Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-22
HERE AND THERE.

While on a visit to The Enquirer
Office a few days ago a we'll known
citizen Of Cherokee county. who has
long been noted for the deep person
al interest he takes in primary elec.
tions. took up with Here and There
a discussion Of the new Australian
ballot law. Here and There explain
ed how the voter went into the booth
all by himself and deposited ballot
| according to his own notion without
anybody being able to know how ht
voted. The Cherokee man listened
intently until the explanation was
| complete and then he burst out with
Hello, man: no, no. / don't like
that. / always like to try to get 9TH
er people TO vote the same way do
lot in the box you don't know.
don't like that at all, hello" Here
and There explained that the new
system applies only to incorporated
towns. and the prominent citizen
seemed just 4 little molified: but he
was not exactly sure.
The prescription Of the turkey buzz
zard by the recent session Of the gen.
eral assembly is an incident Of more
:han ordinary interest. So far back
that the members Of the present gen.
Grafton runneth not TO the contrary
the turkey buzzard has had the full
protection OF the law. He has been
better protected than any other fowl
Of the air, or any beast Of the field
Not only did the law impose PEN
atty on those who took his life; but
fathers told their sons that the buz.
zard was useful as q scavenger-and
that under no circumstances should
be killed. Occasionally a derilish boy
would take put shot at "A buzZard
kill him. and then forever after keep
the knowledge Of the deed to him.
self: but that was not often. There
Is many a hunter who has roamed the
woods and fields from youth to old
age. who has never killed buzzard
and who has never seen a dead buZ-
Zard. Now the law wants all the
buZzards killed. II accuses him OF
spreading hog cholera. anthrax and
other deadly diseases. Very likely ne
is guilty. But Just about what ef-
feet this prescription Of the buzzard
is going to have is hard to say. II
is easy enough to kill buzzard with
u fair shot at close range: but buzz
yards do not usually flock around
hunters to be killed, and as buzzards
are not tit for anything, the aver.
to waste ammunition upon him. TIC
get rid Of the buzzard will take more
than the mere withdrawal Of the le-
gal protection that has heretofore
been thrown around him. There will
have to be price on the buzzard's
ugly old head, and II will have TO be
a good price.
Probate Judge Williams on yester-
day received a telegram from the
authorities OF the state hospital no.
tifying him OF the death OF lsonl
Buchanan. a negro who was commit
ted TO that institution in July Of last
year. The death Of Isom Buchanan
recalls to the older generation about
Yorkville the early seventies, when
many Of the recently freed negroes
under the influence OF bad white
men. were giving considerable
trouble. lsom was a character In
those days, q loud-mouthed impuden'
fellow who was prominent in the
negro militia company, and who made
more or less noise in politics. In com.
plicity with a discharged Yankee sol.
dier named Cain. however, he was
convicted Of breaking into the store
Of Kennedy. Latimer & Hemphill
and the late Judge Mackey gave him
n term in the penitentiary. After
| serving a long term he came back tC
Yorkville. Conditions had changed
very much, and he was a very good
negro. He was employed AZ driver
at Logan's lumber yard for a mum.
ber Of years and made a good re-
| cord as a steady worker. On learn
ing Of his death, Judge Williams made
an effort to discover whether he had
any relatives who would be interest
ed in having his body returned tc
Yorkville for burial; but no such rela
tive was located and the body wa.
| buried in the negro cemetery at the
state hospital. Isom was between Il
| and IS years old.