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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

'SPENsIVE.-Colonel Hiram Eckleton de-
cares that the negroes should be again en-
shaved. He fought for the freedom of the
cefored gentlemen, yea-aS sacred writers
remark-he made abolition speeches pre-
vious to the war. His views as hinted just
above, have undergone striking revul-
sion.
Several weeks ago, believing that chop
ping was the best kind of exercise, he pur-
chased several cords of oak, and every
morning proceeded to swing an axe.
old John Carpenter, colored gentleman,
came along, and asked:
"Boss, whut will yer gin me ter cut dat
wood up?"
"I'd rather pay you not to cut it,"
"Wall, now, dat's 'commerdatin', sho's
yer born'd it am"
The old negro went away. Two days
afterward the Colonel received a summons
to appear at court, having been sued by old
John. In a rage, the Colonel appeared be-
fore Flat Nose Phil, very prominent color
ed Justice of the Peace.
II don't understand this outrage" eX-
claimed the Colonel.
"Keep quiet, sab, keep quiet" replied
Phil. "Yer's in er Court O. Jestice, now,
sab, an it 'hoves yer to ack jes' de same ez
eff yer wuz in the Presidents house."
"Why was summoned here""
"Cause yer's sued"
'sWhat am sued for?"
''Munny, O. 'corse. Don't think it wuz
jes' fur fun, did yer?' ....
"Why am I sued for money? 1 dom
owe that scoundrel cent" he declared,
pointing at old John,
--"Be er little mo- choice wild yer 'sklama-
tion p'ints, Colonel. Dis heah pusson asked
yer bout chopin some wood. 4essef
said dat you would ruther pay him, not ter
chop it. 1t wuz jes' de same wild him so he
charged yes up wild ten dollars fur not chop
naixt time doan talk dat way. In dis heah
country, sab, er lie is gittin' ter be very
'spensive. ."-Opie BEAD.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09
BRICK FOR SALE.

TIVE hundred thousand tirst-class BRICK are
offered for sale-3OO 900 at McConnellsville,
and 200, 600 at Lowrysvile, on the G. d l.: n. g.
r. r. Any number Of these Brick. in lots of
not less than $500, will be delivered OH cars at
either place at $500 for salmon, $500 for salmon
and I blue, and $500 for all blue per thousand
Samples can be seen at the eStores of Capt. w. b.
Smith, Glover; John r, Ashe, Yorkville; ; Ashe &
Ashe, McConnellsville; Hope, Lowry Co.,
Lowrysvile and Heath, Crawford IL Co., Ches-
ter. we will give discount for large lots on the
above prices. -
w. n. ASHE, Jr., McConnellsville.
w. \. ANDERSON, Lowrysville.
October Is ~ tt
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sg~ Jimmy, my child" the fond mother
exclaimed, "don't eat SO much of that lob
ster salad. You'll be i'll tonight, dear; L
know you will" "Well, ma," said jim
my, as he helped himself to another plate
ful, eff am you'll know what's the matter
with me. ANYHOW. ."-!Si,u,crrWc JOWMd.
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The fart>1 aud fireside.

PURIFICATION OF DRINKING WATER
The average healthy adult man takes into
his system four and half pounds of water
daily, and with it too often dangerous
quantity of foreign matter and disease pro-
ducing germs. In very many homes during
the summer months, water that would 9TH
erwise nauseate the drinker, is made cold by
ice, and then is hastily swallowed, the cold
ness making its offensiveness pleasant. I'm
fortunately for the health of the consumer,
the addition of ice does not render the i'm
purities in water innocuous, but often adds
to it it's own contribution of disease germs.
The only safeguard to the consumer is in
giving his personal attention to the filtra-
tiOn of the water used in his household.
Water slowly percolated through crushed
vegetable charcoal will escape from it not
only cleansed of articles held in suspension,
but also of organic and other matter. The
cheapness of charcoal is such that it is OBJ
tainable by all classes, and when soiled
fresh quantity can be substituted at tritiing
cost. The most effective filtration is OBJ
tanned by placing crushed charcoal in an
earthen vessel, so arranged as to compel the
slow passage of the water through it, as all
efforts at rapid filtration have proved inetti--
cient Only wooden spigots should be used
in drawing off the water. A reservoir for
the filtered water to be sufficiently chilled
and keep all ice impurities out. Such con-
trivance requires but very little room, is
easily cleaned, the coal renewed, and IS ef-
fcient in freeing water from impurities
DR.. Edwin J. Howe, in american Agricu-
turist for Jtly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

PROFESSIONAL FLATTERERS.-As socle-
ty advances with advancing civilization,
new wants call out new powers, and fresh
avocations are provided for INDECENT NOR
tails. It seems to us that now the time has
come when want which has long been
felt should be provided for. There have
from time to time been some attempts made
to supply the demand for personal admira-
ton which is so markedly developed, but
the matter has never been properly formu-
lated and systematized. The great and
wealthy seldom lack for flatterers and ad-
mirers, but there are numbers of persons of
both sexes whoare miserable for the want of
proper amount of Difference and praise, and
who are made wretched by ungratified van
ity, who, if things were better ordered,
might be satisfied with no great outlay of
either trouble or money. Married people
may succeed in eliciting the necessary
praise from each other, but the unattached
persons of both sexes with whom society
nowadays abounds really need some one to
minister to their natural desires for com
mendation, and as marriage is said to be
going out of fashion, it will soon be meas
ure of mere preservation of the peace that
society should encourage class of upper
servants fitted by nature and by training
skillfully to accord to their employers an
amount of admiration nicely adjusted to
the cases with which they have to deal
and the wages which they are paid.-Bos-
ton Courier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

GROW A VARIETY.-Though special farm
or garden crops are very often successfully
raised in some localities usually near or
easily accessible to a good market-as a rule
mixed husbandry is the most profitable.
Generally it is not wise for farmer to de-
pend upon a single crop, unless he is pretty
we'll assured of having ''sure thing" 1t
is far better to plant a variety, so that if
one crop fails, or the market is glutted with
it, others will prove remunerative. Sever
al arguments might easily be adduced in
favor of diversified husbandry-amo 9TH
ers the fact that almost every sizable farm
comprises a variety Of soils and hence is
adapted to the raising of different products.
Every year many farmers "miss it' by de-
pending upon a single crop-like putting
all their eggs in one basketcWhereas by
cultivating variety they would be assured
against the total failure which might result
ifthey relied solely upon a particular article.
Many Southern planters who formerly con-
fined themselves to cotton-growing, are now
wisely raising their own provisions, ana
find it to their advantage-for that produc-
ing their own breadstutfs and meat is the
most profitable has already been fully de-
monstrated. Of course there are exceptions
to all rules, but in most parts of the country
tits a good plan, and certainly the safest, to
grow variety.-Ihe Cotton Plant.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

PLASTER FOR PEAs.-The Hon. F. p.
Root, writing to Mr.. Reynolds R,nal Of the
pea as farm crop, speaks of the effect upon
the plant of land dplaster-gypsum-as Won
derful, even greater than on clover, doub-
ling the growth, and sometimes more:
'sNo fertilizer have tried is so beneficial
1t should be sown as soon rs the plants
show above ground, in quantity about the
same as for clover, from one to two bushels
per acre. 1t is quite remarkable that the
effects of plaster soWn on peas should be so
different from it's effect on beans, ON which
1 have not been able to discern any effect
whatever. The plants are alike legumi-
nous and analysis shows them to be quite
similar in their composition, though the
bean contains somewhat greater min
eral element, it being 3.45 per cent. whilst
that the pea is less exhausting to the soil.
The yield of peas is usually about the same
or perhaps more than that of BEANS"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

opment in the mysterious trunk murder
case at st. Louis, Mo-, was made public last
week. James +. Brady, representative
of Cooks Tourist Agency, Of London, Eng
land, in St. Louis, received a long letter from
the agency instructing him to use every
effort to learn whether it was a truth and a
fact that G. Arthur Preller had been MUIR
dered, as reported, and his body placed in
trunk. The document went on to say
that Mr.. Preller before leaving England,
had insured his life in Cooks Agency for a
heavy sum, approximating 100000. The
company had first observed the indifference
of his relatives regarding the disposition OF
the remains, and this caused suspicious.
Since the first announcement of Prellers
death, the letter stared, his relatives had
been bringing everything to bear on the
company to pay the insurance money. The
manager of the agency believed that it was
best to wait awhile, especially after having
read the accounts published in the London
paper concerning the attempt of Maxwell
to buy body in Boston. Mr.. Cook in
structed Mr. Brady to write him full par
ticulars of the case, and to forward what
legal evidence there was regarding the
mans death. The agency insured MIR.
Preller on his former trip, and also insured
him once when he went on the continent.
They have refused to pay over insurance
money until every doubt regarding Preller's
death is removed. The smile of Maxwell
when arrested, and his statement that all
would be explained at the right time, are
treasured up by the insurance companies as
strengthening the theory that the body IN
the trunk was not Preller's
This story had brief but sensational life
in st. Louis. 1t seems that Preller's insu-
rance was in the Ocean Accident Company
and expired when he left the steamer. His
relatives applied to the company for it's pay
ment, however, and this started the sus-
picion OF fraud. 1t is now said that the
body found in the trunk was surely Prel-
ler'S
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A MEAN INs1NUATIoN.-He called for
gin, and in a calm, unembarrassed sort of
way filled his glass to the brim.
''See here my, friend," expostulated the
bartender, "that is gin you are pouring out,
not water"
The customer eyed him rebukingly over
the top of the glass, as he slowly drained its
contents.
"Mister," he said in a hurt tone of voice,
''do l look like man who would drink
that much water ?''--N. Y. Times.
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Bas" TO cure a felon, fill a tumbler with
equal parts of fine salt and ice; mix we'll.
Sink the finger to the centre, allow it to re-
main until it is nearly frozen and numb,
then withdraw it, and when the sensation
is restored renew the operation four or five
times, when it will be found the disease is
destroyed. This must be done before pus
is formed.
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sa~ Industry is the natural sure way to
success this is so true that it is impossible
that an industrious people should want the
necessaries and comforts of life, or an idle
people enjoy them under any form of gov
rrnmPnt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09
Mt,1turults department.
THERMOMETER PANTALOONS.


Hofenstein was busily engaged scolding
Herman for not polishing a lot OF cheap
jewelry there was in the showcase, when a
stoop-shouldered countryman entered the
store and inquired: ...
"Have you got any jean pants here? ?"
"Certainly, my frent," replied Hoffen-
stein, I've makes speciality uf goods in dot
line, und We defy competition. If We sell
anyding und you don't like it, you gets
your money pack or someding else, in ex-
change, you know. Vas you a farmer?"
eyes, sir, 1 live up on Cooper River"
ssVell, den, you need bair uf bants like
desc" said Hofenstein, pulling out sky
blue pair from a pile of clothing on the
counter. "Dey vas de genevine doe-skin,
und will last de whole year oud, you know"
The countryman took the pantaloOns to
the light, examined the texture of the
cloth, and then shaking his head, know
ingly said:
"There's too much cotton in them they'll
shrink" = -
'sOf course, my trent, dey will shrink, but
Wait und I dell you Something's, If man
vat owns pank or keeps sthore comes
here, don't sell him dem kind uf bants.
Wy? Because dey vas made expressly for
de farming pisness. Dey vas de dermome-
ter bants, und blessing to every farmer
vat wears a bair uf dem. Do you know,
my trent, dose bants will tell you exactly
vat de vedder will pc. Ven it was going to
pc vet und cold dose bants will pegin to
shrink up, and ven it's going to pc dry und
warm dey comes right down, you know.
Dree years ago sells bair uf dem to man
vat vas name Wilkins, und ever since den
he makes good crops ven de oder beople
don't make noding, because he always
knows by his thermometer bants vat de
vedder will pc. After avile de beople in
der neighborhood finds oud de segret ut
Wilkins success, und at de beginning uf de
planting season, you know, dey comes Tor
thirty miles around, und if dey see Will
kins' bants crawling up his legs dey holds
off un waits for change, but if his bants
vas down, dey goes right pack home und
put in de crop. Dink uf it my trent. Nit
de thermometer bants you dell exactly, ven
to put in cabbage seed, und blant corn
dwice as peter as nit any almanac; pesides,
ven de vedder gets so cold und vet dot de
bants goes up under your arms, you can
sew buttons on de front, und wear dem as
a vest" ,...- ...
When Hoffenstein finished his yarn con-
cerning the pantaloons the countryman
smiled, and turning abruptly on his heel,
left the store.
'sDid you see de way dot man acted, Her
MANI" said Hoffenstein, angrily.
eyes, sir" replied the clerk.
"Vell, it shust shows dot de more you
try to help some boobies along, de more you
don't get any tanks for it..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

PRIMARY EDUCATIoN.-The emphasis
laid upon primary education, and the prep
aration of teachers for primary schools, is
beginning to have a noteworthy effect in
the school systems of our large cities. Pri-
mary work is discovered to have many at
fractions. For in a school of small children,
government is easy and accomplished main
~ by gentle means. There is moreover,
something very attractive to a bright and
intelligent young woman in the modern
methods of teaching young children. She
is to be entertaining, lively, fertile in new
devices, to win the love and admiration of a
company of docile little children. Her
work is almost entirely confined to the
schoolroom. There are no tiresome exercis-
es to be looked over out Of school hours, no
piles of dry examination papers to be read
on Saturdays and in the evenings. In the
intermediate and grammar grades, on the
other hand, there are intractable pupils to
manage; the forces of evil in the child are
gathering strength and must be met with
frmness, patience and wisdom. 1t will be
essential, before long, to give more atten-
ion to the methods Of teaching and manage
ment in intermediate and grammar grades.
Wisconsin Journal Of Education.
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the effect nrnduced hv breathing pure OXY-

the effect produced by breathing pure oxy--
gen. AS for pulmonary troubles, he heard
no complaint of them while the party was
at Fort Conger, in Lady Franklin bay, at
latitude of 82.8, where the first two years
were spent. Even simple catarrhs were un-
known, the only thing from which the men
suffered being occasional rheumatisms and
stiffness of muscles and joints. The party
had ferocious appetites during all the long
sojourn in the North, each man eating. with
relish three meals of animal food and two
lunches every day, and craving fat, though
not to the extent which some arctic travel
ers report. Not even when the thermome-
ter registered sixty degrees below zero dld
these men indulge in crude blubber or tai
low candles, which tradition has designated
as the customary food of Arctic voyagers;
nor was even pemmican regarded as rare
and dainty dish by them. Canned meats,
of which they had an abundance during the
first two years, and a steak or ragout from
the walrus, seal, or polar bear, were priced
as the essential conditions of Well-belng.
AS for spirituous liquors, they were used
with great moderation, and doled out to the
members of the expedition as occasion
seemed to demand, and only when some un-
usual eXertion or exposure. brought some
extraordinary fatigue or prostration: AS
means to fOrtity the system against cold, or
brace it up for forced marches, whisky, rum,
and other alcoholic stimulants were regard
ed as of little benefit.-lHedicdl Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

THE USE OF ToBAcCo.-Cigars were not
known until about 1915. Previous to that
time pipes were used exclusively. Chew
ing had been in vogue to y, limited extent
for some time, while snuffng dates back al
most as far as smoking. ,s;-&.,...,,s.
The first package sent to Catherine de
Medici was in fine powder. She found that
smelling it in the box affected her similar
ly to smoking, which led her to fill one OF
her smelling bottles with the dust Her
courters adopted the habit of snuffing small
portions of it up the nostrils, and as the
precious snuff became more plentiful the
snuffing habit became more general, until
at last man or woman was not consider
ed as in proper form unless they snutted'
The custom became so common in Eng
land that snuff box was no longer a sign
of rank. Then it was the law prohibiting
the culture of the plant, except for medi-
cine, was passed. About the same time
heavy tariff was placed on the imported ar:
ticle, thereby practically placing it beyond
the reach of the common herd and giving
royalty complete monopoly.
Since it first began to be used as luxury
there have been conflicting opinions in re.
gard to it's effects. The Romish church
once forbade its use, and the Church OF
England declaiIned against it. The Wes.
leys opposed it hotly, and at one time it
was considerd so unclean as to unfit men for
membership in the Methodist church.
Baptist and Presbyterian ministers preach.
ed against it and societies were organized
to oppose the spread of the habit, but all
to no purpose. Parents disoWned and dis
inherited their children because they used
it, and husbands divorced their wives on
account of their having contracted the hab-
it of smoking.
1t is singular that when women get in
to the habit of smoking pipe they prefer
strong one. There are few men who have
nerve to smoke pipe such as woman likes
when she has become confirmed smoker.
When they first begin puffiug cigars they
prefer them very mild, but it is not long
until they want them black and strong and
lots of them.-Pittsb,ug Dispatch.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09

SECRET OF LARGE CRoPs.-The air, just
as the snow is said to be, is the poor mans
manure or, in other words, it is the man
ure which keeps man poor who depends
upon it. The whole secret of large crops is
plenty of manure. And to have manure
farmer must produce a large amount Of
fodder and food for stock. Grass is no long
er 'the pivotal crop" OF the farm, as it has
been said to be. 1t, too, has passed out of
use and must be su perceded by some more
productive crop. Grazing is one of the un-
economical processes of Middle Age agri-
culture. Itcan afford subsistence to not more
than one steer for each seven or eight acres,
while one acre of ensilage or of roots will
feed one steer or more than one. Fodder
and root crops must then be substituted tor
grass before the farmer can reach, through
the process of feeding stock protitably, the
indispensable supply of manure for his
land -Nplc York TIUleS
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aas> The mad man never takes or reads a
newspaper. His protests always commence
with the language, "My attention having
been called to an article in your paper, etc.,
Ignorance is bliss for pig-headed man:
He should always arrange it that no friend
of his will ever call his attention to any
thing printed.
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CO L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.
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CCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains
- from Lenoir, n. c., to Chester, S. C., taking
effect at II o'clock, Noon, Sunday, May 81, 1885.
Standard Of time, clock in telegraph office at
Chester.