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Scraps and .facts. ? In one of the most sensational addresses ever heard in Norfolk, Dr. E. T. Brady, of Abingdon, Va.. president of the Virginia Medical society, last Tuesday night startled 200 physicians who heard him. "Squeamishness is never sincere, and sincerity is my only excuse," said Dr. Brady. "I am aware that I am touching upon a subject unusual in a public address. If the dose seems drastic, remember that drastic measures are needed to put us in working condition. We must give the situation frank recognition. We are blindly following the fetish of business at the expense of fraternity. Even the pathetic public is recognizing the possibiliy of race suicide. There are exactly 350 cold blooded, premeditated murders of defenseless innocents for every 600 children brought into the world. Think of it. And the large majority of these horrible crimes are perpetrated by socalled Christians and intelligent wives. who thus from their vaunted social height give an example for a doctrine of convenience and selfishness. "Vanity. social aspirations, fashion, ignorance and fads all conspire against the unborn." ? Tampa. Fla.. October 26: Further details today of the last week's hurricane ravages in a portion of the Everglades and Ten Thousand Island section of southern Florida indicate that many square miles were inundated by a tidal wave of tremendous force. The captain of the Everglade schooner Eureka said today that the tide during one period of the storm rose twelve feet in one hour. This inrush in many cases swept inhabited points bare of every vestige of human habitation, depositing in accessible swamp homes, household goods and what little food the water did not ruin. A few cabins which were swept inland on the crest of the wave, were carried out to sea with its outflow. The outrush of water was even more dangerous than its inflow, for it often traveled with mill tace force, carrying its victims straight toward the open sea, where the possibility of rescue was almost nothing. Sailing vessels form almost the only means of communication with the stricken section. making it slow work *o secure details. Supplies for the destitute, who are said to number hundreds, were today rushed aboard the Eureka. The board of trade began a business canvass to raise both money and supplies to follow the Eureka in other vessels. The Eureka will stop first at Marco. There are no new figures here on the number of dead, which is said to be at least twenty. ? The old United States $1 note which disappeared from circulation in 1S85 is to be called into service again Secretary MacVeagh has decided that the enormous demand for bills of smaller denomination warrants an issue, which was authorized in 1907 but until now has never seemed really necessary. The plates which have been preserved in the bureau of printing and engraving, will be pressed into service and beginning tomorrow the notes will be issued at about the rate of 11,200,000 a day until the demand for smaller bills is met. Banks all over the country have been complaining that there were not enough silver certificates to meet the demand. ? In the face of steady decline in the price of hogs and corn on which they are fed. says a dispatch, Chicagoans who desire to eat bacon, on Tuesday discovered that they were compelled to pay the highest price ever obtained for the salt meat in times of peace?35 cents a pound sliced. If the housewife was willing to cut it up herself she might have reduced this figure to three pounds for $1, but that was the best she could do. It was up, and to all appearances, would stay at this recordsmashing figure for some months. The sole reason for this situation, according to O. W, Foster, the veteran provision dealer, lies in the shortage of bacon producing hogs. Xo matter what the facts might seem to indicate, said he, the difficulty lies in the ability of the packers to buy the porkers. ? A unique swindling game, farreaching in operation and working prominent diamond importers, was laid bare in Charlotte last Tuesday when J. W. Napier and W. P. Duke, from nobody knows where, were arrested on warrants sworn out by United States Post office Inspector Bulla, of Washington and bound over by United States Commissioner Cobb of the Federal court. Duke collapsed, following the arrest, turned state's evidence, and unfolded the operations of the gang to the commissioner without restraint. Biiefly the scheme was to order diamonds from responsible concerns c. o. d., subject to examination, substitute imitations for the real diamonds and return the shipments to the importers with flimsy excuses as to Haws in the stones. The gang operated successfully in Rock Hill, S. C., Branchville. S. C., Westvllle. S. C.. Charlotte and other neighboring towns and cities, using James Parris. an unsophisticated country boy as a decoy. Asking examination-of the gems the importers were led to ship the precious stone to Parris. On arrival at the express office. Duke, who professed to be a Jeweler, would show up. with professional care examine them, and with some flimsy excuse turn them back on the express company to be returned, taking care, during the examination to substitute the fake gems for the originals. The imitation stones were supplied by a house in Terre Haute. Ind. Parris. whom the swindlers used as a tool, is an ignorant country boy who can neither rend nor write. He was discharged by Commissioner Cobb, while Duke and Napier were held in bonds of $2,500 each. Duke made a full confession of the affair. The only victim of the pair disclosed during the preliminary examination was that of Daniel Love and company. Salem. Mass. ? After a trial lasting but a fewhours in the New Bailey criminal court. London, last Tuesday, a jury found Ethel Clara Leneve not guilty as an accessory after the fact in the murder of Cora Belle Crippen, for whose death her husband. Dr. Crippen. will die on the sallows on Nov. 8. Miss Leneve was in love with Dr. Crippen and slept in his house on the night of the day following the day upon which the doctor murdered his wife and buried the dismembered parts in the cellar of his HilldropCrescent home. She accompanied Crippen in his llight to Canada, and with him was arrested and indicted. From the first she has maintained innocence of any knowledge of the crime, but the crown alleged that her behavior subsequent to the disappearance of Mrs. Crippen. or Belle Elmore as she was known on the stage, was such as to betray a guilty knowledge of the murder. When arraigned today Miss Leneve pleaded not guilty and witnesses were introduced by the prosecution to show that she had experienced great mental distress following Belle Elmore's death The crown prosecutor. Richard Muir. introduced only such evidence as had been brought out in the earlier hearings. Miss Leneve's counsel. Frederick E. Smith. M. P.. asked the jury to bear in mind that his client had been under the influence of Crippen. one of the most dangerous criminals of recent years. since she was 16 years of age. This, he asserted, accounted for her llight in the doctor's company. Counsel said that he took upon his own shoulders the responsibility for not putting Miss Leneve in the witness box. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone. who presided, in summing up for the jury said that he saw no reason why Dr. Crippen should have told Miss Leneve a story different from that which he told to others. ? Chlcoutimi. Quebec. Octobei :."6: Thoroughly fatigued and showing plentiful marks of an arduous week of struggling through the dense wilderness of northern Canada. Messrs. Hawley and Post, the insatiable aeronauts who. according to available data, sailed the America II nearly 70 miles further than any other contestants in the big balloon race for the Cordon Bennett cup. arrived here this afternoon. They had landed at 3.45 Wednesday afternoon, October 13, 1.500 feet up on the face of an unnamed mountain, which, as near as they could reckon, lies about 58 miles north of Chicoutimi. and about eight miles north of Lake Tshisligam. They had been involved in a snow storm which was accompanied by a change in the wind to a more northerly direction from that which up till then bade fair to carry them to the Labrador coast. The adverse conditions compelled them to land, much against their wishes. Landing was effected easily and the balloon was left in good condition. Sanguineiy they started to get to the nearest settlement. They were uncomfortably near the end ot their provisions but recounting the story of their experiences tonight, they made light of that feature. They had conlidence, they said, in their ability to obtain sufficient game to prevent starvation. For three nights they were obliged to sleep in the open air. It was a stiff fight through snowy forests. The weather was exceedingly cold. Then the camp of a trapper was struck on the river Alours, A day's rest was enjoyed there in the deserted hut. Monday five trappers appeared and took them down the stream in their canoes to St. Ambroise a little settlement thirty miles from here. A six hours' drive brought them here tonight. Tomorrow night they expect to be in Quebec. According to their reckoning they covered 1.450 miles in the air. during fortysl>; hours. tthr llorlutllr ffttqumr. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.i FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1910. Mr. Roosevelt's spellbinding tour of New York is not the success that he anticipated. The cotton market is bobbing up and down in a way that is calculated to catch the lambs a coming and a going. It is getting close to winter. November commences next Tuesday and generally November brings more or less cold weather. Is the Columbia State right sure that civilians have any business knowing what has been done with the military appropriations? Unless the consumer gets the benefit nf rortiifOinns ns mav be made in freight rates, why should he he interested in such reductions? Senator Cummins swallowed the tariff law, Cannon and all the standpatters. in hopes of staying the coming victory of the Democrats. He is too late. The Republicans are not using Uncle Joe Cannon this year in patching up the strength of the party in weak places, because it is now conceded that Uncle Joe is a Democratic asset. There is little question of the fact that the interstate commerce commission is leading the railroads a lively race; but as to whether it is doing the country any good is another matter. The New York Democratic newspapers claim that while Mr. Roosevelt is damning the trusts and combines with his mouth, he keeps his hands in such position that he can always receive campaign contributions from behind. It appears that the Hampton Jury believed the bookkeeper who claimed hat the cashier forced him at the mint of a pistol to confess that he had stolen $1,300. As to whether the grand jury will now trv a round with the cashier. remains to he seen. The Greenville Piedmont claims to be the only daily paner in the state that will not accent liquor advertisements; but we are triad to say that there are a number of weeklies and semi-weeklies, who do not want money of that kind. Mr. J. P. Henry of Greenville was arrested in Spartanburg the other day for speeding his automobile, and when Mr. Henry explained that he had gotten into trouble because he had been unable to accommodate his machine to Spartanburg's superior streets, the mayor remitted his fine. Every man to his calling, and those balloonists who participated in the international contests out from St. Louis, to theirs. There is some good no doubt?some scientific facts to be developed by such contests: but just where the good is to come from, we are unable to see. However, every man to his calling. We are registering no objection. There are a number of disturbing rumors in circulation in connection with the C. C. it O. railroad. One is to the effect that the plan of building on through to Charleston has been < abandoned, and another is that the the property is to lie sold to the Cheasapeake & Ohio. In the event of a decision not to build on to Charleston arrangements will be perfected by which the product of the Clinchfield coal mines will go to Charleston over the Southern, and if this arrangement is perfected, it is just possible that the Southern will take the C. C. & O.'s business at Marion, N. C., and bring it down by way of Yorkville. This looks like about the right thing to do anyway. The case of Milton A. Carlisle, the N'ewberrv banker, who has just been sentenced t<> five* years' imprisonment for violation of the national l>ankinq laws, is a sad one. Mr. Carlisle is no ordinary thief. He is no thief at all. There is no evidence that he violated the law for the purpose of personal gain. There is no reason to think* that he profited hy the offense he committed. He only did what many other hankers haw done and continue to do without being found out. His offense would not have heen discovered prohahly. except for unfortunate circumstances. He risked discovery and punishment for a chance of saving his associates and himself from financial loss. It is not to he claimed that liewas justified, for he was not. He was hound to ohey the law governing tinconditions under which he was working. He was under oath to do it. When he reached the point where it became necessary to violate the law or throw up the sponge, he should have thrown up the sponge. That is where he made his great mistake. He took a terrible risk and failed where others had succeeded and that is about all. Had his rase been tried under the jurisdiction of South Carolina, he would have been acquitted?not properly acquitted, but acquitted as hundreds, who are more culpable are acquitted. That his conviction was just, we have no doubt, and we hope that it will do good. The conviction of a man like Mr. Carlisle in the United States court ought to make it more easy to convict still worse offenders in the state courts, and when the state courts begin to measure out even handed justice to all violators of the laws who appear before them, the result will be a better observance of the laws, and a better country to live in. News of the death of Mr. W. Meek Faulkner, which occurred at his home at King's Creek last Wednesday morning, has been received with genuine grief by the hundreds of friends and acquaintances of that most estimable gentleman. In all that the word im plies in us nesi acceptation, an. raun\ner was a man. He measured up to every duty and responsibility as a Christian gentleman in his family, his church and his country. He was broad and liberal in his general views, but pitched his personal conduct to the measure of high standards of civic and religious duty, and although he may have at times failed in his own modest estimation, it is generally conceded by those with whom he came in frequent contact that there were few who more closely followed the straight and narrow path. Mr. Faulkner will be sorely missed by his family, his neighbors and his business associates, and as long as any of them live his many noble qualities will continue a sweet and precious memory. The Newberry Herald and News talks enough shop in a recent issue to explain that it no longer prints advertising as news matter and gives some of the reasons why. While we would not be understood as questioning the right of any newspaper publisher to do as he likes in regard to this matter, we heartily agree with the Herald and News in the stand it has taken. We do not think we underrate or underestimate the part that the advertiser plavs in the making of a newspaper. Without the help of the advertiser, we would not undertake to publish a newspaper at all, and we would not be understood as suggesting that the value of his assistance is to be measured solely by the dollars and cents standard. Of course, a newspaper would have a poor show at public approval if it did not print the news, or contain entertaining and Interesting news matter of some kind to cause it to be sought after; but no matter how interesting the other contents, there would still be something lacking. The experiment of publishing periodicals of various kinds without advertisements has been tried at different times, but so far as we know, it has never succeeded. And the lack of success has not been altogether because of the curtailment of revenue. It has been more because thd reader feels that there is something lacking. He may not know exactly what that something is; but we think it is the advertising. But while all this is true, we have always had a strong distaste for the idea of running advertising in news columns. Of course, we recognize that every mention of a man's name in the news columns, is to that extent an advertisement, profitable or not, according to the connection in which the name is printed; but in that there is a difference. The effect is not colored by the suggestion of nay. It leaves no ground for the impression that the newspaper would print just anything at so much a line, and to that extent a detraction from the importance of its contents. The man who insists on getting his advertisements "among reading matter," impresses us as trying to trick somebody. He does not want to play fair. He seems to feel that the thing he proposes is without merit, and that he cannot hope to make it go, unless he catches his victim unawares. There is something: unfair and repulsive about the whole thing, and it has never appealed to us. On the other hand, the straightforward, fair and open advertisement commands all the respect to which it Is entitled. If there is anything in such an advertisement to interest anybody, they are promptly interested. If the advertisement offers something that appears to be to somebody's advantage, then that somebody takes it up. Somehow we feel that everybody has respect for the fair and open advertiser; but we don't think that many people have respect for the fellow who would (ry to sneak at them from ambush. We have never been willing to do business with the man who insists on having his advertisement printed as reading matter, and we have never thought much of the fellow, either, who asks us to print so and so about him and offers to "pay for it." He is in the same category with the other fellow, except maybe he needs a little closer watching. The General Election. The general election takes place Tuesday, November 8, and while it is not probable that anything of the kind will occur, it would be a very pleasant thing to a many good citizens if the vote should turn out as large as it was in the recent primary. Of course, all the registered voters did not participate in the recent primary. That was shown fully and spe cifically in these colmuns shortly after the primary was over, and it was also i shown that many people voted in tin* i primary who will not vote in the gen: eral election for the simple reason that i they were not, and have not since been i registered. Of course, there is no need to try to make it appear that there is any dan ger to the Democratic ticket in the general election for there is not; hut it is well to remember that after all the election of November S, is the real i election and every citizen who is duly registered should come out and cast his ballot. i ?Washington. October 27: Killing 1 rusts are predicted by the weather bureau tomorrow throughout the western and central states and to extend Friday night into the eastern section of the country and almost as far south us the gulf coast. The frost accompanied the lirst well marked cool wave of the present season, inllucnotd by a cold high area of great magnitude which today covered the west with its centre in the Rocky mountain region. Over the Plains states ami central valleys, the cold wave swept down today and was moving rapidly eastward. As the wave moves eastward from the central states the weather in the Atlantic states will clear .as the temperature falls. Conditions generally prompted the weather bureau to order storm warnings displayed on the Croat Lakes, along the Atlanti" coast from Jacksonville to Iktstport. Maine; the gulf coast from Tampa to Hrownsville, Texas. LOCAL A.FFAIRS* NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Amuse?U Theatre?Will have an especially a tractive programme in moving pictures tonight. Cotton Belt Ginning Co.?Will gin cotton on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and on Saturdays till noon. Mrs. M. E. Connor?Offers a 4-horse farm for rent, two and a half miles from town. Yorkville B. & M. Co.?Requests all parties owing for fertilizers to make settlement by November 1st. Shannon & Hope, Sharon?Announce a mill end sale beginning November 3 and invite you to come and get some of the bargains. t m setr,hin?Wants narties who owe him to settle by November 10. and offers bargains in dry goods. J. L. Moss?Says his grist mill is now ready to make good meal and solicits your patronage. J. A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis.?Gives notice of sale of certain lands involved In the suit of Marion and Chas. D. Nelson vs_. Minnie B. Starnes and others, to take place on November ir>th. Thomson Co.?Invites you to spend fifteen minutes at its store seeing the lines of clothing for men and boyr and coat suits for ladies. National Union Bank. Rock Hill?Advises you to deposit your surplus funds with it, when you market your crops and pay your debts. Four per cent interest paid on time deposits. W. O. Rawls?Asks you to let him make an estimate on the bath-room outfit that you intend to put in your home. Kirkpatriok-Belk Co.?Wants you to come to it for sweaters and underwear for men, women and children. New coat suits arriving daily. Carroll Furniture Co.?Has a choice line of Axminster art squares and rugs and also Diltox rugs, art squares, etc. J. Q. Wray?Is well pleased with the progress of his removal sale and insists that you will save money by seeing what he has to offer you. First National Bank, Yorkville?Insists that paying by check is the proper way to conduct your business affairs. It solicits your account. Herndon & Gordon?Talk about groceries and other things, and especially urge all who owe them, to pay up. Yorkville Monument Works?Empha size the high grade character of the work they turn out and want a chance to show you. Quite a number of York county people went down to the Chester fair this week, and the general verdict is that the show was an unusually creditable one. There were good displays of live stock and farm products, and also a large crowd of good natured, Intelligent people. The fair is conceded co have been a success from every standpoint, especially including exhibits and attendance. There is a movement on foot among some of the sportsmen in York county to petition the general assembly to shorten the open season for partridge shooting. Under the law as it now stands, partridges may be shot from November 15 to March 15, and the idea is to cut the season down to only two months. Some are of opinion that January and February are the two right months, and others are rather in favor of making December 15 to February 15 the limit. It is claimed that with so many gunners as there are in this county at present and with such a long season the partridges are being killed out more rapidly than they can produce. ABOUT PEOPLE. I Miss Daisy Hart of Yorkville spent several days in Clover this week. Miss Josie Carroll of Yorkville is spending several days in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. H. W. Tate of Mint, Fla., is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Moore in Yorkville. Mrs. S. W. Inman and Mrs. J. B. Mackorell of Lancaster are visiting relatives in Yorkville. Mr. A very Lowry of Columbia, spent Wednesday in Yorkville with the family of Mr. J. Ernest Lowry. Mr. D. M. Johnson, formerly of the Point, but for several years past a resident of Rock Hill, was in Yorkville last Tuesday between trains to and from Oastonia. He went to Gastonia, not to see the show, for he did not go in, but to see his old friends, many of whom he was sure would be in town that day. Mr. Johnson enjoyed the day very much. He said he saw more people than he has seen on any one day since the war. BOYS' CORN CLUB. The Winthrop authorities have prepared quite an entertaining and instructive programme for the occasion of the meeting of the Boys' Corn club there tomorrow. There will be a meeting of the Winthrop Rural and Home institute in connection with the Boys' Corn club, and the programme, commencing at 11 o'clock will be as fallows: Address of Welcome by President D. B. Johnson. Address by Prof. L. A. Nevln on "Harmful insects and Funeous Growths and How to Combat Them." Address by Miss Hyde on "Rural Community Life." Reading by Miss Spencer. Talk by Miss Whittimore on the subject of the "Waste Places in the Home." Dr. Boyd on "Health and Hygiene of the Home." "Art in the Home," by Miss Hyde. Address by Prof. Ira W. Williams. Awarding of corn club prizes. A picnic lunch will be served on the campus to all visitors by the college. DEATH OF W. M. FAULKNER. Mr. W. Meek Faulkner, died at his home on King's creek in the wester part of the county last Wtnlnesda.v morning, after a long period of suffering with diabetes, and was buried in Bethany cemetery yesterday at noon. Mr. Faulkner was born in York county in May, 1852, and spent practically all his life in the neighborhood of his birth. His main occupation was farming; but he was also a broad-minded business man of much more than ordinary ability, and most of the many investments that he made proved successful and profitable. He acquired quite a comfortable competence. Born and brought up in Bethany church, Mr. Faulkner held closely to the excellent religious teachings of that organization and consistently practiced all his professions throughout his life. He was early chosen for the deaconship and discharged the duties of that olfice in a manner thoroughly satisfactory to the congregation. Later he was elected to the eldership, and in this position he rellect ed high honor on his church as well as himself. Although extremely retiring and modest in his disposition, much of his work was of a nature that could not he hid. ilis integrity was unimpeachable and as his good judgment was held by most right thinking people to be faultless, neighbors frequently came to him lor advice in business as on social and religious matters, and as lie was always willing to give his good offices whenever he had reason to hope that he could be of service, it would be difficult to estimate the value ol' his influence. Mr. Faulkner was probably best and most widely known on account of his ability as a farmer and on account of his love and talent for vocal music. As a farmer he had few equals, and no superiors in his neighborhood. He believed in the sound old principle of first raising all his supplies at home and then his cotton as a surplus. He was an authority on wheat, corn, hog and cattle raising and his methods had a valuable influence on the splendid neighborhood in which he lived. One of the greatest pleasures of his life was to meet with people who loved to sing and practice with them on tne Psalms. He had a splendid voice, and as the result of years of painstaking cultivation was a sweet singer. Mr. Faulkner was happily married about thirty-five years ago to Miss Sallie McElwee, a most lovable lady, who proved a worthy helpmeet until her death Just twelve years ago. She was survived by eight children, all of whom are still living as follows: J. Frank Faulkner, Mrs. J. S. Rainey, Mrs. W. C. Thompson, Mrs. R. A. Lummus, Miss Reola Faulkner, Miss Kate Faulkner, William M. Faulkner, Lesslie Faulkner. The funeral was largely attended not only by the people of the immediate neighborhood: but by many friends and acquaintances from throughout the surrounding country. The services were conducted by Rev. R, M. Stevenson, assisted by Revs. J. L. Oates and E. B. Hunter. THE FLOWER SHOW. The annual chrysanthemum show of the Floral Society of the Presbyterian church, was opened in the court house this morning with a varied and beautiful array of exhibits, surpassing in some respects, all previous shows. Before the opening of the doors, the judges consisting of Mrs. J. K. Alston, Mrs. J. S. Brice and Miss Bessie Barron, made a critical examination of all the exhibits and awarded prizes as follows: Best collection of chrysanthemums? | Mrs. W. H. Herndon. Second best collection of chrysanthemums?Mrs. G. H. O'Leary. Five best whites?Mrs. W. G. White. Five best yellows?Miss Margaret McCorkle. Five best creams?Miss Daisy Hart. Five best reds?Mrs. J. S. Mackorell. Five best pinks?Miss Daisy Hart. Five best bronzes?Mrs. W. G. White. Best single bloom?Mrs. J. S. Mackorell. Best single rose?Mrs. T. F .McDow. Best collection roses?Mrs. S. M. McNeel. Best collection potted plants?Miss Rose Hunter. Best maiden hair fern?Mrs. W. H. McCorkle. Best fern, other than maiden hair? Miss Jennie Russell. Best Potted Plants?Miss Rose Hunter. In connection with the exhibits, the ladies have booths for the sale of candy, fancy articles and dolls. All of these are doing a good business. They are also serving delightful meals. The prizes will be awarded tonight, and there will also be presented a laughable farce-comedy, entitled "Seeking a Servant." LOCAL HEALTH RULES. A case Involving the enforcement of the rules of the local board of health came up before Mayor Hart and a jury last Wednesday, and as the hearing resulted in a mistrial, the question of final settlement Is still pending. Dr. W. G. White is the defendant, and he is charged in a warrant, issued by Mayor Hart on the affidavit of Mr. R. E. Montgomery, wun naving violated rule 5 of the health regulations, which rule requires all practicing physicians in the town to report all | contagious diseases occurring within the limits of their respective practices within twenty-four hours after such cases develop. The defendant was represented by J. IS. Brice, Esq., and the town, which | prosecuted the case by W. W. Lewis, Esq., the town attorney, i According to the charge which the town undertook to make out, Dr. [ White had knowledge of a case of diphtheria in his practice at one of the cotton mills, and he had failed to report the same to Mr. Qulnn Wallace, secretary of the hoard of health within the twenty-four hours prescribed in the rule. There was no attempt on the part of the defendant to deny the facts set forth in the foregoing statement; hut by way of defense the defendant set up that upon returning from his visit to the patient, he told Mr. B. M. Johnson that he had come upon a case#of diphtheria and Requested Mr. Johnson to inform the secretary of the hoard VinnWVi \fr TAVinann n Afl tn transmit the information, and the defendant made no further efforts to pet | the matter to the hoard until Monday morninp, when he told Health Officer W. R. Peters. The testimony of Dr. Miles Walker, physician of the board, was to the effect that upon beinp advised by Officer Peters of the case of contapious disease, he went to Dr. White to pet further information, especially as to whether the patient was attendinp school or belonged to a family in which there were children, who were attendinp school. Durinp the interview, Dr. Walker asked Dr. White why the had not reported the case within the time prescribed by the rule, and Dr. White used language that Dr. Walker construed as denreI eating the value and importance of the board of health, and this deprecation it appeared from Dr. Walker's testimony was the real cause of the prosecution. Questions by defendant's counsel developed the fact that the relations between Drs. White and Walker were not particularly cordial, though each asserted that he did not regard the other as an enemy. Dr. Walker sought to make it clear that his purpose in instituting the prosecution was to compel the observance of the rule requiring the prompt reporting of all cases of contagious diseases. Mr. B. M. Johnson corroborated Dr. White's statement to the effect that Dr. White had requested him to report the case to the board of health, and this testimony was met by testimony of the prosecution to the effect that at the time Dr. White reported to Mr. Johnson, Mr. Wallace, the secretary of the board of health was In his office less than a hundred yards away. The prosecution argued that the personal relations between the two physicians, whatever these relations may have been or now are, have nothing whatever to do with the case; that the only Inquiry for the Jury was whether or not the defendant had willfully and negligently disregarded the rule in question. In charging the Jury, Mayor Hart stated that If Mr. B. M. Johnson had transmitted the defendant's report within the time prescribed by the rule, then the defendant would be held to have complied with the law: but for any failure on the part of Mr. Johnson in the matter, the defendant himself was clearly responsible. After a pretty full hearing, which included the testimony of several oth..-III,..??,.? two referred to. the case was piven to a Jury of six, which after an attempt to reach a verdict finally reported its inability to apree, and a mistrial was ordered. The jury, it is understood, stood f? to 1 for the defendant. As to whether there will be another effort to pet a verdict in the case will depend upon the disposition of the prosecution. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Manager Johnson's next attraction , Is the biggest minstrel show that trav- i els the south. It is to he here on No- : vember 7, and people are already be- 1 coming as much interested as if there were to be a circus. ? When cotton was selling at 14^ the local ginnery was so busy that during several days it ginned and packed almost a hundred bales a day. It was actually amusing to see two wagons coming to the gin from opposite directions and racing to get tirst into the gin yard gate. But when the price oegan 10 go uown, me rusn sunsided, and although the ginning has still been going on steadily, the daily output has not been so heavy as it was. ? At the annual meeting of the Winnie Davis Chapter U. D. C. last Friday, officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: Mrs. J. J. Hunter, president; Miss Mary Williams, vice president; Mrs. W. H. Herndon, recording secretary; Miss Bessie Barron, corresponding secretary; Mrs. S. M. McNeel, historian; Mrs. J. S. Jones, treasurer; Mrs. S. C. Ashe, registrar. Mrs. J. J. Hunter and Mrs. R. M. Bratton were elected delegates to the state convention at Georgetown. The chapter pledged $50 to assist in the erection of the Capers Memorial to be erected on the grounds of the Church Home Orphanage, Yorkville. ? There has been a good deal of local talk ahout the case of the town of Yorkville against Dr. W. G. White for alleged disregard of the health rules. As is common and natural in a community like this, there are those who do not hesitate to say that the case has its basis in personal feeling; but there are about as many people on one side of the matter as the other. For instance the number of people who will say that Dr. Walker instituted the case against Dr. White because of "professional jealousy" will fie offset by the number of people who will say that Dr. White neglected to report to the board of health for reasons of "professional jealousy." It is not up to us to consider the matter from this standpoint. The condition is merely mentioned because it is a condition. We don't mean to say professional jealousy is a condition: but we mean to say that the partisans of the two physicians make charges of this kind each ae-ainst the other, and In so doing lose sight of an issue that is of real importance to the community. It is a fact that the board of health has been a laughing stock for a good many years up until the present board took charge. It is a fact also that the present board performed splendid service a few years ago during the smallpox enidemic. The chairman ana otner members of the board pave their time and ran great personal risk. There are those who would minimize the risk maybe: but the members of the board had every reason to believe that they were incurring: risk, and they acquitted themselves with grreat credit. This board has also done more and better sanitary work than any other board has ever done. It is pretty grenerally conceded that a rigrld quarantine that was established against an epidemic of whooping cough some months ago. stopped that epidemic in short order. It is possible that the action of the board saved some lives. The quarantine against diphtheria was rigidly maintained, and so far as has come under the observation of The Enquirer no favoritism was shown by the board on account of the real or fancied prominence of any of the peonle who were inconvenienced. That the operations of the board are absolutely effective is hardly to be claimed: but it will have to be admitted by all reasonable people that considering the fact that the service is voluntary, (with the one miserable exception of free light and water,) much has been accomplished. As to what will be the outcome cf this narlicular case, whether the defendant should or should not be convicted is not ours to say. We are not concerned about that. But whatever the personal feeling between Prt. Walker anr. White, whether there be such feeling or not, if there is reason to believe that the law has been violated, that the health rules are ignored, then it is the duty of the town to enforce respect for its laws and its health rules, and it is the duty of every citizen who Is worthy of the name to lend his support to that end. DOUBLE ENTRY ANNOYANCES. If somebody could invent a way to get rid of so many double entries as "*?tho tov hooks, the auditor and treasurer of York county would be under lasting obligations, and the probability is that every other auditor and treasurer in the state would be equally grateful. The double entry nuisance is the plague of the lives of those charged with the duties of the tax collecting department, from the auditor on through to the sheriff's deputies, and all have a dose of the trouble each year with but little, if any improvement. When the sheriff goes out in the late spring to levy tax executions, he gets kicks from three out of four of the people against whom the executions are directed, and in nine cases out of ten the kickers are found to be able to sustain their ground. For instance the sheriff has an execution against George Wilson in Bethesda township. He does not know George Wilson personally; but upon inquiry finds that there is a George Wilson on Mr. J. J. Williams's place, and is also assured that there is no other George Wilson in the county. Having found George, therefore, he demands the amount of the delinquent tax, con~J - * ~ ~*1 o haII "H ppntQ fnr fl SISllIlK Ul ? 1 IUI CA. puil| ? dog, 30 cents on personalty, with penalties and cost added. George promptly declares that he has already paid his tax and Mr. Williams has the receipt. Mr. Williams is appealed to, and promptly produces a receipt that the treasurer pave him for S. G. Wilson, covering taxes to the amount of $1.80 ?the poll, the dog and the personalty. It is evident that S. G. Wilson and 1 George Wilson are the same man, because the amounts assessed tally to a ( cent. Or maybe the amount charged i against George Wilson is only $1 for j the poll and 50 cents for his dog. The deputy is just as well satislied as before, because he sees it is a double en- ' try and understands how it came < about. S. G. Wilson is left alone, the < sheriff reports to the treasurer and the '< treasurer makes the proper entry. i Mr. J. J. Williams, however, has a kick, and so has S. G. Wilson, because i both knowing as they do that the tax I had been paid long ago, they cannot I understand why they should be both- i ered again, unless somebody has been ' making an unnecessary bungle of their I business. i Later on, Mr. Williams might take ' it upon himself to go and have a round I out of the auditor about the matter I O U Una a npr font rip-lit tr> do. and he i will go about it something like this: i "See here, I made my return to you I last February a year ago, and at the t same time I made a return for S. G. r Wilson on my place. I paid my taxes i and also Wilson's in December, and i here the other day the sheriff came trying to collect Wilson's taxes again, f What does this mean?" r The auditor, who sees through the I whole trouble at once, explains that while he remembers very well that S. 1 G. Wilson's return was made at the > proper time, and the books so show. < there afterward came one of the trustees of the school district In which S, G. Wilson lives and with a bunch of other people, who he said were liable s to polls gave the name of "George Wil- t son." If it was not the school trustee, I who gave in the name, then maybe it s was the township supervisor, who was r making sure of his road tax. "I knew ) I had a S. G. Wilson on the book in t that school district," explains the au- c ditor; but I had no way of knowing that S. G. Wilson and George Wilson f were one and the same man. The ? 3chool trustee could not tell me?all he knew was that the man went by the name of George Wilson, and having no way to find out, I just put hint down at that. If I had not so entered him _ and it had afterward turned out that there is a George Wilson and a S. G. J' Wilson also, then George Wilson would J have escaped entirely, and the trustee would have been on me to know what *: the trouble was." 3 Of course from the auditor, the books go over to the treasurer, and that offi- > elal has nothing to do but to handle 1 the names as he finds them. He writes c a receipt for every man against whom I taxes are charged, and although he c may have two receipts against the r same man, he cannot collect but one of t them, and neither can he send out an I execution against a man who has a receipt for that particular execution. When the tax of S. O. Wilson was paid, S. O. Wilson's receipt went to Mr. Williams, and there was nothing on the book to warrant an execution against S. G. Wilson. The George Wilson receipt remained on the book and the execution was issued against George simply because the tax had not been paid. Rut how to correct the troubles described is a problem. It is sometimes suggested that there should be legislation: but just what legislation is needed does not appear. If like Mr. Williams, the school trustee or the tornshlp supervisor hatf given Wilson's full initials the double entry would have been detected at the outset; but very probably the school trustees did not know Wilson except by the name of George, and they let It go at that. Maybe it would be a good idea for the auditor to decline to put names on the tax books at all for another person unless the other person can give assurance that he has the names correct. That would sa a lot of annoyance not only in the offices of the auditor, treasurer and sheriff: but also to citizens who may have complied fully with all the requirements of the law. LOCAL LACONICS. Pickpockets Busy. Pickpockets did a thriving business in the big circus crowd at Gastonia last Tuesday. There are, of course, scores of pickpockets, who follow big shows like this regularly, and they found a rich harvest. Several were caught red-handed and arrested and there were a number of other arrests on suspicion. ^ - I? t iL. cicI ipso OT (no rnuuri. A total eclipse of the moon Is scheduled to take place on November 16. and will be visible here. The moon enters the penumbra at 4.46 p. m., enters the shadow at 5.44 p. m., and will be total from 6.55 p. m. to 7.47 p. m. This is the last eclipse of the sun or moon for the year 1910, visible in this country. Dead Body of Infant. Coroner Louthian went to Rock Hill Wednesday, to make some investigations in connection with the finding of a prematurely born, nude Infant in a railroad cut In the northern outskirts of the city the day previous. The infant, which was of white parentage, was found by a negro man who reported the matter to the authorities at once. The body was lying within a few feet of the track, and although va- ' rious theories have been advanced as ' to how It may have gotten there, no < facts were developed. One suggestion I is that the body may have been thrown 1 from a passing train; but that is only < a suggestion. Death of Mrs. Mary Turner. Mrs. Mary Turner, died at the home < of her brother-in-law, Mr. George R. 1 Wallace, on the Charlotte road, four i miles northeast of Yorkville yesterday I morning. The deceased, whose maiden i name was Forbes, was the widow of I the late James Turner, \vho died April i < AAA TVI.MImm /\f V* A f ImO uliu'.i I ?V, 1?UV. UUl Illg lliuai <>i hie mi.v. nu.vv the death of her husband, she has been i making: her home with the family of ; Mr. Wallace. She was a member of Beth-Shiloh church, and was known and loved throughout the neighborhood in which she lived, because of the work she did ministering to the sick and helping the distress. She leaves no children. The funeral took place at Beth-Shiloh today. Sentence of Garrison Commuted. Governor Ansel has commuted the , sentence of J. H. Garrison who killed Louis Williamson of York county in his tGarrison's) home at Gray Court in 1 1907. Williamson was visiting Oarri- I son's daughter to whom he was en- * caged to be married, and Garrison . thinking that the young man was tak- ' ing undue liberties, fired at him < through the parlor window from the I outside. In commuting the sentence, J Governor Ansel wrote on the back of < the petition: "This defendant's time is < out on November 6, 1910. The petition ? asked that his time be commuted to this date in order that he might be < with his mother on her 82nd birth- ( day on October 28, 1910. For this rea- t son and in mercy to the defendant the t sentence of J. H. Garrison is com- 1 muted to this date." < C. & N.-W. Shops. j Chester Reporter: Although no an- ] nouneement has yet been made as to where the C. & N.-W. Rwy. shops are to be built. Chester's chances for securing the shops seem to be growing brighter every day. Gastonia has withdrawn its offer, or rather General Manager T. L. Nichols has declined the offer; Llncolnton has also withdrawn Its offer: and Newton has been informed by Col. Nichols that a proposition from Newton will not be entertained. Hickory is about the only town remaining in the lists against Chester; and as Hickory Is rear the northern terminus of the road the same objections that apply to Chester also apply to Hickory, and the North Carolina town has but little. if any. advantage over Chester. Col. Nichols was in Hickory Tuesday looking over the situation. He Is in Chester today, but says that the C. & N'.-W. Is not yet ready to make any 1 announcement as to the location of * the shops. s MILITARY EXPENDITURES. t t A Request For Information as to What jj Goes With the Money. v Ten days ago the State directed at- 1 tentlon to where it conceived to exist b one leak in the fund to promote rifle c practice. Attention was called to the g allegation that officers drawing per a diem, respectively, of $9.72, $11.11 I and $16.67, attended the rifle shoots t and got the pay without shooting a p rltle or having any business on the c ground. e The State also asked the plain ques- 7 tlon whether those officers or other ti officers, without warrant of business or duty, attended rifle practice shoots F tnd encampments, and draw pay for , rank. The officers of the three ranks, c origadier general, colonel, and lieu- p tenant colonel, referred to in (he first paragraph above, were mentioned by [j name ten days ago. but no word has ^ ome from them or from any ono of n hem, and no effort has been made to j eply to the question propounded, p Phat fact is surprising. Has money T jeen improperly drawn from the rifle ^ practice fund and diverted to private ? icneflt? Has the money of the other t] nllltary funds. Intended for the bene- t] it of the young soldiers and. through C) hem. for the benefit of the state and g. ountry. been wasted or improperly lT jsed? Sooner or later those questions a vill have to be answered. c] South Carolina now gets annually j{ 'mm the national government for aid q >f the National Guard: L "or dress, equipment and K camp purposes $26,407.01 0] "or rifle practice 8.802.53 t( upplies 14.640.67 L Ammunition 10,871.40 r V Total $60,722.21 r It is the duty of the legislature to c ee that this money Is properly ex- s ended. It is given the state for the q lenefit of the militia and every dollar c hould be spent fur the benefit of the nilitla. It should be possible for the y pie?and particularly the militia? o o know how the expenditures are ac- Jj ounted for. rt There should be no objection to the H idlest publicity.?Columbia State v< Editorial. k? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Greenville, October 25: In conseuence of a request from the Columbia >ar, Judge Brawley has ordered the egular term of district court, which ras to have been held at Columbia the irst Tuesday in November postponed ill the third Tuesday. Notice of the hange in date has been mailed to all urors. ? Spartanburg, October 25: A 17 ear-old boy has broken all records cnown at present of raising a big corn rop In Spartanburg county. Earle klcAbee entered the Boy's Corn club ontest and fulfilled all of the requirenents. His crop was measured by hree judges and found to be 118 mshels. He lives about four miles rom tms city. .>o otner yieia nas >oen gathered that will compare with his one of the youngster. ? Hampton, October 27: Harold Norton, former bookkeeper and teller of the local bank, was today acluitted by the Hampton county court >f the charge of breach of trust and arceny after trust. Horton was charged with being short in his accounts >ver $1,300. At the trial today he estifiod that he was forced to sign a etter of confession at the point of a )istol. Horton is quite prominent In his section. He was a popular young man and his trial attracted unusual itter.tion. A large part of the audi>nce at the trial was composed of lalies, it being estimated that fully a naif hundred were present. ? Spartanburg Herald: John M. , Kirby, a prosperous farmer at Pacoet, has found a terrapin which he ran icross twice before?the first time wenty-flve years ago. About Septemjer. 1885, Mr. Kirby encountered the :ortoise and marked the initials "J. K." on its back and turned it loose. Eight years later the same terrapin was again found within less than 200 ^ards of where it was first found. It was carried about a quarter of a mile tnd released. Last Saturday Mr. Kirby found it the second time within 200 yards of where it was first found. It is now in the possession of Mr. Kirby, who thinks of bringing it to the ?ounty fair. He says It does not appear to be any older or larger than when he first found It. The land was not cleared in 1885, but has been dnce. ? Greenwood, October 26: The case igainst young B. F. King, Jr., son of P. F. King of Coronaca, has been iropped by the Federal authorities. \ formal order to that effect was sign?d by Judge Brawley in Greenville :his week. Mr. King was represent?d by S. H. McGhee, of Greenwood, ind Cothran, Dean and Cothran, of Grreenvllle. Mr. King will return to =!an Francisco to complete his term nf enlistment in the navy, about foureen months. It will be remembered nat ne was arrested m San Francisco 'ome months ago at the instigation of Postoffice Inspector Gregory In connection with the old Metropolitan Loan and Trust company, of Greenwood, of which W. H. Nichols was the head. Nichols who was located n Oklahoma, has Just been tried and convicted out there of a ffaudulent scheme in selling oil stoves for fruit rrowers. Nichols, who was operating tnder the name of Jackson in Oklahoma, and who denied that he had ?ver been to Greenwood, finally adnltted on trial that he had been here ind that his real name was W. J. S'ichols. ? Greenville dispatch of Wednesday: Five years in the Atlanta penitentiary is the sentence Imposed tolay on Milton A. Carlisle, former president of the Newberry National sank, who was convicted last week >n five counts of an indictment allegng misapplication of the funds of the institution. The sentence was passed by Judge Brawley when court convened this morning, the motion Tor a new trial having been argued ind refused yesterday afternoon. Notice of appeal was given by the attorney for the defense. This appeal is to the circuit court of appeals, which meets three times a year in Richmond, Va. It is not believed that the ippeal will be brought up until the May session of that court. The defendant was given an extension of time to 60 days to get up his bill of ixceptlons. It is possible that the :ase may be taken to the supreme ;ourt of the United States. It is reported on good authority that indictments will be made out in the near 'uture against three other directors pf this bank who are associated with _?i note in me ancgru wuiiupi iiaiis* ictIon8. ? Monck's Corner. Octobej 26: Dallas V. Cam, a magistrate of this county. who was arrested a short time igo, charged with the murder of lames Varner. was given a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Wilier here today and was discharged 'rom custody. Julius Dangerfleld, lointly charged with Cam and arrested at the same time, was held for the ;ourt of general sessions which will *onvene here on Monday, November r. Special Detective Thompson, who vas sent by Gov. Ansel to investigate the facts, as a result of which the two irrests were made, will leave here in the morning to make his report to the chief executive. At about 11 j'clock on the night of September 18, lames Varner, a negrc, living in the neighborhood of the Cam's Cross Rnflris QPctlnn tvnq PDIIPH tA hlo ind upon opening It was riddled with mckshot. The dastardly affair exited the indignation of the peaceoving members of the community md some one wrote to the governor, vlth the result that the governor or- J lered the investigation. It is not yet cnown what further action will be tak?n in the matter by the state. ? Lancaster, October 26: M. F. inight who removed from Lancaster :o Rock Hill some two or three years tgo, committed suicide yesterday in he Primus section of this county, vhere he had been spending a few lays with his son, Leonard Knight. He vas last seen alive at 10 o'clock yesteriay morning at his son's home, when t le appeared bright and cheerful. At " nidday when his son and others reurned from the fields Mr. Knight ould not be found about the premises ind a search was instituted for him. finally his dead body was discovered uspended by a plow line around his leek from the branch of a tree in a ?ody of woods about 150 yards from he house. Coroner King of Lancaster teing notified held an inquest yesterlay evening, the verdict of the jury vas that the man came to his death by lis own hands. Knight had been in >ad health for some time, having reently been under treatment for pella;ra. He was 59 years old and leaves . family. He was a brother of D. A. ^ Cnight who was elected magistrate at he Lancaster cotton mills in the late rimary. He was a good, law-abiding itizon and had many friends in this ounty, where he was born and reared. 'he burial was at Flat Creek church oday. J ? One hundred and thirteen white tepublicans met in Columbia yester!ay for the purpose of organizing a legroless Republican party in South 'arolina. John G. Capers, national tepublican committeeman directed the roceedings. York county was repreented bv I. H. Xorris. J. F. Jenkins. G. Moser, G. W. Stegall. There were o delegates from Charleston, Colleton, j )orchester, Edgefield, Georgetown, * lampton, Lee, Marlboro or Saluda. J. Moser of Fort Mill was elected xeeutive committeeman for the Fifth longressional district. It was resolved hat there would be no nominations his year; but in 1912 there would be andidates for congress in every con- | ressional district. Following are the lembers of the various committees ppointed by Mr. Capers as temporary hairman: Credentials?L. W. C. Bla>ck, Laurens county; A. O. Varnes, rangeburg; John Hart. Snartanburc: >. J. Tucker, Marion; Jno. Cantey, lershaw; Jos. Corbet. Bamberg. Reslutions and Organizations?L. D. Mel>n, Richland county; J. W. Shell, aurens; G. W. Nobles, Orangeburg: ;, A. Hannon, Spartanburg; E. B. raggoman, Sumter; O. E. Hutchison, ^ ichland; V. P. Clayton, Fairfield. ommittee on Platform?Geo. F. Fox, umter county; W. H. Cox, Oconee: has. Dudley, Cherokee; F. C. Cain, alhoun: J. A. Bramlett. Greenville; [. M. Scott, Fairfield; I. H. Norris: ork. Committee on Nominations? ? eo. R. Mayfield, Greenville county; is. F. Jenkins, York: Emanuel Cock-11, Lexington; Jas. Boyd, Laurens: J. . Williams, Newberry; Jno. MeCra?y, Richland; Chas. Dudley, Chero?e.