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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-02

Don't leave me In anger, Craig"
man. But. then. you were not like 9th.
er men even then. What have you got
on your mind nowT
How do you get your clothes"
"Eh? Papa gets them for me-that
is, he pays for them"
81 mean where do you get them"
"At the dressmaker's. Of course"
"Do they cost much?"
ASK papa. He says they cost for
tune"
What Is a dressmaker"
"Why, q dressmaker is a woman who
makes dresses and things. You have
to 60 to the stores and do your shop
ping, you know, and it's great fun.
Then you take what you have bought
to your dressmaker and she cuts and
fits and makes. There are men dress
makers, too, but prefer woman"
"Dressmakers live in cities, do they
not?"
Certainly. You'll find them every
where where women live, but you must
be sure to get good one. Heavens.
what figure you have got to fit! It's
just perfect Mrs. Gusset would 60
wild over 1t. But If ! were you |
wouldn't worry about dresses. I've got
a plan In my head for you."
what Is it. Erna"
"I'll take your waist and bust meas
ure, and so forth. and when get back
to Kansas City I'll have something
made up that will do. I'll send the
things on. and then you come to me.
They'll do to travel in. you know, and
when you get to Kansas City III put
you in the bands of Mrs. Gusset, and
she'll fix you out in no time"
Very well. Erna." replied Lisle, with
sigh. ~ will write to you when am
ready"
In the morning Llsle bade her new
friends goodby. Mounted on her ia
vorite horse. she rode part Of the dis
tance with them. and after they sepa-
rated she sat upon her horse. shading
her eyes with her hands and watching
them for a long time. At last she
wheeled her horse and dashed back
again toward her own home, and for
the first time in her life she felt utterly
alone.
The following day, alone, she rode
away from the ranch.
NO DE coNr1NI,ED
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-02

"HEssIANs For MCLAURIN.-There
was a session of the summer political
school at Laurens on Thursday. Mes
srs. Hemphill, Johnstone and Latimer
were present and made speeches. The
daily papers have given very little
space to it; but from the meagre ac-
counts that have been printed a very
interesting fact is gathered, and that
Is that Mr. Latimer used some very
bitter language concerning the recent
meeting at Anderson.
The city editor Of the SpartanburG
Journal attended the meeting. he
wrote:
"Mr. Latimer made the liveliest
speech. He said Mr.. McLaurin went
to Anderson like a thief in the night
and that he had about 4UO Hesslans
ready to cheer him."
The special from Laurens to the AT
lanta Journal had this:
"Latimer denounced McLaurin and
said his Anderson applause was given
by Aessians and boys who would ap-
piaud anything he said"
The McLaurin supporters here who
heard the McLaurin-J -Johnstone debate
and remember all the circumstances,
laugh at what Mr.. Latimer says, and
Mr.. Latimer's friends are surprised that
he has allowed himself to make such
an assertion.-Anderson Daily Mail,
September IA.
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leric Van Rensselaer, Dey.

He turned to leave the room, and
Lisle's brows contracted with pain.
She sprang to his side and detained
him with q gesture that was more
nearly feminine than anything she had
ever done.
Don't leave me In anger, Craig" she
said. You promised out there on
the plain to be father and mother to
me. | never needed you so much as I
need you now. but for the present, un-
til have learned to know myself. you
must remain at a distance. do not
know why feel that it must be so. but
| do. and 1t must be, even If you are
angry. You won't go away before
morning. CraigT
mo"
He left her alone then; not in anger,
but in something that so closely resem-
bled it In outward appearance that any
other than Lisle would have been de-
ceived, but there was smile upon her
face, for she knew that she had con-
quered where she had feared defeat.
Her plans were thoroughly mapped out,
and the only impedlment to their frui-
ton had ceased to exist.
"Erna," she said later. when they
were alone in their room together, 81
want to ask you some strange ques-
tions."
"For goodness sake, don't ask them,
If they are any stranger than the ones
you asked me the night Of my arrival.
/ do not know now how stood up un-
der them, thinking that you were a
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A FAMOUS HYMN.-The hymn, Near
er, My God, to Thee" which President
Mckinley sang in his dying moments,
and which was sung at the funeral SER
vices the world over, has an interest
ing history.
It is said to be the best metrical ex-
preston in modern psamody Of the de-
sire for a more intimate spiritual ac-
quaintance with God.
It's imagery embraces the associations
esting religious experiences recorded In
the early Hebrew Scriptures, Jacobs
vision at Luz. And he lighted up
certain place." says the Scriptures of
Jacobs wanderings, "and tarried there
all night, because the sun was set; and
he took of the stones Of that place and
put them for his pillow and lay down
in that place to sleep. And he dream
ed, and behold ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heav-
en-: and behold the angels Of God as
cending and descending on it."
Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, author of
the hymn, was daughter Of Benjamin
Flower, an English writer and editor.
She was born in. 1905.
In 1S41 she published dramatic
poem in five acts, entitled Viva Per-
petua," in which she portrays the expe-
riences of the early martyrs.
The hymn Nearer, My God, to Thee"
was record Of her own religious ex-
perience, and was written as memo
rial of answered prayer, probably with
out any expectation that it would be Of
public service. 1t was furnished with 1S
other hymns to Charles Foxs collec-
ton of Hymns and Anthems" publish
ed in London in 1841.
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taken up the mountain with them and

taken up the mountain with them and
beaten to death before their eyes.
Though I know nothing as to which
direction the captives were taken, I
think it most likely that they will be
brought into Bulgaria. A Bulgarian
army officer came today, sent by the
government, to learn about these bri-
gands. He said they had special in
structions and that they would guard
their border very closely"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-02

DIRTY oLITIcs. Since the death Of
committeeman for the Republican party
in this state, there has been some spec
ulation as to who will be his successor.
The newspapers in the state that are
resorting to all manner of means to
prejudice Senator McLaurin's return to
the United States senate, have begun to
connect his name with influencing the
name of Webster's successor. Colonel
John G. Capers' name has been men
toned, and there is a strong likelihood
of his appointment; but McLaurin has
no voice in the matter, it Is matter
entirely for the Republicans, and as
Colonel Capers is Republican, and so
recognized ever since 1896, we do not
see why the opponents Of McLaurIn
should connect him with his selection.
Capers was appointed district attor-
ney as Republican, and endorsed for
the position by the most prominent Of
that party in the United States senate.
McLaurin and a number of other Dem
ocrats gave him their endorsement also,
because they preferred him to other Re-
publicans. Had their been any chance
for a Democrat to have received this
appointment, McLaurin and the other
Democrats would not have endorsed
such; but the Republican party Is in
power and as the appointment was to
go to one Of that party, there was not a
choice between a Republican and a
Democrat, but between Republicans
only, therefore Mr.. McLaurin gave his
endorsement to Capers because he Is
a Carolinian and all Of his interests are
identified with us. But in the selection
Of an executive committeeman McLau-
rim nor any other Democrat will be con-
suited, and the coupling Of McLaurin's
name is a ruse to deceive the people in
to believing that McLaurin Is organic
ing a white Republican party In this
state, which they know Is not true.
When it comes to matters Of holding
offices in this state. If McLaurin can
get Democrat appointed he will cer-
tainly do so; but II it must be Re-
publican and he is consulted at all, then
he will endeavor to advise the appoint
ment Of one who will not be obnoxious
to the people and one in whom the peo-
pie can have respect.-Manning Times.
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Emperor Paul, Russia, choked -. :. 1901
Sultan Selim, Turkey, stabbed >. 1906
President d'Istria, Greece, saber.. 1881
Duke of Parma, Italy. 1854
President of Haiti, stabbed. .... 1853
Pres. Lincoln, United States, shot 1865
President Balta, Peru. shot :. 1872
President Moreno, Ecuador, shot. 1872
President Guthrie, Ecuador, shot. 1873
Sultan Aziz. Turkey. Stabbed.... 1874
President of Paraguay. shot. ..... 1871
Pres. Garfield. United States. shot 1881
Car Alexander II, Russia, bomb 1881
Pres. Barrios, Guatemala, shot. 1885
Queen of Korea, poisoned. ........ 1890
President Carnot, France. stabbed 1894
Shah of Persia. stabbed. .......... 1896
Pres. j. Barrios, Guatamala, shot. 1898
Empress OIL Austria. stabbed. 80. 1899
King Humbert, Italy, shot. ........ 1900
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AssAssINATIoNs OF A CENTURY.-Fol-
lowing is the record of rulers who were
during the Nineteenth
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NOT LIKE OTHER MEN.
By Frederick Van Rensselaer, Dey,

Author of Sence,' ''The Quality
O. q
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08
NEW YORK SNAKES.
Twenty-Five Kinds in the State and
Three Are Poisonous.

Three Are Poisonous.
Edwin c. Eckel of the New York
State museum at Albany has compiled
facts which show that in New York
state 25 kinds of snakes have been
found, or can reasonably be expected
to occur. Of these several are only
varieties, says the New York Sun.
The list of snakes is as follows: Tho
worm snake, ring-necked snake,
blowing adder, green snake, black
snake. racer, pine snake, milk snake,
brown snake, De Kay's brown snake,
three species of garter snakes, copper
head, masasauga or prairie rattlesnaka
and the banded rattlesnaEe 1t is OF
some interest to note that only the last
three Of the above list are poisonous.
OF these the copperhead is found usu-
ally in marshy or swampy land, while
the banded or common rattlesnake is
commonly an inhabitant of rocky hills.
The masasaul.M is a smaller species
than the banded rattlesnake and has
never been found in this state except
in one swamp near the Genesee river.
Both the copperhead and the rattle
snake are much rarer than is common
~ supposed, the latter being practic-
ally confined to the Adirondack region
and to those parts of Orange and Rock
land counties which fall within the
highlands Of the Hudson. Deaths
from their bite are very rare, probably
not exceeding, in this state, one case
in i've years. The copperhead, while
smaller than the rattlesnake, and
therefore less venomous, is generally
regarded rs the more dangerous of the
two species This is due to the fact
THAI the ratt!eanake will, in general,
give warning Of his intention 20 strike,
while the CCppCrhead lies silently and
mCtionless until his victim is within
reach Of his fangs. Though frequently
one sees in print descriptions Of meth
DDS by which poisonous snakes can be
differentiated from harmless species,
few of the tests commonly given can
be applied at safe distance, and some
of them are not applicable to all Of
our poisonous snakes. For example,
It has been often stated that the pois-
onous snakes have many small scales
covering the tops OF their heads, while
the harmless varieties are covered with
4 few comparatively large plates. This
Is true as far as tho banded rattlesnake
is concerned but both the masasauga
and the copperhead have the large
head-plates like harmless snakes. The
thickness of the body is also, to some
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

Twelve utterly Helpless men lay In
their hunks in various stages of de-
lrium. Some had lost all their teeth
They were nursed by the sailors OF
the Kasbek until the ship got into
Sandy Hook. The Kasbek's able sea
man furled the old clippers sails, and
she was taken in tow. After she got
into quarantine Captain Reed, his
wife, and those of his men who were
able to talk, spun the yarn of the
hapless ships protracted voyage.
When she sailed from Hong Kong her
crew were in good health. The skip
per was recovering from a paralytic
stroke. This affected his tongue, and
he was unable to talk so his men could
readily understand him. He gave his
orders to his wife, who has a good,
deep sea voice, and she, in turn, gave
them to the men. In the China sea
the ship was struck by two typhoons,
which blew her out of her course.
Captain Reed had intended to sail by
way of Cape of Good Hope, but he was
so far off his course that he decided to
make for the Horn. He had very little
lime juice and vegetables, but plenty
of salt horse He had expected to
make the while voyage inside the
time it took him to reach Cape Horn.
Light airs and calms held him back.
He lost his Chinese cook by pneumo-
MIA, and in December, 1896, scurvy
broke out in the forecastle. Seaman
Thomas King died OF it on December
26. Thomas Olsen succumbed in Janu-
ary. Thomas Judge died on February .
IL. He wrote a letter in his delirum,
in which he said that he believed the
captain was giving the seamen some
thing to make them swell up, and he
believed that the mate and the young
Chinaman aft knew something about
it. Mate Steven G.. Bunker and Sea-
man George King also died in Febru-
airy. On March / only the skipper, his
wife and the second and third mate
were able to work. The wife kept the
log, as neither of the mates were able
to work because of swollen hands 4
brisk gale sprang up, and the crippled
mates went aloft to furl the main
topsail. Captain Reeds wife said that
ttI Ii4o pIi ibi Vi lllC fOSdBsb Sllt Dts1uI
her hardest work. The captain came
to me, she said in telling the marine
reporters her experience and asked
me to take the wheel while he helped
those on deck. I did so. 1t was bitter
cold and | was not prepared for the
weather, but | stuck to the wheel
until my husband came aft and re-
lieved me until | could go below and
get big ulster of his to wrap myself
in. l was steadily aC it that day from
Z o'clock until noon | was pretty
tired before | was relieved. | went
back to the wheel after I had little
rest and something to eat
Mrs. Reed worked calamity for the
helpless sailors, making broths and
gruels of oatmeal for them. They
begged for salt meat, but, as that
would have added to their illness,
they were not allowed to have it.
"Llodys' agent in New York read of
the heroism of the skipper's wife and
found that the story was not exagger-
ated. Lloyds decided that the hero
ism was worthy of recognition, so they
authorized Captain Clark to send her
medal. IS. A. Wood. in Ainslee's
MAGAZINE
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

man! What's the use? Somehow l
left my manuscript in the street car,
when I was taking 1t to the publishers
one of those things one does through
trying too much to be extremely care
full You found it-liar, you must have
done so-and you kept it. 1 applied
to the office of the car company,
searched the newspapers, expecting
to discover that some honest man had
found and advertised it; but it never
came back to me. Gradually I gave
up hope, and then I saw the book for
SALE with Halifax Flanders on it as
the author. 1 knew then how I had
been cruelty robbed. l had obtained n
situation on the Bulletin in the mean
time
But how did you discover me:"
ierked out the cringing man.
Eyes you may well ask. Yesterday
ran across a friend whom I had lost
sight of years ago. She had set up
typewriting agency-yes, Miss Jerning,
you know her-and from her I gath.
cred who it was that had robbed me.
J. was you-you cur-you thief-whom
| have come to interview for my paper
Tomorrow that interview will appear.
All your knavery will be exposed to
the world. You nearly killed me by
stealing the child of my brain, the
child I've wept over and nearly starved
over. and now I'll have my revenge"
She ceased, and the man looked up
into her face.
"How do you think you can prove
that you wrote the story?" he gasped.
But the woman turned to the door,
and was gone.
Next day the Bulletin came out with
an interview with the great "Halifax
Flanders" set in double-leaded type,
and an exposure of his infamy. Peo-
pie smiled increduously when they
read II, and wondered how such a wild
statement could have squeezed itself
into the columns of so reputable q
journal.
A few hours later the evening papers
contained the news of the suicide of
the author of "rhe Maze of Life"
man named French. who had hidden
his identity under the peculiar pseu-
donym Of Halifax Flanders" New
York Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08
Father Times own Clock.

"rho transmitting clock at the Ma
val Observatory, Washington, is the
absolute monarch of American time
keepers" writes, Evander McIver
Sweet in the Ladies' Home Journal.
Every day in the year except Sunday,
by one pendulum stroke it speaks di-
rectly and instantaneously to every
city and considerable town between
the peaks Of the Rockies and the pines
of Maine, saying to them that on the
seventy-ffth meridian it is now high
noon to the fraction of a second. A
duplicate mechanism, stationed at the
Branch Naval Observatory on Mare
Island, performs a similar service for
the people of the Pacific slope. And
by this one clock at the national capi-
tai together with its duplicate on the
Pacific, is set nearly every timepiece
in the United States and Cuba, most
of those in Mexico and many on the
border of Canada. A number of
clocks-from three to 3000-in nearly
every city and large town are wired
together into local family, and, by
means of a switch key at the telegraph
office. are put into direct contact with
the parent clock at the national capi-
tai. So that the instant the electric
touch is given from Washington every
clock in the circuit-whether it be at
Boston, Minneapolis or New Orleans
begins a new day in perfect accord
with its mechanical deity"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

A real home is less picturesque than
an ideal one, but deal more comfort-
able.
Many will ask for your candid opir
ion but none will thank you for it.
Esotism and cowardice have the
same mother.
No world-wise woman ever assured
Il man that she was always the
same
Unless the Sphinx has broken ST.
lence the riddle of woman is vet un-
solved.
Mans first thoughts need revision;
not so woman's, which are intuitions.
Woman has put more spokes in the
wheel of destiny than man.
Take good look at girls mother
before you commit yourself, is very
respectfully submitted to wooers.-
Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08
Causes of Former European supremac,

Causes of Former European remacy
A thousand years ago, when Con
stantinople was the capital of the
world, the eastern trade reached Scan
dinayia by this route, Kiev being the
outpost of the Greek economic system,
and Nogorod the northern emporium,
says Brooks Adams in the Atlantic.
Within the northern commercial thor
oughfare lay the cradle and hot bed of
western civilization; beyond lay DESC
late wastes imDenetrable alike TO the
trader and the soldier. These wastes
cut Europe off from the Pacific coast.
Il region singularly favored both in
soil and minerals. Europe, on the
contrary, has never been remarkable
either for the fecundity of its soil or
the wealth of its mines. 1t reached
high fortune rather because, before
railroads its physical formation lent
itself in a supreme degree to cheap
transportation.
A tongue of land deeply indented by
the sea and penetrated throughout by
navigable rivers, it could market what
it had when the treasures OF Asia and
America lay inaccessible. This ad-
vantage Europe retained until within
about twenty years, and the new in
dustrial revolution has been at onca
the cause and the effect of its loss.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08
OUR COAL SUPPLY.
Our DitumInous Fields the Most Ex.
tensive in the World.


tensive in the World.
The $4,000 square miles of coal fields
belonging to the United States give it
supply averaging one square mile of
coal field to each Is square miles of
territory. The meaning of this may be
seen when it is remembered that the
ration for Great Britain Is / to 20 and
for France l to 200 With the exception
of anthracite coal beds covering SEQ
square miles in eastern Pennsylvania,
but averaging 60 feet in thickness, and
excepting also one or two small
patches OF coal in Colorado and New
Mexico, the above figures refer TO btu
minous or soft coal. The eastern por-
tion CT the United States contains five
great coal beds: First, the Appalachian
field, extending from the northern
boundary of Pennsylvania to central
Alabama; second, the Illinois-Irdtsna
field, which extends into northwestern
Kentucky; third, a field $50 miles wide
extending southwark from central
Iowa, covering Indian Territory and
sending one arm across Arkansas and
another in central Texas; fourth, line
of strata in Texas from the northeast
ern corner of the state to the Rio
Grande river; fifth, the central Michi-
gan field The western fields do not lie
in large continuous sheets, but const.
tute small, isolated pockets averaging
25 miles in width and so miles in
length. Such beds may be found
throughout the entire Rocky mountain
region from Montana to New Mexico
numbering in all Is distinct beds in
Colorado, Wyoming and the two states
mentioned To the west Of this group
of detached fields re find Idaho, hav-
ing four small beds, Washington four,
and California Eve.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08
THE LUCKY BARGAIN.

! have a friend, without whose face
(God keep his face from sorrow free!)
The world would be dreary place
For weary me.
To please him is my chief delight;
I'd rather die than give him pain,
Yet this I've done in my despite,
And shall again.
Ny friend is kind when | am cross,
Nor ever cross when [ am kind;
He rules The sullen waves that toss
My toiling mind.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

His gracious spirit gives me Joy;
What can | give him Tor his grace?
A little, useless, battered toy
Of time and space.
A box of prayers with broken wings,
Or shapeless hopes and wasted hours,
OF half hundred worn-out things
And faded flowers;
Wherein one blossom lives and makes
a, light, whereat his lips will part
And smile for kindness. as he takes
The proffered heart.
N. s., in the Spectator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

A home for INDECENT lawyers has
been established IN Madison, Wis.
This would seem to indicate that not
enough rich men in Wisconsin are
leaving defective wills.-Boston Com.
mercial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

= Professor Lewis of Berlin has found
among 800 laborers who constantly
handle copper, eight men whose hair
had in consequence obtained a green
ish tinge, which no washing would re-
move. The phenomena has been
known, he says, 25O years. but it takes
several years to produce it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08

The colors of a kingfisher become
dull after death, No one who has seen
only the stuffed bird can form any
idea Of the brilliance of its plumage
when alive.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-08
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

An open door will tempt saint"
This rather unusual proverb was en-
graved on key-ring, the property of
a man found drowned in the Lea, in
England.