Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-04
Scraps and facts,

- Washington. December 2: There
came from the ways and means COM
mittee room on Monday what appears
on the surface to be very determined
response to the recent remarks from
Hot Springs, Va. concerning an hon
est and genuine" revision OF the
tariff. According to it, the house
leaders-meaning chiefly the ways and
means leaders-and that, of course, in
cIudes Speaker Cannon, have settled
their tariff policy and the Payne Dill
10 be reported to the next house, is
TO provide for free steel, free COAL
free lumber, free hides, free shoes
free leather and free a-number-ot-oth-
er-important- imports, provided there
Is no material change in the character
Of the evidence submitted to the COM
mittee between now and the time OF
repCrting the bill. The ways and
means leaders are angry at the criu-
cism of their recent procedure Whlcn
has emanated from Hot Springs ana
other administration and neXt-admln-
istration sources and which has occu-
pied so much newspaper space In the
last few weeks.
Chihuahua, Mex. November 20:
William Jennings Bryan had narrow
escape from a death hug by bear ne
was trying to kill in the mountains
about sixty miles from here, according
TO reports here. With party OF nun
ters. of which Gen. B. Reyes, governor
of the state of Coahuila, was mem
ber Mr.. Bryan was in quest OF Dig
game. and is credited with having Kill
ed three bears, although he says oth
er members Of the party were IN at
the death of the animals. MI. Bryan
had shot at q big bear and saw MIN
n
He went up to the PROSTATE bear, when
the animal which was badly wounded,
grabbed at Mr. Bryan and with MS
claws scraped the huntsman body, tear
ing his heavy coat into shreds. MT
Rryan leaped out of reach as bruln
attempted to rise. Other members OF
the party came up and shot the pear
to death. Mr. Bryan did not appeaE
TO realize his danger, saying II was
prompted him to close in on the AMI
NAL, which he saws was fatally wound
ed before he grabbed at him.
The governments of the United
States and Japan have concluded
treaty that is intended to insure
neace in the Pacific for some time TO
come. The terms of the treaty are
as follows: 1T is the wish of the
two governments to encourage the free
and peaceful development OF their
commerce on the Pacific. 2-The pol
lev of both governments, uninfuenced
by any aggressive tendencies, is ui-
rected to the maintenance Of the exist
ing status quo in the region above
mentioned and to the defense or the
people Of equal opportunity for COM
merce and industry in China. 3-They
are accordingly firmly resolved re-
ciprocally to respect the territorial pos
sessions belonging to each other IN sald
region. 4-They are also determined
IN preserve the common interests of all
powers in China by supporting by all
pacifc means at their disposal the IN
dependence and integrity Of China and
the principle of equal opportunity 1or
commerce and industry of all nations
in that emrire. 5-Should any event
occur threatening status quo as above
described or the principle OF equal OPP
portunity as above defined. 1t remains
for the two governments to communl-
cate with each other in order to arrive
at an understanding as to what meas
ures they may consider 1t useful TO
take"
Washington, December 5: P. V. De
Graw, fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral, in his annual report emphasizes
the recommendations of Postmaster
General Meyer for parcels post on
rural free delivery routes. 1t can De
given" adds Mr. De Graw, with the
facilities now employed, and would
materially increase the revenues OF
the department. A special reduced rate
of postage for merchandise carried
only by rural carriers would unques-
tionably be Of material value TO the
retail merchants on rural routes and
at rural delivery distributing centres
as well as enhance the influence of
the rural service in making life IN
the country more attractive He rec
ommends un'forming the rural car
riers, citing the fact that the carriers
daily pass 100000 homes. Rural de-
livery Is in operation on 945.OSI miles
Of roads. Of these reads $4,000 miles
are macadam, the remainder being
earth. sand and gravel. Since the ser
vice was first established S1O.6T2.lhD
have been expended on roads traversed
by rural carriers More work has
been done on such public highways
and more expenditures made in their
Improvement in the last year than In
anV previous year. The estimate OF
appropriations necessary for the rural
service fer the next fiscal wear is $780,
2460O0 an increase OF $673,OOO. VI
this. s626.241 is for continuing the SER
vice on 722 routes which ii is expected
will be established and S1.260,000 to paw
substitutes for 1850 carriers on Vaca-
ton.
Philadelphia, November 30 Rabbi
Joseph Krauskopf in his lecture yes
terday morning at the Broad Street
temple said in part: You read OF the
sentence of fifteen years imprisonment
pronounced the other day upon one or
New York's captains of finance. En-
dowed with splendid talents, possessed
of a manner that easily won confidence,
he advanced, within a very short time,
TO the forefront of the metropolitan
capitalists. He counted his fortune by
the millions, and lived in princely opul-
ence. And in his garden of Eden he
might have continued to this day, sur
rounded by his happy family, by his
large circle of friends, by the respect
Of his fellowmen, by all that is pleas
ing to the eye and joyful to the heart.
But, one day, he encountered the OLD
serpent coiled about his column of gold,
when insinuatingly it said to him:
What Is this little pile of gold COM
pared with the heaps that might be
thine? Treasures untold are but await
ing thy stretching out thy hand after
them. A little manipulation here,
sharp practice there, a little erasure,
now and then, a false entry and the
deed is done. Men will call it high
finance. will admire thee greatly for
it. will even thrust hOnors upon thCe.
What, If the fleeced sheep bleat, and
the shorn lambs moan? Thou wilt
have money enough to drown their
cries. even to win the plaudits of the
mighty by liberal gifts to churches,
schools and charities And not loNg
did he enjoy the golden fruit of the
forbidden tree. Not long did he revel
in his increased fortunes, not long did
he continue even in his old Eden. Not
long before the curses Of the ruined,
of robbed widows and orphans, of tens
of thousands Of unemployed laborers.
of paralyzed trades and industries
overlook him. Driven from his pala-
tial home. driven from his wife and
children, locked within a prison cell. Re
has ample time now to reflect that, In
a conflict between the word Of God and
the word of the serpent, God prevails,
that the law of right is inviolable, that
supreme justice may be long suffering,
but it never lets the guilty go unpun-
ished."
Atlanta, Ca, December 2: Robert
r. Maddox was elected mayor Of At