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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.