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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Current Happenings Gathered From
All Sections of South Carolina.

All Sections or South SdTo'iHa'
The Cherokee county court of gen.
eral sessions opens next Monday
Among the cases to be tried are four
murder charges.
A. Leroy Bethea who lived neal
Dillon was thrown from his buggy ano
killed last Saturday night when the
buggy was struck by an automobile.
Keister Hair, a we'll known young
man of Prosperity was shot and NOR
tally wounded Sunday night by q. w
Kinard who mistook him for a burg
lar. He had recently returned from
service overseas with the S1st division
The city of Abbeville has AWARDED
to the Southern Paving company Of
Chattanooga a contract to do Sl'oo'
Yards of street paving at cost o'
$4,000.
Columbia has purchased new COM
bination police patrol and ambulance
at cost of $500.
Fire at the Gaffney Manufacturing
companys plant in Gaffney last Sat
urday did damage estimated at $685.
600 TO $50 bales of cotton. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Jake Gosnell, United States revenue
officer who killed Sheriff Hendrix
Rector. in Greenville last Friday Is
now in the state penitentiary for safe
keeping. After the shooting Gosnel
was carried to the Spartanburg jail
and was brought to Columbia Monday
by Sheriff White Of Spartanburg.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11
WHY WE WENT TO WAR.

II Was Because There Was No Way
to Avoid the Issue.
President Wilson, with great force
and clearness. on June IA, 1917, said:
"It is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extraordina-
ry insults and aggressions Of the impe-
rial German government left us no
self-respecting choice but to take up
arms in defense Of our rights as free
people and Of our honor as sovereign
government"
Notwithstanding this admirable
statement of Mr.. Wilson that we were
compelled to go to war in self defense
and, therefore, for purely selfish rea-
sons many Americans continue to pro-
claim that we went to war wholly from
unselfish and altruistic motives. the
Manufacturers Record has often point
ed out the mistake Of preachers,
teachers and religious papers as well
as of politicians, who have proclaimed
our altruism, and said that we went TO
war from wholly unselfish motives.
How utterly false are all such claims
in the light Of President Wilson's clear
cut statement that we were compelled
to take up arms in defense OF our
rights as free people! Any man VINO
proclaims that we went into the war
from disinterested motives deliberately
discredits the statement Of President
Wilson and practically charges him
with having uttered a falsehood.
why discuss this matter now
some may ask. The answer is that the
truth should be known now, just as
history will record it, and because ev-
ery man who says we entered this war
merely from a high sense OF duty 10
civilization is helping to create a Whol-
ly Pharisaical commentator OF our
selves which can lead only to evil, ror
it will gradually sap our moral nper
and make hypocritical Pharisees out
of many of our people.
Moreover, it is an insult to our Allies
to intimate to them in this way tnat
they went to war for selfish reasons IN
saving themselves, while we went 10
war from unselfish reasons to save
them. It is "holier than thou at
titude, unworthy Of America. The
sooner the whole nation comes to real
ize that we went to war to save our ex-
istence just as our Allies did, and for
the exact reasons stated by President
Wilson, the sooner will we come to
clear. honest understanding Of the war
and it's meaning to us.-Manufacturers
Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11
THE FIGHT FOR THE LEATHER
Old Soldier Remembers the Incident
Related by Mr.. Hayne.

Old Soldier Remembers the Incident
Related by Mr. Hayne.
Editor Yorkville Enquirer.
was very much interested in the
interview you had with Mr.. Hayne In
Greenville.
was present at the time and saw
the whole affair. Mr.. Haynes state
ment is correct, and his memory must
be good.
I can not add anything Of interest,
except that know the names Of both
the combatants and 1t was a battle
royal, and as Mr.. Hayne states, one OF
them took the sidewalk, in front Of the
courthouse, with her raven black hair
hanging down her back to her waist,
and with bloody face and the fire of
battle in her eye, defled all comers
and she meant it, too, for she came OF
long line Of fighting stock. But
will give no names, as doubtless both
Of the women have long since passed
over the river into that where neither
bacon nor leather will ever be the
cause of a renewal Of hostilities.
But the sad part of the affair was,
that while the two were hair pulling,
some sneak, fox like, slipped in and
carried off the prize.
M. 8. Carroll.
Eilhert &, G..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

The Federal committee Of Germany
has approved ratification Of the peace
treaty.
The American Red Cross has donated
200, 600, 900 yards of bleached gauze to
civilian hospitals in the United States.
The Alabama legislature is in ses-
sion. The Susan B. Anthony amend
ment is one Of the matters coming
up for disposition.
More than 1000 Union cigar makers
of Boston went on strike this week In
an effort to enforce demands for a
wage increase Of approximately IA per
cent.
Dublin castle declaring all Sin Fein
organizations and Irish volunteers in
the county of Tipperary to be unlaw-
full organizations.
The strike Of $500 street car men
in Cleveland, o., has beer brought to
| an end with the decision Of the owners
to grant an increase Of IL cents an
| hour in wages.
William Skipper shot and killed his
father law his mother-in-law and
sister-in- law near Philadelphia, Miss,
Sunday. Religious differences are said
to have been the cause of the tragedy.
CASTOR county. N. c., is to issue
bonds for improved roads in the sum
of $5OO,OOO this having been decided at
meeting of representative voters
from all sections of CASTOR county held
in Gastonia Monday afternoon.
An apparent net shortage Of $45,757
in the accounts of former Sheriff ]. E.
C. Bell of Henderson, N. c., has been
reported. Bell resigned as sheriff a
week ago and has not been heard Of
since.
Acting under authority extended by
the sundry civil bill which passed con-
gress last week, the United States
housing corporation is preparing to
sell the 5000 residences erected dur
ing the war in the vicinity Of num-
tion plants.
The body of Captain Fryatt, shot
in 1916 by the Germans for attempt
ing to ram a submarine has been TAX
en- to England and inferred in st. Paul
Cathedral. National memorial services
were held in England in connection
with the interment.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11

c. Y. Allison, state constable OF
Cherokee county captured a copper
still of so gallons capacity on the York
county side of the line Sunday night
assisted by State Constable Charles
Byars. Ten bushels Of mash were also
destroyed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11

The torpedo boat destroyer Tillman
named in honor of the late Senator B.
r. Tillman was launched at the Char
lesion navy yard last Monday in the
presence of Mrs. Tillman, Governor
Cooper and a number of other well
known people. Little Miss Mary Till
man. grand daughter of the late sena-
tor christened the boat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11

Son of President Monroe.-Of all
men and women in our country who
have gone beyond the three score and
ten years of the accepted allotted span
of life, none is more interesting than
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11

THE governor has spoken or great
task ended. Yes. the formation Of the
peace Is ended, but it creates only a
new task just begun. believe you
will see that it is just peace and a
peace which, II 1t can be preserved
will save the world from unnecessary
bloodshed.
And now the great task is to pre-
serve it. I have come back with my
heart full Of enthusiasm for throwing
everything that I can, by way Of in
fuence or action, in with you to see
that the peace is preserved, that wher
the long reckoning comes, men may
look back upon this general conven'
ton of Americans and say They were
true to the vision which they saw a
their BIRTH
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-11

Walter ". Humphries. we'll known
citizen Of Gaffney died in sanitarium
Saturday aged A years.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
FIRST TO MAKE STEEL PENS
Before Samuel Slocum's Invention
These Articles Sold at So a
Dozen Wholesale.

The first machine for the manufac-
fure of pens was the invention of an
American, Samuel Slocum, who was
born 1877 years ago. AS result OF
his invention steel pens, although made
ny hand long before, came into general
1se and soon displaced the quill. Be-
core Slocum's machine began turning
tut pens in large quantities steel pens
Id at wholesale for about So dozen,
1ut by 1880, thanks to the improved
process of manufacture, the price was
.educed to about IS cents Dozen. an
exchange states. The ancient Egyp-
tians used brush or reed pen in writ.
ing on the delicate membrane obtained
by unrolling the stem of the papyrus,
Il water plant once abundant along the
Nile. The ancient Greeks and Romans
also used q reed cut to point sim
liar to the modern pen. In the mid
dle ages a metal stylus was used to
write on wood coated with wax. Quilts
were first used as pens in the fifth or
sixth century and their use became
general. "Iron pens" were made as
early as 1885, but the quill held Its
vogue until the invention Of machinery
for pen making placed pens within the
reach Of all.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
GETS WRONG VIEW OF LIFE
Hardly Be Brought to See Things
In Right Light.

- A person of, undecisive character
wonders how all the embarrassments
In the world happened to meet exactly
in his way, to place him just in that
one situation for which he Is peculiarly
unadapted, but in which he Is also will
ing to think no other man could have
acted with facility or confidence. In
capable Of setting up a firm purpose
on the basis Of things as they are, he Is
often employed in vain speculations on
some different supposable state Of
things, which would have saved him
from all this perplexity and irresolu-
ton. He thinks what determined
course he could have pursued If his
talents, his health, his age, had been
different; II he had been acquainted
with some one person sooner; II his
friends were, in, this or the other point,
different from what they are; or II
fortune had showered her favors on
him. And he gives himself as much
license to complain as If all these adj
vantages had been among the rights Of
his nativity, but refused, by malig-
nant or capricious fate, to his life
Rev. John Foster.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
The Thrice a-Week Edition of
The New York World
IN 1919 and 1920

Practically daily at the price of
weekly. No other newspaper in the
world gives so much at so low a price
= The forces are already lining up
for the Presidential campaign of 1920.
The Thrice-a- Week World which is
the greatest example Of tabloid jour
nalism in America will give you all
the news of it. 1t will keep you as
thoroughly informed as a daily at
five or sig times the price. Besides,
the news from Europe for a long
time to come will be of overwhelm-
ing interest, and we are deeply and
vitaIy concerned in it. The Thrice
a-Week World will furnish you an
accurate and comprehensive report of
everything that happens.
The Thrice-A-Week Worlds regu-
lar subscription price is only S1.O0
per year, and this pays for 156 pa
pers. We offer this unequalled
newspaper and The HIGHLAND RE-
CORDER together for one year for
S2.s5.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
Ancient Asbestos.

There was winding sheet OF AMMAN
thus In the Vatican library, soft and
pliable, in the hand, showing indica-
tons of ignition upon one corner. The
cloth, however, did not suffer. This
burning is taken as showing that some
combustible fiber had been intermin-
gled. Marco Polo, In the thir-
teenth century, reported a cloth which
the natives of territory now included
In Russian Siberia claimed as having
been made Of salamander skin.
Marco Polo satisfied himself, so 1t
seems, that he had to do with q min
eral substance. In fact, he found out,
something as to its manufacture.
In this same general region of country
asbestos is today known to exist.
We are not to regard asbestos as
single, definite mineral. Nor are we
to understand that there Is a fixed
chemical constitution. Certain forms
of hornblende and serpentine, II
fibrous, are regarded as asbestos.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
MEMORY'S JOY AND SORROW
To the Properly Balanced Mind the
Scales Will Be Found About
- Evenly Arranged.

It Is remembrance that makes us
human, remembrance that gives us
present Immortality. Without memory
there could be no progress, no adj
vancing from low places to the
heights; for 1t is memory that brings
the past to us and gives us certain
Immunity from the burdens of the
passing moment.
Not in CHILDHOOD perhaps, but at all
other times memory is the mother OF
hope. 1t may be true, as Dante said
and Tennyson echoed, that sorrows
worst sorrow Is to remember hap
pier time; but against this we have
to weigh the numberless joys that mem
DRY confers, the lessons 1t teaches us,
the strength 1t gives us and the CO.
herence, the sense Of completeness that
1t gives to our lives.
It is not well to live in memory only,
unless In old age, when remembrance
may be the best treasure left to US.
We can easily become morbid and
weak by too continual a dwelling IN
the past; the present and the future
both have their insistent claims. But
any sane person knows that the abuse
Of good may always turn it into an
evil, and remembrance can be no ex'
ception to this law.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
STRICT Etiquette IN CHINA
Matter Of Tea Drinking q Ihlns OF
Much Importance in the Flowery
Republic.

The etiquette observed in tea drink
ing in China is very curious. Ii
lady asks you to drink tea with her
and especially If the tea be sweetened
you can count yourself as well re-
ceived and much liked. If she does
not like you, the tea is bitter, and
report has it that in cases Of this sort
DRAWINGS are often used. After one
sip of such tea the unliked visitor
makes prompt exit!
When making a call, If the servant
should bring In a cup of tea there
Is no need to take any particular no.
tice of it. Allow the servant to place
1t where he likes near you, and con-
tinue your conversation as though
nothing had happened. If your busi-
ness Is pleasant and agreeable to the
mistress or the master Of the house,
he or she will pass the beverage to
you; If not, you are expected to leave
It untouched, otherwise you are likely
to have quarrel on hand, and a Chi
nese quarrel-either with a man or
woman-is unpleasant.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
SPAN OF LIFE HEIGHTENED
No Doubt That the People Of Today
Live Longer Than Did Their
Ancestors.

When reading Of people who lived
long years ago and especially When
reading about the length of their lives,
we are told that In the old days peo-.
pie lived longer than they do now.
Some of the early historical records
speak of single individuals who lived
hundreds of years. There Is great
doubt as to whether these statements
are founded on fact In thinking about
this we must first take into considera-
ton that these records Of long ago
were recorded at time when man
had no accurate idea of the actual
passage of long periods of time such
as year. They did not have our CAL
endar as basis for figuring at all.
Learned men now tell us that the act
ual age of men who lived ut the time
these records Of great ages were re-
corded probably lived shorter lives
than we do now, and that what they
recorded as period of one year was
probably much shorter period than
one year.
1t IS true beyond the question OF
doubt that the people Of today i've
longer on an average than people VINO
lived ten, twenty or more years ago.
observes the Seattle Post-1ntelligencer.
In other words, the average perloh OF
life has increased steadily. This Is
due to the fact that we have taken
greater care of our bodies; have I'M
proved the conditions in which we llve'
and made them more sanitary; nave
learned to fight and check and eradl-
cate diseases which only a few years
ago we could not prevent people dying
of when they once contracted Them
and we know from the records Whicn
we keep that actually people live long
er on the average today than only
few years ago, and it is safe to say
that they live longer now on the aver
age than at any time in the worlds his
tory.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
FAMED FOR ITS HOLY WELLS
City Of Benares, India, Place OF
Peculiar Veneration for the
Devout Pilgrim.

Benares, "the city Of 1900 temples"
Is also the city Of holy wells. A pil-
grim in Benares can put in a busy day
making the rounds of these landmarks
and complying with the ceremonies
prescribed for those who would drink
from them.
Only the devout Indian pilgrim
would care to drink Of the sacred
wells, for custom says that flowers
must be flung into most of them as
peace offerings, and these decayed
floral offerings tend to make the water
unfit for drinking. The British govern
ment did clean up some OF the most
holy and popular of the wells in the
interests of sanitation. But the Hin
docs were not pleased. They come
hundreds of miles to enjoy the benefits
Of the holy water, taste, scent and all,
and they do not care to have it tam
pered with.
The most holy of the wells is the
Well Of knowledge, which stands near
Benares' most sacred shrine, the Col
den temple, and is said to be the dwell
ing place of a very important goa.
The most mysterious is the Well OF
Fate. Any one who looks into the VOL
Of Fate exactly at noon and fails to see
his shadow is said to be doomed to die
within six months. OF course, if the
silent prophecy is unfavorable, the
spirits can usually be bought off by
offerings at the temple conveniently
near by.
In another well Il snake god lives,
and still another Is dedicated to the
spirit of healing. Pilgrims not only
drink of the water of this well, but also
battle in it to make sure Of the waters
power being transferred to them. Half
A million pilgrims tour the holy wells
Of Benares every year and drink
enough of the water to stock up their
systems with the germs of every dis
ease known to India.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
WORLDS NEWS IN 8
CONDENSED FORM

WASHlNGTON.-The post office de-
partment cleared 100000 for the
fscal year 1918. Postmaster General
BurleSon turned over to Secretary
Glass a check for 100000 for work
ing balance.
NGTON.-Provision amount
ing to 100000 for vigorous cam
paign to suppress bomb throwers and
other anarchists who are plotting to
overthrow the government was made
in the amended sundry civil appropri-
alton bill reported to the senate.
BELFAST.-califor shipped car
20 of7O,OO0 gallons of whiskey to Ire
land.
Observation-Disclosures face
party crisis over the League Of Ma
lions and conference Of house and
senate members Of that faith may be
called to decide on policy. VIII II.
HAYS, national chairman, has been try
ing unsuccessfully to reconcile differ
ences among senators.
NEW YORk.-The will of Augustus
D.,Juilliard provides a fund which is
estimated in excess Of 100000 to
establish "The Juilliard Musical Foun-
dation."
PARlS.-United States troops made
q clean sweep in individual rifle COM
petition of the Inter-Allied games.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
Bent Castiron Pipes.

= Accustomed to bend pipes of
wrought iron and steel for the sugar
mills, Cuban pipe layers are reported
to have applied their novel method to
castiron material. Through mistake,
the 10-inch castiron pipe for a water
main passing through crooked two
mile canyon to the town Of Present
was supplied only in straight lengths
II feet long, with a thickness Of shell
Of 9-16 inch; and to avoid a long
wait for bent sections cradle of the
desired curvature was built with old
rails, six or eight pipes at time were
placed on it, when a hardwood fire so
heated the pipes that in about two
hours they bent and settled by their
own weight to the cradle. Bending
to various radii down to so feet Is
stated to have been effected without
a single broken pipe.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
NOW But MEMORY
CabaIIeros of California Prac-
ticaIIy Extinct.
Passed With the Disappearance of the
Wonderful Horses Which Were
Their Pride-Noted for Court
Illness and Hospitality.

The persistent disappearance OF the
horse from the life and labor of Cali
fornia, and the substitution Of the au-
tomobile and auto truck in It's place,
must serve as q mental depression to
the old-timers. For there was time
in California when the horse was not
only indispensable, but also the chief
ornament of the country.
In the old days before the gringo
came" and indeed for many year
after that, the horses of California
were both a wonder and a delight
They were the joy of the caballeros,
that is to say the Spanish gentlemen
Of California.
With the disappearance Of the horse
it seems that the caballeros are also
disappearing. 1t is high time that
Jackson A. Graves gives US, his long
promised book, "The Passing Of the
Dominant Race" book that no other
man is so well qualified to write.
The California horse was q truly
wonderful creature-a cross between
the pure Arabian strain and the native
Wild horse. 1t was on the backs Of
such horses that band of Callfornians
under command of Gen. Andres Pico,
armed only with lances, defeated sig
nally a troop Of United States soldiers
under Gen. Stephen Watts kearny at
the battle of San Pasqual in San Diego
county.
The caballeros who bred and used
those horses were also wonderful
class Of men. The saddles and brides
they used were nearly always very
beautiful and of great cost. They were
ornamented with silver trappings, and
the spurs on the caballeros' heels were
also Of silver.
Courtly and hospitable were the ca
balleros. Their homes were like the
old feudal homes Of Europe. Indian
and Mexican servants were there to do
ones least bidding and to anticipate
ones slightest desire.
But we never see them now except
when Los Angeles holds an all-too-in-
frequent fiesta. Then few of them
emerge from their obscurity, riding
down the shining highways of the town
with memories Of the happy days of
the past glowing like embers in their
dusky eyes.-Los Angeles Times.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
Fully Qualified.

They were arguing about qualifica-
tons for successful careers, and a ia
nous playwright, who was one Of the
party, maintained that the stage Of
fered the easiest opportunities for
beginning. AS some doubt was thrown
on this claim, he produced letter
from a man who wished to be en-.
gagged for his new play. which was
about to be produced. The letter ran
as follows:
reverend Sir: Wishing to go on
the stage, would like to appear In
your play. Have been market gar
dener for some years, but, having
gone bankrupt, have decided to take
up acting, the same requiring no cap
ital. I am no longer young, but g
feet 2 in my stocking feet. Have
mastered a book on elocution, and am
fond Of late hours."-Windsor.