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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-25

SUGGESTED CHANGE IN THE CoNsTITU.
T1oN.-Hon Galusha A. Grow, ex.Speaker Of
the United States House of Representatives,
through an interview in the New York Tri-
bune suggests change in the Constitution in
order to relieve the President of the enormous
and growing load ofexecutive duties devolved
upon him. Mr.. Grow would limit the ap
pointing power of the President to his cabinet,
the foreign ministers and the judges of the
United States courts, placing the task Of
making selections for the subordinate offices
of the government in the hands of the heads
of departments. Still further to relieve the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-25

REMEDY FOR WEAK OR SORE EYEs.-A
correspondent of an exchange gives the fol-
lowing as remedy for weak or sore eyes ::
Get five cent cake of elder flowers at the
druggists and steep in one gill of soft water.
1t must be stepped in bright tin or earthen.
ware. Strain nicely, and add three drops of
laudanum bottle it tight and keep in cool
place. Use as wash, letting some of it get
into the eyes, Follow this and relief is GER
tain. If the eyes are painful or much sore,
make small, soft congresses, wet them in the
mixture and bind over the eyes at night. l
can warrant the above as harmless and sure,
having tried it in number of cases where
other Skill and remedies had utterly failed.
If the eyes are badly infamed, use it very
freely. A tea made Of elder flowers and
drank will help to cleanse the blood. Pure
rock salt and water will strengthen your eyes
if you bathe them daily in 1t.
, 1881-10-21
Bia L Ha,r.

False hair having come to be recOg-
niZed as necessity of the modern female
existen e, it may be of interest to learn
how this constantly increasing want Is
supplied. Live hair, bought ''on foot
Ito use the technical term of the trade)
constitutes but small percentage of the
stock in the market, as there are few
women who are willing to part with their
locks for money, and those who have
superfiuous locks to spare grow fewer
year after year. When secondhand
tresses were needed merely to furnish
wigs for Il few elderly ladies, agents
found no difficulty in securing sutfi-
cheney among the peasant maids OF Au-
vergne and Brittany. The present de-
mand, however, greatly exceeds the sup
ply, and it is asserted that Paris alone
uses more than all the available crop IN
France, and that Marseilles (the great
center of traffic in hair) deals with
Spain, the Orient and the two Slcllles,
for forty tons a year OF dark hair, OF
which she makes upward of 90, 900 CHG
mons annually. Under the name of
dead hair" are classed 'combings,"
which thrifty servant-girls save up and
sell, the clippings of barber shops, faded
curls, worn out switches, etc. The scav-
engers of every city, both at home and
abroad, value nothing short of a silver
spoon among the refuse so much as
snarl of cOmbings, however dirty, as la
will find ready sale. Such findings are
afterwards washed with bran and potash,
carded, sifted, classed and sorted, and
then made into the cheap front curls,
puffs and chignons that abound in mar
ket. Much of this enters into the cheaper
grades of the $50 900 ''pieces" annually
made in France, of which enormous trade
England is said to be the best customer
ana America almost as good. Late re-
ports on the commerce of Swatow, China,
show that a large export trade in dead"
hair, gathered in the stalls of BARRIERS,
sprung up in 1873, during which year
Is, 800 pounds were exported to Europe.
In 1875 the exports of this refuse arose
to 134 900 pounds, with commercial
value of over $25, 900. 1t is an undoubt-
ed fact. too, that pauper corpses are often
despoiled of their hair to meet this same
demand of an increasing commerce.
Those, then, who sport other than their
own natural locks, can never be sure
whether these are redolent of the sepul
cher, the gutter, or the servant girls
comb
, 1881-10-21
"Mrs. HoIson's lips were kind O

"Mrs. Holson's lips were kind OF
tremblv, and she said:
I've got three boys, myself, about as
big as YOU. They might have been men
and gone away from me. but they only
lived to be twelve years old, and then
the Lord took them to keep for me, so
they will always be my little lads. L
feel sure if they had lived they never
would have done anything to make me
ashamed of them, and hopey our moth
ers can feel Just that way about every
one of YOU. Because there is a great
deal to do in the world, and every one Is
needed to help to do il"
Then Abner said, pile in, and We
got into the wagon; but tell you L
made up my mind nobody should ever
be ashamed of me. And that means to
be good clear through, because if other
folks didn't know it you'd have to be
ashamed of yourself. Abner drove
around through Brimfield till he came to
High Rock, where the camp was, and
then said to ''pIle out, and drove away
We gave three cheers for Abner, too.
There wasn't much fun in camp that day,
but we got some sassafras and some
wintergreen berries for the girls, and
went home early.
, 1881-10-21
THE JOLLY RANGERS.

suppose you have heard of Robin
Hood. He was jolly sort of man that
lived in England, and had a lot of men
in his company. They lived in the woods
and wore green clothes, and shot with
bows and arrows, and if the captain Just
blew on his bugle they would start up
from every bush and hollow, and then
disappear again. My father says boys
are just the 9th her way; they are as thick
as spatter when you don't want them, but
when you do, they beat Robin Hoods
men for disappearing. We all had bows
and arrows, and We put feathers IN our
caps and went on raids in the woods.
West Rock is good place for that;
there's no end of woods, going on and
on up the mountain and around
toward Brimfeld. You could get lost in
them easy enough, and there are
regular caves to live in, only our folks
are so scarey we had to come home of
nights. This last time we didn't though.
We had been planning it a long time,
and when we were all ready we had to
wait two weeks for it to get moonlight.
We wanted to stay all night up in the
mountain, and they let us, Just for once,
if we would never ask again. l don't
call that fair, but we promised. Boys
have to promise q good many things,
and people ought not to expect that they
can remember all OF them. 1 suppose
that / have promised never TO do about
two thousand things; that makes only one
thing in a day for about six years; now,
how is a fellow going to remember SO
many things, unless ne has watch? If
had watch, in hunting case. could
remember better.
Well, We had our provisions, and
some blankets and matches, and hatchet
and we started before sunrise, and went
around toward BIimfield and then up the
mountain. All of US boys went except
Charley Purvis, and he had sore toe.
where the COW stepped on it. and could
not walk. He wanted TO go-the worst
way-but his father said if he was too
lame to work, he was too lame to play.
ANYBODY knows that isn't SO.
When your tooth aches in school fit to
split, it doesn't ache at recess half so bad.
I suppose the ache is there all the same,
but the fun covers it up, like taking
pills in a spoonful of currant Jelly.
Leaving out the fun is like takin' them
clear, and you wouldn't like that your
self.
We chose Tom for leader, because he
had Scotch cap, and Our Boarder let
him have a white feather to put in it.
All the rest of us had caps, but they
were the wrong kind and we had to turn
them inside out. We went to cave
about mile from Brimfield. The Wa
terbury road goes nearest to it, and
there is high rock in front of it where
you can see up and down the road for a
long way. The rock is very steep to
climb and has FIR trees all around it, so
you can't see it ali from the road and it
looks as if person standing on it was IN
the top of the trees.
Tom said one of us must be sentinel,
and stand on guard, and give the signal,
if any person came up the mountain.
The signal was kind of whistle, but We
don't know how to put it IN writing.
Chris. went on guard first, while We
We're fixing mp the cave and getting the
wood for "a campfire. We wanted fire
.r -.. ~ tI- rock. Int it was too hard
Eg -.r ..... ..... Nobody came
, 1881-10-21
MRS. JONES AND HER DAUGHTERS.
ny r. h. MUNKITTRIIK.

Mrs. Jones had daughters three.
Whom she thought should married be 90
Mary. Lou and Emily
Sweet and fair
But she wouldn't have them wed
ANY farmer boys, she said,
As she proudly tossed her head
In the air.
But she vowed her pretty girls,
With their Establishments and curls,
Should iEveIgle counts and earls
To propose.
SO she took them 10 the sea.
Where for rest the mobiles tee,
While at rural lovers she
Crooked her nose.
They were taught TO bang their hair.
Tennis plas in manner rare,
Till they charmed the Delaware
Water Gap.
And with grace they led the dance,
Which their beauty did enhance;
But Eo earls did they entrance
Or entrap.
Loves Of hats" for them she bought,
That a noble might be caught
Oitheir cOrOncts she thought
Day and night,
But the earls both rich and gay
They encountered every day.
As the jolly anglers say
Wouldn't bite
Season after season past
Unsuccessful as the last,
Though the mother broadly cast
All her pelf.
All her lovely daughters three,
Mary, Lou and Emilr.
Were, as far she could see,
on the shelf.
Half-distraeted, money spent.
To the country back she went;
disappointment. discomfort
Then were hers
But she thought that, in a week,
All the lovers old would speak
For their hands, and be their meek
Worshipers.
But those farmer boys had we'd
Seven years at least had fled
Since at them she tossed her head
In the air.
Now frustrated Mrs. Jones
O'er lost chances vainly groans,
While she speaks of earls in tones
Of despair.
Had she let those boys compete
For her daughters, shy, petite
Love would sing to them as sweet
As a lark
Though it 5 noble aiming high
In this life, o ever try
And be careful, lest you fly
Ger the mark.
, 1881-10-21
EYE & EAR INFIRMARY
SANITARluM, or HOME FOR THE SICK
Maeadam HOad bet. Porter and Wood Sts,
South Portland, Or.

Dr. IfkinStOn, late Professor OF Eye Il Ear Diseases
In the Medical Department of Willamette. University y
has erected fine building. beautiful elevation in
the south part Of the city and Is prepared to gccomo
date patients suffering from all Diseases of the EYE
EAR or THROAT Also will pay special attention tn
PERSONS kbUTfng under Chronic Nervous un,ctIoIs
and 10 Diseases peculiar 10 women. and receive IiIni-
ted number Of cases expecting confinement.
The intention IL provide ii Home for such cases
with all the best hygicniC agencies combined with The
best medical skill TO be h. in tlI,. InetrUpoIiS
Consulting physician and surgeon DT Philip Harvey
Prof of diseases of women and children III the medical
department Willamette University.
Also DT J. NJ +. Browne, Pref. of Physiology med
dept. willamette University.
For any amount Of references and circular address
DIR e. H. PILkISGTON.
Cor. II aud Washington SIs.. Portland, Or.
, 1881-10-21

PAINFULLY ILL.-The many friends of Mr. A. NJ
Cannon. the banker Of Spokan Falls will regret 10
learn that he has been confined TO his room at tbe
residence of his sster-inlaw. Mrs Pope on Sal
mon street. Tor the past week with deeply painful
and dangerous disease of the eye. His oculist pro-
nounces the disease acute glaucoms an Affection
characterized by great pressure Inside of the eve
ball, which becomes Of stony hardness the pupil
turning yellowish green, and causing extreme ag.
ony, which resists even large doses OF opium Yes
terday morning finding complete blindness impend-
ing, his physicians performed an iridectomy or re-
moVAl OF portion of the iris from one eve since
which, he Is much easier and now strongly hopes
for recovery. OTegOnidH. Oct. SlA.
We have learned that the physician who
ope1ated sn successfully on Mr. Capuon
WAS the well known oculist DR.. J. r. Pix
in"'"n of the Portland eye and ear infirm
49, ..ao-e card appears in our columns
, 1881-10-21

remember that there's plenty OF fun IN
the world that other people can enjoy as
well as themselves, and that it pays bet
ter to stop and think before you do Il
thing than after you've gone and done
II. And l advise EN- 10 say TO that man
that they're going to thrash, that there
Is only one way to take nonsense ont Of
a boy and keep it out, and that : 20 put
IN something better.
Il don't know who started H.. but We
all uUrrahet for Mr.. Ephraim HylsuE,
and then hc took Us into the house aud
showed u, place Co wash, and shook
hands with u- and went away. Mr..
H.I-.u talked 90 l- just tL. -al. a- ~
.. Utf invited u- tH VISIT Der. ami u"
..# -.. best breakfast ] ever .ls .n rl
t. H.| ..r.E rr .sf .r .u- .s..r -.
... harvest .r....H ... ....
H. r".
, 1881-10-21
The WOrshIpped Elephant.

About three months ago the King of
Siam received word from one OF his pro-
vincial governors that q new deity, in the
shape of snow-white elephant, had been
captured in an outlying district of the
kingdom, and was then on its way to
Bangkok. This glorious intelligence
was received with tumultuons enthusiasm
at Court, and his Majesty at once set out
with his. Ministers, grand officers of State,
and several of the reverend clergy, to
welcome the approaching elephant with
profound salutatiOns, kneeled and placed
the creatures trunk upon his head and
then upon his shoulders, in token of his
homage and as a supplication for bless
ing, After these touching ceremonies
had had been concluded pro-
cession was formed with the
King on the deity's right fink,
carrying a drawn sword, and priest on
the left bearing a golden wand. Thus
the cortege entered the city, amid sal
woes of artillery and general salute
from the Royal troops, who were drawn
up on either side of the route leading to
the palace. Having escorted the ele-
phant to its apartments. the King for
mally bestowed upon his sacred guest
the rank of ''reigning monarch" and
decorated it with the Grand Gordon of
the Siamese Order bearing its own style
and title. The household of the new
deity has since been organized upon a
truly Royal scale. Every article dedi-
Gated to the white elephants use and
service is of massive gold or rare porce-
lain, and popular offerings to the value
of many thousands of pounds were De-
posted at its shrine before it had been
established forty ght hours in its spien-
did quarters Immediately adjacent to the
Kings own private suite of apartments.
, 1881-10-21

"Dleu ct mon droit" is the motto of
Royal family of England. twas first
assumed by Richard l.. to intimate that
he held his soverereignty from God
alone. 1t seemed TO have been dropped
among the Immediate successors of that
Prince, hut was revived by Edward III. .,
when he first claimed the crown of
France. Since, in the reign of Elizabeth,
William II. and Anne. 1t has formed the
guyA! motto of England.
, 1881-10-21

We had friend say to us a few days ago: 81
never do anything for a cold; just wear it of. -
That il exc, edingly dangerous; on" might do
that 9 times and the Goth time the cold would
settle the lungs and lead 10 consumption, and
thus cut ones lite short many years. Is it not
better, and more sensible, 20 go 10 your druggist
and get bottle of AmmeH's Cough Syrup That
run any risk at all.
Do not delay using Ammen's Cough Syrup.
Piunder's ). =. : Fever and Ague mix
ture. a sure shot
, 1881-10-21

q. y r Co. (New Ser!csl, M 80
, 1881-10-21

Do not delay using Ammen's Cough Syrup.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

children. If the s4d4w desires to
abandon her husband, the Indian ol
her choice must pay back the price
originally paid to her mother. He
may abato no jot1or little. and it ia
in such payment shat the divorce il
perfected. She then becomes sin
gle woman, free to marry, but she
cannot live in. the vicinity inhabit-
ed by h er former husband. She
must move away with her new ven
ture. Such divosces are not unfre-
quent. 1t is a difficult thing for
the squaw to perfectly adapt her
self to her white husband. He may
be of the kindest dapoation /; but
his ways are NOT her ways, and
though she struggles with all her
strength to draw closer to him and
try to make her existence a part Of
his, she cannot make him one Of
her kind, and she drifts away from
him. The birth of children directs
her thoughts into new channel
and lessons the chasm between
them, but without them he has but
little hope of keeping her to him
self. Sooner or later she will find
her affinity.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Americas Coal Supply.
? PrsessAinss American Association.

Mr.. z. w. Sheufer, of Pottsville
writes as follows respecting the
supply of coal of the United States
and the methods Of mining it !: The
coal resources of Great Britain are
all developed now and in process
of depletion, while IN this country,
when our four hundred and seventy
square miles of anthratic are ex-
hausted, we have moro than four
hundred times that area, or 2OC, 900
:quare miles, Of bituminous from
which to supply ourselves and the
rest of mankind with fuel. The
coal product of the world is about
3OO,OOO,OO0 tons annually, The
North American continent could
supply it all for two hundred years.
With an annual production Of so, .
100000, 1t would require twelve
centuries to exhaust the supply.
But with uniform product of 1907
100000 tons per annum, the end
of the bituminous supply would be
reached in eight hundred years.
What the annual consumption will
be when this continent supports a
teeming population of 400, 100000
souls, as will be the case some day,
must be left to conjecture. But
with half that population, as ener-
getic. restless, and inventive as our
people in this stimulating climate
have always been, under the hopes
of success such a country as this
constantly holds ont to tempt am
bition and reward enterprise, it is
a very moderate estimate, guided
by the actual output already reach
ed in Great Britain, to suppose
that there will be ample use for one
hundred million tons year of BIZ
luminous coal for home consump-
ton alone.
We have about $40 colleries,
and produce 2O,O0O,OOO tons per
annum. or about $4,000 tons each.
Great Britain has nearly 1000 col
leries, and mines $4,000, 900 tons,
or $4,000 tons per colliery. The
greater the yield per colliery the
less the expense in mining. If we
decrease the number of mines and
increase their capacity not only to
raise the coal, but to exhaust con.
slant current of foul air and dan
gereus gases, clouds Of powder,
smoke, and millions of gallons OF
water, We will reduce the cost OF
mining. Most OF the anthracite
mining in the United States is now
done at a less depth than 500 feet
vertical but as the coal nearer the
surface becomes exhausted, the
mines must go deeper and become
more extensive.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Not That Kind Of a Gun.

Ir a corner grocery i'll the wes-
tern part of the city, the other day,
boy was buying shot and getting
ready to go hunting. His old gun
was lying around rather loose.
and the grocer nervously remark
ed :;
i" Boy, 1 wish you'd take care OF
that gun-l'm afraid of an accl-
dent"
The boy stood it up against a
barrel, and went on telling how
many rabbits he meant to pepper,
and pretty soon it came near falling
TO the floor.
at tell you that Internal thing
will hurt some of us yet - exclaim-
ed the grocer as he jumped aside,
aud the boy leaned it against the
counter, and said he'd never take
back seat for a bear-never. AS
lie reached over to look at some
buck-shot, down tumbled the gun
and off went the charge, sending
about forty duckshot into tcn'gal-
lon oil can in range.
"There she gocs-there sho
goes ~ yelled the grocer as ho
danced around. Didn't L tell
yon that Internal gun would go
off I"
i" "And did l deny it ?" promptly
retorted the boy. Do you s'pose
that Pm fool 'nuff, to go out to
hunt rabbits with gun that won't
shoot 20
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Rich People.

That we have some very rich
people in this country there is no
doubt, but whore are they, asks
the Cincinnati Star, as com pared
with tho Roman aristocrats2 Van
derbilt may be able to give his
check for $4,000, 900, but
when Gyms returned from the con-
quest of Asia he was rated a:
$50,O0OO,0OO. Mrs. Astor may
give an entertainment at the ex-
Pense of s25, 600, and Mrs. Mackey
may give dinner parties that cost
$50, 900, but a festival given
by Ptolemy Philadelphus cost
$2.239, 900. fAlexander's daily
meal, frugal as it was, cost LOO;
and money was of 80 little account
to Claudius that he once swallowed
pearl that was worth $4,000.
James Gordon Bennett. has been
known to give many thousands OF
dollars to people for whom he had
acquired fancy, but according to
Tacitus, more than $97, 100000
was given away in a similar man
ner by Nero. Queens of fashion
in New York and San Francisco
have appeared at balls wearing
jewels estimated to have cost
100000, which pales into insig-
niicance when compared with the
alleged fact that Lola Taulina
wore jewels valued at $1,662, 500,
and that when she wore these it
was only on the occasion of a plain
citizens supper. Over $4,000
was spent in providing a funeral
for an eccentric New Yorker who
left directions how the money
should be spent, but the obsequies
of Heph@stion cost $1,5OO,OOO.
Americans have died and left mil
lions to their sons, who have squan-
dered it in a score Of years. but
Antony "got away with" $685.
100000, and Tiberius left the
snug little sum of $11S,OOO,OOO,
which Caligula squandered to the
last penny in less than one year.
The late lamented Sothern is said
to have spent 100000 i'll year in
good living, but it is said that Pc
gellus, the singer, spent money at
the rate of 100000, week. And
then there was a Darius and He'll
ogabalus and Lucullus and Len
talus and-wsll, this will do for to-
day.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Cure TO: Diphtheria.

The ravages of diphtheria in
Australia have been so extensive
within the last few years that the
government offered a large reward
for eny certain method of cure,
and among other responses to this
vas one by Mr.. Gresthcrd, who at
first kept his method a secret, but
afterwards communicated it freely
to the public. 1t is simply the uss
of sulphuric acid, of which four
drops are diluted in three-fourths
of a tunbler of water to be admin
istered to a grown person and a
smaller dose to children, at inter-
walls not specified. The result is
said to be a coagulation of the diph'
thereto membrane and it's ready
removal by coughing. 1t is assert
ed that where the case is thus treat.
ed, and has not advanced to a near
ly fatal termination, the patient
recovered in almost every in
stance.