Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-15

nance against the use of cocaine and
to make arrests. The menace is gene
raj throughout the city. This order
must be strictly adhered to, and you
will make written reports to this office
of each offender arrested, and from
whom the drug was purchased. wheth-
er from druggist or peddler.
Says a New Orleans dispatch Of the
9Th instant: Another largely signed pc.
tition Is on the way from Mississippi
in favor Of an act Of congress provid-
ing for pensions for former slaves. The
ex-slave pension craze is stronger
among the Negroes Of Mississippi than
those of any other Southern state, and
it is estimated that 10000 Of them have
been mulcted of their hard-earned
money by the willy Negroes who are
promoting the movement. No less than
a dozen agents Of the ex-slave pension
operators have been sent to the Fede-
raj penitentiary from Mississippi dur
ing the last year for imparsonating
Federal officer and getting money from
the Negroes for the ex-slave pension
act. But this seems to have had no
effect upon the fraud.
In a letter to the Chicago Record
Mr.. w. E. Curtis says: 1t is singular
fact that the only bloodthirsty commu-
nicationSreceived at the White House
and the department Of state on the
Chinese question, come from ministers
of the gospel, especially from mission
aries. Forgetting the gentler teach
ings of Christ, they insist upon the ap-
plication of the Mosaic law in the
punishment of the Chinese-an eye for
an eye and a tooth for tooth-and
the utter destruction of the cities In
which the wickedness has been COM
mitted. They demand the lives Of the
emperor and empress dowager, and all
the members Of the court, and the
wholesale slaughter Of the officials Of
the government. Many Of them de-
mand that Pekin shall be burned to
the ground and the site sown with salt.
1t is the spirit Of those who hewed
Agag to pieces before the Lord.
The bill introduced recently in the
Georgia legislature restricting the ages
of children in cotton and other facto-
ries, was killed. This bill has made it's
appearance quite number Of years In
succession, only to meet the same fate.
The New York Commercial says: 'The
opponents of the measure are largely
the operatives themselves. They argue
that they are poor and that their chill
dren must of necessity work. The mill
owners, too, have, as a rule, opposed
the measure. They say that, aside
from the poverty of the cotton mill op-
eratives' families, the South has no
compulsory educational law; that these
parents would not send their children
to school if they were debarred from
the mills; that to turn these children
out into idleness would be to make life
time loafers out of them; and that, bad
as is the position Of young working
child, the position of an idle, loa1ng
child is to be the more deplored."
Colonel J. H. Estill, the editor Of the
Savannah News, says that a buzzard
once flew from New York to Charles
ton. S. c., in four hours. There had
been a lot of talk about the time which
would be required for one Of the fly
ers to get home, and it was agreed one
day to box up a fine looking specimen
and ship it to New York. There was
great deal of interest in this test Of
speed, and the man who received the
swift bird Of the air was instructed to
release it at a certain hour and to tele-
graph the moment the buzzard shifted
the free air. The message came here
til o~1y yn1 FOR
identification, had been released from
It's box and watchers were stationed
in Market street to time the moment
of arrival. Various time allowances
had been suggested by the interested
crowd of watchers, and the prevailing
idea was that the buzZard could not
get back home for a day, If at all. But
this is where the people were wrong,
for, as I remember it, the buzzard
poked it's nose toward Charleston as
soon as it was set free, and the trip to
Charleston was made in four hours.
The old bird appeared to be very much
the worse for wear when it got in, but
a record had been made. and all the
pools made on the flying time were up
set"
Greensboro Record, 10th: In the
vernacular of the street. this story
sounds nightly like lie," but il
is vouched for in that the records of
the Southern Railway show that it is
true. Yesterday afternoon No. IS, the
fast mail south, left Danville on time,
but when it arrived here it was late,
and hereby hangs a tail-a cows tail
This train does not stop between Dan
vile and Greensboro. AS it flew by
Stokesland. the agent at that place saw
something dragging from the trucks of
a car near the middle of the train. He
rushed into the telegraph office and
wired Pelham to stop the train-that
something was wrong with the trucks
of one of the cars. When the engineer
saw the red light he yanked on his air
and stopped. He thought some fellows
neck was in the halter; that perhaps
an order had been disobeyed and a col
lision had been narrowly averted, but
he was soon relieved by reading the
wire from Stokesland. Then search