Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-01-29
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Schley's appeal to the navy depart
ment for comment" This is the tech
nical term in naval law to designate a
reply, in the nature Of criticism, to
any presentation. If charges are
lodged against an officer they are re-
ferred to him in order that he may
comment" upon them, and his reply
is legally known by that name. 1t Is
understood that the preparation OF this
comment will consume about two
weeks time.
After considerable debate on the
subject, the question Of appropriating
the sum of $5OO,0O0 for the erection OF
suitable barracks for the soldiers In
the Philippines, was voted on as sep
arate item Of the general deficiency bill
last Friday. The Republicans were
especially anxious to put the Demo-
Gratis on record with regard to the mat
ter. Sixteen Democrats, led by Amos
Cummings, Of New York, voted with
the Republicans. The majority Of the
Democrats voted against this appro-
priation.
The North German Lloyd company
Is building what will be the biggest
steamship in the world, and it will be
the first to cross the Atlantic in less
than five days. The vessel will be
christened during the coming summer
by Emperor William, who will give IT
his own name, Kaiser Wilhelm, II.
The steamer Is now being hurried to
completion at Stettin, and will have
contract speed of 24a knots an hour.
calculated to propel it from Lizard
Head to Fire Island in four days and
twenty hours. 1t will have length OF
707 feet feet longer than that Of the
Celtic. The vessel will cost $3.510,OOO,
will carry 1888 cabin passengers, 7S4
steerage and 545 crew.
Representative Lacey, Of Iowa, has
asked the house to authorize the print
ing of 5000 facsimile copies Of the
Morals of Jesus Of Nazareth" pre-
pared by Thomas Jefferson. "This
book was known as Thomas Jeffer-
sons Bible, and Is now in the National
Museum" says Mr.. Lacey. when
congress purchased Jefferson's library,
Miss Randolph withheld this volume,
but later sold it for $400. Unlike the
rest Of the library, congress never had
copies of this book printed. Mr.. JEFF
ferson prepared it in reverent spirit,
during several years Of intermittent
application to the task. He strips the
Bible of all its miracles and leaves
nothing but pure morals, that he might
compare the same with the morals OF
Confucius and other Pagan philoso-
phers."
-"Governor General Taft must be
big man in the Philippines" said a
North Carolina clergyman to a New
York Tribune interviewer the other
day. II have a relative, DR.. Stuntz,
pines, and in securing the site for a
new Methodist church in Manila, he
discovered that no law existed by
which non- Catholic bodies could hold
called on Governor Taft and told him
his trouble. Without consulting
book, or so much as moving chair,
he touched bell, summoned his Sec
retary, dictated a law in three Sec
tions covering the whole case, and in
Is minutes it was laid down before
Governor Taft. He looked it over, and
then quietly folded it away. saying:
1T will be enacted law at the next
session Of the commission 1t went
through, just as he said.''
A notable recent contribution to the
archaeological museum Of the Univer-
sity Of Arizona, according to a Tucson
dispatch. is a loaf Of bread found in a
cave-dwelling in the Superstition
mountains Of central Arizona in 1879;
and since that time in the possession
of Herbert Brown, superintendent Of
the territorial prison. The loaf is un-
deniably bread, and without doubt
is Of great age. 1t was found embed
ded in the ashes wherein it was baked
probably hundreds or perhaps thou
sands Of years ago. It had very plain
ly been wrapped in a cloth or mat, and
the marks Of the fibre of the cloth are
visible in the dark, brick-like mass
Mr.. Brown is Of the opinion that the
bread was made Of mesquite beans,
roughly ground in metates by the abo-
riginal housewives of centuries ago.
With it was found store Of ancient
sacrificial implements. stone axes and
arrowheads. The loaf has been steril-
ized by the curator Of the museum, and
has been sealed within a glass jar.
Although nearly four years have
elapsed since the issue Of the Spanish
war loan, the treasury has only just
put out the last Of the per cent.
bonds. 1t is Of the twenty-dollar de-
nomination, and has been mailed to
a woman in Lowell, Mass, who SUBJ
scribed $500 Of the loan in 1885,
Through clerical error bond for on
ly $500 was sent to her. The discrep-
ancy was discovered in 1899, but the
transactions connected with it were of
such proportions and ramified into
such detail that it has taken the ac-
countants until now to locate the seat
of the trouble. When the discovery
was made the department wrote to the
woman and asked her whether her ac-
count with the government was all
right. Her answer was a very clear
description Of what had occurred. She
explained that although she knew all
the time she had not got what she