Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-02


agent of the land and Industrial de-
partment Of the Southern railroad has
resigned his position to become the
manager Of the Glenn's Springs hotel.
spartanburs which is probably one
Of the best governed towns in the
state, has fixed the price Of plain
drunk" at $500. 1t used to. be only
$3.50 in that city.
We have received from Senator Till
man, copy Of the now famous speech
he delivered in the senate on January
II, on the usurpation proclivities of
| President Roosevelt. The speech is
rather too long for reproduction; but
1t is fair to say that 1t is. remark
ably able effort, throughout, and we'll
worth careful reading. Any citizen
who may care for copy can procure
it by dropping Senator Tlllman re-
quest on a postal card.
Prof. L. c. Primble of Topeka, Kan,
delivered a very interesting and in
structive lecture to the teachers and
pupils of the Graded school Tuesday
morning on the subject, 1.-THE mos
quito and the boil weevil." His sub
ject, though scientific, was handled in
a masterful manner and showed that
he knew it thoroughly. He explained
| how diseases are carried by mosqui-
toes and how the disease carrying kind
can be distinguished from the HARM
less He uttered a note Of warning to
the farmers this side of the Mississip-
pi in regard to the destruction Of fu-
ture cotton crop. If the boil weevil
could not be more successfully checked
and annihilated than has been done in
the past. Prof. Primble is, doing an
important educative work which may
be properly styled missionary work,
since he accepts no compensation
whatever for his talks to school chill
dren. He is visiting the schools all
over the United States, and gives free
lectures to the school children. In
connection with this work and along
the same lines he Is editor and owner
Of the Western Naturalist" journal
Of Topeka, Kan. His generous work
deserves the hearty commentator OF
all.
| A Yorkville cotton man who believes
the future contract system has its le-
gitimate uses, and who makes use Of
it legitimately when occasion offers,
made the following observation in the
presence of the reporter a few days
ago: II don't assume to tell any man
what he should or should not do In
matters that are of their own concern;
but l am going to say this, that while
the contract market may be a great
help to the regular cotton dealer and
include an absolute necessity, still for
cotton producer to undertake to
tamper with it is the height Of foolish
ness. He invites certain ruin. Here
| is the situation. The man who has
actual cotton to sell Is naturally a
bull He.wants the price to go up and
he so confidently feels that 1t should go
up that If he is inclined to speculate
at ALL he is always buyer. AS gen.
eral thing he buys with money bor-
rowed on his cotton, and when he gets
squeezed out he has to sell the cotton.
Thus he loses both ways, by putting
the actual cotton on the market still
further depresses prices. If the truth
were known, venture that a very
large per cent Of the actual cotton that
has been put on the market within the
past two months belonged to farmers
who had borrowed money on it to buy
futures and who were squeezed out"