Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-14
TEN CENTS A DAY.-No matter how lars

Ten CENTS DAY--No matter how large
your salary, you will save nothing if you
spend money too freely. Men are continually
indulging in small expenses, saying to them
selves that it is only triAe, yet forgetting that
the aggregate is serious, that even the sea-
shore is made up of petty grains of sand
Ten cents a day is even thirty.six dollars and
half year, and that is the interest of a
capital of six hundred dollar The man
who saves ten cents a day only IS SO much
richer than he who does not, as if he owned
life estate in house worth six hundred
dollars ); and if invested quarterly does not
take half that time. But ten cents day is
child's play, some will exclaim. Well, John
Jacob Astor used to say, that when a man,
who wishes to be rich, has saved ten thousand
dollars, he has won half the battle. Not that
Astor thought ten thousand much, but he
knew that in making such a sum, man &C.
quired habits of prudent economy, which
would keep him advancing in wealth. How
many, however, spend ten thousand in a few
years in extra expenses, and then on looking
back, cannot tell, as they say, "where the
money went to-" To save is to get rich. To
squander, even in small sums, is the first
step toward the poor house. The habit of
extravaganza is easily formed, but almost
impossible to break up
WHY 1T PAYS TO READ.-One's physical
frame-his body, his muscles, his feet his
hands-is only living machine. 1t is his
mind controlling and directing that machine,
that gives it power and efficacy. The success.
full use of the body depends wholly upon the
mind-upon its ability to direct the will.
If one ties his arm in sling it becomes weak
and finally powerless. Keep it in active ex-
ercise, and it acquires vgor and strength,
and is disciplined to use this strength as de.
sired, just as ones mind, by active exercise
in thinking, reasoning, studying, observing,
acquires yigor, strength power, Of crnicelltra-
tion and direction. Plainly, then, the man
who exercises his mind in reading and think
ing gives it greater power and efficiency, and
greater ability to direct the efforts of the
physical frame-his work-to better results,
than he can who merely or mainly uses his
muscles If man reads book or paper,
even one he knows to be erroneous, it helps
him by the effort to combat the errors. The
combat invigorates his mind.
Of all men, the farmer, the cultivator,
needs to read more to strengthen his reason.
ing powers, 80 that they will help out and
make more effective his hard toll
A WONDERFUL WooD.-We have in this
State q wonderful wood known as "smountain
mahogony ~ The trees do net grow large.
A tree with foot in diameter is much above
the average. When dry, the wood is about as
hard as box wood, and being of very fine
grain might, no doubt, be used for the same
purposes. 1t is of rich red color and very
heavy. When we'll seasoned it would be a
very fine material for the wood Carver. lii
the early days it was used in making boxes
for shafting and in few instances for shoes
and dies in quartz battery. Used as
fuel it creates intense heat 1t burns with
blaze as long as ordinary wood would last and
is then found (amost unchanged in form) con-
verted to q charcoal that Lasts about twice, as
long as ordinary; wood. For f1eEit sellsSmGeh
higher than any kind of wood indeed a
cord of it always brings the same price as a
ton of COAL The only objection to it as a
fuel is that it creates such an intense heat as
to burn out stoves more rapidly than any
kind of coal, however bad.-Virgiaia City
(Nev.) Enterprise. ',.'.
How r. isINs ARE MADE IN CALIFORNIA.
In Mr.. Blowers vineyard, Yolo county, the
grapes are allowed to remain on the vine
until of golden color and translucent. Then
they are picked and put on wooden trays two
or three feet in size, placed between the rows,
sloping to the sun. When half dried they
are turned by putting tray OIL top, and by
nverting them both, are transferred to the
new tray When the grapes lose their ashy
| appearance, and after removing the green
ones, the rest are put into large sweat boxes
placing sheets of paper between every twenty
FIVE pounds of raisns. They are left there
for two weeks. when the stems are to, gh and
the raisins soft. The packing follows, in which
iron or steel packing frames are used, the
raisins being assorted, weighed inspected, and
made presentable. Mr.. Blowers prefers a
rich, moist sandy loan, in warm climate,
for raisins, and believes that winter irrigation
will destroy insects and keep the vines ip a
thrifty condition. He prefers to plant vines
eight BY ten feet apart, or even ten by ten
feet, and uses fertilizers.