Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 01, 1910, Page 3, Image 3
STORIES OF
NOW A
The Greatest Man-to
World's
"Who doesn't love a good fight?" asked
one perhaps average man, looking
at & picture of a combat. "Who doesn't
feel his blood tingling when he sees
two men?or even a couple of newsboys?facing
each other, fists clenched,
^ eyes blazing, muscles swelling? Who
doesn't leap with a touch of the old
brute when fists thud on jaws, or nose,
or solar plexus? Who doesn't sit tense
trembling with expectation as tne reieree
counts the fateful 'one, two,
^ ' three?' and so on?
"Nobody. We all love it, says the
New York World. We have it in us,
and the only difference between us and
the old fellows, who used to settle their
difficulties with clubs made of the
^ thigh bone of the dlnosaurus, is in the
m style of weapons. We can't get any
dlnosaurus thigh bones, so we use fists,
or guns, or knives, or whatever comes
In handy."
The humanitarian will raise his
hands in horror at this statement. He
* will say:
"No, no, you are wrong. The world
is progressing. Man does not kill his
neighbor in dispute any more, men settle
their troubles amicably, with reasoning
and argument. Brute force is
no longer considered a good quality?it
is brain over brawn nowadays. Fighting
between man and man is all over,
a thing of the past"
And yet at the present moment ar*
rangements are being made for a contest
between two noted gentlemen of
the prize ring, to come on on me anniversary
of American freedom next summer
for a purse approxiamting some
$100,000, and a half-million people
* would gladly go without their firecrackers
on that day to have the privilege
of seeing the fight.
How is that when two small newsboys
hand their papers to friends to
hold and approach each other with
doubled fists and flying arms busy men
will halt in their chase of the mighty
dollar to watch them, deaf to the plead.
ing of kindly old ladies to separate
these boys "or they will hurt each other?"
Fights have always b.een the inspiration
of poet, author and painter. From
time immemorial the valor of a certain
I knight or soldier or frontiersman has
given the world matter to glory in.
The heroes of history were all fighters,
and, for that matter, fighters who had
killed their men. not in great battles,
backed up by armies, but in hand-tohand
contests. For, while the world
loves a fighter, it loves best him who
has the courage to stand out from the
line and meet the champion of the other
side hand to hand, face to face.
That is why the world loves David?be^
cause he killed Goliath. David will
ever be known more as a game youngster
who dared fight a giant than as
a wise king.
There have been some great fights
between two men at a time; wonder
rul combats, the stories of which are
full of personal courage and thrilling
bravery. There have been so many
that it is a hard task to say which
have been the greatest, the most nota-?
ble. But among all of which history or
legend tells us there are ten, beginning
at the rear of things and coming
down to the present, that stand out as
^ equal to any personal combats In tl<
the years that men have been fighting.
The Philistines and the armies of
Israel were facing each other on the
field of Shochoch, a valley between
them. The Philistines had for chamu
pion a giant by name Goliath. We are
told that his height was six cubits and
a span, and that he wore a brass helmet
and a coat of mall that weighed
5,000 shekels of brass. The staff of his
spear was like a weaver's beam, and
his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of
iron. He advanced ahead of his army
and defied any one among the Israel6
ites to do battle with him. A youth
named David, who had come to the
field of battle with food for his brothers
who were in the army, heard the
giant's challenge, and insisted that he
should go out against him. He could
gL not be dissuaded. So he selected five
round pebbles from a brook for his
sling and advanced on the waiting, defiant
Goliath, who laughed when he saw
what sort of an antagonist his enemies
had selected. David, however, dared
him to fight, and finally Goliath, thinking
to make short work of the boy,
advanced with his heavy sword. Dat
vid kept at a safe distance, and when
he found the chance, hurled from his
sling a stone which struck Goliath in
the forehead and knocked him senseless.
Then David, who had no sword,
ran to the unconscious giant, took his
own great weapon and killed him, cutting
off his head.
David received many honors for his
triumph, which resulted in the Philistines
being destroyed.
Hercules, the great, strong man of
Hellene legend, had conquered about
everything and everyone flghtable,
^ when he was challenged by Antaeus,
another husky young man, possessed,
though Hercules did not know it at the
beginning of the battle, with strange
powers el recuperation. It seems that
Antaeus, through being the son of the
^ Earth, gained hi3 great strength from
th. giound.
They met and began to fight. They
wrestled prodigiously, and Hercules,
for the first time in his life, found
himself against a foe of equal if not
superior strength. Nothing that he
could do seemed to weaken Antaeus,
^ and Hercules found himself losing
his power to continue the fight. It
looked, after hours of fighting, as
though he had met his match. Suddenly
it came to him in a mysterious
way that Antaeus would never lose
strength unless he be kept free of
the ground. So Hercules, with
his remaining strength, raised Antaeus,
a giant like himself, above
his head, with one hand, while with
the other he proceeded to strangle
him. It must have been an astounding
fight?one giant supporting the
other over his head and slowly forcing
his muscles into quietude with
the prodigious strength of his other
arm. Hercules finally killed Antaeus
and then sank senseless on tne
ground.
The fight between Achilles, a great
Greek warrior, and Hector, champion
of the Trojans, Is famous In history.
Achilles was especially bitter against
the enemy because In a previous battle
they had killed his chum. Patroclus.
and he Itched to get revenge. Finally
Hector was forced to fight him, and
VALOR
ND OF OLD
-Man Fights In The
History.
I they met outside the city walls, In the
sight of both armies, the Trojans from
within the ramparts of their city.
Hector at first was brave, but he
lost courage and tried to escape from
Achilles, who, however, pursued him
and made him fight. They fought
with spears and swords, and the battle
lasted for hours. Achilles could
not find a vulnerable point In Hector's
armor, while he himself was being
worsted in the exchange of blows. At
last, though, he found a spot between
Hector's throat and neck. Straight
he plunged his sword into that opening.
and Hector fell. Then, before he
was dead, Achilles tied his body to a
chariot and drove it ten times around
the walls of the city.
Horatius was a Roman warrior,
whose feat of holding a bridge over
the river Tiber against the advancing
Tusoans has made him famous. There
was an incident in that exploit greater
than the main feat ltseif, and that
was the personal combat with Astur,
a great hero of the Tuscans. After
Horatious had killed hundreds of the
Tuscans, who could not pass him on
the bridge, and who had been desert*?
"? > ?nw.noT.lAno whn at first
eu uy uie inu wui|n>ui?ui> .....
had stood with him, Astur advanced
with the intention of himself killing
the hero. They met with swords, and
a furious battle ensued, in which Horatius
Anally slew Astur and flung his
body into the river.
The knights of King Arthur's court
were great fighters, and among them
the battle between Sir Lancelot and
Sir Gawain stands out as a wonderful
affair which would have been worth
seeing at any price a seat. Lancelot
was practically champion of the court,
but he and Gawain were deadly rivals,
and the latter was a great fighter himself.
Finally it was settled that they
must meet and fight it out So they
did, with the king and all the nobles
as an audience. Gawain had received
from Merlin a specially prepared coat
of mail which was supposed to make
him impervious to the wounds of a
lance for three hours. With this coat
he was sure of standing out against
Lancelot's attacks and probably of
killing his adversary. But Lancelot
learned of this coat of mail and was
reedy for it.
They made the attack, and Gawain
was for a quick battle, but Lancelot
"stalled," as the modern expression
has it, and managed to keep Gawain
guessing for the whole of the three
hours during which his coat of mail
would have any efficacy. The time up,
Lancelot got his lance ready and went
to work. It is said that he made short
work of Gawain then and killed him
with a lance thrust that went clear
through him, mall and all and left
the dead knight spitted on the weapon
like a chicken on a skewer.
Tt ia a. far lean from the court of
King Arthur to Natchefe, Miss, but the
next great fight of real consequence,
in that it employed only modern weapons,
was that between Col. Jim Bowie
and Major Morris Wright, in August,
1827. It was a great melee. The affair
started as a duel between Dr.
Maddox and Samuel Wells, both
prominent men, in which two shots
were fired with no damage. Then the
adherents of the principals got mixed
up in a general row, in which Bowie
was wounded. But he singled out the
man who had shot him, a Major
Wright, and, though he had no gun
himself, went at the latter with a short
knife that he had made with his own
hands from a blacksmith's file. The
major emptied his revolver and then
grabbed a sword, and they went at it.
They cut and slashed each other unmercifully,
and both Bowie and Wright
were bleeding terribly from their
wounds before Bowie could do fatal
work with his short knife. Finally he
plunged it up to the hilt in Wright's
heart. Wright fell dead. The battle
had lasted for more than an hour, and
had been fought outdoors and in a
shed by the side of the fleJd.
The efficacy of this short knife was
so well shown in this fight that it was
put on the market and called the
"Bowie knife," after its inventor.
Bowie was afterward killed in the
massacre in the Alamo, in Texas.
One of the greatest fights In history
was that between John Fleasants and
Col. Ritchie, of Richmond, Va., In
that city In 1846. Ritchie was the
editor of a newspaper that had said
some unkind things about Pleasants,
a politician, which only blood would
wipe out. An ordinary duel even
would not suffice. They decided to go
to the field of battle armed In every
way possible, and their weapons included
four pistols each, while Pleasants
took a sword cane and Ritchie
had a short knife in his pocket. They
began firing at 200 paces and emptied
their pistols as they drew near each
other. Ritchie was struck several
times with Pleasant's bullets, but kept
on firing, and the men drew close to
each other. Finally their pistols were
emptied and it became a matter of
personal combat. Ritchie drew his
knife and Pleasants his sword cane,
and they went at It. They fought
covered with blood, giving terrible
wounds to each other. Ritchie had a
horrible gash across his face from
Peasant's sword cane, and the bullets
in his body weakened him terribly;
but he fought on and finally managed
to thrust his short knife into a vital
spot in Pleasant's anatomy. The lat4
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ter leu ueuu. nic uuci .?>.?>
nearly two hours, and Ritchie barely
survived his wounds.
We have today a hero of the oldstyle
fighting in Col. William F. Cody,
Buffalo Bill. His greatest fight was
the duel with Yellow Hand, a Cheyenne
chief and a terror in 1876.
Cody, then a scout with Gen. Merritt,
was with the 5th United States
cavalry In Indian campaigning, supporting
Gen. Crook. One morning
when they had overtaken the Cheyennes
and a battle was imminent, the
young scout rode out in front of the
enemy and dared any one to come out
and give him a battle personally. Yellow
Hand responded and they rode al
each other. At the first fire Cody's
bullet killed Yellow Hand's horse,
but the Indian fought on behind the
body of his steed as a rampart. The
scout and the chief fired and fired,
and neither fell, till finally a well directed
shot from Buffalo Bill struck
Yellow Hand in the forehead and he
fell dead. Buffalo Bill then rode to
him, leaped from his horse, scalped
his fallen adversary and #t!loj)?d back
to the soldier's line befof# ? Cheyennes
could muster coiiHkJe enough -
to pursue.
I , But the greatest of all battles, man
to man, In our day, was the fight between
John L. Sullivan, champion of
the world, and Jake Kllrain, at Richburg,
Miss., on the morning of July
8, 1899. The fight attracted more at- '
I tentlon than any previous battle, for (
it was the Jeffries-Johnson fight of 1
the times, and though the purse was (
only $20,000, that was tremendous for 1
those days. It was the last of the (
great ring contests fought under Lon- f
don prize ring rules with bare knuck- '
les. c
The morning was piping hot, above 1
107 in the shade, said the thermom- 1
eter, and the ring was pitched on the {
ground beside an ice house, 50 miles '
from New Orleans. The spectators, s
who had come from all over the country,
were on roughly made grand- *
stands and on the roof of the ice, 8
house, and in trees. Anywhere was ^
a good seat then. The fight began at 1
7 o'clock in the morning and it was *
seen when the men went into the ring c
that they both had prepared for the 1
battle by picking their hands into a
tough condition, their skin being t
brown from what they had used on it. s
The fight was in more ways than f
one the hottest of all the great ring v
battlee ever seen. The men fought c
hammer and tongs, and, though Kil- c
rain repeatedly spiked Slllivan's foot '
so that the blood oozed through the
I shoe, the Boston man never made a
complaint. It was so hot and their ^
skins were so baked by the sun that '
blows glancing from their shoulders 1
peeled the skin off In strips. 8
In Kilrain's corner was Charles c
Mitchell, who had fought a draw In 8
France with Sullivan, and, he kept 8
I hurling remarks at the Boston man 1
I till the latter was goaded Into fury. 1
I He fought like a demon, and would
I have Beaten Kllrain more quickly had 8
the rules not permitted the latter to t
I slip to his knees, when avoiding a c
I blow, making it llelgal for a blow to <
I be struck when he was in that post- t
I tion. Sullivan called time and again i
for Kllrain to get up and fight like a 8
I man, and the latter finally did, when t
I Sullivan proceeded to finish him. It t
was not till the seventy-sixth round, 1
I however, and after three hours of
fearful fighting that Kllrain was final- t
I ly beaten into submission. His pun- 8
I lshment was terrible, his face being *
mashed to a pulp. *
f
NO TRESPASS IN AIR. t
r
I predicted Courts Will Declare Atmos- r
phere Free as Ocean.
Whether drivers of airships and fly- e
ing machines are to enjoy absolute t
I freedom of the air in the future or be v
I liable to punishment for trespass? t
I whether the air above a man's land be- ?
I longs to him or to the public?is. a a
I question that lawyers on both sides of c
I the ocean are discussing with very t
I keen interest, says the New York Her- 1
I aid. r
In a recent letter before the Aero 1
I Club of America Mr. Lyttleton Fox c
I held to the opinion that the state r
I must condemn the air as a public highI
way through eminent domain proceed- ?
I ings, taking title to its subject to the c
I right of the property owner to build c
I as high as he desired. t
R. Floyd Clarke, a lawyer, of 37 Wall a
I street, who-has given much study to J
the new aerial jurisprudence, declares r
I tne air will be regarded as free as the j
J ocean, and that present laws for navi- f
gation of the ocean ana ine navigaoie
streams will be applied to the naviga- j
tion of the air. a
"In the first place," said Mr. Clarke, g
"the suggestion of Mr. Fox would be ^
very difficult and expensive to carry j.
out in practice, embodying the description
in a petition of condemnation of f
all parcels of real estate throughout the j
state and notice to all owners, mort- j
gagees, etc.?a stupendous and almost t
impossible undertaking.
"There now seems little doubt that j
extensive travel through the air will Q
soon be a fact, and the question of
right of way will soon have to be settled.
In my judgment it will be easily 0
done, for the common law has within ?
its bosom the elasticity needed to
?
meet the new conditions. Under wellrecognized
fundamental principles it 8
requires only a Judge of the caliber of a
a Mansfield, a Marshall or a Taney to *
fit an old rule to new facts and evolve
complete justice without further legls- *
lation.
"The waters of the ocean and rivers 8
may be looked upon as a horizontal 1
plane over which man exercises his 1
activities, just as the air, in view of c
the new activities, may be looked upon 8
as a series of perpendicular planes in
which he exercises his activities. Had v
the old Judges had presented to them 1
in cases involving the land owners' *
title to the air above his land the same v
facts of practical navigability of the c
air by the public as they had existing 1
before them In the case of navigable 8
waters they undoubtedly would have '
followed the same rule as to the rights
of the public and the rights of the pri- v
vate owner."
_ 1
WORKMEN PROTECTED. *
\
How Germany Looks Out For the f
Welfare of Toilers.
Dr. F. J. Lengge, of Munich, Ger- t
many, who is making a tour of c
American hospitals, said to a Wash- 8
ington Post reporter: 1
"There is perhaps no country in 8
the world where workmen are so pro- c
tected by the state or are so cared c
for as in Germany. Even clerks, c
shop assistants and servants are com- *
pelled to insure. This insurance is 1
effected by pasting into a book cer- *
tain stamps every week, and it is
the duty of every employer to see 1
that this is ralthruny aone. mere
are three insurances for workmen,
all of which are obligatory and under
the authority of the imperial insurance
office. They are sickness, accident
and old age or infirmity. This
insurance is mutual and its administration
autonomous under statte coni
trol. It embraces, without distinction
of nationality, all persons working
in Germany.
"Insurance against sickness," continued
Dr. Lengge, "is especially for
i those occupied in industry and com.
merce receiving a yearly salary of
$480 or more, but the law allows
other workmen, comprising domestic
servants, voluntarily to take advantage
of it. It has something like 24,000
local offices and over 1,000,000
workmen get the yearly benefit of
nearly $40,000,000. The object of
this insurance is to gurantee to the
Insured a sure and efficacious aid for
| at least thirteen weeks from the be- j
ginning 01 sicKness.
"The minimum advantages to
> which all insured have a right are
, free services of a physician; in case
of inability to work, daily assistance
consisting of 50 per cent of daily salary,
beginning from the third day of
; sickness, or the gratuitous services of
[ a hospital with 25 per cent of the
dally salary given to the family; in
1 case of death, funeral expenses equal
I twenty times the daily salary."
Miscellaneous Reading.
A "MOONSHINER."
An Odd Character Up In the Ozark
Mountains.
The temperance wave In the Ozark
egion of Missouri has deprived many
>t the old mountaineers of their customary
"dram," and caused a social
Drought almost equal to that of a
ong, dry summer. A large majority
>f the best citizens in southern Mistouri
counties favored the local op*
* irAtA/1 #nr If In
iion mw tutu nieuijr tv/lou ? >v ?
ler that the numerous distilleries In
he hill country might be put out of
>usiness. When these establishments
slosed it was difficult for the man who
Ives far from the railroad station to
ihip in. a supply of liquor.
There is one thing in particular for
vhich a native of the Ozarks is noted,
ind that is his resourcefulness. Those
vho had been accustomed to going to
he distillery and buying liquor by the
ug awoke to the realization that the
rustom was at an end. Something had
o be done to relieve the situation.
At Hammohd, in Ozark county, sixy-flve
miles from the nearest railroad
itatlon, lives Stoney Williams. In his
ertile brain he figured out a plan
vhlch he believed would end the so*
rial drought and at the same time revolutionize
the local option law that is
n force in almost every county In the
)zark region of Missiourl.
The Hammond Distilling company
vas organized by Williams with a captal
stock of 15,000 and a charter obained
from the secretary of state. The
hares were valued at $10 each, and
only one share was sold to any peron.
No trouble was experienced in
elUng the stock and the capital would
mdoubtedly have been increased 11
he unexpected had not happened.
The owner of a share of stock was
i "privileged character" at the dislllery.
He was permitted to bring his
:orn and have It converted into meal
?r flour as the case might be. When
he liquor was distilled it was taken
n charge by the government gauger
ind in due time the tax was paid and
he stockholder got his whisky, less
he amount taken as toll for convertng
the corn into spirits.
The distiller for the Hammond Disilllng
company was Jim Loftus. Ev:ry
one in the Ozark region from Bryint'8
creek to White river knows or
las heard of Uncle Jim. For almost
lfty years he has made whisky, and
0 use his own expression "there was
nany a gallon that never had any
evonue paid on it."
In his younger days Jim Loftus had
t moonshine still. It was a transporable
affair and could easily be moved
vhen the "revenues," as Jim called
he government agents, came around.
Sometimes the illicit still did duty in
1 secluded hollow or perched on a
lift in the mountains, and when winer
came the apparatus was moved
nto one of the numerous caves, where
10 meddlesome officer could And it
The outfit consisted of a few wooden
asks, a copper kettle and a coll of
netal tubing.
When not engaged in making corn
vhisky in his early days Jim generally
:ould be found sitting in around the
:ountry store, where he would tell
he biggest stories and laugh louder
it his own jokes than any one else,
is a fiddler he had no superior, and
10 country dance was a success unless
im Loftus was on hand to play such
amiliar strains as "Turkey in the
itraw" and "Fisherman's Hornpipe."
>own across the state line in Arkan
*&3, wnere *11111 *vtts uuuo yia/mg ivt
l dance, a stalwart mountaineer drew
lis revolver and shot a rival for the
land of the belle of the ballroom. A
tray bullet struck Jim Loftus and the
Iddler received an ugly wound. He
Ingered between life and death for a
ong time, but his nerve pulled him
hrough. After that incident Jim
>ald no more attention to moonshinng
than to the strenuous occupation
>f fiddling.
Along about 1880 the government
ifflcers became more active and inaururated
a campaign against the Illicit
listillerles of Missouri. Bryant Langton,
at that time United States martial
in the Ozark region, organized
t posse and made a visit to the setlement
where moonshine stills were
mown to exist. Jim Loftus heard of
he "revenues" and prepared for war.
lathering several of his trusted friends
iround him he held his mountain rereat
for several days against the atack
of the government posse. In the
onflict Marshal Langston was shot
ind temporarily gave up the fight.
A short time afterward a secret serIce
agent arrested Jim Loftus and
ook him to Jefferson City, where the
Jnited States court for this district
vas then held. Jim was found guilty
if "wildcattlng," as the "revenues"
ermed the illicit distilling of whisky,
md was given a sentence of one year
n jail. He served out his time in the
Jole county Jail at Jefferson City and
vas a model prisoner. While a pris?ner
in jail Jim composed a song, each
ine of which referred to some charicter
in his home county, and the song
>ecame the anthem of the settlement
vhere Jim has resided for more than
Ifty years.
On his return to his mountain home
rom Jefferson City Jim Loftus was a
hanged man. He professed religion
ind joined the Christian or Campbellte
church, as he proudly calls it. In
l short time he was preaching at the
ihurches and schoolhouses of Ozark
rnunty, and became a noted preacher
if his kind. He always carries a Tesament
in his pocket and is well versed
n the Scriptures and ready for an arfument
at any time.
But there is one thing Jim Loftus
earned when a little boy that he canlot
be weaned from today, and that is
naking whisky. When Stoney Williams
irganized the Hammond Distilling
:ompany and sought to outwit the lo;al
option law he hunted up Jim Lofus
and offered him the position of
listlller. Jim took the place without
nuch protest, and during the week
jround the corn meal, fermented the
"mash" and with an experienced eye
taw the boiling vapor pass through
mils of metal immersed In cold waer.
causing the vapor to condense and
:ome out at the other end of the tube
n the shape of whisky. Then when
Sunday came Jim Loftus took his Bi
iie anu weni 10 nog uanger suiiutulouse
or some other favorite meeting
:>lace and held services.
"Hog Danger" received its name
'rom Jim Loftus. One Sunday afterloon
he was delivering a sermon in
he little schoolhouse that stands not
'ar from where Bryant creek empties
nto Turbulent North Folk. When in
the middle of his discourse Jim's flight
>f oratory was suddenly disturbed by
in unusual noise under the floor that
ilmost broke up the meeting. An Investigation
was made and some one
discovered a hog under the floor, unable
to get out. "Well, that hog's in
danger," said Jim, and since that time
the building that answers the purpose
of church and school house combined
Is known as "Hog Danger."
The co-operative distillery of Stoney
Williams became popular with a
certain class in the Ozark region.
Hammond, which heretofore had beett
known only as a wide place in the
road, began to take on metropolitan
airs. People with sacks of corn came
for many miles to have the grain con
verted Into liquor. A bank was established
in the little town and Hammond
was on the boom. The co-operative
distillery, the only one of the
kind known, proved a booster for business.
The government had no objection
to the distillery, for all that the
revenue department requires is the
tax of *1-10 a gallon for the liquor
manufactured.
The temperance people complained
to the state and county authorities
and objected to the co-operative distillery.
Qeorge W. Boone, prosecuting
attorney of Ozark county, filed
outser proceedings in the circuit court
to deprive the Hammond Distilling
company of its charter and force it
out of business. The case came up
for trial at the last term of circuit
court at Gainesville before Judge John
T. Moore and a compromise was
made. Stoney Williams executed a
bond for 11,000 to be forfeited upon
the failure of the company to move
all the machinery and liquor out of
the county by Feb. 1 next and the
prosecution of the case was dropped.
More than 4,000 gallons of com
whisky was stored in the bonded
warehouse at the time the distillery
was forced to close and the revenue
officers will affix stamps to the barrels
and release the liquor as fast as the
tax is paid.
With the passing away of the Ham
mond Distilling company the hopes
of many people in the Ozarks have
faded away. Jim Loftus has lost his
Job, but he still has another vocation,
one that he cherishes as fondly as he
doeB that of distilling liquor?and it's
a queer combination?he can preach
for the Campbellites in Hog Danger.
?West Plains (Mo.) correspondence
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
DIAZ HAD THHlLLING CAREER.
He Had Escaped Death and Prison
Many Times.
Gen. Fornos Diaz, field commander
under General BBtrada, who left Bluefields
in a sailboat for Greytown Thursday
morning of last week before dawn,
while crossing that port, was drowned.
He volunteered to go through the lines
to persuade Dr. Madriz, his personal
friend, that his political enemy, President
Madriz, should yield to General
Estrada's revolution. He took this step
against the advice of his associates.
The United States had been asked to
take him to Greytown on a warship
going that way, but refused consent
Lacking means of transit Diaz went in
a dory through the heaviest surf and
sea the coast has seen this season,
confident that his powers of persuasion
would win success for the revolution
without more bloodshed.
Pedro Andreas Fornos Diaz was 35
years old, a lawyer and Journalist a
dashing soldier and a hot-headed fiery
Liberal leader, whose flaming writings
did much to stir the country against
Zelaya, whose supporter he had once
been, but against whose outrages he
rebelled. The wireless brought the
news through the British gunboat
Scylla. Blueflelds is plunged in gloom.
Diaz went to the president not as an
authorized agent. His message was
"unconditional surrender," the insurgents
say. When Diaz left Mr^. Estrada
personally begged him not to go
telling him he was risking his life. He
Bald the time was ripe ana ne wouia
not delay. The night he was drowned
the boom of the surf on the reef outside
Blueflelda lagoon, six miles away, could
be heard distinctly in the town.
Diaz, a few years ago, was on board
a Pacific mail steamer on his way up
the west coast, when the soldiers of
Zelaya boarded the ship, searched it
without opposition and took Diaz a
prisoner. On the way to Managua he
Jumped from the open door of a boxcar
of the moving train during the
night and escaped, making his way
over the country to Honduras. On another
ocasion he was arrested in Bluefields
for issuing a revolutionary
pamphlet, and was put on board a boat
to be taken up the San Juan river to
the interior. He Jumped into the river
at night and escaped into Costo Rica.
The natives believed he bore a charmed
life.
Once, while a refugee in Gautemala,
he was imprisoned on suspicion of
being a Zelaya spy, having once been
Zelayas friend and after his release
a Pacific mall steamer on his way up
he filed a sensational suit against
Guatemala in the court of Cartago.
Before the latest revolution broke out
Diaz was exiled into Costo Rica, but
came here immediately on the raising
of the Estrada banner.
Abolishing Poverty In England.
He who is born in a workhouse will
probably die ih a workhouse, says TitBits.
Not certainly, for there are wonderful
exceptions, but probably. The
same thing is true of many places,
whole districts, which are not workhouses
in the technical sense of the
term, but are, nevertheless, the houses
in which the work-people live, in
which, because of their poverty, they
are compelled to live. ?ie wno is Dorn
In one of these places will probably die
In the workhouse, or In the prison, or
in the gutter. Again, not certainly, but
probably?most probably.
As Sir John Gorst, a minister for
education under a Tory administration,
said recently, you cannot blame the
babies for being born, or for not making
proper provision for their upbringing.
"At present many of them had no
chance, even before their birth, for
their mothers were driven to work until
almost the day when they came into
the world."
He has also said?perhaps he exaggerated;
we shall see when we come
to look into the matter more closely,
but, anyhow, he said it?that the "great
mass" of the children in our public
schools were in a state of degeneracy
and neglect Now, if throughout the
onhAnl Ufa lip 111
jfreuier pan ui a man o ... ?
In a state of degeneracy and neglect,
the odds are high that he will end his
days In a workhouse, a prison or the
gutter.
What we ha\ve to do, then. Is to rout
out and finally to abolish those workhouses
that breed paupers, and afterward?let
us hope not long afterward?
to rout out and abolish those other
places that breed paupers, too.
3&i Occasionally we meet with people
who are like some of the modern bedsteads?all
brass.
ENGLI8H LYNCH LAW.
Cases of Justice Administered By Mob
In Great Britain.
The British are the most law abiding
nation In the world. It is only Denmark
and perhaps Norway and Iceland
that can hold a candle to us in
this respect.
It Is so unu-'ial f">" Englishmen or
Scotsmen to take the law in their own
hands that the recent case in which
"Dr." Walford Bodie was mercilessly
"ragged," after a jury had adjudicat- I
ed him a "quack." caused a great |
sensation.
Lynch law is not unknown in this
country and there have been many
cases of summary Justice bedng meted
out without the formality of trial. The
most famous on record wak that
known as the Porteous Riot. On April
15, 1736, Capt. Porteous commanded "
the military guard at the execution at
Edinburgh of the famous smuggler
Wilson. Wilson was very popular, for
he had given up his own liberty to
save a comrade.'
The infuriated spectators pelted the
guard with stones, and Porteous, fearing
a rescue, ordered his men to fire.
Seventeen persons were killed or
wounded and Capt. Porteous was arrested
and lodged in jail. A huge mob
collected, stormed the prison, broke
down the doors, hauled the unfortunate
officer out into the Qrassmarket
and hanged him on a dyer's sign post.
There was a lynching episode in
Darlington about nine years ago. The
trouble started with some children being
made ill by ice cream sold by Italian
street venders. Later a crowd
mobbed the Italian hawkers. One
barrow was smashed to pieces, whereupon
two of the Italians drew their
Tkow wfliM haItpH rilRArm ed
and carried away to the river, into
which they were flung. It was only
through the exertions of the police
that they were not both drowned.
A French giant was being exhibited
on the sands at Weymouth when two
little children offended him by laughing.
He ran at them find struck the
boy and kicked the girl. Instantly the
crowd made a rush at his tent and
pulled it about his ears. The giant
ran for his life, the crowd at his heels.
There was a cab on the parade. The
giant flung himself into it. But the
mob kept up the chase. Stones '
smashed through the windows of the (
cab, and had it not been for the po- I
lice the giant and his agent both would <
have probably been killed.
At Thrapston fifty women were j
obliged to waste their whole day at
the suit of an assignee against a local
draper. As hours passed and they
thought of their uncooked dinners and >
uncared for children they got more j
and more angry. When the case was t
at last over they gathered and sur- 1
rounded *he draper and fell upon
him furiously. Capless and coatless 1
he escaped but they chased him. Only |
the very hardest running saved their t
quarry. t
Fairs are greatly disliked by the police
on account of the rows that of
ten ensue. The most serious affray in t
recent years was at a village near ?
Wrexham. in November of last year. a
A family of gypsies offered a pig as a r
prize for climbing a greasy pole. Af- ?
ter the contest the pig was not forth- 1
coming. The crowd grew angry and .
threatened the gypsies. The latter, of
whom there were four, snatched
rifles from their shooting gallery and t
opened Are. Nearly a score of per- 1
sons were struck by the bullets. Then t
the fat was in the fire with a ven- f
geance. "Kill them!" roared the crowd j
and there was a terifflc rush. The
- ^j , ?
gypsies naa oarncaaeu iiiemseivea iu a
van, whereupon the crowd broke up J
all their galleries and shows, piled the (
pieces round and proceeded to set <
them on Are.?Answers.
HUMAN 8TRENGTH. (
s
When It is at Maximum, and when c
Decline Begins. t
"In the matter of strength, a man's ?
power begins to decline at the expiration
of his thirty-first year," said Ramon
Serves, a physical instructor of
Bremen, Germany, to a Washington t
Herald reporter. J
"The muscles of the human body, according
to all authorities, have their j
periods of development and decline, r
Our physical strength increases up to
a certain age and decreases thereafter. 1
Strength statistics show that the lift- 1
ing power of a youth of 17 is 280
pounds. In his twentieth year It in
creases to 320 pounds. At the expira- <3
tion of the thirty-first year it reaches 1
its height, 365 pounds. At the expiration
of the thirty-first year the strength J
begins to decline, very gradually at j
first. By the time 40 years has been
reached it has decreased eight pounds, 2
and diminution continues at a slightly 0
increasing rate until the fiftieth year i
is reached, when the lifting power a
averages 330 pounds. Subsequent to
this period the strength fails more and ?
more rapidly, until the weakness of old
age is reached. |
"There is no reason, in my opinion,
why the greatest strength should not d
be maintained until after a man has o
reached 45 or 50 years of age. The
trouble is that we have been living at
too rapid a pace. The average life of
man, instead of three-score and ten, ?
should be 100 years. Our youths are t
dissipating too much, and our young 8
men neglect their physical condition in d
their struggle to get on in the business ?
world, while our middle-aged and older
men are leading too strenuous a life t
mentally. We pay too little attention o
to our physical welfare, and the result
Is we are decreasing instead of increas- ?
Ing the average length of life." 0
The Fourteen Errore of Life. n
The fourteen mistakes of life, Judge
Rentoul recently told the Bartholomew
club of London, are: n
To expect to set up our own stand- n
ard of right and wrong and expect s'
everybody to conform to It. To
try to measure the enjoyment of p
others by our own. 1
To expect uniformity of opinion In
this world. ^
To look for Judgment and experience d
In youth. g
To endeavor to mold the dispositions
of everybody alike. "
Not to yield In unimportant trifles. ^
To look for perfections In our own
actions. P
To worry ourselves and others about f
what cannot be remedied.
Not to alleviate if we can all that j
needs alleviation.
Not to make allowances for the tl
weaknesses of others.
To consider anything Impossible slm- I
ply because we ourselves happen to be I
unable to perform It. |
To believe only what our finite I
minds can grasp.
To live as If the moment, the time,
the day were so Important that It
would live forever.
To estimate people by some outside ->
quality, for It Is that within which "
IliUKrs me man.
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FOR SECOND LARGEST CLUB.
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THE TORKVILLE ENQUIRER 18 ONE OF THE HOOT COMPLETE
IND SATISFACTORY FAMILY NEWSPAPERS IN THE SOUTH It la
dean, reliable, high-toned and instructive. It should be In every York
bounty home, and Is well worthy of a place In every home In the State. It
ias a record of more than half a century behind It, and Its publishers are
ionstantly seeking to make it more useful to its patrons. In order to exend
that usefulness it is necessary to get more subscribers, and to make It
vorth the while of Clubmakers we are offering a liberal line of valuable preniums.
OUR PROPOSITIONS.
To the Clubmaker who returns and pairs for the largest number of
uunes before SATURDAY, MARCH It, ltlO, at o'clock p. m., we will
rive On# Quarter Leather Top Rock Hill Buggy (Carolina Grade), valued
it Ninety-five Dollars. To the Clubmaker who returns the second largest
:lub, under the same conditions by the date mentioned, we will give a
landsome Farrand Parlor Organ, valued at $76.00.
The contest for these two premiums is open to all comers, regardless of
)lace of residence. In addition to these two leading premiums, however,
ve will award Sixteen High Grade Sewing Machines, of two styles, one reallltg
at $40 and the other retailing at $S0, two Machines to go to each
ownship, excepting to the townships in which the Buggy and Organ may
ftWQJ"dGCl ?
After the Buggy and Organ have been awarded, the Sewing Machines
vlll be awarded in the remaining townships to the Clubmakers making the
argest and second largest clubs, and the awards will be made regardless of
he number of names in the two leading clubs. That Is If the Buggy or Orran
goes to one township Clubmaker for a hundred names, more or less,
ind the second largest Clubmaker in that township has only two names, he
>r she will be entitled to a Sewing Machine. In each township where
leither the Buggy nor Organ shall be awarded, there will be awards of two
Jewing Machines made to the Clubmaker having the largest and second
argest clubs.
THE PREMIUMS. .
All of our readers know what the Rock Hill Buggy is. They have bee?
Iinmnff inruugnoui tnia section tor ywn, ?uu tuejr uave iiotvi uvou auwwu
0 fail to give satisfaction. The buggy we are offering la to be first class
n every respect and will carry with It all the guarantees that are made by
he manufacturers, the Rock Hill Buggy Company of Rock Hill, S. C.
The Organ Is a first class Instrument of Its land, as good as to be
or the price, $76.00, and fit to go Into the most handsomely furnished
tome. It was purchased from Messrs. R. B. Davidson ft Co., of Yorkville.
The best grade Sewing Machine offered, has high arm, drop head,
land lift, five drawers and Is ball bearing. The retail price ranges as high
is $40.00 and It seldom sells for less.
The second grade Sewing Machine Is almost as good. It Is alsb of the
Irop head description, has five drawers and Is practically the same as the
>ther with the exception that It Is not fitted with ball bearings.
WHAT A CLUB 18.
Two or more names returned by a single Clubmaker will be regarded as a
;iub, and whoever desires to enter the contest will not only be regarded as
1 Clubmaker, but Is assured that whether he or she Is successful in carrying
>ff one of the competitive premiums will receive full compensation for all
he work that will be Involved. The price of a single subscription Is $1.0?
l year or $1.00 for six montha In Clubs the price for six months remains
he same, but for a year it Is only $1.76.
OTHER PREMIUMS.
Besides the Buggy, Organ and Sewing Machine premiums, which are to
10 as full and complete rewards to the Clubmakers making and pairing for
he largest clubs In the county and the respective townships, we are offer*
ng SPECIAL PREMIUMS for all smaller Clubs, from four names up.
FOR FOUR NAMES.?A Stylographlc Fountain Pen; a handsome Three*
Bladed Pocket Knife with name and address on handle; or one of the late
lew Novels that retail for $1.00.
FOR FIVE NAMES.?A year's subscription to either of the following
Magazines: McClure's, Munsey, Argosy, Cosmopolitan, or any other Dollar
dagazlne, or either of the following: A "Champion Stem Winding Watch,
i gold pointed Fountain Pen or a Four-Bladed Pocket Knife.
FOR SIX NAMES.?An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, Hamilton Mod-.
11 16, 22-callbre Rifle, a year's subscription to the Christian Herald, 8aturlay
Evening Post, a 22-Strlng Zlthern or any one of the new popular $1.60
Novels.
FOR EIGHT NAMES?An Ingersoll "Triumph" Watch, Daisy Repeatng
Air Rifle?Works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a
lapld Writer Fountain Pen?plain case; or a Hopf Model Violin or an S-inch
Banjo.
FOR TEN NAMES.?One year's subscription to THE ENQUIRER, a No.
! Hamilton, 22-Cal. Rifle?model 11; any one of the $1.76 or $2.00 publications
>ne year, or a Gold Mounted Fountain Pen, a good Banjo, Guitar or Violin.
FOR TWENTY NAMES.?Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-ox. Canvas
luntlng Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single-Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, or
iny one of the $4.00 Magazines for one year.
FOR THIRTY NAMES.?Either of the following: A Single-Barrel Hamneriess
Shot Gun, a fine Toilet or Washstand Set, or a Hopkins ft Allen, Jr.,
2-Cal. Rifle.
FOR FORTY NAMES.?A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York
Itandard Open Face Watch, a W. Richards Double-Barrel Breech-Loading
Ihot Gum
ANYTHING DESIRED.?We will arrange to furnish any special article
[esired by a Clubmaker for a given number of names on application at this
ifflce.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
THE CONTEST BEGINS NOW and will come to a close on SATURDAY,
I ARCH 10, at 0 o'clock p. m., sharp.
Each Clubmaker will be held individually responsible for the payment of
he amount due on all names returned by him or her. Where It Is desired to
top a subscription before the close of the Club contest, the Clubmaker may
!o so by paying the amount due at the time of such stoppage. Wheve a sub?i-."?
<n rnii it onnni hp discontinued. The Clubmaker,
LTipuuu naa uwu pam iu tuMf ? v -.
iowever, may, If he sees proper, transfer the unfulfilled portion of the sub- .
crlptlon to another subscriber, provided the person to whom the transfer is
o be made was not a subscriber at the time the original name was entered on
ur books.
No name will be counted In competition for a premium until the subcrlptlon
price has been paid, nor will any premium be delivered until the
:iubmaker has either paid or made satisfactory settlement for all the names
n the Club.
In cases of contention by two or more Clubmakers over the right to a
ame, preference will be given to the one who pays for the name FIRST; but
/here both pay, we shall not attempt to decide the matter except by crediting
he name for one year for each such payment.
After a name has been entered on our books, no transfer will be perlit
ted. This is positive and emphatic, and where Clubmakers attempt to
lake such transfers, they must concede our right to take such steps as may
eem necessary to protect the fairness of this provision. The Clubmaker who
eturns names must pay for them. Clubmakers who try to return and pay
or names already regularly returned by others will be called down, eseclally
If there is evidence of an understanding between the Clubmakers.
'his is not for the protection of the publishers; but as a guarantee of the
alrness of the competition.
Any and all Clubmakers will have the right to Get Subscribers Wherever
hey Can. It Is not necessary that all the names shall go to the same adress.
The fact that a name was returned on a certain club last year does not
1ve that Clubmaker a right to return It this year.
All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sendig
them, and we will be responsible for the safe transmission of money
nly when it is sent by Draft, Registered Letter, Express or Postofflce Money
Irder.
In sending the names. Always give correct names or initials, and present
ostoffice address, and if possible say whether the subscribers are NOW taking
he paper. Careful observance of this will be the means of avoiding much
rouble and confusion.
" " **? " ? Uo/<kln*
In tne cose or a. ue ior enner me subs; vi ivnusui|> uvniug ......
'remiums, TWO WEEKS will be allowed for the working off of the tie.
After the close of the contest on SATURDAY, MARCH 19, at p. m.,
be price of a year's subscription will be $2.00, unless New Clubs are formed.
L. M. GRIST'S SONS,
PUBLISHERS,
iforkville, - - - - South Carolina.