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jtoaps and .farts. ? A terribly destructive cyclone swept down from the Great Lakes last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and went out into the Atlantic at Savannah. As to whether it was a single big storm or series of storms, is not certain; but there is no doubt of the fact that the loss of lives aggregated hundreds and the property loss went high up into the millions. Although many people were killed in Ohio and Illinois, Tennessee was probably the worst sufferer, | a hundred people being killed at various points in that state alone. The Cumberland valley suffered dreadfully. Eighteen houses were destroyed at Ebenezer, Tenn., and almost as many at Fayettevllle. Many deaths are reported from Mississippi, Arkansas, j Alabama and Georgia. Georgia reports about forty deaths. ? Raleigh special of May 1, to Charlotte Observer: Rev. Thomas Dixon, father of Rev. A. C. Dixon of Chicago, and of Thomas Dixon, Jr., the well known author and playwright of New York, died here tonight, aged 90, at the home of his daughter, Dr. Delia DlxonCarrolL His illness was very brief. He came here three weeks ago from his home at Shelby to visit his daughter. Rev. A. C. Dixon spent last week with him. Rev. Josiah William Bailey, so widely known among the Baptists, was ?iv? an annreclation of this man of God. He said: "Rev. Thorn-1 as Dixon, Sr., was one of the noblest I men and ministers our country has produced. In my judgment he was the last of the patriarchal type and one of the best. His ministry in Cleveland county was without a parallel in this state and not surpassed in all his history of the ministry. He baptized more than 5,000. believers and was shepherd of one flock more than sixty years. He was more than a preacher or pastor, he was the patriarch of a great tribe. In all things he was tried and in none found wanting." The funeral will be at New Prospect church, Cleveland /vmntv. at 3 o'clock Monday. ? Washington, May 2: The senate bill which deals with the maximum and minimum tariff proposition, has, in the judgment of tariff experts, one very important feature. It practically vests in the president the power to declare a tariff war against any nation, or to refrain therefrom. It is given to him to decide whether or not any nation is discriminating against the products of the United States. This permits the government to make agreements with other nations as to trade and tariff concessions which can be made effective by a proclamation from the president. * * 3 Ko nhvlfltpr] In this way tne aeiu> l-c.u uv v. ? which would necessarily follow the submission to congress or to the senate of any proposition requiring such approval. The same bill, it is explained, authorizes the president to employ at his discretion any persons to secure information or assist him in the discharge of these duties, which would mean that he can appoint commissioners to go abroad and make agreements with foreign nations. Any change in the case of any nation, however, must be a change in the way of higher duties. No amount of bargaining or concessions can secure for any country any reduction in the tariff law to be Vv? nroopnt POnBT^SS. pasacu uj hitv ? ? ? New York, May 2: Wm. Travers Jerome, district attorney of New York, radically departed from his usual attitude toward the public tonight by stepping before a large audience, members of the People's Institute, at Cooper Union, and declaring that he wished to explain the conduct of his office "to establish a precedent which would make it difficult for a public servant to dodge responsibility for his official acts." Heretofore Mr. Jerome has maintained a policy of silence as regards his office. But in his speech tonight he said: "It seemed to me that the public officers In this city, ana generally in this country, were not sufficiently in touch with the persons who elected them. It seemed to me that a public servant should be appointed so that from time to time he can account to the public for his stewardship, not in written reports, where he could give the thing the color he wanted, not in newspaper interview, but face to face with the people who have the right to vote. During the seven years I have been district attorney, more than one hundred thousand criminal cases have gone through my office. As to many of them I could have no knowledge. As to others I had full knowledge. But I am not trying to avoid responsibilities for my acts nor the acts of my chosen assistants. I would rather have your approbation than disapprobation," he went on, 'but I come here not for your approbation or disapprobation, so that it is in a sense immaterial whether I get it. I thinlc I see an opportunity for public service. I think I see an opportunity for making it difficult for other public officers to evade meeting the people face to face and answering their questions. And you need not be afraid of hurting my feelings." ? Nairobi, British East Africa, May 1: Four lions are trophies of ex-President ' Roosevelt's camp in the Mau hills tonight and two hundred or more native followers are joining with the American party in the celebration of the unusually good luck. The lions' were bagged yesterday, and Colonel Roosevelt's mighty gun brought three ~ ao/>R nn tha firut uhfit I U1 II1CII1 IU CUI HI, cavil an uiv ma. a..... Th is one of the president's fondest ambitions had been realized, and he is proud, too, that the fourth of the jungle kings fell before the rifle of his son Kermit, who however, took three shots to kill his quarry. Both father and son are Jubilant. It was their first lion hunt, and so magnificent a kill was far beyond their expectations, but lions have been plentiful in the hills for the past month, and the English hunter, F. C. Selous, has been out for several days laying plans for their extinction. How well he succeeded can be seen from the results of yesterday's chase. Mr. Selous accompanied the former president, who also was attended by the usual retinue of beaters. As a rule the beaters go into the jungle with considerable trepidation, but as Colonel Roosevelt's reputation as a hunter had reached here long before he arrived in person, the beaters on this occasion were excentlonallv enthusiastic. They seemed even eager to play a part iu the first hunt of the distinguished American. The caravan started early Thursday morning from the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on the Athi river and proceeded slowly to the Mau hills. This range is open for wide areas, but, in places, is covered with growths where game is plentiful. The first night in camp was without especial incident, no attempt being made to go after lions, although their call was heard now and then throughout the night, but at dawn camp was astir, and the drive speedily organized. The native beaters set out j in all directions under the Instruction v of the "head beater" armed with all t sorts of noise-making devices which ft could not but arouse any game within earshot. Some of the beats proved blanks, but by nightfall no less than ten kinds of game had been bagged, ft Kermit during the greater part of the day did more effective work with his camera than he did with his gun, he " and the other members of the party v allowing Mr. Roosevelt the much prized 3 shots. Details of the actual shooting were not brought down to Nairobi to- 0 day from the camp, but it was declared 0 that in each case a single bullet from e the ex-president's rifle sufficed to bring t( down his lion. From this it is regard- ? ed that Colonel Roosevelt is living up 0 to the reputation, which he has gained o here, of being a crack shot. All the Ji ""n? of normal size, and after * the natives had dragged them together e In the grass they executed the usual a dance around the trophies. ^ ?he sgnrkiriUr dmjuiwr. * n Entered at the Postofflce In Yorkvllle o as Mail Matter of the Second Class, h YORKVIIXE. S. C.t N TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1909. a ? Now, Florida Is about to have an P election on the question of voting 11- J] quor out of the state, and it begins to n look as if those who "would be for prohibition if it could be fixed so no li- (i quor could be had anywhere," will C( have to put up or shut up. g tl Prom our knowledge and impressions ^ of Turkey, we are not looking for a ti great deal of Improvement under constitutional government. There is no ? question of the fact that where a peo- Jr pie are capable of self-government, a self-government is the thing. But 01 Ts.rkov t? not more than half civilized, 'r and half civilized people cannot govern J?, themselves. 01 lr In the course of some remarks about " the King's Mountain monument, the Greenville News says, "But It is not intended as an observatory and there is no need to bother about that feature of *it" Of course, we could not refrain from mentioning the advantage that visitors might have gotten from the use of the monument as an observato- V( ry; but The News is correct. There Is h< no use to bother about tnat reaiure of I?. s ? T We reproduce from the Chester aj Lantern a fling that the Fort Mill j*' Times has seen proper to make at Sen- q ator Brice's appointment as a member r< of the winding-up commission and the F comment of the Lantern thereon. We ^ had seen the comment of the Times be- n; fore it was reproduced in the Lantern; "1 but it had not occurred to us that what the Times had to say was deserving of g serious consideration. As the winding- s< up commission will neither buy nor sell tl liquor, we do not see how Mr. Brice's service on the board will be inconslst- b ent with his former activities. On the ti contrary, he having done more than any other one man to kill the dispen- cj sary, it seems to us that it is especial- ol ly appropriate that he shall assist at c< the funeral obsequies. The suggestion Y that Mr. Brice takes the place for the w money that is in it, is surely a joke, for ol five dollars a day and expenses for the w ? ?mi i? 1 it lew days ne win uc cuiptuj^u wu.w hardly be much of a temptation to him. Surely the Times must be laboring ai under misapprehensions in regard to s< the matter, for a newspaper that feels ^ responsibility to the people It serves, c would hardly be led Into a wilful and tj deliberate misrepresentation of the ^ facts. s, C There is a good deal of talk in the & papers about the plans of William Henry Pickering, professor of astronomy p of Harvard university, to establish p communications with the planet Mars. p The professor's plan is to set up a Si great field of mirrors out in west Tex- a as, or in some other locality where the atmosphere is rare and clear and to do his communication through powerful ja retlection of the sunlight. By means w of the mirrors, he proposes to project the reflected sunlight through a space ^ of thirty-five or forty million miles, a and to keep up his wigwagging until the n Maritans catch on to his signals and ^ find a means of answering. As the ja dispatches have it, the professor says h the necessary apparatus will cost only ? a matter of about ten million dollars, 0. and Texas people have advised him anything about airships our minds ^ would picture an array of a certain a kind of cranks, or at least we thought If they were cranks. Now all this does ^ not prove either that Mars is inhabited ^ or that it is possible to communicate h with those inhabitants; but it does seem to suggest that while one does ? not necessarily have to be led away by every seemingly strange and fantastic ' suggestion of some learned professor, y it is very well not to be too skeptical t of possibilities. We make no secret jj of the fact that in our opinion, if Pro- 0 fessor Pickering ever establishes com- fi municatlon with Mars it will not be j> until after he has left the earth and drawn the pair of wings that will come rf to him for being good; but still we ii would not be too positive about this ? matter. There is no doubt about the c fact that as He sees proper to do so, fi it has been the custom of the Almighty V to reveal to mankind the easy solution ^ of some most wonderful mysteries, and a for all we know, communication with n Mars and other planets may be included among the things that are finally M to be brought to our knowledge. This w that they will have the money ready ? whenever he gets ready to begin his ^ experiments. Now, while we confess ^ that there is a certain kind of interest si in all this talk, we also confess that we do not understand anything about u the subject. Professor Pickering, of tl course, insists that Mars is inhabited. We will not say whether it Is or not. ^ We don't know. If fifteen years ago a anyone had told us that it was possible <? to make a photograph of the coins in )' a purse in a man's pocket without open- ^ ing the pocket and purse, we would \\ have said that we did not believe it. L If a dozen years ago anyone had told ? us that it was possible to communicate C( from the shore with a ship in the mid- S die of the Atlantic ocean, we would have said that we would not believe anything of the kind. Up to three or four years ago, when anybody said tl k-ould not be much more wonderful .J han some of the other mysteries that lave already been solved. X THE TURKISH SITUATION. lilitary Executions of Civilians and Soldiers at Constantinople. l Constantinople, May 3.?Thirteen civliana and soldiers sentenced by the tillltary courts to death for murder, rere hanged In different parts of Contantinople at 4 o'clock this morning. & Major Youssel, his son and three ther men who killed the Syrian depty, Emir Mohammed Arslan, in front f the Parliament building, were excuted on the spot where they commited the crime. Five others were hang- J d at the entrance of the ministry of <ar, and three men at the Stamboul end f the Galata bridge. Upon the breast f each criminal had been pinned a irge placard In Turkish, setting forth he sentence of the court. Around the L Dot of the gibbets on the bridge, the arly morning buyers of fruits, flowers nd vegetables proceeded as usual, rhile the bodies were in full sight of c he great crowds that made their way ver the bridge between Stamboul and lalata. Major Youssel was commandant of he first battalion of the Seventh regi- J lent. Among the non-commissioned fficers executed was Hamdi Bin recar, a sergeant in the fourth- battal>n of the Saloniki chasseurs. The men xecuted on Galata bridge were guilty Y f the murder of Lieutenant Ellis. Major Youssel was the man who af?r the murder of Deputy Arslan made is way to the house of parliament and _ 1 a speech denounced the members for cting against the laws of the Koran, echar was the man who planned the etails of the revolt of April 13, and , rho was commander-in-chief and radically dictator of Constantinople >r the two days following. The other leven men worked under Yechar. Mourad, editor of the newspaper y izam, was tried by court martial toay. A member of the court martial read ie sultan's flrmin, confirming the sen- y ;nces at each place of execution, and riests prayed with the condemned len for two hours before their execuon. The bodies were left hanging un1 2 o'clock this afternoon and were F ?en by at least 100,000 of the populaon'of the city. Documentary evidence has been dlsavercd among the records of the teleraph office here of the knowledge of y le Constantinople authorities That lassacres nau utjen iiiauucu iui nuana (strict, and they were to coincide with le political events here. Other papers have been found indicting also that the conspirators at le palace acted in the sultan's name 1 preparing the military mutiny of ir prll IS. Lists of houses, with notes r( f the kind of loot to be found there- . i. were discovered on some of the risoners now in custody. The arcngements included a general massa- is re of foreigners in Constantinople, ^ icluding the diplomatic representaves, on April 24. 11 m , P MIXED ON THE TARIFF. tl ooks Like Democratic Party le Be- tl coming Hopelessly Divided. Writing to his paper under date of " unday, H. E. Bryant, the Washington b jrrespondent of the Charlotte Obser- r< er, describes the tariff situation in the v| ouse as follows: . The Democratic party, as represent- ,r i in congress, senate and house, is w opelessly divided into hostile camps, tl hose who deny that such a state of , (fairs exists see the truth but will ot admit it, not even to themselves, l the house, Champ Clark, Henry ii layton and Ollie James and others f .'present one faction, and John L. . itzgerald, James Griggs, William r [oward, William Brantley and others, ir le other. In the senate, Senator Sim- c< ions of North Carolina, is leading the w Progressive Democrats" and Tillman ie "Radicals." Every day widens the hl reach. Before the tariff bill passes the tl ulf between the two schools will be r( j great that the hope of ever getting lem together will be very remote, he caustic tongue of the South Car- ai Una fire-eater used to have influence, tt ut since the exposure of his indiscre- tj on in connection with the Oregon ind agent his colleagues hear him but ai eed not his advice and scorn his w laims of perfection. "Save me nine it [ the best quarter sections" has be- tj >me a famous phrase at the Capitol, fhen Mr. Tillman hints of dark-laid tf lots, as he often does, some one will b! hisper to his neighbor: "Save me nine hi f the best quarter sections," and the t( ord passes from one to another until goes round. Therefore, the speech ,r f the great senate censor availeth not. 1c The following colloquy between Sen- Q, tors Tillman and McCumber, in the mate, will serve to illustrate the sitation. Interrupting the senator from ol forth Dakota the senator from South t( arolina declared: "I was just saying T lat the senator from Minnesota (Mr. elson) gave us a very fine Democra- r< c speech, yesterday, oh the lumber it .ihedule and the sr iator from North fJ arolina (Mr. Simmons), I thought, . ave us a very good Republican speech lr n the same schedule, and we have lis- is >ned to the senator from Florida (Mr. bi letcher) make a very thorough Re- c ublication speech from every standout." b Continuing, he shouted: "As I have it aid we are getting very badly mixed, ti nd I am afraid, before we get through, lere will not be trough enough for all le hogs to get their snouts into." it This is a very serious charge and it m i believed here that Senator Simmons, ho is a man of courage, and daring, ill call Mr. Tillman to answer. Fri- 01 ay, when the remarks were made, the la forth Carolinian was not in the senate, C( nd did not know of them until that ight. For fifteen years Mr. Simmons p' as led the Democratic forces of his w tate to victory after victory and he h i like a bull terrier in a fight. Two of n is speeches, one favoring a small duty n cotton seed oil and the other on a jmber, have riled the Tillman school ft f partisans. it Tillman did not stop here but went j n: "I have noted the desire of the ?nator from Rhode Island (Mr. Al- 01 three prizes of $5 each for the three best advertisements of Stleff, st Shaw and Stleff and- Shaw pianos. See fourth page. . Edgar Poag, Broker?Says you can S* buy your choice of real estate If cc you will make offers that are within the bounds of reason. He Is ready to serve you. 8* 'ork Drug Store?Has a big line of ar toilet soaps for all kinds of purposes and wants you to come and . see what It has to show you In the best soaps. ar ork Supply Co.?Wants you to see It for drag harrows, cotton and corn jj cultivators, and Planet Jr. walking f and riding cultivators, oan and Savings Bank?Again cautions you to protect your valuable h< papers from loss by fire, burglary q or carelessness by renting a safety deposit box. ork Furniture Co.?Has a big line e\ ? * ?* oao Dnrfon. o. or nammucua ai an iv-m, ^ ot tlon oil stoves are Ideal for summer use. See the big: line of go-carts. p orkvllle Hardware Co.?Tells about the advantages of a charcoal clay 08 furnace for summer Ironing?gives g a maximum of heat at a minimum ^ of cost. irst National Bank?Explains that bl confidence Is necessary to do bust- sp ness. It wants your business and M assures you that you may have full confidence In It. In orkvllle B. & M. Co.?Gives a long a list of special prices for cash for m the next thirty days. It will give a discount of 10 per cent on all spring and winter clothing. y* " at Mr. 8?m A. Robinson of Clover, was bj i Yorkvllle yesterday and said to the v' porter that he Is eating snap beans om seed planted In February. ^ Th? best way to compel prosperity c< " ?i?j? a ? ?** tholr I ror everyoouy iu get uutti? nitting. There is no doubt of the fact lat there is wealth everywhere if peole will only try to develop and con- th srve it. But there is no use wasting ui me wishing. Thrift and energy are ^ le things that count. til Considering the fact that there was $4 ttle to bring them other than ordinary uslness, there was a pretty good rep;sentation of country people in Yorkllle yesterday, salesday for May. Bus- m iess generally was very good; but it as an off day with the horsetraders,. ar le season for exchanging plugs hav- 'n ig passed. a* In a general way, of course, the pubc must have understood that the late of reasurer Neely exerted a tremendous ea lfluence In behalf of an economic ad- su ilnlstration of the government; but ^ smparatlvely few outside of those who ere most closely associated with him cr ad a definite Idea as to the extent of th lat Influence. He watched the public ?? jvenues as if they were his owni ar nd he did not hesitate to remonstrate se gainst any transaction that seemed ?f > savor of extravagance. Except for le work he did along this line, the co nnual expenditures of the county be ould have many years ago grown to lany thousand dollars a year more co lan thev are now. Of course, It is not or ) be assumed that he was responsl- lei le for any unwise expenditures that ave been made. He has not been able ^ ) have his way at all times; but his wl ifluence in behalf of retrenchment has ing since saved his salary many times *er. ot That advertisement in The Enquirer wl f last Friday calling attention to land y? > be sold In Rock Hill by the clerk on uesday, was a new departure with m 3eard to such matters, and as we see sh , gave evidence of the Intelligent ap reclatlon of those who had the matter fa i charge, of the value of publicity. It of i not an unusual thing for good land argalns involved in foreclosure, exeutlon or partition proceedings to go egging for want of sufficient publicy. While It Is a fact that public auc- te on is the best means of making land ar r almost any other commodity bring * O ^ s full value, it is also a fact that bl luch property sold under process sa lils to bring Its value, first for lack er gl f sufficient publicity, and second for co ick of a full, frank statement of the nc mdltions of the sale. In the case of be artition, It is a satisfaction to the er ould-be purchaser to know whether e Is In competition with the regular In larket or with by-bldders, and this re pplies to some extent in the case of ireclosures and executions. And, while Is a fact that really intending pur- ac lasers can get all such information up- ga n a little inquiry, it is also a fact that w . ga iany others who might have been In- ^ mdine purchasers If they had been tu oluntarily informed, never take the ri< ouble to get the Information them- ^ m ilves. None of this information was nc iven in the advertisement referred to; ut the fact that the land was adver- s? sed so extensively, in addition to the re fflcial advertisement, was evidence that th iere was a real desire to sell, and ex- ex a notice to the interested public to bi lvestigate the nature of the bargain. WITHIN THE TOWN. co ? The tremendous rain of Friday ar ight made it "too wet to plow" Satur- bi ay and there were large numbers of of eople in town. Business was unusu- th lly good. th ? Rev. Oliver Johnson, D. D., of /innsboro, preached two sermons in P le Associate Reformed church last ? unday to large and appreciative con- ? relations. Al me Liuae ui me muiulg service, referring to his recent nanimous election to the pastorate, he >ok occasion to say that he desired to cg xpress his appreciation of the high d onor that had been extended to him, * nd he would give his answer within week or ten days. The entire con- ^i legation is very hopeful that Dr. or ohnson will accept the pastorate of ^ le church. ja1 * th THE SPECULATIVE MARKET. *>' The New York cotton market of yesiiday is summarized in an Associated ress dispatch as follows: Ui The cotton market was more or less regular today, dui snuweu me pres- jr( nee of a continued good demand on 31backs, and closed steady net unhanged to 6 points higher. The open- Hi lg was steady at an advance of 3 olnts on May and 1 point on October, hi ut generally 1 to 4 points lower under go quldation and local bear pressure of hlch was encouraged by prospects for be etter weather in the south and the hy dictionary tendency of the English co larket after a relatively firm opening, se fter selling off to a net loss of aboi* to to 5 points, prices rallied on covering nd local bull support, with May partiularly firm on small demands from 1 horts in the absence of offerings. Y< hat position sold up to 10.60, or 8 lints net higher, while later months ild 3 to 5* points above the close of iturday following which there was a larp break on the forecast for fair id warmer weather over the belt genally, and at one time during the afrnoon the active positions showed a ;t loss of 5 to 8 points. The close was ? from the lowest with the near posiDns leading the rally on renewed coving and continued reports of damage r recent storms and low temneratures the central belt. Advices from emphls claim that the frosts over imday will necessitate a great deal ' replanting in parts of Arkansas and ississippl, but many in the local trade > not consider cotton is in a position i be seriously hurt by low temperaires. Southern spot markets officially ichanged. Receipts at the ports today 11,287 lies against 21,314 last week and 5,855 at year. For the week 125,000 bales tatnst 139.443 last week and 59.153 st year. Today's receipts at New Orans 3,822 bales against 700 last year. AtJOUT PEOPLE. Miss L.ucv Smarr of Snartanburg. >ent Sunday In Yorkvllle. Mr. Philip Hunter returned home iturday from the Charleston Medical illege. Miss Willie Bradley of Qastonla, >ent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. id Mrs. P. Happerfleld. Mr. L. W. Jenkins of the Spartanirg graded schools, spent Saturday id Sunday in Yorkvllle. Miss Jonsie Kell of Atlantic City, . J.t is in Yorkvllle, on a visit to the mtly of Dr. T. B. Kell. Miss Ola Caldwell returned to her >me in Yorkvllle from Mt. Holly, N. , where she has been teaching school. Mr. Robert Herndon will leave this enlng for a visit of several week sto Mittle, Wash., and other western tints. Mr. H. F. Adlckes of Raleigh, N. C., tme to Yorkville on Saturday on ac>unt of the illness of his brother, Mr. ithers Adlckes. Miss Anna Steele McCaw of Columa, arrived In Yorkville yesterday, to tend a week or two with her uncle, r. J. S. Brice. Mrs. Julia Elam left for her home Baakerville, Va., this morning, after visit of two weeks to the families of essrs. W. H. and R. J. Herndon. Mr. W. D. Grist left yesterday after>on for Gastonla to represent the srkvllle Associate Reformed church the spring meeting of the First presrtery. He expects to return to Yorklie tomorrow. Chester Reporter, Monday: The oss house on Pinckney street, which as sold at public sale by cierK or )urt Cornwell this morning, was purlased by Mr. A. G. Brlce for Dr. W. . Love of McConnellBvIlle, whose Inntlon It is, we understand, to move ire at an early date. It was stated at e sale that possession can't be given ltll January 1st, on account of a ren1 contract now existing, so It is preimed that Dr. Love will not come unthat time. The purchase price was ,775. FI8H AND GAME LAWS. There Is not a great deal of lnforatlon among the people as to the flsh, ime and trespass laws of this state, id the following will be of especial terest to those who are concerned >out the subject: "Tnere snail oe a ciose nine iu an e creeks, streams and inland waters the state, from the setting of the sun .ch Thursday until the rising of the in on each Monday, during which roe all seines, nets or any plan or ;vice for the stoppage or collecting of ih which obstructs any portion of any eek, stream or inland waters, other an a dam for manufacturing purges, shall be removed from said eeks, streams or Inland waters; and ly person or persons using any such lne, net, plan or device, in violation the provisions of this section shall i deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, id upon conviction thereof before any urt of competent jurisdiction shall > fined in the sum of two hundred illars, one half of which shall go to e Informer and the other half to the urts in which the case shall be tried, be imprisoned for a period of not as than three nor more than six onths, or both, in the discretion of e court trying the case. Nothing freln contained shall apply to Ashing Ith dip nets used by hand. Sec. 521. It shall not be lawful for ly person whomsoever, at any time, erect or keep up any fish trap or her device for catching flsh, or to fish ith any net or seine, within eighty irds of any dam erected by the order at the expense of the state across ly stream intended thereby to be ade navigable, in which dams there ia.ll be left or constructed any sluice r the passage of fish; and all and ery person or persons offending shall r each and every offense pay the sum twenty dollars. An Act to Prohibit Trespass. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general sembly of the state of South Caro la, Tnat rrom ana aner me apyiuvai this act, any person or persons enring upon the lands of another, for ly one of the following purposes of inting, fishing, trapping, netting, Lthering fruit, straw or surf, vegetaes, herbs or cutting timber on the me, without the consent of the ownor manager thereof, shall be deemed illty of a misdemeanor, and upon nvlctlon thereof, shall pay a fine of ?t more than twenty (20) dollars, or s Imprisoned at hard labor not more an thirty (30) days, for each and evy offense. Sec. 2. AM acts, or parts of acts, consistent with this act are hereby pealed. ADnroved 22d February, A. D. 1905. Game Birds. Sec. 2. That for the purposes of this it, the following shall be considered inie birds: Swans, wild geese, brant, lid ducks, rails (marsh hens), coots, dlnules, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, ndpipers, upland plover, curlew, wild rkey, prairie chicken, quail (partjge), rice birds, blackbird and dove. II other species of wild resident or igratory birds shall be considered in-game birds. Sec. 3. That no person within the ate shall kill, catch or have in his or elr possession, living or dead, any sident or migratory wild bird other an a game bird, or purchase, offer or ipose for sale, any such wild game rd, after it has been killed or caught, cept as permitted by this act. Destructive Birds Not included. Sec. 10. That the English sparrow, oKq m.uhlnnpfl hawk id great horned owl and all other rds which are by nature destructive other birds, are not Included among e birds protected by this act; nor are e nests and eggs of such birds procted hereunder. This act does not event any person from killing crows i his premises if destructive to his ops. Provided that said birds are it sold or offered for sale, or shipped it of the state. Sec. 11. That any person violating ty of the provisions of this act, expt Sec. 8, shall be guilty of a mismeanor, and shall be liable to a fine not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor ore than five dollars ($5.00), for each rd, living or dead, or part of a bird, nest, or set of eggs, or part thereof, lied or captured or possessed, in vlotion of this act, or be Imprisoned in e county jail for not more than thir(30) days." LOCAL LACONICS, itil January 1, 1910. We will send The Yorkvllle Enquirer am this date till January 1, 1910 for .36. ad Hydrophobia. Mr. R. B. Riddle of Zeno, found mself under the necessity of killing a iod horse last Wednesday, because its affliction with what appeared to hydrophobia. It is not certain that drophobia was the trouble, but the ndition of the horse was such that it emed that there was nothing better be done than to kill It. irmers' Union. The regular monthly meeting of the >rk County Farmers' Union was held in the court house yesterday morning, with Mr. jf. F. Ashe presiding, and Mr. A. Lb Black, keeping the record. The business of the day related to matters ' of especial Interest to the Union, and nothing was done of special general importance. This was the last regular monthly meeting of the county Union, for this spring, and there will be no further meetings until after due notice by the president and secretary. Sharon vs. Hickory Grove. Sharon defeated Hickory Grove in a game of baseball at Sharon last Thursday by a score of 9 to 0. It was quite an Interesting game notwithstanding the score, the score of the home team being held down like this, 2, 3, 1, 0, 1. 2, 0, x. The batteries for Hickory Grove were Ward, Slaughter and Slaughter, and for Sharon Luther Plexico and Sherrer. Umpire, Hope. The understanding Is that the two towns will thresh out the question of supremacy during the summer. Work at Ninety-Nine Islands. Gaffney correspondence of Charlotte Observer: Work on the Southern Power company's big plant at the NinetyNine Islands is making splendid progress under the management of Mr. Jamison who is in charge of the work. Gaffney people who have visited the plant recently say that a force of about "50 hands is at work, and this force will be augmented Just as soon as the work makes a little more progress. The buildings are situated on the north bank of the river, and has the appearance of quite a large town from a distance, and at night when the electric lights are turned on, it reminds one of a city. Mr, Carnegie Helps Winthrop. Rock Hill correspondence of News and Courier, Monday: Dr. Johnson of Winthrop, received a letter yesterday from Andrew Carnegie's secretary stating that Mr. Carnegie would donate $15,000 to the building of Winthrop's model school. It will be remembered that this state appropriated $20,000 for this purpose with the understanding that President Johnson should raise $25,000 more. Mr. Johnson has raised $65,000 more instead. It is his intention to get one hundred thousand xur nits aciiuui, wiiiisn no |>i upuacn iu make a model school, second to none anywhere. It will be remembered that Mr. Carnegie gave $30,000 for the library several years ago, and this last gift brings his donation to Winthrop up to the generous sum of $45,000. Friday Night's Rain. The rain of last Friday night was quite general and farmers and others from different parts of the county yesterday reported considerable damage, in tne washing of the lands and pacaing of newly plowed ground. Catawba river was out of its banks, and passengers on the Charlotte and Columbia division of the Southern, Saturday, reported Fishing creek in a flood, covering the bottoms for quite a distance. Broad river was about 18 feet above ordinary stage, and a little more than half the extreme high water mark at Howell's. Some of the York county farmers* along the river have planted corn and this was washed up pretty badly. The greatest damage was done to oats along the bottoms. In places many acres were washed down. Successor to Mr. Neely. There has been a great deal of interest during the past few days as to the appointment of a county treasurer to succeed the late H. A. D. Neely. Among some the names mentioned in connection with the place, are Mr. John A. Neely of Rock Hill, son of the deceased treasurer, Messrs. J. R. Halle of Fort Mill, and J. H. McFadden of Rock Hill, former candidates in the primaries, Mr. Harry E. Nell of Filbert, Mr. John E. Carroll of Yorkville, and others. As to what will be the outcome, is only a matter of speculation. The anDOintment as stated, is made by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. In the case of a county officer "advice and consent of the senate" means the advice and consent of the senator from the county Interested, and In this case the senate means Senator Stewart The governor, however, Is free to make an appointment on his own motion that will hold until the senate convenes and which will stand or not as may suit the pleasure of the senate. While the members of the house have no constitutional rights in the matter of such an appointment, it has been customary for the senator to consult the entire delegation and be governed by its desire. From such information as has come to The Enquirer, Senator Stewart and Representative Wilson are pledged to the support of Mr. Halle, Mr. Glasscock Is personally inclined to Mr. McFadden, and Messrs. Hollis and Sanders are uncommitted. The governor has not been heard from. There has been more or less talk of referring the whole matter to a primary election; but so far as The Enquirer is able to state, equipment 01 tne siuie nuups is nui yet complete, but Col. Brock carries with him a letter from Governor Ansel asking that the militia be allowed to buy one-half of the overcoats this year and one-half next year. The balance of the appropriation will allow for two encampments, but if the request of the department is granted the three regiments of infantry will be sent in camp for ten days each. ? Gaffney, Alay 2: A negro named Jim Crawford, who lives on the plantation of Mr. L. R. Ross, a mile from Gaffney, shot another negro, named Melvin Edwards, a few days ago with a shot gun, indicting several painful though not dangerous wounds. Crawford says that Edwards has been trying to "conjure" his wife, and that he had warned him more than once to stay away from his premises, and that if he did not do so he would have to take the consequences; that when he came home and found Edwards in the house, he seized his gun and ran after Edwards, who fled, and he, (Crawford), shot him. Edwards is able to walk around, and says he will not prosecute Crawford for shooting him. ? Lancaster News, May 1: Many persons repaired to Mr. H. N. So well's meat market on White street Wednesday to see a strange animal that had been shot and killed the night before on his plantation, by Lee Lowry, colored, who discovered it in his chicken house. The animal was an armadillo, and it escaped, it is said, from the carnival here recently. The carnival people called it the grave digger. The armadillo is a South American quadruped, and Webster's International dictionary says of it: "So called from being armed with a bony shell. The body and head are encased in an armor composed of small, bony plates. The armadillos burrow In the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up in a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is o a nnrth o a Tovo u " | Lwuiiu ao iu> iiv/i iii ?? * there has been notning aennite determined upon. 80UTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Greenwood, April 30: Wallace Duncan DuPre of Wofford college, was declared the winner of the eleventh annual contest of the South Carolina Inter-collegiate Oratorical association, held here tonight. To D. W. A. Neville, the representative of the Presbyterian college of South Carolina, was adjudged the honor of second place. ? Greenville, May 1: Seventy thousand pounds of meat in the local warehouse of Swift & Co., was condemned today by City Meat and Food Inspector Smith. The heavy rains of last night backed up the water in a nearby stream and the warehouse was flooded with city sewerage. Nearly three carloads of meat was submerged, causing it to become soaked in the filthy wa-. ter. ? Spartanburg, May 1: United States Senator E. D. Smith may remove to Spartanburg to live in the near future. He is well known in Spartanburg, naving graduated at Wofford college and married a Spartanburg young lady, and should he locate here he will be given a warm welcome by the people of the city and the county. Should Smith locate here, Spartanburg will be noted for having as citizens a United States senator, a congressman, a supreme court judge and a circuit Judge, and perhaps the solicitor of this circuit, who is now a resident of Gaffney. ? Columbia, April 30: Col. W. P. Brock, assistant adjutant general, will go to Washington Sunday to confer with the war department concerning the encampments in this state. The MR. BRICE AND THE COMMISSION. Fort Mill Tim?s Make* Comment and Cheater Lantern Replies. Some people are so full of prejudice and tied so hard to one side of a proposition, or else ignorance and contemptible flings constitute part of their nature, that they never see any good in the other side. The following editorial, on the appointment of former Senator J. S. Brice of York county, on the dispensary winding-up commission, we find in the last issue of the Fort Mill Times: If Mr. J. S. Brice can afford to accept the appointment which Governor Ansel has tendered him as a member of the commission to wind up the affairs of the old state dispensary, there probably will be little or no objection on the part of the public. But it is interesting to recall?assuming that Mr. 3rice intends to accept the appointment?the attitude of the former York county senator toward the whole dispensary matter. During the latter years of his service in the senate no man inveighed more strenuously, if not more effectively, against the state's 11 quor business and all connected therewith than Mr. Brlce. Indeed, if the speeches of Mr. Brlce in denunciation of the "accursed" liquor traffic were made In good faith, all those engaged therein, from the highest official to the humblest bottle washer, were pariahs, things to be shunned by every self-respecting citizens, and thenceforth to be treated as outcasts?from Mr. Brlce's point of view. We do not recall that Mr. Brlce discriminated; everybody connected with the dispensary looked alike to him. Now, however, Mr. Brlce's convictions appear to have undergone a revision. There is a difference as he sees it In serving the Commonwealth in the capacity of winding-up commissioner and as a member of the old state board, for instance. We confess our inability to see the point of demarkatlon. Bach position has to do with the liquor traffic. And we can tell Mr. Brice that if in accepting the appointment he assumes that any considerable portion of his fellow citizens win creau mm wun acting from a patriotic rather than a selfish motive he is very much mistaken. The people know that there is not one man in five thousand who would accept set-vice on the winding-up com-' mission, tut for the money there is in It. All th's talk about men being willing to sacrifice their personal Interests in such a ?ause for the good of the state is so much moonshine. The Fort Mill Times believed in the old state dispensary first, last and all the time and because its side lost and the dispensaries are gradually disappearing, it is sulking and is ready to make nasty little insinuations at everybody who voted and worked against the dispensary. Mr. Brice is a gentleman of the cleanest reputation, who would scorn to touch a dirty piece of anything. His reputation is of the highest kind and none of the mean little insinuations of the Fort Mill Times or any other paper or person can hurt him in tne least. Such articles are the desperate ventures of the whisky forces. Driven from cover to cover they are almost at bay and although they turn and snarl they will be routed from even this place. The dispensary la going. Year by year It is disappearing and may the day hasten when not a rum shop is left in the state. As a hotbed for crime, thievery and devilment it has never been equalled and we hope never will. But its days are numbered and at the election this summer the large majority of those counties still retaining the dispensary will vote it out That the Fort Mill Times should try to make political capital out of the appointment of Mr. Brlce on the winding-up commission, is cot surprising. A drowning man will catch at anything and when arguments fail the dispensary organs are resorting to Insinuations to arouse prejudice. And they will fail now as they have failed in the past.?Chester Lantern. MERE-MENTION. Win. Withrow and his sister, Miss Pearl Wlthrow, were drowned In a lake at Lake wood park, Atlanta, Ga., Friday afternoon by the overturning of a boat Two cruisers of the Japanese navy are at San Francisco and officers and men are being lavishly entertained... .Queen Wllhelraina of Holland, on Friday gave birth to a daughter, and since then there has been national rejoicing over the event The little princess will be christened Jdllana Louise Emma Marie Wllhelmlna. ....The steamer New Hampshire from New York to Stonlngton, Conn., broke a propeller blade Friday and was rendered helpless. A "CQD" wireless message brought quick aid and pre vented the vessel drifting on the rocks of Long Island. The 100 passengers were panic stricken The United States government will erect granite monuments at Indianapolis, Ind., and Alton, 111., to mark the resting places of unidentified Confederate soldiers buried at those places Miss Johnny Davidson, a wealthy young woman of Neosho, Mo., was acquitted Saturday of the murder of Roy Ramsour.... Three negroes were taken from the Jail at Marshall, Tex., early Friday morning and lynched, shortly after a militia company that had been guarding the prisoners had been relieved from duty. The negroes were charged with the murder of a deputy sheriff One man was killed and two seriously injured In Phlladelohla on Friday, by a collision oeiween a Reading railroad tram and a taxlcab on a grade crossing... .Two men were arrested at San Francisco on Friday for trying to extort a large sum of money from Rudolph Spreckies by blackmail.. Four children were burned to death at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Friday There Is a good sized revolution in progress in Morocco, probably due to an etfort to reinstate the old sultan, who was deposed last year by Mulai Hafld Rutherford W. Kathan, a New York lawyer, was sentenced Friday to fifteen months in prison for attempting bribery The 120th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as president of the United States was celebrated at Alexandria, Va., Friday. The laying of the corner stone of a memorial and dedication of a park were features of the occasion Ernest Wade, who shot and killed Isaac Higgenbotham, his sister's sweetheart, was convicted of second degree murder at Lynch burg, Va., Friday, and sentenced to eighteen years In prison.... The United States supreme court has rendered a decision in which it declines to hold up the order of Secretary Wilson to the effect, that after June 1st, there must be no more bleached flour put on the American market The lumber schooner George Nestor, with a crew of nine men, was sunk in Lake Michigan on Friday morning during a storm. Jim Hodges, a negro, was lynched at Tyler, Tex., Saturday for criminally assaulting a young white woman the evening before. All business was suspended during the lynching. Georgia peach growers expect to begin shipments about June 1st, and estimate the coming crop at 3,000 to 3,500 cars Helen Ayer Marden, a student of Smith college, Northampton, Mass., was shot to death on the college campus Thursday morning by Porter McDougall Smith, a Dartmouth college graduate. Smith then committed suicide. It is believed he was mentally unbalanced... .Twenty-five bids, aggregating $48,295,000 were received i by the state comptroller of New York last week for $10,000,000 of 3 per cent canal improvement bonds Fire caused the loss or two lives and ?i,uuu,000 damage to a Chicago grain elevator Thursday evening. The fire is supposed to have been due to lightning. Six- i ty-flve engines were used in fighting i the flames... .Mrs. Clark Jett commit- < ted suicide at Shreveport, La., Friday, i by drinking a concoction containing i dissolved match heads. It was her i third attempt... .Tabriz, Persia, which l has been in a state of siege for several weeks, by revolutionists, was relieved i Friday by Russian troops Miss i Nora Iselin of New York, is to marry i Count Ferdinand Colleredo Mansfield, I an Austrian nobleman. It is said that < $2,000,000 will be given the count as a ( marriage settlement The village of Golden, Mo., was destroyed by a cyclone Friday. Twelve persons were killed and twenty or more were injured. ... .Eight persons were burned to death and fifteen or more were seriously injured in a New York tenement fire Friday, supposed to be due to the Black Hand society The New York legislature adjourned Friday after a session of several months. Twenty-two of the twenty-nine measures urged by Governor Hughes were passed. The appropriations made by the body will total $37,000,000 Two masked bandits held up a Northern Pacific express train at Hauser Junction, Wash., Thursday night, cut the express car from the train and then made the engineer pull the car a mile down the track, where they robbed the car at their leisure John and William Brown, father and son, negroes, were electrocuted at the Virginia state prison at Richmond on Friday, for participation In the robbery and^ murder of Mrs. Mary Skipwlth and waiter jonnson In Powhatan county. Two more negroes are to be executed tomorrow . and a fifth on Friday, all convicted of the same crime. They murdered their victims and then set fire to the house to cover the crime. Three other negroes are yet to be tried for participation in the crime The American Sugar Refining company last week completed payments aggregating nearly $2,000,000 to the United States government, in settlement of fines and claims made by the government for the collection of duties fraudulently evaded. It is probable that criminal prosecutions will be pushed against officials of the sugar company The postal receipts of the fifty largest cities of the United States showed an Increase for March over the same month of last year, of $1,178,921, or 14.90 per cent.... New York was visited by a snowstorm Thursday, the latest date for snow since 1891 The body of KuangHsu, late emperor of China, was started Saturday on its journey to Its final resting place In the Western tombs, eighty miles from Peking, where it will occupy a tomb costing $1,000,000. The journey will consume four days. The body of the dowager empress will not be finally Interred until next fall The May Day celebration at Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, resulted in riots, in which twelve person were killed and more than 100 were wounded by the police W. B. Earthman, former president of the Murfreesboro, Tenn., National bank, has been indicted, on a charge of embezzling $70,000 of the bank's funds by the Federal grand jury at Nashville The National Peace congress, with 1,500 delegates in attendance, is in session in Chicago + Vila nroolr Taranfv-fivo mil tad WAfA burned to death In a coal mine at Smithdale, Pa., Sunday Jas. Haxen Hyde, former vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, has been sentenced to prison for thirty days by a Paris court for running an automobile into a public cab Don Manuel Amador, first president of Panama, died Sunday at his home at Panama, aged 76 years W. W. Robinson, city editor of the Peoria, (111.) Star, lost his life Sunday night by inhaling flames from an exploded moving picture machine, while trying to prevent a panic Mrs. W. E. Lead ford and her child were killed Sunday morninw ot TTJv+stn Ala hv Hairier thrown In front of an electric car Two children, a boy and a girl, 7 and 6 years old. mysteriously disappeared from their homes at Latrobe, Pa., Friday and although hundreds of people are searching for them, no trace of the children has been found. BULLOCK'8 CREEK NOTE8. OorrMpoodmce of the Yottrillo Ksoolror. Bullock's Oeek, May 1.?Farmers of this section are about done planting. We have had a long dry spell, but the recent good showers will be of great benefit to the oats and other growing crops. Communion services were conducted at Bullock's Creek the fourth Sunday in April by Rev. W. W. Ratchford of Waxhaw, N. C. This venerable old servant of God preached some excellent sermons and each service was largely attended. Misses Ruth and Claire Crosby and Ulnnla Pl?<i<n nt flhflrnn hn VP hoen visiting: Mrs. W. B. Good. Miss Ella Whiteside and Mrs. Robert Whiteside of HIckorv Grove, have also been visiting Mrs. W. B. Good. Mrs. Will Turner of Wlnnsboro is spending a while with her mother, Mrs. Jos. Carroll. Dr. W. 8. McMurray will move soon to the John McCullough house near Bullock's Creek church. Last Week's Cyclone^?The New York Sun of Sunday contains a tabulation of the killed and injured by the cyclone that swept the country last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Besides destruction of homes, crops and other property amounting well up into the millions the casualty list was as follows. InDead. jured. Youngs Crossing, Tenn.... 6 ? Horn Lake, Miss 18 ? Forest City, Ark 2 ? Marion, Ark. 1 ? Gedda Gap, Ark. 18 ? Fort Smith, Ark ? 90 Plum Point, Ark 1 ? Alton, Mo 6 14 Jackson', Tenn 7 ? Hillsboro, Tenn 3 ? Cleveland, O ? 3 Fayettevllle, Tenn 15 80 Harms, Tenn 8 20 Hartsells, Ala 4 ? Danville, Ala 2 ? Golden, Mo 11 30 Mammoth Springs, Ark. .... 8 ? Centervllle, Tenn 25 ? Decherd, Tenn 2 ? Noble8vllle, Tenn 1 ' 6 Clarksville, Tenn 1 8 Laconlo. Tenn 2 12 Bells, Tenn 2 16 Quito, Tenn 8 23 Pulaski. Tenn 20 40 Pittsburg, Pa 4 8 Bee Springs. Ark. 20 40 Laporte,' Ind. .. 2 6 Harrisburg, 111 1 4 Wheatley. Ark. 1 3 Summersvllle. Tenn 3 8 Texas Cltv. Ill 4 7 Medina, Tenn 4 16 Huntsville, Ala 3 12 Total 212 44K Peonage and the Ashley Case.? "Peonage" prosecutions command, as a rule, liitle respect from clearseeing men in tne south. "Crimes" rather suddenly invented or discovered and apparently confined to limited localities deserve to be examined with caution If not with suspicion. In the south are hard masters, plenty of them, but there are hard masters in the north and west as well, and one who has heard of sweatshops, the bread lines, "white slaves" and the poverty-stricken and herded miners, in other parts of the country, questions whether or not the peonage for which men are brought to book in South Carolina would not be overlooked as an evil incidental to inrlnufriul nnnHIHnna AlaAwhare. For Joshua W. Ashley of Anderson county, the News and Courier has no paritlality; Ashley is not an especially attractive figure, and in our opinion, he has conferred no large benefits upon the commonwealth during his somewhat noisy career; but we know something of Anderson county, and we doubt if any system of quasi slavery does or can exist within its limits. If Ashley , has oppressed his laborers, (and we do not say that he has), he has done no more than have severe employers not only in South Carolina, but in every American state. Possibly, too, sjjme of them have transgressed the Federal statutes. When a prosecution Is desired, a statute to fit It may sometimes be found upon occasion, we suppose, and there are highly respectable, cultivated and influential persons in the north who would be sadly disappointed if no attempts to restore the institution of slavery in the south should be uncovered. Something must be done; it must be revealed that the poor negroes are unprotected in their lives and liberties: otherwise posing in Massachusetts would be at an end and the damnable notion would spread that the southern white people are no worse i than other men of the same blood, hu- ^ mors and affections. The mistake of hard masters In the south is that they do not go to the great cities of the north and conduct sweatshops. The crime of holding men In peonage cannot be committed north J at the Mason and Dixon line.?News < and Courier. * ' . rich) to*inveigle, bamboozle, or whee- ir le, or persuade, or whatever other intrumentality he may use, enough luthern Democrats, so-called or ac- *' jal, to clamor for protection on some ti ttle item in the bill, which will give s< Hem some little part of this swill." Here the worm turned. Mr. McCumer, who, although a Republican, had b red of these insinuations, said: "Again ti nd again the senator from South Car- G| Una has from his seat challenged the itegrity of every senator who dlsgreed with him upon any subject. I o wish that for once in his life he ir *ould get it out of his mind that the ,ord Almighty has tied up all the sinerlty and honesty in the world In his ide. There are others who can be sinere and disagree with the senator from " outh Carolina." In the lauguage of the vaudeville P lan "that was the blow that killed a ither." Those who figure ahead on such y flings say that the following named ^ outhern senators will stand with Sim- g ions when the vote on the lumber g mendment is taken: Smith of Mary- jr ind: Martin and Daniel of Virginia: u iacon and Clay of Georgia: Johnston ^ nd Rankhead of Alabama: Foster and e. TcEnery of Louisiana: Clark of Neraska: Taliaferro and Fletcher of a 'lorlda: Money of Mississippi; Bailey ? f Texas. g J ? Columbia, April 30: The Royal Ben- ti fit Society of Washington, D. C., of ,'hich Dr. D. F. Pennington is the naional president, has applied to Com.iooUno. tlnMnotnr In iioniwiici iuv.iuu.iiri iw uc uuiuuicu iw o business in this state as a fraternal t( rder. The officers of the Royal Benet society are almost all white men, lit the membership In South Carolina 5 composed entirely of negroes, ac- h ording to the statement submitted, ei 'he society has been doing business si ri this state for a number of years cl s a fraternal order, but Commissioner ir tcMaster last year found that the so- P iety was not being conducted as a b raternal order, the laws governing 11 ,hieh, in South Carolina require that w he membership be secured entirely b hrough a lodge system, with a ritual r< nd a representative form of govern- it lent. After testimony by President A Tnnlngton the commissioner refused 3 he fraternal license and the company ai ill qualify as an industrial concern ci Ith $15,000 bond. si LOCAL AFFAIRS, T P< NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8. ? V. B. Stroup and Others, Clover? si Give notice of the opening of the ai books of subscription to the capital er stock of the Clover Cotton Oil and te Ginning Co., at Clover, on May 5. n< R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives ui notice that John A. and Ella J. tl Neely have applied to him for let- er ters of administration on the estate b3 of H. A. D. Neely, deceased. In lason Latham?Announces the open- m Ing of a line of groceries and gene- Si ral merchandise at his home on the of Chester road near Guthrles, and so- m licits your patronage. Close prices dc and a square deal. to . A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis.?Calls on par- tu ties indebted to estate of J. Ed Ui Leech, deceased, to make settlement with him and parties holding br claims against said estate will file ja same before June, 10, 1909. w roan and Savings Bank?Publishes |a its official statement showing the ie condition of its affairs at the close of business on April 28th, 1909. hnn m Stieff. Charlotte?Offers