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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11
WHITE vs.. THE BANK.

The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the court below in the case
of A. Hutchinson White vs. the Com
mercial and Farmers Bank. The opin'
ion, rendered by Justice Gary, is thus
synopsized by Mr.. John s. Reynolds
for the Columbia State:
A. Hutchison White, respondent, VS.
Commercial and Farmers Bank o
Rock Hill ct al, appellants. Blanche
McElhaney, Administrative, respond
ent, VS.. R. Lee Kerr ct al, respondents
Blackmon, Estridge & Co., appellants
vs.. Rock Hill Real Estate and Loar
Co.. ct al. respondents-Tran Of
stock. Subscriptions to capital stock
Corporate powers. Acts ultra wires.
The above stated action, consolidat,
ed for the purposes Of the trial In the
circuit court and for the hearing II
the supreme court, were brought t(
wind UP the affairs Of the Commercial.
and Farmers Bank Of Rock Hill, ane
to recover of certain Of its stockhold,
ers the amounts Of their indfyidua.
liability to depositors.
The cause was heard by the circui,
court Judge Aldrich) upon so much Of
the referees report as related to the
liability Of stockholders. From the de.
cree Of the circuit court the parties at
fected (as indicated in the title) ap.
pealed.
The circuit judge correctly held tina,
certain attempted transfers or STOCK II
the defendant bank, not having beer
regularly entered on the books OF the
corporation, as required by Sec. 1884
Of the revised statutes Of 1893, were
not valid. Parker v. Bank, So s. G
594, 81, S. E. 673.
No part Of the capital or funds Of
any corporation other than railroad OF
banking corporations duly authorized
by law can be lawfully used or en-
ployed, directly or indirectly, in bank.
ing operations or for any purpose
whatsoever inconsistent with the pro.
visions Of its charter. Civil code, Sec
1843, Subdiv. E.
The stockholders of banks are liable
to the amount Of their respective share
or shares and per cent thereof In ad.
dition thereto, for all Of Its debt and
liabilities upon note, bill or otherwise
Civil code, Sec. ITS.
A contract which Is ultra wires can
not be made the foundation for the
liability of the corporation. and cor
poration cannot be made liable on 8
contract which the law prohibits II
from entering into. See Lancaster "
Railroad, % S. c. 142, s. 3. 1888; VII.
hanson v. Association, 81 S. c. sos, 81
S. E. 765; Railway " Mcdonald, 6(
Am. st. Rep. sos; Voight v. Associa-
tion, ITO N. Y. sos; Association v. vii.
hanson, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. SGT; Central
v. Pullman, 139 U. S. 60; Pullman v
Central, 1s Sup: Ct. Rep: s0s.
The Rock Hill Real Estate and Loar
company's purchase Of shares of stock
Of the Commercial and Farmers bank
was in violation of the statute.
The court will not lend its aid In the
enforcement of rights growing out OF
a contract expressly forbidden by stat
ute, but will leave the parties to the
unlawful contract where 1t finds them
Mr.. T. Yancey Williams, Mr.. D. E
Finley, Mr.. VIM. j. Cherry, Messrs
Wilson & Wilson. for appellants; Mes
srs. Witherspoon & Spencers, Mr.. Jas
F. Hart for respondents.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

WHILE Negro politicians who aspire
to high offices may delude themselves
with the idea that they are uplifting
their race, dispatches telling of lynch
ings and riots in various northern
states seem to indicate that this up
lifting is being accomplished at terri
BILE expense. There Is plenty OF room
for the Negro in this country; but that
room is not to be found in high official
position.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

minister received letter asking If ne
could recommend man Of his congre-
CATION for q position. He Immediately
sent a man who, in his opinion, was
lust suited for the place. When the
man presented himself to the would-be
employer he was frankly told that ne
did not know that the pastor address,
ed presided over a Negro parish"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11
The atorkpille Gnq,lirer.
YoRKvILLE, s. c.,
SATURDAY, JULY II, 1908.

IT seems to be growing more and
more evident every day that the open
door to Manchuria is not to be main
tanned without bloodshed. Russia has
assumed virtual sovereignty over Man
churia, and is treating her neighbors
as If they were seeking to make free
with Russian territory.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

WITH inimitable irony, the Charlotte
Observer complains Of the slight atten-
ton that the press paid to the recent
Mecklenburg lynching and covertly ac-
cuses the northern press OF having
disseminated in favor Of the Whining
ton and Evansville affairs. 1t Is quite
noticeable that our northern contem-
poraries are not giving full space to
southern lynching news Of late.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

FROM the reports in the papers 1t
appears that the Brown combination
organized for the purpose Of bulling
cotton has been licked. Mr.. Brown
controlled practically the entire cot
ton surplus; but he was unable to sell
at the prices asked. His syndicate has
lost several million dollars; but 1t does
not appear that the cotton producers
have lost anything by the deal. Their
cotton had been sold long ago.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

THE News and Courier has COM
munication from Norway, signed by j.
D. Lafitte, ridiculing the idea that
there was any necessity for sending
troops to that town. He admits that
the troops were asked for, but claims
that it was done by some excited indi-
viduals who did not represent the good
common sense of the community. He
makes a lot of fun Of the story told by
the correspondent Of the Columbia
State, and asserts that the correspond
ent drew largely on imagination fol
his facts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

A CORRESPONDENT Of a contemporary
suggests RUN the rascals out" for q
campaign slogan. That Is hardly
enough, because it is too easy to an
swer with, Keep the rascals out.
There is sufficient campaign material
of g. character that appeals to reason
and common sense without resorting to
senseless epithets.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11

Difference is due and in the end will be
commanded, comes from the crucible
Of discussion and contention among a
free people and from an awakened pub
lie conscience. Its most powerful in
strument and vehicle Is, as have said,
a free and untrammelled press. 1t Is
the sober second thought Of virtuous
men and women and the common law
of our country is at it's best but the
authoritative expression Of It's be-
hests."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
Work Of the Summer School-Holiday
Last Monday-Reputation of "the

Dan."
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock HILL, July 8-Our city has
quieted down after the strenuous ex-
citements of the past few weeks. AS
one young lady expressed it: Il have
recently been spending fifteen days to
the week, but now shall indulge my
self on fifteen nights to the same pc
riod, and generally enjoy both."
The summer school Is in full swing.
In addition to the regular course Of
study, lectures are being occasionally
delivered in the evenings by eminent
educationalists on subjects Of pertinent
interest to the teachers. On Thursday
and Friday evenings Of last week, Prof.
Hugh T. Shockley, M. A., Of Wofford
college, delivered two very interesting
lectures on physical culture. The first
was devoted to the theory part and the
second to the physical part. Mr.. Shock
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10
BY ALLEN V. GILLESPIE.
Copyright 1903, by Allen V. Gillespie.

apologized profusely, and then photo
graphed her"
That was half a year ago; to-day
this girl is earning as much as $40 and
$50 week. simply by posing before the
camera. And she does not work more
than four hours day on the average
at that. She is enabled to make this
comfortable income because she pos
sesses, in toto the requirements of an
ideal model-beauty of face and figure,
however she may be placed before the
camera; grace and litheness; winsome-
ness; patience and power to hold all
sorts of poses and intelligence and
ability to adapt herself to the pose-to
act the part and not merely serve as
rack for the gorgeous bedeckments
of the girl of society.
Searching for Models in Streets and
shops.
One beauty photographer. who in
the last twelve months posed 5000 diff
ferent models says that he found
among the number less than fifty who
came anywhere near the ideal stand
ard.
This man, like his fellows. makes a
systematic search of the shops. the
places of amusement, the streets, and
even the churches for models.
One beauty who has taken New
YORK by storm, and who is now pos
ing for several statues for the St.
Louis Worlds Fair, was discovered in
this way.
The photographer was walking along
the street one day, peering into the
faces of passing women. when the girl
II question flashed down upon him.
His trained eye at once told him that
she would make a model far above the
ordinary. and he turned around and
followed her until she stopped before
shop window TO inspect the display.
Here was his opportunity. Walking up
to her he said:
beg pardon but l am a profession
al photographer in search OF beautiful
models. ] have-ah-been attracted by
your-ah-delicate type Of beauty. and
l-ah-would like-propose that you
er-you-er-wll you pose for me?"
The girl al first was inclined to be
indignant and was on the point Of
calling a policeman, when the mans
all too evident embarrassment convinc-
ed her Of his good intentions, and she
burst out laughing.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10

One case of this kind is often quot
ed in Ceylon.
certain Sinhalese called another a
fool. The aggrieved party nursed his
wrath for months. and then brought A
false charge of burglary against his
enemy, supporting it by the evidence Of
host of his relatives. The judge,
knowing the facts, acquitted the ac-
cused, who thereupon argued to him
self:
well, I didn't steal as that man said
1 did: but now I'll have revenge by
waylaying him some dark night. rob-
bling him of all he has, and giving him
a good thrashing."
So he got his friends together, and
next evening they attacked the man in
a bamboo grove, knocked him sense
less, and stole his money.
When the man came to, he decided
that to send his ten assailants to Jail
for robbery with violence would not
satisfy his hatred so he died and won
the fight by leaving them charged with
murder.
"SOft, Gfraffe-Like Eyes"
The Sinhalese are not without their
good points, and some travellers pro-
They talk enthusiastically of their
soft, giraffe-like eyes" and their
"clinging affectionateness of manner"
Excellent characteristics in a woman,
but disconcerting in a man. A Sinha-
lese man. especially If he be young,
is wonderfully graceful in his move
ments, composed in his manner, and
gentle in his speech and ways. There
is a surface charm about him which
is attractive If his effeminacy can be
forgotten.
Not all the native inhabitants Of
Ceylon are of this womanish type The
Tanlils, who conquered the Sinhalese.
are a harder, drawer race: the Moor
men," descendants of Arab settlers,
have the manliness which seems inher-
ent in the Mohammedan everywhere,
and the Kandians, the highlanders of
Ceylon, though allied to the Sinhalese
by blood are muscular, bearded, man.
ly giants who fought like Spartans
for centuries to save their country
from the yoke of foreign rule. 1t is
only the Sinhalese proper, inhabitants
of the towns and the hot plains, who
may be counted as 'the women of the
human race"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10

Photographic model. The nearer she
us seventeen the better. and if she
is a beauty of the Celtic type and will
not detract from the sparkle of her
eyes, the spring of her step, and the
social pleasures above sleep, she will
add considerably to that sum.
Not All Beautiful Girls Make Fine
Models.
All beautiful girls aspiring to be
models should, however, bear this in
mind-that many beauty is not beau
tiful in photograph. The photogra-
pliers have found this out by bitter and
costly experience. They no longer
grow enraptured over every ffne-look-
ing woman they meet; they reserve
their praises and their films for her
whose beauty has that indefnable es-
sence that cannot be lost during the
various stages of photography. She it
is who is searched for the country
over and, when found, the land is
straightway flooded with her hkenesses
in multitude of poses and studies.
Scare as are women models, child
models are scarcer. When a good one
is found, he, like the women, is usually
of the middle walk of life. due, the
photographers hold, to the fact that the
environments of this class are more
normal than those of either the rich or
the poor. The child's knack to pose
also not infrequently lands him on the
stage in spectacles when theatrical
managers become aware of his innate
ability.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10
shark as Vermin.


Every once in a while you come
across a man who sports a walking
cane made of a sharks backbone. The
Nicaraguaus are experts in taking
sharks, and under the laws of the
country the tigers of the sea" are
caught and destroyed as vermin. There
is no duty on any Industrial product
derived from them. The skins are used
in the manufacture of leather for
sword grips and numerous fancy arti-
clss.
A few of our sportsmen have hunted
the tiger in India, and the elephant in
Africa, but know of none who has
a skin or pair of tusks to vindicate
his prowess. Several English noblemen
have brought home the tusks of ele-
plants they killed in the jungle, but
no American has such trophies A
British general has pair weighing
175 pounds each. As ivory they would
be worth some 1900. Ivory is coming
into fashion again. possibly because il
is growing more dear every year The
slaughter of $4,000 elephants annually
is fast reducing the supply. Among
the leading brands of ivory in the
market are the Kongo. Angola, Kane
run. Ambriz. Gaboon, Senegal. Mo-
zambique and Hippopotamus. Hippo
potamus Ivory is a favorite with dem
fists on account of its pure white col
or ana freedom from grain.
Speaking OF sharks 10 an old sailor
in Cocnues sin. / first heard the prov
erb. THE shark dies The feather" II
appears TO be- true. We are acquainted
with the Voracity Of the shark. When
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10

Her display of merriment over she
said she'd TASK mamma" and the re-
suit was that a few DAYS later she
appeared in the photographers studio.
Her first poses made her career.
Other photographers and artists beheld
the pictures, waXed enthusiastic. hunts
ed up the original. and swamped her
with orders. And on the top of it all
we'll known theatrical manager sent
for her and offered her a remunerative
place in the beauty line of his star
company.
The stores the Best Source for
Models.
This is not an exceptional case.
of the thirty or forty models that 1
am now working with" said a pho
tographer nearly every one has
been found in this manner. Let's see
l can recall that l secured seven of
them by approaching them in the
street. at the imminent risk of being
taken as an insulter. In the stores
got twice that number, but there the
task is not so delicate. A woman be-
hind counter does not have the fear
of the masher that the woman walk
ing along the street possesses Sew
eral of the rest I engaged at the thea
ters, where my wife and l go four
times week solely to scan the
choruseS for suitable material
Fact is, the big stores are the best
places to secure beautiful girls, and
the majority of the most used models
are graduates from the mems furnish
ings and perfume counters. They far
outnumber the actress models. popu-
lar opinion to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The young, vivacious and pretty
actress makes a good model when she
is scarcely more than a beginner be-
hind the footlights. But after two or
three years she loses her natural
bloom, owing to hard work and the
irregular life, and then she can no
longer be suitable for an all-round
subject. It's too bad, for an actress
requires no training in how to act the
part and how to lend herself grace
fully to the subject in hand"
How a Model Is Trained.
Many popular model is the prod
uct of weeks of patient toll on the
part of some photographer who was
attracted by her beauty of face and
figure and took upon himself the task
Of giving her grace and winsomeness.
This is almost as hard as finding
beauty. Often before the model is
trained the photographer has wasted
as much as 500 worth of plates on
her
When she is finally rendered perfect
the photographer reaps his reward for
month or two. Then his rivals and
the artists who are always frantically
searching for subjects. see her pic
lures, realize that a new beauty has
arrived. hunt her up, and proceed to
tempt her away from the man who
brought her out.
This is an almost inevitable result.
and II is the most telling argument
that a pretty, vivacious. graceful and
adaptable girl, anywhere between sew
enteen and twenty-three years. who
wants to earn her own living IN "A com
Portable way, can do IL TO the amount
Of at least $40 weekly by turning
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10

Edwin A. Abbey, the American ar
fist who is painting the Coronation pic
ture. was once asked by an admirer
what was the hardest part of his art.
ITO secure beautiful women as mod
els was the reply.
Like Mr.. Abbey, who voiced the I'M
iNersal sentiment among painters. the
photographer whose sole business is TO
supply the ever-increasing demands of
illustrated publications and advertise
ment builders with hkenesses of beau
tiful women, has to search far and
wide and long for suitable subjects.
The quest after modern Helens leads
the beauty photographers to do strange
things.
Advertising for Models.
One man. after hunting for two
months TO secure the right sort of
beauty for an advertisement for
champagne house, hung out on his
show case a glazing sign, which read:
Beautiful women will be paid lib
orally for posing for photographs"
The result was, according to the
photographer, that every woman who
passed by read the sign and then bolt
ed upstairs into the studio. For TWO
weeks his place was overrun with
women who believed that they were
dreams of lOveliness, and were indig-
nsnt and called the photographer a
mean, horrid brute" when ne politely
minated that their style of beauty
was not suited to the work in hand
1t was on the morning of the day
that the photographer, in despair, had
decided to give up the quest for the
golden girl that a petite. sparkling
eyed, chestnut-haired. rosy-cheeked
and vivacious girl of about seventeen
summers tripped gracefully up to the
photographer and lisped. in a frighten-
ed sort Of way:
May be I'd do?"
For full FIVE minutes" said the pho
toErspher, Il stared at that child. IL
was rude, but ! couldn't help II. Aft
ef two weeks Of gazing at streams OF
distorted ugliness / couldn't keep my
eyes from Teasing on that dainty BIT
% beauty. When / did recover my
senses and realized my Tudeness, I
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10

cuSe
The SinhaIese make excellent me-
chanics and agriculturists, provided
the particular work assigned to them
is not laborious They excel in the
manufacture of tortoiseshell combs,
which they wear in their hair. Some
of these combs are exquisitely carved.
The artisans of Trincomalee and
Point-de-G Gale have made a speciality
of these combs for more than two
thousand years. Strabo, the Roman
geographer and historian, mentions
that in his day before the birth of
Christ, the Sinhalese made tortoise
shell combs and wore them in their
hair. Ptolemq, seventeen hundred
years ago, wrote:
THE men who inhabit Ceylon allow
their hair unlimited growth and bind
it on the crown of their heads after
the manner of women"
Proof positive of how unchanging
is the East!
Once n Race of Empire Builders.
The Sinhalese were not always a
| despicable race. Two or three thous-
and years ago the Empire of Lanka,
as Ceylon was then called, was one of
| the greatest in Asia Like the ancient
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10
These are Men, rot Women

Copyright, 1903 by James r. Hallam.)
The women of the human race
that is what the natives of India con-
temptuously call the Sinhalese, once
the conquerors and rulers Of Ceylon,
and the founders of a mighty empire.
They are. beyond comparison, the most
efeminate race of men on the face of
the earth. Nowhere else can men be
found so much like women.
They have not single manly virtue.
but they possess all the pretty little
ways of women in a caricatured form.
They are as nervous as the most timid
girl. They will scream or faint at the
sight of blood or violence. If spoken
10 GROSSLY, as likely as not they will
cry and go down on their Bonded knees
TO beg for kindness. If, on the contra
~. they are shown indulgence, they
Will sicken the stranger, by behaving
in ooquettish, skittish way-just like
a young girl in a dime novel.
Not only do they act like the weaker
kind of women; they actually look like
women and dress like women. The Sim
halese man, as seen in the towns of
Ceylor. OF on the plantations in the
interior of the island, is hardly distin-
guishable from his wife, unless the
foreigner knows the race we'll
He let's his jet-black hair grow to it's
full length, and then does it up on the
top Of his head with two tortoise-shell
combs. back and front. The woman
does UP her hair in the same way, ex-
cept that she braIds il. The man
wears long skirts reaching down to his
ankles. adorns himself with earrings,
necklaces, bracelets and brooches, and
carries a parasol to protect his COM
plexion from the hot rays of the trop-
ical sun. In this costume. supplement-
ed by an effeminate look, delicate fea-
lures. and mincing ways. it is no Won
der he is nearly always mistaken for
q woman by strangers.
BOatmen Who Look Like Women.
The first thing the tourist hears on
visiting Ceylon, the island of jewels
and spices, of mystery and romance,
is soft, musical cry in a delicate
womanish voice.
"Matchli! Matchli Bahoot khoob
matchli! CFish! Fish! Very good
fish!D
Looking over the taffrail of the
steamer, which has just cast anchor
in the harbor of Colombo. he sees
half a dozen tiny canoes manned by
Sinhalese, who are holding up blue