Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, May 01, 1908, Image 2

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f traps and ^acts. ? New York. April 29: Professor William J. Hallock of Columbia university told the members of the Chemists' club on Friday about a new discovery, whereby it would be possible for a householder to purchase a bottle of illuminating: gas on his way home without leaving $f> deposit. The illuminant may be bought by the pound at 15 cents or so, when somebody starts in to manufacture it. As yet its manufacture has not been undertaken in this couniry. It has been used in Germa- ! nv. where it was discovered by Pro feasor Blau. After him it is named Blaugas. Professor Hallock had a jar of it at the Chemists' club and showed its power of illumination. The gas leaves the jar through a tube about the size of a telegraph wire. The other end of the tube connects with the burner. The great advantage attributed to the new illuminant is its inexpensiveness. A 22-pound cylinder at 15 cents a pound would give a 50candle power light for four months burning four hours a day. ? Pittsburg dispatch to Baltimore Sun: "If the ladies will kindly remove their abominable hats ?so that they can sit closely together in the front of the auditorium we will proceed with the institute," said Prof. John Morrow, superintendent of the Allegheny schools, yesterday morning to the young women teachers who had assembled for the monthly institute. Each woman was topped by a piece of headgear like a cartwheel. They raised their noses disdainfully. They had come as much to show their hats as uu\1111115 nw iilia m*- ^USficniiuii mat they remove them was absurd. "The institute shall not proceed until the hats are removed." declared Superintendent Morrow. Then begun a siege which lasted for two hours. Professor Morrow, seated on the platform, and the teachers doing the best they could to be comfortable on straightbacked chairs and trying to balance their hats. When the clock started on into the third hour the teachers began to capitulate. One after another the hats were removed, and when all heads were uncovered Professor Morrow opened the session. ? Washington. April 29: As many of the details of the forthcoming attack by guns and torpedoes on the monitor Florida as the navy department deems expedient to be nkown are contained in a statement issued Saturday. The experiments will take place about the middle of May at a place to be kept secret if possible. The object of the experiments is to obtain information concerning the actual effect on a ship's structure of gun and torpedo attack under present conditions. The Arkansas will fire a 12-inch projectile loaded with high explosives to strike the Florida's turret with an energy little short of penetration, the effect of the shock only being desired. This probably will be the only shot fired against armor, but another glancing blow against one side of the turret may possibly be decided on. After the inspection of the results of this test, several shots from the four-inch and 12-inch guns of the Arkansas will be aimed at the experimental military mast erected on the stern of the Florida. One or two torpedoes may be exploded against the bottom of the Florida. It is not intended to destroy the vessel, and she will be restored to her former condition of usefulness after the necessary experimental data have been obtained. ? New York, April 28: Within a fortnight the railroads have sold or have had authorized by the public service commission of New York $120,000,000 of bonds and notes, exclusive of sales of smaller amounts of bonds previously carried in the treasuries of several rutins. X lit* IMHUUUU 111 SUCH u. unci period of several important issues, including the $40,000,000 Pennsylvania railroad bonds and the $25,000,000 Interborough Rapid Transit notes, tells clearly of the change which has taken place in the investment market since the opening of the year, when it was difficult to obtain funds even for the most pressing requirements of business. The statement made by leading bankers last week that there has been no recent change in the situation except that bankers have had the courage to go ahead and finance the legitimate requirements of the railroads, is in a sense true, but the fact that bankers now are willing to take securities shows that the monetary position has become easy and that it is the belief of hankers that investors again are in a frame of mind to consider the purchase of high-grade securities. To what extent this belief was justified was strikingly illustrated last week by the enormous oversubscriptions to the two leading issues of the week, the Pennsylvania bonds and the Interborough notes. The former was taken by Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. jointly with X. Rothschild & Sons and Baring Bros. & Co.. of London, and the latter was underwritten by J P. Morgan & Co. ? Washington. April 28: A substi tute bill for the acquisition by the government of lands in the southern Appalachian and White Mountain chains, to take the place of the bills recently declared unconstitutional by the judiciary committee of the house, was introduced today by Representative Lever of South Carolina, and was referred to the committee on agriculti re. The new bill is designed to fall well within the constitutional limitations pointed out by the judiciary committee. It provides for the appointment of a commission to select and value lands in the Appalachian and White Mountains which would be useful to be acquired and kept in forested condition in order to conserve and Improve the navigability of streams which already are navigable in whole or in part; I hf. Sif.f-retn rv .if nirrirult lire to acquire such lands by gift or purchase. with consent of the legislatures of the states wherein they lie. and appropriates SI.500,000 therefor. There is a further provision that annually, after July 1st. lOfti). until 101X. all the revenues of the forestry service shall he made available for the further carrying ou? of the project. ? Tecumseh. Okla.. special of April L'5. to the St. Louis fJlobe-Democrat: Not until the whip-poor-will begins to sing will the negro cotton farmer begin his annual spring planting. Throughout the Oklahoma cotton belt, farmer after farmer gets his land ready for seed.ng. some of it several weeks before the planting begins, but invariably they wait for the whip-poor-will to commence his trilling before any seed goes into the ground. It is an old superstition brought by the negroes from the south, handed down from plantation and slavery days, but the negro adheres to it faithfully. His white neighbor or his white employer may insist on planting as soon as the ground can be prepared, but the negro will shake his head dubiously and declare that all manner of injury will come to the crop. He was the first to plant cotton in Oklahoma. He made a success of it. and as this fact is generally acknowledged by the white planters. he generally has his way as to when planting shall begin. In many localities, too, the white planters have become imbued with this same superstition and they watch the negroes to learn when planting should start. William H. Ooyle. owner of a string of cotton gins ami several cotton-seed oil mills in Central Oklahoma, snvs the negro grows two-thirds of the entire 1 i< Oklahoma cotton crop. There are v< many negro farmers in the state, and w to a man they grow cotton every year, a and it is becoming so that every white s< planter employs negroes exclusively to 1'ji plant, tend and harvest the crop. Many farmers from the north, who until they came to Oklahoma, knew nothing what- 1,1 ever of cotton culture, have watched tl the negro grow it. and have in turn ki hired him to grow it for them. Another peculiarity of the negro cotton planter is witnessed at marketing 1,1 time, when lie invariably demands gold c< coin in exchange for his crop. The r Oklahoma bankers have learned this j and always uavt* u sumim.v *?i r,t?iu i pieces on hand to pay out to the negro I ft farmers. They handle the yellow nion- tl ey lovingly, and to them it seems to ? be of greater value than its equivalent in any other form. 81 c( <Hic ^(orhvillr (Enquirer. 2^ C! Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. B tl YORKVILLE, S. C.i ic * n< FRIDAY. MAY I. I 'JOS. ?' ec Si It is not what you make, but what g( you save that makes you rich, and if C( you would get rich or even comfortably w independent, you must begin by put- c, ting your savings in the bank. 1 * 1 w Hon. John G. Capers upholds with Sl his fists his right to be called one of s 'em. No objection . from the white folks. Mr. Capers. |{ " 1 ic Wk are by the race for United States tj senator like we are about the noinina- Ul tion for president by the Democrats? don't know much about it and care rt less. It's all the same to us which way w the thing goes. We have no favorites. \\ and judging from the entries, will not . have.?Bamberg Herald. Just listen at that. Plain speaking ,1! isn't it? Does not sound good a bit: but it would be difficult to estimate the number of people to whose senti- al ments the Herald has given expression. a! _ m ' 9 ' B The recovery of such money as the state may have been cheated out of in ^ connection with the dispensary is a w matter of small consequence. The b( thing that is important is the conviction and punishment of those of our ^ own people who may have been guilty ^ of the swindling. And there should tj be no political flavor either about such b( prosecutions as may be attempted. It w is the moral rather than the political ni side of the whole business that needs (|( to be straightened out. ' m ' w Tiie Southern railway has established a department of train collectors S( and has placed Col. R. W. Hunt, now jassistant general passenger agent, in charge as superintendent. The duty sj of the train collector will be to aid the p, conductor in takine un tickets and u. fares. The conductors complain that ]0 they are unable to do the collecting jt work and properly look after their ft other duties. Col. Hunt will have his headquarters in Atlanta. District Pas- ^ sender Agent J. L. Me^k of Knoxville. p will succeed him as assistant general passenger agent. jr b( Tiik people who own the farms of tt this country may easily become the si controlling power over commerce, fi- n; nance and industry; but to do this a they must first make themselves inde- sc pendent.. The ideal farm is the one M that includes a little kingdom within lii its own limits. There should be horses, tt cattle, hogs, chickens, and an abundance of foodstuffs for man and beast. M Every farmer should strive in this di- N rection until he attains the end in view, ta free of debt. Then let him produce for Y market what he will. This is not a ct dream. It is a plain, practical proposi- ti: tion, and the easiest possible way to \y prosperity and success. And the pret- el tiest thing about the idea is that the B Aon }\a ith t' i i r? m 1 Kv on\* inHlvlH uai regardless of what other people ol do. er lit John Sharpe Williams, leader of the s? house Democrats had a lot of fun with si the Republicans Wednesday over the dt proposition to put wood pulp and M print paper on the free list. The Re- b< publicans have been trying to make believe that they were in favor of such ^ action. Williams presented a petition a signed bv 160 Democrats asking for si the recall of the bill from the committee having it in charge in order that it might be passed at once. He ^ explained that the petition needed only ^ thirty more signatures to give it a ra majority of the house and asked for ftJ thirty Republican volunteers. He taunted the Republicans and rubbed g, it into them good, telling them among cl other things that if they disliked the idea of signing a Democratic petition ^ they could get up a petition of their own and the Democrats would sign it. m He reminded them of the fact that the speaker had said that he was always willing to abide the will of the si majority, and assured the Republicans tl that if only thirty of them would sign ^ the petition, the paper would contain jc the names <>f a majority of the repre- tu sent a lives of the American people. OI But the Republicans took all the nagging meekly and refused to sign. st Cause?Effect. ^ Mills stopped. m Cotton growing. tt Manufactured stocks decreasing. Price of goods Retting: stronger. 21 Cotton growing. oi Mills still idle. ?| Supply of raw cotton increasing. (treat demand for cotton goods. w Price higher and higher. Mills making no goods and consiim- ^ ing no cotton. d Manufactured goods exhausted. ft Mills start again. Farmers never stopped. " More raw cotton than mills can spin, at Price of cotton goods away up. s? Price of raw cotton away down. a I Mills stopped. c, Time for farmers to stop. lii Supply of raw cotton scarcer. Prices of raw cotton higher. st Prices of manufactured goods high- 2I| Mills not deceiving themselves. m Farmers can't deceive mills. I'J dt National Politics. . In "Instruction of the South Carolina delegation to Denver means that if something should turn up. more encouraging than anything now in sight, tiie delegation front this state would s( he unable to take advantage of it."? jn Yorkville Enquirer. ln "What is likely to "turn up?' Is it fe the policy or practice of Democrats to at have no opinions, no convictions, no r< determination'.' It is southern Repub- ri cans that are noted for going' to conintions anticipating that something ill "turn up'?that 'something' being liberal gentleman with a fat wad, or veral liberal gentlemen with several it wads."?Columbia State. Just why the State should feel called lion to make reference to "liberal genemeu with fat wads." we do not now. If there is anybody out to buy white ^legates to the Democratic nominating mvention as black delegates to the epublican nominating conventions are night, we do not know of it, and irthermore we will say that if lere is anybody who thinks that any lan who is likely to go from this ate to the Democratic nominating invention can be bought with a ivad." that man is an idiot. Of course, we are not so unsophistiited as to be unable to understand rnt in the event of the election of Mr. ryan or Mr. Johnson, the influences lat brought about the nomination will >me in for consultation in the dispnsatlon of administration favors. ,'e know also that this fact often acuints for the activity of individuals id newspapers in the interest of parcular candidates. Hut we do not dere to be understood as making any isinuations or reflections in this consntinn When the State asks. "Is it the poly or practice of Democrats to have ? opinions, no convictions, no deterilnations?" we are more or less amus1. There is not one man in ten thouind who would not resent the sug?stion that he is without opinions, mvictions or determination; but as e see it, the .white people of this nintry are tied hand and foot in naonal politics as completely as if they ere absolutely denied the attributes > banteringly thrown out by the tate. The people of the south have but tile say-so as to what the Democrat! party should stand for; but it is ie only party to which they can atich themselves and keep their selfjspect, and therefore they have to take hatever is measured out for them, 'hy even our contemporary, the Coimbia State, seems to be on record as iving reliected on the motives of lose who have been disposed to sugist a desire for the nomination of fiybody except Mr. Bryan, calling them ssistant Republicans. Just what it leant can be variously explained, ut in schoolboy life, what might be ?garded as the equivalent of that irm applied by one boy to another, ould likely bring about a hair pulling ee. As we have said before, we make no uestion of the fitness or ability of Mr. ryan.- He is both able and tit for ie presidency. We believe he is a ftter man than Mr. Roosevelt, and we ould not dispute that he is an abler inn than John A. Johnson. But we > not believe that Mr. Bryan is availale. He has been twice defeated, and e are unable to see that he would and any better show now than he :ood the last time he was a candiite. Mr. Bryan is unable to carry his own ate of Nebraska. He is not very apular among his own people. He is even lost states that previously benged to the "solid south," and to us looks as if it would be worse than >lly to put him up again. We do not pretend to say that John . Johnson is the only other man the emoerats have available for a preslential nomination; but the argument i favor of his availability seems to & as strong as the argument against le availability of Mr. Bryan. John>n has carried his own state, nomially Republican, against Republican indidates, and that seems to prove miething. A man who can carry innesota can also carry other Repub?an states, or at least we would link so. There is good reason to believe that r. Bryan cannot carry New York or ew Jersey, and it is practically cer,in that he cannot win without New ork. The chances that Johnson can irry New York seem to be better, and lere is reason to suppose that he ould stand a better show of being ected without New York than Mr. ryan would stand. While The Enquirer is very desirous ; Democratic success, it is not over ithusiastic in its hopes along that le. We would be glad of Democratic tccess with Mr. Bryan, Mr. John -il Aoet/li. )n or any oiner uieuuamc v,anu?tte in the lead. We do not know that r. Johnson can be elected. It will ? uphill business for him or any oth Democrat to win out; but somehow e are quite set in the conviction that r. Johnson would come nearer being winner than any other candidate in ght. MERE-MENTION. The city of Philadelphia sold $5,875,10 of 4 per cent 30-year bonds on onday at 104.29, making the premium lised $256,566.25. The total bids made >r the bonds amounted to $34,111,200, cclusive of premiums offered... .The late Bank association and the State ankers' association of Maryland have langed the place of their annual eeting to Annapolis from Ocean ity, Md. The change is said to be je to the fact that Ocean City has (cently voted "dry." Eleven en and one woman were drowned in le St. Francis river, Arkansas, Monjy, by the capsizing of a boat jdge George Gray of Delaware, is lid to have some time ago refused le presidency of one of the big inirance companies at possibly the reatest salary ever offered in Amera Frost and snow is estimated i have damaged the orchards of Col udo more than $1,000,000 the early irt of this week. Much damage was me in other northern and western ates by snow, frost and wind storms. When the tour of the big tlantic Meet around the world is mpleted they will have sailed 42,500 liles... .Railroad officials throughout ie world say that rrilroad conditions e improving and indications for good iisiness are bright On May 1st 10 saloons in Massachusetts will go it of business on account of towns ml cllies Having voieu ary in me f a I option elections The village * Notre Dame de Salette, Canada, as buried in a landslide early Sunly morning. Twenty-five lives were si The treasury department lias nt out a call to banks of deposit for it- return of $45,000,000 of government fnds?$20,000,000 to be returned by lay Hth and the balance by the 23rd. ....Two New York Stock Exchange fats changed hands this week at $70,10 and $71,000. In November last a at was sold for $51,000... .Cleveland, hio, now has a 3-eent .street car fare "ter a war lasting seven years. One nt is charged for transfers from one ne to another New Jersey's delrates to the national Democratic condition at Denver, are to go uninructed. The delegation is said to be iti-Br.van A score of workmen, ostly negroes, were hurt by an exlosion of dust in a wood dve plant at hester. Pa.. Tuesday. The plant was imaged $150.000.... Four armed men ?ld up the paymaster of the United tates Coal and Coke company near ary. \V. \*a.. Tuesday. ? Willis Driggers, an inmate of the ate lunatic asylum, has been arnusig himself by making counterfeit oney. Some of the "crazy" money 11 into the hands of two watchmen the asylum and they have been ar stcd on the charge of passing spunus coin. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Palace Theatre?Will show "Mother's Dream" in moving pictures this evening. O. E. Spencer?Offers the Dickson ouse, King's Mountain street, for rent. S. S. Plaxlco?Is announced as a candidate for the office of sheriff, subject to the action of the Democratic party in the primary election. ' C. Frank Sherrer?Wants good milch cows and fat beef cattle at all times. Luther Baber?Wants you to ask about Ess-tee-dee, the hair tonic that stimulates the scalp. Loan and Savings Bank?Advises you to start a savings account with it on May 1st and add to it regularly. York Drug Store?Has a new supply of electric light globes in all sizes, both in regular and frosted finish, and also Hi-lo lamps. Carroll Furniture Co.?Is showing a nice line of Japanese and Chinese mattings, 15c a yard and up. Mattine rues at 75c each. M. W. White?Tells what Is the chief end of some men. Real estate offerings for your consideration. J. Q. Wray?Picked up a bargain in Marceline silks and is passing it on to his customers at 10c a yard?usually sells at 25c. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo?Print more testimony going to prove the value of Doan's kidney pills. See fourth page. Star Drug store?Don't want you to forget that you can find desirable articles for wedding presents In its stock. Fresh express shipment of Xunnally's candies. York Supply Co.?Sells walking and riding cultivators, cane seed. peas, refrigerators, ice cream freezers, etc., and wants fertilizer buyers to give notes for payment. Thomson Co.?Invites critical men to visit its clothing department and see . what can be seen in quantity and quality as well as style. Blue serge suits at $10?a big value. D. E. Boney, Manager?Will sell you life and fire Insurance in the Farmers' Mutual companies at cost. First National Bank?Assures you that It can handle your banking business with entire satisfaction to vou and tiiat your funds will be safe. Strauss-Smith Co.?Inaugurates a reduction sale in its clothing department. prices being cut from 25 to 3.1 per cent for cash. The recent term of the circuit court for York county cost about $1,500. Rumor is carrying the names of no less than nine candidates for the office of supervisor of York county. While a number of scattering cotton mills are closing down here and there, it is to be noted that the closing movement is not at all general. t/onsiaeraDie quantities 01 leruiizers are still being- hauled out of Yorkville, and it is to be presumed that the same thing is going on in the ease of other markets. There is no need to get excited because of a little advance In the cotton market. The advance only shows how easy it is for the speculator to get scared. \ Rev. L. A. Cooper is to begin a revival meeting in the First Baptist church of Rock Hill next Sunday morning. He will be assisted by Mr. W. J. Henderson. More than a dozen fiddlers, ban joists and dancers have indicated their intention of participating in the Fiddlers' convention to be held .in Yorkville next Friday night. The prospects for a large attendance are good. Some of those people who are complaining that it is too late to start in to win the Farmers' Union corn prize, are going to wake up some November morning to find that some other fellow who started late is going to come out first best. Those foreign spinners who visited the United States last summer seem to have hatched a game. The mills have stopped in plenty of time to give the farmers a chance to stop the cotton planters. The hint is plain enough for the most stupid. The pension roll as published in The Enquirer of Tuesday contained a great many errors, in names and postoffices; but the errors were not of our making. The roll was a copy of that sent from the office of the comptroller general. It seems that when the list was first made up a number of years ago. many names were misspelled. an<? many postofflces were mixed. Various efforts have been made to have the original list corrected: but they have been unsuccessful, and there is little else left than to reproduce the names and addresses as they are sent out officially from the office of the comptroller general. Although the club season is over, The Enquired continues to add new subscribers to its list. Generally these subscribers send $2 for a year. $1 for six months or 50 cents for three months. Occasionally, however, individuals ask to have their names put on the list for a year for $1.75. Such requests are invariably refused. We also refuse requests to start the paper without pay. There are people who seem to be unable to appreciate either proposition, our refusal to put down names without pay in advance or to accept single subscriptions at $1.75 each; but the reasons behind the prac tice are so satisfactory at this office and so well established by custom that it is hardly worth while to argue the matter. The margin of profit on a single subscription is so small as to warrant but little special work on account of it, and book-keeping beyond the necessary original entries is not to be thought of. The publishers of The Enquirer are always delighted to put new subscribers on their books and to renew old ones; but owing to the great expense at which the paper is published, including the high cost of materials, they are not inclined to have much patience with overtures looking to any shaving of the present pitiably low price of subscription. CORN PRIZE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Previously acknowledged $215 00 \V. L.. Hogue, Clover 1 00 H. P. Jackson. Clover 1 00 The Enquirer will take pleasure in acknowledging all promises of subscriptions of $1.00 and over and will turn memorandum of the same over to Mr. A. L. Black, secretary and treasurer of the York County Farmers' Union for record and collection. FOUND THE OWNER. The Yorkville Hanking and Mercantile company found the owner of that bale of cotton it advertised in The Enquirer of last Tuesday. The owner was Sam Adams, colored, of Yorkville. He turned up soon after the advertisement appeared: but the cotton had never been lost. The owner had had his eve on it all the while. Mr. \V. S. Neil, the cotton man of the firm, caused the insertion of the advertisement. He had known for several weeks that the cotton was there: hut was tmnhle to locate the owner. His theory was that some fellow had unloaded the hale with the intention of selling' it. gotten drunk and gone home. Then maybe he had forgotten all about the matter, and when he sobered up was not sure but that lie may have sold the cotton and lost the money. It was because of the possibility of something like this that Mr Nell decided to advertise for the owner. Sam Adams turned up promptly and Mr. Nell remembered at once that he was the right man. Quite a number of people made Joking claims on Mr. Roy Williamson for the cotton during Wednesday and Thursday and Mr. Williamson put it up to each one like this: "Yes, the only thing we know about that bale of cotton was that the man who left It there was drunk. All right, go on and take It away." COUNTY CONVENTION. The county convention of the Democratic party of York county is to be held in the court house next Monday. The principal business to be transacted will bi the confirmation of the executive committeemen elected by the different precincts, the election of a county chairman and the selection of delegates to the state convention. It will be remembered that two years ago a party organized for the purpose of upholding the state dispensary machine made quite a fight f r\ nonhmo ho * * ? + ohn 1 r?tvn> nuhlo #om Mr. W. H. Stewart, and failed by a pretty close margin. As to whether this light will be renewed this year or there will be any fight at all the reporter has no information; but the probability is that if there is a fight it will be along rather different lines than before, as the issue of the campaign of two years ago has collapsed It Is not expected that there will be anything sensational in the proceedings of next Monday's convention; but along that line it would hardly be safe to make any predictions. F. H. BARBER DEAD. Mr. Ferguson H. Barber, one of the best known citizens of York county, died at his home in Rock Hill yesterday afternoon at about K..30 o'clock, after an illness of several weeks, caused by a disorder of the kidneys, Mr. Barber was about 76 years of age. He spent the greater part of his long and useful life in York county; but also lived during a good many years in Chester county, where he also owned large tracts of valuable land. Mr. Barber's business career was varied and extensive. His most important interests were connected with agriculture; but at different times he also engaged In merchandising and cotton manufacturing. For many years Mr. Barber has been recognized as one of the largest and most successful cotton farmers in the upper part of the state. He almost invariably made large crops of cotton and corn and his operations generally showed a profit. One of his fixed policies was not to allow a cotton seed to be sold off of any plantation owned by him, and it was his custom to have this rptiuirement stinnlnteH in evprv contract that he made with renters and croppers. Although a very busy man. Mr. Barber found time to show a deep and practical Interest in every question affecting the public welfare. He was a staunch prohibitionist and did much to drive the liquor evil from York county. He was an enthusiastic advocate of good roads and did his full share in every movement looking to organization in the interest of the cotton producer. In short he was a good citizen. Mr. Barber leaves one son. Mr. James Barber of Rock Hill, and two daughters, both of whom are married. SPECULATIVE MARKET. The developments in the contract cotton market yesterday, as summarized by a New York dispatch of last night were as follows: The cotton market had a very strong advance again today on continued support from big trade interests and closed firm at a net advance of 31 to 35 points. Sales were estimated at 375,000 bales. The market opened firm at an advance of 12 to 16 points in response to higher cables. There was heavy selling at first, evidently realizing by some of yesterday's buyers but there was no renewal of the pressure from southern sources, big spot people were supporting the market and prices soon HmrioH nn iflth chnrta ohnn Intr linAO? iness and covering as a result of the character of the buying and talk of frosts in the western belt. After selling 22 to 28 points net higher the market eased off 8 or 9 points, following the forecast for fair and warmer weather in the western belt tomorrow, but quickly firmed up again and reached the highest level during the afternoon when prices showed a net advance of 31 to 35 points with July leading on continued bull support, covering, and rumors that big spot interests were planning a squeeze of the July short interest. The close was within a point of the top. There were reports of a better spot demand from Liverpool, also from southern sources and it also seemed that advices regarding conditions in manufacturing circles were more optimistic. A leading trade paper published a statement that the present indication was for a cotton area about the same as last year and that considerable replanting was necessury in the western belt. Two private acreage reports will be issued tomorrow by local authorities of considerable reputation. Receipts at the ports today 10.302 bales against 9,901 last week and 8,244 last year. For the week 60,000 against 58.757 last week and 73,081 last year. Today's receipts at New Orleans 5,338 against 2,514 last year, and at Houston 1.013 bales against 968 last year. ANOTHER JOLT FROM HARRIS. Mr. H. Harris, president ?,?f the South Carolina Farmers' Union, has sent out thu fiiiirm-inp- frnm Pendleton under date of yesterday: "The manufacturers of North and South Carolina have decided to close down the mills July 1st. If the cloth market is so bad, it looks like it would be good judgment to close earlier, as by July 1st the closing will be compulsory. "Holders of spot cotton, take a firm hold and do not be bluffed as you have been in the past. Cotton is scarcer than it has been in years, and the mills are about out of cotton; not enough on hand to run thirty days and goods have not fallen in price. Cotton gets tilgti wnen it gets out or me producers' liands. "The government wants to buy five to ten million dollars' worth of ducking. which will take some cotton. Fall ' goods have not been contracted for yet. but will have to be soon. Hold your cotton for the minimum price. ( Cotton exchanges and their agents have been trying to create public sentiment that 15 cents is too high and < on account of the holding campaign of ( the farmers, the financial center in New York has been shaken. Widespread. panic prevails. 1 "If it is a fact that the Farmers' i Union has in so short a time shaken , the great Gibraltar of stock gamblers, J we should accept it as the highest tribute to unity among the farmers, and < call upon every loyal farmer in the ' south to join us and with a firm hand obliterate this dangerous system of i doing business, which can only be i done by thorough organization of far- I mers. This a day of organization. i "It seems the crop is now two to ] three weeks late and the seed beds i worse prepared than in many years, < as the spring and winter have been so < wet that it was impossible to plow < deep, which means poor stand and i short crops. i "Don't forget the 1907 crop is 4,500,- < 000 bales short. I "Hold to your cotton. Futures can- s not be spun and woven into cloth; if i it could spots would not be worth gin- | |ning. I WRECK AT BLACKSBURG. tre? A heavily loaded freight train on the fac or * Charlotte and Atlanta division of the up( Southern, ran into a work train he- bea tween Rlacksburg and Broad river ,ias Wednesday morning und smashed the cars of the work train almost to kindling wood. Nobody was hurt except the engineer of the freight train. * who had his face badly scratched while 01 jumping for safety. De Rev. Henrv Cauthen of Yorkville, I Pr< was in Rlacksburg at the time of the Rjv wreck, having gone there on a visit, lov and gave an Interesting account of the to wreck. ^afro "Just as I got off the train from UU) Yorkville," said Mr. Cauthen. "I heard Ch an engine puffing down the track, and Y? looking that way, saw coming the big- re_ gest locomotive I have ever seen. Th There is something peculiarly fasclnat- at ing about a locomotive to me. Whenever I am about where there is one, I j)U delight to stand and look at It. This tra one, with four big drivers on either 'n? side, and the cab high up like a second siury uuiiuaig, arcuicu tu j/wn - j-q^ er enough to pull all the cars that roi could be hitched to It. I got out my ci< kodak and made an exposure with a ] great deal of interest and satisfaction. Co About ten minutes afterward news at came that the big engine had run in- tj|( to a work train and smashed things, ter Pretty soon the big engine came pushIng Its own ?cars back to Blacksburg. H? The pilot and headlight were missing, tin smoke stack was somewhat awry and fro there were some twisted rods to be sn i seen; but otherwise, the locomotive wj| was none the worse for the encounter, res "It was several hours after the 'ar smashup before the track was clear again," continued Mr. Cauthen; "but Th as It happened they were using der- we ricks and other necessary appliances at the river bridge, and the delay was 'j^ not as great as would have otherwise dei been the ease. In the meantime, how- p|j ever, three or four other trains, pas- | sengers and freights were hung up at Ob Blacksburg, giving an idea of the tre- of mendous amount of traffic over this line, and the sore need of a double ab, track. oui "I understand," continued Mr. Cauthen, "that the grade from Blacks- pe', burg to the river is the heaviest be- tut tween Washington and New Orleans." Th , mi ABOUT PEOPLE. all! Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Moore arrived by home Wednesday night. 'n* on< Miss Mamie Turner of Yorkville, is sel visiting relatives and friends in Gas- wll tonin. Pai Dr. M. W. White was in Clover a few hours Tuesday on professional wh business. tht Mrs. Lizzie Covington and Miss * 1 Patsy Ashcroft of Monroe, N. C., are ^ visiting Mrs. R. E. Heath. Mr. John F. Gordon left this morn- Mi ing for a ten days' visit to his sister, un Mrs. John McMillan, near Richmond, c|11 Virginia. *or Dr. Marshall B. Neil, formerly of the Bo Filbert neighborhood, has decided to Ml locate at Charlotte. N. C. He has been ^ practicing in Virginia. Mc Mrs. J. O. YVllhite arrived in York- Me vilie last evening from Anderson. Dr. &r( erf and Mrs. Wilhite will board with Mr. Ro and Mrs. R. B. Dowry. re< Mr. Will Adams, clerk at the Shan- of don hotel, went to the hospital at Rock Hill on Wednesday, where he will un- mc dergo on operation for appendicitis. tht Mr. John G. White, merchant and Mr lov banker of Chester, was in Yorkville la^ Wednesday for the purpose of confer- i3 ring with his brother. Dr. M. W. of White, in regard to his health and lo- ma ?11*1' cal business affairs. njr Columbia State, Thursday: The an- a i nual intra-debaters* contest of the th< EUphradian Literary society at the ^ University of South Carolina, which for was held last night in the society hall, noi was won by J. B. White, *09, of York, hoi The debate, "Resolved, That the legls- Mi lature of South Carolina should pass a I Ph prohibition law at the coming session,' ^ was well argued by the men who took a r part in this contest. Some Interest- an< ing points were brought out by both the affirmative and the negative. Some Mr clear insight into the question on the mil part of some of the speakers was dem- inf onstrated to the audinece. White showed excellent preparation through- sor odt his debate. On rebuttal the deba- be ters put forth some good points to tear Iert down the arguments put up by their |?at opponents. The decision of the Judges r0 was rendered by Hon. J. J. McMahan, Ea who spoke in pleasing terms of the an< contest and the showing that the young debaters made. A medal will pre be awarded to Mr. White by the Eu- aft phradian society at the closing of college. He has been a member of this ma society for three years and since his wh entrance has been a sincere society ^,e t h r worker. His success as a debater has gJtj been made on the floor of the grand wh old society. dea ^ the WITHIN THE TOWN. Jul ? The election last Tuesday on the fou question of voting a 3 mill tax for the bee aiinnnrt nf th? Vnrvlcillp fi-rnded School. r,- ? WJg resulted in a poll.of 51 votes of which her 40 votes were for the tax and 11 Yoi against. There was evidence of a J'11 hciA quiet marshalling of votes to sustain ^ the policy and administration of those who have charge of the school; but no active opposition developed. ? There was a small sized sensation cou Tuesday evening over the alleged dan- No gerous condition of the Herndon build- of ing on Main street. Some weeks ago <^er a pine partition was put in on the first unt floor for the accommodation of the "Palace Theatre,'' and a skating rink gra was opened up above. The skaters We made plenty of racket, of course, and no doubt tested the building severely ooc enough. Tuesday it was noticed that gro the partition had begun to warp badly and people at once took up the idea ^ that the walls were giving away. we Careful examination by Carpenter's sor Orant and Gardner, however, developed that the entire trouble, so far nj*,( as they could determine was in the thn warping of the pine partition. ^*ui ? The ladies of the Cemetery asso elation nave oeen Kino enougu iu nun- anf] or The Enquirer with a generous wait- ter. er of choice flowers from the Yorkvllle fU8( cemetery. The Yorkville cemetery has to 1 long been noted lor the variety, abund- 0~ ance and beauty of its flowers; but Dr. during the past few years, especially sail since the ladies Auxiliary society has ' rem heen so active in looking after the sa- aj)S cred enclosure in which rests the re- the mains of so many of Yorkville's belov- but fd dead, this striking characteristic of bac [his interesting place has become more ty \ marked than ever. All of the old time Lin flowers have been looked after and of t rejuvenated whenever this has been tar. practicable, and new levies have been Bab made not only on all the private flow- tim< ?r gardens of the town: but upon all gra, >f the most noted commercial florists the if the country, and it would be difficult ers indeed to find anywhere in this section obti i more complete or a more pleasing erie collection of outdoor flowers than is wor [o be seen in the cemetery. It is Sen strictly against the municipal laws, he ind aiso against a strong and healthy as niblic sentiment for unauthorized peo- \\'a ile to lay vnndal hands on the floral coui usures of the cemetery, and these ts seem to further enhance the honthe ladles have seen proper to confer )n The Enquirer In sending the utlful collection to which reference i just been made. LOCAL LACONICS, i Will Send The Enquirer Yom this date to January 1st, 1909, 51.34. legates to Presbytery. n a note to the Associate Reformed isbyterian, Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway es delegates to presbytery the folding information as to how to get Yorkville next Monday and Tuesy: Those who come to presbytery im Charlotte by way of Gastonia fht either to take No. 39 leaving arlotte at 7.15 a. m. and getting tc rkvllle at 10.50 a. m? or take No, out of Charlotte at 1 2.25 p. m. ana iching Yorkville at 5.29 o'clock p. m. ose taking- No. 41 out of Charlotte 4.35 p. m., will have to go around by icksburg and reach Yorkville at 9 lock p. m. Those who come from e West ought to take the morning .In and change at Blacksburg, reachYorkville at 9 o'clock p. m. Or ne to Gastonla and have the Southl conductor wire the C. & N.-W. id to hold for passengers. By this ite you reach Yorkville at 5.29 p. m >sing of the Mills. itock Hill special of April 28 to the lumbia State: A meeting of cotton mufacturers was held here today which not only the local mills but >se of Yorkville. Fort Mill and Cheswere represented. The purpose oi > conference was to consider the sittion as to the market and whal ;se mills should do. It was decided it instead of running short time m three to five days per week af ne have been doing, the mills will it down for one week, beginning th May 11. All of the mills replented, except the Arcade and Highid Park of this city, agreed to this in. These two mills are considering ? matter and will probably come in e mills of Lancaster and Wlnnsborc re not represented hi the meeting t it is likely that they will enter the reement. Another conference will be Id, May 26. and further action then ?lded upon. nt Hill Church. -"ort Mill correspondent Charlotte server: The splendid new building the Flint Hill Baptist church if iv practically complete. It is ol ck and was erected at a cost ol out $7,000 to the congregation, witht furnishings. The furnishings anc tures will call for some $1,000 oi 500 additional. As soon as the ivs can be secured from the manuers the building will be occupied is will be. It is hoped, about the (Idle of May. The church is now e hundred and sixteen years old d this is the fourth building used the congregation. The new buildf will not, perhaps, be dedicated al ce, but on the occasion of the first vices held in it opening exercises II be held and the services will alsr rtake of the nature of a home-corn; welcome to the many members ??1 s church who have moved else lere. AH such are hereby notified it they are cordially Invited to pa> visit to this old mother of churches that occasion. ms-Clinton. Vir. Leon Adams of Gastonia and ss Emma Clinton of Clover, were ited in marriage in the Presbyterian arch at Clover Wednesday evening 8 o'clock, Rev. W. B. Arrowood, pas', officiating. Miss Delia McCully ol wling Green, was maid of honor and '. Robert Adams, brother of the >om, was best man. The bridesdds were Misses Webb Stanton Lttie Caldwell, Bessie Adams and irie McWhlrter of Jonesville. . Th? x>msmen were Messrs. L. C. Perm, W. H. Adams, A. M. Dixon and ss Clinton. After the ceremony a jeption was given at the residence the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs J. Clinton. The home was prettily jorated and the reception was a ?st elaborate affair, many friends ol contracting parties being present s. Adams is one of South Carolina's eliest and most accomplished young lies and is very popular. The groom proprietor of the Adams Drug Store Gastonia, and there is not a young in of the town who has more friends d they all congratulate him In winig such a -splendid young lady foi vife. The bridal party drove through > country from Clover to Gastonia mediately after the reception anc s bride and groom took No. 40 then a bridal trip to Niagara Falls anc rthern cities. They will make theii me in Gastonia. irder Near Fort Mill. ?ort Mill special of April 28, tc arlotte Observer: Yesterday after)n, about 4 o'clock, Love Robertson, legro boy about 16 years of age, shot i killed instantly Babe Watson, a rro girl of about the same age. The ling occurred at the girl's home, on '. W. M. Culp's farm, about two les east of town. From the best ormation obtainable jealousy was ! cause of the crime. It seems that i parties had been sweethearts but ne other suitor seemed recently to having the advantage over Rob' son, who for some time has been ying at the girl's home, with her her and mother. This resulted in bertson's becoming very Jealous, rlier in the day they had quarreled 1'fought but with no special dam; to either party. Mr. Culp advised i boy to let the trouble drop and he >mised to do so. But later in the emoon he left his plow and went a neighbor's and borrowed a gun, lending that he wanted to shoot a ddog. Returning to the house, ere he found the girl in the yard, waited presenting the gun in a eatening manner until he got a polon in front of her when he shot the ole load into her bosom with idly effect. He then threw down gun and fled but was captured at ?eola today by an officer. He was ited last night by a party and if ind by it he might possibly have in lynched. So strong was the feelthat 'Squire McElhaney thought it iest not to have him brought back e but had him conveyed directly to rkville, where he was lodged in jail, e evidence is positive, the killing :ing been witnessed at a distance Mr. Culp and the girl's mother. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. The board of control of Aiken inty checked up the dispensary in rth Augusta and found a shortage $400. The dispensary has been ored closed and will not be opened 11 the matter is straightened out. Columbia State, May 1: The sume court yesterday refused to nt bail in the case of Grover C. lch, now in jail at Lancaster, thn b-illlncr Hai'inr ? '6C1I " ?? ???^ rw,..i?6 in ~. bley lust February. _ The killing urred on a train and was the outwth of a shooting affray a month vious, in which Mobley shot Steven lch and Thos. Clyburn. It was lined by the attorneys for drover lch that Mobley was the aggresand drew his pistol first, with the iark, "You shot my brother like a ; and I will fix you." This was de:1 by the prosecution, who allege t Mobley was shot in the back, merous affidavits were presented on h sides on this point. Welch was resented by Blakeney & Williams [ the prosecution by Mr. Harry FosThe application for bail being reed, it will be necessary for Welch remain in jail until his trial. Senator and Mrs. Tillman, aclpanied by Dr. J. W. Babcock and J. J. Watson, of Columbia, will for Europe on May 16th. Senator man and Mrs. Tillman expect to lain abroad the entire summer, as olute rest is deemed necessary for restoration of the senator's health, Drs. Watson and Babcock will be k by the middle of July. The par,vill take passage on the White Star e. leaving Boston on the morning he 16th and going direct to Gibraland thence to Italy, where Drs. icock and Watson will spend some e studying the disease called pellaconeerning which Dr. Babcock with assistance of Dr. Watson and othhas made some interesting discovtin wide notice in the medical s ami observations that are sure to Id. While Dr. Babcock has been ator Tillman's physician for years, is going with him on this trip not physician but as friend, and Dr. tson goes in the same way. of rse. The news from Atlanta, where Senator Tillman Is in a sanitarium, is to the effect that his health is daily improving and he will soon be beyond the need of a physician, but he has < urged his friends to accompany him abroad, and Gov. Ansel has Joined In the request for Dr. Babcock to take a rest from his arduous work as superintendent and physician for the state hospital for the Insane. As a matter of fact Dr. Rabcock has had a hurd time with the grip this winter and his friends insist that he needs a rest hintself, as he is one of the most conscientious and constant workers in the state and one of the state's most valuable servants. It.is the custom of Dr. Watson to take a European trip every summer, "for recreation. The an nouncement that Senator Tillman will , go abroad brings to^ notice again the J > fact that he will take absolutely no , part in politics this summer and that he will not make any lecturing tours I at all. When the state Democratic convention is held, on May 20, he will . likely be on the ocean, and by the time - the national convention of the party i Is held, he will likely be enjoying comj plete rest and quiet in some part of . rural England, as it is his intention to go to England after visiting Italy and . to remain there probably until early fall. Senator Tillman has been a del- t egate to the last four national cont ventions. 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1904, and each time has been a most prominent figure, and he wliil undoubtedly be missed at Denver. ' ? Columbia special of April 28 to I 1 Greenville News: The Republican ? , state convention was dominated by Captain Capers and Deas today, and there was no chance for any one else f to grot in a word. A compromise seemed to have been effected as the delegates at large were not instructed I for Taft or for any other candidate i and the name of none of the presi1 dential possibilities was mentioned, 1 not even Roosevelt's. The exciting x ' incident of the meeting occurred Just before the convention was called to order after dinner. There were calls 1 for Capers to make a speech and as >' he ascended the platform to do so, a Columbia negro, Ed Thompson, selz ed the president's stick and lntroduc ed Capers as "the greatest Democrat J in South Carolina." Capers struck - him and knocked him off the plat' form and immediately there was a row. For a while it appeared that .here might be serious trouble but finally order was restored and Capers ; stated that Thompson had tried to ; nit him with a stick and he resented ' the insult. He asserted that he was gl [ a good Republican or he would not be r there and denied that he had called J Thompson a "damned nigger." This brought on another row, but the convention at length got down to bus iness, and with Deas in the chair the programme was railroaded through. 5 ; Captain Capers, Deas, Blalock and T. ; L. Grant, of Charleston were elected [ delegates at large with the following alternates: R. R. Tolbert, Bob Smalls, 1 Logan Richardson and Lawson D. ' Melton. R. R. Tolbert was endorsed for collector of internal revenue in place c of Major Micah Jenkins, who has been ' recommended for restoration to the ' army. Capt. Capers presented the re'r port of the committee on resolutions and nominations, and it was evident : that the Tolbert and Deas factions j [ had been placarded. Resolutions . of sympathy for Capt. Capers in the ' death ol his father, were presented by Grant, and seconded by Crum, Smalls and Logan, and Capers expressed to 1 tie convention his appreciation. Af-' > tor adjournment Aaron Prioleau, i mounted the stand and having been * ; denied a hearing all day called a con vention and nominated himself, f Smartl, J. W. Tolbert and Crum as \ delegates and declared the ticket electi ed. Smalls and Crum repudiated the . nomination, and afterwards Prioleau , stated he had changed the ticket and I there would yet be a contest at Chli cago. Though the convention had been called to meet at noon, it was * I 12.30 o'clock before the convention was i called to order by Chairman Deas. ? For several hours before that time . there were button-hole conferences In r the stable underneath the meeting: l hall on Assembly street and around f the corner, where the delegates loiter. ed. Capt. Capers, Deas, and other 4 > 'eaders, including: the dlgmifled Dr. : Crum were industriously and earnesti ly presenting their respective views s to each other and to the individual : delegates, and the executive commit, tee was for a time at work going over the list of delegates and making up : the temporary roll of the convention, i When Chairman Deas rapped with his i heavy walking stick for order and the I convention assumed quiet, the Chair- 4 > man presented the Rev. J. L. Dart of I Charleston to make the opening pray er. Dr. Dart made an Impressive prayer, thanking God for the great Republican party and what it has done for the country and for human ity. Deas then announced that the 4( convention had been called to elect ; four delegates at large and four al' ternates to the National Republican | convention to be held in Chicago on 1 June 16 to nominate a candidate for 1 president and vice president and he ! then called on the secretary, W. F. Myers, to read the official calls by the 1 national and the state committee. ; which was done. The election of temporary officers being in order, T. 1 L. Grant of Charleston promptly secured the floor and nominated for f ; temporary chairman. E. H. Deas, and ' there were loud seconds from all parts of the hall. Secretary Myers promptly put in the motion and Deas ivaa n\c.ntt>ri in a strvrm as it were, of ayes. In the same way Myers was elected temporary secretary. % AT THE CHURCHI8. BAPTIST. Rev. I. G. Murray, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching: and annual roll call at 11 a. m. Special music for the occasion. All are cordially invited to attend this service. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Rev. J. O. Babin, Rector. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Services at 11 a. m., and 4.30 p. m. Special collection at morning' service for general missions. > FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. E. E. Gillespie, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Preaching at York Cotton Mill at 7.45 p. m. TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Rev. Henry J. Cauthen, Pastor. Sunday Services?Morning service at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 3.30 p. m. Union services will begin Sunday night to continue through the # summer. The A. R. Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches have entered into the arrangement. The first service will be in Trinity church Sunday night and the Rev. R. E. Stackhouse will preach the sermon. The second Quarterly Conference for M Trinity will be held after the service. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. W. C. Ewart, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sabbath school at 1 > a. m. Morning service at 11 a. in. THE YORK CIRCUIT. Rev. H. Bascom Hardy, Pastor. Sunday Services?Preaching at m King's Mountain Chapel at 11 a. m., and at Philadelphia at 3.30 p. m. 5 Special $otirrs. Missionary Rally. The second Quarterly Conference of the York circuit, and a Missionary Rally will be held at King's Mountain Chapel on Saturday. May the 2nd. The programme is as follows: Saturday morning. May 2nd. 11 a. m.?Preaching by the presiding elder. Rev. R. E. Stackhouse. 12 noon?The Quarterly Conference. Dinner?(baskets). 2 p. m.?Song service and prayer. 3 p. m.?Address by Prof. D. M. Ellen. Subject?"Laymen's Part In the Missionary Movement." 4 p. m.?Address by Rev. H. J. Cauthen. Sunday. May 3rd. 11 a. m.?Preaching by Rev. R. E. Stackhouse, after W which the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered. H. Rascom Hardy, Pastor.