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jjteaps and farts. ? Gaffney special of March 11, to the Greenville News: A large crowd of people gathered at the court house last night in response to the call of the pastors of the city, and formed the Citizen's Federation for Civic Righteousness by the election of L. G. Potter, president; W. J. Wilkins, vice president, and E. E. Reid, secretary and treasurer. Speeches were made by the various pastors present, and by Dr. F. C. Hickson and Col. T. B. Butler. More than one hundred members were enrolled, and the greatest enthusiasm was manifested. The prime object of the association is to fight the effort which is on foot to bring back the dispensary into this county, but its purpose is to stamp out as far as possible all forms of vice which may be flourishing in our midst. ? Future annual reports of the census bureau on the quantity of cotton ginned will not, as heretofore, include the quantity of linters in the total production but will relate only to lint ? * -* laRt COttOn. inis cntuige aiiuuuuw. Tuesday, will be eltectlve beginning with the report on March 20. Information as to the production of linters, however, Director Harris states will be given in a foot note so the comparative figures may be computed on the basis of reports in previous years. In explaining why he regards the change advisable, Director Harris said: "The annual reports on the quantity of cotton ginned have heretofore included the quantity obtained by the oil mills. Formerly there was only a comparatively small quantity of linters obtained, and they were of such a grade as could be used, to some extent, for the same purposes as were the lower grades of cotton. Many of the oil mills have now installed machinery for the closer delinting of the seed. This has resulted in a large increase in the total quantity of linters produced each year and, at the same time in lowering the average quality of the fiber, so that now only a small part if any, is used as a substitute for lint cotton." ? According to the Jewish Year Book, now out, the number of Jews in the world runs thus: Europe, 9,950,175; Asia, 484,359; Africa, 404,836; America, 2,194,061; Australia 19.415; total, 13,052,846. Not far from half of all the world's Jewish population is still in Russia, the vast exodus of recent times having been more than offset by internal growth. Russia with ~ nf Rnikfl.n countries headed ' IIIC 5 * VUyr V* .... by Roumania contains Jewish population massed as, outside of New York city, it is nowhere else. We have not before us the figures of the Year Book for the American metropolis, if such figures are given, but it is well known that New York's Jewish population, largely of recent arrival from Russia and pouring in at an undiminished rate, now comprises over one-fourth of the whole. It is by far the largest single element New York not only is beyond comparison the world's largest Jewish city, but it bids fair soon to become essentially a Jewish city? an American Jewish city, of course. Immigrants from Italy and other Mediterranean countries are the only element keeping even distant pace with the Jewish influx and increase there. ? Washington, March 10: Comprehensive reports from Brig. Gen. Bliss and American Consul Garrett, at Laredo, received at the war and state departments today, cleared up the mystery which had surrounded the delivery on American soil of the body of the American rancher, Clemente Vergara. The reports completely satisfled the officials that no act had been committed by national or state agents in violation of Mexican sovereignty, and that if there were any onense m the removal of the body from Mexico it was committed by individuals, so the matter could not be made an international issue. Secretary Bryan stated that he would not undertake to prosecute the persons who obtained the body, even if he knew their identity, which he did not. beyond the fact established by Gen. Bliss's report that they were civilians and probably Mexicans. The finding of the body of Vergara has had the result of advancing the prosecution of the claim against the Huerta government for reparation, and today Secretary Bryan transmitted the telegraphic report from Consul Garrett to Charge O'Shaughnessy, in Mexico City. It is understood that the primary purpose of this is to disprove the original allegation of the Mexican Federal commander at Nuevo I-sredo, that Vergara had made his escape from captivity and joined the Constitutionalists. With the body in evidence, as soon as further facts as to the character of Vergara's fatal o/f Kw iha Invest! wounds are ucvciup-.u ^ .... Ration Governor Colquitt is making, Mr. O'Shaughnessy will be prepared to call upon Gen. Huerta to redeem his promise to punish the Federal officers who killed Vergara. ? Bills almost identical in form to authorize the secretary of agriculture to investigate the handling, grading and transportation of cotton and grain and to establish standards of quality and condition of each grade, were introduced last Wednesday by Representative Lever of South Carolina. The bills would prohibit interstate shipment of grain or cotton unless its sale grade is fixed by the secretary of agriculture and conforms to standards he prescribes, but variations from official standards may be permitted under his rules. The bills would forbid shipment of grain or cotton under misleading descriptions, would make subject to the agricultural department's inspection any grain enter ing into interstate commerce, whicn has been represented to conform to a given standard and would authorize the secretary to settle any disputes a* to proper grading of shipments. Violations would be punishable by fines of from $200 to $1,000. The bills, which carry appropriations of $300,000 for the first year, have the approval of the department of agriculture and representatives of farmers' organizations, who attended the recent hearings on the investigation of grain exchanges. "Of course," said Chairman Lever, "these bills are only tentative and are introduced more to provoke discussion than as representing a finality of judgment. There is no doubt that cotton and grain growers are suffering losses in the value of their cotton and grain that will run into the hundreds of millions of dollars because they have no way of knowing the value of grades. The cotton grower, I know, is practically at the mercy of the buyer, and some machinery must be created to enable the farmer to get the value of the exact grade offered upon the market. I am fully convinced that the time has come when the farmer should be enabled to have a voice in fixing the price of his own property." ? Dispatch of two additional regiments of American infantry to Eagle Pass and Laredo, Texas, to allay fears of Mexican raids, and the appearance in Washington of Gen. Felix Diaz and friends with a new plan to solve the Mexican problem, were the chief developments of Wednesday in the Mexican situation. The troops?the Ninth and Seventeenth regiments?were ordered to the border at the request of Senator Sheppard and Representative Garner. The latter told the president there was a good deal of cash in border banks and Americans wanted to Uf pruiCfiru a^aiuoi anj ouuuvu or invasion. Mr. Garner also said much cattle had disappeared recently and residents believed Mexicans were responsible. The request for additional troops was made Monday, was discussed at the cabinet meeting and decided on Wednesday by the president, who communicated his approval to the secretary of war. Wednesday's orders for the dispatch of two more regiments to Texas will result in the assembly In that state of nearly 18,ftOO troops, more by 3,000 than the entire force of the regular army that Gen. Shafter led into Cuba. Nearly 11,000 soldiers are in camp at Texas City, under command of Brig. Gen. Funston of Philippine fame. The others are scattered along the border from Brownsville, Texas, to Nogales, Ariz., under command of Brig. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, the largest garrisons being maintained at El Paso, Nogales, Douglas. Laredo, Eagle Pass and Brownsville, where railroads enter Mexico. Of the regiments ordered out Wednesday the Ninth, two battalions of which are at Fort Thomas, Ky., and one at Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark., Is commanded by Col. Charles J. Crane. The Seventeenth commanded by Col. John T. Van Orsdale, is stationed at Fort McPherson, Atlanta. Col. Van Orsdale will be deprived of the privi - lege of accompanying his regiment to the border, as he will be placed on the retired list tomorrow on account of age. As Lieut. Col. Henry B. Styer of the Seventeenth is on duty at the war college, the command of the regiment temporarily at least will fall to the senior major, George W. Martin. Although the two regiments will proceed to Eagle Pass and Laredo. Gen. Bliss will designate their exact location. The present strength of each regment is 832 men. At Laredo and Eagle Pass the two regiments will relieve six troops of cavalry, which will be distributed along other points on the western border in Gen. Bliss' discretion. This will place under that general's command about 4,200 cavalry troops and 2,400 infantry. Although large in the aggregate this force is ref arded as small in many quarters here for a rigid and efficient patrol of the 1,800 miles of border. Secretary Garrison, however, feels that it will be sufficient. He insists that there is no proof that this border patrol has broken down at any point since its establishment three years ago. ?he -yotfeviUr enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, S. O.t FRIDAY, MARCH 13,1914. Although not as high as they might have been, taxes will still be high a plenty. The sending of additional troops to the Mexican border seems to be suggestive of the development of a more interesting situation over that way. That is a pretty sensible talk that Senator Tillman has made on the eating: question. He must have learned something: as the result of his wall over the loss of the art of frying chicken. A Georgetown correspondent writes that the fur season has not been satisfactory either to the producer or dealer. He probably meant trapper or dealer. Of course the producer is not satisfied at being deprived of his winter covering. It seems to be generally believed in Washington that the portion of the Panama canal law which provides for the exemption of coastwise vessels from the payment of tolls will be repealed. It seems to be the purpose of the senate not to take up consideration of the matter until after it has been passed by the house. And now that It seems settled that Dr. Saunders and Dr. Babcock are to remain at the state hospital notwithstanding all that hullaboloo, many people will wonder what the row was about anyway. Some people will give one reason and some will give another; but the truth will find Its way out at last. What is the use of standing back on that drainage proposition? Others have tried it sufficiently to show the practicability of the plan, and a little debt amounts to nothing in a case where profitable investment is assured. Give York county creeks thorough drainage, and the bottoms will yield corn enough to feed half the state. Let us do something along this line. A good many people have an idea that they have a right to say mean things about other people if they are true; uui lucj are uuaitiivcii auuui that. The question of the necessity for the mean things to be said, enters into the proposition, and even that is not always a justification. Really the best thing for one to do with reference to mean things, is to leave them unsaid. It always pays one best to attend to one's business. The postofflce aprpopriation bill which now awaits the signature of the president, contains a provision inserted at the instance of Senator Tillman extending the parcels post rates to "seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions and plants." Heretofore the commodities named have gone into the mails at a higher rate than was provided by the parcels post schedule, and Senator Tillman has been working for more than a year to have the matter corrected. A young woman suffragette a few days ago entered the national art gal lery in London, and before the guards had a suspicion of what she was up to, slashed one of the most valuable pictures in the gallery with a knife. The picture selected for mutilation was what is known as the "Rokeby Venus," valued at $500,000 and it is said by the experts that the damage inflicted by the young woman will injure the sale of the picture not less than $75,000. Becaus eof this piece of vandalism, it has been decided to close the art galleries until further notice. After all the main issue in every political campaign is political power. Men tear their hair in abusing and denouncing other men who are often as good as themselves if not better. But it is usually only a small per cent of the people who make most of the fuss. The great majority stand back, size up the situation, consider what the candidates stand for, and vote according to their own notion as to who they would rather entrust with power. And generally speaking the majority decides about right from every standpoint. The record from the first issue of The Enquirer for 1860, shows that the town of Yorkville was making a brave start educationally, socially and commercially at the beginning of the year preceding the great Civil war. The country generally appeared to be tremendously prosperous with a splendid outlook for the future, with the exception of the hovering war clouds. Although there was in the general political situation much that was disturbing, it does not appear that there was any conception of the threatened danger immediately ahead. Senator Tillman made a hot attack on the Southern railroad on last Tuesday. He charged that the system was owned by people who control the coal monopoly and that for that reason it does not try to enter the coal carrying competition to Charleston. According to the senator the coal monopoly wants all coal to go to New York, Boston and Chesapeake Bay ports, to the exclusion of Charleston. Hp moved for the appointment of a committee of investigation to look into the matter with a view to securing recognition of the advantages of Charleston as a coaling place for the navy. The farmers of York county are not allowed to have public cotton weighers even if they so desire. It is time that these farmers begin paying more attention to the kind of men they elect as representatives and give those representatives to understand that they are expected to go to Columbia in the interest of their constituents instead of themselves. While it is no doubt true as Senator Banks of Calhoun, once said, that "the people stand no more show in the legislative hails than a yellow dog," it ought not to remain true, and it is up to the people to see that the situation is changed. The San Francisco marchers on Washington under General Kelly, are having a rather rough time of it in cooramantn Thors werfe fifteen flun dred of them when they reached Sacramento and they had a programme which contemplated an eaay tour across the continent, riding free, living off the fat of the land and gathering recruits as they went; but the programme is meeting with much opposition. The Sacramento authorities at first thought to get rid of the marchers as easily as possible by feeding them and giving them transportation; but later it was decided to drive them out of town. The marchers did not like this and tried to stand their ground. They were beaten over their heads with clubs and rifle butts, however, and were soon glad to give back. Then the Sacramento authorities decided that they should not be allowed to eat the bread of idleness, and free rations were cut off. Following this the men began to scatter in various directions, and the orchard owners over the state were out with guns to protect their homes and other properties. Information yesterday was that half a dozen counties surrounding Sacramento had served notice on the tKou mil at not oomf* Iliai UliCl O III U V MIVJ .?v? vv.?that vay, and although many of the marchers insisted on their intention of going on with the hike to the capital, it looked as if a lot of cold water had been thrown on the whole enterprise. South Carolina and the south are to be congratulated on having a man like Hon. A. P. Lever at the head of the national house committee on agriculture. It is a fact that the people of this locality hardly knew what the agricultural department was for until Mr. Lever became a member of the agricultural committee a few years ago. As an ordinary minority member of this committee, he soon began to get in good work for South Carolina. He, more than any other one man, is responsible for the institution of the co-operative demonstration work, for the soil survey work, for the tick eradication work, for the improved cattle agitation, for requiring cotton mills, buyers and warehouse men 10 give statistics of cotton on hand, and for various other things. He is now trying to see to it that the cotton producer shall have a larger share of the profits derived from his products, and is doing other things. Mr. L<ever's one regret is that the days are too short to enable him to do all. he wants to do for the agricultural interests, and those who are watching him closest are wondering how he manages to accomplish as much as he is accomplishing. There is only one place in the national government more important to the agricultural interests of the country than the chairmanship of the committee on agriculture, and that Is the secretaryship of agriculture. It would be a good thing for this state if the people would put a stop to all those bitter personalities that they have become accustomed to in politics. In the first place there Is no sense In epithets and very often there is no truth in them. Also, they do no good. The principal effect is to make men more set in their positions and less liiraiv linton tn rpason. Sensible ob servers ought to know this, especially i after all the experience we have had. Most of the bitter personalities of summer before last were indulged in by one side, while the other side kept its own counsel very well and did not retort except to a very limited extent. From the talking that was going on an inexperienced observer would have thought that things were all one way, and the big surprise came when the votes were counted. There are those who seem to be unable to appreciate this fact; but it is a fact, nevertheless, thoroughly established in South Carolina, that abuse of a candidate only adds to that candidate's strength. The shrewdest of half truths and lies no longer count for a great deal in political capital except as against the people who make use of such expedients. The old, old expedient of the lawyer with a poor case resorting to abuse of the opposing side is too well understood now-a-days to prove effective. The principle applies with equal force to politics. But nevertheless this thing of abuse is unpleasant and unnecessary, and it can be cut out to the very great benefit of the people of South Carolina. Nobility of Labor. "He who is worthy of being called a man," runs an eastern proverb, "is unshaken in adversity, humble in prosperity, active and bold in danger; and if he be not learned, has at least a love for learning." The riches of such a man will never make him an idler; neither will poverty be felt by him as a disgrace. In all condi:ions will l\o tho unmA flPrpnp printfTitpri and enviable embodiment of true nobility. Labor is the duty of all men. Great possessions do not exclude any one from this "common lot." He who is toiling honestly in any calling, however humble, is doing the world a service. His strong arm is sowing the seed of harvest and prosperity for his country. Labor also brings happiness in its train. It prevents the mind from being occupied with thousands of little ills and perplexing cares of life. It sweetens the repose of night and begets health. It adds new beauty to the morning sunlight. One of the seven wise men being asKeu wno was me happiest man, mentioned a poor shepherd of Arcady, who owned a few paternal acres and spent h!s life tilling them and tending his flock on his native land. It should increase every man's selfrespect to be an honest workman. The degredation of such a man exists only in the diseased fancy of those who think but little on the nature of society, and the course of human progress. A free and manly heart has the highest love and respect for the honest worker. True freedom demands re cognition of the sentiment that all labor is honorable. Yet in this enlightened age and country, where the press is free, where mind and religion are free, and where the people govern themselves, the working classes must look to be blamed if they do not love learning and labor to educate themselves and promote general Intelligence and public virtue, for without these nations as well as men must decline, for as the great Calhoun once put it, "Liberty is the boon of heaven to intelligence and virtue." "Leisure moments," according to another great thinker, "are the gold dust of life." All men have them. No man reed be so busy that he cannot find an lour, now and then, to devote to the nobler parts of his nature. Never be idle. Seize upon those spare moments and turn them to good account. Throw the shuttle of thought through them and weave them into an intellectual irarment of numle a.nd gold. Think as well as labor and while you labor. Do head work as well as hand work. While the great drops that toll has wrung from the brow are cooling, sleze the horns of the altar of thought and never let go until you have mastered a thought or solved a difficulty. Such industry of mind and body will dignify life, sweeten labor and give you the "thews that throw the world." MEF1E-MENTION. The School Review, a Chicago school publication, is advocating longer day sessions and the abolishing of summer vacations for public schools, claiming that vactions and short daily sessions are an economic waste W. L. Tipton, formerly an itinerant preacher in Fannin county, Ga., is under arrest at Greely, Col., on a charge of making and passing counterfeit coins. Tipton has confessed his guilt. Wm. J. Cummins, one time head of the defunct Carnegie Trust company of New York, convicted nearly three years ago of the larceny of $140,000, was taken to Sing Sing prison from the Tombs on Tuesday to serve a sentence of not less than four years. By appeals and otherwise Cummins' counsel managed to keeD him out of Sing Sing for nearly 900 days after conviction... .Captain Cyril R. Downer, a British army aviator, was killed Tuesday, at Salisbury, England, by a fall with an aeroplane Thirty or more persons lost their lives in St. Louis, Mo., early Monday morning by a fire which destroyed the building of the Missouri Athletic club The government of Greece is arranging to place a loan of $100,000,000 as a result of the enormous debt incurred during the Balkan war....The United States supreme court on Monday refused to review the case of Frank M. Ryan and the twenty-three other dynamiters convicted with him General Souders, leader of the Souders faction in the famous Souders-Turner feud, which is supposed to have ended twenty-five years ago, died at Middleboro, Ky., Monday, aged 52 years. The general is reputed to have killed eleven men The New York state department of agriculture is offering to find work for all of the thousands of able bodied men of New York city who are out of work and want it. The depaftment offers transportation to rural communities Florence, N. J., is terror stricken on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever. There have been ten deaths during the past ten days and twenty-five persons are afflicted with the disease. In the neighboring village of Roebling there are nearly forty victims... .At Waco, Tex., Monday, 6,000 bales of cotton, valued at $420,000, were destroyed by fire.... A 12-inch gun, under test at Sandy Hook, N. Y., Monday bursted with terrific force. Several were injured Germany is preparing to spend $125,000,000 in modernizing the artillery equipment of the empire The exportable surplus of the corn crop of the Argentine Republic is placedV at 233,000,000 bushels, and is offered on the Chicago market at less than the American grown corn Talk of war between Russia and Germany has caused panicky business on the German exchanges, as provincial investors are throwing all kinds of securities on the markets for immediate sale The Patriotic League of French Women, Paris, has begun a campaign against the growing tendency of immodest styles in women's clothes A Portland, Ore., judge has sentenced W. C. Baker, a wealthy club member, to five days on the city workpile for automobile speeding in the city limit Bert W. Dickens, a carpenter, is under arrest at Terra Haute, Ind., charged with conspiracy to kill the judges and prosecutors who are trying election frauds cases A police census of Milwaukee, Wis., shows that there are only 7,652 unemployed persons In that city Publication of the alleged support of Senator Penrose for reoltintlnri hv tVio R9 ftftft vntoa fnntrr*lloH ViVVWWI* WJ V1IV VVMMV??V?I by the Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers' association, has caused a storm of unfavorable criticism of the senator and his supporters A second case of bubonic plague has developed In Havana. The first victim died several days ago New York state's real and personal tax assessments for the year 1913, Will total $11,393.730,514 La Celba, the metropolis and principal seaport of Honduras, was swept by fire Monday and Tuesday, The entire business section and more than 100 residences were destroyed, and several lives lost. The property loss is in excess of $3,000,000. Joy Riding Automobiles?Senator John Sharp Williams made an unsuccessful fight in the senate yesterday to check what he called government extravagance in the purchase of automobiles for "Joy riding purposes." The question came up in the consideration of the District of Columbia apnroitrloflon Kill In nrnttl<lo ntilnmn. biles for the District commissioners. Senator Williams suggested this was a good place to start a much needed reform. It was a public scandal, he said, the extent to which the government had gone into the purchase of automoblies for cabinet officers and department heads, who, as far as the government business was concerned, had no use for them except to come to their work and go home again. He used the street cars himself, he added, and found them quite good enough. For public servants whose business could be expedited by the use of automobiles, thfc senator advocated increase in salary sufficient to enable them to buy machines. Senator Gallinger remarked that he had often been mud-splattered by a government machine driven by a department clerk and Senator Lodge admitted that the government had gone "pretty far" in the automobile buying industry, but both thought the District commissioners ought to have what they asked. Senator Williams' amendment to eliminate provision for the commissioners' machines was voted down. Would Protect the Border.?Gov. Blease has wired a Texas paper that Governor Colquitt would be within his rights to protect the people of Texas and their property. "I certainly would as governor of South Carolina," stated Governor Blease. The Austin Statesman wired the governor of South Carolina as follows: "Border protection an all-absorbing ouestion in Texas. Governor Colquitt insists that Federal government is not doing its duty, and Texas has a right to protect its interests. Please mail three hundred words letter at once, advising your views as to state rights in this matter." Governor Blease replied: "Your wire. Don't know what the conditions there are, and cannot say that Federal government is not doing its duty. However, I am of the opinion that Governor Colquitt would be perfectly within his rights to protect the people of Texas and their property. I certainly would as governor of my state." ? Magistrate A. H. Klrby of Spartanburg, has been summoned to appear before Governor Blease tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock to show cause why he should not be suspended from office. The summons is based upon affidavits of lawyers and others charging certain delinquencies against the magistrate. LOCAL. AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 1 W. C. Quinn, Smyrna No. 2?Will furnish partridge Plymouthrock eggs at $1 per setting of 13 eggs. The Kandy Kitchen?Wants you to eat more fruits and have better health. York Supply Co.?Tells about the high analysis of Palmetto fertilizers and urges the boys to join the Palmetto Corn club. Carroll Bros.?Don't sell sleighs, but do sell buggies of the right qualities at the right prices. Farm tools and fertilizers. James Bros.?Tell you it is easy for you to buy horses and mules from them because they have the stock and the prices to please. D. D. Cook, Surgeon Dentist, Clover? Publishes his professional card with office hours. Palmetto Monument Co.?Tells you why you should be particular in the buying of monuments, etc. Lyric Theatre?Programme for tonight includes "From Rail Splitter to President." Tomorrow an Irish romance. Kirkpatrlck-Belk Co.?Is showing advance shipments of men's clothing, tr-nrr, *7 RA <90 ill ^ucro i an^i kq wvst** f i.uv w\? f^v per suit and wants to show you. First National Bank, Yorkville?Tells what a New York banker has to say about starting: on the road to success. It will help you. Thomson Co.?Says it is busy opening new goods and getting them in shape for display. About made-to-yourmeasure clothing for men. J. M. Stroup?Talks about the good qualities of Holeproof hosiery, and also is showing new styles in linen collars. He wants to show you Royal clothing samples and styles. Ye Old Book Shop. Asheville, N. C.? Wants to buy old and second hand books of all kinds First National Bank. Sharon?Is especially desirous of having the accounts of small depositors and invites your account regardless ofsize. Rev. M. G. Latham, Sharon No. 1?Offers a farm, near Hoodtown for sale. Has many advantages for a home. The Enquirer's annual club contest winds up tomorrow at 6 o'clock. Beef Cattle are scarcer In York county than they have been for years. There are a few owners of choice beeves who are asking 7 cents a pound for what they have, though the 7 cents a pound kind are quite scarce. Cattle are still being sold as low as 3 cents; but very few are to be had at that price that are fit for beef. There are a good many regrets being expressed by people from the town and country on witnessing the tearing down of the old court house. Of course, when the new building goes up many will forget the mistake that has been made; but others will continue to remember the $16,000, or $20,000 sacrifice which has been made at the instance of a very few individuals. Mr. R. H. Mason of Clemson college, came to Yorkville yesterday to spend a few days among the farmers of the vicinity in the hope of stimulating interest in the dairy industry. Mr. Mason has been workine- auite Dersistent ly for several years In the hope of inducing the erection of silos and the keeping of milk records; but for reasons that are not easily explained, has not met with a great deal of success. There is little question of the fact, however, that whether a cattle raiser cares to engage in the milk business or not, if he has as many as half a dozen cows, n silo will prove a good investment. THE POLITICAL POT Tho potrnlor mnl .a /if n/i1(H/>a1 rln ings In South Carolina this year commences with the re-organization of the precinct clubs, followed by the county conventions, and the state convention. The precinct clubs meet Saturday, April 25, re-organize by the election of presidents, executive committeemen, and the selection of delegates to the county conventions to be held on May 4?the precinct meetings being held on Saturday and the club meetings being held on Monday. The county conventions, after organization, will elect county chairmen, secretaries and treasurers, state executive committee men and delegates to the state convention. Each county is entitled to twice as many members in the state convention as it has representatives in the ereneral assembly. Each precinct club is entitled to representation in the county convention on a basis of one delegate for each twenty-five votes cast in the last preceding first primary election. While of course such division as may occur In the precinct ciud organizations and the county conventions will be on a basis of Blease and anti Blease as it has been for the past four years, the recognized issue will be restriction of the primary?whether or not the rules will be amended so as to prevent white men who are unable to register or who fail to register from voting. ABOUT PEOPLE Mr. Edward Sturgls is quite ill at his home on No. 6, Yorkville. Rev. T. Tracy Walsh of Yorkville, is conducting a series of services in Gastonia this week. i Mrs. J. W. Kirkpatrick of Yorkville, ( is visiting relatives and friends in Gastonia. Mr. John S. James of James Bros., has gone to Tennessee after the firm's sixth load of stock for the present | season. Gaston Progress: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lindsay left Tuesday ror Hickory Grove, S. C., where Mr. Lindsay has accepted a position. Mr. G. R. Turner of Yorkville No. 6, is critically ill with pneumonia. Mr. Turner is nearly 80 years of age, and no hope is entertained for his recovery. Governor Blease has appointed Mr. J. L. Currence a member of the Bethel , board of township assessors, vice Mr. John M. Craig, who resigned because of removal to Gastonia. The Enquirer had a pleasant call 1 yesterday from Mr. W. A. Barrett, of Clover. Mr. Barrett does not get to Yorkville often; but when he does come, his visits are worth while to 1 those with whom he comes in contact, i Mr. and Mrs. James S. Glasscock of Harmony, have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Hattie Mae, to Mr. Larkin K. Ratch- ! ford, the ceremony to take place at the residence of the bride's parents on j Wednesday, March 25, at 8 o'clock. . Mr. Sam M. Grist, secretary and treasurer of the South Carolina Underwriters' association, leaves this afternoon for Atlanta, where he goes to ! attend an important conference be- | tween the officers of the National and State associations to be held there tomorow afternoon and night. PASSING OF LIBERIA Many of the older people who well remember the earlier days of the ne- I Kro suburb of Yorkville known as LI- < beria; but who have not been in that < quarter for a number of years, would I be surprised to note the changes that I have taken place during the past < twenty-five years. The development of Liberia located in the south-western part of the town I commenced a few years after the Civil war. Negroes of the town and coun- I try acquired lots and built shacks, I huts and cottages in that section, and l when the settlement attained the l height of its growth about 1880, the i population included several hundred I people. i Some thirty years ago the visitor to the Liberia suburb saw quite a Rood deal that was calculated to furnish material for consideration. The landscape for a radius of nearly half a mile from a common centre was dotted with cabins and cottages in keeping with the resources of the owners, and many of these cabins were surrounded by flower and truck gardens, fruit trees and the like, which added to their comfort and coziness. At one time upwards of one-half of the negro population of Yorkville lived in this suburb. There are still a good many negroes living in Liberia; but many of the spots that were formerly occupied by homes of the kind described, are now barren and deserted without so much as a sign being left of the houses and trees that once stood thereon. Some have rotted down and been used as kindling wood, or to repair other houses or fences, many have been burned and otherwise disposed of. un ueing aaneo as iu wimi uau uecome of the inhabitants, an old resident said some had died without leaving: anybody to take their places, some had moved further back into the outskirts, some had scattered to the farms, some had gone to Mississippi and Arkansas, and a few had gone to Liberia in Africa. A few new cottages are going up in the suburb of Liberia: but only a few. The settlement is nothing like what it once was. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Clear Wednesday afternoon up to 5 o'clock, raining by 9 o'clock, the ground covered with snow yesterday morning and all of it gone today. ? Mr. S. N. Johnson is erecting two cottages on his property on the northern outskirts of Yorkville. The cottages are being built of timber, taken from the old Bethany school house which was recently torn down. ? The Graded school boys have already begun playing baseball and a team has been organized. The boys go to Greenwood next Monday where they will play two games with the Bailey Military Institute. Games with Clover, Gastonia and other neighboring towns will be arranged. ? For the purpose of keeping tab on the clerks in the matter of putting mail in the wrong boxes, etc., the post office has adopted a checking system under which each clerk has a different colored pencil with which he marks each piece of mall that passes through his or her hands. The idea Is a good one, except that The Enquirer has received several pieces of other people's mail lately that were not marked at all. The clerks had evidently overlooked these pieces by reason of their sticking to other pieces. ? A. B. Rand, representing a Norfolk liquor house, was arrested in Yorkville yesterday afternoon charged with soliciting orders. Rand was selling "Hop Ade." The drummer proposed to merchants that he ship them beer under the name of "Hop Ade," and he secured quite a number of orders here and at Clover. However, Constable Peters and Deupty Quinn heard of the drummer's doings and he was arrested and placed under $600 bond. He left yesterday afternoon. ? Quite a number of people have been to see Hannibal Beatty, colored, who has been Janitor at the court house for the past twenty-three or four years, and who has been sick for the past two weeks or more with a deep seated cold. Hannibal's many friends will be glad to know that he is getting better slowly and will probably be out in a few weeks more. Hannibal is 79 years of age and has had very good health during the greater part of his life. About the only thing he is worrying about now is his inability to do his work. ? "Labollna" is the name of a social club that has ben organized in Yorkville within the past few days. Mr. J. G. Sassi is president. There are two other social clubs in Yorkville, the "Crust Breakers," Thos. F. McDow, president and the "White Rose," I. W. Johnson, president. The Crust Breakers, an exclusive organization, the membership, limited to 25, meets weekly at the homes of the members. The White Rose has its headquarters in the McNeel building in the hall formerly used as the opera house and the Labollna has its headquarters in the Wylie building over Cloud's store. THE BANK TAX CASES The answers of Treasurer Neil in the York County Bank Tax cases which have been prepared by Assistant Attorney General Dominick, were re ceived Dy tne treasurer this morning, and some of them have been served. It will be remembered that the Loan and Savings Bank of Yorkvllle, the National Union and the First Trust and Savings bank of Rock Hill, paid certain taxes under protest and made claim for heavy rebates because of the alleged taxation of alleged nontaxable bonds. The First Trust and Savings Bank of Rock Hill claims to have been illegally taxed to the amount of $66.25. The National Union Bank of Rock Hill claims to have been Illegally taxed to the amount of $3,978.71 and the Loan and Savings bank of Yorkville, claims to have been illegally taxed to the amount of $408.75. The answers in all three cases are practically the same, and claim that the banks have been taxed in accordance with law, and that no rebates are due to any of the banks. It is denied that any non-taxable bonds have been taxed in any case, and it is claimed that the whole matter complained of is fully adjucated and settled in . the decree of Judge Prince filed last September. While there is a whole lot of technical verbiage in the complaints and answers that Is calculated to confuse the minds of lay readers, the case is not quite so much involved as might appear. Briefly stated, the Loan and Savings Hank and the First Trust and Savings bank bought a lot of local bonds that bear a low rate of interest, in the belief that the bonds were nontaxable, and with a view to avoiding taxation to the amount of the bonds. The National Union Bank of Rock Hill, owns a large amount of United States bonds, bought on a basis of currency issue, and for Investment, and Is claiming exemption from taxation on the strength of provisions of law which seek to prevent any discrimination against these bonds in favor of any other bonds. The local bonds were all bought in good faith and in the belief that they were exempt from all taxation. There Is no dispute on that point; but the issue comes up over the question as :o whether under the law the status of ho Innol nnn.tovo hlo hnnHa ia /14ffor ent in the hands of a bank from what t would be In the hands of an Individjal. The statutes, it appears provide one way for the taxing of an individual and another way for the taxation of a corporation. The individual is taxed on the actual value of his property, and the corporation is taxed on the value of its capital stock. The state is holding that an individual owning these non-taxable bonds would be entitled to return them for taxation and have the taxes charged off. or he would be within his rights not to return them for taxation at all. In the case of an incorporated bank owning such bonds, however, the bonds are not taken into account at all by the auditor. All the auditor wants to know is the actual market value of the capital stock of the bank, and he does not take into account the kind of property that makes that value, other than real estate. The bank, under the statute, must return its real estate; but is entitled to deduct the value of that real estate from the total market value of its shares. In the case of what are known as the Brown Consul 4} per cent bonds of the state of South Carolina, the statute under which they were issued specifically provides that so much of the capital stock of a bank as may be invested in them shall ror purposes 01 taxation be deducted from the total value of the shares of such bank. This hiakes the Brown bonds clearly nontaxable. and there is no dispute on the part of the state on their account. They enter into the proposition only on the point raised by the National Union bank of Rock Hill, as to whether exemption of the Brown bonds is not discrimination against the United States bonds. All the issues involve questions of law. It is not so much a matter of Justice, whether or not the banks have been treated unjustly, as to whether the banks which bought the local bonds with a view to avoiding taxation jumped at a wrong conclusion as to the meaning of the statute and made a bad Investment through a sllp-up, or whether they are legally entitled to the exemption claimed. LOCAL LACONICS Eclipse of the Moon. There was an almost total eclipse of the moon last Wednesday night at a few minutes before 10 o'clock. It would have been visible from this locality except for the rain clouds which obscured the moon altogether from earlier in the evening for the balance of the night. kl LL -X /*!...... VYorKing n?nn ui viwoi Supervisor Boyd said Wednesday that the north and south road had been completed to the southern corporate limits of Clover, and the chaingang was being moved to the north of that town. He thought it would be located close to Beaverdam creek, and would remain in one location until the north and south road is completed to the North Carolina line. York County Mules. While passing the home of Mr. D. M. Hall, on the King's Mountain road about four miles north of Yorkvllle, a few days ago, a representative of The Enquirer noted a sight that is unusual in this section; but which should be more common. There were half a dozen or more mule colts ranging from one,to three years of age grazing In a pasture on the side of the road, and all quite promising in appearance. Mr. Hall, as is pretty wellkn6wnt has long tdken a deep interest in the rais Ing of mules, and be has demonstrated that they can be raised about as easily as cattle. He Is also quite successful at raising pigs. 'Improving the Road. "We have made wonderful improvement on the road from Mr. T. N. Thomasson's to Filbert during the past few days," said a farmer of the Filbert neighborhood, yesterday. "The pqople turned out and hauled sand for four days on a stretch, putting it on as thick as was necessary, and as the road had already been cut into deep ruts by heavy hauling, it will not be a great while until the sand and clay is thoroughly mixed. In fact eleven carloads of fertilizer came to Filbert on Tuesday, and Wednesday, and nine of them were hauled over this road. Most of the sand hauling was purely voluntary. We had to hire some colored laborers to help with the loading and the township helped to pay them. But we are going to have a good road, almost if not quite as good a road as the Filbert spur." 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS ? A Columbia dispatch to the Greenville News says that Comptroller General Jones is to be a candidate for the United States senate against Governor Blease. ? GalTney, March 11: The city council met and adjourned last night without transacting any business. It was decided to wait until after the election in ward one when a successor to Alderman Swofford will be chosen. The election Is set for March 19. so the matter of electing a police force will remain in abeyance until after that date. ? People of the vicinity of Hartsville, on Wednesday killed an elephant that had escaped from captivity somewhere; but Just where was not known. More than 100 shots were fired into the elephant before it finally fell to the ground. It has since developed that the elephant belonged to a menagerie that was showing at McBee the day before, and it was valued at $6,000. ? Gaffney, March 9: In answer to the accusation of attempted bribery, with which J. D. Parris charges them in regard to voting for T. H. Lockhart for chief of police, one of the parties says he was only joking, while the other denies that he offered any sum whatsoever. The situation is being discussed on every side, and it is not thought that the council will elect a police force until an alderman is elected to All the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman Swofford. ? First steps for a sweeping investigation into railroad freight rates in South Carolina were taken last Wednesday, when the state railroad commission ordered a conference April 8, on the complaint of the state freight rate association against the thirty-one railroads operating in South Carolina. The complaint alleges unfair and unjust discrimination in favor of North Carolina and against the shippers and people of this state. The complaint was filed by B. F. McLeod, of Charleston, chairman of the freight adjusment steering committee. ? Columbia special of Tuesday, to News and Courier: Governor Blease said this evening that the Beaufort county dispensaries reopened for business this morning and would run as usual, a satisfactory adjustment of the difficulty having been reached following a conference between Chairman Wall, of the Beaufort dispensary noara; coi. laiDira ana uovemor Blease yesterday in the governor's office. Following the conference, the governor telegraphed Beaufort officials to re-open the dispensaries. It is understood that satisfactory arrangements were reached and that the dispensary constable in Beaufort will be retained and that he will continue to draw his pay in the same manner in which he has been getting it. The governor vetoed the item in the supply bill providing for no pay to dispensary constables from dispensary funds, but this veto was overridden. However, he takes the view that this provision reads that no pay shall be made to dispensary constables after the appointment of rural policemen, but as the veto on the rural police was sustained. and there will be none, this provision in his opinion, does not ap- ? ply, and Beaufort matters are in the same condition as they were before the general assembly met. ? GafTney special of March 11, to the Greenville News: When the court of common pleas convened this morning, there was no Jury case ready for trial, and in consequence all jurors were excused until 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, a at which time the case of Henry Bulce vs. the Limestone Printing' and Publishing Co., was called. After reading the pleadings the plaintiff, Buice, took the stand. Certain parts of his testimony were objected to by the defendant on the ground that the complaint stated simply that the defendant Intended to damage him by the publication of a certain editorial last August. Judge Shipp allowed the plaintiff to amend the complaint so that it would | conform to the proof, and at the same ' time allowed the case to be withdrawn from the Jury, and granted a continuance until the next term. This case has excited intense interest and a large crowd was present when court opened this afternoon. No other jury Qr I case being ready for trial, the jurors were dismissed until tomorrow morning. ? Greenville, March 12: Calling Emmett Walker from his offices at the Carolina mills this morning about 10 o'clock, George W. Tidwell, represen tative of an advertising agency at Clinton, shook hands with the young man, pulled a pistol from his pocket with his left hand and fired five shots into Walker's body. Their right hands were clasped as Tidwell fired and Walker had his left arm about Tidwell's neck as if to protect himself. Tidwell is 52 years old, while Walker was but 22. The latter has prominent family connections here. Uttle is 11 known of Tidwell. Tidwell gave out a statement this afternoon in which he stated that he killed Walker because he and another young man of the town had ruined his home. He said both his wife and daughter were involved. Mrs Tidwell and the oHi-1 were arrested here last week in a house of bad repute, and Tidwell, hearing of the affair, came here to look for the men he claimed were responsible for their going wrong. Tidwell drove from the mill to the sheriffs office and gave himself up. ? Scranton. March 9: Saturday night about 10 o'clock about two miles 0 above Cowards, in Florence county, Herbert Evans, Sam Evans and Jesse Evans, all brothers, and John B. Miles, Troy Miles and Blshoff Huevrins were Ailing up a line ditch between the Evanses and John B. Hicks. John B. Hicks, upon b^lng informed that 4 these men were at work filling up the ditch, it is said. Immediately got his shotgun from his residence and went to the spot where the men were working and, it is alleged, without a word, shot into the crowd and wounded Sam Evans and Troy Miles. FYom the information gathered it seems that either one of the Evans brothers, Miles or Huggins at once opened fire on John B. Hicks and fataly wounded him, Hicks exclaiming, "Don't shoot any more; you have killed me; take me home," death resulting immediately. The trouble, it is said, arose about the line ditch between Hicks and the j Evans boys, which has been standing for years, and it appears that both sides were well armed and ready to kill. After the shooting Herbert Evans, John B. Miles and Blshoff Huggins surrendered to the proper officers and are now in the county Jail, while the wounded members of the party are at ~ their homes under guard receiving medical attention. John B. Hicks was a farmer, 38 years old, the youngest son of W. J. Hicks, a member of one of the most prominent families in Florence county. He leaves a wife and several small children. The Evans boys are all young married men, sons of the late John Evans. Huggins is a brother of M. B. Huggins of Timmons- vP ville. All of the parties are prominent men and their family connections am many. ? The Columbia State of this morning reports the meeting of the asylum board of regents yesterday as follows: ? The dove of peace hovered over the * regular monthly meeting of the board of regents of the state hospital for the insane. A stormy session had been predicted and much interest had been aroused as to the outcome of the meeting. However, everything was plain sailing and not one official at the asylum was dismissed. Two ses sions were held yesterday by the regents. The members at the morning session said that the matters were to be discussed in executive session and that there was nothing of great importance to be considered. Following is the result in brief of the two sessions: J. W. Babcock, M. D., will remain as superintendent of the asylum * if the proper rules and regulations are provided for the government of the institution. The attorney general will be asked to give an opinion as to the legality of using part of the asylum appropriation for the maintenance of the farm at State Park. The attorney general will be asked to give an opinion this morning as to the rules and regulations prescribed for the asylum by the last session of the general assembly. A committee of the regents was appointed to confer with the superintendent relative to rules and regulations for the control of the subordinate officials. Nothing of a definite and official nature was given out but it was learned that the regents resolved upon a constructive course. The governor was present at both * sessions yesterday and discussed the various matters with the members. It is said that he urged the members to get together with the superintendent and frame such rules and regulations as would be in the best interest of the Institution. The following members of the board of regents were present at the meeting yesterday: T. R. Ca-. rothers, M. D.. Rock Hill; W. L. Settlemyer, M. D., Gaffney; Julius H. Taylor, M. D., Columbia; J. D. Bivins, Dorchester, and J. A. Summersett. Columbia. During the day J. W. Bab- * cock, M. D., superintendent of the asylum, was called into conference. E. H. Aull, secretary of the state hospital commission, was also among those to confer with the regents. The question of the resignation of Dr. Bab- Af" cock as superintendent of the insti- ^ tution, has been under, discussion for some time. At the morning session yesieraay, it is said, the governor stated that he wanted the regent* and the superintendent to get together and prepare rules for the governing of the asylum and that if the proper regula- > tions were not adopted he might have some appointments to announce at the afternoon session. At the afternoon session, the regents and Dr. Babcock entered into a discussion as to the best rules for the asylum. Follow- fl) ing this session, Dr. Babcock said that he might remain as the head of the institution if the proper rules were adopted. In his testimony before the special legislative committee, Dr. Babcock stated repeatedly that he stood ready and willing to meet the regents ^ half way in an effort to bring about w system at the asylum. J. A. Summersett, J. D. Bivins, Julius H. Taylor, M. D.. and J. W. Babcock were appointed as a special committee to prepare the rules for the control of the subordinate officials. It was said yesterday that the two opinions would be given by the attorney general and that an agreement would probably be reached at a meeting of the regents this morning. New York Money Cheaper.?The credit of the country is certainly good, when it can have New York money at 4 per cent. That is one happy phase of the loan Just secured. Then 4 per cent is a lone wav eheanpr than 7 npr cent, so the county will be some thousands of dollars to the good as compared with former years. That is another happy point. This will establish a precedent of value to the county in future. It should be a long time before Spartanburg county has to pay 7 per cent again. ^ Then, too, think of New York mon- ^ ey available now at 4 per cent when last summer that commodity was so hard to get even at higher rates. Something has happened both in the country at large and In Spartanburg in particular. Yes. something has cer- . tainly happened and the city, the county and the nation are all the better off than they were during very recent times of vivid memory. The fact Is there is something more like the "square deal'" spreading over the land of late than ever the days of Roosevelt, for all that he talked so much about it.?Spartanburg Journal.