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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

umbia last Saturday on a visit to rel
atives and friends.
Miss Fannie Floyd, Of Liberty Hill.
Is in Yorkville on a visit to her friend,
Miss Mamie Moore.
SMiss Josie Fewell, of Rock Hill, Is
the guest of Miss Bessie Williams, on
Kings Mountain street.
n Mr. M. L. Smith, secretary and
Treasurer Of the Glover Cotton mills,
was in Yorkville on Monday.
Miss Ophelia Davidson returned to
Yorkville last week from a visit to Mr..
w. T. Dunlap's family at Shelby.
Mr. H. c. Strauss will leave today or
tomorrow for the northern markets to
buy his fall and winter goods.
- Mrs. M. w. White returned home last
week after spending couple Of weeks
with relatives at Riverside, S. G.
1Misses Lizzie Hunter and Marion Lo-
gan have been spending the past week
with Miss Emma Clinton, at Bethel.
,5Mr. Lindsay Hunter, of Forest City,
n. c., Is in Yorkville on a visit to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Hunter.
~ Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Ford, Of Bethel,
are visiting Mrs. Ford's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. June Little, near Charlotte.
Miss Leon, little daughter Of Mr.. ].
P. White, Is visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. c. w. Whisonant at Wilkinsville.
Mrs. VIM. M. Allison and children, of
Henrietta, N. c., arrived in Yorkville
on Saturday on visit to relatives and
friends.
>(Mrs. w. T. Dunlap and children, of
Shelby, are in Yorkville, visiting rel
atives and friends, the guests of Mr..
w. H. Herndon's family.
s(Mr. and Mrs. w. r. Hart and chill
U,,,<o yo DIM ol "a w n
S. c., spent several days this week with
Mr.. Geo. w. s. Hart's family.
Mr.. G. L. Riddle, Of Zeno, Is still
quite Ill, and Mr.. r. B. Riddle, who
lives in the same house with his faith
er, Is also confined to his bed.
Mr.. R. A. Burris, for several years In
charge Of the card room Of the York
Cotton mills, is now filling similar po-
sition in the mill at WinnsbOro.
Rev. ]. B. Bozeman, formerly pastor
Of the Yorkville Baptist church, but
now Of Gaffney, spent several hours
in town on Monday, shaking hands
with numerous friends.
>tMr. and Mrs. M. L. Carroll returned
to Yorkville on Saturday evening, from
Waynesville, N. c., and are at home to
their many friends at their cottage on
Kings Mountain street.
Prof. and Mrs. R. A. Dobson are In
Lancaster for a few days with rela-
tives and friends. They will leave In
few days for Williston where Mr.
Dobson has charge Of the schools.
Mr.. G. T. Conner, for the past five
years an employe Of the York Cotton
mills, has accepted a position in the
cotton mill at Winnsboro. and will
assume his new duties next Monday.
Miss Eula Dobson, a recent grad
uate Of Limestone college, has accep'
ted the position of first assistant in the
Salley graded school, in Aiken county
She will leave for that place In a few
dayS
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27
THEIR LAST WORDS.
How the Gubernatorial Candidates
Saw Ii Monday.

Saw 1t Monday.
Each Of the gubernatorial candidates
expressed himself on Monday as to
how he would fare in Tuesdays elec-
ton. They are quoted as follows:
Colonel Jim Tillman: II am perfect
ly confident will be the next governor
of South Carolina. 1t may not be possi-
BILE for me to win In the first primary,
though may; I will not be many votes
shy Of clear majority. I am sure of
winning in the second primary"
Captain D. Clinch Hayward: II am
going to be elected. To my mind there
Is no doubt Of the result. will defeat
whichever Of my opponents is in the
second primary with me. regard my
position by long odds the most favora-
BILE and shall win."
Congressman W. Jasper Talbert: II
am sure to win. have had the crowds
with me everywhere, and have con-
Quoted a winning campaign. I don't
know who else is in the second primary,
and don't care. I'll get the most votes
in the second primary"
Solicitor Ansel: II feel that have
gained very largely during the cam
paign and I am confident that IL I get
in the second primary I can be elect
ed. have a fair chance to be one Of
the two leaders in the first primary.
DR.. Zimmerman: 1T Is all guess
work. No man can know for certain
his strength or his chances. I have had
assurances Of support in all parts Of
the state and believe I have a fair
chance. The race Is not always to the
man who claims loudest."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

of $500 a month from the American
Bankers association. in return fol
which he must make oath that he will
"be good" Becker in prison boasts OF
his skill and declares when he is free
again he will show the banking world
that he did not expend all his ingen-
uity before he went across the bay. He
threatens openly to make a greater
haul than he has yet done. All this, OF
course, contingent upon his not being
provided with an income by the bank
ers. Becker, alias Blosh, alias Bader
alias 1.-The Dutchman," has been as
sociated with the most noted forgers
of his time, English, American and Ger
man. He Is serving sentence fol
swindling the Nevada Bank of San
Francisco out of $25,O00 on a forged
draft.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

ALTHOUGH the people of South Caro-
lima are generally agreed as to the JUS
tice and propriety of making as liber-
al provision for Confederate soldiers
as the state can afford, there is no
doubt about the fact that this pension
matter is growing really serious. The
problem, as we see it, is not how much
the state can afford to appropriate each
year; but how should it be distributed.
The sum awarded to each beneficiary
out of 100000 appropriation seems to
be very little if any larger than it used
to be out of $4,000 appropriation. and
by the same rule there is not much rea-
son to believe that there would be a
great deal of difference if the appro-
priation should be made $50O,0OO. The
original idea Of the appropriation and
according to the letter of the law. its
present intent, is to provide especially
for needy veterans and their widows
1t has never been the purpose of the
lawmakers to foster the idea that this
pension appropriation is merely in the
nature of a gratuity to old soldiers
because of their service in the war. If
that were the purpose of the law. there
would be no specifications as to the
condition of the people entitled to re-
ceive it's benefits. That such people
as are specified in the law should re-
ceive the benefits provided for them,
there is no ground for contention; but
that these benefits should not be eX-
tended to all classes. regardless of ac-
tual needs, is equally clear Although
we have no figures to quote on the sub
ject, we believe it to be fact that
fully two thirds Of the property OF
South Carolina today, is held by en-
have acquired this property mainly by
hard, intelligent work, and self denial
and to take away from these for the
purpose of common distribution
among others who may have had equal
opportunities to acquire property for
themselves, is manifestly unfair. The
case seems to be too plain to call for
extended argument. and taking into
consideration the whole situation,
there seems to be no doubt of the fact
that the real problem with the general
assembly is not how much money to
appropriate for pensions; but how to
secure a just and equitable distribution
of such amount as it does appropriate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

STORIES are being circGated as to the
alleged insanity of the young king OF
Spain. 1t is related that when high
church dignatary showed him among
the precious religious relics what is
generally believed by the Spaniards tc
be a toe-nail that belonged to st. Peter
and a lock of hair from the head OF
St. Paul, the king said he did not be-
lieve any such rot Young Alfonso
may be insane; but it will be necessary
to get up better proof than this against
him before the Protestant world can be
induced to believe the fact.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

The funeral took place on Sunday at
noon, Immediately after the morning
service in the Presbyterian church.
Numerous friends joined the family in
it's last sad tribute to this good man,
the procession that followed the body
from the residence to the Presbyterian
church and thence to it's final resting
place in the Yorkville cemetery. was an
unusually long one. The funeral ser
vices. were conducted by Rev. w. G.
Neville.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

IT is to be hoped that the committees
charged with the work Of getting up a
roll of York county's Confederate SOL
diers by townships will take up the
matter with energy and determination
and not cease their effort until they
have included every name in the rec
ord.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

The county canvass, which closed
last Saturday, has been one or the
cleanest that has occurred in this Sec
tion for years. There were some ap'
peals to prejudice in the legislative
race; but so far as is known all the
candidates are exonerated from being
parties to it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27
DISTRICT AND STATE.
Some Pointers Throwing Light on
festerday's Election.


CHESTER, August 26.-Finley S55;
Floyd 76; Strait 62S; Wilson 142; Hemp
hill LOGS; balance senatorial field, 649.
CAMDEN, August 26.-This box gives
Finley 1s1; Floyd 14S; Strait 1s; Will
son 10.
WINNsBoRo, August 26.-Nineteen
out of % boxes in Fairfield county give
Finley 476; Wilson 2S3; Strait 2S1;
Floyd 1914.
COLUMBIA, August 27.-Latimer and
Hemphill seem to be leading for SEN
ate; Cansler and Mobley for railroad
commissioner; Hayward and Talbert
for governor. Returns are not suff-
ciently full to give satisfactory idea
Of actual situation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27

THE total vote of the state in the first
primary of two years ago, was s2,44o'
and in York county 1929. York voted
for governor as follows: McSweeney'
1876; Hoyt, 1,1S3: Gary, 465; Patterson,
121; Whitman, 4.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-27
1he ttorkrille enquirer.
YORKVILLE, 8. c.:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1902.

Now that the first primary has clas-
sified the situation, during the next two
weeks the second race candidates will
buckle down to business and no fool
iShneSS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10

den in London, swallowed up in the
vast gulf until one happens to STUN
bic upon them. Thus a rise in the
ground, handsomely grown with trees,
is never discovered until you have
turned the corner and are upon it:
and pretty parks are crowded behind
ugly stacks of streets.
In most towns you know from one
section what to expect of Others but
London is infinitely diversified, and
holds surprises even for those who
have known and loved her for a
lifetime. There is no one so rash
or so unveracious as to boast that
he has nothing to learn of London
The central parts, haunted as they
are by the feet of shoppers, theater-
goers and sightseers, may very we'll
be familiar to many of us. The city,
the Strand, Fleet street. Piccadilly,
Regent street, Oxford street.-the
whole of that region, indeed, which
is bounded on the one hand by the
bank, on the other by Kensington,
and reaches from the river on the
south to, say, the Marylebone road
on the north-all that important,
busting fragment of the town some
OIL us may KNOW as intimately as
our own house.
Fragment I have written and
the word is accurate. 1t is twenty
square miles, and there are something
like 400 square miles in London town!
| can see as far as Willesden south
ward, and my eye travels beyond Kill
burn to the arete of Hampstead. The
field of the vision seems vast to me
on my watch-tower, for it is sufficient
to weary the eye and make distances
dim and faint. And yet beyond Will
lesden and beyond Hampstead and be-
yond Kilburn lie mile on mile of I'M
seen houses. From here to Willesden
is mile or two, from here to ORGY
den the crow must fly no less than
twenty miles over streets packed
with houses. 1t is amazing, bu: It is
London.
There are some people who can see
nothing touching in wide eXpanse of
landscape as seen from a Pisgah afar
off. Yet, looked on rightly. the scene
should be as fraught with meaning
and emotion, as humbling asmost, as
the field of serene stars on a fine
night. What is humbling is, in effect,
ennobling, for he who can take in
the sense of his own smallness in
relation to that bigness can appreci-
ate precisely what that bigness is
and means. So that in all that is
large and ample dwells a moral force,
even in this overgrown and dingy
London of ours.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10
On the Committee.

''In my county" said Senator Black
burn recently, there's an old fellow
who has many scruples about the Bi-
BILE, and is more noted for his money
making tact than for his general intel
ligence. Among his many peculiarities
is his dislike for the Scripture and it's
teachings, and he improves every OPP
portunity to make his dishkes known.
mot long since while in conversa-
ton with a ncighbor on the merits Of
the Bible. he was asked to state some
of his objections to it's teachers
Wall said he. there's Il great many
things that hadn't never ought to have
been there. III tell you, there's the
whole Book of Job that had better
been left out; an, he added with much
earnestness, 1T would never have gone
in, neither, if old job hadn't been on
the committee"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10
"Village" of LonoCn
correspondent Writes of Some PecuGarities of the
Great British Metropolis

sinuous and twisted that not twenty
yards was secure and plain before one
AM so strange that one might wan
der for hours questing for a way out.
There was the country-here is
London at my feet. The hill is very
quiet in the sunshine. Above. a farm,
red-roofed. stately in the Georgian
style. but homely. too, and drawing
one with friendly eyes, stands amid
the sumptuous appointments of it's
stables and it's yards. 1t smells of
sweetness. And from the swards
comes the reck of hay, new-cut, frag.
rant as altar, and cool in it's fading
sheaves. Behind me man cleaves
the grass with a sickle-five miles
from the roaring sea! In front the
slopes go down, rich in timber and
blowing shadows: and about the base
of my hill beat the bricks and mortar
of the town.
The eye catches the topmast towers
of the great city merged in smoke
and mist this bright summer after
noon. 1t is not itself a city of fiat
wastes, but here and there are broken
irregular heights which you would
never have suspected.
1t is odd how many things are hid
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10

mense basins and piers of granite ex
cite admiration and envy from al
who know only plank and piling II
home. The width Of the public
spaces also attract attention. and the
feeling comes that this port is des
tined to a very great future.
Naturally the French government
thinks it an important place to pro
ed against the time when the roa;
of an enemy's guns may be heare
from the open roadstead.
Havre is still the principal harboi
of France, however, and is perhaps:
destined to remain So This city has
nearly as many feet OF granite
Wharves as the entire American
union can boast, and the old conul
drum. ''Why?' arises as we pause
to admire. The lingo song said
We've got the shops. we've got the
men, we've got the money, tool" anc
Massachusetts. for instance. has
granite enough to line her shore
from end to end. if need be, anG
much more money than Havre to
pay the bill. Stone piers are prob
ably even cheaper. reckoning long
periods of time, than wood. What are
we waiting for?
And Havre is much more than a
seaport. 1t is a very handsome city,
with fine public buildings, beauti-
full parks and gardens and a beach
of it's own that needs only gravel in
stead of cobble stones to make it
much finer than Trouville.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10

point of surprise to those who know
her well, London yet retains her
breath, her unity, her consentane1ty
as no other town or city in Occidental
civilization.
There are no environing hills, as by
the Tiber, to look uown upon London,
an eternal city in as heroic a sense
as is applicable to Rome; instead
there is the brave, engirdling ring of
suburbs, ever restless, ever advanc-
ing, marching as an army upon the
defenceless country. The villages are
to-day in the green fields, tomorrow
gone, absorbed into the gullet of
town.
Thenceforward they stretch out
their small tentacles to join in the
great game of which they have been
the victims, and themselves absorbed,
suck in, and grow from point to point.
Do you see yonder red file of brick
streets? 1t has spread out of an old
world hamlet, quiet as tomb
through many centuries. The hamlet
lies buried somewhere lin the brown"
of brick and slate, but the red regi-
ment, having learned it's lesson of
progress, is mounting the hill, and the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10

A contemporary of Story's In
Rome a generation ago was the poet
and painter Thomas Buchanan Read.
man of most winning personality
and remarkable ability. He then
lived in the Via Babuino, having the
windows of his apartment on the,
fourth floor. looking into the Piazza
oil Spagna, that beloved resort of the
English-speaking foreigner in Rome
This house was afterward inhabited
for several years by the distin-
guished archaeological, Commentators,
Rodolfo Lanciani.
Early in Storys days in Rome, the,
ablest among American artists OF his
time, William Henry Rheinhart of
Baltimore died. He also was
sculptor. and all his fellow-artists OF,
America and all the Italian artists
who were capable of Judging good
work were unanimous In placing Hmm
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10

above the waters of the bay giving
excellent views in almost all direc-
lions. The river Rance affords one
OF the prettiest steamer rides in
France, from Dinard to Oman, two
hours or so, through country diver
sif1ed with low hills and wooded val
leys, that no traveller should miss.
st. Malo itself is certainly one of
the best examples extant of the
walled town of the middle ages Five
sixths of the wall gives upon the sea,
and it is all in a perfect state of
preservation. 1t is long since the
booming of cannon or the clash of
steel in the hands of attacker or de-
fender awoke the echoes here, though
such music was not unknown near
ly thousand years ago.
Parame and Cancale are extern
sions of the PLACE at St. MaIo, each
with its ambitious hotel, and the
former with many pretty private
residences and pensions. The beach
at Parame is really the best of the
lot, and, cold as the water still was
on July 20, many bathers were to be
found there.
The appearance of Mont st. Michel
is probably as familiar as any sim
liar resort to Americans, through
photographs, though comparatively
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10
France in Summer
Famous Watering Places That Attract Visitors
From All the World

them in every natural advantage,
The peasantry of all parts OF
France are interesting. and where
they don their typical dreas they are
invariably picturesque. The Nor
mandy nurses, with three yards of
broad ribbon floating behind their
caps, have long been the correct
thing for Partisan youngsters of the
upper ten, and a healthy. fine looking
race they are.
Cherbourg is not exactly a sGm
mer resort, though it possesses a
beach of it's own. but il has of late
years become favorite point of ar
rival and departure for Americans
To one interested III a solid and welT
arranged ocean front the city wei.
repays a visit. A costly breakwateI
half mile or SO from the wharves
curbs the impetuosity of the some
times too eXuberant sea, while i'm
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10
Industry and ldIeness.

A thin man and fat man started
out on the east side the other day
to sell lemons. says the New York
Times.
The thin man was energetic and
impressed one as being a hustler:
the fat man was indolent. as fat men
are apt to be. Gathering himself to-
gether the thin man would yell.
Lemons, nice lemons, two
for five, five for ten, twenty a dozen
sixteen for a quarter"
After he was through the fat mar
saidI
Here. too"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10
Proof About Caesars Camp"

Rowing out in a boat at Folke-
stone toward Shakespeare's Cliff, the
weather beaten longshOreman pointed
out to the American visitor with
great pride the hill called Caesars
Camp"
"How do you know it was Cae-
sar's Campo" he was asked.
"Well, I can't say for sartin it
was; all I know is they's allus dig
GIN up old guns and bayonets and
such like London Express.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10
No Worde-No Dollars.

A few weeks ago a caller at the
house of a friend of the "Hoosier
Poet" heard a fragment of conversa-
ton between visitor and James
Whitcomb Riley, who had been talk
ing of how poorly paid was the pro
fession Of literature. But Mr..
Riley" she said, surely you have no
cause for complaining. You must be
very rich man. / understand you
get a dollar a word for all syou
write"
"Ye-es. madam" said Riley. with
his slow drawl but sometimes l sit
all day and can't think of ID
word life
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-10


k=4 mortal slab bearing a fitting
t2sxkS&s inscription TIE place rendered
| notable by the dwelling of a
great man has also spread to Rome.
To that city, however. the records are
fewer by far than in Florence, though
it rs evident this cannot arise from a
dearth of notable personages, for the
gates of Rome have ever been opened
wide to men of mark.
The memorials that are affixed to
the walls bear the names of men from
many lands-here Polish poet, there
Neapolitan sculptor; in the Via dele
Mercede a marble slab Affixed to the
wall of a large house marks it as the
dwelling place of Sir Walter Scott;
on the Palace Nerospi (now TheodolD ;,
a SLAP records that there Shelley wrote
THE Cenci; the house in which Keats
died in the Piazza di Spagna is de-
noted by q marble slab; and so Leo
pardi, the Recsnatf poet. whose muse
affected all italy, is remembered by a
slab at his residence in the Via Con
dotti.
There is but one American, so far
as l know, thus remembered in Rome
by an honorary inscription on the
walls of the house i'm which he lived.
This is Samuel Finley Breese Morse,
the artist and inventor, whose name
is indissolubly associated with the
earlier stages of development of the
electric telegraph.
The slab was placed on this house in
1888. 1t is worthy of note that the
great reputation. of Morse was ac-
knowledged in Rome wellnigh TWEEN
ty years before the propriety of raising
a statue to him was discussed at
Washington.
There are, however, many other
memories of Americans in Rome, asso-
ciated with different places. although
not recorded in sempiternal bronze or
inscribed marbles. 1t is impossible to
say who were the first visitors from
the newly discovered continent of the |
west to the Eternal City; but it is a |
notorious fact that the deliberately |
carved wooden ceiling of the great |
church of Santa Maria Maggiore was
gilded with the first gold brought to |
Spain from South America, which was |
presented to Pope Alexander VI, him |
self a Spaniard, by King Ferdinand |
and Queen Isabella. From this there
is long gap before the American trav-
eller makes his appearance in Rome.
if ordinary records are to be trusted. |
Among the earliest visitors from the
United States to Rome in the last cen
tury was William Hickling Prescott, |
the historian of Mexico and Peru, |
whose delightful account of Ferdinand
and Isabella is a classic. In 1916 he
made visit to Rome, coming from
Paris, after leaving which he and his
companion, John Pickman Gray,
stopped day at La Grange to pay
their respects to Gen. Lafayette as
his biographer, George Ticknor, re-