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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

CAUSE OF CHILLs AND FEvER.-.Speaking
of the prevalence of malaria, the correspon-
dent of the Hartford Times says: Professor
Chandler, the head of our New York Board of
Health, long ago, undertook to find out exact
ly what produced chills and what remedies
could be applied at the root of the disease
quinine was all very well, but the sight of Il
whole people dosing themselves for a trouble
unknown forty years ago, and evidently due to
some error of modern life, was not pleasant.
So letters were sent to physicians all around
New York and the united wisdom of the pro-
fesson brought into play. The verdict was,
on the part of city men, sewer gas coming into
houses through imperfect drains and pipes
The country doctors found the chief cause of
the evil in the proximity of cess-pools and
wells. The result of the wide publication in
New York, of reports upon malaria, and the
sudden fashion among physicians of attribu-
ting every ailment, from birth to death to ma
laria, has given rise to a new profession-that
of Sanitary Engineer-and added business to
the city's industry, before the pecularities OF
which, the plumber turns pale with envy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16
THE USES OF AN ENEMY.

Always keep an enemy on hand-a brisk,
hearty, active enemy.
Remark the uses of an enemy.
l. The having one is proof that you are
somebody. Wishey-washy, empty, worthless
people never have enemies. Men who never
move, never run against anything ; and when
a man is thoroughly dead and utterly buried
nothing ever runs against him. To be run
against is proof of existence and position to
run against something is proof of motion.
2. An enemy is, to say the least, not partial
to you. He will not tlatter you. He will not
exaggerate your virtues. 1t is very probable
that he will slightly magnify your faults. The
benefit of that is two-fold ; it permits you to
know that you have faults, and are, therefore,
not monster, and it makes them of such size
as to be visible and manageable. Of course, if
you have fault you desire to know it when
you become aware that you have fault you
desire to correct it. Your enemy does for you
this valuable work which your friend cannot
perform.
3. In addition, your enemy keeps you wide
awake. lie does not let you sleep at your post.
There are two that always keep watch, name
ly. the lover and the hater. Your lover watch
es that you may sleep. lie keeps off noises,
excludes light, adjusts surroundings. that
nothing may disturb you. Your hater watch
es that you may not sleep. He stirs you up
when you are mapping. He keeps your fac,
ulties on the alert. Even when he does moth
ing he will have put you in such state OF
mind that you cannot tell what he will do
next, and this mental qui rire must be worth
something
T. He is detective among your friends.
You need to know who your friends are, and
who are not, and who are your enemies. The
last of these three will discriminate the other
two When your enemy goes to one who is
neither friend nor enemy, and assails you, the
Indifferent one will have nothing to say OF
chime in, not because he is your enemy, but
because it is so much easier to assent than to
oppose, and especially than to refute. But
your friend will take up cudgels for you on the
| instant. lie will deny everything and insist
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16
TEACHING GIRLS TO WORK.

An exchange, in discOursing upon the ne.
.cessity and also the prOpriety OF teaching girls
to work, says that mothers often make a great
mistake in so neglecting this teaching. The
idea that the whole time out of school should
be devoted to play is a fallacy. Many girls
grow up to womanhood without knowing how
to perform the simplest duties OF home, be-
cause the patience to teach her was not p0SS-
essed by the mother. 1t is astonishing how
much may be accomplished by little hands
trained to do the lighter house work of fam
ily. If each child is made to feel that she is
of some Importance, and that the work she
has to do is a help to mother, it will make the
duty a pleasure rather than q task. Each
child should have certain duties to perform,
and do them regularly and well. If most of
the work is done by servants, perhaps it is not
necessary that the daughters be obliged to do
much housework, but they should have some
duties to perform so that they may learn how
to work, and how work should be done. One
of the first things to be taught girls is the
care of their room. AS soon as children are
old enough they should have their own room,
with convenient places for their clothing, and
should be obliged to keep their things in order.
When they take off garments they should hang
them up or arrange them in their proper places,
and never leave them for some one else to put
away. Dusting furniture nicely requires
good deal of time, and may be done well by
small hands, which are not strong enough to
do sweeping. Washing dishes and putting
them carefully in theirplaces isan accomplish
ment which they can learn also. Other things
they can learn gradually as they grow older,
until they have fully mastered theart OF house
keeping. If the task of training is not an
easy one, mothers will feel amply repaid in
after years for all their patient teaching when
they see their daughters grow up with self
reliant, useful womanhood, learn in all the
love of which women should be mistresses,
making home that should be beautiful and
glorifed by her own hands and her own spirit
of Independence.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16
". NOVEMBER IS, 1882.

on proof, and proving is very hard work.
There is not a truthful man in the world that
could afford to undertake to prove one-tenth
of all his assertions. Your friend will call
your enemy to the proof, and if the indifferent
person through carelessness, repeats the asser-
tions of your enemy, he is soon made to feel
the inconvenience thereof by the zeal your
friend manifests. Follow your enemy around
and you will find your friends, for he will have
developed them so that they cannot be mis-
taken.
The next best thing to having a hundred
real friends is to have one open enemy.-Dr.
Deems.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

criminal court. Again and again do witnesses,
equally credible, contradict one another on
matters concerning which it would seem that
there should be no possibility of two opinions.
One swears that the clock struck ten at given
time, another that it struck twelve. One
swears positively that he saw the accused com
nit the crime Another swears that at the
same moment he, the accused, was ten miles
away. Do these witnesses lie? BY no means.
If it were question of color, and there were
conflict of testimony concerning red and
green, everybody would say ''color blindness"
of course, and the proper tests would be ap-
Piled But if eyes play tricks under known
conditions, what guarantee have we against
unheard-of freaks under unknown conditions ?
Ohr Continent
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

The NEWSPAPER IN A AFARMHOUSE.-Peo
pie who live near the great thoroughfares,
where they have access to two or three dailles
and a half dozen weeklies, do not fully appre-
ciate the value of newspaper. They come,
indeed to look upon them as necessities, and
they wonld as cheerfully do without their NOR
ming meal as their morning mail. But one
must be far off in the country, remote from
''the maddening crowd" to realize the full
luxury of a newspaper. The farmer who re-
ceives but one paper week does not glance
over it's columns hurriedly, with an air of i'm
patience, as does your merchant or lawyer
He begins with the beginning and reads to the
close, not permitting news item or an adver-
tisement to escape his eye. Then 1t has TO he
thumbed by every member of the family, each
one looking for things in which he or she is
most interested. The grown up daughter
looks for the marriage notices, and is delighted
if the editor has treated them to love story.
The son who is Just about to engage in f;trn-
ing, with an enthusiasm that will carry him
far in advance of his father, reads all the crop
reports and has a keen eye for hints about I'M
proved culture. The younger members OF the
family come in for the amusing anecdotes and
scraps of fun. All look forward to the day
that shall bring the paper, with the liveliest in
terest, and if by some unlucky chance 1t fails
to come, it is bitter disappointment. One
can hardly estimate the amount of informa-
tion which paper that is not only read but
studied can carry into family. They have,
week by week, spread before their mental
vision panorama of the busy world, its tiuc-
tuations and itsconcerns. 1t is the poor man 8
library, and furnishes as much mental food as
he has time to consume and digest. No one,
who has observed how much those who are far
away from places where men most congregate,
value their weekly paper, can fail to join in
invoking a blessing on the inventor of this
means of intellectual enjoyment Exchange.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

THE MEANING OF 'BONANZA. "-The Stock
Report inquiries the meaning Of the word ''bo-
nanza." 1t is a Spanish nautical term, mean-
ing primarily fair and hence favoring wind,
but it is employed by the Mexican miners to
designate the period when they are in good
s borasea, s.: -, OF % poor ground It has been borrow
ed by our miners and given a more comprehen-
sive significance, and, like many other words
taken from forei gn languages, have come into
popular use to designate in vague and gen.
eral way any big thing or lucky stroke of for
tune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

FACTS Theoretically, questions of fact can
be answered without possibility Of fairly
questioning the correctness Of the answer.
Practically, facts are often as difficult of de-
monstration as proposition in moral phloso-
ply. Let any one who doubts it attend, let
us say as a juror, few trials in some civil or
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

EARTII's LOWEST LAND.-A letter in the
San Francisco Chronicle gives the following
description of visit to Deaths Valley in the
desert region of California:
On the 18th of July last, with train of five
mules and two companions, one of whom was
partially familiar with the country, climbed
the summit of Cerro Gordo. At last we stood
upon the lofty ridge of the Telescopes, and
beheld below us the fateful valley, which lies
2S0 feet below the level of the sea and extends
for hundred miles northwest and southwest,
with width of from thirty to forty miles
from east to west. Upon no landscape can
one look so deeply into the interior of the
earth, for it occupies the lowest point of
dry land upon the continent, and, so far as
am informed, of the earth itself. Before us
it lies, long, deep, wide, vast basin, its
shining patches disclosing through the dis
tance it's beds of soda, salt and boraX, which
cover thousands of acres and blaze of light
and heat which pours upon them from cloud
less sky. The valleys deep declension grows
upon the senses and becomes more marked as
the eye is held steadily upon it, and it is en-
phasized by the swift declvity of the inclosing
mountains. Drear and deSolate it stretches
it's full length along in frame of painted
mountains, which define, in strong and NIGH
ty lines, it's aspects of terror.
Though leaving the summit at P. NJ. and
riding steadily down descending trails night
settled upon us before we escaped from the
canyon and reached the borders of the valley.
By the brilliant moonlight we are enabled to
trace the trail along the rocky washes as we
rode on into the night At last worn and
weary with hours of riding, we reached the
centre Of the valley, known as the "Big Hole, -
the point of greatest depression.
Though time and exploration have drawn
from out the ancient story most of it's fearful
threads, this is still Deaths Valley and is
still and will remain a region of dread. In
dians familiar with it's face from infancy
know its treachery and cannot be prevailed on
to 60 into it beyond their time worn trails.
70 the lost emigrant it was ''the valley of the
shadow of death" The daring prospector en-
ters it with fear. He knows it's terrors, and
the bleaching bones of many a skeleton warn
him to beware. Once lost within it's EN-
brace, and a mans doom is written. With
out water to cool his fevered frame, the swell
tering air drives him to agony and bewilder'
ment. Confused, he wanders without aim.
Reason, unseated by fantasy, gives magma
tion rein to play tricks with his judgment.
Beholding heaven at last in the mocking
waters of the mirage, he sinks to die in the
flame of the desert.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

DON'T BRIGHTEN CHILDREN.-The Macon
Graphic tells the following sad story Those
who were at the depot the other evening might
have seen a sight that would forever have
acted as terrible warning against the sense
less and almost criminal practice of frighten,,
ing children. Mr.. C. Z. Armstrong, of Heard
countv, was carrying to Milledgeville, a driv-
cling idiot only ten years old, that few
months since was bright and intelligent boy.
1t appears that he and his elder brother were
in their bedroom one night, when some one
thoughtlessy or malcously stuck horse head
or masked head of some kind in at the win
dow, frightening the little boys so badly, that
they at once lost their reason, and shortly af-
forwards went blind. The older brother was
first taken to NIilledgeville, where he edied, and
now the younger is going over, probably to
share the same fate. Death, in fact, would be
a relief to him, blind and idiotic as he is.
The perpetrator of such hideous piece of
folly will, no doubt, carry through life the les
son thus learned and, it is to be hoped that
this sad story will he circulated throughout
the country and have it's due effect.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16
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OF this compost Furman used 1000 pounds
adding another layer of stable manure ana
cotton seed. a compound of any smaller
weight can be made by a proportionate reduc-
tion on each layer Cost of cotton seed must
be greater now
We shall see how many farmers can do what
Furman has done, now that they possess his
recipe. Many household has the best OF cook
books, but how few people can cook better by
that Instruction. We remember that the late
Col. John Forsyth could make an incompara-
BILE whiskey cocktail. lie tried to show the
bows how it was concocted, but none of them
had his knack. "Twas Greece, but living
Greece no more'' We fear that many far
mer will follow Furman's formula, and yet
fail to make Furman's crops. However, we
hope for the best and trust that the formula
will make Georgia more and more an imperial
commonwealth SO far rs agriculture and it's
attendant blessings are concerned.-Auytsta
Chronicle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

WHAT ARE CLOUDS ?-ThOugh the clouds
are such familiar objects, very little is known
about them and the processes by which they
are formed and give back their moisture to the
earth are unsolved mysteries.
They can not be classified as belonging to
the solid, fluid, or gaseous form of matter.
Yet they are defined as being "a collection of
watery particles in the state of rapor, suspen-
ded in the air." If they are ordinary vapor,
they must be governed by the laws which af-
feet vapors Brande defines rdpor thus:
s'When liquids and certain solids are heated,
they become converted into elastic fluids or
yapors, which differ from gasses in this re-
spect, that they are not under common cir
cumstances permanently elastic, but resume
the LIQUID or solid form when cooled down to
ordinary temperature" According to this
definition clouds can not be composed of or'l'-
nary yapor, for under all conditions their tent
perature must be below the condensing point
of water-vapor.
At the elevation at which clouds are often
seen, they are in the regions of perpetual con-
pelation and as they float above the highest
mountains they must be exposed, even in the
sunshine, and certainly in the night, when the
solar heat is not poured upon them, to temper
atures colder than those of the frigid zones.-
O. NOrft. in POpllar Science Monthly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

FURMAN's FoRMULA.-As we have fully
discussed Mr. Furbish Furmans remarkable
farming experiments, and given his own scien-
tifc plan of operations, a reproduction OF his
compost formula may not he out of order.
Wequote from the Constitution
Layer. FURMAN's FORMULA. COST
80 bushels stable manure or rich earth
from woods or fence corners, estimated
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-16

A TRIBUTE TO THE FARMERS-ln his ad-
dress at the opening Of the Wisconsin State
Fair, Governor Rush said:
"Agriculture is the foundation of the busi-
ness and prosperity of the whole country.
When the toll of the farmer is utterly lost;
when, after planting and tending and walt
ing the harvest time brings no harvest to him,
every industry and every interest instantly
feels it. How completelya series of crop fail
ures or even short crop, paralyzes the plisl-
ness of the country! So a series OF good crops
stimulates every business and revlves every
dropping industry The railroad lines length
mine, the saw mill, the lumber camp, are all
scenes of activity, and every instrument of
commerce is in use. The hum of the machin-
cry is the natural accompaniment. to the songs
of the harvest field. The daily published tele-
grams from the money centres OF the world IS
an unconscious daily tribute to agriculture
and the farmer as the prime factor in COM
merce. They note and chronicle every frost,
every rain, every hostile insect, as carefully
as the physician the symptoms OF his patient
Stocks 60 up and down with the varying re-
ports as to wheat and corn. The wall street
gambler who never heard the meadow lark in
the fields, reads with as eager interest tile
news from the grain fields as one fearing for a
friend would read the casualties OF BATTLE
But such tribute is temporary and cOmpulso-
ry. 1t springs from selfishness mostly, and
the crop assured, Indifference to agriculture
proclaims itself too often in an undue levy
upon the crop for carriage and in other ways,
which have not time to mention. With the
growth of the country increased prosperity
and the multiplied and splendid educational
facilities, our colleges, universities, academies
and other institutions of learning are filling
up with ambitious farmer boys, vigorous i'll
body and mind, bent upon acquiring know
ledge. This is well They make good stu
dents and scholars, but have feared that too
many of them rather disdainfully turn from
farm life to the professions as being a step
higher. 1 would like to impress upon such
young men that they are mistaken in this
There is in true sense no 'step higher"
from the calm, thoughtful, independent life
of the intelligent farmer"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-12-13
WANDERING FROM HOME TO
HOME.


When swallows were building In carly spring.
And the roses were rod In June:
when the great, white lilies were fair and
sweet,
In the heat of tho August noon;
when the winds were blowing the yellow
wheat,
And the song Of the harvest nigh,
And The beautiful w0r lay calm and sweet
In the Joy Of Il cloudlcss sky
Then the swallows were fun OF glad content
-. In the hopo OF their northern nest;
Were sure that the land thoy wore tarryng In
OF nll other lands was the best
All II they had heard in those blssful days
The Voice they must heed say: go"
They had left their nests with keen regret,
And their flight had been sad and slow.
But when summer was gone aud flowers were
And the brown leaves fell with a sigh,
And they watched the sun scttihg every day
Further on In the northern sky.
Then the Voice WAS sweet when 1t bid them:
They were eager for southwark flight,
And they beat their wings to newborn
hope,
When they went at the morning light
II the way was long, yot tho way was glad,
And they brighter and brighter grew
As they dipped their wings In the glowing
hent,
- AS they still TO the southwark ficw;
Till they found the land of the summer sun,
The lind whore tho nightingale sings,
And Joyfully rested mid rose and song
Their beautiful, weary wings,
Like swallows we wander from home to
home
We are birds Of passage at best
In many spot we have dwell awhile,
We have built us many anest.
But the heart of the Father will touch our
hearts,
lie will speak to u3 soft and low,
We shall follow the Voice TO the better land,
And It's bliss AMI its bcau,y know.
-Mdip a. Barr IN Hirpers Wce'an
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-12-13


sAIMI MORSE is actively engaged in
the preparation and rehearsal Of the
Passion Play at New York City, which
he proposes to put upon the boards
within the next sixty days. Whether or
not this second attempt to introduce this
performance to the public will be sue
cessful, is question concerning which
varied opinions are expressed. Mr..
Morse seems to be backed by ample
capital. He recently purchased build
ing in New York, and is expending sew
eral thousand dollars in remodeling and
furnishing it In a manner appropriate
to the solemnity Of the play. His
purpose, as expressed in an interview a
few days ago. is not to make money. but
to present in striking and affecting
manner the suffering and crucifxion Of
Christ. He claims that the play will be
the direct means of familiarizing the
masses with religion and the teachings
Of the Savior who would otherwise re-
main in total ignorance. The estimated
cost of the production is $1,000 per
night. The number Of performers will
exceed three hundred, all amateurs. No
professional actors will be allowed 10
take part in the play.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-12-13
A Baby Carriage In the Hall,

A baby carriage in the hail.
Tho happicst piece of furniture that
any house can boast, always making an
honorable exception in favor of the
cradle.
That baby carriage means home.
Without it, onlya place to stay in.
II means dear little dimpled darl-
ing'-that makes smshineall the time
when it hasn't got the colo.
1t means happy mother, whose life
is filled with all tender care, all sweet
responsibilities, all wonderful hope for
the future.
1t means father who holds his head
up among men with the grandest dig
nifty that any man may know.
To mothcrit is Baby"
To father it is "My boy"
That baby carriage in the hall means
all the wealth of rosy hours as mother
sings lullaby songs-perhaps,
Hush my deJr, lie still aud sumber,
Holy angels qua thy bed"
When all the time she is the angel that
God appointed to guard it, us none Of all
llpl ltuNtll ll'Nl tDllu tlO.
1t means n word Of plans and projects
which all center in that one little life
1t means father that studies his bs, k
balance with wonderful diligence, for
my son must have a good education,
and good start in life, you know.
And he goes homo and catches the
laughing toddler up. and reddens the
dimplos with his whiskers, and then put
ting sturdy little twelve-months old on
his feet, sets him at his n, b, C of walk
ing, addressing him with comical dig
nifty, "Wcll, Governor, where shall we
60 now?'
And although he only calls him "Gov,
enor," the mothers heart says-andthe
father wouldn't deny it were she to put
it in words-that more likely it will be
President, in that dim, beautiful ant
certainly very grand future.
Her choice, though, would be that h,
should be good man and happy one
Between them both they parcel out 70
his manhood's years all that makes lif
worth the living.
That baby carriage in the hall mean
n good deal, does it not?
1t means everything to the father an
mother.
1t means more than can be told.
II you have such apiece of furniture i
use Sou know all about it.
If you haven't, it's waste of raw mn
terial to bother with you. Wheelin!
L L n1llIn..