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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-21

LOOK uL BOuTSCu III uttS ytuSo. doW ~
uOu like it9''
the same TO me. ( have left or my
instruments Of torture and so | am
not bullet proof this morning. Don't
you see that. though larger than am.
you are shaped the same! Men are not
formed that way"
Lisle obeyed slowly and wonderingly.
Her calm eyes studied the blushing
face before her with an expression that
was filled with awe.
"Are they not" she asked presently.
"Are men created after one mold and
women after anOther%
Certainly"
always"
always"
"Is that all the dlfPerenceT
"Of course not. you goose!
"What are the other differences"
"Why. everything Is different, sup
pose"
do you only suppose? Don't you
know"
"Oh. dear! Come into the house. Let
US go back to my room. We can talk
better there. You look so much like
man In that dress that out here feel
as though the eyes Of the whole world
were upon u.s."
"And IF the eyes Of the world were
upon us. what then? Is there any
thing to be ashamed Off"
"No-that Is. not really. But 1t looks
30. Come. will you go back?"
"Yes."
They returned together to the house,
and Erna. having closed and locked the
door OF her room. began again her diff
ficult task.
Now. Lisle." she said. please hear
me through to the end OF what am
going to say without asking any ques-
tions. Every one that you ask Is sure
to he the very one that least expect,
and it is pretty sure to be the one that
! do not In the least know how to an
swer- that Is. not in words. ] never
knew before today how ignorant am
myself of things that ought to know.
That Is. | thought all the while knew
about them. while the fact is do not
know much more than you do your
self. suppose it Is for the same rea-
son that the Egyptians never thought
Of studying their own pyramids until
q lot or foreigners blew into the coun-
try and discovered that the hieroglyphic
writings meant something. ! have liv-
ed next door to the pyramids all my
life and never thought them worth
the trouble Of study. and now you have
materlalized OH the scene. and you
want to know all at once every secret
that is connected with them. Now
can show you the way TO tue pyra-
mids. but | don't In the least know
what the writings mean. Did you ever
read the Bible?"
MY father used to read 1t to me-"
Ibid he ever read about the garden
of Eden?"
mo: do not remember 1t"
"Of course not. 1t Is about a woman.
and he wouldn't read that Well."-
desperately there was such n place
when God made the world. and there
was a man there. He was all alone
There wasn't another human being In
the whole world. and Adam-that was
his name-was lonely. I'm not surpris-
pd Mt that. 1t must have been horrid
he raised some kind Of row about it,
and so one night while he was asleep
(,od took a rib out Of bis side and
made a woman out Of it. After that
Adam became the father Of all men.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-21

ted them saw Governor Roosevelt COM
ing and thought 1t fine opportunity
to impress the boys-and the governor.
Mr.. Roosevelt listened, then asked the
boys for their story. Their statements
seemed to have greater weight, for
turning to the policeman, he said en-
phatically: LET 'em fight it out! It's
good for them"
Mr.. Roosevelt attends the Dutch Re-
formed church, but his real religion Is
perhaps revealed more clearly through
an incident Of his visit to big ranch
in Wyoming, one Sunday during his
late national political canvass. The
owner of the ranch and a number OF
his friends were anxious to entertain
the governor in any way that might
be pleasant to him. He chose to ride.
A wolf hunt was proposed. There Is
nothing I would like better" the gov
ernor responded, "but it is Sunday
Still, nobody will know" suggested
one of the newspaper men; I'VE won't
any Of us say word"
MY dear fellow" said the governor,
there are two ways Of keeping out OF
trouble. One is to do nothing that can
by any possibility make trouble for
YOU. The other is to conceal the things
YOU have done which might cause trou-
BILE. The first way is the simpler. If
you act by it you never want to tell a
lie"
There was no wolf hunt that day."
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at Santiago to give us better food and
medicine"
You ought to have seen him talk
when some of our fellows weren't
treated we'll in the hospital"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-21

Roosevelt could shoot when it was
necessary. 1t is not on record that he
ever killed anybody. He is so good a
shot that it was never a necessity. He
was always after big game, grizzlies
for choice. He has taken desperate
chances with them, but was never hurt.
This is the way one of the westerners
who had trouble with Roosevelt eulo-
gized him:
Hes as clear strain game as a griz-
zly, and If there's any living thing on
earth he's afraid of I'd like to see its
brand and learn its range. I'd want to
keep away from it. He's sure a good
boy"
An old man by the name Of Brophy,
Of Wibaux, just across the river from
Medora, N. D., recalls one of Mr.. Roose-
velt's thrilling experiences: "One day
when it was showing like it was never
going to stop, 'Four-Eyes, (as Mr..
Roosevelt's western neighbors called
him), who'd been out after lost cattle,
came into the hotel. There was bad
man in the hotel, and he was looking
for somebody to pick on. Four Eyes
looked to him to be the person.
There, you," he says. ugly, to him,
take drink
mo, thanks, says 'Four-Eyes,
smiling all over I don't want to
drink
Man.
"'Guess not says Four Eyes still
grinniing.
"T say you have says Mr.. Bad
Man, pulling his gun
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Once, in writing Of the ferocity Of the
grizzly bear, Mr.. Roosevelt noted the
habit Of a certain hunter to seek refuge
in tree when the animal charged, and
parenthetically added, II don't approve
Of this, however" No clearer idea OF
the presidents method Of dealing with
men and things could be given. He
believes in facing things squarely.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-21
NOT LIKE OTHER MEN.
BY Frederick Van Rensselaer, Dey,

Author of OF "The Quality
of a
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-21

One evening his eldest son came
home with his face SCARED.
Whats the matter?" asked his faith
er.
WELL" replied young Teddy, "a boy
up the street made face at me and
said Your fathers a fakir.' He was a
good deal bigger than I, but
wouldn't stand that, you know, go
just lit into him and I had a pretty
hard time, but licked him."
That's right! That's right I'm
glad you licked him." were the pa
rental words Of approval.
Two boys were fighting on their way
home from school in Albany one after
noon, and a policeman who had separa-
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summoned to that dreaded Office for
reprimand. and so confused were most
of them that the piercing eyes Of the
commissioner overshadowed everything
else until the policemen managed to
pull themselves together.
There never was a man who had a
keener appreciation Of bravery than
Mr.. Roosevelt. Every feat Of hero
ism," he says, makes us forever in
debted to the man who performed it"
He was continually watching for it
and rewarding it among his men. A
lank, red headed Irish patrolman,
named Duggan. saw a burglar one
night, on Park avenue. near Seven
teenth street. making off with a bundle
Of silverware. He gave chase. The
burglar threw away the bundle and
jumped the fence that surrounds the
cavernous ventilating holes of the New
York Central railroad tunnel. Dug
gan followed him. The burglar ran to
one Of the holes, hesitated and jumped
a sheer 20 feet to the tracks below, re-
gardless Of the danger of being crush
ed by passing trains. Without mo-
ment's hesitation Duggan sprang after
him, landed on him, and dragged him
out by the collar. When the president
Of the police board heard Of that he
straightway sent for Duggan and heard
the story from his own lips, and when
Duggan went away he was a patrol
man.
And this is only one instance among
a hundred.
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A reporter talked with number of
officers and troopers in Mr.. Koosevelt's s
regiment while they were camped at
Montauk Point, and found their admi-
ration for their colonel to be boundless.
Every man of them had something in
teresting to tell about him.
why, he knows every man in the
regiment by name" said one.
He spent $4,000 of his own money
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
The Cnhnn Question.

A marked divergence is still noticeable
between the nature of press dispatches
from Cuba and those which it is asserted
are being received by the Administration
from confidential sources in the island.
Our own Havana news yesterday was to
the effect that the Constitutional Conven-
ton would probably return the Platt reso-
luton to General Wood with the state
ment that its terms were impossible of
acceptance. From Administration quar-
tiers, on the other hand, we hear that the
Cubans within a few days are likely to
realize the futility of resistance and bow
to the inevitable.
What they will do, remains to be seen.
There is no doubt that the faction almost
alone represented in the convention is
turbulent, and ignorant either of the good
intentions of the American people or of
the reasons which compel this Govern
ment to insist upon exercising suzerainty
over Cuba. The conservative and business
elements do not appear in the convention
to any extent worth mentioning. As
rule, they refrained from voting for dele
gates and allowed the body to be made
up of leaders OF the radical, mostly negro,
population. Intelligent Cubans generally
are believed to prefer an American srze-
rainty. protectorate. or even annexation
to the reign of anarchy, which complete
independence and sovereignty would
bring under the auspices Of the native
party now in control Of local politics.
Whatever the convention may do. there
is no apparent occasion for uneasiness.
The Cuban problem appears to be rather
a simple one. If the Cubans choose to
reject our terms now, there is no special
hurry as far as this country is concerned.
Perhaps. next year they may be in a more
biddabe frame of mind. If they should
not only reject, but start rioting and dis
order of a serious nature, then in so doing
they would relieve themselves of any
necessity to bother with constitution max
ing, because they would be annexed too
quickly to talk about IL.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
FOUND NO PIRATE GOLD.
The I&wnsinei Returns From n Fruit
less Treasure Quest

NEW ORLEANS March 10-The
schooner yacht Kwasinel is now lying at
Port Eads below New Orleans. having
made a Is. cG0-mile voyage in the Atlantic
in search of a buried treasure of gold
pearls. and precious stones. said to have
gone down in a pirate ship of the coast
Of Africa She was fitted up for this
search for the treasure by a syndicate of
rich young men of Baltimore. Columbus.
and Cincinnati.
The vessel was in charge of Capt.
Charles W. Henderson. who is said to
have inspired the expedition. The Kwasi-
mel formerly the pilot boat Eldbridge T.
Gerry. was fitted out FOR the voyage She
is commanded by Captain Horton while
Captain Henderson went along to super
intend the expedition, and Charles Spenny,
Of Columbus and L. B. Harang. of Gin
cinnati looked after the interests of the
syndicate which put up the money for
the enterprise.
The party Is very reticeut. but It is
rumored that the kwasinel, after cruis-
ing for four months in the South Atlantic.
did not find the treasure she went In
search of. and that the expedition has
been abandoned The Hwa.~ine and her
crew will be sent back to New York from
this city.
Al the cape de Verde Islands and al va
rious points there were stories current of
Treasures hidden by pirates. but the Kwasi-
mel did not come across trace of the
treasures
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
THE PRINT CLOTH MARKET.


FALL RIVER, Mass. March 1O.-LocaI
brokers report week of very poor bust
ness in the print cloth market The total
sales did not exceed 1OoO00 pieces. includ-
ing one sale of ?5,00e pieces Saturday
The market was greatly weakened by
the sale. which comprised regular goods
for March delivery They We're sold by
the selling committee at > rs cents, a re-
duction of an eighth. No small lots will
be sold at that figure, and no cut will be
made IN other narrow goods unless ii APP
pears that large orders are at hand. The
cut was made to meet competition that
was being forced by a Southern concern
ana by a concern in Rhode Island. They
were willing to sell at the price named.
and the selling committee took advantage
OF the offer made TO them, and cut the
price again.
Wide goods are in a demOralized Condi-
ton, and narrow odds are not being called
for to any extent. Saturdays transaction
puts the market in a very uncertain con-
dition. 1t has revived the talk of cur
taiment. a reduction of wages has been
mentioned. but there is probably nothing
to it. The curtailing process is the one
that will be adopted. The mills are pillnS
up goods rapidly. and with mills in othe-
centres curtailing. or reducing wages, this
time for action here is at hand. There
is a difference of opinion as TO the course
to be pursued The mill men have ar
rived at the point where they are willing
to enter into any scheme that VIII I'M
prove matters.
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qui peut, and go in for a general parti-
ton.
France. it is believed, will refuse to
act contrary to the wishes Of Russia. and
perhaps may he rather glad Of a chance
to file a claim for equivalent territorial
concessions; and, as we have said hither-
to, Germany may not be averse to the
principle of territorial indemnity. Thus
the outlook for the integrity of the
Chinese Empire and the open door would
seem to be a poor one, and nobody need
wonder at the quandary of the Admins
tration. What between the interests of
Mr. Havemeyer, which are anti-Russian,
and those of Mr.. J. p. Morgan, which are
pro-Russian on account of the commerce
Of his Steel Trust, and with Mr.. Rookie
teller greatly desiring unrestricted access
to Nieu Chwang. it will be readily seen
that the natural wish Of our authorities
to do whatever the influences controlling
them may dictate is greatly hampered
by complications of private character
In n case like that under discussion 1t
may be as hard to serve Sugar and Steel
at the same time as it is both God and
Mammon."
How the Administration may seek 10
escape from its present unsatisfactory
position and entanglements domestic and
international, we do not pretend TO say,
but it is starting-in the manner custom
airy with it in such emergencies-by pre-
pairing for the withdrawal of all our
troops in China, save one company. This
contemplated action no doubt is based
upon the familiar and noble maxim:
When in doubt, cut and scuttle!
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
The Bubonic Plague.

In connection with the appearance of
epidemic diseases imported into the United
States from foreign countries. it IS pity
that the Federal authorities should hest
tate to resort to drastic measures until
the indifference or inefflciency of State
and local authorities has been demon
strated. Notwithstanding repeated decla-
ratons by the health officials Of Califor-
MIA and the city Of San Francisco, that
the bubonic plague had not secured a
f0othold in our most important Pacific
port, investigation by experts commission
ed by the General Government has devel-
oped the truth that ii is dangerously prev
alent in Chinatown, and possibly may
have made inroads upon other portions
of the Western metropolis.
From the report made by the inyestiga-
tors it is learned that six recent deaths
in San Francisco were undoubtedly due
to bubonic plague. The number of cases
identified at the present time is not given,
but they are many enough 10 cause serious
anxiety. 1t is TO be noted with regret that
the governor of California and the San
Francisco officials have resisted all inter
ference in the matter by the Federal
has been to suppress the facts and trust
to luck that the disease would die out
without exposure or scandal. It's steady
progress should teach them the folly of
such course. 1t is true that public
knowledge Of the actual conditions would
tend temporarily to iniure the trade of the
port and town. But the same excuse has
more than once been used to justify con-
cealment Of local outbreaks Of yellow
fever. which might have been localized
if the truth had been acknowledged in
the FIRST instance; but which became cpl
demic because Of that c0ncealment and
the free passage Of infected persons into
other communities.
When we consider that according to
data gathered by officers Of the Marine
Hospital Service. there are known 10 hny.
been forty thousand cases. and eighteen
thousand deaths from the bubonic plague
since last November. that the pestilence
has made its way around the world and
that # is now in England Scotland. and
Walls. as well as on both shores Of South
America. the necessity for the most pains
taking watchfulness on the part of Ma
uonal. State. and local sanitary organiza-
tions Is evident. We are glad to say
there is reason to believe that our excellent
Marine Hospital Service has Deen fully
alive to the Asiatic peril. and as vigilant
as Il possibly could be. But the extreme
Of vigor and Federal vigilance would hard
ly serve TO keep such visitor out, were
local governments. interests and health
officers to unite in obstructing the work
and objects Of the national experts. 1t
is 10 be hoped that should the bubonic
plague show its head in amy new Ameri-
can locality the authorities and people
Of the place will not follow the bad and
suicidal example Of California and San
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11

Consul Hughes, of Coburg. Germany
reports to the State Department here
that Pankow iirm has brought out
new kind of rubber tubing. to be used
in cases where damage to the rubber is
to he feared either from the flame itself
or by contact with hot dishes or stands
The rubber tube is sheathed with asbestus
and the asbcstus coated with mcOmbus-
tible paint lest the hbres should peel off
The tubing remains piable and can be
cut as before. Burners with such rubber
tubes may be placed on sand baths or
hot stoves. The protection is. of course,
not absolute. for when the heat becomes
too stronL the rubber inside Will give
way. The well-kn0wn pipes with metallic
spirals were originally made with the
same object. hut they have found other
useful applications, and they differ from
these new tubes by being hard and in
clincd to break; once leaky. they cannot
be mended.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11

Nassar College has a system Of ath-
letics which is worthy of imitation by all
the other colleges Of the land Neces-
sarily, since the students are women. the
particularly mischievous features of the
physical training now existing at mems
colleges are eliminated. The girls do not
make tours about the country, showing
off their prOwess, nor do they give up
practically the whole of their time during
any part Of the school ear to gymnas-
tics They simply devote as many hours
to amusements of this kind are needed
TO make them healthy, happy, and vig0r-
GUS.
The contrast between the lives of these
girls and the existence of the pupils of
the old-fashloned boarding-school is
rather a violent one. In the latter insti-
tuition all the students were taken to
walk each day, in n procession, mar
shaded by teachers. AS anybody knows,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
A MAsToDoN ON EXHIBITION.
The Splendid Specimen Found Nenr
Newburg, y. ", in 1SoD.

NEW YORK, March IA mastodon,
the largest and finest specimen ever dis
covered. has been set up in the museum
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences. on Prospect Hill, Brooklyn. Prof.
Albert G. Mayer delivered an interesting
lecture on the subject last night. and the
big skeleton will be placed exhibition.
The bones of the animal We're discovered
in 1899 in five feet of mud in a pond near
Newburg. IL is supposed to be about 40.-
600 years old and lived before The glacial
period. The animal was twice the size Of
an elephant. and had gigantic tusks that
curved up and inward.
The ivory is today white and perfect
as human teeth well kept Experts in
such matters say that the animal was
probably Il full-grown male The hair
covering the body was about seven inches
long.
\ syndicate of wealthy Brooklyn meE
bought the specimen and presented ii TO
the institute
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
River and Hnrbor Bills.


iFrOm the Buffalo ENprcss.)
II is time the Federal Government set its
face absolutely against such projects. The ar
gumcnt that 1t IS necessary 10 make these con-
ccssions 10 non-cOmmercial districts in order
10 get anything for the really important work no
longer applies. The great commercial centres
Of TIM country are now populons enough TO con-
troll this matter themselves in their own in
terests If they combine for that purpose. So far
from being helped by carrying along petty jobs,
they are handicapped, the fate Of this bill
shoV.
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the rate of progress of twenty-five to fifty
people, marching two by two, is so slow
as to be devoid of all interest, and the
only vestige of amusement which was af-
forded by this proceeding-the compan-
ionship of chosen friends-was rendered
nil by the fact that whatever was said
could be overheard by at least half
dozen persons. Rambles through the fields
and woods, long hours spent out of doors
with books or games. were things I'M
known to the conventual system of the
oldfashioned boarding school. and n
more unhealthy mode of life was posi-
bly, never devised
The girls of tn" modern college not only
take long walks when and as they like.
but they play basketball. run races. climb
trees. play hare and hounds with as much
zest as the Rugby boys did in Tom
Brown and do practically anything else
they like, as freely as if they were chill
dren. There is no question that this ex-
ercise viii be. if anything. of more bene-
fit to them than their studies, since one
may study as long as one lives. but
strength Slapped in early manhood or wo-
manhood is hard to regain in the midst
OF the multifarious and onerous duties of
maturity. Two-thirds of the educated
men and women of the last generation,
especially the women. began their life
work handicapped by physical weakness.
This was inevitable. Those who had
charge of the upbuiding of American
educational systems were anxious to
make our colleges equal to those of the
Old World. They forgot that we begin
ly different from those of Germany or
England. Perhaps half the educated peo-
pie Of this country have either earned the
money for their education, or been en-
gagged in some outside business of society
or other pleasure, during their school life
This was all wrong, of course, but to
certain extent II had to be. One does not
find the German student working his
way through college, staying out n year
and teaching, and coming back to do two
years work in one; and the German
student also comes to college far better
prepared, through his excellent public
schools, than the American student is.
Nine-tenths of III, students of any Amerl-
can college are absolutely ignorant of the
laws of their physical being, and some
of them overwork themselves recklessly,
while others are content with mere super
liciality. The consequence is that we
have had no thoroughness in education,
and that little knowledge has been
gained at the expense of a great Grain
of vitality. Vassar gymnastics. and the
gymnastic systems of other sensibly man
aged colleges where athletics do not de-
generate into a public show, will at any
rate remove the danger of wrecked health
among college graduates. and the young
man or woman who comes out of school
thoroughly well can make up most of the
of education later in life.