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Scraps and |acts. ? Dr. Kennard, who was sent by the London Society of Friends to investigate the conditions among the Russian peasantry, draws an appalling picture of their sufferings. He says: "This is the worst famine that Russia has ever known. No less than 20,000,000 people distributed throughout the southeastern provinces cannot live without aid to see another harvest. This faminestricken region is spread over an area five times as large as that of France. Funds will be greatly needed to the end of July to feed all these millions, and then the harvest will bring relier to some, dui mere aic many hundreds of thousands to whom the harvest will not bring relief, for they have neither land nor cattle, and will have nothing to live on. The few cows that are in existence are not fit for milking purposes, and infant mortality is great, to say nothing of the epidemics of various diseases that add to the terrible conditions obtaining." ? For the last sixteen years, says a dispatch, the Chicago postofflce has had a surplus of 1 cent on its books. No one has been able to find the source of the surplus or to whom the money was due until yesterday, when W. I* Clucas, a special agent of the North American Life Assurance company, notified the postofflce authorities , that he held a draft for 1 cent on the office. It was issued January 5, 1891, to his father, W. J. Clucas of Lebanon, 111. W. J. Clucas was postmaster of Lebanon, 111., in the administration of Grover Cleveland. At the * end of Cleveland's term of office Mr. Clucas sent in his statement. It then appeared that he had sent in 1 cent too much. It was returned to him in the form of a draft. Mr. Clucas, wishing to keep the draft as a remembrance, never cashed it. After his death in 1899 the draft was turned over to his son, who kept It as a relic. After the settlement of the estate Mr. Clucas found it never could be cashed, as his father had not indorsed it in his name. For this reason the postofflce auditor never will be able to balance his books unless Mr. Clucas takes the matter Into court. ? President Roosevelt, in a note to the department of justice last Tuesday, expressed the opinion that John William January of Missouri should have his sentence commuted at once or be pardoned outright. January was convicted some years ago of robbing a postofflce in Oklahoma, and served the greater portion of a five-year sentence at Leavenworth. He then escaped and after nine years of liberty was rearrested in Kansas City and returned to prison. Many petitions have reached the president asking for January's pardon. He had lived in Kansas City under the name of Charles W. Anderson during the time he was at liberty. After his escape January, under his assumed name, secured employment and eventually established himself in business, which he was successfully conducting at the time of his rearrest. He married and has a child. Th^ department of justice, upon receipt of President Roosevelt's memorandum, dispatched letters to the trial judge and the district attorney who tried Anderson, asking for a report on the case and a recommendation as to whether or not he should receive executive clemency. When these reports are received the department win make a report to the president ? Ambassador Creel of Mexico, and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon, conferred at length on Tuesday concerning the situation in Guatemala. Advices received in Washington and Mexico City agree on the point that affairs are approaching a crisis in Guatemala and any moment there may be an uprising which the present administration here will be unable to control. The assassination of former Guatemalan President Barrillos in Mexico; the attempt on the life of _ President Estrada Cabrera in Guatemala City, and the alleged anti-Mexican and anti-American feeling that has been engendered in the Cabrera government have caused complications in Central American politics which, it is believed here, must be handled by a firmer hand than can be found in Guatemala. Indications of an uprising against the Cabrera government are giving the United States and Mexico some concern as a revolutionQ mAVomnnl n?v*KoKhf WAIII/1 embroil the whole republic in conflict. It is believed here that an agreement will be reached between the two countries by which Mexico, with her troops already on the border, will police Guatemala just as the United States policed Nicaragua and Honduras in the recent warfare between those countries. ? The widely heralded values -and practical uses of denatured alcohol have been kept in the background since the passage of the bill removing the tariff. The law left the manufacture of free alcohol practically in the control of the large distillers of beverages, who were, of course, in no haste to make the product cheaper. As it is intended as a substitute for kerosene and gasoline, the interests in control of those products were naturally indisposed to encourage developments that would mean loss to them. Lamp and engine manufacturers were slow to meet the demands upon their inventiveness. But amendments becoming effective September 1, make it possible to establish small co-operative distilling plants, which will use up surplus grain and potatoes and save shipping charges. Appliances to which the alcohol may be adapted are being prepared for the market, and doubtless new uses for the fuel will be discovered from time to time. At present denatured alcohol costs nearly 30 cents a gallon to manufacture, but local distilleries will reduce the cost to.a minimum. and something like the predicted "revolution" may gradually come into effect. Even in the smaller manufactories, of course, the government takes care to prevent tne origination of alcohol that has not been made undrinkable. ? Chicago dispatch to Philadelphia Ledger: Three fourths of the graduates of the American medical colleges are unfit to be intrusted with the care of patients, and methods of instruction and examinations in most medical colleges are farcical, according to speakers before the annual conference of the council on medical education, a branch of the American Medical association. The conference was attended today by representatives of state medical associations and state boards of medical examiners. There are on an average 4,000 students granted diplomas in America every year," said Dr. Chester Mayer, member of the state board of examiners of Kentucky; "about 3,000 of them should never be authorized to practice medi cine." More specific charges were made by Dr. W. T. Means, chairman of the Judicial council of the association of American medical colleges. The average man qualified as a medical practitioner," he said, "is deficient in the knowledge of bacteriology, chemistry, physiology and anatomy. ' - 1 In'cnlv.fivo s'ate 1 1 nave wiiiicu iu v?? v..v boards and I find that fifty-eight per cent of the men who fail on examination pass on a second examination a few weeks after. They are simply crammed with the answers to those questions which were asked on the first examination and answer them like parrots." She ^(orlu'illr (fnqttirrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.t J FRIDAY. MAY 3. 1907. If the Richland county people vote for the abolition of the dispensary in the belief that the tigers will have it their own way, the probability is that ^ they will reckon without their host. ( It is not the business of the governor , and attorney general to enforce local laws, maybe; but it is hardly to be ( expected that Governor Ansel and At- ( torney General Lyon will stand quiet- j ly by and see the city overrun with ( lawlessness. They will be compelled to bring all the power of the state , government to bear, if necessary, to J prevent such a thing. . , " I All indications seem to point to the | fact that there is a strong bull clique operating on the New York Cotton Ex- ^ change in the interest of higher < prices. The clique believes that the | present crop is not sufficient for the < demand and argues that because of | unfavorable weather conditions it is < unreasonable to expect that the next j crop can be as large as the present. < The general tendency for some time past has been slowly upward and it ' is quite possible that prices may be j made to soar before the present cam- i paign peters out. I i The relatives and friends of young ' Theodore Estes, who was killed by ' Judge W. G. Loving, in Virginia, the ( other day, have succeeded in showing up a state of facts very different from those circulated by Judge Loving and his friends immediately after the killing. Judge Loving's story, it will be remembered, was to the effect that his daughter came home from a drive with Estes, under the influence of drugs which he understood from her had been given her by the young man, and he was also led to believe that his daughter had been assaulted. It now appears that there was almost no truth in any of this, except that Mrs. Loving says that Estes did give her a drink of whisky at her own request and that she had told her father absolutely nothing about the matter. The first story had the young woman being brought home late at night. As a matter of fact the entire drive was in day time, along thickly settled country roads that furnished no place for a buggy to turn aside except into somebody's yard and it has been es- . tablished that the two young people were not out of their buggy from the time they started until Miss Loving was set down at her home. People ac + K fomUu unHArsta.nd t quaiuicu n mi utv iuu...,. ? that Judge Loving is proud and high tempered, has for years bitterly hated i and despised the Estes family and they i cannot account for the murder except I upon the theory that the judge was | impelled to do it simply out of his un- 1 governable intolerance of those he did ] not like. The moral of the whole af- i fair seems to be that it is just as well , for the public not to be too quick to i arrive at a verdict in these so-called "unwritten law" cases. Many of them are merely the most brutal and unprovoked murders, by perverts to whom it would be a mercy to be allowed to exist in an asylum for the criminal insane. A Successful Life. Mr. A. B. Williams, the able editor of the Richmond News-Leader has taken up the life of the. Rev. A. A. James as an example of conspicuous success and here is what he makes of it in a recent editorial: Probably the energetic and enterprising young citizens who get up books with such titles as ."Our Successful Men" would overlook entirely the Rev. A. A. James, a Presbyterian preacher down in South Carolina, of whom very few people have heard. Yet his life has been about the most completely and entirely successful we know of. In July he will be eighty-three years old. He has just received a call to the Second Presbyterian church at Clinton. S. C., with offer of a good salary and good parsonage, but declined it, preferring to continue with the country churches he is serving. Last Easter Sunday, we read in the local newspapers, raw, cold and with snow falling he drove fourteen miles to meet an appointment, and was not disheartened or disappointed when he found that after all his labor he had a congregation of one. Incidentally there is suggestion in these facts for those flippant people who regard a clergyman as past his usefulness at the age of sixty or so. Here is a man of eighty-three, vigorous. and cheerful, and hale, hearty, so capable as preacher and pastor that he is wanted in a new church. Mr. James has been in the ministry fiftyJsix years, and during all that time has been pastor among a group of country churches which he has nourished and served. The one interruption in his ministry was in the four years of the war, when he was ehapiain and won the deep respect and tender love of many hundreds of soldiers with whom he served. TVntv thornnirhlv and sweetlv done in peace and in war. faithful ministry through generation after generation of his people; answering every call, regarding less of fatigue or discomfort. cold, heat or rain: now at ripe old age. thirteen years beyond the alloted three-score and ten, holding the affectionate reverance and the gratitude of . his community?could a life be more beautiful, more enviable or more successful? He is indentitied in the minds of those with holiest, the most cherished, the most sacred incidents and periods of their lives. He has planted good thoughts, aroused high impulses, taught truth, led young and old to the service of God and along the path to heaven. He has been a present, stay and comfort, in times of the deepest sorrow and the wildest fear. He has given hope to dying sinners, and his words and presence have gladdened the supreme struggle humanity knows as the righteous passed from life to reward. He has baptized little children and grandchildren. He is associated with marriage and death and baptism, with the rousing of souls.to high and holy aspirations and purposes. Could any mother brooding over her infant son wish for him higher or better work >r achievement sweeter or more glorious. Probably Mr. James has not five thousand dollars to his name. He Is rjot a distinguished person and does not appear much in any newspaper. He has held no public offices and has no towering influence even in the councils of his own denomination. S"et. compared with his life work and position, how inflnitesinnally small, how grossly sordid and mean, appear the labors of the money-grubt>ers who have heaped up millions, of the politicians whose names are famous, and who have brought home to them day by day the better knowledge that all is vanity. This man, going on his humble way, able to do Pis work well at the age of eightythree. with soul clear and shining, Peart bouyant and loving and trusting and body sound, living and moving in an encompassing atmosphere >f love, trust and reverence, nis memory crowded with the goodness ind the beauty of Ufa and manhood xnd womanhood as revealed to him in fifty-six years of ministry, will not 5ay. and cannot feel that all is vanity. Plenty of Opportunity. One of the commonest tendencies ^n the part of the young men of toJay is to bewail their alleged lack of opportunity to get along In the world; Out in this there is probably very little difference from the young men of i hundred years ago. The tendency to bewail lack of opportunity has always been common not only to young men but to old men as well. The young man who wastes his time bewailing the lack of opportunity oould be much better employed otherwise. If his own common sense and reason do r. tell him so, he should be able to learn from the experience of jthers that the idea of opportunity for ldvancement becoming scarcer, is a most absurd one. The world at large is growing in every way; but in no Jther one particular is it more prolific than in the production of opportunities. The great trouble with the average k'oung man is that he has a false no lion or wnat constitutes an opportunity for advancement. Too many of ihem dream of the fortune that should t>e left them by the rich relative of whom they have never heard; but ivho might possibly be in existence. 3thers think only of the lucky chance oy which they may become the finder y( a gold mine, and still others are 'ond of picturing themselves as becoming suddenly rich as the result of i lucky speculation In margins, or something of that kind But all this is silly, very silly, rhere are very few people who attain jreat wealth as the result of chance or lccident, and a tremendously smaller proportion of those who do, ever know what to do with it. These are cold ^acts; but not of convincing value to he dreamer, because he does not and cannot know better. It would be quite ridiculous to assume that wealth brings happiness or hat wealthy men are always happy. Happiness always involves consider ibly more tnan tne enjoyment or prosperity, but this is a fact; the nan who begins at the bottom and by lonest endeavor, industry, economy ind business sagacity acquires a competence, always enjoys the respect ind esteem of a majority of those with ivhom he is associated, and he comes in time to regard that respect and esteem as of more value than any other possession. But speaking of opportunity. Look around in the country right about us and pick out the men who have apparently made the greatest success of their lives in the matter of acquiring property and engaging the confidence and esteem of their fellows. In nine cases out of ten it will be found that they began the struggle as empty handed as any of the young men of today. In many cases they lacked even such education as is to be had in the primary schools of today and the disadvantages with which they had to contend were almost without limit. We hear some of our young friends replying: "Yes; but those men had something to make something of. They had everything to themselves. We've got more competition than they had." That is all buncombe. Those men had less out of which to make something than the young men of today. Just as the young man of today excuses himself for lack of opportunity, those men, seeing the teeming oppor tunities about them exclaim: "Oh, that I could call back twenty-five or thirty years, and go Into the things I see now with the energy and vim I had then." No, there is no trouble with the opportunities of today. They are all right. The young man who is willing to work, who will devote himself absolutely to the business of getting along and making the most of things, will remain faithful to the end, will be able to go further than any of those of the present generation have gone. But the young man who wastes his time bewailing lack of opportunity will never improve his present condition. NOTES FROM LESSLIE. Governor Ansel to Visit the Catawbas ?Spring Communion?Personal Mention. Correspondence of the Yurkville Enauirer. LiKshlie, May 1.?The most interesting topic around now is the report that Governor Ansel is to make a visit to the Oatawba Indians during the coming summer. In conversation with a gentleman from here, who was in Columbia recently, the governor said that he hoped to visit the Catawbas in order to become fully acquainted with their present condition and to see for himself the kind of land that they are living on. The fact that the Indians are at present trying to get a final settlement, will add all the more interest to the governor's proposed visit. In case he comes this will be his nearest railroad point and the people of Lesslie will do the honors on that occasion. The farmers tire busy with cotton planting. The recent cold weather did not damage the crop to any extent, much to the relief of the planters. The regular spring communion at Neely's Creek church will be held on the coming Sabbath. The pastor will be assisted by the Rev. J. P Knox of Columbia. Services will commence on Friday and continue through Sabbath. The new church has only recently been completed and many pronounce it the handsomest church in this part of the country. It is probable that the church will tie dedicated in August. Mrs. Oliver Johnson, who has been visiting relatives in Winnsboro for the past two weeks, has returned to her home. Miss Alice Baird of Charlotte, spent a few days here last week with relatives. Misses Delle Pursley of Fort Mill, and Blanche Hope of Chester, who have been visiting Mrs. Alice Pursley, have returned to their homes. Mr. 1). P. I>esslie spent last week in Yorkville on business. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS J. S. Brice, Executor?Gives notice to the debtors and creditors of E. A. Crawford deceased, to make settlement with him at once. Mrs. W. G. White, Pres.?Gives notice that the Floral Society of the Presbyterian church will hold the annual flower show next fall. Miss Rosa Lindsay?Wants you to remember that you can always find the latest styles in photo mounts at the Lindsay studio. First National Bank?Publishes Thos. Jefferson's ten maxims, which are of especial Interest to you. Jno. R. Dickson, 2nd Lieut.?Calls on members of Co. "L." N. G. S. C., to assemble In the armory on Friday, May 10th, 3 p. m. to take part In memorial services. Jno. R. Hart and W. S. Neil, Admrs. ?Having made final settlement with the probate judge, give notice that they will apply for final discharge on June 1st. York Drug Store?Has fresh supply of Lowney's chocolates and bon bons, and Nunnally's brown seal bon bons at 50c per pound, fresh by express. I. W. Johnson?Invites you to see him for Swift's hams and breakfast strips, choice teas and coffees, Heinz pure food products, blue label catsup, etc. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Offers Shumate razors at $1 to $3; Clauss razors at $1.50 to $3.50, and Boker razors at $1.50 to $2.50; razor strops at all prices. M. W. White?Says "try again" is a good motto for the investor. Don't trust alone to the guidance of others in wooing the fickle goddess of fortune. "Farmer"?Wants intelligent, sober, Industrious white man who understands farming, to look after and superintend field work of four horse farm. ? York Supply Co.?Received another car load of timothy No. 1 hay this week; car of oats and corn; amber; orange and red top cane seed; King cotton and corn cultivators. Jl L. Williams & Co.?Say they "stretch your dollars" by selling you clothing of quality and style at low prices. C-B and Armorslde dollar corsets at 48c each tomorrow and Monday. Ctnra Tq ahnu'iiifif UUUSUI1 Diua. vooii Uiv.u _ a new lot of latest style hats, flowers and ribbons received this week. See Mrs. Dobson for latest styles In millinery. J. Q. Wray, the Leader?Is offering seasonable and stylish dress good3 at prices such as prevailed eight or nine years ago. He wants you to see him for heavy and fancy groceries. Thomson Co.?Tells why Queen Quality shoes are given preference of all others by many ladles. Prices run from $2.50 to $3.50 the pair. Clover Drug Co.?Invites you to see its newly renovated store newly arranged and painted; new people, new stock, Improved service. The Enquirer will gladly acknowledge and forward any contributions that may be made to the Chinese famine sufferers through the South Carolina branch of the Red Cross. Captain George F. Bason, a wellknown attorney of North Carolina, died at his home In Gastonia last Wednesday. The remains were taken, to Charlotte for Interment. ' The people who first realize and make intelligent use of the tremendous opportunities afforded by the electric power development now going on throughout this section, are going to reap the richest harvest. There is untold prosperity in the proper use of tnis power. The Rock Hill Herald, which continues to be one of the most creditable semi-weekly papers In the state has changed Its make-up from four to eight pages, and added a considerable amount of extra matter. The Herald has the Idea of progress all right and is pushing its development along intelligent lines. It gives us much pleasure to congratulate it upon its growth. Because of the continued wet weather last fall, there was considerable apprehension as to the quality ol cotton seed and danger of defective stands this spring. Our inquiries have not covered the county generally; but from such information as has been obtained, where cotton has come up, stands are good. Mr. W. O. Harshaw, of the Guthriesville neighborhood, says he has as g<?od a stand as he has ever known. Some of the farmers, however. who planted before the recent frost are still on the anxious bench, and are thinking of planting over. RAILROAD NOTES. The railroad people say that Train Master Graham has made good; that he has cleaned up all the derelict freight within his jurisdiction, and is moving in an orderly manner. There is very little complaint about the conduct of affairs at the Southern depot at Yorkville now. People are able to get any reasonable information that they ask for, and if they have freight in the depot there Is no trouble to learn about it. General Manager Nichols was asked again a few days ago about the restoration of that train which proved such a convenience last summer. He said that he has not yet been able tc figure out how the train could be made to pay; but he did not say that he would not try to put it in operation again. ABOUT PEOPLE. Sheriff Brown's little son, Fred aged two and a half years, has been quite sick for some- days. Mr. J. E. Sadler is able to be up again after having been confined tc his room for quite a while. . . ju T. Nichols, general managei of the Carolina and North-Westerr railroad, was in Yorkville last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Strauss lefl Wednesday for a month's visit to relatives at Newport and Little Rock Ark. Master Gilmore Turner, twelve-yearold son of Mr. T. D. Turner of Yorkville. is desperately ill with typhoi<3 fever. Mrs. E. C. Willis left yesterday morning ior i^yncnouiK. * ?nc?* she will spend the summer with the family of her son. Mr. A. E. Willis. The board of directors of the Loar and Savings Bank have elected Mr T. C. Dunlap to the position of cashier. vice Mr. W. P. Harrison resigned Miss Lutie Jenkins has resigned hei position as book-keeper for the Loar and Savings bank, to do stenographic work for Mr. H. I. McCaw, court stenographer for this district. Miss Maggie McCorkle, at present book-keepei for the Yorkville Banking and Mercantile company, will take the positior made vacant by the resignation of Miss Jenkins. Columbia Record. Tuesday: Majot W. J. Gfwxling, president of the board of regents of the State Hospital for the Insane, has decided, after consultatlor with the superintendent, Dr. J. W Babcock. to appoint, subject to the approval of the whole board, Dr Eleanor B. Saunders as assistant physician, vice Dr. Sarah Campbell Allan, who recently resigned on account of continued sickness in hei family. Dr. Saunders Is a brilliant young woman from McConnellsvllle. A I few days ago, it will be remembered, she was graduated from the Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston with the highest honors, being the flrsl woman to take such advanced standing during the 128 years of that Institution's history. At the time sh? was highly complimented by Surgeor General Wyman of the United States navy. Her standing entitled her tc the refusal of the position of chief interne at the Roper hospital, Charleston, but, of course, the post now offered her at the State Hospital for th? Insane is one of much more responsibility nnrl nf rnnslriprahlv hiehel money value. Dr. Saunders will likely report for duty tomorrow. The retiring assistant physician, Dr. Allan took a great deal of Interest In th? selection of her successor and hac much to do with the tender of the position to Dr. Saunders. THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. It Is the desire of The Enquirer t( print In Its Issue of May 10th as complete a list as possible of the Confederate soldiers buried in the variou: cemeteries of York county. Such a list was published In our issue of May 10, 1899. It included reports from twenty-seven burylnf places and numbered 582 names. Since the publication of the list referred to, quite a large number oi veterans who were then In the land o the living have crossed the river t< Join their comrades In the great be yond and if the list can be completet up to date, it may be of Important some day. Letters have been addressed to individuals In various parts of the coun ty with a view to correcting the list; In the cases of the following cemeteries: Bethel, Bethesda, Allisoi Creek, Fort Mill, Flint Hill, Smyrna Sharon, Rock Hill, Bullock's Creek Ebenezer, Beersheba, Neely's Creek Union, Bethany. We are relying upoi the gentlemen addressed for the in formation .desired. we tane tne iiDeriy 01 asaing pw pie In the different neighborhoods, t< send us lists of the veterans buriet in the following cemeteries: Olivet, Fowler's, New Bethel, Con cord. Blackstock, Canaan. Beth-Shi loh. There are also no doubt, veteran: buried in other cemeteries not mem tloned above and from which we hav< made no provision to secure lists. W< shall appreciate volunteer lists fron these and all the assistance that may be tendered generally to make this work as complete and as satisfactory as possible. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The ladles of the Civic League an making good all right. ? Presiding Elder Stackhouse is t< be in Yorkville next Sunday. ? There has been a marked absenc< of country people from the street! during the past week, most of them be ing busy. t ? A number of young men are amus ing themselves afternoons, especiall: since the early closing arrangemen went into effect, shooting frogs. ? There is to be a slight change i> the schedules of the Southern's Nos 135 and 113, commencing Sunday. No 135, which now passes Yorkville goini east at 7.27 a. m., will pass at 7.15 a m. and No. 113, which passes at 3.3! p. m. will pass at 3.20 p. m. ? The millinery trade has been un usually good this season and continue: to hold up splendidly. As a rule thi general stores that conduct milliner; departments consider the latter as i side Issue. The managers say the; give attention to millinery only be cause they are in a measure oblige* ! to. But it is not so this year. All th i milliners have been and continue busy i ?The Neely Manufacturing compa ny has commenced the brick work fo Its proposed addition, and Is erectini four more cottages for operatives Rev. W. E. Hurt is building a cottag i on Lincoln street. Miss Mildred Hobb . is also building a home near by Mi Hurt's. Mr. Herndon's building on th Parish hotel lot is ready for the plas tering. Mr. Wilkin's new residenc lacks about a month of completion. ? The annual meeting of the mem bers of the Commercial club was heli in the club rooms last-night. Ther were twenty-one members present ' The meeting was called to order b; | Mr. O. E. Wilkins, the retiring pres ident, and the club at once proceede* to elect officers for the ensuing yeai The result was as follows: M. C. Wil Its, president; J. A. Latta, vice pres ident; J. C. Wilborn, secretary ani treasurer; w. ts. Moore, i?uis Kotr J. F. Thomson, W. I. Wltherspoor Quinn Wallace, J. VV. Miller, I. W Johnson, Withers Adickes, R. S. Mc ( Connell, board of governors. The sec j retary reported thirty-three actlv members, paying dues of $1 a montl each, with $50 a month expense dur Ing the summer, and about $65 i j month during the winter. In view o this situation it appeared that the clu cannot exist much longer without In creased membership, and it was de cided that a meeting of the board o governors would be held next week t see what can be done in the way o getting new members. LOCAL LACONICS. We Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January lsi 1908, for $1.32. Governor Will Be Here. Governor Ansel has accepted the in vitation of the Winnie Davis Chapte U. D. C., to be present on the occa sion of the unveiling of the monumen to the Confederate soldiers of Yor! county on June 7. He will, of course make an address. "Prescribed by Physicians." The Enquirer this morning receive^ a letter containing a check for on dollar and the following prescriptior * which will be duly filled: "Prepare fo T. H. Hougn, I ne rorqvuie enquire ' and send it to him for six months a " Jefferson, S. C." Mills to Apply For Bail. Oaffney , correspondent Charlott Observer, Friday: J. C. Otts, Esq., ha . just informed your correspondent tha he will apply for bail before Judg Hydrick, at Spartanburg Saturday fo . William H. Mills, who killed Fran! Deal at Blacksburg some time age { Stanyarne Wilson, Esq., of the Spar , tanburg bar is associated with Mi Otts in the defense of Mills. Messrs . Hutler & Osborne, who have been em I ployed to assist Solicitor Sease in th , prosecution, will be present and assis t the solicitor in opposing the motioi for bail. > Steele Creek Suspects Released. Charlotte Observer, May 3: After i > careful examination before 'Squire ? I H. Hilton yesterday, the three Steel . Creek negroes, Monk Jackson, Wll Jackson and Walter Pettus, who hav ; been In Jail for the past few days to . attempting to burn the barn of Mi , S. M. Garrison on the night of Aprl I 23d, were released for lack of incrim, Inatlng evidence. One of the men, t Walter Pettus, was placed under a peace bond of $100 on acaount of . threats which, as developed by the i evidence, the negro had made. The i same negro Is under bond to appear i at the next term of superior court and t answer the charge of assault. He fall. ed to give bond and went to jail. Bethany High School. Invitations are out. for the coms mencement exercises of the Presby terial High school, at Bethany, on May P 12 to 16. The annual sermon is to be delivered by Rev. J. C. CPlapp, D. D., of Newton, N. C. The declalmers' con, test is to be held on May 13, at 8.30 p. s m., and the debaters' contest on May 1 14. The annual concert will take place r??i onH tho annual arlrlrpttS which is to be delivered by Rev. Dr. J. S. MolTatt, will take place on May 16 at 10 a. m. The graduating exerj cises and the delivery of diplomas and medals will take place at 2 p. m. on May 16. Messrs. T. C. Castles of 3 Smyrna, and B. T. Garrison of Newell, N. C., are to deliver orations and Misses Lena Estelle Howell, Mamie Hall Loughridge and Annie Smith of j Blackstock are on the programme for essays. Mr. C. L. Allen of Clover, Is to be chief marshal and his assistants I are to be Messrs. C. W. Smith of ( Yorkvllle, W. S. Gill of Rodman, and j J. B. Whltesides of Hickory Grove. . Captain Crawford at the Blow-Up. 1 "I'll Just tell you what's a fact. If > it hadn't been for old Captain Crawford, the Yankees would have gone - right Into Petersburg after the blow up." So declared Mr. J. B. Adklns, j Wednesday. Mr. Adklns was a mem. ber of company E. Seventeenth regii ment under Capt. Mills. He was at ? the blow-up himself, and only abotit , a hundred yards from the point crater, , where 80,000 pounds of gunpowder were i exploded under the Confederate works. . The explosion killed over 600 men and that it caused great demoralization is . easy to be imagined. The Federals j had 50,000 men In readiness to make 1 the assault immediately following the explosion. "As to whether Captain . Crawford had any orders from above . or not, I do not know; but I'll tell you he was not but a little while in whip j ping together about 150 or 200 men from Scattered commands, and what f we did for the advancing Yankees was 3 a plenty. Of course, other officers did j the same as Captain Crawford, the f best they could, .and all helped. The 5 Yankees lost 4,000 men before they r quit, and lots of us believed then and believe now that if it had not been for old Crawford's part In stopping them, they would have gone right on % into Petersburg." Death of Mrs. Leroy Springs. , Mrs. Grace White Springs, wife of Colonel Leroy Springs of Lancaster, 3 died at a private sanitarium in Baltl3 more last Tuesday night at 10.30 . o'clock. She had been under treatment of the most eminent physicians of . the country for many months, and her Y husband had been at her bedside cont stantly for weeks. Mrs. Springs was in the prime of her young womanhood. 3 She was but thirty-three years of age, L and was married to Col. Springs fourK teen years ago, their honeymoon being f spent in Cuba. She was the daughter of Capt. Samuel E. White, formerly of g Fort Mill, but now a resident of Lancaster. Beside the griefstricken hus. band and father, she leaves a son, 3 Master Elliott Springs, a bright lad of e eleven, years. "The death of Mrs. Y Springs," says a correspondent, "Is a ! peculiarly sad one. Blessed with y abundant means, with ideal home sur. roundings, with all the pleasures and 3 comforts of life, with perfect health up e to her last illness and with every prosr# pect of many years of usefulness and - happiness before her, her untimely r taking away but furnishes another evi5 dence of the mysterious dispensations !t of an all-wise Providence. She was a e woman of marked nobility of soul, un3 affected simplicity of manner and most attractive personality. Indeed, e Mrs. Springs was one of the hand. somest and most strikingly beautiful e women of the south. And her personal charms were fully equaled by her . supremely lovable character and unl* formlv sweet and amiable disDOsition. e She was a devout member of the t. Presbyterian church and took an acy tlve Interest In all church work. She . was a friend to the poor and the needy j and dispensed charity with a lavish hand." The funeral took place In . Charlotte yesterday morning, the ser. vices being conducted by Rev. Chala mers Fraser and Rev. Dr. J. H. Thornit well. The Interment was in Elmwood 1( cemetery. The Charlotte Observer of \ this morning gives the following list . of out of town friends in attendance . upon the funeral: From Lancaster: e Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Witherspoon, Mr. h and Mrs. W. T. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. . J. H. Witherspoon, Mr. and Mrs. R. a B. Mackey, Mr. R. E. Wiley, Sheriff ,f and Mrs. J. R. Hunter, Mrs. G. B. b Barron, Miss Johnston, Mr. L. C. La. zenby, Mr. W. McV. Brown, Dr. M. . P. Crawford, Mr. W. J. Cunningham, ,f Mrs. C. B. Skipper, Mr. J. T. Green, 0 Mr. P. L. Green, Mr. W. P. Bennett, f Mr. J. P. McClure, Mr. T. W. Hardin, Mr. J. E. Stewman, Mr. J. A. Stewman. Mrs. Ira B. Jones, Mr. W. T. Gregory, and Mr. J. M. Little, Jr.: Kershaw: Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Davidson, Mr. C. J. Shannon, and Miss Leila Shannon; Chester: Mr. and Mrs. P. G. McCorkle; Yorkville: Mr. B. N. Moore; Rock Hill: Mr. Ira B. Dunlap and Mr. W. J. Roddey; Concord: Judge W. J. - Montgomery', Miss Shirley Montgomr ery, and Mr. W. R. Odell, and Bessemer City: Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Durham. t - _ k ?Charlottesville, Va., May 1: Little ? by little important facts in the Lov" ing-Estes case are leaking out. The most recent disclosure comes through ah indiscreet letter said to have been . written by Miss Elizabeth Loving to a a girl friend in this county last week, e The letter, it is said, declares the if writer's amazement at her father's act ' and fully exonerates Theodore Estes. Miss Loving, it is said, defends the r memory of the victim to the extent of t testifying that he always treated her with courtesy and consideration. It was because of a real or fancied wrong to his daughter that Judge Loving shot e and killed young Estes. Since the tragedy, Judge Loving and his family nave liveu 111 srauaiuii, <vnu uu oicn.,, t ment from them or about them has e reached the outside world until this r letter, which, if authentic, discloses the extreme unhappiness of the entire family circle. It is alleged that Miss . Loving used the word "orazed" as de_ scrlptive of their mental and nervous . condition. It is- alleged by some per sons in Nelson county that Judge Lov' ing always opposed social relations be tween his family and that of SherilT e Estes, and that the mere fact of his d.iughter's having gone for a drive * with Theodore Estes was sufficient to n excite him greatly. Judge Loving is not noted for an even temper, and it is said that his daughter was the only person who could manage him during a. his gusts of passion. A Nelson county ; man familiar with all the social and political currents there this morning e expressed the belief that it would be II impossible to try the case at Lovingse ton. Feeling is said to be running high in that county and to be aggravated by family and political antlp' athies. The case may be removed to 1 Charlottesville. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. f e Did Not Get Into League?Scarlet Fe- c ver Prevalent?Personal Mention. a ,'orre?|K>ndrnce of the Yorkville Enauirei. j; ROCK Hill. May 2nd.?Our city f failed to get Into the state league of , ball players this year as none of those originally In the schedule failed to J come to time. It was not Rock Hill's . fault?except as to making the effort c too late?as she was there with the goods and made formal application. Next year the local fans will get busy t earlier.and no doubt get the town In t the league. A good deal of interest is v being manifested here now on the sport. The local high school team, the ' C. M. A., is a splendid one and al- s though Just returned from Hartsvllk. ^ with two defeats to their credit, the . boys are in good spirits as they played good ball against a very strong * team and kept the score down low. { There are a number of cases of ( scarlet fever In the Arcade mill village. While the form Is an exceedingly mild one and there have been no deaths, the board of health thought it best to close the Arcade school for the present and also to exclude from the Central school all children living near the affected district. Mr. A. T. Brown of Orangeburg, who is to be the superintendent of the almost completed Aragon Cotton mills, has arrived in the city preparatory to taking up his work. For several years past he has been in charge of the Orangeburg Manufacturing company's plant and is a man thoroughly competent for this responsible position. News of the death of Mrs. Leroy Springs, which occurred In Baltimore Tuesday night, was received here with great regret. Mrs. .Springs was well known here and had some Intimate friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Roddey went up Thursday afternoon to Charlotte to attend the funeral. Contractor J. J. Keller is fitting up a convenient and comfortable office In the building on West Main street next door to the steam laundry. Mr. Britton of Lancaster, has secured a position In E. E. Cloud's to succeed Mr. Carl Cornwell who has returned to his farm. Mr. W. R. Slmms, a recent pharma- 1 ceutlcal graduate of the South Carolina Medical college, Is now with the * Standard Drug and Manufacturing J company. Mr. Simms is a brother of 1 Mrs. Rosa Slmms McLean, who lives In Oakland. Dr. D. L. Magulre of Charleston, who is also a graduate of the South * Pa rrklinn Medina.! college in the recent > clars, is visiting in the city. Dr. Ma?uire graduated fourth In his class and is one of the staff at the Roper hospital now. Dr. J. Burkmeyer Patrick of this city was one of the graduates of this year's class at the Southern Dental college of Atlanta. His younger brother. W. M. Patrick is a student at that institution. Mr. Archie Barron, who Is a student Of the medical department of Vanderbilt university. Is at home for the vacation. Mr. Eugene Holler, who has been a traveling salesman for several years is at home for a few days. Dr. Law of Charlotte, will preacn at the First Presbyterian church next Sabbath. It is expected and hoped that the former pastor. Dr. Lingle of Atlanta will be here the fourth Sabbath and preach for his former congregation. Mrs. Chas. K. Chreltzberg and little daughter, Margaret Adams, are visiting relatives in Savannah, Qa. MERE-MENTION. The seven miners entombed in the Foustwell mine near Johnstown, Pa,, were rescued Tuesday night, having been imprisoned since the Friday previous The weather bureau at Washington says that April broke all records for low temperature extending over a period of twenty-six years Twenty-five congressmen are on a junket to Hawaii, having- sailed from San Francisco on the transport Laford Tuesday William EL Corey has been re-elected president of the United States Steel corporation The United States Amusem .at company is to build a $5,000,000 hotel and theatre in Chicago Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give $60,000 to the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., for the erection of a scientific hall The legislature of Pennsylvania has passed a Joint resolution providing for a constitutional amendment to authorize the state government to borrow $26,000,000 for good road purposes Estrada Cabrera, president of Guatemala, had a narrow escape from assassination last Monday morning. As the president and his staff were driving along the streets of Guatemala City, a mine was exploded under the carriage. The president escaped injury, although several of his staff were Injured More than 1,000 arrests were made In Paris Wednesday as the result of May Day riots. Many policemen and rioters were more or less injured Three men were killed, four severely burned and four others were entombed by a mine explosion at the Whipple mines i near Charleston, W. Va., Wednesday afternoon The ninth anni- , versary of the battle of Manilla bay I was celebrated In Washington, Wednesday night with a banquet. Adml- | ral Dewey presided.........The New i Orleans Cotton Exchange has begun a j war on bucket shops which do not se- ; cure market quotations in a legitimate way Louisa Holden, aged i forty years, shot her husband and her son and then committed suicide at Providence, R. I., Monday night. She i is believed to have been demented 1 Secretary of War Taft, in an address at Cincinnati Monday night, said the Panama canal will certainly be finished within eight years and probably in less time than that Dr. Chas , Griffith Worthlngton MacGIll, of Gen. Stonewall Jacksons' medical staff, died at Catonsville, Md? Monday, at the age of sixty-four years Chas. G. Gates & Co., one of the largest commission firms in the country, with offices in New "York and Chicago, will . discontinue business on June 1st. Jno. W. Gates is the head of the concern. ' .The United States supreme court ( has decided that a state has a right to i comDel railroads to fix schedules to 1 fit the convenience of the public. The ruling was on an appeal from North , Carolina Chief of Police Mincemoyer of Danville, Pa., captured a 1 Jail breaker Tuesday by leaning from the side of a rapidly running locomotive and picking the prisoner up from the side of the track by his'coat coi- I lar A new concrete bridge across < Little Otter river, between Roanoke ' and Lynchburg, Va., collapsed Mon- 1 day, completely damming the river. 1 The engineer and fireman of a ' through freight on the Seaboard Air * Line, were killed in a head-on colli- ' sion at Norlina, N. C., Tuesday morn- ' ing The fly wheel of the engine 1 of the ice making plant of the Selwyn ' fhnriotte. N. C.. bursted Tues- ' day morning, doing $4,000 damages. No one was injured Radical members of labor unions of Chicago, are agitating a movement to secure the presentation of a petition to the senate next winter for the impeachment of President Roosevelt As a result of the overflowing of the Dneiper, Dneister and Dvina rivers In southern Russia, it is estimated that there are 100,000 people homeless.... The United States transport Buford sailed from San Francisco Tuesday, carrying 28,000 barrels of flour for the famine sufferers of China A United States marshal seized 7,000 pounds of oleomargarine in Phlladel ihla Monday Masked men raldd a sheep ranch in the Big Horn ountry of Wyoming Sunday night nd slaughtered 700 sheep by an exiloslon of dynamite....... . .President toosevelt will dedicate "Bulloch Hall," he Georgia state building at the famestown exposition, on June 10th. ...The government on Monday purhased 100,000 ounces of silver for oinage purpqses Six thousand >akers are on a strike in St. Petsis>urg. They ask for more sanitary vorklng conditions American uttsts lead all exhibitors in the spring alon of the Society of French Artists, ^ vhich opened in Paris Wednesday, f >oth in excellence and the number of vorks displayed The Mexican fovernment is fortifying the ports of Joatzacoalcos and Sallna Cruz as the -esult of the disturbances in Central j America New York detectives iave captured an Italian named Vicor Campinelli, whom they believe to )e the "brains" of the Black Hand so:Iety Mrs. Tena Manesko died it Laporte, Ind., Monday at the age or ine hundred and thirteen years.--... rhomas Johnson and his wife were nurdered at Italia, Fla., by a negro 9 ruesday. The negro escaped The egislature of Florida has passed a wo-and-a-half cent passenger rate aw Barney Burchett has been :onvicted of murder in the first degree it Memphis, Tenn., on the charge of laving killed Mrs. Merceces Donovan n Febrtiarv last.... Alex R. Chisolm. 'ormer paying teller of the First National Bank of Birmingham, on trial n the Federal court in that city on a :harge of embezzling $100,000 of the mnk's funds, has put up insanity as a lefense... .A. J. Stevens, a brick malon, fell from the top of a five-story luildlng In Atlanta Wednesday mornng and died shortly atterward fohn Qocc'a, an Italian, was hanged at Saston, Pa., Tuesday, for wife murder. The senate of Florida has passed l bill requiring the railroads of that { itate to furnish separate cars for the vhlte and colored races Monroe darrlson, three-years-old, was run ?ver and killed by a trolley car at Sirmlngham, Ala., Wednesday... .Carid I B. Short, was shot to death by Dr. I 3uck Paul at Qinter, Texas, Tuesday light The killing was the outgrowth >f a political affair Twenty perjons were hurt In a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in West Virginia Wednesday afternoon.... Secreary of State Root has denied a story hat he was soon to retire from Presllent Roosevelt's cabinet Charles j fi. H in ton, chief examiner of the paent office, dropped dead in Washington Tuesday night Earthquakes md famine are causing much distress n the Bltless district of Turkish Arnenla The marriage of Miss Ma- 4 3?l Gillman, the actress, to Wm. E. ^.'orey, president of the United States Steel corporation, will take place in Mew York on May 13. Corey divorced lis first wife some months ago Fifty women were injured by jumping 'rom fire escapes during a fire in Chicago Wednesday Courts mar:ial In Russia will cease today, accord,ng to an announcement by Premier 4 Stolypin French customs officials lave finally rejected the new meat certificate under the United States pure rood law, thus rendering all meats not Tilcroscoplcally Inspected, liable to ex- j t.mlnn Civ IhniiunH Socialists paraded in New York Wednesday to show their sympathy for Moyer and Haywood, whose trial for murder begins May 9th at Boies, la. Pennsylvania has raised the minimum salaries of school teachers in that state to $50 a month The Carolina, the principal hotel at Durham, N. C.t was destroyed by fl-re last night. The fifty guests escaped, but lost their personal effects. Loss $100,000 An heroic bronze equestrian statue of General George B. McClellan was unveiled at Washington yesterday. President Roosevelt was the orator of the occasion Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, rector of a fashionable Episcopal church at Hempstead. L. I., disappear- * ed afew days ago, and it is believed that he was accompanied by Miss Floretta Whaley, one of his parishioners. Cooke is a married man. BOTH TEETOTALERS. What the Governor of North Carolina Said to the Governor of South Carolina. Governor Rollin Woodruff of Connecticut complains that history does not repeat Itself. He arrived home with his staff last Tuesday from Jamestown and a New Haven correspondent lias sent out this story. "I arrived at the exposition grounds early," said he, "and met all the governors present. A little later I stood talking to Governor Ansel of South Carolina, when Governor Glenn of North Carolina, came along. Knowing that these two governors of contiguous states had only Just arrived and noticing that they did not speak, I 4 ventured to ask Governor Ansel if he had met Governor Glenn, and he replied that he had not. I saw a timely opportunity to bring together two governors of contiguous states, and said: " 'Governor Glenn, I want you to meet the governor of South Carolina.' Upon Governor Glenn's smiling acquiescence I turned to the other man and said, 'Governor Ansel, I want to make you acquainted with the governor of North Carolina.' "The high admirals of two adjoln'ner ships of states shook hands with true southern cordiality. I was surprised. and I guess I looked It. There was the governor of South Carolina and the governor of North Carolina, but where oh, where was the usual greeting? I coughed, fidgeted uneasily and then said: " 'I expected the usual salutation when the governor*? " 'To be sure,' broke In Governor Hrlenn, 'I should like to oblige you, but I am a prohibitionist and a teetotaler.' " 'And I. too, would be deeply honored to live up to tradition,' said 'Governor Ansel, bowing deeply, 'but A [. like my brother governor, am a prohibitionist and a teetotaler.'" ? The recent earthquake in Mexico which did so much damage seems to have been part of a series of seismic iisturbances. Every town .southwest if Mexico City in the direction of the Colima volcano was injured. Mexico olty itself was shaken and the catheiral, one of the oldest buildings on the continent, was cracked. In southern Mexico large rents appeared in the ground and in some instances people were swallowed up In them. Several new volcanoes are reported to have oroken out in southern Mexico. A tidal wave swept in from the Pacific md deluged Acapulco and otner coast, towns. Fishing smacks returning from the Gulf of Mexico report a fearful experience. One vessel heard rumblings in the sea and saw a column of water shoot 250 feet into the air. A terrible sea was running and steam irose from the water on all sides of ^ the vessel, melting the ice in which the fish were packed. The air was charg?d with sulphur. The Pacific coast of South America was also disturbed and k-olcanoes were * thrown into violent eruption. Puyehue, a volcano adja- , rent to the large lake of the same lame in Chile, began to pour forth torrents of lava, accompanied by awful mbterranean rumblings, earthquakes, nky darkness, noisy electrical displays, ashes and boiling water.