Scraps anil facts. !{ er ? That barges of the Carnegie Steel ca company are soon to partly restore the in supremacy of the Mississippi river In bl the great water trade of years ago is Information which has been received in ?( New Orleans. It is stated on good au- y, thority that the company is building tl; several steel barges to put into the _ trade. They will soon be placed on the river to carry steel rails from Pittsburg to this point for distribution. If enough interest can be awakened in E the northern trade, the navigation of the two great streams, the Ohio and 1 the Mississippi, will be re-established. ? With the California-Atlantic steamship line already in operation from San Francisco to this point, the opening of the Panama canal would mean an un- 4 Hrr>t<-on wntpr route from Pittsburg, ? Pa., to San Francisco, with the barges J in operation. \ ? The rebuilding of Messina in durable masonry was inaugurated Monday when the cornerstone of the group of public buildings to be erected by the municipality was laid by Signor Sacchi, minister of public works; Signor Cluffelli, minister of posts and tele- _ graphs and other members of the government. The ceremony was witnessed by a great assemblage and aroused tc much enthusiasm and new hope for the future. The temperature was B spring-like, the sun was bright and the city was more gay than it had been since it was devastated by the earthquake of December, 1908. The minis- 1,1 ters visited the temporary wooden qi structures that were put up for the 's housing of the homeless thousands following the calamity and were especially pleased to note how well the buildings erected by subscriptions from ? America were preserved. The new H city will be built of stone and con- 's crete. The ministers go from Messina to Reggie, where there will be a similar ceremony formally opening the work of reconstruction. gc ? Aggregating almost J3,500,000,000, O the total value of the foreign trade of ^ the United States during the year fc which ended December 31, 1910, was greater than that of any year ever be- tj. fore, and left a balance in favor of the country* of over $300,000,000. They exceeded the former high record of 1907 a, by about $80,000,000. This great total is the value of the combined exports g( and imports of the country as com- ^ puted by the bureau of statistics of the e(i department of commerce and labor. ? m Besides this new record, another record was broken during 1910 in the value of imports from abroad. They amounted to $1,562,807,622. The exports during the year were larger than in any year except those of 1907, the g( total being $1,864,411,270, compared b with $1,923,426,892 in 1907. The balance of trade in favor of the United es States in its dealings with foreign na- dj tions Increased almost $50,000,000 over the 1909 balance. The excess of exports over Imports for the year was $301,603,648, compared with $252,677,921 *C in 1909. I V*J ? A measure providing: for a limited js parcels post on rural free delivery jf routes was reported favorably to the ta senate from the committee on postof- tjflees and post roads last Friday. The report was presented by Senator Burrows, and was the unanimous action bi of the committee. The measure was sj that recommended by Postmaster Gen- r( eral Hitchcock, after he had made an exhaustive study of the parcels post problem as applied to rural free deliv- a, ery routes. It provides, in substance, h< that for one year, beginning April 1, hi 1911, the postmaster general may au- tfc thorize postmasters and carriers on it such rural routes as he shall select, b{ to accept for delivery by carrier, at ra such rates of postage as he shall de- p] termine, packages not to exceed eleven pounds in weight, containing no mail matter of the first class, ana no maun r that is declared by law to be unmailable. The results of this experiment s the postmaster general is directed to report to congress at its next session. a Postmaster General Hitchcock and the ti experts of the postofflce department who have investigated the subject, m earnestly favor the establishment of the parcels post system on rural free p; delivery routes. In a discussion of the w subject Friday, Mr. Hitchcock pointed C? out the immense value of such a ser- tj vice to business interests and to the aj people of the country, particularly tr those who reside in rural districts. ? Pekin, January 16: Reports from Harbin say Chinese there are vigor- w ously opposing the summary disposi- . tion of the bodies of those who have died from the bubonic plague. The If authorities do not dare to burn the c< bodies, the people desiring that they w, remain intact so that their ancestors . may recognize them in the future life. iK They also oppose the burning of houses tl though some of them contain the bod- a! ies of entire families. Some of the corpses have remained in the city for days, but they are now being taken to tc the open country, where trenches for a their burial have been prepared. It h) is reported that the Russians in Harbin ' are not concerning themselves with the al Chinese section, although they are ct dealing drastically with the Chinese k, within the Russian city. The Chinese newspapers are raising an outcry and 1 bringing forward serious charges of w persecution and burial alive. Members ai of the legations, who constantly rec- jr ommended measures to the government, are suggesting a censorship of the L press. The plague is of a very virulent si type. Deaths usually occur within 48 ft hours and not more than one per cent of the cases have ended in recovery. Dr. G. E. Mesney, a French physician who gave himself up to the work of 1T] combating the disease, died heroically. When he realized he was attacked by J< the plague, he isolated himself in his w room in a hotel, drafted his will and tl wrote farewell letters. He begged his friends not to notify his wife of his ! illness, and died alone. All the doctors u: recognized the hopelessness of attend- si ing to those stricken, and they are devoting their energies to fighting the spread of the contamination. 11 ? Millions of pounds of butter, eggs, a! cheese and poultry held in the cold oi storage warehouses, says a Chicago p dispatch, will he thrown on the market , before May 1 and a general tumbling of food prices is expected at once, accord- tl ing to commission merchants. Numer- a ous Chicago commission men are said to be facing failure as a result of their efforts to maintain an artificial price on the necessities of life. The inability o further to hold this price is said to oe u due to a combination of circumstances, chief of which are the open winter of 1911 and the bumper crops of 1910. a Three commission men failed in the ri last week as a result of holding great 81 quantities of butter, which they purchased and were unable to market for ol more than 27 or 2S cents per pound, si While the wholesale prices of butter and eggs have dropped decidedly within the last few weeks there has as yet been no decline in the retail prices. ? Much of the produce which is to be o unloaded on a falling market has been p in the warehouse for as long as five years. By means of cold storage com- 81 mission men have been able to main- \\ tain an artificial price not only to the S( consumer, but to the producer, it is .{ said. No public warehouse report is. ever made here and the exact amount j 1' of produce in the hands of the Chicago j tl firms can not be estimated. Thirty-two j warehouses are known to have 44,000,000 pounds of butter, eggs and poultry. w Men familiar with the market say ft would be Impossible to say whether was only a small percentage of the itire amount. The increased sale of eomargarlne is given as an added iuse for the situation, the comission men now find themselves facg thousands of consumers who, unae to pay the price at which butter is been held, have become users of eomargarine. Butter is six cents a jund lower wholesale than it was a ?ar ago, and is selling at the lowest ?urt'S in several veais. ar before. Comptroller General Jones has ex essed the opinion that there are ore than a million acres of land in Mith fnrnlina that are not on the tax >oks. We have no idea as to the facts xm which the comptroller bases his itimate; but we are not inclined to spute the assertion. It is proposed to amend the high hool law so as to give the towns of 500 population, and over, equal admtages with the smaller towns. It argued that the present law is manestly unjust for the reason that it ixes larger aggregations of wealth for le benefit of smaller aggregations. We do not see any need why the ill referring to the county home lould go beyond the understanding ached at the conference on the first Wednesday after tne nrst monuay m tnuary. The idea then was to give jthority for the sale of all the county jme farm with the exception of one andred acres. We do not understand lat it was the intention of the majory of those present to throw down the irs to the questions that might be tised by authority to sell the whole ace. This paragraph is from the Houston ost: "In an editorial on the legislature, a ntence was written: 'Whatever might uid to make the law more certain in le punishment of crime would evoke full measure of public commendaon.' The powers in the composing >om that sit in judgment upon the ork of this department changed 'comendation' to 'condemnation.'" Although expressing our fullest symithy for the Post in its troubles, hich are common to even the most ireful of newspapers, we are somemes inclined to inquire whether after 1 the sentence was not nearer the uth as the compositor fixed it. Dispatches from Chicago and elsehere, seem to intimate that the era of igh prices for foodstuffs is at an end. ) a nutshell, the proposition is that >mmission men have been putting utter, eggs, chickens and other foods t cold storage, and holding them off le market in such systematic manner 3 to enable the purchase of supplies om producers at a lower price and > sell to consumers at a higher price, t a result the quantity of stored stuff as accumulated beyond any reasonble hope of demand, and the available tpital to keep up the game having . en exhausted, the great deal must jllapse with the result that consumers ill at last get their due. If the facts re as stated, the result predicted is tevitable. But the poor consumer! et us see how soon he realizes a conjmmation so devoutly to be wished >r. From a careful reading of the testilony given in the trial of John J. jnes for the killing of Abe Pearlstine. e have arrived at the conclusion that le outcome was abstract justice about s nearly as the same can be meas red. There is no good reason, it ;ems to us, why the killing should ave occurred; but when we try to fix ie blame we are inclined to lay about 3 much of it on one of the parties as [i the other. If the two men had been roperly considerate of each other, ley could have probably adjusted leir differences without a listicuff even, ud without the loss of any self resect. The tragedy and all its pitiable jnsequenccs have been the result of bstinacy on the part of both parties, nd that is about all there is to it. he verdict of the jury is about right ud the sentence of the court is about ght. The general result, if allowed to land, will help the cause of law and rder in Orangeburg county and in the tate. Senator Carlisle of Spartanburg, has otten through a bill that allows the wners of farms to register the same y name and prevent infringement on uch registration. There are those ho think that there is a romantic mtiment in this idea that is more or ss foolish; but we do not agree with lem. We think the idea is good. If le nouse allows senator carnsu- s i>iii ) go through as we hope it will, we ould like to see every York county irm registered. The thing strikes us as being very practical and calculate! to bring practical results. Rivalry h the productiveness, convenience ani beauty of farms is calculated to con tribute to the glory of the county ani state and the naming of farms is cal culated to promote this rivalry. O course, it is understood that the bil KAntomnlalP nnv onmDUlsio UVVO Ituv VVi>lbitt|/.uv? a about the matter. It merely seeks t allow those who desire to register th names of their farms to do so, and I they make those names of value t protect them in the enjoyment of tha which they themselves have created. The Late L. M. Grist. Last Sunday was an anniversar that the publishers of The Enquirer ar loath to allow to go by without som mention?the anniversary of the deat of the late Capt. L. M. Grist, wh passed away on January 15, 1903, eigh years ago. The life of Captain Grist was no flawless by any means, but living a he did during a most trying period i the history of his country?in a perio the duties and responsibilities c which were illuminated by few prece dents of value outside of the eterns principle that holds aloft righteousnes and truth as the only safe guide, h measured well up to the highest stand ards that were attained by the best c his fellows. In his public career, Capt. Grist wa confronted by many problems tha were well calculated to try the boldes heart?where to do right threatene danger of bodily harm and financia ruin?where his conception of the dut of the hour brought him in direct an tagonism to the plans of others wh were as honest and as patriotic as he but from which duty his conscienc would not allow him to deviate. Captain Grist lived to have man; of the people who had honestly an patriotically differed with him, tell hir that they were wrong and that h was right. He lived to see his view and conduct vindicated in things 1 which he had followed the dictates o an honest conscience; but about th correctness of which he could not b absolutely sure until vindicated b results. That he made mistakes, there is n doubt. He lived to see some of ther and to acknowledge them, a thing h was ever willing to do when convince! that he was wrong, for the rule of hi life was not personal triumph or gain hut rather the furtherance of the prin ciples of eternal right. The present publishers of The En quirer have no hesitation in confessini that consideration of the life of th late Capt. Grist is a source of pride t them; they believe in the principle he sought to teach them, and they con tinue to try to uphold those principle! to the best of their humble ability feeling at all time that if this paper re mains worthy of its founder, it wil never be unworthy of the people fo whom it is published. More People For South Carolina. If there is one thing more than an other that South Carolina can do to he material advantages just now, it is t join in with the railroads in that pro posed campaign to secure home builder from the middle west, and we sincere ly hope that the general assembly wil be able to give this subject intelligen consideration at its present session. Tt has been nroDosed that Sout! Carolina put up $10,000 a year for th next three years to be used togethe with $25,000 a year contributed by th railroads for the purpose of thorough ly advertising the advantages of thi state where that advertising will d the most good, and it is believed tha as the result of this advertisement w can secure large reinforcements o good American citizens to help us in work in which we are making splen did progress, but in which as yet w have only scraped the surface for th reason that the situation calls for th help of many hundred times mor hands than are now available. As to why the middle west peopl have not drifted down this way o 'their own accord it is hardly wort while to try to explain. All our peo pie are more or less familiar with tha' and those who understand that under stand equally well that the old condi iinna nn lfineer exist. that there is n longer any reason why we do not wan these people and that there is no long er any reason why they would no want to come. The only thing that re mains is to acquaint them with condi tions that now exist in this countr with regard to the cheapness and pro ductiveness of our lands, the rapi strides we are making in the im provement of our educational facili ties, and our growing regard for an loyalty to law and order. The advantages South Carolina ca secure from the acquirement of a ma terial addition to her population fror the middle west are manifolc In the first place these people are gen erally intelligent, energetic, God fear ing folks, who make good citizen! They are industrious and economic* and know how to conserve the result of their labors. They do not knoi anything about raising cotton; bu they can learn if they want to. How ever, there is more or less doubt as t whether cotton would interest then for the reason that with their meth ods applied to a soil and climate lik ours they could produce more wealt from the crops to which they are ac customed tnan tney can irom conoi But this is not to be understood a suggesting what they will do. The will do very much like the rest of u except many of them will do better an show us how to do better, certainl much better than we were doing up t a few years ago. And can we get them? That will I easy. Our lands have increased i value during the past few years up t {25 and $30 an acre. Many of the mid die west farms with improvement! range in value from $150 to $200 a acre. When the children grow up i that part of the country it is frequent ly the case that they cannot get farm of their own for love or money. The have to move. The census return compared with ten years ago show thi they have been moving, and they hav been moving to other sections tha ours. They have been helping to ad to the progress and wealth of section that did not offer them anything lilt the advantages our section offers. 1 they had only known, they would hav come down this way. This matter of advertising the re sources of the state is one that is de manding immediate attention. W I need to look after it and look after i now. If we sit quiet other states ar going to take advantage of the sensa tion youth Carolina has been creatin l>y her remarkable progress during th past few years, and get these people t come to them on the argument tha they will be right next to the grea 3 state of South Carolina, and all a once we will be brought to realize wh [1 might have been if we had only be . up and doing and had not slept ov d our opportunities. f Even the Heathen Are Beating Ui II Editor Clarence Poe, of the Pr n gressive Farmer, who is making a to o through Asia furnishes some astonis e ing figures in the .last issue of his p If per as to Japan's educational progre o Although Japan's war taxes alone ( li account of her struggles with Chi and Russia and her present enormo I military expenditure) amount to t times the average tax rate in the sou Mr. Poe points out that the peo] s gladly tax themselves enough to pi vide for nearly every boy and girl e the empire, even those on the fam ^ Mr. Poe says: "These brown Mongolian farm ch t dren, whose land we opened to civi zation but fifty years ago, and wh( we thought of but yesterday as bac ward heathen?they are getting, as 8 general proposition, just twice as mu n schooling as is furnished in our sout d ern rural districts: their parents a f providing, in their zeal for their ch ' dren's welfare, just twice as good ed - cational facilities as we are giving o il southern farm boys and girls who be 8 in their veins the blood of a ra which has carried the flag of hum e progress for a thousand years, a - whom we are expecting to continue if be leaders in civilization and enligl enment. "In other words, so Dr. Matsui tc 3 me (and I went today to the Japane t national department of education ^ verify the fact), the Japanese fai boys and girls are getting ten montl a schooling a year, while the southe il farm boy or girl is getting only five y six months?and when I was in southern school fifteen years ago r nearly so much as that! Do you wo o der that I avoided telling the Japane ; educational officer just how our pr e vision for fa' n boys and girls coi pares with J> ,an's and that I also ne lected to tell him how we compare y the matter of utilizing school adva (j tages. when he showed me that of i the children between 6 and 14 in i 11 the empire of Japan the school atten ? ance is 98 per cent?98 out of every 1 s children of "school age" attendi n school, and in several provinces 11 ? 4 r\f\ mUl? ..^vn . out or every iui?. inuiy-nvc jc? '* ago the average school attendance e Japan was only 28, and In 1893 or e 59, but by the time of the war wi Russia it had passed 90, and since th ' has been climbing straight and stead toward the amazing maximum itse o the official figures showing a gain ol n per cent a year?94 per cent, then then 96, and then 97, and now 98, a: e the leaders are now ambitious for 99 d 100, as they told me today. s "And then in the matter of compi . sory attendance: when this officer ' an 'Inferior race* showed me that J - pan is so intent upon educating eve boy and girl in her borders that s compels attendance on the pub schools for eight years, I didn't tell hi S that in civilized America, the great e e lightened nation so long held up to hi 0 as a model, demagogues and othei on one pretext or anotner, have defea 8 ed almost every effort for effectl - compulsory education laws, in t south at least, and if a boy's parer r are indifferent to his future, the sta ' does not compel them to give him " fighting chance in life?for its o\ 11 sake and for the boy's. r "With these facts before me, as have said, I did not make any vai . glorious boasts of the great educatio al progress of our southern states the last twenty years; all the proud r ports I have heard at educational n - lies and conferences seemed someht r to collapse like punctured gas-bai However much progress we have mat 0 these brown Japanese 'brethren' ha - beaten us." MERE-MENTION. [j The owners of the Bagley Ray pea orchards, including 50,000 trees, ne 1 Americus, Ga., have decided to cut t trees down and plant the ground h cotton, because they have found th although they are able to produce fi fruit in immense quantities they a r unable to get the fruit on the market e a profit A fire, the orgin of whi . has not been ascertained, destroy thousands of pension records in the c 8 fice of the United States pension age o cy in the pension building at Washin t ton, last Friday A Savannah di patch says that the turpentine mark last Friday reached 82 cents a gallc the highest price on record. Rosin a also at the highest price it has reach . in the history of the market... .Lar numbers of negro laborers have be e run out of the neighborhood of As e burn, Ga., by posting of notices war e ing them that if they remained th would be lynched. The farmers ha tried to assure the negroes that th would be protected; but these assu e ances have failed to reassure ,f Frank Caffyn, a Wright aviator, h h opened a training school for flying Augusta, Ga The Southern Paci - railroad is having a lot of trouble wi in K/v TVia n n a m [ auuw in uic oiviiaiJ. nit oiiun are said to be higher than they ha been for twenty years The Was " ington general assembly is considerii 0 the abolition of the death penalty f t murder and treason Mrs. Lau Farnsworth Schenck is on trial Wheeling, W. Va., charged with poi oning her husband, John O. Schenc - The grand jury investigating t . failure of the Northern Bank of N( York city, of which John G. Robin w y president, is proving so vigorous in 1 - work, that several of Robin's co-c d ficers have asked the prosecuting a torney to be allowed to turn stat< evidence, in a effort to save ther * selves Two soldiers, members d Co. E, Seventeenth infantry, have be indicted at Atlanta, Ga., on charges assisting prisoners to escape from t n Fulton county jail ten days ago - Two men were killed by the collapse n a building at Norfolk, Va., Saturda 1 ....Five Southern Pacific trains a stormbound on the Sierra mountains " California by the worst snow storm - many years A deadlock of the N< 3> York legislature is probable as a res> | of the selection of John F. Sheehan Charles Murphy, the Tammany leadi 3 as a successor to United States Sen n tor Depew The Republican a Democratic members of the West VI ginia senate are deadlocked over t " organization of that body... .Studer o of Georgetown and George Washingt universities to the number of 1 have served notice on the faculti that they will not attend medical le 6 tnrno If attPnrlPfl hv thp nptrrn cliwlor h of Howard university The battl ship Arkansas, having a displaceme of 26,000 tons and carrying twelve 1 1* inch guns, was launched at Camdf a N. J., Saturday. The Arkansas is t y most powerful vessel of the Drea nought class yet built Six perso were killed in a New York Centi d railway wreck at Batavia, N. Y., Fi y day morning Franz Lovinski, i 0 aged Polish Canadian farmer, w killed Friday night and his log cat robbed of $10,000 in cash, which e was known to have in his possessio: n ? * o Why Schemers Use the Mails.?T . postmaster general is quoted as sayi that within a few years more th s' $100,000,000 has been taken frauduler n ly from the people through the m n chinery of the postofflce, and the spre of the rural free delivery system. T1 is an enormous amount, but the a 8 thorities declare that it is far belt y the actual sum and possibly represer is less than one-half of the total amou lost?lost through the rascality of t few and the blind credulity of t e many. The whole nation would rise n indignant protest if our postal authc j itien attempted to emulate those Russia by reading the private corre 18 pondence of our citizens. The schei e ers know tnis, ana take advantage [f it. This done, the rest is easy.?Chrl tian Herald, e m ? The supreme court of the Unit - State has dismissed for want of jurl diction the appeal to the court of Wash Hunter from his conviction manslaughter in South Carolina. Hu ter was sentenced to the penitentia e for eight years. He was accused . having killed Elbert F. Copeland ne their homes in Laurens county, in 191 s while the two were playing at carc e Hunter entered a plea of self-defeni o The case was brought to the suprer court on the claim that several tec nival errors were committed during t t trial. at LOCAL AFFAIRS, ? at . t! en NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. II er Dr. G. H. Davies?Will be In Yorkvllle >' on Februaiy 11 and 13, and will be ? pleased to supply you with eye- J1 I &1&SS6S. G. W. Hill, M. D., Chairman?Gives k ?" notice of a special tax election to be ur held at Catawba Junction, district P h- No. 46, on January 25. _ McD. Arledge, Charlotte?Gives addl- 8 tional information about the Palmer e dS* lot, which he offers for sale, and J on says to apply to C. E. Spencer, Esq. 8 na Loan & Savings and First National t Banks?Will be closed Thursday, 8 us January 19, Lee's birthday. en Congaree Fertilizer Co., Columbia? t th, Invites the attention of farmers to I 3je the fertilizers It is making, using t _ the best materials and mixed with 8 ?" the greatest care. Sold by York t in Supply company. ns, J. W. Dobson?Offers for rent a part of the \V. B. Moore store room, opnnslte l/ian and Savinas Bank. '1- A. Rose?Has found a sum of money |; H- which owner may have by proving )m property and paying costs. k" W. R. Carroll?Has a limited supply 1 a of pure, home-grown Appier seed c ch oats, and wants you see him for h- fertilizers. T Lre Thomson Co.?Continues its underwear and white goods sale all of I u* this week, and wants you to rememur ber that it is offering you goods of x tar quality at very low prices. ce Sam M. Grist?Is prepared to insure J a" farm animals against death from na any cause. h to Star Drug Store?Wants your pre- _ scrlption business and will give the very best drugs and chemicals, and )ld gjve you close prices. a !Se York Supply Co.?Sells a drag harrow j, }? that users say is the best, and also sells other farm tools. 11 York Drug Store?Tells you to use c rn Dr. Hess' poultry pan-a-cea if you or would make your hens lay lots of a eggs and keep them in good condi- F lot tion. n" J. L. Williams & Co.?Offer specials ;se in ladies' underskirts, petticoats. 1 Queen Cotton low shoes for ladles, ii National Union Bank, Rock Hill? t Explains that the gateway to busiIn ness success is ever open to those n" who have ready money, and saving n a{{ is the way to have money ahead. ji a . Loan and Savings Bank?Calls your n attention to the fart that a bank acou count is a beacon light that will 1 guide you through financial storms. It invites your account. r L[s Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Says that n }n Lynchburg turn plows are reeog- c "y nized everywhere as the plow that a lasts longest, runs lightest and goes t deepest with the least effort. r ' J J. C. Wllbora?Makes additional of- r ;'* ferings of York county real estate, t gg Including several desirable farms. s nd or There it a case of smallpox out in t ? - - ?. *,_.a il- Beersheba neignbornooa. me pauem of Is a negro under the care of Dr. B. N. r a" Miller, ry he Thursday is the anniversary of the c lie birth of Robert E. Lee. This anniver- ' 'm sary will be observed in many schools Ini throughout the state. J rs, Dr. J. H. Saye has introduced a joint h it- resolution instructing the attorney general to accept the verdict of the its JurT 'n the merger case, without furite ther litigation. There will be some t a debate on the subject before it is fi- "5 vn nally and definitely settled, however, a I Senator Stewart has introduced a 1 n- bill to empower the county board of s ^ commissioners of York county to sell a e. all or a part of the county home farm, s il- and purchase a new site and to erect )W suitable buildings. He has also Intro- f 2f8 t je' duced a bill proposing certain amend- j ve ments to the road law. o The Enquirer is advised that there f has been an almost complete subsl- [j dence of the opposition to vaccination r of the school children and it has been t he suggested to us that if the physicians * in will -only get busy in their respective t at bailiwicks, the whole country can be vaccinated in a little while. a at Now boys, you farmer boys, you want ch to be sure to go over to Winthrop next y Saturday to the first meeting of the b n_ Boys' Corn club. If you have no mon- J1 g- ey, ask your fathers, and they will jj ST furnish the railroad fare. But be sure f: '6t on/1 orrv Tho fr in will hp worth while. >n, "*" " *- ? b is and what you will learn in connection t ed with the demonstration work will be f ge worth while. ti en . -i h- There is a growing sentiment in fa- ^ n- vor of the importation of the finest t e>' breeds of milk cattle. Since the es- v VG ey tablishment of the creamery at York- 9 r- ville, a few months ago, the farmers P have begun to learn more about milk f aa and butter than they ever knew before, at a flC and one of the things that impresses ^ th them most is that thoroughbred cattle b *8 are the best and the cheapest. s Special attention is called to the ad- J1 ng vertisement in this issue of the Con- ^ or garee Fertilizer company of Columbia, c Mr. Paul R. Bratton, formerly of York- v a. ville, and for many years the traveling P k. representative of the Macmurphy com- v pany, is general manager of this com- ti ?w as pany> and course, will see to it that Its his former fellow citizens of York will if- have no cause to complain of the character of goods he sell them. f n. Maybe Cherokee township might n of be able to get off a little more of York; b en but we do not believe It. That portion l of York which went to Cherokee orig- t ,, inally has been sorry ever since, and of we do not believe that anybody who r ^ kept out of the scrape then is going e 0f into it now. It is not generally known 1 in by the way; but it is a fact that Cher- h ;w okee is not and never has been a con- p stitutional county. It lacks consideraer> bly of having the necessary area. But J a- this fact is not of very much import- s n(* ance, except as indicating the way A he that things are sometimes done. P its The weather man seems to have s ?n been pretty badly mixed about that V cold wave that he gave us to underc. stand was due in these parts last week, n its On the contrary, during Wednesday, o e* Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we s 2. l.^d to contend with a warm wave in- ' >n, stead. "Beautiful weather this," was r he a common remark. People talked that tl jj" way because of the resemblance to S al early spring, and forgetting for the mori ment how uncomfortable they were t an wearing heavy winter underclothes in t ,jn a temperature that seemed to belong h he to south Florida. The weather really a 1- might have been beautiful if the peo- t pie had been properly cioineu ior u. ? he Just where has not been definitely lo- h cated; but it is not difficult to believe 1 ail . it- that there was a cold wave on some- h a- where, and since this locality had been n a.^ robbed of such chill as seemed neces- P lis u_ sary to keep the season seasonable for s >w concentration elsewhere, the locality t ds that did get the benefit of it must have o ^ had cold weather right. e he Speaking of town building and all t' in that sort of thing, the farmer in the b )T'{ country- has just about as much to do g ,g_ along that line as has the dweller in n- the town. Say, you farmer friend, no t< f OI matter who you are, don't you Know n * 1 to be a fact that you hear more nice things about those farmers who have u ed painted their homes and outbuildings, is- and whose surroundings carry unmis- " takable evidence of order and system? n_ There are some homes that you know * ry of where there is pretty shrubbery in ^ ?* the yards, where there are lots of pret- P ty rosebushes and potted plants, c js' Where out in the yard or lawn, under 81 3e. the trees are rustic benches, or maybe c ne plain carpentered benches or benches h- bought from the furniture store. If he you are an individual of a certain bent 11 of mind, you might attempt witty H ings at some of these things, thi hese people like to stay In the shac etter than in the sun, etc.; but evf ' you are of this bent of mind, don ou know that in ninety-nine cai ut of a hundred, the people who 11' ere are folks of the best energy ar itelligence that we have?folks wl now how to rest as well as worl Veil, it is so, and these are not tl eople to attempt any would-be wit o !uch wit rebounds on the folks wl ;et it off. These are the people to 1 mulated?the people to pattern aft ust as every man knows and feels th uch folks have a little higher niche he estimation of everybody, every ms hould be able to see that there is i etter way of uplifting himself ths y folloing their example. The pei >le in the country have fully as mu< o do in the uplifting line, and there .8 much personal benefit to them as he case of the people in town. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. F. M. Satterwhite of Yorkvil: s visiting friends in Greenville. Miss Ellse Latimer of Yorkville, h aken a position in Mr. J. C. Wllborr ifflce. Miss Barnette Miller of Yorkville D. No. 6, left this morning to ent jinwood college. Mrs. Edgar Nlsbet of Van Wyck, isiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. ] r. Walker in Yorkville. Miss Mary Randleman of Rockin, lam, N. C., is visiting her aunt, Mi Jrooks Inman in Yorkville. Miss Zula Stephenson of Yorkvil] nd Miss Minnie Plexlco of Sharon, le ist Friday for Yawhannah, Georg own county, where they expect to tal harge of schools. 1EGISTERING CROP MORTGAGE The bill introduced by Represent) ive Beamguard to provide for the rei 3try of chattel mortgages of crops at o fix the fee, was referred to the jud iary committee which has submitt* najority and minority reports, the mi ority report being unfavorable and tl minority report being favorable. T] ext of the bill is as follows: Section 1. That it be a sufflcie egistry and record of any chatt mortgage in whole or in part coverit rnn np prnna without rpfprpnne to tl mount thereof, to enter upon an lnd< 100k to be kept for that purpose 1 egister of mesne conveyances tl tames of mortgagor and mortgage he amount and character of the de ecured, and besides a brief descrij ion of the other chattel pledged, al he year in which, and a brief descrl] ion of the lands on which such cro re cultivated, the date of the maturii f the debt and the date of filing sui nortgage for record. Sec. 2. That the register of mesi onveyances shall be entitled to chari or the indexing and registering ai uch mortgage a fee of fifteen cents. Sec. 3. That all Acts and parts Lets in conflict with this Act a lereby repealed. PUBLIC COTTON PLATFORM. Petitions have been circulab hroughout the territory surroundii forkville during the past few da: sking for the establishment of a pul ic platform In Yorkville, under tl upervision of a public cotton weighe nd these petitions have been general igned. As The Enquirer understands tl ituation, there is no complaint again he methods of the local buyers or the airness; but the idea is that the pro] sition is one that very properly cal or the services of a responsible midd nan who will be legally and moral .rmnd tn ntnnd fnr Maptness and fai less to both sides in all questlo: ouchlng weights, checking, etc., ai yho, perhaps may be in a position ;ive information and advice concern!] he market. One argument is that buyers wl wn cotton platforms and warehous lave certain advantages in the contr f the competition that might othe irise arise from local and transle iuyers, who do not have these facl ties, and the establishment of a pul ic platform presided over by a pu Ic weigher will make the market mo ree and open. The idea of a public platform hi een growing for several years, i he instance of the Farmers' Union ew years ago, a provision for the e; ablishment of a public platform forkville was tacked on to a bill th lad just been gotten through for Che er. but this provision of the bill wi withdrawn before the bill received tl ignature of the governor. Anoth etition went down to the general ai embly last year; but it got in too la or action, and nothing was done. Most of those behind the movemei lesire a general bill that will enab ho sellers at such markets as desire o avail themselves of It as they migl ee proper. They are especially asl ng that such an arrangement be ma< or York county; but in the belief thi big majority of the farmers who s? otton in Yorkville are heartily in fi or of the proposition, they want latform and weigher for this mark* thruirmed Presbyterian church, of whic le deceased was a member. Mr [udson was born September 15, 185 it Her maiden name was Allen. She was le married to her husband in 1879, and is ;n survived by her husband and eight i't children as follows: Amanda, Walter, se Henry, Bratton, Belle, Charley, Agnes, ire Myers. The funeral was attended by a id large concourse of relatives and 10 friends, including many members of c? the Associate Reformed congregation, le JJ; HOMICIDE AT A DANCE. Qe Jack Stowe dead, Ed Walker lying sr. at the point of death, and Bob Allison ** badly wounded and a fugitive are some ln of the results of a big free fight on Mr. 10 Mart Hambright's place near King's in Mountain battleground at an early a- hour last Saturday morning. Several :h other negroes were more or less seriis ously wounded; but the casualties in mentioned probably include the most striking results of the fight. The trouble did not develop until the dance had been in progress pretty nearly all night, and then it started le, between Bob Allison and Ed Walker, being precipitated by Allison in a belief that Walker had been rather too 118 attentive to his, Allison's, wife. i's Eye witr esses of the affair told the story to the coroner's jury in exciting detail and from what they had to say K- there is no doubt that there were some er pretty lively doings in and around the negro house in which the dance occurred for a space of five or ten minutes; but a full story of the battle is hardly worth while. As soon as the issues were joined beg_ tween Allison and Walker, they went after each other with pocket knives "8- and during several minutes slashed each other frightfully. Presently Alle, lison picked up a shot gun and fired two shots in an effort to kill Walker, but as the result of the first shot one e" innocent bystander was seriously pepke pered and as the result of the second shot, another non-participant, Jack Stowe was killed. When the smoke of the conflict beS. gan to clear away it was feared that not only had Stowe been killed, but a" Walker was so badly hurt as to be 5- unable to stand on his feet and one or 1(j two other non-combatants had been . slashed with knives or sprinkled with shot. Allison considered the situation &d until he became panicky at what might a- happen on the arrival of the authoriu ties, and then made his way across the state line only a few hundred yards away. Sheriff Brown and Deputy Sheriff nt Quinn spent a part of Saturday and el Sunday at the scene of the battle in lg connection with the Investigations that he were being made by the coroner, and KX Sheriff Brown did not get back home 3v until an early hour yesterday morning, he having put himself to considerable ie pains in an unsuccessful effort to lobt cate the fleeing Allison. p. ? 80 OVER IN GAFFNEY. The people of Gaffney, that thriving lg little city across the Broad, which has :h the distinction of being the county seat of Cherokee county, are very much an?e noyed at the fact that the census did iy not put them in the "5,000 class," as almost every citizen of the "village" of is absolutely certain that the census re department has been careless in its figures, and that they ought at least to have as much as 5,700 as the enumerators are alleged to have sent in that many names; but the census departed ment sayeth not. But really the matter might be very easily settled, if the ? census authorities would authorize a ys new count and station enumerators at b- the Southern depot at the arrival of an jje evening irain, me count couiu ue caaily made in Just a very few mi' utes, -r' and it is possible that the 5,00i line ly would be passed. But Gaffney needn't worry. It has ue time to grow and there is plenty of room for it to grow in. There are scores and scores of building lots, nice lots too, that are patiently awaiting the coming of the house builders, and !{? houses when completed would be greatly ly pleased to shelter residents. Yes, y Gaffney has plenty of room to grow, and if it keeps on growing, possibly by the time the next census comes around it will get into the 6,000 class, which is some better?20 per cent bets ter?than the "5,000 class." A representative of The Enquirer *? was in Gaffney Saturday evening, and I i while he wasn't quite able to count that 5,700 people they had been claiming, he did meet some very delightful folks. II One of the first he met was the new ! clerk of the court, Mr. Tom Caldwell, ?" and from the way he gave out the glad hand he must have thought our repe resentative was in Gaffney to locate, and he was getting in line on his vote in the next primary. Tom says he is ~ worKing nara ana is geiuug iue mica a on his work and will soon have every?" thing working in nice shape. He was lrJ willing to acknowledge that a good al portion of the best people of eastern ?" Cherokee originally belonged to York |*? county and that was one reason why ne Cherokee was such a progressive county; but he wasn't willing to say that all of the good people of eastern Cher16 okee were taken in with the slice off . of York. " One gentlemen told me that there ? was a plan on foot in Cherokee county , ; to take an additional slice off of western York?a strip including Piedmont Springs?but when questioned as to :? who was back of the movement, what " had been done, what was being done and other information, he very sudl" denly seemed to forget that he knew a any of the details. il? But going back to Gaflfney and her 5,000 population that isn't, she is cerre tainly laying the foundations for not n* only a 6,000 town, but for 10,000 or more as well. The town is pretty well torn up just at present with the operlj ations of the sewer builders, and this J ' plant will probably be completed within ls? the next few weeks, and will be ample 2- for the town's needs at least until the Df taking of the census twenty years t hence. Then, the town's water supply Is being enlarged to fit the growing needs of the community for some years in to come. On a high hill, probably a 1. mile and a half outside of the corpor~ ation limits, a new standpipe, with a capacity of 500,000 gallons, is being )e erected, and this is to be supplied from 16 a bold creek, a mile or more further east, and at the creek a filter plant is being built along the most approved lines of filter construction. The plant ss is being built by the Greer Filter ManP ufacturing company, under the personal supervision of Mr. J. B. Greer, and 18 a few minutes conversation with Mr. :h Greer will convince even a layman that r. he thoroughly knows what he is about, and is going to give Gaffney all that it is paying for, if not more. Mr. T Greer told the writer that he made a it bid on the Yorkville plant for $2,380, >d which was $20 less than the next low' est bid, but when he learned that the a? details as to location, etc., were not ol completed in Yorkville, he was very id glad that the job was not awarded to 10 him at his figures, because it was only a small plant, and he has contracts ahead onta nor hunhel! and Archie Odom. who produced 177 bushels and 3 pecks at a cost of 23 cents per bushel. These records have been invaluable to the state and have advertised the fertility of our soils as probably nothing else could." ? W. B. West, former state dispensary auditor and former chief feedstuffs Inspector, but now chief fertilizer inspector of Clemson college, has addressed a letter to the department of agriculture in which he suggests that the weight and grade of each package of corn, meal, grits, rye, wheat, barley, rice, wheat flour, rice flour should be plainly printed In black on the outside and that standard weights and measures of the United States government should be the standards adopted. "My reason for making the above suggestion," says Mr. West, "is that in the matter of corn, for instance, there is now much room for fraud. Many consumers, both in the city and country, purchase a 'sack' of com and ask no questions as to the weight, and I am informed by reliable merchants that it is not unusual for a 100-pound sack of corn to be sold as a 'bushel sack' and at an advantageous price." ? Columbia Record: Representative Osborne of Spartanburg has filed In tha^ house the bill drafted by Secretary J. Porter Hollis of the South Carolina child labor committee, to repeal all exemptions to the child labor law. Under the present law, exemptions are provided where the children are those of widowed mothers, or are compelled to work, and in such cas?~a the commissioner of labor Is authorized to issue permits. It is claimed that this privilege is abused in certain instances, and children have been imposed upon. The total number of such children working in the cotton mills is said to be about 300. The bill provides that no children under 12 shall be allowed to work in any cotton mill. The bill also provides that in case of night work the age limit shall be 16, that is, no person under 16 shall be allowed to work at night in cotton mills. The child labor committee will also present, as a companion bill, one seeking to require marriage registration so that the ages of children may be arrived at with accuracy, as under the present conditions parents often give incorrect ages for their children that they might be employed in the cotton mills. ? Columbia Record: Mr. Charles Augustus Calvo, Sr., founder and publisher of the Columbia Register, and for a number of years state printer, died in New York Friday, according to information received by members of his family in this city. He was in his 63d vear. Funeral arrangements had not been made, but it was expected that the body would be brought to Columbia Sunday. Mr. Calvo was born in Charleston in 1848, but when very young, his family moved to Columbia. He was married in Chester to Miss Angeline Effle Thompson and has lived in Columbia until within the past three or four years. At the time of his death he was engaged as proof-reader on one of the magazines in New York. He was a skilled printer, as well as an able writer and editor. The Register was one of the principal journals which supported the Tillman movement. Mr. Calvo published it until 1895 or 1896, when his health failed. The collapse ' of the Register followed. He went to New York three or four years ago, where he has been up to the time of his death. Mr. Calvo was a member of a number of secret orders, including the Masons. He was a member of Trinity church of this city. ? Columbia State: I. W. Bernheim of Louisville, head of the wealthy whisky house of I. W. Bernheim & Co., has sent to the state of South Carolina a check for $34,700, representing his part as a stockholder in the Richland Distilling company of graft against the state of South Carolina. In addition to this Bernheim has given a $5,000 cash bond to appear in court at ChesI ter to testify against other parties implicated in the wholesale robbery of the state The check was brouaht to Columbia yesterday by Thos. B. Felder of Atlanta, member of the firm of Anderson, Felder, Roundtree & Wilson, and has been placed in the state treasury. The portion of this fund belonging to the state of South Carolina will be distributed among the public schools of the state under the bill introduced by Mr. Stevenson. The Judgment against the Richland Distilling company was $100,000. In addition to the check from I. W. Bernheim, the real estate property of this corporation has been seized by the state of South Caralina and will be sold at an early date. Among the other stockholders of this company are the Blocks of Macon, Ga., the Lanahans of Baltimore and J. S. Farnum of Charleston. The manager o^ this distillery in the heydey and glory of the state dispensary was Briggs M. Wilson, now of Albany, Ga., who has given the state of South Caralina valuable evidence, although in fear of his life, he has not returned to this state to testify in any criminal cases. Wilson is a brother-in-law of Farnum. It is stated that when Farnum pleaded guilty in the courts of Richland county, he also gave the commission valuable evidence in pushing this claim. ? Orangeburg special of January 14, to the Columbia State: The lawyer, John J. Jones was sentenced today at 2.15 p. m. by Judge Memminger to serve ten years and one month In the state penitentiary at such hard labor as he may be able to perform, for the killing of Abe Pearlstine at Branchville on December 15. The court room was crowded when the sentence was passed. This morning counsel were heard in arguments before Judge Memminger for a new trial in the case. Col. D. O. Herbert and William C. Wolfe argued in favor of the motion and tried to show why a new trial should be granted. The main point argued for the new trial was centred on the Ip? competency of a juror, A. E. Rutland. V It was argued that this Juror was past the age limit of jurors in this state and was not properly registered, therer by being disqualified as a juror. It was stated that Mr. Rutland resided in