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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
THE BANNER DAT PATCH

Mr.. w. r. Carroll, of Yorkville, has
what is probably the banner oat patch
of York county 1t is about five miles
south of Yorkville and mile east of
Delphos and there are 10 acres OF it.
representative Of The Enquirer
accompanied Messrs NJ. L. Carroll, w.
r. Carroll, W. Fl. Herndon and j. c.
Burge on IA visit to the big oat patch
last Friday afternoon, saw the immense
field and listened to the interesting
the party.
The oats are from the Appler seed.
are drilled in accordance with the open
furrow method and are about II or II
inches high. They seemed to be rs
thick in the drill as they could stand,
and promise within week or two
more to present an unbroken surface on
top that will give the entire field the ap
pearance of il solid mass of oats. Fin
est oats | have seen at this season in
all my experience said Mr.. Herndon.
Count them at the lowest possible linn
it. - bushels to the acre and you will
have 2,450 bushels Il don't believe
they are any better than mine except
that they are older" said Mr.. Burge,
and am looking for not less than 10
bushels to the acre on mine
Mr. w. r. Carroll bought the farm
in which this field is included. at SIS an
acre about ten years ago. There are
235 acres of this farm, and he says that
he expects to make enough clear profit
off of this 20 acre oat patch to pay the
original purchase price of the entire
tract.
The farm was quite poor then, and
pretty we'll worn out when Mr.. Carroll
came into possession of it; but he has
been fertiliZing it literally all along
and has been making fine crops of cot
ton. corn anG other things. He says he
has never bought any corn for the
farm. The value of the land is now
many times what it was originally, and
because he thinks so much of it, Mr.
Carroll would be slow about making
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr.. j. G. Enloe is critically III 1T his
home in Rock Hill.
Mrs. r. B. Kell and children of Fort
Lawn. are visiting friends in Yorkville
Miss Lillian Kirkpatrick, one of the
teachers at Cotton Belt, has diphtheria
Miss Elizabeth PRESLEY of Rocii
Hill. visited relatives in Yorkvillc, this
week.
Mrs. David DubOse Gaillard OF
Winnsboro, visited Mrs. j. X. Alston
in Yorkville. last week.
Mrs. r. +. Mellow and daughter
Miss Margaret. of YOrkville, visited
relatives in Charlotte, last week.
Mrs. s. VI. Jones of Chester, is Wis
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
WITHIN THE TOWN.

Three separate entertainments
were going on at the same time las
night-the tenth grade play in The
school auditorium, the usual pro
gramme at the Lyric and Edison!
talking pictures in the opera house
and all were well patroniZed. 1t seemed
an especially good night for shows.
Mr.. Joseph f. Mcdonnell, of the
ington. Indiana, which has the con
tract for the stone work in the new
court house. is here to begin opera
tionS. Having learned that there has
stone of the old building. some for
souvenir purposes and some for prac-
tical purposes. he has decided to sell
such of the material as will not be
needed in new construction.
The First National Bank building
is to have nine office rooms on the sec
ond story. and two on the first floor
The figures given Friday as the con-
lTdtl DllCt, oIiis w NhN
ton of the naked building. Plumbing
heating, furniture, etc. will probably
raise the total cost to something like
twenty thousand dollars.
- Work on the rebuilding OF the
Yorkville Cotton Oil Mill which was
destroyed by fire in December last-it
then belonged to the Victor Cotton Oil
company-has been progressing stead
lily. The brick work has been completed
and new machinery has been installed.
The capacity of the new plant is to be-
almost double that Of the old plant to
begin with. and provision has been
made for the addition Of still other
machinery. There seems to be no doubt
on the part Of the management that the
mill will be ready for business before
the new seed crop begins TO come in.
Residents on Kings Mountain
street and the upper part Of Yorkville
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
Chr 4lurkrills enquirer.
Entered at the Postoffice in Yorkville
as Mail Matter Of the Second CLASS.
YORKVILLE, S. c.:
TUESDAY, APRIL Il, 1914

Hobson is the fellow who wants TO
test the sincerity of those people VINO
saw they wish there was no alcoholic
liuuor manufactured. sold or drank. He
is going about the thing right and at
the right place: but it will have to be
admitted that his task is big one.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21

While actually there is very little
left to the idea of state sovereignty
theoretically the states are as soVer'
eign as they ever were. and we do no'
think it especially creditable to Dem
ocratic war secretary to seek to bring
that sovereignty in any more con-
femnf
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
MUNICIPAL REGISTRATION
ures up to POS

The following voters have registered
since the last publication Of the list in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21

We are inclined to think that in his
with Governor Blease. Secre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
ToMoRRow-TRIALo OF PROF. WEBSTER

DDS. in his present vocation of giving
away money as he did in the early days
OF accumulation. He makes sure that
each contribution is going to serve a
proper cause, whether it be $40 or $1,000
00o.
Sometime ago a delegation from a small
church in a Pennsylvania town, where
Carnegie once lived, called upon the phi
lanthropist.
MIR. Carnegie" said the chairman. I'VE
have come to ask your help in the pur-
chase OF a pipe organ. We need it badly.
and knowing that YOU once attended our
church. thought possibly you would be
interested
''IIow much do you want?" asked Car
negie.
We'll" answered the chairman, we
have figured on $20,0Oe
Go back and raise $4,000 and I'll talk
with you,' commanded the old fellow
A month so later the delegation re-
turned and with twinkle in his eye the
chairman explained that the $4,000 was
in hand.
WELL said Carnegie, that's enough
Tor any organ. Ill not contribute
cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
MONEY PUN INTO BUILDING

For every human being in the United
States S11 was last year put into build
ing of some kind. The money expended
in such operations just about balances our
government debt.
There are no figures to show definitely
how much of this immense sum went into
buildings that earn nothing, but far more
than half of it certainly has become
nailed down into an investment that is
noncreative.
Most of the cash q man devotes to his
home at once goes into the drone CLASS
whereas the money he spends for
chicken house or better stable for his
cows or improved farm implements i'm
mediately begins to work and earns inter
est upon the investment. A new store is
a money grubber, but frills upon the home
are not.
Right here is one reason why Euroo
peans who as a class earn far less every
year than Americans, have such stupen-
dous sums to invest in securities. Build
ing in Europe cannot exceed 81 for each
person as against five times that for
Americans.
No other part of the earth's surface
was ever covered in SO brief time with
such a colossal amount of buildings as
our particular slice of North America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
FLYING FOXES

From the Wide World Magazine.
People who have lived in India are fa-
mliar with the long strings of flying
foxes which can often be seen vending
their way in single file from their sleep
ing places in remote trees TO the fruit
gardens upon which they prey. These
curious creatures sometimes measure as
much as four feet across the wings, and
have reddish brown fur and mole colored
wings. After their nocturnal depredations
they fly away with the dawn to a tree
in some isolated place, and there rest
during the day, hanging head downward
from the boughs, in a manner of bats,
clutching the branch with their feet. As
the flying foxes gather on the tree select
ed there is a~tremendous commotion. for
each newcomer is vigorously driven of
from one place after another until he
eventually manages to secure a perch
for himself Those on the tree mean
while keep up an incessant wrangling,
each endeavoring to secure the highest
and best place to rest on Sometimes
many hundreds of these destructive crea-
lures may be seen hanging from tho
branches of a large tree When oppor.
tunty offers they are often shot, and
some of the natives consider their flesh
g. delcacy, though 1t hardly appeals to
Europeans. When the foxes start their
flight in the early hours of the morning
they frequently swoop down into any
water which is handy. and when on the
wing do not fly in fiocks. but followed
each other in single file, flying with a
peculiar, slow. measured sweep of the
wing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Greeks Resent stories

Stung to the quick by reports of Greciah
atrocities inEthe war with Bulgaria, local
Greeks denounce as untrue the stories
which have been given circulation through
the press of the country and ask that
in simple justice the tales be run to earth
and thus refuted. ignoring the needs
of their war weakened nation, the Greeks
are asking not aims, but justice.
"rhe Greeks are the outpost of Euro
pean civilization" said Arthur Green
wood, a prominent Greek restauranteur'
"of which Greece herself was the mother,
Never in all her annals has she SHOWN
one evidence of Tartar brutality. on
the contrary, a national spirit of force ana
ideaism. q respect of the laws that were
even the expression of the aspirations
of the whole people have from time I'M
memorial been hers.
Her armies fought against an army
barbarie in its methods-she fought be-
side an army even more iuhuman-yet she
conducted her campaign along the rules
of warfare laid down by the nations OF
Europe. Is Greece's national honor now
to be smirched? Shame on those who
would commit such an injustice,
1.-The 100000 Greeks in America call upon
the millions of Americans: Give the Bull
garians your money; we ask only your
Justice. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
THE BLACK REPUBLIC

From the New York World. -
The republic of Haiti, the western end
of the island Columbus called Little
Spain' was the earliest example of
nominal constitutional government car
red on by black men.
Columbus found 100000 friendly In
dians on the island. Slavery killed them
off, and negroes from Africa multiplied in
their stead. OF these 100000 descendants
now live in Haiti. Nearly all are pure
black: the mulattoes diminish in number.
The whites were massacred or driven
away in the revolutionary wars.
The present republic had belonged to
France a century when the French revo-
luton began. Slavery was then abolished,
a black rebellion took place, and the
British invaded the island, but Toussaint
fOuverture, black George Washington,
drove them out and set up a constitution.
Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, General
Leclerc (pretty Polly Bonaparte's hus-
band) to subdue the blacks. He made
peace with Toussaint, seized him treach-
erously and sent him to Paris. But the
prison there the French fed from the
It's peOple were lliuS the lliSl W
get the better of Napoleon, four years be-
fore the reverses in Spain nine years be-
fore Moscow. Leclerc had died in 1862
The Spanish portion of the island broke
loose from Spain and was Joined to
Haiti. but was separated in 1914 as the
republic of Santo Domingo.
This is the record of Haitian chief ex-
ecutives Dessalines, governor for life,
assassinated, 1906; Henri Christophe,
king, suicide, 1S20 Boyer, president, ex-
PEELED, 1S43; Sououque, Emperor Faus-
tion t. exiled, 1858; Geffard, president,
exiled, 1867; Salnave shot, 1869; Nissage-
Saget exiled, 1870: Dominique, exiled,
1874; Boisrond- Canal, exiled 1876; Salo-
mon, exiled, 1886; Hippolyte, exiled, 1886;
Tiresias Simon Sam, ran away to Paris,
1902; Nord Alexis, retired, 1908; Simon,
deposed, 1910 lie Compte, died in the
burning of the executive mansion, 1872,
After Soulouque all were described as
presidents. From the beginning no ruler
arose except by the strong hand, ruled
without tyranny or left office by peaceful
means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
A JOKE ON THE FISHERMAN

From the Wide World Magazine.
The waters of the Great Salt Lake
Utah, are the most heavily impre gnated
with salt of any large body OF water
in the world, save perhaps the Dead
sea, in Palestine. No life exists in the
lake except a diminutive form of
shrimp, never exceeding one third inch
in length. Residents of Utah are
thoroughly familiar with this fact and
frequently play pranks on visitors to
the city who have not learned the
mysteries of the Great Salt lake. Some
time ago the Amalgamated Association
of street and Electrical Car Workers
of America held their convention in
Salt Lake City. and on September 10
local members of the organization in
Guced a number of distinguished vis-
itors to go fishing" in the Great Salt
lake After casting their lines most
deXteriously for nearly an hour and
oursing their i'll luck in not getting a
rise" the victims were told of the
Joke 1t is said that other sufferers,
who "fished" for nearly three hours.
are still hunting for the jokers who
LANDED them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
A CJTRJOUS WAGER

From ACROSS the Andes" in the Febru-
ary Wide World Magazine.
One day our boy came running into
our tent screaming at the top or hls
voice that "a senior was coming" He
was very excited, and, going outside. we
saw stranger approaching. He greeted
us with Good afternoon gentlemen
What thing it is, out in the backwoods
of the world, far away from ones own
people and country, to be spoken to un-
expectedly in ones own native tongue'
One does not realize, until far removed
from civilization, how dear and familiar
ones own language can sound.
This man was a German named Karlos
Koch, and was on his way from Buenos
Aires to New York on foot. 1t appeared
that he was doing it for wager of $4,000
pesos in Argentine money. He told us
that his time was limited to three years,
and that he had to reach New York by
July ], 1914 Should he fail to do this
his energies. from a pecuniary point of
view, will be wasted. He had already
passed the worst part of the road down
in Bolivia, but had still some nasty places
to negotiate in Ecuador and Colombia.
He said that he was eagerly looking for
ward to getting on to the railroad In
Mexico, as there the walking, following
the line, would be easy. He spent one
day and two nights with us, and soon
after daybreak set Off once more. For
some time after he left we watched his
solitary figure climbing the mountain
side His undertaking was a plucky one,
for whatever money he required on the
way he was, according to the terms of
the wager, obliged to earn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
The Mystery of a Royal Madness

Wires from Belgium report that the
ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico, sister
of the late King Leopold II of Bel
gium, is slowly regaining her reason
after an attack of insanity that has
endured for half a century.
There are several remarkable stories
attached to the madness of Carlotta,
one of which is extremely weird, and
another rife with scandal.
1t is certain that when it became ap-
parent that the late Emperor Maxi
milan was about to lose his crown
and possibly his life, Carlotta, who
was his wife, went to Paris and made
a personal appeal to Napoleon III in
behalf of her husband. She addressed
him because Maximilian, who had al
ways been averse to accepting the
Mexican ccrwn, finally consented to do
SO upon the express assurance of the
French Emperor that he would sus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
Believe He Will Admit Mistake

Captain Hobson charged that Mr..
Underwood "took tax off liquor and
put it on the bagging and ties of the
farmer"
The tariff bill plainly shows that
the republican tax on liquor is still
in effect. The tariff shows that cot.
ton bagging and ties are on the free
list.
c. S. Hamlin, assistant secretary of
the treasury, has stated unequivocally
that cotton bagging and ties are ad-
mitted free of all taxation, that cotton
bagging and ties have been admitted
free of taxation since the President
signed the Underwood bill.
The trust which manufactures cot
ton bagging and ties has written its
customers in Alabama that cotton
bagging and ties are on the free list,
that as a result, manufacturers of
America are now compelled to COM
pete with foreign convict and pauper
labor, and that for the ensuing season,
cotton bagging and ties will be Of
fered at a reduced price to the mer-
chant-and to the farmer.
Captain Hobson is now in Wash
ington. While there it is understood
that he will secure full statement
regarding liquor and bagging from
the treasury department. 1t is be-
lieved that on his return he will ad
NIT his mistake. 1t is believed that
he will tell the people that the tax
on liquor has not been removed by the
operation of the new tariff bill. and
that cotton bagging and ties are adj
mitted free of duty.
His personal and political friends
or some of them, at any rate-belieye
that he will in manly fashion admit a
mistake honestly made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
PHILOSOPHY AND FATNEss

From the Emporia Gazette
Herbert Caveness of the Chanute Trib-
une, who is so skinny that bis foot don't
track without growing, calls the atten-
tion of the editor of the Gazette to the
fact that fat hope got walloped the
other night in Kansas City in a wrestling
match, and then adds, invidiously: "A
fat man makes a splendid pin-cushion,
and fine backstop, but aside from this
he doesn't deliver the goods"
That also is a matter of opinion. 1t
may be true that nature abhors fat
man, as the axiom says And it may be
also more or less true that nobody loves
a fat man. And yet we should not forE
get that fat men have their uses. 1t was
indeed a fat man who busted the repub-
lican party, and that was a complete
and artistic job. More than that, Col
Lillian Russell, who after a long and
useless matrimonial career, settled down
to a vine and fig tree, chose from wide
and variegated experience. a fat man
who closed the series. Fat men have
their FAULTS but impatience is not one of
these faults. For, after a man has toted
around so or 100 pounds of lard taller,
and beeswax that he doesn't really need,
after he has been busting buttons off his
Sunday clothes in unexpected and embar-
RAISING places for 20 years or more, after
he has seen himself in mirrors coming in
door stwo or three seconds before he ar
rives, he has come to an agreement with
the preacher who says that everything in
this world is vanity and vexation of
spirit; so he is patient with the foibles
and follies of his fellows.
A fat man can even put up with one
of those human devil s-darning-needles,
that pride themselves on their atten-
uated shape. Some of these days when
Herbert Caveness loses the flower of his
youth and is no longer the gay young
Loehnivar of Neosho county, he Will get
in nights at bedtime. develop taste for
good beefsteak, quit worrying over the
wiles of the Sex and take on fat. Then
he will have philosophy of life and be
happy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
WHY DRESS UP FOR CHURCH,

Zephine Humphrey, in the Atlantic.
They are heterogeneous lot, an Italian
congregation-lf indeed they are to be
called by such an orderly word. The
New England Presbyterian is at first
inclined to be shocked by their casual
ness. They run in and out of their
churches as if they were so many chill
dren darting home to have mother tie
their apron strings and then, with a
flying kiss, bounding away to their play
once more. The figure seems to pre-
clude reverence, and there is little awe in
the deraeanor of Italian worshipers
They are as much at home in their
churches as in their kitchens or streets,
and they treat the one precinct with just
about as much Difference as the other
Glorious marble pavements. dirt floors,
rough cobble paving stones-these are
all equally the highway of life. They
bring all sorts of things to church with
them: market baskets, bundles, babies,
even now and then a dog. They never
think of dressing up in honor OF
heaven: a handkerchief thrown over the
heads of the hatless women is the only
change of costume which church door
requires Rags and velvets. handker-
chiefs and ostrich plunes make no demur
at knelling side by side, apparently un-
conscious of their own disparity The
clothes in which one habitually faces lie
are the most appropriate clothes in which
to worship God. Even the grave and
stately priests, in their magnificent vest
ments. inspire no Difference. When the
choir rail does not intervene the flock
presses close on the heels of the shep-
herd. crowding to the very steps of the
altar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03

tain him in his perilous position. Ma
poleon refused to interfere, and from
that hour Carlotta began to lose her
reason.
There has always been a strange
story afloat to the effect that the
enraged antagonists of the empire
craved the punishment if not the life
of the Empress as well as that of her
husband, and that subtle poison was
administered to Carlotta, a poison the
effect of which is to rob one of rea-
son for a great number of years. Those
who have supported this theory main
tain that the effect of the poison is
now losing its potency and that the
unfortunate woman is slowly recover
ing her reason by virtue of this fact.
The other story, involving shock
ing scandal, is that no matter whether
Carlotta lost her reason through
cause of grief or poison, she has for
years been perfectly sane, but that the
fact of her recovery was carefully kept
from the world by her brother, the late
Leopold, for the reason that he, hav-
ing been appointed her guardian dur
ing her mental alteration, had either
spent all Of her fortune and would be
unable to restore it, or that he still
desired to retain control of it to as
sist him in his prodigal Congo specu-
lations or his profligate manner of
living. This money was his SO long as
his sister remained insane, or was
supposed to be so, hence he wished to
defer the occasion which would COM
pei him to relinquish it, or restore it
if it had been squandered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
ONE CLEVELAND DOG

From the New York Sun
Fido, mongrel who attended Sunday
school in Cleveland for 10 years with
cent for the collection plate in his mouth.
was buried in a casket covered with
flowers when he died the other day, and
children wept for him. If that is sent
mentality the cynics may make the mos
of it. Certainly it is that this four
footed friend of the children was of more
value to the church he went to and
helped with his brute intelligence than
members of the congregation who were
captious and intolerant and always ready
for a row.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03
BARNACLES

BY Sidney Lanier.
Ny soul is sailing through the sea.
But the past is heavy and hindreth me,
The past hath crusted and cumbrous
shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea smell
about my soul.
The huge waves wash, the high waves
roll,
Each barnacle ciingeth and worketh dole
And hindreth me from sailing!
Old past, let go and drop l. the sea
TIL fathomless water covers thee.
For 1 am living and thou art dead
Thou drawest back, 1 strive ahead the
day to find.
Thy shells unbind! Night comes behind,
needs must hurry with the wind
And trim me best for sailing.