Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-18
FORMER CONDITIONS IN PRESENT LIGHT
Some Interesting Personal Rem'n's'
cences that Make Instructive and
Entertaining Reading for the Public
at LARGE.
USy Prof. X. J. HcrndonD

the ton. The construction was borne
hy England and Belgium. II was told
that an argument was started by an
Englishman and Belgian as 10
whether IL was an English OF Belgian
lion. Each made his claim and the
Belgian said he knew IL was Belgian
because the lion had his tail curl"d
over his back while the British non
always had his tail between his hind
legs. a sign OF Sinking. ! really do not
remember the position OF the tail. n
Belgian was peacefully plOwing two
horses n short distance from the
mound. told my Interpreter that
wanted to talk a lttl" To him. ] asked
how many acres of land h" owned:
Answer. "Twclvc." How much of Il
family have you? "Wifc and thre"
children" What do YOU raise? Wheat.
potatoes. barley. oats" How many po-
tatocs can you grow per acre? i mad"
400 bushels on one and one fourth
acres and sold them on the London
market for $2.25 per huShcL" His wheat
was fine. pluck"d one ear and put
IL in my pOckcthook. ! gay" II to
Baxter Faris Of the Gold Hill band
while teaching there. 81" planted TN"
grains carefully and il grew to six or
eight inches and then withrrcd. !
had gathered il too green. Small
farms but very, very rich with IN"
most intensive cultivation prevail. !
had an Irishman to tell me that his
father was Il stiff landowner. | ask
cd: How many acres does your faith
or own" Forty acres" he answered.
Waterloo! Who does not know III,
word? Mighty field! Mighty man.
Mighty battle. II was here that Ma
polcon played his trump card and lost.
The guides show you over the field
Quatrc Bras. IIougomont Farm and
the sunken road. hut they can tell hut
little of the battle. being peasants.
History tells Is that Napoleon defeat
ed the prussians under Rlnchcr ON
June l6 and at Quartre Bras on the
same day the allies under the Duke OF
Wellington. caused the French Marshal
,-asr n 1ss ErspGR haf : aaa
men, while the allies had $1,000 under
Wellington, and at the critical time
the prIissians under Rluchcr, number
ing 10000. came up and sealed the fate
of the world hero. Napoleon.
OF him. Phillips. the Irish writer.
sang: "IIr is fallen: we may now
pause before that splendid Prodigy
that lowered amongst us lik" some
ancient ruin" etc. The final" came
when the splendid Prodigy was cXilrd
to the island of ~. Helena. where hc
died, May ). 1921. during terrible
storm of wind and rain. II is said
that this storm recalled to him the
roar of battle. In December. ISL
his remains wcrp taken to Paris and
now lie under the Dome of the lnra-
lidcs. where I heard French soldier
call out, Ma po- lc- on three times to
show the acoustic powers OF the room
where he lay.
From BRUSSELS went through
Lrgc. Belgium. on my way TO Cologne.
Germany. on the Rhine river. LEG"
U.cc-aZh) hcing very CLOSE to III"
German border. was the first city To
meet the German onslaught nj the he
ginning of the war in 1911. and al
though the brave lSclgians resisted
most hcroically. they could not stand
against the mighty horde of Won kluck.
\ pretty city WAS l.icgr. on the Mos
ellie river q think il isl. important in
many ways and containing famous
university. We reached Cologne and
were in Germany proper II was here
that | first saw and noticed things
military. Things and matters w"r"
military. Soldiers standing. drilling
and marching. Across the Rhine Is
hridr,' built ON pontoons that rise ana
fall with the high or low water. on
my second visit there in 1910, found
a higher and more substantial bridS"
of stone and iron. The Cologne ca
thcdl7,l Is one of the most inspiring
and beautiful i'm Europe. | was much
i'm and through II. climbed 5l5 stone
steps on winding stairway. My hat
was knocked or in some way and II
went down. down. Our guide followed
Il and when he returned with il he was
blowing" Most of them blow" for Il
tip. Away in the top are many bells
and never imagined such bells could
he cast One big one was nine feet in
diameter. and intended TO sound out a
call in time OF war. II Is operated hy
n small engine. There is n poem en-
titled, The BELLS OF Cologne" and GER
tainly one knows the bells are there II
around the cathedral at 6 p. m: they
deafen YOU. took Il Rhine steamer
ut Cologne and went up the river In
daylight. II was n revelation. Appar-
entity every hillside is terraced and cul-
tivated to the waters edge. Many
large and pretty palaces We're passed.
among them Fair Bingen on the
Rhine" and Coblentz. which is one OF
the strongest fortified cities of Ger
many. These Rhine steamers are fair
~ good as far as a river boat is con-
cerned: not TO I've compared with an
ocean greyhound of course: but suf-
ficicnt for a river steamer. \ sumptu-
Gus meal Is served about l o'clock and
the dining room is glass enclosed SO
that tourists may see the sights" even
when at dinner. The Rhine, German
Rhein: Dutch. Rim. the most impor-
tant and greatest OF German rivers
rises in the Swiss canton County OF
Grisons and flows $50 miles in Switz-
crland, $50 in Germany and 100 miles
In Holland. 1t flows through Lake
Constance. thence westerly. forming q
boundary between Germany and Switz-
erland What the Ganges is to q Hin
du or the Brahmapootra is to the I'll
betan. the Rhine is-in a sense-to tn.
German-almost sacred. Longfcllow
writes: "Oh, The pride Of the German