Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps and .facts. ? Charlotte Observer: We have been greatly mystified about the origin of this strike of the telegraphers. There Is afloat a story about which, whether true or not. will do well to tell. It is to the effect that J. E. Ryan, a union man, was an operator in the office at Los Angeles. Clal.. and Mrs. Sadie Nichols an operator In the office at Oakland, an employee of H. J. Jeffs, chief operator, strong in his opposition to the union. Union operators say that Mrs. Nichols is used by Jeffs to make mischief. At all events she and Ryan quarrelled over the wires a few weeks ago and she called him a liar. He replied: "I guess my reputation will stand up against yours ; anu tor nuii they fired him. Operators at Los Angeles and elsewhere struck sympathetically and from that the thing spread. Grievances about pay and hours were tacked on to the original complaint and the small blaze assumed the proportions of a conflagration, enveloping the country. Whatever the trouble the first question of the French, according to the proverb Is, "What's the name of the woman?" Of course a woman was at the bottom of It. The woman this time, according to the story. Is Mrs. Sadie Nichols. ? Philadelphia August 21: William H. Hicks, paymaster for the Schaum & Uhlinger company, textile machinists of this city, was held up and robbed of $6,000 within a short distance of the machine shops today by two highwaymen, one of whom shot him In the right arm. Hicks, accompanied by Walter P. McDonald, was on his way to the shop with a satchel containing the $6,000, when he was waylaid. It Is charged, by John Posickl and a companion. The highwaymen held pistols at the heads of Hicks and McDonald and demanded the satchel containing the money. Hicks drew a revolver, when one of the thieves grabbed the satchel and fired at him. The bullet struck Hicks In the right arm. compelling him to drop his re volver. The shooting attracted a crowd and hands from several mills in the neighborhood chased Posicki, who Jumped on a trolley car and commanded the motorman to run the car as fast as he could, but the pursuers pulled the trolley pole from -the wire and stopped the car and the fugitive was caught. Later Anton MoJeskl was arrested on suspicion of being one of the highwaymen. The stolen satchel was found in a lot. The money was not recovered. ? In December, 1897, a woman named Augusta Nack was sentenced to the penitentiary of New York for fifteen years for killing William Guldensuppe. She was discharged in July, 1907, after ten years' service. The man who with her conspired to entice Guldensuppe to a lonely house and there to kill him was hanged. Mrs. Nack returns to the world to find all the world turned against her. The story of her life follows her wherever she goes. Prom the moment she left the Auburn prison the photographers followed her, and her picture appeared In the New York papers, with the story of her crime told ftgaln. When her identity was established she was asked to leave one hotel after another. Everywhere she went her past rose to confront her and punish her. She found herself an Ishmaelite, a stranger In a strange world whleh she had darkened with her crimes. Only through charity could she find shelter and protection. She was not an old woman, but crime had made her old. She was garrulous, broken In mind and In spirit. She told the reporters that her mother was still living In Germany, whom she had deserted years ago; that mother was the one person In all the world willing to receive her and shelter her. The wages of sin Is death. This woman . has found the truth of this proverb. ? New York, August 19: Governor Glenn of North Carolina, who Is In New York to consult with the attorneys In charge of the state's case In the hearing of the Southern railway's Injunction suit, talking of the situation of the state, as brought about by the act of the legislature to regulate the railroads, said: "I have no patience with this cry that legislation In our state and elsewhere In the south along these lines Is going to retard the development of the southern states by frightening capital, hurting railroads and in effect, killing the goose that lays the golden egg. I am an Industrial governor. I have always made It a point to protect capital and protect the railroads from anything that was unfair, but when the railroads try to run us, then It is time to call a halt. There was only once that this matter became serious. Had Judge Pritchard tried to get. our prisoners away from us and adjudged Judge Long In conA * ?* T Vio i tempi, i i-cnaiui; nuuiu nan uuvnvu up Judge Long with every soldier and every deputy sheriff In North Carolina. Of course. If President Roosevelt had sent troops Into our state the state would have had to throw up our hands, as one state could not fight th^ TInlon, but we should have appealed o the voters of the country and I think they would have been with us. There is only one way of dealing with these railroads. The point should be, Is the railroad making money? If It Is making money over reasonable profits, then it should submit to.a reasonable reduction In rates. The North Carolina law permits the roads to make 10 per cent. I think that is a .pretty good profit." ? New York August 18: Leslie M. Shaw, formerly secretary of the treasury. now president of the Carnegie Trust company, authorized the following interview on the present financial and industrial condition today: "Our farms produce more than $6,500,000.000 per annum, and the prospect is good for an average crop. Our mines produce more than $1,500,000,000, and our forests more than $1,000,000,000. And neither of these sources of wealth has been exhausted. The output of our factories. In other than f<?od products, Is approximately $12,000,000,000 and no fires have been extinguished. The railways earn more than $2,000,000,000 and they are all In successful operation. The payrolls of our factories and railways aggregate approximately $3,500,000,000 and the scale of wages has not been reduced. In other words, the real sources of the peoples' wealth have not yet been affected, and the ability of industrial concerns 10 pay dividends is not measured by the market price of their stocks. Logical reasons for serious conditions are, therefore, wanting. Psychological reasons are never wanting. If I Judge correctly, the people will have exactly what they expect. If those who have money in banks withdraw it and lock It up; if the banks refuse to grant accommodations, and If the consuming public still declines to place orders, then we will very soon witness the effects. Let those who think that times of disaster follow each other at regular intervals bear In mind that this country has never yet experienced a period of severe depression that was not traceable to financial or economic agitation, usually to both. In 1893 the redemption of green backs in stiver instead of gold was openly advocated; the party in power was under promise to remove the protective tariff from our Industries, the free coinage of silver at the rate of 16 to 1 was championed by prominent members of both parties. The country might have sur- | I vlved any one of these sources of I alarm, but it could not survive all three. At the present time no one questions our financial system and the tariff will not be touched for at least eighteen months. Some check In the speed at which we are going Is most desirable and the checking process has probably begun. It will .now require a fair measure of confidence and courage to prevent undue retardment in our industries. Capital cannot be forced into activity, but it can be forced out of activity. I have never seen the time when universal sanity was more essential to our well-being." $hc ^jjorhriUc (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.t . 1 FRIDAY, AUGUST iyU7. There Is evidence In the president's address that he has been studying the book of Revelations. A fioht between the president and the powerful financial barons who desire to be a law unto themselves, may demoralize things somewhat before the issue is finally settled as It should be; but what else is to be done? The president should be upheld. Thk Hemphill boom for senator has spread to such an extent as to suggest that even If the genial major was not serious about going in, he will probably find it rather serious to get out, except It be by a majority vote. The Wlnnsboro News and Herald, for many years published on the cooperative plan, has been" changed to an all-home print. The paper shows a very much Improved appearance, and we predict that the publishers will not be disappointed at the results of being able to control their own business. It strikes us that Governor Glenn of North Carolina Is doing rather too much talking .about what he would have done under certain circumstances in the recent hitch on the rate question. What he did do, probably was all right; but when ha goes on to say that If Judge Pritchard had declared Judge Long in contempt, he would have stood by Judge Long with the state troops, he is rather indiscreet. It i may have been proper enough to have I backed up Judge Long with state troops had the necessity arisen; but as there was no necessity, it Is Just as well to keep quiet. Trh editor of the Charlotte Observer Is not hunting trouble, as is to be understood from the following: We have from Mr. Hugh Wilson, of Abbeville, S. C., a prominent member of the A. R. P. denomination, a book-, let with the title, "A Plea for Justice. Protest Against the Clergy Levying an Oppressive Burden on American Laymen for the Benefit of Mexicans." It is an attack upon the missionary work of the A. R. P. church In Mexico, which Mr. Wilson thinks a failure and which he ridicules mercilessly. We have permission to use extracts from this booklet, which is of one hundred and twelve pages, but excuse us. When the Seceders get "in grips" with each other it is time for outsiders to hold hands off and sing small. "He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears." Or as Bunch McBee's story runs about the nigger who was telling about seeing a ghost and was asked why he didn't go up to it, "much" it and find out all about it. "It wasn't none er my bizness," was the answer, "an' I wasn't gwine to mess wid it." The editor of the Charleston News and Courier can have our booklet if he hasn't received one. W? thought we were .through with Andrew Jackson and his birthplace, but the Yorkvllle, S. C., Enquirer reproduces a letter which he wrote in 1824 in which he referred to South Carolina as his native state. He did of loo of Hun nthar npPAAions. but very few of us know where we were born. We don't happen to think at the moment to enquire where we are at?in what state or county and what the time of day. Very few are endowed. Indeed, as that Virginia baby of which the papers told some months ago, with the power of speech at the outset, "our first language being that of the mourning." But the fact that Jackson was born at the house of George McKemie has never been disputed and the deeds to that house and land are recorded in Mecklenburg county. That is the end of all argument. Well, we do not want to quarrel with The Observer; but we want to say that the evidence it cites is not much evidence after all. The original grants of many tracts of land In York county, for instance, are n-corded at Lincolnton and at Raleigh- but York county is not in North Carolina. This dispatch of last Wednesday from Savannah to the News and Courier, illustrates the need for a marriage law in South Carolina: Declaring that she had told an untruth and that she was not married to O. E. Mock, Miss Willie E. Mitchell, a pretty young woman who lives at Isle of Hiope, this morning saved Mock from being remanded from police court to the higher courts to be tried for bigamy. The announcement of the young woman was a complete surprise to the police. Last night, after the arrest of Mock, both she and the prisoner admitted getting married at Charleston some time ago. In court, however, she asserted that she and Mock had not been married while on a recent visit to Charleston. The mother of the girl had charged Mock with bigamy. Of course we know absolutely nothing about this case beyond what is set forth in the foregoing dispatch. As a matter of fact if these two people living in Savannah, came over into South Carolina and stated in the presence of witnesses that they were husband and wife, then under the usage of this state they were married. But suppose they had actually gone to a magistrate or a minister and had the marriage ceremony performed, there would have been no record of the fact. Suppose this man Mock has a living wife, as is to be assumed from the facts stated, there Is no question of the fact that tills wife is entitled to her legal rights. Now if this young woman has become infatuated with this man. is It not nut ural, upon realizing that to stick to J her story would only get him into serious trouble without doing herself any good, she would deny it ail? If South j Carolina only had a marriage law?a law requiring a certificate as a pre-requlsite to the right to marry, or only * a law requiring that all marriages be recorded, this thing would not have happened. There would have been f some way of establishing whether or not this couple really went through any kind of a marriage ceremony In Charleston. ? The Task of a Giant. There are those who love to fling at "5 President Roosevelt for the frequency of his public utterances, and who try j to ridicule him as a regular talking machine. It Is natural that there sM?h Tho nnhlip utterances of Mr. Roosevelt have been more nu- -5 merous than those of any other president. and because It Is so well understood how soon most prolific talkers j and writers exhaust themselves and beg-In to make themselves ridiculous with repetitions, It Is not surprising ^ that many should be tempted to fling at him for his presumed falling. But as frequent as have been the public utterances of Mr. Roosevelt ^ since he has been occupying the office of president. It would be difficult to pick out a single one of his messages or addresses and show wherein It falls to measure up to any deliverance of any other president as to timeliness, breadth, loftiness, patriotism, courage, or any other high quality. The president has said and done things which have failed to merit the approval of men who are probably Just j as honest and just as patriotic as he. He has done things which appear to have been altogether wrong, and which probably were wrong; but taking all ^ his public acts together. It is difficult to arrive at any other conclusion than that If he has made any serious mis- ^ takes at all, they have been made with the best of intentions, and that If they have not already been corrected, they will be corrected as soon as possible. It is not necessary 10 tell the people iLI- Katwaan tl H wins UUUIllI^ I lie: u I lie i e: live i/vwn w.. right and wrong. They know. There an very few people who do things wn ng unkrtowlngly. There are lots of "V peotle who will commit wrongs dellb- o erateiy, risking their chances of not tl being found out; but these do not gen- b erally pass for good men. No matter a how smooth they may be, their neighbors, friends and acquaintances gener- q ally succeed in placing them about y right. p We do not think that the country as 7 a whole is any worse now than it has s been for a great many years. We really think it is better than it has ever > been. But there has always been dis- c honesty in high places. Among the e men of power and influence in Indus- p try, in trade, in public office and else- n where are many who are criminals in e all except that they have not been con- a victed, and who are safe from punishment principally by reason of their g standing and influence. g Even if the Standard Oil company, ^ for instance, is guilty of all the crimes ^ with which it has been charged, as it ^ probably.is, Rockefeller and his crowd are no worse than others who have 8 been allowed to flourish in other genetlons, unwhipt of justice, and we have rations, unwhipped of Justice, and we P have no idea that Mr. Roosevelt is the 0 first president who has seen the situation as he sees it now. D Criminals of the class referred to by the .president are a dangerous proposltion. Anybody can see that. Pic- ^ ture a dishonest man in high position. Appreciate that he measures up to the best that the country has, intellectu- ^ ally. Recognize his social and busi ness prestige as being close up about the top notch, and remember that he g is possessed of unlimited financial n power. Now conceive the moral stand- ? tl ards so entrenched as to be on the level of a sneak thief, and then contemplate the couragre that would be re- ' quired even on the part of a president 1 of the United States to measure swords a with htm and there is some Idea of the e magnitude of the task upon which President Roosevelt has embarked. 8 We have no doubt that other presi- ^ dents have seen this same situation, c and have felt it their duty to act. The country has been aware of it all the t; while. Scores of representatives and senators have been parties to it, and those who have not been parties to it ^ have been aware of its existence. But a all have been disposed to shut their 11 eyes to such a task rather than Join ? issue with such powerful adversaries. n They have defended their cowardice on various grounds. Some have claimed s that a successful fight is Impossible, * and others have claimed that as dangerous is the canker that is eating into ? the vitals of the nation, the cure would v be worse than the disease. d In reading Mr. Roosevelt's remarkable address one can hardly fail to be ? impressed with the sublime moral " courage upon which it is based. He 0 seems to have literally sweated blood 1 in the preparation of what he had to ^ say, and he evidently realizes that he a has staked everything on this great is- r sue; but at the same time he appears c to be in the tight with an abiding faith n in the justice of his cause and the in- v tegrity of the American people, and v absolutely without regard to the con- p sequences to himself. n As to whether or not the president wlP in remains to be seen; but if he does not win, civilization will lose. n tl ? Columbia special of August 20 to the News and Courier: When the commission to wind up the affairs of the state dispensary took charge they engaged an auditing company to ex- c amine the books of the state dispensary and tell them what was In the . big institution. It was stated that the work of auditing the books would be a completed in a fortnight. That was in March. The work is not yet finished. ), When the task is completed and the report is made public, the people of South Carolina may know some things a about the state dispensary which they ii did not know before. A number of ex- v pert accountants have been engaged now for five months in examining the " affairs of the dispensary for the last a thirteen years, and it is stated that ^ they have gone to the very bottom in j. every instance. The commission has until January 1 to finish its work, and 1 at that time will make a report to the t general assembly through Governor Ansel. The report will no doubt be very Interesting. The commission has now on hand about $100,000 worthy of whisky at the state dispensary, but \< much r?f ftiiu h<m ji1i*m?w1v lippn unld find v """ Mvv" ? t Is only awaiting shipment. The Rlchland county board has for some time 11 been negotiating for the balance, about d $17,000 worth, and will probably take ^ it all. There are, however, said to be "some odds and ends" which may not ' be salable, and the two commissions B will have to reach some agreement a about this. The commission has not yet paid out any money, and all claims against the state dispensary have been held up. The money which is in the c hands of the commission is on deposit 0 in the various banks of the state and it will not be paid out until the claims are all thoroughly gone into. Some of the claims may be paid and some may d not?it ail depends. The G. M. I. is c officially a thing of the past, but it may be years before we hear the last of it 11 in South Carolina. n LOCAL AFFAIRS, a , lar NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ths '. W. Dobson?Offers 125 acres of land located four miles east of YorkviHe, *av for sale. ne? dartha E. Robinson, Administratrix? on Gives notice to the debtors and cred- ? itors of B. O. Jenkins, deceased, to make settlement with her. leti C. M. Llneberger?Gives notice that the on September 24 he will apply to ln the probate court for final discharge ? as guardian of Frank and Myrtle Davis. a ( lam M. Grist, Special Agent?Says pe< that experience is the best teacher, . fcnd nnHlnps fhe pmfirlenpp nf Mil tual Benefit policy holders. fork Supply Co.?Tells you to buy the arc best turn plow, and says the Vulcan Is the best. Seed oats wanted. )obson Bros.' Cash Store?Offers all 1 summer millinery at greatly reduc- stil ed prices to make room for fall gtr goods. Laundry basket leaves on _tn Tuesdays. Torkville Hardware Co.?Wants to a11 sell you building hardware of all " kinds, which It keeps constantly In cor stock. ? first National Bank?Wants to help you take care of the dollars that Yo you save and make them work for yo? /ou- tsh 1. W. White?Tells the story of a man who wanted to be admitted to a clr- 8to cus at half price because he had am but one eye, and applies the moral me to business. ? .rork Drug Store?Claims that Osgood's India cholagogue Is worth $5 e a bottle to people who suffer from mo chills. Price J1.40 a bottle. ^a, 'homson Co.?Is showing new dress goods suitable for the season. Va- d,t riouB qualities and prices to please qui all comers. Colgate's talcum pow- up der at 19c a box. V. G. Reld & Son, Rock Hill?Are of- a": tfering all kinds of furniture at a 20 to ' per cent reduction during the see month of August and will pay the evt freight for fifty miles and under. . Q. Wray?Has cut the price on all ow two-piece summer suits In half; all ces straw hats are cut half In price; a sto big lot of fur and wool hats at bar- tJo gain prices. ? ' *ouis Roth?Has a fresh lot of very nei choice mackerel that are put up In bul In barrels and kits. Maple syrup at 40c a quart, llss Rosa Lindsay?Will be out of town for two weeks following Au- I gust 26th and her studio will be ing closed during that time. an( " err The Rock Hill papers are agitating ^ he question of a public cotton weigher gn or Rock Hill. wh Some of the farmers say that their the Williamson plan corn has not turned aln ut as they expected and others say hoi hat where the Williamson plan has hal een followed faithfully, the result Is To 11 that could be desired. of Mr. J. Newton Peeler of King's fai Ireek, came Into The Enquirer office soi esterday and subscribed for the pa- tal er until January 1, paying: the price, see 0 cents. He said that he was a sub- grt criber to the York Enterprise, the ly 'orkvllle Yeoman and the Yorkville it lew Era. He took each of them be- tha au.-e he was told they were "cheap- 1 r." He said he has had enough ex- kn< erimenting and will not make any on< lore changes. He declared that The firs Inquirer was always the best paper co> nyway. Jul One of the most surprising propo- 'n Itions we have run up against in a 30 ood while Is that there Is such small ^ 0 U j emand In York county for Prof. New- ' tan's book on Practical Gardening. abl lost of the Information the people TJrv f this section have about gardening is uch as has been handed down from det ne generation to another and nine 8ee eople out of ten are badly confused erri s to that. Prof. Newman's book tells d xactly how things should be done, ,ca nd in such a way as to be understood cor y almost any man or woman who can 'nd pad. There are few people who would 8o1 ot be able to get much pleasure and dn< enefit out of it. provided they give cor ny attention whatever to gardening, ma et In all of York county less than one lnt ozen copies have been sold. dra One thing that hinders prompt and eneral registration is the fact that so QuI lany people assume that the getting are f a registration certificate Is a matter j hat can be attended to at any time In jnt he future, and they keep putting it ofT g rom day to day with the result that ^ hey never get It. But the getting of the registration certificate Is not such an coj asy matter as many people seem to ta(] hlnk. It Is true that the books are prc upposed to be open every first Mon- brj ay; but even that must not be ac- abl epted as a matter of course. Under <] he law the books must be closed thlr- cor y days before a general election; and ted hat often means that there Is noreg- cor ?tratlon on the first Monday in Octo- gur er of a general election year. Then mo gain holidays have a way of bobbing <jh' i unexpectedly. The board can work 0j n holidays If it wants to, but If it does ma ot want to It does not have to. That 0UI i to say, a registration certificate Is- ^ ued on a legal holiday Is good; but are he board does not have to meet on a <] ?gal holiday. The first Monday In e(j leptember Is a legal holiday, and as to 0j. whether the board will meet on that jn ay we do not know. We do not care Qf o be understood as urging It to meet ( r holding that It should meet; but If aee t Intends to meet and will advise us Qf f the fact, we will print the Informa- nifl Ion for the benefit of those who may the eslre to register. It Is very Import- a(jr nt Indeed that every one who Is not tha egistered; but who Is entitled to a ete ertlficate should get one at once. As natters now stand It Is possible for a rell organized small minority of the j oters to take charge of things and do At] rpttv nniph n? it until thp _ ? .. , _ najority can get together. The gov- j rnment of this country now is not ^ early so safe as many people seem to hink. j WITHIN THE TOWN. ^ ? Now for the Saturday afternoon j oncerts. ter ? There Is a good deal of hay com- |ng rig in and it Is selling quite readily Mr t good prices. j ? Chief of Police Love has been tak- ret ng around a subscription paper for vjs he benefit of the Yorkville band. In sisi ccordance with the suggestion made civ n this column recently. Subscriptions j i-ere very liberal, different business Tli louses and individuals contributing In 0f mounts from $5 down. Chief Love, (jaj lowever, has not yet closed the list. er> 1e will continue to receive subscrlp- i Ions in such amounts as may be of- ||S( ered. his vill THE LAW OF TRESPASS. We "I want to thank you for printing tiv< rhat you did of the general stock law j he other day and ask you whether or Na lot there is a law that makes It a mis- un( lemeanor for a stock owner to turn Ma ils stock on the public. If there is an? uch a law, it would be a source of a S. Teat deal of satisfaction to myself Di? nd some of my neighbors to see It In I Tint also." Chi The speaker was a prominent York the ounty farmer, a man who believes in fro beying all laws himself and who Mc ?-ould like to see other people obey awi hem: but who for reasons that appear, his id not want his name published in to onnection with his question or re- ind uest. He was assured that there was ren o law making it a misdemeanor for t jtock owner to turn his stock at ge, and it was suggested to him it there was no need for such a law. 'But, yes, there Is need for such a i," he declared. "There Is strong ;d and I hoped that there was one the statute books." Why," It was suggested, "If a man a his stock out on you, you can take ! stock up and find plenty of redress the law as It stands." 'No; but you don't understand. In food many neighborhoods, there are >ple who make It a rule to turn their ck out after crops are gathered. In ;h one of these neighborhoods there t a good many people who do not e such an arrangement. Sorpe of >m want to sow small grain, some II have crops that are subject to deuction and others object to having ck range on their lands at all. But the same they have to acquiesce." Can't you take the stock up If it nes on your land?" That you can; but there Is the rub. u'U find all your neighbors against i, and even If you succeed in punlng the owner of the trespassing ck you will make a life-time enemy 1 have the reputation of being the anest man in the neighborhood. Now, I don't know that I am any aner than anybody else, or any re selfish; but I need my land 365 ?b in a year and under existing conIons, I don't think I should be rered either to fence it, or to give it as a neighborhood stock range for / part of the time. That I do have give it up, I frankly confess. As I i it, it is nothing but justice that ?ry man keep his own stock on his n land. But under the circumstani I do not dare raise any kick. The ck law Is nullified for a good porn of the year by the desire of my ghbors. I have nothing else to do t submit." THE COMET. I great many people have been see; the comet which made Its appear;e the early part of July In the easti skies. It can be seen any morning ;ween 3 o'clock and 4.30 o'clock. A at many people do not know just ere to look for It. It can be seen in s eastern portions of the heavens, nost directly over that part of the izon where the sun rises and about if way to the zenith at 4.30 o'clock, the naked eye it appears as a star the second magnitude, with a very nt tall extending westward and ithward. An opera glass shows the 1 more clearly, and a medium tele?pe reveals a straight tail several de>es long. It Is now moving rapideastward toward the sun and soon will be lost in the dazzling light ol it luminary. Nils comet does not belong to the >wn periodic comets, but it Is a new ?, and as far as known this is its it visit to our system. It was dlsrered by Mr. Daniel of Princeton on ie 9, and on July 8, Its position was Aries, In right ascension 1 hour and minutes, and in declination 7 dees north. It Is growing brighter as approaches the sun, but It Is probe that It will never become a promnt object in size or importance, ille Its exact orbit has not yet been ermlned. It Is possible that It may be n before many weeks in the westi skies In the earlv evening. ust what Is the physical and chem1 nature of comets is a matter of isiderable dorM. The spectroscope Icates that they are composed of id masses of matter in a state of i subdivision, as sand or dust, acnpunied by more or less gaseous tter, chiefly hydrogen. These come 0 our system from outer space, iwn by the attraction of the sun, 1 after circling around the sun at enormous speed they pass out of system again, unless their orbits i changed from parabolas to ellipses which case they return at regular ervals. Should the nucleus of a large comet ike the earth, there is no doubt that i effects would be serious, but if a lision should come only with the I of a comet our atmosphere would ibably protect us from harm. A lllant meteoric shower would proby be all that we would experience. There is good reason to believe that nets sometimes become dlsintegra, and the dust of which they are nposed by the tidal effect of the i's attraction, becomes scattered re or less uniformly along its orbit e earth passes quite near the tracks some of those streams of cometary tter, and as the particles dash into atmosphere meteoric showers such we see in November and August, i produced. The tail of the comet is always turnfrom the sun, whether approaching receding from It and its motion is the direction of the convex portion the tail. Tomets are wanderers in space, and m to be composed of the remnants creation. They have but little slgicance in practical astronomy, but y serve to excite our wonder and niratlon for that Sublime Power t guides that mysterious creation in rnal concord through all eternity. ABOUT PEOPLE. Vlrs. James F. Hyndman and son of lanta, Ga., are guests of Mrs. Janie rish. diss Llna Allison of King's Mounn, Is visiting relatives In Yorkvllle 1 Tlrzah. dr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines and famare at White Diamond Llthla ings for a short stay, drs. Rudolph Brandt and son, MasRudolph of Athens, Ga., are vislt: Mrs. Brandt's parents, Mr. and s. John L. Ralney of Sharon No. 2. Jr. George W. Brown and children umed to Yorkvllle yesterday after a It of several days to Mr. Brown's ter in the Gowdeysville section of erokee county. ting's Mountain Herald: Mra ompson Jackson and three chllrren Yorkvllle, S. C., came up last Thurs/ to spend some time with her mothMrs. Jane Falls. ting's Mountain Herald: H. P. Al>n, Esq., editor of The Herald, with cousin, Mrs. Lee A. Falls of Green le, S. C., left last Thursday for a ek's visit among friends and relaes at Tlrzah and Yorkvllle. .Irs. J. J. Matthews and little Miss nnle Brooks, Mrs. E. V. Templeton 1 little daughter, Miss Irene, and ster William Templeton of Smyrna, I Mrs. B. H. Matthews of Old Point, C\, are spending a while at White imond Llthla springs. Jr. J. D. McDowell and family of ester, have been in Yorkvllle during f past few days, having returned m a stay In the mountains. Dr. DowelPs health has been giving ay of late, the trouble being with lungs and he has arranged to go the Adirondack mountains for an efinlte stay. Mrs. McDowell will lain in Yorkvllle for the present, 'hester Reporter: Dr. J. D. McDow ell, who recently moved here from slst i Yorkville, will leave tomorrow for the chu Adirondack^ In the Interest of his llttl . health. His family will return to York- thy vllle. It will be regretted by Dr. Mc- Bitt Dowell's numerous friends that this step has become necessary, and we neig feel sure that we voice the sentl- suit i ment of the entire community when cop] : we express the hope that the sojourn cun In the mountains of New York will be had the means of a complete restoration, his Dr. McDowell Is a physlr'an of unus- con ual ability, as well as a man of fine whl character, and It Is to be hoped that he on will be able to return to Chester, as 8we may De tne case, lr tnere is tnai lm- swe ' provement In his health for which he mor hopes. forr Dr. J. L. Hanahan of Columbia, ing well known here as a former proprle- and tor of the York Drug Store, had quite ger, a serious adventure a few days ago. han The story Is published In the Colum- j^j|| bla Record of Tuesday as follows: There is an interesting story in con- hJs nection with the assault made upon a g Dr. Hanahan, of Union Station drug u ^ store, on a Charleston excursion train at , yesterday morning, which was briefly puj| mentioned in the Record yesterday. not According to a passenger who wit- foul nessed the whoie afTalr, the clrcum- flftj stances were these: Near Dr. Hana- onei han was a group of men in rollicking day mood, to whom he talked now and dev< then. One of the men had a rubber tliej balloon, of the insufferable squawking bjov kind, and was getting the utmost trai 1 noise ont of It when Dr. Hanahan, erB with a laugh, touched the lighted end The of his cigar to the bulb. It popped but 1 and there was a general laugh at the jure expense of the owner. He seemed, however, to take the ioke in ftood ? part, and after a while the incident was apparently forgotten. As the urdj 1 train slowed up for the stop at St. flng George's, however, the man who had ^ad been operating the squawker comes , up to Dr. Hanahan, with his hands ' behind his back, and asked: "Aren't W8J3 you the man that busted my balloon?" "Yes, I did It for a Joke," Dr. Hanahan replied, whereupon without warning, the other man pjcj threw up his arm and brought down a beer bottle upon Dr. Hanahan's ^ head with sufficient force to render ? , , i cau him unconscious. About this time out the train stopped at St. George's station, and the man, who had evidently timed his assault well, sprang from the train and made his escape Into 1 the Dorchester swamps. Dr. Hana- 61 1 han was only stunned and is now as rac( well as ever, but the story would have been very different had his unknown assailant used a very little ' J more force. LOCAL LACONICS. *?p i Mr. We Will 8end The Enquirer mu{ , From this date until January 1st, 1908 for 68 cents. A The Winthrop Scholarships. asst i Superintendent of Education Mc- g^, Mackln has been notified as to the winners of the Winthrop scholarships, pjcr i competed for in the recent examlna- so j tion. They are Miss Kate Hunter, Bjor Yorkvllle; Miss Besse L. Faris, Fort |n a Mill; Miss Jessie Wlngate, Rock Hill. o( g Almost Killed. chai A little son of Mr. Wm. Burns, who wh lives near Sharon, was quite seriously fact hurt last Wednesday afternoon by fall- leal ing from a load of fodder. His head a p 1 struck a rock and for a time it was or : thought that he was killed; but he is trio now getting along nicely, and Is con- the ' ' * J -* -m i a a siuerea uu; ui uttiigct. ... _ Death of J. W. Good. be 1 Mr. J. W. Good, formerly of Blalrs- exc< * ville; but since last winter a resident dow of Gaffney, died at his home In that out place on last Wednesday, and was thui burled at Woodlawn cemetery on yes- say terday. His death was due to typhoid sept fever. Mr. Good was about 50 years no i 1 of age and leaves a widow and five riab ' children, all daughters. as I Death of a Worthy Negro. ,cal J. E. Alexander, a well known negro of Filbert No. 1, died at his home on p,a< one of Mr. J. M. Stroup's plantations at last Tuesday afternoon after an illness fror covering most of the summer. Alex- 'arg ander was a hard working, self-re- 8,de spectlng man and stood high In the 8t'" estimation of his white neighbors. The erec reporter has been advised on authority ^ou that he considers good, that Alexander leaves his family along with some t*ie valuable personal property, an Eqult- t0 * able life insurance policy for $1,000. pur] He leaves a widow and a large family. ^av A Good Time Coming. som Fort Mill Times: Sheriff Brown has, ^jn according to a report from Yorkvllle, put the people of this county on notice that It Is his purpose to put all moon- ^ shiners In his territory out of business, ^'0', at of and everybody who knows the sheriff Is satisfied that he fully intends to ety make good. The sentiment in favor of t,cu enforcing laws of all kinds, especially reBf those against murder, stealing, etc., is trac more healthy than ever before and the com outlook now Is that the time Is not far kno off when the murderer will go to the <*er' gallows and the thief to the penlten- ^en 8T6? tiary In this county, regardless of color of skin or social or financial standing. Pot" line Not Good for Calves. case Mr. John L. Stacy of Clover, has jn^ paid the price to learn that nitrate of aeaf soda Is not good for livestock and he gee wants other people to know It free of ajjg charge. "I lost a calf a day or two rea( ago," said Mr. Stacy. "The animal for took sick suddenly, swelled up to con- ers siderably more than its normal size cur< and died within a few hours. I jjUn thought the trouble must be due to pr0( something the calf had eaten; but was regi considerably puzzled until Mrs. Starr tere Stacy remembered to have seen the jott( calf drinking water from a kettle in _ret wnicn i naa soaxea an empij iiiuaic j, of soda sack. The calf had gotten into agaj the yard by accident." hert Road Duty In Cherokee. beei Cherokee News: There were many takt disappointed people last Monday. The dub board of county commissioners met to poin pass on applications for exemptions to from road duty. More than sixty ap- Her pllcants were turned down. Where com the certificate was not definite and hun there was reason to believe that the ble person was able to do road duty, there cont was no exemption. The road tax Is slau but one dollar. To be exempt from It If si one must have a physician's certificate the! and must lose a day in appearing be- be 8 fore the board. If people would try as of t hard to pay that small tax as they try to dodge It they would find that It ?pj u ould be an easier job. CH ( Death of Dr. J. M. Brice. nan< Dr. John M. Brlce died at his home run* in Chester on last Wednesday. A cor- chll< respondent writes: Dr. Brlce was a na- are tlve of Fairfield county and was about less 40 years old. He had been a resident son. of Chester since 1894 and practiced his that profession successfully. As a physl- We clan he was devoted to nts proressiun, nut was thoughtful, resourceful and very s attentive to his cases. As a citizen he jn t was generous and public spirited. As are a friend, he was loyal, frank and sym- the pathetic. He was an earnest, con- o'clo ent member of the Presbyterian rch. His bereaved wife and three e children have the sincere sympaof the whole community, en By a Snake. r. E. R. Maloney of the Blalrsvllle rhborhood. Is very sick as the reof having been bitten by a large perhead snake. The misfortune ocred on Wednesday evening. He Just returned from the field with mules and went to the crib after I with which to feed. The snake, ch was lying in the corn, bit him the left hand. The hand began to II almost at once and continued to 11 until the whole forearm was e than twice Its normal size. In nation from Mr. Maloney this mornwas to the effect that he Is better, it is thought that he is out of danercept that he will have a bad d and arm for some time to come, d By th? Train. an Good, a deaf mute who lived with father, Sam Good, was killed by outhern train near his home about lile west of Sharon last Wednesday about 12 o'clock. Good had been ing fodder during the day and was again seen alive. His body was id yesterday morning within about r yards of his father's house. Corr Louthian held an inquest yester; but very little information was sloped. Some negroes testified that r heard the locomotive whistle ving an alarm about the time the n passed the boy's house, and othtestifled that there was no alarm, boy's head was badly mashed; the body was. not otherwise intd. >r the Gray Fox. ock Hill Herald: Mr. W. S. Boyd feely's Creek, was In the city Sally and told the reporter about some sport he and several of his friends running and catching foxes down Kershaw county last week and a t of the week before. The party made up of the following gentlei: Messrs. W. S. Boyd, J. W. Betts, tiur Westbrook, Robert Westbrook, ter Culp, J. G. Barron and Mr. <ett and Mr. Scott, the two latter n Fairfield county. They were out Hovb hart fourteen races and ght fourteen foxes, all arrays. Four of this number they brouarht home e and expect to have some fun nlngf them later on. There were ty-flve dogs with the party and -e was no such thing: as a fox get; away from them. Two double ?8 were run. Mr. Boyd has taken ly such hunts before, but he says never had better luck and enjoyed rip better than he did last week, hen those thirty-Ave dogs all ned' on the trail of a fox," said Boyd, "they made the sweetest lie I ever listened to." Picnic at King's Mountain, number of ladles and gentlemen >mbled at King's Mountain battlejnd last Saturday In response to published general Invitation for a ilc; but the crowd was not nearly arge as the promoters of the occai desired. One party that gathered i wagon at Bethany for the purpose ;olng to the battleground, afterward nged its mind and went to the Ite Diamond Llthla springs. The Is that sentimentally and patriotly King's Mountain is the place for Icnlc; but after one gets there he she is too liable to lose such pattern as might have been taken to place. Shade is available, but that bout all. There Is ho cool water to lad near by, and there is little to do >pt climb the mountain and go n again. This gets tiresome withmuch repetition. In case of a nderstorm, and people who know, that thunderstorms are almost lnirable from picnic days, there Is shelter and the picnickers are invaily in for a wetting. All this is not t shounfbe. Because of Its historassociation, King's Mountain batround should be made a popular :e for picnickers. There should be least a pavilion to shelter people n storms and a commodious house e enough to accommodate .a conrable party for the night, would be better. Possibly the people who :t the monument will put up a se. It is almost certain that they If the matter is looked into at proper time it may be practicable save the house constructed to serve poses suggested after the workmen e no further use for it. At any i, steps should be taken to provide e kind of accommodations on g's Mountain battleground, ir the Pot Hunters, ort Mill special of August ?n to the jmbia State: The efforts of the e secretary of the Audubon socito enforce the game laws, and parlarly that feature of the work with ?ect to non-resident hunters, is attlng considerable attention in this munity. Fort Mill township, as Is wn, is on the North Carolina borand for years the land owners ?abouts have been annoyed to a it degree by the incursions of the hunters and others from across the These "sportsmen," in most ?s, come from Charlotte, and durthe early weeks of the hunting ion it Is not an Infrequent thing to as many as half a dozen of them ht from an early morning train all ly with dogs, guns and ammunition the day's slaughter. The pot-huntseldom think it worth while to se? the consent of the land owners to t upon their premises, but at once :eed to their work of destruction, irdless of Individual or public Inst, and the game market of Chari is often supplied in no small de> by the activities of these poachers, i therefore in the hope that the law Inst non-resident hunters may after be enforced that a move has i made by a number of citizens to > the matter up with the State Auon society, requesting that he ap-1 it an agent, whose duty it shall be prosecute violators of the law. etofore, while there has been much plaint against the non-resident ters, no one has gone to the trouto prosecute them, and they have Jnually grown in numbers and ghtered the birds so ruthlessly that omething is not soon done to stop r depredations quail will ere long: i thing of the past in this section he state. iR Curfew Law.?The city counAnderson has passed an ordiue adopting the curfew, which is j every night at 10 o'clock and all Iren under fourteen years of age required to be at their homes unaccompanied by some older perThls is the first city in the state we know of to adopt the curfew, believe it Is the proper thing to do, 10 o'clock is rather late. It should ounded not later than 9 o'clock and he winter season when the nights long it would not be bad to have curfew rung earlier even than 9 ck.?Newberry News and Herald. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. 'f Suspender Factory Changes Hands? Round-up of Gamblers ? Personal Mention. Jorrespondeoce of the Yorkrille Enquirer. Rock Hill. August 22.?The Acme Suspender factory, a concern which has been in business here for a couple of years, established by Messrs. C. W. Frew and C. L. Dlehl, changed hands this week, being bought by Messrs. W. J. Caveney and A. R. Klmbrell. Mr. W. J. Caveney, who has been the health officer of Rock Hill for ten or twelve years past, has tendered his resignation to the city council to take effect at once. Mr. Caveney has decided to go Into business and with Mr. A. R. Kimbrell has bought the Acme sua pender factory from Its former owners. ^ -Magistrate T. B. Glenn and his constable, assisted by Messrs. Langley and Miller of the city police force, rounded up a gang of seventeen negro gamblers Sunday afternoon near the brickyard near S. A. Fewell's residence. By consent of the solicitor the cases were 4 disposed of in Esquire Glenn's court. They were fined $10 each and $120 were gathered in. One of the guilty darkies was one who is well known by every man, woman and child in the city, and who is trustworthy in every respect except this. He seems to have been seized with a mania for gambling and has been pinched several times lately. Mr. Julian Starr has returned from Ninety-Nine Islands where he com- f pleted his contract to build a hand some hotel, a duplicate of the one erected by him at Great Falls. Messrs. Buchl Muraoka and Fujikazu Murata, two young Japs who are students of Wofford college who are preparing for theological studies, are ^ visiting the home of Rev. R. E. Stackhouse, the presiding elder of this district They give a lantern l.jcture at Laurel Street M. E. church tills evening?Thursday. They are working their way through college. After an extensive visit to the relatives of the latter in Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Friedhelm have re- * turned to their home here. Mrs. M. B. Massey is visiting relatives in Steele Creek, N. C. Miss Harriet Toney of Johnston, is the guest of Miss Marie Fewell. MERE-MENTION. Fire at Rockport, Me., did $75,000 worth of damage In an hour, early Wednesday morning The plant of + the Cumberland Steel company at Cumberland, Md., was destroyed by Ore Sunday night with a loss of $350,000 The chief warden of a county prison in Delaware, has resigned his Job because he was opposed to the whipping of prisoners at the post.... The International Zoological congress is in session at Boston, for a week.... Chief of Police Shlppy of Chicago, Is said to be putting the lid down on all forms of vice in that city Rldway, Pa., is having an epidemic of typhoid fever, and infantile paralysis. There are about 100 cases of infantile par&ly- ^ sis among the babies Bubonic plague has appeared in San Francisco, and several deaths have occurred in the locality of old Chinatown.... .Secretary of War Taft left Washington Sunday afternoon on & tour around the 9 world. It will be several weeks, however. before he sails from San, Francisco A British ship left Philadelphia a few days ago having as part of her cargo, 600 tons of dynamite John Rogan, a one-legged man, killed his sister in Philadelphia last Saturday because she refused him money. The city police arrested every wooden legged man who appeared on the streets * in the next 18 hours. One peg-leg was arrested three times. The murderer was captured Sunday morning Chaplain Harry W. Jones, U. S. N, has been found guilty of scandalous con- a. duct and falsehood by a general court martial at Norfolk, Va., and will be dismissed from the navy. A Colorado gold mine recently shipped a ton of selected ore to a smelter for reduction. The ton of ore returned a gross value of $360,000 Charles Davis is under arrest in New York on the charge of having murdered Sophie Kehrer by strangulation about three weeks ago The Transvaal assem- 4 bly has passed a resolution proposed by Premier Botha for the purchase of the Cullinan diamond, the largest In the world, valued at $1,000,000, to be presented to King Edward of England. An eight-pound girl baby was 4 born to Governor and Mrs. Charles El Hughes at the executive mansion at Albany, N. Y., Monday morning A mammoth meteor fell Into the sea off Amagansett, L. L, Sunday evening. It made such a splash and threw up such great waves that several bath houses were carried into the ooean.... Prince Wilhelm, grandson of King Os- 4* car of Sweden, is visiting the Jamestown exposition A York, Pa,, man was almost burned to death a few days ago by his celluloid collar becoming Ignited by a spark from his cigar..,.. Fire gutted a Philadelphia toy store * last Monday evening, destroying $60,000 worth of toys Three artillerymen were seriously Injured Monday at Fort Totten, Staten Island, by the explosion of 19-pound shells,. which they were unloading It is stated that ex-Senator Butler of North Carolina, is making $60,000 a vear out oi his law practice The T&mm&ny Jefferson % club of New York, had a picnic on Long Island last Wednesday. A riot developed and quite a number were Injured John D. Rockefeller recently admitted that the value of his Standard Oil holdings is 1150.000,000. * His total returns of personalty for tax ation amounts to 12,500,000. 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Bishop Coadjutor W. A. Guerry is to be consecrated In Trinity church, Columbia, on Sunday, September 15. Eight bishops and a large number of laymen will take part in the exercises. ? J. Allen Emerson, white, convicted In Anderson last February and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, for the murder of Thomas F. Drake, made his escape from the Anderson Jail last Wednesday. He was being kept In ft Jail pending the hearing of his case in the supreme court on appeal. It is said that he was aided in his escape from the outside. ? Columbia State: The supreme court, in affirming a decision of the circuit court, has decided to award 4ft James H. Fields $800 for a ducking he received in a mill reservoir in Lancaster, where he had gone to solicit labor for a cotton mill in Fairfield county. The case is a most interesting one and a synopsis of it will be read with interest by those familliar with labor conditions in the cotton mills. It follows: On August 21, 1905, the plaintiff, James H. Fields, ^ went from Wlnnsboro to Lancaster for the purpose of hiring hands, then in the employ of the Lancaster cotton mills. The coming of outsiders on the mi 1 property and inducing hands to leave was a serious grievance to the Lancaster mills and the superintendent had Instructed the overseer to ^ prevent It by warning such persons not to come on the property and If the warning was not heeded to have them arrested by an officer. The overseers went to the depot and met Fields. After a friendly greeting Fields walked with the superintendent and overseers towards the mill settlement, saying to them falsely that he had no Idea of hiring hands and had come over "to see his girl." When they reached the mill property some of the party selzed and tied Fields and threw him Into the mill reservoir and kept him there for a minute or two. The plaintiff sued the Lancaster cotton mill and Skipper, the superintendent, for $26,000 damages, alleging the Indignity to have been mnliciously Inflicted upon ^ him In pursuance of a preconcerted plan. He received a verdict for $800 against the Lancaster cotton mills alone.