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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12
The Artificial Limb Fund.

Columbia, March 8: The comptroll-
er general Is sending out the blanks
for the applicants for the artificial
limbs for Confederate veterans under
the recent act Of the legislature by
which $4,000 Is appropriated for that
purpose. The former act on this sub
iect permitted the veteran who had
lost a limb in battle to draw a certain
amount from the state treasury, with
which he could purchase a limb, but
this act Is careful to state that the
veteran may be given a limb and not
the money, as there was room for
abuse of the former act. The comp
troller general does not know just how
he Will proceed to secure measure
ments and fit the limbs on the old SOL
diers, but this will likely be looked af-
ter by the county pension boards. The
state pension board will be called to
meet about the 10Th Of this month
when this and other matters will be
discussed. This artificial limb fund
was attached to the bill to raise the
pension appropriation from $225,000 to
$3.50, 900, and the $4,000 for. limbs comes
out Of this pension appropriation.
Mysterious Disappearance.
Mr.. Emile Warth, formerly Of Hick-
ory Grove and we'll known In this
county disappeared mysteriously from
Shelby recently and has not since
been heard of. His brother, Mr.. John
B. Warth Of Hickory Grove, requests
The Enquirer to publish the following
from the Shelby Star, with the request
that 1t be published for the informa-
tion Of the missing mans friends:
1.-The relatives and friends of Mr.
Emile Warth, agent Of the Southern
| railway at this point, are distressed
and greatly disturbed at the sudden
and mysterious disappearance Of the
young agent. He has been absent
from his Office since Monday Of last
week, and as yet no trace Of him car
| ton, seem to be in good shape, and
the officials and his friends are COM
pletely at a loss to account for his
strange action. The last seen Of him
was on Monday about noon when ne
told a friend he ives going to the Sea-
board depot on buSiness, and Ii Is gen.
orally supposed that he boarded the
west bound train, but since that time
he has disappeared as completely az
IL the earth had opened and swallow
ed him. His two brothers have beer
here trying to. find some trace OF him
but as yet they have been unsuccess-
ful. he came mere ABOUT Ilontu dS.
from Columbia. s. c., and impressed
/ all who came in contact with him by
his quiet and gentlemanly department
The only solution thus far advanced
of his disappearance is, that he be-
came mentally unbalanced by over
work. 1t is said that for a week pro.
ceding his disappearance he worked
far into each night, and the plausible
theory is advanced that his mind gave
way under the strain Of over work
AS an evidence of his mental condition
It is said he told several the day be-
fore his disappearance that he had en-.
tered suit for $4,000 damages agains
Mayor Suttle for finding him IS FOL
blocking the public streets with cars
His family Is well known in Columbis
and held In high esteem, and this un.
accountable disappearance is indeed
distressing to them"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12

REPORT OF THE GINNERs.-National
Ginners association issued a bulletin
at / o'clock from Memphis, Tenn,
yesterday, showing the number Of
bales of cotton ginned up to March 2
to be 12.716,000.
The report by states follows:
Alabama, 1,231,000; Arkansas, 1885,
900; Florida, $4,000; Georgia, 1921, 900;
Indian Territory, $4,000; Kentucky,
1,500; Louisiana, $4,000; Mississippi,
1,44l, 900: Missouri, 46,500; North Car
olina 6O7,000 Oklahoma, 436,000;
South Carolina. 100000; Tennessee,
291, 900; Texas, 3,903,000; Virginia, 49,
900. Total, 12,716,000.
The report. which is signed by j. A.
Taylor, president Of the association,
says:
owing to the very fine weather In
the west, the crop has been picked
very much closer than usual and this
has increased the crop at least 100000
bales If not more. Our reports indi-
cate that there will not be much in
crease in the acreage except in Texas
and the two territories, where there
will be an increase of 5 to 10 per cent.
Scarcity of labor Is the report from
all sections. We have reports from a
large number of uncounted towns that
show very much lighter stocks THAI
last year"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12

- Information from Darlington is to
the effect that the dispensary move
ment instituted there recently is not
being pushed with a great deal Of en-
thusiasm.
The Southern railroad officials have
agreed to send a representative to
Charleston to investigate the situation
with reference to the alleged discrimi-
nation in freight rates.
There was big fire in Charleston
on last Saturday morning, the Com
bahee Fertilizer factory, the Charleston
Iron works, and a number Of other
buildings being destroyed with total
loss of something like 100000. The
Macmurphy company also lost ware
house.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12

IT Is not reasonable to suppose that
the railroads of the country are going
to tamely submit to the new rate laws
that are being enacted by various
states throughout the country. In
view of the greatly increased cost Of
maintenance today as compared with
what 1t was only a few years ago,
submission on the part of the railroads
could hardly be expected. The state
of Pennsylvania has, through its leg
islature, recently enacted law which
makes railroad rates two cents mile
Nearly rs per cent Of the passenger
business Of the Pennsylvania railroad
in that state Is what Is known as
"commuter" business. A "commuter"
is a person who uses the trains every
day, going to the city in the morning
and home at night To this class Of
traffic the railroad sells a book Of
tickets sufficient for one month or
more, at a rate much less than two
cents mile. Not infrequently the
commuter rate is as low as one cent
a mile. In other parts Of the state
where the travel Is not so great the
railroad company has in some in
stances charged rate Of three cents a
mile. AS the new rate law reducing
fares to cents mile on all lines on
ly affects about 25 per cent of its traf-
fic, the railroad declares its purpose to
put its commuter rate up to two cents
per mile. The effect Of this will be
that while the railroad may lose from
one-half to one cent mile per pas
senger on 25 per cent of its business,
it will gain from one-half to one cent
a mile on rs per cent Of its passenger
traffic. and will thereby make a de-
cided gain in the end. Another effect
Of the raising Of commuter fares will
be to stop the development Of subur-
ban towns, as one Of the main features
in such development heretofore has
been the low railroad fares into and
out of the cities.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12

FORMER Governor Hayward and
Commissioner Of immigration Watson
have gone to Washington to consult
with President Roosevelt as to the ex-
act significance of the recent opinion OF
Attorney General Bonaparte with ref
erence to immigration. 1t is Mr.. Wat
sons idea to get from the president
information as to what he can and
what he cannot do. Just what the
advice of the president will be we do
not know; but we feel that If he tells
Mr.. Watson to go on and get another
load of immigrants Mr.. Watson will
do we'll to have him put 1t in writing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12

THE NORTH CAROLINA IMMIGRATION
CAsss.-The prosecution which has
been in process before the United
States court at Greensboro, Judge
Boyd, presiding, has been brought to
a sudden determination and happily In
favor Of the mill men. Thursday even
ing, sometime after the adjournment
of the court, First Assistant Attorney
General Cooley, who had come from
Washington to assist in the prosecu-
tions, announced that the government
would cease its efforts and asked
Judge Boyd to direct a verdict Of mot
guilty"
AS the case progressed, 1t was re-
yealed that the whole mess was STIR
red up originally by demagogic agita-
tors and the witnesses furnished by
these to support the governments case
were overwhelmingly refuted by the
testimony given in favor Of the mill
men. This Is a very happy ending of
a matter that has given no little an
noyance and been one Of very consid-
erable expense to the worthy gentlemen
who were made the victims Of unfair
harges.-Greenville News, Sunday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12
Tax Collections.

Tax Collections.
The tax book this year is the largest
in the history Of the county and al
though Treasurer Neely Is not yet able
to say just what the total collections
will amount to- he Is satisfied that they
will be as good in proportion as they
have ever been. The outlook Is that
the aggregate amount Of delinquent
taxes will not be more than $4,000, or
Sc, 900, and much Of this will be on ac-
count of double entries, death ana
moved out of the county.
York County Medical Association.
The York County Medical associa-
tion held a. called meeting in the ONCE
of DR.. Miles Walker Of Yorkville, on
last Monday night for the purpose OF
electing officers for the ensuing year
and transacting other business. Offi-
GERS were elected as follows. DR.. J..
H. Saye, president: DR.. w. W. Fennell,
vice president; DR.. E. w. Pressly, sec
retary and treasurer; Drs. M. j. Walk
er and ]. R. Miller delegates to the
state association, which meets In Ben
nettsville on April IS, and Drs. ]. H.
Saye and r. A. Bratton, alternates.
Other business was transacted, but 1t
was Of no public interest.
Case of Hull VS.. Seaboard.
Columbia special Of March 8, to
News and Courier: The supreme court
has sustained the lower court In the
case of ]. o. Hull against the Seaboard
Air Line, damage suit arising out OF
the wreck at Catawba river trestle,
when a freight train dashed into the
open bridge, through which the pas
senger train had already fallen. The
plaintiff, ]. o. Hull. sued for 100000
damages for the death Of Mrs. Anne
S. McManus, who was killed In the
wreck, and Of whose estate the plaintiff
was administrator. The jury awarded
a verdict for $4,000 and the company
appealed. The supreme court sustains
the lower court and the judgment
stands. The question Of admissibility
Of certain testimony was involved. Thls
opinion is by Associate Justice Gary
the entire court concurring. the
plaintiff in this case was represented
by Wilson G. Wilson Of Rock Hill, and
the defendant railroad by ]. l. Glenn
Of Chester, and VIM. B. McCaw or
Yorkyille.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12
Hill, Kennedy Co., Appraisement.

Messrs. w. r. Carroll, ]. s. Wilker-
son and Banks Good, have completed
the work Of appraising the stock and
accounts of HILL Kennedy & Co. The
work required only about three days.
All the members Of the firm were pres
ent, and the understanding Is that the
work Of the appraisers is satisfactory
to all concerned
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12
LOCAL LAcoNlcs.
Death of Miss Templeton.

Miss Katie Templeton died at her
home two miles south Of Yorkville
last Sunday after a long and tedious
illness, in the 95th year Of her age.
The interment took place in the York
Vile cemetery this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

trees. They vary in size from two inches long to almost instability; but no matter how much they may differ in size or col or. they have one characteristic in com mon and that Is ferocity They will fight like fends. and that pugnacious disposi- tion of theirs when directed against a different tribe affords one of the grand est spectaeles of warfare to be seen off a regular battlefield
 Select a clear and bare patch of ground about six or eight feet square. Break q piece of ant-hill from mounds containing different tribes of ants, say 'bull-dogs and soldiers" Set these pieces of ant hill on the bare piece of ground and watch the result. ''soldier" comes out from his den, and running around, meets a "bull-dog" They clinch immediately but break away, each going back to headquarters to report the engagement. In the meantime a few more soldiers and "bull-dogs'' have met and they re- turn to corroborate the report of the first fellow general alarm is sounded in each camp and forth each tribe comes in regular order of battle. They form lines and squares, battallons and companies; there are reserves on both sides, and leaders Each side has scouts out which keep running forward and backward to announce the presence and distance of the enemy while the main body slowly and soldly advances Suddenly the two opposing armies rush together; regular
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ants sit up in bed to hear the news and many of them closely watch Jakson as they rather doubt his statement. In fact Jakson generally comes home late of an afternoon feeling pretty mellow, and all ways has some wonderful experience to relate which makes his companions think he spends much of his time about certain well known bee-gun. What did you find Tomson?" repeats the president, for Tomson, being subject to asthma. could hardly catch his breath, such was his haste and excitement. Something immense" says Tomson. It's too much for me to handle, so you may imagine. This expression alone Is enough to show what sort of a fellow Tomson was. You had better send ten thousands men, con tinues Tomson. "Go up thsre, twenty of you" said MT. President, and clear up that wreck" Now, you see the pres ident didn't think as much of Tomson as Tomson thought of himself and that's why he ordered only twenty men when the demand was made for ten thousand. Even the twenty men failed to accomplish anything and when that report was made to the president he turned In general alarm and turned out every man In camp, even going so far as to take the business in hand himself with what re- suit we already know.
 From all this it may he safely con- cluded that ants are able to talk to each other or employ some means Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

hand 10 hand conflict follows. A new element now appears on the scene, an ambulance corps. These ants do not fight, they pick up the dead and wound ed and carry them back to the camp, which is the piece of ant-hill from whence they originally issued.
 An ant battle should be seen to be un- derstood, and if the suggard could learn anything from the ant, equally as well might the warrior. A battle may last an hour; it all depends upon the numbers engaged on both sides and how nearly equal they are matched in numbers and size: but when the fight is over there is not dead ant nor limb of one to be found on the field, although the en- counter was attended with tremendous slaughter on both sides.
 The ant is a socialist in the true, not the demagogic, sense of the word When he finds anything good to eat he doesn't start in and eat it; he carries 1t home if he is able, and if not, he goes home for assistance. This disposition among ants furnishes another very amusing lesson. These busy people work from sun rise to sun set. About sundown they may be seen hurrying along in little companies of threes and fours towards a hole in log or their mound. As 1t gets later their numbers decrease, until it becomes mat ter of one fellow coming by himself at intervals of ten or fifteen seconds. Just about that time, if you kill large beetle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

and lay him on the track along which the ants have been travelling you will see something like this. An ant comes along and finds this carcass across the path; he carefully surveys 1t and takes tug at it without any effect Now get down close and watch him. He scratches his ear trying to understand how such prize comes to be there and none of his people know of it. He knows it can't possibly have been more than ten or fifteen seconds since some one passed along there before him and he knows II was that fellows duty to report It, but evidently it could not have been there. so he rushes home himself with the news. Now up to this time all the ants that had come to the hole had gone down. none came up or out The discoverer of the beetle goes down also and in space of about five or six seconds an ant comes up out of the hole and goes back along the track to where the beetle still lies.
 Whether it is the same ant or another it is impossible to say, but he lays hold of the bettle first by leg, then
 by a wing, tries to pull him this way and that, but all to no purpose, so he goes back and goes down the hole. After
 another interval of five or six seconds up come about twenty ants and they at
 tempt to drag the beetle away, but he's too much for them. They can budge him a little but can't drag him along, so away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

LAVE you ever considered the hab- it's and manners of ants? "Go to 4 \ the ant, thou sluggard, and con sider her ways" says the sacred writer; but there's entertainment as well as wis dom to be gathered from a due observa- tion of the ant or her ways, or rather, of ants and their ways
 The ant is the plague of the traveller through the Australian forest. Every where and at all times the ant is pres ent, and generally makes his presence felt. 1 speak of the ant in the masculine sense because it was of the feminine ant that Solomon spoke when he said "Go to the ant and consider her ways. The advice of every man who has lived in the forests or on the plains of any trcp ical country is "get away from the ant, and that can only be done by getting away from the country, for the ant Is the country and the country is the ant
 The only redeeming feature about these pests is that there are as many tribes of ants as there are, or were, tribes of ln- dians and like the Indians, these tribes always fight when they meet While the entomologist may give ants scientific names, the man who lives among them classifies them as soldiers" "bull-dogs," s'green ants" red ants, "emmets, scorpion ants" and such like. Some of these ants burrow under ground, others raise ant-hills, and others again live in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

his widow believed all happiness and all usefulness were ended for her.
 Marriage had claimed the children that death had left her.
 Society seemed to her like a banquet hall deserted. Whose lights were dead, whose pleasures fled and all but she de- parted.
 She had known all life's best enjoy ments and many of It's deepest sorrows, and she wondered why she was left to a lonely retrospection of past joys.
 But through her close friendship with Carmen Sylva, queen of Roumana, came the solution of the problem.
 Carmen Sylva is a wonderful woman. She Is remarkable musician playing with her own orchestra of sixty pieces. She is the author of much that is beauti- full in verse and prose, and she is deeply sympathetic and bountifully benevolent. l believes she comes the nearest to the ideal queen, the one who nearest lives up to the motto "Noblesse oblige," of any woman on throne today.
 While her heart, brain and purse are all occupied with various ideas for the betterment of her people (and the people of the whole world) her particular inter est lies with the sad souls walking in blindness In Roumania there are many blind people. The percentage l have for gotten, but 1t is most astonishing, know
 Carmen sylva has collected the statls- tics of the blind in all lands, and she has set herself the noble task of bringing light and hope and cheer into all these darkened lives
 When she saw Frances Fearn, her friend, greving over a finished career a broken life-she said to her: 'Go forth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

We have, in truth, obiterated the mile- stones and taken down the fences be- tween youth, middle age and old age.
 Sarah Bernhardt Is a shining example of how long and well a woman may con tinue to follow a brilliant career without stopping to consider her birthday.
 In this era, so long as q woman has health, ambition, industry, unselfish de- ,votion to a purpose and a keen interest in humanity, she has the right of way through the world, unimpeded by any tradition or convention regarding her proper place" at a certain age"
 When, as in the case of Frances Fearn, she unites a beautiful personality to her other qualifications, there is every reason to expect great triumphs for her.
 "I am so sorry the blind people cannot see her." was the remark of one woman who knew of Mrs. Fearn's prospective work, as the messenger of the queen to the blind.
 May light radiate wherever she goes!
 Queen Carmen Sylva's work among the blind in Roumania has placed her on the pedestal of a goddess
 When she visits them her departure IS followed by throngs of the sightless and the seenig, who call after her, Good by Mother Queen; God bless you"
 And blessings, indeed, should fall upon such a queen.
 History gives us few instances Of queens who fully realize the obligations resting upon them toward their subjects in particular and humanity in general. There was a good queen in Holland long ago. who was called the Knitting Queen" She was a model of Industry and an inspiration to all housewives. She used to go about on snow white horse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
BY F. I. MONKS.

communication equally as ineligible to them az language is to us. But the chief lesson to be urawn from such an event as the one just described Is that taught by ants like Tomson. It is also worthy of remark that some very practical sug- gestons in socialism could be obtained by a careful study of the laws governing thc. republic.
 The man travelling through the interior of Australia does not expect to find a spring mattress at the end of his days journey afoot. He simply spreads his blanket on the ground and stretching himself along the edge of it. rolls over several times until the blanket becomes somewhat in the nature of a winding sheet. and winding sheet 1t has been to many a poor fellow. It sometimes hap pens that in this rolling over process tLa traveller rolls near or over an ant hole and, if he does. then good bye sleep for that night. Before he knows 1t his blanket is swarming with these pests that bite and sting like scorpions; every bite being like a burn from a red hot wire Even in the daylight it is impossible to avoid them. they enter into every phase of a persons life. waking. sleeping or eating, the ant is ever present. He Is the scavanger of the plain and the forest. The skeletons of animals. birds and reptiles to be found all over the country are all that's left after the ant has completed his meal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

and be my messenger. Carry my mes sage of Love to the world. You are em- inently fitted to do this. Go and study the conditions of the blind in England and America See what is needed to better their lives Then go and talk to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear and make them realize their duty to the blind"
 At first Mrs Fearn demurred She had shone as a belle, as a beauty and as the wife of a brilliant man in her day She had known what social eminence was but she had never been really before the public.
 Now, in her mature life, she hesitated to begin a career.
 But the fervor of Carmen Sylva was contagious. As she listened to her she began to feel that instead of having finished her life. it had just begun.
 That is the feeling which comes to every heart when an unselfsh purpose dominates all personal considerations.
 Frances Fearn has every quality to make her a success with the public. She is a beautiful woman. She will tell you that she Is a grandmother, but you will feel that she is testing, because the gold of her hair is natural and the bloom of her skin, and the light of her eye, and the grace of her stately carriage all in dicate the prime of life. Her face ra- diates light. She is all animation as she talks of her new work.
 q am not to interfere with any other system of work for the bllnd,' she said to me q shall be glad to supplement any organizations or work with them. Queen Carmen Sylva wishes me to visit the blind and tell them of her hopes to enlarge their lives. Then l shall give