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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
aROUT PEOPLE.

The address of Rev. J. P. Knox is
now No. 1,215 Gervais street, Colum-
bia.
Miss N. Ophelia Davidson has re-
turned home from Converse college,
Spartanburg.
Miss Sue Jackins, of Blacksburg, is
in Yorkville on a visit to MIR. X. j.
Withers's family.
Columbia State, Sunday: MIR. U.
Frank Hart, of Yorkuille, is now with
the Owings drug store.
Mrs. R. A. Crowell and children,
left for their home at .Albemarle, N.
c., on Monday morning.
Mrs. Eula B. Moore, of Darlington,
is visiting in Yorkville, the guest OF
Mrs. S. Marion Mathis.
Miss Iva Withers returned home
last week from two weeks visit 10
her brothers family, DR.. r. s. With
ers, at Blacksburg.
Thos. F. Mellow, Esq, of the penl-
Tertiary investigating committee, left
for Columbia yesterday. The commit
tee will probably be in session about
one week.
Miss Daisy Mayes, of Charlotte, N.
c., is the guest of Miss Addie Williams,
on Kings Mountain street. Miss Will.
liams expects Miss Carrie Neisler, OF
Rock Hill, today or tomorrow.
The State, Tuesday Misses Frances
Parish and Louise Ratchford, of York
Vile, and Lutte Fewell, of Rock Hill,
attended the commencement exercises
az the Presbyterian college last even
ing.
Mrs. Nancy Lee, only sister of Mrs.
Mary L. Adickes, of Yorkville, died at
the home of her daug hter, Mrs. VIM.
H. Miller, near Shelby, last Friday.
Had Mrs. Lee lived until next August
she would have been 90 years of age.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
WILLIAMS TO MCSWEENEY.-In hi!

WILLIAMS TO MCSWEENEY.-ln his
New York letter to the Greenville
News, Editor Williams volunteers some
advice to Governor McSweeney.
Maybe the advice is good and maybe
it is not. That depends upon con-
ditions that are not reasonably within
the range of present comprehension
but then as coming from Mr.. Williams
it is interesting:
I am glad to see that Governor Nc
Sweeney promises business like ad-
ministration. If Mac will not try to
play politics he will make bigger
success than an election would be. He
has been very iliberally honored and
has reason to feel proud of what he
has done so far. He has the prestige
of being governor. If he wants to be
governor again let him skip term or
two. He is young enough to wait.
The best thing he can possibly do for
himself and South Carolina is to an
nounce now that he will not be can
didate for reelection. Then he will
be footloose and clear of the danger OF
misconstruction, he can command
popular confidence and good will and
free himself of the suspicious, some
times unjust, that always attach to
man believed to be candidate. Let's
have one independent, really business.
like administration free of the taint of
politics and log rolling. The COVER
nor will find that he will be happier
and in every way better off.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
A case in the United States vel

"A case in the United States very
similar to that of Captain Dreyfus, in
France, is that of Captain Oberlin M.
Carter of the United States army.
Captain Carter was in charge of the
work of improving the mouth of the
Savannah river. In collusion with
contractors he swindled the govern
ment out of about $3,0OO,O0O. He
was convicted after fair trial, sem
fenced to dismissal from the army, i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary and
to have his name and crime posted
throughout the United States. Owing,
however, to the influence of his friends,
the papers have not yet reached the
president for approval and Carter has
not been punished. From start to
finish it is a most disgraceful affair.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14

been told me by a prominent Cuban
whose intimacy with the leaders in
Havana lends authority to the state
ment, is that the former revolutionary
element has decided to make virtue
of necessity, and gracefully, to out
ward appearances, accept American
Intervention. At the end of two
years, however, if Cuban independence
is not acknowledged, and the govern
ment transferred to the Cubans, the
torch is to be applied from one end of
the island to the other, by which
means all foreign investments will be
DESTROYED. When it is considered that
the wealth of Cuba is dependent on
agricultural developments, cane and
tobacco, and that a fire being mali
ciously applied to a dry field, would
cause the destruction of thousands of
dollars of value in a single night, the
enormity of the plot becomes appar-
ent.n
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
A WIDOWS MITE.

Quite touching incident occurred
at the semi-annual meeting of the
board of trustees of Epworth Orphan
age in Columbia last Friday, and there
was an interesting sequel in the weekly
session of Trinity Sunday school, York
vile, on last Sunday afternoon.
After making to the trustees last
Friday night an unusually encourag-
ing report of the progress of his work
in behalf of the orphanage, Rev. G. ID.
Waddell produced a small package,
that he had received through the mail
1t contained beautiful gold chain of
curious workmanship, and which
showed the effects of years of wear.
Then, by way of explanation of the
manner in which the chain came into
his possession, he read the following
unsigned letter, by which it had been
accompanied.
Dear Bro. AS 1 listened to you talk,
how I wished for money; but l had
none to give. But enclose a chain,
placed around my neck when a bride
by my dear husband, long since gone
to rest. You can imagine the remem-
brances that cluster around it. l will
saw no more. The chain is worth S2O,
sold as old gold-valued by a jeweler.
At least you can get something for it.
1t is all l have to give. May the Lord
bless you in your work, and open up
the way to great things, is the humble
prayer of A WIDOW.
There was nothing about either the
letter or the package that gave clue
as to their origin except the postmark
of the town of Walterboro, and MIR.
Waddell stated that he was totally at
sea as to the identity of the donor of
the chain. The incident produced
profound impression on the members
of the board of trustees, and it was
some moments before any of them
broke the silence that followed.
Finally, Mr.. H. c. Strauss proposed
to Mr.. Waddell: "You just keep that
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14

F. Mellow, Esq. Very few people
are contributing more than one dollar
each, though some are handing up
quarters and halves. The understand
ing is that large subscriptions are not
especially desired.
No Common Pleas Business.
AS the result of an oversight in the
act changing the time for the holding
of court in York county, no common
pleas business can be transacted at the
approaching term. The court will
have to devote itself exclusively to
sessions business. Nothing will be
done in common pleas except by con-
sent of both sides interested.
Trustc os Think 1t Fair.
Superintendent of Education Car
roll is receiving answers to his inquiry
as to whether trustees would be willing
to pay part or all of the expenses of
teachers in attendance on the summer
school to be in session in Yorkville from
June goth. The answers generally
are quite favorable to the proposition.
The trustees recognize the fact that it
is the schools rather than the teachers
who are to get the prospective benefit
of the attendance of teachers, and for
that reason they are not inclined to
argue against the question of paying
the expense out of the school fund.
Nobody Bid.
Rock Hill Herald, Saturday: In
obedience to the order of court, r.
Lee Kerr, receiver, offered the proper
ty of the Rock Hill Cotton Factory
company for sale at public outcry on
Wednesday last. The property had
been divided into three tracts. That
on which the company's factory build
ing, power house, warehouse and nine
of the tenement houses were located
was numbered l. This was first offered
for sale; but as there being no bidders,
the tract was not sold, whereupon
tracts 2 and 8 were Withdrawn from
sale. The upset price on tract No. l
was $35, 900. The property will be
put up for sale at some future day and
it is believed will eventually bring
good price.
The Price of Water.
The following from the Columbia
correspondence of The News and
Courier is of interest in Yorkville:
"After the 1st of July water in Colum-
bia will be paid for by the cubic foot,
and not by the spout. The new sys-
TEN proposes charging by the 1000
cubic feet. The charges are Is cents
per 100 for the first 10000, and so on
up; on the third 10000 the rate is to
be 10 cents per 100 cubic feet. The
minimum charge is to be $1.25 per
quarter. A great many people are
having spouts put in so that they can
pay for what water they use. Here
tofore some have thought that they
could not afford to pay by the spout.
The old arrangements was SIS for one
spout in the house, So for yard spout,
and 81 for each additional spout ex-
cept closet and bath tub spouts, which
are higher.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14

may not only be in position to keep
the water as pure as it is now; but on
occasion to still further improve its
condition.
As we understand it also, the "sus-
pended" matter referred to by Chemist
Hardin is something which ought not
to be in the water, and which can
probably be gotten rid of by filtering.
As yet no attention has been paid to
liberation but it would not be bad
idea to have this subject investigated.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
GREAT WRONG RIGHTED.

At last Captain Dreyfus, the French
army officer who, some five years ago
was convicted and sentenced to life
time banishment and humiliation for
crimes of which he was never guilty,
is on his way back to France where he
will be retired and vindicated.
The trial and conviction of Captain
Dreyfus, it will be remembered, were
accomplished in secret. Even at the
time few people outside of France be-
lieved that the captain was guilty.
The world at large merely felt that a
horrible mistake had been made; but
since then, as brave men who have
fought public opinion and prejudice at
home, have unearthed one after the
other the horrible facts, there has de-
veloped a story of conspiracy the
like of which it is difficult to be.
lieve could have been Matched out
and perpetrated by the leading men of
a nation standing in the front rank OF
nineteenth century civilization.
In brief the facts are merely these.
The German government had cotton
hold of important military secrets of
France. The fact was generally
known throughout both nations. The
only reasonable theory by which the
leakage could be satisfactorily accoun-
ted for, was treason on the part of a
French officer. That was likely.
Dreyfus is Jew, and with the major
ity of Frenchmen there is an unrea-
sonable prejudice against Jews. There
was no evidence against Dreyfus but
high military officers went to work to
to manufacture it. They forged it..
That has since been established. Then
they condemned Dreyfus on evidence
that they themselves had manufactur-
ed.
AS these truths became more and
more manifest to the nation, and as
it began to develop that a large per
cent. of the people believed in justice,
several of the conspirators either COM
mitted suicide or were murdered in
their prisons, probably by fellow con-
spirators. The circumstances threat
ened another reign of terror, even like
that of 1898, and the danger does not
seem to be yet over.
But in the incident there is still a
comforting lesson that is of great
value. However depraved, wicked
and abandoned may be few men in
high places, and however they may
for time succeed in deluding their
fellows, vast majority of the citizen
ship of any civilized nation is really
honest at heart, and perfers to do right
rather than wrong. Misled and be-
trayed by leaders in whom they re-
posed confidence the French people
are not to be blamed for the terrible
injustice they inflicted on poor Drey-
fus, and they now propose to prove
the fact by making all possible repair
alton.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
C.OCAE. AFFAIRS.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. J. Hunter-Says he will give you more
for dollar than you can get anywhere.
James NJ. Starr & Co.-Offer you lubricat-
ing oils, carriage paints, golden dent
seed corn, and early amber cane seed.
Mrs. IT. M. Dobson-Prints list of use
full articles which are quoted at low
prices.
Sam M. Grist-Talks to you about Oliver
plows, Corbin disk harrows and Evans
steel frame lever harrows.
H. w. Thomson-Gives notice that he
will apply to the county commissioners
to recharted Howell's ferry in his name.
II. G. Strauss-Announces his summer
closing out sale and reduction of 20
per cent. on the marked price of all
kinds of goods in his stock.
Geo. T. Schorb-Has something to say
about the Lester piano which is OH ex-
hibition at the store of the Ganson Dry
Goods company, and lets you know
that he is prepared to sell you Lester
piano, an organ, typewriter or vive
camera.
John r. Logan, S. Y. C.-Advertises a
town lot, one tract Of land in Ebenezer
township, and another in Bethel town.
ship for non-payment of taxes.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
FAVORS EXPANSION.
Senator McLaurin Believes We Should Pro-
tect Our Island Possessions.


tect Our Island Possessions.
Senator John L. McLaurin delivered
the literary address at Woford COM
mencement last Monday. The follow
ing is from the Spartanburg correspon-
dent of the Greenville News:
1t would take two coulmns OF The
Daily News to give fair outline of
the Senator's address. After compli-
mentary reference to the societies and
a short discriminating mention of CAL
houn, the statesman, and Preston, the
orator launched out into his subject,
which was "The Dominating Influence
of Civil Liberty and Christian Civilza-
tion." He had the closest attention of
the audience from the beginning to the
end of the address. His voice was
good and he delivered the message as
though he believed every word of it.
So far as the writer knows he had
never publicly declared himself in
favor of territorial expansion, but after
today there is no doubt as to where he
stands. If another of the South Caro-
lima representatives has thus publicly
declared himself in favor of this ex-
pansion idea we have failed to see.
For some time this writer has had lit.
tie company in the Piedmont in his
decided opinions on this subject, and
it gives him special pleasure to state
that Senator McLaurin is fairly COM
mitted to the general plan of protect
ing our island possessions, giving the
people better government than they
haye ever had, and showing to the
world that civil liberty and Christian
civilization can flourish. even in the
tropics. Even those who differ from
the senator as to territorial expan-
sion admit that he made fine address.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14

- Stories, which it may be hoped are
untrue, come from Hong Kong to the
effect that Hobson's kissing escapades
before he left this country have work
ed him ill. Admiral Dewey, for in
stance, instead of summoning the
young officer to Manila, has kept him
at Hong Kong, and his fellow officers
there, are reported as having as little
to do with him as possible, even going
so far as change their quarters and
take apartments at some distance from
the regular rendezvous of naval off,
GERS because Hobson has located there.
These stories, which have been pub
lished in San Francisco, are fortunate
ly not well authenticated.
We find the above clipping in an
exchange without credit, and we be-
lieve there is more or less truth in it.
Poor Hobson has Jared badly. He
returned to this country from Santiago
one of the heroes of the war. Up at
Atlantic City, or some other point in
the vicinity, while surrounded by a
great crowd of admirers, he kissed a
little girl who was very probably sent
to him for the purpose. A young lady
remarked, loud enough to be over
heard, that she wished she was little
also. Hobson took the hint and kiss
ed her. Then the papers took the mat
ter up and commented on it in all sorts
of ways until poor Hobson was looked
upon only as kisser rather than a
hero. At one time the president was
at loss to find for Lieutenant Hob
son suitable reward. Now since the
poor fellow has been made ridicu-
lous there is no longer any talk of do
ing anything for him. Human nature
is strange thing. So for as right and
justice are concerned the only thing
in connection with Hobson that should
be considered by the government or
the people is his conduct at Santiago.
Yet we see the good sense of the peo,
pie diverted by the ridiculous and Hob
sons splendid heroism in danger ol
going without any practical reward
But after all, it is likely that there is
something else in the back ground
Hobson is southern man, for instance
and in itself his feat was as heroic as
was anything that was done by
Dewey, Sampson, schley, or any
of the others. Maybe the government
has really never had an honest desire
to do anything for Hobson, and consid'
ers with satisfaction the really ir'
relevant condition which seems to hide
its dereliction. But it is not yet toe
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
Y0RKYILLES WATER SUPPLY.

In today's issue OF IHE ENQUIRER
will be found a letter from Chief
Chemist Hardin, Of Clemson college,
giving analyses of Yorkville's public
water supply, and making thereon
some interesting comments.
Taken all in all these analysis
should be highly gratifying to the peo-
pie of Yorkville. They show that
while the public water supply is not
perfectly pure, it is at least drinkable,
and for o chemist to say that water is
"drinkable," from a scientific stand
point, means a great deal. Much OF
the water used in the towns and cities
of the state, would fail to meet with
the approval of the chemist. The fact
is, such approval is the exception rath-
er than the rule.
1t will be noted that at the same
time Chemist Hardin passed on the
public water supply, he also passed on
private supply from bored we'll.
Well water from depth of 100 feet or
more is generally supposed to be far
superior to almost any water obtaina-
BILE from dug we'll. The reasons are
obvious. In this case, however, the
analysis of the bored-well water is not
so satisfactory as is that of the branch
water, and in the absence of further
information, we will have to leave the
comparison of the bored we'll water
with the dug we'll water to individual
imagination and judgment. 1t will
not be out of place however, to sug-
gest that while bored well goes deep
into the earth, far below the surface
water collecting stratas, most of the
dug wells are not only located in long
settled sections but are usually ol
not very great depth.
But Notwithstanding the fine show
ing that a chemical analyses makes fol
Yorkville's public water supply, the
people Of Yorkville cannot yet afford
to rest thoroughly easy with regard to
the matter. In the first place, owing
to the peculiar conditions existing
there is no guarantee that an analysis
at one season Of the year would be
anything like another analysis made
at another season. The water shed
from which the supply Of public water
comes, belongs to private parties who
have the right so do with and OH j,
as they please, anything that may con
tribute to the better enjoyment of the
property. This includes the right and
probability of setting up sources o.
water contamination, not for the pur
pose of communicating the water; but
as an incident to Improvement of the
property. In all, this water shed does
not include much more than 100 acres
and if the people Of Yorkville con
template their present water supply
as a permanent arrangement, they
will, among other things, do we'll tc
get possession of it in order that they
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
The Charlotte Observer of la:

- The Charlotte Observer of last
Saturday tells how Savannah river
dredge boat was destroyed on the day
before by fire originating from spon-
taneous combustion in the "ice hold"
Surely our usually correct contempo-
rary would not have us believe any
thing like that. Most of the other pa.
pers had the fire originating in the oil
hold, which. sounds more like it. Fri
day, however, was very hot day.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
The atorkrille enquirer.
YORKVILLE, s. c.:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE IA, 1899.

- There is need in this state for laws
to prevent life insurance speculations'
There are people who make speculs-
ton in insurance policies on the lives
of individuals in whom they otherwise
have no special interest regular bus
mess, and the tendency is most dan
gerous.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
LOCAL LACONICS.
Until January LIST, 1900.

Until January LIST, 1900.
The TwICE-A-WEEK ENQUIRER, filled
with the best and most reliable up-to-date
news, will be furnished from the date OF
this issue until January lst, 1900, for Sl.l2
Little Criminal Business In Prospect.
Sheriff Logan says that he has mol
more than half dozen prisoners in
Jail awaiting trial at the next term Of
the court of general sessions. AS yet
no murder cases have developed and
the outlook now is that the business oi
the court will not consume two days.
Condition of Cotton.
Reports from the cotton crop
throughout the county are to the effect
that it is generally fine especially on
sandy lands. In some instances the
dry hard crusts, characteristic of red
lands that do not get sufficient rain at
the right time, have prevented good
stands.
Caught EN- Again.
The latest discoverer Of Reese and
Luckie is a man at Emporia, Kansas,
who writes to the governor under date
of June 9. He wants to know wheth-
er the reward is still outstanding and
promises to turn one half of it over to
the Emporia sheriff. In conclusion,
he asks the governor to ship him two
pups, by express.
The Hampton Home.
81 want dollar in that Hampton
house." was the way Mr.. w. S. Wilk-
erson put it the other day when he
placed dollar in the hands of Thos.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14

- The war department has decided
that each state of the Union shall
have one of the guns captured at San
tiago. Governor McSweeney has put
in a claim for South Cardinals gun,
and the understanding is that the peo-
pie of Columbia will pay the expense
incident to transporting it to that city
and mounting on the grounds of the
ca6tol.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14

late to correct the injustice. 1t would
be we'll if some southern representa-
tive would lay the matter before con-
gress and make that body either right
the wrong or decline to do justice.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-10-28
HOW THE Beers FIGHT.

Fl. I. Cleveland, an English cor
respondent who went through tho
1881 campaign, wrote at that time Of
the fighting qualities of the Beers:
I'VE are never able to see the
enemy. Except before the fight at
at Majuba Hill, 1 nsver saw but a
handful of them at any time. And
when they thought We noticed them
they and their horses disappeared as
if swallowed up by the earth. 1
think we all feel that they can shoot.
Our losses at Hatfeel and Laing's
Mex show that. We were very much
in the open, but not a blessed
Bosr was to be seen. But every
once in q while there was a crack of q
rifle, and then n of our poor boys
would go over, the line would close
up and we would begin chasing again
for the enemy we could never find.
1 was taken prisoner just after Gen
eral Colley was killed, and 1 a say
that l could not have been treated
better by any people. They were
kind to our wounded, did not modest
the dead nor insult us of the living.
I think they are q very brave people,
and, as for fighting, they seem to
know just as much about il as we do