Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-25
Seraps aud faets.

What q winged villain this little Eng
lish sparrow is has not been better il
Illustrated than in a communication
which was printed in MONDAYS paper.
Our correspondent, a well-known citi-
zen of Charlotte, who lives in capa--
cious grounds and who is a fancier Of
birds, tells that before the advent Of
these sparrows he had more than
dozen different kinds Of birds, and that
now there are none, that only the robin
has tried to nest in his trees this spring
and that it's eggs were destroyed by
the English sparrows before they could
be Matched and the robins themselves
driven away. Our English cousins
never made us a worse present than in
these little sparrows of theirs. They
twitter most merrily and to all out
ward appearances are the happiest and
most amiable Of birds; but they are in
fact all viciousness, and nothing OF the
feathered tribe, though three times
their size, can stand in competition
against them.
Chicago Chronicle: There is reVi-
val Of the talk of trying to establish
the cotton growing industry in West
Africa. This may be nothing but talk
suggested by our high tariff and the
American control of the transatlantic
carrying trade. It takes the form of
a statement on cotton-growing there.
Assuming that this move is to be made,
American cotton growers need not give
up in despair. Experiments in the
same quarter have been going on for
nearly 40 years, and we cannot attrib-
ute the low price of cotton in recent
years to their success. Experts may
accomplish something, but cotton Is
very obstinate plant. 1t grows one way
in one place and it refuses to change
it's habits to please the experts, as the
experimenters with sea island cotton
in South Carolina well know. The
same plant which produces only long
staple in one place will produce only
a short staple in another, and so on.
Possibly there is some place where cot
ton equal to ours can be grown, but If
so that place is not known. Our plant
ers need not worry.
Says an Asheville dispatch of Tues
day: For two days and nights hard
rain has been almost incessantly fall
ing in this section and much damage
has been done to crops, mill, railroad
and other property. Hundreds of
Asheville people have visited Biltmore
today to see the damage done by the
floods in Vanderbilt's ideal village.
When the millionaire and his advisers
planned the town nearby creek, which
has never before been anything but a
small stream, was never for a moment
taken into account. Today this little
stream made a record for itself that
was both surprising and alarming.
One row of cottages built by Mr.. Van
derbilt was flooded and the people fore
ed to move their belongings to the
upper floors, and some of the beautiful
ly paved streets were covered with
rubbish. Small trestles at Biltmore
on both the main line of the Southern
and on the Asheville and Spartanburg
railroads, were washed away and no
trains will be operated on either line
before late tomorrow. A car on the
sidetrack loaded with stone, was wash
ed 80 feet. The electric light plant here
is badly damaged and the city tonight
is in darkness.
- Mr. Bryan attacked Wall street in
last weeks Commoner. He said: "a
record of Wall streets doings for the
last week is an indictment against our
boasted civilization. That such trans
actions are allowed is as much a re-
Election upon the intelligence of the
the people. 1t is little less than amaz-
ing that a few men should be permit
ted to corner the market for their own
selfish purposes, beat down the price
other stock, demoralizing business and
jeopardizing the interests of all classes
of society. How will the historian de-
scribe an age in which a petty thief is
severely punished, while great crimi-
nails go unwhipped? 1t often takes an
object lesson to arouse the people to
the evils of a bad system and the re-
cent fluctuations in the stock market,
costly as they have been, will be cheap
if they lead to legislation which will
put an end to stock gambling, erro-
neously described as business Mr..
Bryan also declared that crisis in fl
nancial affairs is imminent, and insists
that the recent furry has deprived the
advocates of the trust system Of their
argument, that it was an insurance
against panics.
-Gastonia Gazette: "a most enter
tanning speech" is the descriptive
phrase used by the New York Times in
referring to Governor Aycock's Goth of
May address before the North Carolina
society of New York city. While he
made the New Workers an entertaining
and eloquent speech, he gave it to
them straight from the shoulder. His
representation of the suffrage problem
was mastery. Spicy to the point of
sensationalism was his manner of TAX
ing off the meddlesome New York pa
per that had previously hinted that
he was coming to defend secession and
that the society ought to call him
down. Said the governor: II have
never had any intention of speaking
on this subject. There are two sub
jects on which l take it there can be no
debate-that the states had a right to
secede in 1861 and have no longer that