Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-25
Scraps and faets.


in it's report From this time on no
man should be allowed to go to our
United States congress who does not
favor making this a national issue.
A resolution was adopted disapprov-
ing the custom Of taking public col
lections at meetings OF the assembly,
synods and presbyteries.
Thomas A. Edison does not think
the United States should or will go
to war. At his laboratory at East
Orange, N. j., he said: Going into
the war is the very last thing we
should think Of at present, as the
president has said. We have agreed
not to in twenty-seven treaties OF
arbitration signed and renewed dur
ing Mr.. Wilson's term Of office. The
United States is the only bright spot
on the earth's surface today, and we
should keep 1t bright. We ought TO
wait and see what Germany has to
say. She has deeply injured us, but
that does not mean that we ought 10
suits me, instead Of fighting him l do
not trade with him. If this course
works we'll with an individual, l am
sure that it will with nation also.
How could we help by going into the
war? We haven't any troops, we
haven't any ammunition, we are an
unorganized mob. cannot believe
that Germany even seriously fears our
entrance"
Rear Admiral c. M. Chester, re-
tired, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, a veteran
of three wars, at Mohawk Lake, N.
Y, Friday aroused the delegates OF
the conference on international Arbi-
tration to intense enthusiasm by
plea for a greater military prepara-
ton. Rear Admiral Chester spoke
for the navy, and said, in part:
Theories now will not apply. We are
coming to a question Of practice. l
fought in three wars. / had prepara-
tory orders for two other wars, which
were averted only by the fact that the
navy was mobilized when trouble was
threatened with Spain in 1870 and
with Chill in 1892. Nothing else in the
world but the mobilization Of the navy
would have prevented these wars. l
can assure you that you must be pre-
pared for the inevitable that Is GER
tain some time to come. One OF the
dangers to this country is women.s
propaganda against militarism. Don't
try to bring your boys up to dread the
inevitable. Don't bring them up to
be mollycoddles. Only the great
Prince of Peace himself will ever
bring about cessation Of war"
The British eyewitness" at the
army headquarters at the front de-
scribed in an account dated May 21,
the scene, mentioned in the official
report of May II, Of German artillery
fire being directed on their own men
who were offering to surrender near
Ferme Cour della Boue. Desperate
fighting" says the narrative, was
going on in front Of this farm when
the troops Of a battalion Of Saxons
were thrown into the fight. Having
decided to surrender en- bloc, they ad-
vanced toward our line. Not knowing
what movement the mass implied, our
infantry poured a hail Of bullets into
them, whereupon the survivors, some
hundreds strong, threw up their
hands. One Of their number waved
q white rag tied to a stick. The mat
ter was taken out Of his hands, for as
soon as the Prussian infantry on the
north Of this point realized what their
Saxon comrades were trying to do
they opened a rapid fire from the
flank, enfilading the mass. 1t appears
also that the news Of what was hap
pening must have been telephoned to
the German artillery farther east,
which also probably was Prussian,
since it's guns suddenly opened fire on
the Saxon infantry and under this
combined fire most Of the latter were
soon accounted for. Among the many
scenes Of the war there probably has
been no more strange spectacle than
the masses of gray coated soldiers
standing out in the open with hands
raised and amidst dead and dying,
being butchered by their own COM
rades before the eyes Of the British
infantry. The fact that the victims
of this slaughter were SaXons, was
source Of regret to us, since SaXonS
always have proved more chivalrous
and less brutal than either the Prus-
slams or Bavarians."
The jury in the trial Of the VIM.
Burns suit for libel against Theo-
dore Roosevelt, at Syracuse, n. Y, on
last Saturday returned a verdict in
favor of the defendant, after consider
ing for more than eleven hours the
question Of placing all the costs Of the
action upon the plaintiff. 1t is the
belief Of the jury that everything
that Roosevelt charged is true, there
fore, the plaintiff, not having been
libeled, is entitled to no damages.
Warren w. Summers, the foreman of
the jury, announced the verdict was
for the defendant and then the jury
was polled. Ten jurors answered
for the defendant" and then the
clerk hesitated, called the name of
Edward Burns and waited. Burns
stood up in his seat and in deep voice
said, for the defendant" Juror No.
II made the same answer. Burns,
when the jury was polled in court
Friday after the announcement that
they had reached verdict for the de-
fendant, dissented from the decision
of his companions and said for the
plaintiff" In accordance with the
New York state law, Saturdays de-
cision means that all the costs Of the
action must be paid by the plaintiff
Before the jury came in the specta-
tors i'm the crowded court room were
warned that any demonstration would
be met by severe punishment. EX-
cept for the voice of the clerk the
room was absolutely quiet until
Burns name was called. When he
answered that he, too, favored the YER
dict for the former president, the
courtroom buZZed like a dynamo with
voices. Several persons in the court
room stood up and waved their hands
but there was no outburst OF APP
plause. After the announcement OF
the verdict Barnes attorneys objected
to it's receipt. The objection was
overruled Roosevelt thanked the
jury, shaking hands with each mem
ber II am more moved by this ver-
dict than it is possible for me to eX-
press" said he to them. Il am es-
pecially gratified that such a verdict
came from a jury composed of men
of every political faith" Forty ballots
were taken. The first was taken more
than 40 hours before the jury came In
and was nine to three in favor OF
Roosevelt. 1t remained at that figure
for almost five hours.
Chief Alfred Sam, says Musko-
gee, Oklahoma letter, who took a
shipload of oklahoma negroes to
Gold Coast, Africa, last fall, where
according to one imaginative humor-
list they would find 'possum trees,
ham trees, focks of golden-winged
chicken, butter plants, salt and pep
per mines, sweet-toned native banjos
fragrant wild tobacco, coconut wine
gold nuggets, big diamonds, ivory
canes and climate so warm and mild
that a plug hat and bandanna hand
kerchief are all the clothes necessary
at any stage of the year, has written
back to his organization at Weleetka
that the new colony has been started
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