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Scraps and tracts. ? Memphis. Tenn.. July 20: The report of the National dinners' association, issued here today, indicates a condition of 72.it per cent for cotton up to July 25. This, the report says, with average weather conditions, would seem to indicate a yield of from 11.000,000 to 11,500,000 hales. The report hy states follows: Alabama, 67: Arkansas. 70: Florida, 72: Georgia, 67; Louisiana. 64; Mississippi. 6S; North Carolina, 73: Oklahoma, S3; South Carolina, 6S: Tennessee, 7.r>, Texas, 7S; average 72.0. ? The Memnhis Commercial Appeal of yesterday, published the following summary of the cotton situation: "The cotton crop deteriorated during the week in Texas and Oklahoma by reason of drought but improved elsewhere on an absence of rain. The situation in Texas and Oklahoma in fast becoming serious, some shedding being reported in the dry east places. Temperatures were very high at times, which makes the lack of moisture more acute. A good rain immediately would help the crop wonderfully, but its gr?.??h and fruiting has already been arrested. The fields east of the Mississippi are now nearly clean and the cotton will be laid by in a fairly good state of cultivation. The process of cleaning some of them has. however, been severe and the plant has not yet recuperated and drought continued for long will work great damage. During the coming week moderate temperature would be helpful. Without a late autumn reports indicate a very moderate out-turn in the valley and Atlantic states." ? Atlanta. Ga., July 30: Few in the big crowd which witnessed today's automobile races at the speedway here knew that two hours before the meet began one life had been sacrificed to high speed on the track. As the pistol cracked for the first event, the body of T. B. Dial, of Atlanta, was quietly carried from the grounds. Dial was a mechanician and his car a Marion. while on a practice spin, became unmanageable, ripping up over 100 feet of the inside fence on the first turn or the track and then turning two complete somersaults. The car landed 40 feet from the track and midway between the machine and the speedway was found the unconscious mechanician. one side of his head crushed. No one was near enough to see exactly how he met death. He lived twelve minutes after the accident. The races were run without an accident, both amateur and professional drivers participating. The programme called for fifteen events, but darkness cut them off at eleven. All the entrants were local cars. ? Boston. July 29: Having for its purpose the revolutionizing of the cotton industry of the United States, a conference was held today at the home of John Hays Hammond at Gloucester, at which there were present besides Mr. Hammond, Daniel Sully, the New York operator, and Scot Delgeish of Cairo, Egypt, the representative of the Hirsch syndicate of London. Briefly, the idea is to establish warehouses in all parts of the cotton producing district of this country as well as in the manufacturing centres for storing the cotton crop, so that instead of selling it from hand to mouth, as has been the practice heretofore, it will be marketed through the entire year when desirable. It is believed that economies will be effected in the marketing of cotton, which will result in the saving of not less than $50,000,000 annually. The General Cotton Securities company, of which Mr. Hammond is president, and Mr. Sully is vice president and general manager, is to be the organization through which this economy is to be effected. The Hirsch syndicate, it is understood, has already underwritten the project. ? t>?. u w Prlmipii the alleeed inur derer of his wife, who was Belle Elmore, and who disappeared from London with Clare Leneve about the time the body of the murdered woman was found in the cellar of the house they occupied, was arrested on board the Canadian Pacific llneh Montrose at Father Point, Quebec, Sunday. Immediately after the discovery of the murder and the disappearance of Crippen, the news was telegraphed throughout the world and wireless messages were sent to all the steamers then on the high seas. In reply to the wireless messages. Scotland Yard was notified by the captain of the Montrose that he had on his vessel a suspicious man passing as a clergyman, who was accompanied by an effeminate looking young person, dressed as a man, but who was probably a disguised woman. So impressed were the Scotland Yard police that they sent a detective to America on a faster vessel, and he arrived at Father's Point in advance of the Montrose. In the meantime, the suspect and his companion were not made any wiser as to the situation. There were scores of newspaper men and others on hand when the Montrose came up the St. Lawrence river in a fog Sunday, and before going off to meet the vessel, the detective disguised himself as a pilot. He feared that the doetor might commit suicide. The doctor was found standing against the rail of the vessel. This detective hailed him with, "I want you Crippen." The color left the fellow's face and he came near collapsing. His first coherent words afterward were: "I am glad the suspense is over." The young woman also collapsed. She was taken to a separate state room and clothed as befitted her se\. Dr. Crippen has not made any confession. The pair will be at once lUKeu na('K lo L,onuon. ? Palestine, Texas. July 31: At least fifteen, and it may be twenty negroes, all of them probably unarmed, were hunted down and killed by a mob numbering perhaps 200 or 300 men in the Sloe um and Detiison Springs neighborhood of Palestine last night and yesterday, according to the statement of Sheriff Black, who returned early this morning after a twenty-four-hour absence in that district. The sheriff told of a fierce manhunt in the woods, of riddled bodies found on lonely roads and of the terror almost indescribable among the inhabitants in the southeastern part of Anderson county. "I found great excitement prevailing throughout that section of the country," said Sheriff Black. "Men were going about and killing negroes as fast as they could find them and so far as I have been able to ascertain, without any real cause. These negroes have never done anything that I could discover. We found eleven dead bodies, but from what I have heard the dead must number fifteen or twenty. We came across four bodies in one house. I don't know how many there were in the mob, but 1 think there must have been two or three hundred altogether. 1 sent two detectives out through the county to collect all the arms they could find in the houses of the negroes. They made a thorough search, but found only nine little single-barreled shotguns. I believe the main trouble was due to a controversy over a promissory note. It. Alford, a white man who is a cripple, had gone on a negro's note. The note came due and he got after the negro to renew it or pay it. The negro would not do it and cursed him. The incident caused bad feeling. Then 1 think Mr. Spurger probaoly had a little trouble with them. At least they claimed that he had whipped one. Somebody saw this negro slipping up to Spurger's house. This negro was killed and then they went to killing them all over the country." District Judge H. B. (Surlier received a telephone message from Klkhart this afternoon to the effect that everything was quiet and that the troops would not be needed. ? Says the bureau of the census: "The estimated value of the cotton crop of 1 tills is $813.0t?o.mm compared with $681,230,000 for 1008: $700,060.ooo for 1007: $721,650,000 for 1006: and $632,300,000 for 1005. The value of the crop for 1000 is $ 130.S60.ooo. in- 10 2 more than that of 1008. not withstanding the fact that the uuantity is 3.271.024 bales, or 24.1 per cent, less. Measured by its yarn producing quality and by the tinaneial results to the growers this crop is the most valuable ever produeed. It is interesting to observe that the value of the cotton crop of last year is about one-half that of the corn crop of the country in litO'.t, as estimated by the United States department of agriculture, nearly $100,000,000 more than that of the wheat crop and twice the value of the oat crop. The world's production of gold in 1000 was the greatest ever recorded, amounting in value to about $460,000,000. which is but slightly more than one-half the value of the American cotton crop of last year, i According to Bradstreet's reports the total building expenditures for 1000 in 105 cities of the United States amounted to $857,530,660. or only about $45,500,000 more than the value of the cotton crop of this country. "The "value of the cotton crops of the five-year period ending with 1000 is $3,548,230,000. while the value for the five-year period ending with 1800 is $1,520,500,000. The cotton growers were in a distressed condi tion financially when the crop or 1898 was sold at an a vera Re price of 4.6 cents a pound. Their independence really began with the price of 12.2 cents a pound in 1903. During the last five years the price of lint cotton has averaged about 11 cents a pound, or about $55 a bale, and the value of the cotton seed has increased from $13.80 a ton in 1906 to $27.70 a ton in 1909. The value of a 500poutid bale of cotton, including the value of seed, was $84.31 this season, compared with $50.37 for 1904 and with $30.22 in 1898. To the producer of a crop of 20 bales this means that whereas he realized $604 in 1898, he received $1,686 in 1909, which increase. notwithstanding a greater cost of production at the present time, measures the difference between a mere existence and a comfortable and independent living." it lit \lorlu iUr t? aquifer. Entered at the I'ostofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.: TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 11)10. A wiuki.kss stunt?walking <?n air. AT lawst, the English bobbies have captured I?r. Crippen. Clevah. hah jove, don'tcherknow. Til Kit K is tin harm in the Columbia State thinking that it won the great light of fuur years ago. Tin: farmers <>f the United States are about the biggest ducks in the industrial puddle these days. "Kansas raises a howl on sleeping car rates." Well, those Kansas folks are always howling about something. A Nkw York man laughed so hard at a funny joke, that he fell from a railing on which he sat and fractured his skull and died. Just tickled to death. Til eke has been a decided drop in the umbrella market the past two weeks, and some are hoping that Ju| piter Pluvius will start a small bull movement. _ Db Crippen, captured at Father I Point, Quebec, and Joseph Wendling, captured in San Francisco, must fully appreciate the Biblical statement, "Be sure your sins will find you out." , ^ , Tiie Columbia State is a great newspaper with thousands of readers; but it is not especially strong on the moral side of the liquor question, and it is gratifying to know that most of its) readers understand this fact. If we may be pardoned a suggestion, we think the C., C. & ?>., railroad might be running some excursions into South Carolina instead of running them out. .. .1 T W? liar M <i i 1 ?Aliutrrscii i'um* man. But all the people live at this end of the line. There is not ntueh chance to get up an excursion from the other end until the road gets through to the Ohio river. Cotton* came across from July to August without losing anything, and while prohaldv there will he no sensational advance during August, there is very little reason to fear a serious decline. It now seems certain that the 1910 crop is not going to reach the 12,000,000 hale line, and how prices can 1 o any lower than they were last year, we do not see. KltillT white men are in Palestine, Texas, jail, awaiting the action of a special grand jury that has heen impanelled to investigate the wholesale killing of negroes last l-Yiday. It is reported that a number of other arrests are to he made, and it will he up to the grand jury to determine whether or not there will lu- a number of indictments for murder, Tiikkk were thousands of those on the hear side, who used to scoff at southern farmers when they suggested manipulative speculation as a canst* of low prices of cotton, and now these same hears are attributing present prices to nothing other than that same speculative manipulation. There never has heen a time, however, when the price of cotton was more nearly eontrolled by the laws of supply and dc ma mi. Born the hulls aiul tin- bears arc watching tin* probable <-tT? ?*! that new cotton will have mi the market this week. New cotton is moving principally in Texas. Mississippi, Alabama ami tJeoryia. ami the volume up to this time has been nothing greater than usual. The bears are hoping that there will be enough new cotton oil the market during this and the next few weeks to prevent a bull Squeeze ill the August situation. The bulls are contending that the Texas crop is late, and the bears are not sure about the fact. The August situation is full of interest to both sides, and the principal hope of the hears is generous rains in Oklahoma and Texas during the next fewdays. Willi.K We do not desire to get oil tile side of the Columbia State in this campaign. and no intention of doing so. We have llo objection to tile State's coming over to our side, and this we think is a strong probability. Yes. the State is for local option as a means to insuring tin- sale id' dispensary liquor in counties that have enough votes to beat tin- Prohibitionists; but there are some things that appeal to the State more than local option, ami we don't blame it either. Mm- of these things is opposition to Mr. I '.lease. Mr. Phase is a local option dispensaryite. avowedly in fa vol' of, ratlnr than oppos-al to the liquor traltic. Mr. I is a local optioiiist, who declares that lie does not favor the liquor traffic particularly: but who used to stand by the state dispensary. The Columbia State is for .Mcle od now, and w ill be for him in the second primary if In- gets tln re. Hut if Mr. Please is in the second primary with Mr. Peatherstoiie instead o| Mr. Me Lend, tin* Dolumlua State is going to lie, not for Mr. KeaI hers tone; lmt against Mr. Please. Just watch all that please and after the facts have developed, make a note as to the extent to which The Kintuirer may have heen guessing or talking from soiim judgment. That is an interesting story thai tlie Associated Press is sending owl ahoiit the purpose of John Hays Hammond, Daniel J. Sully and Scott Del geisn in organise it ii ciu.-n....... house system, that will facilitate th< marketing ??f the cotton crop in suet a way as to keep the manufacturers 01 a hand to mouth basis. The idea is not a new one. and everybody who has studied it, even in a casual manner understands that it is susceptible ol most tremendous possibilities. Whet we consider such a warehouse systeir under the control of the cotton producers. we are able to contemplate il without much thought of alarm: hut to think of the entire cotton crop being under the control of a few individual financial kings is not so re-assuring. The probability is that tin proposed scheme will not be perfected until it has been pretty thoroughly canvassed by ull concerned. Rkv. Dr. N. N. Burton of Batesburg has written the Columbia State, requesting that paper to reproduce in it: columns the editorial that appeared ir The Enquirer recently, explaining whj the State is lighting I-'eat hers tone. Ii the good doctor had known more of politics than he does, he would not hav< made such a request. The State reproduced the paragraph from The Enquirer. in which attention was callec to the editorial referred to; hut not th< editorial. It is not particular ahoui giving ton mucn curri'in-) m ?u? i views as The Enquirer expressed However, the editorial has been reprodueed in the Anderson Daily Mail. th* Columbia Record, the Greenwood lie dex, and several other papers, which recognized it as a pretty correct exposition of existing conditions. I is true that The Enquirer did not reproduce all that stuff the State ha! been printing about Mr. Eeatherstone; but it admitted that the same wai technically correct; and if the Stat* will make the satne admission aboir what The Enquirer has said in reply the admission will be accepted as being all that could reasonably be expected. \Vk do not consider Mr. 15. It. Evans a competitor for the office of attorne> general, and we would not like to se< him elected under any circumstances for we feel that if he had the opportunity he would not hesitate to do al that he is accusing Mr. Lyon of doing and a good deal more. But still, w< are not going to claim that the candidacy of Mr. Evans is without valu* to the state. It appears that whil* none of the very sensational charges he has been making are literally true several of them have more or les! foundation in fact. For instance, h* charged that Eelder, the Atlanta lawyer, has received something like $100,0(10 in fees from the state. It has developed that Eelder has received verj little in fees: but that nevertheless lit has a contract that will give him al least 50 per cent of the so-called conscience money that the liquor house! are being made to plank over, am that will amount to $100,000 or over There .are people who think that if nt better trade could be made with South Carolina lawyers, capable of doing al that Mr. Eelder has done, South Carolina is short on able lawyers. Mr Evans charged that Messrs. \V. E. Stevenson and B. I,. Abney received ovei $K?.u0*i each in fees from the state or account of liquor litigation. Mr. Stevenson has come out in a card in which he admits tnat ne ami .Mr. Amiej nat< each received over $10,000; hut urgt i that the money has come from the liquor houses instead of from the state a proposition that looks to the averagt layman like the difference belweer tweedledum alld t weedledee, anil to everybody as pretty liberal pay for abilities that are presumably not up to Mr Felder's standard. At Florence last Saturday, Mr. Lyon stated that anj charges that Kvans made to the effecl that he received fees in addition to th< salary of his office were a "malicious lie." Now, while we have no reasoi to believe there is the slightest foundation for the alleged charges, we dt not approve of any such language oi the stump. We voiced our disapprova when Senator Tillman used it wit! reference to Mr. Lyon four years ago and we disapprove of the use of it by Mr. Lyon toward Mr. Evans. Sue! language is undignified and unnecessary in that it does not prove anything or convince anybody. It only invites violence and puts Mr. Lyon in the position of himself justifying the scathing denunciation that Senator Tillmar poured out against him. From out point of view, as we have urged all along, we are content to see all tin. dis "-usury graft buried in the sea i! only stripes were put on the grafters; but in what has been done up to this time there would be something really amusing if it were not of such serious ?'miisci|ucncc. All (Torts seem to hav? 1 directed the grafting of tin- li liior houses to the extent they were grafted l?y different dispensary oltteials on a syst<-in that gives half tin Iii~<H-eeds to the lawyers, ami tin- pcoph are asked to Itelieve that the good work is being prosecuted in the name and in I.diall of right and justice. Blease and the State. The ('oliiniliin State a few days ago puhlished in its e?litorial column ai intimation of its intention to attack Candidate I'.lease, and replying at Florence, Candidate - Mlcuse declared his confidence in the loyally oi' tlx I pie of South Carolina to the principles of fair play and proclaimed a challenge to I lie writer of t he State's paragraph to meet him on the stump. As it happens, we have nothing to de with the issue between tin- Columbia Stale and Candidate I'.lease; but ill. situation suggests some observations that inieht be made in the interest of a more correct understanding <>f the several points involved. In the tirsl place as we See il. il dots iinl neeessarilv devolve 111 <>ii the Cnlinithia Slai<', any >ili?-r |>:tas a matter of iluty in attaek Candidate I 'lease. If, lit iwevei', the Slate thinks it knows tilings I lie | ill I il ie dues mil know, I 111 oil-Ill in know alioiii i'amliilaIe I'.lease, atlil Sei'S |?ro|MT to .'ISSIIIlie I lie i*i s|n>nsiliilily of making those things I hi I >1 ie, ii is fully warranted in doing so. Thai is one of the things il is here for. If the Stale says anything almnt Candidate ISIease that lie does not like. or that he considers unfair, he lias a ' right to reply either from the stuntp or through the columns of the State, or l>y both methods, and we do not believe I that this right of reply through the columns of the State will be denied by the editor of that paper. ^ > Candidate {{lease's challenge to the I editor of the State to meet him on the Jstump, is very good politics, of the kind; but we don't think that even Mr. ? t 15b as is very much impressed with t the fairness or equity of the idea, for the fairnes and equity of it are appar ?*nt only to those who are slow to think. For one thing, the editor of the 1 State is supposed to be working only 1 for and with the readers of his paper. ( 1 He is not supposed to be a public s speaker at all, and if he is a public ? speaker, In* will not be permitted to j , speak from a platform reserved for f candidates. Kven if he were allowed ^ i to speak, he would hardly consider it i worth while to address so small a bunch as could be reached within the t range of his voice. t If the State should publish anything about Candidate Blease, whether it be a matter of undisputed fact, argument, j or opinion, it is bound to give Candidate Blease a reasonable amount of space for a reply, in order that he may put his side of the matter before the . people among whom he has reason to suppose he has been damaged, and we do not doubt that the State will will- j . ingly do that very thing, j ' * 1 i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. n ? The International association of f Factory Inspectors and the Interna. tional association of I^abor Commis- * t siuuers, win miTi in i^uiuiiiiJiu <in August 26 and 27. ? A passenger train of the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad, i 1 went through a hurnii g trestle near j Woodlawn Sunday afternoon. The ent ginger and fireman were killed, and sixteen passengers were more or less ' injured. ? Columbia, July 30: Overshadow' ing the issue Itself in the Aiken coun1 ty whisky election appeal, is the se- t . vere arraignment of evasions of the ? law in the casting of the ballot in that ( county during the August election of 1000, the decision by Associate Justice ! t Hydrick filed today being an able discussion of the suffrage requirements of South Carolina. Dismissing the pei tition that the election be declared ; void on account of illegal voting in < , certain precincts, Justice Hydrick < 4 points with unanswerable argument to , " the constitutional requirement that t registration certificates be shown by ( , tliose desiring to vote, and upon the I statement of fact that some of the ( voters in Aiken were allowed to cast " ballot when "an attempt was made to show compliance with the law by .' proving that the managers knew the voters personally," Judge Hydrick 3 declares: "Such palpable attempt at r evasion of the law will not be tolerat, ed." i ? Florence special of July 30 to 3 News and Courier: Mayor Blease < wants a debate between himself and 1 the editor of the Columbia State, or r at least with the author of an editorial 1 [ squib in Saturday's issue of that pa- < ' per. In reference to that utterance , Mr. Blease said: "I notice in the ; editorial column of the State newspa- ' , per of this day. 'We shall in a day or 1 two have something to say in regard I i to the candidacy of Candidate Blease , that will not be regarded as indorse- 1 , ment.' I believe that the people of ] Pornilnn In fiivnr of fair 1 play, and T now request and invite the < man who wrote that article to come < . on the rostrum at Columbia at the ] state campaign meeting next Satur- i day, August 6, and have his 'some- | ' thing to say in regard to the candidacy j > of Candidate Hlease* to my face, where 1 t I can and will have the opportunity ; to make reply: and if he declines this, | then I demand that he name a time ( 3 and place where he will agree to meet ] I me face to face and make his state- j ments." . ? Columbia special of July 31, to the News and Courier: Those who went t to hear Dr. J. Walter Daniel, presid1 ing elder of the Columbia district, paint a lurid picture of the vices of j this city were a bit disappointed to night. On the other hand. Dr. Daniel drew beautiful lessons from life and 1 ? appealed to those who listened to him 1 to consider well the uplifting inilu- , 1 ences of the home and the dangers to the boy or girl breaking away from this 1 1 potential influence. Dr. Daniel did not , hide the condition, though, as he paint- ; ' ed it, that Columbia has its vices as J has no other cities, "I am told," de- 1 clared Dr. Daniel, "that there is in this > city the most handsomely furnished ' house south of Philadelphia, but I do ' not know this to be a fact. I do not 1 know where the houses are, but I am 1 . told that Columbia has its hundreds of i residents of the demi-monde. Your . city has its evil influences, as has every ' city." This, in brief, was Dr. Daniel's ' t only reference to the reported stater ment, that in a sermon at Lexington, i he had said "Columbia is the wicked- , est city south of Philadelphia." Sev eral times in the course of his sermon ' i Dr. Daniel refered to the "sensational- i , ism of the newspapers." At the very ) opening of his sermon he told his hear ers that if any had come to hear a > sensational sermon they would be dis- i , appointed. Later in his remarks Dr. 1 . Daniel said: "Yes, 1 am going on . preaching sensational sermons," and 1 again lie referred to tin* newspapers' , sensations, saying that "only newspa- j pers can create sensations." Using the lesson of the Prodical Son, Dr. Dan 1 if I staled tnat tnf most potential iiuiu t-ncf is that <?f tin- home; that more , young men are ruined J?.v having , 'money put into their hands" rather , than into their "heads and hearts" than in* any other manner, was Dr. Daniel's 1 t statement, lie referred in this eonnee- . ( tion to the practice of fathers giving money to hoys about to attain their | majority, and to the evil influences cnI countered when these boys go into the 1 > world with their money. "Money is ' r life," said Dr. Daniel. "Hack of every , dollar there is so much energy. It is : not right for one to have money, who ' i does not know the value of it." Dr. f . Daniel said that boys should be edu- ^ eated with the money instead of having it placed into their hands to spend, and therefore, when the latter came into 1 . money of their own they would know ) the value of it. Taking apparently another line in his sermon. Dr. Daniel upbraided mothers for spending so 1 > much time at "bridge parties." He i . was sorry to see that such inllueiiees were put before tin- boys and girls. He ' thought this time might be better taki en up with making a better home. Dr. Daniel stressed the necessity of an up- f lifting home life, which (lie boys and ( girls might live in or return to. Dr. Daniel said that he had made the same * , sermon in this city last Sunday night, < ( at tJreen Street Methodist church, and ,, at Lexington last Sunday afternoon, lie dismissed the matter of sensationalism with bis statement with refer- ' I enee to the newspapers. The Wash- ( ingtoii street Methodist church was crowded ibis evening. It could easily x be seen thai there were many people v nresent who were not members of the congregation. statement published last week that Dr. Daniel had said that litis ? it> was the wickedest south i of I 'It il;it)?-I|>lii:i caused a number of > people to go to lh?* church tonight. Dr. I >;i11it-l spoke with great earnestness, _ and his sermon was a forceful lecture, i Aii interesting Couture of tlio alTair is that Mr. I>. It. Ilalliwauger, who re- \ |iortod tho Lexington scrim>11, was Iirosoi11 in tho audience tonight whoa I>r. Daniel delivered his sermon. Mr. !l i llaltiwnngcr said that certain portions ? of the sermon made in Lexington were not repealed lu re. Mr. llaltiwnngcr has s 1 with hiin an atlidavit, signed hy a nuinher of Lexington citizens. vouching for v the eol'1'eet | loss of the report to the effect that I Jr. Daniel had said that "Co- v liimhia is the wickedest city south of I'hiladelphia." Some of those who l" signed the atlidavit are: W. (5. Dent, county auditor: Dr. it. It. Harmon, v pharmacist: 11. M. Wingard. merchant: It. D. Clarke, coroner, and others. Ite- ( cause of the editorial comment in this and other states, there was unusual in- ,. teres! among Columbians as to just what Dr. Daniel would say here tonight. (i LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I. 1). Boyd?Announces as a candidate for appointment to the ollice of magistrate of Bethel township. r. L. Duncan?Announces as a candidate for reappointment as magistrate of Bullock's Creek township. ?. H. Kpps?Is announced as a candidate for the house of representatives from York county. J. E. Johnson?Is announced as a candidate for reappointment as magistrate of Bethel township. roseph W. Smith?Is announced as a candidate for the office of county commissioner of York. John J. Wallace?Is announced as a candidate for magistrate of York township. ">. L. Sanders, Admr.?Dives notice ii) lilt* iieumrs uiiii rmimim >>t ulc estate of R. R. Clinton, deceased, to settle with him. 3. C. Clark for Com.?Invites the public to the annual picnic at Filbert on Friday, August 12th. f. E. Plaxico, Clerk?Invites the public to a picnic at King's Creek, August 13, under auspices of Olive Camp No. 310, W. O. W. \ntuse-U Theatre?Presents a big ( programme tonight, including "A Central American Romance." "The Two Brothers," "Two Little Motorists," etc. T. L. Williams & Co.?Have made a bargain purchase of men's wool, worsted suits?wholesale price, $12.50,?and offer them at $10 a suit. Mrst National Bank. Sharon?Operating under a United States charter. Invites (he accounts of thrifty men and women. i . W. Johnson?Asks why you buy high priced toilet soaps when you can buy Ivory and Fairy soaps at 5c a cake. Thomson Co.?Along with a variety of other goods offers fifty bolts of English longcloth at 98c a holt. National Union Bank, Rock Hill?Suggests that you try to borrow some money if you would learn its value. The best way is to start the habit of saving. It will help you. forkviile Hardware Co.?Explains the merits of Keen Kutter pocket knives, and other tools, which It sells under guarantees as to quality. Mr. C. J. Hughes, county agent of he Co-operative Demonstration work, says that he has about forty boy farmers contesting for the various prizes lfTered, and ail but 12 or 15 are doing splendidly. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? If the C. & N.-W. wants a really lesirable place for the location of its thops, it need look no further than Vorkville. If it is a question of bidling the largest amount of money for the location, Yorkville is hardly to he . ounted in the competition. Yorkville, lowever, would be glad to have those ihops. YORK'S REGISTRATION. The county hoard of supervisors of egistratlon had an unusually busy day yesterday, issuing about forty certifi ates to voters in different parts of the aunty. Chairman Wallace of the toard, has kindly given us a statement >f the total number of voters registered it the different precincts, making 3,325 n the county as follows: Aharon 72 Bullock's Creek 82 rirzah 51 Ebenezer ... 88 Piedmont 41 Fort Mill 282 Clover 269 )gden fil Rickorv drove 194 Bethany 180 Flock Hill 937 Blairsville 99 ITorkville 539 VlcConnellsville 117 Forest Hill 64 [N?ates"s Tavern 60 Bethel 112 i Newport 61 >?mvrna 56 COUNTY POLITICAL NOTES. There is very little that is new in he field of local polities. Quite a number of voters are ex- , iressing dissatisfaction with the fact hat they have not yet been offered a ivider range of choice as to the legisla- , ive ticket. < Mr. Robert I.. C!off, the most recently innounced candidate for county treas- ; irer. was in Yorkville yesterday meet- 1 ng the people. Messrs. J. W. Quinn and Minor Big- i ?ers are making an industrious can- > ,ass for school commissioner. Both i ire clever, good-natured gentlemen, i iiul their campaign is being pursued ilung that line. There has been no talk about opposng Judge Williams, and the indicaions are that this popular and efficient ifficer will be allowed to go it alone, i situation to which it is thought that te will fitter no objection. The four-cornered race for auditor s attracting more or less interest and here are all kinds of opinions as to the trobable outcome. Interest in the race for supervisor, teems to be growing stronger steadily. BASEBALL NOTES. In Friday's game at Clover, the Mc\denville team was defeated by the 'loverites by a score of 8 to Si. In Sal inlay's Kami- tli?> Tarheels tank the tame by a score of 1 to 0. Hock Hill Record, Monday: Rock : V i 11 fans were treated to a great game , f ball Thursday afternoon when the T'ats" and "Leans" of this city played i it Hampton park for the benefit of the laughters of the Confederacy. The greatest features of the game, which , vas a very live one all the way hmugh. were that the "Leans" had the , allest man in the country, being li feet, < I, S or 10 inches, we are not sure , vhich, and the "Tats" had the largest nan in the state on their team, weigh- ] ng 472 pounds, more or less. They ] aire were "dandies' in baseball n11V- , brms. Another feature was that i 'Rubber Me." could Hot keep his hose | torn slipping down while he was run- I ling bases, but, nevertheless, lie made i ionic scores anyway. The "Leans" i laim that the umpires, I M s. l-'etinell i iltd Stevens, stole the game from them : nit that always is the way with the i ellows who get beat they say that I he umpire robs them. There was a I cry good attendance. The score I vas 11 to s in fyvor of the "Cats." MDUU I rtUCLt. Miss Mattie May Neville i?f Clinton, " s visit iiiLc friends in Yorkville. Mrs. J. li. Mitldmw of Maycsville, is | peiidin?,' some time in Yorkville. Miss Mal.el I Sorry of Yorkville. is , isitiuir friends in < 'harlotto, X. ('. I Miss I.ilia llerndnn of Yorkville, is j Mending: a house parly at Montreal, | C. <\ I Miss I.ttc-y Staarr of S|>nrlniil>iir?, ( pent Monday with friends in York- | ill.-. 1 Miss Viihlora Pevinney of Knoive, is | isititiK frit-nds and rt-laliy.-s in York i oiinty. i Mrs. l'anl N. Moon- of Yorkvilh*. is t isiti11Mr. ami Mrs. II. II. I'.t-ard. in s 'olninliia. i Misses Mary and Willie I'.elle I'laxi- r i of Mnldrow. Kla., are the quests of I liss Minnie W'hitesides in lliekory f Irove. 1 Mr. Lesslie Dale of Clover, is the truest of his sister, Mrs. J. A. Sherer in Yorkville. Mr. Sam Moore of Cantt's Quarry, Ala., is visitintr his mother, Mrs. S. 11. Moore in Yorkville. Miss Frances Finley of Yorkville, is iittcndinir Miss Maud Moore's house party in Lancaster. Miss Mamie Turner of Yorkville. is the truest of Miss Daisy Dameron in Charlotte, N. C. Miss Janie Wylie of Hickory Orove, spent several days last week with Miss Relia Cain in Yorkville. Mrs. Hi Canfield and two children, of I^aneaster, are visit intr her sister, Mrs. R. J. Mackorell in Yorkville. Dr. and Mrs. T. R. Kntrlish of Rich monri, Va., are the quests of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. O'Leary, in Ynrkville. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Inman, and children, Miss Marie and Master Roe of Ynrkville, are visiting relatives in Chester. Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Kennedy and children, came up Saturday on a visit to the family of Mr. W. M. Kennedy in Ynrkville. Dr. R. L. Reinhart and Master Rerde Harold, of Forest City, N. C., are visiting the family of Mr. J. W. McFarland 011 Ynrkville R. F. D .No. 3. Mr. D. T. Woods returned to his home in Ynrkville Sunday, after .a visit of several days at Hunterville, N. P.. accompanied by his children. Joe and Rocina. Misses Kate and Ella Cody, Lucy Smarr, Bessie Sandifcr, Agnes Bludworth and I/?ttie Belle Simril, left Ynrkville this morning for the mountains of North Carolina. Rev. J. L. Oates announced last Sunday morning that he would take the month's vacation granted by his congregation during August. It is understood that Mr. Dates will spend the time principally, visiting around among his friends in the county, and that he will preach nearly every Sunday. He will spend about a week in the Neely's Creek neighborhood, and will conduct a series of services at the church in connection with communion on Sunday. Rev. W. W. Ratchford of Waxhaw, N. G\, was in Yorkville today, on his way to visit friends in uaston county. Mr. Ratchford is now the oldest minister in Bethel presbytery, being advanced two months in his 81st year. He has been preaching for tifty-one years, and is just now taking his first vacation of one month, granted to him by his present congregations, upon the death of his daughter a few months ago. Mr. Ratchford is still hale and hearty, many middle aged acquaintances claiming that he does not look any older today than when they tlrst recollect him. Mr. Ratchford Is an earnest, sincere and uncompromising worker. During the past eighteen years, he has had charge of Old Waxhaw church, in Lancaster, and Tirzah church across the line in North Carolina, LOCAL LACONICS. Until January 1, 1911, We will send The Yorkviile Enquirer from this date till January 1, 1911, for 84 cents. Tax Sale Under Execution. Under tax execution yesterday. Sheriff Brown sold three acres of land in Rock Hill, levied on as the property of Mary Robinson. The land was bought by C. F. Westmoreland for $10. New Bridge Over the Catawba. Rock Hill Record: For several weeks past. Dr. J. B. Johnson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has been in correspondence with parties in Chester county relative to the construction of a bridge across the South TIM cj V* r*-? rr P von Ir ntwl thp nOfTti Nations have reached a satisfactory conclusion. The bridge will be built, and the wonderful part of it Is that York county has been asked to contribute only $30 towards the cost of its construction. This amount Dr. Johnson has guaranteed, and It is likely that the Chamber of Commerce will back up his guarantee with the cash. The superstructure of the bridge will be of iron, a span of 60 feet, with 40 feet of timber approaches, the iron span# to rest on concrete piers. Work on these piers is now in progress, and orders for the lumber and iron work have been placed. Death of Miss Nannie Roddey. Rock Hill, August 1: Miss Nannie Roddey, aged about 50, sister of J. Ed Roddey of this place, died at her home here this morning at 11 o'clock, after a week's illness. Miss Roddey was taken sick last Sunday afternoon a week ago with a stroke of paralysis, from which she never rallied, but gradually grew worse until death relieved her of her sufferings this morning. Miss Roddey was a daughter of the late David C. Roddey and Mary Simonton Roddey of this city, and was born here, but since the death of her parents and until a few years ago she had made her home with her undo, Watt Simonton of Fairfield county. At his death she moved to this city. She was a member of the A. R. 1'. church, and funeral services will be conducted at the home Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev, A. S. Rogers of that church. Wanted to Marry. Rock Hill special of Saturday to the ['harlotte Observer: Roy T. Shcppard, who claims Danville, Va.. as his home iiml that ho is an empmye ?? m?S<>nthorn Kx|>ro.ss company, was lodge-iI in the guard house here this afternoon. Sheppard, it is said, had heon hanging around in the vicinity of the homo of J. S. (irr, in tin* western part >f the city, till morning and was trying [o persuade a daughter of Mr. < irr to leave homo and marry him. Shoppard had a pistol on him and did not seem to ho very particular as to who saw It and before very long tile police wore notified and when ho showed up in the < it reels the police nabbed him and round the pistol on him, and in default of $f. I olid ho was committed to , tin- guard house. He immediately had '< the chief of police here wire his moth- 1 r at Hanvillc to send him some mon- , y, which, up to this hour, has not been i C-lll. ! The County's Finances. There is only about $100 in the eoiiny treasury available for ordinary pur- J ?os s at th" pros nt time. There is ? noiiey on hand for school and road j im poses, and some other special funds, ! Deluding $4,000 deposited by th" poo- . do of I took Hill t<> pay tin- subscrlp- I ion portion of the cost of the proposed ' lew bridge across ('atnwbn river; but j he fund for ordinary purposes on July s fi, was $130.84. The Kmpiirer has f icon led to secure this informal ion, ' leeause of reports that the treasury is | inpty long before the usual time for i In- exhaustion of the county's re- J outves. This pt'ohahly is a fact: lutt r t does not appear that tin* condition is it eally worse titan last year, except c liat tin- county will lie out of funds ' or a longer period. The tax leyy for J. mis, was 4J mills and raised I The sum of $10,000 was borrowed on top of this. The levy for 190!) was only 1 mills and it raised only 1 s. 1 rt. The $10,000 borrowed the previous year was repaid out of this and the amount was reborrowed, out of the 1909 tax- s. also has been paid the extraordinary expense hieident to repairing the jail, and about $500 on the I'.road River bridge fund. Counting these sums and tnl/lnir into < > .nal<litt?ot iikii I In. fni.l I li ? # thr levy <>f 1909 was a half mill short of that for 190.x, there was available for ordinary purposes in 1908 nearly $10,000 more than there has been for 1909. The treasury is empty, it is true; but it does not appear to be due to the fact that the expenditures for 1909-10 have been any more prodigal titan during 1908-09. MERE-MENTION. Charlie Walker, a negro, was hanged at Decatur, Ga., Friday for the murder of Motorman Brown of the Atlanta street railway, on April 23. The execution of the three other negroes, convicted for the crime, was held up pending an appeal... .George Coyle, at Toledo, O., Friday, while in a jealous rage, shot two women to death and then fatally shot himself. Alma Barere, 22 years old, was snoi to ueatn oy an employe of her uncle with whom she lived in New Orleans, while walking in her sleep early Friday morning. She was mistaken for a burglar A mob of white men and women made a desperate attempt at Coney Island, N. Y., Friday, to lynch two negroes who tried to bathe in the surf with white women and children. The negroes made their escape During the week of July 16-23 there were 5,979 victims of cholera in Russia. Since May there have been 37,652 cases and 16,651 fatalities due to the disease. Forty-two provinces are stricken Storms in Kentucky during the month of July, are estimated to have done not less than $5,000,000 of damage. President Royer of the Western Federation of Mines, who was called an "undesirable citizen" by Mr. Roosevelt, has made a bitter attack on Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, declaring that his retirement would be a blessing to the working classes The public debt of New York city is given at $684,000,000. The per capita debt of the city Is $157.74 The strike of Grand Trunk railway employes is still in progress. There has been some rioting and destruction of railroad property by the strikers.... Tne strike of employes of the American Sugar Relinlng company at Brooklyn, N. Y., has been settled. Both sides made concessions... .Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of Mr. Roosevelt, running for congress in the primary in the Onelda-Herkimer district of New York, held Thursday, was overwhelmingly defeated... The second trial of Lee O'Neile Brown, on charges of bribery in connection with the election of United States Senator Lorimer of Illinois, began in Chicago yesterday. The former trial resulted in a mistrial... .The national banks of the United States on June 30, held a total of $1,314,987,018 in reserve funds....The coroner's jury investigating the death of Ira G. Rawn, the Chicago railroad man, which occurred on July 20, returned a verdict Friday to the effect that he came to his death from a pistol wound, but whether with suicidal intent or accidental, it was unwilling to say Napoleon J. Rivet was electrocuted at the Massachusetts state prison Friday, for the murder of his friend, Joseph Gallioux As a result of the temporary suspension of the Niederdeutch bank at Dortmund, Germany, last week, the stock has dropped from 118.90 marks on July 2 to 6.50 marks per share Tho f !ov?r> o n anvurnmanf hau rufnoorl the pleu of President Madriz of Nicaragua, that it interfere In his behalf as between his government and the United States Of the 158 cities of the United States having >pulations in excess of 30,000, twenty-four of them are dry. In the 158 cities there has been a decrease of 7,492 saloons in three years....A dispatch of Saturday from San Francisco, says that Joseph Wendllng wanted at Louisville, K>., for the murder of Alma Kellner, 8-years-old, is under arrest there and admits his identity. "Wendllng" has been arrested many times before, but has always proved to be the wrong man The million dollar plant of the Burno Box company, Standard Oil contractors, at Portsmouth, Va., was destroyed by fire Saturday Arthur R. Peavey, a carpenter, fell from the ninth floor of a building in Atlanta. Ge., Saturday and was instantly killed Thirty cotton mills at Fall River, Mass., closed Saturday until August 8, and 8,000 employes are idle. Curtailment of product is stated as the object The bill modifying the declaration of religion required of the king, upon ascension to the British throne, has been passed by the house of commons by a vote of 245 to 52. King George will only be required to swear that he is "a faithful Protestant The sum of $6,153 was stolen from the safe of the receiving ship Franklin at the Norfolk, Va., navy yard, some time ago, and the lieutenant commander of the vessel charges the loss to some one of the 1,658 men on board Congressman Butler Ames, Democrat, will make an effort to defeat Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican. as United States senator from Massachusetts. .. .The population of Oklahoma, lacking three enumeration districts, is announced by the census department as being 1,651,951 The pastor of a fashionable Presbyterian church at Oakmont, Pa., has been requested to resign because he Insists on having better church music. The church is a wealthy one and the pastor says he has no notion of resign ing. .. .uirrorci runcnoi, cmei lorcsici under President Roosevelt, is being mentioned as a possible candidate for governor of New York on the Republican ticket... .Erwin Wider, defaulting cashier of the Russo-Chinese bank of New York has been arrested, charged with embezzling more than $600,000. He lost the money trying to bear the cotton market in Wall street John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treasury under Cleveland, died in New York last Sunday, aged 76 years Attorney General Wickersham has given out an opinion, which has been endorsed by President Taft, to the effect that there is no law to prevent the state of Virginia from putting a statue of Robert E. Lee in the Capitol Statuary hall at Washington The cattle market of Chicago lias been smashed during the past week on account of the forced selling of thousands of head of live-stock because of the drying up of pasture lauds in the west, the result of continued drought. Last Friday was the tenth anniversary of the assassination of King Humbert of Italy, at Monza The damage to the crops of France by continued cold and wet weather is estimated at $400.000.000 Eight mask-. I'll HUN I ill It'llll'll'll III II' Mil U|? ?i metier load of picnickers near Ouray. Col., I'Yiday, Init were put to Might hy unexpected resistance on the part of a tenderfoot, who began operations with an automatic pistol There has been much disorder and rioting in Columbus, [?.. the past ten days, the result of a strike of street car workers. Two regiments of Ohio state troops are on the scene trying to prevent rioting and destruction of property. There have I teen several deaths in the riots 1'hree persons were killed and two titers wounded in a clash between rexas state rangers and Mexicans near tan Benito, Tex., Saturday night.... V third political party which styles itself tlie "Keystone" party, lias muni luted the full state ticket In Pennsylvania A negro was lynched at Dady, Fla.. Saturday, charged with tlie nurder of a little girl. Bessie Morri1011. Another negro, taken from the Ulcers, was later handed hack to the tuthorities During the ten days tiding July 31, not less than 1,000 tables died in New York, due to heat. The lower house of the Texas egislature has passed a bill prohibltng the exhibition of prize tight and rain robbery pictures in that state... "ourteen persons were hurt at a beach esort near New York Sunday afterioon in a rear-end collision of two ars on a roller coaster railroad, while he two cars were ion feet in the air. Neither of the cars left the tracks and one of tile injuries were fatal iecoming suddenly demented, Mrs. Joseph Mfllo of Antioch, t'al.. on Saturday drowned her four children in a tuh of water and then calmly surrendered to the police Thos. Mott Osborne, former mayor of Auburn, has I announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of N'ew York state In an Oyster Bay, N. Y.. dispatch of Sunday, it Is stated that in his western speech mak, lug tour Mr. Roosevelt will probably begin a campaign against a second nominnflon fnr Mr Taft Plnkney, ami two sisters, Misses Henrietta and Winifred, were drowned at Kcho Lake, N. J.. Sunday, l?y the cepsizing of a canoe.*.... .Mrs. Pauline F. Dastler, a wealthy New York widow. 62 years old, committed suicide Sunday by inhaling illuminating gas. because she feared the loss of her mind. ' Nineteen warships will take part in the dedication of the monuI ment at Provincetown, Mass., Friday, to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrims at that point Five women were burned to death in a London drapery store tire, Saturday. The store was crowded with women at the time. < ....Five of the twenty negroes sleeping in a tent at a railroad construction camp near De Quiney, La., were killed Sunday night by unknown assassins, who fired Into the tent. The authorities believe that negroes did the shooti ing A negro was lynched near , Cairo, Ga., Saturday night. The negro was caught in the room of a young 1 woman, after he had scramble under the bed in an effort to hide Col. 1 J. D. Bradford, the last surviving nephew of Jefferson Davis, died at New Orleans, Sunday Ross Heath, master of the barge, his wife and son, , were drowned in Lake Krie Sunday , night by the sinking of the barge, following a collision with the steamer Ogdensburg. i ?Florence, July 30: The feature of the campaign meeting today was the spat between Attorney General Lyon and his opponent, B. B. Evans. The meeting opened with these candidates and after Lyon had read from the report of the late Attorney General Bellinger as to a fire insurance company 1 represented by Evans several years ago, and Evans In reply said the company was fraudulent, but he was not responsible, then he attacked Lyon's court record and made charges as to the distribution of fees. As soon as he 1 finished speaking Lyon arose and said "any statement that I have received 1 any fees except my salary is a mallclous lie." Evans attempted to reply 1 but Chairman Itagsdale shoved him off behind the scenery and said there 1 must be no disorder. The rest of the meeting was without feature. i ? Greenville correspondence Colum- ^ bla State: Electric motor car service without the use of trolley wires or the third rail attachment is now being given on the line of the Southern railway between Greenville and Anderson, the i intermediate territory being perhaps the most thickly settled milling section in the south, including the importan points. Piedmont, Pelzer, WI1liamston and Belton, Only one motor car is now operated and two round trips a day are made. Though a large number of stops are made the car has no trouble in making the schedule time. The car'now in use is the property of the General Electric company and will be used until two cars being built by that company, especially for the Southern railway are delivered. The new cars will provide seats for fifty-seven passengers. The car is run by electricity generated by gasoline engine. The powerful machinery is compactly placed In the forward ArtH T t fa onailv *>-? onlniilntn/l ?* ? A car Is handled with perfect ease. ? Florence special of July 30, to News and Courier: C. C. Featherstone made a particularly strong speech today, on which he drew forth considerable applause. In view of criticism regarding his local option advocacy two years ago, Mr. Featherstone made , the following statement: "I want to make plain my position on the liquor question. I have advocated prohibition all my life, and as a means to an end, until the state got ready for absolute prohibition, I have advocated local option. In the local option in- i terview of 1907, to which reference has been repeatedly made of late, I distinctly and emphatically made the statement that what we ultimately wanted was prohibition for the entire state, and that I only advocated local option as a means to an end. I furthermore distinctly stated that when we had such an overwhelming majority 'in the entire state' as to insure its enforcement I would favor state-wide prohibition. When I used the language 'in the entire state,' I did not and could not have had in mind a condition of affairs when a majority of the people in each county in the state would favor prohibition; nor do I think that the language employed is susceptible of that construction. If so, I was unfortunate in the language used, for no such idea was intended to be conveyed. Surely, no sane man could believe, for example, that I expected tc wait for state-wide prohibition until a majority of the people in Charleston would favor state-wide prohibition. I spoke of the state as a unit, and the language, 'the entire state,' must be considered in that connection. About two years ago, in a second interview, I stated that I believed that the time had come for state-wide prohibition; and even a cas ual reading of those two interviews will make my position so plain that no one will misunderstand it. If some of the newspapers which have been criticising my position will be fair enough to print both of these interviews In full, my position on the liquor question will be perfectly plain. Since the Interview of 1907 the conditions have changed. Eighteen counties (sixteen) last summer and two in the fall of 1908) have voted out dispensaries, and now about 80 or 85 per cent of the white people In the state are living in prohibition territory. The time for which I waited, and which I predicted, has come and I am now for state-wide prohibition. In other words I believe we now have such a majority in the entire state* as will insure an enforcement of the law. One other thing: I have said on the stump, and I will say again, that the whisky people are fighting for local option. I have never said, nor do I believe, that all of the local option people are for whisky. I realize that there are a great many people in this state who are local optlonlsts from a different motive: but the fact remains, and it cannot be denied, that the whisky interests in this state are fighting for local option in a last, desperate effort for self-preservation. Some of the local optlonlsts hope for a return of the old state dispensary: some of them want to perpetuate the county dispensary system, ami some of them want it for purer and better motives. The whisky people are not for prohibition: they are lighting for local option; and this is known to any man who has been with the campaign party or who is at all familiar with the conditions in South Carolina. Again, as to the enforcement of the prohibition law: I have said, and I say again, that I want a law provided with the necessary machinery for its enforcement. I do not now believe that an extra tax levy will be necessary, but, if it does become necessary, I would favor it. I want the substance and not the sha (low. I believe that the abolition of the whisky traffic in South Carolina is of more importance than the payment of a small tax. I believe that the enforcement of law is of more importance than .dollars and cents. I believe that the preservation of the morals of our people is more important than wealth." Value of a Little Paint.?About as useful a line of work as it is possible to do at this season of the year, was suggested by President 11. Q. Alexander of the North Carolina Farmers' Union in a recent issue of the North Carolina Union Farmers. Speaking of the farm I homes he saw in York county, S. C., Dr. Alexander said. "Many of the old dwellings and barns have been remodeled or replaced by new ones. There was evidence of the use of the paint brush, which adds so much to the appearance and life of farm buildings. It is the very poorest kind of economy for a farmer to neglect the painting of his home. If not able to hire a regular painter, he should buy a few gallons of good paint and a brush and tackle the job himself, lie will lie agreeably surprised with the results. Try it as soon as crops are laid by."?Progressive Farmer.