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Scrips and ?acts. ? Actual enrolled membership of Christian churches in the United States showed a net increase of 618,000 or 1.8 per cent during 1913, according to statistics published last week by the Washington office of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The Methodist church led in the increased membership with 220,000. The other churches in their order follow: Baptist 64,600, Presbyterian, 55,000; Lutheran, 36,100; Disciples, 24,800, and Episcopal 16,500. The actual membership of the largest churches in the United States are given as follows: Roman Catholic, 13,099,534, Methodist, 7,125,069; Baptist 5,924,622; Lutheran, 2,338,722; Presbyterian 2,027,593; Disciples of Christ, 1,519,369, Protestant Episcopal, 997,407, and Congregational, 748,340. These eight churches contain 34,000,000 of the 37,280,000 of actual church membership In the United States. ? Augustus Octavius Bacon, United States senator from Georgia for nearly 19 years, and chairman of the foreign relations committee, since the ascendancy of the Democratic party March a iqio loot CoturHflv in ft "Wash ington hospital after an illness of ten daya He was the first United States senator elected by direct vote of the people under the 17th constitutional Amendment. Though Senator Bacon had been seriously ill with kidney trouble and complications developing from a broken rib, his death was unexpected. It c&me suddenly at two o'clock in the afternoon and news of the end fell upon the senate as a shock while it was in executive session. The immediate cause of the senator's death was diagnosed as a blood clot in the heart. Throughout the morning he had been in good spirits, and it was announced to his colleagues that he was feeling better than for several days. Physicians had determined that an operation which had been contemplated was unnecessary. Despite his 75 years it appeared that the affliction which he suffered was of recent origin, and specialists believed it would yield to treatment. This conclusion relieved considerably the anxiety of his friends and associates ift congress. Half an hour before his death the senator talked with his daughter. Mrs. W. B. Sparks of Georgia. She had just left the room when he raised himself in bed. As Mrs. Sparks re-entered the room her father fell back in collapse and never regained consciousness. ? Cotton consumed in the United States during January amounted to 540,874 running bales, including 14,954 hales of foreign cotton and 23,735 bales of linters, compared with 533,743 bales in January last year, the census bureau announced Saturday. Cotton in manufacturing establishments January 31 was 1,851,496 bales, including 50,594 bales of foreign cotton and 87,081 bales of linters, compared with 1,912,993 bales on January 31 last year, and in independent warehouses 2,900,149 bales, including 2,362 bales of foreign cotton and 49,519 bales of linters, compared with 2,657,048 bales last year. Imports were 19,624 equivalent to 500-pound bales, compared with 52,022 bales in January last year. Exports were 1,052,198 running bales, compared with 900.931 in 1913. Cotton spindles active during January numbered 31,112,723 compared with 30,359,843 in January last year. Cotton consumed in cotton-growing states amounted to 277,994 bales, compared with 271,504 bales last year; in all other states 262,880 bales, compared with 262,239 Dales last year, cotton on nana January 31 in manufacturing establishments was distributed as follows: In cotton growing states 920,408 bales, compared with 917,712 bales last year; in all other states 922,088 bales, compared with 995,281 bales last year. That in independent warehouses was distributed: In cotton growing states 2,724,023 bales, compared with 2,450,397 bales last year; in all other states 176,126 bales, compared with 206,651 bales last year. Spindles operated during January were distributed: In cotton growing states 12,270,883. compared with 11,740,465 last year; in all other states, 18,841,840 compared with 18,619,378 last year. ? Washington, February 14: A saving of $75,000,000 a year to the cotton growers of the south, it is estimated by Senator Smith of South Carolina. would result if the amendment he proposes to offer to the agricultural appropriation bill is adopted. He would appropriate about $1,000,000 to furnish each shipping point in the south a set of government standard grades of cotton together with a set of samples showing the spinning value of each grade, so that hereafter producers of cotton might not be deceived by buyers and by values arbitrarily fixed by cotton exchanges. Senator Smith received today from the department of agriculture the results of its tests as to the different grades of cotton standardized by the government to determine the amount of waste in converting a given number of bales into yarn: to establish the actual strength of the yarn from each grade; to bleach the cotton and yarn from each grade: and to determine the cost end result of bleaching. Only the "full grades" were tested. "Taking the whole findings," said Senator Smith, "on an average the difference between the high grades as now quoted in the market, is from $10 to $15 a bale. Assuming the average crop at 15,000.000 bales, it is conservative to PHtimntP nnp.hfl 1 f of thp oron to hp below middling. Therefore, you would have 7,500.000 bales below the middling grade, and calculating that the farmers have lost, because of lack of this knowledge, an average of $10 a bale, it would mean an annual loss to the cotton farmers of $75,000,000. Middling fair yarn, tested as to its strength in the unbleached form, broke at 69.5 pounds pressure, in its bleached form at 66.7 pounds pressure; middling in the unbleached at 61.4, and in the bleached at 63.4; go^d ordinary at 56.4 unbleached and at 60.9 bleached. In tl\p matter of waste there was 7.32 per cent in middling fair, 8.49 in good middling, 10.38 in middling. 12.39 in low middling and 16.47 in good ordinary. ? The seven months' fight between Representative Oscar W. Underwood, leader of the national house of representatives and Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson for the Alabama vacancy in the United States senate is drawing to a close. The deciding votes in a campaign that has attracted nationwide interest will be cast at the Democratic primaries to be held April 6. The actual election of a senator will not take place until Nov. 4, but that will merely be a ratification of the choice made at the primary polls. Mr. Underwood, says a Montgomery dispatch, has announced from Washington that so far as personal participation was concerned, his campaign for a seat in the upper house has already ended. Mr. Hobson, on the other hand, is carrying forward the personal campaign he has been waging for many months, during which time he has spoken in nearly every county and town in the state. The political adherents of the two distinguished candidates are daily making counterclaims of victory. Careful observers, however, are inclined to await the casting of the ballots before attempting to name the successful aspirant to the seat occupied by the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston. Mr. Hobson, once a striking figure in the navy, and the hero of the Santiago blockade, resigned from the service shortly after the Spanish war in order to undertake a political career. He was quickly elected to the house of representatives in Washington and has served several successive terms. His eyes long ago, however, were fixed upon the senate and he is now finishing a painstaking campaign to realize that ambition. Whatever advantage may accrue from actual presence in the thick of the fight practically from beginning to end, rests with Mr. Hobson. Friends of Mr. Underwood, however, have used the campaign activities of Mr. Hobson as a basis for charges of habitual absenteeism from his duties in Washington. One of these friends, W. H. Parker, in his capacity as a citizen and taxpayer, recently filed a protest against Mr. Hobson receiving his pay as a congressman during the period he has been away from Washington. Mr. Underwood spent his Christmas holidays in Alabama making a brief but vigorous speaking tour. He covered as much ground as the limited period of the holiday recess permitted and then announced that he must re-' turn to his place in the house, leaving his campaign in the hands of his followers. Typical of all latter-day political fights in the south, the Hobson-Underwood campaign has been more or less involved with the question of state wide prohibition. Mr. Hobson has charged his opponent with having been influenced by the "liquor interests. He also has charged that corporation influence was behind the campaign of Mr. Underwood for the presidential nomination in 1912. All of these charges have been denied by Mr. Underwood. A short time ago there was a prospect of several joint debates between the two candidates and the state was greatly excited over the prospect. Mr. Hobson has issued repeated challenges from the stump but Mr. Underwood announced that he could not indulge in any such campaign in view of the demands made upon him in Washington. Jhe Moriu illr inquirer. Entered at the PoatofHce In Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Secontl Class. YORKVILLE, S. C.: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1914 Somehow we could not believe that President Wilson Intended to keep Mr. M. A. Carlisle in prison, and we feel that he has done the right thing in turning the old gentleman out. Although it looked last week that the flllibusters were going to be able to prevent the passage of the Sanders "Red Light" bill, the measure was finally forced to a vote and was passed to a third reading by a big vote. Discussing the Carlisle bill with reference to statutory rates for official advertising, the Bamberg Herald calls attention to the fact that it sustains more losses on account of this kind of advertising than on account of commer cial advertising. The point is very wen taken, and we are inclined to think that most other papers can testify accordingly. We are quite sure that it is so with us. ' * We have received a copy of the annual report of the State Bank Examiner, Mr. B. J. Rhame, directed "To His Excellency, the Governor of South Carolina." The report includes all the published statements of all the banks in the state, operating under domestic charters from November 26, 1912, to October 21, 1913, and also Information as to banks that have been organized and liquidated during that period. There are 314 commercial and savings banks, 18 branches and 3 private banks under the Jurisdiction of the office. Since November 26, 1912, there have been organized 14 new banks with an authorized capital of $585,000 and $276,242.50 paid in. The total assets of all the banks operating under state charters on October 21, 1913, was $81,130,394.19, an increase of $10,146,453.12, since November 26, 1912. The fairest and most satisfactory reports of the asylum investigation are those being published in the News and Courier. The News and Courier is not publishing as much of the proceedings as some of the other papers; but it is giving a more correct idea of the real trouble, which seems to be political rather than otherwise. Other questions have been injected to be sure, as is generally the case with controversies of a political nature; but they appear to have come in mainly for the purpose of clouding the issue, and that being the case with the most of the irrelevant matter that is coming out, it is easy for a newspaper that so desires to give the public almost any kind of an understanding of the situation; but as we have stated we think the News and Courier is coming nearest to giving the true facts. The Index made a feeble formal protest last week in the shape of a telegram or two against the proposed bill of Sen. Carlisle to reduce the rate on legal advertising. After sending these off an editorial in The Yorkville Enquirer was read and the Index finds itself coming more or less rapidly to The Enquirer's "standpoint of view" as a former Greenwood politician used to say. There are two sides to this as well as almost every proposition. The newspapers protesting will be accused of selfishness, and perhaps much of it is. It is a fact, however, that the legal advertising costs more to the newspaper than the commercial and a higher rate is only fair. Whether the full legal rate is too high is another side. The Index could suggest to Sen. Carlisle some other ways he could save money for the people if this is his object. How about a statute to fix law yer's fees, not to exceed so much?? Greenwood Index. Although maybe intended only as a hit back, that last suggestion is quite pertinent. If the economic training of the Spartanburg senator will admit of the idea, it might occur to him that possibly the newspaper man's knowing how. in connection with his labor, expense and invested capital ought to amount to at least as much as the lawyer's "knowing how." Hurrah for Mr. Wilson for his refusal to sign the immigration bill because of the literacy test. We wish that every man and woman in the world could read, and we believe that the world would be better if this were true; but the idea or inference that the man who is unable to read or write is criminal on that account is silly, and when a man like President Wilson, an educator by trade, confirms this proposition, he only emphasizes his breadth of mind and bigness of soul. It is common for ordinary folks to look down upon people who cannot read. We pity the illiterate; but the people who look down on the illiterate because they are illiterate, are more proper objects of pity. Illiteracy is not a sign of criminality. We can point out in this county children of illiterate parents who are as good citizens as we have. We have known and do know illiterate people who are as honest and true as any people we know. As we have said, we feel sorry for the man or woman who nas not Deen taugni 10 reaa; dui we do not look down upon him or her on that account. Again we say, hurrah for Mr. Wilson, one of the biggest men who has ever sat in the presidential chair. The Southern Public Utilities company has withdrawn its advertising from the Daily Mail, but not from other papers in this and other towns. We would have given those folks credit for having a little better business judgment especially this early in the game, but they have shown that they want the papers to truckle to them, and swear that everything they do is correct. The Daily Mail is not that kind of a newspaper. The Daily Mail wants business on a business basis, but we are not surrendering the least independence, or loyalty to the interests of the people to any corporation or individual in exchange for business. The Daily Mail depends on the people at large for its support, and without boasting, we will say we are quite well satisfied with the way it is coming our way. just at this time. The Daily Mail opposed the granting of a city franchise in the way it was done, and for the length of time*, it covers, and is still of that opinion. The contract made by the city council may be the best that could be obtained, but it was the dutv of the council to go into the matter thoroughly, and see what could be done, without being in such a hurry to sign up the contract these people offered it, especially in view of the fact that the old contract had some time yet to run. The people of the city do not approve it, as the next election in the city will show. If either of the four members of city council offer for re-election, the result will show what the people think about the matter. As we stated before, we are glad to see the Southern Public Utilities company show Its hand, but it will take a great deal more than withdrawing a little advertising from a big corporation to put the Daily Mail out of business, or put out of the way the things it stands for.?Anderson Daily Mail. . Bravely spoken and just what those who know him would have expected of the veteran publisher of the Daily Mail, who is a newspaper man of the old school who correctly appreciates the responsibilties of his high position, and who is unwilling to betray a trust that he considers sacred, either through fear of punishment or hope of reward. Just what is behind it all we do not know: but no truly loyal editor would be at a loss to imagine. Here comes a strong: corporation seeking unjust privileges through which it may be assured of big dividends, and pursuing the usual policy of associating influential local people, and spending a few dollars in the newspapers with the idea of suppressing alarm until after the main purpose has been accomplished. It appears that the Dally Mail was carrying an advertisement of the corporation: but fully understanding a great wrong that was about to be perpetrated, refused to remain silent. We can very well understand the sweat through which Publisher Browne went before he acted. The probable loss of a little advertising was a small matter to him: for in his long experience he has learned that the withdrawal of advertising is only one of the most puerile and inconsequential resorts of the kind of people he had to antagonize. Such folks have their dependents, flunkeys and satalites, and they are always people of many and varied resources. He knew that in a battle of money, boycott and the like, he would be at a disadvantage. His only reliance is the righteousness of his cause, and the confidence of the public in the reputation he has established for integrity. Knowing Mr. Browne as we do, we believe he will win; but even if he does not win out tinanciaiiy, he win still have his self-respect, and that is worth more than everything else. Among the recommendations in his annual report, State Bank Examiner Rhame says: There should be some restriction as to the number of banks. Almost any three or more individuals can operate and organize a bank for a time, and no one can lawfully prevent them even though the incorporators might be absolutely incompetent and financially irresponsible. Often the seed which later develops into a second bank in a community, where only one bank is needed. is sown through local Jealousies and factional quarrels, irresponsible parties who have been denied loans by the existing bank are often the most aggressive agitators for a second bank. A new bank organized under circumstances where the established institution affords ample banking facilities readily takes on undesirable loans from these same promoters who are primarily interested in obtaining credit beyond what their financial responsibilities would warrant. It would seem to be the plain duty of our law-making bodies to place upon our statute books a law which would make it impossible for a bank to be launched upon a community until every precaution had been taken to ensure honest and capable management, and to ascertain that the locality would support the new bank as well as the old one. While there is much reason in what Mr. Rhame says, we are inclined to think his viewpoint is hardly broad enough to suit the public, for most certainly there are two sides to the question discussed. The principal office of a bank is to facilitate financial co-operation necessary to develop the fullest resources of a town or community; but except for the hope of dividends there would be no banks, and in further considering the questions raised by Mr. Rhame, it is well to keep in mind this relation of origin and purpose. It is probably a fact that local Jealousies and factional quarrels have more or less influence in the conduct of the average country bank; but maybe it might be just as well to admit that sometimes these local jealousies and factional quarrels have more or less foundation in conflicting interests and aspirations that rise above mere personal bickering. We are willing to admit that in any event, whether the trouble be the importunities of the irresponsible or the reasonable claims of the meritorious, the individual or individuals?generally an individual?upon whom devolves the responsibility and discretion of loaning a bank's money has a trying task. It is a rare thing that any bank ever has available more money than it can loan to the most desirable customers, and it is frequently a matter of having to discriminate between patrons simply because there is not enough accommodation available to go around. Also there are imoortunities from the irresponsible and from the responsible but more or less reckless, and from other kinds. Among them all, be he ever so fair and just, the officer who finally determines on the placing of loans, must spend a good portion of his time in pretty warm water. But really, we do not think irresponsible agitators count for much, notwithstanding they may be numerous and persistent. We grant that they may be the means of organizing new banks where such banks are hardly necessary; but it is rarely the case that such organizations do them any good. If there is any one tiring that is more timid than accumulated savings that one thing has not yet been catalogued, and it is the rule that when people invest their money in bank shares they generally watch it up closely enough to see that very few irresponsibles get a show at it. There is another thing, however, of importance that Mr. Rhame has not touched upon with a great deal of emphasis. We agree with him that among the managers of the bank, especially in small communities, there are many who are unfit from more standpoints than one. The man who controls a man's money has a great power to help or hurt, not only the irresponsible; but the perfectly reliable and responsible. While the placing of safe loans for proper purposes is supposed to be the sole object of the bank management, such is not always the rule. Here is where "local jealousies and factional quarrels," as Mr. Rhame calls them, come in. The bank management should be above such things; but is this always the case? If he is above these, then is he always above conflicting inj terests and aspirations? We regret to say there are many who are not. Them are responsible bank officials who are more or less noted for their habit of trying to put the screws on customers and others who may not be inclined to recognize their side of a purely business transaction as entailing obligations to modify personal interests or private views that may differ with those of the man to whom he is indebted. There are bankers who use their power for oppression. It may be this class that Mr. Rhame refers to when he speaks of taking every precaution to ensure honest and capable i management. But how is he going to weed them out? A banker who is "smooth" enough to offend In this way is generally shrewd enough to escape conviction through any inquisition that can be devised except through the eventually infallible test ol time and public sentiment ' ? We agree with Mr. Rhame in all his recommendations looking to the increased security of the investments ot stockholders and the savings of depositors; but we would not try to limit or restrict competition. In this day of wider intelligence and ciloser governmental supervision there is less opportunity than ever for the success of the irresponsible wild catter, and so long as there are people who want to capitalize and organize new banks, let them go ahead. MERE-MENTION. The judge of an Indianapolis, Ind., court, has rendered a decision to the I effect that wedding presents are the property of the bride rather than the groom A bill has been introduced in the senate of .New York, making it a misdemeanor for anyone to insert circulars, etc.. in the folds of a newspaper, without the consent of the publisher of the paper A Freeport, L. I.. man, out of work, has been sentenced to Jail for stealing fifteen loaves of bread from a baker The world's production of wheat in 1913, was 1,126,000 000 bushels... .The number of beef cattle in the United States in 1910, ac cording to department ui tLgriuuuuic figures, was 41,178,000. January 1. 1914 the number had decreased to 35.855,000. The imports of beef increased from 6 000.735 pounds in October last. to 16,074,520 pounds in December The first raw wool to come into the United States from Canada, under the new tariff law, was received at Ogdensburg. N. Y., Saturday, when a shipment oi 50,000 pounds arrived A Washington dispatch is to the effect that Secretary Houston of the agricultural department, will probably resign from President Wilson's cabinet in March, to take a position on the Federal reserve board under the new banking law The president of a Colorado coal company testified before a congressional committee Saturday, that every 176,976 tons of coal mined by his company, cost one life in 1913. Under the Georgia law. Governor Slaton will appoint a temporary successor to the late Senator Bacon until a special election can be held in October to elect a United States senator. Jos. M. Brown, ex-governor, and Clark Howell, editor of the Constitution, are mentioned as possible temporary ap poiniees tnas. w. uuibs icn ncn York last week for Germany, since which time Wall street financiers have been doing a lot of guessing ExGovernor Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennessee, spent last week campaigning in Alabama in behalf of the cause of prohibition... .F. E. Brawner, president of a state bank at Pensacola, Fla, has been indicted on a charge of misapplying bank funds. Brawner has not been arrested A would-be postofflce robber was arrested at Danville, Ala., Saturday morning. The man had gone down the chimney and becoming wedged in he was severely burned by the burning embers in the fire place. He was discovered when the postmaster opened the office and was pulled up the chimney with a rope Sophie X$C, a prize cow of a Lowell, Mass., dairy, during her milking life of five years has produced 65,253 pounds of milk and 4.428 pounds Ol duller, an avciago ui nearly 900 pounds of butter a year.... Loon Fon, a wealthy Chinese merchant of Silver City, N. M., Is to be deported after living in that town for twentythree years, having been found guilty of being in the United States illegally. A llama, a present from the mayor of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, is on its way in care of an attendant, to the Nebraska farm of Secretary William J. Bryan. Gov. Biease and Reporter 8parkfc? Today's hearing was marked by a short colloquy between Governor Biease and Joseph Sparks, a well know newspaper man who has been reporting the meetings of the committee. The governor read extracts from the record of the committee's sessions, which, he said, sustained his position in the entire matter, and stated that unless this would be in the printed report of the committee he wished to send it in a special message to the legislature, as he knew the newspapers would not print it. Mr. Sparks arose and stated that if the committee would furnish him with o /?Anv r\f tvmlnntpQ in mipqtinn "he C* Wpj V* ... n would gladly publish the vital parts. Governor Blease said: "Yes, and the 'vital parts' will all be against Blease," to which Mr. Sparks replied: "The governor may point out what he considers the vital parts." "When I get to be news censor for the Columbia State," said the governor, "I won't be on this earth; I will be in hell." "You are damn right," replied Mr. Sparks. Chairman Mauldin rapped for order before other remarks had been exchanged. Dr. Griffin was examined by Governor Blease as to his political affiliation, declaring himself an Anti-Bleasite. The governor brought this out, he said, to show that the Blease board had not allowed prejudice to decide their choices. The governor took occasion to ran Dr. Babcock for his European trip to study pellagra.?Columbia special of Friday, to the News and Courier. Tillman and McLaurin.?While it is generally known, says a Columbia dispatch, that United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman and former United States Senator John L. McLaurin, who is now a member of the state senate, patched up their feud of 14 years' standing, when Senator Tillman was here to testify at the insane asylum hearing recently, it is known only to a few intimate friends of both just how the reconciliation was brought about. In order to learn who was the medial or between the two mer, who had not spoken since their fist fight in the senate at Washington on Feb. 22, 1900, Senator McLaurin was asked to give the correct story. While appearing reluctant to discuss the mf tter, Senator McLaurin said: "Dr. J. W. Babcock, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, took me in his automobile from the Jefferson hotel, where I was stopping to his home at the hospital grounds. Senator Tillman was already there, as a guest of the doctor, and was in the doctor's sitting room. "I went into the room alone and met the senator. No reference was made by either of us to our former differences and we merely shook hands. The whole matter was of so purely a per sonal nature that I prefer not to discuss it in the public prints." It is understood that thin was the first time in 11 years that either senator had seen the other, and they exchanged greetings for the first time since the memorable fist light which brought them both so much unpleasant notoriety. ? T. P. Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, is being sued at Oklahoma City for $50,000 damages by Mrs. Minnie T. Bond because of alleged assault in a Washington hotel last fall. The case i s attracting considerable Interest. Senator Gore claims that the whole thing is tumbled up; that the woman came to see him to get a Federal appointment for her husband; that while he supposed she was leading him to the parlor, she took him to a room where witnesses had been stationed and attempted to put him in a compromising position. He claims that the case is being pushed mainly by politicians for political purposes rather than for money. LOCAL, AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS U. D. C.'s?Will present "Brass Buttons" at the opera house next Friday ' evening with local talent. A comedy In three acts. B. F. Scoggins, Hickory Grove?Wants fifty head of young, thin cattle. A. \V. McFarland?Requests subscribers to The Enquirer to make payment at their earliest convenience. Shieder Drug Store?Can fit your eyes with'glasses that will give comfort and guarantees satisfaction. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Asks you to come to it for wire needed to build or repair your garden fences. First National Bank, Sharon?Is anxious to tell you of the advantages of a checking account and invites you to come and talk it over. G. W. Whitestdes & Co., Sharon?Has especially good work shoes and offers them and all shoes at the right prices for ca.sh. Other goods. Mrs. J. F. A. Smith. Yorkville No. 1? Can furnish fine Wyandotte eggs at $1.50 per setting of 15. S. C. Smith, Yorkville No. 1?Has a lz-year-oia Day norse, genue ana a good worker for sale cheap. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Is offering good values In misfit clothing for men?one price, J12.5U a suit. York Supply Co.?Can supply all kinds of building materials; sells cotton seed hulls and meal; garden seeds, hay, flour, etc. Carroll Bros?Want farmers to see them for fertilizers of the best kind, for buggies, wagons, fence wire, etc. Bank of Clover?Reminds you that it is keeping at it that builds a savings account. It wants to help you build with It. Quinn & McCtill?Have fresh car of mules and will be in Yorkville first Mondays of each month at Carroll . Bros.' lot. James Bros.?Say that Mr. J. S. James has gone for more mules and wants you to tell them what you want. Thomson Co.?Continues Its Mill-Factory Syndicate sale until Saturday night on account of bad weather. Kirkpatrlek-Belk Co.?Wants room for spring goods, and offers reduced prices on all winter goods. Cloud Cash Store?Opens its second white goods and clearance sale tomorrow for ten days and offers bargains on seasonable merchandise. Vn??l/ir(llA Unocvo (n Uaiiua Ar> nu (Xo A i "i rvvuir tjai i^ain u.uuac v?i j/?bc ? announces "big dollar days" for Friday, Saturday and Monday. Sherer & Qulnn?Make their initial how as grocers, having opened a stock of goods in the McNeel building and solicit your patronage. J. A. Marion, Referee?Publishes noi tlce in the case of John W. Boyd et al. vs. Eliza Jane Boyd et al. Lyric Theatre?("rives programme for the week. Aladdin next Monday: In the Shadow of Nazareth. Feb. 28. Have you made your tax return to Auditor Love yet? The penalty attaches after next Friday. The sleet o 1 last Thursday and Friday has been melting pretty rapidly, but there is quite a lot of it still with us. While the sditor was up at Hickory Grove last Friday night, his friend J. N. McGill called his attention to the fact that the ground hog has certainly proved his wisdom and foresight this year. It is not to be understood how ever, that Mr. McGIll expressed himself one way or the other as to how much faith he has in the ground hog. The truth is, he would not say. The Signers for the Call for the Prophetic conference at the Moody Bible institute of Chicago, February 2427, are sending out a request for prayer in the churches of the country on the Sunday preceding. The response to the Call has been unprecedented, and a great gathering is expected. The teachers represent most of the religious denominations and will discuss such themes as "The Signs of the Times," "The Doctrine of uhe Last Things," "Foreign Missions," "Evangelism," "Messianic Prophecy," "Present Day Apostasy," "The Second Coming of Christ as a Working Power in the Church and Community" and "Personal Holiness." DEATH OF MAX WATERS The Ashville Citizen of last Wednesday contains information of the death of Max Waters, youngest son of the late W. J. Waters, auditor of York county in the early nineties, and once a resident of Yorkville. The young man will be remembered by Yorkville people as a boy of infirm body; but of unusually bright mind. After the family left Yorkville, young Max finally settled in Chester and in the course of time became manager of the Western UIllOIl leicuia^ll U11IVG CVk lllai. J/U.VV. He was a most efficient operator, and because of a peculiarly lovable Christian character he became very popular. He was buried in Ashville on Wednesday, and the Ashville Citizen of that date notices his death as follows: Max Waters, who came to Ashville about a year ago from Chester, S. C., and who, daring the time that he has resided in this city, has made scores of friends here, died last night at 9.30 o'clock at his home at 421 South Main street, following an extended illness. The deceased is survived by his mother, Mrs. Fannie B. Waters; one brother, Walter Waters; one sister, Miss Willie Waters. Mr. Waters was twenty-four years of age and was manager of the Chester office of the Western Union Telegraph company for several years prior to the time that he came to Ashville. As a token of their esteem for Mr. Waters, the business men of the South Carolina city recently sent him a handsome gift. Mr. Waters was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and recently the Southern Christian Advocate, the official organ of the South Carolina conference of that denomination carried a long tribute from L. D. Childs, of Chester, in which he dealt with Mr. Waters' life and church work. Referring to the deceased, the author saicl in this article: "He has for some time been confined to his bed. I go to see him now and then, not to give comfort to him, but that I may get inspiration from him. This, for all we know him know, may be his final illness, but be that as it may, it matters not to Max. Though young, his life is a success. Tenderly has he fulfiled the duties of son. Constant faithfulness to manly righteousness has proven an anchor of faith and courage to more than one of those who know him." ABOUT PEOPLE Dr. W. M. Love of Chester, was In Yorkville, yesterday. Miss Anna Lewis of Yorkville, left today to visit relatives in Raleigh, N. C. Miss Hat tie Glover, of Walterboro, is visiting Mrs. Henry Stokes in Yorkville. Mr. O. A. and Allie Osborne of Blacksburg spent Sunday with York- ( ville friends. Miss Lydia. Mae Osborne of Blacksburg has returned home after a visit to relatives in Yorkville. Mrs. G. 0. Doggett of Charlotte, N. C., is visiting her uncle, Dr. A. Y. Cartwright, In Yorkville. Mr. John S. James of the firm of j James Bros., left Sunday for the "ennessee mule markets. Misses Mattie Gettys and Lottie Dunlap of Yorkville No. 3, are visiting friends in Clover. Mr. Boyee Plaxco has resumed his sudies at Krukine college, after a visit to his parents on Yorkville No. 1 Misses Margaret and Lena Caldwell, ' of King's Creek, are visiting their aunt 1 Mrs. Jesse Higgins, in Baltimore, Md. 1 Mesdames O. A. Osborne of Blacks- ( burg and B. A. Correll of Maiden, N. C. are visiting the family of Mrs. A. B. Crosby in Yorkville. Mrs. W. C. Latimer returned to her home in Yorkville yesterday, after a * visit to Mr. and Mrs. G. Carl Latimer, in Chester. Mrs. Pelham Morrow of Hamlet, N. C., left yesterday for Gastonia, after a visit of several days to Mrs. D. T. Woods, in Yorkville. Rock Hill Herald: J. K. Scoggins, bookkeeper for W. G. Reld & Son, who has been sick for about ten days, is not improving. Mr. Scoggins had measles and pneumonia developed. Brainerd M. Dobson, formerly of Yorkville: but for some years past a paymaster in the* navy, with a long record of meritorious service, has charge of the factory the government is establishing in Charleston for the manufacture of clothing for the sailors and marines of the navy. Mr. Robert A. Caldwell is seriously ill at his home in Gastonia with double pneumonia. Owing to Mr. Caldwell's advanced age?82, there is very little hope entertained for his recovery, and information from him Sunday was that he was barely living and could not survive the week. Mr. Caldwell is a brother of the late Mr. William Caldwell and Mrs. M. A. McElwee, of King's Creek. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Because of the peculiar construction of the roof of the Associate Reformed church, the sleet of Friday piled itself up to such an extent as to cause a leak. The accumulated drift had to be removed Sunday afternoon before the leak was stopped. ? Mr. C. F. Sherer has purchased from Mr. S. M. McNeel, the Zucher house and lot opposite the McNeel block. The deal which has been pending for quite a while, was closed yesterday. The building is now occupied by the Kandy Kitchen, John Demas, proprietor, and under the arrangement agreed upon, Mr. Demas will continue where he is at least until the close of the present year. The building of which Mr. Sherer now becomes the owner, was built in the early 70's by Mr. J. U. Zucher, a native of Switzerland, who came to Yorkville some years before the Civil war, and who conducted a bakery and confectionery business until his death in the late 70's. ? There is a provision in the code of 1912 which prohibits towns of less than 5,000 Inhabitants from increasing the municipal tax levy beyond 1 per cent. {Since the act that prescribes a means of amending town charters by a referendum vote, prescribes that such amendment must not be inconsistent with the laws of the state, the local tax levy cannot be increased in that way. It is quite certain, however, that the act quoted in the last issue of The Enquirer can be made effective if the people so desire to take away the power of the town council to impose license taxes for any purpose, or it may be used to limit the right to impose such taxes for only such purposes as may be specified in a proposed amendment ? The Last Days of Pompeii was the attraction at the Lyric yesterday. As advertised, there were eight reels of it, and the whole story was passed over the screen three times, beginning at 10.30 a. m., 3 and 8 p. m. Two and a half hours were required for each presentation. The audience was quite small in the morning; but in the afternoon it numbered nearly a hundred, and in the evening nearly two hundred, the full seating capacity of the house, with extra chairs. The film version of the story follows with remarkable fidelity the text of Sir Bulwer Lytton's orflQ t hnnlr Tt uhAu;a thA olfv r\f Pnm. peii as it existed before its destruction, the people as they lived, dressed and amused themselves, their social life, their games, their cruel sports, their intrigues and all. The beautiful love story of Glaucus and lone, the perfidy of Arbaces and the sad self-sacrifice of the noble blind girl Nydla. It was really a remarkable exhibition that was well worth while. ECHO OF THE K. K. K. The following correspondence published in the Columbia State of yesterday, will prove of considerable local interest: To the Editor of the State: On December 12, 1871, Robert Hayes Mitchell was placed on trial at Columbia as defendant in one of the famous Ku Klux cases of that date, Mitchell lived at Yorkville, York county, and the testimony in the case related to doings of the Ku Klux in that section of the state. The trial was known as the case of the United States va Robert Hayes Mitchell Hugh L. Bond was presiding judge and George S. Bryan, associate Judge. The counsel for the government were David T. Corbin, United States district attorney, and D. H. Chamberlain, attorney general of the state of South Carolina. For the defense the appearances were Reverdy Johnson, Henry Stanbury and Mr. Hart. Benn Pitman, founder of the well known school of stenography, assisted by a young court reporter?Louis F. Post?reported the trial. Mr. Post now holds the position of assistant secretary of the department of labor, Washington. In a private letter he lately referred to his part in this trial, and now gives permission to have this letter printed. L. T. Rightsell. LaGrange, N. C. January 16, 1914. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 6th awakens memories extending over a very long period of years. The name of Robert Hayes Mitchell, about whom you ask, is indelibly impressed upon my memory, but what became of him and his case I do not know. My best recollection is that he was convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment at the Albany penitentiary, and that in a little while he was pardoned by the president. I can not speak with certainty of this, however. ?w4 n In A+ T AA#A/1 4n xii uiuac ci iu.13 ai v^uiuuiuia x acicu ixx partnership with Ben Pitman, who had come on there to report them for the Federal government. I was at the time a law clerk in the office of the United States attorney, David T. Corbin, and being a stenographer reported the trials for him. Two or three applications were made to me to fumsh transcripts, and I pooled interests with Mr. Pitman, he taking the morning sessions of the court and I the afternoon sessions. After leaving South Carolina, I received one volume of the reports of those trials. They were published by the United States government, and copies given to members of congress. 1 wonder if it is one of these copies that you have? My own copy was borrowed 40 years ago, and never returned. You are not troubling me at all I only regret that I am unable to give you with positiveness the information you wish. The testimony at that trial was published verbatim from day to day by the Republican daily paper at Columbia. I think its name was "The Union." Perhaps in a library you might get a file of that paper. The book of which I speak was a reprint of those reports. Of course the United States district court clerk has the formal records of the trial. You might get that kind of information from him. The trials took place in the winter of 1872. I think they began December, 1871, but of this I am not certain. Shall be glad to hear from you if you have any further questions to ask In the matter. Very truly yours, (Signed) Louis F. Post. Mr. L. T. Rightsell, LaGrange, North Carolina. Mr. Robert Hayes Mitchell is living at his home at King's Creek in Cherokee county, honored and respected. The trial referred to was printed in full in The Enquirer at the time, and The Enquirer is in possession of a copy of the government reports to which Secretary Post refers. They contain not only the Mitchell trial; but all the other trials it alleged Ku Klux In Columbia, LOCAL LACONICS Another Measles Epidemic. The Santiago and Mountain View schools have suspended work on account of an epidemic of measles in their respective communities. A number of the children and older people are now Infected with the disease, and most of the others are liable to contract it. Bethany's New Church. They are going to build that new church at Bethany. That is about settled now. The finance committee reported last Sunday that there was nearly $9,000 in sight with the canvass not yet fully completed. There seems to be no question of the ability of the committee to raise the $10,000 originally contemplated, and the aggregated subscriptions may go considerably beyond that The Hebron Road. Mr. J. E. Gettys, of the Hebron neighborhood, informs The Enquirer that the people down his way have been doing a lot of volunteer work in putting the road in shape from the C. & N.-W. crossing two miles south of Yorkville, almost to the Chester line. There was a large turnout of teams and workers last week and several colored farmers brought wagons of their own to help in the good work without pay. Mr. Gettys is proud of the work that has been done and is proud of the people who have been doing it He says that it will not require a great deal more work before the road is in a first class condition all the way from the railroad crossing to the Chester line. Death of Mrs. A. B. Harris. Mrs. Agnes Bratton Harris, died at the home of her son-in-law Mr. John E. Lowry, in Columbia, last Saturday afternoon, and was buried in Bethesda cemetery yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Harris was a daughter of the late Dr. John S. Bratton of York county, and was born at the old homestead at Brattonsville 78 years ago. She married Rev. John S. Harris, a Presbyterian minister. Her husband has been dead nearly fifty years. She was the last, save one of fifteen children, the only survivor of the family now being Mr. N. B. Bratton, of Yorkvil!?. She leaves four married daughters, as follows: Mrs. John E. Lowry, Mrs. O. E. Thomas and Mrs. F. S. Sims, of Columbia, and Mrs. A. E. Gray of Danville, Va. For thirty years previous to her death Mrs. Harris was a resident of Columbia, Relic of Iniquity. Mr. John A. Ratterree, of Bethany, brought to this office yesterday a curiosity in the shape of an old cotton tax tag. It is a strip of sheet brass made in the shape of a paddle, and stamped on the broad end with the serial number, 50.489, and the words "United States Internal Revenue." Mr. Ratterree explained that he found the tag among the effects of his father, who had probably bought it in the old days shortly after the war when the Federal government exacted a tax on every bale of cotton sold. This tax It will be remembered. was, after it had been cc' lected for a short while, declared by the Federal courts to be unconstitutional. There are several million dollars lying in the Federal treasury to this day. the proceeds of this old direct tax, and southern members of congress are still trying to secure a righting of the old wrong by refunding the money to those from whom it was improperly taken. Death of Mrs. S. V. Aycock. Mrs. Annie Aycock, nee Sanders, wife of Mr. S. V. Aycock, died at her nome west 01 racv^uiineusviue, luiriiday morning at 8.30 o'clock after an illness of more than a year. The funeral services were conducted at Olivet Presbyterian church on Saturday morning by Rev. J. A. McMurray, assisted by Rev. Mr. Duncan, and included the following hymns sung by request: "Peace, Perfect Peace;" "One Sweetly Solemn Thought;" "Nearer my God to Thee," and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." The general testimony Is that Mrs. Aycock was a lady of most beautiful character, and that her life of good deeds had endeared herself to hosts of friends. She was born at Guthriesville, and was in the 44th year < of her age. She is survived by her hus- i band and three small children, her i youngest child, an infant son, having i died about a month ago. She also I leaves one brother, Mr. W. E. Sanders i r\t OiifhrloavOla orH fvn slaters Mrs. I J. W. Ban^head of Lowryville, and Mrs. J. A. Walker of San Francisco. Death of Mr. James E. Carroll. Mr. James Elzaphan Carroll died at his home on Pinckney street, Yorkville, last Friday afternoon at about 5 o'clock and was buried on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the funeral services being: conducted by Rev. E. E. Gillespie, assisted by Rev. J. L. Oates. The services which were held at the home, were attended by a large concourse of friends of the deceased and of the family. and notwithstanding the unusually disagreeable weather a large number of these attended the remains to the grave. Mr. Carroll's death, though sudden, was not unexpected. He had been in bad health for several years, and had been in bed for the greater part of the time since last November. Mrs. Carroll had gone out of the room for some purpose, leaving Mr. Carroll reading a newspaper, and when she returned she found her husband had died in her absence. The deceased was the eldest son of the late J. Alfred Carroll, formerly a well known business man of Yorkville, and was born in Yorkville on April 22, 1861. He ran a farm in Bullock's Creek township for some years; but for the past few years has been living in Yorkville and working for his brother, Mr. W. R. CarrolL He was married in 1892 to Miss Senora, + IaIA TTHUo V? Mlv Ufl. , uaugllld u; kite laic unjau AliA. A/w- c sides his wife he leaves three children. ^ Mason Neil, Miss Willie Betts and Church Carroll. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister, Messrs. W. R. M. L.. C. W.. and J. H. Carroll, and Mrs. O. E. Grist, all of Yorkville. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The senate last night indefinitely postponed the McLaurin warehouse bill by a vote of 14 to 13, and then voted to re-consider. The understanding is thai the measure will come to a vote today. ? Gaffney telephone subscribers are making a vigorous kick against the local management, and are signing a strong petition to the general manager of the Piedmont Telephone company, asking for a change. ? J. F. Walker and Ben Walker, who killed J. B. Harter, chief of police of Allendale in Barnwell county, last September, were put on trial at Barnwell yesterday. They plead guilty of manslaughter and were sentenced to five years each on the county chalngang. ? A Washington dispatch says that the senate judiciary committee has reported favorably upon the confirmation of the appointment of Weston and Sims, to be district attorney and marshal, respectively, and this being true a the probability is that the balance will be plain sailing. ? John A. Southal, who on the 10th of October last broke out of the Ches- a ter jail, where he had been imprisoned , for burglarizing the store of the Ches ter Drug company, has been located In the Tennessee state prison, where he is serving: a sentence for burglary. The Chester authorities hope to get him again upon the expiration of his term in Tennessee. ? President Wilson has pardoned a Milton A. Carlisle, the aged Newberry 1 banker, who was sentenced to five n years in the Federal prison in Atlanta, for violating the national banking laws. After the sentence had been confirmed by the court of appeals, the president commuted Mr. Carlisle's punishment to one year in the Newberry Jail, and on yesterday Sheriff Blease, of Newberry, received Instructions to release Mr. r Carlisle, and he was turned out at ^ once. ? ? The postotflce department is trying to locate the writer of an anonymous letter to President Wilson, enclosing twenty dollars in gold as a "starter" toward the purchase by the government of the telephone and telegraph f lines. The letter was mailed from d San Francisco and commended the n plan to purchase the lines of commu- e nication. It said some money for that t purpose should be contributed directly by the people. "I'm a poor stenographer," it continued, "earning ^ less than six hundred a year, but enclose twenty dollars as a starter." ? Judge Memminger has tiled a decision which discharges the complaint brought by certain stockholders of the Seminole Securities company against the company, John Y. Garlington, J. S. Young, Wilie Jones, W. A. Clark, and T. S. Bryan, et al., in an effort to hold Messrs. Jones, Clark and Bryan, trustees of the company, Jointly and indi- . vidually liable for the losses sustained < by the stockholders in the failure of the Seminole Securities company and its subsidiary company, the Southern ^ Life Insurance company. The case was heard by Judge Memminger in Colum- ^ bia on December 15, 1913. His opinion was handed down on February 12. He discusses the testimony offered by the plaintiffs and concludes that Wilie Jones, W. A. Clark and T. S. Bryan, trustees of the Seminole, were not grossly careless in agreeing to the purchase of the Southern Life Insurance company. The court also held that, while the plaintiffs contended that many stockholders had been induced to 0 take stock on the representation that the three prbminent Carolinians named in the suit were to have supervision of the affairs of the company, yet many persons who subscribed to the stock of the company did not know Messrs. Jones. Clark and Bryan, and were Qf doubtless influenced to purchase on account of the fact that prominent local men in their several communities had been induced to buy by the agents. ? Columbia special of February 16, to the Charlotte Observer: Governor Blease in a special message tonight on the negro question said he had no personal fear "In this respect, neither for me, nor for any of my family, for each . of them I am proud to say. is physlcally able to pull a trigger whenever it should become necessary." The governor transmitted a letter from a citizen of Beaufort, calling particular attention to this sentence: "Owing to the small number of white children in that / township" it was recommended "that they send them all to her school, Penn > school, which is a negro school." The governor wrote that he had forwarded two letters to Senator Clifton. "One of them," he said, "charges matters which are too dirty to be placed in your journal." The governor asks the general assembly to pass the Fortner bill adding: "If you do not do some- ^ thing there will be serious conse quences." The letter to the governor pointed out, among other things, that each white teacher in the township had to be approved by the negro member of the board before the white teachers can begin work. "I omitted telling you that Beaufort graded school children were not permitted to celebrate General Robert E. Lee's birthday," is the assertion made in a letter, name of writer not divulged, that Governor Blease transmitted to the senate: "I know there was a great deal of discussion and a newspaper article over it last year. But the Yankee from Vermont and the negro make a majority r\f tKo oaKaaI triiotooo PViorloa T? T"Va n _ ner has no children, C. K. Bachelder has no small children, (Vermont), and the negro J. C. Wright has his daughter teaching in the colored school. So you can readily see that the memory of our ^ great chieftain is a matter of no concem to them." Starting his message with the word "Listen" Governor Blease concludes: "What do you senators 4 think of Robert E. Lee? What do you > senators think of the Confederate.sol- - diers and their record? We will watch ~ your vote on the Fortner bill as your reply." The Fortner bill which has passed the house prevents white peo- ^ pie teaching in negro schools. The Benate education committee has reported the measure unfavorably. ? Columbia special of February IS, to the Greenville News: Attorney General Thomas Hi Peeples in his report to the general assembly flays a number of m corporations in this state and makes a W special examination into "trusts and monopolies." He takes in telephone and telegraph companies, calling attention to "the arrangement between the Western Union and the American Telephone company with regard to the handling of.' business for the exclusion at the > w Postal Telegraph company," which Mr. Peeples pointed out was a discrimination in favor of the Western Union against the citizens of this state. The 4 attorney general made inquiry into the history of the telephone business in this state and reached the conclusion that it is deemed important to immediately bring the necessary proceedings to enforce anti-trust laws in this ? Btate with regard to the telephone and 4N telegraph situation. Mr. Peeples attacks the Southern Power company and its merger of the water powers and points out, "It has been currently reported that further large acquisition 9f the powers of this and the neighboring state of North Carolina has ^ been acquired by this company." Mr. Peeples asks for enactment of laws with regard to water powers. The attorney general declares that the merger of cotton mills in this state is contrary to law and says that South Cur3line is "a dumping ground of the evil combinations and machinations of people who are engaged in such illegitimate enterprises, and which in effect ind policy is denounced by our law. * 'In conclusion I beg to say that with A -egard to the matters thus brought to rour attention the investigations suggested will entail a vast amount of lajor, trouble and care. For such work :he state necessarily must provide, and f our citizens are to be protected, if >ur laws are to be enforced, if our lib :riicn are iu ue preserved, 1 can noi 9 ind do not hesitate to say to the people )f South Carolina who have ever been willing to sacrifice both blood and ;reasure in their protection and the prevention of such wrong that the general assembly of this state will apjropriate such necessary expenditure is will enable the law officers of the itate, charged with such duty and who ire willing to perform their duty, to jroceed at once with the energy and iispatch with the proper financial neans to see that these things do not ind shall not take place and be fostered within the limits of this state." \ ? Washington, February 16: Presilent Wilson will veto the Burnett imnlgration bill If it comes to him for A tignature with the so-called literary ^ est contained in It. This became mown tonight from an authoritative luarter, after Chairman Smith of the lenate immigration committee had anlounced that the bill virtually as it rnssed the house, including the litera:y test, would be favorably reported to he senate soon. Prospects are that the till will pass the senate as reported rom the committee, but the measure tever will become a law, according to dose friends of the president. The tresident does not consider literacy a a est of character and believes some ither means should be devised to present undesirable aliens from entering he United States. He told callers tolay that he had given his view to the lenate committee and had left it to hem to make it public or not as they ihoose. % AT THE CHURCHES PRESBYTERIAN Prayer meeting Wednesday evening it 7.30 o'clock. BAPTIST Prayer meeting Wednesday evening t 7.30 o'clock. tSSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN Prayer meeting Wednesday afterloon at 4 o'clock. TRINITY METHODIST Praver meeting Wednesday evening t 7.30 o'clock. Quarterly conference of he Yorkville charge will be held Wedlesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Special Jloliffs King's Mountain Chapel. All members of King's Mountain V 'hapel are called to meet at the hapel on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 'clock, for a business session. J. N. Isom. jgj Card of Thanks. I desire to thank neighbors and rlends for their great kindness to us uring our recent affliction with pneunonia and grip. We needed the genrous help we got and we are truly hankful. W. H. Williams.