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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

flocks of cormorants build their nests.
The idolatrous Buriat priests and
the Lama priests regard the sub
marine rock situated near the point
where the mighty Augara river finds
it's source in Lake Baikal as being es-
'pecially sacred. They hold it to be the
refuge Of the "Invincible White God"
anu offer up many sacrifices.
The water is pure and transparent.
The climate is rigorous. The summer
Is short and the nights for the most
part are cold. In winter the tenn
perature falls to 40 degrees below zero,
Fahrenheit. Violent winds driving
from the Arctic region produce short.
perpendicular waves which, during
storms, reach a height of seven feet.
Fish are abundant and a welcome
food to the people.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
Battles and Lemonade.

"It was up in tn scissors sector
round Mondidier way-that tn nrst
battle was fought. TIL first thlng
that YOU heard much about was tn
big fight in June; but ye saw action
an plenty of it, in Cantigny on tn
2sth of May. l remember it all just
as clear-how l was takin' couple
O. tin Lizzies' up to tn front-th' hrst
was supplies in it, tn other holdin a
couple of tn girls-when I got my nrst
hint that there was trouble ahead'
That first hint was a gang o Boone
prisoners that some doughboys was
bringing back.
az suppose when I saw those. prls-
oners | shouldn't turned those LIZ
zies around-an' started home. But
somehow 1 didn't want to. an the girls
were game and--welr we kept on
goin'.
"Pretty soon-almost sooner than
it takes to tell tive were in TN. thlck
of it. / can't explain to you what II
was like, But there was wounded men
lvin' all about-and dead men. An
il was hot-for May. An the wounded
men were askin' fer something 70
drink. We had lot of lemons in with
th, supplies. An when we heard TN
men calm we emptied those lemons
out O. tn ground an while | went BACK
to a spring for water tn girls was
soueezin tn juice out of them an
putin sugar with it. An they had IL
ready when I got back with tn water
An we went down tn line with II III
buckets. We had gallons of it-more
lemonade than ever saw at once DE-
fore."-Christian Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

began to run over the party completed
road there were occasions when the
track suddenly subsidized, due to the
fact that the rails had been laid upon
what were thought to be rocks, but
which proved, with the thaw of spring
to be ice. Unde the circumstances
however, these mishaps were compar-
atively rare, and no serious accidents
resulted. The swampy character of
the right of way is indicated by the
fact that there are 1000 bridges on the
line.
ITO maintain American and Allied
troops operating along the Archangel-
'Vologda line in the winter of 1918
1919, when the harbor of Archangel
was sealed, supplies were shipped by
steamer to Murmask, where they were
unloaded and sent by rail to Kandalak-
sha, distance of ITO miles, and thence
transported by sledges across the froz-
en- White Sea to Archangel, 200 miles
to the east"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

Dakota Farmers and the Reds.-A
Sioux Falls editor is alarmed by the
report that Russian Soviets are being
formed in South Dakota. Coming on
top Of the information that the Nom
Partisan league now numbers 10000
members in that state, this also fright
ems good men outside, and especially in
the east. They may calm their fears.
The Nom Partisan league has no kim
ship with Bolshevism. The farmers of
the west may talk like radicals and
may now and then propose visionary
financial and, economic schemes, but
in the long run they will be found the
bedrock Of stable and conservative So
ciety. The western farmers believe In
individual ownership of property. A
genuine Russian Bolshevik wants So
ciety to own all property, and especial
ly lands. When the Russian pro-
gramme is fairly presented on the
western plains 1t is laughed out Of
court without much ceremony.-Ne-
braska State Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

selling agents have withdrawn al
quotations to await a more settled
condition. The rise in gray cloths has
been very sharp. Jobbers have been
seeking to buy late into the fall
while several of the manufacturing
and converting trades have offered to
buy to the end Of the year. Mills con-
ceded a wage advance Of Is per cent
to become effective June 2.
Prints and percales have been with
drawn from sale by the largest pro-
ducers after large sales were made
at the last high prices. Wide sheet
ings have been advanced and some
lines of pillow tubing are two cents
a yard higher than a week ago.
Bleached cottons are up from one to
two cents a yard. Colored cottons
have sold in a large way for home
and export shipment.
The rise in. some prices since the
middle of March has reached so per
cent and several quotations now cur
rent on gray cottons as higher than
those prevailing under the govern
ment fixed price system.
Southern jobbers have been large
and active buyers but the great bulk
of the new business has come from
the converters, the manufacturing
trades, and the exporters.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
THE TROOPS AT ARcHANGEL.
To Feed Them Was Difficult But il
Was Accomplished.

Fuller details Of how the Germans
concentrated a large force in Finland
late last summer in the hope Of selling
the Murmansk railroad and occupying
Kolc and Murmansk are given in re-
cent dispatches which make timely q
bulletin from the National Geographic
society telling the romantic story Of
the building Of this railroad.
Relatives and friends Of the Ameri-
can troops have an especial interest
Pin this railway since it is the artery
which supplied the Allied forces IN
north Russia with food, clothing ard
munitions during the long winter
months wher Archangel itself was
CLOSED to shipping by ice.
"Murmansk is the northern term
nous Of the Murman railway, single
track line which connects the ice-free
port with Petrograd by way Of Kan
dalaksha, Ken, PetroZavodsk, and
wanda, $50 of the 900 miles of the
line having been constructed since
1914 in the face Of the greatest OBJ
stacles ever encountered in civil en-
gineering," the bulletin states.
WAR work on the Murman railway
began January 1, 1915, with the ap-
pointment by the Russian government
OF VLADIMIR Goriachkovsky as the en-
gineer. At his disposal were placed
100000 workmen recruited from all
parts of the empire.
"The line had to run through a ter
minus of the Murman railway, single
track line which connects the ice-free
port with Petrograd by way Of Kan
dalaksha, KEN, Petrozavodsk, and
wanda, $50 of the $50 miles of the
line having been constructed since
1914 in the face of some of the great
est obstacles ever encountered in civil
engineering" the bulletin states.
WAR work on the Murman railway
began January l, 1915, with the ap-
pointment by the Russian government
of VLADIMIR Goriachkovsky as the en-
gineer. At his disposal were placed
100000 workmen recruited from all
parts of the empire.
1.-The line had to run through a
terrain presenting the most disoourag-
ing ifficulties-swamps, bogs, frozen
lakes, and almost impenetrable forests.
In Russia's peril construction work
could not wait until the advent of
spring. Soundings were made through
the ice by means of long iron rods to
determine earth contours, in order to
establish the safest roadbeds in
swampy country. Much of the survey
ing during the long nights of the
Arctic winter had to be done by Ian
tern light.
1.-The German propaganda bureau
spread reports of frightful mortality
among the workmer, but as a matter
Of fact, although the laborers Lived
under the most primitive conditions,
in tents, the death rate was extremely
low. About one per cent of those
taken i'll succumbed to scurvy.
1T is true that when the first trains
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
Model Town for Nesroes.-A mode

Model Town for Negroes.-A mode
town. constructed by the government
exclusively for negroes, was formeri!
opened with appropriate ceremonies
Sunday and Truxton, Va, as the new
town is known, took it's place on the
map as suburb of portsmouth
Built primarily as war measure &c
aid the great Hampton Roads naval
base, the 224 buildings in the little
town will not be sold Immediately b!
the government but will be rented
from SIG to SIS monthly.
The town is one of the "a housing
projects the United States housing
corporation is rapidly completing
throughout the country for the gov
ernment, representing a returnable
value of more than $25,000,000 ant
consisting of 5000 houses and g.
apartments which by the end of June
will be returning s2,500,000 per veal
in rentals to the government. Fina
disposition of the houses rests will
congress.
Truxton covers 80 acres and con.
tains six store buildings which it i:
proposed to operate under a stocl
company formed by the tenants
Members of the negro race are taking
great interest in TruXton and a negro
advisory commission under T. G. Ir'
win, supervisor of negro economic:
for Virginia, is cooperating. Indus
trial concerns throughout the countr!
also are watching the eXperimen
with view to similar provision fo
housing negro workers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
LIVING IN CHINA.
Quite Cheap II Is, But It Is None too
Secure.

Quite Cheap II Is, But II Is None too
Secure.
II rents and the cost Of servants
are getting too high go live in Pekin.
There you can get what Is called
"house." though it is whole series
of houses, and a large group OF serv-
ants for a ridiculously small sum. Ana
the masters house is likely to be fur
nished with ancient furnishing of ex-
traordinary charm. You employ and
pay one servant; he employs and pays
according to a complicated arrange
ment of his own, all the others.
These Chinese houses are charming
from the outside. You wind your way
along a narrow, unpaved street OF
hutung-a street full Of little OPEN
air shops, cook shops, stalls of various
kinds and. then come upon a high'
blank wall, with pair Of stone lions at
the gateway and an enormous red lac
auer gate heavily haired and thats
YOUR house. The gateman opens 10
your ring you see nothing of the court
ward or of the houses within the IN
closure; you are confronted by the
devil screen, O high stone wall about
fifteen feet long and ten feet high.
This devil screen blocks the evil spirits
that fly in when the compound gates
are opened-the blind evil spirits that
can fly only in straight paths and hence
crash against the devil screen when
they enter AS to yourself the gate
man leads you around the screen ana
across the compound to the master
house.
Along the compound wall that gives
IN the street are the servants quar-
ters. the house for the rickshaWs, the
sta bles for the big mules and the Pekln
carts and the house Of the gatemah'
ife is none to secure in these COM
mounds. Robbers abound and scale
the walls and slip from the roofs OF
adjacent buildings into the compounds
Every household is in constant state
of alertness Of defense. Broken glass
covers the tops of the walls and IN the
court yards Mongolian watchdoes
euard the premises-huge, fierce long
haired creatures, like woolly mastiHs'
Through the day they are chalneu'
but at night they are unloosed. on
there is not only style but excitement
in living in native house in fekih!
ELLEN n. La Motto i'm Pekin Dust
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
REAL DOGS OF WAR.
They Made a Place for Themselves in

add dogs to any list of the potent
factors in winning the war!" counsels
a bulletin from the Washington head.
quarters Of the National Geographic
Society.
Heroic deeds of the Red Cross dogs
have been widely celebrated, and just.
ly So" the bulletin continues. But not
only did the dog figure gloriously as
messenger Of mercy in the war, but
did his bit nobly in many other ways
ut is said that there were about ter
thousand dogs employed at the battle
front at the time Of the signing OF the
armistice. They ranged from Alaskan
malamute to st. Bernard and from
Scotch collie to fox terrier. Many OF
them were placed on the regimental
rosters like soldiers In the trenches
they shared all the perils and hard
ships of the soldiers themselves, and
drew their turns in the rest camps In
the same fashion. But they were al
ways ready to go back, and 1t is not
recorded that single one Of them ever
failed when it came to going over the
top
Mounting guard at a listening post
for hours at stretch, ignoring dan
ger with all the stolidness Of a stole
yet alert every moment, he played an
heroic role. Full many a time it was
the keen ear Of a collie that first caught
the sound Of the approaching raidine
party. And did he bark? How natu-
raj it would have been for him to do
so? But not a bark or growl might
have told the raiders they were discov-
cred, and thus have prevented the an
imaps own forces from giving the foe
a counter-surprise. So he wagged his
tail nervously-a canine adaptation OF
the wig-wag system interpreted and
acted upon, to the discontinue Of the
enemy.
"Often whole companies were saved
because the dog could reach farther
into the distance with his senses than
could the soldiers themselves.
1T was found that many dogs would
do patrol and scout duty with any de-
tachment. But there was another type
of dog worker needed in the trenches
the liaison dog, trained to seek his
master whenever turned loose. Amid
exploding shells, through yeritaple
fields of hell, he would crawl and
creep, with only one thought-to reach
his master. Nor would he stop until
the object. of his search was attained
Many a message Of prime importance
he thus bore from one part Of the
field to another, and naught but death
or overcoming wound could turn him
aside.
But the work of the dogs Of war
was not limited to the front. Where
the motor lorry was helpless, where
the horse stood powerless to aid, where
man himself found conditions which
even the indomitable will that Is born
of the fine frenzy Of patriotism could
not conquer, here came the sled dog
to the rescue.
ALASKA and Labrador contributed
the motive power for the sleds thai
kent the men in their mountain pima
Gle trenches in the high Alps proVl-
stoned and munitioned in the dead OF
winter. In four days, after a very
heavy snowfall, one kennel Of $50 dogs
moved more than fifty tons Of food
and other supplies from the valley be-
low to the front line on the mountain
above.
I'm the Vosges mountains more than
a thousand Alaskan sled dogs helped
to hold the Hun during the last year
of the war"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
LAKE BAlkAl.
One of the Largest Fresh Water Bodies
In the World.

In the World.
American railroad engineers who will
doubtless come to Siberia in large num-
bers in connection with the reorganiza-
ton of the Trans Siberian railway
writes an Associated Press correspond
ent from Irkutsk, will have much to dc
with the region of the famous Lake
Baikal which is skirted on the south
and southeast by the great Russian
railroad. 1t is possible in the winter
months to cross the lake on sleds
thus varying the monotony OF the long
Journey, and in summer by embark
ing on a steamer. But the builders Of
the railroad found it desirable to have
safe all-rail passage to Vladivos-
tok, so the way was hewed through
ranges of hills. The tunnels are nov
guarded by Japanese troops.
Lake Baikal, which is one OF the
largest fresh water lakes in the worlc
is called The Holy Sea- by the Rus
slams who live in its vicinity. 1t is
only exceeded in size by the Ameri'
can lakes Superior, Michigan and HUI
ron and by Lake Nyanza in Africa
In contour it resembles the human
heart 1t attains at certain joints the
great depth of S,1S5 feet.
| A number of islands may be seen a:
one crosses the water in the navigablt
season. The Buriats, descendants o
the Mongolians, who are found numer'
ously in the Baikal region, have sup
erstitious reverence for the island o
Olkhon as being the residence OF tn
internal divinity. Begdozy. who is sup
posed to have under his care the souls
of the damned The scientist, Gheor
ghli who visited the island in 1772, de-
clared that at no place in the theI
known world were so many sacrlhce
made as on this island. According Il
another Mongolian tradition, Olkhol
was the domain and home of the an
cient hero, Genghis- Khan.
l. Americans who have seen the rock.
human profile in the White Mountain
of New Hampshire would be interested
in the spectacle on the eastern shor'
of the lake, to the north of Cape Holy
where the summit Of perpendicula
column of jagged rock resembles tn
colossal head c. man, with a lonl
lnose, and with the eyes represented b,
profound and sombre cavities. In tn
crevasse which makes the moutl
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
CONFIDENCE MEMS HARVEST.
Took $10,oo0,000 from the credulous
Public Last Year.

Took S1U,UUUUU from the STeou'ou'
Public Last Year.
The American confidence men reapet
la harvest of more than s10,000,O00 las
year, according to figures compiled
Iby Chicago authorities. This is the
approximate amount actually collected
lfrom the credulous public by profes
sional confidence operators and doe:
mot include the millions gathered II
annually by various stockjobbine
schemes.
The crude devices of the old time
confidence man, with his shell game
three card monte, gold brick, greer
goods, money changing and Lemon
games, have given way to modern
methods, more complex and more pro-
fitable. The successful confidence mer
of today have summer and winter
homes, ride in limousines, and are
aided by richly gowned women, author
tiles say. They are educated and fal
more clever than their brothers OF OLD
days.
Land selling schemes, selling worth
less mine and oil stock, wire tapping
and fake" sporting events are no"
the hand maidens of the modern con-
fidence man, who matches wits with
the banker, capitalist, and lawyer IN
stead of dealing with the ignorant ru-
ra,ite. Nearly all the victims OF a
Chicago gang recently sent to the pen
itentiary were bankers and business
men. The gangs loot aggregated more
than half a million dollars a year.
Fear of publicity keeps most victims
Iouiet, thus giving the high-class con-
6dence man a certain degree or I'M
munity. They add that Federal prose-
cution for using the mails to defraud
has been a big factor in breaking ul
gangs and recently brought about con-
'viction of half dozen leading con-
'fidence workers.
. "Tom Brown, who came from De-
troit and made his headquarters III
New York, was father of the present
tvne of confidence man." said William
A pinkerton, verteran detective, IN
striking a comparison between the ola
and new swindlers. "He operated forty
wears ago and formerly was a three-
card monte man. He was known as
bnnco steerer and won by fake lottery
schemes; and other crooked gambling
devices. Then he invented the goio
brick with which he toured the coun-
try. The green goods game came later
and Brown had many imitators VINO
picked up thousands annually. Mod
ern operators don't bother with small
money and often clear up 100000 In
single deal. The old timers thought
$1,000 a big job.
Victims are not really honest at
heart, for they often enter into a
scheme to cheat another fellow. The
small town banker and business man
has proved a shining mark for sWind-
lers They cannot risk their reputa-
tions by complaining. 1t is surprising
how many shrewd business men fall
into the net"
II is estimated that s3,OOO,OOO of the
s1O,OOO,OOO total was obtained IN FLO
rida, where hundreds OF commence
workers are said to operate, particu-
larly among winter tourists.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

pack up your toe with "contraptions"
and plasters as though you were pack
ing glass vase for parcel post? Ever
use the greasy ointments that rub or
on your stocking? Ever use sticky
tape that gets jerked OF when you pull
your stocking OF? Kind Of foolish.
when 2 or 3 drops Of "Gets-It on any
corn or callus gives Il: q quick. pain
less, peaceful, dead-sure funeral? Why
putter and suffer? "Gets-It" stops corn
pains, 1t lets you work, smile and
dance, even with corns. It's the COM
nonsense way, the only simple, easy
way-peels corns of like banana
peel. Used by millions. It never fails.
"Gets-It," the guaranteed, money
back corn remover, the only sure way,
costs but a trifle at any drug store.
MID by e. Lawrence & Co.. Chicago,
Ill.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

The Stamp Fan.-Some people have
a wonderfully wide outlook. met a
grown-up man the other day VITO well
ccmed the pertitioning Of Austria BE-
cause 1t gave Linn new. scope as q
stamp collector.-Lady's Pictorial.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

Cotton Goods Strong.-Cotton goods
markets have continued very strong
according to a market survey sent out
last Friday from New York. Prices
have advanced so rapidly that many
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30

The executive committee OF the
Thirtieth division has selected
Greenville as the place Of the first an
nual reunion and September 25 to 80
as the time.
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Corns, Caluses
Quit Quick /!

Two Drops Of "Gets.It VIII Do It
Ever hand-carve your toe with
knife trying to get rid Of corn?
Ever use scissors and snip Off part Of
the corn too close to the quick? Ever
Graham guardian., 1919-09-26
D. of X. Celebrates
63d Anniversary

The sixty-third anniversary of
the organization of the Rebekah
Lodge, |. 0. o. f., was cele-
brated by Morning Star Lodge,
No. 20, Daughters of Rebekah,
Saturday evening, by an auto
trip to the Hot Springs.
The party, consisting of 25
members of the Rehekah and
Odd Fellow Lodges, left town at
500 O'Clock and made the trip to
the Springs in an hour and a
half, where bathing in the plunge
was enjoyed. After leaving the
pond, a fire was built and while
the coffee was brewing, the la
dies spread the picnic supper,
which was soon being enjoyed
by the hungry party.
After very pleasant evening,
the party returned home.
Graham guardian., 1919-09-26
NOTICE TO CATTLE GROWERS

Notice is hereby given of House Bill
No. 81, approved February "a, 1919,
and being an Act of the Legislature
entitled:
IAN act to amend Chapter l, of
Title 80 of Revised Statutes of Ari-
zona, 1918, Civil Code, by adding a
new section or paragraph thereto,
to be referred to as Paragraph 3757-A,
TO provide therein for the re.record
of brands for livestock. for can
collation. of brands in certain cases;
for penalties for use of brands not
recorded; granting certain powers to
Live Stock Sanitary Board as to
matters of said Act. To repeal acts
and parts of acts Inconsistent there
with.
And of the provisions of subdivision
two thereof, as follows:
Within six months from the date of
the first publication of above notice,
it shall be the duty of all owners of
brands now of record in the office of
the Live Stock Sanitary Board, to
file with the Secretary of said Board
facsimile of the brands now in
actual use and owned by them, mean
ing by the words actual use, to in
clude only such brands as are kept
up, or meaning brands not kept up
on increase, but which are holding
brands on cattle, horses, mules or
asses then actually owned by them.
Such filing shall be made upon appli-
cation blanks provided by the Board
for the purpose, and shall designate
thereon which brands are still used
upon increase of stock, and which are
simply holding brands. Such forms
may require such further facts as to
actual use of brands; information as
to source of title to brands offered for