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Scraps and |acts. ? Mrs. John Larsen, mayor of TroutdaJe, Ore., caused the arrest of her husband Wednesday on a charge : of selling liquor to minors. Recently the woman mayor asked the district attorney to investigate alleged law violations. When she found that evidence had been discovered against her husband, himself a liquor dealer, she promptly swore out & warrant. "I did not think I'd catch Mr. Larsen," she said Wednesday, "but if he's guilty he'll have to take his medicine like the rest." ? Several packages of currency, valued approximately at from (15,000 to (20,000, were secured by a robber from the express car of a north-bound Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe passenger train near Beaumont, Texas, late last Wednesday. The robber, who escaped, has not yet been captured, although posses are searching the countryside in the vicinity of Helbig, 12 miles north of Beaumont where the bandit is said to have left the train. Members of the train crew were ignorant of the robbery when they reached Sllsbee. T*1?'.1! suspicions were aroused when "Ken .viarun, ?.?.c express messenger, failed to open his 6ar. The door was promptly broken down, and Martin discovered tied in a sack. He was released and told the story of thd^ hold-up. The robber, according to Martin, was alone. Shortly after the train left Beaumont, said Martin, a voice from behind him said: "Throw up your hands." Next, according to the messenger, he demanded the keys to the express safe, which were handed over. Then, said Martin, the robber put him in the sack and he saw nothing more. - . . , ? Gen. Villa on Wednesday, hurled the lie at all who persist in declaring that he is not in accord with Gen. Venustlano Carranza, first chief of the Constitutionalists, but fighting for his own personal gain, with the ultimate view of becoming president of the republic. When seen by a correspondent at Chihuahua, Villa's collar was off, his face was streaked with sweat and dust, and his short sleeves rolled high on his powerful arms. He was leading horses into box cars. Asked if he had broken with Carranza, he clinched his fists till the tendons on his arms stood out, and his great body shook with rage. "I say to the people of the United States." he cried, "that I have no ambition to become president or aiexi-, co, or chief of the revolution. I am only a commander of soldiers, a fighting man who wishes to be in the thick of the battle. At the slightest order of my chief, Don Venustiano Carranza, I obey. I refuse to be mentioned as a presidential possibility, should we win Mexico City. If the press of the United States insists on so terming me, it lies." ? "Gen." Kelly's "army of the unemployed" has become quite a perplexing problem to the authorities of Sacramento, California, The crowd of bums, consisting of 1,500 or more men was driven out of Sacramento as already described, and when they arrived in the country they were treated as vagrants. After the clubbing at their first camp, they began assembling at a ranch four miles north of Sacramento. and when the sheriff heard of it he collected a force of deputies and went out there for the purpose of dispersing them again. On reaching the camp however, some of the leaders showed him a document which turned out to be a title to an acre of land, with $70 credited as a first payment. Later several wagon loads of provisions rolled into the camp, indicating that the army had gotten financial assistance from somewhere. "Gen." Kelly boasted that he could accommodate 1,000 men on his acre and could get other acres if necessary. Another party composing what is known as the anti-Kelly army located on the state farm in Yolo county, and defied the county authorities to drive them off, claiming that county authorities had no jurisdiction over property of the state. Leaders of both factions gave it out that they proposed to remain where tney were until they could gather more recruits, when they would resume their march on Washington across the continent. ? New York Times. Wednesday: Personal and household effects of Daniel J. Sully, once known as the "cotton king," brought $11,000 yesterday at the second session of the auction disposal sale in the Thirty-third street auction rooms of Darling & Co. According to the auctioneers, most of the prices at which goods were sold were insignificant in comparison with real values. A man giving the name of Sam Wolff, who it is thought is a former Wall street friend of Mr. Sully, paid $420 for a mahogany bedroom set. Louise Dresser was one of the most enthusiastic buyers at yesterday's sale. Miss Dresser bought a large quantity of silverware and a number of mahogany tables, chairs and a teakwood hall set. What was considered the greatest bargain of the day was Mr. Sully's mahogany poker table, which it is said was carved by hand in Europe. About it many famous persons, it is said, have played. It brought $80. The buyer declined to give his name, but it was said that he was a personal friend of Mr. Sully and intended making a present of the table to its former owner. Several handsome chairs, mandarin robes, and vases brought from $5 to $125 each. The sale will continue today and Saturday. Mr. Sully's collection of paintings and Oriental rugs will be sold on Saturday evening. ? France has been stirred almost to frenzy during the past few days by the assassination of Gaston Calmette. editor of Figaro, by Madame Caillaux, wife of the* minister of finance. Madame Caillaux called at the office of the editor on Monday and when ushered into the presence of the Journalist addressed him with a statement to the effect that: "You know my call is not a friendly one. Your attacks upon my husband have reached a point where they are unbearable and 1 have come to stop them." With that she drew a revolver from her muff and began firing. Editor Calmette died a short time afterward. News of the killing soon spread throughout Paris and the opposing parties collected in mobs to discuss the situation and take action. Ef forts were maae 10 orgaum ucmw?.strations; but these were held down by the military. M. Cailaux who appears to have been without knowledge of his wife's proposed rash act. was broken in spirit on account of it, and on Tuesday resigned his position in the cabinet. The government was on the eve of going into an election to secure an endorsement of its policies; but the murder seems to have brought about general demoralization, and in the opinion of many the minority which was previously hopeless will secure control. The opposition charges that Caillaux sent his wife to murder the editor. ? Submission to the nine type system of cotton grading favored by the United States government was acknowledged last Tuesday by the board of managers of the New York cotton exchange in the adoption of a resolution making the government standard types of cotton nhe basis for trading on and after April 1, 1915. The resolution reads: "Resolved, That the government standard types of the following grades of cotton, i. e., middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, middling, strict low middling, low middling, strict good ordinary and good ordinary, shall be the basis for determining the grade of all cotton for delivery upon contracts maturing on and after April 1, 1915." The 23 cotton grades heretofore maintained by the New York cotton exchange have been criticised severely in the south and it was said by some of those in touch with the situation that today's action was taken to forestall possible antagonistic legislation by congress. The nine grade system has been applied by the New Orleans exchange for years and is said to simplify the marketing of the product. Conciliatory action was taken last fall by the New York exchange, but the concession did not completely appease dissatisfaction in the element which has insisted on a complete surrender, it is said. ? Sacramento, March 17: In a report to the war department in Washington, Adjutant General Forbes of the national guard pf California, has given official cognizance to an alleged plan of "General" Kelly's army to seize the Federal arsenal at Rock Island, 111., in order to equip 500,000 men for a revolution against the gov r ment. General Forbes' report is based on one made to him by Lieut. Franklin Grimes, of a Sac~amento company of the state guard, who joined Kelly's army as a spy. Lieut. Grimes related how the leaders of the unemployed di^' vulged their plp.n for capturing United States government. "There was to be a gathering of many ^'armies" "at Chicago, according to Grimes, the men reaching that city as best they might. The leaders, according to the militia spy believed they could assemble 500,000 men there. Then, moving in force, they would capture the Rock Island arsenal. Railroads out of Chicago would be commandered, said the lieutenant, and the unemployed force, well armed, would be rushed toward Wash-, ington where it would have the Federal government at its mercy. The plan was then to spread a nation wide rebellion of working men against employers of labor, which would depose all civil and- military authorities and (install the army's leaders as supreme. I Among other remarkable statements was one that the leaders were relying for support on a large Canadian contingent. "General" Charles Kelly's army which began its march on Washington 1,800 strong from San Francisco ten days ago, tonight had been dispersed. Only a handful of irreconcilables remained tonight in the camp on the Yolo levee, to which the army was driven last week by Sacramento deputies. ?lw ^orbvitlr (Snquiwt. Entered at the Postomce in xorjcv.ue ab Mall Matter of the Second Clans. YORKVILLE, 8. O.i FRIDAY, MARCH 20,1914. Where the press Is really free, it can be honest, and where the press Is free and honest there is a chance for the people to be free. That a free people will demand a free press jroes without saying. * * The Duke warehouse plan is all right except for one thing. That one thing, is that the profit will go mainly to those who invest their money instead of to the cotton producers. It is all right to argue that the opportunity for investment will be open to all classes, including the farmers; but only a small per cent of the farmers are able to take hold. We would rather see a state owned warehouse system that would give all the cotton producers a show. The great mistake of many well meaning people who think they know how to edit a newspaper better than the editor arises out of a belief that the newspapers should be the public guide and conscience and make the people go the way they should go. Mo3t editors however, who know their business, consider that they should present the facts as nearly as they can ana leave me reauers iu twin >?? own conclusions, and govern their actions as they see proper. The subscribers to The Yorkville Enquirer include as large a per cent of the solid, substantial element inhabiting the territory in which it circulates as is to be found in the case of any newspaper in the land, regardless of class or frequency of issue. These subscribers take The Enquirer not because they have to, nor because they have been over persuaded to do so; but because they know it, have confidence in it, and want it. What is more they pay their own good money for it, not grudgingly: but willingly and under such conditions, it is difficult to conceive of a more desirable medium through which to reach these people an Advertisement. The Abbeville Medium quotes Comptroller General Jones as saying that he is not a candidate for the United States senate and does not expect to be. As to whether there was any foundation for the report recently sent out from Columbia to the effect that Mr. Jones would be in the race, we do not know; but we have observed a common disposition on the part of many of the correspondents or some one correspondent who writes for many newspapers, to make similar statements without a shadow of authority. The object of such dispatches is either to fill sDace and lengthen "strings" or smoke people into saying what they [ are going to do. In either case, such work is reprehensible. The fool woman in Paris the other day who sought to save her husband's political career by murdering an editor only succeded in ruining both her husband and herself. There was a time in the history of the world maybe when thuggery and murder accomplished some temporary advantage for those | who resorted to such expedients; but if there ever was such a time it is passed. The world as a whole is too enlightened for such things to prosper. Maybe this editor had really wronged the woman's husband and maybe she only thought so. If he had really wronged the man. and it were a fact that the courts could not be relied upon for justice, then the best thing left for the woman and her husband was to wait. Another advantage of the state cotton warehouse system would be to enable cotton raisers to get full value for long staple cotton. It has been de monstrated beyond question that most cotton lands of this state are capable of producing superior grades of cotton and it has also been demonstrated that it is next to impossible to get a fair price for the superior grades of cotton. There are various reasons why this last proposition is true, and one of these reasons is that only here and there can be found a buyer who is willing to make a specialty of long staple to the exclusion of other grades and because of certain conflict of interests between those localities which now dominate the long staple market and those localities which desire to break into that market. Under a state warehouse system which would necessarily include responsible expert graders, it would be easy to concentrate all the high class cotton in the state in such a manner that it could be sold to the best possible advantage and in a way to give the producer every dollar that was coming to him. The development of southern trade with South America so ably discussed by President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern railway at Greenville the other day, is a matter of much more importance to the south than most people think. While it may be true that we have but few individuals who expect to take direct part in that trade there are not many inudividuals who are without indirect interest. That European countries now have the lion's share of Central and South American [ trade in manufactured commodities is [ not surprising, especially in view of the fact that it has been less than twefity-five years since these'countries had the lion's share in our own commodities of this nature. But now American manufacturers are competing with the foreigners in their own home markets, and it is up to this country td make greater efforts to break into the more profitable markets of South and Central America. pne of the biggest drawbacks in the way is that we have no merchant marine; but we are in closer proximity and with the completion of the canal we will have a still further advantage. The full development of the South American trade will contribute tremendously to the prosperity of the south- and the people of the south should be ready to encourage every really broad minded effort that might be attempted in this direction. Parable On Tolls. John Bull and Uncle Sam lived on the Catawba river. John Bull owned land on one side, but did not raise many crops, but devoted his time largely to making wool hats. Uncle Sam gave much attention to farming. Both * * * * *? ? ? ?J. I V. nknolAtf A on/1 sola meir pruui tu m v/nm iuik u..u Gastonia. One day John Bull proposed to Uncle Sam to build a bridge across the Catawba river and both would be able to extend trade, one for his farm products and the other for his wool hats. After a great deal of talk and haggling about it, John Bull said: "Sam, you build the bridge all yourself and manage it to suit yourself, and I and the neighbors will pay you tolls." Uncle Sam said: "I'll do It." John Bull said: "Let's draw up a contract." Uncle Sam said: "I see no need of a contract, if I am going to build the bridge aU by myself and have the management and control of it." Yet they did draw up such a contract. and Uncle Sam never conceived that the.subject was one that did not concern Mr. Bull in the new attitude and equally never conceived that John Bull would never put in any claim for interference. When the bridge was finished John Bull wrote a letter to Uncle Sam and said: "You and your boys j must pay tolls on the bridge just as the rest of us." [ Uncle Sam said: "I'll be dinged if 11 will ever do it. Do you mean to say. John Bull, that when my boys haul planks to the other end of the bridge to repair it at our own cost and ex u a pense mm we wuuiu uunaiun ?.U4 ? moment paying tolls? Why, the interest on my investment far exceeds what my toll would be if I was wiling to pay tolls." "But the contract." said Mr. Bull, "is that ail hands shall pay tolls." "The contract," said Uncle Sam. "is that I shall own and control the bridge and I am party of the first part. You and all the rest of the neighbors are the parties of the second part, who, as a matter of fact have no interest in the bridge and there was no use of a contract and no valid . contract, because you have no rights for which you paid any consideration. I have got land on both sides of the river and my boys drive across the bridge whenever they please. You have got land on one side only and you get a new and larger outlet market by virtue of this bridge. Therefore, if you and the neighbors cross this bridge, you will pay for it. and if my boys want to cross it. they cross it free. You have been worming and squirming about what you would do and what I would do until by degrees you have unloaded the whole thing upon me and now you want to tax me and my boys in the bargain."? Charlotte Chronicle. We have always had a little different view of this matter. We may not be orthodox; but nevertheless it is our way of looking at it. After considering the matter a long long time. Uncle Sam decided he would dig the canal. He knew that if the canal was dug he would have to dig It himself, and that while It was none of John Bull's business John Bull was big and strong, very much of a bully and would make it his business. It was clear that the nation which owned the canal would have a tremendous advantage over other nations unless some agreement was reached in advance and for that reason it was necessary to have a treaty as a declaration of intentions. Otherwise the work would never be completed without a war, and in that war Uncle Sam would not only have to lick John Bull; but all the rest of the world. Among other things therefore it was agreed that although Uncle Sam should dig the ditch and be allowed to charge such tolls as he might think proper, all nations must be allowed to pass through on the same terms. About the time the ditch was du Uncle Sam put it up like this: "Since no other nation is allowed to engage in our coastwise trade, and since so far as the coastwise trade is concerned the canal is only an extension of it, and the exemption of our coastwise trade from tolls would not directly affect other nations, we will exempt the coastwise trade." Now as a matter of fact we believe that Uncle Sam is right in this and that it does not involve any violation of the treaty agreement either in letter or spirit. But still there is another good reason why vessels engaged in the coastwise trade should not be exempted from the payment of tolls. All the vessels engaged in the coastwise trade are owned by several companies that belong to one big shipping combine, and the exemption of these vessels from the payment of canal tolls would be of no benefit to the people who buy the goods; but only to the benefit of the shipping combine at the expense of the government. Until the shipping combine is broken up in such a way as to restore competition. it might be just as well#to let American vessels pay canal tolls along with the others: and for that reason we think the toll exemption provision of the canal bill shoud be repealed; but still we think that this government has a right to exempt the coastwise trade from canal tolls if it sees proper to do so, and without violation of the treaty or agreement. MERE-MENTION. Three persons were killed and fourteen injured in St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday, by the crumbling walls of the Missouri Athletic club building, which was destrowed by fire last week, and in which thirty persons lost their lives -.Dallas Shields, a negro barber, charged with the murder of a constable, was lynched at Fayette, Mo., Tuesday night The Kentucky senate, by a vote of 17 to 16 has tabled the bill providing for a referendum to the people of a state-wiae proniDiuon amenameni 10 the constitution A cablegram of Monday from Tokio, Japan, says that eighty-three persons were killed at Aklta, Island of Hondo, on Sunday, by an earthquake Henry Dorman died at Liberal, Mo., Monday, aged 115 years, having been born in New York state, January 10, 1799. On the same day Isaac Coley, a native of South Carolina, died in Escambia county, Fla., aged 114 years Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, is asking the British parliament for a naval budget of $257,500,000, to build ten super-dreadnoughts and a number of smaller ships. He proposes to arm the battleships with 15-inch guns that will shoot shells weighing a ton twelve miles The escape of Harry Thaw from the Matteawan asylum, has thus far cost New York state $43,615 The senate yesterday voted down the proposed woman suffrage amendment 35 for to 34 against. The passage ot the amendment requires a two-thirds majority The immigration bill, containing the literacy test was presented to the senate yesterday, with a recommendation that it pass. There are those who think the president will sign the bill General Villa has induced several of his friends to wager $1,000 each that Torreon will be taken soon. LOCAL AlNPAXXtS. new advertisements .. . f Janaes Bryan, Filbert?Has Redding'* selected Cleveland cotton seed for sale at $1 per bushel. : f J First National Bank, Sharon?Calls 4ttention to the security It offers depositors against loss. R. D. Dorsett?Has four horses and six plug mules for sale. Lyric Theatre?Presents three pictures this afternoon-and evening, and tomorrow has a three part feature. Thomson Co.?Invites the ladies, children and men to visit its spring display on next Wednesday and Thursday. Carroll Bros.?Can furnish you with a wagon of any size desired, and also talk about buggies and farm tools. Yorkville B. & M. Co.?Talk about your farm work and wants to supply you with farm hardware. Melrose flour. James Bros.?Expect their sixth car of stock to arrive next Tuesday and invite you to come and see this lot of horses and mules. W. R. Carroll?Has too many Imperial turn plows and will make interesting prices. Tobacco by the box. W. E. Ferguson?Suggests that you change your diet ror that urea reeling. His stock of groceries will hilp you to find something palatable. MoConnell Dry Goods Co?Offers 25c shadow laces at 10 cents a yard, and has other values as good. D. E. Boney, Agent?Reminds you that spring sometimes brings other things than flowers, and advises you to.insure against lightning, etc. Sam M. Grist?Is ready to furnish you with bonds for any purpose. He sells U. S. F. & G. bonds. Yorkville Bargain House?Page four, says new spring goods are coming, and Mr. Kansler is in New York buying more. Cloud CaBh Store?Wants to know "Who's your tailor," and invites you to see its line of samples from the Ed V. Price company. Kirkpatrick-Belk (Co.?Calls special attention to its spring coat suits and dresses for ladies. Also announces its millinery opening for March 25-26. Most of thess spring days are pleasant: but still a great many people are suspicious that there may be more or less winter hanging around yet. Mr. W. M. Wallace, a hard-workliv young farmer of Smyrna, has been hard hit by the loss of two mules worth $650 In the last thirty days. Dredge and ditch the creeks and bring the rich alluvial bottoms back into cultivation. That statute which requires that streams be cleared of trash, rafts, etc., is a good one, and has proved of value where it has been obeyed; but it is not enough. The creeks should be ditched. The atory of the naming of Whitaker Mountain as related in Logan's hlBtory of Upper South Carolina, is about the same as it was once told the editor of The "Enqi.irer by the late Col. John Logan Black, except that according to Col. Black's version, Sally Whitaker had a rifle with her and killed the panther. It is quite possible that Mr. I:na Hardin of Blacksburg, whose father, Aaron Hardin, was born before the year 1800, and who lived in the neigh borhood all his long life, can give us something more definite about the old tradition. A gr?at many people are under the impression that annual postal receipts of $8,000 entitle a town to a public building. This is a mistake. There are hundreds of towns throughout the United States whose postal receipts amount to $10,000 and $12,000 a year or over and which have no public buildings, and there are many other towns with postal receipts amounting to conconsiderably less than $8,000 which have public buildings. The securing of an appropriation for a public building depends as much on wire pulling as it does on annual postal receipts and very often it depends more on wire pulling. THE COUNTY HOME It is quite probable that there will be a new county home before the end of the present yet.r, and if so it will be sufficient to answer every reasonable purpose. There is now in the county treasury A# < * A A llflA AM Lilt? mini ui iiucaucu iui uac uu the proposed new building, and the county board cf commissioners is authorized to borrow 116,000 more, making $20,500 in all. According to the present notion of the county commisisoners the best thing to do is to sell all of the county home farm except sixty acres and build the new home on the sixty acres reserved. It would be easy to find on the present farm seveial tracts of sixty acres that would be more desirable for development than the tract on which the present buildings are located; but it is a question as :o whether it would not be best to hold on to the buildings now in use, and for that reason the new buildings may be erected pretty close to the spot on which the present build ings are located. LETTERS WITH PACKAGES The postofflce department is slowly and surely removing the freak exceptions that have heretofore hampered 1 the parcels post service. One discrim- 1 ination, the reason for which nobody could understand, was against the sending of seeds for planting by par- ' eels post. Also heretofore it was not allowable to attach a letter of explana- 1 tlon to a parcels post package, even though both the letter and the parcel 1 carried the full postage required for 1 each. The seed discrimination has 1 been removed and an order has been sent out clearlfying the situation with regard to letters and parcels post 1 packages. This order is as follows: "When the sender desires that a par- 1 eel of fourth class matter on which the postage ts ruuy prepaid, wun stamps affixed, at the rate for that class, be accompanied with a communlcatioi which is not a permlsible inclosure at 1 the fourth class rate, the communication may be placed in an envelope, and after the full amount of postage at the first class rate is affixed to the envel- 1 ope it may be tied or otherwise secure- ' ly attached to the outside of the parcel in such manner as to prevent its sep- 1 aration therefrom and not to interfere 1 with the address on the parcel. The envelope shall be addressed to corres- ! pond with the address on the parcel. ' Parcels to which such communications 1 are attached shall in all cases be treat- 1 ed as fourth class mail." , i ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. J. C. Blair of Blalrsville, is vis- < iting relatives and friends in Yorkville. ( Mrs. Agnes MoFadden of Rock Hill, , is visiting her daughter, Mrs. P. W. Love, in Yorkville. ' Mro T n Mnrmwoll onH flnncrht.it* nf ' Yorkville, are visiting relatives and ' friends at Davidson, N. C. i Mrs. Bratton Hughes and little \ daughter of Yorkville, are visiting rel- , atives and friends in Rutherford, N. C. , Mrs. Marvin Bnell of Rochester, N. Y? and Mrs. Arthur V. Snell of Char- ' leston, are visiting the family of Mr. t and Mrs. G. VV. 55. Hart, in Yorkville. t Dr. M. J. Walker of Yorkville, was , called to Lancaster last night on account of the illness of his grand- 1 daughter. 1 Prof. J. P. Coats and Miss Blanche Lawrence of the Fort Mill school, are attending the state teachers' meeting in Spartanburg, this week. Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Pry or of Chester, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Stewart, to Dr. R. H. McFadden of Yorkville, the ceremony to take plaoe June 19,. Superintendent of Education John E. Carroll. Prof. J. H. Wltherspoon of the Yorkville Graded school, and Miss Kittie Blair of the Cotton Belt school, are attending the state teachers' meeting in Spartanburg, this week. WITHIN THE TOWN ? The Yorkville Giaded school baseball team lost the second game played with the Bailey Military Institute, 20 to 7. The team returned to Yorkville Wednesday morning. ? First Lieut. B. F. Smith was elected captain of Co. L., 1st. Infantry, N. G. S. C., at an election held in the armory last Tuesday right. Capt. Smith had no opposition. Elections for first and second lieutenants are to be held soon. ? It 18 an eigne room insieaa 01 a four room cottage that Mr. H. B. Laws is to erect on College street. The plans are being prepared by Architect Allen, with Mr. J. R. Logan, and the cottage is going to be an unusually creditable piece of work. Mr. Laws hopes to give out his contract within the next few weeks. ? The attraction at the Lyric yesterday was a beautiful hand painted, two reel feature entitled the "Serpent In Eden." It brought out crowded houses. It was the old, old story of love, happiness, unfaithfulness, jealousy, humiliation, despair and tragedy, winding up at last in the usual good old way with reconciliation and the triumph of true love. The patrons were highly pleased not only with the beautiful coloring; but with i;he whole story. ? There is much nterest among the small boys of Yorkville as to the Boy Scout movement. The scouts have ordered their uniforms which should arrive this week. Owing to the rough uroathor tho aonntn hAvi> not taken anv "hikes;" but with the coming of spring they will very likely take many such trips There are now four patrols with thirty-two member*, and this includes most of the boys who are of the required age?12 to 18. However, there are many little fellows ten and eleven years old, who look on the scouts with a feeling of longing and who say they will' also be scouts when they reach the age of twelve. ORGA 1 THE CLt'HS This year's political campaign has about begun, and those who pay most attention to such things are now giving thought to the question of reorganizing the clubs and the election of delegates to the county convention. As a matter of fact there is more or less rubber shoe work going on on both sides, and the probability is that the rubber shoeing will soon give way to hob nails. In the old days before the Tillman movement swept things, the various precinct organizations were in the hands of a single party which managed matters very much as it pleased. One of the first moves of the Tillman organization was to get control of the precinct clubs. The main issues were to do away with the old convention plan of making nominations and substitute primaries for state offices. The 1 party leaders then in control were easily able to nominate whom they would in convention: but they feared the idea of a primary, and for that reason fought to the last. When the Reform people finally got control of a. majority of the club organizations, and through them a majority of the county organizations, they were able to elect a majority of the members of the state executive com- : mittee, and shape up the policy of the state convention, which decided to ' have all elections by primary and formulated rules and regulations for voting. As time went on and party control 1 became all'one way again as it had < been in the old days, vigilance was relaxed, the: lines became looser, and 1 gradually the control of the club or- i ganizatlons became less rigid. Many of the former leaders drifted back into 1 me oia places anu tunica uuiuiuucu tu run smoothly. There was but little agitation of the question of club reorganization two years ago, and not a great deal of inquiry as to the political complexion of ( the men who went to the county convention. When the convention met it developed that it was under the control of the "conservative" element; but not a grea'; deal of concern was ex- 1 pressed for the reason that there appeared to bs very little at stake other I than who should be sent as delegates to the national convention, and the ] politicians on both sides felt that after | all the main question of party strength would be tested in the general pri- ( mary. , But now thens is a rather keener i conception of the importance of con- ] trolling: the county Democratic organi- | zation. More people understand that j control of a majority of the county | conventions means control of the state , convention, and the side that controls j the state convention will have the ( power to cnange the primary rules as It sees proper and to elect the new state chairman who is important in j directing the campaign and determin- | ing close questions. ( It developed in the last campaign that the party machinery was in the l control of the conservative element. The , election turned out to be a very con- ( siderable surprise especially to that , element, and when the charges of < fraud were hurled about over the state . it will be remembered that a serious situation developed. That situation , was far more critical than most people , realized at the time, for as a matter of fact it came dangerously near bringing about a party split that might have required a long time in healing. The organisation of the precinct t CJUDS as is wen Known, is a. parliamentary proposition of quite doubtful regularity. The club meetings should be called ty the local presidents, and every Democrat whose name is on the club roll o:? the previous primary election has the right to attend with the privileges of the Poor. As a common thing, for i number of years past, the attendance hat been very limited. For Instance last year not as many as five clubs in the county had an attendance equal to the number of delegates they svere entitled to send to the county convention. In some cases there were no meetings at all, and the delegates who went to the convention, were voljnteers with credentials prepared by the chairmen and secretaries of their respective clubs after their arrival in Sforkville. But where there are contests for control of the clubs many I things are likely to arise. Sometimes f he hold over officers when then find I hey are in a. minority, hide the books t ind claim they are lost. Frequently <3 neetings are adjourned on one pretext n or another; but - usually in the hope that the Interval may be used to convert a minority into a majority, and often minorities run roughshod over majorities, simply because in some cases majorities do not include enough members with sufficient knowledge of parliamentary law to uphold theft* ri?rhts. So far as The Enquirer has information there is no dlsposjtlon in any quarter of York county to resort to any of the questionable expedients referred to in the coming club re-organizations, and It is to be hoped that no such expedients -will be resorted to. Under conditions where both sides are disposed to be fair, there is no danger of trouble; but where one side undertakes unfair advantage of the other, the hope of harmony grows faint. LOCAL LACONIC8 Indian Agent Re-apointed. Governor Blease has re-appointed Mr. S. H. White of Rock Hill, as agent for the Catawba Indians. Rev. Boyce to Virginia.. Kev. wiiuam w. aoyce, son <u mtLjur W. W. Boyce of Rock Hill, who was recalled from his missionary work In Mexico, when hositilitles began in that country has accepted the pastorate of two churches near Lynchburg, Va., Rev. Mr. Boyce leaves Immediately for his new field. Death of Miae Irene Hood. Miss Irene Hood, daughter of Mrs. 8. Jane Hood, died at the home of her mother, near Hoodtown, Wednesday morning, following a short illness from pneumonia. She was forty years of age and Is survived by her mother, two brothers, Messrs. Max and Clarence Hood, and one sister, Mrs. McAliley. The interment was in Bullock's Creek cemetery yesterday, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. J. B. Swann. Death of Mrs. Gaacoigne. Mrs. Pink Carroll Gascoigne, only daughter of the late Capt. S. Elzaphan and Margaret Gill Carroll, died at her home in Sharon, Tuesday evening March 17, about 9 o'clock of tuberculosis. Mrs. Gascoigne was about 40 years of age, and was twice married. First in 1895 to the late Dr. Wm. A. Kennedy of Sharon, and in the spring of 1899, to Mr Cecil B. Gascoigne of London, England. She is survived by her husband who is abroad, and one* daughter, Miss Margaret Gascoigne of Sharon. Funeral services were held at Sharon on the 18th, conducted by Rev. E. B. Hunter and interment was in the Sharon cemetery in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends, at 3 o'clock. Death of Mrs. Edward Mitchell. Mrs. Mary Mitchell, wife of Mr. Edward Mitchell, died at the home of her father, Mr. J. J. J. Robinson on Broad river last Wednesday afternoon after a long period of failing health. Mrs. Mitchell was born November 16, 1888, and was married to her husband on rw>?.mhpr 1911. She was a ladv of remarkably sweet and gentle disposition, and was held in high esteem by all who knew her. She is survived by two brothers, Grover and Samuel, and one sister, Miss Jemima. The funeral services were conducted at Salem church in Cherokee county by Rev. W. B. Arrowood, assisted by Rev. J. L Oates, and the interment was in Salem cemetery yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. There was a large concourse of people in attendance. Death of Andrew Hafner. Mr. Andrew Hafner, an aged and highly esteemed citizen of Bullock's Creek, died at the home of his son-inlaw, Dr. S. G. Miller, in Chester county on last Monday, after a long and tedious illness and the funeral service was conducted in Bullock's Creek church of which the deceased had been a deacon iui iiiuic man ?**cj j u?* d, w?. a . Mr. Hafner was born In what Is now Catawba county, N. C., (then a part of Lincoln county), on November 16, 1821, and at the time of hia death was In his 94th year. He grew up on a farm, learned the carpenter trade in early life and came to York county in 1848. He settled near Blairsville and , engaged In farming, which vocation he followed until Incapacitated by the infirmities of old age. He was three times married. His first wife was a Miss Gwinn, of York. The second Mrs. Hafner was Miss Kezla Hardwick, and the third wife, who died some twenty years ago, was Mrs. Sarah West, of ; Newport, Ark. The surviving children are Messrs. R. R. and J. A. Hafner and Mrs. S. G. Miller of Chester; Mr. B. W. Hafner of NewDort. Arkansas and Rev. W. A. Hafner, of Fort Mill. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. B. Swan, and the interment was in Bullock's Creek cemetery. New Negotiable Instrument Law. Copies of the negotiable instrument law, passed by the general assembly of South Carolina on March 4, 1914, and effective next Tuesday, have been received in Yorkville. Some of the more drastic changes in present practices that will be brought about by the new law are of interest to the general public, but it would be well for business men generally to acquire copies of the new law and acquaint themselves with it. The provisions of the law do not apply to checks and notes made and delivered previous to its passage. Among the several important changes It will bring in the transactions involving checks and notes are to be noted the elimination of the three days of ?race that obtained on papers drawn "at sight," or made payable at a specified time. When a note is made payable at a bank it is equivalent to an nrder to the bank to pay the same for the account of the maker. Formerly in J South Carolina, unlike any other state, i a bank had to consider the signature ! >f a check as transferring to the one to I whom the check was payable the ; amount for which the check was ^ drawn, and had no right to withhold | payment, even though the maker re- | juested it. The new law says a check i )f itself does not operate as an assign- 1 nent of any part of the funds to the :redit of the maker in the bank, and :he bank is now not thus liable to the ( lolder. It permits, besides a notary j public, a protest of a paper to be made I jy any respectable resident of the j jlace where the paper is dishonored, in < ;he presence of two or more creditable witnesses. Another important section )f the law is that which reads: A :heck must be presented for payment vithin a reasonable time after its issue )r the drawer will be discharged from lability thereon to the extent of the oss caused by the delay. Charged With Murder. Jamie Whisonant, Hugh Davis, Zeb 3ell and Pulton Whisonant of Blacks>urg, were held without ball at King's fountain, N. C., Wednesday, charged * vith killing Sol Williams, an eighteen'ear-old negro, according to a dis>atch to the Charlotte Observer. The our young men, together with Deck Hilton, formed an automobile party hat went to King's Mountain on Tueslay, on account of a carnival aggregation that is holding forth in the town. The shooting occurred at 10.20 o'clock, presumably as the young men were leaving the town, about 200 yards from the carnival grounds. Chief of Police I^indsay and his assistant, Mr. Rhodes, were on the carnival grounds at the time. They heard the shooting and immediately rushed to the spot. They found the negro Williams lying on the side of the road with a bullet hole in the back of his neck and rapidly bleeding to death. Near by were the four men named above, gathered about an automobile which they were preparing to crank, and the policemen, thinking there might be some connection between the circumstances, made an Investigation. No pistol was found on the men, but a quantity of beer and whisky was found in the machine, while in the rear of the car was a 32caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, covered by a laprobe. Two chambers were empty, the other three having loaded cartridges. According to the officers the empty shells had been fired within a few minutes of the time the pistol was examined. A coroner's Jury composed of some of the most prominent men of the town was empaneled WednoaHa v mnrnlna onH a rtr\at -m/trtpm ay. ami nation revealed the (act that the bullet which had passed through the neck and lodged back of the negro's eye was of 32-caliber. Chief of Police Lindsay in the meantime had gone to Blacksburg and was told on inquiry that Deck Fulton had borrowed a 32-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol which appears to have been a duplicate of the one found in the car. Fulton before the Jury swore that he gave the pistol to Zeb Bell, another of the party, before reaching King's Mountain and that he saw it no more. Fulton's brother, who lives at King's Mountain, testified that Fulton was with him at some distance from the automobile when the shooting occurred. He was not with the crowd when the car was searched. Serving on Coroner O. K. Barnett's Jury were W. A. Mauney, J. W. Ware, N. F. Watterson W. A. Ridenhour. George H. Logan and W. P. Herndon. Following the taking of the evidence, they held the four without ball and bound Deck Fulton over to court as a witness. The matter has been promptly handled, the citizens demanding a thorough investigation. Sol Williams worked for the Barnes & Finger Drug Co.. and so far as is known, had had nothing to sav to the Blacksburg party. In fart, no theories have been advanced as to the cause of the alleged shooting. FEBRUARY CONSUMPTION The Total Amount Included 465,239 Bale*. Cotton consumed in the United States during February amounted to 1 456,239 running bales, exclusive of linters, compared with 448,095 bales in February, 1913. Cotton on hand February 28, was : held as follows: In manufacturing , establishments 1,734,317 bales, compared with 1,893,966 in 1913, and in Independent warehouses 2,293,601 balqs, compared with 2,217,619 in 1918. I ; February imports amounted to 40?771 equivalent 500-pound bales, com pared with 34,039 in 1913, and ex- ! ports, including linters 750,990 run- ; ning bales, compared with 630,911 in 1913. Cotton spindles operated during February numbered 31,139,730, compared with 30,536,486 last year. Llnters consumed -during February numbered 22,452 bales, compared with 23,118 in 1913; llnters on hand February 28, was held as follows: In manufacturing establishments 93,800 bales, compared with 87,335 in 1913, and in independent warehouses 66,774 bales, compared with 33,280 in 1913. Llnters exported during February, 39,825 bales. Cotton consumed during February in cotton growing states amounted to 243,184 bales,. compared with 232,198 last year, and in all other states 212,055 bales, compared with 215,897 last year. Cotton on hand February 28 in cotton growing states in manufacturing establishments amounted to 848,708 bales, compared with 871,177 last year, and in independent warehouses, 2,112,766 bales, compared with 2,021,948 last year. Cotton on hand February 28 in all other states in manufacturing establishments amounted to 885,609 bales, compared with 1,022,789 last year, and in Independent warehouses 180,635 bales, compared with 195,651 last year. Active spindles during February in cotton growing states numbered 12,306,311, compared with 11,757,852 last year, and in all other states 13,833,419, compared with 18,778,634 last year. Exports included: To United Kingdom 328,794 bales, to Germany 212,599, to France 74,765, to Italy 36,473, and to all other countries 98,359. _ ^ imports were: rTora n,gypi 11,49:, , from Peru 1,342, from China 8,602 and from all other countries 4,382. Liintero exported during February amounted to 39,325 bales. These statistics of consumption and supply were announced Tuesday by the census bureau. ? Under an act passed by the last 1 general assembly, manufacturers, agents or dealers in any condimental. 1 patented, proprietary and trade-mark ed "stock or poultry tonic," "condition- 1 er," "remedy" or "regulator," must pay 1 an annual license fee of 810 for each 1 separate brand or a fee of 350 cover- 1 ing all brands made by a single manu- < facturer to pay for the expenses incurred in registering, inspecting and an- 1 alyzing their products by the state de- < partment of agriculture, commerce and I industries, or failing to register their ' products or for offering for sale pro- 1 ducts containing harmful and injuri- 1 ous substances, manufacturers and 1 agents of condimental stock remedies 1 are liable to a fine of not less than 350 I and not more than 8100. The parties 1 who violate the act are given the right of a hearing before the commissioner. The condimental stock and poultry food act extends the same protection to the users of the stock and poultry remedies as is now given the users of commercial concentrated feedstuffs. ? Columbia Record, March 18: Magistrate James H. Fowles has received a check for $18.50 to cover the two "bad checks" given Heyward's Pharmacy and the Carolina National bank by N. C. Creech, a member of the house of representatives from Barnwell county. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr. Creech who pleaded the ten days' exemption under the Constitution, and Magistrate Fowles held action in abeyance by accepting the plea. The check sent the magistrate to cover the checks given by Representative Creech, accompanied a letter from a relative of Representative Creech, at Kline's. There is still another check out against Representative Creech for $10, which was given the Lower Main street bank. The magistrate wrote Mr. Creech's kinsman, informing him of the facts in the case. The remittance, said the nagistrate, annulled the criminal action based on the two checks first giv- a !-n by Representative Creech. ? . 8 ? Spartanburg, March 19: Passage t >f the urgent deficiency bill, carrying 0 in appropriation of $47,000 for a pella- t ?ra hospital, by the United States senite today assures the establishment of :he hospital here before June 1, ac:ording to R. A. Herring passed as- ? jistant surgeon of the public health ^ service, who has arrived In the city ? :o take charge of the hospital. He will ^ ?* W.. /">? -I a nrl t JC ossisicu uy nui. v^an Tucgwiii it least three laboratory experts. In * iddltion to the appropriation by contress the investigators will have other a 'unds, making the total amount at a heir disposal seventy-five thousand 0 lollars. Dr. Herring said tonight that v :he hospital would be operated until c lome definite result had been achieved :owards solving the mystery of pella- a rra. The investigation will be princi- 8 mlly along chemical and clinical lines, d limited number of patients will be aken. The public health service in- v restigation will be independent of that >y the Thompson-McFadden pellagra P sommission, the members of which 11 ire beginning to arrive in the city for *! heir third year of study. Army and e lavy surgeons are working with the rhompson-McFadden commission, and hey are directing principal attention ii o the insect theory of pellagra. y TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA President of Southern Railway Points (g Out Southern Opportunity. Greenville, March 17.?In an address before the Greenville Chamber of Commerce this evening, Mr. Fairlax Harrison, president of the Southern railway company, spoke on southern cotton mill development and cooperation for a broader market for southern cotton goods, with special ^ reference to tne opportunities ihat would be opened up by the Panama canal. He said: . "Even without the shorter waterway to the markets of the Pacific, supremacy in the manufacture of cotton goods in the United States Is rapidly pass- l lng from New England to us in the south. The reasons for this are not far to seek. They lie in the great economic advantage of the location of the manufacturing establishment in proximity to the source of supply of K8 raw material, in the abundance of coal for steam production, in the rapid development of hydro-electric power, and in the unsurpassed climate or the south, especially in the Piedmont section, where the mild winters and the V absence of excessive summer heat are conducive to the efficiency of labor. "In 1889 mills in the cotton growing states used but 188,748 bales of cotton, as compared with 1,381,696 bales used in the mills of all other states. In the twelve months ended f August, 1913, the mills of the cotton growing states used 2,960,518 bales, as compared with 2,825,812 bales in all of the other states. Again, the record of cotton mill construction in the calendar year ended December 31, 1913, shows that fifteen new mills with 257,760 spindles and 5,984 looms were located in cotton producing states, and only seven mills, with 75,000 spindles and 2,056 looms, were ? built in the New England states. fl These figures are eloquent conflrma- ^ lion of the tendency to which I refer. How then can the cotton industry give it still larger and further expression?" In answer to this question Mr. Harrison pointed out the opportunities V that will be opened up by the Panama canal, and said: "The men who are first on the ground will have an immense advantage over those who wait until ships are actually passing through the canal Derore making a move. L<ei us in me south then take full advantage of our geographical opportunity and of a tendency of commerce in our favor, w and, as the phrase is. beat the Yankees to it We have in the past given them what the fashion now Is to term 'fair competition,' and we should not forget that our fathers taught us to tight Intelligently as well as gallantly for the southland." 9 Mr. Harrison showed that of total importations of cotton goods into the Latin-American countries amounting to $102,067,180 a year, only about 10 per cent were shipped from the United States as compared with more than 60 per cent from England, about 15 per cent from Germany, and considerable iiuantities from other countries. Speaking of methods of developing trade with Latin-American countries and of the expense of individual effort, Mr. Harrison urged co-operative effort, and suggested a specific plan by which the Southern railway company could inln tho unnthorn m n n lif n ef 11 rem ^ and southern merchants In the expense necessary to initiate, direct and maintain a profitable current of competitive and peculiarly southern commerce in this new channel. He said that in anticipation of the completion of the canal, the Southern railway company had already had a detailed report from a highly qualified expert which is full of valuable suggestion and that this information Eind such additional information as could be obtained by the company From the various governmental offices In Washington was freely at the disposal of any one along the company's lines who might be interested in the A subject ^ He spoke of the importance of direct and regular steamship service in the development of import and export traffic through the south Atlantic and gulf ports, and he emphasised the desirability of such co-operative and a co-ordinate effort as he had suggested * seeking the development of such a volume of business as will warrant the establishment of direct regular steamship lines. He said: "If this matter shall be handled intelligently and energetically by a small group of the interests concerned, I believe it will be practicable to build ? attKat??Hol on/i nrnfltohla r\\rant trade with the Latin-ArtTerican coun- jatries and that no one will benefit more 9 largely l'rom this than will the southsrn manufacturers of cotton goods. "It has been my privilege to watch the gradual growth pf the cotton mill Industry of the south from small beginnings to its present splendid pro- ? portions and to know many of the men who have accomplished this. I know what capable and intelligent men they are, what vision they have had, and I have no fear that they can, If they will, meet successfully, in the Latin-American markets, the competition not only of New England but of the world. Is is not worth trying? I would be proud to co-operate in the adventure because I believe that thereby I could be of service, not only to _ the Southern railway, but to the peopie of the south whose servant the Southern railway is." ? In a decision handed down Wednesday, the supreme court affirmed the decision in the case of the town of Dillon, respondent, versus Charlie Salee- ? by," appellant, and declared constituH?"ol ttia Hlllnn nrHlnnnpp to nrohlbit the sale of "any Jamaica ginger or alcohol or any other ingredient of similar nature, by whatever name called, or any cider of any kind, without the certificate of a licensed physician that the same is to be used for medicinal purpose." In his opinion affirming the decision in the case of Dillon vs. Saleeby, Associate Justice Hydrick says: 'The uncontradicted evidence shows that all cider contains some alcohol: 41% that at the places where cider was ? sold the rough element of the community congregated, became noisy and boisterous and in some cases, intoxicated and blocked the sidewalks in front of them so that pedestrians had to get off them into the streets to pass ^ by; that frequent arrests for drunken ness and disorderly conduct were made it such places, and that they were in fact nuisances; that since the sale of cider has been stopped such nuisances nave been abated and much better orier has prevailed. The appeal questions the validity of the ordinance on the ground that the council had no ?ower to adopt it, and on the further jround that it is unconstitutional Secion 2994, volume 1, code 1912, confers lpon city and town councils, authority o make 'all such rules, by-laws, regu- g? nw%A Ae^lnonnoa ruanOoi \ n IT t hf? __ aiiuiio auu ui umuuwo * vW|/?-v?t..0 ? oads, streets, markets, police, health ind order of said cities and towns, or especting any subject, as shall appear o them necessary and proper for the lecurity, welfare and convenience of tuch cities and towns, or for preservng health, peace, order and good gov- ? rrnment within the same.' The ordilance is clearly within the grant of tower. Neither discussion nor citation if authority is necessary to show that he ordinance bears a substantial and easonable relation to the purpose ought to be attained, towit, the prestation of health, peace, order and rood government within the town. It s, therefore, a proper exertion of the tolice power and violates no provision if either the state or Federal constituion." The Duke Plan.?The plan for the >peration of the proposed cotton warelouse system endorsed by the National ?ity bank, of New York, and which Ka/vM n ^nfoeonnn at iao uccn muui ovu uj u vuiuci qmw he Poinsett club, of Greenville, is as ollows: "1. Utilize the cotton as collateral nd do this always in the same way ,nd so safeguarded that the integrity f this collateral would become very widely known and unquestionably acepted. ^ "2. Have notes of an identical char.o'er against the cotton so as to create uch o large volume of paper of one le8criptlon that it will become a facor in the financial markets of the yorld. "3. Have all this collateral and paper assed through some well known fi- ? tancial institution that can in the eary stages give its standing and aid in stablishing it in the market." ? Col. J. N. Crockett died at his home n Lancaster last Monday, aged 82 ears.