Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-23
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CARTER HARRISON.
Carter Harrison, the Mayor of the city of
Chicago, was born in Fayette county, Ken
tucky, February 18th, 1925, and received
classical education, graduating at Yale Col
lege in 1916; he studied law, but was far
mer in his native county until 1866. Re-
suming the study of law he graduated at
the Pennsylvania Law School, Lexington,
KY, in 1855, after which he removed to
Chicago; did not enter into active practice
at the bar, but was real estate owner and
operator there. He was elected a Cook
county Commissioner in 1871, and served
until 1874. He represented Illinois in the
44th Congress, being elected as a Demo
crat, and was reelected to- the 45th Con-
gress, his second term expiring December
9Th, 1877. Since his terms in Congress, Mr..
Harrison's name has almost unintermit-
tingly been in the public prints. Being
elected as Mayor Of Chicago, and for three
times returned to that Office, he succeeded
in making many enemies, and the city
press almost without exception stigmatized
him as unworthy of his post. The Inter-
Ocean and the Times were especially vio-
lent in their denunciation, and the former
charged him with being in direct collusion
with thieves and sand baggers. Mr.. Har-
rison entered suit for libel against the va
rious papers and individuals, the different
suits aggregating 100000. The cause of
the trouble was the stealing of one of the
ballot boxes, Immediately after the election,
which caused deadlock in the Illinois Leg
islature and which ended in the final elec-
tion of J. A. Logan to the Senate. The
strike of the car drivers and employees in
Chicago brought Mayor Harrison again
prominently to the front, and he issued q
proclamation in which he asked all good
citizens to aid him in enforcing the law.
FIGHTING, ANCIENT AND MODERN
The only difference between ancient and
modern armies is in the application of steam,
gunpoWder, and dynamite-a very great
one in appearance, but not so much in reali-
ty. Modern armies do not need to be so
large in the field as ancient armies yet it
is questionable whether fewer people are
required for an effective war in modern
times than of old. The men who make the
powder and dynamite and the girls who
fill the cartridges are quite as much part
and parcel of modern army as the soldiers
who fire them off, and run pretty nearly
similar risk. The methods of modern war
fare are exactly the same as of ancient war
fare, and relatively not much more effec-
tive, though just as coarse and brutal. The
long bow was quite as effective weapon
as the rifle, and modern cannon do not seem
to be any great advantage on the balist@
and battering rams of the ancients. In
naval warfare we have actually gone back
again to one of the most ancient naval man.
euvers, that of ramming. The siege trains
of the present day are just as cumbersome
as siege trains in times when as the Bible
tells us, "Mountains and hills were made
low and valleys exalted; when rough
places were made plain and the crooked
straight" Science has not yet said its
last word on the adaptation of natures Sc
crets to resistance against rapine, carnage,
and wrong, whether exercised by nation or
nations against individuals. Even now
substances are known to chemists which it
only needs finer mechanical skill to make
into efficient and invincibe agents for de-
Tending civilization against barbarism and
savagery. What secrets may be, and no
doubt are hid in the womb of nature and
are waiting to be revealed by the hand of
! science, can only be conjectured. But we
may be sure Of this much-that the higher
the civilization and the more developed
the intellect of the future, the more hopeless
will become the attempts of needy and ad-
venturous barbarians against the well-being
of rich and highly civilized nations. If the
rich Romans had left to Britain with their
civilization body of physical knowledge
similar to that even of to-day, the Saxon
conquest would have been impossible.
ANCIENT LIFE IN ARIZONA.-Many re-
gard the Southwest as a new country, and
look for new things when visiting the
Southwestern lands. But in reality the
Territory teemed with an active popula-
ton, versed in science, in the art of govern
ment, in the knowledge of manufacturing
industries before Milton and Shakespeare
and Cervantes and Columbus were born.
1t is possible, indeed, and quite probable
that Arizona was a progressive and popu-
lous region when Noah built the ark, when
the battle of Thermopolyp was fought,
when Homer wrote his epics. In fact, it is
an old country, rich with history that
may never be known, sacked and pillaged,
neglected and forgotten during the years
in which the East grew up.-I'onttod (lie.)
Transcript.
Ha" 1t is the young, the idle, the small
minded, who are most prone to veX them
selves about small things and outside things.
AS years advance and interest widens, we
see with larger eyes, and refuse to let min
ute evils destroy in us, that equal mind
which, accepting life as a whole in all its
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