Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-01-05

cation OF q stronger cotton goods mar
ket soon. The mills in this section are
sold ahead for intervals varying from
a few weeks to two months. The cot
ton goods market is dull at present,
even more so than at the corresponding
date last year.
An employee of the census office at
Washington says that many ludicrous
misunderstanding occurred while the
count Of the people was in progress.
Among the queries on the blanks fur
nished to the enumerators was one
which was indicated thus Length Of
residence" This was expected to show
how long each person had lived in the
place where he resided when the census
was taken, but when the reports came
in it was found that some Of the emu
merators had misunderstood the nature
of the question, and had answered in
figures-"20x40," "76 feet" etc. Evil
IDENTIFY they had measured the length
of the residences of the people they
counted.
Senator Hanna was asked on Mon
day: What do. you think Of Grover
Cleveland's advocacy of an additional
tenure of office for the PRESIDENT" 1T
is good business proposition to ex-
tend the term Of the next president to 6
years, or longer, and then limit him to
that one term. Such procedure would
avoid the disturbance of business rela-
tions which now comes every four
years, and would do away with lot Of
useless agitation. 1t would be foolish
to advocate such measure simply be-
cause Mr.. Cleveland happened to speak
Of it; but the fact remains that lon
ger tenure Of office for president would
enable him better to carry out policy
which required careful attention than
does the present short term. Then lin
itation of his presidency to that one
term would be an additional incentive
for him to accomplish all the good
things possible during his incumbency
Of the office, so that his administration
memory"
In true Sunday school story style
the wild beasts devoured little. Willie
Courtney, Of Bellington, who ran away
from his home and was lost in the
woods two weeks ago, says Parkers-
burg, w. Va, special to the Baltimore
Sun. Search was made for him at the
time, but no trace Of him was found
until yesterday, when a party Of hunt
ers found what was left Of his little
body, at the top Of the Laurel noun
tains, where it had evidently been car
ried by the beasts. His clothing was
torn by the animals claws, his face
was almost eaten away and the eyes
had been torn out Of the sockets. He
was recognized by the clothing and the
contents of the pockets and was car
ried back to town. Willie Courtney
had no parents. He was taken from
the poorhouse in Randolph county sew
eral months ago by Benjamin Oggles-
by, who took him into his family as a
child OF his own. He was we'll cared
for, but, boy like, longed for wider ex-
perience and ran away from his home
to see the world. He was probably hid
ing in the woods to avoid pursuit when
he became lost and was attacked by
some wild animals and killed.
Says the Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Record: Minister
Conger, cut to the quick by criticisms
of his conduct in Pekin, will resign,
say his friends here. It is expected
that ne will do this in the guise Of re-
quest for leave of absence on the
ground of i'll health, and that he will
resign upon his arrival home. He has
been charged by the state department
with dullness of apprehension, lack of
good judgment, and with having allow
ed his personal feelings to blind him to
the higher dictates Of humanity by in
sisting upon impossible terms upon
China and the demands for the heads
Of princes. Although frequently in
formed as to the exact views Of the ad-
ministration, it Is said he misconstrued
his instructions to strike out the word
"irrevocable" from the demands made
on the imperial government and ap-
proved the note with that word in it,
thereby misleading the British minister
and securing his signature to the doc
ument. The note thus became an ulti-
matum delivered to China-the very
thing that the administration had de-
sired to avoid. Caustic comments have
been made by officials here about Mr..
Conger's stupidity" The state de-
partment now plans to send out to Pc
kin several commissioners, who are ex-
perts in fiscal and commercial mat
ters, to assist" Mr.. Conger. His
friends say he will not await their ar
rival.
In reply to the toast Of Hail Col
umbia," at a supper given by the Col
umbia Club, at Indianapolis, last Tues
day night, former President Harrison
said, in part: "It has been recently said
that our fathers organized misshapen
nation, If these limitations and reserva-
tions apply to all lands that become a
part of our public domain, and to all
peoples whose allegiance we accept.
Now, whatever the professors Of aes-
thetics may tell us about beauty in the
abstract, we know that in nature and
mechanics and in formative statecraft
such a principle has chiefly to do with
an intended use. That which perfectly
accomplishes the designed use is not
msshapen. Orators are misshapen
eagles, as all of us have found when we
tried to soar. And so, before we con-