Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-23

long time before I could make out what
he was doing. At last, however, 1 figured
it out, and was very much surprised, in
deed, for had never seen horticulture car
ried to that extent, and as Mr.. Sayward
would remark, 81 thought he was carrying
that thing too far" ..--..-..----
Many will doubt my word, and would
not have believed it myself if any one else
had told me, but the man was actually pick
cranberries out of his submerged orchard
with stomach pump. I have one of the
cranberries at home now.-Boston Sunday
Globe.
INCREASE OF CANCERs.-From reliable
data it is estimated that from fifteen to
twenty thousand new cases of skin disease
occur among the poorevery year. In 1869
there were 3O4 deaths from cancer in this
city, and in 1879, 572 deaths from the same
cause, In 1880 the deaths by cancer had in
creased to $50, and in 1882 73l, or more than
two deaths daily. During these fourteen
years 6,s43 persons died of cancer in New
York city. All the other large cities in the
United States exhibit the same startling
progress of the disease, while the report Of
the registrar general in Great Britain shows
an increasing prevalence of malady in that
country. According to the statistics of the
health department of the city of Baltimore,
there were seven deaths from cancer in that
city in 1880, and 172 from the same cause in
1884. During this period the population
had increased five fold, and the deaths from
cancer twenty-six fold.
The association of skin disease and cancer
i'm the same institution is based upon the
reason that in many instances cancer attacks
the skin alone, or appears on or beneath
the skin and afterWard affects the organs,
and that by the union of skin diseases and
cancer many persons may be led to seek
relief long before the case would be recog-
nized as cancer either by the patient or by
many physicians. A further reason is found
in the hope that something may yet be done
for cancer by means other than surgical op-
Grafton. To aid this, a prize fund has al
ready been established to stimulate research
in this direction. The cause of the disease
is not known. The accepted theory in Eng
land attributes it to malaria. The most that
can be said respecting this hypothesis is that
it is not proved. But the fact that cancer is
frequently observed along water courses, as
in London, Liverpool, New York and Bal
timore, gives strong probability to the theo-
ry.-New York Telegram.
WAGES IN 1S00.-The condition of the
wages class of that day may well be exam
ined. 1t sfull of instruction for social agi-
tators. In the great cities unskilled work.
men were hired by the day, bought their
own food and found their own lodgings.
But in the country, on the farms, or wherev-
er hand was employed on some public
work, they were lodged and fed by the en-
ployer and given q few dollars month
On the Pennsylvania canals, the diggers ate
the coarsest diet, were housed in the rudest
sheds, and paid six dollars month from
May to November and five dollars month
from November to May. Hod carriers and
morter mixers, diggers and choppers, who,
from 1893 to 1900 labored on the public
buildings and cut the streets and avenues of
Washinton City, received seventy dollars a
year, or, if they wished, sixty dollars for all
the work they could perform from March
lst to December Goth. The hours of work
were invariably from sunrise to sunset.
Wages at Albany and New York were
three shillings, or, as money then went,
forty cents day; at Lancaster, SS to $40
month; elsewhere in Pennsylvania, hands
were content with Sc in summer and So in
winter. At Baltimore, men were glad to
be hired at eighteen pence day. None,
by the month, asked more than Sc. At
Fredericksburg, the price of labor was So to
81. In Virginia, white men, employed by
the year, were given sixteen pounds cur
rency; slaves, when hired, were clothed
and their masters paid one pound month.
A pound of Virginia money was, in Fed
eral money, 1888. The average rate of
wages the land over was, therefore, SG5 q
year, with food, and perhaps lodging. Out
of this small sum the workman must, with
his wife's help, maintain his family.-lNc-
Masters History.
pa~ Sorrow is divine. Sorrow is reigning
on all the thrones Of the universe and the
crown Of all crowns has been one of thOrns.
There have been many books that treat on
the sympathy of sorrow, but only one that
bids us glory in tribulation, and count it all
ioy when we fall into diverse affections,
that so we may be associated with that
great fellowship of suffering of which the
incarnate Son of God is the head, and
through which He is carrying a redemptive
conflict to glorious victory over evil If
we suffer with Him, we shall also reign
with Him.-Harriet Beecher iTO,Ce.
bas- To every man of great original power
there comes, in early youth, moment of
sudden discovery--of self-recognition-when
his own nature is revealed to himself, when
he catches for the first time strain of that
immortal song to which his own spirit an
swers, and which becomes thenceforth and
forever the inspiration of his life, "like