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Scraps and .facts. ? The uniform of enlisted men of the I'nited States army or navy may never again be used as an excuse to bar the wearers from public places. The house naval affairs committee has unanimously reported Representative Richmond Hobson's bill prohibiting by a tine and imprisonment the exclusion of soldiers and sailors from hotels, restaurants, theatres, dance halls and other public places. ? Washington, March 4: Fire, the bane of the forest, played less havoc in the woodlands of the national re serves last year than in 1908, although the number of blazes was 410 greater, according to statistics just compiled by the department of agriculture. By reason of the protective measures adopted by the department, almost 70 per cent of the fires were extinguished before as much has five acres had been damaged: the fires covered less than one and one-half acres to the square mile of national forest land: and the damage done to the burned-over area averaged but $1.26 per acre. For the year ended on December 31 last, there were 3,138 fires in the forests, burning over in round figures 360,000 acres, of which about 62,000 were in private lands in national forests, as against 400,000 acres in 190S. Some 170,000,000 board feet of timber were consumed, of which 33,000,000 feet were privately owned as against 230,000,000 in the previous year. The loss in value of timber destroyed was less than $300,000. of which close to $50,000 belonged to narties The loss of the year before was about $450,000. Damage to reproduction and forage showed a remarkable decrease, less than $160,000 being the record for 1909 and over $700,000 than for 1908. Locomotive sparks were responsible for more blazes than any other cause. ? By a close vote, divided along strict party lines, the house of representatives passed the bill, introduced by Congressman Mann, providing for the future administration of the Panama canal zone. It now goes to the senate for action. The bill authorizes the president to prosecute the work of building the canal and to appoint a director general of the canal and the canal zone, who shall succeed to the powers and duties of the present canal commission. The judicial power of the zone is to be vested in one circuit court and such lower courts as the president may see fit to create. Appeal will be allowed to the supreme court of the United States in important cases, both civil and criminal; and trial by jury will be granted for all criminals prosecuted for felony. tvio wmiiinc measure will, if it passes. be merely a final step in assimilating the canal zone to American ideas of government. Under Colombian rule corruption and incompetency prevailed. By the Spooner act the president of tile United States was empowered, through the canal commission, to dig the canal. By an act passed in 1904, the government of the zone an dall military, civil and judicial powers therein were placed in the control of the president. These powers he delegated to the canal commission. under the supervision of the secretary of war. A code of laws was drawn up by Governor Magoon, then general counsel to the commission. A judicial system was organized, with three circuits and three justices, each sitting in both civil and criminal cases as a court of first instance, and all together as a supreme court. Because < f the mixture of races and the different languages, jury trials were abolished. The old civil code was largely retained, the old criminal code abolished; but the civil code has long been antiquated and productive of injustice. The legislation proposed by the Mann bill looks to a greater centralization of authority and to the modernizing and Americanizing of the whole civil administration. ? Atlanta, Ga., March 15: Gov. Joe Brown of Georgia, and Mayor Robert Maddox of Atlanta, have declined to introduced Commander Peary when he lectures here Wednesday evening, because they say he has not produced the Ksquimos. Gov. Brown branded Commander Robert Peary, who claims to have discovered the north pole, as a faker. Mayor Maddox also declined to perform that service for Peary, giving as his reason that Peary was coming to Atlanta as a private citizen on a money making proposition and was in no sense a guest of Atlanta. In an interview today, Governor Brown said: "The public while discrediting Cook's story, makes the mistake of supposing Peary's true, yet Peary's story is the same as Cook's. What is the best proof that Cook's story is correct? It is that Peary's story conforms to Cook's, thus confirming it. Did Peary fake his astronomical figures in the Roosevelt? He went alone to the pole. Why? What does Peary bring save his own word? Cook brings the same, and as good. Where was Cook? If he had stayed at one place for months, it would have eotten out. If Cook has handed us a gold brick, Peary has handed us a paste diamond, it is up to Peary to explain how Cook's story can be false and his identical story can be true. The American people will not accept his smile as proof that he is not as great a faker as he charges Cook to be. The Mount McKinley story has no bearing on the identical story of the north pole. A man may tell us a thousand lies, yet tell one great truth. I have no interest in the controversy save the right to have the truth, but when Peary asks me to believe the same story false from Cook and true from him, I respectfully decline to be considered so 'easy.' Till Representative Macon's expose of Peary. I believed the stories of both were true, but that if either were false both were false, were fakers. Both were heroes. )t| both were champion liars." ? Washington. March 11?: Opposition to postal savings banks was shown before the house committee on postoffices and postroads by representatives of the American Bankers' association. Not only the speakers oppose iu? p<>?uw savings bank bill, which recently passed the senate, but they said they opposed the principle of the government going into the banking business. K. R. Guerney, vice president of the I'ir.-t National bank of Kreemont. Neb., and a member of the executive council of the bankers' association, said that the establishment of postal savings banks in Nebraska would cause withdrawals of large amounts of money from the banks of that state, seriously upsetting business. The matter of the security and safety of the deposits greatly outweighed the consideration of the interest paid, said Mr. Guerney, and if the government established the postal savings banks, offering 2 per cent interest the deposits would come to them, even though the state banks might be offering 3 or 4 per cent interest. Security was what the people demanded, he said: "The banks are only relatively safe." said Mr. fJnerney. "but the government is absolutely safe, because it has the power of taxation to back it up. For that reason the banks can never compete with thf postal savings banks. Further, the postal savings bank deposits would, in a great measure, come from the hanks The withdrawal of these deposits would cause the banks to call some ol their loans, pinching debtors and gen erally causing: a business disturbance.' Mr. Guerney was closely questioned about the banking business of his state. He said the legal rate of interest in Nebraska was 10 per cent, "and it has got so that we hardly evet charge more than that now," said Guerney, guilelessly, while the members of the committee broke out into a general laugh. "We generally charge S per cent to the farmer on his land, 1 per cent to the merchant, and as to the small borrower, we charge him from from 7. per cent on up to whatever he will stand." ttltr \|othvillf (fhtquiw. Mntertd at the Postoftice in Yorkville is Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.? FRIDAY. MARCH 1&, 1910. The Apaches of Paris and the Seminoles of Columbia. How similar, except in the extremes of social position! The attack on Mr. Patten in Manchester the other day, is a serious reflection on the British reputation for thoroughbred sportsmanship. But after all, good losers are even rarer than they are thought to be. It now looks as if Mr. Roosevelt, who has been slaughtering elephants right and left in Africa, will, upon his return to America, have to undertake the restoration of the big American animal that has been suffering so sorely (luring his absence. Jrnc.E J. W. Devore is eminently correct in his statement that the laws of South Carolina are as good as those of any state in the Union. And if the sentiment in favor of enforcing those laws continues to grow for a few years more as rapidly as it has been growing during the few years past, it will not be a great while before South Carolina has become the most law abiding state. Ox account of the treatment he has received at the hands of the governor of Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta, Commander Peary has abandoned his southern lecturing tour. That is the way the thing goes out to the world. It is not improbable, however, that just as truthful a way to state it. would be that the abandonment of the tour is on account of the frost these Georgia officials have put on the door receipts. Bank Advertising. cone ui ine must iiiieifainiK miiun-a of the advertising columns of The Enquirer these days, is the contribution from the leading banks of the county, and there is no question of the fact that this feature is highly instructive as well as interesting. The careful reader of these adver- | tisements cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that their composition is the product of some of the best minds in this part of the country, and it is safe to say that no one can keep up with them from week to week, studiously and thoughtfully, without getting ideas of business and finance that are well worth while. And another thing that may be said about these bank advertisements, without any clangor of successful contradiction. is that they have had a very marked influence for good in the pro motion or tne general Dusmess ano material welfare of the entire county. Many a man who might not have otherwise put himself in a position to be impressed by the advantages that are offered by the bankers, has been brought to a more or less careful consideration of the whole matter, and been put in the way of business progress and development to which he might not have otherwise attained. Of course there are still people who on account of ignorance have more or less prejudice against the banks, and who are unwilling to take advantage of the benefits offered by them; but these are becoming fewer and fewer every day, and this is one of the several important reasons why York county is forging so rapidly ahead in all that makes for the best in wholesome development and prosperity. The Independent Farmer. While there are as many grumbling farmers as there are grumblers in other vocations, it is not to be under stood that all of the farmers are grumblers or dissatisfied with their calling. On the contrary, there are among the farmers quite a number who appreciate their advantage and their independence. even more keenly that it is possible for anybody else to appreciate these things. Of course. The Enquirer is not to be understood as regarding the farmer as a chronic grumbler. It knows better than that. While it is an unfortunate fact that the popularity of farming seems to be on the wane, there are thousands and thousands of good farmers who have a higher conception of the benefits, the opportunities and the privileges of this noble calling than does The Enquirer, and not a few of these, it gives us great pleasure to know, live in this section. this office on a purely business errand, a farmer, who is well known to his neighbors and an influential circle of business people generally, as not only a successful farmer, but an enthusiastic believer in the opportunities and possibilities of this calling. He think* there is no limit to the pleasures?physical. Intellectual and spiritual?that lie within the reach of the farmer, and he glories in the fact. As was naturally to be expected, the editor engaged tills fanner in conversation. touching certain questions of interest to both. Here are some of the assertions made bv lids farmer during the conversation: " Yes. I've made money, and I am making it now. I don't see how a farmer can help making money, if he will use his head as well as his hands. It is the most independent life a man can live. You don't have to worry about a living at all, it is more a question r how much profit you can make over living. Young men see this the fin i thing after they leave the farm and g ' to town. Immediately it becomes ' question of living, something that ha not troubled them previously, and be fore long, they are not so much con cerned as to how much profit they ma be able to make over a living, as t how much debt they will have at th ' end of the month after they have mad I their wages go as far as they couh < Independence! Why can't the farnru get up on his own dung hill and cro' I as long as he wants to, with nobody t make him get down, and who else ca I do it, won't you tell me? A man need pure air and physical exercise to kee i him healthy. The farmer has plent 1 of it. He also needs g?'od. pure foot The farmer can have anything ii ' wants. He must have intelleetu* i employment, if he would be happ; Where is there a better field for intel lectual employment than in the con stant study of nature, especially in it relation to the growth and developmer of plants? Of course, everybody can see this. Everybody is not fit to be farmer, and it would not do for all t be farmers; but as for me, give me th farm every time." And is there not a lot of wisdom i all this, and is it not a pity that mor people cannot see it the same way But sometime the thing will chang< The doctrine of this farmer will finall win. and the men of the best brain an intellect will devote themselves to th restoration of that higher agriculture civilization that used to be character istic of the south. We mean the ol days when the wealth, culture, luxurj comfort, refinement and hospitality ei America were to be found on the south ern farms. There is a good deal of thi here yet; but it is going to grow, am the time is coming, when the industri ous, broad minded, energetic farme will be the man who will be generall; envied by all his fellows. A.momg the newspapers in Souti Carolina that often exhibit intelligenc and information in regard to publi questions is The Yorkville Enqulrei and one despairs lest some impenetra ble gloom has settled upon it, when i affirms that "Under the present organ ization of the Federal government, tha government can not levy a oireci ta: of any kind on the citizens of th< state." That is precisely what, unde the Federal constitution, the govern ment can do; that is what the consti tution declares in so many words. But under the constitution, as it is nov written, such a tax would necessaril; be apportioned according to the popu Iation of the several states, so tha South Carolina citizens would be com pelled to pay into the national treas ury about one-half as much as Mas sachusetts. were an income tax law t< be enacted, though Massachusetts hai about nineteen times the wealth o South Carolina. The adoption of tn< pending amendment would take fron congress the existing power to oppres; one state at the expense of another The statement of The Enquirer "tha the Federal government must deriv< its revenues altogether from indirec taxes," would be absurd were it no pathetic.?Columbia State. Knowing as we do, the habit of th< Columbia State to strike with a bludg eon, whenever it thinks it sees an op. portunity to strike at all, had that paper been in mind when we used the expression referred to, we would perhaps have been a little more explicit wit! reference to the point we were seeking to make. In section 9 of the constitution of the United States, we find this provision: "No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census enumeratioi hereafter directed to be taken." With this provision before us. and the verj explanation the State seeks to make ir mind, we used the expression, "undei the present organization of the Federal government." etc. We really do nol think we have anything to take back Any child should be able to see the impracticability of levying direct taxes ir proportion to population. Of course South Carolina would not stand foi paying half as much taxes as anothei state nineteen times as wealthy, and congress in its right mind, would nol think of requiring such a thing. It may and does gouge South Carolina out ol proportion to Massachusetts in the matter of Indirect taxes; but how, and why this Is, is not difficult to explain It is a fact, however, that a greal many able and learned men in America think that this one thins was the real cause of a terrible war that took place in this country once. As to the absurdity of the idea that the Federal government "must" derive its revenues from indirect taxes, we think the fact that it does st) is a pretty good sign of "must." However, it never has been our intention to quarrel about this matter with the State, or anybody else. We merely sought to show how the income tax, if authorized by Federal constitution. will eventually settle down on the poor as well as the rich. We had in mind the fact that since the state government is already plucking its geese for all they seem able to stand, when the Federal government begins, UIIUl-l I Iic |i!Wj/uoru ??v? uu?iiw.iS, the same thing, it will not be a great while until the two "sovereignties" begin to quarrel, lest the one take so much that there will be nothing left for the other, and as has always been the case in the past, the weaker will have to yield to the stronger. In the meantime, if congress ever attempts to exercise its "existing power to oppress one state at the expense of another," bv levying direct taxes in proportion to population, we hope the State will please tell us about it. ? As the time for the appearance of Halley's comet draws nearer, popular interest intensities. An article by Francis Buzzell in the April number of Popular Mechanics tells a great many interesting facts about the comet, just how to find it. and what scientists are hoping and fearing concerning Its visit. Illustration and diagrams further elucidate the article. Mr. Buzzell states: "It has already been mentioned that the closest the comet will come to the earth on this visit in about ]4,<540t00n miles. (?n its last visit in IS3a it approached as close as a.OOn.OOO, hut at that time the earth was not in direct line with it and the sun. consequently its tail was not streaming toward us. Astronomers hope that this visit of the comet will enable them to determine absolutely the size of the nucleus and Its composition. Comets are composed of three parts; the nucleus, the head, and the tail. The nucleus is the center of the head, and it is known that the head is of tin- same composition as the tail, only denser. When comets pass between the earth and stars it is possible to see the stars through both the tail and the head, which is one proof that both are transparent, hut it has never happened that the nucleus of a comet has been in such position between the earth and a star that the astronomers could tell whether or not the star would show through the nucleus lis well as through the head." ?f LOCAL AFFAJRS, a ?t ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. a A. D. Dorsett?Will buy a plug horst . and wants him right away. C. E. MeGuekln, Sharon?Wants in formation as to whereabouts of t i- large red horse that strayed awaj y Sunday afternoon. Ladles of Presbyterian Church?Invlt* ? you to the "Spring Market" at th< e court house tomorrow morning. be< le ginning at ten o'clock. , Yorkville Building and Loan Associa tion?Is conducted especially foi >r home builders and will help you t' w build a home for yourself. ;0 Sam M. Grist?Is prepared to insun your mules and horses at $6 pel n r i lid InQiirarino nor vpnr in 11 firu Is class company. p J. L. Williams & Co.?Are showlnj their second shipment of men'i shirts at 50c to $1, and want you t( see their Panama and straw hats. ie Herndon & Gordon?Give the flna ,1 chapter of their catechism on to bacco and want you to see then *' when you want chewing or smokinf 1- tobacco, cigars, etc. i- J. M. Brian Co.?Has fresh mackerel s barrel pickles, canned tomatoes pure apple vinegar, garden seeds 11 etc. 't Yorkville Hardware Co.?Offers a fev a disc harrows at bargain prices ir order to close them out quick. Th? ? Lynchburg turn plow lasts longer p Kirknatrick-Belk Co.?Extend a cor dial invitation to attend their sprinj n millinery opening on Tuesday evening. Wednesday and Thursday. Lots e of other goods for you. See pag? > .i mice. National Union Bank, Rock Hill? Emphasizes the importance of savJ ing a part of your earnings. II d wants you to save and wants yout e account so that it can help you tc ,] save. Carroll Furniture Co.?Is showing e big line of go-carts at from $1.2E d and up and wants you to see them r, quick. f Thomson Co.?Announces its spring millinery opening for Tuesdaj evening, and Wednesday and invites s everybody to come. Other goods (I are told about in detail on page four J. Q. Wray?Calls especial attention to his new spring line of Superb r clothing for men and also to the y made-to-measure clothes of the Royal Tailors. First National Bank. Sharon?Explains the benefits that you receive and the good you do when you beh come one of its depositors. It e wants you. c . The farmers have been at it good * and hard this week, after their long j wait for settled weather, and thouk sands and thousands of acres of York e county land have been torn up during r the week. People who have things that they :, want to sell, can do no better than to k' let ^ther people who might want to buy, knov about it, and the best possit ble way to do this, in this section, is to - insert an advertisement in The Enquirer. 3 The warm weather has swelled the s buds on the fruit trees, and vhile, of ' course, it is a guess as to how the mat1 ter will turn out, a great many people s are expressing alarm as to whether ' there will be any fruit. There is noth* ing definite or satisfactory to be said t on the subject yet. t The Columbia Record of last Wednesday reached Yorkville on the day ? of publication. So far as information " is at hand, this is the first time that an afternoon paper from Columbia has ever succeeded in doing this. If the Record can make this arrangement a regular thing, it will materially in1 crease the number of its subscribers ' up this way. The Enquirer's club contest closes tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock. The sewing machines we are to give the clubmakers returning the two largest clubs in each township have arrived, ' and are in the depot at Yorkville. The r organ is at the store of R. B. Davidson ' Co., and the buggy will be ordered out from the Rock Hill Buggy company, whenever the party who shall be enti: tied to it shall desire. The business of" flee has had its hands full during the past two weeks settling with clubmak1 ers; but has no complaint as to the ' freedom with which subscriptions have been coming in. Because they habitually read every' thing in the paper, a great many people ' will read Rev. J. L. Oates's sermon on [ the "Bible as Literature," as a matter of course, and others will pass it by, ' because they are never interested in anything that is in the nature of a ser' mon. But those who read the sermon ' voluntarily, will find themselves amply I rewarded in more ways than one, and ; many of those who pass it by. will be , the unconscious losers of pleasures of which they seldom dream. The ser! mon is truly a magnificent one from whatever standpoint, religious, theologI ical or merely literary, and it it well | worth the while of all who are the , lovers of the highest excellence in whatever field. YORK MEDICAL SOCIETY. The State Medical society holds its iinnimi moptini" in Tjiiirens on Anril 19-21, and the Laurens people are making arrangements to show the doctors as much attention as possible. The Laurens Herald of Wednesday con1 tains a list of the 250 or more members of the society from which we take the York county names as follows: W. M. Love, McConnellsville; J. W. Campbell, I. J. Campbell, E. W. Pressley, M. B. Neil, T. N. Dulin, Clover; J. H. Sayc, C. O. Burress, Sharon; B. N. Miller, Smyrna; W. A. Hood, C. C. Leech, Hickory Grove; T. A. Crawford, J. R. Miller, I. A. Bigger, W. W. Fennell, W. G. Stevens, W. B. Younge, J. E. Massey, Jr., Rock Hill; M. J. Walker, J. D. McDowell. W. G. White, | T. B. Kell, R. A. Bratton. J. I. Barron, Yorkville. This list is evidently a year or more old, as there have been several changes in it since it was made up. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. R. A. C. Moorman of Columbia, is the guest of Mr. Clark Adlckes in Yorkville. Mrs. R. K. Heath and children, are visiting relatives and friends in Monroe and Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Ernest H. Lowry of Monroe. N. C.. visited liis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Lowry. this week. Miss Kittie Hlair has closed her school at Filbert, and is visiting relatives and friends in Yorkville. Misses Kate Cody and Hessle Sandifer of the Thomson company, spent several days at Gastonia this week. J. K. McDonald. Esq., of the Winnsboro bar, has been in Yorkville several days this week on professional business. Mrs. Albert E. Hill of Spartanburg, spent several days this week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Sehorb in Yorkville. Miss Leon White returned home yesterday. after a visit of several weeks to relatives and friends in Columbia and Winnsboro. Mr. H. H. Laws, of the railway postal service, has moved to Yorkville from Rock Hill, and will occupy Miss Mary O'Farrell's house on King's Mountain street. Rock Hill Record: Messrs. Roy an Nell Williamson, sons of Mr. J. I Williamson of this city, have opened grocery store on Railroad avenue, nej 1 door to the southern Express office, i one of the stores formerly occupied h i C. Heeden & Co., under the (irm nam ' of the Williamson Grocery Co. M Roy Williamson, who will have charg j of the store, was for a number of yeai connected with the Yorkvllle Hankin and Mercantile company, and is we p experienced in his line. ) NEW COTTON TARE ACT. Anion* the more Important acl t passed by the general assembly at ii recent session, is the one making it ur I lawful "to deduct any sum for baggin j and ties from the weight or price of bale of cotton in excess of six per cer 1 of the gross weight of such bale of col | ton." The full text of the new act t as follows: "Section 1. That from and aftbr tl . approval of this act it shall be unlaw . ful for any person, firm or corporatin , engaged in the business of buying col ton in this state, as principal or agen f to deduct any sum for bagging an?l tl? > from the weight or price of any bale < i cotton, when the weight of the baggln and ties does not exceed six per cer of the gross weight of such hale of col ' ton. In the event that the weight c the bagging and ties exceed six pf ' cent of the gross weight of such ba] 5 of cotton, only the excess over the sai six per cent may be deducted. "Sec. 2. For each and every viola tlon of this act the offender shall b t guilty of a misdemeanor and sha ' be fined in the sum of not less than flv ' dollars, nor more than twenty-five do| lars, or imprisoned not less than te \ days nor more than thirty davs: Pre > vided, This act shall not apply to whs > is known in the trade as round bale: and bales of cotton which weigh le.^ > than three hundred pounds." | WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The painters are working on th 1 J. M. Stroup block, including the Loa | and Savings bank, the York Suppl i Co., and J. Q. Wray's. The appearanc of this property is oeing very muc | improved. ? The millinery openings are bein announced for March 22, 23 and 2' The Kirkpatrick-Belk company are t take three days and the Thomson com [ pany two days. Both of these com panies are making unusual efforts t make record-breaking displays and th showings will be something wort while. There has been an increasin number of ladles from the country a the millinery openings during the pa* few seasons, and there will be rathe more attractions this year than usual. ? The ladles of the First Presbyteria: church are promising quite an exten sive stock of attractive offerings a their proposed "Spring Market" in th eonrt hnnsp tomorrow. Two of trier who called at The Enquirer office t see about having- an advertisement In serted, told about a number of nic things that they would have on salt and did not even hesitate to declar that they would offer among othe things, a quantity of butter, an artlcl that has been so scarce on the loca market for some time past, that som people have almost forgotten what 1 looks like. But of course, butter wil be only an insignificant incident to tb many attractive commodities that ar to be offered, and equally of course, th town and community will do well to bi out bright and early to take advantage of all the nice opportunities of the oc caslon. THE YORK COTTON MILL. As the public has noted from thi Official publication in The Enquirer, i is the purpose of the York Cotton Mill company to increase its capital stocl from $150,000 to $300,000, provided thi stockholders at a meeting to be held oi April 20, for the purpo.se of consider' ing the matter, express their willingness. The purpose of this step as explained in the published notice, is to retin the outstanding bonded indebtedness o: the company, and purchase new anc additional machinery that will ensun a greater variety and greater volutin of the output. While no one who is authorized tc speak for the mill has volunteered anj information, we desire to take the liberty of making a few remarks, whict are based on what we believe to be a correct comprehension of the situation and which, we think may be of more or less value to the public. As is pretty generally understood, tin York Cotton Mills has had its ups anc downs, and its misfortunes. It is nol necessary to go into these at this time On the contrary, it is sufficient to sa> that its management for a number ol years past has been most creditable and efficient, as well as highly success ful. During two or three years of the present management when business conditions were fairly good, the operations showed a profit which was sufficient to materially reduce the past accumulated indebtedness, and was used for that purpose. Although it has been able to make but little profit during the past three years of depression in the yarn market, it is a fact that it has done much better than many other mills that are engaged on the same line of products. Although the present capital stock of the York Cotton Mills is $150,000, it Is pretty generally conceded by all who know anything about the matter, that the actual value of the property is closer to $200,000, and one of the most serious drawbacks for some time past, has been the fact that a considerable proportion of this capital has been unproductive, solely for the need of the expenditure of a comparatively small sum to make it profitably available. As to exactly what the management proposes to do with the additional capital, beyond what is stated in the published notice, we have not been advised; but understand that one idea that is being considered is the putting in of a number of looms so us to put the plant In a position to catch the manufactured goods market, both coming and going. It frequently happens that when yarn is up cloth is down and vice versa. Well managed mills that are able to both spin and weave, are less subject to trade fluctuations than are those mills that devote themselves entirely to a single product. Of the ability of the stockholders of the York mills to carry out their proposed increase of capital stock along the line indicated, there need be no question. It is quite possible that some of the stock will be offered to the public, if the public wants to buy, but whether outside capital goes into the enterprise or not, the proposed undertaking will be accomplished without difficulty. That may safely be taken as having been settled before the issuiinPn of the notice. With the capital of tin* York Cotton Mills doubled, and the contemplated changes perfected, it is safe to say that this well-established industrial enterprise will begin to cut a new figure in the life of the community for which it has already done so much. <1 CENSUS PROCLAMATION. t L?. The Enquirer has received from ' a the department of Commerce and 1 ct Labor the following census procla- ? n mation. released for publication i y March 15. 1910: t ip By the President of the United States t r of America. y rp Whereas by the Act of Congress j ' approved July 2, 1909, the Thirteenth s Decennial Census of the United ' g States Is to be taken, beginning on the i II fifteenth day of April, nineteen hun dred and ten: and Whereas a correct enumeration of * the population every ten years is re- f quired by the Constitution of the i ts United States for the purpose of de- i termlning the representation of the ' ts several States in the House of Rep- 1 i- resentatlvos; and g Whereas It is of the utmost importance to the Interests of all the peo' pie of the United States that this it census should be a complete and act curate report of the population and l4 resources of the country: Now. therefore. I, William Howard Taft. President of the United States ie of America, do hereby declare and make known, that, under the act n aforesaid. It is the duty of every pert son to answer all questions on the t, census schedules applying to him and 'S the family to which he belongs, and if to the farm occupied by him or his g family, and that any adult refusing it to do so is subject to penalty, t- The sole purpose of the census is if to secure general statistical Informa?r tlon regarding the population and rele sources of the country, and replies d are required from individuals only in order to permit the compilation of i- such general statistics. The census ?e has nothing to do with taxation, with 11 army or jury service, with the come pulsion of school attendance, with I- the regulation of immigration, or n with the enforcement of any national - state, or local law or ordinance, nor it can any person be harmed in any s, way by furnishing the information is required. There need be no fear that any disclosure will be made regarding any individual person or his affairs. For the due protection of the rights and interests of the persons ie furnishing information every emn nloyee of the Census Bureau Is prov hibited. under heavy penalty, from disclosing any information which ;e may thus come to his knowledge, h I therefore earnestly urge upon all persons to answer promptly, completely, and accurately all Inquiries ^ addressed to them by the enumera1 tors or other employees of the Census o Bureau, and thereby to contribute their share toward making this great r and necessary public undertaking a j * success. j n In Witness Whereof. I have here- j e unto set rm* hand and caused the seal j . of the United States to be affixed. , n Done at the city of Washington, t S this fifteenth day of March, A. D. one s t thousand nine hundred and ten. and ^ lt of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred s r and thirty-fourth. i Wm. H. Taft. ^ n Py the President: e P. C. Knox. g Secretary' of State. ? I c e LOCAL LACONICS. ? II Murder and Suicide Near Marion. 0 There was a horrible tragedy a few e miles south of Marion, N. C., yester- 1 ' day. Conductor Graham of the South' em, left the news here as he was pass* ing through Yorkville last night. A r man named Charles Morris, shot and C killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Bird and his 2-year-old child. It apf t pears that Morris and his wife, who J 1 had been married only about three t years, had not been getting along so s well of late. They had separated, but v B had been living together during the ? ? past few weeks. Wednesday evening tl Mr.-*. Morris expressed a desire to n spend the night with her mother, who was sick and who lived about a mile a away. Morris objected. Finally he n agreed that Mrs. Morris might go; but e wanted her to leave the child at home. " t She persuaded him out of this, how- si s ever, and went on to her mother's, si , Morris went over to Mrs. Bird's yes{ a a terday morning, and as soon as he saw t] , his wife, knocked her down and fired g several shots at her. Leaving her as P Oi he thought dead, he went into a room and fired several shots into the body tl of his mother-in-law, killing her in- f< ; stantiy, and next taking up his child, f laid it on the Moor and Mred several j shots through Its body. After that the y > frenzied man started for home. About tj ? half way he met two men in a buggy. ' He told them that all of his property t; 4 belonged to his uncle, and Mred a shot n In his own heart He died in a short ^ " ' g time. Mrs. Morris was not Injured, j except by the blow by which she was ci knocked down, as none of the shots b fired at her took effect. Capt. Tom Cureton Dead. tl Rock Hill Record: News was re- ^ ceived here yesterday announcing the j|j death, in Winnsboro, of Capt. Tom v Cureton of that city. His death marks P' the passing of one of nature's noble- * men. an old-time gentleman, and came js as a shock to his friends here. Capt. b Cureton had many friends in this city, ^ who sincerely mourn his loss. Messrs. T. L. Johnston, Peter Ihrle and T. A. ai Crawford, Jr., went to Winnsboro yes- tl terday afternoon. The funeral was d< held today. Capt. Cureton was a vie- 0j tim of heart failure. He had been in- nl disposed for several days, but there OI sc was nothing in his condition to be ^ taken as serious, and his death came tl as a distinct surprise. Capt. Cureton sj was a native of North Carolina, having been born in Union county, near Waxhaw, about 71 years ago. His hi grandfather owned the property where s' Andrew Jackson was born. When the war broke out in 1861, Capt. Cureton 01 enlisted In the Twenty-sixth North tu i Carolina regiment, and before the close ?f of the war he was made captain of J^e company H, succeeding Capt. William tu Wilson, who was killed at Gettysburg, He remained in command of this company until the surrender at Appomat- er tox, from whence he went to Charlotte, pi N. C., where he lived for several years. m He then moved to Fort Mill, where, Sj. with Capt. J. W. Ardrey, he was en- w gaged in a successful mercantile busi- ?r ness for a number of years. Having . eci sold out his interest in the mercantile or business Capt. Cureton moved back to ro Charlotte, where he again made his home for some time. His next move was to Wlnnsboro, where he had been a fu prominent cotton merchant for seven- tu teen years. Capt. Cureton is survived . by his wife, who was a Miss Wallace, j'p and two daughters, Mrs. J. M. Mayo loj (?f Philadelphia, Pa., and Miss Klizabeth Cureton of Winnsborn. ?????- ha MERE-MENTION. (}t Jamestown, N. Y., was visited by a no million dollar lire early Monday morn- Is ing. The origin of the Monday fire was l'r; smoldering coals from a fire on Sat- sa, urday night. One man was killed and ,\1 four were seriously burned Swin- sei dlers, disguised as farmers, sold lots of 'l oleomargarine to Louisville, Ky., house keepers last week as "pure creamery butter."... .A supreme court justice of t|c New Jersey has issued an order to the nif National Packing company (the beef s'11 trust) to produce its books in the Hud- ^ son county court for examination by j)r, the grand Jury, in the light of Prose- coi cutor flarven to put the heads of the trust in jail, whom he holds responsi- (jjs ble for the high prices of meats hei Inspectors of the agricultural depart- tn< ment of Georgia have condemned and ce}J forbidden the sale in that state of lif- in oen cars of western corn this year.... Fhe Russian government is alleged to jp pushing with all possible speed the louble tracking of the Siberian rnil oad and rushing soldiers to points on he Manchurian frontier At Miner City, Miss., Monday, a negro was 'hot to death by a mob. The negro tad murdered a deputy sheriff.... Rev. V. P. Doyle, a Catholic priest of Washngton, says that the divorce evil is 'America's national nightmare." Fohn Conrod. 32 years old. shot his ilster-in-law, Mrs. Magdalene Conrod, i widow, to death, at Ruffalo, N. Y., Monday, and then committed suicide, tfe wanted to marry her and was jeal>us i f the attention received by the vidow from other men The petiion to President Taft, which Is being circulated throughout the United States j isking for a pardon for Chas. W. v Vlorse, the convicted New York banker, is said to already contain 350,000 f lames Frank Schleiman. was i electrocuted at Sing Sing prison Mon- 1 electtrocuted at Sing Sing prison Mon- j lay, for the murder of a woman in t Brooklyn. N. Y., In July last Mr. j Roosevelt and his party arrived at J Khartoum, Egypt, Monday and was t jlven an ovation. Mrs. Roosevelt and i laughter, Miss Ethel, met the party ot I Khartoum The great campaign * igainst the saloons of Chicago, will a eome to an end on April f>. Both sides \ ire putting forth strenuous efforts to * rain the election As a result of f he split in the Republican party of 1 Vew York, it is not improbable that ? governor Hughes will be renominated ? 'or a third term A Pittsburg. Pa., i lispatch tells of negotiations by the 1 United States Steel corporation for the * lurchase of $28,000,000 worth of coal ' ands In the vicinity of Pittsburg Delegates representing 600,000 miners * 'rom every mining state, are in session ( n Cincinnati, O., to consider a threat- f >ned strike By the overturning of an '' LUtomobile near Unadilla, Ga., Mon- t lay, three ladles were injured, one pro- f irobably fatally The Louisville and 1 Nashville Railroad company in the ^ federal court at Louisville, Ky.. Wed- r lesday, plead guilty to charges of re- t nnH n Hno nf tlA OHfl tuna lm. * >osed Wreckage of the steamer 3rins Willem II., missing since January !1, with fifty-one persons aboard, vas washed ashore on Belle Isle, off he French coast, Wednesday In i collision of express trains on the New fork Central railroad at Rochester, N. f? Wednesday, one man was killed and lix hurt The annual report of the Jnited States Steel corporation, issued iVednesday, shows that the company 'mploys 195,500 men. The capital agrregates $508,302,501, and the surplus 151,354,000 for 1909. For dividends on :ommon stock, the sum of $53,305,573 s set aside A $100,000 fire at Camlen. N. J., Wednesday, caused by an u xplosion of gasoline, seriously injur- c d three firemen and destroyed twenty- f hree automobiles. e ? , o HOUSE IN A TURMOIL- \ 1 Continued Dominance of Speaker Can- ^ non at Stake. ^ Washington, March 18.?At 2 o'clock v he house by a vote of 134 to t 35 defeated for the third time a moion to recess until 11.15 a. m. The a tubborn filibuster of the "regulars" ^ vas resumed, against consideration f the resolution of Representative r lorris providing for the reorganlza- ^ Ion of the committee on rules elimi- j( ating the speaker. 8. The moment the vote was announc- t| d and the obstinate test of endur- ^ nee began again, the Democrats re- v ewed their cries of "Rule!" "Rule!" u Mr. Smith, Republican (la.), a e lember of the committee on rules, (j jok ud the drearv debate. This was ? oon after 2 a. m. with no end in Ight. i It was generally understood at 2.30 c . m., that the "regulars" had broken w tie quorum deliberately and were a one for the night. At that hour the t| rospect was that nothing further ould be done before morning. The foregoing describes the situa- F Ion at 2 o'clock this morning, and the b allowing dispatch of Zach McGhee to t lie Columbia State last night tells s ,'hat it is all about: ? The most dramatic situation in many w ears confronts the house of represen- P itives tonight, and one of the most a nportant. Old men who have watch- a d congress from this gallery for twen- ti y years or more say that they have F ever seen anything like it. Uncle Joe tl annon's power over the house is at fi take. A point of order is pending, b 'he speaker will not rule on it be- P ause the moment he does there will fl e an appeal, and he can not get a s< lajority. , o The Democrats and insurgents have o: iree times outvoted the Republican w lachine yesterday and today, and the b peaker is unwilling to risk it this A me, because the proposition is to re- tf ise the rules. All members of both w artles out of town who can get here ir ithin twelve hours have been tel- hi jraphed for, and every available man it i on the job. Meantime speeches are hi eing made, the most unique, uncon- ti entional and personal ever heard here ai i recent times. e: Great excitement prevails at timee, m id members crowd the aisles and it le space in front of the speaker's 8( ssk. c< Applause frequently takes the form of loud cheers. Speaker Cannon to- \v Ight has left his desk and gone down ni i the floor, where, in the most per- w >nal way, he takes a part in the deate. Vice President Sherman is on le floor, apparently advising with the fll leaker and his whips. w It all came about by a surprise. ^ he speaker for once seems to have ?en off his guard. After the house ad voted against the speaker's deci- w on as to a census bill being in order, r. Xorris, insurgent Republican om Nebraska, demanded recognition ^ l a question of the "highest constiitional privilege." At first the speak- c refused to enter into this, but Mr. p" orris kept shouting and demanding cognition till the speaker finally irned to him and sarcastically said: Y( .Ve will hear what the gentleman's ghest constitutional privilege is." To the consternation of the speak- f , Mr. Xorris proposed to abolish the esent rules committee, which is the achine's bulwark. _?. Having recognized Mr. Xorris. the teaker could do nothing but rule on jj? hether or not the questions were in . der. D* Xot being ready the speaker allowI debate, and debate has been going t.* i ever since, interrupted twice by II calls on motions to adjourn. At .30 the speaker, still not ready, begd for time. He asked the house to a" journ till tomorrow. The house resed to do this, registering a third ? rn down of the speaker today. p Upon the failure of the motion to journ the machine side made a mo- jV* in to take a recess. This too, was st, the Democrats and insurgents , en shouted from all sides, "Rule!" fP1 tuie!" Jj The speaker smilingly kissed his *n nd at his enemies and recognized 11. Keifer of Ohio to kill more time. * The speaker is up a tree and can sl(' t afford to rule as long as the house cal against him. At 11.30 there is no ')n aspect of an end tonight. The Democrats are having little to j5?' f, but they vote solidly every time. * I told, it is a high old Republican ap and the Democrats are enjoying f ? Intensely. J Ize 1 " 1 an< -Aiken. March 15: Mrs. Kirk, the al- a r :ed leper of Aiken, gave formal no- nal e through her representatives last the rht at the city council meeting, tnat poi e would accept their proposition and tloi ?ve nut of the city into the country, tivi e city council agrees to buy her ant perty, build her a house in the to anty and to pay her a weekly ion pend. She is to be allowed servants, ing 10 can come into the town on proper lev infection. It will also be allowed of r to receive visitors, if they observe anc same precaution. All that remains offt be done now is to draw up the ne- be isary papers and prepare the place $30 the country. fer SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Senator Tillman arrived at his lomo at Trenton on Wednesday, havng left Washington on Tuesday. ? Governor Ansel on Wednesday afernoon granted a full pardon to Mrs. Dannie Carson, who has served fifteen rears of a life-sentence for the murler of her husband, Van Carson, in Spartanburg county. ? Gaffney, March lf>: W. H. Bright, vho was shot by his son Travis Bright n this city yesterday morning, died at he office of Dr. Plttman in this city ast night at 11 o'clock. Mr. Bright lever roused from the shock of the peration. A statement was made by lim just before his death to the clerk >f court, but this has not yet been nade public and its contents are not cnown. The coroner's inquest was leld today and the following verdict vas returned: That the deceased came o his death by a gunshot wound inlicted by his son, Travis Bright. It s said young Bright shot his father lecause he was ill-treating his mother. ? Lancaster, March 15: Court of gen>ral sessions convened yesterday mornng. Judge J. W. Devore of Edgefield, iresiding. Judge Devore delivered a ipienrud cnarge to tho grand Jury, layng great stress on the enforcement of he vagrancy law, claiming that a maority of crimes committed In this state vere committed by worthless vaga>onds, who had nothing to do but ravel up and down the roads and loaf n towns, with no visible means of support, bent upon devilment, and that if he grand Juries would enforce the vacancy laws of South Carolina, which ire as good as those of any state, there vould be fewer crimes, more respect 'or law and order, and that everv comnunity would be better off. There is luite a heavy criminal docket, Includng four murder cases, three cases for issault and battery with intent to kill, ind two rane cases, besides a number >f minor criminal cases. Judge Devore "is made quite a favorable Impression, lis decisions being fair and impartial lased on a thorough knowledge of the aw. ? Columbia, March 16: On receipt of i letter from Internal Revenue Comnl?sioner Cabell, Internal Revenue Collector Mlcah J. Jenkins today issued i signed statement that, after March 11, he will make up a li?t of tho?e concerns in the state required by the naure of their business to make returns or the new Federal corporation Income ax and those who have failed to make eturns, and turn this list over to the llstrlct attorney for prosecution, the lenaltv In each case being from 11.000 o $10,000. Whether the delinquents ire liable to the tax or not, the time 'or making returns exnired March 1. >ut the collector has authority to grant 'xtensions for thirtv days for good cause, and he advises all who have so 'ar failed to get In their returns to vrite him at once and state their reaons. After March SI, he has no anhorit" to make anv concessions, and le will report all cases to th<? district ittornev. whereupon the government vill send a man along to make the reurns and prepare for the prosecutions. ? Columbia, March 17: The quesion as to whether a circuit judge nay charge a Jury in a criminal case hat it is unsafe to convict upon the incorroborated testimonv of an no. ompllce which became acute In the 'arnum graft case, is especially passd upon In a Kershaw case of robbery n which a decision was handed down oday. The Kershaw case Is that of fohn Sowell, Will Gardner and Mack 'ruesdell. The principal witness was imos Clark, who turned state's evllence, but whose testimony was unorroborated. The suoreme court reerses the lower court, which found he defendants guilty, because the tesImony showed the robbery took place t night time, whereas they were inicted for a robbery in the day time, 'he supreme court finds that the cirult judge erred in allowing the inIctment to be amended. The opin>n says that the circuit judges of the tate for over 40 years, since the adoplon of the constitution of 1868, have een making the mistake "almost inariably" of charging juries that It is nsafe to convict upon the unsupportd testimony of an accomplice. In *ie Farnum case Judge Memminger o charged the jury, but the verdict 'as an acquittal which cut off appeal, 'he opinion says It is Improper for a Ircult judge to comment on the reight to be given to the evidence of n accomplice; that is a question for tie jury. ? Greenville News: Monday Mr. B. '. Taylor, vice president of the cot urm* OCCU UU lliail O llUltWIiai ' ' I ^ tl II I'dift " Ion, delivered a lecture at the UniverIty of South Carolina on the subject f cotton seed products. The lecture 'as illustrated with scores of the sarnies of ihe by-products, from soan to n emulsion to be taken by Invalids, nd from absorbent cotton for wounds j gun cotton and other explosive. Tobablv the most interesting part of tie exhibit was that of bread made rom cotton seed flour. Cotton seed read, it is said, has the outward apearance of bread made of graham our and "eats mightv good." The Asr?ciated Press exnlalns that the cost f the cotton seed flour is said to be nlv 50 to 75 ner c^nt that of cereals, hile its nutritive value is declared to e from five to seven times as great, nalysls shows that cotton seed contins 37.7 per cent more protein than heat flour. Mr. Taylor explained that l the bread and cake the product of read is obtained while the protein in teats, that for which meat is eaten, is ad, so that this bread and cake has le nutritive value of ordinary bread nd meats combined. The bread, it is tplained, can be made either from ure cotton seed flour In which case is very nalatable, but dense or from ) per cent cotton seed flour and 20 per ?nt wheat flour in which case it b?imes lighter and resembles more the heaten bread. The flr?t of the new roduet to reach Greenville is awaited ith interest. ? Abbeville, March 17: Three ne o boys perished this morning in a re, evidently of incendiary origin, hlch totally destroyed the main lilding of Harbeson college. The e began about three o'clock. About I of the boys slept in this building, ost of them escaped by jumping om the second story windows, but ree were burned to death before ey could make their escape. They ere: Carl Duckett of Charlotte, X. , Sam Jenkins of Carlisle, and Ed uBose of Lamar. Five others were riously injured. Three have broken m<a finri twn hrnlo^n Ipcu 5ung of the college says the building is falling in before any one got to it knew of the fire. All say that the mes of kerosene were all about, le home of Fresident Young also is set on fire, the back door and jps being considerably charred. Kerene had been thrown all over the >or and steps. This fire was put out ' the boys after they escaped from e other fire. Drs. Gambrell and ?uffer were 'phoned for while the e was going on and were the first tite people to the scene. Crowds of ople have been out to see the ruins d all condemn the deed in the rongest terms. Harbeson college is school for negroes, controlled and anced by white people of Pittsburg i. Some years ago there was trou; here with a former presidfnt of e school, but since Young has been re everything has been working loothly. The tire of this morning is i worst thing that has happened in Is community in years and every ei t is being made to apprehend the ilty parties. Insurance Commisner McMaster has been communi;ed with by telephone and has >mised to send his deputy here at re. At a mass meeting of 150 citlis, resolutions expressing syrnpar for the college authorities and idemning the burning of the build: were passed. The meeting also merly offered the assistance of citns in apprehending the fire fiend, 1 requested that city council offer eward for the capture of the crimiThe resolution concluded with direction that the chairman apnt a committee to solicit subscripas for the employment of a detec? to track down the perpetrator. 1 for the employment of a guard nrntopi the* rt?m,ninlnp hllflriinirs S as may be necessary. The meetwas presided over by W. W. Brad. who appointed on the committee three, J. Hayne McDill, F. B. Gary I Sheriff Lyon. City council has red a reward of $100, which will raised by private subscription to 0. Gov. Ansel will be asked to ofa $1,000 reward.