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f craps and ^arts. ? Atlanta. Ga? Sept. 21: Hallman Sims, the young Atlanta banker and society man who was sentenced to the United States prison In April, 1903, for embezzlement of $100,000 from the Capital City National bank, causing the suspension of that Institution, will conclude his term of imprisonment to. morrow. Sims was sentenced to serve six years behind the bars, but his excellent conduct has given him the benefit of the full reduction allowed by law for good behavior. Sims' arrest and conviction caused a great sensation at the time, as he was one of the leaders in the younger set of Atlanta's society and a welcome visitor in every home of the capital. Although his defalcations caused the bank to suspend, it paid dollar for dollar to its depositors, and something above par to stockholders, but retired from business as a result of the stain which had been put upon it by the act of Sims. ? New York, Sept. 21: Members of the American Newspaper and Publishers' association have appointed a committee and instructed it to call the attention of - President Roosevelt to what the association asserts is the unlawful combination of paper manufacturers to keep up the price of white paper and to demand relief from what thev consider an ODDressive burden. Herman Ridder, president of the American Newspaper and Publishers' association. In an interview, said: "This is a fight in the common Interest The printing and newspaper Industry Is the third largest business In the United States. Its future cannot be left to a few manufacturers who hide behind the tariff wall and 'hold It up.'" G. F. Underwood, of the International Paper company, said in an Interview, "that the cost of labor and the articles entering Into the manufacture of paper have increased and that very few manufacturers are making money under the present conditions, and that new contracts must be made on a higher scale." ? Boston Transcript: The results of a special investigation prosecuted for , six months past by a committee of which Prof. Charles R. Henderson of the University of Chicago, Is chairman, are before the public. Its largest generalisation sums up the prison practice that It finds followed throughout the country in theee words: "Force a man Into Idleness and give him thieves and degenerater for companions." Well does the report characterise tms as a "satanlc recipe for manufacturing: crime;" but it goes on to demonstrate that this is the policy literally and systematically followed in this country. Especially are the county Jails in the United States "a national shame." "The very structure of the typical Jail is wrong." says the report. "From ocean to ocean one uniform plan has been slavishly copied from bad models ?a cell or cave of cells surrounded by a corridor." In most cases this corridor Is the only spot where the prisoners are permitted to walk or take exercise. and this must be necessarily in an atmosphere full of taint both physical and moral. As the report points out, "No man builds a pigpen or a hencoop .on such a plan, much less a residence; tjie modern barn or chicken house has an outside court for daily exercise." ? For several months past the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company has been having a great deal of trouble in trying to satisfy the demands of the people of Philadelphia, and the service given by the transit company has been constantly and harshly criticised and condemned by the press and public of the city. The transit company claimed to be doing the very best It could with the money and facilities at hand. That every dollar of Its earnings went into Improvements, for fixed charges and extraordinary expenses. That the stockholders got nothing in the shape of dividends. Last week at the annual meeting of the stockholders. President Parsons of the company, gave a detailed statement of receipts, expenses, etc. In part it read like this: "Receipts for year ending June 30, 1907, $18,292,080.27; cost of operation, $18,656,128.80; deficit, $364,048.53; cause of deficit?increased wages, increased eost of sunDlies and large amounts paid in settlement of accident claims; amount paid for accident claims last year, $1,217,586.85; Increase of $326,266.62 over previous year. This Increase is due largely to a new enterprise which has grown up. and which has been termed 'ambulance chasing.' The slightest accident is hunted up and reported by runners In the employ of lawyers of doubtful standing, many of whom are briefless except for this class of business, but who are fnost expert in preparing cases of this character in such a manner that they will meet the requirements of the law and catch the sympathy of the Jury. There ace many physicians in league with these lawyers, whose testimony is of such a nature as to exaggerate the injury and to show that any trouble the claimant may be suffering from might have been caused by the accident. ? New York. Sept. 20: Records of the stockholders of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, laid bare here today at the hearing of the government's suit for the dissolution of the alleged oil combine, disclosed the fact that John r? Rockefeller owns 247.692 shares, or nearly five times as much stock as any other individual shareholder. and that he and his associates who signed the trust agreement In 1882 still control a majority of the Standard Oil stock. Measured by the present market price of $440 a share, the holdings of Mr. Rockefeller in the Standard OH company have a value of $109,000,000. The stockholders' record of August IT, 1907, shows that the University of Chicago Is the owner of 6,000 shares of Standard Oil stock. The depression In the price of Standard Oil stock within the past ten years, about the time the agitation against the company began, has been more than $400 a share. Since the legal proceedings against the Standard Oil company of New Jersey were Instituted the stock has steadily declined. This represents a loss of over $100,000,000 on the holdings of John D. Rockefeller. The shrinkage In the market value of the stock also affects the University of Chicagro to the extent of about $2,000,000. Mr. Kellogg asked If the Standard OH did not determine the market price and Mr. Tilford replied that It did. Some Interesting facts concerning the conduct of the marketing of the Standard's products were developed today, when It was testified by Mr. Tilford that a committee controlled the domestic trade. Mr. Tilford stated that the United States was apportioned in districts and that the selling companies assigned to these districts confined their operations to the territory assigned to them. The accountants for the government now at work preparing data will be ready to report nex week. Their report, It Is declared, wll enable the government to develop Ir the hearing that since the Inception o: the Standard Oil trust in 1882, up t( the present time, the total profits o: the combine have been between $800,' 000,000 and $900,000,000.; ?br sgmrkvitle ?npirrr. YORKVTLLE, S. O.t TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1907 No, the Teddy bears are not Interfering with the price of cotton. It h the Wall street bears. The autumnal equinox occurred lasi Sunday and the {rales and rains cam? exactly on time in these parts. No man who fails to qualify hlmsel) to vote has a right to complain of bat! government A good officer is entltlec to receive the commendation of th< voters Just as a bad officer is entitled to receive their condemnation. Th? larger the number of qualified voters the more difficult It is for a bad mar to secure high position. During a good many years pasi there has been talk of constructing s railroad from Lenoir to Blowing Rock Now the talk Is hinging around to e trolley line, which is much more practicable. It is possible, of course, tc build & railroad from Lenoir to Blowing Rock: but there is no reasonabh probability that the possible buslnesj would ever pay interest on the investment. The granting of a new trial in th< nt uro winir who killed her hus band In Columbia, was about' what wa.< to have been expected. There Is e very common belief In Columbia thai the verdict of the Jury was in the rlghi direction except that It should have gone further. But the Idea of punishment for murder seems, to have gone out of fashion to a very large extent and the probability is that at the nexi trial, Mrs. Blair will be acquitted. I That Is a wonderful little story thej have gotten up to account for the death of Governor Goebel of Kentucky It has developed that Turner Igo, the man who Is said to have fired the shoi from revenge, has been dead for three years. His relatives say ' they hat never heard of his having a grievance against Governor Goebel, and they d< not believe any part of the woman'i story. There Is little reason to believe anything else than that Goebe was assassinated as the result of ? political conspiracy. Thb demand for cotton goods ii greater now than It has previously been in the history of the world. Thi demand Is so great as to stimulate thi addition of spindles not only in thi southern part of the United States but In the northern part. There li some nromlse that the increase o spindles is more rapid than the in crease of production. So long: as thi: condition continues, the demand to manufactured products holding up ii the meantime, a fair price for cottoi Is assured. But to guard against con tingencies, the farmers must organize Yes, Mr. Ansel is making a goo< governor. He is making a most excel lent governor?the best and most ef flcient that this generation has known and he is doing it without any fuss That he will be his own successor, Th Enquirer has every confidence. Th only thing we have to complain off 1 that precedent seems to have limite the tenure to two terms. If Ans? could be governor for about ten years the state would become the most or derly and prosperous commonwealth li the Union. He would do more in thi direction than is likely to be done oth erwise In generations. The hard yarn spinners are runnlni up against an annoying situation be cause the weavers . are complalnlni that they are overstocked with yarn ?that the spinners are produclni more than they can handle. The spin ners, to the number of fifty or sixt; are to meet in Charlotte tomorrow fo the purpose of considering the sltua tlon, and it Is probable that they wll discuss the advisability of curtailini production until the weavers catch ui That this is the proper way to handl the situation there is no question; bu when the spinners begin to curtail, I will be well for the producers to de vote more time to picking and less t selline. Although there will be no publl report until after the next meeting c the general assembly, the understand ing is that the experts of the America Audit company have gone deep dow to the bottom of the dispensary rot tenness and have developed lots of in teresting information. It has leake out that several hotel and beer priv liege concerns that were able to shot clear receipts on their dispensary ac counts have been shown to be largel In debt and that they have antled wit checks to cover. There has been evl dence "of rebates; but as most of th transactions having taken place out side the state, it Is very doubtful a to whether the attendance of wltnesse can be compelled. As to whether any body can be convicted is more or les doubtful. However, time will show. In its review of the day's develop ments in the cotton market last Krl day, the Wall street edition of th New York Sun had the following: Advices from Texas stated that spc holders refused to follow the recen decline and no cotton whatever wa offered. The fall In prices, it seemet caused the fanners to become more de termlned not to sell. In many section there was no question of their abillt to hold, even though the crop is shor The movement figures showed tha the new crop was coming out on fairly liberal scale. Houston's esti mate for tomorrow called for 7,000 t 11,000 bales against 13,467 bale? a yea ago. Savannah received 10,459 bale today against 9.794 bales a year ag< Port receipts for the day were official ly estimated at 24,000 bales as again* 37,388 bales on the corresponding da last year. The second paragraph is prlnte especially because of the Informatlo it contains; but the most striking pat of the review is that whJch refers t the attitude of the western farmer: } J A few years ago, the action of farmers t t in holding cotton off the market would J 1 have been Ignored. Now, however, the i i speculators are taking notice, and we 1 f believe that if all the farmers of the 1 ) south would only hold back for a sin- 1 f gle week, prices would advance by t leaps and bounds. I ^ Holding Cotton. < Every producer of everything else 1 tries to get for it every cent it is ' worth, and why should not the farmer get every cent that his cotton is worth? We are not going to pretend to say * that cotton is actually worth fifteen cents a pound at the present time, be' cause we do not know. But we believe , it is worth Often cents and probably < more. < We say we believe, cotton is worth J fifteen cents because, among other t things, we believe that the manufac- i turer -can buy it at that figure and < make a- profit; because also, every J , other commodity has gone up in price j and as a matter of fact fifteen cents i is hardly more in proportion now than < % was ten cents three years ago. If the farmers of the south were ] thoroughly organized in every county < nnri nariih. and would refuse to sell J for less, we are satisfied that they could get fifteen cents for every bale of cotton they will make this year and f we do not know of a single reason I why they are not entitled to receive j this price If they can get it. The principal drawback to the price j of cotton at this time and the greatest advantage to the speculative bears, is the fact that there is such a large amount of "distressed cotton on hand ?that is cotton that the producers owed, before it was made. The bears have been calculating on this and they ' have been able to successfully use this 1 situation to beat down prices. It is Important that some means be 1 adopted to take care of this dtstress ed cotton. There is but one way to > do It. Of course, every man of com* mon sense knows that if he owes a 5 debt due at a certain time, he must ' pay it. He has no right to wait a ' minute beyond the day the debt is due, without the absolutely rree consent of the creditor, and he has no i right to complain of the creditor for * refusal to extend the time. Then be' cause this forced sale may affect ad1 versely the price of other cotton and t It does, the stronger holders of other t cotton, should arrange to take the dls* tressed cotton off the market at the * prevailing prices and hold it against * the time when the demand will be bet. ter. f If the farmers are thoroughly organized they can take care of distressed cotton absolutely without risk. r Otherwise they will assume exactly ? the same, risks that are assumed by . other speculators. ? As we have said and repeated, we t have nothing to say against fifteen ? cents cotton. We do not believe that 1 fifteen cents Is too high, provided the i fifteen cents price can be enforced; but > we do not believe that the fifteen cents 3 price can be enforced except by thor* ough and complete organization. i The Murder Business. The press ana me puipu uuuuuuc to thunder against murder and murder J 8 goes on just the same as If there had \ ? been no thundering. 1 e Some individuals are inclined to lay . B the blame for so much murder on the j e Judges and Juries and others say it Is A the lawyers. \ 8 We shall not attempt to relieve j ' anybody from a Just share of respon- j " slbllity, but we are of the firm convlc- i 8 tion that the greater part of the trou- 1 r ble is due to a weak, cringing and ( 1 cowardly public sentiment. 1 If the people of this state desire to I put a stop to murder there is a quick ( and easy way. They must hang some j murderers?as many as it is possible i to hang before the practice is checked. I There will not be a great deal of j hanging to do in each county. Let ' some one county set the example by swinging up one of these vicious e creatures, and it will be quite a while ( e before It will be called upon to swing , 8 up another. Let the second offender ^ follow in the way of the first, and the ( third will be hard to find. ' Hanging is a most capital remedy ( for murder. n There is no desire to deny that in , 8 the question as to how Juries can be prevailed upon to convict, there is quite a problem. Tradition and custom have estab g lished murder as a rather trivial of fense In the eyes of many people, and g a change of sentiment along this line 8 involves conditions that are not to be g lightly overcome. How often does it happen that a y whole neighborhood is shocked by the r perpetration of a murder that outrages " every sense of fairness, Justice and 11 Christianity, with the facts all shows ing up against the murderer to an ex' tent that seems to make conviction a e dead certainty, yet when the case comes to trial It appears that the dead man was in every sense the aggressor, " and for the murderer to have done less ? than he did was next to impossible. Almost every individual of mature age, who reads this has recollections c of one or more murder cases that have come under his direct personal obser" vatlon. In many instances there n was a lawyer in the neighborhobd n within a very short time after the oc* currence of the murder, and within a " few days after the visit of the law^ yer, people who had been telling of ~ seeing and hearing certain things, v were either keeping their mouths shut ~ or telling their stories with a different y coloring, changing some of the cir^ cumstances to exactly the opposite " from what they were at first. When e the case came to trial, some of the " most important witnesses for the state 8 neglected to tell what they knew, and 8 witnesses for the defense testified to ? 11 j ' 1 oom uto rinou thfif UIIC?CU Itttlft UIIU Ullvuii.oiui.vw 8 never occurred. Of course, the lawyer for the defense Is largely to blame for failure to con" vlct. He generally knows all about the - case. He Is not going to let anything e that is damaging come out if he can help it. Too often he feels warranted 'I in resorting to trickery and intrigue ? to defeat the ends of justice. It some]_ times happens that with the help of - witnesses available, he deliberately 8 manufactures and "proves," an excus^ ing story, and the public is astonlsh,t ed at the result. Without knowing a exactly why It unjustly blames the " Jury, which cunnot and should not " convict except upon proper evidence. s It is a fact, however, that juries >. sometimes allow themselves to be mis" led by very specious pleas, by appeals y to sentiment and prejudice. It Is not light for a lawyer to do these things; d but still If he can divert a verdict by n this means, the responsibility is upon t the Jury. o The judges may be to blame in part i. sometimes, the lawyers are often able o defeat the ends of Justice and the lurles are not Infrequently caught lapping; but after all the principal >lame rests with the public. When :he public adopts the habit of carefuly inquiring into the administration of ;he court machinery, looking closely nto the reason why, particularly of very acquittal, and seeking to place :he responsibility where it belongs, nurders will become less common and luman life will be much safer. HOLD THE PHILIPPINES. Sreat Naval Captain 8peaks With Wisdom of a Merchant Statesman. Admiral Dewey, says a Washington ii8patch, strongly resents the proposiion that has been discussed in a more >r less academic manner to surrender :he Philippines, which, of all men, he" ,vas a leading factor In bringing under :he American flag. In an Interview :oday the admiral set out clearly the easons which Impel him to insist up>n the retention of the Islands. Slnfularly enough, in view of the fact :hat the admiral Is a man of war by :rade, the strong point of his argunent is not based upon the military >r naval importance of the archipelago )Ut almost altogether upon the great /alue, present and prospective, of the Philippines to America in the extension >f our trade with the Orient,, which he egards as holding out the best promse of commercial expansion. The adniral says: "Abandon the Philippines! I don't relieve our country will ever do that, sertalnly It should not because it has iltogether too much at stake. It Is >nly our control over the Philippines :hat makes it possible for us to Insist jpon the open door In the east, toward vhlch our diplomacy has been directid for a number of years. We want >ur share of the enormous commerce >f the east and we cannot keep the loor open for it, unless we hold the isands. "Why did Spain for two hundred rears dominate the commerce of the Drlent? Just because she had the bay ind harbor of Manila as a great comnerclal and naval base. That base >an be lust as useful to us commer ilally as It was to Spain. For the past :en years every strong European nation has been trying to get a foothold for commercial and naval purposes in ?astern waters?Germany, England, FYance and Russia. Through the forces of war the United States obtained, rightfully and without chicaniry, the best and most strategic position possible, giving us superior naval ind commercial advantages over other latlons. What sort of common sense ivould It be for us to give up such a position? "Suppose we should dispose of the Philippines and Japan should acquire them. See how the Islands stretch ilong the coast. Here are the Japanese islands, here is Formosa which Japan owns, and then come the Philippines. If japan had them, she would sommand every gateway to the Orient *nd the United States would be completely shut out "Every one concedes that the Orient s the future great field for the principal commercial nations of the world. We ought to be the leaders, but we nust at least have a share in the enterprise and in order to do so we must naintain the positions we have occupied through force of circumstances In that region. I am talking now of the ourely commercial phase of the question and I think it Is plain that we must have a commercial base of operation such as Manila furnishes. And then, in order to protect our commerce, ive must have a naval base, and at Sublg Bay, such a base Is now being leveloped. Congress has recognized pur needs in the Philippines and has appropriated liberajly for fortifying the islands. Modern guns are being mounted, a large dry dock has been located in Subig Bay, troops are stationed in the island of Luzon and in svery way congress has shown its desire to protect the islands from foreign aggression and also to establish a base ror possible military operations. 1 "if hDo hflsn fremientlv said that the United States has assumed responsibilities in the Philippines which It' cannot pass over to other hands. I do not care to discuss this nhase of the situation, except to sav that I believe the American people will never shrink from surh responsibilities as were assumed for them * wh*?n the United States took over the Philippines.' "I want to emphasize my belief that the United States as a world power will alwnvs have commercial and diplomatic interests in the far east and cannot maintain itself pronerlv without a base of operations. The United States cannot withdraw from Its present enterprise in the east, but must gro forward seeklnsr its share of the advantages and sustaining Its share of the responsibilities." ? Richmond, Ind.. Sept. 21: Turner [go of Farmers, Rowan county, Ky., is charged with the killing of William Goebel of Kentucky, in an affidavit by Mrs. Lula Clark, which was published exclusively in the Richmond, Ind., Evening Item today. In Mrs. Clark's affidavit, .which was taken at Indianapolls, April 11, 1907, in the law offices of ex-Governor W. S. Taylor of Kentucky. she says that her maiden name was Lula Williams, and she was born at Rothwell, Menifee county, Ky., but lived most of iter life, and, at the time of Goebel's murder, at Mount Sterling1, Ky. She Is a niece of Judge Frank Day of Frenchburg, Ky., and also of James Williams, of the same place. She has a cousin named Gertrude King, who lived at Maysville at the time of Goebel's murder and was then "keeping-company" with John Sanford of Covington, Ky. Upon the day of Goebel's murder the two girls went to Frankfort, Ky. They started to enter the state house by the rear entrance and when on the steps a shot was fired. At the same time they noticed a man standing Just Inside the door whom they recognized as Sanford. In a minute a second man came running out of the building dressed like a mountaineer and carrying a rifle. He ran to Sanford and said: "I got the ." That man was recognized by the affiant as her friend, Turner Igo of Farmers, Rowan county, Ky. Both men ran out of the building to a fence where Sanford gave a pair of shoes which ne was carrying, to Igo, who exchanged his boots for them. The men then disappeared. The affidavit states that Igo told her at Mount Sterling depot January 25, 1900, that he was going to kill Goebel and that she saw him afterwards at Jeffersonvllle, Ind., and he reminded her that he had fulfilled his promise. She also says that Sanford had told Gertrude King a few days prior to Goebel's murder that he Intended to kill Goebel, saying: "Here Is my chance to get revenge. The legislature has met." The Evening Item also publishes correspondence between Caleb Powers and the persons who se cured the affidavit and afterwards Investigated its allegations for verification. showing that the expenses for the information gained were paid from the Powers' defense fund through John Marshall, of the law firm of Gibson. Marshall & Gibson of Louisville, Ky.| The original correspondence of Powers and the copy of the affidavit are in the possession of the Item. ? Mecklenburg county, N. C., refused last Tuesday to vote $300,000 worth of additional bonds for road improvement. The Evening Chronicle of Saturday sums up the official count as follows: The $300,000 bond Issue was defeated in Tuesday's election by 91 votes. The official returns reported today show that the county had a total registration of 1620 with a total vote In favor of the bonds of 708, thus showing that the county defeated the Issue by 102 votes. The city registered 818 and voted 420 favorably, giving the bonds a majority of 11 votes. The city's majority subtracted from that of the county, brings the total down to 91. The total registration was 2.438, the total number of votes cast for bonds, 1,128 and the total votes cast against, 1,206. A majority of the registration in favor of the election must be polled in order to carry. LOCAL AFFAIRS. r NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8. c S. W. Inman?Offers 35c per bushel c for the seed of ell cotton which he gins. r John F. Smith?Gives notice that until further notice his gin will be 1 operated, Tuesdays, Thursdays and a Fridays. Mrs. W. D. Grist, Pres.?Announces a bread and cake sale at Mr. Kennedy's store on Saturday for benefit 3 of Ladies' Aid society of A. R. P. J church. J. S. Brlce, Attorney?Publishes summons for relief In the case of W. D. and A. M. Grist, as executors, plain- > I tiffs, against A. M. Jackson, de- ( fendant. ; J. L. Williams & Co.?Are showing a big line of clothing and say they can e give you the best clothing values. a G. W. Sherer?Says for you to follow f the crowds or phone to Sherer"s market if you want the best fresh meats, vegetables, etc. 8 J. Q. Wray?I3 showing a very complete line of hats of all grades for ^ men and boys at attractive prices. Jefferson and Stetson hats for men. Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Has a-full 1 line of cooking ranges and stoves, y heating stoves for both wood and v coal and invites you to see them before buying. ' York Drug Store?Gives some practical points on paints, oils, varnishes, t class, putty, etc. . Yorkvlile B. & M. Co.?Extends an in- ' | vitatlon to the ladies of Yorkvlile a and vicinity to the fall millinery c opening tomorrow?Wednesday. Yorkvlile B. & M. Co.?Directs attention to its line of "Kantbebeat" clothing for 'men, and especially "Kantbebeat" raincoats. See page four. Bank of Clover?Publishes its statement of condition at the close of business on Sept. 17, 1907. First National Bank?Says that "one thousand dollars can be accumulated by the average person, in much shorter time than we would think. National-Union Bank. Rock Hill? Points out that the only hard thing about a bank account is in the starting. It nays you to save. Thomson Co.?Tells you that your new suit should be an Important thing to you. They are showing Schloss and Kirschbaum clothes at $10 to $26 the suit. j M. W. White?Points out what some people get for their trouble when they make their own deal to the exclusion of the broker. York Supply Co.?Sells Vulcan chilled plows and says that is the best and wants you to try It. The Vulcan is guaranteed. Carroll Bros.?Want to buy 100,000 tmnhelu of cot? >n seed and will pay top prices. g I ' About the most complete and thorough going monopoly that we have information of In this country is the Southern Express company. The I Standard Oil company is no more powerful or dictatorial in Its particular field. There is little or nothing in common between the express company and its patrons. The express company does things very much according to its own notion and customers usually take whatever comes, either because they know no better or are unable to help themselves. Quite a number of country ginners are complaining at 25 cents per hundred as the ruling price for ginning cotton. They claim that 25 cents is too low; that it is practically impossible to make a profit a,t that figure, and that the price should be not less than 30 cents a hundred. Some few have adopted, th'e last named price, but the adoption is not general. The understanding Is that the 25 cents price has been established principally by the oil mill gftuierles, their object being to get more rather than make a profit on the ginning. THE VOTING CONTE8T. There are still nearly six weeks of the voting contest and still it is almost anybody's nice. No one in the race has a lead that cannot be overcome by several days of well directed work. Up to this mornmg tne voung stood as follows: Miss Lindsay Clark 445 Miss Edith Castles 65 Miss Wllmoth Jackson 100 Miss Bessie Sandifer 120 WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Cotton has been selling quite frteiy. ? There was more evidence of liquor In Yorkvllle last Saturday than for several weeks past. ? Messrs. O. E. Grist and Geo. W. Williams were elected deacons of the Associate Reformed church last Sunday. Their ordination is to take place next Sunday, provided of course, they accept. MR. BARBER ON COTTON. Mr. F. H. Barber expresses himself on the cotton situation in the Rock Hill Herald as follows: "I suppose it is no use to tell some of you farmers not to give your cotton away Just because speculators are putting it down to make you do it. You can sell for 111, 10, 9 or 5 cents, but they will not get mine. That same crowd putting it down now tried to get mine from 9 to 10 cents last year, hut thev didn't do it. "When I said on the start last year when cotton was under 10 cents they wouldn't get a bale of mine under 12J cents some laughed, but they didn't get It but nald close to 14 cents. Give it away if you want to?work for nothing if you want to, but what do you want to give your cotton away for? "If cotton was 7 cents now when the farmers are bringing it in the speculators would try to put it to 5 and lots of farmers would sell?cloth 40 cents per pound and cotton Hi cents per pound and still the farmers will give their cotton away. What is the use of having a Farmers' union and the Southern Cotton association if you are not going to pay any attention to what the leaders tell you? They say 15 cents. It Is worth 15 cents and if you give yours away it is your own fault." ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Milton Raines of Columbia, has veen visiting In Yorkvllle. Mr. W. A. Barrett of Clover, was In Yorkvllle today on business. Mr. Brian Thomasson is with Mr. J. Q. Wray as a salesman. Miss Sudle Sanders of Columbia, is visiting Miss Iva Dickson of Yorkvllle. " Mr. Chess Youngblood has taken a position with Carroll Bros., as sales- r man. ! Mr. Sain L. Miller came up from I Columbia last Friday In an automo- t bile. . < Mr. R. M. Anderson of Newport, has j been visiting the Jamestown exposl- j tion. s Mr. Paul Barron of Tlrzah has taken | a position In the Yorkvllle postofflce j as clerk. .? Mr. J. W. Williams of Birmingham, ^ Ala.. Is visiting the family of Mr. T. [ D. Turner. 1 Mr. Lesslle McCorkle of Yorkvllle, t Is with the Yorkvllle Hardware com- \ pany, as a salesman. f Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Norrls and Miss r Eloise Norrls, spent Saturday with t friends In SpA-tanburg. c Miss Edith Ford of Gaston county, -| Is visiting the family of Mr. James L?. ? Moss, near Yorkvllle. I Mr. L. W. Jenkins came over from t Spartanburg Saturday to spend Sun- ? day with his parents. I Miss Elizabeth Hunter has taken a t position In the millinery department of I the Yorkvllle B. & M. company. t Mr. Robt. L. Jenkins left yesterday i or Poughkeepsle, N. Y., to take a I ourse In a business college In that < Ity. i Mrs. W. R. Carroll and children 1 eturned home last night after spendng some time with friends at Bethel ind In Gaston county, N, C. Misses Mary Tom and Alice Gattls nd Miss- Vlrgie Davis of Gastonla, pent Sunday in Yorkvllle, guests of dr. and Mrs. John P. Youngblood. Mrs. D. T. Woods and children reurned home Saturday evening after a dslt of several weeks to relatives at lastonla and Huntersvllle, N * C. Miss uruKNMiiire ui otiiuiiiuic, amrd in Yorkvllle last week and will gain have charge of the millinery delartment of the Thomson company. Mr. Edward FInley left Saturday, nd Mr. Geo. Cartwrlght left yesterlay for Columbia to resume their stulles at the South Carolina university. Mrs. Mary D., and Miss Ethel Hope eft for their home in Charleston last veek, after spending several weeks vith relatives In Yorkvllle and vlclniy. M. B. Jennings, Esq., left for. Wlnns>oro yesterday to look after a case In vhlch he represents the plaintiff igalnst the Western Union Telegraph ompany. Miss Mary Wallace, daughter of Mr. fohn J. Wallace of Yorkvllle, Is convalescing from typhoid fever. A little ion of Mr. Wallace Is thought to be aklng the fever. Mrs. Wilson Tate after spending the lummer at Morganton, 1$. C., Is spendng a few days In Yorkvllle, with her >arents, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Moore, beore going to her home In Florida. Miss Wllmoth and Mary Jackson of Newport, passed through Yorkvllle his morning on their way to Clover o return a visit to Miss Pearl Balles, ? ? II -U^.4 vno naa Deen speuuuiK u suun wmc lith them. LOCAL LAC0NIC3. /Va Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January let, 908, for 54 cents, ipecial Constable. Mr. J. L. Sanders has been appointed a special constable for York couny, and will do what he can to put a itop to the tiger business. During his tervice as a policeman, Mr. Sanders lid a lot of good work In running lown tigers In add about Yorkvllle. Annual Settlement. Comptroller Jones was here last Saturday to make his annual settlenent with the county auditor, county reasurer, county supervisor, county luperlntendent of education and forenan of the grand Jury. The settlenent was quite satisfactory to all coneerned. Automobile Collision. What came near being quite a seri>us collision occurred between Mr. C. 3. McFadden of Rock Hill and Mr. iValter Qulnn of Smyrna on the couny home hill, two miles east of York'ille last Saturday afternoon. Mr. McFadden was in an automobile going oward Rock Hill and Mr. Qulnn was n a buggy going toward Yorkvllle. The mule Mr. Qulnn was driving beiame frightened at the automobile, umed the buggy over and broke It dr. Qulnn was thrown out and was >retty severely bruised. 4ew Church at Flint Hill. Baptist Courier, Sept. 19: The Flint Jill church will break ground this veek for a new and handsome Dricx louse of worship. For three or four 'ears the members have been accumuating materials and funds for the >uilding and they are quite happy that he time has at last come for the work >f construction to begin. The house vlll cost $6,000 and will be one of the >est country meeting houses in the itate. The church has a membership >f only about 160, but it has long been mown as one of the most liberal and >rogresslve in the state. Bro. E. S. leaves is the present pastor and he is eadlng them well and wisely. The Birds Had Flown. Sheriff Brown made a partially suc;essful raid after an illicit still in the Smyrna neighborhood last Friday nomlng. He was acting on a straight ip from a reliable source, but his inormation did not Include exact direcions as to the location of the still.* le was accompanied by Deputy Sherff Qulnn, Magistrate R. L. A. Smith ind Constable Floyd Stephenson. The )arty found the still at a point about hree miles from Smyrna. But the llstillers had gotten wind of their nminff and grot away with everything novable, leaving1 only some stands :ontaining about 600 gallons of beer. This beer was destroyed. There have >een no arrests up to this time. Route No. 6. Inquiry of several persons directly nterested indicates that while a porion of the roads on Yorkville route "lo. 6 have been put In very good conlltlon, a large portion of this route renains untouched. Up to -Saturday, jractically nothing had been done on he worse portion of the route, that ylng along the Armstrong Ford road >etween the Clover road crossing and he Allison Creek bridge. This is a niblic road, of course, and its condlion is represented to be very bad. Host of the people living along the )lantatlon roads, not classed as public oads, have either already performed he work required of them, or promsed to do it before the expiration of he limit. There is a pretty general 'eeling along the route that the road vlll be worked; that if those whose luty It is to do the work fall, that others will step In and do the work anyvay. How it Is going to turn out, lowever, remains to be seen. There is Ittle reason to expect that the post>fflce will recede from the position it las taken In the matter, rhe Market Situation. The regular Associated Press report it yesterday's developments In the uow Vnrit contract market was as fol ows: New low records were made In he cotton market today, with the dose steady at a net decline of 32 to 17 points. Sales were estimated at (00,000 bales. The opening1 was easy it a decline of 12 to 16 points In resjonse to lower cables and dfeappolntnent among recent buyers that the itorms In the south were not more severe and were not accompanied by re>orts of damage to the growing crop. There was selling for behind accounts luring the session and while shorts vere covering on a scale down they ailed to check the declining tendency if the market for more than brief Inervals and there were no rallies of ;onsequence. New Orleans was a leavy seller here and Liverpool was ilso a seller at times on a heavy scale, humors that there was still an Octo>er long Interest which might be forced out before the first notice day may lave been a factor during the session, iut more attention was paid the promse of more settled weather over the i ielt and the fear of spot weakness as a. result of Increasing reports. As officially reported, southern spot markets were unchanged to 1-4 cent lower, Receipts at the ports today 31,763 bales against 23,306 last week and 43,412 last year. For the week 220,000 bales against 151,875 last week and 276,460 last year. Today's receipts at New Orleans 3,430 bales against 6,984 last year, and at Houston 7,575 against 14,720 last year. A GIANT POPLAR. Fort Mill Probably Ha* Largest Troo In York County. Editor of The Yorkville Enquirer. Not long ago I saw In your valuable paper an article referring to a large poplar tree which stood on the west side of the Catawba river, near the power dam, and which was once used as a blacksmith shop; but which was later burned down. I was acquainted with this tree, 1 having seen it often; but it was not i so large as a tree I heard of out in i California. The story is that a man { trnvpHnir u/lth a turn.hnrfiA tpam pflmP about night time to where a wagon ahead of him had driven into a large tree. He followed Into the tree and pitched camp. On driving out next morning, he passed people camping In < the same tree with a six-horse team. | But the object of this is to tell about another big poplar that stands about one half mile north of Fort Mill, on Capt. Samuel B. White's land. It was i measured last Saturday and at a point 2) feet from the ground It was found to be eighteen feet in circumference. 1 At a point five-feet from the ground it was found to be fifteen feet. and , three Inches in circumference. I do not want to be understood as trying to inject the California tree in the competition; but if anybody in , York county knows of a larger tree than the one I have described on Cap- ' tain White's land, I would like to see i the figures. T. D. Faulkner. Fort Mill, Sept. 23, 1907. i MERE-MENTION. Chancellor Hicks at Vlcksburg, I Miss., on Saturday assessed penalties i aggregating $1,800,000 against the Gulf 1 Compress company, as an illegal trust, < and gave the corporation one year to i wind up its business and get out of i the state... .Five men killed and one I fatally injured, resulted from a freight I train getting oeyona control ana run- 1 nlng back down a heavy grqde into i another train near Devoe, Cal., Satur- 1 day... .Porter and Albert Jones have i been found guilty of murdering Rob- i ert Adams at Eatonton, Ga., and sen- i tenced to life imprisonment. All the 1 parties are white King Chula- 1 longkorn of Slam, celebrated his birthday at Hamburg, Germany, Sat- , urday at an estimated expense of i f250,000... .Two men were killed and 1 three probably fatally injured by an ( explosion of natural gas in a Wilkes- , barre, Pa., coal mine, Saturday...... Frank E. Constantino was convicted in ' a Chicago court Saturday, of the mur- ( der of Mrs. Arthur Gentry and sen- | tenced to life imprisonment Sec- 1 rotary Root will leave Washington on j his visit to President Diaz at Mexico , City, tomorrow The plant of the i Atwater-Nelson Buggy company at J Thomaston, Ga.. was destroyed by Are Saturday morning with a loss of $100,000*... .Colonel Robert E. Withers, an I ex-United States senator, died at Roanoke, Va., Saturday night, aged 85 years....The Russian government Is preparing to spend $19,000,000 on defense works at Vladivostok.... .'.The | combined population of Oklahoma and , Indian Territory, making the new , state of Oklahoma, is 1,414,042 Chas. Rorer, an American, has been 1 sentenced by a London court to five years' imprisonment for Jewelry thefts. J. Pierpont Morgan was fined $165 last week for having thirteen trout In his possession at his Adirondack mountain camp... .Senator Foraker in a speech at Hiilsboro. O., a 1 few days ago, said the constitution of the United States should be preserved intact, especially so far as the rights it conferred on individual states were concerned....It is officially announced that the peace negotiations between the French and Moors at Casablanca last week failed and that the French will again resume the offensive ...... Five men were killed and four men and two women were injured at w 11 helms Haven, uernunjr, wiunav by the explosion of a shrapnel shell at an artillery depot President Roosevelt plans to spend seventeen days camping and hunting in the cane brakes of Louisiana The English admiralty has placed an order for a new battleship which is to be 800 tons larger than the famous Dreadnought ....Mrs, Carrie Nation was last week sentenced to seventy-five days' imprisonment in the District work house by a Washington police court, for dls- ' orderly conduct... .The engineer and 1 fireman were killed, one mall clerk will die and two others were seriously hurt in the wreck of an Illinois Central near Fulton, Ky., Saturday morn- | Ing The Westlnghouse Electric company at Pittsburg. Pa., has recently laid off 10,000 men who have been employed In making large im- , provements for the company... .Fifty people were injured, several probably fatally, by the collapse of a grand stand at Pottsvllle, Pennsylvania, Sat urday. The collapse was caused by a cyclone... .Up to Saturday 4,512 cases of cholera have been reported from the affected districts of Russia, with 2,230 fatalities About 25,000 shoe workers are on a strike at St. Louis. J. L. Smith, a Nashville, Tenn., carpenter, has confessed to the stealing of $7,820 from a Southern Express company's car a year ago Mrs. Margaret Carter, a New York society woman, committed suicide in that city Friday, by shooting herself In the right temple Rev. H. Harsha, a sifelhodlst minister of Kremmllng, Col., was whipped by "white caps" last Thursday, on account of his intimacy , with a young woman of that place. , Mose Dossett, a negro, was lynch- | ed at Prltchard Station, Ala.. Sunday, ( for an attempted criminal umsuuh u^on Mrs. J. Breeder, a white woman, 90 years old The steamer Alexander Memlck went ashore In Lake Superior on Saturday night and six men were drowned On her first day out on the eastward trip the Lusltanla, which left New York Saturday, made an average of twenty-two knots per hour. *... .Thirty-two passengers were Injured, some of them seriously, In the wreck of the Chattanooga and Washington limited of the Southern railway Just north of Ryan's Siding, Va., Sunday morning. A broken rail was the cause of the disaster... .Owing to long continued drouth, crop conditions throughout the northern portion of Mexico are reported to be exceedingly poor Epplsonio Arcara, an Italian, proprietor of an East Side, New York, shirt factory, was found dead In his factory Sunday, having been stabbed nineteen times with a stilleto. His body was horribly mutilated Samuel Sloan, one of the best known of American railroad builders, died at his home at Garrison, N. Y., yesterday, at the age of 89 years Thousands of counterfeit $5 notes were turned loose on Mew York on Sunday. They were so plentiful that boys sold them on the itreets at 5 and 10 centa each A British tourist recently attained a height of 23,405 feet in the Himalaya mountains Thos. L. Johnson has for the fourth time-been nominated for the mayoralty of Cleveland, Ohio, by the Democrats....Fourteen men were killed and three .were fatally Injured by railing down a mine shaft at Negaunee, Mich., Friday. The cable holding the cage In which the men were pelng lowered broke and dropped them 100 feet John D. Rockefeller, during the last twenty-flva or thirty rear* has glvep to colleges, hospitals, churches, etc., the vast sum of $102,>00,000. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Judge Johnstone on Saturday granted a new trial in the case of Mrs. w Ethel A. Blair, recently convicted of manslaughter as the result of a trial for the murder of her husband. ? John Brown, a negro, was stabbed to death by George Smith, another negro, In Charleston last Saturday evening In a difficulty over a debt of 50 cents. Smith was arrested twenty- fr four hours later and Is now In Jail. ? Senator Carlisle of Spartanburg, told the United Commercial Travelers and Protective association last Saturday night that at the next session of the general assembly he would vote for a bill to reduce railroad fares in this state to 2i cents a mile. ? O. Raymond Berry, ex-superintendent of education of Marion county, was lodged in the Marion Jail Saturday. having been arrested at Tampa, Fla., on charges of embesslement and forgery committed while occupying the office of superintendent of education In 1901 It was during his second term that his defalcations were discovered, ind about twenty warrants were issued for his arrest He managed to escape, however, and was Anally arrested at Tampa, Fla., in 1905, and re- d turned to Marion, where he was released on ball. He remained in Marlon until the opening of the next term of court and then disappeared again, forfeiting his bond, ail of which has been paid up except 1500. There are *9 rttlir four warrants out against Berry and while he has a large family connection in Marlon county, it is possible that he may yet be convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for his crlmea. ? Columbia speefal of Mbnday to Charlotte Observer: The railroad commission today decided to sustain the complaint of President M. L. Stevens, of the local telegraphers' union, against the Western Union Telegraph company that it is violating its charter rights in mailing telegrams to and from points where it has no operators. So formal decision has yet been put on paper, and Commissioner Earie has ? not acted on the question on account of his absence from the city, but Chairman Ca ugh man said today that he and Commissioner Sullivan bad agreed to sign a decision, to be drafted later, to the effect that after exam I nation of the company'* charter on file In the secretary of state's office it has uo authority for conducting other than a strictly telegraph business and Is violating Its charter In sending messages by mall. The commission has no power to revoke the charter, y said Mr. Caughman, but It will turn the matter over to Attorney General Lyon, together with a copy of the complaint and a transcript of the testimony taken before the commission at several heatings recently. Whether Attorney Genernl Lyon will be able to And law sufficient on which to base an action to revoke the company's charter Chairman Caughman does not know. He says the company Is chartered under the laws of New York and has entered the 4tate tinder the law , requiring foreign corporations to file copies of their charters with the secretary of state. Several weeks ago the commission turned over the telegraphers' complaint to Solicitor Tlmmerman to let the solicitor -decide whether the company should be prosecuted for fraud In accepting money for wire service and performing that service in part by mall. The solicitor handed out no bill, as he was strenuously busy with a heavy docket and wanted to study the situation more closely. The commission today received a very forceful complaint from g Broker John T. Leonard, who says w that the service In Charleston and elsewhere over the country of the Western Union, the newspaper reports and the signed statements of the company officials to the contrary, is not only not normal and satisfactory, but on the contrary "both state and interstate Is unsatisfactory, abominable and in fact almost unbearable;" that in spite of the company's dates on telegrams he has found on investigation T inai iney were mcu iui uwumw?u>i from one to three days previous to the time claimed by the company; that In the past Ave weeks in the la rye number of telegrams sent and received dally by his house there has not been a single instance In which the delay # was not from eight to twelve hours beyond normal. The commission sent a copy of this letter to Superintendent Maxwell, at Richmond, saying: "We beg to state that unless these com* Dlaints are remedied we will turn the matter over to the attorney general or solicitor to force your company to handle your business with dispatch and regularity." l" m ? Paris, Sept. 23: Peace has been declared in Morocco. The delegates of three important tribes have accepted the French peace overtures inaugurated today and will see that the terms of the agreement are carried out Hos- #" tillties are now at an end. The government this evening received with great satisfaction a dispatch from Rear Admiral Phllibert, the commander of the French naval forces in Moroccan waters, saying that as a result of the conference today at General Drude's headquarters between the French naval and military commanders and nineteen kaids, representing the Ouleseeyan senate and Zeyalda tribes, the three tribes have accepted ^ unconditionally the terms offered by Prnnce. These are as follows: Hos tilltles shall cease from today; Qen. Drude may make military reconnolssances throughout the territory of the three tribes to satisfy himself that the ^ pacification is complete; the tribes encase themselves to disperse and chastise all armed bodies that may assemble In their territory with hostile Intent; every native found In the possession of arms or ammunitions of war within ten miles of Casablanca shall be handed over to the sherifllan au- m thoritles, condemned to Imprisonment Bind fined (200. The tribes shall be held responsible for the carrying out of the previous stipulation; every native detected in smuggling or using arms shall be punished, the delegates of the tribes undertake to surrender the authors of the outrages upon Europeans of July 30, and pending Judg ment, their goods shall be seized and sold irrespective of the indemnity which Is to be paid, the amount of which shall be fixed by the Moroccan government; the Chaoula tribes shall pay a large Indemnity, the part of each tribe to be apportioned according to the length of time It resisted the French. In addition, the Chaoula tribes shall pay a contribution towards the harbor work at Casablanca. To secure the carrying out of this convention, two notables of each ^ tribe shall be put up as hostages. The delegates of the Ouleseeyan, the Zeneata and Zeyalda tribes immediately named their hostages and signed the capitulation.