Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 27, 1911, Image 2
Scraps and ^acts.
? Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee,
who last week gave his wife a quart of
his own blood by the transfusion process
in order to revive her from an
extremely dangerous sinking spell, is
back at his work in the senate, still
looking pale; but otherwise in good
spirits. Mrs. Lea, after the transfusion
experiment, revived rapidly, and
now seems to be growing steadily
stronger. It is thought that she will
regain her health and strength.
? Washington, June 24: A new
record in the foreign commerce of the
United States, surpassing that of any
year in business history, was made
during the eleven months of the fiscal
year ending with May. During this
period the imports and exports of the
United States as compiled by the bureau
if statistics and announced to
day amounted to $3,312,383,506,
which exceeds the record year of 1908
by almost $3,000,000. The balance of
trade in favor of American business
men from their foreign customers
amounts to $501,525,502 for the eleven
months. It is doubtful if the balance
of trade at the end of the fiscal
year will equal that of the previous
record made In 1908, which was $661,431,554.
The imports for May were
$130,824,241 and the exports $153,169,695.
The imports for the eleven
months were $1,405,429,002 and the
exports $1,906,954,504.
? The Canadian reciprocity bill
emerged from its first ordeal in the
senate last night unscathed. The
Root amendment proposing a modification
of the wood pulp and print paper
section of the agreement was defeated
by an overwhelming vote, after
several hours of debate. Friends
of the amendment were so satisfied of
a defeat that a roll call on the vot?
was not demanded. This leaves the
reciprocity measure open to the general
fight that is to follow for amendment
of important portions of the
Payne tariff law. Senator LaFollette
announced in a speech opposing the
Root amendment he would give to
the senate a chance to pass on general
tariff amendments for free paper,
free lumber and lumber products and
for reductions in many other schedules.
Senator Clapp also announced
his intention of offering a free pa
to tor and other sen
J/ci amc liuinv in *? ??.,
ators gave evidence of their purpose
to force from now on consideration
of tarlfl revision on the widest plan.
? Washington, June 26: The United
States government will issue Its one
millionth patent for an Invention on
August 1 next, and the honor will go
to an inventor designated by President
Taft. Commissioner of Patents Edward
Bruce Moore has been looking
for some time to a celebration of the
issuance of a patent numbered one
million. It was hoped that this distinguished
number should go to some
epoch-making invention. Several
weeks ago President Taft received a
letter from an American inventor saying
he had perfected a device which he 1
intended to patent and that he would
like to have the honor of receiving
number one million. The president
asked the commissioner to comply
with the request if it was not incompatible
with the regulations of the office.
The commissioner reported to the president
that the device was good and
would constitute a valuable addition
to the list of American inventions and i
that patent number one million would
be granted the inventor. The number
was placed in reserve and will be officially
recorded on the first issue day of
August.
? Washington, June 23: Approximately
20,000,000 gallons of liquors annally
are shipped by express, principally
from mail order houses, direct to
consumers in prohibition states. This
startling fact, says a Washington dispatch,
was developed in an inquiry
? conducted by the interstate commerce
commission into proposed changes in
excess classifications which resulted in
an advance of rates on packages containing
liquors. The commission held
that the express requirement that liquor
containers should be packed in
corrugated paper cartoons was reasonable;
but that the charge for transportation
was based upon arbitrary weights
?18 pounds for a gallon of whisky
packed?was unreasonable, and that the
discrimination against stone jugs also
was unreasonable. Commissioner McChord,
who conducted the inquiry and
prepared the opinion of the commission,
points out that the industry directly
concerned is that of the mail order
liquor houses. "It was the spread
of the prohibition movement," the
opinion says, "that gave vitality to
this character of traffic in liquor. With
state-wide prohibition came the interstate
traffic in liquor. The decision
of the supreme court that this traffic
was interstate and, therefore, superior
to interference by the state governments,
gave the industry a tremendous
impetus, and established the express
companies as the carriers of practically
the whole of this traffic. Jacksonville,
Fla., probably the largest
shipping point for liquor in the south,
sends out between three and four thousand
packages of one or two gallons
daily, or a total of about one and onehalf
million gallons a year. Chattanooga,
Tenn., ships about 786,000 gallons;
Richmond, Va., 546,729 gallons;
Petersburg 268,128 gallons; Pensacola
267,760; New Orleans 255,856; Augusta
215,150, and Norfork, Cairo, 111., Emporia,
Va., Louisville, K>\, Portsmouth,
Va.. Roanoke, Va., and Savannah, Ga.,
ship more than 100,000 gallons each
annually. The movement is much
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sections of the country, partly because
' the extent of the prohibition territory
in that section, partly because
of the large quantities of cheap whisky
manufactured and shipped there for
the consumption of the negro population."
The opinion concludes with the
statement that although it is not the
intention of the commission to dwell
on the moral aspect of the question, it
is considered that the traffic has an
evil effect on, and is one of the important
factors in the race problem of
the south.
? Washington, June 23: Estimating
that one out of five of the 500,000
automobiles in use in the country is
employed in inter-state travel, Senator
Simmons, of North Carolina, today
expressed the opinion in a speech
in the senate that a million dollars
annually can be raised for the improvement
of wagon roads by imposing
a license fee of $10 each on such
machines. He also prophesied that the
improvement of the roads would have
the effect of greatly increasing automobile
traveling and, therefore, of enhancing
the fund. The proposition for
an inter-state tax on automobiles is
embraced in a bill of which the North
Carolina senator is the author, and
which proposes the appropriation
of $1,000,000 annually for the benefit
of the roads on which the rural mails
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equity of the general scheme by the
use of the roads by the government
and also because of the benefit that
would accrue to the farmers of the
country. The argument was advanced
that the national government was
under as great an obligation to aid
the farmers as to aid other classes and
manufacturers. The western railroads
and the rivers and harbors were mentioned
as instances of the benefit of
government. "We have," the senator
said, "the finest railways in the world
and the poorest highways. The government
has helped to build these
roads and develop this splendid system
of long distance transportation.
Why should it not build the equally
important system of short distance
transportation?the country highways
over which the products of the farm
must be hauled before they reach
these national highways?" Mr. Simmons
said that of the 2,150,000 miles
of dirt road the country was using
1,000,00ft in carrying the mails, and
contended that it was under obligation
to the farmers to aid in making
them. The saving made by a general
improvement of the highways was
placed at $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.
He estimated that the proper im
provement of the wagon roads would i
save the farmers $300,000,000 to $400,- {
000,000 in the cost of transporting
their crops. Concluding, Mr. Simmons
said: "Shall the government, '
having so auspiciously started upon {
the work of reclaiming the great and .
honorable calling of agriculture from
the drudgery to which conditions had '
condemned it, now halt and hesitate i
to do the one thing needful to restore ,
it to its rightful position of primacy
among the great industries of the na- '
tion? I hope not, I think not, and I I
had almost said 1 knew it was not." |
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YORKVILLE. S. C.j
TUESDAY, JUNE 27,1911.
Unless the Biease-Felder controversy
can he settled in a judicial way, we
do not see where anything is to be
gained by further consideration of it.
Strict adherence to the spirit and
letter of the law, is the only rule that
is worth following; but few there be in
public life who seek to realize the fact.
But why were these charges against
Felder not made five or six years ago,
along about the time the charges
against Governor Blease first began to
gain publicity?
Poor old South Carolina! We fear
that she is drifting In ways that are
not satisfactory to anybody. A large
per cent of the votes being cast nowa-days,
are being cast merely by way
of protest.
But then if Felder should be arrested
and indicted, the attorney general,
if he sees proper can nol pros the
case. The variety of moves that may
be maae in inis strange game ui puntics
seems to be without limit.
We are prepared to believe that the
farmers who are opposed to the
reciprocity treaty are principally Wall
street farmers whose crops consist in
lumber and paper trust shares. The
farmers who raise field crops do not
fear Canadian competition.
If the Yorkville Enquirer doesn't
hush its talking about the heat in
Charleston, we hope it will get blistered.?News
and Courier.
If you don't quit trying to make it
appear that Charleston temperature is
so delightful, you will certainly run
upon a temperature that you will not
feel inclined to brag about.
South Carolina politics is not going
to become what it ought to be until
one side or the other begins to show
signs of consistent adherence to broad
and generous lines. So long as the
chief Incentive of politics in this state
continues to be individual or factional
dominance, people need to look for
no change from what they are getting.
The Gaffney Ledger remarked the
other day that the editor of The Enquirer
knows nothing about "draw."
The Spartanburg Herald took the
statement to mean that the editor of
The Enquirer had been cleaned out on
the New York trip and asked who
loaned him the money to get back
home on. Now comes the Charlotte
Observer with the assertion that the
editors of the Ledger and Enquirer had
fallen out over the question as to who
had had the last deal, and there it goes.
Wonder if the malicious meanness of
the Herald and Observer have been
accentuated by their inability to go on
that trip.
Counsel for Chas. W. Morse, the New
York financier, who is serving a fifteen
year sentence in the Federal prison in
Atlanta, have commenced a new move
to secure his release on a technicality.
The principal ground upon which the
effort is based is that there is no provision
in law for other than hard labor
prisoners in Atlanta, and that Morse
was not sentenced to hard labor. The
attorneys also hold that the sentence
was made cumulative by the lumping
of several different counts for the same
offense and this is unlawful. The government
attorneys do not think that
Morse has much chance to secure his
release on the grounds that have been
taken.
The nresident is minted as havini?
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stated to several senators that he will j
veto the Canadian reciprocity bill if
any tariff legislation is tacked on to it,
and that he will veto any tariff bill
that congress may attempt to pass at
this session. In reply, Champ Clark
announces that he is satisfied that the
country desires revision of the tariff
downward; that the Democratic party
believes the best way to revise is by
taking up the schedules separately,
and that if separate tariff legislation
cannot be gotten through at this session,
an omnibus bill will be put up
to the president at the next session
and there will be a confident appeal to
the country on the issue.
The current issue of Newspaperdom
contains a photograph of the South
Carolina editorial party that visited the
factory of the Mergenthaler Linotype
company in Brooklyn on the afternoon
of June 9. The party was photographed
on the steps of the mammoth building
just before the tour of inspection
was commenced. As has already been j
stated, the Mergenthaler company gave f
the party a most enjoyable automobile i
tour through the greater portion of t
New York and a large section of t
Brooklyn. Before starting each lady a
had been presented with a bououet of i
roses, and at the factory each editor s
was presented with a solid gold scarf i
pin in the form of a miniature linot\
pe matrix. \
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Sometimes it seems that if the peo- i
pie of this commonwealth had to look f
only to those who are placed in posi- 1
tions of honor, trust and executive res- t
ponsibility, for security to life and a
property, and to guarantee the opera- t
tion of constitutional assurances as to a
the right of the pursuit of happiness, a
these privileges would he based upon 1
but a flimsy foundation. But to the t
thouchtful and observant, it is obvious i
that above the generally accredited i
civil power, there is another power \
far greater, more constant and stable, |
That power if we be permitted to attempt
to define it, is the genius of <
right and justice, which finds lodgment 1
in the hearts of such a large percentage
of a noble citizenship that acknowledges
either secretly or openly
that after all the really governing laws
ire not so much the statutes of men as
the statutes that were handed down
from Sinai and explained In the Sermon
on the Mount. In other words,
ivhile In many cases men hold themthat
after all, the really governing laws
there are evidences innumerable that
the divine laws rise superior not only
to the laws of men, but to the men
themselves.
South Carolina Politics.
Aside from the squabble between the
Blease and anti-Blease factions, South
Carolina lacks a great deal of being in
a healthy condition politically, and it
is going to take a lot of hard work
and patient self-denial on the part of
the more intelligent, patriotic and lofty
minded citizens of the state to establish
a condition that will compel permanent
respect.
That there are certain material differences
between the Blease and antiBlease
factions for Instance, is apparant
to all intelligent lookers on: but
that these differences extend to essential
principles is more or less
doubtful. When it is said, for instance,
that the most important difference between
the two factions hinges around
the question of the extent to which
ane or the other will pursue the same
ereneral inclination, the ground is pretty
well covered.
In making this general classification,
we would not be understood as
apportioning all the citizenship of the
3t#te to one side or the other. To all
Intents and purposes, to be sure, all
the citizenship of the state is so apportioned
in the final contests at the
ballot boxes: but that does not mean
that the vast majority of voters is in
real sympathy with the ambitions or
purposes of either side. It means rath?r
that in accordance with existing
political conditions, there is little
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press itself except by way of protest
ind because there are things on both
ddes that are equally objectionable,
^ach individual protest is about as
ipt to go to one side as to the other.
One great trouble with South CaroIna
during a great many years past?
In fact ever since the days of Wade
Hampton, and the first two or three
idmlnistratlons following, the government
has been run by rings and cliques,
nstead of by principles, and the main
incentive to political activity has been
jersonal interest and ambition, instead
)f patriotic concern in the highest
ind best welfare of the people of the
itate. We believe that this fact has
)een generally recognized all over
South Carolina during all this time
ind it is generally recognized all over
he state at the present time; but real
lealthy and much desired reform has
>een postponed for the simple reason
hat no leader of ability and capacity
las ever attempted a determined effort
o bring it about
The overthrow of the old regime by
rillman in 1890 was a good thing; but
he good lay principally in the demonitration
to the people of their ability
o bring about a changed order of
hings. The regime that followed the
egime overthrown was in no sense an
improvement thereon. On the contrary.
it became more objectionable, be ause
it showed no pause in adopting
ind more openly practicing all of the
most glaring faults that had been
charged against its predecessor. The
eaders of the successful movement at
mce went to work in establishing
hemselves in all the assumed prerogitives
that they had charged against
hose who had been overthrown, and
he resulting ring was not slow in becoming
more bold, powerful and rapacious
than the one that had been torn
iown.
We have no defense to offer of the
present incumbent of the executive
>fflce. He stands for all the things just
>utlined, even to a more marked decree
than has been manifested by any
>ther incumbent of the office since the
var. He said as much in his inaugural
iddress, and he has been carrying out
he politics announced in that address
>ver since. But after all the main difference
has been that he has been
nore open in what he does than most
>f his predecessors have been. For
nstance, others have "stood by their
"riends," and protected interests and
junished their enemies, and have done
hese things under the cloak of pubic
duty, while the present incumbent
las been using the power of his office
is he chose and without much explalation
other than that he makes it a
ule to stand by his friends.
In looking back over the political
listory of South Carolina during the
jast generation, we can see very little
hat affords ground for a great deal of
>ride, except during the three admlnstrations
first referred to, and there is
is little ground for pride now as there
las been in all the time referred to.
IV e do not believe the people of South
Carolina are at all pleased with the
tresent situation. They are certainly
10 more pleased with the present sitlation
than they were with the similar
lituation existing for some time precious;
but so far as we are able to
liscern there are in the signs of the
imes no indications of an immediate
hange.
What South Carolina wants, in our
ijjjiiiuii, is iiitr trsiauiisiiiiiciii ui tx &u\irnment
of principles rather than of
nen, cliques and factions. There is a
videspread desire for complete suiremacy
of the law, of justice and
'ight. There is a desire for the elevaion
of the judicial system to the point
vhere no man can prevail in injustice
>r crime, because of his personal or
jolitical influence, or because of the
lower of political connections. There
s a desire for a governor who would
lot exercise the pardoning power in
lehalf of his own son, unless it were
ihown that that son had been wrongully
or improperly convicted. There
s a desire for public officials who afer
they are sworn into office become
he public servants of all the people
ilong the line of their official duties
nstead of the mere pals and acceslories
of the wirepullers to whom they
nay uwc ineir vivcuuii.
In what we are saying, we do not
vant to he understood as speaking any
nore explicitly of the present adminstration
than of administrations that
iave gone before, because we are not.
A'e are merely trying to picture acual
conditions as they have been and
is they are now, and to show that alhongh
theoretically the whole people
ire responsible for these conditions, as
i matter of fact this responsibility is
mt so personal as it might seem for
he reason that tinder conditions as
hey exist the people are so largely
Manipulated by self-seeking politicians
vho are generally too shrewd for the
ieople as a whole.
We believe that it is in the power
>f the people of South Carolina to
iring about a more satisfactory and
representative method of selecting
their governor and other public officials,
but we do not see how the change
is to be made, until these people begin
to give the subject a great deal more
attention than they have been giving
?until they learn to consider the
whole subject as of vastly more importance
than they have been considering
It.
THE LORIMER INVESTIGATION,
Editor Kohlsaat Undergoes Searching
Examination.
Many figures of national prominence
were brought into the Lorimer
investigation last Saturday for the
first time, when Herman H. Kohlsaat,
editor and publisher of the Chicago
Record-Herald, testified before the
senate committee Investigating the
election of Senator Lorimer.
Former President Roosevelt's name
was linked with the investigation
when Mr. Kohlsaat testified that last
August he told Col. Roosevelt the entire
story of the alleged attempt of
Edward Hlnes to collect $10,000 from
Clarence S. Funk, general manager
of the International Harvester company,
to reimburse those who had contributed
$100,000 "to put Lorimer
across" at Springfield. The ban of
secrecy was placed on the former
president, but Mr. Kohlsaat testified
Col. Roosevelt wrote him that he declined,
because of Kohlsaat's Information,
to attend the Hamilton club
dinner in Chicago later in August,
1910, if Lorimer was to be there. The
Roosevelt letter will be placed in the
record of the hearing.
The names of Senators Root, LaFoilette
and Cullom were mentioned
in a new light. Mr. Kohlsaat testified
that he had informed these senators
before the senate passed on the
Lorimer case of the conversation in
which Funk had told him of Hines'
alleged attempt to collect money. To
these men, Mr. Kohlsaat did not mention
names because he considered himself
under a pledge of secrecy to Mr.
funk not to do so. Mr. Kohlsaat
mentioned Senator Cullom's name
only at the close of the day's session.
bormer Speaker Cannon and Former
Representative Tawney of Minnesota
figured in the day's testimony.
Judge Hancy, counsel for Senator
Lorimer, asked the witness if Senator
Lorimer in 1903 had not dropped a
libel suit against Mr. Kohlsaat because
Cannon and Tawney told him
it was feared if such were not dropped,
the Chicago Record-Herald
would not support Roosevelt for president
in 1904.
"That is so ridiculous that no answer
is needed to it," declared Mr.
Kohlsaat.
tie aiso uemeu mai me suu was
dropped because it was made a condition
of Gov. Deneen's doing a favor
for a young man in tVouble who was
Lorimer's friend.
The witness underwent a long
cross-examination by counsel for Senator
Lorimer. He was asked If he did
not tell the Funk story to every newspaper
in Chicago. The witness said
he could not remember if he had, although
he had spoken of It without
mentioning names to several persons.
He was asked if he had not given it
o every magazine that was friendly
to him.
Mr. Kohlsaat denied that he had
done so.
"Did not you give it to one of the
editors of The Outlook?" Inquired
Judge Hancy.
"No, sir."
"Didn't you give It to Theodore
Roosevelt?"
"Oh, yes."
He was asked if he had not told a
Chicago detective who came to his office
to see if he had any work that
the newspapers of the country had
organized to fight Lorimer.
"Perfectly absurd," declared the
witness.
He was asked if he did not refuse
to give the name of his informant
(Funk) when first called before the
first investigating committee at
Springfield, because he wanted to appear
as a sort of martyr.
The witness straightened up, looked
at Judge Hancy and said:
"If there were not ladles present?"
Then as he sank back into his chair
he added, "I would quote one of Eugene
Field's poems to you."
"Suppose you answer the question
first," suggested Judge Hancy.
"No, sir, I was not playing to the
galleries."
Judge Hancy asked the witness if
he did not think it was an unjustifiable
thing to take Information secretly to
senators who were to judge Lorimer,
without giving the state of Illinois,
Lorimer or his family a chance to defend
themselves against serious
charges. He said he did not distinguish
senators from members of
courts in relation to giving them information.
Several times during his examination
Mr. Kohlsaat declared he absolutely
believed what Mr. Funk told
him. Another striking feature of his
testimony was his repeated statements
that he found much to admire
in Senator Lorimer's private life. He
referred to the senator's life as ideal.
"What I have been fighting for
twenty years is Lorimerism," he declared.
THE FELDER REQUISITION.
What an Atlanta Paper Thinks of the
Proceedings Before Gov. Brown.
Gov. Brown of Georgia has abruptly
rung down the curtain on that
interstate farce?the Felder requisition?staged
by Gov. Blease of South
Carolina.
The people of Georgia, and undoubtedly
a large number of the best
people of South Carolina, commend
Gov. Brown for his prompt squelching
of Gov. Blease's attempted use of his
office and the processes of his state
11 > iriLiro o nrli'Q f o onnmif f nr Vtla o of
can be interpreted in no other way.
Thomas B. Felder, one of the ablest
and most highly esteemed members of
the Atlanta bar, was employed by the
state of South Carolina to wind up the
affairs of the old dispensary commission
of that state. He and his firm of
lawyers were instrumental in saving
the state half a million dollars from
the graft-soaked wreck. Gov. Blease,
then a state senator, according to the
allegations of Mr. Felder, represented
the opposition and was implicated in
the graft.
And now, six years after the offense
is alleged to have been committed, and
when Mr. Blease has come to occupy
the governor's chair of South Carolina,
to the disgust of the best element of
that state and the amazement of other
states that South Carolina would countenance
such a man, he sends over a
vague, misty and mysterious affidavit
charging Mr. Felder with attempting
to bribe a member of the board of control,
of the dispensary commission, and
on that showing demands of Gov.
Brown that he send Mr. Felder back to
South Carolina under arrest.
Mr. Folder's answer to the charge
was an indignant denial and a counter
charge that Gov. Blease was acting
through personal malice to hide his
own wrong-doings.
Mr. Felder was supported by the Atlanta
Bar association and distinguished
lawyers from Knoxville, Tenn., and
from Macon, Columbus, Savannah,
Augusta, Forsythe and by ex-Congressman
George Johnstone of Newberry,
S. C., Gov. Blease's home town.
Mr. Johnstone delivered an earnest
speech in Mr. Felder's defense and in
testimony of his high character and
to the services rendered by him in the
dispensary case.
It was also shown that the grand
jury of the county in which the offense
was alleged to have been committed
never in all the six years received
any information of it from Gov.
Blease or any one else, had never taken
any action on it, and, in fact, had
met and adjourned since the requisition
was sworn out and found no indictment.
Mr. Felder's vindication was full and
complete, and South Carolina's frenzied
governor received a sharp and deserved
rebuke.?Atlanta Georgian.
? Mrs. Hennie Knight, wife of A. W.
Knight, editor of the Bamberg Herald,
died last Friday afternoon, after a
long period of bad health, aged 38
years. Mrs. Knight was an honor
graduate of Winthrop college and a
woman of rare culture and refinement,
popular in social and literary circles.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by three children.
LOCAL AFFAIRS,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
"S," R. F. D. 4. Charleston?Wants
permanent position as stenographer.
Martin Ia Smith, Yorkvllle No. 1?Has
Berkshire pigs for sale at $3.50 each.
Enquirer Office?Will pay reward for
return of lady's brooch, lost Sunday
afternoon.
Baseball?On the Graded School
grounds July 4th. Two games, Fort
Mill vs. Yorkvllle.
W. O. Johnson, Manager?Gives information
about the piedmont Springs
hotel, which is now open for the
summer. Write him at King's Creek
for information.
J. L. Williams & Co.?Have added a big
line of ladies' skirts and offers them
at low prices. The lot includes the
newest styles.
York Supply Co.?Can furnish you
with all kinds of building materials.
Mason's fruit jars. J. H. Wilkes"
feeds for horses, cows and poultry'.
* TX 7 TAknaAn Tntrlf An n Hnnt Inn A o
1. ?? , JiMlllOUII 1IIVUCO auruiuMi IU a
few specials, including lard, bacon,
hams, breakfaststrip, snowdrift,
syrups, coffees, teas, etc.
Loan & Savings Bank?Emphasizes
the fact that it is never too late to
start a hank account. It enables you
to borrow when you need it.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?In order to
avoid carrying over any millinery
goods, quotes very low prices on
hats, ribbons, flowers, etc.
Southeastern Life Insurance Co.?Tells
you what It is doing In the insurance
field. See C. W. Wallace, district
agent, for information, rates,
etc.
Thomson Co.?Offers men's and boy's
summer underwear at 20 per cent
reduction this week. All trimmed
hats at one price, $1.98.
National Union Bank, Rock Hill?
Publishes the report of the American
Audit company on the National
Union bank and the First Trust
and Savings bank, of Rock Hill.
J. W. Penper and Son, Philadelphia
?On nage four have something to
say about bands and band Instruments.
Write for catalogues.
Although not so bad as football, per
haps there occurs in baseball sometimes,
incidents that seem calculated
to give outsiders the impression that
the frame has its rough features.
The June number of the Christian
Messenger goes into the mails today,
it having been delayed somewhat by
the illness of Rev. E. E. Gillespie, the
editor, and members of his family.
During all the years that Piedmont
Mineral Springs has been known, no
one has ever denied the virtue of the
famous White Diamond Llthia water
found there. And the management of
the Piedmont hotel now is better than
It has ever been. There
have been no mosquitoes of
any consequence about Yorkvllle this
year, but whether It Is more due to the
dry weather or the thorough cleaning
up brought about by the board of
health some weeks ago, has not been
demonstrated. Flies are plentiful.
i hrouohout the western part of
King's Mountain township, especially
to the south of the King's Mountain
road, crops of all kinds are reported to
be very good. Fort Mill township is
also reported to be in very satisfactory
shape, comparatively speaking.
Many of the traveling men have gone
In off the road on account of the discouraging
effects of the drought. Because
of the drought people are not Inclined
to buy so liberally as otherwise,
and many of the traveling salesmen
find themselves unable to make enough
to pay expenses.
If the Neil cotton nicker should
nrove successful, It will have as much
effect on cotton production as did the
Invention of the cotton gin. And people
who have examined into the Idea
say there Is as much show for it as
there is for any of the more elaborate
and expensive cotton pickers that
have already been put on the market.
It has not boon so many years back
since, in this section, a million dollars
was regarded as a sum so stupendous
as to be beyond the present and future
dreams of any up-state financial Institution.
In those days 750,000 was an
exceptionally laree capital and $100,000
was high water mark for deposits.
But the old idea of things obtains no
longer as is evidenced by the remarkable
statement of the National Union
Bank and the First Trust and Savings
Bank of Rock Hill, published in another
column and showing combined
resources, aggregating $1,805,391.40, or
about one-fourth the total assessed
valuation of all the taxable property in
York county. Of course a million dollars
is still a stupendous sum, and the
figures quoted not only go to Illustrate
the fine progress made by these
splendid financial Institutions, but also
help to emphasize the wonderful
growth that has heen made and is being
made by York county as a whole.
COMMUTATION ROAD TAX.
Up to last Friday only 4 75 commutation
road tax receipts had been issued
in the county. Since then 522
more receipts have been issued, making
a total of 997 in all. The number
of receipts now accredited to the different
townships in the office of
Treasurer Neil is as follows:
Bethel 113
Bethesda 81
Broad River 92
Bullock's Creek 188
Catawba 33
Ebenezer 25
Fort Mill 87
King's Mountain 213
York 165
All persons liable to road duty who
fail to pay their commutation tax on
or before July 1. will have to put In
time on the roads.
SOME LONG DROUGHTS.
There is a lo{ of talk about the
drouerht these days, because In many
localities are not included any <>f the
favored snots, it is the most prominent
subject of dally concern, and Just
simply won't be ignored. There are
people who claim that it is the worst
droueht that has ever been experienced,
but this will hardly hold, because there
are farmers in every locality who have
seen more distressing conditions, and
generally they can easily match the
present situation without havina to go
back to the notable drought of 1881.
Mr. Brooks Inman of Yorkville has
made an interesting contribution to
drought literature from an old scrap
hook formerly kept by his father-inlaw,
the late A. W. Ingold. In that
scrap hook is a list of droughts occurring
in this country between the years
1621 and 1876 as follows:
In 1621, 24 days. In 1741, 72 days.
In 1630. 41 days. In 1749, 108 days.
In 1657, 75 days. In 1755, 42 days.
In 1662, 80 days. In 1762, 123 days.
In 1674, 45 days. In 1763, 80 days.
In 1688, 81 days. In 1791, 82 days.
In 1694, 62 davs. In 1812, 28 days.
In 1705, 40 days. In 1845, 110 days.
Tn 1715, 46 days. In 1871, 43 days.
In 1728, 61 days. In 1875, 26 days.
In 1730, 92 days. In 1876, 26 days.
The record drought of this section
most talked of by the middle-aged and
old men of today is that of 1881. The
last general rain was on April 27, and
the next was on August 18. There
were some local showers in between;
but they did not amount to a great
deal. Good stands of cotton were general
before the drought set in and
about half a crop of cotton was made
that year. A few farmers made very
good crops of corn, but generally the
corn crop was a complete failure.
Some people that year gathered in cotton
stalks before frost and used them
for roughness with which to feed cattle.
All kinds of vegetation was
brought into use for the same purpose
without much choice, and straw
that year, commanded the prices of
Timothy hay in other years.
nmiin minu int lhun.
Inquiry of various parts of the county
this morning over the telephone as
to the weather conditions and the
crops brought out the following:
Tirzah: There was a heavy rain
about a mile north of here last night;
but there has not been a good rain at
this place in three weeks and crops
are poor.
Clover: There was a tine rain here
last night lasting three-quarters of an
hour, the first since April 15. The
fanners generally have grown very
much discouraged and some of them
have been plowing up cotton.
Bowling Green: There was a light
sprinkle here last night, enough to run
off the roofs of the houses; but not
enough to count for a great deal in reviving
the crops. The rain of last
night, however, was the best we have
had since April 15. There are very
good stands of cotton on sandy land;
but on red land there is practically
nothing.
Wright's Ferry: There were verv
good showers last night and last Friday;
but there has not been a heavy
rain over this locality since May.
Some of the farmers have good stands
and others have none at all.
Hickory Grove: It will be three
weeks tomorrow since there has been
any rain in or near this place.
East View: There was a nice rain
over this locality about the middle of
April, hut since then it has been distressingly
dry. There was a fairly
good shower on June 7; but not enough
for red land. Crops are very poor,
the poorest for years, and unless the
seasons are exceptionally fine from
now on there is no promise of more
than half a crop.
Bethel, Ford, Barnett & Co.'s Store:
There was a good rain here last night,
the first for ten weeks, since April 18.
Crops are in a sorry condition.
Bethany: This locality has been
having good rains. Fine rains yesterday
afternoon, all the way up to King's
Mountain. Crops are looking fine.
Sharon: No rain worth considering
about here for three weeks: but a very
good rain in the Bullock's Creek
country last Sunday a week ago.
Crops are suffering.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? Mr. C. J. Youngblood has commenced
the erection of a handsome
cottage on King's Mountain street.
Work is being pushed right along and
the cottage will he ready for occupation
within a few weeks.
? There was only a small crowd out
to witness a game of baseball between
Yorkvllle and Hickory Grove on the
graded school grounds last Friday afternoon.
Early In the game the score
was 2 to 0 against Yorkvllle and the
outlook was quite blue: but later the
Yorkvllle boys pulled themselves together
and the game went along quite
evenly until the seventh inning when
Plexlco, of Yorkvllle brought in three
men from the bases and went to third
himself. At the wind up the score
stood 10 to 8 In favor of Yorkvllle.
Yorkvllle having still another round
at the bat to Its credit.
? Quite a serious accident as the result
of which young Guy Justus of
Hickory Grove had a close call for
his life, occurred during the game of
baseball between Hickory Grove and
Yorkvllle on the Yorkvllle grounds
last Friday afternoon. Justus was at
the bat and Dale was pitching. Dale
hy the way is a good pitcher, with
lots of steam and a good deal of
knowledge of the science of the game.
He threw one that looked as If It was
going to be a "ball" and as Justus
' tooned toward the base to let It go
by, it struck him a glancing blQw on
the back of the head. The young man
sank down without a sound, and although
cold water was poured on him
as soon as possible, it was several
, minutes before there were any satisfactory
signs of returning consciousness.
The young man slowly came to,
however, and the game was continued
with a substitute. It was more than
half an hour before young Justus was
sufficiently recovered to admit of his
being removed from the grounds. Mrs.
R. B. Lowry and other ladies insisted
on taking care of the young man un II
next day or until he should be sufficiently
recovered to enable him to
get home comfortably; but he and his
brother nreferred to make the journey
to Hickory Grove that night and
were taken home in an automobile.
Young Justus had a rough time of it
during Friday night and a part of
Saturday: but information yesterday
was to the effect that he was getting
along nicely and would pull through
the rather rough experience without
serious consequences.
THE DEATH ROLL.
Mr. H. Clarence Glenn, who had
been ill since February with Bright's
disease, died at his home on North
Congress street, Yorkville, last Friday
night, and was buried in Rose Hill
cemetery on Saturday. Mr. Glenn
was a son of the late Capt. R. H.
Glenn, for many years sheriff of York
cwunty, and who died on June 16,
1 893. The deceased had a wide acquaintance
among the people of York
county and was highly esteemed
wherever he was known. He Is survived
by a widow, who was Miss Marie
Carroll, and two brothers and
three sisters as follows: Mr. W. D.
Glenn, Yorkville; Mr. James F. Glenn,
Sumter; Mrs. N. G. Allison, Yorkville;
Mrs. M. R. Williford, Sumter;
Miss Margaret Glenn, Yorkville.
Mrs. Annie S. Plaxico, wife of Mr.
Joseph M. Plaxico, a well known and
highly esteemed citizen of Sharon,
died last Thursday of pneumonia, after
an illness of only a few days. The
deceased was a daughter of the late
Wm. J. Stephenson, for many years a
valued citizen of York county, and
was a lady of most estimable characr>n/l
.1 Inn/vnl ! ^* 1..
ici uiiu nwcct uispunuiuu, gi traily urloved
by a large circle of friends. She
Is survived by her husband and several
children, the eldest 10 years and
the youngest an infant of two weeks.
Miss Rossie Ferguson died last
Wednesday and her brother, J. Sutton
Ferguson died on Saturday. They
were the son and daughter of Mr.
Wm. Ferguson, who lives on the Sharon
road about 4j miles southwest of
Yorkville. Miss Ferguson had been
ill for quite a long time and death
came as a relief to much suffering.
Mr. Sutton Ferguson was found dead
in his bed. He had been a sufferer
from heart disease for many months,
but the full gravity of the case was
not appreciated until his lifeless body
was discovered in his bed. He was
aged 35 years. Both funerals were at
Sharon and were largely attended by
friends and relatives of the deceased
and of the highly esteemed family.
itoek Hill, June 23: Mrs. Susan Atkinson
Steele, widow of the late Capt.
John O. Steele of this city, died here
Wednesday night at 10 o'clock, at the
advanced age of 70 years, after having
heen in bad health for some time
past, her death occurring just six
hours after that of her son, John A.
Steele, which occurred at four o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Steele
was born and reared in Chester county.
She was married to Capt. J. G.
Steele in January. 1866, from which
union there were five children: John
A., whose death occurred Wednesday
afternoon: Woods M.. of this city,
Gilliam Steele of Charleston and
Misses Mamie and Orrie Steele of this
city. A double funeral over the remains
of mother and son was held at
the First Presbyterian church here
yesterday evening at 6 o'clock, conducted
by Rev. Alex. Martin, the pastor.
of which church Mrs. Steele was
a consistent member. j
Mrs. Ella Parrott, wife of Mr. An- i
drew J. Parrott, died at her home near 1
Filbert last Sunday night, after an <
illness of several weeks. The de- <
ceased was a daughter of the
late J. Ed Jefferys of Yorkville, i
and was in the 45th year of her age. I
She is survived by her husband and (
seven children as follows: Claude. ]
Clem, Bessie. Jack, Guy, Minnie and 1
an infant. The interment took place at !
King's Mountain Chapel yesterday af- I
ternoon, after services held at the i
home. '
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Julia Smith of Yorkville. is '
visiting relatives in Atlanta, Ga. ,
Mrs. B. O. Jennings and little daugh- ]
ter May, of Yorkville. are visiting in ;
Greenville. J
Or J. T. Thomas has been spending l
some time at Sharon with his brother,
Dr. C. L. Thomas.
Misses Nancy Witherspoon and Elizabeth
Finley of Yorkville, are visiting !
friends in Aiken.
Mrs. C. F. Williams and children, ?
and Mrs. I?u Wilson of Columbia, ar- j
rived in Yorkville this morning to visit '
relatives. (
Mrs. S. C. Ashe and daughter. Miss i
Mabel, of Yorkville, left Saturday to f
spend some time in New -York and t
Canada. <
Mrs. W. S. Neil and children, who *
IlUVe DetMl SpfllUIIIg suilir imir Qi nuftv
mont, X. C., have" returned to their J
home in Yorkville.
Mr. H. X. Pharr and Master Neil
Yates of Charlotte, N. C.. have been
visiting at the home of Rev. and Mrs. j
\V. H. Arrowood, at Sharon. t
Mrs. J. C. Wilborn and daughter, ?
Miss Elizabeth, have returned to their i
home In Yorkvllle, after spending
sometime with relatives in Chester.
Mrs. Paul Gordon and children, and
Miss Mary Baker Gordon of Eagle
Lake, Texas, are visiting the family of
Mrs. Margaret Johnson In Yorkvllle.
Dr. John. R. Ashe, who has been
spending several weeks at his home In
Yorkvllle, left Saturday to take up his
work at St. Luke's hospital. New York.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Valley and children,
who have been spending some
time with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Byers of
Sharon, left this morning for North
Carolina to spend some time.
Dr. C. F. Williams of Columbia, came
up to Yorkvllle this morning to spend
several days at his home, before sailing
for Europe, where he will go for
a course of special study.
Mr. W. P. Boyd of the "Point" sent
word to the Enquirer last week that
his neighborhood had not been one of
(he favored "spots," on which rain
had bec.i falling. There had been no
rain in the "Point" since April.
Mr. W. W. Cartwright of Dallas,
Texas, Mrs. G. O. Doggett of Charlotte,
N. C., and Misses Faynetta Munro of
Kansas City, and Lea Breeding, Glasgow,
Ky., are the guests of the family
of Dr. A. Y. Cartwright in Yorkvllle.
LOCAL LACONIC8.
Marriage License Law.
The South Carlina marriage license
law goes Into effect next Saturday.
After that, n visit to the office of the
probate judge must precede a visit to
the minister or magistrate.
TvDhoid Anti-Toxin.
Dr. Miles Walker, surgeon of the
First regiment has vaccinated the
Yorkvflle and Fort Mill companies with
tvnhoid anti-toxin and proposes soon
also to vaccinate the Cornwell comnanv.
This anti-toxin has now been
in use in the regular army for several
vears. every new recruit being vaccinated
as soon as possible after enlistment.
and as the result tynhold fever
has been almost eliminated from the
army.
Creamery For Rock Hill.
Rock Hill Record: Mr. Bun Brydges,
ine manner ??i wie iuritviii?- v>irainery
plant, was In this city Friday and
appeared at a meeting of the executive
committee of the Chamber of Commerce,
presenting a plan for establishment
and operating: a creamery in
Rock Hill. He wants a certain amount
of stock subscribed by our people, he
to put the balance and manage the
plant. Mr. Brydges set forth the advantages
of having such a concern
here. The matter will he fully considered
by the committee.
Drowned Near Blackeburg.
Rlacksburg. June 26: Odice Moore,
ticket agent for the Southern railway
here, and a prominent young man, was
drowned yesterday afternoon in Buffalo
creek, a short distance from the
town limit. He had gone out with R.
S. Cooksey, local railroad agent for the
Southern to go bathing in Buffalo
creek. He was considered a good
swimmer and had been in the water
for some time before he went down.
He was at some distance from his
companion, when the latter discovered
that something was wrong and
made an attempt to reach him, but too
late. It Is supposed he took cramp.
The young man was 22 years of age
and was one of the most popular young
men in the city, where he had been In
the employ of the Southern for some
time.
Attention to Fruit Growing.
Of late years there has been very little
attention to fruit growing in York
county. Up to twenty or thlrtv years
back fine fruit, especially peaches, of
the old fashioned sort were quite
common: hut since then fruit raising
has been a very precarious business.
Just why fruit was more successful
under former conditions, if such was
really the case, would be for the experts
to say. There are many more
or less plausible theories that could be
advanced. But, however, this may be.
It Is certain that modern nursery fruit
has not been giving very satisfactory
results. The trees have yielded very
good crops for a while, but the trees
have been short-lived. However, there
has been a revival of Interest within
the past year. Prof. L. A. Niven of
Winthrop has thrown out a number of
practical suggestions that have received
more or less attention, and in a
conversation with Mr. B. M. Faris of
Gold Hill not long ago, the reporter
learned from that gentleman that the
farmers of his neighborhood had an
expert orchardlst from Clemson to
snend some davs with them last spring.
The expert did a good deal of demonstration
work and astonished the fruit
tree owners by trimming the trees until
it looked as If they would be ruined.
But according to Mr. Farls, good reaiilta
nrp nlrendv nntlceahle and the
probability is that from now on Oold
Hill farmers will give more attention
to fruit raising than ever before.
MERE-MENTION.
A. L. Safford was arrested in Atlanta.
Ga., Friday, charged with robbing
a number of banks of that city
by means of fraudulent checks. He
has been working his game for several
months Fourteen persons have
been Indicted by the United States
court at Chicago on charges of "unreasonable
restraint of trade." The
Indicted men are all former secretaries
of lumber companies which were consolidated
into the alleged lumber
trust In a decision handed down
In the Federal circuit court at St.
Paul, Minn., Saturday, the court held
that the gigantic merger of the Union
and Southern Pacific railroads by E.
H. Harriman In 1901, was not a combination
In restraint of trade
General Coslo, minister of war under
the Diaz regime, Is charged with
grafting about $10,000,000 from the
government In the matter of buying
arms and ammunition for the army.
The grafting operations are alleged to
covw a period of at least thirty years.
Edward Valentine Lee, formerly
paymaster's clerk on the battleship
Georgia, was arrested In Buffalo, N.
Y., Wednesday, charged with embezzlement.
Lee Is the fellow, who under
the name of Carmlchael, spent
money so lavishly In Atlanta, Ga.. a
few months ago. He admits his Identity
and his guilt Five persons
were seriously Injured in a trolley car
wreck at Kokomo, Ind., Friday night.
Wadsworth S. Willla, an employee
of the San Francisco mint, was
burled beneath $9,000,000 In gold Saturday.
when the sacks containing the
money toppled over on him....Capt.
E. H. Jarvls. vice president of the
Northern Fisheries Company, committed
suicide at Seattle, Wash., Friday
night. He left a note which merely
said: "Tired and worn out."
A Boston dispatch says that many or
the New England cotton mills will shut
lown during the first week of July,
because of the unsatisfactory condition
if the market... .Twenty-seven acres
pf cow and hog pens in the Fort
Worth, Texas, stockyards, were destroyed
by fire last Sunday. The loss
is considerably over (100,000 Seventeen
negroes were killed near Memphis
last Saturday, as the result of a
boiler explosion on the river steamer
St. Joseph The war that Albania
is waging against Turkey for indenendence
is proving very bloody. The
Turks have 50,000 troops in the field
ind the Albanians are being murdered
in large numbers The coast of
?hlle was devastated by a cyclone last
Saturday and it is estimated that as
nany as 200 people were killed
rhe electric power plant at Spencer
Mountain, near Gastonia, N. C., was
?truck by lightning last Saturday and
jesiroyt*U. i UC iuaa woa t Juac Bit uir
leighborhood of $20,000.
? It was announced on Saturday
hat it was the intention of Governor
31ea.se to appoint W. Boyd Evans,
rohn Willis and Charles Narey, as
itatehouse commissioners. The three
ormer members of the board, B. F.
raylor, A. E. Gonzales and W. A.
Courtney, resigned before the goverlor's
inauguration, W. A. Courtney
jiving up the place before his death, '
.vhich occurred during the first term 1
if Governor Ansel. Because of the
jovernor's veto of the bill making an '
impropriation for the use of the state- j
louse and grounds, the commission '
las no money to spend.
? i
? The ten-year-old-son of Dr. and <
drs. James Ware of Greenville coun- i
y, was drowned in Faris' mill pond, <
teveii miles from Greenville last Sat- <
lrday.
SCHOOL BOOK CHANGE8.
Unnecessary and Undesirable Says
Superintendent Swearingen.
Mr. John E. Swearingen, state superintendent
of education, says the
Columbia Record, on yesterday made
the following statement of his position
in respect to the adoption last
week of text books for the public
schools of the state during the next
five years:
"To protect the interests of the
people and to keep the record- ^
straight, I protested against the recent
text book adoptions made by the
state board of education. Though my
protests were disregarded and my
wishes ignored, I desire to make a
brief statement of my position.
"Eighty per cent of the books now
in use have been thrown out of the
schools. Not one word of explanation,
reason, or excuse for this revolutionary
action has been offered to
the public. Such sweeping changes
are without precedent In the text book
history of this state or of any other
state.
"The books sold in South Carolina
during the last five years cost more
than $500,000. These books have
been in the main displaced, and now
have only an exchange value of 50
per cent of their original cost. The
new books adopted are higher priced
and every time a pupil or patron Is
required to exchange an old book
there must be a cash payment In addition.
"This cash payment will be a tax
on every citizen of the state. It may
be small in the case of any one book,
but will amount to thousands of dollars
In the aggregate.
"If Wlnthrop college should be
burned to the ground there would be
a universal lament from the mountains
to the sea. The state board of
education with an absolute disregard
of the property rights of the people
has destroyed values and imposed
taxes representing an investment
equal In value to the cost of the magnificent
college at Rock Hill. Every
exchange of books also imposes iabor
and inconvenience in addition to expense.
Any man In charge of a text
book depository knows what this inconvenience
means. A number of the
depositories are conducted by county
superintendents of education, and
these officers will feel the strain before
the exchange period has passed.
"I do not believe that changes
should be made unless the books in
use have proved inferior or unsatisfactory.
The state board of education
declined to Indicate in writing
the unsatisfactory books on the present
list. The adoption of 1906 was
little short of a crime If inferior
books were imposed upon the children
of the state. Three members of the
present board took part in that adoption
and must have voted for the
books then selected. The change of
nean mai nas taicen place in ttiese
gentlemen Is not questioned by me,
but It would be better understood if
It were fully explained. If any city
superintendent In a special district
exercising the right of Independent
text book adoption should enter upon
his work by changing 80 per cent of
the books in the hands of the pupils,
I do not believe his action would go
unchallenged. How much more, then,
should explanation be offered when
the changes affect the whole state
rather than a small municipality!
"I had prepared for the use of the
board a ballot showing the name of
each member voting and the title of
each book voted for. This ballot the
board declined to use, because the
members did not wish to offend the
sensibilities of the various book agents
with whom they had established and
wished to maintain pleasant relations.
This Is a laudable sentiment, but It
leaves out of the reckoning the senslbilitles
of the people. It is a well established
principle of representative
government that the record of a public
servant belongs to his constituents.
As state superintendent of edu
cation, l was anxious for every citizen
to know my position In regard
to every book that was retained as
well as to every book that was changed.
I see no reason why the otheg
members of the board should be un<
willing to leave a similar record, ere if
though unsuccessful bidders might be
disappointed In the adoption.
"The work of the board has been
finished, but the tax on the people
will not be felt till later. I have
pointed out what I consider the unjustifiable
disregard of property
rights. I also maintain that the
wholesale changes ordered by the
board were neither necessary nor altogether
desirable. I asked for a full
record of the proceedings by which
this result was brought about and my
request was denied.
"I trust that these facts have been
made so plain that the man who runs
may read and understand."
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Governor Blease is quoted as expressing
a purpose to use his influence
with the commission in charge of the
state house and grounds to permit the
use of the grounds as a play place for
small children; but does not mean by
this that the larger boys will be allowed
to play baseball there.
? Miss Myra Humphries, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Humphries, was drowned In
Broad River near Dravo dam, in
Cherokee county, last Saturday while
bathing. She and her little sister
went into a deep hole that had been
washed out near the river, and she
got beyond her depth. Her agoniz sd
father saw her drown without being
able to help her.
? Governor Blease has offered a reward
of $200 for the arrest of Mr. T.
B. Felder of Atlanta and his delivery
to the sheriff of Newberry county at
any point within the state of South
Carolina. The charge on which Mr.
Felder is wanted is conspiracy to
cheat and defraud the state of South
Carolina. In the proclamation it is
stated that Mr. Felder has been indicted
on the offense named; but as a
matter of fact this is not correct No
true bill has been returned by the
Newberry grand Jury on the subject.
? Columbia. June 26: Because conditions
here are probably typical of
those prevailing all over the state, a
large report made by experts from
Federal bureau of standards, following
a secret investigation here in April,
has statewide interest, as showing how
general weights and measures in use
are short and how effectually, if innocently,
consumers are defrauded.
One butter print out of 41 tested was
found within 3 per cent of being full
weight. Conditions generally are condemned
as "very bad." Only half of
the forty scales tested were correct
within 3 per cent. Ten per cent of all
the scales tested were short weighting
of consumers by more than 12 per
cent. Spring dial scales were especially
off. Scale weights ran 87 per
cent correct within three per cent.
Beans, peas and such commodities
were srenerallv sold bv liauid measure.
the consumer thus being defrauded at
the start to the extent of 14 per cent.
Butter prints averaged about one ounce
In the pound short. Out of twentynine
packages of rice and sugar, sixty-nine
per cent of them were short weight.
? Columbia Record: Governor Blease
Monday, in accordance with letters
received from sheriffs and supervisors,
removed twelve dispensary' constables
in eleven dry counties. The following
are the counties in which the constabulary
have been dismissed by the governor's
letters mailed out Monday afternoon:
Dorchester, Lee, Sumter, Orangeburg,
Fairfield, Darlington, Abbeville,
Berkeley, Saluda, (two constables),
Barnwell, Calhoun. In each
county, save Saluda, there was one
dispensary constable. Governor Blease
Monday explained his position in the
constabulary matter as follows: 'T
am trying to give the people of the
state an economic administration, and
am oaying more attention" to this feature
than to any other one thing.
Where the local officers have given me
the assurance that they will be able to
pnforee the laws, I do not wish to give
the taxpayers any extra expense by
the appointment or the retaining of
constables. If, however, the local officers
do not enforce the laws, constables
will be appointed wherever requested."
The removal of the several
constables given about goes Into effect
an July 1. In Saluda it was pointed
out that the enforcement of the law
against the illicit sale of liquor being
carried on by white people was not
carried out as It should be. Two constables
had been employed in that