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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11
A Close Race,


"Well, Mike, did you have good
time yesterday"
Sure, an I did, sir; an Elegant
tonne, the tonne O me life. I was tc
the races, an 1 put tin dollars on g
horse, an me horse won, SIR
"Close race, was it,"
"Dade an it wuz, SIR
Exciting, eh? Kept you on the
anxious bench for fear you'd lose your
money? Well, it's better to win that
way, Mike, and let 'em give you a
run for the money than have a walk
over"
mo, it wuz too close fer comfort
sir. Took the judges some time to set
tie which horse won. Them wuz anx-
ious minutes fer me. But my horse q
name the wan 1 had me money on)
won be lap, sir"
by a lap! 1 thought you said the
race was close. That's nonsense
Mike
NO, sir; shure as I'm standin' here
that's all he won by
What do you mean? Tell me what
you're talking about
Il will, sir. 1t was this way. The
horses had to run foive tonnes round
the track.
There wuz a big bunch Of thin, an
they KEEP punched for wan lap. Whin
they'd gone a half moile-that is, two
rounds-there wuz three Of 'em in
front O. the bunch. They KEEP that way
till they came to the last quarter; then
wan O. the three dropped back, lawn
two neck an neck Wan of 'em wuz
the horse that wuZ carryin' me hopes
and me tin dollars.
Go it. Aileen.' yelled. Aileen wuz
the horses name. an good wan, too,
| SeZ. seZ l. whin l backed him. His
names what TUX me fancy and made
me risk me money. Go it, Aileen,'
yelled. We can bate that spalpeen out
Of his boots l yelled. Well. the whole
stand wuZ yellin'. an l wuz near era
~. But they wuZ still nose be nose,
and comm doWn the home stretch.
Aiieen. avick. mavoureen.' I called
out. BE hivins. / think the horse heard
me. The Oirish caught his ear: for
iist as they come to the wire Aileen
Ooh. dear, the SinSe O. the baste)
stuck out his tongue and won be a lap.
Ye see 'twuZ a close race, sir
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11

NATIONALITY OF SEAMEN.-In ten
years the number Of American sailors
shipped on American ships has in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000, while the
number Of Scandinavian sailors ship
ped on American vessels has decreased
from $4,000 to $4,000.
In British shipping, the most exten-
sive in the world, the number of Eng
lish sailors has decreased and the
number of Lascars-East Indians-has
largely increased. Within the past
ten years. as steam has replaced sail
in commerce. the number of Lascars
employed on British steamers has
doubled, and at present 10000 are SO
employed. while there are 100000 Brit
ish- born seamen. Ten years ago there
were 10000 Lascars and 100000 Brit
| ish- born sailors.
The Lascar. whose capacity for
withstanding torrid heat is abnormal
is especially useful as a fireman In
the tropics. Australia and New Zea-
land have protested against the award
ing of government mail contracts to
ships employing either Lascars or Chi
namen. There has been. in recent
years. Il considerable increase In the
number of Portuguese sailors employ
ed on American ships and the number
of Italians has more than doubled in
ten years.
years.
One explanation of the change, which
is taking place in the nationality OF
seamen on British as we'll as on Amer
lean ships. is the fact that a much
larger share of the worlds commerce
is now with tropical countries than has
been the case heretofore. The exten-
sion of American commerce is almost
exclusively with tropical or senli-tro-
pical countries. The same Is true, to
more limited extent, with British and
German foreign commerce.-New York
Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11

x4 Bishop Power of Ireland, used to
tell the following story: A very old
woman. who is a hawker of fish, had
recently sold him a large and heavy
salmon. On its being opened it was
found full Of stones, the weight of
which had been paid for. On subse-
quently demonstrating with the vender
In respect of the fraud she was ready
with this reply: Sure. your reverence.
he was caught at the bottom and had
to take in ballast to get there"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11
Humurolls department.
Advice From Father.

William" said the stern and staid
banker the other day, Il would like
to see you for few moments in my
private office"
"Yes, sir" said William, with as
sumed cheerfulness, though his heart
was sinking. for whenever his father
spoke to him in that particular tone
William knew there were breakers
ahead.
The private office being reached, the
venerable father looked earnestly and
sadly into his sons eyes and said
William, am panied to hear reports
that you have been engaged in gamb-
ling"
But, father"
Don't interrupt me- sir. I don't care
to hear excuses. 1 know all the facts
Last Saturday night you lost $50 play
ing cards, did you not?"
Yes, SIR
That's right, my son. I'm glad you
do not add evasion or falsehood to
your other falt. Tell me how you lost
this money"
"Well, father, I and a friend were
playing freeze-out-"
Excuse me, but what is freeze
out?
Its a game of cards, sir"
$50 I suppose; but I know nothing
of these dreadful games. The name
freeze-out does not mean anything to
me-
perhaps you would recognize the
game under the more common title OF
bluff"
mo, I don't know that title"
"The game is also called poker"
"Oh, yes; I have heard Of poker.
well-known man wrote book on po-
ker, I believe. 1 have slight literary
acquaintance with that title. Well
sir, proceed. You and your frieno
were playing poker
"Yes, and I got four jacks in the
deal
-Four jacks! Great Scott! But
haven't any idea what bearing that
had on the game. Go on ...
II stood pat. My friend drew one
card"
Yes"
"Then I bet five"
That's where you made mistake
"Sir?"
"You began to gamble at that point
I'm afraid did, sir"
What did your friend do?"
Saw my five and raised me twenty
five"
THAT fellow had nerve"
whats that, sir?"
Never mind. Go on with your sto-
ry."
Il saw his twenty-five and raised
him FIVE"
Whats that! Only five?"
"Why, father"
mo excuses, sir. Proceed"
He saw my five and raised me five
"Yes."
II saw him and raised him five"
Idiot"
"Sir."
60 on, go on"
He saw my five and raised me fif'
teen, and -"
What did you do?"
Threw my hand in the deck ant
gave up the pot"
"Blockhead! Didn't you know i
was a rank bluff? That fellow drew
to a bobtail flush and didn't fill. HI
knew you hadn't any sand and started
in on a bluff. You threw down fou
jacks. Why, you confounded chump
if I'd held your hand, I'd stayed will
him until morning. But, thank good
ness, 1 don't know anything about th'
game, and understand me, sir, let thi
be the last complaint l hear abou
your playing cards"
William promised obedience, and a.
he passed out he heard his father NUT
tering:
-Four jacks! Great Scott! Wha
an opportunity"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11
IL Tho Sky Pilot. fg Tho Sky Pilot.
JERSEY CALVES FOR SALE.

A LIMITED number of THOR
II OUGHBRED JERSEY CALVES,
both sexes, of the most fashionable
breeding. These calves are all that
could be desired in so far as their
breeding and other qualifications are
concerned. Address
J. w. BELTS. Leslie, s. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11

Gastonia Gazette, September s: Stuff
will certainly grow i'm old CASTOR if it
has 4 chance. Mr.. Ed Pettus showed
us yesterday a stalk of Russian millet
nine feet high which grew in patch
he sowed for hay. 1t was in an old
barn lot and the ground was broken
deep. Much Of it is taller than nine
feet. He has between a quarter and a
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11

81; Inventing lies has cheapened many
a good mans reputation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11

AZ 1t is safer to twist a lions tall
than to call a woman's attention to her
first gray hair.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11

IL If you don't know exactly what
you want in the way Of a folder or
circular FOR advertising, let US help
you-that's part of our business.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

Those who expect to attend the Sum
mer School at the A. and M. College, with
board and room in the dormitories at SO
per month should have rooms reserved at
once, as only a few are left and these are
being rapidly taken.
Accommodations can be secured in pri-
waite families and in the Baptist Female
University buildings, and we shall be able
to entertain comfortably all who come.
Students from more than half the coun-
ties IN the State and quite number from
adjoining States have registered. We are
sure of having one of the best Summer
Schools ever conducted in the South from
the standpoint Of attendance. and quality.
and scope of work, which will include In
dustrial, Literary. Normal and Music De-
partment with model practice graded
school Of 100 pupils
A certificate Of attendance will be valid
in any county of the State in lieu Of insti-
tute attendance according to amendment
to the school law by the last Legislature
Railroads have granted a rate of one
fare plus Is cents for round trip. Speak
to your agent about it a few days before
ready to start.
A handsomely illustrated prospectus will
be sent TO any one interested upon APP
plication.
CHARLES J. PARKER,
Secretary
Raleigh, N. C.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07
Bill APlp's Letter.
(Atlanta Constitution

II am Jesus Christ, the carpenters SON.
NV mission is To save sinners. | fought
in the civil war from Dalton to Jones'
boro. Twice / have been president of
these United States since the surrender
and have attended all the reunions up to
date. but now they have got me penned
mn here as a Tennessee lunatic and won't
let me 90 to New Orleans. l can't get a
passport because / am Jesus CHRIST can
YOU do something for me? I want to so,
and rejoice with those who reiolee and
weep with those who weep.
That poor fellow has my sympathy.
Maybe If they had let him go with the
veterans it would have restored has rea-
son. / know it Frightened up our boys
aud now they can't talk about anything
else. Was there ever such glowing, grow
inc patriotism? It looks like the num-
Ler increases at every reunion and VhaI
without pensions. The Grand Army OF
the Republic has reunions, but 1T IS mann
~ to keep up the pension grab. the thing
that Tom Benton called "the bottomless
gull of charities and gratuIties.
| saw it stated the other day that ~
FER cent. of the Federal army were Tor
eigners or foreign-born and were hghtlhg
only for bounty or booty or buncombe'
and they got it all and the pensions
thrown in. ols that was grand gather
ing at New orleans. 1t seems to me
that if was a Northern man l would
say: Look here, boys, we can't do any
thing with those rebels down South, ana
move we quit trying. We've been
working on EN- for nearly forty years
y.fo "A oF1p
they marched through New Orleans loo'-
600 strong you could hear that same olo
rebel veil from ST. Charles to Vlcksburg.
old Father Mountcastle told me II burst
ed every telegraph wire south OF Mason
and Dixon's line and away up ~ Penn
sylvania the Western Union had to cut
down their poles for a hundred miles
But I'm distressed about Mississippi
Who is Governor Longino, anyhow? HIS
name is not In any biography that I've
got. reckon it wasn't worth putting IN.
/ reckon he is a foreigner or he wouldn't
have invited Roosevelt, the slanderer,
Down to Jackson to help lay the corner
stone of the capitol. Roosevelt said that
JEFF Davis was the arch repudator and
while Governor vetoed the bill that made
provision to pay the repudiated debt. and
he has never retracted nor apologlzed
for that lie. / wonder if Longino knows
that Goevrnor McNut was the author
Of reputation and gave as his reason
that the money was borrowed from Bar
on Rothschild, in whose veins flowed the
blood of Judas and Shylock, and whose
mortgages would confiscate our cotton
fields and make serfs of our children.
That's what he said in his message, but
the legislature wouldn't vote for it, and
he took five years to get the bill through
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07

tor in this State The statute of South
Carolina gives the right Of action to an
administrator IN cases where death has
ensued from injury, caused by wrongful
act, neglect, etc, Of another, and the act
is such as would have entitled the party
if death had not ensued. to maintain an
action and recover. The defendant con
tended that the right of action was an
asset in the State Of South Carolina, and
could be controlled only by an admnistrl-
tor appointed in that State Held that
defendants contention cannot be sus-
timed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07

! All this time MIR Davis was fighting for
his country in Mexico and got desper-
ately wounded at Buena Vista and had
to use crutches for six years. He never
was in the Legislature nor was he ever
Governor, and yet Roosevelt, the Sian
derer, lets the lie stand and Longino
invites HIM down to lay the corner stone.
Oh my country! When viii all this
toadyism and hypocrisy cease? OH Mis-
sissppi How are the mighty fallen!
Now these utterances are my own
neither the editor nor any paper IS re-
sponsible for them. My feelings and emo
tions are all my own. l honor the menu
CRY of Mr.. Davis and have profound re-
spect for his widow, and there IS no limit
to my contempt for the brute who put
manaeles on MIN or ,ne conceited his
torian who slandered him. It is com
fort to despise them both.
And now, three cheers for Indiana, the
champion State for lynching negroes when
they commit outrages on their women.
Not week passes but there is fresh
case and the people turn out and scour
the country for the brute And now
they are driving all the negroes. out Of a
county where an outrage was committed
You see they have no chain gangs up
there and but few negroes. Lynchlng aas
almost stopped in Georgia because pun
ishrnent is more speedy and there Is
chain gaag in sight in almost every coun-
ty. but let sure-enough case come up
and a sure-enough lynching will swiftly
follow. There are more than 1000 men
in our State who have not bowed the
y = l3ax oVFalf DWIGHT
Hills shouldn't sleep in q bed in my house
unless he was sick unto death.
But enough of all this. 1t sounds like
am mad with somebody, but | am not.
We are all happy at my house tonight.
for our far-away boy is on his way home.
We have Just had a telegram from him
and he viii be here tonight. He lives
ia Mexico City and it has been three long
years since we @lve seen him. This IS
Carl. the youngest boy-the pet OF has
mother-the one she loves the best and
prays the longest for every night. He
will stay with us a few days and then
go away again and perhaps never see US
any more. My wife has been saving the
snring chickens for him and the flowers
are not to be cut till he comes, and the
strawberries are still bearing aud the
cake IS in the oven. Nothing Is TOO
precious for Carl and he and Jesse will
sing their old songs and rehearse their
happy days when we lived in the country
en- the farm.
OH the happy, happy days on the farm,
before our boys all left us and our girls
got married.
But we are happy still and love every
body, except some
BILL ARP.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-02-08
THE POETRY or THE oRANoH," /"

1T arpcAia to you, when tho Fruit
hnnga ripe aud sweet on the tree lata In
February, or car,y In March Then the
blossoms break out, and tho ueea are
yellow with golden globes, ana white
with orange ilowtra, u may he that
furry OF anow has whitehead the
mountain tbra. and then YOU have an
artistic background for a tropical for
cat, The air Ii full Of nunahlne. ana
heavy with the fragrance an night
comes on. and then, II the moon ho
aiming, YOU hear at midnight through
upcn wlndawa. tho song OF the mockink
bird In the accented grove, and !, never
seemed No ulslodoua before" "
An experience like lhta IN posnihle any
winter. and It II worth journey o, a
thousand miles while you can have II.
h, taking tho aernic ahaato route
throus the grand ani picturesque aiH'
ktynu aud Shasta mountains. To aouth
EN- Cnllrp-nla couplrta Information
Ahnut tho trip, and defrrlptl'c matter,
telling about California. may be- had
from amy southern Pacific agent. or w
f. Conan. Gen raas Ast y, L, Co,
Limos ia oregon, Portland, Oregon,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-02-08

ceatury taken a position among the
foremost tlnancicra Of the United stat
e3. He was cashier of the New York
branch OF the United States bank up
to the time that the institution was dis.
continued by President Jackson. and
had been abroad as an expert In the in.
tersst Of one OF the largest New York
banks. While on this errand he te-
came interested In life Insurance as
carried on In England, and when. after
his return, he started n movement to
establish It in this country.
American companies now have assets
amounting to two billions OF dollars
more than is invested In any other
kind OF enterprise in the world. and
policies are now issued for "A million
dollars II desired. One such has be-
come due and paid. to the heirs OF
Frank II. Peavey OF Minneapolis, by
the Mutual
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-02-08
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in the meantime, frail humanity is sub
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-02-08


We frequently see newspaper COM
ments on public men in which they are
roundly scored while seeking office, and
afterwards, when successful, are laud-
ed. Usually some other newspaper
takes up this alleged inconsistency,
with the title Then and Now" and a
goodly dose of scathing censure that its
contemporary has Topped. We fail to
discern wherein there is any incon-
sistency in change of front of this
kind. When a man seeks public of
flee he finds opposition. That oppo-
sition plans for his defeat and strives
nightly TO bring It about. His fail
ings are aired and perhaps magnified
and during the campaign he is subject
ed to the most bitter attacks. However,
when he is elected the time for criti-
cisrn is past. He is then a public rep
resentative and as such entitled to the
respect Of the people and their mouth
piece, the press. The Astorian fought
Governor Chamberlain during the late
campaign and used every honorable
means to bring about his defeat. Mr..
Chamberlain was elected and The AS
torian could rightfully be considered
unpatriotic were it to continue its OPP
position to him. So it is with sena-
torlal candidates and other public men.
Loyalty demands support of the govern
ment. which is represented by our pub
lie men, and 1t is no disgrace that
newspaper which has fought an as
pirant for public office should, after
his election, extend the hand Of friend
ship to him and otherwise encourage
him to faithfully perform the func-
tions of his office. Too much politics
is the curse from which we suffer most,
and 1t Is refreshing to find an occas-