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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Thomson of Gas
tonia, spent yesterday in Yorkville.
Geo. w. s. Hart, ESQ.,, Of Yorkville,
Is spending a week or two in Charles
ton.
Mr.. John M. Rawlinson of Charlotte,
is visiting his daughter, Mrs. w. w.
Lewis in Yorkville.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Bell of Trenton,
Fla, are spending a few days in York.
Vile, the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M.
Brian. ...
Misses Mary Dobson and Stella Abb
bot have returned to Yorkville from a
few days visit to Charlotte and Kings
Mountain, N. c..
Mrs. James Allison and daughter
Sarah, of Kings Mountain, N. c., are
the guests Of Mrs. J. w. Dobson in
YOrkville.
Miss Amelia Kennedy, who has been
teaching in Albertville, Ala, arrived In
Yorkville this morning to spend the
summer with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. M. Kennedy.
Mr.. C. ]. Hughes, agent for the
Farmers Cooperative Demonstration
work in York county, is confined to his
home on Filbert r. F. D. No. 1 with
mumps.
Mrs. Thomas Windsor left for her
home in New York yesterday, after q
visit Of several weeks to her brothers
Messrs. d. M. and ]. N, Benfield, and
her sister, Mrs. Hose Norman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Newman Boyce
Of 800 York street, Gastonia, have an
nounced the forthcoming marriage OF
their daughter Miss Kathleen to Mr.
P. Woods Garland, Jr The ceremony
is to take place Wednesday, June 9.
Mr.. M. l.. Carroll Of Yorkville, Is suf-
fering with a badly injured knee cap,
as the result Of an accident In his store
last Friday. He was engaged in NOV
ing some boxes when his knee cap was
struck in a way that caused the injury
He went to Chester last night for an
X-ray examination; but the examina-
ton was not completed and another
trip will be necessary.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
WITHIN THE TOWN.

A covey Of partridges became scat
tered along the shade trees on Main
street yesterday and their whistling, in
their efforts to get together again, ex-
cited not a little interest.
"A feature of the morning service In
the Presbyterian church last Sunday,
was talks by delegates who attended
the Laymen's Missionary Movement
convention in Clinton last week. Among
those who spoke were Messrs. w. l..
Witherspoon, Thos. F. Mellow, Robert
T. Allison, T. c. Dunlap. They told OF
the convention and the impression 1t
made upon them and the talks were
quite interesting.
There Is to be an important change
in the schedule on the Carolina and
North Western railroad next Sunday.
Heretofore, single train has been
running as and 10 making the round
trip between Chester and Edgemont In
a day. After next Sunday there will be
a separate train for each number, each
train going up one day and coming
back the next. The northbound Will
pass Yorkville at $50 a. m, and the
southbound at 5.39 2. m. There Will be
but one Sunday train next Sunday, the
northbound in the morning. After that
the Sunday schedule of 8 and 10 will
be as on other days. The mixed freight
and passenger will run as heretofore
daily, except Sunday, going north at
2.4O d. m. and south at IL a. m.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25

WE do not see how the cotton goods
trade can be very much helped by pro-
lection; but we can see how it would
be very greatly to the advantage OF
American cotton manufacturers and
American cotton growers If we were In
better touch with the markets Of the
world. It Is an indisputable fact that
American manufacturers are depend
ent upon foreign ship owners for the
expansion of their trade. Everybody
who is at all informed as to such mat
ters very well understands that Amer
lea has very few vessels engaged In the
foreign carrying trade. Just as the
home retail merchant cannot develop
his business without getting into direct
personal contact with the people to
whom he would sell his goods, the
wholesale manufacturer who would
place his products abroad must get in
direct touch with his prospective pur-
chasers. England, Germany and France
control the greater part Of the worlds
carrying trade. America controls prac-
tically nothing. When we send goods
to China or South America, or Ger
many, or England, or France or any
other country, we have to send them by
and in care of ship owners Of a coun-
try that is in direct competition with
us in the manufacture of the self-same
goods, and there are very few amongst
us who are so simple as to believe that
foreign ship owners are going to push
the sale of our products as they would
push the products of their own respec-
tive countries. The fullest develop
ment of American trade seems to abso-
lutely require that American products
be marketed in American ships.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
The Sunday School Convention.

The second annual convention Of the
York County Interdenominational Sun
day School association to be held in
Yorkville on June and 10. is an oc-
casion to which the whole county may
we'll look forward with pleasant anti
cipation.
Although interdenominational Sun
day school organization has been pre-
viOuSly attempted in this county and
without success, the outlook now is
that the association is to be put on a
sound footing, and those who have Civ
en- intelligent consideration to the
whole idea, see in it great possibilities
for present and future good to our peo-
pie.
Any and everything that promises
useful education is good. Our common
schools do good, our newspapers do
good, our churches do good, but the
work Of none of those is more impor-
tant than that of the Sunday school
teacher, and everything that helps to
develop and encourage Sunday school
work is deserving of the best support
that broad, aspiring people are able to
give it.
Why? The reason is not hard to find.
Between the covers of the Holy Bible
there is more wisdom worldly wisdom
if you will, than is contained in all 9TH
er books together. The man who looks
not beyond this world; who believes
that everything that life offers is to be
had this side of the grave, can learn
from the Bible how to get the best of
all that he believes there is for him.
The man who would live beyond the
grave, as well as on this side of it, can
find in the Bible infallible instruction,
that is to be had from no other source.
The Bible makes better citizens here and
fits men for a surer hope of happiness
in the hereafter But Notwithstanding
these indisputable facts, few men are
disposed to study the Bible. They for
get that the little they know about
what is right and what is wrong, has
come from the Bible and it does not
seem to occur to them that earnest,
persistent study of this Great Book will
give them all there is to be known. The
Bible is neglected and there is nothing
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
The Newspaper and the Politicians.

The Greenville News of a few days
ago, had a statement Of its position
with reference to the politicians, local,
state, and national, which statement
was quite sensible and interesting.
In effect, the News says 1t stands for
what 1t considers to be the best and
highest interest Of its constituents;
that It Is not at the beck and call Of
the politicians; that 1t does not get its
living or any considerable part Of Its
living from them; that 1t has no favors
to ask and no favors to give.
To live up to a position like this,
takes considerable stamina; but the
newspaper that fails to live up to such
a position cannot amount to a great
deal. The first duty Of an honest
newspaper is to its subscription con-
stituency, and the editor who would be
true to that constituency has an
abundance with which to keep himself
occupied.
There are in politics great many
honest men, men who stand on their
own merits and who like the News,
have no favors to ask and none to give,
who rely for their maintenance in pub
lie life, solely upon the confidence and
esteem their true characters, and SER
vices inspire in the majority Of their
fellow citizens, and with these no hon.
est newspaper ever has any trouble.
But this Is not the largest class Of
politicians. The largest class includes
those who are out for the benefits they
can get for themselves rather than for
the benefit they can be to the public.
Their stock in trade Is not their own
merits-not honest service; but rather
intrigue, deception, blackmail, intimida-
ton, etc. Without any high or honora-
BILE motives themselves, they fail to re-
gard high and honorable motives even
when they recognize the same in 9TH
ers.
The attitude outlined by the News
with reference to politicians is correct,
and it can be maintained; but the
newspaper that thinks to maintain such
an attitude without interference from
the class of politicians to which 1t does
not care to cater, will find itself en-
numbered with an impossible task.
The politician Of the self-seeking class
needs the newspaper to help maintain
an exaggerated notion Of his abilities
and to smooth over and deny his short
comings, things no newspaper Of es-
tablished character and reputation can
undertake, except at the expense of
those who trust in its truth and hon.
esty.
OF course, it is almost impossible
for the county newspaper to steer clear
of politics. 1t cannot afford to do so in
justice to it's readers; but neither can
it afford to go into politics for any di-
rect benefit to itself-for loaves and
fishes-for as soon as it does anything
like this, its usefulness is seriously i'm
paired, If not absolutely lost.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25

1T Is true that the farmer carries
great load that he ought not to carry;
that he makes a living for a great
crowd Of other people besides himself,
and that when settlement time comes
there is little If anything left over for
his own part; but it is his own fault.
The land owning farmer, of all men
does not have 70 work for other people
unless he wants to. He can raise
he needs, live on the fat OF
the land and make all others pay tri-
butte to him for his surplus II he only
will. There are those who do this and
they are always free and independent.
They are never heard to complain about
the burdens they have to carry. They
know that their independence and
are in their own hands.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
Who Is ResponsibIe?-Webb Sim

Who Is Responsible?-Webb Sim
mons, a young cotton mill operative got
crazy drunk on blind tiger liquor and
while in that condition shot and killed
Police Officer ]. B. McAdams. These
are the facts, stated in a nutshell.
Simmons has been tried for murder
by jury Of his countrymen and found
guilty, and the death penalty Is now
staring him in the face.
However much sympathy there may
be for the young man, there can be no
criticism of the verdict. 1t was right
eous one. Justice has been meted out
to Simmons.
But it is only a part Of the justice
that ought to be meted out.
The man who sold Webb Simmons
the whisky that he got drunk on Is
just as much responsible for the killing
of ]. B. McAdams as Simmons himself.
Simmons would not have killed Nc
Adams if he had been sober. The man
who sold the liquor to Simmons would
not have sold it to him, we believe, if
he had known that Simmons would
commit murder while under it's infiu-
ence.
Simmons is to be punished; and no
man can say that he does not deserve
it, And who will dare say that the
man who sold him the liquor does not
deserve to be punished. too?
The man who sold Simmons that pint
of whisky on the goth Of February is
equally responsible with him for the
killing of Officer McAdams.
And, moreover
Every man who knew the existence
of this blind tiger and who did not en-
deavor to suppress it-every man, we
say, who knew that this man was SELL
ing liquor and did not report him to the
officers of the law and try to have him
ing.
That is the straight of it, Anderson
Daily Mail.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Albert Irby and John Fonder-Give
notice that they will. apply to the
secretary Of state for a charter for
Mt. Zion society, No. 5, A. P. & B.
H. B. Bratton and Eli McElhaney-
Give notice that they will apply to
the secretary of state for a charter
for Safe Guard society, No. 4, A.
P. B.
Yorkville Buggy Co.-Sells walking and
riding cultivators under absolute
guarantees and invites you to come
and see 1t for various other things
it sells.
Loan and Savings Bank-SuSgests that
IL you become a steady saver you
cannot fail to reach the goal Of flnan-
cial independence. 1t will help you.
r. B. Davidson Co-Calls your atten-
tion to the fact that there is but one
monograph, with lot Of limitations
and that 1t sells the genuine. Nearly
5000 records in stock.
First National Bank-Talks about the
advantages of systematic saving and
offers you all the help in its power.
Get a Road to Wealth" bank.
National Union Bank, Rock Hill-Re-
views it's business life since 1898. 1t
wants your business and wants you
to open an account with 1t today.
II
BICYCLES and will sell them on terms
to suit the buyer. Also talks about
porch shades, hammocks and Perfec-
ton oil stoves.
Yorkville Hardware Co.-Invites your
attention to refrigerators,, ice boxes,
water coolers, hammocks, Ice shaw
ers. lemon squeezers and other hot
weather necessities.
]. c. Wilborn-Has plantation Of 235
acres, five miles from Rock Hill, on
his list, which he offers at $40 per
acre; rents for $3.50 pounds of cot
ton; lies we'll, little rolling.
York Drug Store-Sells Harrison's
town and country ready mixed paints,
oils, varnishes, putty, glass, etc.
Herndon & Gordon-Remark that Mr..
Tafts appetite as well as yours could
be tempted by some of the good
things to be found in its stock OF
fancy groceries.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
TILLMAN'S BANTllNG.
Wants Protection For the Tea Industry
of Summerville.

OF Summervllle.
Mr.. Tillman-Now, just wait one
minute-and as it Is acknowledged by
the senator that we could obtain $10,-
OOO, 900 by a duty Of 10 cents a pound
on tea, and it would not increase the
cost Of tea at all-so these importers
tell newly do we not pick up that
SIC, 100000 and give protection to this
infant industry down in South Caro-
lima, where there is one tea producer?
There Is a poor, little pulling infant In
dustry out in the piney woods at Sum-
merville begging the United States for
help, and saying If tea can get a pro-
lection Of 10 cents a pound 1t will be
the pioneer in introducing into that
southern country q great industry.
Mr.. Hale-Let me say to the sena-
tor
Mr.. Tillman-Will the senator vote
for it, or will he have his committee
introduce the amendment. Now, l will
Join you. 1 want protection for that
pulling infant in South Carolina-the
tea industry-and we shall get $10,0OO,-
900 by it, too. Why not give me re-
port on it favorably? 1 want to get
protection for this industry in South
Carolina?
Mr.. Hale-I think the Republican
party, if the senator believes that he
has a real industry
Mr.. Tillman-I have got a real in
dustry. One man down there pro-
duces $1,000 pounds of tea.
Mr.. Hale-If that can become pros
porous and leading contributor to the
industries of the United States as
against foreign ompetition-never so
dangerous as now and as it will be for
the next ten years-then the Republi-
can party will adopt his bantling. l
have no doubt Of 1t.
Mr.. Tillman-I can only assure you
that this gentleman, DR.. Shepherd,
who has been experimenting with tea
culture for twenty years, has reached
that point where, like all the others in
this country who are seeking to in
crease their profits, wants enough pro-
lection to increase his price. He knows
that as soon as he would get 10 cents
per pound additional, it would raise the
value of his ea.-Congressional Rec
ord, May II.
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A GAFFNEY correspondent who re-

A GAFFNEY correspondent who re-
ports the circulation Of petitions In
Cherokee asking for a dispensary cleo
ton, intimates that the matter is not
being taken seriously. We beg leave
to remind our Cherokee friends that 1t
will be we'll for them to keep their eyes
skinned, for this is matter on which
they should be serious at all times.
The liquor people are serious, and If let
alone they will win. The man who
thinks this liquor question is settled Is
very foolish, and those who allow them
selves to go to sleep over the subject,
may safely count upon eventually wax
ing up to fight over again all the battles
that they had previously believed they
had won. The liquor question Is not
settled in Cherokee and 1t is not settled
in York.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25

"A run,or that Is probably without
any foundation" says the Chester Re-
porter, "has 1t that the main line Of the
C. C. & o. will be diverted, and will
run from Gaffney to Columbia via York
VILE and Chester" The Enquirer has
no definite idea as to what the c. C..
& o. road Is going to do after 1t leaves
Spartanburg; but somehow we think
1t should pass through York county.
There will be no serious objection Of
fered to such a route, we are quite
sure.
Quite a number of the York county
celebrators of the Mecklenburg declar-
alton saw, heard and shook hands with
President Taft, and from all they have
to say they were well pleased. One
man who has always been staunch
Democrat and who is a Democrat yet,
said he would have to admit that the
president is a big, broad man and the
country Is safe in his hands. There
were quite number Of visitors, of
course, who made no effort to shake
hands with the president, although
they might easily have availed them
selves of whatever privilege attaches
IL they had been so disposed. Except
for the weather, the York county visi-
tors were delighted with the trip.
An Anderson county farmer who has
been spending some time in York look
ing over the agricultural prospects of
this section with view Of locating,
gave The Enquirer, by request, brief
comparison Of conditions in York and
Anderson. Your York lands, upon the
whole, he said, are as good as those OF
Anderson, but Anderson, would say,
is ten years ahead Of Yorkville from
an agricultural standpoint. You're got
some good farmers in this county-as
good as in Anderson; but you have not
got as large a proportion Of them.
York is not as we'll terraced as Ander-
son and the terraces over here are not
kept up as well. York needs to do a
lot of terracing, and 1t needs also to do
more deep plowing. York. however, Is
a good county. and 1 like it very much.
/ like it we'll enough to settle here, the
principal condition being getting suited
in the right kind Of farm at the right
price, and in the right location.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
YORKVILLE. 8. c.,
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1909.

THE people along the line of the pro-
posed automobile route between New
York and Atlanta are becoming very
much enthused over the prospect OF the
races. Progressive people everywhere
see in the long race lots Of effective
good roads sentiment. The Anderson
grand jury has just recommended that
the county board of commissioners put
that portion Of the road which runs
through Anderson county in extra good
condition, reasoning that road that
will facilitate automobile traffic will IA
cilitate traffic Of all kinds.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
THE SPECULATIVE MARKET.

Following are the developments in
the cotton market yesterday as sum-
married. from New York last night:
The cotton market showed more
nervousness and irregularity than any
real tendency during today's trading,
with the close very steady, net points
lower to points higher.
The market opened barely steady at
a decline of to points and soon sold
8 to II points net lower under liquida-
ton and local bear pressure; the for
mer being evidently in the way Of re-
ducing long lines for over the holidays
and the government report, while the
latter was actuated by somewhat dis
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25

oning, administered for stomach
ache. ii. +. Despite the fact that more
than s1,0O0,O0O have been spent in an
effort to extinguish a coal mine fire at
Summit Hill, Pa, which has been burn
ing for fifty years, the fire continues to
spread. The criminal court Of Vene-
zuela has acquitted Cipriano Castro Of
the charge Of completely In an attempt
to assassinate President Gomez, when
Gomez was acting president. :. "A sill
yer nugget, weighing 5000 pounds. and
claimed to be rs per cent pure silver.
valued at $4,000, was taken from a
mine at Cobalt, Canada, last week. -.
Cornelius p. Shea, formerly president
Of the International Brotherhood Of
Transfers, and for many years a pro-
fessional trouble maker, is in the Tombs
prison, New York, on a charge OF at
tempted murder, having stabbed his
paramour twenty-five times with a
jackknife. -. Rev. ]. D. Wilson, 70
years of age, one Of the founders Of the
Royal Arcanum and Knights Of Honor,
and his son. DR.. James Wilson, were
arrested in st. Louis on Saturday, on
q charge Of obtaining money under
false pretenses. :. 1t Is estimated that
the gold production of the Nome, Alas
ka, district for the year ending July l.,
will be s5.0O0,000, a slight increase over
last year. Uncle Billy" Gray, SO
years old, committed suicide by drink
ing paris green at Detroit, Mich, Sat-
urday. He leaves a widow more than
80 years old. -. Mrs. Joseph Schmid,
widow, so years old, and worth s10.-
900, 900, was married in New York, Sat-
urday, to Prince Don Giovanni del Dra-
go. aged IS years, of Rome, Italy.
PRECEDENT Taft on Saturday issued
proclamations which will open up 790,-
900 acres Of public lands in western
states to homesteaders during the next
few months.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25

branches At Camak to Macon, at Bar
nett to Washington, at Union Point to
White Plains and at Union Point to
Athens. 1t Is owned by a stock COM
pany and is being operated by the
Louisville & Nashville, lessee. The At
lantic Coast Line is joint lessee. II
employs 2,4CO to $500 men, 400 of whom
are in the train service. Its last
monthly payroll was $4,000.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
so well calculated to stimulate interest
In a. oo SUNDAY school work

III tt as SuHudy SCIIUUI WUIh.
The idea of the observation-disclosures
Sunday School association is to slim
ulate interest in the Sunday schools.
The stimulation Of interest in the Sun
doy schools means the stimulation Of
interest in the Bible, and the stimu-
lation of interest in the Bible
the stimulation of interest In the BIZ
means the making Of better citi-
zens and the development Of more per-
sonal happiness and more material
prosperity here and a more satisfac-
tory assurance of conditions that are
to obtain in the hereafter.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
The aturkpille eaql'irer.

Entered at the Postoffice In Yorkvtlle
as Mail Matter of the Second Class.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
\ a Money Order Office.

Postmaster Allison Of Tirzah tele-
phones that after June 1. money orders
will be sold and cashed at his office.
Heretofore Tirzah has not been in the
money order grade. Money orders,
however are now issued and cashed at
all other offices in York county, except
Old Point.