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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-21
Post Card Album

These days almost everybody gets
a greater or less number of Post
Cards. They come from everywhere,
and include many cards that are GER
tairily works of art, as we'll as great
numbers of comic cards. You are no
doubt the recipient Of post cards
the saving of these cards will after
awhile grow into a very interesting
and valuable collection. No doubt,
you have found 1T more or less diff
ficult to properly preserve these post
cards. We can tell you what to do
and the problem will be settled once
for all. Come to the York Drug
Store and buy one of our really hand
some Souvenir Post Card Albums.
We have quite choice assortment Of
designs and bindings, some of them
are very low in price and still others
are very handsomely bound in rich
Morocco leather. But you can fine one
that will just suit you in quality and
price. Come and see them anyway.
Will be pleased to show them to you.
We've just received another lot Of
Post Cards-See them.
YORK DRUG STORE
J. 3. BOWEN, Proprietor.
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YORK SUPPLY CO.
COTTON INSURANCE.
CLOTHES CLEANING.

AM prepared to clean gentlemen's
l. clothes and ladies' skirts in a thor
oughly satisfactory manner, at rea-
sonable prices. Work may be sent di-
rect to my home or left at w. E. Fer
guson's store.
Mrs. r. 3. McCLAIN.
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MONUMENTS

We are at present turning out large
numbers Of orders for Monuments and
Tombstones in Granite and Marble.
Our orders are not confined to any
single section, but are coming from all
quarters, and especially from points at
which some Of our work has been
erected.
Our marble works are thoroughly
equipped with the most improved de-
vices for handling work rapidly and
at the same time enabling us to give
our customers superior quality at the
most moderate prices.
II you intend to put a monument Of
Granite or Marble over the grave Of
deceased relative, we will be pleased
to have you call and see samples Of
our work and get our prices.
w. BROWN WYLIE,
Sec. and Treas.
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FUR HATS

/ am especially proud Of my line of
FUR HATS for men and boys. The
quality Is all there, the style is all
there and the value is all there. My
Fur Hat stock includes all the popu-
lar styles and shapes and ranges In
price from 4Sc Each up to SIS Each.
If you want a Hat that will give you
entire and lasting satisfaction buy a
JEFFERSON-it will do IL. If you
want Hat that will cost you more
money buy a JOHN IL. STETSON-
you can get either here.
Every yard of Summer Dress goods
must go at some kind Of price and
If you can use goods of this charac-
ter my store Is the place to come II
you want your moneys worth. In
my Dress Goods stock there are many
very desirable patterns for selection.
Be sure TO see them.
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PIGS FOR SALE.

ESSEX- X-BERKSHIRE Pigs for sale.
IL weeks old. First class stock.
]. WEBB MOORE,
R. F. D. No. 3. Yorkville, S. c.
Aug. II TT 2t
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CLOTHING---
HALF PRICE

UNTIL THE LAST SUIT IS GONE
OFFER ALL OF MY SUMMER
CLOTHING AT FIFTY PER CENT
DISCOUNT-TTIAT MEANS JUST
HALF PRICE. For instance $1,000
Suits are now going at $500 a Suit.
$1,000 Suits are now going at 5000 a
Suit, and so on through the whole of
our stock of Summer Clothing. 1t
will pay you to buy and lay away for
next springs wear Come early, as
there are only a limited number OF
these Summer Suits left
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FOR SALE CHEAP.

~ IRST-CLASS GINNING OUTFIT,
IL including Six-horse Engine, Hand
Press and 60-Saw Winship, with new
Belts, all in good condition. Address
or call on JOS. w. SMITH,
Yorkville, S. c.
Aug. II TT 2t
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CIaremOnt College.

Hickory, N. c.
T HE 26TH annual session begins
l. on September IS. Thorough col
lege course by able faculty. Two
to be given to deserving
girls in each department The regular
college course, piano. voice, violin,
drawing, painting, elocution, physical
culture, stenography, type-writing and
book keeping. Public school drawing
taught in the normal course. For cat
alogue apply to
D. w. READ, President,
Hickory, N. c.
Aug. 81 If At.
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w. ADICKES. Manager.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
GROWTH OF FEDERAL RULE.
Secretary Roots speech a Warning,
Not N Threat.
Chicago News

Secretary Roots speech on the growth OF
federal authority at the expense of the au-
thority OF the state doubtless will arouse
hostile criticism. Stf1l, the tendencies of
the times harmonize with the position taken
by the chief OF President Roosevelt's cab
met. Hts speech was a warning, not a
threat Those who realize the value of EN-
cient state government should bestir them
selves, for state authority undoubtedly Is
suffering atrophy from lack of proper use.
1t is impossible to establish once for all
the precise line of division between mat
tiers that are properly national and those
that are local In their scope. Some things
that were local generation ago have now
taken on the nature OF national problems,
The so-ealled grange movement was an
attempt Of the various states to regulate
the railroads Now by common consent,
railroad regulation is accepted as a prob
lem for the nation to deal with. The ina
ability OF the Individual state to cope with
the great interstate carrying corporations
is recognized practically in ali quarters.
on the other hand there clearly is such a
thing as the national governments going
too far and undertaking to control matters
that do not properly concern the nation,
The significant fact is, however that undes
OF subjects that call for national as opposed
10 state action is continually growing.
When a problem becomes national In its
scope there Is no use In trying to ignore
the fact and attempting to deal with 1t as
II II were not national.
Authority Of the state is subject 20 en-
croachment from another direction. While
the nation now is taking cognizance Of mat
| tiers that once by common consent belonged
exclusively to the states. the municipalities
are struggling for larger liberty. Thus the
power OF the state government is lessened
on both sides. A state is a mere arbitrary
| political division. IL is not a natural en-
4 tity like the nation or like q city. We
are all Americans. Citizens of Chicago,
New York. Philadelphia. Boston and other
municipalities las more stress upon the
political rights which they enjoy In their
respective cities than they do upon their
state citizenship. This IN itself Is signif-
icant of the change which has come about
since the early days of the republic. when
state citizenship was placed by many on a
level with or even above national citizen
shiD.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
CIVIL PENsInNS.

The National Civil Service Reform
league in response TO the increasing
pressure on behalf of government emT
ployes for retirement pensions, after
careful examination of the subject
through a special committee, pro-
nounces emphaticalIy against it. The
argument chiefly employed against
civil service reform before its adoption
and the favorite criticism since has
been that it's logical outcome would
be a civil pension list, which, II the
British precedent were followed, would
now cost our national treasury at least
from $2O,OOO,O0O to 100000 an
nually. The strong ADVERSE position
taken by the National Civil Service
Reform league shows that at least the
most positive advocates of merit APP
pointment and tenure reject that re-
suit.
What has greatly stimulated agita-
ton for retirement pensions lately is
the inadequate compensation allowed
to some classes of government en-
ployes, the pay fixed by law originally
not liberal being practically reduced
by the recent increase in cost of living.
This fact holds even in some of the
most laborious and hazardous employ
ments, like the railway mail and the
life-saving services, and 1t naturally
has impaired a strong impulse to pub
lie sympathy. 1t is likely, however,
that material relief will be afforded
both by readjusted salaries and by rela-
lively decreased price of the necessar-
les of life before the government can
be committed to the general policy of
retirement pensions.
A distinct tendency is visible, how
ever, among private employers, espeei-
ally great corporations like the railroad
companies, to recognize the equity of
allowance in old age to faithful en-
ployes of long service, and with the
growth of the practice, now not un-
common, sentiment is likely to in
crease for some similar provision by
the government for its employees. 1t
| is possible that the way may be
marked by the experiment in Aus
tralia, which is attracting much at
tention, wherein for insurance rather
than pensions, the government APP
plies part OF the compensation of en-
ployes with their consent to fund for
approximation benefits. Yet even
this is still quite distant in the United
states, where public sentiment is not
up to the idea of taxing everybody to
provide for favored employees of the
government.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
INHERITANCE TAX AND REVENUE

INHERITANCE TAX AND REVENUE.
1t is significant that the argument,
upon which the New England press
very generally is putting stress, against
the presidents suggestion of national
taxation of inheritances and incomes
attacks, not it's fairness, but its neces,
sity as a revenue method. Such waiver
by representatives of a community
where accumulated and invested
wealth is so extensive concerning the
merits of the proposal is significant al
though it may touch the most vulnera-
BILE point.
1t is argued on the other side, how
ever, that because there happens to
be in the treasury for the moment a
surplus income over outgo, the
previous fiscal year expenditures ex-
ceeded revenue by many millions. 1t
is urged also that a system of Gus
tom house and excise tax rates which
in a period of extraordinary prosper
ity produce sufficient or somewhat
more than sufficient revenue may and
probably will fall immensely short in a
period of depression or of average
industrial activity. The avails of tax
alton are therefore contingent upon
varying circumstances, and irrelevant
to the, discussion of the, fundamental
principle involved in the president
plan.
1t must be admitted that the con-
tention that the sole aim of taxation
should be revenue is being steadily
abandoned both by thinkers and by
practical statesmen under the pres
sure of modern tendencies and necessi-
ties. The equitable control of wealth
with a view to the public interest is
today recognized by an increasing
number as one of the legitimate OBJ
jects of tax legislation, and the presi-
dents suggestion is really to be consid-
cred as a response to this progressive
public sentiment.
Moreover, 1t is conceded that re-
vision of the tariff is a matter of OPP
portunism, now not very long to be
postponed, and the Official proposal of
income and inheritance taxation at
this time evidently was intended to
bring it under serious public consider
alton in connection with the recasting
Of tariff schedules, revenue details and
like questions. To attempt to turn
exclusive heed to the latter is merely
evasive of the main point.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
personal NOTES.

Secretary Hitchcock wants 1t understood
that more than a bunch Of senator's IL re-
quired to scare him.
According 10 n new scientific theory, man
is made largely Of soap. this explaining the
old saw. while there's life there's soap.
Henry Iabouchere in a recent number OF
London Truth says that in the past twenty
FIVE years members of the British aristoc-
racy have parted with more than $780,
100000 TO promoters and brokers and have
received about pence in the pound by
way Of commission"
Captain Edward Howard of Oakland. Cal,
probably the oldest mariner in the United
States, has retired after having followed
the sea over eighty years. He is s6 years
old. but is still stout and hearty. During
his life on the ocean wave Captain Howard
visited every quarter OF the globe, fought
pirates several times and suffered ship
wreck more than once.
During Mark Twain's recent VISIT to
Washington he connded to a United states
senator that he was usually paid 80 cents
word for the stun he wrote for publ
cation. And yet, you do not look like 30
cents, Mark" said the senator. Perhaps
not" drawled Mr.. Twain but l felt like
Il after 1 had an interview with the house
committee on patents"
Although John d. Rockefeller has been
generally considered the richest man in the
United States, this is disputed by certain
people who claim to know, and give that
credit to Frederick weyerhaeuser Of st.
Paul, recluse. who owns, they calm.
timber tracts in the northwest worth at
least billion dollars. Weyerhaeuser was
born in Germany In 1884 and came to this
country as an immigrant
It has just been discovered that Gasha-
want q. Pandlt, a very wealthy high-caste
Hindu and a protege OF the Gaekwar OF
Baroda, is working as a common laborer
/ in an acid factory at Roscoe, n. ID. Pandit,
/ though said to be worth millions, works
! and lives as the other laborers do. Indus
trial conditions in India are in deplorable
state, he declares. and It is his Intention
| to take part in the task of revolutionizing
| them in his native land.
One Of the individual humorists OF the
American Press, a man whose personality
stamped his Journal passes in the death OF
John Annoy Knox, aged IS. editor of Texas
Strings, published in Austin Of that state.
The son of the Belfast banker. who came
to the United States for his health, the
young Irishman passed through preliminary
newspaper work in Texas. and then
launched his Strings. Like other publi-
cations of its sort It had a vogue and then
| waned.
The manager of the combine of bakeries
in St. Louis congratulates consumers on
the blessings which will come to them as a
result of the merger. Concentration and
greater economy OF management will en-
able the combine to sell a larger loaf al
the old price. This In turn will whet appe-
| tites and increase consumption. These
noble statements are a fairly accurate copy
of what an Ice trust put out as a feeler
last summer. and then proceeded to stun
| its doughbag.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
GOVERNMENT REGULATION RESULT

GOVERNMENT REGULATION RESULTS.
Two contemporaneous emergencies,
that OF threatened inundation by the
Salton sea and that of coal famine in
the northwest, suggest some differ
ences between government ownership
and government influence for regula-
ton. President Roosevelt found him
self hampered by red tape and inevita-
BILE delay in congress for directly deal
ing promptly, when promptitude was
essential, with the break in the Colo
RADIO river which II left open would
cause irreparable damage to a vast re-
gion. He therefore instantly commu-
nieated with Mr. Hartman, whose
Southern Pacific system was concerned
with the break, and within twenty
four hours orders had gone forth put
ting in motion the energies of that
great road and subsidiary companies
to close the gap. In short, the moral
/ influence of the chief executive In this
case promises to effect practically all
that government ownership could do,
and perhaps more. without any of its
disadvantages. 49,
Whether the coal deficiency in
North Dakota would have been less
in case of government owned trans
portation is not clear. When COM
plants Of impending suffering were
made, the president, with more, al
though. not complete, legal power OF
regulation, Deremptorjly ordered an
investigation by the Interstate Com
meree commission and otherwise made
clear to the railroads that executive
authority would be exhausted 10 com
pei them to meet the situation.
Though some protest was heard
against ofieial intermeddling. the sub
stantial fact remains that before the
Investigation was concluded the rail-
roads had coal trains In motion. run
I ming on passenger train schedules. &C
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
A CRY FROM THE HEART.

w. j. Hampton in New York Sun.
Oh, tell me how TO write the things
That editors will buy,
And will try and try and try
And try and try and try.
l DO not yearn 10 have my name
On Fames eternal scroll
BY writing things that move the heart.
The liver or the soul.
do not yearn 20 be among
The Shakespeares and the lot
Who wrote the things which always win
Keep permanently hot.
OF course, II should write such things
ia feel proper pride,
But " didn't strike their gait
Ia be. as satisfied.
only yearn 10 write the things
That editors will buy,
And II you'll tell me how I can,
I'll love you TIL l die.
Fame doesn't cut much ice with me,
and j am not so sure
wish Il said that | produce
Homeric literature.
But oh, yearn 70 have a wad
Like some successful star,
And let the whole world know / oWn
A Big Red Touring Car
Gee whix,
What a dream that isi
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
OvERCROwDED w.4H BUSINESS.
Problem of, Easin&-the Congestion ON
Railroads.
St. Louis Ts2epublic. 1..T n

5t. Louis Republic. a';F '1-; &.
The deplorabIe cohdltion OF railroad traf-
fc in the southwest and in the northwest
revealed by the Interstate Commerce COM
missions investigation, SO far. presents a
problem that calls for the most systematic
and energetic efforts for its solution.
The railroads of the United States have
nearly 2,OOO,OOO freight cars, which would
average about ten TO every mile Of road
and about one to every forty of the popu-
Iation, children and superannuated in
cluded .
With all this equipment, 1t is not easy
TO see why people should be in danger of
freezing at the beginning of winter in one
part of the country while in another, in
which the railroad tracks are plentiful,
great quantities of produce rot and go to
waste for lack of cars to move It.
1t is devoutly to be wished that the full
hearing by the Interstate Commerce COM
missioners of shippers, merchants. farmers
and railroad men will help toward a
remedy. The internal commerce of the
United States is so vast that any serious
interruption to transportation causes in
calculable losses. ''1
In a few weeks the pressure of crop
moving will begin to relax. The experience
of this year should 90 far to prevent a re-
ourrence of the congestion when the crops
of next year are moving.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
HEAVY Loss BY -FOUR STATES.
Western Railroad Values on Down
Grade.

Wall Street Journol.
The gross market loss in tn shares of
the Great Northern. Northern Pacific,
Union Pacific and st. Paul shares that is
the difference between the high prices of
these shares within the last ten days and
their low prices of Wednesday amounts
to about $50, 000, O00-equal to the entire stock
capital OF the Great Northern railway.
The greatest loss was in the Great North
ern shares. which dropped to 1924 This is
the lowest point Great Northern shares
have touched in years Last spring they
touched 34S. Since then the only real value
that has been deducted has been the ore
lands In facts the low price OF Great
Northern shares Wednesday is little above
prices touched nearly ten years ago. %
The smallest loss was in Union Pacific
shares in this case there were OF course no
direct factors touching market value. One
might surmise what would happen how
ever, had Union Pacific put out 10000 OO)
new common stock paying 10 per cent and
increasing the contingent charges OF that
company 100000 per annum. The increase
in the contingent charges of the st. Paul
because OF stock issues this year will when
they are in full operation call for Ss,OOltOO
more per annum in dividends
The following tabulation shows the high
points touched by the shares In question
within the past ten days and their low
mark on Wednesday:
Name of Company Depre-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
A MILITARY RIP VAN wINKLE.
Spectacle of n weather Beaten Old
Cava1ryman I'm Warrington.
New York Sun.

view IOIh OuHs
When an army officer whose four decades
of continuous service are almost complete;
who has existed nine years in Arizona,
suffered an exile Of six years in Wyoming,
Idaho and Montana, spent four years
among the boios and assorted fevers OF the
Philippines, and who during the remaining
twenty years has been devoted almost en-
tireiy. to-herd knocks and arduous achieve.
ment-when such an officer returns to
Washington toward the close OF his career,
he constitutes as near an approach to the
Rip Van Wrinkle Of romance as Is possible
In the case Of a plain, simple, grizzled,
SCARED and weather|beaten old cavalry
man who hasn't touched a souffie or a
bunch of lace since he first felt the bud
ding whisker on his chin.
Such things happen very occasionally,
OF course; but one such thing is happening
now in Washington. A military Rip Van
Wrinkle, just emerged from the perilous
and tragic penumbra of the Philippines,
revisits the glimpses OF the moon of favor,
luxury, promotion. A big, stalwart, potent
personality. trained in hardship, seasoned
by wind and rain, familiar with the out
post and the bivouac. he stalks the sumptu-
Gus boulevards wanders through the ten
derby cared for corridors of 1.-The depart
Hlenl TO encounter generals ana
brigadiers, soft-handed, exquisite, PAM
pered, some OF whom were yet unborn when
he entered the academy at West Point,
many Of whom were plebes when he was an
alumnus. and few of whom, save in some
troubled nightmare between lavender
scented sheets, even so much as dreamed
of dangers and asperities such as he has
spent his life with. He is only a colonel,
and even that poor recompense has come
to him through an unaided and inevitable
evolution; yet all around him are major
generals who were his juniors long ago,
and whole swarm of brigadiers. some of
whom he doubled on his knee or blrched
ter school 10Y negligence or oongenItal
futility, or who had not yet dried behind
the ears when he was fighting on the from
tier and starving and freezing In the Sierra
Madre. But they all rank him now Their
pay and allowances make his look like the
remnant OF a bankrupt case. They strut
and glitter ia illustrious drawing rooms
and fatten on the most pretentious achieve
ments OF the caterer. Fair women envelop
them in dangerous and sultry contempla-
ton. Who is this sunburned frost bitten
old veteran that he should invade the realm
OF ecstasy with his brains and Drawn, his
freckles, sunburn and experience?
We all know that one campaign in Wash
ington Is worth a great many of far OF
places. One must be in evidence" IL he
would succeed in these piping times.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27

tually distributing fuel to the endan-
gered points. National ownership of
transportation could do no more, and
possibly not so much.
Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Hill very
likely feel that official interference is
harmful and disorganizing to business
and even that 1t is Unconstitutional, u
from the standpoint of the selfish In
terest of the carrier corporations, but
their action in meeting the crisis oil
public concern and Fastening to solve
the practical problems is a signal vini
dication of the efficiency of government
regulation, provided always that such
legal power is in the hands of a jealous
and fearless executive.