or sailor. th LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 'he Enquirer?Prints a chapter on commercial printing, and invites you to give it your next order for commercial work. V. McG. Bailey, Olive, S. C., J. W. Alexander, Yorkville; T. N. Dulin, Bethel; Geo. W. Knox, Clover; J. K. Allison, Hickory Grove; R. Banks Black, Lominack; and W. Henry Crook, Fort Mill?Call on parties who have subscribed for The Enquirer for 1902, on their clubs, to please pay up. V. J. Jones?Wants a white cropper to take charge of a 20 acre farm. >. E. Grist, Agent?Invites your attention to a number of newspapers and magazines and calls especial attention to The Delineator. l. r. mc^uiuicu, oupci viaui ul ivcb?otratlon for the town of Yorkville? Gives notice that the registration books for municipal registration are open in the office of the sheriff. P. Lowrance & Co.?Hello at you, and tell you what goods they have received this week. 'hos. W. Speck. Jeweler?Tells you that your watch is of no practical value if it does not keep correct time, and offers his services to put it in proper running condition. . W. Johnson, Grocer?Calls your attention to ingredients for soups, and says he has articles of the best qualities. He has a good line of tobaccos and cigars. forkville Buggy Co.?Has several interesting things to say about the Weber wagons and among others says it is the easiest running wagon made, llddle & Carroll?Want you to know that they have the winning hand if quality and prices make a difference with you when you buy groceries. I. C. Strauss & Co.?Invite you to ex/ amine their stock of hats for men, in all the latest styles, r. B. Williams?Talks about his stock of flour, and says dour is a specialty with him. He has fresh cream cheese and magic yeast. NKJ^IE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. /The county board of commissioners leld its regular monthly meeting in he office of the supervisor last Wedlesday and considered such business as vas pending. A number of accounts were audited ind variously disposed of, some being irdered paid and others laid over for urther information. The petition of Dr. J. B. Johnson ind others for the opening of a road to )egin at Mrs. Kidd's and to intersect vith the Saluda road by way of Ogden, vas laid over for the reason that none if the people directly interested were jresent to give information. A petition was granted for the exension of the road that leaves the -andsford road at Mr. T. L. Carroll's, in by the Lowry place, to John L. Starr's, and Messrs. John L. Starr, W. V. Miller and N. H. Wyatt were apjointed a commission to open up the lame. Various other matters of business vere attended to during the day; but he foregoing includes all that was of eal public interest. THE "ICE" OP 1858. Several references are made in The Inquirer today as to the time of the nost notable sleet storm which has ccurred in this section within the nemory of the "oldest inhabitant." teferring to the files of The Enquirer, ve find that it began to snow and leet on Thursday night, the 11th of February, 1858, and continued until the ollowlng Saturday morning. In The Inquirer of March 18, 1858, we find he following in regard to the storm: "The best idea to be gotten of the severity of the storm of the 11th to 13th if February, was obtained from Mr. tobert Calrnes, of the Blairsville secion. While putting things to rights, ie weighed the branches of a number tf tree while encumbered with the Ice, md also ascertained the weight of the (ranches after the Ice had melted. Che following table exhibits the result. Che first line of figures shows the veight of the branch with the ice, and he second of the branch alone: Peach 55 10 Plum 145 14 Lilac 95 11 / Pine 50 51 Elm 18 3 Cedar 90 8 Wild Cherry 25 11 Thorn 58 7 Spanish Oak 70 5 Persimmon 45 15 Pear 170 51 Apple 182 60 yASOUT PEOPLE. (^)ss ^Lee Williams is visiting relaives in Gastonia, N. C. ^iss Maggie Moore returned home in Tuesday night from Washington^ Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Strauss left lo? Charleston on ^hursday, and will renain there for a week. Mr. Hampton P. Stowe, of Bethel, las been added to the dry goods force .t J. M. Heath & Co.'s. (dtalss Adda Moore, of Morganton, N. Cr. daughter of Mr. T. P. Moore, is visting the family of her uncle, Mr. B. N. loore, in Yorkville. Mr. N. M. McAllister, business man-, ger of the Presbyterian Standard, pubIshed in Charlotte, was in Yorkville Vednesday in the interest of his paper, 'he Standard is rapidly forging to the ront as the leading journalistic expoen t of Southern Presbyterlanism. -Mt. O. J. Gwinn, of Olive, was in Jorkville Wednesday. Mr. Gwinn was ery much pleased to learn that there } no prospect of the passage of th<F lonfederate home bill. He thinks It Is 11 right and proper for the state to rovide for helpless soldiers; but would ather the help be given to them In their wn homes. "We do not need such tiings as soldiers' homes in the south," aid Mr. Gwlnn. "There may be a jw old soldiers .who have no one to ake care of them; but they are very jw. Down here it Is not like it is In* le north. The Yankee army, you now, had thousands of foreigners in ;. They included honest emigrants nd criminal riff-raff. After the war lany of the honest emigrants took leir pensions back to their old hornet, he criminal rHT-.raff was afraid to go ack, and is to be found in the sollers' homes of the north. We may ave a few soldiers who would go to a >ldiers' home If established; but I do Dt think the number is great enough > warrant the establishment of a solier's home. I think the legislature is andling the subject with commendae wisdom." News and Courier, Thursday: Mr. A. . Gilbert, a leading young lawyer and )litician of Chicago, is in the city, gistered at the St. John hotel. He is jre for the purpose of making aringements for the visit to this city of le Hamilton club, a prominent Re publican organization of the Windy City. The Chicagoans will be here on Illinois Day several thousand strong. It is expected that about 300 of the number will be sent by the Hamilton club. Mr. Gilbert is a South Carolinian by birth, he having been born and reared at Sumter. He graduated from Yale college in 1890 and took up the practice of law at Chicago with his brother, Mr. J. T. Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert stated last night that although he had cast his lot with the Republican party he had not forgotten his old home state. Tne rormer soum uarouman has worked faithfully in behalf of the exposition, using his influence with the state legislature for the Illinois appropriation. "I am very glad that I was selected for this trip," said Mr. Gilbert last night to a reporter. "When I go back to Chicago now I cannot conscientiously do anything but sing the praises of this fair, and advise all my fellow members to come down and see it for themselves. I am now prepared to give anybody the lie who has uncomplimentary reTnarks to make about Charleston's exposition. The enterprise and push displayed by the promoters of the undertaking reflect credit upon everybody concerned. The Hamilton club will be well represented on Illinois Day and all the politicians are anticipating a royal time." TWO-CENTS PORK. , r Although there are a great many people in tnls .country who are unwilling to credit the assertion that pork can be raised at iwo cents a pound, Mr. C. H. Smith, who lives Ave miles southwest of Yorkville, asserts that there is no question of the fact, because he has recently made a successful demonstration. "I have slaughtered seven hogs during the past few months," said Mr. ? Smith, on Wednesday, "that netted an aggregate of 1,640 pounds, and all the actual expense that-I have been out for them has been just $24. This is the cost of all the salable food I have given them?20 bushels of wheat and 400 pounds of wheat bran. If you .will make the calculation, you will find that the total expense has been a little ess than 1} cents a pound for the meat, and according to the ruling market price?8 cents a pound?its aggregate is (131.20, leaving a net profit of $107.20." Asked for the history of his experience, Mr. Smith said that the pigs came in September, 1900. They ran with the sows until they were weaned, lfter which they made their living, in the corn field and pea stubble and woods until the next spring, when they were put in a pasture and kept there until a few weeks ago, when they were put up and fed on a slop made of wheat ground in a corn mill and wheat bran. All of the pigs were in fairly good condition when penned, and three of them were kept but a short time until they were killed. They netted an average of 200 pounds each. The other four were kept longer with a view to making them produce more lard, and when killed they averaged 260 pounds each. According to Mr. Smith's idea, pigs that come in May should be allowed to run in the crops tmtil the-next fall, being kept off the cabbage, potatoes, pinders and such like, and if there is a ? pasture that will furnish an abundance of acorns, the pigs will be able to make their living through the winter without much assistance in the way of commercial food. He says that he once tried the plan of making meat out of eight and ten months pigs; but one experience has been enough. -It is cheaper to let a pig make its o^rn. way mostly until it is about a year old, and then with the use of wheat slop, fat can be put on at but little cost. THIlf THE TOWH. ? Treasurer Neely isued about 26 tax receipts last Monday, y ? The cotton mills are running on full ' time now. and are making a fairly satisfactory profit. ? The past week has witnessed an ' Xfnusual rush of cotton to market, some large lots having been sold at 8 cents. ' ? The auditor has completed his round of the county and will take returns in his office in Yorkville until February 20. ? A few mules are being sold from day to day, the demand being rather heavier than was generally supposed a ,month or two back. '? ? Barlow & Wilson's minstrels played to a fairly good audience in the opera house last Tuesday night. They gave a good entertainment ? Dr. H. L. Smith, president of Davidson college, is to deliver an address in the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning on the subject of "Christian Education." At night he will deliver a special address to the young people. \ ' There was an attempt to burglarise trie store of Beard & Carroll last Tuesday night, by boring from underneath with an auger. When the store was opened Wednesday morning, it developed that the thieves had bored into a sack of oats and had evidently been frightened away by the falling of another sack from the pile. ? On one Sunday, within the past wo years, the police found it necessary * to summon the posse comitatus to suppress a drunken row in which there was a near approach to bloodshed. With a dispensary to furnish any quantity of whisky for Sunday consumption, such scenes as were threatened I ? *1 * HAAnnlAn -rill V-1 n ffra/niantlv | will Liittt uutaoivu mu uc i.ic\|uvum/ realized. L A Mr. James Duncan died at the home yit Mr. M. L. Murray, last Tuesday afternoon, having survived his brother Charlie Just five days. The two brothers were taken down with pneumonia at about the same time. It was recognized from the first that their condition was serious. Their mo'tner came iown from Rutherford, N. C., to nurse them, but wore herself out and was taken back home sick. Notwithstanding the best of attention, Mr. Charlie Duncan died on Thursday of last week, and his brother, as stated, breathed his last on Tuesday. Messrs. J. J. Keler & Co., had both bodies embalmed and forwarded to their former home. ? Pursuant to duly advertised notice, the York Drug Store stock and fixtures, belonging to the bankrupt estate of Dr. J. L. Hanahan, were sold before the store building yesterday, shortly after noon, by Thos. F. McDow, trustee. There were only two bidders?