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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14
Hatmuro,1s department.
Objected to the Principle.

J didn't know how they did business
in Porto Rico until I got there?' SAID
an American who was stationed on the
island for a year or more, but 1t dion
take me long to find out. Nobody pale
cash down over there until he worked
the credit system out.
Indeed, it was the hardest kind OF
work to leave money behind you. Tne
system was to charge 1t up and col
,ect in sixty or ninety days, and we
soldiers had a good thing out OF 1t ror
the first six months. Then we had 10
nav cash, and the merchants coulon
get it into their pockets quick enough.
"While the credit system was IN rull
swing a Spanish tobacco dealer asked
me to teach him the game OF poker.
As he had been very liberal IN the
matter of cigars took hold and spent
about three days with him, ana at
length he was ready to bet on his hano'
7 was also ready to win his money
and before we made a Jackpot salo
to him:
"senor, you must understand that
shall play strictly after American
principles. If you lose you pay at
once
".Si, ST. he replied, and we went at
1t.
He was dead-easy game, but let
him win about $40 and told him TO
charge it. The next day we sat down
again and I soaked him for $50. and
when we rose up asked for the mon
ey. He looked puzzled and paid 1t over
reluctantly, and when I went on the
third day to skin him some more ne
said he guessed he didn't care to play.
but 1 thought you liked the
game?' said.
"'Si senior, I the poker game DO
like he replied, but I object to the
principle Of America in it.
".How do mean?'
"'Why, when you $40 lose 1t Is
charge it up, but when $50 win 1t is
hand it over quick right OFF,. '-Ex-
change.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14
Not Good to Eat.

The Galveston News Is authority fol
q good story about Gen. Miles recen'
visit to that city. While inspecting
Fort San Jacinto one Of the men who
have the ammunition magazine III
charge was standing at the door Of the
place with two little strips of some
thing that looked like macaroni, they
being about the size and length Of tina,
Italian delicacy.
What is that" said Gen. Miles.
Don't you know, general, what that
is?" said the government official.
Don't believe I do," said the gen.
eral, examining a piece of the stuff.
That's the powder we use In tina,
rifle there" as he pointed to one OF
the giant 10-inch guns fronting out
over the emplacement.
Nobody laughed so heartily as the
general himself at the very ridiculous
idea of the head of the United States
army not knowing what powder was
when he saw it.
One Of the officers then said: THAT
stuff Is put up in boxes you see over
in that corner there. When the storm
hit this fort and scattered our guns
and ammunition all over South Texas
it became necessary for us to send out
an officer to locate and recover as
much Of it as possible.
lone day while in the discharge OF
his duty he came upon an old farmer
up the bay somewhere who had been
picking up what he could find over in
his section Of the state. The officer
found several of these boxes stacked
away in the old mans larder, and he,
in the name Of Uncle Sam, proceeded
to seize the combustible.
1.-The officer procured a wagon, and
as he was leaving the old mans place
with his capture loaded on the wagon
the old man with some degree Of sat-
isfaction sang out:
"Take your old macaroni. It's no
good nohow. Mary boiled some a
whole day, and it tasted like mule"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14
Friday, August IL, 1903.
the room and told her what I intended

the room and told her what intended
to do.
Wont she get well?' asked the girl
after I had explained as mercifully as
1 could.
NO 1 replied, she will not get
we'll. She will die tonight
Just then there was feeble move
ment on the bed, and thin, angry
voice drawled out: 1t amt SO. I won't
die. I expect to eat the goose that eats
the grass off Of your grave
"Oh, yes. She's quite we'll now, and
she does not hesitate to tell me how
much she likes goose."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14

A BRILLIANT REToRT-After dinner
speaking is an art and like many other
arts. its excellence has much to do with
the mood of the artist. Some Of the
best of our after dinner speakers some
times fall but it is not often that fail
ure results in the enrichment of the
worlds store Of epigram, as 1t did in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14
the case of Lord Erskine many years

the case Of Lord Erskine many years
ago.
When Lord Erskine was made
member of that highly honorable body,
the Fishmongers' company Of London,
he made an after dinner speech on the
occasion of his first appearance among
them as a member. Upon his return
he said to a friend:
II spoke i'll today and stammered
and hesitated in the opening"
"You certainly floundered," was the
reply, "but I thought you did so In
compliment to the fishmongers.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14

DOUBLING UP.-A boy Of eight was
asked by his teacher where the zenith
was. He replied. "The spot In the
heavens directly over ones head"
To test his knowledge further the
teacher asked:
Can two persons have the same ze-
NTH at the same time?"
They can."
"How?"
IF one stand on the others head
Exchange.
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JERSEY CALVES FOR SALE
PHOTOGRAPHY
I8 AM ART

A ND II takes an artist to be pho
1tographer. One who is not an art
list doesn't stand much Of a chance OF
making a success at photography.
have given years Of study to this es-
pecial line and l can say with pride
that my work will compare fayorably
with that Of any photographer In this
section.
The best and most perfect photo
graphs are the result of experience
and not experiments. do all Of my
developing, retouching and finishing,
thereby obtaining the best possible re-
suits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14

IF a man is known by the company
he keeps, he is also known by the
printing he sends out.
Don't send out "cheap" Stationery
and Advertising Literature---get the
Best.
Business today is fight very
often it's a small matter that turns
the scales.
That piece of printing that you ex-
pect to send out should be fit rep
resentative of your business.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14

3S' When a man takes your hand with
a firm, cordial grasp, it is a sure sign
that his heart is full or his purse Is
empty.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14
As Far As Prices

Are concerned, you need not worry
yourself along that score. I know that
my prices are reasonable and you will
agree with me when I tell you what
they are. am also prepared to devel-
op and print pictures taken with pock-
ct cameras. If you have Kodak or
Vive or any other camera, and for any
reason you can't, develop and print
your pictures bring them to me at my
gallery on West Liberty street.
J. R. SCHORB.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14

III The righteous man has no
place in an organization; his place In
The wall had better be left hole.
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tar Tho Enquirer will do your Job
Printing promptly at fair price.
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1. 7. NICHOLS, General Manager.
e. +. REID, g. p. Agent,
Chester, 8. G.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24

The miners grievance in regard to
the number of pounds in ton seems
to me very real one. The company
sells 2,240 pounds, but the men are
paid at the rate of $500 to 3, 100 pounds
Tor ton. This allowance is supposed
to be made for loss and impurity, but
when the impure part has been put
through washer it is sold for buck
wheat coal. The men, however, get
nothing for this. They are robbed OF
that much" to adopt their own phrase
oaogy.
To be sure, very many people say
this difference is absolutely necessary
to protect the capitalists from the dirt
and stone weight that the miner coulC
and does throw in. But if this is true
why do the operators object to the
unions proposition that check weigh.
man, paid by the miners themselves
shall weigh all coal together with the
company's representative? - Kellogg
Durland in Boston Herald.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
Shouldn't Blow Two Horns.


The bill to prohibit enlisted musi-
clans of the army and navy from max
ing private contracts for music or en-
gaging in competition with civilian mu-
sicians was voted down in the house
of representatives. The measure was
defeated by vote of 80 to 43. 1t has
been before the house for some time,
and its final disposition was awaited
with much interest by the local union
musicians. An agitation against the
government musicians accepting posi-
lions at the local theaters, resorts, ETC.,
has been kept up by the labor leaders
for several years.
The secretary of the navy was ap-
pealed to at one time with reference
to the private contracts of members
Of the Marine band. 1t is said that
the secretary refused to take any &C.
ton in the NATTER and in consequence
the bill just defeated was framed by
the American Federation of Labor
Local labor leaders declare that to al
low members of government bands to
accept positions in civilian life is a
great injustice to the civilian bands
and that the defeat Of the measure
which they considered their only re-
dress will add to their hardships. 1t is
more than probable that another bill
bearing on this subject will be framed
and submitted to congress.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
Leadership of Labor Unions.

Much Of the unfortunate experience
of trade unions has been due to poor
leadership, and this is not surprising in
view Of the narrow conception among
laborers of the intellectual and moral
equipment necessary for trade union
leadership. 1t has always been an I'M
fortunate characteristic of workingmen
that, while they ask for high wages,
they are unwilling to pay high wages
to their own representatives. Some i'm
provement in this respect has taken
place during the last ten or fifteen
years, but it is still the prevalent no
ton that those who work to advance
labor interests are but scantily worthy
of their hire
In order to get first class leaders the
unions must pay first class salaries
That is the only way the corporations
can enlist capable men in their service,
and trade unions can accomplish the
same result only by doing likewise. It
is not essential that the president Of
the national labor organization should
be taken from the bench. He should
not be elected because he is the best
shoemaker or the finest carpenter, but
because of his knowledge of and ability
to understand and present the princi-
pies and interests involved in trade un-
ion purposes and policies. - Gunton's
Magazine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
Fighting the Tobacco Trust.

With the Tobacco Workers Interna.
donal union, the Cigar Makers Inter
national union, the Independent To-
bacco Dealers association, the Retail
Druggists association and the Liquor
Dealers association all arrayed against
1t, the tobacco trust is contemplating
starting a union cigar factory in Chi.
cago. After Jan. 5 the tobacco workers
are to open headquarters here and
place twelve organizers in the field to
work against the trust.
President Henry Fischer and Organ.
tiers Sweeney and Cullen are at work
among the local unions now, urging up.
on the members to buy only tobacco
bearing the union label They claim
that the sales of the trust have faller
off about one-half within the past
month, and the fact that the trust is tc
open a large union factory here would
seem to Indicate that it is feeling the
effects Of the fight.
The cigar makers have fought the
trust solely on the ground that it en-.
ployed women and children and paid
lower wages than union manufacture.
ers. They will not make any objection
to allowing union men to work in the
new factory, provided they get the un
Ion conditions, as their system of han
ding the union label is such that there
Is no possibility OF it's being placed on
cigars not made by union men. 1t is
also said that the union organizers
have made inroads into some of the
trust factories in the east, so that il
looks as if the trust would have to I'M.
1onize all it's factories or go out of bust
ness:-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
WHY WOMEN DRINK.
King Edwards Doctor Talks OF
Causes and Cures.

King Edwards Doctor Talks Of
Causes and Cures.
Sir Thomas Barlow, one of King Ed
wards physicians, addressed crowd
ed audience of ladies recently in Lon
don on the present day dangers of in
temperance among women and the best
methods Of meeting them.
Lack of occupation, worry, bodily
weakness and the nagging pains which
women have to suffer he mentioned as
some of the causes. Cases of heredity
were rare. The encouragement of ex-
ample in youth was more often a
cause. Drink might become a disease
but it started as an indulgence.
Drugs, shampooing, galvanic treat
ment were all described as of little use
as cures. Rest and the removal of the
cause were the only real remedies.
Even doctors and nurses were foolish
enough to say, "Why deprive them of
the thing which gives them comfort ?"
1t was necessary to stop that damna-
BILE thing. 1t could be done provided
there were no friends who We're such
criminal lunatics as to smuggle in al
cohol. Let them have teetotal doctors
and nurses.
Pessimists said that women could
never be reclaimed That was all rub
bish. There was great danger of re-
lapse, but the conditions were RESPONSE
BILE.
DR.. Barlow having dealt with the
medical aspect, the bishop of London
said he had had case after case of char
acter and life spoiled among the rich
by alcohol and morphia. Turning to
the east end, which he knows so we'll,
the bishop said that out of 1000 wom-
en- in an east end workhouse today
500 were there from alcohol. Ninety
per cent of women with children in
a workhouse infrmary were there
through alcohol. He read letter from
lady working in the east end who
begged him to mention the spirit clubs
held in factories among the girls.
Among the causes Of drunkenness
DR.. Ingram placed worry, poverty and
''the sty which makes the pig" There
fore, drink was bound up with the
housing question and with seeing that
proper wages were paid.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
Child Labor n Crime.

Men who employ child labor, as we'll
as men who. indolent at home, live
upon the earnings of their children,
should be smitten with public condem-
nation. Under the old regime the slave
dealer-the man who, in order to make
money, separated fathers and mothers
and children-was socially ostracized.
There is no sound reason why men who
traffic in their own children's lives and
in the lives of other mems children
should escape similar punishment. The
American Federation of Labor can do
no higher service than to throw it's
weighty influence against the modern
system of child labor that obtains in
many sections of the United States.-
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
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First Fight of "; $::: ::;::
>>,>.".', II. ''., The Ala ba ma

ship from explosion he flooded the am.
munition chamber, thus rendering the
guns useless. The ship was slowly
sinking. Every moment of delay in the
catastrophe meant the saving of lives
and Blake ordered the guns not en-
gagged to be cast overheard to tighten
ship. At the same time gun fred ia
Reward announced to the Alabama
that the Hatteras gave up the fight.
. From the firing of Semmes' first
broadside to the boom of the gun of
surrender was only thirteen minutes
Semmes instantly ceased firing, and
the Alabama's crew gave rousine
cheer for their first victory. The Ala.
bama steamed rapidly up to the Hat
teras, and Semmes formally asked if
the ship had surrendered. Blake re-
piled that she had. Semmes then asked
If he could render any assistance and
upon learning from Captain Blake that
the Hatteras was going down sent of
boats, which. with those of the Hat.
teras, took off all the crew and officers,
over a hundred in all. Five of the Hat.
teras' crew had been wounded and two
killed.
The Alabama and Hatteras were
fairly matched in the number of guns
and fighting force. Each carried eight
guns, and the broadside batteries con:
tanned four 80 Founders. The pivot
guns of the cruiser were heavier than
those on the Hatteras, and her shots
carried destruction wherever they land.
ed. Semmes admitted that he ought to
have won the fight, but took glory for
the short time in which he forced the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
WISDOM FROM CANADA.

Some Good Advice by an Editor
Across the Border.
The value Of prohibition when re-
duced to its lowest terms is what? is
the question answered effectively, says
the New Voice, by the Montreal Daily
Witness, independent. 1t notes the
support of prohibition on the part of
men who are themselves not total alb
stainers and then says with particular
reference to the Ontario campaign:
These people know we'll that for one
who would become drunkard If to do SO
it was necessary to make a practice OF
surreptitious drinking there are fifty who
do so under the publicly sanctioned at
fractions of the social glass at the bar
Let it be granted that the drunkard
would still find liquor. Let 1t be granted
that secret liquor dives would be known
to the initiated and that nasty people
would secretly peddle to nasty people bad
whisky concealed about the person, say in
the recognized traveller would still get his
wink as to what cellar door to go
through. Are we to suppose that men
with human dignity would bemean them
selves to such outlawed and degraded
methods with the determined purpose Of
tuuS pIOClG1I6u Oy the
common sense of most to be perilous to
life and happiness and to the public good?
AS matter of fact, they do not In
countries where prohibition is enforced
there are no doubt always some who have
become so enslaved that they will satisfy
their craving bySany process; there are
sure to be miscellaneous boys who will en-
Joy the adventure Of an illicit picnic be-
hind the barn once in lifetime; there
are always men who like to drink just be-
cause the law condemns it, but thousands
on thousands of tempted men by the abb
sence of the tavern escape temptation.
and hundreds; of thousands of boys grow
up never having seen liquor or a drunk
ard. The number who become drunkards
after having reached years of discretion
without learning to drink. is naturally
small They have learned that drink Is
UNNECESSARY to their happiness and well
being; they have learned to appraise the
mischief 1t is capable OF doing, and they
are, under no temptat ion at all to begin
FITS Use. TT u Sheer nonsenss TO sGppose,
and as matter Of experience It is not
true, that drinking Is the same curse
where the sale Is effectively forbidden as
where the tavern Is q public and recog-
nized Institution. Every employer. every
solicitous mother. every magistrate knows
otherwise
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
THE GENTLEMANLY CLERKS
They May Soon Need Organization,
=. Just Like Common Mechanics.

they May Soon Need Organization,
H. just Like Common Mechanics.
=. Among those who decry labor unions
and praise the conservative view iof
s1ife you will find good many of the
young gentlemen and old gentlemen in
SdusHiously classed as clerks.
Clerks appear in the conservative pa
rades. They would not for anything
be classed with the common mechanic
Belonging to union.
But if recent notion gains strength
gentlemen will realize that their well
fare is tied up with the welfare of all
other workingmen and that they cannot
AFFORD to sheer at unions.
For all clerks there is a good deal of
meaning in news dispatch from To-
peka, Kan. This dispatch announces
that the railroads are raising the wages
departments and reducing the wages Of
the clerical force.
The news dispatch adds casually,
mo organization exists among the
clerks"
There are few harder workers than
the American clerk. He works long
hours and at high pressure, and his
prospects of advancement are none too
bright .
Yet he is usually to be found arraign-
ing himself at election time on the side
of plutocracy, taking a pitiful pride in
chasing himself, in his mind, with the
aTiSt0cratic upper class.
The drummers Of America at one
time were naughty, very conservative
class, much given to marching with
torches in plutocratic parades.
But since the trusts have discharged
more than half of all the drummers
In the United States a change has
come over the drummer's dream.
A similar change, we venture to say,
will take place in the hearts of the
clerks of America when they find their
salaries cut in order to increase the
wages of mechanics with intelligence
enough to form unions and courage
enough to strike.-New York Journal.