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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
RUINED BY RUM.

A highly respectable physician of Cleve-
land, Ohio, is authority for the following story
of almost unbelievable depravity: An old
man in this city depends for support upon
the work of his daughter-his only child.
He was not worthy of that support, for he
was a slave to that most hideous of harsh
masters-the whisky bottle. He made no
efforts to earn an honest living for himself,
although able of limb and sound of mind,
but was almost constant dweller at whis-
ky shops and loa6ng corners. His daughter
went out to sew, and her father compelled
her every day to give him quarter to buy
liquor. With that money he always went
out evenings to blow his coin, his health, and
his brain into wbiskey jugs, leaving his child,
tired and fearful in house frequently cold
and dark. By her toll she secured a'sewing
machine, and did her sewing at home. She did
everything in her power to draw her father
out from the folds of the monster that with
a thousand arms was dragging him down.
The neighbors reasoned with him and scolded
him, but to no avail. He regularly slept in
a gutter or crawled home from some saloon
in the morning, to bear to the poor girl the
sight of "the old mans drunk again"
One day, when all the streets of Cleveland
we're covered with ice, the daughter slipped
and fell near the public square, She was
picked up badly injured, and carried to one
of the hospitals. Her fall was too much for
her frail system, weakened and run down by
unceasing toll, poo. food, cherries days and
nights of sorrow. For several days she tossed
in fever, and, although kindly cared for. she
finally died. The father missed her daily
pittance for his rum, and pawned the sewing
machine to buy more liquor. The poor dear
girl was buried quietly, no one going to the
paupers' graveyard except the undertakers
and the father. The ladies who lived neigh
bors to the girl made beautiful wreath to be
put upon the coffin, and gave it to the father
to be placed there in the grave. That wreath
he sold for liquor At night when the rum
cravings came on strongest, the old man Sc
cured a horse and wagon, drove to the
grave where his daughter was buried, dug
up the earth, tore the emaciated body from
its resting place and conveyed it away to the
storage room Of medical college. He sold
it there for miserable pittance-a few dol.
lars-wth which he went again to kneel
down before the frightful idol to whom he
offered up health, happiness, home, his only
child, and his own soul. Humanity so sunk
is happily seldom seen. =,
With the price of his faithful daughters 8
body that man, the physician says, is now
debauching himself.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
Stick TO IT AND SuccEED.-Perseverance

STICK TO IT AND SUccEED.-Perseverance
is the main thing in life. To hold on and hold
out to the end is the chief matter. If the
race could be won by squirt, thousands
would wear the blue ribbon; but they are
short winded, and pull up after the first gal
lop. They begin with flying, and end with
crawling backward. When it comes to the
collar work, many take to jibing.
If the apples do not fall at the first shake
of the tree, your hasty folks are too lazy to
fetch a ladder, and in too much of hurry to
wait until the fruit is ripe enough to fall of
itself. The hasty man is as hot as fire at the
outset, and as cold as ice at the end. he is
like the Irishman's saucepan, which had many
good points about it, but it had no bottom.
He who cannot bear the heat and burden of
the day is not worth the salt, much less the
potatoes.
We ought not to be put out of heart by
difficulties; they are sent on purpose to try
the stuff we are made of, and depend upon it
they do US a world of good. There's sound
reason why there are bones in our meat and
stones in our land. A world where every.
thing was easy would be nursery for babies,
but not at all fit place for men. Celery is
not sweet until it has felt frost, and men
come to their perfection not till disappoint-
ment has drol ped half a hundred weight or
two on their les.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27

A FISH SToRY.-As gentleman was fish
ing in the miLldam below Winchester, Va,
he accidentally threw his line across strong
white duck, which, suddenly turning round,
twisted the gut around her own neck, and
fixed the hook of the edropperay in her breast.
Thus entangled and hooked, she soon broke
off the gut above the dropper, and sailed
down the stream with the end Of the fly trail
ing behind her. She had not proceeded far
before trout of about pound and half
took the fly efFectually. Then commenced
struggle as extraordinary as ever was wit
nessed-a duck at the dropper and a large
trout at the end of the fly. Whenever the
trout exerted itself the terror Of the duck
was very conspicuous it Auttered its wings
and dragged the fish. When the trout was
more quiet the duck evidently gave way, and
suffered herself to be drawn under some
bushes, where the shortness of the gut did
not allow the trout to shelter herself. The
ducks head was frequently drawn under the
water. By chance, however, the gut got
across branch which hung downward into
the water; and the duck, taking advantage
of the purchase which this gave her, dragged
her opponent from his hole and obliged him
to show his head above water. Then it be-
came contest of life and death. The trout
was in its last sgonies, and the duck in very
weak state, when the gut broke and suffered
them to depart their own way.
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would take Lou away from home, the narrow
city home where she was dropping and pining
and carry her with him to some cool, Tranquil
country retreat, where, amid flowers ano
birds, and sweet rural sights and sounds
she might, under his loving care, gradually
recover strength, and look cheerfully upon
the world once more.
"Your valise is packed, sir" said the oblig
ing housekeeper. II believe I've got every
thing right, and if there's any article left out
why I'll take good care of it till hear from
you, or till you come again. You'll come
back soon, 1 hope, sir. And now hadn't you
better lie down and take some sleep2 You'll
have good chance to rest yourself before it's
time to start; and I'll engage to call you at
half past two so you can get cup of coffee
and an egg before you CO."
"Thank you, Mrs. Dale. You are very
good. l believe will lie down for while, y
replied Cyril, as he furtively brushed the tears
from his eyes. And when the housekeeper
left him he threw himself wearily upon his
pillow, worn out in body and mind; but not
to sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27

ANALoe1Es OF NATURE.-The cocoanut is,
in many respects, like the human skull, al
though it closely resembles the skull Of the
monkey. A sponge may be so held as to re-
mind one Of the unfeshed face of a skeleton,
and the meat of an English walnut is almost
the exact representation of the brain.
Plums and black cherries resemble the hn-
man eyes almonds, and some other nuts, re-
semble the different varieties Of the human
nose, and an open oyster and its shell are the
perfect image of the human ear.
The shape cf almost any mans body may
be found in the various kinds of mammoth
pumpkins The open hand may be discern:
ed in the form assumed by scrub.willows and
growing celery.
The German turnip and the eggplant re-
semble the human heart. There are other
striking resemblances between human organs
and certain vegetable forms. The forms of
many mechanical contrivances in common
use may be traced back to the patterns -ur.
nshed by nature. Thus, the hog suggests
the plow; the butterfly, the ordinary hinge;
the toad-stool, the umbrella the duck the
ship; the fungus growth on trees, the brack-
et Any one desirous of proving the oneness
of the earthly system will find the resem-
bances in natare an amusing study, to say
the least.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

Chang Chinese giant, arrived in New
York on an ocean steamer recently, and was
Immediately pounced upon by the newspaper
men. A reporter called at the hotel where
the giant lodged, and saw, sitting Oh an i'm
provised seat of two chairs with heavy boards
laid across, a presence which seemed to fill the
whole room. Chang is, unquestionably, the
largest man in the world. He is gigantic.
AS he sat there smiling and nodding, his thor
oughly Chinese face looked fully as broad as
an ordinary mans shoulders, and as long, if
not longer than flour barrel. His cheek
bones bulge out, and are as large as full
sized orange. He is thirty.three years old, is
the son of wealthy silk and tea merchant in
Pekin, where he was born, is we'll educated,
speaks, reads and writes English, German,
French, Italian and Spanish, and is thorough.
ly courteous and gentlenanly. With Chang
is his secretary" bustling, busy, earnest
little Frenchman, named Neaud, who looks
upon the giant with admiration and delight
"What is your exact height, Change" the
reporter asked.
II have never been measured, Monsieur.
With our people it is a superstition which
takes the form Of religious creed, that no
man must be measured until dead. I would
rather die than to allow myself to be measured.
In fact, if were measured would die at
once, | fear. | am, however, somewhere in
the neighborhood Of nine feet. l will stand
up and you can stand beside me and judge
for yourself"
Chang rose, and, rising, it seemed as though
he would never stop. The reporter stands six
feet three inches in height He, at Chang's
suggestion, put on a high silk hat and walked
under the giants outstretched arm, near the
shoulder, without coming within two inches
of his sleeve. Then fixing the height of his
head about half way between the giants
waist and neck, the reporter checked off three
feet at guess, and found that the crown Of
the Chinaman's head was surely nine feet
from the floor. His hands and feet were com.
paratively small and very we'll formed. He
has exhibited before all the crowned heads of
Europe and Australia, and has been the pet
of several sovereigns. He wears solitaire
diamond ring, given him by the Emperor of
Russia, which is valued at 81, 400. Attached
to his chain is gold medal given him by the
Berlin exhibition, which asserts that he is the
largest man Of recent times. He also has
half dozen immense diamond rings given
him by rajahs in India, mayors in Australia,
and potentates from all quarters of the globe.
While talking to the reporter he suddenly
dived into his vest pocket, which was large
enough to hold an ordinary mans head, and
brought forth ring with the official seal and
monogram of Francis Joseph inscribed to
Chang" He also has watch given him
by Queen Victoria, which weighs two pounds
and half, and has a chain nine feet long,
which barely reaches around his neck and
down to his vest pocket.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
NEW LAWS OF THE STATE.

AN ACT to regulate the penalty of Bonds given
by County Commissioners in the various coun-
ties in the State.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the State of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority Of the same:
Section /. That the penalty of all bonds
hereafter given by county commissioners,
heretofore or hereafter elected, shall be ten
thousand (s1O,OOO} dollars, by each COM
missioner of Charleston county, and two
thousand (S2,OOO) dollars by each commits.
sioner of every other county, except the county
of Horny, in which the bonds of the county
commissioners shall be one thousand Isl 1,000)
dollars, each, and the County of Colleton,
in which the bonds of the county commission
ers shall be two thousand (S2,OOO dollars
each.
Sec. 2. That all Acts and parts of Acts in
consistent with this Act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
Approved December II, 1880.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
HOW TO EAT.

The notion that appetite is low degree of
hunger, and hunger an intensified form Of
appetite, does not seem to be borne out by
facts. The two desires or longings are differ
ent in their nature. Appetite is the craving
of the apparatus Of taste, and sometimes of
the digestive organs; ; while hunger is the de-
mand of organism as a whole or Of some Of
its parts for food Use the words appetite
and hunger how you may, there are actually
two needs to be expressed, and much mischief
arises from confounding them. The one cry
for food which we call appetite is an affair OF
habit or caprice and may, for time at least,
be stimulated by appealing to the sense of
taste, or promoted by certain cordials and
stimulants but, looking at the matter from
physiological point of view, it is difficult to
see what we call gain by exciting the organs
of digestion to take food unless the system is
in a condition to receive it. The rational
mode of procedure would seem to be to wait
the expression of need in the system-in
short, to look to hunger rather than appetite
as an incentive to the act of feeding, instead
of exciting the palate and sense organs to
take food when we have no organic reason to
suppose that there is an inner need of it.
There are certain evil consequences OF the
civilized mode of feeding by appetite on the
basis Of habit, which it may be useful to
point out First, separating appetite from
hunger and developing it as All independent
sense or function, there naturally springs up
fashion of life which may be described as
"livng to feed" The purveyor of food
trades on the tastes and cultivated longings
of the consumer, and the consideration what
to eat and what to drink comes to occupy a
place in the self consciousness which it was
probably not intended to fill, and in so far as
this is the case, man is more animal and less
spiritual and intellectual than he ought to
be; although it may be conceded that the re-
fined taste of cultivated nature is less often
sive than the simple voracity Of the savage
There are some who contend that man is the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27

9e Ex Confederate Generals are, many of
them, achieving fame and fortune in roster
paths than of Old. Major-General Marina
duke is Missouri railway commissioners, and,
as bachelor, lives comfortably in St. Louis
OH salary of $4,000 year. General j. B:
Gordon, as counsel for the Louisville and
Nashville road, gets salary Of $4,000.
Major General B. F. Cheatham, has hand
some farm in Tennessee. General Toombs
practices law, and is very rich. General
Basil Duke is a lawyer in Louisville, and has
a good income; General Bradley Johnston
is also getting rich in the same profession in
Baltimore. All the sons of Robert E. Lee,
except one, are moderately successful far
mers in Virginia. The exception, Gusts Lee,
succeeded his father as President of Wash
ington. Lee University. General Jubal Early
is living quietly at Lynchburg in comfortable
circumstances. General j. C. Pemberton
has become a resident of Philadelphia, 10 an
invalid, and has written book on Vicks-
burg.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27

Auence may cause the coloring fluid Of the
hair to retire to the root bulbs where it remains
thereafter. Gray hair has been known to be-
come dark without the chemists aid. In
1774, Nazarela, man 1O5 years old, was
presented by nature with a new set of teeth,
and the restoration of the black hair of his
youth. John Weeks was blessed with q
regeneration of the color of his hair short
time before his death, which occurred at the
age of ia; and Sir S. Sinclair, dying at ITO,
rejoiced in a youthful head of hair during
the latter years of his life. DR.. Richards has
reported the case of man who had three
changes of his hair from black to white dur
ing his life, the first taking place when he Wa
about 35 years old.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27

NOVEL GAMBLING.-A novel means of
raising money was made use of at char
liable fair just closed at Patterson. A hand
some silver jewel casket was provided, to be
awarded to the person guessing nearest to the
number of beans contained in an odd-shsped
bottle, the guesses being ten cents apiece
Over four hundred persons tried their luck.
The winner was little girl who bought the
last guess and who shut her eyes and took
number on which her pencil chanced to strike.
The number of beans was found to be 1855,
the very number the little girl had selected.
The highest number guessed was 5,100 and
the lowest 329.
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gamer by the developments of his appetite:
If this be so the gain is good not unmixed
with evil. Another drawback is that by
severing appetite from hunger, we lose the in
dication of quantity which nature gives with
her orders of food. The man who eats a
regulated number of meals daily. with duly
stimulated and organized habit, probably
eats much more in twenty -four hours than his
system requires, or the organism as a whole
is constituted to deal with.-London Lancet.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
ANOTHER CHALLENGE by TANNER.

DR.. Tanner is in the city, and he dropped
in on me yesterday to inquire if l could give
him the date of the letter in which his fea
of abstinence was spoken Of Those who saw
him in Clarendon Hall would not recognize
him to-day.
He weighs ITO and is brown and sturdy
He starts off tomorrow to resume lecturing
his tour running in a zigzag Westward
through Indiana to St. Paul and Minneapolis
where he has friends and possessions.
"Well, are you going to fast again?" | said
"Oh, yes," he replied, "if my challenge i:
accepted. | have issued challenge to any
six beer drinkers in Europe to fast with me
in London-not for any certain time, but
fon an indefinite time-to see which can hold
out the longest without food. If they can,
any of them, stand it for sixty days, l will
try and get along sixty one days. 1t is
fast against time"
"To drink nothing but water?'
."They to be confined to beer and | to
water"
1T is generally held that there is nutri.
ment in beer, Doctor"
Eyes, know but hold that this is mis-.
take. don't believe there is any more food
in beer than there is in water"
"What becomes Of the hops, Doctor, the
malt, etc?
"Why, they are stewed and brewed till the
life is all cooked out of them. Fermentation
has killed them for purposes of food"
"What makes you think so?'
MAINLY from the obvious effects of both
beer and water. But l also have hackers.
Lebig has made an analysis and announces
that in 730 gallons of the best Bavarian beer
there is not as much nutriment as there is in
five pounds of bread or three pounds of beef.
This, at FIVE cents glass, would cost 1854,
which would be expensive for joint of beet
or loaf of bread, wouldn't it? Wouldn't
it, now?"
I admitted the claim.
"What keeps the frame going" he con-
tinued, stretching out his arms. Electric.
ity That is what does it. We are run by
lig ghtning, and Edison might proftably make
some experiments on it. believe was kept
alive for those forty days by electricity OBJ
tanned from the air and water. Farraday es-
timated that in teaspoonful of water there
is enough electricity to make good sized
flash oflightning. l claim that it is electrici-
ty that runs this machine, and am willing
to stake the machine on the correctness of my
theory"
"Have you received any acceptance of your
challenge to the beer.drinkers p
"Yes, one man in Germany has responded
and says he will be there"
Under whose auspices will this lightning
tournament be held p
"Under the superintendent of Dr. B. w.
Richardson, F. R. S., physician and sur:
geon-old school, but man of ideas and of
courage-a irst-rate man."
The doctor remarked that he was feeling
as if he could eat COW, took up two chairs
and whirled them around his head in spi-
raj twist like pair of Indian clubs, said
"good. bye" and skipped out on his Western
campaign.-M Y Cor. Indianapolis Jour-
anI
, 1881-08-19

Af,t JAMES C4At1lp, tho English agrtcultur.
ist, says tint OIL two.tl.irtls Of thu what
lands OF England MI average crop will b0
yielded, wliat Is hacking IN quantity bril,g
made tip by the Itnencss uf tho quality uf thu
grtln. Iii tho remaining thtrlt tic crop will
bu 10 per cent bu'uw ut, average. but for
tho recent rallis, which have protluced mil
dew, the crop wntlttl Itayo proved nearly
equal to tho avGrnge or tho years lre-
ceiling tsTi. l1cayy crops, lle snys, arc rare.
TlerU Is. Ito nAts. mitch evidence that
throughout tho country the farmers l,nyn
less capltal than formerly. This IL best
shown lit ttle Iowcr sralc Uf fnrnlng Adopted.
England requires between 2i,0oo,0 ,000 and
,oo0. 600 .ltartcrs of graf!l to lect her people.
or tlils nnlountt lU,0U,0O0 quarters were
Imported Inst yenr, mil I'LL cnl,al, probably Il
greater, t,iaoutt will l,ayu to 10 Imported
this year, md Mt price probably creator
tlan tic price pald lust ycar. Thu wheat
crop of Frnncu Is ratl,or pour, atul ll,at ot
1s!lssin Is abundant. Tho latter country n,nl
the United States will bo drawn OIL to supply
England. As to tho otllcr grim crops Of
England, Mr. .Cairsl says barley IL gontl, but
has ripu,led uneycnly, and the oat crop Is
poor. The 1tay crop will only give ',alf
III, avernEu yield. Afangolds, ttlr',lps, MID
other green crops promise fair yIeItt. II, ,,t-
dillon to tito nistortt,t,rs Of poor or inftllIng
crops, the English farmers huve sltturctl
much by disease among their sleep and cnt-
tie. Tho latter ltaye diminished II per cent
during tho Inst two years, and O00 o sheep
md |, ,009, 900 lambs linve bccl carried of BY
dtycnsU stlleo 1Stg
, 1881-08-19

Is probably tho most Important constituent
OF t',oroual,-gotng md busi,ess-!lkc Civil
Service. II may te admitted ll,at but an OK
ccc,lingly smntl proportion ut tic present
rl'poy's Of tho Government were apln,inlc.l
nEhIi merits developed by competitive W.
nntfa,n!Iof'. Yet III ufllcient Civil Services
colIltl be constructed Uut Of this material,
II from this ttmo tl,cru Should bo
no rcl'lovais except for proper ea,,sc, and It
appointments nM1 promotions should 10
,na.le Upon merit, without regard to pnr-
tIsan tinpartunItIus. AIr. Dnwcs llas cer-
tafnly llat gone 10 tic bottom of the abuses
In t1!o Civil Service ,.,r suggested tho prac-
tltAl remedy. ttu Is considerably moro Ut Il
theoyiSt tl,a1, those whom to crtlictsrs under
TINT general designation.
, 1881-08-19

THAT so old State us Connecticut should
be deficient IN its legal codo will 10 Sur
prise to many, but such Is The cnse, MID 1t Is
brinE striktIlgly manifested in tho inycsttga.
tlon regarding tho death Of Jennie. Craincr,
the yonnE girl who Is believed by many
to have been outraged alld then murdered
by tho Alalley, boys. 1t seems that
uudnr tic laws OF Connecticut there can bo
no such thing Us a Coroncr's Jury wilt. the
powers accorded body Ut Tint naturs In
other communities. Tho Jury III Connecticut
may simply hear such evidence rs is bruugllt
before It, but las not tho power 10 order
full md searcl'ing Investigation, unless tho
members choose to lefray The expense OF lilo
sanlo fran their priyato purses, md its YER
diet Is regarded In u court 1T INV simply rs
an expression af opinion. niAi cannot bu held
to decide anything. Under these clrcl,1,l-
stances 1t Is easy to SEQ tllat II milrcrcrs uro
punished III connectlcut'lt Is not tho fault OF
the la1y,