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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-20

face Of the guard. He calmly advanced
to the table, putting down his lantern.
Then he drew of his raincoat and bel
met and placed in the others hand a
gray envelope. Lorry reeled and would
have fallen but for the wall against
which he staggered. A note from her
was in his hand. He tore open the en-
velope and drew forth the letter. AS
he read he grew strangely calm and
contented. A blissful repose rushed in
to supplant the racking unrest OF mo-
ment before. The shadows fed and
life's light was burning brightly once
more. She had written:
1 entreat you to follow instructions and
90 tonight. You say you will not leave
Graustark until you have seen me. How
rash you are to refuse liberty and life for
such a trifle! But why, I ask, am Of
fering you this chance to escape? Is It
because I do not hope to see you again?
Is 1t not enough that am begging. i'm
ploring you to go? can say no more.
He folded the brief note, written in
agitation. and, after kissing it, proceed
ed to place it in his pocket determined
to keep it to the last hour Of bis life.
Glancing up at sound from the guard,
he found himself looking into the muz-
zle of revolver. A deep scowl over
spread the face of the man as he point
ed to the letter and then to the lamp.
There was no mistaking his meaning.
Lorry reluctantly held the note over
the fame and saw it crumble away as
had its predecessor. There was to be
no proof Of her completely left behind.
He knew it would be folly to offer
bribe to the loyal guard.
After this very significant act the
guards face cleared, and he deposited
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-20
GLAD HE is NOT RICH.
Ex.seeretary Long Would Not Ex.
| chance Freedom For Wealth.

II am glad / am not a rich man.
would not exchange my freedom. home
life and content Of heart for the wealth
Of a Morgan or Carnegie" said John
D. Long, former secretary Of the navy,
at the recent Rockland, (Mass.) Com
mercial club banquet, at which he was
the guest Of honor, says the New York
Herald. A moment before he referred
in a touching manner to the death OF
Frederick o. MacCartney. socialist
who represented Rockland in the leg
islature.
"I did not agree with Mr.. MacCart.
ney in his views" said Mr.. Long, but
I respect the man for his sterling quail
tiles. He was working for principle
which he believed to be right. Ad-
vances make the nation what it is to-
day: Is not every man a part Of the
advance that is going on II he Is sin
cere in his beliefs? I love to think OF
man as an individual. We criticise
severely the man who stands aloof, but
he is working for the common good!
In speaking Of socialism, Mr.. Long
said there has been respect for the
rights of property in the past and
there always would be. If the reward
is taken away there would be no in
centive to work.
"Our mothers and grandmothers
worked like slaves" he continued, but
the life Of the people Of today Is rem
dered much easier by the accumula-
ton of wealth. We live better and
have more advantages than they had.
We are living in an age Of socialism
as 1 understand socialism. I fear no
theories, no fanatics and no million
aires, but 1 do believe in the trust IN
the judgment Of the good everyday
people of this country to work out
these problems. Wealth Is all right,
but 1t is not to be considered for
moment with clear mind, good
health and q clear conscience. The
advances that are being made Will
work for the benefit Of mankind"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-20

SOME VERY WISE ANTs.-A French
traveller has discovered new species
Of ant In Siam, or, at least, new trait
he has never before seen recorded.
The creatures were small, Of q gray
color, and lived in damp places. They
travelled often and in troops which
seemed to be under the direction Of
commander who rode on horseback"
NJ. M. Meissen, the Frenchman, who
noticed this popularity, was attracted
to these groups by discovering that
each company contained a large ant
that travelled more rapidly than the
others. Observing them more closely
he noticed that each large ant always
carried a small gray ant upon It's
back, though the remainder OF the
troops were on foot. This mounted ant
would ride out from the line, travel
swiftly along the column from head to
rear, and apparently overlook their
maiioeuvres. M. Meissen, concluded
from what he saw that this species Of
ant, while on its travels, Is under the
direction Of a commander, though such
'.ant horses" as the general rides must
be rare and valuable, for he scarcely
ever found more than one mounted ant
in a colony.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-20
MEMORIAL DAYS.
Different Datss North and South
Southern Tributes 70 Union Dead.

Different Datss North and South
Southern Tributes 70 Union Dead.
Memorial Day for the soldiers Of the
north is the same throughout the Uni
ted States. For the soldiers of the
south there is no uniform date, the
matter being regulated by local pref
erences or the will Of each particular
community or camp. The Louisiana
legislature at its last session enacted
that June 8, the anniversary Of the
birth Of Jefferson Davis, shall be q
state holiday for the decoration Of the
southern graves. OF course, this reg
ulation has no effect upon the customs
in other states as to the celebration
of Memorial Day. There would seem
to be peculiar appropriateness in cell
ebrating Southern Memorial Day on
the same date throughout the country,
but local prejudices seems to be too
strong to permit any such uniformity.
There are seventy-nine National
cemeteries in which Union dead and
some Confederates are inferred. OF
these, all are In the limits Of the Uni
ted States, with one exception. and
that Is In Mexico, near the National
capital Of that republic. In 1t are In
tered 1,034 American dead. In the
other seventy-eight there are buried
the remains Of s18s70 persons, of
whom 171,302 are known and 147,56S
are unknown. Among these are $500
Gonfederates, OF whom 8,100 are known
and $500 are unknown. OF these 70
cemeteries IS are south Of the Poto-
mac and Ohio rivers. That one which
contains the greatest number Of graves
is at Vicksburg. where there are 1890
inferred. Nashville follows, with 49,
52s, and after that Arlington. with 16.-
264. Chalmette cemetery, in the en-
yirons Of New Orleans. contains 12;-
511 Of the civil war dead.
The custom of strewing flowers on
the graves Of the Union dead by south
ern women appears to have originated
in this city more than twenty years
ago. In the seventies Of the last CEN
fury, after the. government of the state
Of Louisiana had been restored to Its
own people after the infamies Of the
reconstruction era, the noble women
Of this city could not but regard with
extreme pity the spectacle Of 10000
graves Of strangers under the magno-
las at Chalmette, with perhaps few, II
any, loving ones at hand to give ex-,
preston to a tender remembrance, and
they sent flowers, and many went in
persons to perform this gentle minis
tration, and so the custom grew up,
and 1t came about that the surviving
men of the Confederate organizations
In the city made 1t rule to send their
especial tributes, which are always
handsome and costly, to do honor on
Memorial Day to the Federal dead at
Chalmette. The resident Federal vet-
Grams were quick to reciprccate. the ct
tention,. and 80 an exchange Of floral
tributes on Federal ahd Confederate
Memorial Days has been the rule here
for more than twenty years. SO may
It be to the end.-New Orleans Pi-
cayunne.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-20

fa' The best capital to begin life on
is q capital wife-so woman says.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-20
GEORGE BARR McCUTCHE0N


1so1, by Herbert s. stons -
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

currence. A manufacturer Of Chicago
Heights, ILL.,, wrote to Clark Howell the
well-known editor of Atlanta, Ga, ask
ing him to lend his assistance to the task
of manning the formers factory with
colored labor as an experiment. Mr..
Howell replied that the northern antag-
cnism to black laborers would keep
them away, and the South had use for
black labor itself.
1t cannot be denied that there Is an
clement of truth in all this. While we
Of the North are willing to contend for
political rights for the colored man, we
are not as willing as are residents of the
South to afford him the means of sus-
tenance. which comes before the rights
OF citizenship in Importance. We are
willing to let the coored man vote, under
existing conditions; but we cannot say
whether the same prejudice that exerts
such a powerful influence in industrial
conditions might not sway us more than
we think, were we to find ourselves out
numbered at the polls by colored voters.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02
THREE HOURS FUN.
An Hour or Two Thrown in for Aston
ishment and Amusement.

With hosts of special performers to
startle the audience for three hours
with their marvellous acts, in three
rings. on two stages, and on the rae
ing track in the Barnum e. Bailey
show. as many more bewilder the visitor
with extra ordinary feats OF all kinds
in the air, while a hundred more tum-
BILE and leap over elephants. turn and
twist every kind of somersault and
execute acrobatic and athletic ex-
PLOTS. CYCLIC, the Kinetic Demon, is a
thrilling act, while the exhibit of
miniature warships is worthy of all
praise. One would naturally think
that would be enough for one single
admission; but no! for the perform
ances, long rs they are, and with their
stupendous variety of novel and Won
dcrful features, are really but half
the attractions, for in the new men,
agerie pavilion there is veritable
midway lined by the scores OF artists
who perform in the grand magical
juggling, musical. and terpsichorean
advertisement, and the remarkable
gathering of freaks. Two menageries
of wild and trained beasts. cages teem-
ing with rare quadrupeds and feath-
cred oddities. three whole herds of
elephants. camels and dromedaries.
rare collection of queer animal freaks,
and other living curiosities, are also
few of the most wonderful attractions
of these great American representative
shows. An entirely new free street
parade with n wondrous 40-horse
team, lots of allcgorical chariots, ami
mails and rare objects is still another
startling novelty. All will be here on
Wednesday. July %.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Mayor Suggests Mon to Consider EIcc-
trio Lighting Plant.

At n special meeting OF the board Of al
dernen Tuesday night, Mayor Burke sug-
sested that Prof. w. II. Freedman, DR..
". S Vincent and j. r Mcmahon he
appointed an advisory committee to con-
fer with the aldermen in the matter OF
municipal electric light plant. The
question was referred to the street COM
mittee.
Alderman Shea moved that the street
committee secure from the Consolidated
Electric company their best terms for
furnishing street lights for a years con-
tract and the motion prevailed.
A resolution was passed authorizing the
city treasurer to advance the cemetery
commissioners $3.50 as temporary loan.
A petition for an electric light on
Mansfield avenue at the corner of North
avenue was referred 10 the street COM
mittee.
The fire committee was authorized to
dispose of an extra horse to the best
advantage possible.
The board received an invitation to at
tend the jubilee of the Catholic diocese
to he held July %, ana it was accepted.
a resolution was passed making the
pay of regular iiremen as foloW: Cap
tain, $50 per month; driver, $50; pipemen,
si6 the salary of all regular firemen, ex-
cept captain. after having served three
years, to he $50 per month.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02
PERSONAL

United States Senator Redfeld Proc
tor Is expected 10 return to Vermont to-
day from a trip to New Brunswick. where
he enjoyed rare fishing on the grounds
of the Technique Salmon club He staid a
dozen days on the grounds accompanied
only by his guide, chief of the tribe of
Technique. and the latter's assistant n
backwOods cook He was located on the
Serpentine pool, the highest to which
salmon run, thirty miles from a habita-
ton and sixty miles from a railroad lie
caught large number of handsome
salmon, and some of his Burlington
friends can testify to his skill as a
fisherman as we'll as to the excellent
quality OF the salmon found in Serpentine
pool.
The many acquaintances of Dr. w. n.
Platt of Shoreham, who suffered n slight
shock some days ago, will he pleased to
learn that he is making good progress
and has nearly recovered from the eff
fects Of 1t.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02
FOREIGN NOTES.

The twenty-seven railway bridges on
the Uganda (Africa) road are American.
In England ninety-nine towns own their
own gas works, the average net income
being S,9i7,l25 per annun.
Great Britain spends sll25o,roo a year
on the support of the poor This does not
include private charities.
The income OF the British postoffice
from money in envelopes having no or
insufficient address is 10000 to $500 a
day.
Kilkenny Castle is one Of the oldest in
habted houses in the world. many of the
rooms being much as they were 800 years
ago.
The British government will buy all the
railways in South Africa, the colonies to
pay interest on the St5. 900, 0n0 necessary
to the purchase.
The parce! post Of the British suffers
from such VIGOROUSLY bad bargains with
railways las the United States postoffice
doesl that the postoffce is beginning to
send parcels by its own vehicles. Horse
or motor vans now run on most Of the
main roads from London, and by this
means II 10000 parcels a year are saved
from the eXtortionate railway rates.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

While the white residents Of the South
do not want to be dominated politically
by the negro, they are free to admit that
they want his labor. and would experience
difficulty in cultvating their plantations
without his services, A correspondent OF
the Washington Post writing from Mis-
sissppi says that in Sunnower county on
the Yazoo delta n large part of the will
derness formerly existing has been broken
up during the past ten years or so. into
cotton plantations whose richness IL not
exceeded by that OF any other section
save the Sea Island cotton fields The
whole country is intersected by bayous.
and the development of the railroads
has furnished an easy market, As a
consequence cotton congresses and cot
tonseed oil mills have gone up all over
the country, and the immediate result of
this combination Of conditions was that
there was n marked thrush OF negro la
borers. in response to the demand for
helpers, The negro population has In
creased marveously due almost entirely
TO immigration from other sections. The
white planters and the white people have
not increased in number to any material
extent since the land was opened, num-
berng at the present time only 1900. while
the total coloreG population of the coun-
try is now placed at 200
Still another side to this manifold qucs
ton of race prejudice is emphasized in
connection with an incident OF recent oc-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

The exceptional native American who
would like to raise n family II he could
afford it will find some basis for encour-
agemcnt in an article in the Popular Sci
encc Monthly for June. Professor Chitten-
den, director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific
School, thinks 1t likely that we might
do a great deal better on very much less
food than we are used to consume. Pro-
fessor Atwater of Wesleyan University
and Professor Volt of Munich have taken
careful note of what average people seem
to need in the way of food. and have esti-
mated our daily requirement to he about
20 grams of protelds, together with car
bohydrates of total fuol value of more
than 1900 heatunts. But somewhere
within reach of Yale there Is a gentle
man named Fletcher who is interested in
the subject of nutrition. and for some
years past has been experimenting per-
sonally with tho food habit Him Pro-
fessor Chittenden has studied. and has
discovered that he keeps fit and hearty
on n daily diet of about IS grams of pro-
teids and 1000 heat-units worth Of carlo.
hydrates. He eats little meat, and dur.
ing one of the weeks when Professor Chit
tenden had him under close observation
he lived for seven days on breakfast foods
and maple sugar. at a total cost of II
cents During this period DR. Anderson of
the Yale gymnasium worked him hard
Yale University crew, and reported that
he did the work more easily and with
fewer noticeable bad results than any
man Of his age and condition no had ever
worked with. Professor Chittcnden does
not draw rash conclusions from the fact
that Mr.. Fletcher is such an easykecpor.
but that case is one of many facts that
make him feel that it is n least disputable
whether most of US really know how
much food we need. He misdoubts that
Professor Atwater's allowances, based on
observation Of the habits of food consum-
ers. are very much more liberal than is
necessary. Possibly this is true Eating
is the greatest of all our standard amuse-
ments. A great number of people OBJ
viously cat a great deal more than they
need and 1t is entirely credible that a
large proportion of the moderate caters
might thrive as well, and look as hand
come. and work as hard. and live is long
on a very much restricted diet. But would
the JOY Of life continue unimpaired for
them? The native-born might raise plenty
of children if they think life was worth
living on II cents worth Of food a day?
No, they wouldn't. That is one thing that
als them.-Harper's Weekly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02
New York clearinghouse is the absolute

New York boarding house is the absolute
cleanliness which reigns supreme in every
corner. EVERYTHING looks clean and every
thing smells clean from the courtyard
to the dining-rooms. Petit deieuner, con-
sisting of bread, butter and coffee, Is
served every morning in the rooms, and
then one has long morning for work
or play. At 12:15 regular deieuner is scrv-
ed In the dining room and madam who
IN every Paris pension acts very much
like the sour matron of a girls boarding
schooi. expects everybody to come
prompt when the whcezy little femme de
chambrc raps on the doors one a ter the
other and says in never-varying accents.
Gu sc met table, mademoisellc." Al
ter one gets acquainted one hurrios away
IN happy obedience to this call, beca use
IL is the first meal of the day and one is
hungry; besides. II Is rather a nice com
pany on the whole and dejeuner is the
event Of the day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

People sometimes wonder how Tam
many Hall retains its remarkable hold
on the people OF New York city; but a
glimpse at a recent scene in the metro
polls will help to solve the problem.
State Senator James ]. Frawlcy. the
Tammany leader in the Thirty
assembly district, led 26, oO0 youngsters Of
all sorts and conditions and ages and
gave them the time of their lives at
his annual June walk in Central Park.
None was barred and the participants
included black and white, Jews and
Christians. italian. Dutch, Swede,
Slavonic and Greek. 1t required 500 lem
ons, three tons of candy 5000 sand
wiches and 100 gallons of ice cream to
refresh the youthful vote makers. 1t is
safe to say that the youngsters of the
Thirtysecond will cheer for Frawley
and Tammany Hall.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

John Bull finds that the German tariff
is pinching his commerce to noticeable
degree and he Is accordingly inclined to
make Rome howl. The English have made
the remarkable discovery that since the
German tariff regulations affecting Can
ada were enforced England's trade with
Canada has diminished, and there is a
pronounced demand that the Balfour min
istry inaugurate measures to induce Ger
many to modify her determinations
against the Canadians. The singular thing
about this whole matter is that the lib
erals who have been bitterly attacking
Chambcrlain's scheme of preferential
relations for British colonies are the very
ones who are clamoring most Vociferous-
ly for action on the part Of the British
government looking to therelef of the Do
minion as well as Of the British them
selves, being apparently oblivious Of the
spectacle which they are making of them
selves as we'll as of the extent to which
they are playing into the hands of the
English protectionsts. This whole mat
ter serves to show how far free trade
England has unconsciously drifted from
It's moorngs, and no one dares to pre-
dict where it will all end.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

VaNcor home. which had been artisti-
cally trimmed with ferns and roses. The
bride was chArmingly attired in gown
of white liberty satin over white taffeta
and carried q bouquet of white roses.
The maid of honor. Miss f. Elaine Van
cor, a sister of the bride. was gowned in
white silk tissue trimmed with pink rib
hons and carried bouquet Of pink roses.
The groom was attended by Wilbur c.
Sawyer. There were many handsome
wedding gifts.
Among the guests from out Of town
were Mr.. and Mrs. f. II. Fa-lham, Mr..
and Mrs. A. G.. Jones and Mr.. and Mrs.
c. l.. Jones of Sudbury. Mr. and Mrs. T.
G. Farnham and Miss Maudc Farnham
of Shoreham. Harry DeLong and Miss
Katherine Griswold of West Cornwall,
c. n. Hook, Roy Cakes and Miss Kath-
crime Griswold of Felchvillc, Mrs j. F..
Woodruff of Brandon and George Obear
of Lynn. Mass.
The bridal couple took the eleven
o'clock train Tuesday night for an OK
tended wedding tour.