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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

Law Of Good Faith.-I see no excep-
ton to the respect that is paid among
nations to the law Of good faith. II
there are cases in this enlightened pc
riod when It Is violated, there are none
when it is decried. 1t is the philosophy
of politics, the religion Of governments.
It is observed by barbarians-a whin
of tobacco smoke, or string OF beads,
gives not merely binding force, but
sanctity to treaties. Even In Algiers
a truce may be bought for money; but,
when ratified, even Algiers is too wise
or too just, to disown and annul Its
obligation. Thus, we see neither the
ignorance Of savages nor the principles
Of an association for piracy and ra-
pine, permit q nation to despise its en-
gagements. If there could be resur-
rection from the foot Of the gallows,
IL the victims Of justice could live
again, collect together and form a So
ciety, they would, however loath, soon
find themselves obliged to make jus
tice, that justice under which they
fell, the fundamental law Of their
state.--Fisher Ames.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
REcLAlMING THE DESERT
Government Spending Millions il
Great Irritation Projects.

One of the great problems Of west
ern America has been that Of re-
claiming the desert. In order to make
the land, wonderfully rich in every
other respect, produce in paying guam
titles, water is necessary.
Irrigation was undertaken by the
Indians hundreds Of years before Co.
lumbus discovered America, as the
famous Spanish explorer, Don Fran
cisco Vasquez Coronado, and his
brave conquistadores found on their
trip to New Mexico in 1910. They
came across crude irrigation bitches
conveying water from the Rio Grande
to little plots of land upon which the
Indian women raised sufficient crops
to appease the hunger of the braves.
Many of those same bitches, though
extended, are still in use, a more
adequate system not having been de-
vised, although nearly four hundred
years have elapsed since their dis
covery.
The great increase in the population
Of the United States during the last
fifty years, says John Dugger, in
Golfers Weekly, has forced the peo-
pie westward into the arid regions,
making it necessary to increase the
agricultural area, and in order to do
this, some means of reclaiming the
desert has had to be discovered.
Upon investigation many areas
were found where water could be
stored or diverted, and thus made to
reclaim thousands upon thousands of
acres of barren waste, but expense OF
doing this was found to be beyond
the pockets of the average land own
ers, and capital could only be inter-
ested in very few cases.
The United States government was
finally appealed to, and the present
reclaiming service was established
under the department of the interior
The service has been active for about
ten years, and during that time has
succeeded into bringing into bearing
thousands of acres Of what was once
quite worthless desert.
Projects have been completed in
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Califor-
mia, New Mexico, Arizona and many
other western states and the appropri-
ations thus far from congress for the
work have been more than $30,000,-
600, all of which will eventually be
returned. Those owning land which
has been reclaimed by the govern
ment have agreed to pay for the de-
livery of water thereon at the rate OF
around s35 an acre, same to be due
| in ten or more equal annual install.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
EARNS $S,OOO,OOO A YEAR.
Heiress of Krupp Millions DonS Over
alls and Bosses Her Men.

and unable to repress an occasional
scream as the great guns opened their
din. But she held good to the end.
She did not visit the plant the next
day, but on the following day the
foreman was called to her private Of
flee. To him she communicated a
carefully planned set Of new regula-
tions concerning minute changes she
desired to have made in the lnathi-
matically designed position Of the men
engaged in the perilous work.
She also ordered a more scientif-
cally calculated pointing Of the bar
rels of the guns, at safe angle. Her
plan was put into execution at the fol-
lowing trial and still is being used.
It is conceded to be the safest and
best that possibly could be devised.
For a long time after Bertha Krupp
assumed control Of the plant a great
many men, among them an official OF
the Italian war department, had an
idea that this slip of a girl was mere
ly the uninteresting owner Of the
stock of the great establishment and
that some man was the real head OF
the gun factory.
After being introduced to Bertha
Krupp, and stating the object OF his
mission, the Italian official asked to
meet the chief engineer to submit the
plans on which he desired an estimate.
His opinion was still unchanged when
the girl said:
"You may address yourself to me,
colonel"
After discussing a few trivial mat
ters the colonel renewed his request
for a conference with the factory
chief. ignoring his remark, the girl
questioned him closely regarding his
country's requirements. He answer
ed by giving technical details which
he thought would so confuse her that
she would call in a responsible man.
But Bertha proved herself a match
for him. She met every point with
helpful suggestion and concluded by
drawing a diagram on a blotter of a
a new mechanical device that had
been suggested to secure the particu-
lar end he had in view.
Then she made a lengthy compari-
son Of certain guns he had mentioned
and those manufactured by the Krupp
plant dumfounding him with her
knowledge. When he finally departed
it was with the conviction that no mil
itary officer in Europe knew more
about the inside workings Of a mod
ern gun than this girl.
Bertha Krupp Won Bohlen not only
is the richest woman in Germany, but
she is, perhaps the most powerful
woman in the whole world. BY her
whim or will nations may be made or
destroyed. She Is so Independently
wealthy that If she chose to do so she
could tomorrow shut down the vast
gun works and refuse to supply the
munitions Of war to some nation that
must have them or cease to exist.
1t is the war aspect Of her work
| that interests her most. The manu-
facture of locomotives, steel girders
and other products Of her factory are
all humdrum to her. The earliest
toys of her childhood were absolutely
perfect working models Of every bat
tie ship and gun constructed at the
factory.
She has made a careful study of
every detail of battleship construction
the secrets on rapid-fire guns and
the composition of shrapnel, dynamite
bombs and other death-dealing am
munition.-Chicago Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
whv s,ams FsIdsrY-Noting a dis

Why Blame FeIder2-Noting a dis
patch from Atlanta to the effect that
Col. T. B. Fielder has sailed from Paris
and is expected home soon. the Ander-
son Daily Mail wonders II he viii
take any pride In observing what he
has brought about In South Carolina"
and repeats that "Col. Fielder is re-
sponsible for the nomination Of the
man whom he is opposing" The Mail
thinks that II It had not been for the
dictagraph business and the general
fiasco Of the Augusta exposition OF al
legged improper engagements by Gov
ernor Blease, the result Of the primary
would have been different and Judge
Jones would have been the next gov
ernor Of South Carolina.
That may be, but why blame Fielder?
Certainly the Georgia lawyer failed to
make good his accusation, but who put
the situation into his hands to make
or mar? Why was he permitted to
dominate the entire case and conduct
It as he wished? Is the responsibility
to be laid upon a man who had no war
rant whatsoever for directing the
course Of events save by the authority
of those charged with the duty Of
making a serious investigation Of q
condition permanently affecting the
states reputation for integrity Of ad-
and not merely an incl
dent Of a political campaign?
The Fielder excursion into our affairs
was a sorry piece Of business. but Col.
Fielder is doubtless more than satisfied
with his part of the contract He held
the center Of the stage and wallowed In
the limelight for quite while, and he
unloaded very large cargo OF personal
and abuse Of his particular
and pet enemy, In quite fine and
fiorid style. South Carolina paid the
bill and bears the burden and Col. Fell
der goes his way to Paris and returns
to Atlanta In a free rollicking spirit,
and is all right and doubtless happy.
He had his chance and he made the
most Of 1t according to his disposition.
Why was 1t given to him, Is the point
in which we should be most interested,
without better assurance than was had
of his ability to justify his claims. The
responsibility for turning over to Eel
der for his own devices the character
of the state administration rests not
with the Georgia attorney but with
South Carolinians. It Is all right to
damn Fielder for not making good his
allegation, but the blame for the situ-
alton can't be shifted to his shoulders
Post
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

The New York Herald, which IS
spending a lot Of money taking straw
votes on the national political situa-
ton. announces in its issue OF last
Sunday that 1000 votes taken through
ont the northern states that are not re-
garded as certainly Democratic, indi-
cate that Wilson Is leading in twenty
three out of twenty y-nine states. Roose-
Welt leads in five of the twenty-nine
and Taft in only one, Utah. The same
votes put Roosevelt in the second place
in eighteen states, Wilson second in six
and Taft second in five. Special cor
respondents of the Herald largely bear
out these estimates; but they report
that there is quite an apparent change
of sentiment from Roosevelt to Taft.
As a rule the Roosevelt people talk as
IL they will vote for Wilson, If it ap-
pears that their man cannot win, and
many Taft people talk as If they VIII
vote for Wilson rather than see Roose-
Welt win. The split in the Republican
party seems to be based upon natural
antipathy, each side preferring wilson
to the opposing Republican candidate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
CAN MAKE THE ARCTIC BLOOM
Scientist Has Interesting Idea that
VIII Cost $1s0y0ooy0oo.


we may credit a deep sea scientist
It will cost less than $1s0,000,00Q tc
make Siberia a summer resort, start
Ice famines in Labrador, give Scotland
an all day summer, with tempera-
ture like Japan's; change the climate
of the Atlantic coast to one like that Of
southern California, melt all the Ice or
and around the North Pole and open II
to truck gardening. To do so will be
cheaper, much easier and twice az
quickly done as to build the Panama
canal.
All that is necessary to accomplish
these results, some Of which would re-
suit from tipping the old earth side
ways, is to build riprap jetty about
200 miles long across the shoals ex-
tending eastward from Newfoundland,
near Cape Race. That would stop the
Labrador current, whose cold Is CAP
able of making 100000 tons Of ice
every second, from running right into
the Gulf Stream, whose heat is equal
to the burning Of 100000 tons Of coal
every minute. They meet now on the
Grand Bank, where the water Is only
about $50 feet deep. The Gulf Stream
is split up and spreads out over MIL
lions of square leagues Of the Atlantic.
II such a jetty were built the Labra-
dor current coming down from the
Arctic would be turned eastward, and
would be sunk 80 far when the Gulf
Stream met it that the latter warm
blue river of the ocean would pass over
the great cold river from the North
Pole. The warm Gulf Stream would
continue in almost undiminished VOL
ume to the northward and the Labra-
dor current would run a mile deep
through the great depths Of the Attain
tic, making the torrid zone about the
equator cooler, while the Gulf Stream
would require only three months to
melt every inch Of ice around the pole.
Fantastic though this may appear, 1t
has received the closest interest from
the foremost men Of practical science
in America and other countries. Every
detail Of the astounding enterprise has
been worked out by Carroll Livingston
Riker, of Brooklyn, who has made
critics swallow their scornful proph-
ecies in other enterprises. He built at
No. 81 Dey street, in 1874, the first me-
chanical refrigerating warehouse ever
constructed, and devised and construct
ed the refrigerating plant on board the
steamship Celtic, which carried to Liv-
erpool the first cargo Of American
dressed meats ever landed there.
He designed and constructed the
first ice and cold air refrigerating ma
chine ever constructed. He was called
visionary when he proposed each OF
these, which have proved pioneers In
great industrial equipment of the
world.-New York Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
OLDEST KNOWN BOOKS.
Most Ancient Document 10 the Papyrus
Prisse in the Louvre.

Most Ancient Document 10 the Papyrus
Prisse in the Louvre.
One Of the oldest writings in the
world is an inscription in Egyptian
heiroglyphics preserved in the Ash
mclean Museum at Oxford, England,
What is regarded as the oldest piece
Of literary composition and the Oldest
book extant is in the Papyrus Prisse in
the Louvre in Paris.
1t Is in Egyptian Hieratic writing
and 1t Is ascribed to B. c. $3.50, but
supposed to have been composed as
early as B. c. $3.50. Curiously enough,
it consists Of treatise on How to
Behave Wisely" Much Of the advice
given in language quaint and forceful
is applicable to this day just as to that
bygone past.
The oldest guide book in the world
is Pausania's Description Of Greece"
describing journey made through
that land Of wonderful memories by
an observant old antiquarian Of ami
able temper and simple faith.
The oldest Latin document Is a wax
table in cursive letters formed by q
stylus and dated A. d. IS. It was dis
covered at Pompeii in 1856 and can now
be seen in the national museum at
Naples.
The Book Of Kells, produced In the
seventh century, Is "the glory Of
Trinity college, Dublin. The taste and
delicacy, the originality and the elab-
grafton of coloring place 1t among
the wonders Of the world" The book
is 80 perfect that one can examine II
most closely under the strongest mag
nifying glass without finding lack of
alignment or an irregularity In inter-
lacement.
The medieval miniaturists raised
the art Of illuminating to the highest
pinacle Of perfection. The most re-
nowned miniaturist was Guido Glove
(14ss-157s). The examples Of his
work in the British museum are not
placed on public exhibition. being re-
garded as too precious to run risks
at the hands Of our curio hunters or
iconoclasts.
Among the superlative "rarittes" are
the printed books sent forth during
the first twenty-five years after the
printing art had come to stay. Such
are the twenty-four copies Of the
Mazarian Bible of Gutenberg and
Schieffer about 1445, the Mentz Psalter
by the same printers in 1457 (this was
the first book printed with a date),
the first edition Of Livy (14ss). the
only copy Of which on vellum is in the
British museum, where also are the
Bedford Hours, the Sforza Book Of
Hours and Queen Mary's Psalter.
It Is now almost impossible to OBJ
tain all examples Of Cations press
except in portions Of books. 1t Is
known that there are 500 examples
extant in the world, England possesses
four-fifths of that number, 81 being
unique. Caxton's "Sato." third edition,
was the first in which printed sigma
lures were used, and 1t was also the
first English book to be illustrated by
wood cuts-London Review.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

ter Of a mile. the huge length stretch
ing away league after league into in
terminable distance.
Stand on the brow of some coastal
headland and watch the passage Of one
Of these bird armies. 1t is a wonderful
sight. Far below, one looks down on a
heaving floor Of close-packed, undulat-
ing black books, lit by a myriad scin-
tillations Of white-tipped wings. So
close is the floor, so serried the ranks
Of the flyers, that the water beneath is
hidden as with a carpet.
Hour after hour the passage Of the
army continues, from dawn until dark
and far into the night. In the night the
noise of countless beating wings that
surges up over the cliffhead tells that
the army is still on the move, till the
whirr Of wings and cries of the rear
guard beating up the stragglers grow
faint in the distance, and one realizes
that at last the mighty host has passed
on its way.-Wide World Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS
The Uneasiness Has Been Fomsntins
for Generations

TOT SoNofatIouos
The war cloud which for twenty
years has shadowed the Balkan penin-
sula is thicker and more thunderous
today than for many seasons past It
seems, indeed, that the little states
which hem about European Turkey
will not, as they usually do, bide the
coming Of spring to show their hoetil-
ity, but that they are even now throw
ing their armies across the hated Otto
man border and are all but ready to
strike q united blow against the sui
tan's power.
The suddenness Of this movement is
due, no doubt, to the obvious weakness
Of Turkeys present condition. For the
past year the Ottoman government has
beer buffeted by dangers abroad and
chickering's at home. While It has re-
mained almost passive In its war with
Italy, 1t has. nevertheless. been COM
PEELED to strain its credit to the utmost
30 that now its borrowing power has
nearly reached a limit. Its loss of
Tripoli has added to the distrpst and
restlessness Of its own people. The re-
gime Of the Young Turks, however
sincere its ideals may have been, is
admittedly q failure and the internal
conditions Of the country are little bet
ter than at the outset of the attempted
reform.
The logic Of these circumstances has
not been lost upon the belligerent lit
tie powers that comprise the Balkan
states. They have evidently realized
the oportuneness Of the moment to
strike and to strike together. And as
an immediate occasion for such action
stands the recent persecution by armed
Turks Of the Christians and Jews In
Macedonia The Moslem rulers have
made numerous pledges to end these
outrages, but they have shown no abil-
ity and little viii to keep their word.
Thus 1t would seem that at last the
time has come when Servia, Bulgaria.
Montenegro and their smaller neighbors
on the north will join with Greece on
the south in q determined effort to
break the Turkish hold In their do
main. a
These powers, though comparatively
insignificant as individuals, could mus
ter a formidable force as allies. It is
estimated that II Bulgaria, servia and
Montenegro unite their armies with
that Of Greece, they win have lighting
force Of some four hundred thousand
men. The normal strength Of Turkeys
army is reckoned at about three hun
dred and seventy thousand men: and,
though this has been augmented dur
ing the Italian war, 1t is doubtful that
the Ottoman army would measure up.
as regards training or efficiency, with
that of it's combined opponents.
What may be the attitude Of the
leading powers Of Europe to this
threatened outbreak Is not yet appar-
ent. International jealousies and sus-
picions may prevent them from any
individual or concerted effort TO end
the hostilities, just as these same sus-
picions have prevented them In the
past from compelling Turkey to heed
the laws Of civilization. Whatever may
be the outcome, 1t is evident that the
Balkan rumblings are already Affect
ing the business Of Europe. ana are
stirring. Paris, London, Berlin and
Vienna with nervousness.-Atlanta
Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11
New Zealand Mutton -bird.-Yearly

New Zealand Mutton -bird.-1 early,
at the coming of spring, the thousand
coastal islands of New Zealand, more
especially those lying toward the
south, become the temporary homes OF
myriads of mutton-birds, which pay us
a visit for the nesting season. Out OF
the silences of the great southern
ocean come the birds, in vast armies
ow-fiying over the water, for the
most part inshore, the huge focks
draw dark parallels of shadow across
the seascape. The birds fly in separ-
ate bands, disciplined and massed into
a serried whole-a continuous stream
that passes between sea and sky. Each
army shows a front Of perhaps a quar-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

Feeding Understanding by the en-
trance Of a large estate in the suburbs
of Glasgow are two huge dogs carved
out Of granite. An Englishman, going
by in a hack, thought he would have
some fun with the Scotch driver.
How often. Jack, do they feed those
two big dogs?"
Whenever they bark, SIR" was the
straight-faced reply.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

"a It requires five big volumes to
accommodate a new condensed die
tionary for the. blind printed at
Vienna from raised type.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

1TNearly sixteen and half million
tons was the worlds production OF
sugar for 1911.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-11

president Of the Mutual Life Insurance,
Mr.. MacVeagh said, was In Mr.. Harri-
mans office while Mr.. Hartman was
talking with Twombley.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-18
HISTORY OF RICHESON And
crime FOR Which HE DIES

Boston, Mass, May 18.-The crime
tof which Clarence Virgil Thompson
hicheson, at the time of his arrest pas
Tor OF the Emmanuel Church of Cam
bridge, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair, was the confessed MUIR
DER OF his former sweetheart, 10 years
Old Avis Linnell, of Hyannis, pupil in
the New England Conservatory of Mus
ic In Boston.
The girl stood in the way of the
minister's marriage to Miss Violet Ed
mands, a society girl and heiress of
Brookline, both through an engage
ment which still existed between the
TWO and because of a condition in
which Miss Linnell found herself. The
girl was deceived into taking a poison
given her by Richeson, which she be-
lleved would remedy that condition
and died in her rooms at the Young
Woman's Christian Association, on the
evening of October IA, 1911. On that
day invitations had been issued for
the wedding ceremony which was to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-18

and, it is said, has been engaged in
charity work.
Interest in the case was intensified
on December 20 when it became
known that Richeson had mutilated
himself in his cell at the Charles
Street Jail. The public apparently
lost all sympathy for the prisoner fol-
lowing his strange act, which was in
terpreted as confession of guilt. At
Hyannis, the home of Avis Linnell,
the minister was hung in effigy, with
a placard on the dummy reading,
Guilty. Read Luke 17:2." In Bos-
ton conference of Baptist ministers
was called and Richeson was formally
deprived of his title of Reverend.
Richeson confessed his guilt in a
statement written by himself on jan
uary and given out by his counsel
on January 6. The confession was ad-
dressed to his counsel and read:
Deeply penitent before my sins, and
earnestly desiring as far as in my
power lies, to make atonement, / here
by confess that I am guilty of the Of
tense of which l stand indicted.
am moved to this course by no induce
ment of self benefit of leniency. Helm
Gus as is my crime, God has not Who'll.
ly abandoned me, and my conscience
and manhood, however depraved and
blighted, will not admit of my still
further wronging by public trial heI
whose pure young life have destroy
ed.
Under the lashings of remorse
have suffered and am suffering the tor
lures of the damned In this find {
measure of comfort In my menta
anguish l recognize there is still. b!
the mercy of the Master, some rem
nant fthe divine spark of goodness
still lingering with me. l could wisl
to live only because within some pris
on's walls l might, in some small
measure redeem my sinful past, he'll
some despairing soul, and at last fin
favor with my God.
you are instructed to deliver thi
to the district attorney or to the judg
'of the court. Sincerely yours, Clal