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Straps and Jracts. ? Birmingham, Ala., is making extensive arrangements for the annual convention of the Southern Cotton association which meets next Thursday. The executive committee will hold a meeting tomorrow. The city is being profusely decorated and every effort will be made for a big blow-out during the sitting of the convention. The committee in charge are looking for 5,000 or 6.000 people. ? The American importations of cotton goods into China suffered a heavy falling off during the year just closed, according to the statement by the department of commerce and labor. It is claimed that China bought more of these goods than she could consume a year qgu. It is shown that China purchased about J14.000.000 worth less cotton goods for the eleven months ending November last than during thel ?* J ?m 1 ft'4" tho I corresponding penou 01 iwo. * first nine months of the past year the Amerlcah exportations of sheeting Into China were 4.705,744 pieces; drills 1,080,235 pieces; Jeans, 212,380 pieces; shirtings, 239,145 pieces. ? After tw;o hoars' debate last Friday, the senate passed Senator McCumber's service pension bill without diversion, after amending it, at Senator CMrmack's instance, so ns to make it apply to survivors of the Mexican war as well as to those of the civil war, and so as to prohibit pension attorneys from receiving fees. In the bill "war of the rebellion" was changed to "civil war" after some discussion as to what the war of "61 and '64 really was. Messrs. Money, Bacon and Pat terson contended that It was a "war between the states," while Mr. Teller said It was either a civil war or a rebellion, and he saw no opprobrium in the word "rebel." The bill grants a pension of 612 a month to survivors of the civil and Mexican ware who have reached the age of 62; 615 to those who are 70 years of age, and 620 to those who are 75 or over. ? The dead shah of Persia, says the Nashville American, was not only one of the richest monarchs, but was reputed to be the most learned of them all. While heir to the throne he studied in seclusion thirty years. Besides a fortune of over 6200,000,000 in money his father left him the most dazzling collection of jewels in the world, said to be worth 620,000,000. The peacock throne, made of jewels, is appraised at 112,000,000. In order to be close to his treasure the shah had his private apartment just above the vaults. His iirat act on ascending the throne was to abolish all taxes on meat and bread. This largely increased ^his popularity and largely reduced the revenue. Although a devoted observer of the teachings of the Koran he did not take advantage of the permission of the prophet nor yield to the temptation of his position and take more iha<? one wife. He had only one, and was the father of six sons and eleven daughters. He was a flrst-class ritle - shot, a bold hunter, a line rider, a g??>d soldier, and a handsome man. ? Says a Savannah, Ga., special of January 10: Mrs. B. Leslie Ruturean, a society woman, is at a hospital suffering from a bullet wound in her side, which the doctors think will prove fa~ o"" himhoiiH lu huinir held iui, auu i it i iiuovh?v* Vv...a without bail to await the result of her injuries. Both husband and wife stated at first that the wound was accidental, but when told that her life was in danger, she confessed that she was shot during a quarrel with her husband, and while both were struggling for possession of the pistol. Mrs. Ruturean said she chided her husband for staying out late. He retorted bitterly, and then she struck him several blows with a riding whip. Ruturean, according to his wife, snatched the whip and lashed her severely across the bosom and shoulders. She then got a pistol and tried to shoot her husband, but he seized her and struggled to take the pistol. Just as he got the pistol away from her It was discharged and she fell. She will not say, however, that her husband deliberately shot her. The Rutureans are connected with Savannah's old families, and have been prominent socially. Mrs. Ruturean is one of the handsomest women in Savannah. ? Says a Washington special of Sunday to the News and Courier: The report of the census bureau on the amount of cotton of the crop of 1906 that had been "Inned up to January 1, throws a great deal of doubt on the accuracy of the estimate of the department of agriculture that the total yield for the year would be 12,546.000 l?ales. It will be recalled that up to the publication of this estimate early in December the general commercial estimate was that the yield would he about 12.000.000 bales. The government figures being about half a million bales larger, caused an immediate decline in the price of cotton in every market throughout the world. Now comes the census report, and shows that the amount ginned to January 1 was but 11.759.044 bales. In other words, if the estimate of the agricultural department was accurate there still remained to be ginned on January 1 not less rhan 786.056 bales of cotton. In the opinion of the best judges the amount unginned on January 1 was far below this figure, and the result was a substantial increase in prices. In the meantime, however, the market had been depressed for a month by the figures of the agricultural department, and every bale of cotton sold by a southern planter during that time was at an absolute loss, chargeable directly to this governmental interference in business. ? President Roosevelt on yesterday sent to congress a special message regarding the Brownsville incident, which gives the additional evidence collected by Assistant Attorney General Purdy and Major Blocksom. who were sent to Texas by the president to Investigate the affair. The president submitted with his message various exmuits. inciuuing maps 01 oruwmville and Fort Brown, a bandoleer, thirty-three empty shells, seven ball cartridges. picked up in the streets a few hours after the shooting; three steel jacketed bullets and some scraps of the casings of other bullets picked out of the houses into which they had been fired. The president declares that the evidence is positive that the outrage of August 13 was committed by some of the colored troops that have been dismissed and that some of all of the individuals of the three companies of the 2f?th infantry had knowledge of the deed and have shielded the guilty ones. The negro troops are referred to by the president in his message as "midnight assassins" and he declares that very few if any of the soldiers dismissed "without honor" could have been ignorant of what occurred. That part of the order which bars the soldiers fron: all civil employment under the government. Is revoked by the k president. This clause the president i says, was lacking In validity. The s discharge troops, however, will be c forever barred from enlisting in the l< army or navy and as to this the pres- \ Ident says that "there is no doubt of my constitutional and legal power." Secretary Taft's report giving the s sworn testimony of witnesses, is c transmitted with the message. The r a ??* 4 a >?* rloon tiVuU'ltnP??PS i.S irMIIIiUll* I'l twui vvv.> <iven and the president declares that the evidence is conclusive that the 1 weapons were Springfield rifles now t used by the 1'nited States troops. In- j eluding the negro troops who were in the garrison at Brownsville. 1 (Thr ^Jorhi'illr (Snquitcv. ? : I YORKVILLE. S. C.: d TUESDAY, JANUARY 15.1907. 1 Governor Ansel was Inaugurated { today at noon. t A majority of the Democrats of the v house are said to be seeking the over- f throw of John Sharpe Williams as v minority leader. The place was onerea r to Champe Clarke of Missouri, with t assurance that he would be elected, ii but he declined on the ground of per- j sonal friendship for Mr. Williams. There Is undoubtedly a lot of hostility (( as against Mr. Williams, and his de- (] feat is only a question of finding some u man upon whom his opponents can t agree. r Several years ago the New York t legislature passed what is known as I the "Raines law," the purpose of which t was to restrict the opening and clos- v ing hours of barrooms on week days ii and prohibiting Sunday openings at a all except to bars run In connection with dining rooms and hotels. Un- t der the law no bar could serve liquors t to a customer except with a "meal" o and the customer must be a guest of d the hotel. Immediately after a pas- a sage of the law thousands of "hotels" v known as "Raines law hotels" were b opened throughout the state and the e bars did a rushing business on Sun- r days and after closing hours of places 1 having no "hotels" and restaurants in i connection with them. Many of the J 'hotel" keepers had the law down to i a fine point. Within the hours during t which the law forbade the sale of 11- s nuors exceut with "meals" all drinks s were served in the dining rooms and r on tubies. In some places the custom- e er would find a plate of sandwiches t which from appearances one would judge had been on the table for weeks ? without being removed: But as the i law was complied with in that there c was a meal," nothing could be done, v In some cheap joints, the sandwich f was simply nailed to the table in or- la der to comply with the letter of the t law. Now, the courts have ruled that t a hotel can only serve drinks with a * bona fide meal, prepared and served in 1 good faith. This decision will put an r end to the famous "Raines law sand- g wich." i Compulsory Education. 1 Notwithstanding how much has x been said on the subject and how little done, there Is no doubt about the 8 fact that a compulsory education law v is one of the things most needed by A the people of South Carolina. 1 There are those who argue that the 1 compulsory education is "not demo- c cratic," and that we do not propose to c discuss, for whether it is democratic v or not. It is right. 1 If we undertake to argue that it is c wrong to make parents send their c children to school, whether parents * desire to do so or not, we will find our- * selves up against the proposition that 1 it is wrong for parents to make children go to school against the will of * the children. ^ The average illiterate is opposed to a education of any kind. Unable to v realize his own misfortune he sees no necessity of trying to improve the condition of his children. He considers his children only in connection with their value to him, and thinks nothing of their future usefulness to themselves or of society. There are exceptions to this rule, however, for there are .many unfortunate men and women who though deprived of edu-' eational opportunities have developed intelligence that enables them to fully realize the benefits that are to be derived by their children. The strength of the opposition to compulsory education lies in the fact that ignorant fathers have votes and that those votes are more easily influenced in behalf of that which is bad than in behalf of that which is uplifting. There will be talk about compulsory education in the general assembly now sitting, but no compulsory education law will be passed. If it is we shall be very much surprised. Tillman and Roosevelt. We have all along been more or less puzzled as to how senator Tillman would be able to antagonize President Roosevelt in the Brownsville matter without stultifying his whole record as to the negro, and now that he has made his speech we are about as much mixed on the question as before. That President Roosevelt has a rather nauseous record on the negro question we fully agree. We have said as much before. Had it not been for j his making too much of the negro in ( various ways, it is quite probable that | the Brownsville incident would not ' have occurred. But still we are unable 1 to see that these conclusions have any , bearing upon the justice or propriety ? of this particular act. I While it is true that 167 men have ' been punished for an offense in which | there were only sixteen known active I participants, the order is probably not j as unjust as it seems. It is an established principle of law that it is better i for guilty men to escape than that t innocent men should suffer. We sub- ) scribe to this. But the distinguished '] southern officer, well acquainted with ( the negro character, who made a thorough investigation of the matter and , upon whose recommendation the president's order was based, was satisfied 1 that practically every one of the 167 j men involved had a guilty knowledge t of the whole affair. Ic is the right that all honest men are supposed to be seeking in this , world, and if in this matter the presi- | dent is right, he should be upheld no ? matter how wrong he may have been in other things. f in view of his record and his well 1 ;no\rn characteristics, Senator Till- J nan's attitude seems to smack of the uggestion that he is after the presilent not because he loves the negro ^ ess but because he hates Mr. Rooseelt more. If he really thinks he is F ight, he should go ahead; but as we ee it, his complete success, the dlsom fit lire of the president in this \ natter will only result in the opposite if what he professes to be driving at, .j he defeat of the president means vicory for the negro soldiers and incilentally a certain measure of triumph j or the entire negro race. In other lords it Is quite possible that the sen itor may complete as tne resuu or mo ^ Jrownsville affair, the work that the resident started as the result of the looker Washington affair. This, it seems to us. is one place * here Senator Tillman could have fforded to remain silent. ' T State Fertilizer Factory. While we have no reason to doubt S he motives of Senator Earle of Ocolee. in introducing a bill providing for ^ he establishment of a fertilizer facory to be owned by the state and perated with convict labor, we are ^ ery doubtful as to the wisdom of the ?ro position. Mr. Earle has the idea no doubt that V he establishment of a state operated actory would result in the sale of ferilizers to the farmers of the state at .ctual cost, and 'that the farmers rould therefore be very greatly beneited. If we believed that the result rould be anything like this, we would ( lave no objection to the proposition; ut Mr. Eatie's theory is one which, n our opinion will full to work out in ^ ructlce. South Carolina has already had luite an exjierlence in trying to conluct the liquor business. Among the uany promises to that held out o the people in support of the state nonopoly of liquor business the two ^ nost Important were, that In the first c lace the state would be in a better osition to promote temperance and () hat in the second place those who ould drink would be able to get noth -? 1 onU n t rig uui aumuuici> puic n\|uvi mhv. t*. ctual cost. c How near the realization has come a o fulfilling the promise most people in he state are well aware. Nine people >ut of ten understand that the whole ^ lispetisary theory has been a complete ^ nd utter failure as to everything that ^ las claimed for it. Intemperance has een encouraged rather than promot- ^ d, liquors of all kinds have become ^ nore adulterated than even under sa- o oon management and the price has n ncreased two. three and four-fold. a UkI this is not all. In spite of this sitlation the hold of the dispensary on he -state has grown stronger and tronger, and the sole source of that ^ trength is traceable directly or indiectly to the people who are getting Ither honest or dishonest profit from he monopoly. Now, as we see it. if the state should ;o into the manufacture of fertilizers, c t would have first to organize a ompetent manufacturing force that rould call for high priced men to su- *' tervise the convicts. Next there must a ie a first-class business force, headed " ?y men of large executive ability and hese must provide an extended and v xtensive sales and distribution force. s These men. if politicians only, would lot be able to produce and sell the >( foods in competition with business lien, and if business men they would lemand and receive more pay than hey would expect from private Individual or corporation employers. As it developed that the quality of d roods and service offered by the state V vere inferior to those offered by private corporations there would be a 1 endency on the part of the politicians a o restrict ' and hamper the private h :orporations and the price paid for the iutput of the state establishment ' vould increase. Complaints against ? he quality of goods or character of ^ lelivery, service, terms, etc., would be d ilassed us political clap trap, and the a surdens of the farmers who would have o pay, the bills, would be increased uther than lightened. No, as we see it, South Carolina has C lad enough of state monopoly of pri- t ate business. It looks as if the grip ii ind grasp of the horde of parasites f vho are sucking the physical and 1 noral life blood of our people through e he state dispensary will last forever, ind if our people are wise they will f lot put themselves In a position to o tecome prey to still another horde a >f such parasites that will prove every C ?it as bad. o - * * ? t CLOVER CULLINGS. s Stricken With Appendicitis?New Mill 1 Building Complete?Other Notes. e TorresiiomJence of the Vorkville Knyuirer. CLfOVKR, Jan. 15.?Edward Brlson ion of Mr. W. I. Brison of this place, vas taken to Charlotte yesterday af- c ernoon in charge of Dr. I. J. Camp?ell, to be operated on for appendiciis. The attack started on last Fri- * lay, but its nature was not fully appreciated until yesterday. Young Bri- s ion, who is 1C or 17 years of age, and s. by reason of his fine character and ndustrious habits highly esteemed byhe community, and of course, all ii sympathize with him and his parents, q mothers and sisters by reason of his terious condition and sincerely hope 'or a speedy recovery. Ii It was the original intention of a Japtain Smith to increase the capacty of only two of the four buildings lomposing his block, by adding two I' stories to each to be used as an opera v louse and Masonic hall, but he has ecently decided to add an additional story to each of the other buildings 8 lust as soon as the necessary brick can t le secured. The addition over the a lank will be occupied as offices by the Clover Cotton Manufacturing compaly, while the one over the Clover a onmnanv will lifiofl fl.C nffipefi. ? Hie three story part is about ready for , he roof. The new mill building of the Clover Cotton Manufacturing company Is h practically completed. Workmen are t low engaged in putting up the shaft- a ng. and three car loads of machinery lave arrived anil its installation will " pe commenced as soon as the workmen epresenting the manufacturers arrive, |, Messrs. H. L. Wright. M. L. Smith ind Ross Clinton left for Catawba rlv*r ,-est? rday afternoon on a fishing ex- edition and are expected back this K ifternoon or tomorrow. . Mr. S. J. Clinton and his highly esteemed family have removed from their old home near Bethel to Clover ind are occunying their house on King's Mountain street. Mr. J. A. Page and family, who for- r inerly occupied the Clinton residence \ tie now living in a cottage owned by |. "apt. Smith on King's Mountain street . ?nd will remain there until their new pome now being built is ready for oc- v upancy. Mr. J. Beamguard left last night ^ 'or Columbia where lie goes on buslpess. a Dr. Pressly reports tliat Mr. Howard ft Riddle. who is sick with pneumonia v it the home of Mrs. J. L. McGill. at Bethany. is getting along as satisfaeorilv as could he expected. I1 ? li ? Arthur V. Green, a young white ^ nan of Laurens was shot to death ear- t' y Sunday morning by Joseph R. Kant, f> lr? a son of Stale Constable Kant. I'he two young men had hud a diffl- ^ ulty the night before and it is clalm>d tiiat Greene was seeking to kill "ant. r LOCAL AKFAXSISNEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A !. T. KadcJlffe?Wants fifty turkeys next Friday morning. Jan. 18th. n >. Brooks Parish, Executor?Gives no- ., tice to debtors and creditors of estate of J. Leander Parish, deceased, 11 to make esttlement at once. t 'orkvllle Hardware Co.?Publish a a letter directed to you. in which it tells abouts its plans for 1907. 'homson Co.?Reminds you that the v big anniversary sale will continue .. all of this week and calls attention ( to special articles. . Q. Wray, The Leader?Announces Xew York Cost sale of dry goods n and clothing to begin next Friday I and continue until February 2nd. j V. W. Lewis, Trustee?Makes a fur- , ther announcement in regard to the sale of the Foushee bankrupt stock, which is to continue sixteen days. c f. W. White?Inquires if your invest- j ments are worth to you what they would bring if you offered them for c sale on the market. I 'ork Supply Co.?Tells farmers about a Its facilities for supplying them with all kinds of farm supplies, tar Drug Store?Gives users of to- 2 bacco an opportunity to buy the t weed at wholesale prices. ^ 'ork Drug Store?Invites you to get its prices on paints, oils, etc., before a you buy your next bill of paints. n '. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Is prepar- a ed to furnish you with anything de- t sired in Imported and domestic 'rhinn ernokerv and elassware. v Vlthers Adickes Co.?Continues busl- o ness and don't want you to buy Its , goods to your loss. Wants you to . pay your accounts. n h The fertilizer dealers have comtenced making deliveries. Representative A. G. Brice of Cheser has Introduced n bill to regulate he sale of cocaine. In our reference last Friday to the t eul Involving the control of the maorlty of the stock of the York Cotton ^ till, there occurred the statement that 50 shares had changed hands. The ^ gures should have read 750 shares. News comes from Washington to he effect that Congressman Finley has t een ofTered a place on the Judiciary ommlttee of the house; but to accept he place will necessitate the giving up f his place on the committee on postfflces and post roads and this he has ^ ot decided to do, notwithstanding f he fact that the place on the judiciary c ommlttee would be in the nature of s distinct promotion. It is beautiful weather we are havs ig all right, but rather unseasonable. . 'here are lots of |>eople who have not ' een able to kill their hogs yet for fear P hat the weather would not be cold c nough to saye the meat. Many of he fruit trees are blooming, and the ^ old snap which seems Inevitable later n will no doubt put them out of busiess. Violets have made their appearnce In abundance, and taken alto- 8 tVi*. n'aathup nrmriltinnn are I uggestlve of April or May. We beg leave to remark that the 0 iscontlnuance of the Southern's No. 7 has made a very material difference v i the dispatch of mails to this place, setters that were formerly received ' ere hearing: a New York post mark f a day previous to their receipt now ' ary postmarks two and three ays old. The Charlotte afternoon 's apers which formerly arrived on the fternoon of publication now come "H ext day and the weather predictions a on't get in until after the weather to rhich they refer has changed Into omethlng else. Yes, there Is no doubt a bout it, No. 97 was a great conven- r snce, and it was well worth the little c subsidy" which the government has 1 een paying for it. ?' t THE YORK DELEGATION. I Following is the record of the York olegatiun as culled from the dally paers and other sources. Senate Brice introduced the bill for 8 he Calhoun monument in the senate nd Dr. Saye introduced it In the ouse. By a vote of 79 to 40 the house re- * used to pass Mr. Blease's senate resolution endorsing the action of the { irpsiaent in discharging the negro sol- c iers. All of the York members voted 1 gainst the resolution. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Winnie Davis Chapter U. D. ;. extends an invitation to the public o participate in exercises to be held n the graded school next Saturday rom 12 to 1 o'clock, in honor of the 00th anniversary of the birth of Robrt E. Lee. ? Mr. S. M. McNeel has purchased rom the administrators of the estate ( f the late R. M. Allison what is known a the Allison property, fronting on !ongress and West Liberty streets and ( ccupied by the First National bank, he store of W. Adickes, and the in- s urance office of J. R. Lindsay. The t ontract was entered into last Frida \ veiling. u ABOUT PEOPLE. r Mr. W. B. deLoach came up fropi f 'amden last Saturday on business. Mr. J. D. Owinn of Clover, was in N rorkville last Saturday on business. ? Mr. T. Baxter McClain of Camden, t pent several days in Yorkville last c reek. N Mrs. John M. Melver of Gulf, N. C., , s the guest of Rev, and Mrs. E. E. iillesple. Mr. Frank G. Dobson left for Co- ^ umbia last week to take a posiuun iu n Insurance office. * Mr. Sam L. Latimer left for Coumbia this morning to take a position rith Mimnaugh &. Co., as salesman. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Smith and e on. Master Strauss, are visiting rela- * ives and friends at King's Creek for few days. v Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Shilllnglaw t nd children of Smyrna No. 1, spent * Sunday in Yorkville with Mrs. G. C. * )rmand. ' Mr. James B. Kennedy of Yorkville 11 las been honored with one of the fif- t een baccalureate scholarships annu- * Ily awarded by the Johns Hopkins t mard of university studies. v Rev. Oliver Johnson has accepted an ' nvitation to preach in the Associate t teformed church of Chester next I Sunday and the Neely's Creek con- I legation is just a little restless over v he matter. i THE WILLIAMSON METHOD. ( Mr. \V. S. Wilkerson of Hickory u rove made an experiment with the \, Villiamson method of corn culture v ist year and he is now and hereafter > o be considered an enthusiastic con- \ ert. f Mr. Wilkerson. as the readers of i "he Enquirer generally are well 1 .......a iu .ma ,.f die must successful \ tinners in the county. He is always s rail to the front in any and every c novement tliat bears the stamp of J logress, and when the reporter asked a lint last Saturday if he had tried the J Villiamson plan, there was no reason J n Ije surprised at the interesting in- u ovulation that was developed. r "Oh. yes. i tried it," said Mr. Wll- J erson, "and it is ail right." 'I "To what extent did you try It?" the c epurter asked. ii "I only had about five acres of my 0 wn crnpr but It turned out all right, ibout half of the five acres was poor t< md. not much better than the bank a f a hillside ditch; the other half was t( uetty good land. On the best land I S nade close to forty bushels of corn to h he acre and on the other I made tl bout thirty. The general result was u o much better than I expected that I ri ras astonished at it." b "Please describe your method of cul- > ivatton." the reporter asked. c "F followed the Williamson plan as s tearly as possible as was outlined In tl 'he Enquirer last winter, except that t' did not use as much fertilizer as Mr. d Villiamson recommends." ti ' "I broke up the ground as deep as I h ould, bedded and planted in the water w urrow without reriiuzers. wnen we orn was from half a leg to knee high, s gave It 200 pounds of 8-3-3 to the a ere, putting the fertilizer In each al- A ernate row. A week later I put In Is 00 pounds more of the same fertilizer I o the acre, this time in the rows that " lad been skipped the first time. Next, ^ . week later I put in 65 pounds of v iltrate of soda to the acre, also in each E lternate row and further away from " he corn than the guano. The next t veek I put in 65 pounds more in the 1< >ther rows, the same way, planted e leas, and broke out the middles as Mr. Yilllamson advised. The yield was 1 nore than twice as great as it would lave been under the old method." E During the conversation outlined bove, Mr. WHkerson stated that last prlng he advised all the people on his " dace to leave out fertilizers at plant- p ng time. Several were dubious about r he experiment but all followed his E dvlce but one. This one planted a p >art of his crop with fertilizers and a d (art without. That under which he f iut fertilizer al plunting did not do learly so well as the other, and the nan who made the experiment said a hat he would never use fertilizers at ilanting time again. il SPECIAL SALES. t There has been great crowds of J1 eople in Yorkville during the past t ew days, In attendance on the spe- r lal sales, shopping generally and a pending lots of money. ~ j( The Thomson company's reduction j. ale opened last Thursday, and was b argely attended by people from the J own and country Immediately sur- j outiding and from all parts of the I; ounty. Friday was a still better day, ^ nany of the shoppers explaining that |j ecause of previous experience they a tud decided to skip the first day and ? ivold the rush. Saturday was also a jj rood day, with the Thomson people, j ind there were a large number of hoppers in town yesterday. Business a ontlnues good. I, The feature of the week, probably, s vas the sacrifice of the stock of the {< i'ouMhee Cash Store at bankrupt ^ >rlces. This sale Is under the man- t kgement of Mr. Constantine, an ex- p >ert representative of the New York ^ 'i St. Louis Salvage company. The c ale had been extensively advertised r o commence Saturday morning, and " oon after the doors were opened the jj tore was crowded with all kinds of v targaln hunters. Everything had 1< >een so arranged as to be easily getat- ? ible, and marked In plain figures; but lotwithslanding the efforts of a dozen d lerks it became necessary at four 0 lifTerent times during the day to lock " he doors in order to control the rush r ind to re-arrange the goods. The c >ress continued all day, and was com- ^ nenced again yesterday morning. Although the rush has been great- v st with the bankrupt sale and at the e peclal reduction sale of the Thomson ? ompany, there has been a lot of busi- r less doing elsewhere. In the crowds a vere many "shoppers," people who 1 vere not only looking for low prices t >ut also for special articles, and most d >f these made the entire round of the v Iry goods trade, visiting the Yorkvllle * Banking & Mercantile company, the ^ Itrauss-Smlth company, J. Q. Wray, o L. Williams & Co. and Dobson 11 Bros. All were alive to the spirit of c he occasion, reduced prices, and all t K.. 1.1., Innl, I ,i mura nnsh than If I n uuauijr iu?>n III .I.x/. v _ here hail been no speciul sales In t irogress. c The special sale continues through 1" his week and a part of next and af- * er that It Is expected that business v viII again settle down Into normal ronditions. v s LOCAL LACONICS. t o Change of Schedule. c There is to be a change of the t ichedules on the C. & N.-VV. mixed c ? rains next Monday as the result of s vhlch No. 61 now going south at 6.40 p i. in., will go south at 3.10 p. in., and e <o. 60 going north at 3 p. m. will go " lorth at 7.30 a. m. I Jeely's Creek Church. The Neely's Creek congregation | worshiped in the new church building t or the first time last Sunday. The o luilding Is practically complete ex- ^ ept as to the furnace. Because it was r tuch a pretty day the. furnace was not t leeded. c r Appointed to Annapolis. li Mr. J. Brian Bell, son of Mr. J. B. Jell of Gaffney, has been appointed to * Vnna polls by Congressman Flnley. u rhe' appointee is a deserving young f nan of considerable promise, and will ^ io doubt be able to make good at the j, ntrance examinations. t Orders From Judge Prince. Judge Prince has filed orders in | vhich he refuses the motion for a new rial in the case of the New Home * sewing Machine company vs. the [ Southern railroad. In the case of Col- e ins vs. the Rock Hill Electric light t ind Power company, he orders that |J he verdict of the jury for 58,300 t ihould be reduced to $4,500. Unless he plaintiff agrees to the reduction ^ vithin ten days from the filing of the j ?rder there must be a new trial. If he plaintiff agrees the defendant must ^ >ay the reduced verdict together with ^ he costs within thirty days. Othervise the verdict stands at $8,300. (illed Under a Car. f Charlotte Chronicle, Saturday: Mr. A ?. L. Whisonant, formerly of this city n nd well known here, was this morning 11 [illed at 8 o'clock at Blacksburg. S. C., e vhere he was at work in the freight aids of the Southern railway. Mr. l rVhisonant was general car inspector " or the company and was at work try- 't ng to repair a broken car. The car o iad been "jacked up" and while Mr. h *-* * ...?? n, li ih<i tnnk *S ,V IllSOIIillll v> u.-l unirai.i >, ...?, j [( lipped and the oar fell on his head, rushing it and causing instant death, fi Jr. Whisonant was fifty-two years of 1 ge. He leaves a widow, who was diss Sallie Black of this city, a son, ? Jr. L. Whisonant, Jr., who is an t' (pemtor at the Western Union Tele- J' ;ruph company here, and a sister, f, Ars. W. W. Hagood, who lives on 1< >nth avenue. The death is an ex- a eedingly sad one and many friends _ lere will learn of It with sorrow. si leath of J. Leander Pariah. Mr. J. Leander Parish, a highly essoined citizen of York township died i t his home about a mile and a quar?r northwest of the court house last uturday night. He had been in bad ealth with a heart aiTectlon for more ban a year, and his death was not nexpeoted either to himself or his elatives or friends. Mr. Parish was orn on the farm on which he died on ? ? - o I 1 O ?> 4 n M,1 *?f 4 K fhfl QV_ lOYtMIIIJfl i,l, JO-l, auu mm ?.?.? ? eption of two years in the civil war pent his entire life there. At the line of his death he was aged elghtywo years one month and nineteen ays. He was married on July 2, 1854 u Miss Sarah Aurelia Howell, who as his devoted wife until March 1901, rhen she died. There were three ons. One died In early boyhood, the econd, the late Rufus A parish, died bout twelve years ago and the third, lr. Brooks Parish, survives. Mr. Parih leaves one sister, Mrs. Cynthia )obson, aged eighty-nine years. He as a member of Union Baptist hurch, and the funeral took place at Jnlon ?n Sunday afternoon, the serices being conducted by Rev. W. E. lurt the pastor. Mr. Parish was In nany respects a model citizen. His ule of life recognized the strictest inegrity In all his dealings with his feljwmen, and he was held in the hlghst respect by all who knew him. ILLMAN TACKLES ROOSEVELT. Irownsville Matter Discussed In the United States Senate. Senator Tillman on last Saturday ddressed the senate on the Browns Ille Incident. He characterized the (resident's action in the matter "as lothlng more or less than lynching." le declared that the men should be onsldered innocent until they were iroven guilty. He said he had no loubt the soldiers were responsible or the outrage at Brownsville. He eclared that negro troops should not lave been sent to Brownsville. Mr. Tillman declared that Mr. Forker had belittled himself by attackng Major Blocks'om as a man whose ather was a copperhead. "Are we lever to have the end of the war and ts bitterness?" he exclaimed. "Are he people of the north and the south lever to understand each other and o recognize the rights of both secions? It is useless to deny that the ace question lies at the bottom of .11 this." Continuing, he said: "The whole ssue involved is one of race and the (resident is primarily more responsive than any other man for the posiion the negroes in the south have aken on the question of negro rights, le gave recognition to Booker Washngton in a social way. He did this mowing he was flying in the face of aste feeling among seventeen million outhern white men. The well known ttitude or tne aaminisirauun un mc oclal question has been the cause of , great and noticeable change in the lemeanor and action of the negroes hroughout the south." After predicting in the near future race conflict to determine whether he negro is the equal of the Caucasan. he continued: "In six southern tales (South Carolina. Georgia, Fior;la, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisana), in the aggregate the negroes utnumber the whites, and in two of hem (South Carolina and Misslssipii) the negro preponderance is very leavy." Mr. Tillman added: "In Cuba the olor line has been obliterated and niscegenatlon is in full blast. At the i.irth the same conditions exist and . large number of mulattoes and uadroons wl*h white blood in their eins who ' have migrated there are eaders of the doctrine of absolute solal equality encouraged as they have ieen and are now by the president." Mr. Tillman asked: "Is the presltent ready to act up to his own thery and have his children marry men . nd women of other races? Would le accept as a daughter-in-law a Chiie.se. Malay, Indian or negro in acord with the doctrine laid down in >is message which I have quoted? Ve all know he would not. "Southern white men and women k'ho have for forty years resisted in very possible way this doctrine of quality of the races are Just as reolved now as they have always been lot to submit to it or its results. They re resolved to maintain control of heir state's government and to preent In every way possible social and >ol!tlcal equality with the inevitable lestructlon of their civilization, which yould follow if they yielded. Condiions are growing more and more agnravated every day. Are things to Irlft until direful tragedies multiply m every hand and blood shall flow Ike water?" He said that forty years after the Ivll war we find conditions more hreatening in some of their aspects han in 1861. In concluding he said it was time o settle the question In some practlabie and sensible way. He said that le was ready to go to battle under he slogan of America for Americans, ind this Is a white man's country and vhite men must govern it. Mr. Tillman prefaced the discussion rith the characterization, that reembled a case In court. "The presllent of the United States is prosecuor as well as executor. The array if counsel for the defense and proseutlon is not yet complete. So far as heir names have appeared on the reord there is an element of the Inconrruous and of ridiculous. For intance as the attorneys aiding the rosecution we have the distinguished senator from Texas (Mr. Culberon) a democrat, the distinguished enator from Massachusetts (Mr. Mdge,) a republican, the dfstlngulshd senator from Virginia. (Mr. Danel) a democrat, and for the defense t shall so be considered when I get hrough I will put in the record as .Iding the distinguished senator from )hio (Mr. Foraker) but the rldicuousness of the situation is again aplarent when one considers the senaor from Ohio who by reason of his adlcal and aggressive utterances ana irobably actions in the past, once gave lim the name of "Fire Alarm." "That senator finds himself aligned rith that senator from South Carollia (Mr. Tillman himself) who is uslally supposed to have broiled negro or breakfast. (laughter) who Is mown to justify lynching for rape, ind whose attitude, If not that of latred to the negro is a feeling akin o it, in the belief that white nieq are nade of better clay and that white nen alone are entitled to participate n the government." Reading from the order issued by he war department and signed by the resident in which it is stated the uniorm is a badge of honor and entitles nllsted men to peculiar consideraion, Mr. Tillman said it was that sort if stuff that put it into the heads of he negro soldiers that he was entiled to demand social equality. "Why should not the colored solif Wt. nnmln^iQ himself as a white oldler, have the same consideraion?" asked Senator Nelson. "For the simple reason that God ilmighty made him colored. He did mt make him white," retorted Mr. 'illman. The Chii-d Labor Question.?The allowing has been introduced by Mr. l. G. Brlce of Chester, as an amend lent to the law regulating the employnent of children in mines, factories, tc.: Section 1. Be it enacted by the genial assembly, etc.. That an act entiled "An act to regulate the employlent of children In factories, mines nd manufacturing establishments in his state approved on the 13th day f February, 1903, be. and the same is ereby amended by adding to and inertlng therein the following section, i) be known as section 2a, to wit: Section 2a. That from and alter the rst day of July. 1907, no child under he age of 14 years shall be employed r allowed to labor in any factory, line or manufacturing establishment 'ithin this state during the period of line when the local public schools are pen in the respective school districts i which such factory, mine or manuacturing establishment is located, un;ss such child can read intelligently i nd write legibly his or her name, or nless such shall fall within and com- i ly with the conditions prescribed in ection 3 of this act. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Col. Coward to Speak at Winthrop? Dr. Lingle Yet Undecided?Gamblers Arrested?The Bucket Shop Matter? Othwr Notes. CorrMDonrience of Che Vurkvllle Rnaiurer. Rook Hili., January 14.?Saturday the 19th. the 100th anniversary of Robert K. Lee, will be observed here by the local veterans, the several chapters of U. D. C.. and by the citizens generally. At Winthrop college the Daughters will hold exercises and will be addressed by Col. Asbury Coward of the South Carolina Military academy. Downtown the Ann White will tender to the veterans of the city and vicinity a dinner at McElwee's restaurant. Dr. James H. Thornwell, D. D., will address thetn on the occasion. The Winthrop exercises will occur In the afternoon at 4 o'clock so the veterans will have the opportunity to hear both speakers. Rev. Dr. W. L. Lingle, who several weeks since received a call from the First Presbyterian church of Atlanta. Oa.. has not yet made his decision and his devoted dock here Is hoping that this bears hope. Dr. Lingle wrote the Atlanta people last week that if pressed for a decision at once his answer would be a refusal, whereupon_he was wired to take his own time. Tne Atlanta people are very anxious to have Dr. Llngle and It Is understood that they will send another committee here this week to talk with him. Officers Miller and Langley arrested twelve negroes, who were gambling at the home of Sam Crawford, colored, on Whltner avenue, Sunday afternoon. They each put up S10 bond to appear for trial. Crawford was fined In the mayor's court, about a year ago, for selling whisky. He Is a driver for the Roddey Mercantile Co. Mayor Roddey has been asked by Senator Weston of Richland, to appear before the senate committee In regard to the bill offered In the matter of bucket shops and cotton exchanges. Mayor Roddey is an ex-member of the New York Cotton Exchange and as he says has been up against "all kinds." Mr. 15. O. Mowers, who tied Mr. J. W. O'Neal In the race for alderman In Ward 1, has withdrawn from the race. Being chief of the fire department would conflict in his opinion with the other duties should be he elected. Mr. R. T. Fewell, president of the Arcade mill, has received notice of his appointment to the executive committee of the Philadelphia committee of the Southern Cotton Spinners' association. Mr. T. A. Blythe of Philadelphia is the chairman. Mr. W. H. Walsh of Charleston is in the city and is making arrangements to get out a directory which will include a list of the farmers of the county with their addresses. Mrs. George Stephens, who is well remembered here as Miss Sophie Myers of Charlotte, N. C.. with her little son. is visiting at the home of her un ole. Col. W. J. Rawllnson. Mr. John A. Steele of Norfolk, Va., Is visiting his relatives at this, his >|d home. Miss Julia Simpson, who has been in Marlon, S. C., In charge of a millinery establishment during the past season, is at the home of her father, Dr. Isaiah Simpson. Mls.s Maude Stewart Is visiting her sister. Mrs. Rogers In Wilmington. AGAINST THE LIEN LAW. Fight to Be Pushed With Unusual Vigor This Session. There are a large number of bills already introduced for the repeal of what Is known as the lien law, says the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, and It is possible that a few more bills for this same purpose are yet In a state of preparation. The proposition to repeal this law Is a familiar one* to those who have watched the progress of legislation In this state for the last severs years, but it seems likely now that the tight this year against the law and the whole Hen system wiH be pushed with even more vigor and determination than ever before. The movement has the endorsement of the Southern Cotton association, which at Its recent meeting In this city passed a resolution calling on the legislature to repeal the law. Among the present members of the house who have waged warfare on the Hen system for many years are Mr. E. ? -- - ?J i r n PJ. verner or uconee, ana uipi. j. ,v*. Richards of Kershaw. Capt. Richards has introduced a bill year after year ever since he has been In the general assembly and has kept up the fight without cessation. He Is a hard fighter in any contest, and in this one he has shown his usual pertinacity. Capt. Richards states that he believes the fight will be won at this session, and he Is ready for the fray. Mr. Verner is also hopeful of carrying his point at last When he came to the legislature about ten years ago he put in a bill to repeal the lien law, and he has studied the whole situation very carefully. Because of his knowledge of the subject Mr. Verner was asked to tell something about the lien law and its working. He said: "You ask about the lien law. Well, sir, that is a dull subject but it now appears as if It will be a lively one in the present session, with a better chance to repeal the law than at any previous time. This law has been upon the statutes Just forty years, having been enacted In September, 1866. In the fall of 1887 It was repealed, but reenacted In the spring of 1888 so there has not been a single crop made In the state since the war that was not first mortgaged to a great extent before the crop was planted. This law In one sense Is a war measure. Not that It was created to raise revenues to prosecute war, but to give credit to a people who had been greatly Impoverished by a terrible civil war. Like many real war measures, when once it became the law it was, and is, hard to get rid of though the purpose of its enactment has been accomplished. "The objections to the law? Well, "rst, It is largely a basis of credit in *u'~ V?rto Kaati olnna ltd flpflf UII? SIUIC auu nan WV11 Olitvv ivw -enactment, and It Is regarded ag very -nsafe collateral. This, of course, calls for and encourages usury when money Is loaned on such security and encourages exorbitant profits when goods are sold with only such security as a growing crop can make. "Second, this law has given credit to a large class of Ignorant and careless, characterless people, whose system, or lack of system, of farming has wellnigh exhausted a very large portion of the farm lands of the state. Again, this class, who should be more or less controlled by the land-owners of the state are to a large extent in the hands of the merchants, thereby creating the anomalous condition of one class owning the lands, keeping up improvements and paying taxes and another class virtually controlling these lands. "I would call your attention to another very deplorable condition which. I think, is largely due to this law. You hear a great deal about young negro men and boys flocking to the country towns and cities, where they become loafers and idlers to a great extent. This habit Is largely formed on the farms in the winter months. At the beginning of each year the very first thing the average tenant does Is to give a lien on the crop to be planted, and he brings home a lot of groceries, shoes and clothing. The cold, rainy months are on, and It Is a well known fact that the negro will not work In cold weather if he can help himself. Having obtained supplies for a month or so a man with his boys in many cases loafs about, goes to town, eats, drinks and does nothing much else. mhii? the idle habit is formed, and when time comes to plant he only then begins to prepare the land. The boys having learned from past experience that as the days grow longer and hotter the ever watchful merchant will reduce more and more their grocery bill, and having also already learned something of the easy. Idle life of the towns, they leave their father to his task and go. This is very far-reaching In its effects and deserves more consideration than is given it. "But you would like to know of the immediate cause of the demand for the repeal of this law. I think It Is largely due to the desire on the part of the cotton planters in this state speaking through their various organizations to control the sale and price of cotton. Thev are learning at last that It Is Impossible to hold cotton off the market in the fall when more than one-half of it Is sold before the crop Is planted." "What of the benefits that are to come from the repeal of the law?" "Well. sir. I think they would be many, but primarily It would put the control of the farms in this state Into the hands of the men who own them. Second, It would force a great many people who now plant cotton and buy everything else to raise their supplies and thereby reduce the cotton acreage. Third, it would put the control of labor into the hands of land owners, instead of In the keeping of the merchants, as now, and it would be a big start towards keeping the cotton crop from being rushed on the market all at once in the fall. But I fear that I am taikipg too much and I will have something to say on the floor of the .louse on this matter in behalf of a bill io repeal the lien law, which bill has a favorable report from the committee <n agriculture. "You might say, however, that there seems a good chance to pass the bill. The counties that have heretofore bitterly opposed such a measure have tc a large extent expressed themselves as being now In favor of it." Mr. Verner la chairman of the house committee on agriculture, which has made a favorable report on the repeal bill. MERE-MENTION. Therefore said to be more than 100,000 cases of grip In Baltimore, rneunionia is also prevalent i Me contract lor tne construction v>f the Panama canal Is to be let to YV. J. Oliver of Tennessee, rie agrees to do the work for 6j per cent profit on the cost Mrs. nrhlget Carey is held by the police of rhilaaelphla, on the charge of having muruered tour persons, two of them iter own children, with poison. < .... or the first time since last August there are now no cases of yellow fever in Cuoa An effort is being inude to have congress appropriate + 10,000 for a pedestal oil. which will rest a $20,000 statue in Washington, to. benj. F. Mephensou, the founder of the Grand Army of the Republio .Numerous towns in North Dakoiu are entirely without any coal or wooit supplies... .The Pennsylvania railroad is muking preparations to is .sue *j,uuo,uuu worth of bonds with a view to securing lines that will give ine Pennsylvania a sea-to-sea line ..Philadelphia has 342 cases of ..yphoid lever, an increase of 90 over ine week ending Jan. 6th The steamer Ponce, eleven days overdue at New York from Ponce, ,Porto Rico, arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda, Friday, in tow of the Herman steamer, Elizabeth RUkmere. The Ponce was disabled by a broken screw shaft, and had been given up as lost...... A bill has been introduced into the Ottawa, Can., parliament, which makes a labor strike or lockout a crime William Archer, colored, was hanged at Wilmington, Del., last Friday, for the murder of his sweetheart, Elizabeth Spires. On Jan. 26th, Lewis Johns, also colored, will be hanged on the scaffold used for Archer A tidal wave swept over some of the islands of the Dutch East Indies last week, causing a loss of more than 300 lives The house and senate of Tennessee has passed a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt's actions in the Brownsville affair The assassin of Lieut. Gen. Parloff, the military curator of St. Petersburg, was hanged at Lisynos, Russia, last Friday. The ussassin died unidentified and cheerlpg for the revolution Business failures during the week ending Jan. 10th, numbered 271, against 186 the previous week I... The national house of rebre- . sentatives passed 62V pension bills in I 95 minutes lost Friday .The White Star line steamfer Celtic landed 3400 sacks of mall in New York last Friday The Continental Congress of the Daughters of the Revolution will meet in Washington in April.... Many of the legislatures throughout the country have bills fixing railroad passenger fares at 2 cents per mile, before them The expected visit of the Japanese training squadron to Sun Francisco has been abandoned The John Q. Mllburn residence at Buffalo, New York, where President McKiniey died, was burned last Thursday. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Nlles Norris, the Greenville youth who was wounded by a bullet from a parlor rifle one day last week, died on Friday. ? The executive committee of the State Bankers' association has decided that the next meeting of the association will be held on the Isle of Palms on the 18th, 19th and the 20th of June next. ? Columbia special of January 11, , to the News and Courier: Thirty-five cars of whisky are knocking at the door of the state dispensary for admission, but they will have to stay out in the cold for a while, as all warehouses are already full. Commissioner Tatum has written Senator Christensen, informing him of the situation, directing attention to the fact that the state is paying demurrage needlessly. ? Dp. Charles Hallett Judson, for fifty-four years professor of mathematics at Furman university, died at his home in Greenville last Saturday afternoon at 4.45 o'clock. His death was the result of paralysis, which set in on Monday. One stroke was fol- < lowed by another until the end came. Dr. Judson leaves only one surviving relative, his sister, Miss Mary C. Judson, who, like himself has consecrated her life to education, having been connected with the faculty of the Greenville Female college for half a century. . ? Orangeburg, January 13: The South Carolina Public Service corporation has advanced another step in its progress toward beginning work in the development of its great enterprise. The preliminary meeting required by the statute to be held for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the stock and for the election of the board of directors and officers was held at the Edisto bank building, where the offices of the company have been located. The meeting was attended by a large number of gentlemen interested in the enterprise, and the neces- ^ s&ry subscription of 3275,000, required as a preliminary to the granting of the charter, was promptly made, and the necessary cash payments given to , the treasurer. The following officers were elected. President, Joseph J. ^ Timmes; vice president and general, manager, Charles R. Van Etten. sec.1 n A ?n/voail?MH Tokn "D DaHHAV i tiui v aim uranuin, ui/iiu x . xa/ukv/ 'I he following: directors of the corporation were elected; Joseph J. Tlrames, C. R. Van Etten, John P. Bonney, Joseph Bermel, Lawrence M. Plnckney. John C. Lott, Dow S. Smith, Frederick W. Schroeder and Robert H. Jennings. The final step In Incorporating and perfecting the company's plans for beginning business will be taken Jan. 18. when the formal papers will be filed on the expiration of the statutory notice, and the secretary of state will be asked to issue the charter. according to law. ? Says a Washington special of Sunday: In the senate there will be an effort to incorporate a provision in the legislative appropriation bill Increasing the salaries of senators and representatives from $5,000 to $7,500, and unless this proposition arouses debate, the legislative bill will probubly be passed with but little discussion. There will also be an attempt to restore the hpuse pro- A vision for an increase of the salaries I of the vice-president, the speaker of the house and the members of the ^ cabinet. Tlte date of that proposi tion. however, will largely depend on the disposition of the twin provision for an increase in the salaries of members of congress.