Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-26

for blowing and the farmers continue
to chafe with impatience.
All the male passengers on the
wrecked train Wednesday afternoon
with the single exception Of Fireman
Hardin. were members Of the Masonic
fraternity.
The heavy windstorm which Is re-
ported to have done considerable dam
age throughout the state Wednesday
night and Thursday morning was also
felt over this territory; but so far as
has been reported, the actual damage
in York county has been slight.
The second edition Of Zach McGhee's
book "The Dark Corner" Is out and
Mr.. w. S. Gordon of Yorkville, who sold
so many copies of the first edition, and
who has a number Of applications for
copies of the second edition, Is watch
ing every express for the supply that
has been promised him.
Although insisting that she is not
superstitious, one Of the ladies on the
wrecked train Wednesday afternoon
called striking attention to the thirteen
hoodoo in connection Herewith. She
had counted the party only five minutes
before and made it thirteen ladies and
thirty-nine knights, which. with the
engineer made of the party on the train
a total Of So, multiple Of thirteen,
It was stated also that this was the
thirteenth wreck that Mr. Husbands
had been in, and altogether there seems
to be In the circumstances enough
coincidence to give the believers IN
the unluckiness of thirteen, something
to argue from.
The condition of the yarn market
continues very unsatisfactory; but few
of the spinning mills in this section
beng able to get orders that they can
fill without a loss. Just what the trou-
BILE is, the local people do not under
stand. They are aware Of the fact
that trade generally is dull and they
are not willing to say that the dull
ness is based altogether on unfavorable
trade conditions. 1t Is generally ad-
mitted that the warehouses Of the COM
mission men north are literally filled
with stored yarns, and the presump-
ton Is that the reason Is because OF
slack demand. Still there, are some
signs of a feeling that the commits
sion people are not doing any more
than they can help; that they are US
ing the yarns for which there is no
demand to depress the price Of yarns
that are moving.
"On this same March 26, 1901" re-
marked an observant citizen Of this
morning, there fell the heaviest rain
over this section I have ever known.
That was a beautiful spring and no
body ever saw so much plowing. The
farmers Of my neighborhood began
early and plowed and plowed. They
had broken up their cotton land, and
their upland corn ground, and then
still having beautiful weather and
plenty Of time, they even broke up old
fields and patches that they had not
previously considered planting. So
strong was the plowing sentiment that
spring that no man could Withstand
it. Had anybody tried he would have
been put down as one Of those fellows
who float up stream, while everybody
else floats down. He would have been
ostracized. And after all the plowing
had been done, the winds blew, the
clouds gathered, the thunder rolled,
and the rain fell. 1t came down In
sheets and torrents, soaking the ground,
smashing terraces, overflowing bitches,
swelling the streams and washing away
the bridges. Top soil was washed
away, the land was run together and
it looked as if everything was ruined.
We thought there would be no crops
that year nor any other year for long
time to come. But after all, things got
all right and the crops were about at
good as usual"