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Scraps and ^acts. ? Washington, October 11: Final consideration was being given tonight by President Wilson to the note to Great Britain voicing the disapproval by the United tSates of British interference with American trade through the various orders in council. The communication, long delayed because the president did not wish to mix the American government's controversy with Germany with the case against Great Britain, practically is complete. No obstacle to its dispatch is evident now since the submarine dispute with Berlin is considered virtually settled, I and it will go forth in a few days. Of-1 flcials guarded with secrecy the con- j tents of the note, but it is Known inai the treatment by Great Britain of cotton, which has been declared contra band, and the actual operations of the order in council are discussed at some length. In official quarters it is stated that the note is not academic argument on the principles of the subject, but a protest which the American government intends to present constantly in order that modifications of alleged illegal practices may be obtained. ? A survey of the slide area in the Gaillard cut shows that probably 10,000,000 cubic yards of earth must be dredged out before a permanent channel through the cut is possible. This is the conclusion reached by the canal engineers who concede there is nowlittle hope of opening the waterway much before the first of the year. The present rate of excavation is 1,000,000 yards a month and at this rate it would require ten months to remove the mass sliding into the canal. The area of motion is roughly calculated to be in the neighborhood of 175 acres, which constitute the greatest slide area in the canal's history. It extends 2,600 feet along both banks, with probably an advantage of 1,500 feet back of the center line of the canal prism. Gen. Goethals has not yet made an official announcement concerning the probability of opening a temporary channel, but it is believed shipping interests have been given to understand the nature of the situation and it is probable that* most of the 100 ships await* 41 111 ho ing passage inrvugn iue vaII<w w,... \ ordered to their destination by other routes.' ' ? For the eighth time in his career, Ty Cobb is the champion batter of the American league, according to averages published recently. He has led the league every season since 1907, except 1908. Cobb's average this year is .369. He set a new league record in stolen bases with 97 and scored 144 runs and 271 total bases. Other American batters are E. Collins of Chicago, .33; Fournier of Chicago, .325; Speaker of Boston, .319; Mclnnis of Philadelphia, .314. Wood, Shore, Ruth and Forest, all of Boston, led the pitchers. Larry Doyle of New York, is the National champion with .315. Cravath of Philadelphia led runs scored with 88, and the total bases is 268; homers 24. Herzog stole 34 bases. Other batters are Luderus of Philadelphia, .313; Griffith of Cincinnati, .307; Faubert of Brooklyn, .304. Toney of Cincinnati, Alexander of Philadelphia, and Mamaux of Pittsburgh, led the pitchers. Kauf of Brooklyn leads the Federal batters, .340; Magee of Brooklyn, .328; Konethay of Pittsburgh, .310; Wilson of Chicago, .307. Leading pitchers are McConnell of Chicago, and M. Brown of Chicago. ? Quite an ugly story about the shooting of the crew of a helpless German submarine by the marines of a English patrol boat is being told by multeers recently returned from a trip to England on the Leyland line steamer Micosian. According to the statements of the multeers, the submarine U-27 attacked the mule transport, Nicosian, and the British patrol ship ** 1 ~ 4Ka Amppj. rsaraiorig, uiiuc up u;>n6 . can flag. By reason of the flag the Baralong was able to get close enough to the U-27 to sink it before it could defend itself. The German sailors jumped from the submarine into the water and the marines on the Baralong shot them to death, as they struggled in the water. All but the captain, who was taken on board the Baralong and shot by order of the commander. According to the multeers eleven members of the crew of the U-27. including the captain, were killed. Capt. Manning, of the Nicosian, says that he did not see an American flag on the Nicosian, and he denies that the German submarine men were murdered as the multeers claim. Affidavits of the multeers have been placed in the hands of Count von Bernstorff. ? "The war is Just beginning," said Gen. Villa upon receiving the news of the recognition of the Carranza faction, says an El Passo, Texas, dispatch of Saturday. Villa was ready to leave for Casas Grandes, where he is said to have 20,000 men when the news reached him. Satisfaction rather than resentment was generally expressed by the chief of the northern leaders. Col. Darcio Silva, assistant chief of staff, one of the three members of the original band of eight who entered the revolution with Villa, said that now would begin a campaign that would cause constant surprise. "We will enter Sonora with 40,000 men." he said. "Twenty thousand are at Casas Grandes. We are well armed and equipped. Just what our plans are cannot be revealed but arrangements have been completed for a campaign which I believe will surprise the world." A reception by Villa to about 50 women, a host of Mexican officials and others delayed Villa's departure until Saturday night. In addressing the American women Villa said: "My enemies say I have a hoard of money in the banks. I have no money. I have only faith in my cause for which I am fighting. Please tell Americans this. If the Pan-American conferees recognize Carranza they only open the way for anarchy in Mexico, for Carranza means favoritism for the moneyed interests." ? Washington, October 11 r A demand upon all Americans upon pain of ostracism to be more than neutral in regard to the European war, to take their stand for America first, last and all the time, was voiced by president Wilson here today in a speech at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The United States, the president said, was not merely trying to keep out of trouble, but was trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace could be rebuilt. "Peace can be rebuilt," he added, "only upon the ancient and accepted principles of international law; only upon those things which remind nations of their duties to each other and deeper than that, of their duties to mankind and humanity. America has a great cause which is not confined to the American continent. It is the cause of humanity itself." Declaring his faith in the loyalty of the great bqdy of naturalized citizens of foreign birth, the president said he believed the impression was too general that a large number of these citizens were without a sufficient affection for the American ideal. "But I am in a hurry to have a line-up," he explained. "and let the men who are thinking first of other countries stand on one side, and those who are for America, first, last and all the the time on the other side." ? Eleven directors and former directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad and Edward D. Robbins. general counsel of the road, face *-?V??-?xrrnn fViio iirckolr /vn o *-?V?o rn?Q onn . spiring to monopolize the transportation traffic of New England. They are to be called to the bar in the Federal court before Jude Hunt tomorrow. While the trial is one of a number of proceedings that have been directed in the past few years against the New Haven involving the question of alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, it is the first under which the directors themselves are brought into the court with prospect of facing imprisonment. The maximum penalty if they are convicted, is one year in prison and S.i.OOO fine. The indictment of the de. fendants last November represented the efforts of the administration, it was said, to carry to an issue in the courts the question of the personal guilt of directors of an alleged monopolistic corporation. The proceedings were taken, it is understood, at the direct instigation of President Wilson. There originally were twenty-one defendants, whose names are among the foremost in financial affairs in the United States. Three gained immunity on the ground that they had testified at previous New Haven proceedings. and six were granted separate trial on the plea that they were not directors when certain of the acts charged in the indictments were committed. The twelve others who go to 1 trial tomorrow are: William Rockefeller, Lewis C. Ledyard, George Mc- i Culloch Miller, Charles F. Brooker, C. M. Pratt, Edward D. Robbins, D. N. Robertson, James S. Hemingway, H. K. Mearg and Frederick F. Brewster. < The six last named are still listed as N'cv; Haven directors. <5lu \|orhiuUc (Enquirer. Entered at the Postoffice at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORK. 8. C.: TUESDAY OCTOBER 12, 1915. That proposition for the organization of a big private warehouse system of warehouses to crush the state system by sheer weight of money, has made quite a stir to be nothing to it. Governor Manning on Sunday issued an order closing the Charleston dispensaries on account of the election. That would probably mean something in any other dispensary town; but in Charleston the illegal whisky sellers have stocks as large as the dispensaries themselves. Pressure of important reading matter has compelled us to leave out our prospectus advertisement today; but our clubmakers are reminded that the subscription-getting campaign is flow on and our offer to send The Enquirer to January 1, 1017, for the price of a year's subscription, is quite an atLractive one. The News and Courier of yesterday Ihus describes the Australian ballot system, which is being used in Charleston for the first time today: "The voter under the law is required to retire alone to one of the booths and without undue delay prepare his ballot by scratching the names of the candidates for whom he does not wish to vote. Then he is to come forward with his ballot so folded that the number can be seen and the coupon detached without in any way revealing the printed portion of the ballot. There is no way for the managers or anybody else to know how a voter votes. That is his own secret and whatever his own attitude in the matter he is under no compulsion to reveal the evidence, nor can anybody else discover it." It is nothing but natural, of course, that there should be an effort to discredit Mr. McLaurin's expose of the purpose of South Carolina and Georgia capitalists to organize a monster warehouse system with a view to heading off the state warehouse plan. It will be remembered that shortly after Mr. McLaurin first launched his far-reaching idea and before the people began to understand it, the Dukes went in for an effort to get ahead of him. They openly announced their purpose and secured quite a lot of favorable boosting through the newspapers and otherwise. They saw the possibilities of the plan; that it was well worth while, and they did a good deal of exploiting. Apparently they dropped'the whole thing for a while; but it Is not altogether certain that they are not connected with the movement that has just been brought to the attention of Mr. McLiaurin. Enough has been accomplished to demonstrate to almost anybody the tremendous possibilities of a vast system of warehouses extending over the state. It would mean the complete control of the cotton crop and financial power without limit. A great corporation in control of such a system would be more powerful than the state government even, and the game is one that might well appeal to a Caesar or a Napoleon, or a whole company of such geniuses. But such power as this must not be permitted in the hands of private individuals. It is a thing for government management and control only, and the people not only of South Carolina, but of the entire south will do well to exercise their utmost vigilance in the matter. Must Carry the Surplus. The producers of cotton must carry the surplus if they would get for their crop a price in excess of the cost of production. That is a fundamental proposition, from the correctness of which there can be no escape. The only legitimate excuse that the New York Cotton Exchange has ever been able to give for its existence, Is the claim that it helps to distribute the marketing 01 me couon crop over the entire year. That is by giving the consumer of cotton reasonable assurance of the price at which he can buy supplies at six, eight or twelve months hence, and enable him to make present prices on his goods without danger of loss. Theoretically the speculators take charge of the cotton crop as it comes from the gins, and by sales of imaginary supplies on margins, fix prices for the year. The deciding factor, however, even in the fixing of these speculative prices is not so much the cotton that will be actually needed as the surplus over requirements that will not be needed. And as to whether prices will be high or low depends not only upon this surplus, but upon the ownership and control of this surplus. Control of the surplus is the corner stote of the warehouse idea. So long as the surplus is in the hands of the producers, all the odds are in favor of profitable prices; but when the surplus gets into the hands of the spinners or speculators the prices are forced downward. When the spinners hold the surplus, they make the producers pay carrying charges on the entire crop. But if the producers, by means of the warehouses, with proper financial arrangements, are able to control the surplus, then they can make spinners pay carrying charges, and along with these charges, a fair profit on the production of the crop. ? Atlanta, October 8: "I believe that the people of Georgia desire and will back up the most drastic possible prohibition legislation," said Governor Harris, discussing the situation yesterday. "and I believe they want to see such legislation, made as rigid as a law can be. when the general assembly meets in special session. I believe the sentiment of the people is in favor of putting a stop to all use of intoxicating liquors in the state of Georgia." Newspaper men present pondered a moment and then one of them inquired: "Well, your excellency, what about blackberry wine, and apple ; cider and peach brandy, do you think the people of Georgia are going to be willing to give up those home-made comforts?" The governor paused, and his face took on a gentler expression. He revolved the question in his mind, and then, with slow deliberation he made the famous answer of Count Leo Tolstoi at the time when the czar sought him out and asked his advice on a knotty problem of government. "Well." said the governor, "I?just? don't know." 3Y RAIL AND AUTOMOBILE Editor Takes a Jaunt and Tells of Things by the Way. Without previous appointment and maimy lcr the purpose of soeing what was 10 be seen and hearing what was to be heard, the editor of The inquirer took a jaunt out of town last Friday atternoon and returned Saturday night. The jaunt took him to Columbia by rail, and from Columbia to ^amien by automobile; back to Col umbia by rail and from Columbia to Hock Hill. Such observations and experiences as seem to be worth recording follow: 1 had advised my friend, Hon. John Li. McLiaurin, that I was coming to Columbia, and by invitation I went to his rooms in the state warehouse building. It was my first trip to Columbia since Mr. McLiaurin has established his living quarters over his offices, and I saw several things that interested me. For one thing, Mr. McLaurin has fitted up one of the largest rooms in the big warehouse quite, handsomely. The walls have all been cilsomincd, there is neat matting on the floor, and the furniture consists of a desk, several chairs, a bed, and dress :r. There is a lavatory, of course, and a bathroom. The only pictures on the walls are large photographs of scenes on Mr. McLaurin's Marlboro plantation. Among these is an extensive panoramic view of his millpond, dam, cotton gin, corn mill, and plantation home. There is another separate picture of his plantation house, showing several head of fine cattle browsing in the front yard, and still another picture shows the interior of his plantation library and office. Under this picture of the office he has written: "Where the State Warehouse Bill was Drafted." Mr. McLiaurin does not think about much else than the state warehouse system now. He is giving himself almost entirely to the problems connected therewith, and he seems to be more interested in the subject now even than when he was in the- senate.People who know how much of his time and thought he gave the subject when he was in the senate would not realize how it was possible for him to give any more. But now he is beginning to run upon new obstacles and new problems as well as a new class of opposition. In the legislature the opposition came mostly from politicians who were instigated and Inspired by opposing business and financial interests on the outside. But to Mr. McLiaurin such opposition as this was mostly a joke. Notwithstanding all the mountains of prejudice that had been heaped up against him in years gone by, he was able to handle the politicians like so many children. He knew his subject with masterful thoroughness; he knew he was able to say what he wanted to say, and without an equal in ability or experience in the handling o{ legislative procedure, he had everything his way. That was especially true of the senate, although in the house where he had to work through others, the problem was more difficult. How it all came out, however, the people of the state are very well aware. * * It is business and financial opposition with which Mr. McLaurin is now wrestling. He had just gotten on to the facts of a formidable movement against the state warehouse system. He had already given out information to the papers the night before of how big financial interests in this state and Georgia were working to perfect a tremendous combine to nip the state system in the bud. He told me exactly how he had secured his information and showed me satisfactory information of it; but for reasons that are entirely satisfactory he does not desire that I divulge the secret But Mr. McLaurin was not at all worried. On the contrary, he was pleased. "What they are doing," he said, "is only still further vindication of what I have been doing. They have their millions behind them; but already cotton producers nave piacea aooui iou.uuu wurm ui warehouse property at my disposal, and I believe. I have showed them enough to convince them that it will never do to let these private millions get the best of us. I am Just beginning to feel that there is more in life than I ever thought there was," he concluded earnestly. It happened that Mr. McLaurin had an engagement to speak at Bethune, about sixty miles northeast of Columbia, and had arranged to start for that place early Saturday morning in his car. I agreed to go provided I could catch a Seaboard train at Bethune that would bring me back to Columbia in time to catch the train for Rock Hill. We made quick time to Camden; but on reaching there at about 9 o'clock, it was apparent that we would be late for the Seaboard train at Bethune, so I decided to go back to Columbia from Camden. Mr. McLaurin went on to Bethune in his car. The road between Columbia and Camden is very good, especially that portion of it lying in Richland county. The Richland county portion is sand and "Jlay, and Is quite smootn. tne car went over it at a pretty lively clip, just how fast, it would not be prudent to say. The Kershaw end of the road is not so good, not having been sanded so well, and having been cut up considerably. The crops on the road are generally not good. There are some exceptions; but for the most part the cotton crops appear to be very light. There was very little appearance of general traffic during the trip. We met a few bales of cotton coming to Columbia from the Richland end and we passed a few bales going to Camden from the Kershaw end; but there was not more than a dozen bales in all. While we were passing some fairly good looking cotton fields Mr. McLaurin said: "My crop is a failure this year. I am not making half as much as I made last year, and it is largely because I have not been there to attend to it." He went on to say that he had discharged his overseer for inefficiency and that John D., (his son) "runs whenever he sees me coming." Mr. McLaurln is a farmer of very considerable ability, and it is his habit to stick close to his work. Having been away from home practically all the past spring and summer, and having been compelled to leave his large farming interests with others of less experience, he has not fared so well. I asked him some questions, however, which brought out the fact that he still has most of last year's cotton crop on hand, as well as this year's crop, owes no money, and does not expect to sell any cotton until next spring. What he said about his short crop was in a matter-of-fact kind of way, and not in the nature of complaint. n 0 * During my short stay in Camden I had the pleasure of calling on Mr. and Mrs. T. Baxter McClaln, formerly of Yorkville, and also on Messrs. McDowell and Niles of the Camden Chronicle. I enjoyed both calls very much. Mr. and Mrs. McClain being old friends and neighbors, were very glad to see me and extended a most cordial invitation to stop with them awhile, which invitation I was very sorry to be unable to accept. The Chronicle people were also delightfully hospitable, and had some nice things to say about The Knouirer. editoriallv. mechanically and otherwise, all of which was very much appreciated, more especially because the Messrs. McDowell and Ntles have for some time past been making of the Chronicle the best paper Camden has ever had. They are giving to the people of Camden and Kershaw county, about ten dollars worth of labor for every dollar they are getting back in the shape of cash: but they are not making any complaint. Mr. and Mrs. McClain have a beautiful home, on one of the best residence streets, handsomely furnished, and as neat as neatness can be inside and outside. I found that everybody in Camden knows this excellent couple and that everybody seems to appreciate them both at their splendid worth. Mr. Geo. T. Little, the liveryman at Camden, a most courteous gentleman, whom I had never met before, kindly sent me from the Chronicle office to the Seaboard station, a distance of more than a mile, and when I offered to pay his son. who drove the spirited horse that drew the buggy, the young man told me that his father had instructed him to take no pay. Just how this came about, or why, I did not and do not understand; but I do not hesitate to say that I feel very much pleased and honored because of the circumstance. Of course I know that all Camden people do not do business that way; but all of the dozen or more; people I met personally while in the town gave me an unusually pleasant impression of the place. On taking the Seaboard train at Camden I happened on Mr. W. F. Stevenson, and rode with him to Columbia, where he was going on business. I enjoyed his company very much. There was very little talk about politics, except that he made it clear that he is a candidate (or con-1 gress, and that he does not want his friends throughout the district to lose sight of the fact I found Mr. Stevenson a most entertaining talker. It developed that he is a close and appreciative reader of The Enquirer, and that he is remarkably well informed as to York county affairs, who the people are, what they are interested in and what they are doing. He seems to know almost everybody in the county. In the course of the conversation he related an incident in connection with the sale of his last year's cotton crop. It seems that as the result of the depression of last fall he put his cotton crop in a warehouse, and when he decided to sell at about 9 cents, one bale turned up missing. That bale was not produced until last week, and when he sold it at 12 1-2 cents he got a very regretful demonstration of what he would have had if he had only held his entire crop until now. "But say, would not we all have been fixed if we had only gotten through that legislative plan whereby it was proposed to lend the farmers bonds for their cotton up to a value of 9 cents a pound? The state would have gotten Interest on a loan that cost it. practically nothing beyond the lithographing of the bonds, and the owners of cotton would have made millions of dollars by the transaction." I saw Governor Blease after I got back to Columbia. He was just getting ready to take the train for Greenwood, where he had an engagement to make a speech. He said that if ne could arrange to do so he would come up to the fair at Rock Hill on Thursday for the purpose of meeting as many of his,friends as he could. He said also that he expected to come up to Yorkvllle soon for the purpose 01 making some arrangements preparatory to the Isenhower trial at the next term of the court. But more than anything else he seemed to be interested in the plans of the Columbia and Augusta people looking to the organization of a big independent warehouse syndicate, having for its object the blanketing and squelching of the state warehouse system. He seemed to fear that if the plans of the syndicate succeed, the benefits that the state have in view for the farmers will be retained by middle men and organized capital. His views on the subject are set forth more fully in his Greenwood speech, which is published elsewhere in this issue. Columbia is pretty dull. A large crowd filled the streets opposite the otllce of the Columbia State, watching the baseball bulletins and listening to the megaphone man as he announced the plays in the world series between the Philadelphia and Boston teams; but there was no conspicuous evidences of hustling business. Several people told me that they had never seen the city duller at this season of the year and also, it was common to hear references of bad financial conditions generally. It appears that Columbia people went wild during the boon period and put real estate skyhig^i, in many instances higher than the'Skyscrapers. It seems to have been a frenzy of mortgages. Speculative purchasers bought property on small margins of cash and gave mortgages for the balance. Later, as prices would advance, there would be other trans| fers and more mortgages, second mort gages, third mortgages anu eu uu. Now that the bottom has dropped out of the boom, prices have gone down and down and in many cases property covered by several mortgages will not at forced sale, bring the face value of the original papers. The situation generally is pretty gloomy. One of the most noticeable things along the railroad between Coldnlbla and Rock Hill, is the striking evidences of the result of last fall's diversification campaign. Where it used to be nothing but cotton, cotton, all along the line, now the corn fields alternate pretty evenly with the cotton fields. Neither the cotton or the corn along the railroad appears to be especially good; but people who are familiar with the pitching of the crops along this route in former years, are necessarily impressed with the striking contrast that is now being presented. * While waiting at Rock Hill, I talked with Dr. J. B. Johnson about various matters, and he told me one story that is interesting as well as significant "There is an old negro on my place near Ogden," said Dr. Johnson, "who is quite a character as well as a philosopher. He came up here to sell his cotton seed and when he found out the price, he said: 'I jest tells you what's a fac', cotton seed Jes* aint wuf no 60 cents a bushel. Yas, sir; yas, sir, dat's too high. But den when we go to buy dem fertilizers nex' spring dey's goin' to mek' us pay more'n dat's wuff too!" John Roddey has two subjects in which he is especially interested just now. He is proud about one of them and he is indignant about the other. The thing he is proud of is what he has been doing with the price of cotton seed, and the thing he is indignant about is the policy of the municipal authorities in putting strip'es 011 the offenders against municipal ordinances. "I do not like this thing of putting stripes on city prisoners at all. Here is a man violating a city ordinance, just a matter of a little misdemeanor, and because he has not got the money to pay out, he is subjected to the humiliation and depredation of stripes. It is wrong and it is no credit to the town of Rock Hill." As to cotton seed, he says, he is only trying to make them bring what they are worth. In reply to the suggestion that the oil mill peopie say they cannot manufacture them at present prices, he said something like "rats, look where meal, '-nils and oil are going to, won't you?*' Then he called attention to the curious fact that cotton seed are worth more to the bushel than wheat. "One bushel of wheat," he said, "sixty pounds, worth a dollar to a dollar ten ?two bushels of cotton seed, thirty pounds to the bushel, sixty pounds, same as wheat, $1.20." Secretary Timmons of the Chamber of Commerce, who has been working hard on the "York County Fair." said that everything was in shape for the largest and most successful fair yet held and he was looking for large crowds of people from all directions. W. D. G. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ? The first frost of the season at Newberry, fell Saturday night. ? Governor Manning has ordered the Charleston dispensaries closed indefinitely. ? Fritz Recker of Columbia, sustained a broken leg in a high school football game with the Winnsboro team on Saturday. ? A new cottage, the gift of the late J. C. Easton of Eastover, was opened nt the Connie Maxwell orphanage at Greenwood on Sunday. ? D. F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, is spending some time in the state. Mr. Houston is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. ? Dr. J. T. Hamilton, a prominent physician of Philadelphia, was found dead in his berth when a Seaboard Air Line train reached Florence. Sunday morning. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8 Dickson & Hogue, Clover?Want you to know about the "Chevrelot FourNinety" and the Monroe roadstor automobiles. Big values at prices. H. E. Neil, Co. Treasurer?Gives notice of tax levies in the various townships and school districts. J. B. Scott, Yorkvllle No. 3?Will pay suitable reward for return of black hound dog. Disappeared October 4. Julia Haney, 4 Clover?Warns all persons not to employ or harbor her son, Wylie Hafner, colored, aged 16. J. Stanhope Love, Filbert No. 1?Requests parties on his club last year, to give him their subscriptions to The Enquirer again this year, and a Inn haln hlvn to sret others. B. C. Riddle?Reminds music lovers that the Carroll Glee Club will beat the opera house tomorrow, Wednesday evening. Admission, 50c for adults. Season tickets, $2. Wm. R. Tlmmons?Gives Information that the York County Fair opens at Rock Hill tomorrow and continues through Saturday. Low fares. Thomson Co.?Wants your confidence as well as your business. Men's new fall hats, ladies' coat suits, boys' clothing, millinery for the ladles. Louis Roth?Will have select Norfolk oysters, beginning next Friday, at 40 cents a quart. Standard Oil Co.?On page four tells of the many advantages and conveniences to be enjoyed by users of blue flame Perfection oil stoves. J. M. Stroup?Talks about shoes and especially the high grade shoes that he has in such large quantities and varieties. Stetson hats for men. The Reily-Taylor Co.?Emphasizes the fact that human hands do not touch Luzianne coffee from the sack to the coffee pot. See page four. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Offers a variety of dry goods at special prices. Has Stronger-than-the-Law and Douglass shoes. W. E. Ferguson?Is receiving new lines of seasonable groceries nearly every day. This week's arrivals. Don't forget free aluminum ware. Carroll Supply-Co.?Today is paying 60 cents for cotton seed. It wants to furnish you with all kinds of supplies, hardware, etc. Ferguson & Youngblood?Have onion sets, coffees, oat meal, puffed wheat | and rice, flour and feedstuffs. First National Bank?Suggests that i ??? tM/tMAAOA vAitu Kolonno Iri thp J UU 1UL1 caou J UUl vutuxwv bank and tells you how to accomplish the desired result. York Trust Co.?Sells health, accident, life and fire insurance. The first frost of the season occurred Saturday night and in some sections of the cbunty it was quite heavy. There was also considerable Ice. Some damage has been reported to late corn, and It Is also stated that In the northem part of the county cotton suffered more or less. According to a number of "oldest inhabitants," the frost this year is the earliest in a number of years. This old proposition of trying to protect the Yorkville cotton merchant against outside buyers by means of a license tax originated long before the Civil war, and has been adhered to ever since. It is a question now as to whether even an act of the legislature can break that old, clammy, not-progressive spirit. Beg pardon, the people who stand for this thing claim to be liberal and progressive. According to people who note such things, there are an unusually large number of squirrels in York county this year and squirrel hunters will Ann niAntv of came when the season opens. "You can set It down," remarked an observer recently, "when there is a big crop of muscadines there are always lots of squirrels. The muscadine crop this year has been the lrrgest In several years, and the ci'op of squirrels is in proportion." Although the silly effort that has been made to stampede so many of The Enquirer's clubmaker friends from their long and pleasant relations with this paper, did not escape immediate notice, we had no thought of complaining, for the reason it just simply could not be done. However, we are none the less pleased at the expressions we have received which show that so many of our friends have been able to see so clearly through the nimsy irica. The vast majority of the young men and young women along with the older ones, are of the kind who respond only to plain, open and straight-forward dealing. But of the several who have spoken to us about this matter, it is pleasing to be able to say that none are especially angry. They are just amused, that is all. MUST SECURE PERMITS York county registrars of vital statistics have received copies of the following letter, signed by Dr. J. H. Hayne, state registrar: "I have had several reports of burials in different parts of the state without permits, and I am writing to all the registrars, asking that they notify me of such offenses against the law. "Please let It be widely known in your district that persons who fail to get permits will be prosecuted. "Please make an earnest effort to get all death returns. The registration throughout the state has been wonderfully good for the first six months: try to keep it up to the standard you have established and oblige." PAID UNDER PROTEST Mr. W. R. Carroll has paid his license to buy cotton and cotton seed under protest and will bring action at the approaching term of the court of common pleas to get his money back. He took this step on the advice of lawyers who represented that it would be better to go at it that way than to run the risk of having to pay penalties. It is desirable that the public understand that this is not Mr. Carroll's fight; but the public's fight. Mr. Carroll does not care anything about the amount of the license involved. He is fighting against what he believes to be high-handed oppression, and his fight is solely in the interest of the public. The proposition is simply this: The statutes prohibit the town council from levying an occupation tax or license on cotton and cotton seed buyers, and the framers of the ordinance proceeded 10 levy such nxx wimuui gard to the statute. The town council has no lawful power other than such as has been delegated by the general assembly; but as we have taken occasion to point out before, the town council of this place is not disposed to submit to such objectionable restraints as may be imposed by the statutes. As to Just where to fix the responsibility for this action of the town council in levying this license tax on cotton and cotton seed buyers we do not know. Among the members of the town council, there are several that we know who would not think of doing such a thing if they felt there was the slightest question of its legality, and ve are convinced that if these gentlemen are responsible at all, they are only responsible to the extent of having followed in good faith the advice of their "attorney" and others. The presumable object of the general assembly in prohibiting the licensing of cotton and cotton seed buyers, was to leave the markets free from protective restrictions so as to guarantee to the sellers of cotton and cotton seed the widest possible competition. The only object we can see for disregard of the law In this license orI dinance is a desire to protect the local buyers from the competition of outsiders. In other words the object of the or- I dinance is exactly the opposite of the i object of the statute, and the question i for the court is whether the town I council or the legislature Is the superior authority. Another ugly thing about this fight Is that whether or not Mr. Carroll proves that the council is trying to violate the law it is under oath to uphold. ho will have to pay his own attorney's fees. If he wins, the people of the town will have to pay the costs. The Individuals who are fighting him. the alleged representatives of the municipality have nothing at stake one way or the other?nothing but the question as to whether they have the power to do as they please, regardless of the constitution and the laws. WITHIN THE TOWN ? It is expected that a large number of people of the town will spend one or more days at the York county fair in Rock Hill this week. ? There were not so many people in town Saturday as there were on Dollar Day, but local merchants had no reason to complain of dull business. ? It will very likely be several days before the postofflce is moved into its new quarters owing to a delay in receiving a number of extra boxes which have been ordered. ? A number of tickets covering the Yorkville Graded school's lyceum course have been sold since last Friday. It is expected that there will be a large audience on hand to hear "the Carroll Glees," the opening attraction at the opera house tomorrow night. ? The Graded school eleven meets the Mt. Zion Graded school football team of Winnsboro on the local field tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The Yorkville team proposes to play the Fort Mill squad on the York county fair grounds at Rock Hill on Friday. ? "I don't know what we will do with them if we get many more colored prisoners between now and the time of court of general sessions," remarked Sheriff Brown the other day. The sheriff said that the colored ward was even now terribly crowded. The cells are built to accommodate about 16 prisoners. There are four cells In the colored ward and there are now confined in the Jail 22 colored prisoners, one of them a woman who occupies a cell to herself, while 21 negroes are crowded into three cells. Not in years have there been so many negro prisoners awaiting trial. BACK FROM GERMANY The Rock Hill Herald of lact Saturday carried the following interview with Dr. R. H. Crawford, a York county man, who has recently returned home from Germany: Dr. R. H. Crawford, a son of Dr. T. A. Crawford of this city, is back from a stay of several months in Germany, as a member of the American Red Cross in hospital service. Dr. Crawford was stationed at Gleiwitz, upper Silesia. He had some very Interesting experiences during his trip abroad, but is pleased to be in America again, preferring his native country to the realms of the kaiser even though no war existed in Europe. Dr. Crawford's service was performed in a hospital in Geiewitz, the capacity of which was about 170 wounded, and which In times of peace was a large theatre. Gleiwitz is situated near Cracow and during the height of the Russian offensive through Poland and Hungary, was not far from the battle linea The Germans cared for there were all wounded on the eastern battle front fighting the Russians. Dr. Crawford's opinions of Germany, the Germans and the great conflict raging in Europe are of great interest, being based on first hand observations and a determination to find out as much as possible abo" actual conditions. He Via.ti-d many German cities and saw considerable sections of the country. He expresses the opinion that the outcome of the war as far as the fighting is concerned is doubtful. He hardly thinks the Allies can whip the German armies, composing as they do the most marvelous military machine the world has ever seen. However, Dr. Crawford expects the Allies to bring Germany to terms by cutting her off from the balance of the world. Germany now is completely isolated. Nothing is being imported. The Allies have erected an iron wall around Germany and Austria, which makes it impossible for them to secure supplies of any kind from the balance of the world. Despite the vast resources of the German empire, Dr. Crawford says this is having the desired effect. Food is hocoming scarce, and he thinks the poor people are even beginning to suffer for food. Bread is very scarce. Germany will ultimately exhaust her resources of food and clothing and other necessaries. This must come about by reason of the fact that all German men except those engaged in making munitions of war are in the army. The women and children cannot carry on the manufacturing and till the lands. Business in all lines except the making of guns and explosives. is at a standstill in Germany, as far as Dr. Crawford was able to ascertain. He expresses admiration for the wonderful manner in which Germany has developed her resources, and genuine admiration for the patriotism and devotion to country evidenced by German soldiers; but he was most unfavorably impressed by the attitude and views of German military leaders and officers, especially by the militaristic despotism of Prussia. He found much feeling against the United States among all classes, due largely to this eonntry's trade In munitions with the Allies. The common people appear to be sincere in believing that, as Germany is not in position to trade with this country. Americans should re'use to trade with their enemies. The higher classes, of course, recognize 'he fallacy of this argument; but it is n?ed by them to foment anti-American feeling among the masses. Dr. Crawford will remain in Rock Hill for several days, going to Baltimore the latter part of next week to deliver an address before the Baltimnrf. Medical society, after which he will return to this city. REVIVAL MEETING BEGINS There was a fairly large audience at the First Baptist church last evening in attendance upon the opening "ervice of the three weeks' revival which is to be conducted in Yorkville under the direction of Rev. John W. Ham. Owing to delay, the evangelist was unable to have his monster tent ir> ?imo fnr thf? initial service and the first service under canvas will be held tonight. There were a a number of people from the country at the service last evening and the several churches of Yorkville were also represented. Before beginning his sermon. Rev. Mr. Ham expressed his delight at again being in Yorkville where last fall he had conducted a meeting. He announced that two services will be held each 'ay during the three weeks he will remain here?the first in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, the other at 7.30 In the evening. His tent is pitched on the Smith lot, near the church. Preliminary to the sermon last evening a song service under the direction of Prof. A. A. Lyon, lasting about 15 minutes, was held. The understanding is that this preliminary song service will be held at each meeting, as the singing director is anxious to build up a large choir. The service last evening was opened with prayer by Rev. J. L. Oates of the Associate Reformed Church. "Walking With God," was the subject which Rev. Mr. Ham announced for last evening. Throughout the twenty minutes of his sermon he commanded the closest attention; his i-hort. quick, forceful sentences holding his hearers rapt, from the minute he announced his text, "And Enoch Walked With God." until he finished his masterly discourse. The evangelist is possessed of a strong, resonant voice and his words come forth like a rapid Pring gun?one immediately following the other. That his congregation was pleased with the opening sermon, was evidenced by the many expressions of approval on every side and it is evident that the congregation in attendance upon the services will be very large. "There are three classes of people in this building tonight," said Rev. Mr. Ham. "A class who lives in the past tense, another which lives in the fu .ure and a small class that lives In the present. The past tense class recalls the time when it was touched by God and the future tense class looks forward to the time when it will be touched by God. There are few practicing living in the presence of God. Yet God is a God of today, not yesterday or tomorrow. "What's in a name?" asked the evangelist, who recalled that the name "Enoch" meant "dedicated to God." Every name, he said, should have a meaning, and should have some connection with God and religion. Yet there are so many people in our churches who when their names are mentioned, make one think of anything except religion. The strongest life is that which is given to God. The weakest life is that directing its own energies without respect to God. "Men can realize God's presence while at work as well as they can in churches," Rev. Ham continued. "Walking with God is to have real friendship with God, a perfect understanding with him." By way of illustration of his point, the evangelist told of a mother and child, who, though they might be together a whole day and neither speak a word to the other, that perfect understanding and love was there all the same. Enoch was a man like that?one who had a perfect understanding with his God, and who never got ofT the main track, declared the evangelist. We have too many church members who get ofT the main track, who take furloughs from the service of God occasionally. Had Enoch lived in the present day he might have been termed peculiar, eccentric, etc., said Mr. Ham. Those who* enjoy the friendship of God are always criticised by those of the world. Rnnnh u/nnlH nnt ha vo rorrvl via pa. llgion was his guide. He cared not 'or the sins of the world. We, too, he said, should be separated from those things objectionable to God. The evangelist scored those folk who are filled with religion on Sunday and forget it on Monday. Enoch wasn't a "good Lord good devil" kind of man, he said. He didn't try to live In fellowship with God and the world. His religion was as good on Monday as on Sunday. That is the kind that counts. Yet. declared the preacher, there was vice and temptation in the time of Enoch and Enoch was tempted even as we are. He had God on his side, however. and God and one is always a majority. Tt pays to walk with God now in the present tense, said the evangelist, in conclusion. Many of us are walking toward the invisible and some day the invisible will cease to be invisible. Now is the accepted time. Walking with God gets confidence, satisfaction end joy. God calls every man to this life. At the conclusion of the sermon, Rev. Dr. E. E. Gillespie was requested to dismiss the audience with prayer, after which the congregation was requested to come toward the front of the church to meet the evangelist. Nearly every one In the house availed themselves of the privilege. ABOUT PEOPLE Dr. T. A. Crawford of Rock Hill was a visitor in Yorkville today. Mr. G. W. S. Hart is In Gaffney on business today. Mr. Andral Rose of Yorkville is vis'ng relatives at Leesville, S. C. Mr. I. H. Norris of Chester, was a visitor In Yorkville on Saturday. Mr. Arthur Neely of Columbia, visited relatives in Yorkville this week. Miss Carrie C&rtwright is spending some time with relatives in Clover. Mr. John M. Willlford of R. F. D. No. 7, was a visitor In Yorkville last week. Mrs. H. F. Barr of Lancaster, is the guest of Mrs. James H. Beckham here. Miss Lillle Love of Rock Hill visited Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sadler here last week. Mrs. George Foster of Greenwood is visiting her mother Mrs. W. B. Steele In Yorkville. Dr. and Mra W. J. McGill of King's Mountain, N. C., spent yesterday with friends at Tirzah. D. M. Hawkins left Sunday morning for Newberry where he has taken a position. Miss Elsie Kirkland of Camden, visited her aunt, Mrs. J. R. Lindsay, here this week. Miss Anna Lewis of Chester, visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lewis here this week. Dr. I. J. Campbell and Mr. A. J. Quinn of Clover, were among the visitors here yesterday. Mr. Lawrence Laughrldge has returned to his home In Torkvllle after a visit to Mount Earl, Va? Dr. Thos. N. Dulin was among the people from the Bethel section who were In Yorkvllle Saturday. Mrs. W. B. McCaw left for Spartanburg this morning, after a visit to Mrs. J. K. Alston in Yorkvllle. Mrs. R. E. Stevenson of Camden, Is visiting Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Campbell and other relatives in Clover. Dr. Miles J. Walker of Yorkvllle attended the Southern Tuberculosis conference In Columbia last week. Mr. Harris Boyd and Miss Beatrice Boyd of Paw Creek, N. C., are visiting relatives and friends In Yorkvllle. Miss Lula Arrowood has returned to her home in Sharon after visiting friends in North Wllkesboro, N. C. Mrs. T. F. McDow and Miss Rose Lindsay of Yorkville, visited relatives and friends in Charlotte last week. Mrs. D. T. Woods returned to her home in Yorkville Sunday, after a visit to relatives at Huntersville, N. C. Misses Helen James and Hannah Edwards of Wlnthrop, were the guests of Miss Louise Barron here this week. Mr. S. Moore of Walnut Grove, Spartanburg county, spent a short while with relatives in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. R. E. Love and Mrs. T. W. McElwee of Clover, visited the family of Mr. B. M. Love in Yorkville last week. Misses Candace Quinn and Lucy Burns of Winthrop college, visited Misses Mary and Irma Williams here this week. Mr. J. Wallace Marshall, who is with the Southern Power Co. near Marion, N. C. spent Sunday at his home here. Mr. W. J. Fewell of R. F. D. No. 7. leaves today for Rock Hill where he will enter his handsome colts at the York county fair. Prof. L. W. Jenkins .of Spartanburg spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Jenkins in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Sherer and Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rainey were among the neople of the Sharon section who were in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. W. W. Blair, the well-known contractor of Bullock's Creek, is erecting an >8,500 school building at Bethune. Messrs. Jep Smith and Lindsay Devinney of R. F. D. No. 4. were among he York county people who attended the celebration in King's Mountain last Thursday. Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 8: Rev. Dr. R. M. Stevenson of Due West, S. C., is at Crowders Creek where he will hold a meeting at the Crowders Creek A. R. P. church. Mr. Carl Gaulden of R. F. D. No. 3 is principal of the Santiago school, which has begun work for the fall term. He is being assisted by Miss Annie Little. Misses Louise Barron, Frances Adickes. Irma Williams, Marie Inman nnd Martha and Margaret Marshall of Winthrop college, spent Sunday at their homes here. Mr. G. W. Suggs of Clemson college, who was called to his home in 'he Forest Hill section some time ago on acount of the illness of his father, Mr. G. L. Suggs, has returned to his studies. Mr. T. E. McMackin of the Bethany section who was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday said that the heavy frost on Saturday night did considerable damage to crops in his neighborhood. Evangelist John W. Ham, who is well known in Yorkville, where he conducted a meeting at the First Baptist church last "optember, arrived here , yesterday afternoon from Hamlet, N, Y C., where he has been conducting a ^ meeting for the past few weeks. Rev. Mr. Ham was accompanied by his vtr?fo t>mt \ a t,vnn. director of sing ing, and Munsoy Brooks, book seller and property man. Mrs. Lyon will Join the party in a few days. "We had a fine meeting at Hamlet," said Mr. ? Ham yesterday afternoon. "There were 750 conversions and almost at all times our big tent was more than crowded." Mr. Ham said that he was anticipating great results from the services which will be conducted here during the next three weeks. LOCAL LACONIC8 Synod at Rock Hill. The South Carolina synod of the Presbyterian church is to be held in the Oakland avenue church. Rock Hill, beginning next Tuesday, October 19, Several score of delegates will attend. Charged With Larceny. Jesse Dixon and George Phillips are M In the county Jail awaiting trial on the * charge of larceny. It Is alleged that the two men stole a cow, the property of H. C. Cunningham. They were committed to Jail by Magistrate Win- . gate of Catawba township. Clemson Will Do It Free. R. O. Freely, state vetenarlan has written Mr. Sam N. Johnson that in suspected cases of blackleg ,if the people will wire him at Clemson college, he will send vaccine free, and the vacine may be administered by one of the demonstration agents, Mr. Blair or Mr. McKeown, free of charge. County Home Crops Qood. Crops at the county home are unusually good this year, according to Mr. I. P. Boyd, superintendent of the county home. Mr. Boyd said he was expecting to secure a yield of 1,000 bushels of corn from the farm this year. There was considerable frost in the vicinity of the county home yesterday morning. fe Ring's Mountain otatiaxica. gg Dr. J. E. Brison of Clover, registrar , of vital statistics in King's Mountaintownship, reports that during the month ended October 10, there were seven births and seven deaths In the township. There was one white birth ahd 6 colored. One white per son died and six colored persons. H. H. Brown Dead. Mr. H. H. Brown, for several years a resident of Yorkvllle, having been employed at the Cannon mill up to a few months ago, when he was forced to give up his work on account of being afflicted with pellagra, died at Greelyville, S. C., on October 4, as a result of the disease. Mr. Brown was about 40 years of age and is survived by his wife and three children. Houston at Rock Hill. Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston, Dr. Bradford Knapp, head of the farm demonstration work of the United States department of agriculture, and W. W. Long, state agent of farm demonstration work, were In Rock Hill yesterday looking over the alfalfa fields and other fine crops in that section. Secretary Houston has been In South Carolina several daya Three Good 8ermona. Rev. W. S. Ham iter of Blackstock # preached three good sermons at Allison. Creek, Beth-Shlloh and Beersheba Presbyterian churches on Sunday, Rev. Mr. Hamiter was at Allison Creek Sunday morning, Beth-Shlloh in the afternoon and Beersheba in the evlning. There was a fine con- K gregation on hand at each service and his hearers were impressed with his discourses. Invented Fire Alarm. Mr. H. H. Brown, who died at Greelyville, S. C., on October 4, was the inventor of a fire alarm for residence use and about eighteen months ago filed application with the patent office in Washington for a patent on his device. The patent has been duly granted, but Mr. Browrf died before he was notified of his successful application by his patent attorneys. The device can be produced at comparatively small expense. Made Much Syrup. Mr. B. Clarson of the Delphos section. has recently finished making his annual supply of molasses. From onehalf an acre planted in cane, he has secured 100 gallons of the finest quality of molasses. He planted cane seed of an improved variety, and people who saw his cane patch said that many of the stalks were as large as a man's wrist. Indications are that xorK county iarmers nave gruwu mum sugar cane this year than usual. Prominent Physician Dead. Dr. Calvin Brice McKeown, one of 4 Chester county's best known physi- F clans, and who was equally well known to a large number of people In the southern portion of Tork county, died at his home in Chester yesterday morning, following a long period of ill health. Dr. McKeown was born in the Cornwell section of Chester county about 63 years ago. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. M. J. McFadden of Clinton, and a brother, Hon. S. T. McKeown of Cornwell. The deceased was a life-long member of the Presbyterian church. Going to Sow Grain. "Indications are that Bethel township farmers are going to sow as much wheat and oats this fall as they did last fall and the crop this year has been about as large as I have ever known," said Mr. E. M. Miller of Yorkvine No. 6. who was in Yorkville Saturday. "Of course I can't say what my neighbors are going to do, but I do know that I am going to sow as much foodstuffs as I ever sowed before. Bethel farmers," continued Mr. Miller, "are in good shape this fall ^ despite the fact that the cotton crop is V very short. The corn crop is good and we have raised much wheat and oats and meat." _a. i d yyotk rrogroMiny napiuij* Work on the new school building in Bethel township, located between tha residences of Messrs. J. B. Ford and f* J. M. Miller, and Just off the fine sandclay road recently erected by the chaingang, is progressing rapidly and the building will very likely be put in use this fall. The building will cost more than |1,000, the majority of which sum the patrons of the school have contributed in labor and cash. The patrons have not decided on a name for the new school house, but it will very likely be called the "Miller school," Mr. J. M. Miller having contributed three acres of land for a site for the building. Remains Removed to Gaffney. The remains of Col. James Williams, the Revolutionary hero, who received his death wound at the battle King's Mountain, which have been~*^^^^. buried on the Mintz farm, near Blacksburg, for the past 135 years, have been removed to Gaffney. Col. Williams was so badly wounded that he died within a few miles from the battlefield and the patriot soldiers who were retreating with their prisoners for fear ^ of pursuit by Lord Cornwallis, hurried him where he died. The removal of the remains to Gaffney was brought about through the efforts of the Gaffney chapter, D. A. R., with the onnspnt nrift unnrnvnl nf Prnf -T H | Witherspoon of Gaffney, a direct descendant of Col. Williams. Saved Many Cattle. As a result of the epidemic of blackleg among cattle. Bethel township farmers have found it necessary to spend quite a good little sum for veterinary services but by so doing C have saved hundreds of cattle valued at thousands of dollars. Veterinary surgeons charge 50 cents per head for vaccinating cattle against blackleg and during the past two weeks practically every farmer in the infested region has had every head of cattle he i possesses vaccinated against the disease. According to veterinarians, if the disease does not set in within nine days after vaccination there is no . ^ chance of a cow's contracting the dls- ^ ease later on. Not a single case of blackleg developing after vaccination has been reported. The leenhower Trial. Undoubtedly the principal feature ^ of the fall term of the court of general sessions, which convenes in Yorkville on November 23, will be the trial of