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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08

Graded school by the score Of 83 to o.
Both teams played well and although
the Glover boys were completely blank
ed, they put up the stiffest fight they
could. Their team was considerably
lighter and more inexperienced than
the local eleven but they did not hesi-
tate to do their best in trying to down
the heavier and better team.
The Yorkville school eleven has been
practicing hard for the past month or
more under the coaching of DR.. r. H.
McFadden of this place. They have
developed into quite formidable team
and they are confident that they can
go up against any high school team
anywhere near Yorkville.
They hardly deserve much credit for
running up such a large score against
the Glover lads as the teams were very
unevenly matched; the Yorkville team
having had much more training and
experience in the game. However, it
could be easily seen from the game Of
last Friday that the local eleven had
been we'll trained and would no doubt
prove strong foe for any team that
they will play during the football sea-
son.
The local eleven seems especially
anxious to defeat the graded school
teams Of Rock Hill and Shelby; both
these teams having defeated the York
VILE boys last year. The locals have
made material changes in their lineup
since last year and with DR.. McFad-
den's painstaking coaching, they be-
lieve they will be able to overcome
their rivals this year.
The Yorkville team plays the Winns-
boro graded school eleven on the local
field Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock and
large crowd is expected. The Winns-
boro boys are said to be a strong
bunch and the game will no doubt be
interesting. Quite a number of games
have been arranged to be played in
Yorkviile this season and local football
enthusiasts will doubtless have an op-
portunity to see some good play.
The following Is the lineup in last
Fridays game:
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08

handled the matter as 1t should have
been handled and especially when you
knew nothing whatever about the mat
ter.
Il do not assume, and know the ex-
ecutive committee does not assume, the
right to decide whether or not you
have done your duty in the matter;
but, II you have, the duties of the coun-
ty chairman In the premises are GER
tainly not onerous."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08

If there is any ground of objection to
the erection Of first class court house
for York county other than expense, II
does not occur to us, and because OF
the smallness of the cost to each indi-
vidual taxpayer, we can hardly un-
derstand how anybody would be will
ing to stand behind this objection.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08

Jacob Costner, a well-known engi-
neer Of the Southern railroad was kill
ed at Cornelia, Ga, last Friday as the
result Of the derailment Of his engine.
Mr.. Costner had been running as an
engineer on the Southern for twenty
seven years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08
FOOTBALL,

The first game of football played in
Yorkville this season came off Friday
afternoon when the Yorkville Graded
school eleven defeated the Glover
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08
Ths lurkrille Gnqairsr.
Entered at the Postofflce in yorkville
as Mail Matter of the Second Glass.
YoRKVILLE. 8. O.,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER s, 1912

The court house is York county
proposition.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-08

lows: Ou remember Gaining 10 my
attention that a man voted illegally ir
Yorkville in the first primary. Please
give me all information in regard tc
this in the form Of an affidavit by
first mall"
II would not have filed an entirely
"hearsay affidavit" had I received
same. You could at least have an
swered my letter, however, telling me
that your information was hearsay
and giving me the name Of your infor-
mant, in order that I might trace the
matter down. You state in your letter
however: II did not prosecute him fol
the reason that when l started to do sc
was informed that he had heard that
was after him, and that he had left
the state, or at least York county" You
could, therefore, have furnished me the
testimony on which you were going to
prosecute-and you certainly could
not have prosecuted on hearsay testi-
mony.
'I cannot concede your position that
the state executive committee has no
right to call upon the county chair
man to undertake an investigation in
regard to alleged fraud in an election
in the county. The executive commit
tee is the permanent ruling body in
the party, and all matters and ques-
tions arising in an election are finally
determined by them. No authority is
given them, however, to force the work
to be done; but to anyone having at
heart the interest of the Democratic
party, a request from them should GER
tainly be sufficient.
with regard to your letter from
State Chairman Evans: I saw Mr..
Evans in Columbia at the meeting of
the state executive committee and he
stated that he had received long let
ter from you, and merely replied that
he was satisfied that you, like everyone
else, had done your full duty in the
matter. He did not claim to be in pos
session Of the facts, had never heard
my report, and I did not even think
enough of the matter to make any
statement of same to him. I would
not have answered your other letter,
further than to correct your impress
sion that I had taken occasion to CEN
sure your actions, had your letter not
left the impression that I had not
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be best to cease attempts to operate
cars until the people became quiet. He
said that he did not see anything in
the situation to warrant the expense of
calling out the militia, but that if the
strikers should destroy property or in
jure the track he would undertake to
give necessary protection. The gov
ernor had an engagement to speak at
the Pendleton fair today, but Cancelled
the engagement because Of the dis
turbed situation on the South Carolina
side from Augusta.
Paris, October 6: Austria has CIV
en- adhesion to the plan formulated by
the French and Russian foreign minis
ters to deal with the Balkan situation.
Austria, however, suggested a slight
change in the wording of the propo-
sails, which met with the immediate ap-
proval of both NJ. Poincare and NJ.
Sazonoff. The only effect of the amend
ment Is to define more sharply the in
tentions of the powers and present
more precise statement of these. 1t is
believed here that the proposals as
now outlined will remove any lurking
suspicious in England that the conti-
mental powers possibly were contem-
plating a settlement wholly at the ex-
pense of Turkey. Germany and Italy
have approved their ally's modifica-
tions; so that with full adhesion of the
British government, which is confident
ly expected tomorrow, the powers will
be in position to say to the Balkan CO.
alition that the Balkan states will no
longer have to depend on the promises
of Turkey, but on the pledged word of
Europe. The reply of Count Won
Berchthold, the Austrian foreign min
lister, which was received at the Quai
D'Orsay this morning has caused great
satisfaction to the French government.
The alterations to the note which
Count Won Berchthold suggested in
clude an explicit declaration that the
reforms to be inaugurated will affect
neither the integrity of Turkey nor the
sovereignty Of the sultan; that they
should be applicable to the Ottoman
empire as a whole, and that instead of
the ambassadors at Constantinople,
representing Turkey with the written
demands they content themselves with
a collective verbal representation of
what they conceive to be the necessary
steps which Turkey should take. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-24

persons. In that week it was shown all over the world.
 Writing scenarios for a moving picture concern doesn't explain success. There are other elements that are essential for business woman. Good sense is a prime requisite. A few little details in the experience of Mrs. Faulkner may be of value if taken to heart by other business women.
 A woman never ceases to be feminine in the eyes of man. Woman who are particularly attractive are likely to be placed in embarrassing situations at times. The moving picture business is akin to the theatrical There is just as much temperament to the moving picture players as to the opera star or the star of the drama.
 The star of the movies" takes him self as seriously as the star of a Broad way sproducEon. The heroine of a movie" success has as many oddities as a Metropolitan Opera House prima donna Mrs Faulkner. who has to think of costumng each and every one of the thousands of little plays. and who has to think of the settings and the char acters best fitted for each production has to use the diplomacy of a Talley rand of a Metternich at times But tha isn't all. In a big business concern thel Is likely, now and then, to be a man whC will presume, or who will take advantage of the fact that a woman Is a woman
 One day a man higher in rank than the head of the scenario department beckoned to her as she was passing the door of his
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many plots as a reader as she did when she was a free lance. She wasn't afraid she was giving more to her employers that her employers were paying for. She was there to work, to do all the work she could for them. A lot of salar- jed persons think 1t is good thing to do as little for the money they receive as is possible. That wasn't Mrs. Faulkners S way. The more she did the more she wanted to do.
 Some wage earners don't believe that the bosses are appreclative. The drones think the busy bees are fools. In every business, even in the moving pictures. the men at the head of affairs are never watchful for the employe of promise.
 Mrs. Faulkner worked every working hour. The office hours were only part of the day to her. Her mind was ever busy. If an idea came to her at night she wasn't satisfied until she had reduced 1t to plan for a play. She saw scenar- jos in what she read in the daily papers She saw scenerios in what she read In the magazines. She saw scenarios in somehing she had read in history, and sometimes she saw scenarios through what she heard In the conversations in the cars
 It wasn't very long before the moving picture people knew that they had a treasure in Mrs. Faulkner. Then one week she found more money in her en- velope than the regulation SEQ. She tried to show her appreciation by working all the harder. A few months later there was more money In her pay envelope.
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turn the Gulf stream into the Pacific, The next winter after that England would be as cold as Labrador and you British CTS would turn into Eskimos."
 Many of the tourists. and even some of the writers about the canal who come here show an ignorance which is colos- sal. The other day lady correspondent from the middle west was sent down to spend a week and write dozen news paper letters. She interviewed every one including the secretary of the commis- sion, who, during the talk, happened to mention De Lesseps.
 De Lesseps?" said the girl Who was De Lesseps anyhow? Every one is talk ing about De Lesseps Oh. I remember now' He was the man who discovered the Isthmus of Panama"
 A Railroad View Of the Canal
 But let us return to the canal proper. The great ditch. as 1t looks today, Is far different from anything one can imagine. Many Of you have pictures of 1t in your minds. You see a ragged excavation of dry rock and earth cut here and there by waterways and running across the isthmus from one side to the other, with some elevation at the hills. You may imagine the sides walled with stone, and many even imagine you can see the great machinery as it is working in the Culebra cut. You probably conceive big locks of concrete here and there and imagine something of the great dam at Gatln. All this is hay, but you think you know how the canal looks as it isf now. You are mistaken. The eyes of your brain are. metaphorically speaking, a thousand miles out of the way. If you could look at the zone as do the wilds ducks which fly over it you would be greatly disap- pointed. The most of the canal does not show the work done upon 1t, and you
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The department in which she worked was under the superintendency of a man. Some change in the establishment neces- stated the transfer of this gentleman, and great was the surprise when she was appointed in his place. 1t was unthink- able to some persons that woman with out business training, without experience
 in handling an office force, should be placed at the head of such an important department in the greatest moving picture concern in America.
 Men don't like to work under women, and it takes a woman of every good sense and wonderful tact to boss men without developing a rebellion. Women and girls don't care particularly to work under woman. and it requires a woman of fine discrimination and skill to handle girl employees. Mrs. Faulkner manages her male and female subordinates to the satisfaction of herself and the officers af the company. She is one of the busiest women in New York. Every week she has to read and pass judgement upon loom 200 to 300 manuscripts. Every week she writes scenarios of her own Her mind Is as fertile today as the first day she turned her attention to the moving pictures. Millions of persons see her work every day who know nothing of her Her productions are exhibited the world over. They are In Australia, in France, in China. in Japan, in Russia, in Chill. in the Argentine, In Brazil. It is almost beyond belief but ii is seriously stated that in one week one of her little worthless plays was witnessed by 7O00O,O00
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At the Top of the CanaI
 The canal as every one now knows, IS 10 be a lock canal. Two ships will be drasged up and let down by the Charges river. which is being harnessed by the
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CARPENTER AT PANAMA-By Frank c. Carpenter

same plant as that used in old Egypt to make the boat-lke cradle in which little Moses rocked when he was discovered by Pharoah's daughter. Even beyond the Gatun dam the country Is still green. You are told you are on the line of the canal, and the very dirt over which you are passing will form its bed: In other places the woods are a jungle, and the hunters will point out the marks of a wild hog, a deer, or a tapir. This coun- try is fnl of wild game One of my fel- low travellers of today, an American judge of the Canal Zone, tells me his chief sport is hunting. He shoots many deer, and he recently killed a tapir which weighed HOO pounds He says the tapir meat tastes like Chicago beef, and that tho vension of Panama Is as good as that of the Adirondacks or the Rockies.
 Riding Under the Canal Level
 l shall not say anything here about the locks nor the mighty Gatun dam which holds back the Charges. The rail- road took us to the top of the level and then dropped us into the dam and car ried us over it's basin. Already 12 feet of water have been let in and by the time this letter is published the lake will be very much higher. The railroad now skirts the edge of the filled portion at the tv elve-foot level and eventually there will be fifty or sixty feet of water above that or the present track. SIX months from now the only way to traverse that track would be in a tube tunnel like that of the Pennsylvania railroad under the river on the way to New York
 We wound our way for some miles through the basin. passing little villages of rude shacks where negroes and mu- lattoes are still living notwithstanding they have been warned by the govern ment to move. They can the water in hpf uilI ou uOtfl if comes to their doorways, which time will be soon.
 Leaving the Gatun basin. you come to region where great part of the land Is made up of the spoil that has been taken out of the Culebra cut. Neverthe- less you cannot realize it. for the kind mother of the troplc has already spread cast of vegetation over the rocks and hidden the scars. It Is only when you enter the Culebra cut and cross it that you realize what has been done. You see thousands of men working as the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-24
BURR ON POLITICAL ENEMY
Autograph Letter Involving Alexan-
 der Hamilton To Be Sold

From the New York Times.
 An interesting document in Aaron Burr's handwriting, relating to his political en- omy Alexander Hamilton, Is In an au- tograph collection, which was sold at An- derson's on February g. The document ia dated Philadelphia, August, 1797. and al- though unsigned, was unquestionably written by Burr. 1t reads:
 We certify that, in consequence of in- formation which we received in December, 1792, then Sec. of the T.. and one J. Reynolds we had an explanation on the subject with the said A. H. who, by that explanation supported by written documents. satisfies us that the above charge was illfounded. as we declared to him al the time that the impression. under which we left him. of our being so satisfied, was reciprocal and is still the same"
 Burr evidently refers to the charge made against Hamilton that he had used his official position for private specuia- tive purposes, and that in so doing he was aided by Reynolds. This statement was published by James T. Calender in l796. Hamilton promptly denied its truth. Cal lender repeated the charge, whereupon Hamilton published in Philadelphia in l797 a book entitled. observations on Certain Documents" in which. while reiterating his denial of the charge of speculation, he frankly admitted his relations with Rey- holds. The publication caused c sen- sation, and HamAtons friends suppressed the work.
 Calender was q native of Scotland. pamphlet on "The Political Progress of Britain: or. an Impartial Account of the Principal Abuses in the Government of the Country From the Revolution of 1SS," published in London and Edinburgh in 1792 led to his arrest on January 2. 1793 He escaped. came to America, and estab- lisked himself in Philadelphia, where he repubished the pamphlet From Phila- delphia he went to Richmond. He was drowned there on July '. 1903, while bath
 ing in the James river
 Another interesting autograph in the collection is a letter of George Grote, the historian. in which he says:
 q send back Mir. Hawthornes dismal romance. regretting that the rare powers of description possessed by that author should be applied to SO painful a DOT traiture of human torture. kind of moral breaking upon the wheel. had much ado to finish the volume, so revolt ing did I find the cruel persecution car ried on by means of that extrayagantiy religious community But it is not alto gether out of keeping with history, must own"
 Grote evidently refers to The Scarlet Letter." by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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 so many women, she had her dream of some day writing play, great play that would stir the hearts of many peo- 1 pie. But she never dreamed a dream l like the one of her real life.
 1 She found a few things at which she l could work for a time, but there was 1 little profit in them. Then some one I suggested, or in some way she heard, | that the moving picture people paid money-real money-for the scenarios of the wordless plays the produce. She l had read history and she had read the poets She went to some of the moving pictures and she studied the show. She put in days at this study. Then, when she thought she understood the scheme of the production, she wrote a scenario and sent it to one of the great companies. It was accepted
 Never was she happier than that day when she learned that her first effort had met with success. She wrote another and another and another. Plots and ideas, some crude. some ambitious, but all showing originality and force came to her in abundance, and she wrote them out in detail and submitted them. Some were accepted at once. Some were re- jected Some were sent back with sug- gestion for an alteration here and there Some that were accepted were changed by the company for better or worse.
 There was profit in this work that she was doing, not a big profit, but most encouraging to a. tyro. She had no de- sire to be a free lance and to be depend ent upon chance. She wanted something steady, some fixed income.
 One day she heard there was a vacancy in the office of the moving picture con cern She applied for the position. They asked her how much money she would work for. She said s2o a week. If she had said s25 probably $30 she could have had it, but as she said $20 she was taken at that price. She had averaged more than that from the scenarios she had written, but she was glad to take a S20 a week salary. Her duty were to read the manuscripts that were sub mitted by other writers of scenarios. Her judgement was excellent. She was a keen critic and fast reader Most of the suggestions she made were beneficial.
 But she wasn't content to simply read. She was ambitious. energetic. She didn't think it was sufficient to simply pass upon the work of others. She racked her brains for ideas, and every good idea that came to her she developed into a scenario. She developed probably as
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IN Business the young women has
 greater opportunities than her sister x of middle age. It is because of what a woman who may be called Amy Faulk- ner, who knew nothing of business and i, who started when she was no longer young, accomplished, that this story is written.
 She was 37 when she was left a widoow for the second time. She had the benefit of a fine education. She had been reared in luxury, always had servants to do her bidding and never knew hardship. She might if she so desired have lived with relatives when her husband died, but she did not want to become a dependent upon others. The world knows little of the tragedies of widowhood. Tens of thousands of women who never knew the necessity of earning their livehood and who have had no training in the way of making money are cast upon their own resources each year. There is little place for the majority of them in the worlds affairs and the situation of some of them becomes deplorable.
 What is there open to a woman of B. almost alone in the world? In a city like New York 40000 or 5O,OOO girls make living as stenographers or typewriters; 100, GOO earn their bread in great stores. Other hundreds of thousands make them- selves self supporting m factorleS or shops. A few-a very few-have execu- tive ability or unusual talent, and win positions that bring a good reward.
 Mrs. Faulkner had no training along business lines. To become a typewriter meant drudgery; to become clerk in store would mean only a few dollars a week. She wanted to live as she had been accustomed to live. How could she do it? Thousands upon thousands of women have asked themselves this same question. She had travelled, she had read and she had gone through the world with her eyes wide open. Her brain was ac tive, she was strong, healthly, vigorous. Surely there was opportunity for wo- man thus equipped. But where was she to find opportunity? She could not sit idly in her home and wait for it to knock at her door, The butcher, the baker, the grocer and the owner of the home would not withhold their bills while she sat and waited. She had to go and look where opportunity lurked and when she found + grasp it.
 She is a woman of temperament. with fine sense of dramatic value. She had studied the stage; the drama always had a great attraction for her. Perhaps, like