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Straps and ^act$. ? President Wood row Wilson was married last Saturday night to Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait. The ceremony look place at the bride's residence and was performed by Rev. Hubert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church, of which the bride is a communicant. Only a few members ot tne immediate families or ine president and his bride were present. After the marriage, Mr. and Mrs. \\ ilson had dinner at the White House and then they went to White OolrvKim k'nwnnra Vq ll/hoPO t hPV Will OUiynui 11150, u>| n MV> W remain for ten days provided the pres- | ident is not called back to Washington in the meantime. ? A Copenhagan dispatch to Reuters, says that members ot the Ford peace party spoke on Sunday before the .Norwegian student union in Christiana. The American minister, A. G. Scnmedeman and the rector of the University of Christiana, were in the audience which crowded the hall. Henry Ford was prevented from speaking by influenza, but the Rev. Jenkins L. Jones, Miss Katherine M. Brewster and Lieut. Gov. A. J. Bethea of South Carolina, addressed the meeting. Lewis P. Lochner, general secretary of the expedition, explained the intentions of Mr. Ford and his co-workers. The Norwegian chairman of the meeting gave assurances of the students' genuine interest. ? It has come to the attention of Chairman Lever of the house committee on agriculture, says a Washington dispatch of Saturday, that the prices of nitrate of soda and acid phosphate for the coming crop year have been doubled practically over prices of last year. To the mind of Mr. Lever, the matter is of such serious importance to the cotton growers of the south as to warrant him In asking the trade commission to make a thorough investigation into the matter with a view of ascertaining if these increased prices result from a combination of the sellers of these two ingredients of commercial fertilizers. Mr. Lever has the promise of We J. Harris, the southern member of the commission, to look into the situation very promptly and thoroughly. ? A rural credits bill to be introduced in both houses of congress afier the holidays, was vin. Jly completed last Monday by the special Joint committee created by the last congress for report at this session. Only a lew details remain to be decided. The measure provides for a system of cooperative local associations, federated with regional land banks, which banks would have the power to issue bonds based on the land mortgages of the local associations. The land banks ?12 in number?would be supervised by the government through a board appointed by the president. They would be distributed in accordance with the agricultural needs of the country, and would have a combined capital stock of not less than $6,000,000. European systems of land mortgage credit have been studied closely by the committee in working out its schema ? The Question of national prohibition says the Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, will come before congress as soon as it re-assembles after Christmas and Representative Webb will inaugurate the measure in the House. He stated last Saturday before leaving for Shelby that he proposed to introduce a resolution he has prepared as one of his first acts after returning to Washington in January. He will not, however, introduce a bill for prohibition in the District of Columbia. Section one of his resolution provides that "The sale, manufacture for sale, transportation for sale and importation for sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in the United States and territoi^ subject to the jurisdiction thereof ana exporiauun thereof be forever prohibited." Section two provides that "The congress and the states shall have power independent: or concurrently to enforce this article by all needful legislation." ? Washington, December 20: The seventh cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at 10 a. m., today, announced that 10,303,250 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1915, has been ginned prior to December 13. That compares with 13,972,229 bales, or 87.8 per cent of the entire crop ginned prior to December 13 last year, 12,088,412 bales, or 92.5 per cent in 1913, and 11,854,541 bales, or 92.2 per cent in 1912. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to December 13, in the last ten years was 11,476,189 bales, or 89.5 per cent of the crop. Included in the ginnings were 100,940 round bales compared with 42,796 last year, 91,686 in 1913, and 75,772 in 1912. Sea Island cotton included numbered 83,816 bales compared with 71,401 last year, 69,520 in 1913, and 60,445 in 1912. ? Further details of the bombardment of Belgrade and the abandonment of the city by the Serbians were related in New York, Saturday. * nf V ftU' Yf>rk. oy UT. ?i. XV x/vnuvi) v*. * w.? _ ? -?, an American Red Cross surgeon who arrived on the steamship Espagne from Bordeaux Dr. Downer said that with Dr. Edward Ryan he remained in Belgrade through the bombardment. He confirmed cable reports from Dr. Ryan that the American flag was respected by the invading forces. "The battle for the possession of Belgrade was a three-day bombardment followed by a hand-tohand encounter," said the doctor. "Where the Austro-German forces crossed the Danube the loss of life was greatest. I saw entire battalions of Hungarians swept from boats and rafts by machine gun fire. For a time the river was so thick with bodies that it resembled a etream filled with logs from a broken mill dam. "In the three days of fighting we treated more than 3,000 wounded. Five doctors and five nurses worked almost constantly. Nurses in stress of emergency handled wounds alone and unaided that in times of peace would be entrusted only to a specialist, and achieved a remarkable degree of success." ? Gen. Francisco Villa has given up as hopeless his struggle against the de facto government of Mexico, according to authentic advices last Saturday from Chihauhua. The followers who still remained faithful to the man once all powerful in north Mexico have been warned to "take care of themselves," and are said to be scattering in all directions. Many, it is said, are preparing to make their peace with the Carranza government. Villa in addressing the council of war at which his determination to abandon the struggle, was made public, is said to have declared he would no longer sacrifice men needlessly. He is said to have been urged to abandon the revolutionary movement by his staff and advisers, and also by his wife. Just what the plans of the insurgment leader are have not been made clear, although he is said to have declared he would come to the United States if he were permitted, and if not would go to Europe. The Carranza forces under Gen. Jacinto Trevino already are demanding the surrender of Chihauhua, but few persons familiar with the country question Gen. Villa's ability to escape capture in that section where he Vnruva ?v#rv hill and water hole, and where he has many friends. In fact it is but Ave years ago that he roamed that same territory as a bandit with a price placed on his head by Gen. Porforio Diaz. His real name is Doroteo Orango, and he was born in Las Nieves, Durango, in 1868. His parents were of the poen class, and on the death of his father he became a cowboy in western Chihauhua. He soon attracted a number of desperate men to him, changed his name to Francisco Villa and lived as a bandit. Many stories are told as to the reason why Villa became a bandit the most widely circulated being to the effect that he was outlawed for the killing of an army officer who had wronged his sister. When Francisco Madero took the field against Diaz, Villa voluntarily cast his lot with the Maderistas and performed such valiant service that Madero was forced to recognize him. After the retirement of Diaz, Huerta. as the commander of the army under Madero. was sent north to put down the Orozco rebellion. He and Villa clashed and Villa was taken to Mexico City under arrest. While in prison there he taught himself to read and write. Madero saved him from immediate execution, and later he escaped to the United States. When the north of Mexico rose against Huerta, Villa made his way across the Rio Grain!e into Mexico with two companions, six "borrowed" horses. $7 in money and a small surplus of corn and beans. Inside of a year he was the head of a well equppped army of 30,000 men with a war chest of several million dollars. This force was armed and equipped with artillery largely from the Federal forces defeated or captured. ftlir iUorltrille (Bnouitrr "* ' " V Sintered at the Postoftiee at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORK, t. 0.: j TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1915. And now it looks as if we are to be mixed up with Austria, which, of course, means further complications with Germany also. Peace on earth and good will toward men is the biggest thing there is in Christmas; but the unfortunate thing about it all is that there are so many who fail to appreciate so great a blessing. Nations, like individuals, are slow to acknowledge their own blameworthiness, and for that reason the people of this country' are unable to see that somebody is going to have to sweat for all that profitable traffic we have been having in materials of death and destruction. That supreme court decision upholding the power of the legislative delegation to put a bonded indebtedness upon a county ought to serve as a notice to the taxpayers that they should be exceedingly careful who is sent to represent them, and also we think it should make the taxpayers exercise greater care as to who their representatives elect as judges. The North Carolina papers have forced Clarence Poe to deny that he has his eye on the governorship. We do not mean the word deny in the sense it usually applies to public men under the same circumstances. When Clarence Poe says he is not after the governorship that is what he means. At the same time, however, we want to say that North Carolina has no bigger and better man for governor than Clarence Poe. Now, if it could only be arranged so the government could take about 50 per cent or only 25 per cent of the profits the munition manufacturers have made out of the stuff sold to belligerent nations, but which they ought not to have been allowed to sell, we could easily be able to pay for all the preparedness we are needing at the present time. Honestly and truly we thinir it unnld be a srood idea for America to Invest every cent she is making out of the European war in war material for her own use, for some of these days it is going to be necessary to spend that much and probably a good deal more, to defend what we are making. A telegram received here this afternoon said thousands of gallons of liquor were held at Clover, in York county, having been ordered by North Carolinians. The express company is undecided as to whether to deliver it or not, the attorney general ruling that there is nothing to prevent the North Carolinians getting their liquor, and the judge and grand jury of York county and the Clover magistrate having been after them on the ground that they violate the gallon a month act.?Columbia special of Saturday, to the News and Courier. The correspondent has evidently been misinformed as to the facts in this case. In the first place, whisky in the Clover express office is not even hundreds of gallons. The express company is perfectly willing to deliver liquor to any man who applies with proper assurance that he has not previously received a gallon within a month. All the trouble, if trouble there he. arises from the fact that the magistrate in King's Mountain township stands ready to carry out the instructions of the court and seize such liquor as may start for the North Carolina line. Last week's issue of the Manufacturer's Record has an interesting article on the development of Columbia as a stone cutting center. It appears that within the last year or two local capital has erected several sheds for stone cutters, who are coming down from Vermont in considerable | numbers to dress granite from Rion for sale throughout the United States, and the world. The inducements are the proximity of the granite in inexhaustible quantities, and as good quality as to be found anywhere, and the ability of the stone cutters to work all the year round in the open, where in Vermont, they have to spend half the year in closed, stuffy shacks filled with granite dust. The workmen, mostly Italians, but including Scotch, English and other nationalities, are high class people, and receive from $3 to $5 a day, many of them more. The business is merely a matter of experienced management, an expert craftsman or business man, employing the labor, selling the product, and keeping things going. Formerly all this stone cutting was done at the quarries; but now it is going to Columbia on account of the schools and other attractions, and it can be carried on just as well in Yorkville as in Columbia. More than that, if the right people would take . hold, the Whitesides quarries a few miles north of Yorkville could be developed to an extent that would rival those quarries of Fairfield. The opponents of the state warehouse system having been convinced of the futilitv of trving to overthrow that system by a fair and square tight, are now turning their attention to the plan of trying to accomplish the same result by turning out the father of the system who has made it what it is. We would not be understood as suggesting that Mr. McLaurin is to hold the place always, for that would be unreasonable and absurd. We have no idea that he would hold the place more than one more term, or two more terms, at most, under any circumstances. But if system is to be fairly established he should hold it that long. It will be remembered that when he took the place only a little more than a year ago, he had nothing to work with except an emasculated skeleton' outline of a law that conferred but 1 scant powers, and carried an appropri- 1 ation that was hardly sufficient to or- ( ganize an adequate office force. Even this little appropriation was cut off before any of it had been spent under ! a technical ruling of the comptroller general, and Mr. McLaurin had to carry the whole load of the system ' for a month on the strength of his pri- J ?. .. ? 1 vate means, wnen ne weui miu w flee, the interest rate on warehouse certificates was 8 per cent, and just anybody could not get money at that rate. There were no state warehouses, and no public money with which to build them. Insurance on cotton in the country was $3.50 per $100, on a short term basis. Now there are more than one hundred state warehouses, carrying considerably more than 100,000 bales of stored cotton. Insurance in the country is only $1.58 per $100, with a pro rata basis of cancellation, and anybody can borrow 75 per cent of the value of a single bale of warehoused cotton at 6 per cent. Mr. McLaurin has done all this through force of his own personality, prestige, ability and standing in the business world. Besides, he has spfead the leaven in the other cotton growing states. We do not believe there is another man in the south who could have accomplished one tenth of what he has accomplished, in twice the time he has been operating. But there is still much to be done before it can fairly be claimed that the warehouse system is established, and Mr. McLaurin is needed to complete the work. We have nothing to say against Mr. McMahan. He is a deserving man, and a man of ability; but his capacity, experience, business standing and breadth of vision are not to be compared with those of Mr. McLaurin. The salary would be an important consideration with Mr. McMahan, which it is not with Mr. McLaurin. Under ordinary conditions this would be in Mr. McMahan's favor; but so long as Mr. McLaurin is willing to give the state ten or a hundred times more than he is receiving, while it is doubtful as to whether any otner man in the state would really earn his salary at this time, let us not weigh this Item. We have no Idea that Mr. McLaurin is going to fight for the place. He has friends who will fight for him, if necessary, but he is not going to even put himself in the position of seeking re-election. But all the same the continuance of the warehouse system along lines that will promise its highest and best development is in jeopardy. No man who is really friendly to the system is going to vote against Mr. McLaurin at this time, and if the general assembly fails to elect Mr. McLaurin, that will mean a serious backset for the whole thing. 1 Christmas Greeting. ( There will be no more issues after ] this until Friday, December 31, it 1 having been decided to suspend the issues that would have otherwise ap- j peored on the two intervening dates, ] because of the holidays. By way of explanation we beg to j say that this is in accordance with i established custom, extending back to 1 the time when the memory of man J runneth not to the contrary, and most ] agreeable to those who have been i sticking so faithfully and steadily at ' their posts during all the many weeks , that elapsed since the last holiday. i This suspension does not mean that ' everybody connected with the paper ( will rest. There are those who will ] continue busy during most of the 1 ten days intervening between this issue and the next. Besides the work ] of editing and publishing there are i many other things that have to be looked after in a newspaper office, ] more particularly along about tne j end of the year, and these things will keep the editor and publishers busy, j There will be somebody about the . office to attend to personal business as well as business by mail. | In the meantime, we desire to ex- | tend thanks to our clubmakers for the < splendid work they have been doing, are doing and will continue to do, and ! for their encouragement, say that al- < though the largest club so far is not 1 nearly so large as the largest club of 1 last year, more names have been re- i turned up to this time than ever before at this date in the history of 1 the paper. 1 But though the paper be suspended 1 for two issues, and though we be busy, our hearts and minds are still 1 with clubmakers, subscribers and ' readers. For each and every one we < wish a real and true Christmas, not only the good cheer that comes with 1 the choice things to eat and drink and wear; but high and above all things like these, the peace of Him who 1 brought good will to men, and who is preparing mansions for those who are ! willing to share the eternal Christmas that He has made possible for all. Preparedness. The great issue before the people of the United States at the present I time is that of preparedness, and the I neonle are taking sides for and against i the proposition. The strongest argument for preparedness goes like this: America, through the sale of munitions and supplies to European belligerents has . become the richest country on earth, . while the Europeans are rapidly becoming poorer and poorer. When the t war ends, America will have prac- < tically all the gold of the world, without adequate armies and armaments i to defend it, and the Europeans will ' be stripped of their gold but possessed of sufficient armies to make America j disgorge not only her gold, but all < else she has. America will be like the 1 unarmed but rich householder, at the , mercy of the desperate burglar with a pistol. Under the circumstances it j is claimed that America should arm and prepare to defend herself while yet i there is time and before the inevitable i attacks. i The strongest argument on the oth-. i er side as against preparedness is that i of Mr. Bryan, who appears to be in the minority. His argument follows ; the lines of Christian teaching. He i does not admit that America is in i danger of attack; but rather thinks < that the wide oceans will protect her. < However, carrying the argument still 1 further, he insists that Christianity < does not approve of bloodshed under 1 any conditions. He holds that in the l first place America should not have i yielded to the temptation to get rich : by^ selling munitions and engines of i war to Europe; but since she has 1 done so, it is better to surrender everything in the shape of wealth rather j than sacrifice the lives of the people , * ? T T ~ Annnoo/1 t A nr<'. in war, no is out*u^puuvu w - i paration for fighting because he does j not want to fight?because he does not j believe that any good can come from ( fighting. ; However strongly Mr. Bryan's argu- , ments are grounded in the instruc- i tions of the Prince of Peace, there is < no good reason to suppose that those i arguments will prevail. Though no f man can find a single word in all the ( teachings of Christ that will justify j bloodshed under any circumstances, * even in war, mankind has not yet { reached the point where it is willing ( to surrender its wealth or its liberty t to avoid war. i But with it all, it is the truth, the i everlasting truth, that most of the j lives that are sacrificed in war, repre- j sent the sacrifices of men who have t neither independence or wealth, and ( :hat the sacrifices are made to preserve the Independence and wealth of >there. BRITISH EVACUATE GALLIPOLh Situation More or Less Quiet Along Various Fronts. London, Dec. 20.?The announcement of the British withdrawal from 3allipoli overshadowed all other war lews tonight. For the British public :he abrupt war office statement marks ;he end of one of the great chapters jf the war's history. The shock of the news was hardly iroken by the fact that rumors had seen current in the street for some lays, and -the withdrawal of the forces tad been a matter of widespread pro ind con discussion ever since Lord Ribblesdale's famous speech in parlianent in which he declared that withIrawal had been recommended by a tigh military authority. The feeling of the man in the street was generally one of relief mixed with egret. A popular half-penny paper sums up the British public's attitude is follows: "Thus ends the enterprise of which :he highest hopes were built and which, if it had succeeded, would jrobably have turned the tide of the war. Our troops from the first to ast were within a few miles of vicory." The policy underlying the Dardanelles expedition may yet be carried to l successful issue in some other part )f the near east but the prospect of forcing a way to Constantinople hrough the famous straits is apparmtly relinquished. British troops continue to occupy he tip of the peninsula at SeddulBahr, commanding the entrance to the itraits where many British have de:lared a new Gibraltar will one day Lrise. The position here is protected >y a double line of ships and it is aslumed that this will be held. A fair degree of quiet has continued >n the war fronts during the past 24 lours and none of the oft-repeated threats of a big offensive in France, in lorth Russia, Galicla and the Balkans las yet actually materalized. Persistent reports of a Greco-Bul?arian encounter, results from a Bulgarian surprise attack, have been beared up by the Greek statement :hat the encounter took place in Albanian territory. No one was killed ind few were wounded. Order was reitored promptly and an amicable injuiry is proceeding. Tt la onnnnnr>?l from Paris that no enemy detachment has yet crossed the 3reek frontier. Meanwhile work on the defensive lines around Saloniki is eeing actively pushed and the Greek villages In the neighborhood of the ines are being evacuated by the population. Greek military circles declare they ire convinced that the forces opposing the Allies will not attempt to cross the frontier, the Bulgarians because they realize the danger of provoking Greece and the Germans because they ire grateful for Greek neutrality and because they realize the tremendous eost which the enterprise would entail. MERE-MENTION Aroused by a recent wave of crime, which has resulted in several muriers and numerous robberies, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, in Saturday charged the Chicago police department with shielding crimilals, grafting and contributing to tne orgy of crime. Mayor Thompson declared that he would immediately start a wholesale cleaning up of tne police department, "even though it eosts me my life." Seven persons were killed and ten injured in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, when a street car went through a bridge over :he Spokane rher The Local \nzeiger, a Berlin newspaper, regarded as a semi-official organ of the German government, is said to have been suppressed last week... .G. J. Thrasher, president; R. C. Howard, vice president and L. E. Aymard, treasurer of the bankrupt Bankers' Bond snd Finance company of Montgomery, Ala., were on Saturday found guilty or using tne mans wun inicni to defraud The flag of Lyon post, Grand Army of the Republic, flew at half mast from the liberty pole In the public square at Westfield, Mass., Saturday, in memory of Ira Miller, a Confederate veteran who rode with Forrest's cavalry. Mr. Miller, who was a retired manufacturer 3f Westfleld, died suddenly in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday Governor Hall of Louisiana, has pardoned Dora Murff, a 20-year-old girl, who was sentenced two months ago to serve four years penal servitude for killing J. Milton Delhaye, her sweetheart..... It has been announced in Berlin that the German cruiser Bremen and a torpedo boat accompanying her, have been sunk by a submarine in the ;astern Baltic sea. Four persons were killed at Vandergrift, Pa., SunSay when a jitney bus in which they were riding was struck by a fast passenger train Sheriff D. R. Moreand of Leesburg, Ga., was killed and his two brothers and four other white men were more or less seriously Injured in a light with negroes at Doyle, Worth county, Georgia, Friday night The white men were trying to arrest Jim Keath a farm hand accused of theft when the shooting took place. It is feared that trouble between whites and negroes in Worth county will result from the shooting. Prof. Arthur Williams Wright, a. noted scientist died at New Haven, Conn., Saturday, aged 80 years Fire in Glasgow, Scotland Sunday destroyed $<&u,uuu wcrtn 01 uquor.... ..A cigar factory and seven other buildings were destroyed by fire in Key West, Fla., Friday. The property damage is estimated at $150,000 Women are being employed as motor car drivers in Berling, Germany SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ? The store of C. G. Edwards in Woodruff waA robbed of goods valued at about $50 last Wednesday. The thief was later captured and is now in jail. ? John Golden, president of the United Textile Workers of the World, was in Greenville last week making an investigation of the trouble at the Judson mills. Mr. Golden held a conference with President B. E. Greer of Judson Saturday. The union leader will remain in Greenville several days. ? The supreme court has handed down a decision in which it denies the right of a governor to suspend a sheriff. The case grew out of the action of Governor Manning in suspending Sheriff W. W. Huckabee of Kershaw, on April 20, last. The court holds that the statute on the subject is unconstitutional and orders the reinstatement of Sheriff Huckabee. ? Two former employes of Judson mills, Greenville, W. T. Pitts and J. H; Carman, will bring suit against that corporation, asking $20,000 each, as actual and punitive damages. The men allege that a combination, or agreement deleterious to their interests, exists or has existed between the cotton mills of that section and possibly of the state, and in view of this alleged combination they bring suit. The suits are brought because of the expressed belief of the former operatives that they have been unjustly denied employment and that their pfforts to secure employment have been unavailing because of a combination. Notice of the suits has been served upon B. E. Greer, president and and treasurer of Judson mills. The return to the complaint has not yet been served. ? Columbia uecemDer, 11: nona issues of $1,250,000 In Richland county and $950,000 In Greenville county, which were authorized by bills passed by the last session of the legislature, were upheld this afternoon by ihe en banc session of the supreme ind circuit judges. The majority ipinion in the Richland case was written by Circuit Judge Mendel L. Smith and concurred in by a majorly of all. The dissenting opinions were lied by Chief Justice Gary and Circuit Judge Gary and concurred in by Xssociate Justices Watts and Fraser ind Circuit Judges Mauldln and ?hipp. The decision in the Greenville ase was unanimous. The constituionality of the acts creating the bond ssues were attacked mainly on the trounds that the legislature could not mpose them without a vote of the >eople. The court says this is a funcion of the legislature and within Its | onstitutional rights. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS W. R. Carroll?Offers a seven-room house on Lincoln street, for rent. N. S. Ford, York No. 1?Has a small stock of merchandise and fixtures and a Chattanooga turn plow for sale. Bratton's Guernsey Farm?Has a good family horse and a mule for sale at $100 and $160. T. L. Glenn, Veterinarian?Will be at home during the holidays and offers his professional services to those desiring same. Mrs. J. H. Machen?Will appreciate return of ladies' black coat, left in Southern waiting room on morning of December 10th. W. O. Harshaw & Co.?Announces that they have bought the business of J. T. Crawford at McConnellsville and will take charge of same Jan. 1. Ferguson & Youngblood?Publish a set of resolutions relative to the use of Stickell's high grade flours during 1916. Carroll Supply Co.?Thank their patrons for 1916 trade and extend the season's compliments. York Trust Co.?Wishes you a joyous Christmas and offers its services as your administrator or executor. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Reminds you that only four more days remain to do your Xmas shopping and invites you to do it now at "Gift headquarters." All kinds of holiday goods. W. E. Ferguson?Thanks his customers for their patronage and extends the season's best wishes. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Is appreciative of your favors, and extends the season's greetings. Closed next Saturday. Sherer & Quinn?Have fresh supply of Barrington Hall coffee?good for Christmas. Fresh buckwheat. To be closed Saturday?Christmas day. Thomson Co.?With a very large line of holiday goods, invites you to visit it and see the goods. Low prices and good qualities. Coat suits and coats reduced one-third. J. M. Stroup?Has a full supply of raisins, currants, citron, icing sugar jjnd other cake ingredients, as well as apples, oranges, etc. York Drug Store?Is appreciative of your 1915 patronage and extends the season's compliments. Carroll Bros.?Say, don't buy flour until you get their prices on large or small quantiee. Flour is going up in price. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Makes a few suggestions relative to buying life Insurance that may prove of value to insurance buyers. The plan of drilling oats into cotton rows before the cotton picking is completed is becoming quite general throughout this county. Oats coming to a good stand in the cotton rows is a familiar sight in all quarters. Mr. and Mr*. J. F. Youngblood and Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Beach are occupying the R. R Montgomery house on South Congress street. A recent statement that Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery were occupying this house happened as the result of an error. WITHIN THE TOWN ? The Christmas trade is booming this week. ? Some little cotton selling, but not a great deal. ? The college girls and boys will arrive at their homes here tomorrow and Thursday. ? Rev. J. L. Oates announced to his congregation last Sunday morning that the membership of the Yorkville Associate Reformed church had passed the two hundred mark. ? The fire alarm was sounded shortly after 7 o'clock last night on account of a blaze in the store of Mr. R. T. Allison on South Congress street The damage was very slight, the flames being under control even before the arrival of the hose wagon. ? Sophia Pierce, colored, and he mother, Anna Pierce, who live on the eastern outskirts of town, were accidentally shot Sunday evening by Jim Pierce, brother of Sophia. Neither of the women were seriously hurt, although the ball went through the fingers of both hands of the daughter and j a# Ka mAthor I griUt'U UlC ivi oxicau ui itiw mvwivi. Pierce, it seems, was "fooling" with the pistol when It was discharged. SCHOOLS ADD LIBRARIES Another evidence of the fact that York county's public schools are making Improvements along every line, is the application of seven schools for state aid in establishing libraries, while eleven other schools are making application for aid in increasing the size of their libraries. The state department of education gives $10 to each school desiring to establish a library where the patrons contribute a similar sum, the school district $10, while the county board of education gives $10 and a bonus of $3. Those schools which will establish libraries in the near future are Forest Hill, Flint Hill, Pine Bluff, Sharon, Brandon, Roddey and Gold Hill (No. 36.) Where a school desires to increase its library and the patrons contribute $5 and the school district $5, the state department appropriates $5 from the library fund and the county board of education supplements the foregoing with $5 and a bonus of $2. Those schools which have met with all the conditions and are applying to the state and county for aid in in thai,. Khrorioa n.re; LOWTV UI COOillg kitvt* a*w* Ma ^ Wilson, Philadelphia, Santiago, Rock Hill, Smith's Turnout, Bethesda, Eastview, Cotton Belt Bullock's Creek, Clover and Yorkville, MAY PASS TODAY Beaver Dam trestle on the Carolina & North-Western railway about two and a half miles north of Clover was the scene of much activity Saturday, Sunday and yesterday, a lavge force of workmen having been employed in rebuilding the wide span of trestle which collapsed Thursday morning, hurling eight freight cars into the swift little creek and leaving two other cars In such position that it was necessary to topple them off into the deep creek cut. The Beaver Dam wreck is undoubtedly one of the worst which has happened in York county in many years. When a reporter for The Enquirer visited the scene Sunday afternoon the contents of the freight cars had been removed but the fill was still piled with the wrecked box cars, practically all of which are so badly damaged that they are beyond repair. Some of them were reduced to kindling wood while others are now nothing save splinters. On the sides of the cut sets of wheels were lying while other places wheels, air brakes, connecting rods and other parts of the cars were hurled together in a jumbled heap. The combination car (passenger and baggage combined) which did not go into the creek due to the fact that the wheels rested on box cars " * * 1 1 - fo 11 art wfia latpr wnicn nau an cauy mi.?.?.? ?..? . released and tumbled in with the I rest of the wreckage. It is a total wreck, the seats being torn from their fastenings and other furniture and fixtures damaged beyond repair. The cross-ties on the small portion of the trestle which held were badly cut by the wheels of the derailed freight car which caused the wreck and had to be replaced with new timbers while other cross ties at the north end of the trestle which were also cut, will continue in use. There were some forty-five of fifty hands at work Sunday afternoon repairing the 32-foot trestle and they were making rapid progress. Roadmaster Fletcher of the C. & N.-W? thinks that trains will be able to re surne regular schedule this afternoon. Since the accident passenger trains on both ends of the line have been making their regdlar schedules and transferring their passengers and baggage at the trestle by means of carriages and wagons. Since the wreck hundreds of people have visited the scene and Sunday Beaver Dam was a regular Mecca for. many interested people. What the exact damage to the railroad company Is, is uncertain but It will amount to several thousand dollars, at least. SANTA CLAUS ON THE WAY Santa Claus Is on the road! Only tnree more aays ana ne win De nere. His agents have already been here and have stocked almost every store In Yorkville and every store In every other section of the county with all manner of holiday articlea It is Christma^ time. It can be felt in the air, it can be seen everywhere. Pretty show windows all over town are striking evidence that it is an unusual time. That Santa Claus is going to leave in many a home all kinds of pretty things can be proven by a look at most of the stores where he has deposited so many practical and pretty articles until his coming Friday night Toys, candies, fruits, glass ware, crockery, dry goods and other things of a more useful and practical nature. Never perhaps has he left a more bountiful supply of things in Yorkville, so many things for the old folks as well as the young, to look over and decide upon what they want And the merchants say that the little folks and old folks are picking over Santa Claus's offerings in such numbers that their hearts are being made glad. Better do your choosing today or tomorrow ere you may be too late. Everything is looking Christmassy. Everybody is wearing the Christmas smile?the one that won't come off. Or rather anybody who can possibly change their face is wearing that smile. Why shouldn't it be so? Everything is so much better than it was a year ago. The country is safe. And boys: there are plenty of firecrackers about town. Big ones and little onea They call the big ones "Germans, '' this year. Their smell, how- 1 ever, is not noticeable yet While there are plenty of them it is possi- 1 ble the supply will not be as large as the demand, so remember to buy ' yours early. Don't shoot them before Christmas Eve, you boys in town, ' because if you do Chief Love is liable man tX? ma oa ilia*- tho 1 iw 5CI JUU. X IV iviu HIV ov jwov vaiv other das'. Of course the boys in the country can shoot theirs when they please. That's where they have it on ] you boys In the towns. And girls don't care much for Are- , crackers, they love their dolls which are almost as plentiful as the firecrackers. Big dolls, little dolls, medium size dolls, dolls that can go to sleep, ' dolls that can't talk but can squeak. j And there are tea sets and carts and cradles and almost everything. i Yes, It should be a glorious Christ- . mas for the little folks and for the big folks as well, for Saint Nicholas 1 has left a bountiful supply of his presents with the store keepers of this section. i . ] CHRISTMAS 8ERM0N. Matthew ii, 2 and 11: "Saying, ; Where is he that is born King of the 1 Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship j him. * And when they were come into the house, they saw the , young child with Mary his mother, I and fell down and worshipped him: and when they had opened their 1 treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, frankincense and myrrh." { Using the foregoing as a text and j announcing his subject as "Christmas Gifts," Rev. J. H. Machen preached . an interesting sermon to his congregation at the First Baptist church' Sunday evening, devoted to the great Christmas festival that will be cele- I brated throughout the world on Satur- 1 day of this week. 'The spirit of Christmas is in the 1 very atmosphere, in our very bones, ; so to speak," said Mr. Machen, "and it is hard to realize that another | Christmas is upon us without thinking of Christmas gifts. "What do these gifts mean? Where did they start?" : He then related the story of the visit oi me mree wise men iu iuv stable where Christ was born; how i they had seen his star in the east.and I following; iU guidance to the manger 1 where the Christ-child was, they stopped to worship him and give gifts, j "I like to think of our Saviour as ( a child," said the preacher. "Most ] of our thoughts of him are as the son of God. But I like to think of him , as a Uttle babe, it is more impressive t at this time to think of him as a lit- < tie child?It is more human." The celebration of Christmas is first recorded in the second century 1 and it is a mistaken idea with a great i many people that it is a Divinely ap- '> pointed feast day. "Jesus Christ was the first one to < receive gifts, and from this has grown l up the idea of gifts. So we today, < whether wisely or unwisely, is a question, give gifts. The idea is to make j others happy. The gifts of the wise j men to Christ must have made the heart of his mother, Mary, bubble over with happiness and Joy at the , receipt of tho gifts. That same spirit j is in us today. 'It is more blessed to give than to receive,' that is the ex- ' perlence of every one. Giving brings joy and happiness. 'We have heard 1 tho expression, 'How I would like to 1 have been one of the wise men.' You i do not have to go far to have the experience of the wise men," said the < preacher. "You have the opportunity j today. Christ said, 'If ye have done t it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me.' Look around , I you. Help somebody today." , | Some people say they are too oia to : indulge in the Christmas spirit; oth| ers that the times are too hard. "Did you ever find a man who found the times too hard to indulge himself at Christmas If he wanted to do so? Times are never too hard for the selfish man to refrain from his Christmas liquor. 'I must have my Christmas liquor,' they say. Christmas derived Its name from Christ. Think of a church member calling himself a Christian, ordering liquor to celebrate the birth of the Saviour! Think of linking the name of Christ with liquor. Times are too hard for the children's stockings, but never too hard for the Christmas liquor. I wonder how many members of this church, how many professed Christians of this town, have ordered their Christmas liquor. Santa Claus will certainly visit the children where there are christians in the homes, but where there is 'three-X,' the visit of Santa Claus is doubtful. "Christ was the first great gift to man. He was God's gift to a lost world. He gave up his life for the sinners of this world, and all you have to do to have this gift is to accept him as your personal Saviour. Will you? When you give gifts give them in the name of Christ." HERE AND THERE. Mr. S. A. Robinson, who lives near Clover, killed a hog yesterday morning that weighed 435 pounds net. Many of the rural schools closed for the Christmas holidays Friday while those that did not will adjourn either today or tomorrow. In most instances, a two weeks' holiday will be given the pupils. The county chalngang, like almost | every one else, win oDserve <jnnsimas. Supervisor Boyd said the other ^ day that the convicts would be given Christmas as a holiday and that one or two of the county's hogs would be ' killed with which the gang would 1 feast themselves. ? Mr. "Billie" Bandlfer of the c Guthriesville section, who has quite 1 a reputation for raising fine turkeys, Baid Saturday that he had sold eight- j een or twenty of his birds the past ^ few days whose weight ranged from t 16 to 22 pounds. Mr. Sandifer has one gobbler about a year and a half old ^ that weighed 32 pounds. a Sam Kirby, a white man, convicted of complicity in assaulting and rob- c bing Jesse Jerrill in Rock Hill several weeks ago, and who was sentenced to I serve two years imprisonment, will work out his sentence in the penitentiary instead of on the chaingang. Kirby has only one arm. Apropos of the price of cotton Mr. 1m Black said the other day that le had Ave bales of long staple for which he had been offered 16} cents per pound by a Gastonia firm. "Mr. Z M. Inman," he said, has a quantiy of long staple but was not willing to take that price and he advised Tie to hold on to mine. 1 am doing t and we both believe we will get i better price." As is usually the custom at Christiias time a lot of hard earned money s being sent out of the state by York :ounty people for liquor. Each train) luring the past few days has brought icores of packages of liquor to the express office here as well as to those it other places In the county. It is laid that the quantity of liquor U ready received at the Yorkville express office is greater than that of ast Christinas. Judge Hayne F. Rice who presided >ver the four weeks term of the court >f general sessions and common pleas ivhich adjourned Friday, left for his lome in Aiken Friday night. Judge Rice made & good impression upon the people of the county who saw ilm preside over the court and has seen the recipient of many sincere tomplimentary remarks, most of ivhich however were unheard by himself. Judge I. W. Bowman will preside over the several terms of jourt in York county next year. "I was not surprised that the Brandon school won a prize from the State School Improvement association," remarked Superintendent Carroll this morning. "No school in the county has made greater Improvements during the past year than this school." And two pictures which the superintendent has In his office is evidence of the fact One shows the >Id Brandon school building, a oneroom, ram-shackle affair, with most jf the window panes broken out and the building itself looking like it will fail every moment while the other picture portrays the new building, a neat (tructure built on the Clemson plan for school houses and surrounded by a rlean and spacious field. ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. R. D. Dorsett spent Sunday Bvith relatives in, Clover. Mr. M. W. Smith of Hickory Grove, was a visitor here yesterday. Col. J. R. Lindsay is ill at his home here with typhoid fever. All80 naiue lxrwry 01 oneioy, in spending several days here. Mr. J. R. Lindsay, Jr., of Columbia. Is visiting his parents in Torkville. Mr. J. T. Steele of Waxhaw, N. C., visited his brother, Dr. S. L. Steele, lere this week. Miss Kate Hunter, who is teaching in Gaffney, is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. J. Hunter, hero, Dr. Jas. B. Shirley expects to spend :he Christmas holidays with relatives it Honea Path. Miss Irene English of Michigan, is the guest of Misses Annie and Mabel Ashe here. Mr. W. W. Jenkins, Jr., of Spartanburg, is visiting his parents in Yorkville. Mr. R. M. Love of Smyrna, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Love, near Yorkville, this week. Mr. and Mrs. George Clinton of Mayesworth, N. C., visited Mrs. Mattie Jenkins here this week. Mr. EI M. Whlsonant of Yorkville Mo. 6, is preparing to move his family to Clover No. 2. Dr. L. L Campbell of Bethel, was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Miss Azle Cherry of Rock Hill, visited Miss Nannie Plexico here this week. Miss Martha Smith of Tatum, S. C., is spending the holidays at her home in Hickory Grove. Mr. W. H. Hagans of Clover, was the guest of the family of Mr. S. T. Enloe here this week. Mrs. Henry Hunt of Lowell, N. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace In Yorkville. Prof. L. W. Jenkins of Spartanburg, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jenkins here this week. Mr. P. D. White of Chester, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. White, in Yorkville. Superintendent Jas. p. Pulp of the Fort Mill Graded school, was a visitor here Saturday. Mrs. F. C. Riddle, who has been spending several weeks with relatives in Aiken, has returned to her home here. Misses Annie and Mabel Ashe, who are teaching in Spartanburg, are spending the holidays at their home here. Mr. John Smart who has been living on Yorkville No. 4, is moving this week to the Aycock place on Sharon No. 2. Mr. Howard White of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, is spending the holidays with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. G. White, in Yorkville. Mr. P. W. Patrick is obliged to walk an crutches due to a wound which he inflicted on his foot last week while cutting wood. Mr. Robert Turner Allison of the Fiastoc school, Spartanburg, is spending the holidays with his parents in iTorkville. Congressman D. E. Flnley and son, Mr. W. G. Finley, have returned home from Washington for the "11 1 ?A L ^iiiiswiicia ii'inuti>a. Mr. Scott Hartness of City Point, Va., is spending a few days with the family of his father, Mr. R. B. Hartness, on Yorkville No. 5. Mr. Stark Slaughter of Hodges, S. If., is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Slaugh:er, in Hickory Grove. Mrs. M. L. Thomas son and Miss Mozelle Thomasson of Yorkville No. 5, are spending some time with relaLives in Tampa, Fla. Miss Estelle Mclver has returned to tier home in Gulf, N. C., after a visit to her sister, Mrs. E. E. Gillespie, iere, Mr. Albertus Moore of WinstonSalem, N. C., visited the family of tiis father, Mr. W. T. Moore, in Yorkville this week. Mr. John S. Wallace of Wofford college, Spartanburg, is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Wallace, on Yorkville So. 2. Mesdames Helen Adlckes and J. R. Gannon spent Friday in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Glenn of Theater, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. T. fVllison here Sunday. Misses Mary Pant Herndon and rtachel Wylie of Converse college, Spartanburg, arrived Friday evening :o spend the holidays with their parents. Miss Mary Har3haw. who is teaching the Forest Hill school, is spending :he holidays with her parents, Mr. and VI rs. J. E. Harshaw, at McConnellsrille. Mr. Fred C. Black of Yorkville No. >, who lost his arm in a corn shredo iirnro 1 nmnUa oan fa nftt TPPftV ;ring from his injuries as rapidly as vas expected. Chester Reporter, Dec. 20: Mr. J. [J. McAfee of R. F. D. 2. has sold his >lantation to Mr. J. S. Stone and will move to the Jones place between juthriesville and York, which he rejently purchased. Mr. McAfee is one >f Chester county's best citizens, and te and his excellent family will be riven up with great reluctance. LOCAL LACONICS, fork County 8chools Win Prizes. The South Carolina School Imirovement association has awarded >rizes of $25 each to the Blairsville ind Brandon schools in York county, >n account of school development. To Buy New Fixtures. H. E. Hood, J. E. Latham and F. M. 'ruitt, trustees of Shady Grove school listrict No. 10, expect to confer with he superintendent of education Thurslay regarding the purchase of new lesks and other fixtures for their chool. < )eath of Mrs. Morrison. Rock Hill Record, Dec. 20: Mrs. i .izzie Morrison died at her home at the Wymojo mill, Saturday, aged 38 years, and her remains were burled in Laurelwood cemetery Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, after funeral services by Rev. P. T. Cox. Bethany Defeated Hickory Grove. The strong Hickory Grove basketball team met defeat at the hands of the Bethany team Friday afternoon by a score of 22 to 11. The game was played at Santiago school house ana ? was witnessed by a goodly crowd. The playing of Lee Gettys of the Bethany team, was the feature of the game, which was said to be the best ever seen at Santiago. Isarron vs. i own oouwn. The case of W. R. Carroll against the town of Yorkville, for the return of license money alleged to have been unlawfully collected from the plaintiff, as a cotton and cotton seed buyer, has been argued before the court, J. S. Brice, Esq., appearing for Mr. Carroll, and W. W. Lewis, Esq., for the town. Judge Rice took the papers and today tiled his decision against the plaintiff. Mr. Carroll will appeal. Fort Mill Masons Elect Officers. ^ Catawba lodge, No. 56, A. F. M., hefd its 56th annual communication the election of officers Friday night HirBiM with the following results: W. I Carothers, W. M.; F. E. Ardrey, 8. W.; F. M. Mack, J. W.; W. B. M each am. Jr., treasurer; 8. W. Parka secretary. The following officers were appointed ^ to serve for the next year; L. M. Mmsey, senior deacon; J. W. Collins, Junior deacon; J. L. Lyles, tiler; E. L Hughes and T. L. Culp, stewards Delegation in Rock Hill. Senator J. E. Beam guard of Clover, and Representatives E. O. Nunn, W. R. Bradford, T. F. Lesslle and W. J. Cherry, who compose the York county delegation in the legislature, held a meeting in the chamber of commerce hall, Rock Hill, yesterday to consult with citizens In regard to needed legislation at the next session of the genral assembly. A number of matters were' brought to the attention of the delegation. _ ^ Blackleg in Bethel. Mr. R. B. Riddle of Clover No. 2. lost a calf by blackleg last Wednesday ^^k night Several weeks ago when black- JflB leg was more or less prevalent in Bethel township, Mr. Riddle had all his cattle Inoculated with the blackleg jfl serum except this calf, and because of ^^k Its wildness, failed to inoculate the animal, and the disease made its ap- jM pearance last week with fatal results. ^ Several other head of cattle that have come on the place since the scare of several weeks ago, have been given the serum the past week. Coromonv at Bowline Groan. Clover Leaf council, Jr. O. U. A. M.. presented the Bowling Green school with a Bible and flag Saturday in the presence of a large number of friends and patrons of the school Quits a number of members of the order also attended the exercises which were held In the handsome new school house at Bowling Green. Jas. A. Barrett presided over the exercises. The flag was presented by Senator J. E. Beamguard and the Bible by Dr. E. W. Preesly and the gifts were received for the school by Rev. A. A. McLean. Districts Vote 8peeial Levies. Voters of New Zion school district on Thursday voted a two-mill special tax levy for school purposes The vote was 18 to 6. The trustees of this district are J. F. Smith, W. A. Nichols a . and W. M. Wallace Broad River din- * j trict No. 25, of which Jeff D. Whitesides and John A. MoGlU are true- ' tees, has also recently voted a special A two mill levy for school purposes Fifty-four of the fifty-six school die tricts in the county are now carrying m a special school levy. Those which ^ have no such levy are Shady Grove No. 10 and Bethel No. 3. Clover Masons Elect Officers. At the annual meeting of Alpine lodge, No. 208, at Clover, held last Friday night, the following officers were elected for the next ensuing Masonic year: W. T. Beam guard, W. M.; J. E. Brison, S. W.; Jas. E. Beamguard, J. W.; J. Walter Smith, treasurer; Thoa T. B. Williams, secretary. The appointive officers are as follows: R. Emmett Love, S. D.; M. T. WilIiom. T Tk T U RMrila and Rnaa Parrish, stewards; W. J. Mulllnax. tiler. After the election refreshments, consisting of oysters, sandwiches and coffee, were served. The lodge was then re-convened and the entered apprentice degree conferred; 'this was followed by the installation of the newly elected officers, Mr. W. J. Mulllnax, the tiler, being installed in that office for the fifteenth consecutive time. Plessed With the Silo. "My silo is the best investment 1 have made since I have been interested m% in dairying," declared Dr. R A. Bratton, proprietor of the Guereneey Dairy J|B Farm yesterday. The declaration was made in reply to a question of the reporter who happened to be familiar r with some of the doctor's operations in ' connection with the farm. "How much ' i / did the silo cost you?" the reporter asked. "Three or four hundred dol- * lars?I do not know exactly," was the reply; "but it cost me a great deal more than it should have cost That was because I very foolishly used unskilled labor when I should have given the contract to somebody who understood the business. But the silo pays. It gives me all the rough feed I need at the lowest possible cost, and enables me to use a lot of stuff that has heretofore been wasted." 8. M. Garrison Dead. Charlotte Observer, Sunday: Mr. S. M. Garrison, a well known citizen of lower Steele Creek, died last night at his home at the age of 80 years. Mr. Garrison had been ill for several days ^ with indigestion and his condition yesterday became more serious. Funeral arrajnrements had not been completed ?? at midnight, but the service will prob- "11 ably be held some time today. Mr. Garrison is survived by his wife, who a before her marriage, was Miss Mar- I garet K end rick. The following chil- A dren also survive: Mr. A. o. Garrison, jjA Mr. Edward K. Garrison and Miss Amy Garrison, all of this county, and .wi one sister, Mra William Boyd of York county, 8. C. Mr. Garrison was \/ a Confederate veteran, having rendered effective service during the Civil war. He was a highly esteemed member of Flint Hill Baptist church. Death of Mrs. F. B. Harris. Mra. Fannie Barron Harris, widow of the late Frank Harris, died at her home at Pineville, N. C., Friday morning at 6 o'clock, following a long period of feeble health, aged 78 years. Mrs. Harris was a devoted Christian woman and much loved in the community ? , in which she lived. The funeral services were conducted from the Presby- i V, terian church at 11 a. m. Saturday by 1 Rev. W. W. Orr of Charlotte, assisted \ by Rev. J. C. Hardin. The body was p[^JH laid to rest at Blackstock, the family burying ground, two miles in the country. Mra Harris is survived by v five daughters: Mrs. C. P. Heningur 4 and Mra Nellie Costin, Birmingham, Ala.; Mra O. W. Potts, Pleasant Valley; Mrs. Rena Cunningham and Miss Janie Harris of Pineville. Rev. Al- W bert Harris of Louisville, is a grandson whom she raised. Rock Hill's New Church. The Baptists of Rock Hill will soon begin the work of constructing a handsome and commodious house of worship, costing in the neighborhood of {50,000, says a Rock Hill special of Friday to the Columbia State. At the recent state convention, held in Greenville, it was voted to contribute to the k,,fnn/S rtf th!s church the sum of $4,000 annually for a period of five ^ years, making a total of $20,000. The home mission board has already agreed to pay the sum of $5,000 thus making a total of $25,000 that will be received from outside sources. The congregation has already subscribed around $10,000 to the building fund, leaving a balance of about $14,000 to be raised. To offset this it is planned to dispose of the present church edifice and lot and the present residence for the minister, for which several thousand dollars can be secured. Death of Mrs. M. A. McFarland. * s Following a briof illness with uraemic poisoning, Mra Sallle Agnes McPari and, wife of Mr. M. A. McFarland. died at her home on Yorkvllle No. 4, about 11 o'clock last night. Mrs. Mc- f m Farland, who was about 41 years of " age. was a daughter of the late Henry Keller, and was born on the place