Straps and |arts. ? Declaring: It the duty of the United States to Intervene and restore order in Mexico. United States Senator John D. Works, delivering the oration of the day at the dedication of the site of the monument to Juan Rodriguez, at San Diego, Chi., last Thursday, took occa Ion to criticise severely conditions In Mexico and the attitude of the United States. "Just to the south of us, almost within reach of gunshot,' our men are being assassinated, and our women outraged dally," he said, "what are we going to do about it? "It Is the business and solemn duty o four government to protect our citizens. I do not believe we have done that adequately in Mexico. We have sent out blue jackets ashore in other countries; why not in Mexieo? I have no criticism to make of the efforts of the president of the United States. We shrink from intervention and I believe the president is justified In his efforts to avoid it. But these conditions cannot go on for ever." ? The gunboat Yorktown has returned to San Francisco, after an eventful trip to Central American and Mexican ports, short thirty members of its marine corps and crew that deserted at various points. Having gained the distinction of being the first warship to enter the Panama canal, the Yorktown proceeded up the coast to Topolobampo to relieve the gunboat Buffalo and was present during three days' fighting there between the Mexican Federal troops and the rebels. John J. Murphy, a fireman of the Yorktown, was shot through the arm by a stray bullet when the Mexican gunboat Tarapico was bombarding the city. The American vessel was anchored one hundred yards from the Tampico and many bullets struck its decks. A party of midshipmen from the Yorktown chanced to fall in with the rebel rear guard and were forced to remain with thf^attacking force over night. Walking into the city the next day under a flag of truce the midshipmen fell in with a party of Federals and were fired upon by the rebels. ? Vera Cruis. September 28: That Gen. Huerta and his organisation will support Federico Gamboa, candidate of the Catholic party for the presidency. is the report brought from the capital today to John Lind. There was received at the same time unofficially a copy of President Huerta's most recent assurances that his government would see that the elections were conducted fairly on the date fixed. October 26. The determination to support the Catholic candidate Is said to have been reached at a secret meeting attended by the provisional president, cabinet ministers and others high in politics. Reports reaching ' here, indicate that there will be two. perhaps more, tickets besides that headed by Gamboa. It was learned today that Gen Felix Diaz would arrive here October 18. Partisans insist that he is to be put forward as a candidate. Manuel Calero, former amoassauor 10 waannigiun, sou jcsus Flores Magon, ex-minister of the interior, are talked of as Liberal candidates. There has been started a movement to bring back Dr. Francisco Vasques Gomez to enter the race. ? "I declare that whoever proclaims himself president of Mexico, as the result of elections Huerta promises in October, will be considered a traitor to his country. If he falls into our hands, he will be tried under the law of January 25, 1862, and the same treatment will be accorded to all who recognise him as president" This declaration formed a part of a long message received at Douglas, Arizona, last Friday, from Venustiano Carranza, constitutionalist leader at Hemosillo. The law to which Carranza v refers was that enacted by Benito Juarez. It provides that all traitors may be summarily executed without trial. Under it Maximilan was put to death. Carranza announced tin. he had Just received visits from representatives of the constitutionalists leaders in Coahuila, Durango, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora and other states and all were in accordance with his declaration. "Our aim," continued the message, 'is to exterminate Huerta and his entire following of traitors and assassins. Peace in Mexico Is impossible until one party or the other has been exterminated." ? The big events in the cotton market this week according to New York dispatches published yesterday will be the census bureau's report on ginning and the department of agriculture's report on condition. These reports will be given to the trade Thursday. Condition figures are more important than those relating to ginning. This will be the last condition report of the season and the second ginning report. The condition figures will be comparative with 68.2 of the normal on August 25, of this year, 69.6 on September 25, two years ago and 65.9 on September 25, Kfnn vnoro o O-A oti/1 Q fgkn VPO r ?VPT age of 8.6. The census figures will compare with 3.005,934 bales ginned to September 25, last year; 3,676,554 two years ago, and 2,312,074 three years ago. The general expectation is for a low condition report Less interest has been taken in the ginning returns, as a whole. The trading looks for* figures that will compare favorably with that of last year. The question of the size of the crop and the date of the first killing frosts in the west are expected to loom up large this week. It generally is considered that much depends in Texas upon the time of the first really cold weather. The disposition of late has been to reduce crop estimates decidedly and unfavorable weather conditions this week will strengthen this tendency. -r-The turbulent extra session of the Tennessee general assembly ended late Saturday night with three of the so-called law enforcement bills still on the calendar of the house. These bills, designed to make less difficult the enforcement of the laws against the liquor traffic, were the subject of stormy debater during several clos1?? J on/1 K*f Q 1I1K Ufiiysj UI IIIC OCOCIVII, anu *jj a fillibuster conducted by "regular" Democrats were prevented from coming to a vote of the house, after they had been passed by the senate. The senate defeated a proposed amendment to the refunding bill, the stipulation that state bonds should not be sold below par being the feature chiefly opposed by the leaders. Both house and senate passed a bill providing for the substitution of the electric chair for the gallows in the punishment of criminals condemned to death. Gov. Hooper on Saturday sent a message to the house, indicating his inclination to call another extra session for the consideration of "law enforcement" bills alone. In contrast with the scenes on the floor of the house at the first of this week, when charges of piesence of gunmen threatened a riot, Saturday night's session was marked by Jocular speechmaking and singing. ? The little town of Harrlston, Miss., was terrorized during several hours last Sunday morning because of the bloody rampage of two cocaine-crazed negroes named Will and Walter Jones. The trouble started at about 2 o'clock in the morning when Walter Jones, aged 20, killed a negro woman and a man named Thad Grayson. Then he went to the home of his mother and aroused his brother Will, and the two proceeded through the main street of the town firing at everybody they saw. Citizens who were awakened by the shots peered out of the windows; but believing that a riot was in progress took to cover. The negroes went to the house of Frank Keensley, a former constable, and when he came to the door in answer to their kn< king, they shot him dead. The cor. axle's son reached for a gun and was shot through the hand. The^[ then proceed ed to the depot or the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad and reached there just a few minutes after the train had arrived. Conductor E. B. Appleby was talking to Flagman W. C. Bond. The negroes opened fire without warning, and both men fell. The negroes then directed their fire on Claude Freeman, who was waiting for a train and he was instantly killed. There was standing on the track a sleeping car from Natchez waiting to be hooked on to the through train from Memphis to New Orleans. The negroes began firing into this car and broke out many window glasses; but although the passengers were terrified none of them were hurt. By this time the whites had been thoroughly aroused and the negroes went to a near-by cotton seed house to make their last stand. Sheriff Hammett and Former Sheriff Gillie arrived at the head of a posse including a number of horsemen who had come from the surrounding country. The officers approached the seed house and Hammett was killed by Walter Jones who had taken refuge in the tall grass, while Gillis was shot by Will Jones from the seed house. A few moments later Will Jones turned to run to a nearby coal chute, and was killed on the way. Troops arrived a few minutes afterward and the crowd rushed the seed house and captured Walter. Re did not shoot and was found completely unnerved. The crowd took him and hung him up until he was dead. Investigation developed that the negroes had provided themselves with an abundance of ammunition and the shooting up had been deliberately planned beforehand. $h* 3jdvitviiir (fnquiw. Entered at the Postofflce In Torkvllle as Mall Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, 8. C.i TUESDAY, SEETEfflBEK iJU, l?IO. Why not send the aspirants for the marehalship and district attorney into the primaries, so as to give the people some needed education on the subject of Federal politics and the distribution of the patronage? According to the Associated Press report of the Sulzer impeachment proceedings, yesterday's developments were favorable to the governor. Judge | Cullen ruled out evidence as to alleged corrupt political bargaining, with the result that certain charges were thrown out as to political trafflclng. The information thlB morning was that the case against Sulzer would probably be all In tonight. There are two Federal districts In South Carolina ndw as there has been for many years, but only one district Una fha nnlnt nf UUUl If OJIU illCICIII UVD hMV |/v.uw W. present interest. If congress would authorize the establishment of another district court, and provide for the appointment of a judge for the eastern district, places could be made for two marshals and two district attorneys. The proposition on which Congressman Aiken (8 working is merely a revival of a thing that has been tried before. It would seem possible, under existing conditions to get it through during the next regular session of congress; but there is very little hope for such a thing during the present extra session. In the Columbia Record interview published in another column, Senator Banks of Calhoun strikes pretty close to the ideal that would suit the state of South Carolina as a governor. While we have no idea that the senator has ever dreamed of such a thing, it strikes us that he himself is pretty nearly the kind of a man he is describing. Anyway, we feel sure that if he should ever become governor, the people of the state would have abundant reason to congratulate themselves on the choice. We are not in th? business of hunting up or urging out candidates or attempting to sponsor them after they come out We prefer to leave matters of this kind to the voters; but we have no hesitation in saying that Senator Banks would do. Let the people hear a little more from you, senator. Says a Washington dispatch: "Postmaster General Burleson has received a petition to bar the Bible from the United States mails on the ground it contains immoral and obscene matter. The petition was preoAnfo/1 Kv o nortoln hnHv flf AmprlPflTl citizens whose identity the department did not divulge. The Enquirer has probably three thousand or more readers who could not conceive ot the reason for such a petition, much less, see the purpose of it. If the petition does not come from Roman Catholics we are at a loss to suggest where it does come from. But of course the whole thing is absurd so far as practical results are concerned and amounts to nothing other than to advertise the fact that there are still those who would deny opportunity to those who seek knowledge of the truth at first hand. Conflict between the ideas of Senators Clark of Arkansas and Smith of South Carolina, threatens to prevent Anv Ipeislatinn on the sublect of cotton futures during the present extra session of congress. Senator Clark wants to impose a tax of $50 on each one hundred bales contract dealt in for future delivery and which is not finally closed by actual delivery of the cotton contracted for. Senator Smith desires to permit dealings in futures at the nominal rate of 50 cents per hundred bales contract, provided the cotton is actually delivered or settled for on a basis of grade in accordance with the standards recognized by the agricultural department. Where there is no actual delivery of cotton the seller must pay a tax of $50. Where he agrees to deliver one hundred bales,, he must specify the number of pounds and the grades and when delivery time comes he must either come across with the actual cotton of the specified grade, make settlement on a basis of the specified grade, or pay the government tax of $50. If he meets all other requirements his tax will be only 50 cents on each contract. Senator Smith's present plan is a compromise between his orir?ln*? r??-?rl iha HI qpI/ tilo n onrl It 5 uiai f/ian auu i??t v*?*n ?/ ?*? unu % has the endorsement of Mr. Lever. Mr. Underwood introduced it last Saturday as a bill with a view to getting it before the house early this week; bat it is stated that Senator Clark is going to hold to his original proposition and the probability is that the bill will not go through, and there will be no legislation on the subject. The Yorkvllle Enquirer says: "That is a terrific arraignment that Mayor John P. Grace makes of Hon. Richard S. Whaley, and that it will excite lots of comment goes without saying; but as to what is to be done about it is another matter. As we have taken occasion to remark before, there is very little reason to doubt the corruption of Charleston elections, and neither is there reason to believe that election corruption is much different in Charleston than in many other places. However, it is time to have a general cleaning up. Such a cleaning up will do good." The place to do the cleaning up, however, and the method of doing it, is in South Carolina and by the supremacy of the moral sense of the entire people, and not by one faction, as steeped in guilt as'any other, attempting to wreak revenge on the other for its own defeat. It would be more to the purpose if the Democracy of South Carolina saw to It that laws were made and enforced In this state against future corruption of the electorate and tampering with the ballot box.?Columbia Record. Although the argument the Record uses is a common one that has grown familiar now-a-days, we are not much impressed with it. If we should refuse to prosecute in cases where the accuser is a? guilty as the accused, the operation of the old rule that gives honest men the benefit of quarrels among thieves would be suspended. It seems [ to us that if it Is to be assumed that I k.tli + n ?K(o nnntrnvprftv ATA I UUlll OIUCB IU Vllio VWMV* W>v. equal offenders, then prosecution of the winning side is justifiable on the ground that the other side should have been prosecuted if it had been successful. If the First district case is as Mr. Grace represents it, then It seems to us to be an ideal one for prosecution; and if the many people who are clamoring for the purification of elections neglect to show their colors now, we can see no little embarrassment ahead of them when they do choose to act, for in such case as they may hereafter decide upon as being worthy their attention, they will run up against the same argument behind which they are now- taking refuge. It will run like this: "You failed to act in that Charleston case where the prosecution was led by the representative of fifty thousand people. Why are you so much Interested in this little affair that is not nearly so bad as the Charleston case? You leave yourself open to the charge that your concern in the Charleston case was probably not due so much to your lack of respect for the prosecution as to your sympamy ior the accused. In other words, It is not so much a question of law, right and decency as it is a question of whose ox | Is gored." That new laws may be [ necessary is quite possible. It would not be surprising if such election laws as we now have are full of holes; but if so let us go ahead and expose these ! holes, else such laws as may be made hereafter, are likely to be drawn with just as little regard for public integrity as these. < THE WHALEY CHARGES Committee Considers Petition of Mr. Grace and Adjourns Till Tomorrow. The petition filed by John P. Grace against R. S. Whaley and Whaley's reply thereto, were put in type for the last issue of The Enquirer, but were crowded out by the pressure of other matter that claimed space on the inside pages. These documents are being published in today's issue. From Washington dispatches, it is gathered that on Saturday Mr. urace ana rar. xi. ij. utnoey wem uotore the congressional sub-committee on pledges and elections and gave such supplementary Information as the committee might desire. As the result of the conference, the committee came to the conclusion that the unsupported allegations of the petition itself were hardly sufficient to warrant a report to the house, and decided that additional evidence be offered. The committee adjourned until tomorrow with the understanding that in the meantime, Mr. Grace should summon and have ready to go before it the witnesses upon whom he will rely to make out his case. Under the practice in such matters, Mr. Grace will himself have to pay the expense of such witnesses as he takes before the committee; but if the committee decides to report the case to the house, the government will pay such expenses as it may subsequently be necessary to summon. MERE MENTION A new wonu o rcooru rui acivplanes was made In France, Saturday, when an aviator covered a measured course of 62| miles at a speed of 118 miles per hour A gang of five bandits held up and robbed the mall and express cars of an Alabama and Great Southern train at BibbvlUe siding, Ala., early Friday morning. The gang got away with sums estimated at 150,000 to 8100,000 Joseph Richardson, a negro, was lynched at Leitchfield, Ky., early Friday morning. The negro had attempted a criminal assault on a 11 year-old white girl Mrs. Susan Ross, charged with the murder of her husband, has been convicted at Felton, Mo., of manslaughter and given a sentence of ten years Chas. J. Dogherty, engineer of the New York, New Haven and Hartford train which was wrecked at Stanford. 6onn., last June, is dead from heart disease, caused by grief because of having killed six people in the wreck....... A Chicago man, in order to attain the necessary height to become a city fireman, injected a cupful of water under his scalp and increased his height by half an inch A count of the coin in the San Francisco mint has disclosed the fact that one sack supposed to contain *3u,uuu in goia, contained nothing but iron washers. When or how the theft was accomplished is unexplained After an investigation lasting five weeks, a Philadelphia coroner s Jury has returned a verdict that a young Maryland woman's death in that city, was the result of a criminal operation, and ordered the arrest of a trained nurse, a physician and a student The superintendent of a county infirmary at Gallipolis. O., has been sentenced to serve ten years in the Ohio penitentiary for embezzling 576 A sea-going tug boat, drawing 12J feet of water, was passed through the Gatun locks of the Panama canal on Friday A mother and eight children were burned to death in a fire at Quebec, Canada, Friday An investigation of the death of the late Timothy D. Sullivan, by the New York police department, failed to bring out anything in the nature of foul play The gifts to Miss Mary Tonptj TTlah whn hopomo tVio hriHp nf Gustav B. Ballard at South Bend, Ind., Saturday afternoon, were valued at $1,000.000 Governor Craig of North Carolina, has issued a proclamation designating November 5, and 6 as "Good Roads" days and calling on all patriotic people to work the public roads of the state on these days Six representatives and one senator have died since the convening of the present extra session of congress Governor Slaton of Georgia, has committed to life-imprisonment the sentence of death pronounced on Dr. W. J. McNaughton. convicted at Swalnsboro, more than three years ago, of the murder of Fred Flounders, by poison German cities are said to have spent $570,000 for radium and mesothorium, for the curing of cancer The third annual American Good Roads congress began its session at Detroit, Mich., yesterday, with 5,000 delegates in attendance The vice president of a Chicago packing house advocates state and Federal laws to prohibit the slaughter of veal calves, claiming that 10.000,000 calves dressing 60 pounds each, were slaughtered within a year, whereas if the calves were fed until two years old, the supply of beef would be vastly Increased Yale university last week began its 213th academic year with the largest enrollment in its history Two attorneys of Pittsburgh, Pa., are under $10,000 oan Donas eacn, cnargea wun conspiracy to rob a bankrupt Jewelry firm. During a mysterious fire $20,000 worth of diamonds were stolen from the store and later they were found in a safety deposit box A French aviator has accomplished the feat of flying for half an hour In a self-righting flying machine, without once touching any of the controlling levers. ? B. H. Barry made a sensation In the Spartanburg cotton market last Saturday by putting the price up to 14 cents, and investigation developed that he had entered the field as an Independent buyer, the first the city has known for several years. The Spartanburg city mills have for years operated on the theory that all Spartanburg county cotton that comes to town belongs to them, and when independent buyers butt in, they proceed to run him out. When the buyer has been run out, prices drop down agnln. LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8 C. F. Sherer?Wants 10 or 12 shoats, 76 to 100 lbs., for fattening. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Reviews the standing of the Mutual Benefit as one of the very best of all life insurance companies. York Supply Co.?Wants 100 dozen eggs and a few bushels of wheat. Has oyster shells and ground meat for chickens, horse and mule feed. J. J. Keller ft Co.?Ask you to see them before buying any kind of lumber or building materials, paints, oils, varnishes, etc. Remedy Sales Corporation?Prints a testimonial from a N. C. druggist in regard to Mrs. Person's remedy. Palmetto Monument Co.?Tells why "its monuments are best, and asks you to visit its yards. Carroll Bros.?Have bagging and ties. They also have something to say in regard to buggies and farm tools of various kinds. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Quotes you prices on loaded gun shells, beginning with October 1st. Louis Roth?Will have Norfolk select oysters today and tomorrow. He wants your orders. Kirkpatrlck-Belk Co.?Is making a showing of one-piece wool dresses, new coat suits, new sweaters, hand bags and purses. Cloud Cash Store?Invites attention to its lines of staple merchandise, as well as to silks, coat suits, coats, shoes, blankets, bed sheets, etc. Thomson Co.?Extends an invitation (Mtkli/i fa vial# (fa IU VIIO UUJ1115 ^/uunv iV ?ion IWJ ovwt o and see Its big stocks of fall merchandise. Teachers Invited Friday. J. M. Stroup?Talks about work shoes for men, women and children; Purina horse feed, seed oats, sugar, hams, etc. T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond?Say they are headquarters for various field seeds, and want your orders. . See page four. Yorkville Bargain House?On page 4 says that Mr. Kassler Is in the markets for new goods and tells you what to expect Local 'possum Hunters report a plentiful supply of this game and already good catches have been made by some of them. But then maybe if the farmers raise a surplus of hay, etc., next year the cattle and other live stock will come along after It of its own accord. On this date last year cotton was bringing 11| on the Yorkville market. It is the beat outlook for good business that the country has known for years. The name of Mr. C. S. Moorhead, representing Hickory Grove Baptist church, was inadvertently omitted from the list of delegates who attended the session of the York Baptist association at Fort Mill last week, in Friday's Enquirer. I nil is rtiuainaui> omcnu uiwn the McQIU boys are playing on the hawks out on Hickory Grove Np. 2; but nothing could be more simple. Almost everybody who lives in the country or who has had experience hunting small game understands that habit the hawk has of selecting particular places in a given locality for his lookout work. The topmost bough of a dead tree is usually his favorite perching place. And almost any dead tree close to the open fields or places where birds may And cover will do if it be broken off high up or can be conveniently sawed off. There is no need to bait the trap. All that is necessary is to place it In such a position as will facilitate the hawk's coming down on it in such a way as to spring it WITHIN THE TOWN ? Mr. James Simrlll sold a bale ^ cotton a few days ago for 190.85 and^ got 815 for the seed?a total of 8105.85. ? At the request of the King's Mountain chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonel A. Coward gave n tHn flror\nH anhnnl a LUC gilllU&CU Cbb Luc VJ* nwvt ?vvw? M talk on the causes of the American revolution and re-told the story of the battle of King's Mountain. ? Miss Ella Neely, teacher of the Fourth grade in the Graded school, took her pupils out for a walk in the woods last Friday afternoon. The young folks spent their time in gathering berries, flowers, etc., and they thoroughly enjoyed their tramp. ? Local baseball enthusiasts are showing much interest in the championship series to be played between Philadelphia and New York, commencing in New York on October 7. Both of the big clubs have their local partisans and some of these partisans are talking as if they will go to see one or more of the games, some preferring to go to New York and others to Philadelphia. CANNING CLUB PRIZES. Miss Minnie Garrison, county super lntendent or tne uirrs canning ciuds, has received from Miss Edith Parrott, the state superintendent, the following Jetter, giving information as to prizes, etc.: Three prizes will be awarded the three best booths at the state fair. The following points will be used in estimating exhibits: (1) Most artistically arranged booth ?25 per cent. (2) Quality of goods dispayed? 20 per cent. f31 Variety of goods displayed? 15 per cent. (4) Quantity of goods displayed? 15 per cent. (5) Best display of correlated school and club work?25 per cent. The county winning the first prize will be awarded $75. The second county will be awarded $50, and the third best county will be given $25. The money will be used by the county agent for establishing a small library on the different phases of our Girls' club work. Ths judges of these exhibits will be announced later. The club girl making the best all-round record In the state this year will be given a free trip to Washington, D. C., and shown all points of interest in the capital city. AUDITOR LOVE SUSTAINED Judge Prince's decree in the case of the Loan and Saving's Bank of Yorkville, the People's National Bana of Rock Hill, and the First Trust and Savings Bank of Rock Hill, against B. M. Love, auditor of York county, was filed with the clerk of the court this morning, having been signed at Wlnnsboro yesterday, and forwarded to Yorkville by mail. It is adverse to the contention of the banks and sustains the position of Auditor Love. It will be remembered that after hearing the argument in the mandamus proceedings during the recent term of the court of common pleas, Judge Prince instructed counsel on both sides to prepare decrees upholding their respective contentions, with the unciersianaing mai ne ?uuiu cuuei sign one or the other of the decrees or prepare one setting forth his own views in the matter. These decrees were prepared in due time, and it develops that his honor has signed the one prepared by Assistant Attorney General Dominick in behalf of Auditor Love. The decree goes quite extensively into the whole contention and fills several typewritten pages; but It is comprehended in the proposition that In view of the fact that an adequate remedy is provided by the statutes, mandamus is not the proper procedure. Ac cording to the decree, the method of assessment followed by Auditor Love Is correct, and If the complaining banks think they have a grievance they should pay their taxes to the treasurer under protest and take the matter up with the comptroller general In the regular way. WANTS EVEN DIVIDE Mr. N. W. Hardin of Blacksburg, Is among those who are jJlssatlsfled with the manner in which the Federal patronage in South Carolina is being distributed, and he has written the president as follows: Woodrow Wilson, President United r\ r* Diaico, *v uniiui^iuii, lj. Dear Sir: Wish you would draw a line, beginning north-east of the state, North Carolina line, through Columbia, south-west to the Georgia line and you will see that we have two United States senators, south-east of this line. Then turn to your records and look at the Federal appointments, as part of your executive board, vis: Gonzales, Heyward, Weston or Thurmand, Sims, etc., and you will see that they are all from the section southeast of-this line. Then turn to your map and statistics and see where the greater wealth and votes are to be found; the evidences of material and intellectual developments within the last thirty years are to be found. I am satisfied that you will find them all northwest of this line. We are all Democrats and why thus ignored? ' Doubtless you remember the little incident about tossing the tea overboard. Very truly yours, N. W. Hardin. WITH THE FARMER8 The winter cover and summer forage crop idea is taking good hold in an pans 01 me uouniy anu uu accurate report on any one locality Just now will serve equally well for almost any other locality. A fanner of the Beth-Shlloh neighborhood told The Enquirer yesterday that he proposes to put in not less than fifteen acres of clover this fall, and will use both the crimson and burr varieties. People out in the Beersheba neighborhood are sowing quite a lot of crimson clover in their cotton. Their method is to break the soli slightly and scatter the seed so as to avoid too great depth. The farmers around Bowling Oreen have been steadily making their own bread for so many years that they all regard wheat sowing as a matter of courae; but now they are giving more attention to oats than formerly. Experience is teaching many of them that oats are better feed for work stock than cOrn is, and there will be an increase over previous years In the oats acreage. The Bowling Green section is also taking on to crimson clover and several farmers have been so well J ?t?W ?,4 + Vi piettSEU Willi yaoi 0A|1C1UIIUHU1 nun vetch that they are going: into this crop more largely than ever before. The primary purpose of the vetch is a winter cover, and it is found to make a very remarkable hog feed. There are very few reports of good cotton crops from any point along the north-eastern, northern or north-western portions of the county, most of the testimony being that the top crop is simply not there. In the Bowling Qreen country a good many of the crops are late, and still growing, and the farmers are hoping for a little more outcome than elsewhere; but the general opinion seems to be that cotton has about "done its do." A BOOMING MARKET 'It's fine, fine." That is what almost everybody has been saying of the booming cotton market during the past month and those who have not been saying "Pine, fine."- have been using "great," "bully," or some other such term equally expressive of the general enthusiasm. The only fly in the ointment has been a fear that the rise might be only temporary. This fear, however, has not predominated. The general feeling is that of confidence and generally those who are hurrying the pickers so as to get the cotton out of the fields and to the gins, are just as apt to declare in the next breath: "I would not be surprised to see it go to fifteen cents," and after reflecting a little conclude the sentence with, "or a little higher than that maybe." Awakened by the rumbling of the heavy wagons along the streets, the writer arose last Saturday morning at about sunrise and walked around to /v# trxw All II1C 5IIUICI / VI T IViVt WtlVra* V/l* company. They had not yet commenced work either at the gin or in the office and the wagons were strung out one behind another from the scales house down to the big gate on Madison street nearly a hundred yards away, and on either side up and down the street for some considerable distance away from the gate. A count undertaken for curiosity developed that there were thirtyeight wagons in sight, and further investigation disclosed several more wagons on the other side of the seed house. Inquiry of the drivers of the wagons developed that some of them had ' ft home as early as 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, and their explanation of the reason was that they desired to get a8 close along about the head of the line as possible so at to get to the gin and market and back home, without unnecessary loss of time. With some of them, however, It was pretty nearly an all day business as it was afternoon before the last of those who had gotten on the ground by sunrise were able to get away. The talk of most of the farmers was to the effect that the crop is light, and mahy thought that the middle of October would see it all picked and sold unless the market showed decline. Some, however, thought that their crops were about as good as usual and they would still be picking In November. THE PRESBYTERIAL. Notice of the fifteenth annual meeting of the Presbyterlal of Bethel presbytery, which begins In the First Presbyterian church of Yorkvllle tomorrow, was published in The Enquirer of last Friday. The York News has published a list of the expected delegates and the homes to which they have been assigned, as follows: Mrs. S. C. Ashe?Mrs. McBride Smith. Mrs. A. D. Hood, Wlnnsboro. Mrs. H. C. Glenn?Mrs. DeVane, Liberty Hill; Mrs. McAfee, Chester. Mrs. Frank Riddle?Rock Hill delegates. Mrs. E. A. Hall?Mrs. Cora Hardin, Chester: Mrs. Dorethy Moore, Lancaster. Mrs. G. H. O'Leary?Mrs. Hartman, Great Falls; Mrs. J. S. McKeown, Pleasant Grove. Mrs. Brooks Inman?Miss Lesslle Carroll, Beersheba. Mrs. Thos. F. McDow?Dr. Wm. H. Martin, Davidson College. Miss Clara Johnson, Liberty Hill. Mrs. J. S. Brice?Mrs. Alex Martin Rock Hill. Mrs. B. N. Moore?Mrs. Walton Nell Rock Hill; Mrs. Jonathan Coleman. Chester. Mrs. J. D. McDowell?Miss Kate Douglas, Chester. I Mrs. W. F. Marshal?Mrs. J. C. Mc Lure, Chester; Miss Elizabeth McLure, Chester. Mrs. Nannie Allison?Bethel delegates. Mrs. J. McC. Moore?Mrs. J. P. Moore, Bethesda; Mrs. W. O. Sanders, Lowryvllle. Mrs. W. H. Fowler?Mrs. L. H. Good, Miss Minnie Plexlco, Sharon. Mrs. Robert Wltherspoon?Mrs. R. M. Strange, Chester. Mrs. J. H. Carroll?Miss Sadie Mc , oiiw uuia naiuui, v^ucotci. Mrs. R. T. Allison?Mrs. Ben Fewell or Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. J. B. Craig, Rock Hill. Miss Maggie Moore?Mrs. R. T. Sandifer, Mrs. R. D. Atkinson, Lowry\ille. Mrs. J. C. Sadler?Mrs. Kate Fewell, Mrs. W. W. Gill, Miss Annie Steele. Rock Hill. Miss Mary Wilborn?Mrs. Houston, Mrs. J. F. Jackson. Mrs. W. G. White?Mrs. Minter, Miss Lottie Klutz, Chester. Mrs. J. C. Wilborn?Mrs. R. S. Hanna, Rock Hill; Mrs. Claudia Key, Chester. Misses Gist?Mrs. Thornton, Chester; Mrs. J. H. Barber, Pleasant Grove. Miss Lesslle Wltherspoon?Mrs. Paul Workman, Rock Hill; Mrs. Brawley, Chester; Dr. Reaves, Columbia. Mrs. Gillespie?Dt. Gllmour, Chester. Mrs. J. R. Lindsay?Miss Craig, Miss Cook. Rock Hill. Mrs. M. L. Carroll?Mrs. Simpson, Chester; Mrs. E. G. Jones, Rock Hill. Mrs. McNeil?Mrs. Gus Aiken, Mrs. L. B. Dawson, Chester. Mrs. W. H. Herndon?Mrs. Jas. 8. White. Rock Hill; Mrs. J. J. Stringfellow, Chester; Miss Sallie Wilson, Chester. Mrs. H. A. D. Neely?Mrs. Jas. Reid, Rnnlr Will Mm VmI DlAhh?-ff ABOUT PEOPLE Mr. John Matthews of Clover spent Sunday with relatives in Torkvllle. Mrs. Marie Qlenn of Yorkville, spent several days this week in Columbia. Mrs. H. B. McConnell of Chester, is visiting Mrs. J. 8. Jones, in Torkvllle. Mr. Roy Phillips of Torkvllle, left yesterday to enter Clemson college. Mr. W. I. Barber of Chester, spent Sunday with friends in Torkvllle. Dr. Joe Thomas of Tirsah, Is quite sick at his home with pneumonia. Mr. Sam Wilkerson of Hickory Grove, is quite ill with appendicitis. Mrs. W. P. Marshall of Torkvllle, spent Sunday with her daughter, Miss Martha, at Wlnthrop. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fowler of Torkvllle, visited relatives in Rock Hill, Sunday. Mrs. J. F. McBlwee of Torkvllle, left yesterday for Baltimore, Md., where she will undergo treatment. Mr. Thos. C. O'Farrell of Spartanburg, spent Sunday with relatives in Torkvllle. Col. W. W. Lewis of Torkvllle, Is spending several days in Barnwell, this week. Messrs. R W. Long and Tom Quinn of Greenville, spent Sunday in Tork?.ltU y inc. Mr. A. L. Donahue of Charlotte, pent Saturday and Sunday with friends In Yorkvllle. Mr. Earl S. Watson, of Smyrna No. 2, left last week for the Presbyterian college at Clinton. Mr. and Mrs.- J. Lowry Guy of Chester, spent Sunday with the family of Mr. R. B. Lowry, in Yorkvllle. Messrs. C. A. Berry and John R. Barnwell of Rock Hill, spent Sunday in Yorkvllle. Mr. C. W. Smith and son, Strauss, and Mrs. H. C. Strauss, are spending several days In Yorkvllle, this week. Mr. and Mrs. E. A_ Law of Bartow, Fla., are visiting relatives In Yorkvllle. Miss Annie Lee Moore of Columbia, Is visiting the family of her father, Mr. W. T. Moore, in Yorkvllle. Miss Mary Harshaw of McConnellsville, visited her aunt, Mrs W. J. P. Wylie, in Yorkvllle this week. Reports from Mr. Geo. G. Eaves, in the Fennell's Infirmary at Rock Hill, are to the effect that he Is Improving slowly. Information from Mr. A. D. Dorsett who has been critically 111 at a sanitarium in Greensboro, N. C., Is to the effect that he is much better. Mr. Robert B. Alleln of Yorkvllle, left Sunday for Whitney, N. C., to take a position with the Southern Power company. Mrs. Alonzo Rose has returned to her home in Yorkville, after spending several days with her daughter, Mrs. T. A. Covington, in Lincolnton, N. C. Mrs. L. L. Smith of the Beersheba neighborhood, who has been in bad health for many months past, has been growing rather worse during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Spencer and son Master Donnom, who have been spending the summer In Blowing Rock, N. C., have returned to their home In Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Willis, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Willis and Mr. Earl Willis of Yorkville, attended the WillisBlanton wedding in Rock Hill, last night. Mr. J. B. Pegram of Yorkville, left yesterday for Baltimore, Md. He expects to return in a few days with Mrs. Pegram and little Miss Martha, who has been undergoing treatment there. Mrs. M. L. Whitesldes has sent out Invitations to the marriage of her daughter, Mary EJthel, to Mr. James Walter Gaulden. The ceremony is to take place at the home of the bride's mother, at Sharon on Tuesday afternoon, October 7th at 5 o'clock. Mr. Frank and Misses Selena and Annie Smoak of Torkvllle, Clodlde and Clem Parrott of Filbert and Helma Alexander of Nichols, left Yorkville this morning for the fall and winter session at Cedar Springs institute. BETHEL IMPROVEMENT The Bethel Improvement association continues to grow in Interest and membership. There were between twenty-flve and thirty members present when the meeting was called to order by President Dulin at Post Oak school house last Saturday afternoon, and the record showed the addition of twenty-eight new members since the previous meeting, making one hundred in all. The principal feature of the meeting was the reading of a paper by Dr. T. N. Dulln, on the subject of seed selection, which paper was discussed by Mr. H. E. Johnson. The next meeting Is to be held at Chapel school house on Saturday October 2, at 7 o'clock p. m. Following Is Dr. Dulin's paper: Cotton seed should be selected in the field. By so doing the farmers of Bethel township will save several thousand dollars each year. The main reason for selecting cotton seed in the field Is to eradicate the disease known as anthracnose or boll rot, which if allowed to remain in cotton from year to year will eventually ruin our production of cotton. This disease may be diagnosed by the boll being developed unevenly, the the boll being developed unevenly, failing to open wide or rotting before it is fully matured. There may be three J healthy pods and one diseased, or the whole boll may be diseased. No cotton should be picked from a boll that has any symptoms of anthracnoee? I not a single pod. Now, while we are selecting for the eradication of anthracnose, let us pay snm* attention to the size of the stalk, whether it is well fruited or not, and to the length of the limbs. You have seen large stalks that contained very few bolls and of course you do not wish to select seed from such a plant. Taking the above for example, we should at first see that the plant Is free from disease. Second, that It Is well fruited with large bolls or that the bolls are of average size, or above the average. Third, that the plant is of sufficient size and shape. Fourth, that the bolls selected be open wide and of a fluffy appearance. There are two ways orf gathering this cotton. The best way Is to have the more Intelligent and painstaking laborers to go over your cotton first, selecting from plants as described above, and have the other laborers pick what Is left. The other way Is for each laborer to carry two sacks, put the good In one and the bad in the other. We should select all the fivelock bolls that we can. I feel sure that if we would select the flve-ock bolls year after year and plant a small patch each year from seed obtained from the five lock bolls, we could almost eliminate the four-lock bolls. After this cotton is selected we should be sure that we do not get It mixed at the gin. Scientific farmers tell us that the germs that produce ahthracnose are found In the old stalks as well as in the seed, hence war should plant our selected seed in a neia tnai did ndt have cotton planted on It the previous year. I have no Information aa to how long the land will support the anthracnose germs, and I feel sure that we should plant on land that has not been planted in cotton for several years. If the farmers of Bethel township will select cotton seed from yeai to year In this way we will not only save money by increasing our yield, but will be able to sell our cotton seed for at least one dollar per bushel. Wc will aso get a better price for our llnl cotton; for if we eliminate anthracnose the lint will be longer and stronger. I make no claim of originality is this selection of cotton seed. I know attention has been called to It In the farm journals, but I thought by taking this subject up in our association we might be able to bring It to the attention of some who have not seer such articles. I feel sure that the way most of us get out of old ruts Is tc have our attention called to better and more modern methods, not once, but time after time. Improvement Is our watchword, and this Is one of the ways that every om in Bethel township may Improve. Ii Is a business proposition and It wll mean money saved, and money saved li money made. I hope this matter wll be taken up In earnest and as sure ai we do we will have cause for congrat ulation. We should select seed in th< neiu, not oniy cotton weu, uui curu etc. We send hundred* of dollan from our township each year to pur chase seed, when we can, by select lng, have as good, or better, at home LOCAL LACONICS Withdrawn from 8ale. Because of an error In the copy fo' the advertisement furnished the print re, Hon. 8. T. Lanham .Master of Spar tanburg county ,has requested tb withdrawal of the notice of sale in th case of Skalowskl vs. Martin: The lan< in question will be sold on aaleeday li November, and will be re-advertlse in the meantime. After the Distillers. Sheriff Brown has been quite actlv in his operations against moonshln distillers in the vicinity of King* Mountain battleground recently. Ac companied by deputies on last Satur day, he broke up a plant and destroy ed more than two thousand gallon of beer. In the same neighborhood th day before he captured a 30 galloi still. No arrests were made In elthe case. Profitable Road Improvement. The work of clearing the King* Mountain road of the boulders tha obstructed it opposite the John "W Thomasson old residence prevlousl; referred to, has been completed L first class shape. The blasting work wa done under and by the supervision o Messrs. J. Q. Hall and B. R. Smltl and the cost was very small, consid erlng the great benefit that has bee: obtained. County 80H00I Trustees. Because only a very few trustee gave their attendance at the meetln that was to have been held last Sat urday, . not enough to constitute 1 quorum, the meeting was postpone until a date to be announced later. Th lack of attendance is thought to b&v been due largely to the reluctance 0 most of the trustees to take their at tentlon from the gathering of th crops especially at a time when thei presence at home seemed unusual!; important Death of Mrs. W. C. Llgon. Mrs. Maggie C. Llgon died at be home In Clover last Thursday night o pellagra after an illness extendln over about four months. The decease* was & daughter of Mr. R. A. Matthew of Clover, and was married to herhus band Mr. W. C. Llgon, on February ! 1909. At the time of her death she wa 29 years of age. She Is survived b her husband and father and one slate and two brothers: Mr. Carl J. Mat thews of Magnolia, N. C., Miss Id May Matthews of Rose Hill, N. C., an Mr. Howard Matthews of Wadevilh N. C. The funeral took place from th home on Friday, the services beln conducted by Rev. Grady Hardin, as slsted by Rev. W. P. Grler. Plenty of Partridges. "There Is a good supply of partridge this year," said a man who knows, t The Enquirer a few days ago. "I hav been about In the fields a good deal an* not only And all the old coveys witl which I am familiar, but some net ones. Many of the birds are still quit small and will not be large enough t shoot even by the fifteenth of Novem ber. The open season really ought t be moved up to the 15th of Decembei But while partridges are more plentifu this year than last year, it will not ap pear that way after the first two week nf the season. The hunters will ge amongst them and get them scared an scattered, and they will appear to b scarce until after January, when the will begin to appear more numeroui That is the way it works generally." ? A bitter fight against race discrlm ination in various states, says a Wash lngton dispatch, is to be made short! on behalf of negroes before the su preme court. The Oklahoma and th Maryland "grandfather" constitutions amendments by which thousands c negroes have been disfranchised, wll be attacked as unconstitutional. Ai effort will be made to have the Oklaho ma "Jim crow" legislation annullec An attempt will be made by Tennesse negro organizations to be permitted t use the name "Knights of Pythias" fo negro lodges. Frank Guinn and J. J Beal, two election officers have beei convicted of conspiring to prevent sev eral negroes from voting at the con gressional election of 1910 in Oklaho ?" T?Klc? nroa rlnno nn * VlO hofiia thfl IHO> A ?10 nuo UVliC VII hHV WMWIW mm~mm the "grandfather" clause made it nec essary for all persons whose ancestor were not qualified to vote in this coun try In 1866 to be able to read and writ In order to vote. The Oklahoma "Jlr crow" law requires railroads to provid separate coaches for whites and ne groes equal in every way In comfor and convenience. Five negroes see! to enjoin the railroads from enforcini the law. They lost in the lower Fed er&l courts, which held that railroad need not furnish sleeping cars for ne groes if there was not sufficient de mand. For several years a fight hai been waged between white and negri lodges of Knights of Pythias in thi uan r\f no ma Mp KUUllI U?C? l|IV UOV VI M Orangeburg county , last Friday and Saturday, according to dfrpatches. The reason for this spurt above the market has not been fuHy explained. 2. ? Officials of the J. O. White Engineering company believe, according to a Columbia dispatch, that thfy1 have captured the guilty parties in . connection with the robbery of m. 000 at Parr Shoals. They make the , claim that seven persons have identlI fled Bissell Bigham and John Praser,. i Jr., who were arrested at Chester ser: eral days ago. The young men have - been released utfder bond of |2$09 each. The citlsens of Chester express belief in the Innocence of the young i men. J. T. McLella, superintendent r of the work at Parr Shoals declar> ed yesterday that the arrests were not made upon the evidence of Burns i detectives. The preliminary hearing has been set for October 9, at Winnsi boro. ' ? After listening to evidence and ar| gument during a period of three days, \ the Union jury in the case of Harry 1 Coleman, charged with the murder of . his father, on last Thursday night ' agreed upon a verdict of guilty with ? a recommendation to the mercy of the : court, and on Friday morning Judge ' DeVore sentenced the prisoner to life : imprisonment in the penitentiary. ' Coleman is about 18 years of age. His father was t Yorkvllle No. 8, Sept. 29. d e Japan Has Designs on China.?A y Peking dltpatch to the London Dally ' Telegraph says: 1 J "Japan Is preparing to make China a battleground. Her rlvalr> with Russia was not settled by the late war. No Russo-Japanese agreements exist cov' ering Mongolia. The Japanese policy y has been devoted to preserving the. ' status quo in Manchuria, thus leaving , her free to take any necessary coun# tervaillng steps. "The Japanese policy In China, summed up, means the planting of garrisons without territorial leases, thereby . guaranteeing: tne mtegniy or cmna e by forestalling others. At Hankow the _ garrison of 2,000 men will be retained. _ Another probably will be planted at , the great Tayeh iron mines nearby. ' "Special Japanese concessions under police control will be demanded at I Nanking which policy will be repeated at Fu Chow, Amoy and elsewhere. In j case of trouble the railways also will be demanded, j "The Japanese naval units will be increased in Chinese waters. There " will be no danger to British interests _ If Great Britain displays her usual " flexibility. "Peking is no longer the capital, the t loss of Mongolia and the absence of i. the usual intercourse rendering it 1mg potent and transferring the power to f the south. Japan, with practically the 3 whole Chinese revolutionary party under lock and key in Tokio, holds out ' her hand to England, knowing that , the alliance is more Important and nec5 essary than ever." e - ?Columbia Record: Comptroller B General Jones has called a meeting of the state board of assessors to consider applications of a number of corpor ?*of/4 thalr an* t nu&l license fees for remission of the it penalty provided by law, to be held In - his office at noon, October 16. The cor: poratlons which have neither made their annual reports nor paid their 11 cense fees, as required by law number r, 41, and the corporations which have s made their annual reports but which - have not paid their license fees numf ber 17. These lists were turned over - to the attorney general about the first 8 of July by Comptroller General Jones, t requesting that he institute actions S against the corporations in question to ? recover the license tax, together with the penalty Imposed by law.