Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-29
Scraps and faets.

j. T. Love of Dallas, Texas, told
the delegates to the Missouri Baptist
general association at Kansas CITY
last Friday, that every Baptist who Is
able to support motor car Is able TO
support a missionary. The cost OF
maintaining a motor car" he went on,
'is more than the cost of maintaining
a preacher in the less settled districts
of Texas and Missouri, and unless the
gasoline Baptists come to the assist
ance of the cause, 1t Is unreasonable
to expect material progress as rapidly
as it should be made"
-Clementine Bernabet, the negro
"axe woman" and follower of the
Church of Sacrifice, whose murders,
according to her confession, number
10, was found guilty Of murder at La
fayette, La, last Friday, and was sem
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary. The negroes OF
the community, who feared her both
because of the crimes she had COM
mitted and for the "evil eye" they be-
lived she possessed, had threatened to
form a lynching party should she De
acquitted. The Bernabet womans
trial began yesterday. on one charge'
that of having killed the wife OF Nor
bert Randall. All of her victims
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tines father, Raymond Bernabet, and
her brother, Zephrein, were convicted
for murders that the "aXe woman
later confessed having committed her
self What disposition will be MADE
of their cases has not been determin-
ed.
- Washington. October 25: The
third cotton ginning report of the
season, compiled from reports or the
census bureau correspondents and
agents throughout the cotton belt and
issued at 10 a. m, today by Director
E. Dana Durand, announced that
6.S3S,S41 bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales, Of the growth OF
tober IS. This includes the results or
the most active period Of the ginning
season, September 25 to October 1S,
during which in recent years more
than one-fourth of the entire crop
passed through the ginner's hands.
To October IS last year 7,75S,621
bales, or 49.9 per cent Of the entire
crop, had been ginned; in 1908 to that
date 6,296,166 bales, or 4S.1 per cent
Of the crop, had been ginned, and In
1906 to that date 4,9S1.621 bales, or
$50 per cent Of the crop, had peen
ginned. The number Of sea island
cotton bales included was 1904,
compared with 4O.3O3 bales last year,
36.4S2 bales in 1909 and 32.01S bales
in 1908.
1t was a universal opinion that If
Turkey should begin to get the better
of the Balkan states the Great Powers
of Europe would step in and put stop
to the war. 1t was commonly believed
also that If the Balkan states should
get the better Of Turkey the concert OF
European powers would prevent them
from annexing territory. 1t looked as
IL the war would be a useless one at
best. Now the situation has differ
ent appearance. So far the Balkan
Federation has been winning all the
advantages. That the Turks may make
a showing yet, seems to be an easy
probability; but from present appear
ances the Federation is the winner.
Already however, the watchword with
the Balkans Is that what they take
from the Turks they Withhold, and there
is talk of the formation of the United
States of the Balkans, with King
George, of Greece as president. 1t Is
even claimed that such an arrange
ment has already been agreed upon.
And along with this talk there Is being
reported stories that the New Fedora
ton will tell the balance Of Europe to
attend to it's own business. That things
like this can happen Is easily possible.
AS to whether such thing will hap
pen remains for. future developments.
Interesting stories are being told
Of the military skill and personal
courage the royalties are displaying
in the Balkan campaign. Three reign
ing monarchs and half a score of
princes are in the field and a fourth
king, George Of Greece, is on his way
to take part in the fighting. The roy
alties are "roughing 1t" as uncom-
plainingly as any common soldier.
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, the Little
Gar" especially has won the highest
praise from military experts through
out Europe, not only for the ability
he has displayed in leading his men
but for the manner in which, from al
most nothing, he has built up his
army. Though painfully hurt when
his horse fell with him several days
ago, Ferdinand refused to surrender
active command of his troops to
subordinate, but continues to make
his headquarters, with his staff, in an
armored railroad car near the front.
He rides in an automobile daily to the
firing line to direct operations. He
will permit only the ordinary army
rations on his table, and seems en-
tirely oblivious of the lack of the COM
forts. King Peter of Servia makes
his headquarters at Vranje. He is no
such commander as Ferdinand. but
has shown plenty of courage in tour
ing the battle front whenever there
has been fighting. His son, Crown
Prince Alexander, has done excellent
service in albania. In his way, King
Nicholas Of Montenegro is as able
commander as Ferdinand. He is not
a scientific fighter like the Bulgarian
ruler. but in guerrilla warfare is said
to be uneuualled. Nominally he has
made PodgoritZa his headquarters,
but actually most of his time has been
spent where there was fighting. Crown
Prince Danilo. his son. hitherto con-
sidered a rather frivolous young man.
has displayed all qualities of a most
efficient and entirely fearless cam
paigner as the field commander of the
Montenegrin army. His younger
brothers, Princes Mirko and Peter,
have both been promoted for bravery
in battle since the war began. Crown
Prince Constantine of Greece has per-
haps been more uniformly successful
as commander of Hellenic forces than
any of the royalties in the armies in
the PalkanS. He has exposed himself
recklessly, and when the premier tele-
graphed to him, demonstrating, re-
piled, 81 am commander even If I am
prince, and must lead"
"A brief Sofia dispatch of Sunday
night to London announced what may
be the most important move of the VIC
torious Bulgarians so far in the Turk
h-Balkan war-the capture Of ISki-
Baba. The dispatch describes this
town as an important position on the
main line between Adrianople and
Constantinople, but omits to say
whether the Bulgarians are in posses
sion of the railway itself If they are
astride the railway at this point, they
have cut the communication between
Constantinople and Saloniki. With
10000 Turkish troops now in Adria-
nople it had been supposed the Turk
ish forces after the fall of Kirk-Kilis-
sch were holding the line from Ku-
leliburgaS and to Lulehburgas, a
short distance east of Eski-Baba. The
Bulgarian plan Of campaign, accord
ing to the we'll informed correspond
ents Of the Vienna Reichspost at the
headquarters of the second Bulgarian
army, will be the complete destruc-
tion of all the Trukish forces along
the Martha river and those retreat