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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
Life In Nova ZembIa.

The Russian government has recent
" given attention to the development
of the northern portions of its empire
especially the Island of Nova Zembla
in the Arctic ocean, which, only few
years ago, was inhabited by but fifty
souls.
The governor of the province of
Archangel induced eight Samoyede
families to emigrate thither. All their
wants were supplied with the greatest
care according to the official reports,
and much attention was lavished upon
them.
The Russians solcitude for the Sa-
moyedes of Nova Zembla extended
even to such details as the following:
The settlers included a brother and
sister, both grown, and In answer to
the usual queries as to what articles
they stood in need of, one requested.
among other things, wife and the
other a husband.
AS these were not forthcoming, with
the consent of the parents, the author
tiles brought out with them a BRIDE
groom and a bride. Each having been
introduced to his or her destined part
ner. the authorities allowed them an
hour to become better acquainted with
each other. after the lapse Of which
the weddings were Immediately to take
place.
The young Nova Zemblan was much
pleased with the bride the obliging au-
thorities had brought him, and she in
her turn with him.
To the query put to the bride as to
the young man, she replied. "Oh, he'll
do. He's a real Samoyede." So the
business in respect of that couple was
soon over.
But not so with the other The Nova
Zemblan bride would have nothing to
do with bridegroom of the Russian
authorities choosing.
He Samoyede!" she exclaimed.
Indignantly. Hes never killed white
bear. Why. my little brother, who is
only II years old, has killed several.
and myself have shot over score of
wild deer! And what has he been do
ing? Killing tame reindeer. No,
won't have him,
She was as good as her word. so
that the match making of the Russian
officer was not altogether a success.
The unlucky bridegroom could only
pull long face and retire. There was
no help for it, and the authorities con-
fined themselves to one wedding
Harper's Weekly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
warned, Keep mum about this"

warned, Keep mum about this
The next several days numerous
farmhouses were visited and the occu-
pants were held up" There were a
few dollars, and only a few, at each
house, for the people in that section
are extremely poor. At houses where
she asked for lodging for the night she
considered it breach of hospitality to
rob, and paid her bill in the morning.
She talked little, giving her hosts to
understand that she was tramping it
through the country merely to be trav-
cling: that she was going to New Or
leans to see the world, and as she had
no money she had to walk.
But the farmers had heard Of the
mysterious woman and she was
never refused meals or lodging. They
were glad to escape so lightly.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
NOT LIKE THE OLD DAYS.
Man With Flood Story Got no Sym.
pathy When He Tried to Tell It.

Back in the days when Cyrus Le-
land was supreme in Kansas politics
there were some gorgeous political
fights. The great battles with Pop
ulism rank in history as record break
ers and high-water marks. Uncle Cy''
dearly loved a good political scrap.
The other afternoon Leland and a
number of his friends were visiting to-
gether and they got to telling stories.
"Once upon a time" said Leland, "a
certain man who was drowned in a
tremendous flood went to heaven. Ever
hear this story?" he asked.
They shook their heads.
We'll, the man knocked at the pearly
gates.
WHO is ;here?' asked ST. Peter. He
was told.
Come right in was the invitation
We have place for you
After the spirit got inside, st Peter
| added:
Now, these people here like to hear
the latest news from the other world;
| in fact, are anxious to hear it. So we
ask all newcomers to relate the latest
| happenings. That is the way they
| keep in touch with what is going on
| over on the earth.
"'Be glad to tell them of the flood
was drowned in was the reply.
80 when he got inside he found a
dozen or more men grouped, and they
were glad to see him.
What Is the news Of the earth?
was their first question.
I'VE had a terrible flood dowr
| there he began. He got immediate at
| tention, for they were anxious to know
| all about it, He noticed one man par
ticularly prick up his ears at once and
give him the closest of attention. He
was a little man, dried up, very old
round -shouldered and had a LONG
| beard tucked into his belt. The flood
man went on graphically to tell Of the
J horrors Of that dreadful freshet. He
told it well and gave all Of the details
There were many exclamations Of sur
prise and horror when he had finished
In fact, all Of them exclaimed much
over the catastrophe, except the little
old, round -shouldered man. He spat
on the ground and grunted: "Oh rats!
THAT sort of worried the flood man
but he went on to another group and
told them the story. He noticed that
the little, old man was in the group
too, and again listening attentively
While all the others were much i'm
| pressed with the story, this old man
again spat on the ground and grunted:
| oh, rats
"Disconcerting as this was, the flood
man told his story several times more
to other groups, but each time this lit
tie. old, round -shouldered man was or
the fringe, and litter listening closely
would snort: oh, rats
THE flood spirit had stood it as Ions
as he could and proceeded to hunt ur
| st. Peter and tell him about it.
What kind of a looking fellow is
! this man." asked st. Peter
"'Oh.' was the reply, he is little, and
old round -shouldered, has a LONG
beard, and
Don't pay any attention to him,
laughed st. Peter. Don't notice him
That's NOAH"
Did you tell that story as a COM
parison between the political fights you
used to have and the ones we have
now?" asked one of the number.
No, l don't" replied Leland. But
then there are no r;g political fights
now."-Kansas City Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

dred knots Two days afterwards
Ruiz and four of the men were taken
with a disease that baffled my medical
knowledge. and in six hours they
were dead. The first mate went next
and then three others of the crew and
a black driver. l began to see low
heavy fog on deck, almost like steam
It was a death / saw rising. At this
time all but three of the men and my
self had been attacked and we aban-
doned the Gloria in her long boat,
taking the remnant of the water
sack of biscuit and rum beaker, with
what gold dust and other valuables
we could gather up. We left nine OF
our shipmates dead and five dying on
the Gloria. ."-GalvestOn News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
Brinein' Up ChiIlun."

Mandy wha' foh you give
dat baby piece of pOhk ter chew on
Don you-all know the poh child i
choke on it,"
Mandy-"Dinah. don you see the
string tied to dat piece er fat pohk
De uddcr ends tied to de chile's toe
IF he chokes. he'll kick. an if he
kicks, he'll jerk de pohk out. All
reckon you-all don learn me nothin
bout bringin' up chillun."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
In the sunny GuadalOupe
\ dark -hullcd vessel lay,
With a crew that noted never,
The nightfall or the day"

The story Of the vessel has been
told more than once. but never bet
ter than I'm the speech delivered in
the French chamber of deputies by
Pcnjamin Constant, June Il. 1925, in
which he said:
The French ship Le Rodeur, with
a crew of TWENTY-FIVE men and 100
negro slaves sailed from Bonny. on
the west coast Of Africa. i'm April,
1919. ON approaching the line a
terrible malady broke out-an OBJ
stinate disease of the cyes-comtagious
and altogether beyond the resources
uf medicine. II was aggravated 10y
the scarcity Of water among the slaves
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Be Square with Poor Lo.

The uprising of the Pueblo Indians
in New Mexico serves to showNtha
Poor Lo is not entirely certain in his
own mind as yet just what are the
amenities expected of an American citi-
zen. Great advancement has been made
in the uplift and civilization of the
red man, but much remains to be done
before all the aborigines on the AmeTi-
can continent become tractable mem
bers of society.
Some serious problems are to be
worked out in perfecting the splendid
scheme of the Indians destiny. One
of those problems looks very simple on
it's face and should give the federal
government little worry. That is to en-
force respect of the Indians rights by
the white man. In this very instance
in New Mexico the prime cause of de-
probation seems to be a white mans
encroachment upon Indian possessions,
fencing in land which belonged to the
Indians and which the white man knew
belonged to the Indian.
The Indian of today was born with
an inherited belief in the perfidy of
the white man and where that belief
does not manifest itself in open hos
tility it is because certain white men
have succeeded in convincing the In
dian of their intention to do him no
wrong That can only be accomplished
by deeds and never by treachery or in
jury.
1t has required government troops
to suppress the Pueblos and if it is
proved that they went on the warpath
to avenge a real wrong committed by
their white neighbors, federal powers
should be directed toward the pale face
as well.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Brooklyn Eagle Methodist women in the
south are said to be in revolt, demanding
equal rights with men IN the church. St.
Paul said-but no matter what he said. The
Methodists are Arminians
Washington Herald Some women down
south have proposed to their pastor to re-
move their hats in church If he will cut
his sermons in half. And yet man, foolish
man, now and then imagines that woman
is not his true and tried friend!
Baltimore American: Robbers of church
poor boxes should be severely punished
when caught as the thief is of such a pc
culiarly mean and despicable character that
no penalty seems too harsh for it. To rob
anyone is a crime, but to rob the poor, who
depend largely on the charity of the public
for the very necessities OF life, means much
more in the way of genuine deprivation and
suffering than ordinary robbery. And there
are many professional thieves even who
would hesitate before robbing the poor box
in a church.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Individual Effort.

The essential difference between the
Roman Graeco civilization and that of
today is that the former was n one
man school of thought, while the pres
ent is popular Themistocles as the
type of Athenian culture in his day
did the thinking for most of Athens
and Marcus Aurelius laid down the law
to Rome.
Colonel Roosevelt in his address at
the University of Berlin warned against
the danger Of the present civilization
colllapsing just as that of the ancients
fell. Yet IL seems to us that the peril
is not alarming If it must be drawn
from an analogy between these two
systems. The inherent weakness of
one is the dominant strength of the
other.
Colonel Roosevelt does not believe
our civilization is going to fall; he
sees in the future much more of good
than he did in the past and believes
we are on the threshold of the best era
in history. The saving grace of ma
ton is in the personal character of its
citizenship, as he has advocated in all
his European addresses. And while
this counsel is good, 1t may as well be
admitted that the citizenship of this
country is tending toward the very
goal to which he points it. The in
dividual amounts to more than he ever
did. He is more Independent in his
thinking as well as his acting The
American youth at college had already
begun to do his own thinking even
before he received that excellent ad-
vice. The industrial and political
achievements of the day prove it, The
American is an inventor and a pro-
Queer; he is rapidly divorcing himself
from the conventionalities of industry,
science, literature and even religion
and politics, and the probability is on
the side of progress rather than re-
| PROGRESSION in this line. The spirit of
social discomfort is rampant, though
held within a restraint of intellectual
balance that promises the best results
1 The leaven of civilization is raising the
standard of national life because it is
working through the individual. The
people refuse to listen to a Louis pro
claiming, The state? l am the state.
Knowledge is so thoroughly diffused
that, though the demand for it is
keener than ever, genuine wisdom
and learning are eventually accepted.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Making earth brighter makes heaven
surer.
Praying is a wasteful act when it stops at
wishing.
You cannot live for people without living
with them.
Trouble never weakens you save when
you flee from it.
No man has a great mission who Sights
little ministries
Too many think that square living must
mean sour looking.
Many reformers get switched off onto re-
forming one another.
Too many mistake the squabbles of creed
for the fight of faith.
Repentance soon after green apples is no
promise of a new life.
Some spend minutes in charity and
months in advertising it.
Turn your face to the sun and you will
never fear the shadows
People who live in a bread and butter
world are always hungry
Many preachers mistake pounding the
people for eXpounding the truth.-Chicago
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Woman Extravaganza

American women are asked to stand
up and look sweetly while Prof. Nuns
terberg reads them one of his little
curtain lectures. This time he ad-
dresses the fair ones on the subject of
their intemperance, or extravaganza.
woman for any credit she may claim
for a superior goodness in resisting
temptations to which men yield,
temptations, which he insists, she
never has. But, evidently rejecting
upon some possible circumstances that
might make mitigation desirable, the
professor hastens to add his belief in
woman's power to resist just as much
as her brothers.
What Prof. Munsterberg is especially
displeased at is the habits of dress
which American women pursue. He
does not attempt to disparage the
beautifying results of those habits,
nor to make invldious comparisons be-
tween the women of America and of
other countries, but he Is depressed
over the mere matter of her inordinate
lust for dress. This, he says. offsets
any expensive habit the man may
have, drinking or what not, and con
stitutes the big item in the family pay
roll He denounces it as a waste,
such as no other nation would indulge
in.
1t must be by oversight that the
professor forbids to add that no other
nation is so Rbie to indulge in this ex
travagance, OF that the women of nc
other nation are so able to make them
selves appear as comely as do the
American women. Without wishing
to hold a BRIEF for the $40 hat thai
should sell for about $40. we might
suggest that the American woman'S
eye for symmetry and harmony is sc
cultured that she caa make herself
look elegant on a sum which the
women of some conspicuous lands
would not know how to spend to ad
vantage
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15

diverted to rail transportation, as
could the greater part of all freight
for the United States and Europe from
Guatemala and other Central Ameri-
can countresi AS soon as this trade
was established the next step would
be. to create more trade by the ex-
ploitation of the country and its re-
sources. New territory would be
opened up and colonized, affording
homes and occupations for millions.
The road parallels the Sierra Madre
mountain range which is lined with
valleys of unsurpassed fertility and
resources and these regions today are
accessible only to OK carts and pack
trains. This fact reflects something of
the maiden possibilities of that en-
pire of wealth.
Establishing commercial inter
course between this land and the
United States, Canada and Alaska,
Independently with the building
of the Panama canal, will be the big
gest economic achievement of the
western hemisphere in this century.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

with four Royal Georges in action and
on hand. Europe scoops The pot. hands
down.
Persistent boosts for the city beauti-
fur while billboards multiply keeps a
superior brand of optimism on tap,
F.. Augustus Heinze, the copper king, is
free and Joy, full panoplied, perches on
the hills OF Butte and Anaconda.
Francis j. Heney is about to hang out
his shingle I'm New York. Certain circles
in San Francisco and Portland wax happier
the further he goes.
AS an essential condition to meeting him
in Kentucky court, Henry Watterson
insists on w. r. Hearst showing a pair of
clean hands. Here's soaping!
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew ia hanging
out luminous observations on right living,
but negects to show hungry New Workers
a single symptom of a retiring mood.
A Duluth lawyer who permitted his
client to be convicted is now defendant In
$40 coo damage suit instituted by the
victim The idea of the convict is to cinch
life job when he gets out.
The electors of a French district have
tied a can on Count Boni de Castellane.
retiring him from a seat in the Chamber
of Deputies. With the Gould bari plugged
and his seat gone, the faded remnant
faces the horrible prospect of working for
living.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Pardon Board.

The pardoning OF convicts is one Of
the serious problems in state govern
ment that has not yet been satisfac-
torily solved. Some states have
reached good results through the
process of pardon boards, which make
1t impossible for any one man to exer-
else so large and so grave power as
undoing what courts and jury have
done. If Tennessee had had a pardon
board it would not now be under the
ban of public reproach which the
action of its governor in pardoning
his political ally convicted of murder,
has brought upon it. 1t is inconceiv-
able that such excuses on the part of
any governor were contemplated in any
state where the pardoning power
exists, but the existence of a pardon
board removes the possibility for such
an outrage.
Minnesota has a pardon board COM
posed of the governor, attorney gen
eral and chief justice of the supreme
court and Minnesota has not suffered
from many pardon disgraces since this
law went into effect The law is its
own defense. Minnesota goes on the
theory that unrestricted exercise of the
pardon power as is possible in Tonnes
see is repugnant to the principle of
American government, Ut is entirely
unsafe to vest such powers in any in.
dividual without safeguarding their
exercise.
Nebraska has had experiences that
suggest the possibility of improving
our pardon laws. We have suffered
some gross impositions That might have
been avoided by more rigid processes
or a pardon board. But an effort has
been made in this state to prevent arbi
trary and unwarranted pardons. After
the application has been made and be
fore the governor has passed upon itf
merits. the law provides that he shall
set date for hearing not less thar
three weeks nor more than six from
the time OF the application and thai
notice Of this hearing shall be pub
lished in newspapers for two weeks
prior to the hearing Notice shall b.
sent personally TO the Judge before
whom the person was convicted, or Il
that judge is dead, to his successor
and TO the attorney general All this
of course, is to afford opportunity To-
anyone TO appear and give cause VIII!
the applicant should not be pardone'
and in theory at least offers some ad
vantage over laws such as must obtaiI
in states like Tennessee, but in the en'
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Coo rdinating Educational Forces.

The approach Of the commencement
season with its cargo of free advice to
young men and women who are com
nleting one stage of their education
will focus attention for the time on
the tremendous task which our schools
and colleges are doing in preparing
pupils and students for the real work
of the world.
Nothing bears testimony to the
colossal progress which is being made
in all departments of human activity
more than the improved facilities for
educating the young, and the advan-
tage that is being taken Of these facil-
tiles now as compared with only few
decades back The ordinary high
school today turns out graduates with
as good educational preparation as the
best colleges did up 20 the civil war,
and the field covered by our colleges
and universities today is a field that
was almost untouched within the mem
DRY of the present generation. If the
young people. who have all these ad-
vantages were not to do as well, and
better, in their contributions to the
welfare and progress of the world than
did those who have gone before them
1t would be a sign of degeneracy and
backsliding.
Yet while taking note of the great
strides that have been made in our
methods and means of education, it is
the consensus of opinion among those
best qualified to judge that equal and
greater changes are in prospect in the
educational world. Our schools, col
leges and universities have until very
recently been going along each by
itself without coordination. The edu-
cational institutions of the country
have yet to have their organization
perfected as the Industrial financial
and other social and economic forces
have been organized to prevent waste,
duplication and inefflciency. When
our educational forces are harnessed
to work together and pull in the same
direction there will be almost no limit
to their possible accomplishments.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Panamerican Railway.

The Panamerican railway system,
partly constructed, is bound to become
tremendous factor in the CONNER
cial development of the United States,
Alaska, Canada, Mexico and all the
southern republics. When completed
it will form continuous chain from
Alaska to South America, traversing
Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador and the
Panama. opening up arteries of trade
between the richest agricultural and
mineral sections of the world. Sew
eraI series of this line are now in use
and freight and passenger traffic is
steadily increasing. Those portions Of
the road, 'skirting the Mexican from
tier and reaching on toward Guate-
mala and Salvador, are constantly be-
ing improved and equipped with addi-
tional rolling stock and the work of
completing the system Is urged on rap
idly.
Any attempt to estimate the po-
tential advantage OF this system
would be fantastic at best, but il re-
quires no penetrating vision to see
that its future is fraught with won
derful possibilities. In freight traffic
alone the outlook is astounding. The
coffee export trade from Guatemala is
but single item. and yet in a year
that amounts to sO.O00.o0O pounds
all shipped by water, This could be
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
Shackleton.
as well.

1t is nothing less than a sad refiec-
ton on the intelligence of the commu-
nifty that the visit to Omaha of Sir
Ernest Shackleton should have en-
listed so little interest. The achieve
ment which this young British officer
has to his credit as Polar explorer
is not only unique in history, but it has
been conceded without the slightest
question or suspicion of his good faith
or Of his actual penetration to within
almost sight of the South Pole. If
some fakir like DR.. Cook, or some up
lift muckraker, had appeared among
us to sing his own praises and run
down everyone else, the community
might have turned out en- masse, but
it indifferently neglected its oppor-
tunity to pay a deserved tribute to a
real explorer who has carried the ban
ner of science and civilization into new
and untrodden paths. Omaha has
plenty Of intelligent and knowledge
seeking people. but they will have to
wake up or Omaha will be cut off the
list of places which distinguished
scientists and public men think worth
while visiting.