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Scraps and Jarts.
? Quite an extensive boycott has been
instituted against all fresh meat
throughout the central west, with the
Idea of reducing the price of that commodity.
The boycott originated with
the Bricklayers' Union of Cleveland,
O.. and has spread to Kansas City.
The boycotters pledge themselves to
abstain from fresh meat for thirty
days and then go down for potatoes
and other substantial^ served in all
the different ways possible. As yet the
livestock market has shown no effect j
irom ine siumy.
? Judge Hough, of the United States
district court, rendered a decision In
New York, Saturday, quashing an indictment
against F. A. Helnze, the financier
and promoter, on the ground of
the presence of unlawful persons in the
grand Jury room. The indictment was
for violation of the national banking
. laws. It had developed that the grand
Jury had before it John W. Fernsler, an
expert accountant in the capacity of
expert witness and this was the ground
on which the indictment was quashed,
the Judge holding that the presence of
the accountant was prejudicial to the
rights of the defendant Martin W.
Littleton, counsel for Chas. W. Morse,
recently sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment
in the Federal prison in
Atlanta, Ga., for the same offense of
which Helnze is charged, says the same
conditions obtained at the finding of
the indictment against Morse, and that
if the fact can be proved, he will move
that there was no valid indictment'
against his client
? Wllliamstown, Mass., January 22:
Declaring himself in general terms
against the charge of being too great
a stickler for the observance of the
law in the administration of public
affairs. In an address delivered here
tonight. Secretary Balllnger struck
back at his accusers In language as
pointed as the occasion would permit.
His remarks were rendered especially
significant because of the fact that
they were made on the eve of the
proposed congressional investigation
into their author's conduct of the Interior
department. He mentioned no
names but made free use of the term
"muckraker" as connected with politicians
and the press. The address
was delivered before the Good Government
club of Williams college. The
subject was "The Executive Function
Under the Constitution." Mr. Balllnger
placed himself squarely on the
proposition that "when the public officers
transcend the powers with which
the constitution and the laws clothe
him he becomes a menace to popular
rights and to all the safeguards surrounding
them," and declared that
are to some people inconvenient and
often obnoxious especially when they
obstruct the pathway to selfish ambition."
? Representative Burleson, of Tecxas,
on Saturday appeared before the house
committee on agriculture in behalf of
his bill repealing the tax on oleomargarine,
which tax, he asserted, was
responsible for the present high price
of butter throughout the country. Before
this tax was imposed, Mr. Burleson
said, there was manufactured annually
130,000,000 pounds of oleomargarine,
which he characterised as a
pure and wholesome food product, and
which sold for from 12 to 18 cents
per pound. The price of butter was
then 20 to 30 cents per pound. The
production of oleomargarine has been
diminished 66 per cent, he said, as
a result of the tax. and the price of
butter has gone up from 28 cents to
60 cents per pound. Passage of the
law was secured, Mr. Burleson charged,
by the National Dairy union and
by "a stupendous lobby, which It Is
said, expended a vast sum of money."
Mr. Burleson said that he represented
many associations of cattle growers,
Cotton Seed Crushers' association,
National Retail Grocers' association
and western and southern Chambers
of Commerce in demanding the repeal
of the tax and the lowering of the
price of butter. The committee will
hear evidence on the Burleson bill on
February 9.
? St Louis, January 22: With all
trails leading toward St Louis, the
four masked men, who held up and
robbed the Missouri Pacific train near
Eureka, Mo., last night, are believed
to be hiding in this city. Two hundred
men and six blood-hounds
searched the greater part of St. Louis
county today. The robbers mounted
the cab of the engine, and after binding
the engineer and fireman, detached
the mail and express cars. The
passenger coaches were left at the
point where the hold-up occurred, and
the mail and detached express cars
were run to an isolated spot near
Castlewood, Mo., where they were
looted. The clues which developed In
the search for the men. who are believed
to have obtained $10,0.00 by
cutting open sixteen mail pouches,
show that a boat, in which the bandits
may have floated down the Meramec
river to a point convenient to St.
Louis was stolen Friday night a few
miles from the scene of the robbery,
and the bloodhounds took up a trail
which led towards this city. It is also
thought the robbers may have used an
automobile in escaping. Rewards aggregating
$7,200 were offered today
for the arrest and conviction of the
outlaws. Governor Hadley offered
$300 for each man, the maximum reward
allowed by the state, the Missouri
Pacific railway company $300
for each man, and the United States
postofflce Inspection department $1,000
for the capture. Postofflce Inspector
W. W. Dickson announced that the
loot of the bandits may amount to
$10,000. A check on the registered
mail pouches was in progress tonight.
? The English sparrow is the pirate
of the air, Just as the rat is the freebooter
of the earth, and ought to be
nvtormlnathH 5sO rillpQ tVw";
ment of agriculture in a bulletin Juat
published, which also tells how to get
rid of him. He hunts and eats insects
which are beneficial to plant life,
while he passes over more or less those
which are harmful. The only good
thing he does Is to eat the seed of
weeds and prevent their spread. Aside
from that there is nothing to be said in
his favor. More than that, he is murderous.
He hunts the nesting places and
destroys eggs and young bluebirds,
housewrens, treeswallows and barnswallows.
The robin, the catbird and
the mocking bird he attacks and drives
out of parks and shade trees. He has
no song, but he drives out the song
birds and brings only noise in return.
After having learned all this about
the sparrow, after an extensive investigation,
the department of agriculture
shows a way to destroy him.
First, whenever sparrows roost around
your house destroy their nests. If
they roost at night in your eaves or
eave troughs, drive them away with
a long pole. By destroying nests
I
wherever they are seen, raising can be
prevented. The sparrow likes to nest
in cavities and he can be trapped
through this preference. He will roost
in boxes that may be put up to make
his capture easy. He may be lured to
spread grain and shot or killed in
other ways, or may be poisoned.
Wheat soaked in strychnine is said to
be preferable. This method has been
adopted in California, where it was
necessary to protect ripening fruit A
sparrow's stomach will hold about thirty
kernels of wheat, but six or even
one properly treated with strychnine
will kill him. |
?hc \|orhviUr inquirer.
Entered at the Postofflce In Yorkvllle
as Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORKVILLE. S. C.i
TUESDAY. JANUARY 25. 1910.
Charles W. Bryan says his brother,
Wm. J. Bryan, is in no sense a candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1912. We have heard
that kind of talk before.
There really ought to be some way
to keep an official record of marriages
in this state. We are not disposed to
question the proud boast that is ours
as to no divorce law; but we have little
sympathy with the sentiment that
opposes the keeping of a record of
marriages. There has more 'than once
been suffering and injustice because of
the inability of people Interested to
prove a marriage that had really been
performed.
representative sieDeis or Kicniana,
Introduced in the house last Saturday,
a bill prohibiting the recommendation
of appointive officers in primary elections.
It is a good idea, and along the
right line, because it is easily possible
to recommend in primaries appointees
for treasurer, auditor, county commissioner,
magistrate, etc., men who are In
no wise fit for those positions. But
we'll venture that the proposition of
Mr. Siebels does not go through. The
legislature is not big enough to dare
to institute such a reform as this.
John R. Walsh, the well known Chicago
banker, who is held responsible
for the wrecking of the Chicago Na- 1
tional bank, Home Savings bank and
Equitable Trust company, in 1905, was
committed to the Federal prison at i
Leavenworth, Kan., last week to serve 1
a term of five years for violation of the .
National banking laws. Walsh Is 72 i
years of age. He began his business
life as a poor newsboy and rose to the '
control of a number of strong financial j
institutions. He is the thirteenth i
banker who has been sent to Leaven- !
worth prison since 1904.
The Gastonia News has suspended 1
publication, and the sheriff has seized
the plant and fixtures for rent and other
debts. The News was established
about ten years ago, and eked out a
more or less precarious existence, until
a few months back, when It was
changed to a weekly, Just preceding
the end. It is the same old story of
trying to make two blades of grass
grow where there was only room for
one. The Gazette has always been a
respectable newspaper, efficiently managed,
and has filled about all the field
that was offered to an extent that has
left no room for legitimate competition.
That is about all there is to the
story.
MERE-MENTION.
Fifteen men were killed in a tunnel
at Fishkill Landing, N. Y., Friday, by
a premature explosion of nitro-glycerine.
Five others were probably fatally
hurt Forty-eight lives were lost
and ninety-two persons were injured
near Webbwood, Ontario, Friday, when
a Canadian Pacific train was thrown
into the Spanish river by a broken rail.
One car was submerged and another
was destroyed by fire The department
of Justice at Washington is said
to be preparing to prosecute the socalled
"Beef Trust," on the belief that
the trust is responsible for the high
price of meats. The prosecution will
probably be on both criminal and civil
charges. The firms mentioned are '
Armour & Co., Swift & Co., and Mor- '
ris & Co Snow fell at Tallahas- <
see, Fla., Friday, the first time on rec- 1
ord Bartholomew Daly, an employe <
of the war department, was run down '
and instantly killed by an automobile (
in Washington, Friday A negro '
shot two white men to death in Simp- '
son county, Miss., Friday, and was shot 1
to death by a mob shortly afterward. 1
Several of the railroads of the
north have refused to meet the de- 1
mands of the Brotherhood of Railway 1
Trainmen, unless they are enabled to <
make a proportionate increase in 1
freight rates....The exports of Amer- <
ican-made shoes to foreign countries 1
last year, totaled 6,750,000 pairs, the 1
largest on record The South Bridge 1
Savings bank, South Bridge, Mass., was
closed by the supreme court of that I
state, Friday. The bank has deposits I
of $2,368,799. The treasurer of the
bank. John A. Hall, is missing... .Six !
of the J. & P. Coats thread mills at '
Pawtucket, R. I,, were closed yesterday 1
on account of a strike of the "doffers" 1
and "back boys." Three thousand 1
hands are affected Two women '
and a man were murdered in a New 1
York fiat late Thursday evening. The
victims were gagged with silk hand- i
kerchiefs and then beaten to death <
with a hammer President Taft has 1
been assured by leaders of the senate '
that the special measures which he is '<
urging, including the postal savings <
banks bill, will be passed Eight i
New York dressmakers have plead
guiuy 10 unarges 01 smuggling imiiin- i
ery into this country and fined sums i
aggregating $10,000 There were 1
three failures of New York Stock Ex- i
change houses last. week. The liabil- 1
ities of Roberts, Hall & Criss, who were <
suspended Thursday, are given at $3,- <
000,000 The gold production of the I
United States last year was $99,232,200. 1
The silver produced was valued at $28,- i
010,100 A national farm journal Is i
authority for the statement that the
value of all kinds of live stock in the 1
United States in January 1, 1910, was (
14.880,068.000, an increase for the year <
of $560,000,000 Delsa and Clint 1
Lang, white boys, are in jail at Deca- i
tur. Ala., charged with assaulting a
young white girl. One of the boys con- i
fessed the crime. The girl's condition i
is critical and in the event of her death I
a lynching is probable Five per- t
sons were killed and fifteen Injured In t
a wreck on the Big Four railroad near :
Cincinnati, O., Saturday. While roundin"
a curve, the engine leaped from the
tra k and whirling a great semicircle,
plunged through a coach of its own 1
train. By a marvelous chance not a i
passenger was killed or seriously hurt, '
the fatalities being confined to the t
train crew The Tyrolese police of i
Switzerland, a few days ago arrested a !
gang of international thieves and re- i
covered $1,000,000 worth of jewelry that (
the gang was going to divide <
Count Zeppelin, the German dirigible i
balloon inventer, is said to be planning I
an airship to carry 300 people as pas- ' ]
senders Wells W. Detweiler, a member
of a prominent Harrisburg, Pa.,
family, has been convicted of murder
In the first decree. His victim was a
club house steward and the killing was
the result of a drunken quarrel It
la reported from Norfolk, Va., that John
D. Rockefeller has donated $5,000,000
to the cause of temperance in the United
States E. W. Chafin. Prohibition
candidate for president in 1908, is
authority for the statement that Wm.
J. Bryan will be the Democratic candidate
for president in 1912, with a prohibition
plank in the platform
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
Democratic National Executive committee
and at present national committeeman
from Indiana, was badly peppered
with blrdshot by his secretary
last Friday while out hunting partridges.
NO LICENSE, NO WEDDING.
Bill on Senate Calendar Makes Marriage
Not so Easy.
It is just Impossible, says the Columbia
correspondent of the News and
Courier, to get around the marriage
DroDosltion once you are tied up in
South Carolina. Although . it is easy
to have the ceremony performed (provided,
always, of course, the girl is
found), it is hard to change the bargain.
Not meaning to make it any easier
to get away, but merely to make it a
little more difficult to get into the
meshes, Senaor Johnson introduced a
bill in the senate a few days ago, providing
that marriage licenses should be
required in this state.
Perhaps, because of the time honored
marital customs and laws in this
state, Senator Carlisle and a majority
of the judiciary committee reported
the bill favorably with the following
amendment: "Section 6. Nothing herein
contained shall render any marriage
illegal without the issuing of a license."
This amendment practically
leaves the law as it is, and at least
makes it just as easy to have the ceremony
performed.
But Senator Graydon, for the minority,
reported the bill unfavorably. The
matter will be fought out in the senate
when the bill is reached on the calonrin
r
Senator Johnson's bill provides that
It shall be unlawful for any persons to
contract matrimony within this state
without first procuring a license; likewise
It shall be unlawful for anyone,
whomsoever (the bill says) to perform
the ceremony without said persons
having first delivered the license. The
penalty is a fine of not more than (100,
nor less than (25 or imprisonment for
not more than thirty days.
The bill does not say so, except by
intimation, of course, that those who
do procure the license are to be imprisoned
for life.
How much does it cost to get married?
This question touches the most
interesting feature of the proposed bill.
Twenty-five cents is the answer. But
here is the provision that will catch
the runaways: "And a statement under
oath, or affirmation, to the effect
that the persons seeking to contract
matrimony are legally capacitated to
marry, together with the full name of
the persons, their ages and their places
of residence." The clerk of court gets
the 25 cents, the man the girl, and the
girl the man.
The bill provides a form of the license
and the certificate to be filled in
by the one performing the ceremony,
and the clerk of court keeps the records.
It is said that conservation of energy
Is one of the laws of nature, that matter
is not destroyed. Then what becomes
of the fines imposed for violation
of the act should it pass?
Section 5 says that the fines shall be
paid into the county treasury for the
school fund of the county in which
the violation occurs. How do those
who were married benefit by this? If
Senator Carlisle's and the majority's
amendment is adopted and the marriage
Is thus made legal, and there
should be something beside the fence
running around the house, that's wherein
the benefit wjll come to the couple
from the money paid Into the school
fund. And, perhaps, the boy will take
out a marriage license when he gets
"grown up."
WATCHING THE YEGGMEN.
These Criminals Are Especially Active
In South Carolina.
The activity of the yeggmen In this
state awakens much interest from a
local standpoint; this Interest being
brought about because of the capture
ind sensational escape of "Tennessee
Dutch," and George Barton from the
local jail.
When Barton was convicted and
?lven five years in the Federal prison
in Atlanta, it was thought that the
iction of the gang of which he and
'Tennessee Dutch" were members
Evould be temporarily stopped, but the
safe-cracking business has kept up.
rhen when the news reached here of
;he "tragic" death of "Dutch," it
seemed reasonable that the biggest
ink in the chain was broken.
But th? postofflce officials and detectives
have found out that there are
ethers working away and are giving
lust as much trouble as the famous
crook killed down in Florida a few
lays ago.
It is quite interesting to talk to a
postofflce inspector about the operations
of these criminals, and it is inieed
marvelous how these officers can
teep trace and track of the safe crackers
as they do.
Inspector Brown, who has charge
>f this district, has in his possession
numerous articles employed by safe
crackers in their work. When he returned
from Walhalla the other day
ne brought with him a little bottle
containing a spoonful of nitro-glycerine,
which the robbers of the posteffice
safe in that town had left in
their hurry to get away after bursting
jpen the sare. He also round a Dig
Par of common soap that they used
n stopping up the cracks of the safe,
ind several pieces of fuse they had
tvith them.
In explaining how a cracker uses
nitro-glycerine in blowing a safe, Mr.
Brown said that first they take an oriinary
piece of washing soap and stop
jp all the cracks in a safe, excepting
>ne little place. In this place they
pour in a few drops of nitro-glycerine,
ind then stick in a piece of fuse. AfLer
lighting the fuse they step aside,
and when the door is blown from its
hinges they hurriedly rifle the safe of
Its valuables and get away.
At Walhalla, however, Mr. Brown
says, the crackers used too much of
:he explosive and the door of the safe
ivas blown completely across the
Puilding, and In their excitement they
overlooked over a hundred dollars in
i little thread box in one of the pigeon
holes of the safe.
He has been working on this case
and has figured out the descriptions
of the men he thinks guilty of the
vork. He says there is some probaoility
of the robbers of the Due West
md Hartsville postofflces being the
ones who blew the safe at Walhalla,
md he hopes to land them soon.
In talking of the safe crackers, Mr.
Brown says the most dangerous man
s the "tapper." A "tapper" is a man
vho understands the construction of
i safe, and by powerful tools can
manage to bore through the heavy
Joors and force the finger on the inside
to unlatch the bolts that hold
:he door. His work is practically noiseess,
and he usually gets away with
nore booty than the robber who uses
litroglycerine and other explosives.
About twenty yeggmen have been
anded In prison during the past seven
>r eight years of operation in South
Carolina, the greater part of the number
being tried in the Federal court
it Charleston.
Increased activity of the crackers
n this state may mean that the government
will have to send some men
:o this state to assist Inspectors Gregory
and Brown in their work in geting
it under control.?Greenville
'sews.
? A Columbia correspondent says
that Senator Smith of Barnwell will
introduce a bill to license the sale of
.v hi sky in South Carolina. His idea is
to authorize prospective liquor sellers
:<> pay a license of from $300 to
1500 to the state treasurer and then
nake such arrangements with the
:owns as they can. The correspondent
loes not believe there is a reasonable
nossibility that the bill will pass: but
:hinks it may serve as a reason for
roviding for state prohibition.
LOCAL AFFAIRS,
NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8.
Shannon & Hope, Bankrupts?Give notice
of application for confirmation of
composition.
Henry B. James?Has fifty-two head
mules and horses at Turner &
Brown's stable. For sale at right
prices.
Richard W. Hutson. Clerk of the District
Court of the United States, District
of South Carolina?Gives notice
to creditors in the matter of Shannon
& Hope, Bankrupts.
C. W. Carroll?Has a cottage on East
Liberty street for rent. Vacant
February 1st.
H. B., care Enquirer?Is looking for
a house with several acres of land,
In or near Yorkvile. Will buy or
rent.
D. T. Woods, Clerk?Gives notice of
meeting of Yorkville camp, W. O.
W.. Thursdav evenine. Full attend
ance requested.
A. D. Dorsett?Will begin a reduced
price sale of dry goods and groceries
on January 27th and continue sale
for ten days.
J. L. Stacy, Clover?Will be at Hickory
Grove, January 26 and 27th and
will do surveying for parties desiring
such work.
Glenn & Allison?Will receive a carload
of choice mules and horses today
and another on Friday.
Thomson Co.?On pages 6 and 6 announces
its fourth anniversary sale
and quotes reduced prices on seasonable
goods in every department.
The reductions include dress goods,
notions, clothing, shoes, furnishings,
hats, etc.
First National Bank, Yorkville?Relates
a story about what a savings
bank account did for a young man,
how it helped him and applies the
story to you. It will help you Bave.
Yorkville Hardware Co.?Wants you
to know that the Lynchburg turnplow
is the best because it lasts
longest, runs lightest and throws
best.
First National Bank, Sharon?Tells
you that sooner or later every person
who has an income employs a
checking account to aid him financially.
It wants yours.
J. L. Williams & Co.?Are offering a
special lot of 17-inch embroidery,
25c and 35c kind, at 15c a yard.
I. W. Johnson?Has seed Irish potatoes.
onion sets and says that everybody
who wants good coffee gets
it from him.
G. H. O'Leary?Reminds you that you
can always get quality in furniture
from him and that you will find his
prices right.
Herndon & Gordon.?Talk about good
pies today and the ingredients they
have that will aid in making good
pies.
Loan & Savings Bank?Advises you
4 /% 4 w?i of 4 /-? liiolr (n linMilllnfV
iiui iu nuoi iu lutiv 111 iiaiiuiiug
money and says that a check guards
you against loss. Your account is
solicited.
York Supply Co.?In order to reduce
its stock of shoes, offers them, at
specially low prices, and announces
a cut in flour prices,
City Meat Market?Keeps everything
in good beef, pork, sausage, etc.,
and buys butter and eggs.
G. W. Whitesides, Sharon?Talks about
a lot of newly arrived spring goods,
including calicoes, ginghams, percales.
white goods, dress goods, etc.
J. C.. Wilborn?Has 210 acres, three
miles Sharon, property of R. M.
Robinson, for sale.
York Furniture Co.?Is selling agents
for Ford automobiles and carries a
line of oils, greases, etc.
Rock Hill is in the predicament of
facing an Important bond election with
an Incomplete registration.
It would have been easily practicable
to have disposed of the increased
advertising in today's paper with only
two extra pages; but we have seen
proper to give our readers along with
the advertising more reading matter,
Including an especially liberal installment
of the capital new story, "The
Fourth Estate."
TU? Pnmnr*, nffirn hoa nrinted thou
sands of copies of a blank crop mortgage
of an approved form and they are
being sold in large numbers. It is conceded
by some of the best informed
lawyers with whom we have conferred,
that this crop mortgage affords a better
security than did the agricultural
lien.
The time is approaching for the attachment
of the 2 per cent penalty on
tax collections, next Monday being the
last day on which payment will be accepted
with a penalty of only 1 per
cent. Three weeks of lull followed the
rush in the treasurer's office during
the last week of December, but during.
the past week, business has been
growing more brisk. The 2 per cent
penalty attaches after next Monday.
PAY FOR ENUMERATORS.
The director of the census has Issued
to census supervisors a detailed statement
of the classification of rates
adopted for the compensation of enumerators
in the thirteenth census,
commencing April 15, next.
There are three general rates?the
per capita, the mixed, and the per 1
diem. i
The first and second general rates
have five subdivisions each. j
The per diem rates range from $3 to
$3.50, $4, $4.50, $5, $5.50, and $6, and '
are to be paid for a day of eight hours'
work. j
For enumerators on the per capita
basis, which will be that most widely '
used, the pay for each inhabitant is:
Class A, 2 cents; class B, 2J cents;
class C, 3 cents; class D, 3} cents; and
class E, 4 cents. Such enumerators '
will also be paid for each farm as foi- 1
lows: Class A, 20 cents; class B, 22}
cents; class C, 25 cents; class D, 27} t
cents; and class E, 30 cents. These
rates are in each case 5 cents or more, 1
higher than those paid in 1900, when '
the range was from 15 to 20 cents. For
each establishment of productive industry
the rate for each class is 30
cents. For each barn and inclosure
containing live stock, not on farms, the
pay is 10 cents for each class.
Under the mixed rate, which is a
combination of the per capita and the
per diem, there are five subclasses al- 1
phabetlcally arranged, and the per <
diem is: Class F, $1; G, $1.25: H, $1.50; ,
I, $1.75: and J, $2. For each inhabitant
the pay is: Class F, 2 cents; G, 2J
cents; H, 2A cents; I, 2J cents; and J, I
3 cents. For each farm: Class F, 15 ;
cents: G, 17J cents; H, 17J cents; I .
and J, 20 cents each. For each establishment
of productive industry the 1
rate is 20 cents for each class. <
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WITHIN THE TOWN. 1
? Mr. Edgar G. Chambers of New
York, representing the Sanborn Map
company, is in Yorkville making a new
insurance map of the town. The work 1
will require about two weeks and pos- i
sibly a little longer. I
? It is reported on the streets that l
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YV. 1 IKMUI/CUU
political character of the county, who ]
has been making his home in Yorkville I
for several years, but who disappeared i
somewhat mysteriously about two
weeks ago, is in Cuba. The lnforma- i
tion, however, is not positive. i
? Since there seems to be no longer
any question of the fait that the English
sparrow is utterly useless, would
it not be a good idea for the people of
all the towns to begin to give their attention
to the matter of getting rid of
them? House owners can easily kill
thousands of these pests this spring
by raking out their nests from behind
closed window blinds and other such
places.
? The first edition of the Christian
Messenger was exhausted In a very
short time after its appearance, and
those who desire sample copies of the
second edition, which will be out shortly,
should lose no time in mailing applications
to Rev. E. E. Gillespie, who
has charge of the subscription books.
It * fs always good form, we will take
&e liberty of suggesting, to send along
with such applications the annual subscription
price, which is twenty-five
cents.
r- Accompanied by Constable Johnson,
a citizen went to the home of Magistrate
de Loach at a late hour of the
night, or rather early morning one day
last week for the purpose of instituting
a process that seemed very necessary
under the circumstances. After some
delay, the magistrate showed up Ifi
response to a knock at the door; but
was not entirely awake, and was a little
slow about understanding:, according
to the testimony of his visitors.
When they had tried to explain their
business, they heard him declare from
the ipslde: "Well, 1*11 Just be doggonned
if I am going to get up here in
my shirt tail and marry anybody at 2
o'clock in the morning, and it a raining."
After he was made to understand
that it was not a marriage ceremony
that was wanted, he put on
his clothes and went along.
8ECOND WEEK JURORS.
The following venire of petit jurors
was drawn this morning to serve during
the second week of the spring term
of court of common pleas, which convenes
Monday, February 7, Judge Devore,
presiding:
J. C. Gregory Fort Mill.
J. A. Latta York.
ft. M. P. Robinson York.
J. M. Brice York.
F. H. Jackson Bethesda.
H. E. Hood Bullock's Creek.
R. B. Sutton Bethesda.
G. C. Blankenship .... * Fort Mill.
R. A. Dagnell Broad River.
N. D. Glenn Bethel.
W. G. Turner Bullock's Creek.
B. D. Kennedy Catawba.
A. P. Hope York.
R. M. Neil Catawba.
S. B. Beamguard... .King's Mountain.
J. A. Garrison Bethesda.
V. B. Blankenship Fort Mill.
J. T. Plexico Bullock's Creek.
E. B. Cook Catawba.
J. L. Williamson Bethesda.
S. F. Roddey Catawba.
T. w. MCEiwee eroaa mver.
J. B. Miller Catawba.
J. A. Harvey King's Mountain.
W. T. Parks Catawba.
W.- P. Whtsonant Broad River.
J. M. Barnett Bethel.
C. F. Branson Catawba.
W. L. Barron Catawba.
W. E. Gettys York.
W. F. Harris Fort Mill.
J. S. Hood Bullock's Creek.
I. H. Campbell Bethel.
J. F. Lee Fort Mill.
W. H. McCbrkle York.
R. Q. McMackln ....King's Mountain.
NEW SUBSCRIBER PREMIUMS.
The $5 premium offered for the largest
number of new subscribers returned
and paid for between 6 o'clock p. m.,
January 15 and 6 o'clock p. m., January
22, was not claimed and will not be.
There was not a single subscriber
returned and paid for under the conditions
of the offer during the week.
Quite a number of renewals were
paid for, and also some new ones that
had been returned previous to January
15, and several?as many as a dozen
new ones were returned?but there was
no cash with them.
A single one of the dozen new names
returned last week, would If It had
been paid for by Saturday evening at
6 o'clock, entitled the lucky clubmaker
to a premium of $5 In cash.
There Is to be one more premium
paid under this special offer?five doldars
for the largest number of new
names returned and paid for between
*st Saturday evening at 6 o'clock and
next Saturday evening at 6 o'clock.
Our original proposition was to pay
$5 for the largest number of new names
returned and paid for up to 6 o'clock
on <-*V? C? n tur/ln if M ln?H f In Ton_
iii.( ui cavil oavutua/ ntQiib in w?>*uary,
after January 1. The first premium
of five dollars went to Miss Addle
Ckveny of Rock Hill No. 1. The
second went to Mr. A. W. McFarland
of Yorkville No. 3, and the third went
by default
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mr. C. G. Parish of Orange, Ga.,
spent last Friday in Yorkville.
Mr. L. D. Hanna of Cross Hill, has
taken a position with the Star Drug
store.
Miss Lilla Herndon of Yorkville
spent Sunday with Miss Julia Tltman
In Lowryvllle.
Rev. James McDowell, D. D.. of Sum
ter, ia visiting his son, Dr. J. D. McDowell
in Yorkville.
Rev. T. J. Watts of Gastonia, spent
Sunday in Yorkville, and preached at
the Baptist church.
Messrs. E. L. Flanagan of Charlotte,
and J. E. Stroup of Davidson college,
Bpent Sunday in Yorkville.
Dr. A. Y. Cartwright of Yorkville
left last night for Florida and may be
?one ten days or two weeks.
Miss Mary Dickson of Rock Hill,
spent Sunday in Yorkville with Misses
\nnie McPheeters and Kittle Dickson.
Mr. W. R. Rone, who has been with
the Star Drug store for sometime past,
left for his home in Waxhaw, N. C.,
last week.
Messrs. J. C. Wllborn, G. H. O'Leary
and J. R. Killian of Yorkville, attended
the Laymen's convention in Colum,
bia last week.
Mr. J. M. Brlce of Yorkvllle, R. F. D.
No. 4, visited his mother, Mrs. Calvin
Brice and other relatives at Woodward
last week.
Rev. W. A. Hafner, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Fort Mill, spent
several hours in Yorkvllle last Saturday,
being on his way to Sharon to
assist in the services in connection
with the installation of Rev. W. B. Arrowood
as pastor of Woodlawn. Rev.
El E. Gillespie was also to have gone
to Sharon; but his throat is still troubling
him some as the result of his relent
attack of diphtheria, and it was
not considered prudent for him to attempt
the trip.
FRAUDULENT CHECKS.
Alexander Martin Guerard, a young
white man, about 30 years of age, and
almost totally blind, was committed to
;he York county jail last Saturday
[light, to answer to charges of utterng
fraudulent checks, and may also be
prosecuted on various charges of obtaining
money under false representations,
with Intent to defraud.
The warrant upon which Guerard
,vas arrested was sworn out by Mr. W,
5. Gordon of Yorkville; but there are
several other warrants in the hands of
Vlagistrate deLoach, three of them issued
by himself, another received from
"rreenville and there is a common im- !
tsresslon that the returns are not all In,
Guerard came to Yorkville along ;
lbout November 1, with his wife, se- 1
:ured board, announced that he intend- 1
>d to make this place their home, re
lewed acquaintances that he had form- .
;d during a previous visit, discussed the
juestion of forming business relations
vlth different people, called attention
o the backwardness and shortcomings
>f the town In many particulars and
rave advice as to how to make things
lustle, etc., and then later on underook
to solicit subscriptions to the cap- ,
tal stock of a proposed steam laundry. I
In the meantime, while still working
on the laundry proposition, Querard
solicited subscriptions for quite a number
of standard magazines and periodicals,
offering them in clubs at wonderfully
reduced rates, and receiving
sums of various amounts in payment
therefor, all the way up to $7, $8 or 810.
After a sufficient time had elapsed
fnr nnmA nf thp mncn7lnp? tn nnmo In
with nothing heard from them, subscribers
began to complain and make
Inquiry, and write to the publishers,
and Guerard, after keeping his customers
quiet as long as he could, flnalI
ly got out of town without leaving his
address. ,
Quite a number of people declared
that the man should be arrested; but
as usual there was nobody to move until
Mr. W. S, Gordon, who had been
victimized with a fraudulent check,
swore out the necessary warrant, which
was put In the hands of Constable S.
N. Johnson.
Guerard had not been seen about
Yorkvllle for several weeks, but he was
located In Abbeville last Thursday, and
Constable Johnson went for him forthwith,
finding him In a boarding house,
and bringing him to Yorkvllle without
unnecessary delay.
As to just what will be done with
the various warrants has not fully developed.
The impression is that If
Guerard can make .the -arrangements,
most of the cases will be compromised.
Mr. Gordon, however, insists that he
cares notnmg aoout tne seven or eignt
dollars that he Is out; but that he is
moving solely because he believes it's
somebody's duty to move, and he cannot
see it in any other way than that
the duty is as much his as somebody
else's.
At least two of the bad checks are in
excess of $20 each, and the offenses
Involved in their utterance put
them within the Jurisdiction of the
court of general sessions.
LOCAL LACONIC8.
New Business at Tirzak
Mr. John F. Gordon is now occupying
the handsome store room recently
completed by him at Tirzah. He will
be assisted in his business by Mr. Robert
Youngblood.
All answered.
Up to last Saturday night. Sheriff
Brown had received acknowledgments
of all the subpoenas sent out on the
previous Tuesday.. There is no longer
any reason to doubt the complete efficacy
of the new plan.
Work of Vandals.
The gate to the fence around the
National monument at King's Mountain
battleground, was broken by vandals
during the holidays. The break,
however, has been repaired by the contractors.
Fire Near King's Mountain.
A barn on the premises of Mr. W. J.
Mullinax, near King's Mountain battleground,
was destroyed by fire last
Friday night The fire is supposed to
have been the work of a thief, who entered
the building for the purpose of
stealing. The loss included corn, hay,
hogs, farm tools and other property,
aggregating seve* hu;. .ed dollars in
value.
York Delegation Bills.
Rock Hill Record: In the house on
Thursday Mr. Wilson, of York, Introduced
a bill to require the county supervisor
of York county to draw his
warrant in favor of the board of commissioners
of public works of the town
of Yorkvllle in the sum of $200. Also
a bill to amend an act to limit the
hours of labor In cotton and woolen
mills. In the house on Friday the fol
lowing bills were Introduced: Mr.
Sanders?To amend an act entitled "An
act to amend the law In reference to
working and maintaining the public
roads of York county, to provide for
the appointment of township supervisors,
define their duties and powers, fix
their salaries, provide for the payment
of same, declare certain persons liable
for road duty, and provide penalties for
violations thereof." Mr. Wilson?To fix
the charge of the court stenographer
of the Sixth judicial circuit for transcript
of testimony.
Another Comet.
Much interest has been manifested
all over the country and locally, during
the past few days, over the appearance
of a comet that was visible In the
west just after sunset. The comec
was first discovered about ten days ago
by astronomers in South Africa, and
the news was quickly telegraphed over
the world. A few people in Yorkvllle
and throughout this locality have seen
the comet, through occasional glimpses
of clear skies during the very few minutes
ft has been visible on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights; but genopoMv
tho nlrtiirlu havn moHo itIau'Q un.
satisfactory. The astronomers tell us
that down closer toward the equator,
the comet can be seen high In the
heavens. This is not the looked for
Halley's comet, which does not appear
until April; but is an unheralded
stranger that was discovered accidentally.
The observers through the powerful
telescopes at Washington and
other places, have been watching the
new visitor with great eagerness, but
have suffered no little disappointment
because of the cloudy weather. The
comet could not be seen during the
day, because it was obscured by the
brilliancy of the sun.
CENSUS REPORT OF GINNING.
January Figures 3,000,000 Short of Last
Year.
The census bureau reports that the
number of bales of cotton ginned fron\
the growth of 1909 to January 16, 1910,
was 9,792,990 bales as compared with
12,660,209 bales for the year 1908.
The proportion of the last three crops
ginned to January 16 is 96.8 per cent
for crop of 1908; 93.5 for 1907, and 93.8
for 1906. Round bales included this year
are 147,846, compared with 232,510 last
year and 188,037 for the season of
1907-08. Sea Island 92,001 this season;
90,287 last year and 80,190 for season
of 1907-08. The distribution of Sea
Island for 1910 by states is: Florida
27,888: Georgia 50,872 and South Carolina
13,241.
The number of bales ginned from the
growth of 1909 to January 16, 1910, as
compared with last year, is as follows,
counting round as half bales, and excluding
linters.
1910, 1909.
TTr.l?oa statoo 0 70f> QQO
Alabama 1,028,725 1,316,803
Arkansas 664,946 931,133
Florida 60,896 68,624
Georgia 1,827,752 1,952,113
Louisiana 254,018 458,762
Mississippi 1,028,101 1,551,792 1
North Carolina 615,533 661,669 '
Oklahoma 532,251 612,144 1
South Carolina 1,114,806 1,192,723 1
Tennessee 232,146 321,727 '
Texas 2,378,312 3,528,981 '
All other states .. 55,504 69,349
The statistics In this report for 1910
ire subject to slight corrections when 1
checked against the Individual returns
of the glnners being transmitted by !
mail. The corrected total of cotton
tinned this season to January 1, 1910, '
Is 9,647,327 bales.
? Former Judge James Aldrlch died i
it his home at Aiken last Sunday, after
a long illness, aged 60 years.
80UTH CAROLINA NEW8.
? There has passed the house with
fair prospects of passing the senate, a
bill making the pointing of a pistol at
another, a misdemeanor. The idea is
to put a stop to "didn't know it was
loaded" accidents.
? Greenville, January 22: Revenue
raiding officers returned to the city
late today from the Dark Corner and
reported the biggest capture of illicit
plants in a year or more, five stills
having been cut up and over four thousand
gallons of beer destroyed. 'All
plants were in full operation, but the
owners succeeded in getting away. On
approaching Luther Durham's place,
where the biggest still was found, the
officers found three young girls acting
as scouts and whose screams gave
warning of the officers' approach.
These girls were stationed on a bluff
commanding a view of the road and
furnished an experience never before
falling to the lot of the raiders.
? Chester special of January 21, to
The News and Courier: Frazer Williams,
a well known young fanner,
shot and killed Becky Chisholm, a colored
domestic in the employ of his
mother, last night at the Williams
homestead, five miles east of Chester.
The verdict of the coroner's Jury was
accidental homicide, it appearing that
Williams fired the revolver, which he
thought had been unloaded and which
she had snapped three times at him.
The 45-calibre bullet passed through
the arm and then entirely through
the body. The slayer was committed
to Jail, but will probably apply for
bond to-morrow.
? Members of both the majority
and minority of the committee on the
asylum investigation have bills to carry
out their recommendationa One
bill provides for an election at the
general election next fall on the proposition
to nave tne state mane a
$1,000,000 bond issue with which to
erect two new asylums tor tne separate
care ot white and negro patients.
The other provides for a commission
office to be selected by the governor
to get options for sites and plans for
the new plants and report to the legislature
convening a year'hence. Under
the constitution the bond issue
must have the vote of two-thirds the
elected members of the legislature
and Its fate is extremely doubttul as
the minority's recommendation to remodel
the present, plant has a strong
following In both houses.
? Columbia, January 22: The first
important engagement in the liquor
ngnt in the legislature begins in ine
senate Thursday next. Senator Carlisle
having today gotten his state-wide bill
substituted for the Otts bill of last
session, so as to gain a hign place for
it on the calendar. He had it made
a special order for next Thursday. The
senate today passed two out-of-theordlnary
bills, one by Senator Sullivan
prohibiting minors from playing pool
or billiards, and the other by Harmon
prohibiting the manufacture or sale
of any but safety matches. The bill,
which has passed the house, getting
through last session, was amended so
as to make it effective a year hence.
The senate killed the bill to abolish
the Confederate Infirmary. Both
houses adjourned today to meet again
Monday night. The legislature goes
to Charleston for a visit to the Citadel
on the 26th and will make a visit to
Clemson on the 28th.
? The ways and means committee
of the house, says a Columbia letter,
will probably turn in the appropriation
bill by the middle of next week,
which will be a very considerable
achievement. This committee has
been working hard and faithfully,
every legislative day from 4 to 6 or
7 o'clock and the bill would be reported
earlier but for the trip to
Charleston. From all that can be
gathered from the leaks that came
tnrough the keyhole of the door, it
is learned that the appropriation budget
this year will be about the same
as last, nossiblv a little smaller. There
will be several matters cut off from
the bill as passed last year, the Item
for Wlnthrop's new dining hall and
other Improvements, but to. match
these will be appropriations for the
Citadel, the rebuilding of the negro
college, and other matters, which will
maintain the average. The state levy
will be the same, no provision being
made to get the state on a cash basis.
In this connection it Is Interesting to
note the -propositions that are being
made to get taxes equalized in the
state. There is the proposition of the
comptroller general for the appointment
of a state commission to equalize
the taxes, and several other bills in
the same line presented by members
of the house independently. It is the
very evident desire of the members of
the legislature to get property in the
state equalized, the differences in taxes
are apparent to any one who gives a
little study, and the greatest difficulty
that assessors meet with is In the feeling
of the taxpayer that everybody
except himself is dodging taxes. The
comptroller general will urge the publicity
feature of the assessments, glv
lng a list of the taxpayers In each
community with the property and
value that they return. He urges that
this will make every man a member
of the board of equalization. Something
will be done along this line if the general
assembly has time to do It after
getting rid of the liquor question.
? Columbia special of January 22
to the Anderson Daily Mall: The legislature
now in session is going to
have to face some sort of good roads
legislation. Two matters that stand
out pre-eminently are a highway commission
and a roadway engineer. First
of all it might be incidentally mentioned
that this legislature is not going
to do anything that would antagonize
the people at home for this is
the last session of the body and they
must each one, that is those that will
stand for re-election, fafce the people
during the present summer and ask
for another term. So after all, any
legislation toward better highways in
South Carolina, will largely depend
upon the sentiment existing in the various
communities of the state with
reference to this proposition. There
is no doubt that the general feeling of |
the people of South Carolina is towards
good roads. The people have
talked better highways for the past
ten years, that is there has been an
organized movement in this direction.
Yet there has been little done in a
material way. Thousands of dollars
have been spent on the roads In the
different counties and very few results
have been obtained. Skill is needed
in the construction of a highway and
the highways of South Carolina, with
a few rare instances, have not been
constructed along skillful lines. This
brings the proposition down to the recent
action of the South Carolina
Good Roads association in recommending
that a commission be appointed
and also a roadway engineer.
A most excellent recommendation
made by that association was the four
year terms for supervisors. When a
supervisor is elected it is for only two
years and he is not in office long
enough to catch on to the work before
he has to go out in the campaign and
fight to retain his place. The Good
Roads association In recommending
this realized that politics and work t
are alienated from each other and i
that it would be best to give the su- c
pervlsors a four-year term in order t
fViQt Ar> ontorlntr rvfflno tViAv I orV* f t
down to business and learn good roads Ir
building. There is serious doubt as to i
whether a highway commission will r
be created by the present legislature. I
A highway commission would cost the s
state over $10,000 annually, besides d
there would have to be a roadway en- t
gineer at about $2,500. The roadways E
of South Carolina are not sufficiently v
Important to demand so much care
at present. However, the roadway ^
engineer proposition is going through e
for this engineer would not cost over 'V
$2,500, that is for salary and expenses. E
The engineer would act as a guide to h
the supervisors. He would plan and d
make specifications and leave the su- a
nervisors to carry the work out. A h
bill will very probably be introduced
In the house during the next week for "V
ine appoinimeni or an engineer, ah p
of the legislators believe In good roads ti
as being the most valuable asset of a c
community and one of the great "S
economic agencies In the present time, t<
and they are going to do all possible C
for their pet scheme, for It is a pet v
scheme with most of them. tl
? Columbia State, Monday: In the g
state supreme court this morning. Lucy tl
Dugas Tillman, wife of B. R. Tillman, p
Jr., will bring habeas corpus proceed- p
Ings for the recovery of her infant chil- t
dren, Douschka and Sarah. It is en- li
tirely probable that there will follow tl
one of the most Interesting legal con- d
troversies In the history of the state. It
Mrs. Tillman will bring the action w
against her husband's parents, Senator
B. R. Tillman and his wife, who are
now in possession of the children. Her
attorneys last night refused to give out
any information, not that they oppose
publicity, but because they wish,
the records to be presented in court
before any newspaper publication. Mrs.
Tillman, since her alleged desertion, has
been making her home in this city with
her nearest of male kin. Dr. Francis W.
Pickens Butler. She is the granddaughter
of F. W. Pickens, "war governor"
of South Carolina and the minister
to Russia under President Buchanan.
To Qov. and Mrs. Pickens was
born in St Petersburg, in the palace
of the Romanoffs, a girl baby, for whom
the czarina stood godmother, and she
was called Douschka, meaning "darfing."
This woman, afterwards beloved
by the people of South Carolina, married
Dr. Dugas of Augusta, Oa., the
father of Mrs. Tillman. The P<i<k?na
family had lone: been among the moat
Influential in the state. Mr. and Mrs.
R. B. Tillman, Jr., were married December
29, 1903, and parted In November,
1908. Just why is not yet announced
officially, but Mrs. Tillman's
relatives stated that her husband drank
to excess and was very unkind to her.
In February of last year, after a separation
of three months, Mr. and Mrs. B. ?
R. Tillman, Jr., began living together
again, and this was supposed to be a
happy ending of the quarrel. Bat in
December, while they were living in
Washington, Mrs. Tillman hada sudden
and desperate illness. Her husband,
it is said, provided no nurse for
her, and showed no proper attentions
to her. On the first day of her convalescence
he came to the apartments
and asked to take the two children to
see their grandmother. The wife assented,
but the children protested and
had to be forced to go to their grandmother.
This was on December 3, and
Mrs. Tillman has not seen her babies
since that hour. In the afternoon Tillman
came back without them. He told
his wife that their grandmother had
taken them and had gone to South
Carolina with the little ones. A few
days thereafter Mrs. Tillman was informed
by attorneys for Senator Till- -V.*'
man that the father of the children had
made and recorded a regular deed in
which the custody of the children is
given to the grandparents until the little
girls become of age. The deed on
file with the clerk of court at Edgefield,
shows that young Tillman, after alleg- 4
Ing his wife's Inability and unsuitablli- ^
ty to raise the children properly, admits
that he, too, is unable to assume the
responsibility. It has been known in
Columbia for some time that Mrs. Till
man's lawyers have been getting affidavits
from the best citizens of EdgeHeld
to show that she is a loving and ft
painstaking mother and that she is
financially responsible, having a plantation
which brings an annual rental of
over 91,000. The affidavits will declare
that the mother is far more suited to
raise the children than their grandparents,
who are away from home half
the time. Mrs. Tillman is named for
her grandmother, Lucy Holcombe Pickens,
the belle of the Virginia fashionable
summer resorts before the war.
Her husband was war governor and in _
her honor there was fitted out a troop . '< * wkj
known through the war as the Holcombe
Legion. She was said to have
been the most beautiful woman of the
south at that period. Her daughter,
Douschka, was equally as much of a -,SS8mSg?a S
belle In South Carolina after the war.
Of the once distinguished family, but . &
the two daughters remain, Mrs. Shcppard
and Mrs. Tillman, the late Gen. M.
C. Butler was an uncle of Mrs. Tillman,
and he was the political opponent of
Senator Tillman in the bitter campaign
for the United States senate in
1894. Another interesting feature is
that the sons of B. R. Tillman and J.
C. Sheppard, who opposed each other
for governor in 1892, have married sisters.
R. B. Tillman, Jr., is clerk to
Senator Tillman, on the Five Civilised
Tribes committee. For several years
he was his father's private secretary
but resigned in 1908. Last year he '
returned to Washington and took his
present position with his father's committee.
Further relating to the foregoing,
a Washington dispatch of Sun
day to the State, says: Senator Tillman
when seen tonight and informed
of the proposed suit against him
his son for the possession of his grand- w
children was not surprised. He did not
seem to be disturbed about It The two
little girls, Douschka and Sarah Stark, A..
were playing about him-when the reporters
visited him. He talked freely
about the case, taking care to send the
two children out of the room to play. .
Concerning the cause and circumstances
of the affair he said tonight: 4
"My son and his wife have been twice
separated and are now living apart
She is in South Carolina. They dis- ?
agreed last February but later were
reconciled and at my suggestion went
west Intending to remain. A few
weeks ago they again disagreed. Mrs.
Tillman left their apartments here In 2
Washington and after waiting for three
days he took these little girls to my
wife, who was then in Washington.
They went with her to our borne In
South Carolina. Finding that his wife
showed no inclination to return to him,
my son deeded the children to me.
Under the law of South Carolina this
may be done by a father for the good
of his children, or by the wife In case
the father is not living. That is why
they are now with me. They are two
of the brightest little girls I have ever
seen, and my sole Interest In the mat- *
i- i .i ? - _?- -
icr is iu nave mern property carea lor
and guarded. Mrs. R. B. Tillman, Jr.,
has been told by eminent counsel that
she cannot recover the children." Senator
and Mrs. Tillman, his two daughters,
and the two grandchildren live in
an apartment in the Balfour. When ^
the young couple had their separation 9
for the second time last December,
Mrs. Tillman, wife of the senator, was
at the Normandie. Young B. R. Tillman
took the children there and they
were taken to Trenton, being brought
here again since.
? Washington, January 23: Blackhand
cases, the most notable of which
developed in Ohio, occupied a consid- w.
e rafale part of the time of the post- ?
office inspectors during the last fiscal
year ended June 30, 1909. Such disclosures
as are proper to make abouc
the operations of a bureau which, necessarily,
must exercise discretion in
the publication of its activities, are
made In the annual report of Theodore W
[ngalls, the acting chief inspector of
the postofflce department given to the
public today. The magnitude of the
bureau's work is indicated by the fhct
that at the end of the fiscal year there
were 66,360 cases outstanding in the
Field under investigation, and 13,091
jnder consideration in the department
It Is shown In the report that the robaery
of postofflces, the looting of mail
Poxes, depredations in the mails sen
Tally and frauds conducted through
:he use of the malls Increased matedally
during he last year, the total beng
$131,942. During the year 1,969
Dostofflces were robbed, compared with
1,821 the previous year, while 2,398 arrests
were made during 1909 as com- J
Dared with 2,548 the previous year. Jr
The High Price of Living.?Proof
hat American farm products aro be
ng sold abroad cheaper than in this
:ountry is being gathered by Secreary
of Agriculture Wilson. This was
he declaration made by him yesterlay
at the "high cost of living" hearng
being conducted by a sub-comnittee
of the house committee of the jfe
district of Columbia. Mr. Wilson gave
trong evidence to show that the prolucer
at the pre&ent was getting a lltle
more than formerly for his food
irr?H nr?tQ whilo tho ultimo to onn an mhr
/as paying an excessive price.
"Until comparatively recently the
imerican people enjoyed the cheapst
food In the world," continued Mr.
Vilson. "But nowadays not enough
leople know how to farm profitably,
;now how to get enough out of a
ay's work, know how to make an
ere respond. The lure of the factory
ias called the farmer from the plow."
Secretary Wilson declared that
Vashlngton was one of the most exienslve
cities In the land and that reailers
in this city demanded 42 per
ent profit where in cities like New
rork and Philadelphia they were conent
with from 17 to 20 per cent
londltlons at the capital, however,
rith reference to the cost of living,
ho aonrotarv aalH woro trno to o
reat extent of other cities. He told
he committee that It had a great op- jJfc
ortunlty to do a service for the whole
eople by ascertaining the cause of
hese conditions. Chairman Moore
Ulmated that the whole matter of
he cost of food products from proucer
to consumer would be gone
lto. Secretary Wilson was the only
ltness examined today.