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Scraps and .facts. ? The minister of education of Prussia has issued a decree, according to which the various school authorities are directed to give the pupils a vacation that they may systematically collect beechnuts and acorns which are now falling, for the sake of the oil and fats they contain. The minister of agriculture has estimated that 400,000 tons of the former and 100,000 tons of the latter will go to waste unless some definite steps are taken to gather them. From the components of the nuts, it has been found, a very acceptable table oil can be made which it is believed will go a long way to relieve the present shortage in that commodity. ^ ? nepresenianvf tmuuc iuivum. Democratic leader of the house, who opposes the administration's national defense programme, returned to the capital last Saturday to prepare for the organization meeting of the ways and means committee this week. Representative Kitchin said he would favor a congressional inquiry into what he , characterized as defense propaganda to determine whether it may be supported by persons allied with the manufacture of munitions. He did not comment on Secretary McAdoo's treasury estimates, but said that when the preparedness programme finally was adjusted by oongress, he would co-operate with the administration on measures for necessary revenues. "First, 1 want to keep the people from being taxed for preparedness." said Representative Kitchin. "but if I cannot prevent that. I do not propose to oppose the party in providing for necessary revenues.'* ? The British government has yielded to the American representations for removal of all restrictions on the shipment of tobacco to neutral consignees in neutral countries, word reached Washington last Saturday from the American embassy at London. The British embassy sent the following message to Secretary Lansing: "The foreign office informs me that the British government agrees for the present not to interfere with the cargoes of tobacco shipped to neutral consignees in neutral countries and states that in these circumstances tobacco in all its forms destined for Holland will no longer be required to be consigned to the Netherlands Overseas Trust." The removal of the British restrictions, protested against by representatives of tobacco producing t states, relieve? a situation wnicn resulted in overstocking of the tobacco warehouses. Scarcity of ships to handle the product and higher freight rates now confront tobacco shippers. ? In reply to criticisms of the American Bankers1 association in connection with his declaration that many national banks charge usurious interest rates, John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, issued a statement last Friday night again giving instances of such practices. Mr. Williams said it was true that a majority of the national banks obeyed the usury laws of the various states, but that the reports rendered to him showed, as he announced in speeches and previous public statements, that this was far from being universally true. "The only states where there were no national banks which admitted under oath in their statements of September 2, 1915, that they were charging as high as 12 per cent on any of their loans were Connecticut, Delaware, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. Vermont and Wisconsin," said the statement. It added that reports of September 2, 1915, showed that 2,743 of the 7,613 national banks of the country were charging 10 per cent on some loans. Mr. Williams suggested that hereafter national banks be required to print in their published statements of condition the maximum rate of interest charged. He expressed the hope that the association will work with the comptroller's office to end the practices complain ea or. ? Rudyard Kipling, the British author, sends the following to the London Daily Telegram: "Who a few months ago could have invented, or having invented. would dare print such a nightmare as this: There was a boat in the North sea which ran into a net and was caught by the nose. She rose, still entangled, meaning to cut the thing away on the surface, but a Zeppelin in waiting saw and bombarded her, and she had to go down again at once, but not too wildly, or she would then get herself more wrapped up than ever. She went down and by slow working and weaving and wriggling, guided only by guesses at the meaning of each scrape and grind of the net on her blind forehead, at last she drew clear: then she sat on the bottom and thought the question over, whether she should go back at once and warn her confederates against the trap or wait until the destroyers, which she knew the Zeppelin would have signalled, should come out to finish her, still entangled as they would suppose in the net, which was a simple calculation of comparative speeds and position, when it was worked out she decided to try for the double event. Within the few minutes of time allowed for them, she heard the twitter of four destroyers' screws quartering above her. She rose, got her shot in, and saw one destroyer crumble, hung around till another took the wreck in tow; and said goodby to the spare "o woo at tKo Art/1 rtf hop supplies, and reached the rendezvous in time to warn her friends. ? Mrs. Phillip Snowden, wife of a member of the British parliament, who with Madame Rosika Schwimmer of Hungary, interviewed President Wilson Friday night to gain his support of the proposed conference of neutrals to initiate peace, quoted the president as having said: "You need not plead with me. I am anxious, most anxious. to do all that I can for peace. I shall earnestly endeavor to unite offi* cial opinion to that end." Mrs. Snowden. through the woman's peace party, gave out a typewritten statement of the interview, before her departure on the steamship Ryndam for England, where she said she was going to ask Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and other prominent English men and women to meet at The Hague the pacificists who sail December 4, on Henry Ford's peace ship, the Oscar II. "President Wilson is in absolute sympathy with the peace idea,'* read the statement. "There is not the slightest doubt that he wants to do something but he hesitates lest he might act at the wrong time. When I su^ested that it was regrettable that the English people had gotten the idea America wished the war to go on, for the sake of the money made out of it. he said earnestly that it was very unfair that the American point of view should have been so presented to Europe. 'But we cannot expect fairness in war, can we?' I reminded him. In our conversation with him. either Mme. Schwimmer or I used the word 'plead.' He spoke most sincerely, saying, 'you need not plead with me. 1 am anxious, most anxious, to do all that I can for peace. I shall earnestly endeavor to unite official and unofficial opinion to that end.' Both Mme. Schwimmer and I believe that was all that could possibly be expected of the head of a great government." Definite announcement that Henry Ford had obtained accommodations?the entire first and second oahins?for his "Deace oartv" aboard the steamship Oscar II, was made Friday night by the ScandinavianAmerican line. The third cabin will be given over to regular travelers. ? New York, November 28: With, choice turkey selling as high as 35 cents a pound. Commissioner Joseph Hartiman's men from the mayor's bureau of weights and measures, yesterday arrested 125 butchers, accusing them of selling short weight. Most of them were locked up for arraignment today, but one, Frederick Ermann of 2216 Eighth avenue, the commissioner himself brought to night court, saying that Ermann had one of the most ingenious swindling schemes he had ever seen. The commissioner said his inspectors had suspected Ermann for some time of selling short weight, but had never been able to catch him. Yesterday a woman inspector visited his butcher shop, which is between 119th and 120th street, and bought a four-pound turkey, paying 28 cents a pound. She carried it around the corner to the commissioner's automobile where the official scales showed it to be just seven ounces short of full weight. So they waited for an hour or so and then Inspector Albert Lutz went in and bought a five-pound bird. He weighed his outside also and it, too, was just seven ounces below weight. So then he entered the shop and arrested Ermann. The commissioner said they found Ermann had been using a computing scale which rested on the counter and beneath it he had fashioned an arrangement which he operated with a pedal beneath the counter and which automatically increased by exactly seven ounces the record weight of anything placed on the scales. Mr. Hartigan said that Ermann had sold more than 200 turkeys yesterday, and so had profited, at 28 cents a pound, on between 90 and 100 pounds falsely recorded by the pressure or nis roox, a pain 01 mure han $25. Ermann pleaded guilty when he was arraigned before Magistrate Koenig. He was held for trial in rpecial sessions. <?FUr \(orhviUf tfuquiw. Entered at the Postofflee at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORK, S. C.: TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1915. Many editorial paragraphs appear In the newspapers of this county which are not intended to be taken seriously. One such paragraph there was In the issue of the Times of November 11. Facetiously rather than seriously we referred to the differences which lately have arisen between The Yorkville Enquirer and the Rock Hill Record over the distribution among the county newspapers of certain legal advertising. In its issue of Tuesday, November 16. The Enquirer reproduced the Times' paragraph and referred to it editorially in a way that indicates that Editor Grist has unwittingly misconstrued its meaning. The position The Enquirer takes with reference to newspapers exceeding the rates prescribed by law in their charges for legal advertising is of course unassailable. If newspapers have overcharged the county for advertising, The Enquirer does the public a service in calling attention to it. Further in connection with the Times' paragraph, we wish to assure me inquirer that it was not intended to be offensive, but was spoken as so much pleasantry.?Fort Mill Times. Because we had always been accustomed to take the Times quite seriously. we were too surprised when we saw its paragraph to think of the idea of facetiousness. This more especially because of the seriousness of the subject, and likewise there is something disreputable in the idea of "squealing against the other fellow." It seems to carry the suggestion of complicity and betrayal, and our skin is not quite thick enough for that. But we are not surprised at the explanation of the Times as published above, for to do the square thing is in accord with its real intention. We are not familiar with all the details that have led up to the trial of Tom Watson for#sending obscene literature through the malls; but as we understand it the prosecution has grown out of Tom Watson's fight against the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Watson is one of those men who believes that the one great end to which the Catholic church is striving is the re-organization of the temporal power that was wrenched from it by Garabaldi about the middle of the last century. He thinks that all the efforts of the present day church are dedicated to this end, and that America is an especially promising field of operations. He holds to the conviction that all Roman Catholics believe that temporal power is the especial 41 - * *1 X - -U U ?M,1 iWnt prerogative ur men cuuau, tmu mm any service that any Roman Catholic can render to that end is regarded by him as service to Christ. In his fighting Mr. Watson has used some very plain language to certain alleged beliefs and practices of the church, some of it in the guise of Latin quotations and some of it plain English. We have never thought of Mr. Watson as an obscene man, and we cannot conceive of how he can be held guilty of dealing with obscenity unless it is deliberately intending to befowl and lower the minds of others, and this is hardly credible. Watson is a remarkable genius in his way, and whether he is right or wrong in his beliefs is a question of very grave difference in very great minds; but somehow we are unable to think that he is really guilty as charged in the indictments against him. Of course he may be technically guilty; but in a case like this technical guilt can hardly count. And if it is only a technical offense on which he is being prosecuted, the prosecution cannot be held to be of very great credit to his prosecutors. In our opinion a church, especially a great church like the Roman Catholic church, should have too much confidence in itself, too much faith in itself to be sensitive about the abuse or revilings of any man or any set of men. However, this is not our fight, and we can only lot It <ta nn Tho ennromp nmirt nf the United States, we feel sure, is big enough to settle the matter aright. * * l "Those merchants in Anderson and Greenwood certainly believe in adver- 1 tising, and it is no wonder people go I from Abbeville there to trade. The < Daily Mai) and Daily Intelligencer of Anderson, carry from 8 to 16 pages ] every day, and the Farmers' Tribune also has a large amount of advertis- ' ing, and in Greenwood, the Daily Journal carried two whole pages of bank advertisements on Friday, not to speak of other concerns, and the Index has to print from 12 to 24 | pages to handle its advertising, but . a great many of our business people ( figure they will get your business any- ( way, that it is a cinch, and rather than pay the Medium a fair price ; based on its . circulation they will j freeze us out and get your trade anyhow. You don't have to trade with them do you? The Medium has had a good deal to say about trading at ' home but if you can't find what you : want with our advertisers our advice is get it where you can."?Abbeville ! Medium. We thank the Medium for the com- . pliment he pays the merchants of Greenwood, but for his consolation we , will state that there was a time when ' only a few merchants in Greenwood were regular advertisers, and we know ' when only one bank ran ads at all, and ( it did not do a great deal along this ' line, but that day is past, and the ' business man who expects to do any- ' thing in Greenwood knows that he must advertise, and so nearly all our 1 merchants are good advertisers. Our 5 people have found out that money spent for advertising is money well < spent and so they use space freely. If our contemporary will allow us to < make a suggestion, we would venture < to say to him that it seems to us that < he is not going after the merchants J of his city in the right way; for there i are just as good business men in Abbeville as there are in other places. They need only to be convinced that it is good business to advertise. That i' brings in valuable returns and they will come across, but this must be done before by persuasion, and reasoning. and not with a stick.?Greenwood Journal. It is undoubtedly a fact that Greenwood and Anderson are two of the livest and most progressive towns in South Carolina. It is also a fact that the business people of these two towns are among: the livest and most libera! advertisers. There may be some question as to whether the progressive 4 spirit makes the liberal advertiser, or 1 he liberal advertiser makes the progressive spirit; but it is unquestionibly a fact that one is characteristic if the other and the two are always 'ound together. As to how far the excellent ADDeville Medium may be o blame for the lack of the advertising spirit in Abbeville, we cannot say: nor can we say how much credit attaches to the Greenwood and Anderson papers for the liberality of their advertisers. All of these papers an^ most excellent, and somehow we are inclined to think that they have as little to do with the situation in the one case as in the other. The fact remains. however, that a progressive people are an advertising peopie anu an advertising people are a progressive people. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ?George D. Brown, state superintendent of mill schools, reports that 24 high schools have been organized in Spartanburg county. ? Federal Judge Smith on last Saturday appointed Jacob Phinizy of Augusta and R. G. Rhett of Charleston, receivers for the Graniteville Manufacturing company, of Aiken county, and empowered them to begin the operation of the firm's three cotton mills. Creditors, represented at the hearing, presented claims aggregating $500,000. ? Sam Lee, a well known white man of Olanta, Florence county, was killed, his son, Olin Lee, probably fatally wounded and Policemen George Ham and Charlie McElveen were more or less seriously wounded in an affray which took place in Olanta, Saturday afternoon, following the arrest of Dr. H. B. Lee, a kinsman of the dead man, on the charge of adultery. Carson Lee, another son of Sam Lee, was uninjured in the fracas. The two policemen have given bond to answer, the charge of killing Lee. ? The ten big, gray battleships of the Atlantic fleet which will come to Charleston within the next few days as a feature of the Southern Commercial congress, lifted anchor in the North river, New York, yesterday morning, where they have been anchored during the Thanksgiving season. A brief stop will be made at Hampton Roads in making the journey south. From Charleston the fleet will advance to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where target practice and manoeuvres in battle efficiency will be ordered. Vice Admiral Mayo is in command. The vessels are the Virginia, Rear Admiral Coffin's flagship; New Jersey, Rhode Island, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Minnesota, New York, South Carolina and the Arkan t rrnU t ?H?, ^\uiiuiai iuiijUB uagoiup. ? Greenville Piedmont: The latest and most unique manner in which to peddle liquor in prohibition territory was brought to light early this morning by the police department. Officers Alexander and Patterson, while returning from a call to the edge of the city about 1.30 this morning, noticed two negroes walking up Laurens street near College street, and a small hand satchel carried by one of the men aroused the suspicions of the officers. They investigated and found that the satchel contained a gallon jug of whisky, the mouth of the bottle protruding slightly from the end of the hand bag so that the liquor could be poured out without opening the satchel. When asked by one of the officers to account for himself, Thad Johnson, the negro carrying the grip, said, "I ain't got nothing an' I ain't goin' nowhere." He was, however, la boring under a misapprehension, for he went at once to the police station. ? Greenville News, Sunday: As a result of a melee at Judson mills Saturday morning, in which several men participated, and knives were used as weapons, Dave Freeze, a striker was seriously cut, and is now in a critical condition at the city hospital, while J. M. Humphries and Gordon Brown, employees of the mill, received lesser knife wounda D. G. Huggins, another employee of the mill, narrowly escaped injury. His clothes were slashed, but the knife did not go deep enough to injure him. SherifT Rector was called to the scene, and arrested four men?Gordon Brown, J. M. Humphries, D. G. Huggins and T. A. Harvey. These men were lodged in the city police station, pending developments. Deputy Justice of Judson mills, was on the scene and attempted to stop the trouble at the outset, but the situation soon got beyond him. The fight occured a few minutes past six o'clock, whilp it was yet dark, so it is next to impossible to get a coherent and accurate account as to detail. Statements concerning the trouble vary widely, the strikers alleging they were aitacKea, wnne xne same siaiemem ?? made by the employes. How many men took part In the soruggle is noo known, though there, were not more than ten or twelve, if that many, according to reports. Deputy Justice could not distinguish all those in the mix-up. The fight started about the time for the mill to open. Many of the operatives were on the inside of the building, and others were coming in. Several strikers and some of the operatives, for one reason or another, became engaged in an altercation, which developed into the fight. The men were between the mill office and the main entrance to the plant. Freeze was terribly cut. being partially disemboweled and having several ribs severed. Injuries to others were not sufficient to warrant confining them to the hospital. Sheriff .Rector stated Saturday night that he had no idea there would be further trouble and that he hoped for an early settlement of all the trouble growing out of the strike. Magistrates Stradley and Ballinger have ruled that the strikers notified to leave their houses, must do so. There were twenty-two cases of this nature in the magistrate's courts, the strikers being summoned to show cause whv they should not remove from the mill's houses. It is not the intention of the mill management to work a hardship upon any of these men by causing them to leave precipitately and before they have plans for residence elsewhere. The surgeon who is attending Mr. Freeze stated Saturday night that the wounded man had possibly one chance in ten to recover. Hemorrhage and infection are feared. [Later: Freeze died after the above was put in type.] MERE-MENTION Sixteen deaths resulted from foot- i ball during the season which ended Thanksgiving day, according to a Chicago statistician Mrs. Nancy Brock died at the home of her daughter near , Birmingham, Ala., Saturday, aged 115 ^ears. She was born in North Carolina In 1800 According to a dis- 1 patch from Brussels, a French soldier < whose confession to the Germans re- | suited in the arrest and execution of Miss Edith Cavell, an English nurse, ' ay German troops several weeks ago, ' ?ommitted suicide in a military prison ] by hanging himself R. B. Sims, , warden of the Oklahoma state penilentiary, has been summoned to ap- 1 pear before the state supreme court to ' show why he should not be fined, imprisoned. or both, for refusing to execute Wm. Falten, a prisoner who was 1 condemned to be executed Saturday. 1 \ committee of physicians recently 1 leclared Falten Insane and for this < eason Sims refused to execute him. . .. .The steamship Trivoli was burned ' near Thomas Point, Md., Friday night, ' several passengers losing their lives. < Albert Wakefield, a blind man ] nf Bessemer, Ala., shot Miss Ruby Walthall to death on Friday and then 1 committed suicide Charles C. ' Crowley is under arrest in San Fran- < Rsco, Cal., charged with conspiracy to , further the destruction of ships bearng munitions for the Allies. Crowley is a German. His bond was fixed at j 15,000 Fire in Eastman. Ga? on Friday destroyed a cotton mill valued it $250,000 Rev. Francis H. ' [yosslie. an American missionary in Ar- I nenia, is reported to have been killed ] ast week by Turks at Urfa, Mcsopo- j amia, while trying to defend Armenians from Turks. .Walter C. Whiffcn, ' i correspondent of the Associated Press I with the Russian army, is reported, to < have been shot in the thigh last week. , Re will recover Dr. K. V. Wei ington Koo, recently appointed Chi- 1 ncse minister to the United States, ar- t rived in New York Sunday Fire ] n the warehouses of the Pine Bluff .'empress company of Pine Bluff, Ark., Sunday, destroyed about 15,000 1 nales of cotton, valued at $1,250,000. s LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Carroll Supply Co.?Will pay 65 cents a bushel for cotton seed. See them for flour. Grain drill for sale. James Bros.?This morning received their fifth car of mules?the best animals they have ever brought to this market. A. M. McGIll?Tells you why you will find it to your interest to trade with him this month. Special prices are quoted. Committee?Invites the public to a supper at Cotton Belt school next Friday night. Oysters. City Pressing Club, Clover?Has removed to new quarters. It wants your cleaning and pressing. Charlie Wright?Will pay for trouble of return of a lost red hound bitch. W. D. Grist?Wants information as to the establishment of the Ebenezer academy, in operation in 1824. Trustees District No. 54?Give notice of special tax election in said district, at New Zion school house on December 16. York Drug Store?Suggests cigars and pipes as suitable for Christmas souvenira It has lots of both of the best qualities. T. W. Speck?Reminds holiday shoppers that the time is short and invites you to visit his store for gift goods of all kinds. Carroll Bros.?Have lots of buggies on hand now. Farm tools and lmpleents. Rice meal for hoga McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Makes a special offering of $3.50 to $5.00 silk waists at $1.48 each. Thomson Co.?Invites attention to $15 coat suits at $10; new line of coats at $5 to $10; crepe de chine waists at $2.50; boys' clothing, etc. J. M. Stroup?Wants you to see him for Herman's English walking shoes for men, and also for new styles of Stetson hats. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Has Just received big line of mackinaws for boys and men. Big lines of clothing for men and boys; overcoats, etc. The recent statement in The Enquirer to the efTect that the overcoat found by Mr. J. C. Wallace, belonged to Rev. J. J. Byers, colored, has turned out to be a mistake. Byers saw the coat found by Mr. Wallace and discovered that it did not belong to him. Mr. Wallace still has the coat he found and Byers's coat Is still lost. It will be very much appreciated by us if our friends, the clubmakers, will kindly get in all renewals for The Enquirer as soon as possible. While of course these renewals will be properly credited in the mailing list whenever they may be received, the more time we have for handling them properly in books and mailing list, the less probability of confusion or errors. New subscribers returned now, get one full month extra for the price of a year's subscription. That Rock Hill idea of establishing a school for cooks is a good one, well worthy of emulation over the state. When Secretary Timmons of the Rock Hill chamber of commerce, was asked about it, he took occasion to give full credit to Superintendent Burts of the Graded schools, and Manager Guard of the Gas company; but at the same time he stated that the movement had the endorsement and approval of the chamber of commerce. He also suggested that Yorkville could probably also secure a part of the time of the expert teacher in charge, if it were so desired. He explained that the matter could be arranged so the teacher could give a part of her time to Rock Hill and a part of her time to Yorkville. HOW TO SELL THINGS , A country merchant who lives near Yorkville, stepped into the store of Mr. G. W. Sherer (Old George, . the Butcher) a few days ago, and made inquiries about his advertised guarantee to rid a house of rats "within forty-eight hours." "Old George" promptly produced a package of a well known rat poison which he offered for 25 cents. "Why," said the merchant customer, "I have had that stuff in stock for two or three years, and I have never sold a package yet." "Well, I have sold more than a dozen packages this week," Old George replied, "and the trouble with you," he further advised, "Is that you do not understand the well established fact that if you have a good thing that you want the public to know about, you must advertise it." GENERAL SE3SION8 W. E. Gardner, a young white man, who formerly resided in Rock Hill, was found guilty of issuing fraudulent checks. He has not yet been sentenced. James Stevenson, a young white man of the Bullock's Creek community, was tried Friday on the charge of shooting John W. Hafner, also white, to death several months ago. The Jury declared him not guilty. The motion for a new trial on the part of counsel for Ed Robinson, a negro boy, who was last week convicted of larceny, he being alleged to have been a party to the attempted robery of the safe of Sherer & Quinn in Yorkville several weeks ago, was refused. and he was sentenced to serve one year In the reformatory for colored youths. It is understood that the work of dis posfntr or criminal cases win De continued next week. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Mr. C. F. Sherer, the owner, is Installing plate glass windows and making other improvements to the store room now occupied by John Demas. ? Collections taken for the benefit of the Church Home Orphanage at the Union Thanksgiving service here last Thursday totaled $220. ? On account of the large number of visiting negroes in town Sunday and the fact that many of them had to be fed, the officers of Clinton Chapel asked for and obtained permission from Mayor Wilbom to sell soft drinks and lunches to such as wanted this kind of service. The mayor granted the permission on the assurance that the privilege would not be abused. During the entire day the best of order prevailed and everyone appeared to be on lis good behavior. ? Owing to their inability to manufacture cotton seed oil products at a profit, such condition being due to the oigh price of seed the Yorkville Cotton Oil mill has suspended seed crushing operations for the balance of the season. Superintendent V. L. Smith of the >il mill, has taken a position with the Lancaster Oil mill, which position was r.ad*1 vacant by the killing of Superntendent E. M. Watkins of the Lancaster mill, by a negro several weeks ?go. ? Her death coming entirely unexpected, Mrs. Myra Elizabeth Dickson,i elict of the late William Dickson, I [)assed away at her home here yeserday morning at 9.25 o'clock of icart trouble, and was buried in Rose Hill cemetery this afternoon, following 'uneral services conducted at her late home by her pastor. Rev. Henry Stokes. Mrs. Dickson was in the 77th 'ear of her age, having been born In Georgia on April 23, 1838, the dnugh:er of the late Joseph E. and Mary Howell. On February 4, 1863, she marked William Dickson, and with her lusband came here to live. Mr. Dickion died February 6, 1911. The de ceased is survived by the following children: Messrs. Joseph G., Jaire? H., William S. and Walter W. Dickson of this place: C. W. Dickson of Smyrna R. F. D., Misses Mary and Margrarel Dickson who reside here and Mrs Robert Smith of Filbert No. 1. A halfsister, Mrs. Jennie Queen, of Gainesville, Ga., and a half-brother, Mr. Geo Howell, who lives In the west, alsc survive. Mrs. Dicks.on was for manj years a member of Trinity Methodist church and had many friends and acquaintances in the town and through (out the community. The funeral was attended by many relatives anc friends. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Court of common pleas for the regular fall term convened yesterdaj morning with Judge Rice presiding but adjourned until today soon aftei opening. the case of Sutton vs. Catawba Power Co., which was set for th< initial date not being ready for trial It is understood the case will not be brought up at this term of the court. When court convened this morning the case of Buenna Vista Woojls vs the Rock Hill Fertilizer Co., was entered into. This case, in which the plaintiff asks damages of the defendant company on the ground that odors gases, etc., from the company's planl makes her residence in Rock Hill ar undesirable place in which to live, was tried in the court of common pleae here in the spring and resulted in a mistrial. It was carried to the supreme court and remanded back to tht lower court for a second hearing. Judge Rice gave the lawyers to understand this morning that he will tolerate no delay in the trial of clvi! cases. There was a few minutes' delay in getting things under way this morning and his honor said: "Gentlemen, I will tell you right now, unles< you are ready with your witnesses etc., this court will adjourn." In a few seconds thereafter the judicial machinery was running smoothly. It is probable that the Woods cas< will engage the attention of the courl all of today and part of tomorrow at least. Following are the cases set for trial at the present term of common pleaf court: 13. Sutton vs. Catawba Power Co. 4. Duncan vs. Southern Railway Co 34. D. E. Finley ot al., vs. M. E Robinson. 38. Henderson vs. Beckham. 39. Caston vs. City of Rock Hill. 40. McGill vs. Hartness, et al. 41. Blackmon vs. Jenkins. 4*1. Bank vs. Castles. 45. Carroll vs. Branch. 47. Cook vs. Singer Sewing Machine Co. 48. Small vs. W. U. Tel. Co. 49. Chllders vs. McGill. 54. Perry va Miller. 55. Rock Hill Supply Co. vs. Wilson 56. J. L Phillips & Co., vs Wilson 59. McFadden vs. Equitable Life Insurance Co. fO. Bank vs. Peoples' Trust Co. CI. Bank vs. Peoples' Trust Co. CLOVER'S NUISANCE ENDED The town of Clover is no longer providing a whisky depot for Gaston and other North Carolina counties thai border on the South Carolina line, af has been the case for the past few months. The traffic came to an end on last Saturday. Including the express receipts ol I Friday night. Saturday and Monday and today, there are about 125 packages of liquor in the Clover express office, consigned to North Carolinians; but no more of it is going out. More than that, the North Carolinians have quit coming after the stuff. Upon receipt of The Enquirer last Friday afterioon carrying the recommendation of the grand Jury on the subject, and the remarks of Judge Rice in connection therewith. Magistrate A. J. Quinn took prompt action. He called upon the express agent, advised him of the law. and suggested a way to keep the North Carolinians out of trouble. His suggestion was to the effect that when the people from North Carolina applied for their packages. they should be told of the ruling of the court that the gallon a month law was ror soutn Carolinians oniy ana that North Carolinians with liquor in their possession would be arrested for violation of the dispensary law against transporting, the penalty for which Is confiscation of the liquor and $200 fine or chain gang. The large contingent of North Carolinians showed up on Saturday morning as usual and with them was a bunch of York county people, mostly negroes from the surrounding country' Magistrate Quinn was on hand, accompanied by his constable, Carson Hedricks, fully prepared to take care of any who might see proper to disregard the warning of the express agent. But there was very little trouble. The North Carolinians took the situation philosophically. They carried rather gloomy looking countenances as they came out of the express office; but that was all. They started back home at once, and the news they carried spread like wild fire, and made others that they met on the road turn about. There was only one arrest. A negro named Monroe Lockhart, who said he formerly lived at Tirzah; but now lives near Bethany, receipted for a package of liquor and got away with it. Some people who knew the negro told Magistrate Quinn that he lives in North Carolina, and the magistrate promptly took means to catch him. He is now in the county Jail. There are still about 125 packages of liquor in the Clover express office, less a few packages that may have been olcrriA/l for anr\ ocnt hnr.lt Rut the hacks and Jitney busses have ceased coming. There were a few there yesterday; but none have showed up this morning so far as heard from. The course of Magistrate Qulnn in the matter is generally commended about Clover. He acted on the theory that since the practice of getting 11quer into North Carolina by way of Clover, had become generally accepted as within the law, and even the magistrate knew no better, it would be unfair to go into wholesale arrests without previous warning, and this view is met with common approval. All the Clover people and the people along the North and South road from Clover to the North Carolina line wanted was to stop the nuisance, and it has been stopped. CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS The Upper South Carolina conference, which has been in session in Spartanburg for a week, adjourned yesterday to meet next year with the Buncombe Street church, Greenville. During the closing hours a resolution, aimed at the president's preparedness policy, was voted down. The ap pominieuis 1ui ucai yxstxi ocjc announced as follows: Anderson District?T. C. O'Dell, presiding elder: Antreville, \V. T. Belvln; Bethel, J. G. Huggin; Calhoun Falls, J. W. Bailey: Clemson College, J. M. Steadman; Central, B. M. Robinson; Honea Path, S. T. Blackmon; Lowndesville, M. K. Meadors; McCormick, J. T. Miller; Orrville, L. W. Johnson: Pelzer, J. H. Danner: Pendleton, W. M. Owings; Seneca, N, G. Ballenger; Starr, A. Q. Rice: St. John, J. W. Speake; Townville, R. H. Lupo: Walhalla, J. L. Stokes; Walhalla circuit, H. A. Whltten; Westminster, J. W. Lewis; Williamston and Belton, S. H. Booth. Cokesbury District?W. I. Herbert, presiding elder; Abbeville circuit, J. X. Isom; Abbeville Station, J. L. Daniel; Butler, W. P. Meadors, Jr.; Broad River, W. A. Duckworth; Cokesbury, R. E. Sharp; Greenwood, Main Street, L. P. McGee; Greenwood Mills, J. Earle Steadman; Greenwood circuit, G. F. Clarkson; Kinards, W. H. Murray; McKendree, to be supplied; Newberry, Central, F. E. Dibble; O'Neale Street and Jalapa, Gobe Smith; Newberry circuit, W. K. Bouknight; Nlnety-Sjx, R. F. Morris; Parksville. R. L. Rountree (supply); Phoenix. J. H. Manley; Prosperity and Zion, E. P. : Taylor; Princeton, J. B. Connelly; Sa, luda, O. A. Jeffcoat; Waterloo, B. H. Covington; Whltmlre, J. M. Friday; I Lander College, Jno. O. Wlllson, prest ldent, Main Street quarterly confer. ence; assistant Sunday school editor, L. F. Beaty, Main Street quarterly conference; professor at lander col' lege, R. O. Lawson, Main Street quar terly conference. Columbia District?James W. Kil( go. presiding elder; Aiken and Williston, A. E. Drlggers; Aiken circuit, J. H. Montgomery; Batesburg, J. E. Mat halTey; Columbia, Main Street, B. R. . Turnipseed; Washington Street, S. A. . Steel: Green Street. D. W. Keller; Whaley Street, D. R. Roof; Brook' land, D. H. Attaway, supply; ShanII don, L. D. Gillespie. J. C. Chandler, | supernumerary; Edgewood, E. L Thomason, supply; Waverly, J. B. MahalTey; Edgefield, A. L. Gunter; Fairfield, J. A. Bledsoe, E. W. Mason, . supernumerary; Gilbert, D. E. Jeffcoat: Granitevllle, J. D. Griffin; Irmo, F. G. Whitlock; Johnston, J. H. Thacker; Langley, J. E. Brown, supply; Leesvllle. C, E. Peele; Leesville circuit, M. A. Cleckley, supply; Lexington, J. G. Farr; Mlddleburg, W, D. Quick, supply; North Augusta, Hamlin Etherldge; Ridgeway, T. A. Shealy; Richland; J. M. Meetze; Swansea, J. W. Neeley; Wagener, W. T. Patrick, supply; Epworth orphan age, W. B. Wharton, superintendent. Shandon quarterly conference. | Greenville District?M. L Carlisle, ! presiding elder; Clinton, W. A. Fairey: Easley, J. D. Holler; Fountain : Inn, M. T. Wharton; Gray Court, T. " W. Munnerlyn: Greenville, Bethel and Poe, W. B. Garrett; Brandon and ? Judson, A. M. Doggett; Buncombe Street, F. P. Gllgo; Duncan, S. M. Jones, supply: Hampton Avenue, E. R. Mason; St. Paul, A. E. Holler; South Greenville, P. R. Kllgo, preacher in charge, one to be supplied; West Greenville, S. L. Rogers; Greenville circuit, J. L. Singleton; Greer, W. J. Snyder; Laurens, J. R. T. Major; Laurens circuit, W. H. Lewis; Liberty, G. H. Hodges; Pickens, L. E. Wlgs gins; Pickens circuit, C. W. Burgess; Piedmont, O. M. Abney; South Eas[ ley, W. L. Mulllken; South Greer, . Foster Speer; Traveler's Rest, C. P. Carter; conference secretary of edu; cation, J. R. T. Major, t Rock Hill District?P. B. Wells, [ presiding elder; Blacksburg, H. C. Mouzon; Blackstock, George Gary I Lee; Chester, R. E. Turnipseed; Chesi ter circuit, J. E. Strickland; Clover, G. T. Hughes; East Lancaster, A. A. Merritt, supply; Fort Mill, E. Z. . James; Great Falls, J. B. Kllgore; . Hickory Grove, H. B. Hardy; Lancaster, E. T. Hodges; Lancaster circuit, S. B. White; North Rock Hill circuit, W. M. Hardin; Richburg, W. S. Goodwin; Rock Hill, Manchester and mgnianu rurR, u vy . ounuug, ouy>ply; St. John's, J. C. Roper, West Main Street. W. H. Polk; Rock Hill circuit, John I. Spinks; Van Wyck, J. V. Davia supply; Winnsboro, J. B. Traywick; York, Henry Stokes; missionary to Korea, L. Porter Anderson; Great Falls, quarterly conference; conference missionary secretary, R. E. Turnlpseed. Spartanburg District, R. E. Stackhouse, presiding elder; Belmont, J. F. Golighty; Campobello, V. B. Gibson; Carlisle. R. C. Boulware; Cherokee, A. H. Best; Chesnee, Charles A. Carter, supply; Clifton and Glendale, J. P. Winnlngham; Enoree, J. K. Hol. man; Gaffney, Buford Street, G. C. I Leonard; Limestone Street, J. W. Shell; Gaffney circuit, R. L. Keaton; Inman, M. M. Brooks; Jonesville, W. i B. Justus; Kelton, J. R. Copeland; r Pacolet, C. M. Peeler; Pacolet Mills, L. L. Wagnon; Spartanburg, Bethel, A. N. Brunson, preacher in charge, and M. B. Patrick, junior preacher; Central, C. C. Herbert and W. S. Mar; tin, supernumerary; Duncan, J. A. > Cook, preacher in charge, and one to be supplied; North Spartanburg, W. i C. Kelley; Union, Buffalo, B. H. Harvey; Green Street, W. F. Gault; > Grace, E. S. Jones; South Union, J. > H. Brown; Woodruff, S. T. Creech; conference evangelist, J. L. Harley, . Central quarterly conference; Textile Industrial institute, D. E. Camak, i president, Duncan quarterly confer> ence. Transferred to the soutn taronna conference?J. A. Campbell. S. O. Cantey, S. W. Danner, F. W. Dibble, 1 J. W. Elkins, C. S. Felder, A. M. 1 Gardner, J. K. Inablnet, John Paul, 1 D. O. Spires, W. W. Daniel. ' Transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference?Jno. R. Walker. Transferred- to the Pacific Conference?A. V. Harbin, Received by transfer from the South Carolina Conference?J. W. Bailey, R. C. Boulware, Hamlin Etheredge, E. S. Jones, J. B. Kllgore, T. 1 A. Shealey, B. R. Turnlpseed. A. M. E. ZION CONFERENCE The fiftieth annual session of the ; South Carolina conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, closed its session at Clinton Chapel church, Yorkville, Sunday night about 12 o'clock, after what, according to Bishop Warner, was the most pleasant and best conference that he had ever attended in the thirty-nine years he had been attending conferences. Friday night was given over to the woman's home and foreign missionary societies. Saturday morning and afternoon was taken up with routine work and reports and Sunday was occupied largely with preaching services and the work incident to the closing day's sessions and the reading of the bishop's appointments. Sunday was the big day of the conference in point of attendance. The 7.20 a. m., train from Rock Hill brought at least a hundred. The 10.10 train from Blacksburg brought a hundred more, and a special excursion train from Lancaster over the C. & N.-W., at 10.30 a. m., brought probably 500 more and these with several hundred who came by private conveyance and automobile, brought the number of visitors to 1,000 or more. At the morning service the bishop oc cupied the pulpit and preached to a packed house. In the afternoon the house was again packed for another sermon. Sunday night the first number on the programme was a memorial service to the deceased members of the conference who had died since the last session. This was followeu oy a sermon by J. H. D. Bailey of Lancaster. who preached on "Christ's great commission," and directed his remarks especially to the preachers in his audience who were thinking at that time of where the bishop was going to send them for their next year's work. Shortly after the close of the sermon the 1 bishop and his cabinet, composed of '> presiding elders, came in with the appointments made out. Various resolutions were presented and adopted, i among others being one in which the i conference expressed thanks for the entertainment of the body by the local church, to the mayor, Mr. Wilborn, for the cordial welcome extended to the conference in behalf of the city; to the railroads for their courte- , sies extended, etc. . At every service or session of the conference, a collection was taken, , and at some sessions two or more, and , the total of the free will offerings, , mostly in pennies, nickles, dimes and ; quarters, has totaled approximately . $140. In addition to this a purse of $39 was presented to the bishop. The pastors in ine iuur uismuia ui mv , conference, each presented their pr.esiding elders with purses amounting ' to from $10 to $20 each. During the past conference year the churches of the conference, under the heading of general claims, which includes the bishop, officers, publishing ^ houses, missions, church extension, 1 schools, widows and orphans, etc., have ' raised $6,234. This does not include ] home expenses. The church property j included in the .South Carolina con- ' ference is valued at $197,000, and the ! membership totals 10,600. 1 The conference adopted a resolution endorsing the work of Bishop 1 Warner, who has presided over this ' Episcopal district for seven years, and t asked the general conference to return J him to this district. The resolution also endorsed the candidacy of M. ( Ingram of Yorkvllle, presiding elder 1 of the Lancaster district, for a bishop- ' ric, and W. M. Robinson, presiding elder of the York-Chester district, 1 for financial secretary of the general i conference. ? Commenting on the candidacy of c M. Ingram, the bishop said that the t Rev. Ingram stood a good chance of being elected bishop, as It had been 75 years since the general conference had elected a light colored bishop and that he was the last one to be so elected. Both of them are of the color of pure blooded Africans. The bishop, whose full name Is Andrew Jackson Warner, said he was born In Kentucky and was the first negro in nis pari or ine siaie 10 ever leave that community to be educated, and that he got his education by his own efforts and without assistance from any one. He also said that he hears people sometimes say there will be a collision between the whites and the blacks. "If there ever is," he said, "it will be rear-end collision, because the white people are so far ahead of us that we can't ever hope to run into them from the front end." The appointments of the conference, po far as the local negro churches are concerned, are as follows: York-Chester District?Rev. W. M. Barber, presiding elder. Chester station, H. S. McMullen; Brooklyn station. R. A. McCreary; Zion Chapel, D. C. Crosby; Richburg circuit. J. J. Stradford; Fort Lawn. P. T. Barber; Chestnut Grove, R. L. Houston; Lowryvllle, J. L. Roseborough; Clinton Chapel station, R. J. Crockett; Clover circuit, S. M. Douglas; Ebenezer circuit, R. J. Lee; Wilson Chapel, J. E. Goins; Hickory Grove, F. N. Newton; Piedmont, W. M. Harris; Blacksburg circuit, R. T. Bailey, M. D.; Grover circuit, W. M. Byrd; Robinson Zion, C. G. Black. W. H. & F. Mis. Dept.?Mrs. S. G. Byrd, vice pres.; Mrs. E. E. James, sec. Y. W.; Miss A. G. Branch, sec. B. P. Daughters of Conference? Mrs. Harriet Full, Miss S. J. Branch, Mrs. Etta McKinney. Rock Hill District?Rev. S. N. Barber, presiding elder. Rock Hill, W. O. Carson; St. Matthews, W. M. Thomas; Rock Grove, J. R. Izzard; Pineville, W. M. Carter; Red Oak, O. N. Dawkins; Rehoboth, I. C. Tims; Mt. Vernon, El 5. Anderson; Old Zion, J. J. Byers: Fort Mill, W. M. Wltherspoon; Pleasant Valley, J. C. Hood: Mt. Zion circuit, J. D. Jackson; EHbethel circuit, J. D. Morrow; Sharon circuit, W. L. Dunlap; White Hill circuit. J. D. Cauthen; New Home circuit, H. G. Boyd; Liberty Bill circuit, E. Brown. W. H. 6. F. M. Dept.?Miss L. E. Whiteside. vice pres.; Mrs. u. J. wamseur, aec. B. P.; Miss Minnie Grant, President Daughters of Conference. ABOUT PEOPLE Master Farris McDowell of Yorkville, visited relatives in Camden last week. Miss Mildred Hobbs of Rlon, is visiting relatives In Yorkville. Prof. C. D. Guess of Bullock's Creek, was a visitor here Friday. Mr. O. Ll Sanders of Yorkville, was a visitor in Rock Hill yesterday. Miss Mamie Moore of Charlotte, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. R. M. Love of Smyrna, visited his parents near Yorkville this week. Miss Bessie Gettys of Rock Hill, visited relatives In Clover last week. Mrs. Rudolph Brant of Athens, Ga., visited relatives In Sharon last week. Mr. Joseph A. Howe of Rock Hill, was a visitor to Yorkville Friday. Messrs. Hoyt and Wllborn Cunningham of Gastonla, spent Sunday with relatives in Yorkville. Miss Wilma Hill of Yorkville, spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother. Mrs. Mary L. Hill, near Sharon. Mrs. M. M. Jenkins and Miss Laura Jenkins of Yorkville, were visitors In Clover Sunday. Misses Beasle Thomasson and Eflle Thomas of Yorkville, visited relatives in the Clover vicinity last week. A. B. Lindsay, a former resident of Rock Hill, died In Lancaster yesterday morning, aged about 60 years. Mrs. J. M. Ferguson has returned to her home here, after a visit to Mrs. El B. Clements In Lincolnton, N. C. Mr. FYed McFarland of Roanoke. Va.. is visiting relatives In this vicinity. TTWWJVI n^ffO/vn A T*A IAO misoca Ciiuoi ui ay ouu aim tvia Bracket t of Clover, visited Mrs. Bert Gordon in Yorkville this week. - Robert Turner Allison has returned to Spartanburg, after spending: several days at his home here. Mr. John B. Paysinger of Sharon, visited friends in Newberry last week. Mrs. W. T. Slaughter and Mr. Gowl Slaughter of Hickory Grove, were visitors in Spartanburg this week. Mr. M. W. Smith has returned to Hickory Grove after spending several days at Hartwell, Ga. W. G. White, Jr., of Chesterfield, visited relatives in Yorkville this week. Dr. Catherine N. Munro of Winthrop college, visited Mrs. J. R. Ashe here this week. Dr. Clarence Thomas of Chesterfield, visited the family of his father, Mr. Thad Thomas, near Clover, last week. Messrs. Carson Lattimore and Fred Brown were among the Hickory Grove people who were here Friday. Miss Ruth Crosby of Yorkville, visited relatives and friends in Columbia last week. Mr. William Jones of Davidson college, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. i J. S. Jones, here last week. Mr. Clifford Allison returned to Blacksburg Sunday, after spending several days with relatives in Hickory Grove. Gastonla Gastonlan, Nov. 29: Mr. 1 Frank Saunders and family spent yes> terday with Mr. Tom Dilling in York county. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Boyd of Yorkville, spent Saturday and Sunday with the family of Mrs. Mattie Boyd at Paw Creek, N. C. Misses Beulah Childers and Minnie Brackett of Clover, have been visiting Misses Eva and Alice Cook in Yorkvine. Mr. Wallace Marshall, who is working near Marion, N. C., spent Sunday with the family of his mother, Mrs. W. F. Marshall, in Yorkvllle. Mrs. W. D. Glenn and Misses Maggie Glenn and Sue Meek Allison have returned to their homes here after spending several days with relatives in Sumter. Miss Marion Bankhead has returned to her home in Washington, D. C., after spending several days with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Marion and little son returned to their home here yesterday, after a visit to relatives in Chester. Rev. W. A. Hafner, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Fort Mill, was on Sunday tendered a call to the Limestone Presbyterian church of Gaffney. Misses Mary White and Fannie Ballinger and Messrs. George Dailey and Roy Climmer of Gastonia, were guests of Miss Robbie Brown on Yorkvllle No. 1, last week. Pageland Journal: Mra T. E. Cato returned yesterday from Rock Hill and Yorkville, where she has been visiting while recovering from an operation in a Charlotte hospital several weeks ago. Mr. R. O. Alexander, one of the i is _!?I nh?. w c Ifiiumg t'liuriiD ui vuai ivuvi 4i? x/?i v was a visitor in Yorkville Friday and r while here made an address, at the request of Bishop Warner, to the ne?ro Methodist conference. t Rev. Joseph T.. Dendy, pastor of v Ebenezer Presbyterian church, an- t nounced Sunday that he had accepted a x call to the pastorate of the Presby- v terian church of Belmont, N. C. He ?xpects to enter upon his new work n ibout January 1. y Announcement was received in Sha- jj ron last week of the marriage of Mr. M. D. Sims to Miss Blake Parker, the j. jeremony taking place in Greenwood, 0 Vliss., where both the young people re- n iide. Mr. Sims is a son. of Mr. J. M. c Sims of Sharon, and for several years n past has been residing in Greenwood, Vliss. g. Charlotte Observer. Nov. 29: Master ti VIorris Teeter, son of Mr. D. W. Teeter h jf York county, route No. 8, will enter b he hospital at Rock Hill tomorrow n 'or treatment by Dr. Lynn Campbell of d fork. Master Teeter has tuberculosis jj >f the bone and will be operated on h igain Wednesday. His friends wish 'or him a speedy recovery. e Charlotte Observer, Monday: The it tighly interesting suit of Mr. Tom e Vrledge et al, vs. Mrs. Mamie Burns el G il. regarding the validity of the will s' >f the late McD. Arledge, father of tl joth plaintiff and defendant, which p was on the calendar, for today, has been continued and will not be called again until the February term of civil n court. This suit has to do with an V es'ate conservatively estimated to be worth $100,000 and hence the interest that attends it Gastonia Gazette, Nov. 26: Mr. R.' F. Robinson of Crowders' Creek, brought The Gazette Tuesday some samples of second-crop Irish potatoes which are splendid. One weighed 15 m ounces and the other an even pound. These, he stated, were not the largest nor the smallest of the crop, but a fair average. He planted half a bushel the last of August and got from the planting ten bushels of most excellent potatoes. This is the first time Mr Rnhinann hn? trlml spconii nlnnt ing of Irish potatoes and he is convinced that the cobbler can be raised in this manner to good advantage. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Page and children of Clover, S. C., spent Thanksgiving day in Gastonia as the guests of Mr. Page's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Page, at their home on North Marietta street. * 1 REV. BLACK BEGINS MEETING With a congregation which filled the seating capacity of the large auditorium, in attendance upon the initial service, Rev. William Black, Synodleal evangelist of the Presbyterian synod of North Carolina began a protracted meeting in the First Presbyterian church here Sunday morning which will continue throughout the week and probably longer. Two services will be held each day, the first in the morning at 10 o'clock, the second at 7 o'clock in the evening. Dr. Black is accompanied by Prof. Andrew Burr who is directing the singing, which is a distinct feature of each service. Dr. Black has had large congregations at each of his services thus far and he has made a very favorable impression upon his hearers. There is nothing sensational about ft Dr. Black's preaching. In plain and ] simple language he brings his mes- M sages home to his hearers In a way which never appears to make his services seem tiresome, but of real interest. In introducing the evangelist to the * congregation Sunday morning Rev. ^ Dr. Gillespie stated that Dr. Black was not a stranger here, since a little more than 7 years ago, he and Professor Burr conducted a protracted meeting in the first Presbvterlan church here. Dr. Gillespie said that he believed the community was In the mood to derive great blessings from such a meeting at present and that he hoped and prayed the spirit of Qod would enter the hearts of the community in a fervent and earnest manner. Dr. Black said that he remembered his visit to Yorkville seven years ago quite pleasantly, that the meeting at that time had been greatly blessed and he believed and prayed that in the present series of services, much good would be done for the Gospel cause. At the request of the evangelist the congregation and choir joined in the singing of "Lord Send Us a Revival," at the service Sunday morning. While the collection was being taken. Miss Marie Inman sang "Rock of Ages," ^ and at the conclusion of the sermon Dr. Black and Prof. Burr sang "Bternity." to the inspiration of the con- 1 gregation. J 1. Kings, 19:3: "And when he saw ^ that, he rose and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah and left his servant there," ; was the text of Rev. Dr. Black's ser- j mon Sunday morning. He wished to speak only on the first clause, "And when he saw that" He said the lesson from which the text and sermon were taken was the story of the Prophet Elijah, how he destroyed the prophets of Baal, how a famine was made to come upon the land of Israel, how Elijah was nourished together with a widow and her son from a meal barrel and a cruise which were never empty, how the messenger of Jezebel, the queen, came to Elijah and told him that she would kill him even as he had done unto her prophets, and how Elijah disregarding the command of God, then fled for his life before the queen. "What do you see, my friends?" asked the preacher, "when you look over the panorama of life?" Some of you can see only difficulties, while some of you can see opportunitiea If you do see those opportunities and take advantage of them you can see victory and glory further ahead. Elijah, a wonderful man, had a wonderful victory over Baal at Mount Carmel, but he did not stick at his post and therefore the glory of his victory was dimmed. Elijah was a great man and was meant to be great He was ever a M lover 01 me i_<ora. xne very name n;ii- ^ Jah means, "My God is Jehovah." Elijah realized that God could do with him as he pleased. If we who stand here today could only be brought to realize that God stands behind us and a that God is our Jehovah, what won- 3 derful powers for good we could become. I am sorry that Elijah didn't stick at his post, continued Rev. Mr. Black. Yet we are told that he was only human,/subject to passions as we are. I wish there was some man in history who has not failed God. It seems to me that Elijah should have been that man, yet he ran for fear of Jezebel, one of the lowest down women in history. Jezebel's message was nothing save bluff and bluster. Had she intended killing him she would not have ariven him twenty-four hours warning. Elijah did not stop to consider He heard the message and left his work, his God and everything. We are like Elijah. When we hear 'that," when we encounter tempta inn o nH nlffo 11c nrn fnrcof nilr ro. ?*VM e?ee%? piviuuo, ??v 4v?0Vk vw? v ligion. The Lord Is with us as he was with Elijah. He went after Elijah and & brought him back. He reaches out ifter us and gives us chance to repent. , "Do you remember the question 3od asked Elijah when he found him n the cave: "Elijah what doest thou fiere?'' Elijah had no good excuse and - fl leither would we were God to ask us why we have discarded prayer or quit ittending prayer meeting or other posts of duty which we have aband>ned. There are doubtless lots of us lere today not doing our duty toward 3od. But although Elijah abandoned his post of duty, said Dr. Black in contusion, God did not abandon him, put merely set him aside, and appointed Elisha and others to take up his vork in his stead. I wonder how many >f us have been set aside- because we vere not willing to continue at the post God has given us. It is a horrible hing to be set aside by the Lord. Our mpetuoslty and discouragement often teep us from being in favor with the ? jord as was the case of Elijah. Had j Slijah not abandoned his post it is V possible that the Children of Isreal ^ t-ould never have been cast into'bondige and it is possible that there vould today be no follower of Baal. 3id we all today stick to our posts of luty as God would have us ao, this % night be a better world. Yesterday Morning. Before a large congregation in which here were almost as many men as tomcn, a circumstance quite out of he ordinary. Rev. Mr. Black preached . sermon full of good, practical adice yesterday morning from the text: Even so let your light shine before nen that they may see your good forks. and glorify your father which is n heaven." We have no light, said tne evangei3t. unless we accept Jesus Christ as ur Savior. He is the light. There is aturally no light in us to shine. God ompared Christianity to two of the nost beautiful symbols known to us n the 5th chapter of Matthew. Those ymbols are salt and light. "Ye are he salt of the earth; but If the salt as lost its savour, wherewith shall it e salted? It is thenceforth good for othing. but to be cast out and troden under foot of men. Ye are the * ght of the world. A city set on a ill cannot be hid." Salt, as we all know, continued the vangelist, is a great pieserver. God itended all Christians to be preservrs of the world about them. I believe rod would destroy this world in a ' 9* hort time were it not for the Chrislatis here. The gospel, like salt, is enetrating. Christians should be that