Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-02-06


last Friday, shows the total visible
is 4,224,70O bales, against 4,140,152 last
year. Of this, the total of American
cotton is 1851, 700, against 3,361, ,152 last
year, and Of all other kinds, including
Egypt, Brazil, India, etc., $4,000,
against 779,OO0 last year. The total
worlds visible supply Of cotton shows
an increase, compared with last year,
Of S4,54S bales. Of the worlds visible
supply of cotton there is now af1oat and
held in Great Britain and Continental
Europe, 1,975,00O bales, against 1911 900
last year; in Egypt, 176,OOO, against 2O4,-
900 last year; in India, 419,000, against
32S,000 last year, and in the United
1,555,OOO, against 1857, 900 last year.
"A number of Indiana towns and cit
les along the Ohio river are engaged in
crusade against idle Negroes. Some
few weeks ago a white barber was
murdered by Negroes, near Bonneville,
Indiana. The crime was traced to
idlers, and several of them were lynch
ed. Since then the Evansville, Indi-
ana, board of safety has been especial
ly vigilant in getting the names Of all
the Negro idlers Of the neighborhood.
1t is estimated that the list includes as
many as 1000 who absolutely refuse to
work. The Negroes spend their time
in the saloons and low dives of Evans
vile, and it has been decided that they
must be driven from the state. Present
plans contemplate the use of the law
as far as possible; but if this cannot
be made available, the Negroes will be
made to leave through other means.
Topeka, Kansas. Is the home Of the
newest and strangest Of religious sects.
Its founder is little middle-aged man,
of mean appearance, named Charles
Parham. He calls his organization the
Bethel Gospel School," and he has
purchased as it's headquarters a pre-
tentious country house in the outskirts
of Topeka. Just outside the house he
has erected praying tower in which
day and night without ceasing, one Of
Parham's apostles is continually pray
ing. When one Of the apostles grows
weary he is relieved by another, so that
the current Of prayer is never stopped
for an instant. One of the principles of
the new sect is that none Of it's men,
bers shall work. They all live together
in the big stone house and claim to be
supported in some miraculous way as
the result Of prayer and faith. When
Parham wants money he prays for it,
and often purse full Of gold has fallen
into his lap from some invisible hand.
Parham claims that his disciples are
gifted with the gift Of strange tongues.
Queen Victoria never wore the
crown of England, except at her coro-
nation in 1888 and when she sat for her
portrait 1t is the heaviest and most
uncomfortable kind Of a bonnet and
weighs several pounds. The crown,
which for the admiration of the public
reposes upon scarlet velvet cushion
in the treasury of the Tower Of London,
guarded by stalwart sentinels, is not
the real thing; but only an imitation.
w. E. Curtis says in the Chicago Rec
ord: Very few people know where the
real crown is. 1t is locked away under
the care of Lieut.. General Sir Freder-
ick Dobson Middleton, K. c. M. G., C.
B., keeper Of the crown, who receives
salary of s1,500 a year for assuming
this tremendous responsibility. The
real crown contains 1878 rose dia-
monds, 1868 brilliants, 273 round pearls,
large egg-shaped pearls, 26 sapphires,
II emeralds, "a rubbies and one large
ruby set in the centre of a diamond
Maltese cross. This is the finest ruby
in the world, and has a bloody history.
1t once belonged to the Moorish king
of Granada. He got it, according to
tradition, from an Abyssinian prince,
who captured it from a sultan of West
ern Asia. Pedro the cruel, king Of
Spain, invited his Moorish neighbor to
visit him at the Alcazar Of Seville. The
heather trusted the Christian and came
across the country, wearing his rich
est garments and jewels, and attended
by splendid retinue. But before the
hospitality of Don Pedro was exhaust
ed every one of his guests was behead-
ed and his own hands snatched this
ruby from the turban Of his rival. Ed
ward I bought it from him, and Hen
ry V wore it in his helmet at the bat
tie of Agincourt''
-Tne funeral obsequies Of Queen Vic
>Toria lasting from Friday until Monday
were probably the most elaborate and
magnificent that the world has Witness
ed since the days when ancient Rome
was in the zenith of her power and
glory. Fifty kings and princes, repre-
senting nearly every country in Eu-
rome, participated in the ceremonies.
Each wore the uniform of his army or
navy. the former on land and the lat
ter on the water. The procession COM
menced at Osborne House, Isle Of
lish channel to Portsmouth, and thence
to London, Windsor and Frogmore. At
Osborne House, the coffin, which was
richly set with jewels, and draped with
the queens coronation robes, weight
ed down with the crown, scepter and
other emblems of sovereignty, was
placed on q gun carriage that was
drawn by eight horses. The pro-
cession moved to the music of Beetho-
ven's and Chopin's funeral marches.
Batteries from land and sea fired minute
guns until the body was deposited on
the yacht Alberta. The yacht steamed