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Scraps and .facts. ? New York, July T: When Porter Charlton, who was arrested in Hohok* n two weeks ago and confessed to killing his wife and throwing her body into Porno Lake, Italy, is arraigned tomorrow in Jersey City in the court of common pleas. Edward Smith, one of the counsel for the young prisoner, will ask a further postponement of the hearing on the ground that the matter of Charlton's extradition to Italy is sti!l unsettled. The complaint against Charlton asks that he he held for sixty days from the day of his arrest. Should the United Statets government not take some action in the matter hefore that time there will be nothing to prevent Charlton's going free, as no charge would remain upon which to hold him. Charlton is still in the county jail in Jersey City. ? Reno. Nev., July n: Tex Rickard gave out tonight an official statement of receipts and attendance at the big fight. It shows the total gate receipts were $270,775. Those that paid admission number 15,760. In addition to those who paid to see the fight, Rickard says there were 760 coniplitnentary tickets given to the press and others. "He estimates the number that slipped in at various places around the arena, in the holes in the hoarding or climbed up to the rim of the big structure at 1,500. All told, the attendance is given as 18,020. There were sold 1.258 seats at $50; 150 at $4u; 614 at-$10; 1,505 at $25: 1,457 at >20; 1,706 at $15. and 9,050 at $10. The purse with the bonus given the fighters amounted to $121,000. and Rickard figures his expense at San Francisco was $30,000. Thus he and his partner, Oleason, will have a profit of about $120,000. ? Chicago, July 6: "If a white man wants to meet a black man in the prize ring and gets 'licked,' why that's his business. Anyway the perperrnit you want is up to the chief of police." With these orders. Mayor Russe today frowned on the request for permission to hold a welcoming parade for Jack Johnson upon his return here tomorrow. The delegation seeking the permit wanted a orass band and an escort of police. They next appealed to Police Chief Stewart. "Nothing doing." remarked the chief. "I don't think such an affair should be dignified by an escort or a band. If you want to have a fewautomobiles at the train it is all right. It is not a public occasion." As to the exhibition of motion pictures of the fight, the mayor said that what other cities were doing would not influence him. "Anyway, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." he added. ? Boston Transcript: The consistency of the popes in clinging to their self-imposed isolation in assertion of their policy is impressive, for it entails their refusal of the tribute which the kingdom of Italy is willing to pay out of respect to their spiritual character. Every year the Italian i>arliament votes an appropriation of $645,000 to be placed at the disposal of the pope to maintain his dignity, and to be expended generally for the maintenance of his court. Every year the pope as regularly refuses to receive his allowance lest its acceptance should negative his claim to be a temporal prince in his own capital. This process of appropriation and rejection has been kept up ever since 1871, when parliament guaranteed to the pope and his successors forever the Vatican and Lateran and Castel Orandolfo. and voted the first allowance. The aggregate of these appropriations is now in excess of $25,000,000, all of which is held subject to the pope's order. ? Kansas City Star: Every once in a while excavation in southern Arizona results in the discovery of a buried village. The most recent discovery of this kind was made by Frank C. Erwin at his home, fourteen miles from Cochise. Three miles from his ranch Erwin started to dig an irrigation ditch. Only a few feet under the surface he began to uncover utensils of a shape and material which indicated that they had been used by a race probably as old as the Clbolas, that strange people whose "Seven Famous Cities" was the lure that brought Father Niza and the negro, Estevanicio from the Spanish mission at Culiacan north along the Sonora river to the old city of Tabac, near Tucson, which expedition was the beginning of civilization in Arizona. After digging deeper, Erwin came across a wall, which he followed for twenty feet. Further investigation brought to light hundreds of bones well preserved, one skeleton being intact. When an attempt was made to take up the skeleton it fell to pieces. Among the treasures unearthed was a slab on which were written curious figures representing men and birds and animals. Erwin took several of the relies into Tombstone and will send others to the Smithsonian institute. ? Washington special to the News and Courier: An increase in freight rates by railroads in the southeast is confidently looked for by the interstate commerce commission and leading railroad lawyers here. Though nothing could be gotten today showing positively that this would be done, there are indications that the roads are preparing to take care of themselves in the matter. The belief is that before long the roads in the southeast will tile with the inter-state commerce commission notices of increases, and that in doing so the roads will take- the po sitioii that their decision to give increased wages to their men has made the higher freight rates necessary. At the inter-state commerce commission offices no official word has heen received concerning increase of rates in the south, hut it is well understood that if such notices come in they will cause no surprise to the commission. The southern roads have not shoved u|> rates recently as have the roads in other parts of the country. At the same time there is no doiiht the roads in southern territory are behind the eastern and western roads with respect to amount of earnings. Some of the southern roads are- poor. It was stated today that at almost any time the commission might receive notice from the Southern, Seaboard Air Line. Atlantic (.'oast Line. Louisville and Nashville and other southern lines of such intended increase. ? Hostoii, July (i: That the boy who wants to learn to dig a ditc h, harness a horse, use a plow or milk a cow would go in vain to the colleges of agriculture in the country, l>ick J. (Tosby of Washington, I?. ('., a specialist in agricultural education, told the department of rural and agricul -l...< .ti ,1 iiiidi vmn (Ui'Mi im 11 iv n.iiKMMi, ((.(.*(* tioii association convention today. Then* are 3uo more secondary schools and colleges teaching agriculture than there were eighteen months a?o. Insaid, hut they teach theory only. I'rof. G. K. Warren of Cornell university expressed the opinion that the fanner ; without an agricultural education was headed for the poor house. He quoted figures to show that ten college bred farmers averaged $X47 yearly income against an average of only $:iis for the farmers whose education had been limited to the district school. Most of the teachers used to say. he said, that any fool could farm. Now they say agriculture is too difficult for high school. "Industrial education does not mean educational revolution," declared Arthur I). Dean of the New York slate educational department, addressing the department of manual training. "A portion of agricultural and industrial practice can be expressed in mathematical form." He told the de partment that employers might permit hoys and girls t<> attend school for the sake of the preservation of American citizenship. (flu (f-nqiiirft. Entered at the Postofflce In Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S; C.t FRIDAY, JULY 8. 1910. In the battle of life the quitter finds it impossible to "come back." Looks like WicVersham is going to have to indict the weather man next. . . Jrsr as a matter or curtosuy, we would like to know if any of the state campaigners are riding "Brother Crafford's old gray horse." "Ol.I> booze and cigarettes had whipped him before he entered the ring." That is a pair that will whip the best prize-fighter that ever lived. TllEHE are people who will even do things that are dirty for the applause of their associates. But truth and decency are greater than thoughtless people. A movement has been started in Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta and other cities to prevent the exhibition of moving pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight. The call of the mountains is growing stronger and stronger and with the C. & N.-W. so convenient and the weather growing warmer, the call is not to be much longer resisted. JAMES Patten, of cotton bull fame, and his brother. George, are said to 1 e boosting the price of wheat on the Chicago market. They had better look out. Mr. Wickersham might get 'em. To make profitable the vast amount of corn that is being grown by South Carolina farmers, they will be forced to raise more cattle and hogs. When they see the profit in this they will grow still more corn. Maine farmers are allowing their I>otato crops to rot in the ground rather than dig them to sell at market prices. That's evidently a bull movement to boost prices. Mr. Taft and Mr. Wickersham will please take notice. Before Mr. Wickersham was made attorney general of the United States, he was a leading trust lawyer of New "nimtlnir" Ihi. (routs Imrdlv seems to be a part of his role: hut of course he ought to know many of the weak points in the makeup of the trusts. The editor of the Spartanburg Herald seems to think that a flying mate for the editor of the Daily Mail should be selected from among the editors who can he most readily spared, and the editor of the Greenville News says in plain English that any one who would think of him in connection with the trip must be losing his mind. It seems to have been demonstrated that the editor of the Daily Mail is going to find it impossible to get another editor to go with him, in which event it might be very well to wait until after the primary and take one of the defeated candidates. We do not know whether to be pleased or disappointed at the informal ion that Commissioner Watson has been offered such a desirable position by the United States government as has been tendered him. of course, it is pleasing to know that the South Carolina commissioner has been selected above other officials of the entire country. It makes us feel that the Federal government is really in earnest in its effort to extend the foreign trade, and that the selection has been made on a basis of results rather than on a basis of putting some political worker who had to be taken care of, in a nice job. That South Carolina Mi. VV..IU..H ,..,,1 (I,..I <1,.. otnt.i will 1 i11< 1 it difficult t<> get somebody to take his place, there is im douht; but still, maybe, Mr. Watson may have an opportunity to do more good for South Carolina in his new position than he will be able to do in the position he now holds. Now that the provision of the Carey-Cothran law. which prohibits the possession of intoxicating liipior by people living in dry counties has been brought into the limelight bv a strong and clear judicial interpretation, it is no longer to lie ignored. That the makers of this law knew exactly what they were doing, there is no reason to doubt. It is a logical expression of prohibition professions and that is all tin re is to it. But that it will prove something of a jar to many professiic Prohibitionists, we have no doubt. Among the thousands who hold that the welfare of the country demands the suppression of litpior traffic, there are many who have never dreamed of applying the rule of prohibition to themselves. This law says that if you would make the other fellow abstain, you must abstain yourself. That is both reasonable and just; but how it is going to work remains to In- seen as the result of a really honest effort to enforce the law. Some Prohibitionists will stand firm and others will back slid*-. \\V an- inclined t<> think that this is ahotit what tin* makers ??f the law must have calculated on, and we ar?- inclined t<> think also that if they were really K"""l I'ndiildti<?nists, they made a mistake. I'rchihit km is neees- | sarily a matter id' growth and devel- i opment, the progress of whieh is limited to the growth and development of the proper sentiment among the people. As to whether the prohibition situation of South Carolina is ready for a law like this is very doubtful, and if it is not ready, the result of this law will be something in the nature of a backset. .1 TilK weather is too hot to admit of extended discussion of Columbia's observance of the liipior laws. That the esteemed State is honest in its indignation, we are quite sure; but it fails to make allowance for the fact that "its knowledge is measured to its state ^ o?i.1 ulacu " Thinirs! thn.t fire reirarded as crime In York for instance, arc matter of course occurrences down in Richland. l"p here, if a tiger would kill an officer who was trying to serve a ' warrant on him, we would do something to the tiger. When an unusually bold and enterprising lawbreaker slips * into the foothills, sits down in a thicket beside a swiftly flowing stream and begins to make liquor in a copper hot- 1 tomed goods box, we hunt him down and send him up. In Richland, a thing like this would be regarded as too trivial for notice. To be sure, Richland is not lit a class with Charleston. In Charleston, the independent dealers generally select their own brands from the wholesale houses, and sell more or less openly by the drink or otherwise'. There is less of this in Oolum- 1 bia. Most of the independent dealers get their supplies from the dispensaries and sell to the fellows who do not -1 feel inclined to walk around the corner and buy at first hands, or who have failed to lay in supplies during busi ness hours. Oh, yes. the law is still ] violated up this way. We have not been able to catch them all: but it is not nearly so bad as it used to be ] here and not half so bad as it is in Columbia. If Columbia were deprived of her dispensary and put on the same basis as Yorkville, she would not enforce the law as well as Yorkville does; 1 but would change from her present standard to something like what is now to be found in Charleston. Hut as we ( remarked at the outset, we do not want to quarrel with the State about this matter. The weather is too hot, and a final determination of the facts would 1 involve all the difficulties of convicting a Richland tiger, a task that we do not care to undertake. Tiie Newberry Observer has seen proper to give the Cherokee News a 1 rap for suggesting that jurors should s be allowed to render verdicts in ac- 1 cordance with their "conscience and judgment." We have not the par- I agraph that the Observer criticises be- < fore us; but we are inclined to think 1 that if the News made such a sugges- 1 tion, it did so inadvertently. Of course, (?n the theory that every man knows i right from wrong and is desirous of s doing right, conscience and judgment I may be trusted inplicit.v; but un- t der existing conditions "conscience and 1 judgment," could only lead to chaos. 1 Most crimes even are committed in ac- ? cordance with "conscience and judgment." and to leave them to be cor- f rected on such a basis, would be ab- 1 surd. There are men who can justify i anything, and who would justify any- ' thing if allowed to do so, provided the ? thine to be justified did not mitigate t against themselves. The purpose of 1 law is to fix a standard, a rule of guidance, and the highest duty of every good citizen, whether he finds it pleasant or not, is to obey the law. By way of illustration, there was once no law against speeding an automobile on the highway. Then any automobile enthusiast who might see before him a long stretch of clear, good road was at liberty, if he saw proper, to put on as much speed as he could. A law changed that: but still there arc automobile owners, who, coming to the same unobstructed stretch, put on speed as before. Seeing nobody in the way and conscious of no danger ahead, they lose all recollection of the law. There is a large class of people that would justify them, especially so long as there happens to be no accident. But there can be no proper justification, for accident or no accident, the act involves all the spirit of lawlessness. and it Is not creditable to the good citizenship of the offender. The law-abiding citizen will be as careful to obey law under conditions where he 1 is not likely to tie caught as under conditions where he is likely to be caught. ' With him observance of law is not so much because of fear of consequences, ' as of a sense of duty. But we are not ( intending to particularize as to auto- 1 multilists. The same principle applies to observance of the game, the tresl?ass and other laws, and we are merely seeking to illustrate the principle. 1 The question for the jury here, as else- ' where, is a question of fact?not what ' the alleged offender intended to do; ' but what he actually did. The matter of "conscience and judgment" is ] for the presiding judge. The working t of the "conscience and judgment" idea * is very nicely exemplified in the well , known story ot the juror, who uiotign i conceding the guilt of the defendant was unwilling to convict because he had a grievance against the prosecuting witness. \ "Not True as to Richland."?This , amazing paragraph is from the York- , ville Kmpiirer: Since our friends of Charleston and Richland have never tried to obey the t dispensary law and since they will > never try, how are they to be hurt by a prohibition law? Where is there any ' more injustice in putting them under j it prohibition law that they won't obey than there is in leaving them under a 4 dispensary law that thev don't pretend to obey? 1 In "Charleston and Richland?" What is The Knquirer talking about? Does ' it know? The dispensary law is en- ' forced quite as strictly in Richland county ;ts it is observed in the average ; county in South Carolina. "The "blind i tiger" population of York county, for example, is, or has been, probably | greater than in Richland- couiolain'.s | about illicit distilling and selling in the mountain region of York have l? en common itt times. * In Columbia the law is observed. If f there be blind tigers they are of the 1 sneaking, hiding kind?the same kind that may be found if trailed diligently s in Spartanburg, fjreeitville, or other i prohibition towns.?Columbia State. I \ Spartanburg Herald: I'rof. Ira ? Williams is quoted in a Columbia dis- \ patch to the Hreenville Piedmont as not being willing to talk on dynamite farming. The dispatch in yesterday's 1 Piedmont says: .Mr. Ira Williams, in * charge of the government farm dein- 1 onstratiou work in this state, will not undertake to discuss for publi- a cation thi' practicability of the nil- I tivativc inctlioils of J. Henry Caldwell. ^ the "liynainite fanner" of Spartanburg. hut contents himself with say- 1 ins that Mr. Caldwell's crop, which l< lie recently inspected, is such as to d uive Mr. Caldwell a ffooil chance of |< winning the state corn yield prize." m c 1'olircmnu l?erick was acquitted ^ of the chai'Ke of murder at Saluda w on Wednesday. He shot a iieKro to r< death at Itidse Springs, whom lie was trying to arrest. The plea was self- b defense. h LOCAL AFFAIRS. J NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. a * w*. Wallace?Is announced as a " candidate for the house of represen- . tatives from York county, subject to the will of the voters in the primary election. s inquirer office?Has a gold pin and a wants to find the owner. v r. W. Dohson?Offers his store room. ^ corner Main and Madison streets for rent for year 1911. Vmusc-IT Theatre?Will have "The Northern School Master," and the padres secret on tomgnt. potn n are iirst-class. F. It Killian?Wants to buy a first- K class milk cow. r. C. Wilborn?Offers two small tracts ti of farm lands and one town lot. r IV. 1). Hcwley, Chester?Will sell separately or together, two tracts of '' land in Bullock's Creek township, in- 7 eluding 275 acres. Grskine College. Due West?Solicits the patronage of York county. s Thorough instruction given in all de- e partments. T T. L. Williams & Co.?Are offering special prices on men's pants at 98 cents to $4.50 a pair. Odd pants at one-third off. - o National Union Bank, Rock Hill? v Points out the one sure way for you to have money when you want it, * and offers its help in saving. You can 3 open an account with $1. t rhomson Co.?Asks you not to forget it when you want dry goods, clothing, e shoes, oxfords and millinery. A new a line of trunks and suit cases. a STorkville Hardware Co.?Wants you to know that it is headquarters for all ' kinds of baseball goods at a wide " range of prices. ti Kirkpatrick?Belk Co.?Is offering re- s duced prices on mens trousers, ranging from 98 cents to $4 98 a pair. * See window display. ' forkville Monument Works?Resides being prepared to furnish stock de- v signs in monuments, is also ready to supply you with any work after v your own design. Loan and Savings Rank?Publishes a ' statement of condition at the close of business. June .10, 1910, showing resources of $106,067.10. c HTerndon & Cordon?Insist that you do your best to save all the fruit pos- v sible. They have the glass jars, o cans, rubbers, waxstrings, etc., and i then they have other seasonable goods. [lank of Clover?Prints Its statement R of condition at the close of business a June 10, 1910. It shows resources of n $164,194.46. ""arroll Furniture Co.?Has a few Ice ll cream churns and offers them at h bargain prices. Hammocks at re- u duced prices. Columbia phonographs a and records. First National Rank, Yorkvllle?Gives r you pointers on the ups and downs 'I of life and tells you how to over- j cirne and protect yourself against the downs. ' 1 Our friends are still sending cotton 4 dooms; but we hardly need any more, * iince the first was acknowledged last ? Friday. The paving work that was done on e he streets of Chester a few years ago, v loes not seem to be holding tin much c letter than that which was done on ITorkville's Congress street last year. A merchant is foolish to spend money advertising unless h" has the r stuff with which to make good when j. he customer comes to inquire. York- r 'ille merchants understand these facts v horoughly, and that is why they excel j ioth in having the stuff and in telling ibout it properly. a Some few years ago, Chester was s getting much of the cream of southern e fork's dry goods trade; but that sit- u lation has almost completely changed, p ITorkv file's dry goods people have been iridium both quality and quantity to heir stocks and have not been negecting to tell about the fact. The Columbia Record's good roads campaigners. including Mr. W. H. kVinslow, United States superintendent if road construction and party, will each Yorkville on Saturday, August 13, the date of the opening of the county campaign. The two meetings ivill conflict somewhat. The itinerary ?f the good roads party provides for i stop In Yorkville over Sunday. To passengers crossing the county rrotn east to west on the Southern, or >r from north to south on the C. & ( M.-W., the crop prospects along the ailroad are anything hut encouraging. The average height of cotton appears :o he only about 10 or 12 inches, and he rows are full of grass. Corn is lot showing up as well as one would ike either, there being too much grass, ind evidence of suffering for lack of he work that has been hindered by he rains. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The closing down of the mills nakes a difference. ? Yorkville is hard to heat as a dry ;oods market these days. ? The session of the Associate Ro'ortned church lias granted Rev. J. L. >ates a month's vacation. Mr. Oates ivill probably take August. PRISONERS IN JAIL. The following prisoners are in Jail iwaitiug trial on the charges named it the summer term of the court of jeneral sessions, which convenes next Monday: J. S. Pruett, housebreaking and lar eny; Henry M< Master, murder; Ada Hart, selling whisky; Cora Young, nurder; Andrew Hardrick, murder; Mm Turner, larceny; Lenny Hicks, arceny; Kager Worthy, murder; J. H. Rd wards, forgery; Charley White, nurder; George Wise, selling whisky. ABOUT PEOPLE. Misses Fannie and Maud Strnup of k'orkvllle, are visiting relatives in closer. Mrs. II. R. Laws and children, of '' I'orkville, ar?* visiting in Kcidsville, ' S'. C. 1; Mrs. Emma Noves of Ihillas, Tex., is r he Sliest of Mrs. \V. T. Moon* in York- 1 ilk*. Mr. H. L. I-unlalin of Jefferson City, renn., has lieen spending several days ' n Yorkvilie. Mr. Hurry C. Smith of charlotte, is a (pending this week with Yorkville rel- a itives and friends. Miss Margaret Smith of Hickory Jrove, is the guest of Miss Iva Smith ' n Yorkville It. I*'. I). No. 1. Mrs. J. c. Wilhorn and daughter, e diss Elizabeth of Yorkville. are spend- r ng some time in Asheville, N. C. Miss Margaret Marshall, who has iei*ii visiting relatives in Anderson, las returned to her home in Yorkville. Mr. fitly I.onthian of Montgomery. . \la., is in Yorkville on a visit to the amily of his father. Mr. L. \V. Louth- s an. a Mr. Krskine Letts of Chester, spent < icveral days this week with the fain- p ly of Mr. J. \Y. Letts on Yorkville It. . !>. No. :t. Miss lphonnie Harris of Lilesvllle, " C. C.. is the guest of Miss Clara L. Alexander at her home on Yorkville ,, VO. 4. j, Miss I'.uford I'opes of Itock Hill. Iris s turned to her home after a visit of everal days to Mr. It. I>. Alexander n Yorkville. Misses M el It* Heard of Spartanburg. iiul I.alia Marshall of Anderson, are y In* guests of Misses Martha and Mar- , raret Marshall in Yorkville. Miss Mary Seott of Yorkville It. F. " >. S, and her guest. Miss Mamie Lurey of Winnshoro. are spending several ji lays with Mrs. L. Hi Ferguson at 'Payors. M I.* M......i...r ^ n. .'IIIIIIIIMS fl ?l I ? I ' ?l I, :ishi<T of t)i?* First National liank of a ' irkvillt'. is taking a vacation of two ti ccks. antl will visit his parents ami n datives in Melilel. Miss Mary Fant llcriiilon, who has en spciuliiiK some time in I'nion as retnrtie*! to lier home in York- (,l ille. She is accompanied by Miss )ra Pant of Union. Major T. S. Bratton of the U. S. rmy medical corps, accompanied by Irs. Bratton and son Andral, is in rorkville on leave, .and will spend some ime with relatives and friends. Mr. Uhas. Gregory. traveling repreentative of .Tno. R. Smith's shows, is pending sev?ral days in Yorkville rith his wife, at the home of Mr. and Irs. J. R. l'orter, on Lincoln street. BASEBALL NOT El. The Yorkville team went to Gastoia yesterday for a series of three ames with Forest City. Fort Mill and the Carhartt Mill earns played a double-header at tock Hill Wednesday. Carhartt won oth games with scores of f> to I and to 4. "inn Kim1 r?M-ni|iis ior > ?- hiht ames between Yorkville anil Ruthr ford Inn were fairly st lisfactory. 'he rain of Tuesday interfered seiouslv with the attendance. The Rutherfnrdtnn-Yorkville game 11 Tuesday was somewhat interfered irith by the antics of Jupiter Pluvius. le made things very damp about o'clock, and then at times during he progress of the Rame he threatned the crowd and actually drove pood many devotees of the same way from the grounds. Put the layers were determined and finally inished the agony with a score of 10 n 4 In favor of the visitors. The core by innings was as follows: tutherfordton. ... 3 ft 0 0 0 0 4 1 2?10 rorkville 1 ftOftOftl 2 0? 4 Hits: Rutherfordton, 1ft; Yorkille. S. Errors: Rutherfordton. 1: YorkHie, r>. Patteries: Rutherfordton?T.yon and iipscomb; Yorkville?Smith and Movants. Umpire: Niell. The game of Wednesday was deidedly the best of the series, and ras lost to Yorkville on errors that ught not to have happened. With ,ogge pitching ami Rudisill at the ecelvlng end. tho visitors early in the amo realized that they were up gainst it when tho game started, 'ho visitors could not hit the sphere a any advantage and when it was lit it failed to land where it could he ised to good advantage in racing round the bases. The only earned un of the game was made l>y Rudisill. 'he visitors got across the plate three imes. solely by reason of demorallzng errors on the infi.dd by Yorkville. 'he game was called at the end of he first half of the ninth, to allow he Rutherfordton team to catch the .36 train for home. The first game of the Yorkville-Forst City series at Gastonia yesterday, ras called in the second inning on acount of rain. The score was 0 to 0. AVERY-LOWRY RE-UNION. A most interesting and enloyable soial feature of the week In Yorkville las been a reunion of the Avery-T.owy families, the programme of which cas published in The Enquirer last iYiday. The reunion began on Tuesday with i "gathering of the clans" from the urrounding country and from differnt states and this gathering continued intil in all, about fifty visitors were iresent. All having gotten together on Tueslay morning, there was an invocation if divine blessings by Rev. W. T. Mathews of Oklahoma, after which there eas an orderly organization, to which vas read papers, giving some Interestng history of the Avery and Rowry amilics. On Tuesday evening, there was a mblic reception to the people of Yorkille in the graded school auditorium. it which refreshments were served, mil mi Wednesday, the ladies of York ille gave a return reception to the isitors. At a business meeting held Thurslay afternoon, resolutions of thanks vere adopted to various members of he family for contributing so largely o the success of the occasion and to he Yorkville people, who so successull.v contributed to the pleasure of he visitors. It was resolved also that he reunion should become a permalent institution in the two families, to >e held at more or less frequent inervals. Among the out of town visitors paricli?ating in the reunion were the folowing: Mrs. Edward T. Avery and diss Ella Avery of Anderson; Miss rtatt Miller of Rutherfordton, N. <\; dessrs. Robert and William Miller of Shelby, N. C_V, Dr. Miller Moore and drs. J. D. Arthur of Union; Mr. and (1 rs. W. R. Wilson, Sr., Mr. W. R. Willon, Jr., Messrs. Oscar, William and fork Wilson of Rock Hill; Mr. and drs. Sumter L. Dowry, Sumter JeLeon Rlackburn, and La per ,owry, Misses Willie l.onis" and Isaiella I.owry of Tampa. Ha.; Rev. and drs. W. T. Matthews, Messrs. R. W., 'aul and Taylor and Miss Hazel Mathews of Duraut, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. t. C. Laughlin, Miss Avery and Mr. tichard I^aughlin of Anderson; Mr. Liul Mrs. Joseph Walker, Mr. and Mrs. '"elix Walker of Columbia; Mrs. f. Rratton I.owrv, Master J. Rraton biwry and Master Stewart jowry of Tampa, Ela.; R. A. I.owry of Columbia; E. R. I.owry of Monroe, N. \; Misses Fannie, Margaret, I.ula and , f .1 ni* \Vilu..n U....L- IT 111 - llr oii.l M.-o A. Lowry, Luxora, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. trthur Hay and Miss Hiden Hay. Okahoma City, Okla.; Miss Maude Hardier of Baltimore. Md.; Mr. and Mrs. 'olin K. I?wry. Miss Aiiuiee Lowry, lid Mr. and Mrs. Mareo Butter of Coumliia. There was a hall paine yesterday fternooii hetween the "Tampa Timers" iiid the "Rest of the Clan," resulting in l score of .S to 6 in favor of the "Rest f the Clan." The programme was oncluded with a pleasant social Kathrins: at the residence of Mr. J. K. Lowy last night. THE NEXT GOVERNOR. one inemher of that hunch that was a Yorkville last I'riday is going to he :overnor of South Carolina next year, nd there is naturally a good deal of uriosity to know which will he the inky man: hut on that question there s naturally a great deal of difference f opinion. The writer has talked to a number f people of more or less experience i matters political and of different hades of political belief, and has got n various views. On being asked us t>> how the vari-I lis candidates are going stand in 'urk county, i>n<' man put it up like liis: Keatherstone is going to lead, [lease is coining next, Mi'l/'iul will be lird, Hicliards fourth, llyatt lifth, and luucuii will get about lil'ty votes. Another took the position that it ould bo nip and tuck between llb-ase ml McI.eod as to which would carry le county, that l-'eatherstone would in third, and Richards fourth. The lirst man quoted is an unti-disi-nsary man, ami tin- seeoiul is a local ptioiiist. One believes that liquor is a legitimate article of commerce and the other does not so believe. "I put it up like this." said the anti- ? dispensary man. "The great majority of local optionists in this section are penpie who believe In the free and open sale of liquor. If the free and open sale of liquor was now established, then most of the local optionists would be Prohibitionists. It is merely a question for a chance to a change, t People who are dissatisfied with existing conditions, generally see most hope for ?i <ittamra In n foto Tlu?r?? nro Vnrv ?, ...I It . ,.U..hV ...... .......... . . . J few people who are such enthusiastic It local optionists as to he always want- v ing a vote whether they want to J, change or not. Well, two years ago, p 1 tlcase represented about all the hope t there was in sight for a change from ^ prohibition to liquor. It was generally v conceded that the re-election of Ansel s meant the further endorsement of pro- '' hlbltinn. Ansel beat Blease a little ' more than two to one. At this time j| Featherstone stands in about the same r position that Ansel stood two years e s ago as the representative of the pro- a hihition sentiment. He has a more y consistent record on prohibition and many think he is an abler man. Blease stands where he did two years ago. t except that his strength is rather more t divided. A certain element that was a solid for Blease two years ago, Is now j1 supporting Mcleod. There is a possi- a bility of shifting to Blease before the | first primary, and if it does, McLeod's v vote will be considerably reduced. Ij Some of the votes that went to Ansel r two years ago, will this year be divid- T ed among the other candidates; but * c very few of them will go to Blease. j Featherstone, of course, will not get 1; as many votes in the first primary as c went to Ansel two years ago; but he will get enough to give him a pro- v nounced lead. I am inclined to think < Blease will come next, McLeod next ^ and Richards next. Hyatt has more | money than any of them and he is a J real good organizer; but he does not ' appeal to the voter nearly so strongly J as do the other candidates." s Another man sized the situation up * about like this: f "I am going to vote for Blease. I did ( not vote for him two years ago, be- f cause of what they said of his dispell- s sary connection: but I am unable to j see that they have ever proved any- r thing and I am quite sure he is one of f the ablest candidates in the lot. I 1 think Blease is going to get at least a e thousand votes in York county, and al- s though I believe McLeod will beat him J if he gets in the second race with him, f I believe he can be elected in a second c race with Featherstone." 1 LOCAL LACONICS. \ Until January 1, 1911, We will send The Yorkville Enquirer j from this date till January 1, 1911, r for 98 cents. s No Pardon For Holmes. Columbia State. Thursday: Gov. r Ansel has refused to pardon Clarence t Holmes, a young white boy who was convicted in York county last year j on the charge of housebreaking and ? sentenced to serve a term of two J years on the York county chalngang. < He is 17 years of age. A letter ad- a dressed to Gov. Ansel stated that the 1 mother of Holmes needed his assist- ? ance. c 1 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. c ? Walter Hames, colored, is in the s Cherokee county jail, charged with J murdering his wife Sunday night by j cutting her throat. 1 ? The firm of S. E. True & Co., of * Spartanburg, was placed In the hands a of a receiver last Tuesday with liabil- 1 ities amounting to about $4.r>,ooo. ? Tlmmonsvllle had a $20,000 fire r loss early Wednesday morning. Four | stores and a hotel building were de- 2 stroyed. There was $10,000 insur- j ance. * c ? Governor Ansel has agreed to on- ^ operate with the governors of the oth- f er southern states in the suppression a of moving pictures of the Johnson- 1 Jeffries prize fight. s ? The first regiment of the National 8 Guard of South Carolina, will go into '' encampment at Aiken on Monday. 1 July 18th. The second regiment will : encamp at Chickamauga Park, July 21 : tu 30. ^ ? Wrightsville Beach, N. C., July 6: v The fifth annual session of the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers association convened this morning in the assembly hall of the Seashore Hotel with about 200 South Carolinians in attendance. An address was made by C Judge Henry C. Hammond, of Augusta, and also by E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina. Mr. Watson stated that he had been tendered by the national c government a most Important post and one carrying with it an excel- n lent salary. The position being one ( recently created for the exploitation t| of American goods in the available, r but heretofore closed markets of the v world. He stated that the cotton v seed industry had been deemed of j. second importance in the list. Mr. c Watson's work, if he accepts, and he s has not yet decided,, will carry him jj to all parts of the world. The first ), announcement in connection with the t. position was made today. The policy v decided upon by the United States is not unlike the active policy of Ger- p many in this respect. It is under- t sit ii< 11I tlirit thn Mil nrv i? nv??r $f> (HHI ?. per annum and expenses. q ? The State Rural Letter Carriers' 1 association in session in Newberry this a week, adjourned on Tuesday afternoon !' to hold its next annual convention in the city of Florence. T. K. Wicker of ^ Newberry was re-elected president, and a H. W. Corner of York, was re-elected ^ vice president. Paul K. Crosby of Rraftin, was elected secretary: Arthur W. a Hill of Greenwood, was elected trefls- " urer. I). R. Fletcher of Kershaw, I). '' C. Clark of York, and Stanley Burch 81 of Florence, were chosen members of e the executive committee. There was V a considerable fight on the election of ^ delegates to the National convention ^ to be held at Little Rock, Ark. The as- I sociation is entitled to one delegate at large and three delegates, in addition a to State President Wicker, who goes ^ as a member of the national executive P committee. The following were placed ^ in nomination: Paul K. Crosby of 1 Rutliu; S. A. Burch of Florence; A. W. Hill of Chester; F. P. DeVore of New- V' berry; (!. I'. Teague of Simpsouville, 11 Greenville county; J. K. Johnson of a Laurens; L. B. Anil of Greenwood; J. W. Miller of York; Miss Florence E. tl Livingston of North, Orangeburg conn- ity; J. E. Campbell of Bishopville. The ?'?i delegates chosen were: Miss Florence t? E. Livingston, who received 4.r> votes ^ of a total of 17: Messrs. F. P. DeVore, S. A. Burch and Paul K. Crosby. A. W. Hill, J. E. Johnson and L. B. Aull h were chosen alternates. Speeches were ti made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster "I General DeGraw, Hon. I >. E. Finley, d< congressman from the Fifth district, and Mr. I). Hi Winslow, United ht States superintendent 01 roati eon- u struetioii. Mr. DeOraw talked of the in split log draft. Congressman Fin ley fc traced the history of the It. F. I>. s?-r- in vice and its growth, say in ft that it had been one of the greatest educators the V country ever hail, and spoke of the c; great results which it had achieved in fa the improvement of the roads. The hi road question, he said, experience had demonstrated that the only feasible hi plan of road building was the con- til tract- system, free labor having been hi ineffective wherever used, tin the w question of salaries, he said, he had hi voted for every proposed raise of salary since he was elected, and said he w had made a study of the postal ser- K vice and hoped he knew something sii about it, and he had been able to help, bt Mr. Finley said he had introduced a da ill for the past two years to make tie salary $1,000, believing this would ut all the carriers on an equality, 'he bill was favorably reported by the , ostoffice committee by a vote of 7 to He voted against the Miller amendtent, he said, because its proposition ? appropriate $6,000,000 additional for ae support of the service could not tange the existing general law. and iierefore could not be used to increase he salaries of the carriers, and the dditional amount was not needed for he general postal service. He then ut in his bill as an amendment, hut ithout unanimous consent tin appreciation bill could not change existing iw, and a single objection defeated is amendment. President Wicker . anted to know how the salaries of the arriers could be increased without inreasing the appropriation. Mr. Finjy replied that there would first have o be a law passed fixing the salaries, nil he had introduced such a hill, as ad scores of others. A question as to irhy it was so much easier to increase alaries of city carriers than of rural arriers. was greeted with applause. Congressman Flnley said that three ears ago, when the law was passed, ncreasing the salaries of rural eariers to $000 per year, a law was passd which had not since been changed, tarting the city carriers at a small alary a month, and increasing them early. ? News and Courier: According to ihysicians in touch with the situation n this city, the cocaine hahit among he negroes in Charleston is spreading o an alarming extent. The drug, from II accounts, first made its appearance mong the denizens of the under world n this city about twelve years ago, but it that time was used only by a eom>aratively small number acquainted vith the peculiar influence which the >owder exerts upon the human system, rhe use of the drug, however, spread apldly, first among the whites, then in >arktown, until now it is estimated hat one negro in every four uses coaine in one form or another. The poire have at various times during the ast two years attempted to stamp ?ut the sale of cocaine in this city, but ipparently without success. Several iersons, charged with selling the drug vithout a physician's certificate, were onvicted in the police court and fined teavily for this violation of the city irdinance. There is at present pending n the police court, the case of Charles fones, white, alias "Weatherhorn," harged with selling a box of cocaine o a negro woman on Market street. ,'ery often the drug is used in the ihape of a solution of the crystalline brm. mixed with other injurious inrredients and injected into the system >y means of a hypodermic syringe, ither habitual users take it in the brm of pills. The devotee using the i.vringe method, in many cases upon xamination is found to have his arms, egs or chest covered with one mass >f sores, resulting from the punctures nade by the needle of the syringe, rhese wounds as a usual thing heal ip very quickly, but very often fester ind break out. owing to the unsanitary mrroundings in which the cocaine iend lives as a general rule. Cases are mown in this city in which cocaine lends died of lockjaw and other forms ?f poisoning as a direct result of fesering of the hypodermic syringe pricks overing the persons of the unfortunate isers of the drug. The most "popular" ind simple method in vogue of taking he drug into the svstem is bv snuffing t through the nose. The pure cocaine lakes are crushed to a powder in a nortar, and retained in this form. A imall quantity of the stuff is shaken on he back of the hand and then inlaled through the nose. Another nethod consists of dissolving a small luantity of cocaine in a teaspoonfu! of vater. and then heating it over a natch. This is swallowed. It has been >retty firmly established that indulgence in cocaine leads to physical vreckage. The users of the drug claim hat a dose gives them "courage," sweet dreams," and a sort of exuberince of spirit. This state lasts from wo to four hours as a rule, but after hat wears off quickly, leaving the vicim with an insatiable craving for more >f the deadly drug. Negroes cspecialy are very susceptible to the influence f cocaine and under its sway will ommit acts from which they would hrink under normal circumstances, rhe illegal cocaine trade is carried on >y three different sets of individuals, 'irst, those who procure it from the arge drug centres of the country in vholesale quantities; those who sell to igents, and finally the latter themi?lves who dispose of it to the fiends, rhe profits of the peddler are known o be considerable. A vial of cocaine vhlch sells at $1, is made up into as nany as three dozen boxes, each conaining enough of the drug for two or hree small doses. The boxes sell at !5 cents each. Not content with this rofit, a majority of the agents adulerate the pure cocaine flakes with ither drugs and various harmless powlers. Boraelc acid is principally used or this purpose, as it is snow white ind therefore invisible unless detected >y the eye of an expert chemist. Very mall boxes have recently made their ippearance on the market, which are ffered for sale at a price of 15 cents, t has leaked out, however, that the iends refuse to buy them because of he fact that the contents are mostly ngredients other than cocaine, thereby riving the buyer none of that sensation vhich he craves with might and soul. CLOVER CULLINGS. )il Mill Holds Annual Meeting?Making Arrangements For School Improvements?Personal and Other Matters. i rrospondenrp The Yorkville Enquirer Clover, July 8.?The first annual neeting of the Clover Cotton Oil and tinning Co. was held oil last Tueslay, July 5. The report of the secetary and treasurer showed that, notwithstanding the fact that conditions vere not at all favorable so far as the ateness of the season when the mahinery was started and the unusual carcity of seed, a very substantial >rofit was earned and that the outuok for the future was exceedingly ncouraging. All the old officers were re-elected. The school trustees have been losng no time in the matter of doing heir part toward assuring the early ompletion of the new school building, 'hey now have a large proportion of he necessary brick on the ground nd have made contracts for the i umber to be delivered as needed and ave bought the necessary furniture, i 'he contract for erecting the building I as been awarded to J. M. Setzer, of > iewton, X. C., who says he expects 1 l> begin operations on next Monday nd to be ready to turn it over to ' he trustees on o" about October 1, i rovided weather conditions are rea- I nnably favorable Following teach- 1 .... Ka/v.% ^loofo.l ttin onuillli ir I I r? llcl> C WCC11 CICtlCU 1U| uir nifuing ear: Mr. J. H. Spann, Misses Mell 'iell and Annie Jackson of Clover, liss Eunice Grist of Yorkville, Miss .illy Belle Xeely of Old Point. The rustees sold the old school building lid lot on which it stands on King's fountain street a few days ago at ublic auction. It was bought by Mr. [r. P. Smith for $1,280. The lot is 00 by ISO feet. Mrs. John J. Smith, who for many ears has operated what the traveling iell pronounced one of the best hotels t which they were entertained, has ecided, since the death of Mr. Smith, lat she will give up the work. It 1 the understanding that Misses Li I la ml Ilattie Crenshaw of Yorkville are i take charge next week. Mrs. mith will make her home with her lildren. The annual meeting of the stockolders of the Clover Cotton Manufaciring Co. is to be held in the ottices f the company here on next Thnrsay afternoon. Work on Mr. L. G. Thompson's andsome new residence on Constituoii street is progressing satisfactorily, id the outlook is that it will be ready >r occupancy by sometime next onth. Mr. W. S. Smith of Newport News, a., who has been here, where lie was 11 led by reason of the illness of his ther, since June 24. leaves for his nne today. The "Slobberheads" and "Bone?ads," baseball teams, made up enrely of local talent, played a game re yesterday afternoon. The score as 12 to 5 in favor of the "Slobber ads." Mr. T. G. Matthews, whose illness ith pleurisy was mentioned in The nquirer recently, is still seriously rk. but is believed to be slightly tier this morning than for several lys past. MERE-MENTION. Spring wheat jumped up 38 to 4 rents a bushel on the Chicago market Tuesday The Twentieth Century Limited, was wrecked near Middle town, O., Monday, by colliding with a freight train. Twenty persons were killed and many were injured Jared Young Sanders, governor of Louisiana, has been elected to the United States senate ti> succeed the late Senator MeEnery. Senator Sanders started life as a printer's devil. Yeggmen blew open the safe of an amusement park near Columbus, O., early Tuesday morning, and got away with $1,000 in silver. All paper money had been taken away the night before It is announced that Governor Hughes of New York, recently appointed an associate justice, will be appointed chief Justice of the United States supreme court to succeed the late Justice Fuller....A Seaboard Air ' Line passenger train was wrecked at Marietta, Fla., Monday, by running Into a cow. The engine turned over and the engineer and fireman were crushed to death In a 200-niile automobile , race on a track at Indianapolis, Ind? Monday, the winner made the distance in 163J minutes, lowering the world's record for the distance by ten minutes. . ..Since signing the agreement to fight and up to and including the end of the mill. Johnson has received (146,600, ( and Jeffries has received $192,000. Jeffries' portion of the $101,000 purse was $40,400 The Holt farm In Davidson county, N. C.. this year produced 4,021 bushels of wheat on 130 acres. The average yield was 31 bushels to the acre. On 22 acres the average was 43ij hushels A big automobile was smashed to splinters on the track of the Southern railway on a grade crossing thirteen miles from Charlotte, Tuesday. Five persons were in the car and just as the car got on the crossing the motors choked. Before the car could be moved, from the track a fast passenger train ran into it and smashed it. The occupants of the car had I time to get out of the car before it was struck J. B. Allison of Asheville, N. C., on Tuesday afternoon, mortally shot Floyd McOee, and then beat him on the head with a hammer. The trouble is believed to be about a ' woman. Allison had killed two other men, and killed McGee without giving him any warning A negro entered a lunch room at Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday morning and asked for a "Jack Johnson pie." He got a large beer bottle broken over his head and was badly cut by glass Messrs. Leblanc, Ijutham and Labouchere, noted French aviators, will take part in 1 an international aviation meet to be held in tne vicinity of New York next October An extra session of the United States senate has been suggested to be called in October, to confirm appointments by President Taft to the United States supreme court bench on account of the number of important cases now pending before that tribunal Antonio Avechi, an Italian, shot his wife to death, mortally wounded his stepson, wounded another Italian and committed suicide at Waterbury, Conn., Tuesday The finance committee of the Indiana Republican state committee, has decided not to accept campaign subscriptions from corporations A wealthy New York woman was arrested In that city Tuesday, for the theft of goods to the value of $1.81 from a department store. At the time of the theft , she had $700 on deposit in the store's banking department Wilhelm Beckert, at one time chancellor of the German legation at Santiago, Chile, was executed Tuesday by being shot. In February, 1910, Beckert shot a Chilian messenger to death in an attempt to cover up an embezzlement of legation funds The government of Guatemala is negotiating with American bankers for a $40,000,000 loan to refund outstanding bonds and reorganize its monetary system During the fiscal year ending June 30, $061,962,392.19 worth < of foreign goods were received through the port of New York. This was $163,000,000 more than was received during the previous fiscal year The funeral services over the remains of Melville W. Fuller, late chief justice of the supreme court, took place at Sorrento, Me., Wednesday. The interment will be in Chicago Thos. Kincald, an uutomobile driver, was killed on the race t ro r?lr at Tntlifinnnnliu Tnd day. His car left the track on a curve. ... .Peter Smith, a Newark, N. C., man, in order to win a bet of $1 Wednesday, drank seventeen glasses of whisky. , He died shortly afterwards A big strike of union cloak makers began in New York on Wednesday. The union leaders claim that 30,000 workers will be included in the strike The home of Hev. R. B. Fisher, a Presbyterian preacher of Neoga, 111., was wrecked by dynamite Tuesday night. The preacher had been conducting a crusade against "bootleggers." Ringling Bros.' circus tents were wrecked by a cyclone and destroyed by fire at Brookings. S. D.. . 1 Tuesday night The town of Cornucopia. Wis., is girdled on three sides by forest fires and the only means of escape is by way of Lake Superior Wm. J. Bryan has announced to the Democratic party of Nebraska that he will fight for the reforms he advocates, regardless of the action of the party Mayor Maddox of Atlanta, estimates that there are 7,500 automobiles in Georgia, and that their purchase has drained the state of fully $15,000,000 A mob of Georgetown, Ark., Tuesday, in order to avenge the killing of a hotel proprietor, killed a negro who ran at the approach of , the mob, and finding their victim to be innocent, kept on until they found the murderer and then shot him to death The appropriations committee of the Georgia house of representatives has approved a bill protiding an appropriation of $j.00,000 to erect a Confederate monument at ? Atlanta Up to July 6, the total / ax collected from corporations by the Federal government amounted to 120,000,000 President Taft will, " it the next session of congress, urge he passage of the Appalachian forest Jill ine government ui rsrazn las oiaced an order with an English inn of shipbuilders for a 32.000 ton jattleship... .Great damage was done n Minnesota and South Dakota Tueslay by violent wind and electric itorms The superintendent of an >il refining plant at Pittsburg, Pa.. Wednesday morning dashed through i wall of fire and smoke to close a alve on a pipe leading from u tank >f burning benzine to great oil tanks lear by. The man accomplished the ask. but was seriously burned in his Pfort Mrs. Ella Elagg Young, sujerintendent of the public school of Chicago, was yesterday elected presilent of the National Education assodation in session at Boston. She is he first woman elected president of he association In a freight train vreck at Bynum, Ala., yesterday, a arload of gasoline caught fire and deitroyed two cars of coal The gov- ( rnments of Russia and Ja|>an have brmed an alliance and it is believed >y diplomats that this means a closng of the "open door" in the far east, t is not improbable that Germany, England and the United States will drm an alliance for self-protection. Twenty-nine cities throughout 4 he county have put the ban on the xhihitioii of the Jeffries-Johnson prize ight pictures. The matter is before lie English parliament and the plcures will probably be barred in Engand.