?rraps and |acts.
? 'Ihe use of alcohol among officers
of the army anu navy is declared to
be the "most baffiing obstacle to
,-.s/sit&s.""in a repori of Col. Mervin
.uauiii cniei surgeon of the eastern
division 01 the army. The report is
maue public in the journal of the
military service, published by the ofi??.eis
m v.ovemors Island. Dr. Maus
recommends that "no one who uses
atconoiic beverages should be appointed
to important positions, civil or
nnliiaiy, 10 ihe command of military
or naval forces, or any other position
of importance and responsibility."
? rresiaent Taft has addressed a
letter to Governor Wilson offering to
place at his disposal a big battleship
iu make a trip ot inspection to the
Panama canal sometime before Mr.
Wilson is inaugurated as president.
The president has a thor
ougn knowledge of the work of tne '
army engineers on the isthmus j
through personal visits, and is of the t
opinion mai nis successor would like c
to know as much us possible about r
the nation's great engineering feat, s
ueiore be enters office. Many ques- a
tions of policy concerning the canal a
may be looked for in Mr. Wilson's administration
and Mr. Taft decided *
that it was only fair to the man who <
takes his place in the White House (
March 4 to offer him an opportunity
to inspect the canal and gather infor- i
mation at first hand.
? No matter how much loss a person
suffers because a letter carrier delays :
delivery of mail, a policeman fails to
walk ins beat, a fireman neglects an
alarm or a water company omits
to install fire plugs, the sufferer cannot
receive damages. Such ' is the ]
statement of Justice Lamar of the su- }
preme court in an official opinion filed j
last Saturday among the records of
ine court. This utterance was made !
in arriving at the conclusion that an
indiviuuai inhabitant of a city cannot
sue a water company for failure to install
plugs and mains it has con- tracted
with a city to Install. The
case arose in Spartanburg. S. C. The
opinion is contrary to the law In Kentucky,
North Carolina and Florida,
but upholds decisions in numerous
other states.
? "It is physically possible to steal 1
(100,000,000 from the treasury of the c
United States," said Lee McClung, retiring
treasurer of the United States,
in an informal speech at a dinner in '
his honor given by the Pittsburg
Chapter, American Institute of Bankipg,
one night last week. "Furthermore,"
said Mr. McClung, "the treasurer
of the United States is the only c
employee of the treasury that Is under 0
bond to the government of the United
States and is held responsible for any
defalcation in the department and can *
be relieved of the responsibility only
by an act of congress, and this in face
of the fact that he does not handle any .
money himself personally." Mr. McClung
also stated that the assistant v
treasurers and superintendents of the t
mints did not keep their accounts with t
the United States government but with
the treasurer of the United States, who ^
kept his account with the government,
and was directly responsible to the
government.
n
? A stubborn butting contest be- v
tween a billy-goat and a buck negro,
a regular arena battle waged for some 0
twenty minutes in the yard of an At- h
lanta ice company Friday afternoon, g
and resulted in a draw between the
man and the animal. Each had a
head as hard as a billiard ball. Neither
was able to but the other off his
feet. The particular negro in ques- a
tion, a hefty drayman named Mose,
has the reputation of being the hard- 0
est headed Ethiopian in that vicinity, tl
Whenever he gets into a fight with p
a fellow man, he uses his head with tj
telling effect. Some time ago he was
persuaded to try consequences with t(
a goat, short-horned of course, and n
the goat got the worse of it, Mose .
bragged about his prowess and was
easily prevailed upon to enter the
arena for a pitched battle with anoth- 3
er goat yesterday afternoon, for the n
edification of a party of visitors to r
Atlanta. A number of Atlanta newspaper
men refereed the fight. Mose a
had a unique way of parrying the f
goat's most \iolent rushes: he would t;
suddenly fall backward as the goat ,
approached, and meet the goat's attack
with his two feet; then before 11
the goat could recover its balance he a
would be up again and drive his own j,
hard pate with telling effect into the
goat's -Jlats.
? President Taft in a speech to
twenty-six governors last Saturday *
urged the adoption of uniform state ii
legislation which would make possible n
in this country the adoption of a system
of rural credits and low interest- '
bearing loans to farmers, similar to d
that in vogue in many European u
countries, "we are not going to adopt
a system over-night," said the president.
"It is going to take a consid- 8
erable length of time before the coun- r
try shall receive the benefit of it, but t
the earlier we begin the agitation the s
earlier we shall achieve the purpose "
we have in bringing the matter to the
attention of the public. There is no
subject of greater importance to the
people of the United States than the s
improvement of agricultural meth- a
ods, the keeping them up to date in g
all agricultural communities, the securing
of profits to the farmer, the 0
attracting of the young men of the v
country to farming as a lucrative pro- f
fession and the lowering of the cost ,
of producing agricultural products
and the lowering of their price to the v
consumer. We have great capital c
in this country and we have farming a
property that is producing farm pro- .
ducts of immense value. It would
seem clear that with these two elements
it would be possible to introduce
a third by which the farmers engaged
in producing the crops should be able,
in view of the value of what he pro- t(
duces and the value of land on which a
it is produced, to obtain money on p
the faith of the land and the faith of ?
the product which will enable him to
expand his acreage and better his v
method^ of cultivation. An easy ex- c
change between capital and farmers with
proper security has been established
in European countries where P
the rate of interest has been lowered s
so that the farmer is practically on
the same basis of advantage in the F
borrowing of money as the business
man. If this can be done abroad it
can be done here, and if abroad we
find that government institutions ad- j
apted to form the conduit pipe between
capitalists and farmers and sue- E
cessfully operating, why should we a
not adopt them here?" While con- j,
ditions in this country and Europe are
somewhat different the president said, c
yet by modification of the European t
plan the idea could find a proper i
place in the United States. The fol- ?
lowing committee was named today to *
draft uniform rural credit legislation "
to be recommended to the states: Gov- t
ernors O'Neal, Alabama, chairman;
Johnson of California; Plaisted of .
Maine; Foss of Massachusetts; Hadley
of Missouri; Harmon of Ohio; Mann
of Virginia: McGovern of Wisconsin,
and Carey of Wyoming. ^
? Washington, December 5: De- ,
nials of the malls and prosecution un- j*
ner ine nnerman aiui-iiusi iu? ~
"conspiracies in restraint of trade" p
face the nation's stock exchanges and
bank clearing houses. This was the
startling declaration today of Repre- n
sentative Pujo. of Louisiana, chair- n
man of the house banking committee Sl
and head of the "money trust" in- r
vestigating committee. In an exclusive
authorized interview, Pujo outlined the &
revolutionary reforms which the com- tl
mittee plans to force upon the stock t]
exchanges and clearing houses, and
hinted at sensational facts which the
committee's preliminary investiga- n
tion of data has disclosed. "I be- M
lieve it is clearly shown that the stock
and some of the prodace exchanges, as
well as most of the clearing houses,
are conspiracies in restraint of trade." j
the Louisiana congressman declared. 1
"As such, all of their inter-state business
should be barred from the mails.
The committee, I feel certain, will f<
recommend such action by the legis- tj
latlve branch of the government. In
listing secretaries, in limiting the "
size of their membership and by va- lc
rious other restrictions the stock ex- c<
changes and clearing house assoclations
have become, in effect, gigantic
trust monopolies of commerce that are "
amenable to the law. The New York b
Stock Exchange is a striking example p
of this business domination. The
postal laws will be invoked to exclude u
the exchanges, associations or bank- t<
ts and brokers from use of the mails
n interstate commerce, unless com)lete
reorganization is made. If they
tre not recognized they will be treat;d
exactly as the Louisiana lottery
vas treated. I do not believe Federal
ncorporation of stock exchanges will
>e attempted, but Federal supervlson
will be demanded." Pujo said
hat bills to enforce the drastic upleaval
and remodeling of business
vill be introduced in congress early in
lanuary. Threat of prosecution will
)e held over the offending combines
:o force their reorganization. Representative
Pujo cited an amendment to
he Sherman law of 1890 as his auhority
for both criminal prosecution
md debarment from mail privileges
if stock exchanges and clearing
louses. "Prosecution, both civil and
riminal, may result from our investigation."
Pujo continued. . "We will
show the racts, can auenuon 10 me
eforms we believe are needed and
trge new laws to cope with the situaion."
Among the new laws to be urgid
by the committee, Representative
?ujo said, will be one to prohibit'limiations
upon the listing of securities
>n siock exchanges, prohibition of
uembership limitations and one inititutl'
g Federal supervision, probibly
by the treasury department, to
ee that such limitations are observed.
$hr ^lorkrillr (tfuquita.
Sntered at the Postofflco in Yorkville
as Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORKVIIXE, ?. C.i
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10,1912
The policy now being- pursued by
fork county of putting in concrete
ulverts, wherever pract'cable instead
if bridges. Is expensive; but nevertheess
it has much to recommend it.
What careful attention to home garlenlng
and canning will do to the high
ost of living will be a plenty. This,
if course, provided home gardening
,nd home canning get careful attenion.
Many of the newspapers are more or
pss worried over the question as to
t-hat President-elect Wijson is going
o do with Mr. Bryan. We move that
he matter be left to President-elect
Vllson.
Senator Clapp, chairman of the comlittee
investigating campaign funds,
. ants congress to prohibit the sending
f money from one state to another to
elp in elections. If that proposition
oes through it will put South Carolia
entirely out of the fighting.
That was a generous and thoughtful
ction on the part of President Taft in
ffering President-elect Wilson a batleship
in which to make a visit to
'anama; but the understanding is
hat Governor Wilson has decided not
n accept because of other plans just
ow. ,
That was a bright and thoughtful
peech that Hon. John L. McLaurin
lade in his campaign last week for
e-electlon without opposition and we
re quite sure that maay* of his old
riends in York county will enjoy It
horoughly. Although we have never
een able to see that the senator really
leeded the drubbing he refers to, we
re willing to take his word for it, for
le knows better than any one else.
The development of an adequate sysem
of rural loans in the United States
s a matter of tremendous Importance,
lot only to the farmers but to the
rhole country. Of course, as Presllent
Taft told the governors last Sat
irday, the system cannot be perfected
nd put In operation overnight; but
ince several European countries have
nade tremendous progress in this line,
here is no good reason why the United
States cannot do as much.
Great Britain has filed with the
tate department an earnest protest
gainst the proposition that the United
States government can exempt Amerlan
vessels from Panama canal tolls
rithout violation of the Hay-Paunceote
treaty. The British note, urges
hat the whole controversy be settled
k'lthout delay, and that if the Amerlan
government cannot bring itself to
gree with the British view the matter
e submitted to arbitration.
The text of Governor Blease's Richlond
speech did not become available
3 The Enquirer until this morning at
n hour too late to permit of its reroduction
in full in today's paper,
'he version given out by the governor.
rhich is the version taken down offlially
at the convention, is very liferent
from that on which many newsaper
comments have been based. The
tenographic report of the speech will
ie published in the next issue of The
Inquirer.
A report was sent out from Washington
to the effect that Governor
{lease's friends tried to secure for him
n invitation to the dinner of the Gridron
club and that the president of the
lub backed by the advisory commitee.
refused to allow the invitation,
"he Washington correspondent of the
Jews and Courier quotes the president
of the Gridiron club as saying
hat if there was any application in
iehalf of Governor Blease he never
leard of it.
Tho nenee npcnt in firms between
'urkey and the Balkan powers are to
e commenced in London next Friday;
ut as to whether Greece is to particiate
does not yet fully appear. The atitude
of Greece is more or less of a
lystery. One view is, that Greece is
ot satisfied with what has been done
o far and another is, that Greece is
olding out to prevent Turkey from
etting any undue advantages while
fie negotiations are In progress. Aus"ia
is still showing signs of dissatisiction
that threaten war and there is
o telling what may happen within the
ext few weeks.
As was generally expected, Chas. W.
iorse, who was pardoned from the
'ederal prison in Atlanta ten months
go, has opened his batteries on his
>rnier enemies who succeeded in putng
him down financially and landing
im in prison. Morse had formerly
lomed up as a strong factor in the
oastwise transportation business and
as fast putting it over the Morgan
nes. The panic of 1907 came, was
rought on. many claim for the purose
of catching Morse. Anyhow Morse
as squeezed so badly that he resorted
) a violation of the banking laws in
an effort to save himself and was
caught. As the outcome of the affair
his transportation interests passed into
the hands of the enemy and after he
was sent to prison the competitive system
he had built up was removed. Now
in a suit brought in the name of his
sister, Morse is charging the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
company with having violated
the Sherman anti-trust law as the result
of an alleged conspiracy by which
it wrested control of the Metropolis
company from Morse for the purpose
of wrecking the same. The bill goes
on to set forth how the ships of the
Metropolitan company were taken out
of competition with the New York,
New Haven and Hartford company
and sent to the Pacific coast. There is
no reason to doubt that Morse is behind
the suit that is being brought in
the name of his sister and it is commonly
believed that it is his purpose
to try to convict the owners of the offending
railroad company under the
criminal provisions of the Sherman
law and to bring an action to compel
them to restore to him damages three
times the amount of the losses he ac|
tually sustained. Congressman Martin
W. Littleton is one of Morse's counsel.
The court is asaed, in short, to break
up the New Haven road's transportation
monopoly, by rehabilitating the
Metropolitan Steamship company as
as independent concern, and by compelling
the return to competition of the
big steamers Yale and Harvard, which
are now carrying passengers between
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Following a programme previously
urrmigeu, me ncpuuuuiii guvcmum
who attended the conference at Richmond,
were entertained at Washington
by President Taft and afterward undertook
to get together in an effort to
re-organize the Republican party. It
was found, however, that the Progressives
were not ready to consider the
matter, and that former old liners who
had been prominently connected with
the party's activities are without any
enthusiasm Just now. There was nothing
much to do, except to postpone the
proposed re-organization for anothei
year.
The Report of the Grand Jury
Editor W. W. Smoak, of the Walterboro
Press and Standard has had another
personal difficulty, this time for
publishing a special report of the Colleton
county grand Jury.
It appears that there was a differ
ence of opinion on the part of the mayor
and council of Walterboro on the
one hand, and certain citizens of Walterboro
on the other hand, as to whether
certain alleged violators of the law
should be punished.
Complaints had been lodged against
the alleged offenders in due form, and
after they had been allowed by the
mayor and council to lie without action
for what seemed to the people interested
on the other side of the question,
too long a time, there was complaint
to the grand Jury and when that body
took official notice, its presentment
was published in the Walterboro Press
and Standard.
This publication, it appears, was
made the occasion of an attack by the
mayor on Mr. Smoak, the editor of the
paper, and although the attack probably
did not amount to a great deal so
far as the editor is concerned, the incident
seems to furnish a basis for a
little thought.
We are not going to claim that it
was the duty of this editor, in the
sense of an obligation, to publish this
presentment; but there is no question
in nnr minH r\ f hla rltrhf t n nilhl iah If
and if he thought that the public
should know It, its publication was a
duty.
A general presentment of a grand
jury, unaccompanied by a bill of indictment,
is of very little value, unless
it gets to the public, and if such a
presentment is of importance to begin
with, its importance is not complete
until it gets in a newspaper.
We can readily understand how this
Walterboro mayor would not have
cared two cents, for the action of the
grand Jury in burying its complaint in
the seldom read pages of the Sessions
Journal, and we can understand as
readily how he would be roused to the
fighting point when the matter is
spread before the public, and as of
course it might prove exceedingly dangerous
to attack a member of the
grand jury, as such, this fellow naturally
chose to let himself loose on the
editor Instead.
It is a common custom among the
newspapers of the state to publish
presentments of grand juries for what
they are worth as of Interest to the
people. Some newspapers use their
discretion in publishing such reports or
parts of such reports as they see proper,
and others, we believe, publish
these reports only as official documents,
which Is the way all of them
should be published.
Work for the Plant Breeders.
There is in progress in Columbia today
a meeting, the results of which
will be of tremendous importance to
the future uplift and prosperity of the
state of South Carolina if the efforts of
the broad minded, patriotic men who
are seeking to put splendid ideas into
execution, only . receive the proper
backing.
The meeting referred to was called
by David R. Coker, of Hartsvllle, Hon.
E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture,
Dr. A. C. Moore of the University
of South Carolina, Prof. J. N. Harper,
director of the experiment station at
Clemson, Mr. J. Swinton Bailes, of
Edisto Island and President E. W.
Dabbs of the Farmers' Union, and is
attended by representative farmers
and others from different parts of the
state.
The object of the meeting is the organization
of the South Carolina Plant
Breeders' association, and the object
is no doubt accomplished so far as the
preparatory routine is concerned; but
the great task now is to push the !
propaganda and enlist the live, intelligent
people whose support is necessary :
to future success.
The improvement of cotton, corn ,
wheat, oats, and in fact, all kinds of
plants is the great object in view, and
the object of this improvement is better
plants and through better plants, 1
larger and more profitable crops, and (
through larger and more profitable
crops, increase in the general welfare, i
prosperity and happiness of the people.
A great and glorious object, this; but
not at all unreasonable or visionary, '
for as surely as proper interest is ,
worked up, the results indicated must i
follow. 1
What is plant breeding? Hundreds j
of readers, farmer readers of The En- (
qulrer, will say they do not know, and <
they really think they don't know; but j
we venture that right now in York (
county mere is mum Knuwieuge 01 \
plant breeding and if that knowledge
were only directed, trained and stlmulated,
within a very few years It
could be paying tremendous dividends
?much larger than now.
Plant breeding is accomplished in
several ways; but mainly by intelligent
seed selection, and the encouragement
of intelligent seed selection Is
the principal aim of the association;
but not all. It is hoped that there will
be defined a more general knowledge ol
what science has learned as to grafting,
crossing, etc. The members of the
organization believe that there are as
much good brains in South Carolina as
elsewhere and while they do not expecl
to interest everybody in plant breeding,
they believe that they may succeed in
interesting many of the people, who by
nature and education are best fitted
for the work and they have hopes ol
the general results that would follow,
Luther Burbank is generally and
commonly referred to as the plant
wizzard. It Is because he has worked
so many seeming miracles on and with
plants and constituted so immeasurably
to the wealth, pleasure and happiness
of mankind. But Luther Burbank
despises the name of wizzard,
because he knows that there is nothing
even mysterious about his achievements.
He is not inclined to admit
that he has done anything remarkable.
All that he is willing to concede is,
that by close study and communion
with nature, he has discovered some
simple secrets that have enabled him
to improve some plants tremendously
and bringing about the creation of
others. The most that Burbank has
ever done has been through Intelligent
seed selection. He has taken a given
plant, selected and planted the best
seed year after year until he has developed
more perfect specimens. Of
course he has excelled In and along all
lines of plant breeding, but in none of
the things that he has done, will he
admit that there was more real difficulty
In them than in the simple process
of seed selection.
Every farmer in the county who can
read, knows of the Improved varieties
of cotton that have been produced in
the last fifty years, and that the improvement
has been brought about
mainly by seed selection. It was in
this way that Mr. David R. Coker has
improved the cotton in Darlington
county, mainly around Hartsville, until
Darlington county cotton now brings
more money by hundreds of thousands
of dollars than the same number of
pounds of the kind grown a few years
ago would bring.
Of course plant breeding is a slow,
tedious process; but since any intelligent
individual can do it by careful,
persistent effort look how much genuine
Intellectual pleasure there is in
prospect, and how much profit. Where
Is there greater happiness and what is
*VWV,,A Hon tHIo thine of flPtll
I11U1 C Cllltuuililg ViiUil ktnw w. v?v..
ally getting down close to nature? The
pecuniary rewards are almost always
great; but those who are most successful
In pursuits of this kind almost Invariably
reach a point where they esteem
the pleasure and happiness It
gives them more than they do the pecuniary
rewards.
We are not calling on everybody to
join in this movement. We recognize
that there are people and people, and
almost as many tastes as there are
people. There are lots of farmers?
pretty good farmers?who care nothing
for plant breeding and who do not
believe they could become interested;
but there are others who feel an Interest
and who would like to know a great
deal more than they know now. We
hope that as soon as there is a call for
the organization of York county, all the
people who are interested and who are
in a position to do so, will join in the
movement.
MISQUOTED, SAYS BLEASE AGAIN
Tillman and Smith Comment on Governor's
Remarks.
News and Courier.
Washington, December 7.?Governor
Cole L. Blease, when seen at the Willard
Hotel this afternoon as he was returning
from lunch at the White
House, said that he was rushed to
catch his train back to South Carolina
and had no time to discuss in detail
his reported remarks at the governors'
conference at Richmond. He said that
he had been misquoted, as was nearly
always the case, but that the record
would be made correctly in the course
of time and that on it he was prepared
to go before his people for their approval.
He declared that he had made certain
statements on which he would
stand. He said that he had not read
the interviews with him since his arrival
in Washington and could not say
whether they were correct or not.
Substance of Interviews.
These interviews represent him as
saying that he would never call out
troops t6 prevent the lynching of negro
brutes for attacking white women
and that he would be a candidate for
the next senatorial vacancy, whenever
it should occur, and expected to be
successful.
The remarks of Governor Blease, as
reported from Richmond and repeated
in Washington in somewhat altered
form, have been a leading subject of
conversation here today, and have
been generally condemned. A rumor
has been in circulation that the governors'
congress would not invite Governor
Blease to participate in its deliberations
at the next meeting, but
would invite the lieutenant governor
instead. Governor Hadley, of Missouri,
and other governors who were seen
and asked about this, said that they
had heard nothing of it, and Governor
Hadley said with emphasis that he was
not interested in the subject.
Senator Smith's Comment.
Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina,
when asked for an expression of
opinion on the governor s reported remarks
as to lynching, said, with emphasis
on the word "legitimate:"
"In view of the fact that a majority
of the people of South Carolina have
chosen Governor Blease as chief executive
of the state, his views on public
questions must necessarily be taken
by the public as the views of those
who elected him, until repudiated by
them. Further than this I do not care
to make any statement."
Asked about the reported assertion
of the governor that he would be a
candidate for the senate at the first
opportunity, and expected to get there,
Senator Smith said:
"I shall use every legitimate means
to retain my seat on my record as a
Democrat, as evidenced by my speeches
and votes in the senate and the work
that I have done In, carrying out the
main issue upon which I came to the
senate, the right of the producers of
this country, particularly the cotton
growers, to have every legitimate share
of the wealth that they produce."
From Senator Tillman.
Senator Tillman, when Governor
Blease's reported statements were called
to his attention said:
"I am sorry to see that the governor
of South Carolina has come into the
limelight again, for it will do the state
IIO KOOU. ruaitri munakv.
? Win. D. Crum, colored, United
States minister to Liberia, died at
Charleston last Saturday from African
fever, contracted at Monrovia. Crum's
appointment as collector of the port
at Charleston by President Roosevelt,
stirred the whole south to bitter protest.
President Taft deposed the negro
after ho had served two terms as
collector. In an address at Monrovia
some time ago. Crum nearly caused
nternational complications through inliscreet
remarks. He was in Charleston
on leave of absence for his health.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
D. C. Clark?Requests return of a lost
Chase robe,
i W. A. Douglas. Rock Hill?Offers reward
for lost pearl stick pin that he
lost In Yorkvllle last Wednesday.
J. Meek Burns?Will sell stall fed beef
1 from Bratton's farm, on the streets
of Yorkvllle tomorrow.
I W. T. Slaughter, and others, Trustees
, ?Glvq notice of sale of the old
school building and lot at Hickory
Grove.
s N. S. Black?Will appreciate informa,
tion as to whereabouts of an estray
Berckshlre pig.
'lYorkville Creamery Association?Will
: pay 30 or more cents a pound for
butter fat, if 3,000 lbs. or more are
furnished each month.
1 McGill Bros.?Call on those owing
them on account or lien, to pay.
I Hugh G. Brown, S. Y. C.?Gives notice
? ' of sale of realty on salesday In Jan
1 J ?? iU. .<*. 1/lm
uary, liivoiveu 111 uie buil ul ivuabrell
Co. vs. O'Connell.
I Fred Smith, Tirzah?Offers several
small farms for rent, and several for
i sale.
J. C. Wilborn?Has attractive real es1
tate offerings today. See pages four
and three.
Yorkville Hardware Co.?Announces a
week's demonstration of Majestic
ranges at their store, during the
, . week December 16 to 21. See page
. four.
Cloud Cash Store?Reminds you of its
unprecedented December sale prices
on coat suits, coats, clothing, etc.
T. W. Speck?With an immense stock
of gift goods is ready to serve the
varied wants of holiday shoppers.
Gifts to suit all ages and all purses.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Continues Its
removal sale and announces opening
display of holiday goods, and toys
for the little folks.
Palmetto Monument Co.?With expei
' rience and a desire to satisfy, wants
to talk to you about monuments.
Old George, the Butcher?In characteristic
style, has something to say
of holiday supplies, and to the man
who owes him on account.
oiar rneairc-?naiiuj yuu iu occ
moving pictures. Programme is
changed nightly.
Thomson Co.?Says you know the story,
and then tells you of its prepar'
ations to serve the shoppers looking
; for holiday goods.
There is a patch of woods near
Hickory Grove that was once owned by
a man named Traylor, who hanged
himself in them. Since the tragedy, the
woods have been supposed to be haunted.
There is every reason to believe
there are many 'possums to be found
in this particular patch; but as 'possums
cannot be hunted successfully in
day time, very little hunting is done.
The negroes, it Is said would not think
of going into this patch of woods after
night. There are whites who do not
mind; but some of these are a little
:skittish about the matter. The gentiaman
whn tnlH thin stnrv said that a
white 'possum hunter, told him his one
and only experience in the Traylor
woods like this: "Before I got very far
into the woods the dogs treed. I looked
up and thought I saw a 'possum.
Switching the light behind my back I
commenced trying to shine his eyes.
Before I knew it the 'possum kept getting
bigger and higher until all at
once there was standing on the limb
what looked to me like a full-grown
man. I didn't do a thing but throw
down my torch and light out from
there. There were two ten-rail fences
between the woods and home; but all
the same I got home before the dogs
did."
Upon the establishment of the hookworm
dispensaries in this county it is
to be hoped that the people will not be
deterred by reasons of false modesty,
from giving their full co-operation.
Although the disease is not thought to
be as common in this section as in
some other parts of the state, still it is
more prevalent than it should be here.
The experts who are engaged in "the
effort to eradicate the disease, say that
they have found many instances where
the people are disposed to hold back
and refuse to give their co-operation.
There is no good reason for this exdfept
that some people have an idea
that the presence of the disease carries
with it a suggestion of deformity, for
which idea there is no good foundation.
While the origin and nature of
the disease is thoroughly understood
by the experts, and while children who
have been exposed to certain conditions
are more liable to have contracted
the disease than are children who
have not been exposed to such conditions
still the disease is liable to be
found almost anywhere, and wherever
it is touna it is a source 01 danger, aiscomfort,
annoyance and retarded physical
and mental development. The experts
of the state board of health thoroughly
understand this disease in all
its details. They have Infallible means
of locating its existence, wherever and
whenever the patient is willing to give
them an opportunity, and the remedies
the use are sure and certain.
CIRCUIT COURT.
The case of C. S. Wilson, as administrator
of the estate of D. Rainey Wilson
against the Southern Railway
company, which was being tried when
the report of the court proceedings
was closed, in the last issue of The
Enquirer, resulted in a verdict for the
defendant.
The two general sessions cases
which were still pending and which
were to have been tried yesterday,
were disposed of last Saturday by continuance.
The defendants in both
cases are out on bond.
Upon the convening of court for the
third week, yesterday morning, it was
found that for various reasons there
were no cases ready and the jurors
were excused for the day.
The court this morning took up the
case of Latimer vs. Bratton, a suit on
a note. The Jury found for the plaintiff
in the sum of $284.50, the full
amount sued for, with interest.
NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD
The work of grading the North and
South road into Yorkville has been
completed, und the next thing is to
sand the graded portion.
The new road is a very considerable
improvement over the old road, most
of which has been discarded from the
corporate limits to some five or six
miles out. Where formerly what was
known as the Lincoln road, leading out
of Yorkville was the worst of the many
bad roads to and from the town, it Is
now probably the best.
An important feature of the new
work is the adequate and substantial
character of the bridges and culverts,
the bridges being of iron and the culverts
of concrete, and both having a
permanency that appears to be good
for an Indefinite period.
The town of Yorkville has been pretty
hard hit in connection with the
work, that portion of the re-located
road lying within the corporate limits,
and less than a quarter of a mile In
length having cost, including a concrete
culvert and a heavy fill, about
$1,000 that the town will have to pay.
While there is quite a lot of work to
be done before the north and south
road will have been completed to the
North Carolina line it is very evident
that the completion of the road will
result in a heavy increase of the traffic
along this direction, especially compared
with what has been going over
the same general route heretofore.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr. David J. Fant, of Atlanta, Ga..
visited his sister, Mrs. R. J. Herndon
in Yorkville, this week.
Miss Willie Reid of Matthews, N. C.,
is the guest of Miss Emma Wilkerson.
in Yorkville.
Miss Emmie McCrayey, of Clinton,
is the guest of Miss Julia Witherspoon,
in Yorkville.
Mrs. W. H. Fowler, Mrs. W. H. Herndon
and Miss Mary Williams, of Yorkville,
attended the meeting of the U. D.
C's. in Charleston last week.
Mr. J. J. Carroll, representing Philanthropic
lodge No. 32, of Yorkville,
and Mr. Sam Matthews, representing
Alpine lodge of Clover, are attending
the Masonic grand lodge in Charleston
this week.
The following officers were elected
and appointed Friday night to serve
Mackey Chapter, No. 15, Royal Arch
Masons, during the next Masonic year:
Jos. E. Hart, H. P.; O. E. Wilkins,
king; C. W. Adickes, scribe; J. P. Mc
Murray, Sec.; W. S. Willis, Treas.; J. J.
Carroll, P. J.; W. R. Latimer, C. H.; F.
E. Quinn, R. A. C.; A. M. Grist, 3rd v.;
J. E. Stroup, 2d v.; S. W. McKnlght,
1st v.; A. Cody, sentinel.
Mr. and Mrs. William Stanhope Love
of Sharon, have sent out invitations to
the marriage of their daughter Blanche
to Mr. James Evans Goddard. The
ceremony is to take place at the home
of the bride's parents on Thursday afternoon.
December 26.
Mr. Baxter M. Faris, of Fort Mill
township has arranged to move to Alabama,
In fact he has practically made
the change, having sold his own farm
in Fort Mill and bought land in Alabama
some months ago. He will soon
leave Fort Mill finally. Mr. Faris has
many friends and acquaintances in all
parts of the county, and the news that
he is to go away will be received with
general regret.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The Are department was called out
last night about 10 o'clock because of
an alarm supposed to have originated
at the Neely Mill. It turned out however,
that the alarm was a false one.
? All the stores are full stocked with
desirable goods for the holiday trade
and it is well worth the while of all Interested
to take a look before the
stocks have been too generally picked
over.
? The Gastonia and Yorkville basketball
teams played a match game on
the Yorkville grounds last Friday afternoon
in the presence of a large and
interested audience. The game was
won by the Gastonia team, 16 to 9.
? The street committee has just given
the macadam paving on North Congress
street between Liberty and Madison
streets, another thorough washing.
much to the comfort of pedestrians
who have heretofore had to cross in
the mud.
? There were full houses at the Star
theatre last Friday and Saturday night
to see Nat C. Goodwin, as "Fagan" in
what was really a fine reproduction of
Dickens's "Oliver Twist." There were
five reels of the play and although it
was thoroughly appreciated by those
who have read the famous novel, it
seemed hardly less enjoyable to many
others who thus got their tirst.conception
of the sad stirring story.
? The annual bazaar of the Ladles'
Aid Society of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, whlcn was held
in the Rose hotel building last Friday,
was a notable event, as such things
go, not only as to variety and extent
of commodities offered; but from the
standpoint of patronage and the
amount of receipts, which were close
up about the record, it was an allaround
success. The bazaar was in
the nature of a general store at which
was offered various articles, contributed
by church members and others, including
butter, chickens, hams, potatoes
turnips, and almost everything in
the way of country produce, bread,
pickles jellies, preserves, cookies of all
kinds and thing* generally that the
ladies could make at home, fancy
needlework and so on. A regular
lunch was served through the noon
hour and as long as diners continued
to come and oysters were served in the
evening in various styles to order. The
service generally was thorough-going
and business-like, and the gross receipts
of the day amounted to about
$155.
WINTHROP'S HOME INSTITUTE
Wlnthrop's third annual Home Institute
was held at the college last Saturday,
and there was quite a number
of interested visitors in attendance.
The object of the institute is to develop
information along the line of making
homes more comfortable and
homelike in the most intelligent and
economic manner and the subjects
considered, include almost everything
that relates to the home, domestic science
and the practical things of daily
life. Among the speakers were Dr. D.
B. Johnson, Prof. Chas. R. Weeks,
John R. Blair, Profs. Haddon and English,
Miss Leila Russell, Miss Mary
Frayser, Miss Maude Isles Mr. John
E. Carroll and others. There were numerous
exhibits of small articles made
in the manual departments of the rural
schools; but the feature of all the
exhibits was that of the Girls' Canning
club, which was about the same as on
the occasion of the meeting of the
Boys' and Girls' clubs at Yorkvil'.e. It
was decided to organize an alfalfa club
and there was discussion looking to the
organization of a poultry club. Among
the prizes awarded, were the following:
Best button holes: First?Sarah
Russel, Blairsville; second?Elizabeth
Dendy, Ebenezer; third?Asleta Cunningham.
Pillow tops: First?Louise Anderson,
Eastview; second?Maud Sherer,
Blairsville; third?Marie Leach, Hickory
Grove.
Crochet work: First?Mary O'Neal,
Rock Hill; second?Annie McAlpine,
Rock Hill.
Underwear?First, Emma Anderson,
Rock Hill; second?Isabel Carothers,
McElwee.
Handkerchiefs: First?Ellen Stewart
Rock Hill; second?Bertha Williams,
McElwee.
Best dressed doll: First?Fern Bell
Guthriesville; second?Margaret Fewell,
India Hook; third?Jessie Rabb,
Rock Hill.
Centerpieces: First?Maggie Smith,
Hickory Grove; second?Nannie Lee
Sowell, Rock Hill; third?Evelyn Garrison,
McElwee.
Fancy Aprons: First?Polly Parker,
Rock Hill; second?Iva Sherer, Blairsville;
third?Ruth Steele, India Hook.
Plain Aprons: First?Kate Dowdle.
Blairsville; second?Freddie Gryder,
Friendship; third?Ruth Wylie, Hickory
Grove.
Culinary.
Jellies: First?Mary Wilkinson,
Winthrop Experiment school; second
?Anna Ray Miller; third?Isabel Carothers
Rock Hill.
Butter: First?Louise Curry, Rock
Hill; second?Evelyn Garrison, Ebenezer;
third?Evelyn Garrison, McElwee.
Bread: First?Lois Williams, McElwee;
second?Lavinia Kinard, Rock
Hill; third-Mary Garrison Rock Hill.
Tea Cakes: First?Isabel Carothers,
Rock HU1; second, Mary Garrison;
third, Freddie Gryder.
Greatest variety canned goods: First
?Evelyn Garrison; second?Freddie
Gryder; third?Mary Garrison.
Best canned vegetables: First?
Freddie Gryder; second?Emma Anderson:
third?Verdle Cunningham.
Chickens.
Best coop: First?James Parker, Jr.
second?Edwin Bass; third?Eugenia
Sowell.
Other Premiums.
Best ten ears corn by boy under 18
years old: Ralph Cain, Sharon first;
Rob Kirkpatrlck, Bullock's Creek, second;
Lester ZInker, Rock Hill, R.F. D.,
third.
Best ten ears corn by person over
18 years old: Tom Patton, Roddey's,
first; W. E. Gettys, Tirzah, second.
Best single ear, by boy under 18
years: Samuel Hayes, Newport, first;
Rob Kirkpatrick. second; Edward McFadden,
Rock Hill R. F. D.. third.
Best turnips: Ebenezer Gettys, Tirzah,
first; Miss Alberta Garrison, Rock
Hill, R. F. D., second; W. D. Steele, R.
F. D. Rock Hill, third.
Best peck sweet potatoes. F. W.
Gryder.
Axe handles: Samuel Hayes, .Newport,
first: Bonnie Sturgis, Rock Hill,
second; Roden Corn well, R. F. D.,
Rock Hill, third.
Singletrees: Marvin Faris, R. F. D.
Rock Hill, first; Davis Cornwell, R. F.
D. Rock Hill, second.
Home made electric motor: Robert
Hand.
Pin Cushion?Marie Hill, Catawba.
LOCAL LACONICS
For the Storm Sufferers.
Mr. Fred Nims, foreman of the Jury
in the case of Latimer vs. Bratton,
tried this morning, turned over the dollar
received for the verdict to be sent
to the committee that is receiving contributions
for the benefit of the Clover
storm sufferers.
Ross-Jones.
The Russellville, Ark., Courier-Democrat,
of November 29, contains a
lengthy account of the marriage of Mr.
James Saye Ross and Miss Elizabeth
Sady Jones, in the M. E. church at
Russellville on Thursday evening, November
28. Mr. Ross Is a native of
York county, and a son of Mr. and Mrs .
J. B. Ross, formerly of Sharon. He is
engaged In the mercantile business b
with his father at Russellville. g
Pastoral Relations Dissolved. t
At a meeting of the First Presbytery b
of the Associate Reformed church held <3
In Charlotte yesterday, the pastoral relations
between Rev. G. L. Kerr and
the churches at Hickory Grove and 1
Smyrna were dissolved. The dissolu- b
tion came about as the result of a re- s
quest from Mr. Kerr, who is now a F
student at Princeton university and J
who it is understood, will probably ask J;
to be transferred to the Second Presbytery.
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Cold Weather Coming. s
The coldest weather of the season ?
and fair skies will prevail east pt the ?
MlsslsslDni the first part of this week, ?
while west of the river the tempera
tures will be moderate during: the next t
several days, with rains in the south- ,
west The weather bureau's weekly '
bulletin issued yesterday makes these F
predictions and continues: "A disturbance
will appear in the far west
Tuesday and move eastward and cross v
the middle west about Wednesday and ^
the eastern states Thursday and Fri- to
day. This disturbance will be preceded t
by rising: temperature and be attended c
by rains in southern and snows in nor- o
thern districts east of the Rocky Moun- to
tains. General rains will likely occur e
in the Pacific states during the latter f
part of the week attending a dlstur- ti
bance that will appear in this region t
about Thursday or Friday." 8
e
The Creamery Association. r
There was a regular meeting of the 1;
Yorkville Creamery association in
Yorkville yesterday, and about the r
most interesting information that was a
developed, was that the demand for i
butter is stronger than it has ever q
been and the supply of butter fat is ^
not nearly adequate. Most of the
creamery patrons appear to be standing E
firm in the matter of bringing all the j,
butter fat they can supply; but cows a
are going dry and the supply of milk is c
not anything like up to the demand. v
Quite a number or patrons report mai
they will have cows coming In fresh
later on; but the creamery wants the
butter fat now. The price paid for
butter fat at the present time is 27 cents t
a pound; but the management has decided
to offer 30 cents or more condl- ?
tloned on the Increase in the supply of
butter fat to 3 000 pounds a month or '
over. The supply at the present time *j
Is running at the rate of only about ?
2,500 pounds. The hope of an Increase j!
centers principally In securing the co- ?
operation of new patrons.
Death of Mrs. B. H. Massey. d
Fort Mill. December 9: Mrs. Nancy c
Catherine Massey died at her* home c
here this morning at 8 o'clock, after C
an Illness of many months, at 86 years *
of age. She was the widow of Captain c
Benjamin Harper Massey, who was
known throughout the state by his b
legislative activities during the recon- t
structlon period, having been a mem- /
ber of the famous Wallace house of I
representatives. The deceased was a c
member of the Halle family of Ker- s
shaw, and Is survived by three sisters a
and eight children, Mrs. J. W. Ardrey, t
Dr. J. C. Massey of Rock Hill, Mrs. I
Susan Spratt. Mr. B. Frank Massey, a
Mrs. T. S. Klrkpatrlck of Fort Mill, 1
Mr. W. T. Massey of Tampa, Fla., and 8
Mr. L. J. Massey of Fort Mill. There v
are 76 children, grandchildren, and b
great-grandchildren living. Among the 8
grandchildren are Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Watson, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Oldham, 8
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Stewart and 8
Mr. Levi Massey of Charlotte. The 8
venerable grandmother died as she v
had lived, in peace and comfort, and J1
constantly attended by the loving J
rare of her children and grandchll- 11
dren. She had long been identified 8
with the Presbyterian church. Funer- 1
al services will be held tomorrow.
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MERE-MENTION. r
The government of Canada will build 8
and present to the British government
three of the most powerful battleships c
afloat. The vessels are to cost a total r
of $35,000,000 Criminal charges n
against the officers of the American n
Sugar Refining company, in connection tl
with a conspiracy to close a refinery in e
Philadelphia, have been quashed by ^
the Federal district court of New York, n
Giuseppe de Marvlnas, one of the li
Camorrists, convicted at Yiterbo and c
sentenced to thirty years' imprisoi c<
ment, has become insane and has been o
transferred from prison to an asylum. G
....President-elect Wilson will return n
to the United States from Bermuda on tl
December 16th In discussing the tl
present crisis in European affairs last u
Thursday, Premier Poincaire of France, si
said to the committee on foreign af- b
fairs: "We stand by our allies and our ci
friendships." This is taken to mean a
that France stands with Russia and ti
England, as against the position taken d
by Germany The police of Chester o
Pa., are wrestling with a murder mys- fi
tery in which a "Jack the Ripper," i<
seems to be the person wanted. The w
victim was a young negro woman w
The first woman Jury ever sitting in h
the state of Idaho, last Thursday found o
a woman guilty of threatening a man o
with a revolver... .In the trial of Mrs. rr
Minnie La Duque, on the charge of ei
murdering her husband, at Dallas, f<
Tex., last Thursday, the presiding a
judge ordered all women from the s<
court room and had the prisoner to si
stop her ears, while a witness testified tl
as to the character of the deceased t<
husband General Luis Mena, who a:
headed the last unsuccessful revolu- p
tion in Nicaragua, and for some time Si
"detained" by United States authority h;
at a Panama hospital, is to be releas- h
ed Marshall Copeland, a theolog- p
ical student has been indicted by a ]j
Jury at Springfield, Mass., on the charge tc
J U ? /a! 1 Atlf
Ul inuruer, Iittvms omuucu a. iciiun
student to death during a hazing escar
pade In Morrisville college There "
have been 15,000 000 bushels of grain nl
shipped from the port of Philadelphia w
to European ports this year .A
steamship reached Seattle, Wash., No- jji
vember 26. after a run from Philadel- bi
phla, a distance of 14,200 miles, mak- ta
Ing the trip In fifty-six days, during al
which time the ship's engines were ?c
stopped but once Attorney Gener- bi
al Wickersham has announced his purpose
to bring suits against the Southern
Pacific railroad to recover vast ^
areas of petroleum-bearing lands in
California, valued at $500,000,000 Q,
Elizabethville, a small Pennsylvania in
town, has thirty-one cases of typhoid fr
fever among its inhabitants. The orlg- e,
in of the fever has been traced to the el
local milk supply Dr. Carl Alsberg ot
has been appointed by President Taft
to succeed Dr. Harvey Wiley, as chief r
chemist of the department of agriculture
Secretary Hester of the New
Orleans cotton exchange, gives the av- v<
erage weight of 5,829,689 bales of cot- a,
ton of the 1912 crop as 527.19 pounds. c(
The average in South Carolina is 497 g
pounds Three thousand engineers
of the North-eastern railroad of Eng- 8C
land, are on a strike, because the railroad
reduced an engineer to a lower ?
grade for drunkenness.
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? The chief responsibility for the
failure of the Turkish army rests
with the Christians of that army, says
a correspondent, writing from Semilina.
The Turkish soldier is "the n<
same brave fellow he used to be," but
he was deserted by his Christian
allies, confused by his officers and
left by his commissariat to starve,
while mountains of rice, bread, beans
and zwieback were piled up less than
20 miles away. In the battle of
Kumanowo, says the correspondent,
25 per cent of the army was made up
of Christians?Armenians. Greeks, at
Bulgarians, Servians and Catholic ?
Albanians. Not much confidence was
placed in the Bulgarians and the Servians,
but the Turkish leaders had no
conception of the new unity of the
Balkan states and could not have imagined
that the Greeks, always bitter
enemies of the Bulgarians, would
favor them. Accordingly, while the Ql
Bulgarians and Servians were gen- 'n
erally employed in the munition tu
trains, the Greeks were put at the
front, generally in charge of the ar- M
tillery. When the clash came, the Ju
Christians promptly deserted the 0<
enemy, leaving the guns unserved and ?
disorganizing the troop units. At the
same time the Bulgarians in charge
of the military supplies showed no jo
sire to bring up munitions for use ?
against their blood brothers, and
when munitions were at hand it was In
found that thousands of the cartridges pa
were blank and soap instead of shells za
filled the casslons. an
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Senator Nells Christensen of Beauort
has taken unto himself a wife, his
Tide being Miss Katharine Wales
itratton, of Boston. The ceremony
ook place at the residence of the
Tide's parents In Boston last Wednesay.
? A dispatch from Columbia states
hat T. H. Wannamaker, of Columbia,
las succeeded B. Sherwood Dunn, as
tate executive committeeman of the
^ogressive party and that a weekly
lewspaper is to be Issued in the party
nterest.
? Governor Blease on yesterday gave
>ut to Wm. F. Caldwell, for transmisIon
to the daily papers he represents,
, "Vtenographic copy of the Richmond
peech that has been making such a
Teat sensation In the newspapers. He
ISO told the correspondent that he
AAnlAa' A#
he letters and telegrams he Is receivng
In commendation of his speech,
irovlded the newspapers would pubIsh
the same.
? Columbia State: T. U. Vaughan,
vho was sentenced to death In Green'llle
county several weeks ago, has
ieen removed from the death house at
he state penitentiary, following notice
if appeal to the supreme court. He Is
iccupying a cell in the main prison
luilding. The appeal has not been flld
with the supreme court. The cases
rom the Tenth circuit will be taken
ip on February 5, when it is expected
hat the case of Vaughan will be arrued.
Vaughan was sentenced to be
lectrocuted on December 20. The apleal
to the supreme court automaticaly
stays the execution.
? Columbia, December 9: B. R. Tillnan,
Jr., son of the United States sen,tor
from South Carolina, and Mrs.
A>cy Dugas, formerly the wife of Mr.
Mllman. will share the custody of their
wo children, according to a decision
landed down here today by the su
ireme court The two firms have been
n the care of Mrs. Dugas since 1910,
.t which time they were placed in her
ustody by the court. Today's decision
ms the result of habeas corpus proeedlnfirs
Instituted by Mr. Tillman in
/hlch he sought to secure possession
if the children. The decision of the
ourt gives the father possession of
he children during two? months of the
ummer season, during half of the
Ihrlstmas holidays and during one
eeek In the spring of each year. The
nother is to have possession of the
laughters Douschka Pickens Tillman
nd Sarah Stark Tillman, the remaln!er
of the time. Both the father and
nother are required by the decision
o give $5,000 bond each, that the chllren
will not be removed from the
ourt's Jurisdiction, which will exer- "
lse general supervision over them.
!ounsel for the two parties will submit
o the court for approval, an order
arrylng out the arrangement.
? Columbia, December 9: "Will there
ie horse races In Charleston this wlner?"
a reporter this morning asked
Lttorney General-elect Thomas H.
'eeples of Blackville, who is In the
ity on business. "If you look at the
tatutes of 1911 you will see that the
,nti-racing law is a stringent one;
hat law will be enforced," replied Mr.
'eeples, and that was all he would say
,t this time In regard to the matter.
?he anti-racing law as passed last
ession by the general assembly proides
in brief, that there shall be no
lookmaking at race tracks In this
tate. The racing question is becomng
an interesting one, since the time
et for the Charleston meet is only
bout a month and a half off. Much
peculation is being indulged in, as to
whether the race meet will be held. If
lo betting Is allowed it would seem
hat the races would not be held, for
t is plainly evident and has always
.ppeared so, that betting is the life of
he "king's sport." The attorney genral-elect
says the antl-faclng law will
e enforced, though the racing intersts
are going ahead with arrangements
for a meet in Charleston to bein
in January.
? Jackson, Miss., December 8: Del&ring
that if one of his Immediate
pIaHvps had heen a vWIm ha mieht
ave "gone to extremes which would
ave shocked civilization to punish
tie brute," United States Senatorlect
James K. Vardaman, former
overnor of Mississippi, tonight comlented
on the mob law speech devered
by Governor Blease of South
Carolina, before the recent governor's
onference at Richmond. "Thousands
f good, law-loving, home-building,
fod-fearing white men, both in the
orth and in the south down deep in
heir hearts harbor a feeling toward
tie black fiend, close akin to the senment
expressed by Governor Blease,"
lid Senator-elect Vardaman. "I have
nen governor of Mississippi and was
ailed on repeatedly to enforce the law
nd I did it as no other governor beore
or since in the south ever has
one, to protect the black despoiler
f the white man's home. And yet I
jit when doing it, that if one of my
>ved ones had been the victim, that I
ould have gone, to extremes that
ould have shocked civilization to
ave punished the brute. A splendid
pportunity was lost by the governors
f the southern states in the Richlond
conference," continued Senatorlect
Vardaman, "to teach the unlnirmed
nation the truth regarding the
riomalous condition existing in the
iuth, which condition made it pos,ble
for Governor Blease to make
le extraordinary speech accredited
) him. Instead of commenting on
nd condemning the ebulltion of temer
manifested on the part of the
outh Carolina executive, it would
ave been better to have brushed aside
Is intemperate utterances with an exression
of depreciation if they felt
ke it and then proceeded to explain
> the American people the reason."
? The census bureau report on ginIng
up to the end of November, which
as Issued at 10 o'clock yesterday
lorning, shows a total of 11,844,000
lies. This is practically one million
lies less than last year, when the toil
number of bales ginned to the
jove date was 12,814,000. Figures
>r other years follow: 10,140,000
lies in 1910; 8,877,000 in 1910.
Governor Blease at Richmond.?
[uch has been written about the re- 4
larkable speech made by the govern
but little has been said of his stay
i Richmond. The following extract
om a dispatch, showing how the gov nor
held himself aloof from the oth
BUVCIUUI8 at lilt? t'UIUClrllt'C Will uc
f Interest now:
"Gov. Blease during his sojourn in
ichmond, has been invited to all of
le receptions tendered the visitors,
jt he did not attend any. In the conintion
hall he usually selected a seat
?art from the others and rarely ever
mversed with any of them. Mrs.
lease, however, enjoyed the hospitalir
of Richmond hostesses and was a
?clal favorite."?Spartanburg Journal.
AT THE CHURCHE8.
lSSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN.
Praver meetlnir WwlnpuHnv aft*r
>on at 4 o'clock.
BAPTIST.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7.30 o'clock.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
Rev. E. E. Gillespie, Pastor.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
7 o'clock.
$he Cotton |Rarltel.
Yorkvllle, December 10.?Good miding
cotton 13 cents.
New York, Dec. 9.?Spot closed
liet; middling up:ands 12.75; middlg
gulf 13.00; sales 2,200 bales. Fures
closed barely steady as follows:
Dec. 12.24; Jan. 12.33; Feb. 12.42:
arch 12.42; May 12.37; June 12.34;
ily 12.32; Aug. 12.23; Sept. 11.84;
:t. 11.65.
Special Dotires.
Bazaar and Supper
Rose Hotel, by members of Eptsco1
church, Friday, December 13. Baar
and cake sale opens at 3 o'clock,
d supper from 6 to 9 o'clock. It