Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-13

tage Hearth.
TREEs.-Few people realize how depen-
dent various people are upon trees. Here
we build our houses of wood, make ships
and various things from it, but in the South
the trees, as the palms of different kinds,
supply not only wood, but food. Thus the
cocoa palms supply water in dry arid wastes,
also wine and vinegar. The blossom is eat
en- as a cabbage; the fruit is good, and from
it is extracted an oil that supplies people
with light. Then there is what is called the
cow tree. The natives drink the nutritious
milk in great quantities in South America.
The tree needs only to be gashed and the
white fluid pOurs out in stream. Quite
similar is what is known as the travellers
tree of Madagascar. 1t is very striking in
appearance, the broad leaves growing up
ward, instead of falling down. If the base
of one Of the big leaves is cut stream OF
water flows out, SO that single tree will
provide refreshing draught for number OF
men. Comparatively few know that cork
comes from trees. In Florida our orange
planters have to wait eight years before their
Shoots give crop. But the cork growers
have to wait fifteen years, and after that
tree is not touched for ten years or more;
but the older tree is the more cork it gives,
though it is not of so fine a quality. The
cork is the bark, and you would think that
it would destroy the trees to remove the
bark. They flourish, however, and attain
an age, under this treatment, of nearly two
hundred years. One Of the strangest trees
is the African Baobab. You have probably
heard that salamanders can pass through
fire. Well, this tree is "a regular salamander,
fire having no effect upon it. l have seen
one that was twenty-eight feet in diameter,
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to show their vitality, after they are some
times unrooted they continue to grow,
though they have only few roots still fas-
tened in the ground. In some localities
they are used as houses by the natives, the
interiors being followed out, and fitted for
the convenience of the family VarerW.
THE LAW OF F1ND1NG.-The law of find
ing is this: The finder has clear title
against the whole world except the own
er. The proprietor of a coach or rail-
road car or of a shop has no right to
demand the property which may be
found upon his property or premises.
Such proprietors may make regulations IN
regard to lost property which will bind their
employees, but they cannot bind the public.
The law Of finding was declared by the
Kings Bench one hundred years ago, in
son found wallet containing sum Of mon
ey on a shop floor He handed the wallet
and contents to the shopkeeper to be re-
turned to the owner. After three years,
during which the owner did not call for
his property, the finder demanded the wal
let and the money from the shOpkeeper.
The latter refused to deliver them up on
the ground that they were found on his
premises. The former then sued the shop
keeper, and it was held as above set forth,
that against all the world but the owner
the title of the finder is perfect. And the
finder has been held to stand in the place
of the owner, so that he was permitted to
prevail in an action against Il person who
found an article which the plalntltf had
originally found, but subsequently lost;
The police have no special rights in regard
to articles lost unless those rights are con-
ferred by statute. Receivers of articles
found are trustees for the owner or for the
finder. They have no power in the absence
of special statute to keep an article against
the finder, any more than the finder has to
retain an article against the owner.
REQUIREMENTS OF A GOOD TYPE-SET-
is the most eXacting
work in the world. 1t requires GOODNESS,
nerve, accuracy, sustained effort, quickness,
exact knowledge, gOOd eye, anu al euuca
tion above the average-not conglomera-
tion of French, Latin, and the "higher
branches" but thorough training in spell
ing, grammar and punctuation, which few
even we'll educated persons possess. The
better educated the printer, the better prin-
ter he is-or she. Printers, like stenogra-
pliers, are born for their professions. Per-
sons of a sanguine temperament make the
best printers, and there is an old saying that
red haired printers are the fastest.
DoN'r BE STINGY WITH THE WIFE,
Although wives are often unreasonable and
fault-finding and dissatisfied, yet they can
not be censured for wishing some slight de-
gree of financial independence. Husbands
ought to understand this feeling, and SYM
pathize with it. If they will set aside for
wife certain sum per month, no matter
how small, and let it be her very own, sub
ject to her own wishes, they will find that
in every respect it is the best investment
they ever made.