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Scraps and Jarts.
? New York dispatch. June 4: Without
a cent in the world, Edouard Reynai
de Saint Michael, formerly one of
the wealthiest and most Influential men
in St. Pierre, has arrived in this city.
He was happy despite his impoverished
condition, for his wife and son were
with him, having escaped the ravages
of Mont Pelee by the merest accident.
Mme. de Saint Michael, who is a native
of Fort de France, was spending
the day with her relatives at the time
of the disaster and her husband left
St. Pierre to join her an hour before
the blast of flame destroyed the city.
He traveled in a tug to Fort de France
and when he reached the Martinique
capital the destruction of his native
city was announced.
? The signing of the peace agreement
at Pretoria last Saturday night, was
carried out with the least possible cere
mony. Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner,
General DeWet and others representing
the Orange Free State, and
General Schalk-Burger and others of
the Transvaal government, quietly met
in the dining room of the residence occupied
by the burgher delegates, adjoining
Lord Kitchener's house. The
document lay on the table ready. Amid
profound silence the Boer leaders took
a pen, in order of precedence, and affixed
their signatures, thus surrendering
the independence for which they
so gallantly struggled. The document
was then entrusted to Colonel Hamilton,
Lord Kitchener's military secretary,
and Captain Marker, an aide-decamp,
who left Pretoria the same night
to deliver it to King Edward.
? It was announced a few days ago.
says a London cable, that King Edward
had received from an unnamed
donor, a magnificent tapestry which is
to be hung behind the coronation chair
in Westminster Abbey. This grand old
fabric has now been received at Kinsington
Museum, where it is being put
in perfect order. It is reputed to be
Spanish, but is probably of Flemish orig'n.
It represents in the central figure
a king enthroned, with a crowd paying
him homage. It may, perhaps, be intended
to represent the coronation of
an ancient king. The colors are beau
?,.^,1 Over nil there seems
iiiuuy picocitcut v?%.? ??
to be a light frost of gold which deepens
with the shadows, the heaviest
shading being of pure gold. The whole
effect is one of great magnificence and
beauty. The tapestry measures about
12 by 8 feet and is one of the finest in
the world. It is now announced that
the donor is Mr. J. P. Morgan and that
he recently purchased the tapestry in
France for $500,000.
? The postoffice department is in a
quandary as to what to do with a
money order which has been presented
by Representative Landis. The order
was made in April, 1829, by Asa
Baker, at Mooresville, Ind., and mads
payable to Robert Martin. The
amount is $15. Recently an heir of
Martin presented the order to Postmaster
Charles Smith, of Smithfleld, Ind.,
for collection. The postoffice at
Mooresville is no longer in existence,
which accounts for the order being
presented at Westfleld, the nearest office.
Postmaster Smith did not know
what to do with the order, and had it
sent to Representative Landis. When
he presented it to the postoffice officials
they were very much surprised. They
said they did not know that the money
order system was inaugurated at such
an early date. The order appears to be
genuine and the officials have taken it
up for consideration and will try to find
some way to pay the claim.
? F. L. Underwood has just returned
to New York from a trip to the south
and was a prominent figure at the cot
ton exchange in Wall street, Wednesday,
says a New York dispatch. Prominent
cotton men had lengthy talks
with Underwood. It is understood that
a corporation will be formed here next
week to be capitalized at between sixty
and eighty million dollars which will
be Incorporated in New Jersey. This
will be the holding company and all or
nearly all the cotton mills of the south
will be merged into it. New York and
New England men are to canvass the
yarn mills and get them into the
combination. Pierpont Morgan is not
interested so far; but on his return
may be included in the holding company.
If the yarn mills come in with
Morgan the capitalization will be increased
to about a quarter of a billion
dollars. Underwood refused to make
any definite announcement for publication
but talked of his trip. He said
the south was never in a better condition.
? After seven weeks of debate, the
senate, on last Tuesday, passed the
Philippine government bill by a vote
of 48 to 30. Under this bill the government
of the islands is to rest principally
with the president of the United
States, who with the advice and consent
of the senate, is to appoint the
principal executive and judicial officers.
It is provided that a certain measure
of self-government may be established;
but franchise is to be regulated under
the control of the president's commissioners.
The native inhabitants of the
islands are to be regarded as citizens
of the Philippines, entitled to United
States protection. The Philippine commission
is to acquire the lands now
owned by the friars by issuing bonds,
and turn them over to the United States
government. A mint is to be established
in Manila and coins authorized may
be coined at the mint, the coinage laws
of the United States being extended to
the islands. The Philippine government
is authorized to coin a silver dollar
containing 416 grains of standard
silver, to be a coin of the Philippine islands,
the denomination of the coin to
be expressed in English, Filipino and
Chinese characters. The dollar shall be
legal tender for the public and private
debts except where otherwise stipulated.
? Discussion of the project of constructing
an isthmian canal was begun
by the senate last Wednesday. Mr.
Morgan, of Alabama, chairman of the
committee on interoeeanic canals,
opened the debate, speaking nearly
three hours. A considerable portion of
his speech was devoted to an examination
of the recently suggested danger
to the Nicaragua canal route of
seismic disturbance. This danger, he
concluded, after a careful review of
many authorities, existed only in the
Imagination of those who desired to defeat
any canal project. His study of
the situation had convinced him that
really there was a greater danger from
volcanic and earthquake disturbances i
to the Panama route than to the Nicaragua
route; but he was satisfied i
that little danger to either was to be |
anticipated. Mr. Morgan reviewed at
length the political conditions in Colombia,
finding in them a grave menace t
to the United States in the construction
of a canal by the Panama route.
He presented also the present phase j
of the diplomatic negotiations looking
to the building of a canal by both the i
Nicaragua route and by the Panama
route. Mr. Morgan said tne failure of i
the United States to build the Isthmian ,
canal would he an exhibition of moral
weaKness innuencea enner uy puncum
private interests or by some combination
of nature wl^h appealed strongly
to the imaginati* He closed with a
strong appeal for the passage of the
Nicaragua bill.
if lie ^orhville (frnquircr.
YORKVI^LE, S. C.lti '
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1902.
Although the British have secured
peace with honor, it must be admitted
that no small portion of the honor goes
to the Boers. They did not get all they
fought for; but they came so near it
as to leave but little ground for complaint.
Although no definite statement has
yet been made, it is not thought that
(the attendance on the Charleston exposition
aggregated a great deal over
a half million. The management cal
culated originally on not less than a
round million and based its operations
on that calculation. The stockholders
do not expect to get back anything on
their subscriptions, and it is not likely
that the bondholders will get more
than 75 cents on the dollar.
A few days ago there left Washington
for South Carolina, five surveyors
from the bureau of soils in the agricultural
department. This surveying
corps will spend some six or eight
months in the state for the purpose of
making a soil survey. One thousand
square miles, taking in a part of Greenwood,
Abbeville, Laurens and Anderson
counties, will be surveyed and the
soil chemically analyzed. A map will
be made of this section, showing the
various kinds of soil to be found within
its limits. When the survey has
been completed the department will
issue a bulletin for distribution to the
farmers of South Carolina based on the
[soil survey and setting forth the crops
to which various kinds of soils within
the 1,000 square miles are best adapted.
This bulletin will also contain expert
Information as to what fertilizers are
needed to improve the soil. These soil
surveys have been made in other sections
of the country and have proved
of great benefit to the farmers. The
survey for South Carolina is being
made at the instance of Representatives
Johnson, Latimer and Talbert. It
is hoped that the farmers will show a
lively interest in the project, as the department
wilt be urged to send another
corps to work elsewhere in the state
[ when the present survey has been
completed.
The Washington correspondent of
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says it
has leaked out in Washington that the
president intends to veto the river and
harbor and public building bills; but
since the leak developed, it has been
impossible to get anyone who is in a
position to give semi-official informaI
tion to say a word on the subject.
While it is a fact that the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat is usually well and accurately
informed on Republican party
and administration matters, it is possible
that in tnis incident he is merely
talking without actually knowing
what he is talking about. However, if
the event suggested actually develops,
no one need be surprised. The wirepullers
have found these pork bills
very useful of late years. How those
in charge of the river and harbor bill
allowed the measure to be overloaded
last year with the most reckless appropriations
is a matter still fresh in
the public mind, and when the bill was
finally talked to death by Senator Carter,
there were many who thought they
saw in the whole scheme a smart trick.
To them it looked as if the bill had only
been used as a bait with which to catch
suckers. Republicans and Democrats
had been made to behave in the hope
of a big cnunk if pork for their districts
and after there was no longer any need
to persuade or compel good behavior,
the bill was killed. Because these
two bills carry large appropriations for
the south, it is hoped that no such
game is being worked this year; out
if the bills fail to get through, there
will be much ground for the conclusion
that many expectant representatives
have merely been buncoed again.
Striking teamsters of the beef packers
have had the city of Chicago in a
turmoil during the past week, the turmoil
developing Wednesday into numerous
riots. The teamsters, it will be
remembered, struck for shorter hours
and more pay. The packers were not
willing to accede to the demands of the
teamsters and endeavored to carry on
their work with the help of officials and
employes of the packing houses. A
gang of 40 or 50 Negroes was also
orought from St. Louis. 13y Tuesday
night the situation had become good
warm, and it was evident that the meat
wagons were to have a tough time of
it. The police were appealed to, and
after a conference it was decided that ,
it would be best to have the wagons .
move together in caravans. It was de- ,
tided that under an arrangement like
this the police would be better able to |
deal witn the strikers. The strikers, i
however, were prepared to make things
lively. They congregated at different
points where It was known the wagons
would have to pass and pelted the drivers
with stones. The police undertook
to beat the strikers off; but the strikers
invariably stood their ground and
gave blow for blow. One packing
house official was knocked off a meat
wagon with a baseball bat. It is probable
that he has been fatally wounded.
Several of the drivers flred pistols directly
at their assailants and the police
also fired numerous volleys but did not
shoot to kill. The strikers were assisted
by thousands of sympathizers, and
at the end of the day more than a hundred
people had been wounded. After
an all night arbitration conference the
packers yielded to the demands of the
teamsters, and the trouble has been
settled.
BLACKSBURG NOTES.
Bob Taylor Lecture?Baaeball Team
?Personal Mention.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Blacksburg, June 5.?Mr. Robert
Poag, of Columbia, was in town Wednesday,
advertising the lecture of Bob
Taylor, sublect "The uld Plantation,"
to be given at Rock Hill on Friday,
June 6, and we expect a number of
our neople to go, as we will have an
extra train, leaving here at 5 p. m.,
and returning about li.30 p. m.
The directors of the knitting mill are
very busy Just now and we expect to
see good results from their efforts.
The baseball team has been organized
for the season and they celebfaTedtheir
advent with an ice cream supper /
in the old Iron City hotel, last Friday/
night. 7
Mrs. J. Deal is visiting her sister in-Atlanta.
Mrs. E. H. Shaw is on a visit
to her family in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr.
Shaw is stopping at the Inn.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Dougherty are on
a visit to Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Dougherty
is expected home this week.
Mrs. R. J. Whisonant, of Hickory
Grove, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Keinhart, of the Cherokee Inn. c.
MERE-MENTION.
The Virginia constitutional convention
has not yet concluded its labors....
A number of prominent naval authorities
are arguing for lighter armor on
war vessels. They claim that 6-inch
armor will keep out 95 per cent, of the
projectiles and that the heaviest armor
will not keep out the other five per
cent The funeral of Rev. Dr. B.
M. Palmer, in New Orleans, last Friday,
is said to have been more largely
attended than any iunerai suite umi
of the late Confederate president, Jefferson
Davis President Roosevelt
delivered the Decoration Day address
at Arlington last Friday. He defended
the conduct of the war In the Philippines
It Is practically settled that
Lieutenant R. P. Hobson Is to be a
candidate for the Alabama senate
There were 60 Boer delegates to the
recent peace conference at Vereeniging,
and the vote was 54 to 6 In favor of
peace Geo. W, Depriest has been
appointed postmaster of Shelby, N. C.
The house of representatives has
declined to ask General Leonard Wood
for an Itemized statement of his expenditures
in Cuba Hon. Michael
Herbert succeeds the late Lord Pauncefote
as the British ambassador at
Washington Lord Kitchener has
been made a viscount for his services
In South Africa and in addition is to
receive $250,000 in cash The senate
has passed a bill authorizing the postmaster
general to extend free delivery
to towns of 5,000 inhabitants and with
postal incomes of $10,000 A poll of
the senate a few days ago disclosed
the fact that 41 .senators favor the
Nicarauga route, 35 the Panama route
and 12 are doubtful Sir Thomas
Lipton has given out that he proposes
to make another try for the America's
cup in 1903 It seems to be a commonly
accepted fact that David B. Hill
is again in control of the New York
State Democracy The British remount
commission that has been located
at Kansas City, has broken up
its headquarters and gone out of business.
Charlfston Workwomen.?At a
well attended meeting of the Workingmen's
Protective association at Irish
Volunteers' hall last night the followtiro
a Q HrmtPfl *
14l6 piav&ui in ???w
1. We believe In fewer hours and
larger rewards for labor and favor such
laws as will harmonize the interest of
capital and labor and tend to lighten>
the burden of toil.
2. We ask that all state, county and
municipal work be given to contrac- <
tors and other workmen who are citizens
of the localities in which it is done
and that qualified voters should be given
the work on such contracts.
3. Nine hours per day shall constitute
a day's work for mechanics and ,
laborers employed on state, county and (
city work.
4. Payment of wages weekly and
equal pay for women for equal work
performed with men.
5. The payment of wages in lawful
money.
6. The abolition of contract prison
labor.
7. The prohibition of child labor under
14 years of age in factories.
8. The sanitary inspection of mines,
workshops, factories and dwellings.
9. We demand that ail state, county
and city officers receiving a salary of
$900 or over per year, shall go into the
primary.
10. The adoption of laws for the protection
of the labels of the various
trade unions. These labels guarantee
that the product on which they ap- ,
pear is produced under fair conditions.
We demand that all state, county and
city printing be done in printing houses
using the union labe' and that all books
used in our public schools shall bear
the union label.
11. We demand tne adoption of proper
laws regulating the hours constituting
a day's work in manufactories.
12. That we favor direct legislation
?the initiative and the referendum.
The meeting adjourned to meet on
Friday, June 13, next, at the same
place.
Sba Captain's Story.?'The Norwegian
steamer Donald, from Banes, with
fruit, arrived in Philadelphia Thursday,
according to a special to the New
York World. Captain Warnecke told
this remarkable tale:
"We were two days out from Banes
and about 30 miles from Watlin's is- <
land, in the Caribbean sea when we
came upon a floating island. I, with
the mate and several of the crew rowed
toward it. Thousands of little monkeys
scampered all about the shore, and
when we were in range they began a
bombardment by shying cocoanuts at
us. We captured two monkeys. The
following morning we discovered another
floating island and landed. This
time we were greeted by a covey
of parrots of most briliant plumage."
Captain Warnecke declared that
the eruption in Martinique had shaken
up the entire district, and the small
pieces of land had become separated
from some uninhabited Island.
llol.niirin'N Successor.
Columbia Record. Thursday: So far
Governor McSweeney has had the
names of about ten prominent citizens
suggested as McRaurin's successor,
should the senator be appointed a i
judge. The governor stated this morning
that he would make no promises
at all and that he would wait until the
condition arose before saying anything i
about the matter.
LOCAL AFFAXXtS. ;
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. *
Harrison Randolph, President?Gives t
information in regard to the advan- 1
tages offered by the College of (
Charleston, and also announces that i
York has been assigned a scholarship S
in that institution. 1
York Drug Store?Wants you to use
pearls of violet talcum powder, and <
says that it is absolutely pure, anti- 1
septic, absorbent and healing. 1
C. P. Lowrance & Co.?Say tnat tney
have black and green tea of Just the
quality that pleases. They also say
something about their canned meats.
T. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Talks to
the ladies who want quality as well
as reasonable price when buying a
parasol or umbrella.
Clyburn-Heath Mule Co.?Have a pair
of good mules and several "plugs"
that they want to sell and which they
mean to sell if someone will make an
offer for them.
H. C. Strauss & Co.?Talk out from the
shoulder about their sacrifice sale of
dry goods and give the cut prices on
all kinds of clothing.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? The York Implement company has
purchased a carload of Oliver plows,
and Mr. Williams says he is going to
sell them all this summer and fall.
? The York Cotton mills are putting
up pneumatic conveyors from their
warehouses to the picker room, thus
saving some expensive handling.
? A special train passes through
Yorkville for Rock Hill this (Friday
evening) at 6.15 on account of the Bob
Taylor lecture. The fare for the round
trip is 50 cents. <
-p^lrfrs. C. G. Parish is arranging to <
entertain a party of friends next Tues- <
day) evening, complimentary to her 1
friend, Miss Mary Joe Witherspoon, '
who Is to be married soon to Mr. Her- t
bert Dunlap, of Rock Hill. <
I
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. (
The county board of commissioners 1
held Its regular monthly meeting In the
office of the supervisor last Wednes- (
day, all of the members being present. 1
Tnere was not a great deal of business
other than routine matters to at- '
tend to; but various claims aggregat- '
ing nearly $2,000, were paid during the !
day.
The supervisor made a report on the J
McConnellsville and Rock Hill road
right of way matter to the effect that 1
Mr. R. E. Saddler was willing to sell J
the desired right of way through his
land for $50. After discussion of the
subject the board came to the conclusion
tnat $30 would be about right, and
passed a resolution in which it agreed
to pay that amount.
In view of the considerable wheat
crop on the county home farm, and the 1
cost of harvesting the same by hand,
or with a rented machine, the supervisor
was instructed to purchase a binder. '
THE EQUALIZATION
The county board of .equalization met
in the office of the auditor on Wednes- ,
day, to finish up the work of equalizing i
the property of the banks, railroads, <
telegraphs and cotton factories. The ;
following members were present:
I. is. p'aris, tsemei; J. rraiiK Asne,
Bethesda; W. 9. Lesslie, Catawba;
John L. Ralney, Bullock's Creek, R. G.
Garrison, Ebenezer; cl^P. Blankenship,
Fort Mill; J. A. Smith, York. Captain
L. M. Davis, special assessor for the
city of Rock Hill, also attended the
meeting.
As the result of full consideration of
the subject, the board decided to assess
the banks 6GJ per cent, of their capital
stock, and 100 per cent, of their surplus
and undivided profits. In the case of
the cotton and oil mills, the action of
the various local boards was sustained.
In the case of the railroad, telegraph
and express returns, the county board
had nothing to do but report to the
state board. The work of the board
was completed during the day, and It
adjourned sine die Wednesday afternoon.
AIIQCT PEOPLE.
) Mr. George Ha>t has taken a position
at the York Drug Store.
/ Miss Alma Walker is at home from
Converse college, Spartanburg.
/(Mr. and Mr6. J. Leonidas Moore, of
Rock Hill, were in Yorkville this week.
Miss Eugenia Love, of McConnellsville,
visited friends in Yorkville this
week.
JJ'Misses Mary and Carrie Cartwright
are visiting relatives and friends at
Clover.
Mr. Frank Tlddy has improved so
much that he will be sitting up now
in a few days.
v^lr. Mason Ferguson, of the Heath
grocery department, has ben quite ill
for several days past.
Miss Georgie Charlton, of Savannah,
Ga., is visiting in Yorkville, the guest
of Mrs. S. L. Latimer.
Misses Kate 'L. Ratchford and Ellze
Latimer visited Miss Belle Smith, on
the Cotton Belt, this week.
Miss Talulah Neville has returned to
Yorkville from the Presbyterian Col- I
lege for Women, at Columbia.
Mrs. James M. Caldwell and son,
James, of Wellridge, are visiting Mrs.
Fannie B. McCaw, in Yorkville.
yMr. Ethan Allen and daughter, Miss
Mollie, of the Bethany neighborhood,
\vere in Yorkville on Wednesday.
.i'Mr. and Mrs. John A. Blodgett and
daughter, of Atlanta, are in Yorkville,
visiting the family of Dr. J. B. Allison,
-^tev. James McDowell, of Sumter,
has been in Yorkville the past few days
the guest of his son. Dr. J. D. McDowell.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. W. Stevens, of
Rock Hill, attended the unveiling ceremonies
at the K. M. M. A., last Wednesday.
Mr. T. B. McClain came up from
Camden, Thursday afternoon, and will
probably remain in Yorkville until
Monday.
Miss Laura Parish, who has been
taking special lessons in vocal music,
in Atlanta, returned home Thursday
morning.
s^Irs. Sam W. Guy, of Lowrysville,
was been visiting relatives in Yorkville,
the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. P. Hope.
Miss Wilmoth Jackson, who has been
nnAn/lln? OAtviA limA In VAflrflllo U'lth
Miss Bessie Gilbert, left for her home t
at Newport yesterday. t
XMr. and Mrs. T. P. Moore, of Mor- j
ganton, N. C? are visiting in Yorkville (
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Moore, i
They expect to remain over until Mon- 1
day. 1
Mrs. S. A. Weber and Miss Bessie t
Gilbert left yesterday for Sumter to t
attend the annual meeting of the Wo- I
man's Foreign Missionary society, of t
the Methodist church.
Prof. S. B. Lathan. of Hickory Grove,
was in Yorkville, Wednesday. Prof, t
Lathan has been re-elected as principal >
of the Hickory Grove High school; but i
has not yet signified his acceptance. t
Miss Mary McCulIough, who has been j
teaching an art class at Johnston, re- i
turned to Yorkville, Wednesday, after t
a successful season. She will spend her j
vacation with her sister, Mrs. J. P. r
White. t
Miss Lettie Cone, who has heen In c
[ harge of the millinery department of \
H. C. Strauss & Co., for the past two t
seasons, was called to her home In
Seorgia, by telegraph, last Tuesday af:ernoon.
Miss Amelia Kennedy, of the Kings:ree
graded school, has sent some of
ler Yorkvllle friends, handsomely 11th)graphed
Invitations to the commencenent
exercises of that institution, June
ith and lOtn. Miss Kennedy is one of
he teachers.
Mrs. S. A. Prltchard and two chilIren,
and Miss Nannie Aiken, who have
>een visiting their sister, Mrs. W. G.
Mevllle, left Thursday afternoon for
:helr home at Blacksburg. Va., accompanied
by Master D. Wyatt Neville,
,vho will spend some time there.
Fort Mill Times: Dr. J. H. Thornveil
has improved very little, if any,
'rom the painful injury which he revived
on May 25. He had started from
lis home to the church and in descendng
the steps his foot slipped an.l he
'nil onro Inlncr hlo nnlflo Hfl hflfllV that
le has not since been able to be out.
V phone message yesterday stated that
:he doctor has been, and Is yet, very
sick.
Mr. Isacc T. Farls, of Bethel township,
paid The Enquirer a highly apireclated
visit on Wednesday. Al:hough
more than 80 years of age, Mr.
Paris enjoys good nealth and the full
jossesslon of all his faculties. This
vas his first trip to Yorkvllle during
the past two years. He has been a regjlar
reader of The Enquirer since Its
establishment, and of The Miscellany
jrevlous to that, as far back as 1847.
With the exception of the name of Mr.
T. Leander Parish, his name has probaily
been on the books of The Enquirer
and Its predecessors longer than
:hat of any other subscriber now livng.
AT THE K. M. M. A.
Because there was no graduating
;lass this year, there were no regular
lommencement exercises at the close
>f the year's work at the King's Mountain
Military academy last Wednesday.
The event, however, was marked by investing
and Impressive ceremonies In
. onnectlon with the unveiling of the
:ablet erected to the memory of the
cadets who lost their lives by drownng
a month ago.
The exercises of the morning were
:ommenced at 10.20 o'clock. There were
present about 200 people, mostly from
iforkvllle and the surrounding country,
Including a few visitors from a distance.
Colonel W. G. Stephenson presided,
and the exercises were opened by
the singing of a hymn followed by
prayer Dy Kev. vv. u. nevme, dllCl I
which Capt. Wolff, of the faculty, appeared
on the platform with a handsome
sword, which he explained, belonged
to the late Cadet Sergeant E. M.
Nichols, and wnich the parents of CaJet
Nichols had requested him to pr^
sent to Lieutenant Morrow, the young
i-adet who had done such courageous
work in recovering the bodies of his
drowned comrades. The sword was
presented in a few well chosen words
and received by Lieutenant Morrow
with becoming modesty. Following this
presentation Colonel Stephenson introduced
Major James F. Hart, who delivered
the following beautiful address
in dedication of the memorial tablet:
It is a duty we owe to ourselves as
well as to those who come after us, to
mark, in some enduring form, the occurrence
of events that have cast their
shadows over us, as well as those which
bring us gladness. And more appropriate
becomes the emblematic record
when costly lives are to be commemorated,
which were given in heroic sacrifice
for noble purposes. It is then
that the shadows lighten, and the sorrow
more readily softens into resignation
to the will of that Providence
which marks all events as its own.
An event of this character has again
come into the life of the King's Mountain
Military academy; and today loving
hands, with sorrowing hearts, have
erected a tablet that will hold it and all
that clings about it in enduring memory.
I say "has again come into its life,"
for this old academy has had a career
replete with events. Founded in 1855 by
Micah Jenkins?afterwards a brigadier
general in the armies of the Confederate
states?and his associate, Asbury
Coward, it had, before 1861, trained
many scores of the youth of the state
to upbuild her civilization and to defend
her when Imperilled.
In 1861-65 many of those who were here
trained in arms became leaders of men
In defence of their homes and institutions.
Many never returned. They flllid
soldiers' graves on many distant battle
fields. He, whose name is ever on the
lips of South Carolina soldiers, the gentle
but knightly Micah Jenkins, gave
bis glorious life to the cause he loved
?nd for the people for whom he fought.
Others, battie-scarred and nopeiess, returned
to vacant firesides and a land of
desolation.
A second epoch came eleven years later.
Colonel Asbury Coward, the survivor
of Jenkins, In 1866 gathered here
a goodly number of the youth of the
state and these halls again echoed to
the march of youthful soldiers, training
for life's battle. From thence until
I890?the King's Mountain Military acadmy
quietly, steadily and efficiently performed
its mission as one of the foremost
preparatory educational instftu^
tlons of the state. Then, Asbury Coward
was called to the head of the state's
highest military and mental training
school?the Citadel?and these halls
were again closed. It seemed for a
time as if "taps" had sounded for its
riistorlc class rooms and that it had
gone to rest.
Another eleven years passed over its
military life, when Its third epoch came.
Colonel W. O. Stephenson, the accomplished
and courtly Virginian, with his
rorps of trained helpers, again raised
its flag to the masthead, and the old
icndemy happily responded to the
reveille. Again its class-rooms were
jccupied by earnest students, and Its
parade grounds felt the tread of manly
youths in the pursuit of learning of
irts and of arms.
King's Mountain! A name hallowed
n every home in this broad land of
>urs. As you cadets march to the tap
3f the drum on your parade ground,
vou are almost under the shadows of
:hat historic ground where your grandfathers,
twelve decades gone by, wrest1
Rritnin's soldlerv. and
;a vitiuij niriK
iealt the first decisive blow that
Drought their people deliverance and
iberty. And there costly sacrifice of
ife was made because duty demanded
t. Under the cold grey stones of the
nountaln are sleeping numbers of pa:riot
dead.
It was there that Colonel James Wlllams,
leading his Carolinians, fell In a
mttle he believed should have been
'ought elsewhere against another Brltsh
force. But when duty called him
:o action, it was not for him to choose
;he ground, nor the force he was to enrage;
but to fight the enemies of his
:ountry whenever and wherever they
night be found. On the banks of
Broad river, without a stone to mark
lis grave, where the ever rippling wa;ers
are chanting their requiem, and
he stars keep nightly vigil over his
lerolc dust, sleeps one of King's Mounain's
patriots.
t>..* if mnv im fhfif he and his broth
;r soldier dead, sleep not alone after
heir century of rest. Did they, on that
voful afternoon of May 3d, 1902, in spirt
awake in their graves on the mounain
and exclaim, "Who are these
roung soldiers in grey that come to join
is in our rest ; And we answer. "Pariots!
these are they who, taught by
our heroic example, well knew that
juty never reckoned with danger,
hough the duty be the rescue of a
omrade and the danger be death. It
vas not for them to be called like you,
o march in the cause of liberty, and to
die amid the din and smoke of battle,
and shouts of victory. Their call to
duty came unheralded. One of them,
in an hour of innocent recreation, for
some wise purpose, was suffered to
walk beyond his depth into perilous
waters, and there he struggled helplessly.
The other two, near by, saw
that the life of their comrade was in
peril, and while they too, would be
equally helpless to save themselves,
they might rescue him. There was no
doubt or hesitation or debate with
themselves when the call came. These
two plunged into the chasm, and died
with him they could not rescue. And I
am told that had not restraining counsels
shown the futility of the sacrifice,
many others of the gallant corps would
have followed in the same hopeless
effort.
On the memorial tablet that loving
hands have fashioned and which is soon
to be exposed to view, will be found
the names of Cadet John Prank Lindsay,
Cadet Sergeant Edward Meek
Nichols, Cadet Harry G. Stevens. These
three, on May 3, 1902, yielded up all
that was mortal of their youthful lives.
It Is not for us to question why. it
may be that one of these had done his
work in life. It may be that the other
two were chosen to offer to their comrades
an example of courage and sacrifice
that would ever be set before the
young who are now here, and those
who will in years to come reverently
pass before this memorial stone.
It Is well for us to remember, Cadets.
Instructors, Friends, that it is not all
of life to live, nor all of death to die.
There are for many a moral death i*i
life; and for many the new and better
life in death. "Now we know In pav-;
then we shad know as we are known."
The conclusion of Major Hart's address
was followed by another hymn,
after which Miss Frederick Lindsay, a
sister of one of the drowned cadets, removed
the drapery and disclosed the
pretty marble tablet. Inscribed as follows:
J IN MEMORIA. !
i ?
[ Cadet Sergt. Ed M. Nichols,
i Cadet J. Frank ajINDsay,
J Cadet Harry G. Stephens,
urowned May 3, 1902. I
i The first two named sacrificed j
J their lives to rescue their com- [
I racie. , ,
The exercises of the day concluded,
the cadet corps was formally dismissed,
and the assembly of people gathered
for the occasion dispersed. With the
exception of a few who remained over
for a short time with friends, the cadets
left for meir homes^jlurl?g-~the
day, most of them confidently expecting
to return next session.
JIEAIID, THOUGHT AND SEEN.
Sandy Watsdn, a Negro who lives
on Mr. D. G. Stanton's place, in Bethel
township, had A rat kiUihg one rainy
day recently and destroyed 227 of the
rodents, most of them grown. In Sandy's
neighborhood thia.Js- considered a
record breaker.
ZsT It is quite probable that a large
number of people who live along ,the
proposed free rural delivery routes are
going to be rather slow about providing
themselves with boxes. With theyp
it will be a question of cost. Of courae
there are numerous patrons of the inall
service who care nothing about the cost
of a box. They would not hesitate to
pay half a dozen times the price If nb??.
essary. There are others who get but
little mail, for which they have never
been at any expense, and many of these
are unable to see how they would be
justified in spending a dollar or two
for boxes to put their mail in. But i:
will be very well for all these people to
make up their minds about the matter
at oncev Boxes will be cheaper when
bought In quantity than if bought only
a few at a time. Almost every family
that can read will have a box sooner or
later, and it will be so after awhile that
absence of a mail box along the road
will be taken as evidence that the owners
of the premises do not count for a
great deal. No family in the country,
white or black, can really afTord to be
without a box.
tir There is no end to significant dispensary
stories, and to print them all
would be impossible; but two have been
brought to the attention of the reporter
during the past few days that ought
to go on record. One of them is told
by a lady living on one of the streets
leading out of town and it is true. The
other is hearsay, and the reporter does
not vouch for it further than to say it
Is plausible. The lady's story is this:
"While I was sitting in my piazza during
Saturday afternoon, I noticed a Negro
woman going by followed by a boy,
and in the road was a wagon in which
there were several drunk Negroes. The
woman was in high temper, evidently
because of her husband, and I heard
her say to the boy, "Couldn't git you
a thing today. That trifling daddy of
yours promised me this morning that
I could do some trading, and he has
gone and spent all the money he had
for whisky for him and 'them other
niggers to git drunk on." The other
story is that a white man brought a
dollar's worth of meat, had it charged
up against his lien at fourteen cents
a pound, traded it for 8 cents a pound
cash, and bought whisky with the
proceeds.
The little Negro boy who was so
Drutally beaten by the Negro, Will Erwin,
recently, and who was sent to the
County Home at th& instance of Major
James P. Hart and others, is in a dying
condition. Magistrate Barron went out
to see the boy Wednesday afternoon,
accompanied by Dr. Miles Walker, and
after an examination. Dr. Walker arrived
at the conclusion that the boy
could not live longer than a few days.
The boy is not very bright mentally,
and could not give a very clear account
of how he came by his injuries or of
his previous injuries. Both Dr. Walker
and Magistrate Barron examined him
closely. He said that Will Erwin had
whipped him because he had dropped
Erwin's baby, and be had dropped tne
baby because it was too heavy for him
to hold. He could give no satisfactory
information as to the condition of
his health before the whipping. Dr.
Walker's examination disclosed, however,
that he was badly swelled up with
dropsy. In an affidavit. Dr. Walker
said that while the boy's then condition
could not have been due to the beating
he had received, it had been very much
aggravated by that beating. On the
strength of this affidavit, Magistrate
Barron issued another warrant for the
arrest of Will Erwin and committed
him to jail to await the result of the
boy's injuries. If the boy dies, Erwin
may be tried for murder.
iST There is an interesting story from
Clover, of which Mr. Fayette Ford,
furniture dealer, undertaker and huT
morist, is one of the principal characters.
The story goes like this: A wellknown
man of the place had made himself
a reputation as a confirmed hypochondriac
by reason of his continued
complaints as to the state of his health.
The man had been complaining for
years and was certain that he was go
1I1K iw uic UL lUiinuuipiiuu. fiavnift ft".
ten accustomed to the man's habit,
there were, of course, those who did
not regard his situation as really serious,
and Mr. Ford was one of them.
One day the hypochondriac went into
Mr. Ford's place to buy a bureau. Mr.
Ford looked at his customer curiously,
hesitated a moment, and said: "Why,
you don't need a bureau: what you
need is a coffin. Come back and let
me show you some. The customer followed
mechanically and pulling down
a handsome case, Mr. Ford expatiated
on its merits. "Now this one is built
neat and stout. I can trim it with
brass, nickle or silver, just as you like,
and guarantee it to give you entire
satisfaction. You can't possibly get a
better bargain for your money any
where In this whole section, and you
can't do better than to buy right now
while you know what you are doing
and while you have the opportunity to
get exactly what you want." The customer
was dumbfounded. He did not
seem to catch on to whether Mr. Ford
was in earnest or just crazy. The idea
that he was being subjected to a "kidding"
did not seem to occur to him.
But he forgot all about the bureau,
which Mr. Ford did not mention again,
and left without making a purchase.
It is said about Clover that the man
has not since said anything about dying.
and that he no longer refers to the
imaginary case of consumption which
he had been petting for years in the belief
that it would some day carry him
away.
We Will Send The Enquirer
From now unm January i, isvo, ior
51.10 In advance. ?s
Telephone Company Chnrleni^
Columbia Record, Wednesday i/'^The
telephone business Is evidently, on a
boom In this state. Application was
made today to the secretary of state
by Walter B. Moore and J. T. Thomasson
for a charter for three telephone
companies that will have a combined
capital of 513,000. The companies are:
The Lancaster Telephone company,
capital 55,000; the Bedford Telephone
company, of Yorkvllle, capital 55,000,
and the Blacksburg Telephone company,
capital 53,000.
Summer School For Teacher*.
The county summer school for teachers
will be organized in the Yorkville
Graded school rooms next Monday afternoon
at 5 o'clock. Mr. John E. Car
roll is to be principal, and he is to be
assisted by Prof. J. C. Daniels, superintendent
of the Yorkville Graded
schools, and Miss Sarah Chandler, of
the Magnolia street school, Spartanburg.
Messrs. Carroll and Daniel are
to have charge of the higher branches,
and Miss Chandler is to conduct the
primary work, in which she is highly
proficient. She will teach a class of 12
beginners to show how the work should
be done.
Will Brook No Competition.
Fort Mill Times: The "booze" drinkers
of the town were greatly surprised
and disappointed Saturday morning by
the appearance in town of State Constables
Thomasson and Scoggins. As
is usual on Saturdays, the train from
j Charlotte was loaded with a suppiy of
I whisky for tnls point. Scarcely had
the packages been placed In the express
office until the constables took
' them in charge, instructing the agent
to hold same. Many were the sighs
that were heard as the owners called at
the office and were informed that their
goods had been seized. The whisky,
about 35 gallons, was shipped to Columbia
Monday.
KortAlJUL-X^acliera.
^FSrtMill Times: At the recent meeting
of the board of trustees of the Fort
Mill graded school, Prof. J. A. Tate, of
Yorkville, was elected principal of the
scj)6ol for the session of 1902-3, with
rftliss Jennie Hamilton, of Union, and'
Miss Nannie Thornwell, of Fort Mill,
assistants. Professor Tate is known
to Fort Mill people both as an educator *
of note and. a prominent man throughout
the entire county, the latter fact
being jjroven by his excellent race for
i office in the last primary election. Prof.
Tate has taught the high school of
Clover during the past three years.
Miss Hamilton, who is to teach the inJ
termediate class, has had four years'
experience In tne graded schools of Union
and is recommended by the county
superintendent of education, the principal
of the Union schools and several
prominent men of that town. She was
unanimously elected for another session
at Union, but declined in order to
accept the position tendered her from
this place. The opinion is unanimous
that the trustees could not have made
a better selection than that of Miss.
Nannie Thornwell as teacher for the
primary department.
Railroad News.
Editor Hull, of the Rock Hill Herald,
who went to Cleveland Springs a
few days ago in company with Mr. A.
H. Greene, wrote his paper under date
of June 2, as follows: Ten days ago The
Herald stated that the Southern railway
would take possession of the S.
C. & Ga. Extension road the 1st of
July. The stockholders of the S. C. &
Ga. Extension road will meet in Blacksburg,
June 11, to confirm the sale, and
1 am Informed by what may be accepted
as good authority that the S. C. &
G. Extension will pass into the hands
of its new owners?or rather, that the
company that has really owned It for
two years?will take possession on the
date^bove mentioned. There is no certainty
yet as to what will become of
the S. C. & Ga. Extension officials. It
Is surmised that this will depend largely
upon the division in which the road
may be placed. There are those who
think that the S. C. & Ga. Extension,
with its extensions from Kingsviile to
Sumter, may be constituted a division
within itself, and in that event it is
thoueht to be altogether likely that the
popular officials of the S. C. & Ga. Extension
road may be retained. With
the people along the line that is a consummation
devoutly to be wished. In
me Marion News of last week it was
stated that the Southern had bought
the O. R. & C. road now being graded
oy the Seaboard Air Line from Johnson
City, Tenn., with Lincolnton, N. C., as
the objective point. The News claims
to have gotten its information from a
gentleman in Charlotte, who recently .
attended a stockholers' meeting in
New York; but it is believed in railroad
circles that the Marion paper has
confused the road now being graded
with the old O. R. & C., now the S. C.
& Ga. Extension road.
? Ex-Governor Pennayer, of Oregon,
died at his home in Portland last Friday.
Pennayer greatly distinguished
himself while occupying the governor's
cnair by his independence of snirit
and action. During President Harrison's
tour of the northwest in 1891, it
was desired that Pennayer meet the
president at the state line; but the governor
refused to do anything of the
kind, stating that if Harrison desired
an audience witn the governor of Oree-on
he should come to the capital.
There was much excitement in Oregon
in 1893 when Chinese exclusion was under
consideration by congress. By instruction
of ^-resident Cleveland, Secretary
Gresham telegraphed Governor
Pennayer to about this effect:
"There is reason to fear that violence
will be done to Ch.nese when exclusion
law goes into enect, and it is earnestly
hoped that you will use all lawful
means to pretect." Governor Pennayer
telegraphed bacjt: "Let the president
attend to his own business and I will
try to attend to mine."
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