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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

KINDNESS TO AN1MALs-Van Amburgh
could handle his lions and tigers with impu.
nifty. No animal will fail to respond to kind
ness and uniform good treatment. And es.
pecially will the noble horse respect and con-
fde in and faithfully serve master who deals
gently and kindly with him. We have our
selves taken spirited Morgan mare, which
had been rudely handled and had become en-
tirely unmanageable through harsh treatment,
and, by appealing to her intelligence and re-
specting her needs, in three weeks time made
her entirely safe and reliable for wife and
children, and all who would treat her kindly,
and handle her gently; and we have, after
five years, seen the same mare resume her old
vicious habits when again under the control
of one who resorted to arbitrary or brutal
treatment Always appeal to the better in.
stincts of the horse, the mule, the OK, or cow,
as well as the dog and other domestic animals,
and they will never become vicious or unman-
ageable.-Semi- Tropical.
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atlisfellaueons &eadime.
THE FRIENDS OF LONG AGO.

When sit in the twilight cleaning,
And the busy streets grow still,
dream of the wide green meadow,
And the old house on the hill.
I can see the roses blooming
About the doorway low,
And again my heart gives greeting
To the friends of long ago
Dear long ago!
can see my mother sitting,
With life's snowfiakes in her hair,
And the smiles above her knitting,
And her face is sanity fair;
And see my father reading
From the Bible on his knee,
And again 1 hear him praying
AS he used to pray for me
So long ago!
see all the dear old faces
OF all the boys and girls at home,
As saw them in the dear old days
Before we had learned to roam.
As I sing the old songs over
With the friends used to know,
My heart forgets its SORROWS
In its dreams Of long ago
Dear long ago!
How widely our feet have wandered
From the old homes tender ties,
Some are beyond the ocean,
And some beyond the skies.
Nv heart grows sad with thinking
Of the friends used to know,
Perhaps I shall meet in heaven
All the loved of long ago
Dear long ago!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

zens. It would be an onerous burden on no
one, for the man who can afford to waste ten,
fifteen or twenty cents on drink, can we'll
afford to give the State two cents every time
he does so. The introduction of the MoAett
bell-punch in South Carolina would, undoubt-
edly, be either wise, just and profitable
measure of craftsmanship, or powerful in
centive to temperance. Probably it would be
both; and no good citizen can object to the
one or the other.-Ne,us and Courier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

p@ M. Fautrat asserts that wooded land re-
ceives more rain than bare land in its imme-
diate neighborhood. Pine forests attract more
moisture than other forests. Pine trees also
retain in their branches more than half of the
rain which falls on them, while leafy trees
permit more than half of the rainfall to reach
the earth Immediately.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

Our RECEIPT FOR CURING MEAr.-To
one gallon of water, take II Tbs. Of salt; !
fb. of sugar; ] OF. of saltpetre; OF. of pot.
ash. In this ratio the pickle can be increased
to any quantity desired. Let these be boiled
together until all the dirt from the sugar rises
to the top and is skinned of. Then throw it
into tub to cool, and when cold, pour it over
your beef or pork. The meat must be we'll
covered with pickle, and should not be put
down for at least two days after killing, du.
ring which time it should be slightly sprinkled
with powdered saltpetre, which removes all
the surface-blood, etc., leaving the meat fresh
and clean. Some omit boiling the pickle,
and find it to answer well, though the opera
ton Of boiling puri6es the pickle by throwing
off the dirt always to be found in salt and
sugar. If this receipt is strictly followed, it
will require only single trial to prove its su-
periority over the common way, or most ways
of putting down meat, and will not soon be
abandoned for any other. The meat is un-
surpassed for sweetness, delicacy and freshness
of color.-Grmantown Telegraph.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15
nsE The window.plass manufacturing inter

va The window.glass manufacturing inter-
est is now one of the principal industries of
this country, and is destined eventually to
check the importation from France and Bel
GUM. In fact, large quantities of glassware
have been exported from the United States
during the past year, There are in this coun-
try seventy-two glass factories, of which twen-
ty-seven are in New Jersey, in which State
there is a capital of$6.0OO,00O invested in the
business,
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KEEPING UP WITH THE FASHION. -"Ma,

KEEPING UP WITH THE FAsHIoN.-"Ma,
can l 90 to the negro serenaders tonight"
mo, my dear, | cannot think of letting you
20 to any such performances"
"Why, ma, everybody goes to hear them
sing such comic songs, and tell all sorts of
funny stories you can't help laughing all the
time. 1 DO wish you would let me CO."
"You must not urge me, Charley, for I
cannot throw away money on fellows who 60
about disguised as negroes, singing silly songs,
that have no moral tendency, and telling
more silly stories that are not calculated to i'm
prove the mind, but rather to do hurt. And
more than this, I do not believe that any Of
the better class of society visit the concerts. :"
"Indeed, ma, then you are grandly mista-
ken, for heard Judge Browns boys say that
they were there with their father and sisters,
and 1 saw Mr. Jones, my Sabbath school
teacher, 60 in last evening and l was in the
store to-day where they sell the tickets, and
the minister of the Brook street church came
in and purchased three or four to take his
family" .:.
"Are you sure about all you tell me, Char
ley?"
"Yes, ma !; and Mr.. Smith remarked when
he sold the tickets, that the concerts we're at
tended by very fashionable audiences"
"Well, that alters the case some you may
90 and tell your sister Angelica to dress for
the concert, and will accompany you; be.
lieve there is nothing but pray yer meeting at
our church tonight. We must keep up with
the fashion !"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

LEGEND OF THE JAsMINE.-We are told
that duke of Tuscany was the first possessor
of this pretty shrub in Europe; and he was
so jealously fearful lest others should enjoy
what he alone wished to possess, that strict
iniunctions were given to his gardener not to
give slip, not 80 much as single flower, to
any person. To this command the gardener
would have been faithful, had not love wound
ed him by the sparkling eyes of a fair but
portionless peasant, whose want Of dowry, and
his poverty alone kept them from the hyme.
neal altar. On the birthday of his mistress
he presented her with nosegay, and TO- rem.
der the bouquet more acceptable, ornamented
it with branch of the jasmine. The povera
fgl;a, wishing to preserve the bloom of this
new flower, put it into fresh earth, and the
branch remained green all the year. In the
following spring it grew, and was covered
with flowers. 1t fourished and multiplied 80
much under the fair nymph's cultivation, that
she was able to amass little fortune from the
precious gift which love had made her when
with sprig of jasmine in her breast, she be.
slowed her hand and wealth on the happy
gardener of her heart. And the Tuscan girls,
to this day, preserve the remembrance of this
adventure by invariably wearing nosegay of
jasmine on their wedding day; and they have
proverb which says young girl worthy Of
wearing this nosegay is rich enough to make
the fortune of a good husband.
MATHEMATICS AND MISUNDERSTANDING
other talk to-day it came out that whaleships
carry no doctor. The captain adds the doc
torship to his own duties. He not only gives
medicines, but sets broken limbs after notions
of his own, or saws them off and sears the
stump when amputation seems best. The
captain is provided with a medicine. chest,
with the medicine numbered instead Of named.
A book of directions goes with this 1t des-
cribes diseases and symptoms, and says:
"Give a teaspoonful of No. once an hour," !"
or "Give 10 grains of No. 15 every half
hour" etc. One of our sea captains came
across skipper in the North Pacific who was
in a state of great surprise and perp1exity.
Said he: "there's something rotten about this
medicine chest business One of my men was
sick-nothing much the matter. I looked in
the book ; it said, give him teaspoonful of
No. Is. went to the medicine chest and I
see I was out of No. Is. judge I'd got TO
get up combination somehow that would gil
the bill, 80 I hove into the fellow half tea
spoonful of No. 8 and half teaspoonful of
No. 7, and I'll be hanged if it didn't kill him
in fifteen minutes There is something about
this medicine.chest system that's too many
for me "-Mark Tt0ain in the atlantic Month
ly for November.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

LIVE WITHIN Your MEANs.-Live within
your means. This is good rule for office
holders and business men generally. When
the man with moderate income endeavors to
live as extensively as men with a large in
come, his future can be easily written little
enjoyment, periods of anxiety, burdensome
debts, desperate struggle to keep up ap-
pearances, ultimate bankruptcy and red flag
to notify the neighbors that the sheriff is mas
ter of the situation. One half the dishonesty
of the present age springs from this foolish
practice of initiating the style of others. The
man of thousand a year wants to live equal
to one who receives Eve; he in turn aspires to
make as big a show as the one who receives
ten and the receiver of ten labors to keep
pace with the one who counts bis income
among the fifty thousands. Is it any wonder
that 80 many fail in business, or forfeit by
their misconduct the confidence Of friends
We must come back to our old fashioned way
of living, and this can be done only by obey
ing the Injunction, "Live within your means" /"
Life is altogether too short to destroy its en-
joyments by taxing soul and body to keep up
false appearances. Contentment comes with
moderation mental suffering and keen an
guish with extravaganza. To the young man
just starting in life, we say, live within your
means. To the man of business, pursuing
success, we say, live within your means. To
the Office holder, who hopes, by honorable
conduct to merit promotion and distinction,
we say, live within your means. To all who
labor for honor or profit, we commend the
motto as safe and profitable one, and one
that will pay compound interest in the end.
A faithful adherence to it, by old and young,
rich and poor, would restore confidence in
business and official circles, and gil the land
with happy homes, from which will emanate
a spirit Of purity essential to the maintenance
of public virtue.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

b9r The abuses in bankruptcy have become
80 numerous and so fragrant in character that
it is not surprising that the call for the repeal
of the law is wide and emphatic. The regis.
trar, before the United States Court at New
York few days ago, during the disposal of a
crooked case, said: ut has become com.
mon practice for merchants, knowing them
selves to be insolvent and bankrupt to pur-
chase merchandise to large amount, make
fictitious debts to friends, and then execute a
general assignment to some personal friend,
who takes possession of the effects and con.
tinues the business the assignor remains in
the store and continues to live in style upon
the proceeds. At the expiration of six months
their friends unite and put them into volun-
tary bankruptcy, from which they are dis
charged, and their general creditors do not
receive any dividend whatever. Such state
ofaffairs so discourages creditors that they
give up their claims and let the State assignee
keep the property and pay out any scant pit.
tance he may see 6t,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

A FINE RABB1T.-Amateur sportsman re-
turns in triumph from days shooting, with
splendid rabbit and says to his wife:
"There, you said I couldn't shoot. You
didn't expect to see me bring this homer
eyes, did the servant next door saw you
buying around the corner"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

GROWTH AND PROSPERITY OF RICHMOND,
VA.-The population of Richmond, Va, des-
pite the war, has doubled since 1860. From a
local CENSUS, instituted last year, the population
vas shown to have reached upward of r.
900. 1t has five railway outlets, James river
and the canal running to the Alleghanies.
Work on the James river. looking to the &C.
commodatlon Of vessels of heavy draft, is
progressing rapidly. Richmond numbers 331
factories of all sorts. Everything is made
there now, from lucifer match to a steam en-.
CINE. The sales from her factories in the
year 1875 reached the sum of S22, ,424, $50.
Her wheat and corn mills produced to the
value of $2,347 900; her forty-one tobacco
factories s12,Q58, 300 her iron works $685..
740. These are examples of what has been
accomplished in town laid waste BY fire and
war from 1861 to 1886,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

The OYSTER Bus1NEss.-Thirty thousand
people are engaged in the oyster trade of
Baltimore, and more than seven hundred
schooners and pongies form its Chesapeake
oyster feet. Some experts will open twenty
FIVE gallons day of oysters, earning twenty
cents gallon; men, women, girls, (rnostly
of German parentage) and boys, are engaged
in the packing and shipping rooms where the
measuring, washing, asserting and canning
60 on necessarily. In the raw business the
oysters are first packed in air tight cans,
which are in turn packed in sawdust and ice
for shipment-6fteen million cans of raw be-
ing shipped in season. In addition twen-
ty.6ve million cans of steamed oysters are
shipped per season.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

par The large boa constructor in the New
York Aquarium has just given birth to fifty
small boas-an occurrence without prece-
dent in this country. The family is kept in
large glass box. The mother is thirteen feet,
and her young are about two feet in length.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

GONG IN DEBT.-Half the young men in
the country, with many old enough to know
better, would Ego into business" that is, into
debt, tomorrow, if they could. Most poor
men are 80 ignorant as to envy the merchant
and manufacturer, whose life is an incessant
struggle With pecuniary difficulties, who is
driven to constant "shinning," and who, from
month to month, barely evades that insolven-
cy which sooner or later overtakes most men
in business; 80 that it has been computed
that but one in twenty of them achieves a
pecuniary success. For my own part-aDd l
speak from sad experienced would rather
be convict in State prison, a slave in a
rice swamp, than to pass through life under
the harrow of debt. Let no man misjudge
himself unfortunate or truly poor go long as
he has the full use of his limbs and faculties,
and is substantially free from debt. Hunger,
cold, rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion,
unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt
is infinitely worse than them all. repeat,
my young friends, avoid pecuniary obliga-
tions as you would pestilence and famine, If
you have but fifty cents, and can get 20 more
for a week, buy peck of corn, parch it and
live on it. rsthsr than owe any man dollar !!
Of course, know that some men must do
business that involve risks, and must often
give notes and other obligations, and ! do not
consider him really in debt who can lay his
hand directly on the means Of paying, at
some little sacrifice, all he owes. | speak of
real debt, that which involves risk or sacri-
fee on the one side, obligation and depend
ence on the other; and say, from all such
let every youth humbly pray God to preserve
him evermore.-Horace Greeley.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

HIS ExAM1NAr1oN.-Ay young theologue,
in the course of his examination for ordina-
tion, was asked to give an account of the death
Of Jezebel, which he did, as follows: "And
he said, Throw her down. And they threw
her down. And he said, DO it second
time And they did it a second time. And
he said, DO it third time And they did
it third time. And he said, DO it seventy
times seven.' Last of all, the woman died
also. And they gathered up of the fragments
that remained twelve baskets full. Then he
said unto the woman, Go, and sin no more,
lest worse thing come unto thee.'"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

l@r The dissatisfied Republican senators,
whom a Tribune correspondent names as
"Blaine, Conkling, Howe, Edmunds, Cameron
and Anthony" are very modest in their de-
mands on the President. They want him to
dismiss Schurz, Evarts and Key, and perhaps
Devens and Thompson, who are not very &C.
tive political workers, to antagonize the
South" and Withdraw the obnoxious features
of his civil service order" That is all.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

B9- According to an estimate of the New
York Daily Bulletin, there is now in the
hands Of the people of the United States,
$456, 100000 in greenbacks and currency.
The population is about 45,000,000, which
gives exactly $40 per head.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

The WAY IT WAS DoNE.-An old gray
friar who was showing the supposed place in
Palestine where Samson killed one thousand
Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, ex.
planned the modus operandi as follows: "He
took hold of the ass by the tail, and swung
the animal against the Philistines in such
manner that only his head, and of this espe-
cially the jawbone, struck the Philistines,
keeping offin this way the surrounding war
riors. and giving the blow the necessary force
to kill. I affirm that in this manner Samson
could have slain million Philistines, provi.
ded the tail of the ass did not break"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

SEE THAG ALL Is R1eHT.-It is always
bad to start on journey without having
looked to the harness and to the horses shoes
and it often happens that the time saved by
omitting examination turns out to be dead
loss when the traveller has advanced little
on bis journey. Not one minute, but hun
dred minutes may be lost by the want of a
little attention at first Set the morning
watch with care if you would be safe through
the day begin we'll if you would end we'll.
Take care that the helm of the day is put
right, look we'll to the point you want to sail
to, then whether you make much progress or
little, it will be so far in the right direction.
The morning hour is generally the index of
the day.-Spurqeon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

A REM1N1scENCE OF ANDREW JACKSON.
Speaking of General jackson, heard the
other day, an anecdote of him at the time
when, as military commander in Florida, du-
ring the administration of President Monroe,
he had tried, at drum.head court-martial,
sentenced and hung two Englishmen, who had
melted, it was said, an insurrection among the
Indians President Monroe feared that Great
Britain would make trouble about this, and
summoned bis bold brigadier to this city,
where he was arraigned at meeting Of the
Cabinet John Quincy Adams, then secre-
tary of State, who had instructed jackson to
govern with firm hand in Florida, defended
him, and read long argument in which he
Grotius, Vattel and Puaendorf jackson lis
tened in sullen silence, but that evening,
when asked at dinner party whether he was
not comforted by Mr.. Adams citation of au-
thorities, he exclaimed: "What do I care
about those old musty chaps? Blast Grotius,
blast Vattel and blast the Putfen-chap. This
is a fight between Jim Monroe and me, and I
propose to fight it out "-Psrlsy's Washington
Letter.
par A smart Des Moines girl, Sarah Sum-
mers, was realizing quite fortune by the sale
of white pulverized sugar for Glove potions"
She advertised it widely by circular, which
read: "It possesses such powerful and mag
retic influences that, when handled by either
sex and given to the other, they Immediately
become attracted, and in short time love the
giver, no matter who they have loved before.
Any lady or gentleman can gain the love,
and we'd the one they love, by using this pow:
der. 1t is easily given in wine or liquors Of
any kind, or tea, coffee, or any drink that can
be sweetened, as it tastes and looks like 80.
gar, and can be given without fear of detec.
tion, or can be given by another person, after
following directions. The love you gain will
be true, pure and permanent" She was ar
rested, and among her effects were numerous
letters ordering the "potion" from young
girls, married ladies, elderly females, clerks,
actors, merchants, lawyers and people of 9th
er occupations and professions, and yet it is
said that the age Of superstition has passed
away.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

The TRUE STORY OF MAzEPPA.-In the
Church of St. Mary, Galatz, Roumania, is to
be seen the tomb of Mazeppa, the famous bet,
man of the Cossacks, immortalized by Byron.
His adventures, sang by the bard, were in
reality much more commonplace than as we
have learned to know them. Mazeppa was
Young Cossack of the Ukraine, who, having
been ennobled by the Russians, declined to
pay his taxes For this the local Governor,
Count Talboski, ordered him to be stripped
naked by his servants and tied to the back OF
his own horse, with his head to the animals
tail. The horse was then Aogged, pistols were
discharged close to his ears, and after being
thus excited he was turned loose.
The road leading to Mazeppa's house was
bridle-path leading through the woods,
which was particularly fertile in thorn bush.
es and wild pear trees, and the infuriated
beast, accustomed to follow this route before,
dashed off as soon as he was at liberty, home
ward, where his master arrived very much
the worse for his Journey. He had, however,
enough strength left to call for the gate keep
er. who recognized his voice and opened the
door, to close it Immediately to keep out what
he supposed to be Mazeppa'a ghost, At last
other servants, recovering from their fear,
came to his assistance and put him to bed
where he remained some months between lite
and death from the injuries he had received
When he recovered he exiled himself volun
tarily to Poland, and joining himself to the
fortunes of Charles XII, was mortally wound
ed at Poltowa, and, dying at Barnitza, bis
BODY was broug hit to and buried at Galatz.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-16

George Butler, as represented by
the Winnemucca Silver State, yet
travels on his commission at the ex-
pense of the Government, and manages
to keep full all the time"
Queen Victoria has just attained
her fifty, eighth birthday. Only twelve
others of the reigning Sovereigns of
Christendom (out of thlrty.elght in
al) have attained to this age. The
oldest on the list is the Pope, who was
eighty.fve on May 13. OF temporal
princes the German Emperor has seen
tie greatest number OF years, his eight
ieth birthday having been reached a
few weeks ago, The Czar is older than
the Queen by about year, having been
born on the Goth of April, 1918. The
King of Italy is some ten months
younger than the Queen, the date of his
birth being March IA, 1920. The En-
peror Francis Joseph is not yet forty
seven. He was born in the year Of
revolutions, 1880, and assembled the
throne in the year of revolutions, 164S.
The youngest reigning sovereign is AL
phonso XII, Of Spain, who Is no yet
twenty.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-16

Boot and Shoe Makers.
linton Bretney, in Lsvdn's building, Bank street
All orders promptly. flled-iOork warranted.