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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01
By JOSEPH KNOWLES

The boy in going into the woods
should know in what direction he is
going. With this constantly in his
mind he can get his bearings by the
moss on the north side of the trees.
1t is useless for me to tell the boy
scouts how to build a fire without any
matches. They know already. To the
boy just beginning the chapter on
woodcraft, by Ernest Thompson Seton,
in the boy scouts handbook will ex-
plain all that very quickly.
In the winter when the SHOWS are
deep and he is walking on snowshoes
and night overtakes him it is simple
thing for him to construct a coZy camp
for the night have done it hundreds
of times and have been perfectly COM
Portable.
He takes off his snowshoes, shovels
a hole in the snow with them and fiji
this hole with boughs. He sticks up a
couple of sticks in front, places cross
stick across those and slants boughs
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01

mon. If they intended it they simply
are not fools enough to say 1t. They
think it will tickle the ear of Europe
and stay the recognition Of an indepen-
dence! Verify, Don QuiXtote never
fought his windmills with completer
infatuation, than these Yankees are
becudgelling the world with the idle
insignificance Of everybody else eX-
cept England, and they threaten even
England, If she dares to recognize the
south, and thereby extends slavery
over all the world and the West Indies
too. Alack! they will find John Bull is
a sorry fellow, whose self interest and
polite neutrality will not suffer him to
be spoiled by their sugar, nor saved by
their salt.
In war, actions should speak louder
than words; and therefore, we are not
allowed to speak in detail of military
movements here if we are in the Sc
cret, nor are we permitted to know
what tomorrow will bring forth. Suf-
fee it to say that there is work to do.
Men who know how to plan it, and
men able and willing to do it-and that
with Heaven still on our side, ii will
be done. The five South Carolina
regiments, we learn, are to fight side
by side; that a post Of honor and dan
ger is to be selected, and they will oc-
cupy the post, while we do not court
any distinction or pre- -eminence for our
state in this contest-while modesty
forbids that she should either claim or
seek any extra honor-while the
farest seeing wisdom indicates that
although the marriage tie cannot be
between them, no jealous rivalries
should be introduced to mar the fam
lily feeling of our sisterhood of states
we are unprepared to shrink from any
danger or hardship in this revolution
begun by ourselves; and the light of
battle on the brows" of Carolinians
will wax brighter and brighter over
the best "foughten" fields Of Southern
Independence. We have yet to meet the
man who doubts the final issue of the
struggle; and the lustrous hopes Of the
future girdled in with the red flames Of
indignant patriotism, will beacon our
hosts on to cheerful death or generous
and world-renowned victory.
None Of the incidents Of war" have
struck our fancy more than the con-
trast between the stirring camp and
the serene heavens at the ''witchinS
hour" which closes the day. Often
while on Sullivan's Island at this hour
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01

Great Authors Optimism.-Of that
form Of eccentricity closely related to
egotism, whereby many Of the worlds
greatest artists and writer's have con-
veyed to us their appreciation Of their
own work, most interesting case is
that of Thackeray, ordinarily a most
modest man. But there is good author
ity that Thackeray never passed the
house in Russell square wherein he
lived when he wrote Vanity Fair,
without raising his hat-a tribute from
himself to his great work.-Sunday
Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01
(To Be Continued).

Light Enough A landlady, whose
reputation for overfeeding her board
ers was not great, brought in the sup
per tray, and after she had set the
various items before the solitary
boarder she said: shall light the
gas?"
The lone one looked at the scanty
meal before him and replied:
We'll no, it isn't necessary-the
supper is light enough"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01
FOOTSTEPS OF The Fathers
As Traced In Early Files Of The
YOfkvllIe Enquirer
News and Views OF YESTERDAY
Bringing Up Records Of the Past and
Giving the Younger Readers of To-
day a Pretty Comprehensive knowl-
,dge of the Things that Most Con.
cerned Generations that Have Gone
Before.

The first installment Of the notes
appearing under this heading was
published in our issue Of November IA
1913 The notes are being prepared
by the editor as time and opportunity
permit. Their purpose is TO bring
into review the events of the past for
the pleasure and satisfaction Of the
older people and for the entertainment
and instruction of the present genera
tiOn
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01

Hopeful.-T3acon-I gave my wife a
rainbow kiss when | left home this
morning.
Egbert-What in the world is n
rainbow kiss?
Bacun-One that follows storm.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01

IA In the United States there are
three times as many native born wo-
men as all the foreign born men and
women together.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01

NY Motorboats are now popular on
the rivers Of Paraguay. Fifty or six
ty are now in use on the Ascuncion.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01
THE CITY OF ANTWERP

(To be Continued),
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

how they fine the feather out with
razor blades. then pull each sprig over
the duh back of "A knife.
And there was another little toque,
draped entirely in apparent bird skin
say. the softest spoonful down-and
decorated with what ! took for "crosse'
ar soft egret Yet it was all burnt
fancy" made from ostrich and peacock.
And this imitation paradise" asked
her, lis II from the ostrich" 1t nodded,
grandiose, like a black flame on tri-
corne of black picot, and had II been
genuine | would bet it was worth 800
any day in Paris.
so it is said Miss -. "for 1t Is a
real paradise. An imitation like it
would he dearer. There are not five
workmen in Paris able to turn them
out"
1t worried me. Suppose there should
u. rush?
There is small danger.
"Who wants imitations?" said the
great man. Il have had these imita
lions made, at considerable trouble. I,
| show that we Paris milliners are mo-
advocates of cruelty to beautiful wild
| birds, The limitations are here. The,
are beautiful and cNpensive--if Pari'
women want them But II they 80 tia
| far, 10 join the Americans and English
| they will scarcely wish To perpctuat'
the memory Of past distractions by th'
use of limitations"
| And yet, the thing has started, ant
who can foresce where 1t will end
Feather trimming may go out entirely
its associations being painful. And who
in America. Is to discriminate betwcel
"fancies" from the rose ringed paro
uuet and "fancies' from the rosy spoon
| bill?
Fortunately, we don't need to worr.
about 1t at present" said Mr.. Lewis
You can say that America has made
very strong effect At this moment
yours Is all the victory. Summer ha
trimmings will be all in flowers, lace an
| ribbons. The lace viii be very fine lace
The use of ribbon will be great. Look a
this eagle feather made Of violet vel
VET"
The velvet eagle feather stuck VI
in proud isolation. from a toQue forr
all sewed over with little violets. An
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

other such had "A lone Io,a.
ribbed ribbon. plratrd, DJlu
on the reddest violet.
| see rude men in WASH
who make an cdl,t am
queens of society III al. :
conquered. tanned, mN,t
led To higher things, ! mi
mated in the sacred matt''
mings on their hradgcLr
France will have an \
next year.
France is proud that A..
French parentagr, born .n
Province of Louisiana Wa,
French. was educated }.
studied art under David d..
Antwerp and llamhurE
the only ports remains r.
gled skins and feathers,
her hats in HAMBURG
France will have an y.
but will scarcely need
women of Paris are So
initiated BY America ina
give up the sincere H. .
wear fur and velvet l1..
winter Ia make sure TIA.
follow them
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

TIIIS is not a fashion story. 1t
is something grander and no
bier. 1t is the relation Of Amer
ica's triumph in Paris especially
over Principality and Pomp and
Throne against which all the Govern
ments Of Europe confessed themselves
impotent-the invisible. intangible and
brood!ng Power Of Styles.
We were told It. we knew IL, We saw
tall the vain and vapid women OF the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

blond and rosy and has never worked
for any one but Lewis. She fetched out
seal colOred picot lined with satin,
and It had two scrumptiOus aigrettes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

Both are fakes" said Miss -.
The toque aigrette was Just burnt os-
trich and those OF the hat "thinned pea
cock" She tried to explain 1t to me.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
WITHOUT RACE
OR FLAG

The following article is "a clip
ping from the Atlanta (Ga.) Con-
stitution. A leading white paper
of the South.
"At the meeting of the Ameri-
can Public Health Association, at
Jacksonville, DIR. William F. 8run-
ner, health officer at Savannah,
talked about the one destroyer in
this world that has neither race
nor flag, but that marches, fights,
conqners and Stays. 1t is the di-
sease germ that has this unenvi-
able distinction, and DR.. Brunner
applied the philosophy specifically
to the germ that, as The Constitu-
ton has often expressed it, 'cross-
es the race line," in other words,
the immemorial problem of trying
to build up the health of the white
race while neglecting or minimiz-
ing the health of the Negro race
The consequences are deadly.
The Associated Press report Gov.
ering DR.. Brunner's indictment
reads:
The greater death rate among
Negroes than among members {.
OF the white race was empha-
sized in an address by DR.. w.
f. Drummer, health officer of
Savannah, Ga. He suggested
a commission to inquire into
the sociological and sanitary
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
SCORES MINISTER FOR CALL
ING ON WIVES.

Cincinnati, Ohio.-Rev. Freder-
ick Taylor, indianapolis pastor,
told ministers assembled at the in
terdenominational institute at the
Ninth Street Baptist church "the
practice of ministers going from
house to house making afternoon
calls on church women while their
husbands are at work causes more
trouble for the church than it does
good. This calling business may
possibly suit some men, but not
me-" he said with much vigor. Il
wish | could meet the man who
started it. There is nothing about
afternoon calls in the Scriptures.
| go down town to see the men in
their places of business. You can
not get this sort of fish with a net,
you have to use a hook and line
but, when you do land him, you
feel that you have done something.
The other way is harmful. "
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Brunswick, Ga, Dec. Will
lam Houston, Negro, saved the
lives of four women who were in an
automobile which stopped with a
dead engine on the railroad tracts
as a freight train approached.
The train was only about a hun
dred yards distant and the engi-
neer could not stop in time to avoid
striking the machine. Houston
to the machine and with almost
superhuman exertion pushed it
across and off the tracks as the
train whizzed by just few inches
away. Two of the woman tainted
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Shreveport, La, Dec. 21.-
Tilman Gamblin the parish jailer
from whom a mob recently took
Watkins Lewis, a Negro, who af-
terward was burned at the stake
was the first witness at the inves-
tigation begun today of five recent
lynchings in the parish. The in
vestigation is being conducted by
R. G. Pleasant, attorney general
of the state. Gamblin said he rec
oguized one member of the mob
which lynehed Lewis, but having
been threatened with assassination
he was afraid to give~-the mans
name.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
SEGREGATION SEEKS A NEW
FIELD.
indianapolis Ledger

The segregation pestilence has
reached ST. Louis. A bill has been
introduced in the House of Dele
gates to divide the city into white
and cOlored blocks. This bill is
framed similar to its predecessor in
other cities.
We are not in the least surprised
to learn of this attempt to place the
Missouri metropolis in-the segrega-
tion ranks. The city is essentially
southern. The fact that surprises
us is that the attempt has been de-
ferred until this late day. The real
estate men are watching the out
como of the bill with keen interest.
tits up to the colored people of
that, city to get together and use
every means possible to try to de
feat the odious bill. In this case,
as in sickness, an ounce of preven-
tion is worth a pound of cure. 1t
is much better to make deter
mined fight on the bill and defeat
it before it is made into law than to
idly wait until it is enacted and
then to try to defeat it in the Su-
preme Court. Supreme Courts are
tickle and no one can tell what
they will do. They should profit
by the example of the colored peo-
pie of Louisville, who allowed seq
regation, with scarcely any opposi-
tion on their part, to become a law.
After its passage they then got
busy, and are now making use of
every effort to have the.law nuli-
fled
If st. Louis succumbs to segre-
cation, every one in his right mind
knows that it will be only a brief
spell before Kansas City, the other
large city of the state, will be in
oculated with the determination to
have her colored citizens dwell only
in prescribed districts.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

five dissatisfied and complaining
voters.
DEMOCRATS CHAMPIoNING PRO.
lection.
"Wben a good Democrat like
Norman Mack is quoted as begin.
ing to champion a protective pol
icy as a relief for bad times, and
when men like Governor Baldwin
of Connecticut urge amendments
to the tariff bill, even the Wilson
business men begin to admit that
the tariff is responsible for the sad
condition in this country, and not
the war abroad.
Il have discovered a great feel
ing about the country among the
Republicans that they are going to
win in 1916. 1t is genuine. The
election has transformed the party
into confident and militant Or
ganization. The Republicans have
their courage again. Now is the
time to begin to prepare for the
next campaign"
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Birmingham, Ala, December
17.-Through his ability to throw
his hip out of joint and become ap-
parently helpless, William Hoke,
colored, of this city, has defrauded
at least three railroads in the
South of money paid him for al
legged injuries, according to admis-
sions railroad officers say he made
to them to-day. Hoke was placed
in Jail on charge of perjury.
Hoke brought suit against Nor
gan's Louisiana and Texas Rail-
road in Federal Court, for $3.50
damages, for injuries alleged to
have been received when he STEP
ped on banana peeling in one of
the company's cars and injured"
his hip. His testimony in the case
Tuesday aroused suspicious. Sur
geons who completed examination
of Hoke today pronounced him a
human freak"
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Norfolk, Va, December IT,
Lizzie Harper a colored woman
about so years old, was burned to
death when her house on Forty
third street near Parker avenue,
was consumed early Monday morn
ing. 1t is supposed she knocked
over a lamp which set fire to the
place When the fremen arrived
the shack had burned to the
ground and the body was nothing
but mass of charred bones. DIR.
R. S Kight, city coroner, investi-
gated the accident Immediately.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
conditions surrounding the Ne
gro in his place of living.

conditions surrounding the Ne
gro in his place of living.
The germ is the original pariah.
Its hand is against everyone. 1t
acknowledges no race or flag, but
it preys on all races and invades
the lands of all flags. In the case
of the Negro, the principle is trag-
ically illustrated. Right here in
Atlanta, the germs of all manner
of diseases cross the race line with
blithe impartiality. Yet the in
different person puts up the plea,
"Am 1 my brothers keeper
Perhaps not, if you want to put it
on that ground. But carry it 10
its logical conclusion and what
then?
The Negro woman who cooks
your meals, or is maid in your
house, very probably comes from
an infected household Your butler
may have tuberculosis. s.rldden
home, where all precausions are
ignored, for all you know.
The clothes you wear are,
for all you can prove, washed in
hovel where diseases breeds, or at
least where the environment is
revoltingly insanitary. The talk
of segregation" as a cure for this
condition is pitiful folly. You can
not segregate the germ. Its work
goes right on. The contradiction
is that these murderous fatteners
of the disease and death rate can
be abolished, and that within
comparatively short time and by
formula arithmetically demonstr-
able. In Havana, and on the canal
zone, Gorgas recognized that the
germ had neither race nor flag.
In New Orleans, fighting yellow
fever or the bubonic plague, the
same fact was faced. What was
the result? They went after the
germ wherever it existed in white
or Negro, or ''mestizo" quarters,
and now these places are far more
healthy than the average American
municipality.
American citizens pay taxes to
fight the germ without flag or race
in these latitudes and point to the
result with pride. Right under
their noses are incubators of di-
sease run in defiance of the laws
we elsewhere recognize and for
the enforcement of which we
pay, and why? For one or two
reasons: Pluperfect, apathy or
pluperfect parsimony.
In the hygienic sense, if no 9th
er, we are. indeed, "our brothers.
keeper" We concede that prin-
ciple or suffer. Until Atlanta, Sa-
vannah and every other American
city and State recognizes and en-
forces this formula, the destroyer
without race or flag will continue
its march unabated."
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Washington, Dec. 21--Presi-
dent Wilson today nominated Gabe
E. Parker of Oklahoma to be sup.
erintendent of the Five Civilized
tribes in Oklahoma. Parker, a
Choctaw Indian, is now register OF
the treasury. Commissioner Sells
of the Indian bureau selected him
for his knowledge and grasp of In
dian affairs. Parker was not a
candidate for the place, for which
there were twenty applicants.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
Outlook For
Republican Sue
cess Inl0lO

Washington, d. @, Dec. 16.-"I
believe the next Congress will wit
ness the solidifying of the Repub-
lican party" declares Representa-
tive elect William B. Mckinley,
ex-chairman of the National Re-
publican Congressional Committee
and Taft campaign manager. He
says the younger members of the
Republican party will find next
session that "the older members
who have been returned 10 Con-
gress are disposed to give them ev-
cry opportunity to share actively
in the work and committeeships." :"
That any attempt of the Demo-
Gratis to create insurgency in the
Republican ranks will fail is pre-
dicted by Mr.. Mckinley. He as
serts the Democrats are on the de-
fensive, and advises the Republican
party mot to use soft gloves" in
the next campaign.
"Our Democratic friends, like
Champ Clark" he said, "when
they fight the Republican party,
use sledge hammer blows. They
don't use a bean shooter. Some
how we have formed the habit of
fighting with silk gloves.
FARMERS DIsGUsTED WITH TARIFF
"There is no question that the
farmers generally are disgusted
with the Underwood tariff bill
There is a growing dissatisfaction
among working men. The busi-
ness men of the country justly ad
mire the splendid personality of
President Wilson, but they realize
the failure now of the tariff law.
Added to their failures are a lot of
annoying features incident to the
war tax and the banking law.
Business men who during Sep.
tember and October were inclined
to think that this business depress,
ion existing should be attributed
to the war know better now.
"The falsity of the Democratic
claim is shown by the monthly
statement of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, which
shows great increase for the ten
months just ended. We are not at
war with Australia, Brazil, China,
Canada, Cuba or Holland, yet the
balance of trade with these coun-
tries is against us. Nor has war
interfered with our business with
Argentina, which is increasing its
exports to this country. You can.
not bring such large imports into
this country without restricting
the output of our factories, with
out laying o IF men; and with every
man you lay off You create at least
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Ruleville, Miss, Dec. 22.-News
was brought here today of the
lynching of Charles Williams, a
Negro, on a plantation several
miles in the country. Williams, it
is charged, attacked the planta-
tion manager late yesterday, and a
few hours later he was seized by a
mob.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Columbus, o., Oct. S.-What is
fame? Ii G. Washington, father
of this country, hero of Valley
Forge, etc, etc, were living to day
he might make this interrogation.
Why? Because a little school
fellow of eight summers, when
asked the other day who was the
first president of the United
States, promptly replied, Booker
Washington" Then when asked
who it was that could not tell lie
after doing the cherry tree des-
tructive damage, as quickly re-
piled, Booker Washington"
While G. Washington, who enter
ed into everlasting coma at that
finished city whose geographical
name is Alexandria, might regret
fully ask, What is fame? the build
of a great educational institution
in the vicinity of Hungry" Hill,
Ala, might reply, Fame is being
known to even kids out in the cap
itol of the Buckeye State"
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

New Orleans, La, Dec. 20.-Sam
McVey, the Negro heavyweight,
won decision over Harry Wills,
the New Orleans Negro, in a twen
ty. round bout here this afternoon.
McVey outfought his opponent
from the start, and at no stage of
the twenty rounds did the man
who fought Sam Langford a hard
battle a few weeks ago on the coast
have look-in. McVoy weighed
217 and Wills 206 pounds.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

Greenville, S. 9, Dec. %
Fighting between whites and Ne.
groes in Oconee county, near Fair
Play, S. c., which resulted in the
killing of four Negroes and the
wounding of four white men, Sun
day, was renewed today. A fifth
Negro was reported killed. OF the
white men shot Sunday, Magis-
trate W. g. Mcclure was said to
be in dying condition.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
Riahteous Inclination

THE idea of not voting for a man
because he goes to another church,"
exclaimed Mrs. Twickembury. 81 nev-
Or heard Of such bigamy"