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Scraps and ^acts. ? The Lrfike Como, Italy, murdf mystery. In which Mrs. Mary Scol Castle Charlton an American womai was the victim, was solved in NV York yesterday, by the arrest of Por ter Charlton, the woman's husl>an< He was arested as he landed from steamer at Hoboken, by Capt. Henr Harrison Scott, U. S. A., a brother c the murdered woman and made a fu confession of his crime. He killed hi wife with a mallet during a quarre put the body in a trunk and sunk in the lake. ? The mammoth task of recordin the thirteenth decennial census of th United States has progressed to sue a point that within a few days th census bureau will begin to make put lie the population of the larger citit of the country. The figures of th cities containing 75.000 or more pec pie will be given out first. They wl be followed later in the summer b the population of states by counttc which also will include the cities c 8,000 or more persons. The returr of about 47,000 enumerators hav been received by the bureau and it I expected the remainder of the 70.00 repoits will be In by July 1. ? Edinburgh. Scotland, June 22 Universal peace was predicted by Wll liam Jennings Bryan, addressing th world's missionary conference hen and he offered to start the movemer in the United States. In supportln a resolution favoring international ai bitration of disputes, he said: "I ar willing to take this resolution to m country and bring it to the attentio of the authorities there as the opin ion of this representative assembly c different nationalities. The time wi come when nations will regard th waging of war as ridiculous. I spea with knowledge of Japan as well a of America when I state my convictio that there is no danger of war be tween the two nations. The war scar was raised to justify the building c more battleships." ? The conservation bill was passe by the senate on June 15. This bi authorizes the withdrawal of publi lands by the president. The mos important amendment inserted in th measure was the socalled "reclama tion bill," which had previously pass ed the senate separately and bee buried in the house by the committe on ways and means. The incorpora tion of that bill as an amendment t the conservation bill was with a viei to getting it before the more friendl committee on public lands. It au thorlzes the issuance of $30,000,000 i bonds for continuing the work of ir rlgating barren stretches in the wesi Among the more important provision rejected was an amendment withdraw ing from entry the coal lands of Alas ka, and another bringing the fria lands of the Philippines within th operation of the general laws of thos Islands. ? Washington, June 21: The bat tleship Idaho is to enjoy for a yea the coveted official honor of being th best hitter in the American navy. , comparison of the shooting perform ances of the battleships this yea was made public today at the navy de partment. The Idaho made a scor w'th her guns of 46.121. The Sout Carolina gets second place, with score of 42.585, and the Wisconsi third, with a score of 4 0.478. The bat tleships are competing for a trophj their rank depending not only upo the hits of the guns, but upon thel work with mines and torpedoes. Whll the target practice has been conclud ed by the battleships, only a few hav done the required mining. Of thes the Wisconsin stands at the head c those which have completed the com petition, with a score of 45.394, th Maryland second, with 37.587, and th West Virginia third, with 22.264. C the vessels competing for the cruise trophy for gunnery the Charlesto now leads, with a score of 21.075. I the competition for the gunboa trophy, the Mayflower stands at th head of the list of those that have fir ? ed, with a score of 46,612. Among th vessels competing for the torpedo boa trophy the Preble is the victor, wit a score of 90.928. One of her com petitors, the Rowan, is credited wit a score of only .055. ? El Paso, Tex., June 21: Fully 25 persons have been arrested in th Mexican border towns by governmer troops and the police, charged wit having arranged an uprising again: the Diaz government, which was s( for June 26. Arms are being foun in considerable quantities and a hous tn hnnsp cjparch is still eoine on. bot for weapons and persons suspected c treasonable designs against the go\ ernment. The persons who planne the revolt demand a "free press, fre speech and honest elections." The are followers of General Bernard Reyes, or of Senor Madero, the oppc sitlon candidates for the presidency When certain American border town sold out their entire stocks of fire arms the Mexican government force became active. It is believed that th measures taken have been so rigorou that the anticipated uprising on Jun 26. the Mexican election day. will n< materialize. Canea has been the cer ter of the movement and as such tw companies of soldiers and a force c gendarmes are on guard. The soldiei arc also making many arrests through out Sonora. the prisoners being charg ed with disturbing public meeting! The troops have orders to allow n assemblage of more than fifty pet sons. The chief of police of Cane has resigned and fled, as the measure of the authorities have placed his lif in danger. Twelve leaders have bee taken from Canea to a place of safet outside it and will be held there b the authorities until the elections ar over. ? In an address at Atlanta, Ga Sunday afternoon. ex-Governor Pol of Missouri, had the following to sa in regard to "'necessary evils": "Ther are no 'necesary evil3' in governmen It is the abuses of government aboc which ail good citizens have a right t complain. Those who have profite by the abuses are usually the loudes in the denunciation of those who poii: out abuses in public affairs. Whil the people are to blame where publi abuses exist, officials who wink at th violation of the law are nevertheles culpable. Good government depend more upon the man behind the lai than upon the law itself. The law 1 merely the weapon for officials to us* and without officials laws would be a useless as cannon in war withou men. When an official takes an oat to enforce a law. he has no right t violate the oath, and excuse the nor enforcement of certain laws simpl because they are, or seem to be, un popular. Sentiment may be again: the enforcement of some laws, hut a official does not take an oath to sup port public sentiment. lie does tak an oath to support the law and publi sentiment is a difficult thing to aseei tain. Law-abiding people are oule while the lawless are so vociferous a to deceive by their clamor the fact as to their number. The only correc way to determine public sentiment is to be guided by the expression of the people's will through the law-making ~ body. When a law is passed it must ,r be assumed it is what the people want, and it should be enforced until the people demand and secure its rei. peal. What may seem to be public iy sentiment is often the clamor of the lawless who have a selfish interest in violating the law." y 21'. r ilorluillr (fnquitrr. 11 I* Kntertd nt the Postottice In Vorkvlllc* is Mail Matter of ?he Second flass I. ?11 " ,y YORKVILLE, S. C.i ?s )f FRIDAY, JUNK 24, 1910. IS ls THERE should be no cheating, even q In baseball. >. The first airship bridal tour is yet to be reported. e ? Atlaxta'8 near-beer saloons turn out real drunks. g This is the season for the "Is-it-hotenough-for-you" fiend. y ' ' Yot' needn't worry about it?you will wish for rain again. if ' * ' II It is a wise farmer who is sowing ? his stubble fields in peas and crimson e i . clover. ' The worst criminal known is the official who works injustice under the name of the law. e _ if Trim your expenses to what you ^ considered necessities ten years ago, j and the "high cost of living" will be gone. c !t There were thirty prostrations from heat in New York Tuesday and three deaths. The sunny south is great. n e The pulling off of the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight at Reno, Nev., will not ? hurt the moral reputation of that town ' a particle. " The withdrawal of both Boyd and n Brock, indicates that both have more sense than the board of inquiry gave ' them credit for. s m A Frenchman has invented a suit for aeroplanists. The railroads have long r had suits in this country and some of e them are quite expensive. e t Fifty cents does sound high for a - spring chicken; but when fried by tne r queen of a York county farm, the bird e is easily worth the money. \ Prying size chickens at 50 cents r apiece are cheaper than trust priced beef at 25 cents a i>ound. It e is possible to eat the chicken. h ?, a How many of the candidates in the n political Marathon race, now galloping over the state, will buy four 1,000-mile f. mileage books for the Journey? n ' ir Another discovery that was brought e home to the editors at Glenn's Springs, I- was that the Spartanburg newspaper e men are really clever fellows, e , m ^ THE only element that makes airl" ship traveling dangerous to the aviae tor, is the law of gravity. There are e no fools taken along to rock the boat. ?f , 9 t r Dispensary graft indictments, prosen cutions,. compromises, restorations, nol n prossed cases?isn't it sickening? lt Looks like grafting from the grafters, e ? Illinois and Pittsburg grafters e should move to South Carolina. In Lt this state, returning p part of the h swag, insures immunity from state prison. h . ^T/> *** <-?f Vin i>uv?, mm \\ c junr iu??oi m uiv ./uuo 0 destroyed, why not give them a chance e to increase and multiply again? They it never did any harm, and they can do h a lot of good. it >t The only regret of the C. C. & O. d trip was the absence of Carpenter, ie Lathan, Gonzales, Waring, Wallace h and a half a dozen others, who should >f have been along, r d Law and order, otherwise absolute e justice and fair play, are absolutely y esential to the development of any o country. These established, progress ?- and prosperity are assured. f. is Colonel Kohn is probably the most benevolent despot that ever presided over the Press association.?Columbia 's State. e Could not have said any more in a ls column. e . ? . Ax exchange remarks that to hang i- up a snake will cause rain. We know 0 it, but what is wanted is something - that will stop rain.?Anderson Daily " Mall. s You might try a good umbrella, i- m There is no better man than the one s* who looks at both sides of every ques? tion and stands for that which is fair and right, regardless of kith or kin. a Such a man always wins recognition s from the best of his fellows, e _ 11 a newspaper can be no better than " the people who support it, and no peo* pie can have a better newspaper than they deserve. When The Enquirer really begins to measure up to the ? people of York county, it will be a y newspaper right. e l* Aitomobii.es are getting to be quite lt popular, but no candidate is yet willing to make his campaign in one.?An^ derson Daily Mail. Somebody told it over at the Press e association that Editor DeCamp has an c automobile, and there was a resolution e to investigate; but somehow the reso;s l_ lution was squelched. x is Tiif.kk was a pretty full synopsis of ' Clarence H. Poe's address to the South ,s it Carolina Press association in the last h issue of The Enquirer. Since then we ? have the full text, and consider it well " worth reproducing. Mr. Poo is one of i- the most brilliant young men of the ;t south and he is going to win general " recognition as such. Remember this t. five years from now. c . ? . It is officially reported that South ' Carolina has $5,000,000 worth of autos mobiles, and while some thoughtful t people are growing alarmed at the ten deney indicated, ninety-nine out of a hundred are looking forward to the time when they shall also be in the list of owners. The automobile is a great luxury for the man able to own it, and a great folly for the man who is not able to own it. John Wood tagged every member of the Press association crowd that went on the Clinchfield excursion with a tag bearing the legend, "Spartanburg, the City of Success," and everybody wore the tags without apologies; but some who do not know what a good fellow I he is, were inconsiderate enough to suggest these tags as the reason why George Brunson of the Greenville News did not go. Boys, buy land, not for a speculation, but for a home. Buy it as cheap as you can and on as good terms as you can. Don't try to buy too much to begin with. Twenty-five, fifty or a hundred acres will do for many of you. And when you have bought, go in to farm it, and farm it right. You have no idea how much bigger it will make you to become a land owner. You" will actually feel that you are bigger and you will be bigger. There is nq risk about a land purchase if you have a fair amount of grit and intelligence. You can make it pay. But even if you fail you can't lose much. But open your eyes boys and look about. The time is coming when the opportunity to buy a little farm will not be as good as now. Buy a farm, buy a York county farm and improve it. In the death of Judge Charles G. Dantzler, South Carolina has sustained a loss, the full extent of which is to be most appreciated by those who knew him best. Of him, it can be said that while endowed with all the nooie quauuus 01 cutuatiu auu that nature ever gives to her favorites, he had the further advantage of instruction under such men as Col. Coward and Dr. Carlisle, and he went into the law and on the bench a credit to them both. As a lawyer, he would stoop to nothing dirty. He saw to it that his clients got their legal rights; but he would never permit himself to become an accessory to crime. On the bench he stood squarely for law and justice and was unwilling to put up for an instant with any of the sharp practices that have become more or less common. He never allowed himself to take either side of a controversy; but represented only the law. Personally, he was a most agreeable gentleman with whom it was a delight to associate. There were few like him; but many have been inspired to emulate his example. Just why the Almighty should call away such men in the height of their usefulness, cannot be explained; but to lose them when the state is so badly in need of them, seems hard. Mr. W. W. Ball, of the Columbia State, delivered at the State Press association one of the most thoughtful addresses that has been heard there for many a day. It was a non-partisan political address, the burden of which was that there has never been any real division among the white people of South Carolina since the war; that the so-called revolution of 1885 was not a revolution at all; that it was merely a flash in the pan occasioned by the distressing economic conditions then existing; that both sides to the apparent division recognized the cause as the stagnation of despair. Under the circumstances people were willing to listen to every dem 1 n f/.mn/lr ClnPfi agogue who iittu a. i nuvuj. ? then there has been an industrial revolution and 1910 found the state in another column that is merely a kind of a resting period after a season of prosperity that was so great that its extent has not yet been fully appreciated. There is little or no interest in politics now and to arouse the people, would be next to impossible. The division in progress now is as between the class that seeks to accumulate and the class that has no ambition beyond working for wages. The great duty of the press is to educate, encourage and persuade the individual wage earner to save and accumulate, to become a property owner, and be ready to fill his place under a social system, which a generation hence will be far ahead of anything even the south has ever known. The way to get at this is for the farmer boys to buy farms?small farms and work them, adding to them as they can; but developing them to their highest capacity all the while. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. It Was Opened At Sumter Wednesday With Liquor the issue. Although delayed an hour by the firemen's parade, the first day's speaking in the state campaign finally openat 11 o'clock this morning, says a Sumter dispatch of Wednesday to the Spartanburg Herald. It did not conclude until after 3 o'clock. The audience was quite orderly and attentive. The meeting was presided over by Senator John H. Clifton, county chairman. The candidates in alphabetical order for governor spoke first. Each \?-aC aiinu'od 20 minutes. John T. Duncan, of Columbia, was the first speaker. He mentioned the fact that he had appeared In Sumter 14 years ago. He made practically the same speech that he did in Summerland. Among other things he claims to have saved the state $2,000,000 by disclosing a scheme to sell the asylum to local dealers. The second speaker was C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens. His speech was a strong argument for state-wide prohibition, well delivered and logical. He declared that he would advocate a law to put illicit liquor dealers on the chaingang without the alternative of a fine. He stated further that there would not be many pardons if he were governor. Thomas G. McLeod, of Lee county, was given an ovation after his introduction. He believes that sanity and common sense should govern the liquor question. He favors the democratic manner of settling where it should or should not be sold. He too, made a strong argument for local option. John G. Richards, of Kershaw, denied that there was any inconsistence in his being the last to champion the state dispensary and the first to champion prohibition. He said that the prohibition fight should be carried to congress. He declared his interest in education and cited the bills he had proposed in the house to advance it. The candidates for lieutenant governor, E. Walker Duvall, of Cheraw, and C. A. Smith, of Rennettsvllle, both made good speches. J. Eraser Lyon, a candidate for attorney general, was tendered an ovation. The other candidate for this office. B. B. Evans, was absent. Capt. P. K. McCully, of Anderson wired his withdrawal from the race for adjutant and inspector general for business and personal reasons. Capt J. M. Richardson, of Aiken, another candidate tor this omce, was mu present. Col. \V. \V. Moore, of Barnwell, delivered a well received speech. He outlined his military career at some length. Col. Charles Newnham of Columbia. who has a military record of thirty years, spoke next and he was liht rally applauded when he took his seat. The candidates for railroad commissioner. Jas. Cansler, McDuflie Hamilton. <?. Heyward Mahon and Col. O. C. Scarborough, were the next speakers. Dr. \V. \V. Hay, opposing A. F. Lever for congress in the seventh district, had the congressional oratory to himself as the present holder of the office was not at the meeting. J. 10. Swearingen and R. M. McCown both thanked the people for the support they had received in the past . A. W. Jones, unopposed for comptroller general did not speak, nor did Capt. R. H. Jennings. I LOCAI. AFFAIRS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Thos. W. Boyd?Is announced as candidate for the office of supervise of York county, subject to the wl of the Democratic party in the pr mary election. A. J. Quinn and F. E. Clinton, Com.Invite the public to a picnic at Ck ver on July 4th, under the auspice of the Jr. O. U. A. M. W. B. Wilson, Jr. Co. Chairman?("Jive information to parties desiring beceime candidates in the county pr mary and the schedule of campaij meetings. Southern Railway?Announces spec! excursion rates over its lines for 41 of July travelers. Thomson Co.?Wants you to remen ber that tomorrow is the last clay its special sale of muslin underwea bed spreads, white quilts, etc., at wants you to come. Bank of Hickory Grove?Tells yc that your day of opportunity rm not be far distant and' advises yc to be ready for it by starting a sa^ Ings account. First National Bank, Yorkville?O fers absolute protection to all mot eys entrusted to it by its custon ers. It will protect you against lo by Are and burglars. Herndon- & Gordon?Advocate a gei eral scheme of cleaning up?tl crops and the homes and want i furnish you with the ammunitic necessary to do a good job. Riddle Auto Co.?Can furnish you wil all the necessary accessories f< your automobile and your person comfort. T. W. Speck?Has a big line of glasi ware, including ice tea tumbler goblets, etc. National Union Bank. Rock Hill-?Ac vises you not to borrow money fro; your friends. Use discretion ar save at least a part of your eari ings. Start an account today. J. Q. Wray?Has a lot of special a tides for ladies that he ofTers at r< duced prices, including sailor shirtwaists, lawns, etc. All lo shoes reduced in price. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Emphasizi the importance of protecting yoi family from flies by putting t screens on your doors and wit dows. It has the doors and wit dows in all sizes. Carroll Furniture Co.?Talks abot . talking machines and records fc all kinds of machines and will se you for either cash or on credit. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Invites attei tion to a lot of seasonable goot that are of interest to ladies ar offers some attractive prices ft your consideration. The proposed filter plant for tl Yorkville waterworks plant would he: the town's water supply wonderfull At least it would rid us of muddy w? ter during the rainy spells. Reports indicate that the rains haA only been in spots. There are a nun her of localities in the county thj have had no more rain than is neede and some have not have had as muc There has been very material dt terioration of the cotton crop in Yoi county during the past two weeks r account of too much rain, notwitl standing that the crop was well read for it when the rain started. But seriously, the people of this in mediate section who have a desire f< mountain scenery, need not give muc concern to the C. C. & O., until aft< they have been up their own Carolir and North-Western. There are son sights up the Carolina and Nortl Western that are well worth while. THE COMMUTATION TAX. There remains only one more wet in which to pay the commutatic road tax. To facilitate the paymen Treasurer Neil has made arrang< ments whereby the taxpayers ma get their receipts from any of the Yor county bank without having to con or send to the county seat. The colle< tions by townships up to yesterda were as follows: Bethel $354 i Bethesda 144 ( Broad River 255 ( Bullock's Creek 450 ( Catawba 42 ( Ebenezer 462 ( Fort Mill 192 ( King's Mountain 471 ( York 369 ( WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The light and power system wei out of business several times durir the rainy spell. ? Everybody should go out to the er tertainment tonight for the pleasui and the cause. ? Everybody is reconciled to the fa< that the Graded school building mui be enlarged, and the town is ready f< it. ? A little more building along Mai street now, if the town would get tl fullest advantage of the sewerage sys tern. ? A party of automobilists. thn gentlemen and a lady, from Alban Ga., passed through Yorkville yestei day at noon, enroute to New Yoi city. ? The protracted services coir menced in the Baptist church on la Sunday night have been continue during the week, services being he] twice during each day. Rev. J. ! Corpening, who is assisting the pa.' tor, Rev. I. G. Murray, has impresse all who have heard him as being a able and forceful preacher, and as b? ing intensely earnest, notwithstandir the fact that he does not resort to an of the high pressure methods con monly employed by the majority et gaged in evangelistic work. The a tendance on the services, owing to tt threatening weather that has prevai ed this week, has not been large, tt largest congregation of the week bi ing present last night. There will t services this afternoon at 4.00 o'cloc and tonight at 8:30, also tomorro evening at 8.30 and on Sunday at tt usual hours. THE C. C. & O. Although most people along the lit of the C. C. & O. railroad are at high pitch of enthusiasm over tli tremendous development that it is sui to occasion, there are some who ai unable to see where the new line is 1 prove especially useful to South Cai olina. "There is very little up in thos mountains that they can haul dow here," said a prominent business ma of Spartanburg, discussing the matt< with the writer, "and we have nothin to send them in return. They ca bring their coal down this way: bi their cars will have to go back empt; and a railroad cannot show up t the best advantage, unless it can kee its cars loaded both ways." This ger tleman went on to say too, that thei is very little probability of considerabl development in the mountain countr; for the reason that there are no pul lie roads for the people to get aboi over and no hope of such roads evt being constructed. Of course, we are aware that thei are two sides to every question; in this is the first time we have ever hear a suggestion of such a pessimistic vie with regard to a project like this, an although we have the highest respe< for the business ability of the gentle man who expressed that view, h having played his full part in th building of Spartanburg, from a sma village to its present almost metropoll tan pretensions, we are inclined t think that he is mistaken. That the C. C. & < >. is primarily coal road, there is no question; hi as important as will be its task < carrying a never ending stream of cos from the Virginia mines to Charlesto to be distributed to the commerce i the world, we think we can see the dc velopment of functions no less import ant. The road lacks a good deal c completion yet; but when it has bee c arried from Spartanburg to Charlesto on the one end and from Dante to th Ohio river on the other end. the pos sibilities of the future are very niuc brc lader. In the first place, the mountal country through which the road run is much more important than peopl from this side are able to appreciat through the train windows. It ie in as thickly settled as the Piedmont sec tion of South Carolina, perhaps; In; there are a great many people up there good people who need only proper rail road facilities to develop them to te times their present usefulness. The have- Jots of things that have hereto fore been useless, but which now lie come of value, and there Is no estimating the extent of the development of which they are canable. But this is not nearly all. Pleasure and health seekers will he attracted a into this country from all over east? ern America, and a large proportion of I the people who will he attracted will he of the kind, who have heen doing things, and who will continue to do things. Yes, we think we can see this road 's developing Charleston into a Baltimore, Johnson City into a Pittsburg and all :*8 the country between into hives of in, dustry, the like of which Is hardly to he paralleled anywhere. n The route of the road to Charleston is not definitely decided. It is al nuite certain that it will go through Columbia on the way; but as to whether down Broad river, or across York n~ county is yet to be determined, of ,d ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Julia Smith of Yorkville, is vls)U iting relatives and friends in Union. Mrs. Pelham Morrow of Hamlet, N. ',u C., is in Yorkville on a visit to the v~ family of Mr. D. T. Woods. f_ Mrs. J. S. Drake and little son, J. ,1 S. Jr., of Yorkville, have been spending several days in Greenville, ss Mrs. W. F. Marshall and children, Misses Martha. Annie Wallace, and l- Master Edward, spent seevral days le this week in Clover, to Miss Carrie Gregory, who has been ,n spending some time with her sister, Mrs. J. S. Drake, in Yorkville, left th Wednesday for her home in Lancas^ ter. a' The condition of Dr. W. G. White, who is confined to his bed at his home 3" in Yorkville, is somewhat improved s. this morning, but he is a very sick man. Mr. S. Earle Grist, who for the past m year has held a position with a busi'd ness concern at Bennettsville, is >- spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Grist, in r" Yorkville. The many friends of Capt. John J. s. Smith of Clover, who was recently w stricken with something like paralysis, will be glad to know that he is -s improving steadily and there is good lr reason to hope that he will be able to 'y be out again In a few days. Rev. Robert Adams who has been i- pastor of Bethel cnurch since February, moved his family from Clinton Jt to the Bethel manse last week. Mr. )r Adams was formerly president of 11 Clinton college, succeeding the late Rev. W. G. Neville. "i- Mr. T. G. Matthews of Clover, has Is been confined to his bed since last id Friday with pleurisy and his condl>r tion is said to be quite serious. Mr. Matthews is the carrier on Clover R. F. D. No. 1, and has held the position ie since the route was established. I Miss May McElhaney of Cleveland y county, Ark., is spending several days in Yorkville, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ferguson. From here she will go to Tirzah and spend a few days ;e with other relatives in the county, before she returns to her home in Ar^ kansas. d? Columbia State, Wednesday: After " a successful career as a newspaper J- writer, the last seven years of which k were spent in Columbia as correspondin ent, Wm. H. McCaw, who has a wide l- personal acquaintance throughout the ly state will retire and go with the Rock Hill Buggy company, one of the largi. est concerns of its kind in the south. jr This is a decided promotion for Mr. h McCaw in a business way. He will be 51- connected with the company in the ca,a pacity of a traveling salesman with ie North and South Carolina as his teri ritory. The Rock Hill Buggy company turns out over 9,000 vehicles a year and its business extends throughout the south. Mr. McCaw is a newspaper man of ability?energetic and at all k times alive to every situation. He rein cetved his early training under A. B. t, Williams. For a number of years Mr. i- McCaw, besides representing a number ty of the state papers, has been the rep k resentative of a number of the larger ie dailies out of the state and also two > press associations. He has many y, friends in the city and throughout the state, who will regret to learn that he )0 has decided to leave the field as a )0 newspaper man. Mr. McCaw will leave )0 Columbia during the week to make )0 Rock Hill his home. )0 , . 32 BASEBALL NOTES. in Don't cheer bovs?thev've lost two )0 games. Many a game is lost by letting the other side out gab you. When you root for the Yorkville it team, don't do it in a whisper, ig Complaining at the umpire, is all the consolation that the losing team has. The umpire that can satisfy both re sides in one game, hasn't been born yet. . Rooting never did knock a home run, t but it has brought many a runner home. If you can't boost the htjme players, don't knock them. Any kind of 'n an idiot can be a knocker. ie When it comes to rooting for his 3" team, First Baseman Fite of the Fort Mill team, is a crowd by himself. ?e When a man drives an automobile y, ten miles through the mud to see a r- ball game, it is a sure sign that he k loves the game. The Huntersville, N. C., team played three games at Fort Mill last week. Huntersville took one and Fort Mill 1(j captured the other two. !(j In the game yesterday afternoon, s Catcher Betts had the misfortune of having the middle finger on his right 'fj hand broken by a pitched ball, making in it necessary for him to retire from the game. Price did a good job for Yorkville in the 4th inning in Wednesday's game, when with two men on bases he knocked a two bagger, scoring one man and " advancing another from first to third, who scored later. A special purse was made up for price on the strength of : his hit. I At a meeting in the court house last night, the baseball enthusiasts decided to hire a team for at least one month, arm iu uuiitiuucr me ai i aiim*iiu*iil w longer if the results made the plan feaie sinle. The team will probably include a number of the players who helped to win Thursday's game. Only a small sized crowd turned out to see the Fort Mill-Yorkville game on u" Wednesday afternoon. It was a good a game, considering the wet grounds, ie which made the ball hard to handle. *e Both teams did good work and at times "e showed considerable snap and ginger l? in their work. The players 011 both r" teams made several brilliant plays, that elicited liberal applause. The ,e Fort Mill line-up was as follows; Fulp, n 3b; Thompson, 2b; Fite, lb; McCants, n c; Ardrey, If; Archie, ss; Young, cf; "r Bradford, rf; Spratt, p. The Yorkville team's line-up was as follows: Smith, n B., rf; Price, cf; Lowman, ss; Rudisill, lb; Faris, 2b; Willis, 3b; Slaughter, p; Smith, H., If; Betts, c. Substitutes :o ?Berry, lb; Slaughter, c. The game T by innings was as follows: !" Fort Mill 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 0?6 , Yorkville 2004 101 x?8 Struckout?by Spratt?6; Slaughter ?6. .? Umpire?Moore. Scorers?Williams >r and Massey. The game yesterday afternoon after e the fourth inning was too onesided to it be very Interesting, except for the d many really brilliant plays that were w made by the players of the two teams, d Fort Mill was lirst at the bat, scored t one run, and was.retired to the past - ure. Yorkville was blanked in this inie ning, and also in the second. Fort Mill ie failed to make the circuit of the bags 11 iu the second, third, fourth or fifth i- innings, made one in the sixth and lailo ed to make the round of bases in the next three innings. Yorkville made the a circuit once in the third and four times it in the fourth inning, was frozen out in ?f the fifth and sixth, and in the seventh il trotted around the garden walk five 11 times and in the eighth added two more if making the final score 12 to 2. The - boys from across the Catawba could :- easily see that they were beaten after if the fourth inning, but they never once n let up in their fight to hold the locals n down as much as possible, and played o trskikfl cl?>nn F:imc t?i thi? uiwl Tlw? i- line-up yesterday was as follows: Port h Mill?Kulf, :?!?: Thompson, 2b; Kite, lb; Parks, c; MoCants, If; Ardrey, ef; n Archie, ss: llradford, rf: Roliinson, p. is Yorkvllle?Lowman, ss; Paris, If; Rule disill, 2b; Rmwnlee, lit; Stephenson, e 3b; Price, cf; Ret is. c; Tremmell, p; t Clinton, rf. Smith, H., was substituted - after Retts' accident. Struck out by it Robinson and Ardrey, 5; by Trommel!, r\ s. Hits: Port Mill, X; Yorkvllle, 1ft. I- Errors: Port Mill, 6; Yorkvllle, f?. Pm-? n pire, W. P. Smith. y Tlic jiame this afternon will lie the - last of the series, and will be called at - 4.:i0 o'clock. I LOCAL LACONICS. We will send The Yorkvlle Enquirer from this date till January 1, 1911, for 11.06. The Mary Copper Mine. Messrs. tstnr. unu L<yiicn, who |iuui|>ed the water out of the Mary Copper mine a few months ago by way of getting an idea of what is probably in it, came back this week and commenced development work on Wednesday. The understanding is that they are going to operate the mine for all it is worth. Hail In bethel. There was also quite a serious hail storm In the Forest Hill and Barnett's Mountain section on last Sunday. Among those whose crops were damaged are: J. Davidson Boyd, W. H. Barnett, Jas. Smith, Henry Beard, Fred Cook and Sidney Hogue. Our informant was unable to furnish details as to the estimated extent of the damage suffered by each. Fertilizers Steady Sale. "Commencing as far hack as I can remember and continuing up to a few years ago," said a local business man, who has had long experience, to the reporter recently, "all the fertilizers used in this country were sold and delivered in the spring. The trade lasted a month or six weeks, and then it was done. Now all this Is changed. The sale of fertilizers lasts nearly all year, and is almost as good in the summer months as In the spring. This comes about because of the changes from the old methods. Formerly the custom was to put all the fertilizers to be used in the seed bed and leave the development for whatever might be in it. Now they keep feeding their crops all through the growing period and this makes a steady demand." Hail Damage In Bullock's Creek. Mr. F. S. Baiikhead left at The Enquirer office yesterday some cotton stalks that show the effect of last Sunday's hail storm over the Hoodtown neighborhood. The stalks were all cut off at the top and entirely stripped of ??-? ?1-4 leaves. Air. imimnettu amu mui ?? . John E. Bankhead had a four-horse farm cleaned up in this way; Mr. S. S. Bankhead had a two-horse farm stripped; Mr. A. E. Feemster lost eight acres of cotton and Mr. Elijah McSwain lost heavily. Most of the people who have looked over the stricken fields, says the loss is complete; but those who have had a similar experience, say that the crops will come out and be worth picking. CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICES. Including Congressmen, There Are Forty-one In the Race. The gates were shut against new candidates on Tuesday, with forty-one in the race. Gen. Boyd and Col. Brock failed to specify. Mr. P. K. McCully complied; but afterward decided that he would not run. Following is the list of those who filed the necessary pledges: For Governor. Cole L. Blease, John T. Duncan, C. C. Featherstone, F. H. Hyatt, Thos. G. McLeod and John G. Richards. For Lieutenant Governor. E. Walker Duvall and Charles A. Smith. For Secretary of State. R. M. McCown. For Comptroller General. A. W. Jones. For State Treasurer. R. H. Jennings. For Adjutant General. Charles Newham, P. K. McCully, Jr., W. W. Moore, J. M. Richardson. For State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen. For Attorney General. B. B. Evans and J. Fraser Lyon. For Railroad, Commissioner. James Cansler, G. McDuffle Hampton, G. H. Mahon, O. G. Scarborough. Candidate for Congress. The following candidates filed pledges for the different congressional districts of the state. First District?George S. Legare, J. H. Lesesne. Second District?L. P. Boylston, J. F. Byrnes, C. W. Garrls, J. O. Patterson. Third District?Wyatt Aiken, Julius E. Boggs, Coke D. Mann. Fourth District?Jos. T. Johnson. Fifth District?Thos. B. Butler. D. " T 1/ Vj. riniey, j. iv. Hem;. Sixth District?Geo. W. Brown, J. E. Ellerbe, P. A. Hodges, B. B. Sellers. Seventh District?A. F. Lever, W. W. Bay. MERE-MENTION. Joseph Wendilng, wanted in Louisville, Ky., for the murder of Alma Kellner, has been arrested at Houston, Tex Boston and Montreal capitalists are preparing to build a great pleasure resort near Havana, Cuba. 'The project includes a great hotel, gambling pavilion, and tracks for automobile and horse racing. More than $3,000,000 will be spent and it is proposed to make it the most alluring sporting resort in the world Col. Samuel P. Colt is a candidate for the United States senate from Rhode Island, to succeed Senator Aldrich, who is to retire March 4th, next. Senator Aldrich favors Henry D. Lippett By a vote of 4,962 to 693, Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday declared for a commission form of government A strong effort will be made by the Republican leaders of congress to pass a ship subsidy bill at the next winter's session of that body Representative Saunders of the Fifth Virginia congressional district has been unseated by congressional elections committee No. 2. John M. Parsons, Republican, was the successful contestant Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis multi-millionaire brewer, says that prohibition is the meanest thing in the world Two balloonlsts at tempting a nignt irom ?i. ijuuis iu mc Atlantic coast, were fired upon by the mountaineers in the Cumberland mountains of Kentucky on Tuesday. And this with a violent wind made it necessary to come down to earth.... Jack Elredge, 26 years old, on Tuesday reached San Francisco, after walking from Boston, a distance of 4,000 miles, in seventy-seven days, beating the record of Edward Payson Weston by twenty-six days.... Leonard Johnson. a negro was burned at the stake near Lone Star, Tex., Monday night. The negro confessed his crime. . . .The Jeffries-Johnson prize fight will be pulled off at Reno, Nev., July 4, instead of at San Francisco John Wesley, a negro, was run down and almost instantly killed by a Southern railway engine in Charlotte on Tuesday The steamer Yews rammed the steamer La Roehelle in the English channel, during a thick fog, early Monday morning, cutting the latter in half and sending her to the bottom. Eight men were drowned Two persons were killed and four seriously injured in Chicago on Monday, when a fast passenger train struck an automobile on a grade crossing. .. .The attorney general of Missouri has begun proceedings to drive the beef trust out of Missouri Portland, Oregon, is the scene of the latest trunk murder mystery. The trunk was opened Monday at a railway station because it was noticed that blood was trickling through its bottom. Opening it disclosed the body of Win. Johnson. The wife of the dead man 1 1 ~ ??.l hir <11111 tl Illllll luilliru ?? VWU Ml V 1IV,?V4 "J the police on suspicion of being the perpetrators of the crime A determined light for compulsory education is to be made in the present session of the Georgia legislature Sixteen persons, riding on the switchhack railway, an amusement feature at Coney Island, N. V.. were hurled from the track sixty feet to the ground Wednesday morning, and six of the party were fatally injured Count Zeppelin, the Get man aeronaut and dirigible balloon inventor, landed at Dusscldorf. Germany, Wednesday, after a Journey of 2S0 miles through the air from Friedrichshager. from which point lie had started ten hours before with twenty passengers.... .. Governor Judson Harmon has been renominated by the Democrats as the nominee of the party for the governorship of Ohio Thos. F. Ryan. the New York capitalist, is predicting that the Democrats will win in the next presidential election, provided they use good judgment Many c fireman dropped from exhaustion In Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, after an all night fight against a big fire on the water front. The property damage totaled a half million dollars. Miss Jane Addams, president of ' the National Conference of Cnarltles and Corrections, and tne head of Hull House, a rescue mission of Chicago, was on Wednesday given the honorary degree of master of arts by Yale university at New Haven, Conn. Miss Addams is the lirst woman that Yale has so honored Fourteen persons were injured, three seriously, in a wreck on the Lehigh Valley railroad at Freemanburg, Pa., last Wednesday. ....... Maharajah Sir Sayajl II. Gaekwar of Borado, who enjoys an income of $12,000,000 a year, and is one of ' the richest potentates of India, is ] making a tour of the United States. , Dr. S. W. Arrowood was arrested in Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday, charged with attempting to assault a 14- . year old white girl. Arrowood has \ been an Inmate of an insane asylum. | Frank Schermerhorn, white, . was found guilty of murdering Sarah Brymer, a governess, at Poughkeep- i sie, Wednesday morning, and sentenc- ; ed to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing during the week of August 8. Schermerhorn committed his crime on January 13, last. 1 RACE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. B. B. Evans Comss In to Oppose Fra- ] ser Lyon. i The feature of the campaign meet- i ing at Biahopville yesterday, was a i spat between B. B. Evans, who is an | eleventh hour candidate for attorney I general, and Mr. Fraser Lyon. Wm. i Banks reports the spat in the Columbia State as follows: < Chairman L. T. Baker introduced ] E. B Evans of Columbia, who In an- i nounclng his candidacy for attorney general declared he would not fling mud or hit below the belt, but that he would criticise his opponent from | the record. He is a fluent speaker and kept the attention of the au- i dience. He claimed that John Gary Evans and not Lyon was the original ; graft hunter when F. M. Mlxon was fired out of the dispensary commis- i sioner's offlce. He complimented the members of the board of control, all < except L J. Williams, who Mr. Evans said is now under the bar of I suspicion and had left the state. | Lyon had promised to put stripes on me grariers wuinu siaijt ua/s emu uc . has been at it four years without a single conviction. And yet he has i paid $150,000 in fees to railroad law- ' yers to help him; Tom Felder, the whisky trust lawyer, had been paid over $100,000; W. F. Stevenson over i $20,000 and B. L. Abney, the Southern railway lawyer, over $20,000. Evans alleged that it was compounding a felony for Mr. Lyon to accept conscience money from the whisky houses. Morse, the banker, in a Federal prison, is no worse than Jack Cranston, Lanahan and Fleischmann who have paid the conscience money. "Put me In the attorney general's office," said Evans, "and I will put Jt up to your governor whether or not 'he will extradite some of these men." He would not issue a warrant and hold It over a man's head for four years and keep him under the bar of suspicion. Ev^ns spoke of the case of the state against the VirginiaCarolina Chemical company that had been on docket under five attorney generals. Why had hot Lyon pushed it? Why had not Lyon pushed the Southern merger suit? Why? Echo answers "Why?" In concluding Evans said that if elected he would not pay a lawyer $15,000 to make a speech for him. Mr. Lyon was received with cheers. He announced that this eleventh hour opposition would not fetter him and he wished to give the grafters notice that he would be ready to try their cases at Chester on the 4th of July. However, he continued, with scorn, he could not afford to let the wilful misrepresentation or gross ignorance of his opponent go unnoticed. What are the facts? This man's own brother, John Gary Evans, was the first to tell me that T. B. Felder was in a position to help me catch the grafters. Mr. Lyon, with disdain, challenged every statement of Evans as false and declared that if Evans could prove one-half of what was alleged he (Lyon) would quit the race. "I deny," said he, "that T. B. Felder has been paid one cent out of the treasury of South Carolina, and the other attorneys who have done so much for this cause have not been paid as alleged by this man. I defy him to prove the accuracy of a single statement." He had twice put before the legislature the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company matter and asked for means with which to push the case and this had been denied him. ^ The Southern railway merger suit ? had been heard in circuit court, ap- <3 pealed to the supreme court, and Is back in circuit court and would have ( been tried last term but for contin- j uance granted defendant company on f I - ' HI . iU UUUIIl ill niliraa ?n umci n iiiicoo. * He has done a vast amount of work on the case as will appear when it Is heard. All these matters are of 1 record. Evans hangs around the t state house a great deal. He knows r where such records may be found, d Why did he not get those records t instead of coming here with charges 1 which are maliciously false or gar- ^ bled through pitiful ignorance. C As to the grafters. Mr. Lyon stated a that one case had been tried to pave 8 the way and that if he had had a f square jury In Columbia, Jim Far- e num would be behind the bars. As t it was. Farnum called the jurors a t set of liars by pleading guilty on an- e other charge and paying a fine of v $5,000. b Mr. Lyon said that he would beat- " torney general at least two years t< longer and In that time he will make b the grafters feel the lash of the law s and he might have indictments e against sorr. others whose names u have not been discussed by the pub- c lie. The crowd was with Mr. Lyon e strong when he concluded. e n a Greenville Man to Marry Ethel ? Roosevelt.?The Greenville News of '< yesterday morning carried an Oyster Bay dispatch telling of the arrival of tl Mr. Jas. T. Williams at Sagamore Hill e as guest of the Roosevelts. In this tl connection a special dispatch in the tl News and Courier gives this interest- II ing Information: a Oyster Bay, L. 1., June 21.?With the it arrival here today of James Thompson t Williams. Jr., of South Carolina, a re- p port was circulated that young Theo- o dore Roosevelt was not the only mem- v ber of the Roosevelt family stricken n with the marriage bee. This time, ac- S cording to report, Miss Ethel Roosevelt a is the one who will soon be led to the ii altar, and Mr. Williams is to be the a happy man. e Mr. Williams arrived at Oyster Bay e at noon today. He did not linger at n the depot, for the moment he alighted u frr.iM ihu train hi> heard above the din n of hustling truckmen, a voice calling ti "Jim. Jim." It was Miss Ethel, who, ii spying Mr. Williams, hailed him. She u was seated in a trap awaiting him. g Needless to say, Mr. Williams did not lj take the ex-president's auto, which p was waiting for him and CJen. Luke tl Wright to convey them to Sagamore tl Hill. The young man's countenance jy lighted on Ethel, and he quickly mount- a ed the high seat beside her, shook the u] reins and away they went, towards s Sagamore. Hill. Mr. Williams was recognized by several newspaper men, but they had no chance to corral him after he got a tc glimpse of Miss Roosevelt. During the afternoon Miss Roosevelt and Mr. Wll- 01 liams were seen walking about the y' Sagamore Hill Roosevelt estate, and sf in very earnest conversation. He re- a* turned to the depot tortight, driven by Miss Ethel in her cart. ai At one time Mr. Williams was connected with the Associated Press, at Washington, at which place he was Cl also the representative of a Boston S? newspaper. During the last campaign 01 he was confidential secretary to Frank Hitchcock. After Taft's election, he Sr was made n civil service commission- be er. which position he resigned because Tl -f ill Cnr *li?? uomo rnaaaii hn in took up his residence in New Mexico, th He expects to become a senator from 01 New Mexico, under the new statehood d< act. His election, it is said, is almost tc certain.?Greenville News, yesterday. ? POSTAL SAVINGS BANK. Senate Accepts House Amendments and Establishes System. After voting down several amendnents, the senate yesterday decided. 4 to 25, to concur in the house amendnents to the postal savings hank bill, ind thus took the last legislative step lecessary to the establishment of a Kistal savings bank system of the Untied States. The measure was included in the administration schedule and ts passage marks another triumph for President Taft. In accordance with the programme igreed upon Wednesday, the voting uegan at o o ciock anu tne dim was l>assed a quarter of an hour afterwards. Most of the "insurgent" Republicans joined with the regulars in supporting the measure In the final action on it, but Senators Bristow, Cummins and LaKollette refused to yield and cast their ballots in the negative with the Democrats. Senator Chamberlain cast the only Democratic vote for the bill. Previous to the voting there was much discussion of the general merits of the bill. Mr. Simmons of North Carolina denounced the bill as an "abject and humiliating surrender to Vhe banks" and predicted that before the end of the next campaign the bill would be the most unpopular 'aw ever passed by the Republican party, "not excepting the spurned, rejected and trampled upon Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Declaring that the house had rejected every feature for which the senate had made an endeavor, Mr. Hughes of Colorado read articles from newspapers declaring that the president had threatened to veto the river and harbor and public buildings bills if the house postal savings bank bill should fail of acceptance by the senate. He demanded to know whether the contents of the pork barrel should be more potent in influencing senators than the requirements of the constitution. Surely a postal savings bank bill was not. to be passed because of the exercise of such influence, he said. With Mr. Bristow, he asserted that tho bill would prove a political curse to th i party enacting It into law. Mr. Carter defended the bill. He expressed confidence that the measure would "Drove an unmixed blessing to struggling men, women and children. The postal bank bill, as It goes to the president, provides for the designation of postoffices as postal savings depository offices. The opening of such depositories is left to the discretion of a board of three trustees, consisting of the postmaster general, the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general. This board Is given complete control of the depositories and their funds. As it will require considerable time for the board to prepare its regulations, it is Impossible at this time to. predict when the postal banking system will be in operation. In these depositories any person over 10 years of age may make deposit of funds amounting to $1 or multiples of that amount. Pass books will be issued to depositors and interest allowed at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. No pefson is to be permitted to deposit more than $100 in any month, nor to be allowed to have exceeding $600 to bis credit at any time. The withdraw Eil of funds is to be permitted at any rate. Th> postal savings funds, thus accumulated, are to be placed in state and National banks in the communities In which the deposits are made, and the banks are to be required to pay 24 per cent interest. Five per cent of the total deposits is to be held by the treasurer of the United States in which is a reserve to guarantee the payment. jf depositors. Banks are to be required to deposit security in the shape of public bonds :o assure the safety of deposits. There 8 a clause for the withdrawal of 30> aer cent of the deposits for investment aonds and depositors are permitted to ransmute their deposits into bonds vhen they so desire. Postmasters in fourth class offices ire to be given additional compensaJon for their services. Postal savings iccounts in the banks are to be kept separate from all other accounts. One Hundred thousand dollars is appro>ao(l 1 a rmr Into Jl IttlCU LI/ tOl I J llic |;n;p ;ovu tun mv-/ jffect and to establish thi first of the lepositorles. It Is expressly declared n the bill Itself that "the faith of the United States Is solemnly pledged to he payment of the deposits made in >ostal savings depository offices with iccrued interest thereon as herein )rovided." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. State Dispensary Auditor W. B. Vest has resigned his position to be:ome an inspector of food stuffs, unler Commissioner Watson. ? Dr. W. D. Crum of Charleston, re:ently appointed consul general to Li>eria, will leave Charleston on July 2 'or Monrovia, Liberia. The Job pays >5,000 a year and quarters. ? Greenville, June 21: With a bulet wound in his neck, the ball peneratlng the windpipe, Peter Rowley, nember of a prominent family here, lied this morning about daybreak at he home of Loretta Ross In the red ight district on East Broad street, irrested, charged with the homicide,. ). L. Godfrey of Spartanburg, is held t the county prison. The only story Ivlng details of the killing comes, rom the Ross woman who talks rathr incoherently and seems to know lltle of what started the difficulty beween the two men. She says, howver, that Godfrey was in her room then Rowley forced his way in, and ler only statement Is to the effect that Godfrey had to kill him." According o officers who reached the woman's louse soon after the shooting, three hots were fired though only one took ffect Rowley lived only fifteen mlnites after being shot. Two physiians were summoned and they arrlvd soon after the shooting, but quick xamination convinced them that othing could be done. Rowley was bout 35 years of age, and was a son f Dr. E. F. S. Rowley, a prominent ical physician. ? Atlanta, Ga., June 22: Following he announcement made by the Southrn Railway company on May 31, that he use of gas-electric cars in some of he more congested districts along its Ines was contemplated, it is definitely nnounced by that company today that ts steam passenger train service in he Greenville territory is to be suplemented in July by the inauguration f regular gas-electric motor car serice. Pending the completion of three lotor cars now being built for the louthern Railway company the mangement, determined not to delay the lauguration of the new service, has rranged with the General Electric ompany for the return of the gas lectric car, which was used experilentally with very satisfactory results ist summer on the line between Maassas and Strasburg, Va. Gas-elecric motor car service will be furnished 1 the Greenville territory by this car ntil the delivery of the two improved as-electric cars, being built especialr for the Southern Railway company y ' General Electric company, and ii .asoline car being constructed by ie McKeen Motor Car Co., of Omaha, 'eb. These cars will be completed In few months and will he put Into reglar service as soon as delivered to the outhern Railway company. Best State In the Union.?According > the reports of the farm demonstraon work. South Carolina Is the secnd state in the union In the average eld of corn per acre, as well as the cond In average yield of cotton per ?re. . Virginia has the best record in corn id Georgia is first in cotton. But the fact that South Carolina lows up so well in both these staple ops is significant. It shows that >uth Carolina is today the best agriiltural state In the union. But the record can be made better. iuth Carolina can take the lead in ith crops, anil we believe she wil).. he farm demonstration work Is dt>g Incalculable good. It Is teaching le farmers how to increase the yield ? Virtlr- m nlflna f ho n\ > It. The yield per acre In both cot>n and corn will increase each year. -Anderson Mail.