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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04
TILLMAN IN NEW YORK.
He Talks Politics to Patriots Of America
at Albany.

AT AlDdnys
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman, oi
South Carolina, speaking here today
at a gathering of the "Patriots OF
America" dwelt caustically upon state
politics, says an Albany, n. Y, dis
patch of Monday. Some of his re,
marks were as follows:
Notwithstanding the fact that the
two political machines in this state
went back on Bryan, the Republicans
fighting him with all the money they
could command, aud the Democracy
stabbing him in the back, there were
551 900 Democrats who stood up and
said by their votes we want Mr.. Bryan,
and where there are half million
of Democrats and loyal men who love
their liberty, I cannot consider it an
enemy's country, and therefore come
here to encourage you who flung your
banners to the breeze to continue your
agitation and fight for your liberty,
which you will gain in the year 1900.
"Your gobernment is not American,
it is not Democratic Or Republican.
1t is English. For the last twelve or
fifteen years you have had first one
boss and then another, and you have
no more voice in your political affairs
than if you were babies. You had
your Democratic boss, who construct
ed his machine, and it was the most
perfect one ever known in American
politics, but he weighed it down SO
much that the plank flew up, and on
the other end came up boss, Thomas
G. Platt."
The senator discussed the money
question at some length, and said :
"There is where we split, and a great
many Democrats went off. Some OF
them climbed up in a roosting place" "
This allusion to Senator Hill created
loud laughter and applause.
"You all know that some years ago
it was said that if you did not come
down to the Harlem Bridge with 45,-
900 majority, New York city would
swamp you. You always had a Re-
publican majority north of the Harlem
river. Last year you had majority
for Bryan in Troy, but New York city
and Brooklyn got down and wallowed
in the Mckinley tariff: Tammany
may be rotten, but she stands by her
colors and goes down with them, and
the great heart of New York city is
throbbing with determination to say
to its corrupt leaders, Whitney and
others. Get you gone; you are not
Democrats. We will vote the Chicago
platform or die You cannot afford
to 90 back into the wallow."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

Colonel l.. f. Youmans has been in
Yorkville this week. In literary con-
yersation with some friends, a day or two
ago, he called their attention to new
word which, though coming into COM
mon use, is not yet to be found in the die
tionary. 1t is the word "deflate:" He
explained that it meant the opposite OF
initiate, and was used principally by the
bicycle people but just as good an illus
tration of its meaning can be found by its
application to the condition of Messrs'
Evans and Irby after the senatorial pri-
mary of last Tuesday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04
NOT SETTLED YET.

Mr.. C.. r. Crook, of Fort Mill township
was in Yorkville last Thursday with elec'
ton returns from Fort Mill box, and
while here had something to say to the
reporter about the proposed bridge over
Catawba river.
dead ~ he exclaimed good naturedly
in answer TO a question from the reporter
mo, the bridge is not dead. It's just
where the commissioners left it at the last
meeting OF the board. It's just hung up
a little; that's all.
"And how do you make that ?"
"Well," explained Mr.. Crook, "You
know the commissioners at first decided
to appropriate $4,000 for the building Of
bridge across Catawba river at Harris's
Ferry. Then they reconsidered so much
of their action as applied to location, and
left that question open. Then, with the
appropriation still pending, they resolved
to submit to the people in the primary
the other day, the question as to whether
or not the appropriation be made. That
was the last action taken, and naturally
people have all along had the right to an
official notice that the election would be
held. Maybe it was because Of the fact
that the board afterward realized that it
had no authority in the matter, that the
notice of an election was not issued; but
if so, that does not settle it, for there is
no doubt of the boards authority to make
the appropriation, and as legal act cam
not be superseded by an illegal one, it
follows, as matter of course, that the
original appropriation is still pending.
"Then what do you look for next?'
"Well, I can't see anything else for it
than that the board will either have to 20
back on what it has done, or build the
bridge at Neely's ferry You see it is just
this way. The board has decided to build
a bridge across Catawba river. That ac-
ton still stands. 1t has reconsidered the
action whereby it selected location at
Harris's ferry. That action still stands.
Then what else is there to be done but to
go back OH everything or build the bridge
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

| - For the consolation and comfort OF
the Conservatives who have voted lor
Mr.. McLaurin in the primary election
we make the following extract from a
communication in the Columbia Regis
ter. signed by Mr.. J. P. Gibson, Of Ben
nettsville, who has been the editor OF tne
Pee Dee Advocate until recently:
One of the worst and most damaging
charges against McLaurln IS MS lnslH-
cerity and faithlessness to- his 1rlenu,
ex Governor Evans. whom he promised
to support last year, but whom ne says
he voted against. McLaurin, on the day
of the primary, came into my Office, ana
we together prepared our tickets. trled
to induce him to vote for Earle; but ne
said that he must vote for Evans, ana ne
arranged an Evans ticket and told me
that he intended to vote it, and l nave
always believed that he voted for Evans ;
but Evans was defeated, ana no" he
(McLaurin) says he voted for Earle.
Mr.. Gibson certainly knows what ne Is
talking about, and he would never dare
to concoct such story. Moreover, he
has always been the devoted friend ana
admirer of McLaurin since the latter en-
tered public life, supporting him in every
campaign until the present, and WORKING
zealously in his behalf rs an editor ana as
citizen. Ingratitude and selfishness are
not unfrequently found among pubic
men, and we are not surprised that Nc
Laurn has developed along this line, Tor
we regard him in the light OF pluper-
feet politician, hardly equaled in the MS
tory of South Carolina.-GreenVille
Mountaineer.
Although the campaign is now over,
the foregoing seems to THE ENQUIRER
to he still worthy of more or less atten-
ton, not so much because of the attack
OH the character of Mr.. McLaurin; but
because of certain moral that may be
drawn from it.
The communication of Mr.. Gibson, TO
which The Mouutaineer refers, and from
which it makes AL extract, was noted by
us Immediately upon its appearance IN
the Columbia Register, and, we confess,
it received more than usual consideration
If we had believed the story, we could
not, in Justice to our readers, have refrain
ed from pointing out at once the proba-
BILE truth of the most damaging charge
that has yet been raised against Mr.. Nc
Laurin-the charge Of being a deliberate
liar. But we did not believe the story
and we will give some reasons why.
Though sorry to confess it, we know
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

at Neely's ferry, where it will not only
accommodate the most people; but where
it will cost at least $1,000 less than at any
other point along the riyer?"
"But what about the reported with
drawal of the petition ~
~ can't see that that has anything to dc
with it. The commissioners have in:
quired into the whole matter on its merits
and when they decided to build the bridge
the petition became back plumber.
cannot see 1t in any other way than thai
the bridge matter is still unfinished bust
ness,n
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

- Though there are many who believe
that McLaurin is the best fitted man in
the state for the position of United States
senator, it does not necessarily follow
that this is the reason Of his overwhel-
ming election. There were many votes
cast for him as protest against Evans
and Irby, who have long since forfeited
the confidence ofthe people. But, all the
same, THE ENQUIRER hopes and believes
that future events will full Justify the
work of last Tuesday, and we frankly
confess here that we shall not be at all
surprised if, within the next few years.
Mr.. McLaurin developes into a national
figure of the size and quality of the INTEL
lectual giants which South Carolina used
to send to the senate in days gone by
Time will show, however.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

Several of our contemporaries say
Mr.. Mr.. Laurin says, and number OF
subscribers who have kindly taken 1t
upon themselves to write us letters, say
that the report Of the Yorkville meeting
as published in THE ENQUIRER, was the
most complete and satisfactory report o,
any one of tie senatorial campaign meet
ings published by any paper in the state
Although we consider this high COM
nliment well calculated to "made us
proud" we shall strive not to be spoiled
by it, and promise to continue in the dis
charge of our duty to our readers just as
carefully and as conscientiously as before.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

and all the monarchs of Europe ex-
cept Queen Victoria and the present
sultan of Turkey. Victoria's children
and the present czar of Russia, when
a child, were his patients. DR.. Evans
has orders and decorations innumera-
BILE, and it was in his Garage that the
Empress Eugene escaped from Paris
after the battle of Sedan.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

DObson's Racket-Announces that Miss
Rae and Mrs. Dobson have returned
from the fashion centres of the north,
and that fine stock of millinery, dress
goods and notions will arrive in few
days. If you will take your lamp t
Dobson's Racket in good condition, II
will he filled with the best. quality OF
Red C oil, without any cost to you.
A pocketbook has been lost and if you
will return it to The Enquirer office
with contents, a reward will be paid.
Grist Cousins-Have arranged to buy cot.
ton this season, and say that they will
deal fairly rs to weights and grades, and
will pay the highest possible prices.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

have been previously inferred there du-
ring the past hundred or more years. The
burial service was under the auspices of
the Yorkville lodge Of free Masons, assist
ed by delegations Of members Of the Or
der from Rock Hill, Chester and other
towns.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04

- The only counties. in which McLaurin
failed to get majority, were Aiken, Col
Teton, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg
and Union, and each of these gave him q
big vote. Irby only carried the county
of Laurens. The other counties mention
ed were carried by Evans.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-04
Ths 4torkrille Gnqairer.
YORKVILLE, s. G. !:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897

THE ENQUIRER is the only paper in
the state-the city dailies not excepted
which succeeded in getting up full re-
turns from it's county on the night of the
election, and, furthermore, it was the
first paper in the state to publish the fact
that McLaurin was elected on the first
ballot.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
EUROPEAN WOMEN.

The favorite beverage of Sarah Bern
hardt is warm milk and water. She
has never used wine or other intoxi-
cantS.
The youngest daughter of Beerbohm
Tree was christened recently at St.
Marguerite's, Westminster, by Canon
Eyton. Her godmother is the duchess
of Portland and her two godfathers
are Lord CRANKY and Lord Rowton.
Queen Victoria approaches her dia-
mond jubilee in excellent health. Ex-
cept a weakness of eyesight and tend
ency to rheumatism, her physique is
perfect, the brain, heart and lungs be-
ing in the same condition as those of
a healthy woman of 90. She certainly
takes as much interest in matchmaking
and in the love affairs of those about
her as woman of 20 does.
The members of the Women's Vege-
tartan union in London have a new
craze. 1t Is for vegetarian dress. They
have concluded that it is as wrong to
kill animals for clothes as for food.
They want vegetable boots, vegetable
gloves, vegetable gowns, and even vege-
table note paper. They have decided
that the kid, the calf and the sheep
shall be spared if their influence can
do it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
FASHIONS FANClES.

Fancy plaid ribbons will be used for
uhiIdren's hats.
The paradise aigrette continues to re-
main in favor.
Bow-knots are again shown in many
of the new lace patterns.
Black accordion plated chiffon gives
lightness to satin braid hats.
The chapeau par excellence will be
the Gainsborough. Plumes will still
be worn on black ones.
Spanish daggers are very definitely
established fad among the ornaments
of the fin de steele belle.
A black tulle hat Yay have color add
cd to it by adjusting cerise roses with
rosettes of cerise satin and MORE.
Hats will not KAYE as massive trim
mings as during the past season, nor
will they be worn as farover the face.
Quite a pronounced tendency is
shown again to birds, white ones in
particular. White cog feathers are
new feature.
Blacl; and white ribbons in plaid as
we'll as stripes, made into all kinds of
shirred and standing bows, are consid-
cred very chic.
New chiffens show small black fig
ures upon ground of cerise, yellow,
green, helotrope, petunia; in fact, all
light shades.
The Paris leader of fashion, Nine.
Caroline RebeauX, is bringing a renew al
of fashion Of long ago, consisting of
long plumes from the side of hat and
sweeping to the back.
BY adding a fold of velvet or of the
same material, with little braid or
passementerie as a heading, the skirt
may be easily heightened, and thus
have the appearance of being quite new
again-
Gorgeous taffeta ribbons in two tones,
as, for instance, one edge of deep vio-
let gradually shading into white,
deep cerise shading into pink, deep
yellow turning into white, ETC., etc.,
will be most effective.
Lace will have an extended vogue
throughout the spring and summer.
Of course, the fine webs are most suit
able. Brussels seems to be the prime
favorite. Many laces are also seen with
spangles.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
YEAST OF LONG DESCENT.
Brought from Ireland. and Its stock
Goes Back of CrOmwelIs Time.

Brought from Ireland. and Its stock
Goes Back of CrOmwelrs Time.
Mrs. Barbara Curran, who lives near
East Orrington. Me-, has stone crock
on a shelf in her cellar which is filled
with yeast, and both the crock and the
yeast came over from Ireland in her
possession in 1916, says the New York
Sun.
She came to America when girl, and
brought the yeast as present to an
aunt, who lived in South Boston. The
ieaven was renewed with freshly
scraped potatoes three times during the
voyage on the sailing packet that
brought her to this country. When
she found employment as a cook in a
Boston boarding house she took this
yeast along and kept it alive and Wig
orous until she was married in 1853 and
went to live in Medford. Before the
war her husband moved to East Orring-
ton and took up the farm where he now
lives. Though they were poor and had
much hard work, the yeast was never
allowed to die out or get stale. The
crock in which it is kept is a hand-mold-
ed brown earthen vessel, holding about
two quarts. 1t was made and baked on
the farm of Mrs. CurTan's father, who
rented place near Galway. Mrs Cur
ran says this particular kind of yeast
has been kept alive in the Norton fam
lily since before the time Cromwell's
soldiers came along and found her
neutrality-suspicious. making bread
for the troops of King Charles l., and |
hanged her to an ash tree in front of |
the house.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
AN OLD HIGHLAND WOMAN.
She Was Not Going to Leave the
"Auld Bit"

"Auld Bit"
She had lived near Mortlach for 67
years, and although the proprietor of
fered her and pressed her to take a
charming cottage mile or two farther
down the glen Betty would not bulge,
says Good Words. Il have been here
the maist o. ma days, and I'm no gaen
10 leave the auld bit" She had been
there alone through all the rigor of
last winter, and what must it not have
been with the bitter frost, the bowling
storms and the wreaths of snow!
"Eh, sirs, it was tarrible cauld," she
told us, "and rats were maist awful I
hae seen them when l lookit DOT o. ma
bed sittin', lots o. them. roun' the fire.
/ catched two dizzen O. them in ae day
IN the trap-they were that hungered."
Her favorite word was "tarrible." Does
the minister come to see you?" THAT
he does, and we had a meetin' in the
farmhouse the other day, and sic tar
rible lot O. folk! I'm sure there were
~ or a." "What will you do, Betty, if
next winter Is as bad?" "That's what
fears me, but the neebors are tarrible
guild to me and they say that if it comes
on hard they'll just carry me to their
ain house." Many little gifts were left
for her by the lady of the manor, and
the last word / heard was: "Eh, but
ye're a. tarrible kind to mel"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
RUNNING TO 4 FiIE.
Response OF New Yorl>'s DC. ,s-tmrnt
toan Electric alarm.

toR an Electric alarm.
'An Alarm of Fire by Telegraph" Is
the subject OF an article by Charles i.
Hill, in St. Nicholas. After describing
the outbreak of a fire in kitchen in
West Sixteenth street, I'd the pulling
OF an alarm from corner box, Mr.. Hill
says: The alarm has been sent. Ii
may seem like an age to the owner as
he stands waiting for the tiremen to APP
pear; but it is a matter of only few
seconds; for within 20 seconds this sta
ton number is ringing in a score or
more of engine houses, and within one
minute and half six companies of APP
paratus are on their way to this box.
He looks up and down the avenue and
what does he see?
Turning into Seventh avenue at the
intersection of Greenwich avenue, five
blocks to the south of where he stands,
a fire engine appears, drawn by three
punging gray horses Asst straightens
out in the broad avenue, they dash mad
ly toward where he stands. y hose wag-
on follows, filed with sturdy men dom
ming rubber coats and fire hats. The
bells of both engine and wagon are
ringing furiously, and the whistle of the
former keeps up a series of short
shrieks.
II is truly an inspiring sight, and he
almost forgets the destruction that
threatens his home.
AS he looks up the avenue he sees APP
preaching from Twentieth street, four
blocks to the north, another piece of
apparatus-a heavy affair that sways
from side to side as it swings from one
car-track to another. This is a truck
or hook-and-ladder company. and it is
preceded by a light wagon containing
two men, one driving while the other
looks eagerly ahead for the appearance
of fire. This is the chief of the Seventh
battalion. who afterwards has charge of
the fire. Whistles and bells in the two
adjoining streets TO the north of him
tell of the approach of more engines.
One is coming from the east, the other
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
REVERSING NATURES PROCESS.
Some Things That Would Happen II
ExperimentaIists Had Their Way.

ExperimentaIists Had Their Way.
The reversibility of the physica
processes of nature has latterly been the
subject of interesting comment, says
Casters Magazine. Lord Kelvin, for
example, has been credited with saying
that all of them, no matter how com
pick they might appear to the human
senses, consist in reality of the motions
of invisible molecules, and if, therefore,
by some means. all these molecules
could, at the same time, be made to move
in exactly the opposite direction, and
each with the same velocity that it
possessed at the moment, all the world
would begin and continue to move back
ward; waterfalls would flow up the
sides of cliffs; rivers would run upward
from the sea; rain would rise; full
blown flowers would shrink into buds
and plants Gwindle into seedlings, MAN
himself would become young again.
passing from old age to infancy. just
what kind of pictLres such u topsy-
turvy world would present may lse seen
with kinetoscope running backward
Prof Queroult, according to report, has
made observations in this line, and some
time ago communicated them to the
French academy of science.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06
HoUSEWIFERY AND INDUSTRY.

The expenses of your house will be
large or small, as you are a bad or good
housekeeper.
Among the most homely, but most es-
sential accomplishments of young
woman is that of housewifery.
Laziness is very apt to come with
wealth, and there are undoubtedly
great many more lazy girls now than
so years ago, but there are no more nat
urally lazy girls in the world than
usual.
Girls who acquire really good edu-
cation now accomplish much more gen.
uine hard work than those in 1.-THE good
old times, who only learned to read and
write. and occupied the most of their
time in the kitchen and dairy.
Nothing that can be called education
and accomplishment can be achieved
without great labor, and the principal
reason why good housewifery is so
much neglected as an accomplishment
is that the time is so much occupied In
study. G. Holland.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-06

from the west. The engine approach
Ing from the east turns the corner of
Eighteenth street, two blocks above,
just as the one coming from the south
is over a block away. 1t is now a mad
race between the two to see which will
first reach the box. The one approach
ing from the south has the advantage
of clear run up the avenue, however,
and arrives at the corner before the
other. The man at the box indicates
by pointing to his home the location of
the fire, and the driver of this engine,
who knows the hydrants in his district
as wen as he knows the stations, turns
the corner on a run and pulls his horses
up beside hydraRt nearly opposite the
fire.
Another truck company has followed
this first appearing engine, also coming
from the south. Another battalion
chief has turned the corner of Four
teenth street, coming from the east, and
following him a strengthening APP
paratus-a fOur-wheeled wagon, carry
ing what one might almost call an enor-
nous cannon with an inverted muzzle
this is water tower" Still another
detachment dashes toward the box from
the north. This is big red wagon
drawn by two noble animals that are
covering the ground with great leaps.
1t is filled with men wearing white rub
Der coats and red fire hats. This is a
section of the fire insurance patrol, and
they come to protect property from
damage by water, and to save what they
can. The third engine coming from
the west follows and pulls up at a hy-
drant on the corner and awaits or
ders."
The first company to arrive have
rushed into the basement with their
hose. The engine is at work in an in
slant, and few dashes of water eXtin-
guishes the fire. The fire insurance
patrolmen go through the building.
opening windows to let the smoke es-
cape and ascertain the amount of dam
age done. Members of the first truck
company to arrive assist the men from
the engine company in putting out any
remaining traces of fire by pulling
down woodwork, plaster, etc, in the
kitchen. The other companies stand
ready to get to work until ordered "to
quarters" by the battalion chief; and
soon there is little evidence of fire be-
yond a wet pavement and a badly
wrecked kitchen.