Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-05-27
Scraps and faets.

Although there has not yet occur
red anything like a general uprising
Of the Chinese. there Is no doubt OF
the fact that the Chinese are as much
excited as in the Boxer days. There
Is good reason to fear that if the Jap
anese win another substantial victory
the Chinese will join forces with them
against the Russians.
The weekly crop report of the bu-
reau Of agriculture. issued last Tues
day, is as follows as the same relates
to cotton: Cotton continues backward
and has made slow growth during the
past week throughout the cotton belt,
low night temperature being generally
reported as detrimental. Improved
stands are reported in portions Of the
central and eastern districts, but ir-
regular stands are the rule. Chopping
continues and the fields are mostly
we'll cultivated. Lice are very ex-
tensively reported from the central and
eastern districts, and the boil weeVils
continue to increase in the southwest
ern and central cotton counties OF
Texas.
Washington correspondence Of the
News and Courier: To many Of the
presidents political visitors, during the
past few days, explanations have been
given at the White House to justify
the designation of Mr.. Cortelyou. The
veteran politicians do not like it and
they have not hesitated to so express
themselves to the president. The lat
ter, however, Is not willing to con-
cede that any mistake has been made.
On the contrary, he is entirely salts
fed that a wiser selection could not
have been made and he says he is en-
tirely prepared to abide the conse-
uuences. So confident is the president
that he will succeed himself that he
may abandon the idea Of making a
campaign tour and refrain from TAX
ing part in the spell-binding perform
anceS.
-"God never made a white man. In
the beginning all men were black, but
in their wanderings on the earth many
Of them became bleached. In their
unnatural pallor, these bleached men
now look with contempt and indiffer-
.ence, often with prejudice and hate,
upon their brothers, the negroes, who
have retained the color God gave
Them" So Rev. H. M. Turner senior
bishop Of the African Methodist Epis-
copal church in an address at the an
nual conference at Chicago said recent
ly. Many negroes were present and
applauded wildly. The bishop contin-
ued: What the negoes need Is more
education. We should write books Of
our own poems, and scientific treatises
Of our own, in harmony with our COL
or and race. Don't learn songs like
Wash me and I shall be whittier than
snow" q song I would not tolerate to
be sung in my presence. I don't want
to be misunderstood and will say to
the white men. whose race at the same
time is the meanest and best I ever
saw, that wherever our race tries to
rise, as a rule, he will help u.s."
cleveland Plaindealer: A man who
walked with a decided limp moved
around the sale ring at the blue ribbon
sale at Glenville yesterday afternoon
watching all the horses sold, but pay
ing particular attention to the trotting
teams. Of which a number were sold
late in the afternoon. After sizing all
the consignments up he finally bid in
a pair at 1870 and then made his way
to the cashiers Office to pay for them.
After giving his name and address he
asked the cashier to wait for a mo-
ment until he secured the money. The
cashier expected to see him fish out
a checkbook and then go chasing for
a stranger to the people in the sales
office. But this man carried his bank
right with him, and after asking the
cashier to excuse him for a moment,
walked over to a chair and sat down,
then calmly rolled up his trousers leg
to the knee and carefully unscrewed a
wooden leg and much to the wonder
ment Of the onlookers, extracted a
large roll Of bills from a hidden cavity
in the artificial walking instrument,
and after screwing on the leg again
walked up and paid the 1870 as though
getting the money out Of his wooden
leg was an everyday occurrence.
Columbia State, Wednesday,: The
Rev. Samuel Phillips Werner has Sc
cured the African pigmies the govern
ment sent him for in the interest of the
st. Louis exposition, and the news
from him contradicts the report pub
lished in number of papers several
weeks ago to the effect that he had
probably been killed in his search for
them. The announcement Of the sue
cess Of the expedition comes by cable
to Mrs. Werner yesterday by the chief
of the anthropological department of
the exposition which he is serving.
Mr.. Werner cabled from Brazzaville,
in the Congo Free State. The pigmies
were secured about 1000 miles in the
interior Of the Dark Continent, on the
Kasai river, one Of the large branches
of the Congo. Mr.. Werner will re-
quire about six weeks to reach St
Louis with his captives. He will come
by Antwerp and London to New York
The missionary will bring about twen-
ty-five Of these pigmies to this coun-
try, accompanied by enough para
phernalia gathered in their country to