Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-01
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dressed a special meeting held In the
tabernacle by the Christian Mission
ary Alliance. He spoke for 20 minutes
on the life OF Christ and His teachings
and expressed establishment at the
small proportion of Christians in
America and Europe visiting the BIZ
BILE land.
THE Louisville and Nashville rail-
road has entered into a contract with
the government to haul 10000 cars
of cement from Louisville, KY, to
New Orleans. The cement Is to be
delivered within a period Of ninety
days and the railroad people are
making arrangements under which
they calculate that they will be able
to put a train load of cement In New
Orleans every forty-five minutes.
In conversation last Friday
Speaker Cannon let drop a few SEN
tences of philosophy on presidential
booms and bees which make inter-
esting reading The discussion was
anything but an official statement
but the speaker afterwards consented
to have quotations marks enclose what
he said. 1.-The presidency is not to be
had for the asking" he began. 1T
would be ridiculous for any man to
bob up and decline what had not
been offered to him, especially an
office which no man ever has, and
possibly never will, decline If offered
by the authority Of one Of the great
political parties Of the country. So far
as I am concerned, would rather do
my duty here as speaker Of the house
and help work cut policies to bring
the greatest good to the greatest
number of our people than to be
president"
THE trial Of Mrs. E. M. Standi-
fer for the murder Of her sister, Miss
Chapel Whisenant, March 9, last, In
Atlanta, Ca, was concluded last Fri
day evening with a verdict Of ac-
quittal, after ten minutes delibera-
ton of the jury. Mrs. Standifer en-
tered the plea of not guilty and while
admitting the killing. her counsel de-
clared that emotional insanity i'm
PEELED her to do the deed. Mrs. STAN
differ shot and killed her sister nearly
two months ago, on account of the
marked attention Of her husband to
the dead woman. Her suspicious had
been confirmed by the discovery Of
letters that had passed between the
two. Asking her sister to discontinue
encouraging Mr. Standifer and being
refused any promise of reform, she
fired a bullet which brought about
almost instant death. Standifer was
arrested subsequently on the charge
of disorderly conduct and when his
trial was called, he failed to appear
and his bond was forfeited. His
whereabouts Is unknown.
A city Is a difficult thing to de-
stroy says the New York Evening
Post Fire will not do 1t. nor the
earthquake shock, so long as the
trade routes are undisturbed. The
French Terrorists thought they had
destroyed Lyons when, after all the
disasters that civil war had visited
upon the city, they levelled its build
ings with battering rams, and decreed
that its site should bear a new name.
But in less than ten years Lyons had
revived as Lyons, and was on the
way to be the great city 1t has since
become. Marseilles was almost as
badly treated. only to come up again.
The situation of Lyons and Marseilles
decreed they should become great
cities. Most OF the cities which were
important in the middle ages and
have since declined owe their decline
to the change in trade routes. Ven
ice is a familiar example. English
Boston, which once pressed London
hard, is another. Liverpool and
Glasgow on the other hand, owe their
greatness to the development OF new
trade routes. Neither was important
two centuries ago in comparison with
Bristol and Leith. San Francisco is
one Of the greatest trade routes In the
world, whose greatness will be in
creased by the completion Of the
Panama canal.
Prof Pierre Curie, the discoverer
Of radium, was run over and killed by
a wagon recently in the place Dau-
phine, Paris. He was a son of a
Paris physician, and was born in
Paris in 1859. He was educated at
the Sorbonne and began scientific re-
search on his own account while
working as an assistant in the school
Of chemistry Of Paris. He. became a
professor in 1895. and at about that
time he married Marie Slodow Slow
dowska, a Pole. who assisted him in
his research work. She had studied
physics and chemistry both in War
saw and Paris and therefore shar-
ed her husbands labor and honor
Of his most difficult experiments.
She became a professor Of physics
in the Sevres high school. and
as a result of a thesis on radium
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sciences. She and her husband spent
several years in the laboratory Of the
schools Of physics and chemistry
studying uranium and thoranium, and
finally, in 1898. they announced to the
academy Of sciences that they had
found new and stongly radio
active substance in pitchblende. They
discovered radium in 1903 while ex-
persmenting on salts of uranium. Two
years before the French academy of
sciences had recognized the work of
the Curies by awarding M. Curie the
La Gaze prize of 10000 francs and COM
mending his wife for her part in the
discoveries. In December. 1908, the
couple received the Nobel prize for
chemistry, and a few days later they
received $4,000 francs as part of the
Osiris prize of France-all in recog-
milton of their radium discoveries.
Wherever the fame of the New
York skyscrapers has spread some
vague idea Of the enormous capacity
of tbaSa cOlOSSal StructureS mlrSt have