Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-31

may claim Sucn care.
- The French court of cessation has
at last granted new trial to Captain
Dreyfus, who was some years ago SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment on Devils
island on the charge of having betray-
ed French military secrets to foreign
government. 1t is reported that an
order has been issued for an immediate
return of Dreyfus to France, and there
seems to be every reason to believe
that upon a new trial he will be ac-
quilted. But few people outside Of
France have ever thoug ht that Captain
Dreyfus was guilty of the crime Of
which he was convicted.
The latest news from the Philip
pines is not so encouraging as that of
last week. 1t is to the effect that the
rainy season is commencing, and
with it renewed activity among the
hostile Filipinos. The Filipinos have
taken the recent peace negotiations to
mean that the Americans are getting
tired of fighting and they think that
now is good a time to strike. The
Americans fully realize the inadequacy
of their forces. They have fought
over a considerable area of territory
and swept it clean of the enemy but
being unable to leave garrisons behind,
find that the Filipinos have re-occu-
pied the territory from which they had
been driven. A great deal of the hard
work, therefore, that has been done,
is to be done over again. If the Fill
ipinos continue to resist, it is very
clear that they cannot be completely
subdued except with the help of a
much larger army than is now at hand.
- Mrs. w. J. Bryan, herself a grad
uate of the academy for young women,
in Jacksonville, Ill.,, made the chief
address to the graduating class last
Friday. Mrs. Bryan spoke on "The
American Woman" She said among
other things: "The public find the
American woman an interesting SUBJ
iect. This interest follows from the
unique position in which American
women stand today. The American
women should be sufficiently indepen-
dent to study her own surroundings,
choose her own course and live the
life which is best for herself and those
nearest her, without regard to the
opinion of the outer world. While we
hear great deal these days about
equality, the real permanent advance
ment of woman depends on her indi-
vidual development. When man finds
in woman a thorough appreciation Of
his work and aims; and the mind OF
woman becomes the perfect supple
ment and complement of the mind Of
man which the Creator intended it to
be, then will all the discussions as to
the rights and privileges cease"
- Admiral Dewey telegraphed the
navy department that he will stop at
various places on his way to the United
States, and will reach New York about
October l. Admiral Dewey's dispatch
did not enumerate the points where
the Olympia will touch en- route to
New York. 1t may be that an effort
will be made to ascertain these for the
benefit of the officials of some of the
towns, especially along the Mediter-
ranean, who may desire to take official
notice of the visit to their ports of the
distinguished naval officer and his
famous flag ship. Some of Dewey's
friends in the navy department sus-
pect that the admiral is purposely
evading statement of his itinerary,
desiring to avoid, as far as possible, all
demonstrations. His friends here init
mate that having been obliged by his
health to decline to attend the dinner
at Hong Kong in honor of the queens
birthday, very unusual declination,
Admiral Dewey will find it impossible
to depart from the rule he there estab-
lished and attend any banquets or pop
ular demonstrations in this country.
An interesting report has been re-
ceived at the treasury department to
the effect that paper money of the
United States is not desirable as a Cir
culating medium in our new posses
sions in the Philippines. The report
was not inspired by political reasons
or desire to aid the cause of sound
money {; but simply as a matter of
economy. 1t is stated that sometime
ago the treasury shipped something
like S1,OO0,000 in paper money to the
paymasters in the Philippines, with
which to pay off the American forces
there engaged. In that region white
ants infest almost every house, and
they devour everything that is not
stone or metallic. These pestiferous
insects made raid on Uncle Sans
greenbacks, and it is said they destroy
ed many thousands of dollars intended
for the soldiers and sailors of our navy.
Under the circumstances it is recon-
mended that no more paper money be
shipped to the Philippines. According
to the records of the state department
these white ants are not only offenders
against the American nation but they
make no discrimination in favor OF any
particular nationality when they begin
an attack. In report of one of our
consuls, stationed at one of the Chinese
ports, it is stated that these white ants
are so ferocious that they made an at
tack upon the American consulate and
destroyed its entire contents, with the
exception of an old iron safe in the
consulate's office. Under the circum-
stances gold and silver will, in the
future, be sent to pay our forces in the
Philippines.