Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 01, 1907, Image 2

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Jktaps and .facts. ? Monterey, Mex., September 29: Secretary of State Ellhu Root crossed the Rio Grande at 8 o'clock today, and became the guest of the Republic of Mexico. As the train drew into the station on the Mexican side two military bands played lively American airs. When it came to a halt, General Rlncon Gallardo approached the secretary and In the name of President Dlax and the people of the Republic of Mexico, tendered the distinguished visitor the freedom and the hospitality of the country. Secretary Root made a graceful reply. He said: "I hope that the visit which now begins will serve, as it is intended to serve, as evidence of the desire of the government and people of the United , States to strengthen and increase the steadfast friendship which they have long felt for the people and the government of Mexico." ? Atlantic Lniy, in. j., aepi. n. a iuc secretary of the treasury will grant a request contained in a resolution presented today at the American Bankers' Association convention, the teller's desk of the average national bank will somewhat resemble the ribbon counter of a department store. The resolution proposes that each denomination of bank notes be made of a certain color, as follows: One dollar notes, slate; twos, brown; fives, green; tens, blue; twenties, yellow; fifties, pink; and one hundreds and oyer, white. ? Charles W. Fairbanks, vice president of the United States, was defeated at Columbus, Ind., for delegate to the quadrennial conference . of the Methodist church, after one of the most bitter contests that was ever waged In a religious assembly. The temperance laymen, many of them long associated with Mr. Fairbanks In the church, refused to condone what they regarded as an offense against temperance, and the distinguished candidate went down because of having served cocktails and three kinds of wine at the dinner given to President Roosevelt on Memorial Bay at the Fairbanks home. ? Government experts are soon to begin a thorough and comprehensive examination into all of the "soft drinks" now on the market, to determine their deleterious effects upon the human system, says a Washington dispatch. This step is the result of a recent order of the war department prohibiting the sale at army posts of certain soft drinks then having a tre mendous sale at those places. Reports had been made to the war department that many of the men spent most of their earnings for these beverages, that they were not entirely harmless, but on the contrary many of them contained morphia and pther nerve-destroying drugs. The manufacturers of these beverages put up a howl. They sent letters to the department requesting the rescinding of the orders and in some cases congressmen were requested to take the matter up personally and by letter to have the orders withdrawn, and Dr. Wiley of the bureau of chemistry will soon begin a series of practical tests to determine which of the "soft drinks" are harmless and which are deleterious. He will organize a "poison squad" for this purpose and on his conclusions will rest the fate of many of the popular "soft drinks" sold throughout the country at soda fountains and otherwise. ? Washington, Sept. 29: With a hearty "good-bye and good luck," President Roosevelt left here tonight at 7.41 in a special train over the Pennsylvania railroad on his western and southern trip. Accompanying him were Secretary Loeb, who goes as far as Keokuk, Iowa; Assistant Secretary Latta, T. H. Netherland, Surgeon General Rixey, U. S. N.; Secretaries Wilson and Garfleld, who go as far as Canton, O.; representatives of the three press associations, and a photographer. Dr. Alexander Lambert, the president's family physician, John M. Parker and John A. Mcllhenny, civil service commissioner, whose guest the president will be on his hunting trip in Louisiana, will join the party in the south. The president arrived at the station 10 minutes Deiore siarung umt? and after shaking hands with a number of friends who had come to see him off, entered his car. The first stop will be at Canton, O., tomorrow morning, where the president is to deliver an address at the dedication of the McKinley memorial. From Canton the party will leave in the afternoon for Keokuk, Iowa, which will be the starting point of the president's trip down the Mississippi river as the guest of the inland waterways commission. After leaving Canton the president will deliver several speeches, the first of these being at Keokuk, on Tuesday. Wednesday he will speak at St. Louis, Thursday at Cairo, and Friday at Memphis, from which point he will start for the canebrakes of Louisiana. On his return trip to Washington, where he is due October 23, he will deliver addresses at Vlcksburg and at Nashville. ? Charlotte Observer, Sunday: A meeting of the stockholders of the Crowder's Mountain Cotton mill of King's Mountain, has been called for tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 o'clock at the office of the company at Phllipburg. The meeting Is for the purpose of investigating the affairs of the mill, which are said to be in a bad way. It Is likely that a receiver will be asked for. According to the best information obtainable, the liabilities of the mill are approximately 3103,000 with assets less than half that sum. The /% nK/v.i? tin nnn pittlii 19 9o.ivi iu uc n vi in auvui ?iv,wv. The Crowder's Mountain mill was chartered fourteen years ago. Ever since Its institution It has been in the hands of the late Mr. P. S. Baker, who died recently. Its capital, according to the last issue of The Blue Book, was 161,000. The equipment consists of nine cards, 121 broad looms and 3,952 spindles. Mr. D. M. Baker is president of the mill and Mr. P. S. Baker was secretary and treasurer. The stockholders are mostly King's Mountain and Gastonia citizens. A fewshares are held by Charlotte people. Local cotton mill men are speculating as to whether the failure of this mill will involve any other. Several prominent Gaston county mill men are said to be on considerable paper, but not enough to affect anything to any appreciable extent. It is likely that a receiver will be appointed and then the creditors will bid in the property for the debts. ? The Rue Poplncourt, in the Roquette quarter of Paris, says a dispat<?h of September 18, has been the scene of a most atrocious and coldblooded murder, committed in the presence of five men who coolly looked on while one man was being butchered and another severely wounded. A gang of six Apaches spent the evening In a cafe. One of them had a blg< knife with which he was practicing, j showing the others how a man waj to be stabbed. Late In the evenlnj the gang left the cafe and went to t small hotel, where" they remalne< standing In front of the door, evident!: waiting for a victim. Presently j young woman appeared, accompan!e< by two workmen. She had scarcel: rung the bell of the hotel door, whei the Apache who had been practlclnj with the knife walked up and attacke< one of the workmen. The latter, be Ing powerfully built, seized his as sailant and a severe struggle followed In the course of which both rolled 01 the pavement, while the womai . screamed for help. The Apache final ly succeeded In plunging his knife In to the heart of his victim, and thei attached the other workman, who ha< come to the assistance of his compan ion and severely wounded him. Mean while the five other Apaches stood b: looking quietly on; and while thi murderer had finished his work, h< coolly wiped his knife with his hand AM A TI'0rtff with hi KUCUICi OtlU naiavu vu ...... friends, remarking that he thought hi had done his work well. The polio arrived on the scene some time late and from the complete description glv en by the woman of the murderer an< his companions, claim that they knov them and that arrests will speedil: fojlow. As it is, however, it is salt to be one of the most cruelly premedi tated murders committed by thi Apaches of Paris for several months. ?he forkvittr (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, 8. C.t TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1907. If the discussion is conducted 01 broad lines, the immigration issue wll be about as good as anything else fo: the campaign this summer. It wil certainly be preferable to the mlsera ble state dispensary stench that hai been monopolizing everything for s< long. The Gastonia Gazette has issuer quite a handsome industrial edltioi covering the town of Gastonia and thi county of Gaston. The edition is li magazine form of thirty-six pages an< is very creditable not only to the pub Ushers, but to Gastonia and Gastoi county. The Investigation of the books o the 8outhern railroad in the Nortl Carolina rate hearing has develope< that the Southern railroad paid th< Raleigh Evening Times $6,000 in on< year, for "advertising." As the idet that the railroad could need so mucl ligltimate advertising in a year is s< absurd, there Is no question of th< fact that the use of the money was to say the least, very improper. Th< principal owner of the Times, who is at the same time a state senator, denies any improper connection with th< matter, and the editor has resigned. It is evident that Senator Latimei proposes to make the immlgratior question an issue in his campaign foi re-election. This is indicated by interviews he has given out and in 8 speech he made at Greenville the other day. He wants it understood thai he is not opposed to an Increase in th< desirable white population by immigration from abroad or otherwise; but he is opposed to state assistance t( immigrants to the extent of paying transportation charges. He says thai there are millions of people in Europf who can be induced to come to South Carolina, if their passage is paid; bul payment of passage, he says is ba<3 policy, for two reasons. In the flrsl place the assisted immigrant is nol likely to make a desirable citizen, anc in the second place, even if he shoulc be desirable, there is no guarantet that he would remain in the state The senator wants it understood thai he Is not opposed to the coming ol people from northern Europe whc may come of their own accord; but ht Is opposed to bringing such people af would likely come from Trieste? fireoks Roumanians. Russians. Jews Southern Italians, etc. He says thai the better class of Immigrants, such ai those from northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, Belglum, England. Scotland, Ireland, Denmark. Norway and Sweden, would not be likely to go to Trieste to take passage to the United States. On the assumption that there Is an understanding among the cotton buyers of Greenville whereby the price ol cotton is held down to as low a figure as possible, the merchants of the city have raised a fund with'which to pay the salary of an expert buyer. It If claimed that heretofore when an expert buyer would come to the city either on salary from his house or or commission, unless he would agree tc the rules and schedules of prices fixed by the local buyers, he would be rur out of town. The running was accomplished by the expedient on the pari of the local buyers in paying prices beyond the limits of the new comer even though those limits were at the top of. the market. After an experience of a few weeks, getting no cotton In the meantime, the Independent representative of an exporter would have to move. His house would not care to maintain him at a loss, and ol course, hie could not maintain hlmsell on a commission basis. The combination of merchants just formed contemplates the payment of the buyer's salary whether he buys any cottbn 01 not, believing: that if by bidding: thf top. he Is able to keep the market up to :he highest limit of reasonable profit, they will be more than recompensed as the result of the increase in the aggregate receipts of the city. The local cotton buyers and the mills claim that they are paying for cotton all that it Is worth and, of course, they are making no opposition to the coming of the especially employed buyer. "Financial Independence." Discussing the developments of the past few years in the cotton market, a writer in the Manufacturer's Record attributes present conditions being due very largely to increased financial independence of the cotton producers, and this we have no doubt Is largely true. The tigne when the cotton producer had no thought even that he had a right to suggest what he should have for his cotton is still fresh In the re| collect Ion of everybody. It was only 3 about ten years ago that there was J f any public teaching of the doctrine i that the farmer should have, a say-so 1 In the matter, and the first suggestions g / of the Idea were generally dismissed i as absurd. The custom of years and 1 years had become so firmly grounded ^ / In the public mind that no one seemed 1 disposed to question Its Justice. ? Looking back over the situation, it 3 Is not difficult to see how the old con- f - ditions were so firmly established. - The independent cotton producer was I, the exception. By far the greater pori tlon of the crop was produced on a ^ i system of credit so slavish In its nature, - that the producer never had any real * title to It at any time, from start to? i finish. As he did not own the cotton, c 3 there was nothing to warrant recent - consideration on his part as to what - he should receive for It V As the result of the big corner of a e few years ago, farmers generally 1 e learned in a practical way the possi bilitlen of cotton values, .and thousands s of them were benefited to the extent j e that they were able to become indee pendent producers. For the first time , r in the history of cotton production -j - there began to develop rebellion 1 against the idea of selling cotton bev low cost, and for the first time also / there was seen practical application of J the idea of simply holding cotton off J - the market until the spinners were e willing to come across with a fair price. ? There are and have been all kinds 1 of specious arguments as to conditions that affect the price of cotton; but it takes considerable hardihood to deny ~ that the unanimous refusal of produ- * cere to sell at prices that did not suit them, has had as marked effect on the situation as any other one thing that , has ever entered into it. f Contract speculations are influenced by all kinds of real and imaginary slt> uations. The probable date of the first killing frost has time and again been ^ used to make numerous fortunes change hands. Reports of frosts without positive information as to their ^ actual effects has made prices bounce up 4or down. The circumstance of the - marketing of many thousands of bales 5 in a single day has depressed prices ^ I from half a cent to a cent, and the p systematically created impression of a j large surplus has more than once cost producers millions of dollars. 3 But It Is a fact that can be demon} strated by the records, that whenever a the producers, no matter what the site 1 of their crop, have quietly piled their h cotton under shelter on the farms or 1 In the warehouses, and made It plain h 1 that they were in no hurry about sell3 lng, prices have mounted upward. It ^ 1 Is true that In some cases the advance r * has been slow. We remember only ^ three years ago when the . farmers a 1 kicked against 6 cents In February and a March and declined to sell. The low price was maintained through May and 8 1 June until the first of July when there 8 1 was a sudden advance to 11 and 12 u * cents. n 3 Except for the stubborn tenacity of w 3 the farmers that year they would have 1 sold their cotton at much less than a 1 Its value. If a part of them had sold p } at 6 and 7 cents In May or June, the 5 balance would have probably sold at a ? these same prices In July and August. ^ 5 It was because of financial inde- 8 3 pendence that they had acquired durlng the few years previous that the c' 3 farmers were able to do what they did tf that year. The financial Independence 8 of the farmera Is greater now than it a r has ever been, and they are better able 11 ? to enforce their reasonable demands. v r But do not let any one gather the g Idea that because the victory of three c' i years ago was won as the result of a ^ - kind of a common concerted unity of h t action, there is to be another victory w s of the same kind. What happened Cl then was so far out of the ordinary 8 t that It is not likely to happen again ei > for a generation. It was a kind of an f' ; accident?a chance. But If the cotton t producers desire to weld the conditions i they used then into a weapon that i may be depended upon to prove sue- " t cessful and effective at all times, they 0 I have only to bind themselves Into a c t good, strong organization, and use P t their united power with Intelligent I Justice. 0 J I u > SHIRKING JURY DUTY. " d t Men Evade Thia Service Who Should f Be Compelled to Act. > A few evident and gross miscar! riages of justice recently have stirred o i up the discussion again of the res- A ponsibllity for the frequent, murders in S , this state. All understand that the b t chief cause of murders is that murder- tl j ers escape punishment, and thus mur- rr der is encouraged by the courts them selves. But what part of the court is d to blame most? Some blame the w t Judges; others the jurors. a Without trying to settle the quantum a of responsibility that belongs to each, ^ there is no doubt that the Juries are largely to blame, because they allow a i themselves to be influenced in their d verdicts by other considerations than 't the law and the evidence?which is 8( ' another way of saying the Jurors are ! not always the kind they ought to be. 1' r Jury duty is shirked by many men o! , who ought to be compelled to serve. 0] Because it is irksome and otherwise 1 disagreeable, and is a sacrifice, men avoid jury duty. It is said that some , men refrain from taking out registration papers so as to avoid Jury duty, 1 because a man can not sij on a Jury > unless he is a registered voter. it 1 The law ought to be repealed. Some . might doubt whether a man who dis- v qualifies himself from exercising the suffrage in a general election, and thus ai : tries to dodge a public duty, is a suit- cl , able man for jury duty; but nobody . will contend that a man who wants ' to get on the Jury for the pay that o: > is in it would make a good juror? u> and there are many such. cl However it may be brought about, there is no doubt the great desidera turn in the punishment of crime is the S1 I right kind of jury. With that kind judges may be weak or vacillating; a lawyers may be sharp and tricky and . able; witnesses may perjure them selves until they are black in the face as they are black in character?but an q honest, intelligent Jury is the terror of cj the evildoer, and is by far the most ' important factor in the entire judicial " machinery?Newberry Observer. T 11 , ?Richmond, Va., Sept. 29: Miss b Daisy Hampton, "daughter of the late j Gen. Wade Hampton of South Caroli- _ na, who has been spending the sum- T i mer at the home of her aunt, Mrs. u , Thos. L. Preston, near the University . t of Virginia, at Charlottesville, left last night for New York, where it Is uni derstood she will procure her trous- ,a seau. Miss Hampton announced pri- el vately before leaving Virginia that she q is to become the bride in November of p Judge Randolph Tucker of Bedford City, who met the South Carolina girl E at the university in his student days, , from "which time until now the attach- j( ment has persisted. The wedding will take place at the home of Miss Hamp- 81 1 ton in Columbia, S. C. Her fiancee ti : belongs to one of the most prominent hi I and historic families of Virginia. w ' "" ei ? The supreme court has made pernianent its nuisance injunction against the Isle of Palms. The special object s* ' of the Injunction is to prevent the sale m , of whisky on the island. The under- sj , standing is that the state will now . proceed against certain social club organizations in Columbia and Charles- ton in the same manner. Is LOCAL AFFAXR8. si ? - 813 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. el lowell Brick Co., Rock Hill?Wants orders for good quality building M brick, full standard size and prompt w shipment. . tiddle's Mill?Is now ready to take care of all "grists" of wheat and u< corn and will give first-class service, th A first-class blacksmith shop at th'e t0 mill Is also ready to serve you. \ P. and T. B. Glenn, Exrs.?Call on 18 all parties Indebted to estate of E. al L. Glenn, deceased, to make settle- fr ment with them, and also to present claims against said estate. I. T. Thomas, Admr.?Will on No- ni vember 1st, apply to the probate court for final discharge as admin- b< istrator of estate of Mrs. M. E. tj Thomas, deceased. 1 lam M. Grist?Asks if you belong to T, the class of thinkers who think for in themselves when buying life insur- e> ance. He says the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company has the 81 longest and cleanest record. cc rArlrtfllln Uar/lnropo Pn T-T a a full Hnp T of guns, rifles, loaded shells, ball |n cartridges, primers, wads, loading tools, etc. a1 '. C. Wilborn?Offers a tract of fifty- is five acres near Tirzah. Has sold th two pieces of real estate within the m past few days. Torkvllle B. & M. Co.-*-Has a "Kantbe-beat" overcoat for you?a big P? stock to select from. These gar- Hi ments meet the demand for high- , class goods at prices within the reach of all. See fourth page. '. Q. Wray?Says that his fall show- ?' ing of dress goods is notable for its ,s variety, quality, styles and modest P( prices. Make his store headquarters & on circus day?Friday. Tork Drug Store?Announces a spe- ai cial sale of popular novels for Thurs- ?i day, Friday and Saturday. One hundred books at less than half 8> publishers' prices. R lational-Unlon Bank, Rock Hill? ly Tells you that it is not miserly to m save, but that is a wise thing to do. h< It will be glad to explain its sav- ln Ings department to you. in Tjomson Co.?Extends a cordial in- p vitatlon to everybody to attend its ln fall opening of millinery, dress ln goods, clothing, shoes, etc., on Thursday night and Friday. Everybody will be welcome. rorkvllle Buggy Co.?Says that a poor mowing machine is high at any price E: and suggests that the Deerlng is the best to buy. I. W. White?Remarks that some af people are surprised at their lack of success, but that the other fellow is Ir alert to every advantage. cc rork Furniture Co.?Has the largest 15 and best selected stock of furniture ai and house furnishing it has ever ct carried and wants you to see them st before you buy. S( 35 Fort Mill school is to have assist- of nee under the High School law. 'hlrty-three high schools In the state se ave been granted this assistance. c' The supervisors of registration will old their regular monthly meeting in he office of the supervisor next Mon- d? - . rw ay, and all the people who are not ai- *" eady registered to vote should be on and. . After next Monday It will be 8 nother full month before there will be ui nother opportunity to register. Information from Bethany High ^ chool Is to the effect that Prof. Ran- jy on and his assistants are measuring to p to the highest expectations of the management in doing most excellent m rork. The equipment of the school pr i better than It has ever been. The re ttendance at the opening was disap- co ointing rather than otherwise; but m tils was due to a combination of un- er voidable circumstances that are now eing overcome. There has been a ^ teady increase In the attendance, and |a Is growing. When the pressure of otton picking Is over, there is reason da m expect that the attendance will be welled to the old figures. The Beth- w< ny people are giving the school their re eartlest support, financial and other- ^ ri80, and all seem to be pulling toether in a way that is calculated to ompel success. There can be no oubt of the fact that this institution as been of Immense benefit to the 'hole neighborhood of which It Is the c'( entre; but what It has already done 7 hould only be taken as a small earn- e st qf what it can and will do In the s? jture. . a11 THE VOTING CONTE8T. er There have been no more entries In at ie voting contest since the last issue ^ f The Enquirer and only a few tTl hanges as to the standing of the res- to ectlve candidates. There will be no irther announcement of figures until ^ 'ctobe. 15. Other candidates who may nc esire to enter the contest in the llr leantlme are, of course, at liberty to 's ne 0 80- co Wl fiTILL CAPTURED. Wl Hi Accompanied by a party consisting a? f Messrs. J. L. Sanders of Yorkville, Se ndy Qulnn and J. G. Enloe of Clover, pt heriff Brown on yesterday morning roke up another moonshine still, this me at a point about one and a half in Hies west of McGill Bros.' store. ed Having gotten some information the ay before, Sheriff Brown and party 5e 'ent Into the neighborhood on Sunday an fternoon, and located- the still at pe bout 3 o'clock yesterday morning. ^ he outfit consisted of a copper still ge nd worm, and a cap made of a pow- stl er keg or pickle barrel. a The still was destroyed along with ^ )0 or 1,000 gallons of beer and 10 or ei< 2 gallons of low wine. The operators an f the still heard the approach of the jjjj fficcrs and got away, after a pretty wj arm foot race. qu WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The show comes next Friday, and will bring a Dig crowd. ?* ? Messrs. O. E. Grist and Geo. W. Ui /llliams were ordained and Installed co s deacons of the Associate Reformed tiurch last Sunday. * ? It is time to commence thinking f the annual flower show. This has m| een a very favorable season for fie iirysanthemums, especially, and there ^ i reason to look for some very fine ^ aecimens at the next show. ? Mrs. Laura E. Parish has sold bout thirty lots in the suburb of Wes-rleigh, and the Indications are that lere will be quite a settlement in that uarter of the town. Most of the purliasers of lots are negroes. ? Of the entire issue of the "All hrough the Year Cook Book," pubshed by the ladles of the First Presyterlan church of Yorkville in 1906, nly about 75 copies remain unsold, th he sale of the book has yielded quite handsome bank account. ? At the annual re-organization of le Associate Reformed Sunday school ist Sunday, Senator J. S. Brice was ected superintendent. Mr. W. D. rlst, vice superintendent, Master B. j>t . Barron' secretary and Miss Marilla wart treasurer. ?Rev. J. O. Reavls, who was to have : elivered an address before the Misonary Union tonight, having found ] jat he cannot be here, arrangements W ave been made whereby the address ! Ill ue UCIIVCICU uj uiaugciioi WUIJ" of the Baptist church, instead. Rev. [r. Cooper will conduct his regular ;rvlce at the Baptist church, com- j ' lencing at 7.15, and after its conclu- *] on, the exercises at the Presbyterian I lurch will be commenced at . 8.15. ? A very considerable improvement ] being made on the Yorkville and Fo laron road through a portion of the iburb of Westerleigh. The hills on ther side of the "Wltherspoon" anch have been notoriously difficult, ra. Laura E. Parish gave a right of ay for about 200 yards along the Ige of Westerleigh and people who le this road to Yorkvllle from beyond ie corporate limits have contributed . the building of a bridge. The road to be straightened for a distance of >out four hundred yards, and Judging om the grading work that has alady been done, the hill will be elimlited as a serious obstacle to travel. ? Interesting revival services have ien in progress in the Yorkvllle Bapst church since last Sunday morning, he pastor. Rev. I. G. Murray, is beg assisted by Rev. L. A. Cooper, the rangellst of the Baptist State Mison board, and the outlook Is enturaging for a successful meeting, here were services on Sunday morng and evening and yesterday Iternoon and again at night. As usually the case on such occasions, ie attendance at the night services is uch larger than those held during ie day. On Sunday night the caicity of the church was taxed to the mil ana many were uname 10 get ats. While the attendance last night ae not so large, still the church jildlng was well filled. Mr. Coopei a man of fine ability and well equlpjd for the work In which he is eniged. His sermons are plain, praccal, forceful, scriptural and eloquent id receive the undivided attention ! the congregation. An especially inresting feature of the services is the nging led by Mr. A. Ira Ruby. Mr. uby has a magnificent and thoroughtrained voice and sings with rearkable effectiveness, and all who jar him are charmed with his singg. The services are to continue durg all of this week and probably next, le hours for commencing being 3.30 the afternoon and 7.80 in the eveng. CONTRACT FLUCTUATIONS. The course of the New York Cotton xchange fluctuations of yesterday ia 'scribed by a dispatch of last night i follows: The cotton market was nervous and regular today. Fluctuations were imparatively broad, there being about to 20 points between the highest id lowest for the day, but net langes were slight, with the close eady at a net decline of 1 to 7 points, lies for the day were estimated at 0,000 bales. The opening was steady at a decline ' 1 to 8 points which .was better than le on the cables. During the early salon prices worked off to a net deine of 4 to 9 points on the active onths under Liverpool and New Orans selling, but local traders got lort on the decline and before midly prices rallied on covering and sup>rt from brokers believed to be orking for the leading outside operar. After showlnc a net advance of to 11 points, there was a reaction ider realizing, but there seemed to i a pretty good demand on a scale >wn and the close was steady. reather reports were considered fairfavorable, but attracted little atntlon with the trade chiefly concernI about the attitude of southern spot >lders, who seem to be refusing to eet any decline in values, and a obable showing of the government ports on Wednesday. One private mdltlon report was Issued showing deterioration of 4.6 per cent for the onth and it wa? rumcyred that a southn association estimated the amount cotton ginned to September 26th at 100,000 bales against 2,044,000 bales Hcially reported to the same date st year. Receipts of cotton at the ports toiy 39,068 bales against 31,753. last eek and 47,346 last year. For the eek 250.000 bales against 220,199 last eek and 313.676 last year. Today's celpts at New Orleans 8,832 bales rainst 6,718 last year, and at Housn 6,998 bales against 16,741 last year. THE 8EWERAGE QUESTION. Further consideration of the sewer;e question by the town council and tizens who are Interested in pushing e proposed undertaking along has iveloped that the corporation is not helpless financially as was generly supposed. Previous calculations had been based i an assessed valuation of the prop ty of the town at $660,000, or therelouts, and Jt had been assumed that e bonds issued because of the grad school district were to be deducted om the 8 per cent aggregate the wn is authorized to borrow. Instead of being only $660,000 dolrs, however, the assessed valuation the taxable property of the town is >w $626,000, and the constitutional nitation of 8 per cent on this amount $50,000. The total bonded indebtedss of the town is now $17,000 on acunt of the original installation of iterworks and $7,000 on account of iterworks extensions and electric rhts, leaving a margin of $26,000 ailable for the construction of a werage system or for other corporate irposes. In the absence of exact information to the probable cost of a suitable werage, the council can only indulge approximate estimates, and providthree or more exits may be had ithout extraordinary expenses it is lieved that the required system can i completed with four miles of mains id at a cost of from $3,500 to $5,000 r mile, provided the necessary exvations are not to be deeper than is nerally believed will be sufficient. Up to this time the proposition is 111 In the consideration stage. It is question with the council as to tiether to begin the circulation of a tition calling for the necessary bond ictlon, or to first have made surveys id estimates and get bids for conruction work. There can be no adtlonal bond Issue, of course, except ith the consent of a majority of the tallfied voters of the municipality. W. F. MISSIONARY UNION. Following is the official programme the Woman's Foreign Missionary lion of Bethel presbytery, which nvened in the First Presbyterian urch of Yorkvllle this morning. Devotional exercises?Rev. E. E. llesple. Prayer and praise service for the Issionary work at home and in the id?Mrs. Robt. Hayes. Addresses of welcome?Mrs. W. C. vart, Mrs. I. G. Murray, Mrs. S. A. eber, Mrs. W. B. Moore. Enrollment of members. Minutes of last meeting. Hymn. 3.30 P. M. Devotional exercises. Report of Executive committee. Report of corresponding secretary. Report of treasurer. Report of societies. Report of visitors for the union. Unfinished business. New business. 4.30 P. M. Children's service?open meeting of e Yorkvllle Miriams. Address?Mrs. M. B. Grier, M. D. Hymn. Popular Meeting. 8 P. M. Devotional exercises. Address by Rev. Jas. O. Reavls. October 2nd?10.00 A. M. Devotional exercises. Memorial to Mrs. Elizabeth A. Mc>a. Hymn.Paper by Mrs. J. J. Strlngfeilow. Letters from the field. Report from the delegate to the ihevllle conference. Mission study?Miss Lesslle D. itherspoon. 3.30 P. M. Devotional Exercises?Dr. W. H. irsythe. Unfinished business. Hymn. Address on home missions by Rev. C. Colt. Election of officers. Selection of place of next meeting. Closing hymn. Popular Meeting?8 p. m. Missionary address?Dr. W. Hi rsythe of Korea Mission. DELEGATE8 AND H08T8. Following Is a Hat of the delegates to the Woman's Foreign. Missionary Union In convention In Yorkvllle and the homes at which they are being eni tertained: Mrs. W. H. Hemdon?Mrs. Izard, Mrs. Jas. White and Miss Mary McMurray. Miss Bessie Mason?Mrs. Jas. T. i Reld, Mrs. R. T. Sandlfer. 1 Mrs. T. C. Dunlap?Miss Sallle Gib, son. Mrs. H. H. Beard?Rev. Mr. Colt. Mrs. Jas. T. Thomson?Mrs. Jones, MIss Margaret Anderson, Mrs. Rainey, Mrs. Robt. T. Allison?Mrs. McDon, aid. 1 Mrs. S. M. McNeel?Mrs. B. M. Fewell, Mrs. Miller. Mrs. J. B. Pegram?Mrs. Thomasson. ] Mrs. Robert J. Herndon?Rev. Mr. ] /-!.. I...1 v^ai iicusc. 1 Mrs. J. C. Wllborn?Mrs. J. J. , Stringfellow, Mrs. J. S. Booth. I Mrs. Sarah C. Ashe?Miss Maud . Sledge, Miss Sallle Wylie. j Mrs. W. G. White?Mrs. Klutz. Mrs. 1 McMurr&y. < 1 Mrs. G. H. O'Leary?Rev. and Mrs. j A. H. Atkins. i ' Mrs. Withers Adlckes?Mrs. Ed Guy. | Miss Sudle Allison?Misses Annie j Plexico and Margaret Shannon. < Mrs. N. J. N. Bowen?Mrs. J. A. , , Shurley, Mrs. Thos. A. Barron, Miss , Pearl Fewell. Mrs. Nannie G. Allison?Mrs. Perry. Mrs. T. F. McDow?Mrs. A. R. , 1 Banks. I Miss Annie McPheeters?'Mrs. Kerr, ( Miss Maggie Mcllwain. ( Mrs. J. S. Mackorell?Mrs. Osborne, 1 Mrs. Moore. I Misses Gist?Mrs. R. M. Bratton. ( 1 Miss Ella Love. \ Mrs. Drakeford?Mrs. J. S. Mc- , 1 Keown, Mrs. C. G. Brown. 1 T)?,, Ton n , Mrs. W UI1CI n(A)UU ACT, HBO. vr. | Reavls, Dr. W. T. Forsythe. , Miss Hulda McNeel?Miss Rebecca , , Wilson. ABOUT PEOPLE. | Mr. Bedford Moore has returned to the College of Charleston. Mr. Meek E. Plaxlco has resigned his position with Mr. Louis Roth. Miss Frances Finley left last week t i for Columbia to enter the College for i Women. ' Miss Mary Ashe left last week for , Columbia to resume her work at the j | College for Women. ' i Mr. Robert Allein left Monday for 1 Charleston to matriculate at the Clt- , adel for the fall session. i i Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Quattlebaum and ' two children of Leesvllle, are guests 1 of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rose. , Cadets W. S. Willis of Yorkville, and 1 Baxter Riddle of Bowling Green, have j returned to the Citadel for the session . of 1907-08. f , Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Hafner of I Bowling Green, returned home yesterday after spending a few days with relatives at Sharon and vicinity. Miss Eunice McConnell left yester' day for Philadelphia, after spending several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, H. McConnell, in Yorltville. Mr. Aubrey Willis left this morning for Shelby, N. C., where he will matriculate at Boiling Springs High school under the principalshlp of Prof. J. D. Huggins. Messrs. Philip Hunter of Yorkville, and S. Ross Clinton, Ed Brlson and Clarence Thomas of Clover, left yesterday for Charleston to enter the Charleston Medical college, the two latter to study pharmacy. Information of this morning from Capt. W. Beatty Smith of Clover, who was stricken with paralysis last Thursday night, was to the effect that conditions are very much the same, with some slight indications of improvement. The captain is paralyzed on his right side. He recognizes his acquaintances and tries to speak, but Is unable to make himself understood. The captain's condition is a matter of much concern to hundreds of friends in all parts of the county. Laurens, September 30: Rev. Wm. Ei. i naycr nuw po^iui ui ?.??? ?>. Baptist church of Winchester, Ky., has been called to the First Baptist church here to succeed Rev. J. D. Pitts, D. D., who some time ago gave notice of his resignation to take effect the last of October. Dr. Thayer is a native of South Carolina and was pastor of the Baptist church at Rock Hill for four or five years. He is now 35 years old, and has been in the ministry about twelve years and is considered an able preacher. It is not known yet whether or not Dr. Thayer will accept but his call was officially announced at yesterday morning's service and those who know him are very much pleased with the selection of the committee who recommended * Dr. Thayer. Rock Hill special to the News and Courier: About ten years ago Mrs. H. B. Bulst, an enthusiastic member of the D. A. R., came to this city, and finding no chapter of that most lauda- j ble and patriotic order, set about to j organize one. The result of her labors * was the Catawba chapter, D. A. R., c which hag a moderately numerous and j very zealous membership, and has con- t trlbuted largely to the social life of t Rock Hill, besides doing its full share r in all patriotic enterprises for which j th? nrri?r afiinds Durinar Mrs. Buist's d residence here she has very acceptably filled the position of regent, and so, ' when she is about to move back to c Greenville, a fitting farewell was ar- j: ranged in her honor. The meeting * was held at the handsome home of ? Mrs. W. L. Roddey, where a delightful social programme was carried out, f fo. wed by the serving of luncheon. v Bei jre the time arrived for the latter, j. Mrs. C. K. Schwrar arose and, in a a very graceful little speech on behalf t of Catawba chapter, presented Mrs. v Buist with a handsome gold -ladle. fl Mrs. Buist very feelingly thanked the v chapter for this evidence of apprecia- 8 tlon. Mr. Buist has gone on to Green- *| ville, and in a few days will be follow- t ed by Mrs. Buist and her mother, Mrs. g Kitty Williams, who at present are e visiting In Yorkville. jj a LOCAL LACONIC8. v We Will Send The Enquirer J From this date until January 1st, t 1908, for 50 cents. v Discipline at Clemson. v A private letter received In Yorkville '' from a Clemson cadet has this to say * of the military department of Clemson fj college. "Oh! me, but they are strict D on us this year. I tell you right now s the newspapers are not going to find J] much to say about the military depart- Jj ment at Clemson this year. The new J1 commandant is a young fellow, about 1 30. He graduated at the Citadel and " o# Ufnut Diilnt olurk nn/1 T toll vrtn what he says Is sure the law and the gos- ? pel." I Bethel Road Tax. g Wlnnsboro Herald and News: Beth- C el township In York county will get c $800 for the Improvement of roads this c year through the voting of a special " levy of two mills. While this will lack " much of putting the roads In real first a class condition. It will be a big help w towards Improving them. Local taxatlon after all is going to be the meth- 01 od by which the roads are to be bet- el tered. If only every township would take up the matter of levying a special r; tax, it would soon be so that the roads a of the whole county would be better- tl ed. C Changes on the Southern. v Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 29: The ai Chattanooga division of the Southern allway will be abolished on October I, and the line embraced in that division will be made a part of the Atlanta ind Knoxvllle divisions, as they were jrevious to last January, The Morrisfille, N. C? division of the Northern district will be also discontinued on the same date, and the lines composing it will be merged with the Winston-Salem division. As a result of these changes F. P. Pelter, superintendent of the Chattanooga division, will return to the Nashville division, ind Superintendent E. M. Ewell of the Morrisville division, is to be transferred to the Rock Hill, S. C., division, succeeding W. W. Duel!, who has been appointed superintendent of terminals at Atlanta. Killed By Police Officer. A negro named Elliott Jackson was killed by Policeman Charles Miller in Rock Hill last Sunday afternoon. The killing took place In the portion of the city known as Massey Row. Policeman Miller went to the place to arrest Jackson, according to the testimony before the coroner's Jury. Jackson was inclined to be ugly and made an Bfltort to draw a revolver. Policeman Miller was the quicker and fired three shots into Jackson's breast. The negro fell to the ground with the pistol half drawn from his bosom. The verdict of the Jury of inquest was to thp effect that the killing was justifiable. The Value of the Partridge. Fort Mill Times: A well known farmer of the township, with whom the reporter held a conversation a few days ago, expressed himself as being a. strong believer In the protection of birds, and especially partridges. The farmer recited an Incident told by a once prominent doctor in the county, that the doctor referred to became suspicious that partridges were cutting down his young corn. With gun In hand he followed the birds to the and of a long row and killed both at :>ne shot. Upon examining the craws of the birds he found them filled with cut-worms and chinch-bugs. Our informant says that before the sports commenced killing out the partridges so much, such a thing as a wheat crop being damaged by these bugs was bardly known. If true, then these birds should be protected. After Big Damages. Yorkvllle special to the Charlotte Observer: It is learned by the Observer's ' correspondent that a suit for (30,000 damages has been entered igalnst the Southern Power company by the family of a Chester county negro, who was killed during the winter 3t 1905 while he was thawing dynamite for the company. The negro, it was generally conceded, was killed through his own carelessness. On one particular night all the dynamite frose stiff and hard, and the next morning this negro proceeded to thaw it out by laying it near a Are, and while the explosive was sizzling hot undertook to Insert a fuse, with a cap attached, into a cartridge. As a result not only :he cartridge witn wnicn ne was wor*ng, but a large number of others layng around' the Are exploded, killing the expert and seriously wounding one or fnore other negroes. Church Outs Phone Company. Yorkville special of September 24, :o the News and Courier: Flint HU1 Baptist church, in Fort Mill township, a one of the largest, oldeet and strongest churches in York county. The congregation owns eight or ten acres >7 valuable land and on it, besides the ehurch building, is the cepietery and tiso a large number of beautiful shade rees. A year or more ago a representative of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company called >n one of the trustees of the church md asked for permission to construct l pole line through the church property. The trustees agreed to allow the ine to be built provided no more space ;han a strip six feet wide was used, ind signed an agreement to that effect. There are three trustees and, as stated, only one signed the agreement. The line was constructed and at a :onference of the church, held subseluently, it was agreed that, while the church would not have granted the *equest had it been consulted beforehand, still in view of the fact that the ine was up it would be allowed to itand. but with the distinct underitandlng that no additional land should >e given or sold to the company. La:er, it Is said, a representative of the company called on ops of the trustees ind presented a ready prepared paper r ran ting a right-of-way 100 feet wide, md stated that he had already seen dr. Blank, mentioning another trustee, vho had said that he would sign the ' ? ~ ?4 " **? fmialoa a nnrnflrhAd lUCUIUCIll 11 llic ii UOIVV vould also sign. The trustee signed ind then Mr. Blank was approached 'or the first time with the paper signed. The third man was approached, >ut he refused. A few days, later the :ongregation became aware of the acton of the trustees by reason of the 'act that a strip of valuable timber 100 feet wide 'had been cut down hrough Its property. Another conferince was held, at which the action of he two trustees was repudiated, and it the same time a decision was eached that if the church had any edress under the law it should be secured. Suit has been commenced for 12,000 damages. Recently a represenatlve of the company has vjslted the various members of the committee apjolnted by the church to prosecute the luit, trying to Induce them to name an imount for which they would be wiling -to compromise, but they refused o rrfentlon any amount other than hat sued for. ? ? SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Major John A. Fant, who died In Jnion last week left $10,000 toward >aylng a debt hanging over the First Baptist church of that city. The :hurch still owes about $1,600. ? Spartanburg Herald, Saturday: ienry W. Thompson, the Spartanburg >roker wlio was recently arrested on he charge of fraudulently using the nails, and who was to have been glv>n a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Atkinson yesterlay, appeared and waived the prelimnary, giving bond In the sum of 16,000 or his appearance In the United States :lrcult court to convene in Columbia in the 3rd Tuesday of January. The irellmlnary, which was to have been leld In the court house at 11 o'clock Yesterday morning, drew quite a rowd of people, who were very much llsappointed when at the time aplolnted It was rumored that there vould be no preliminary hearing. The ourt room had been put In order, pater, pens and Ink placed on the desks nd -spittoons placed through the audlorlum. The crowd gathered. There fere stenographers and reporters for lewspapers to take down every word f the testimony for publication. There fere visitors from other cities, and a ;ood supply of representatives of the oca! bar. When Inspector Gregory ppeared and whispered something In he ear of a rather important looking :entleman, and the gentleman followd him out of the court room the exlectant crowd knew that there was lothing doing and began to decamp s fast as possible. Mr. Thompson fas at his home on Converse Heights, le had 'phoned down to know If the ond could be arranged and sent up to he house for him to sign it. But this fas asking just a little too much. He fas told that he would have to come n person If he wanted to obtain bond or his appearance at court. He came own street and in a few minutes the ond was arranged, and putting his - - M ignature to It and naving a iew wuiua rtth his friends he repaired to his ome on Converse Heights. Among he witnesses who were present yeserday, and who will figure promlently in the case were: A. J. Glossenner, secretary of the S. Morgan Imith Co., of York, Pa.: C. O. Smith, lendersonvllle, N. C.: W. C. Wardlaw, hlef clerk of John W. Dickey of Auusta. Ga.: A. Tlnsley of Aiken Mfg. !o., Augusta, Ga.: James Flannagan, lerk from Jerome hotel, Columbia, S. T. B. Stackhouse, vice president f the National Loan and Exchange ank, Columbia. S. C. Besides the bove named witnesses there were ltnesses from the postofflces at Colmbla. Augus.ta and a number of loal witnesses from the city banks, telKranh offices, etc. ? Dr. George P. Cromer of Newbery, delivered the anniversary address t the twenty-fourth annual convenon of the South Carolina Woman's hristlan Temperance union at Newerry last Sunday morning. He relewed the progress of temperance chlevement In this state and had the following to say of the dispensary situation: "What could be said of South Carolina," asked Dr. Cromer. "It was no pleasure to him, he said, to talk about the day of her shame. It had been urged in some quarters, he said, that there was no longer any use to fight the dispensary, since the dispensary law had been repealed. But now was the time to fight, he said, when the dispensary forces were on the run. Over against the example of Texas and Louisiana be placed South Carolina. Fifteen years ago, he said. 8outh Carolinians had expressed themselves in favor of prohibition. What did they get? They asked for a fish and got a serpent of the deadliest sort. They didn't get bar-rooms, but they got what, in his Judgment? and his opinion, was unshakable on that point?what was infinitely worse, when It came to the underlying principle. They got the dispensary, legalized bar-rooms. It was urged that the , dispensary would decrease taxes and support the scnools, and the state told its citizens by indirection, that it was their duty to drink liquor to put down taxation. The state had graded the salaries of dispensers by the amount of liquor they sold?in this way showing the sincerity of the argument that the dispensary was a prohibition measure. He thanked God when the state, shook herself of the dispensary system, and he thought the time had now come when in all justioe the legislature should do one of two things. In Laurens .the dispensary had been voted.out. but the dispensary had remained on aecount of the election having been contested on technicalities. In Chesterfield it was the same, and one of the grounds urged was that white men had been intimidated by white women. The legislature had put burdens on the prohibitionists in regard to election laws never before known. He thought the time had come to put the boot on the other fellow. The legislature ought to pass a straight prohibition law, or pass a prohibition law with a local option feature. with the privilege to the dispensary peoDle to get up petitions and vote in dispensaries, if they could, in the counties which wanted them." MERE-MENTION. The Standard Oil company had 4,000,000 copies of a pamphlet containing criticisms of Judge Landis's $29,000,000 fine and in some sections gave away a copy with every gallon of oil ?/vl/l riflnroa T TnsiAfl ftn/1 Pha* C. Brown, wealthy citizens of Newcastle, Pa., were last week committed to the workhouse for thirty days each ?one for running- a gambling Joint and the other for leasing a building for gambling purposes Figures compiled by Missouri railroad officials, put the losses of the railroads in three months' operation under the 2-cent rate law at $1,500,000 Hundreds of British Columbians have signed a petition to the Canadian parliament asking for the absolute exclusion of all Orientals from Canada The transatlantic steamship companies are engaged in a rate war, and rates have been cut from 25 to 40 per cent About 160 persons were drowned by a flood in the Ouadalmedlna river in Spain last week A French lnven* tor claims to have discovered a method by which electrical energy may be transmitted long distances by wireless telegraphy Three men engaged in digging a well near Chapel Hill, N. C., on Friday were blown out of the well by a premature explosion of dynamite.. ....A steel bridge across the railroad yards in Atlanta, Qa., was knocked down Friday morning by a derailed car striking one of the main supports. Three men were killed and two were injured at Unlonport, N. T.t Friday, by the explosion of an oil tank containing 20,000 gallons of oil President Roosevelt will approve the constitution of Oklahoma, but is reported to have said that his personal opinion of the document "Is not tit for publication." An automobile driver at Atlantic City, N. J? Friday, forced to choose between running down a woman and two children or into a dray wagon, chose the latter alternative and wrecked the wagon and the $4,500 automobile... .All the mills of the United States Steel corporation will be idle during the month of October because of the abrogation of several large contracts Secretary of War Taft and party arrived at Yokohama last Saturday morning The Ldisitania cut the record time from New York to yueeeetown oj three hours and tweoty-flve minutes. More than 1,000 young women from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, landed at New York last Saturday, who come to America In search of huBbands Prince Charles Gustave of Prussia, was killed Thursday night by sliding down the banisters at the regimental mess of the FVussian foot*-guards. He fell from the banisters and his skull was fractured Brund Hasse, a New York grocer, committed suicide Friday, because be j had read in a newspaper that the end of the world would come In a few days. ....A mother and three children were burned to death FYiday in a hay barn by a Are started by the children while playing with matehes... .Charles Heirry GUman, father of Mabelle Oilman , Corey, threatens to sue Corey for the alienation of his daughter's affections. Three men assaulted and robbed a man In Dauphin county, Pa, Friday, of $20. Before night they had been arrested, Indicted by a grand jury, and had begun to serve sentences of two years' each In prison Fifteen per- { sons are dead and a score injured as the result of a collision of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train with a freight train in the railroads yards at Bellaire. Ohio, Saturday Joe Watts was convicted at Abbeville, Ga., Saturday, of manslaughter in the killing of Oren and Pete McDuffle, and" sentenced to fifteen years' Imprisonment. All the \ parties were white... .Former United States Senator Car mack has announced himself as a candidate for governor of Tennessee Mrs. Henry Holmes and Mrs. U. G. Munsee of Springfield. Mass., were killed by a Norfolk and I Western switch engine at Norfolk, Va., " Saturday night Fremont Older, manager editor of the San Francisco Bulletin was arrested Friday on a charge of criminal libel. Older has been one of the most persistent fighters against graft. 4 AT THI CHURCHES. BAPTIST. Prayer and praise service on Wednesday evening at 7.30 and preaching at 8 o'clock. FIR8T PRESBYTERI/N. Missionary address on Wednesday at 8 p. m. by Dr. W. H. Forsythe. \ TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. There will be no prayer meeting this week. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. There will be no prayer meeting this week. Social Jloticw. Vocal and Instrumental Music. Miss Lilla Herndon will teach vocal and Instrumental Music in the York- g ville Graded school the session of 1907- * 08, and will be glad of your patronage. 76 f.t 8t Communion at Bethel. Rev. J. Brice Cochran of New Hope church, will, preach for us at Bethel 4 Friday and Saturday, before the second Sunday In October, preparatory to the communion. W. B. Arrowood, Pastor.