Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-15
part on life's busy stage. They will not be
in your way long. They will soon depart
for the long home, where all will follow be-
fore they expect it.
STRANGE HUMAN SPECIMENS.

| is not true that any race of giants exists on
this earth there is good reason for believ-
ing that on several places on the earths
surface, there are tribes of dwarfs whose
average stature is very much less than that
of the leading races of man. The German
traveller, Schweinfurth, has given minute
description of nation Of dWarfs he encoun-
tered in Central Africa. Alice D. LIE Plon-
geon, who is well-knoWn in New York
City, has published elaborate descriptions
of extinct cities she visited in British Hon.
duras and Yucatan, the houses of which were
intended for people of not more than three
feet high. She writes: 81 have measured
many of these houses which are strongly
constructed of brown stone, and found the
doorway eighteen inches wide and three
feet high, while my head nearly touched
the ceiling of the largest roon." These
dininutive people were evidently advanced
in the arts, and were at one time very nu-
merous. It is claimed that some of them
still exist among the hills of Honduras and
Guatemala. Miss lie Plongeon makes the
following curious statement:
1t is credibly related that one day in the
year 1925, some wood.cutters, wandering
along the banks of the Moho River in Brit
ish Honduras, in search of mahogany trees,
were startled upon reaching place called
Meditation Fall by strange little being
that suddenly emerged from the bush, star
ed wildly at them, then turned to flee. The
men pursued, overlook, and brought the
odd creature to their camp. 1t was dark
skinned girl, not quite three feet tall, and
with no other covering than her hair,
which fell in thick black masses to her feet
completely covering her. She was very
wild, but not stupid, and finding that no
harm was done to her, she talked to the
wood cutters in the Maya tongue that they
also spoke, that being the language of the
Indians in those parts. Asthe weather was
cool, one of the men gave her red flannel
shirt, which clothed her from head to foot.
For day or two she refused to eat, but
afterward seemed contented. She said her
people were all the same size as herself, and
that they were then living near Meditation
Fall where they had planted a cornfield,
but that they generally dwelt three or four
miles away in a deep valley. After she had
been in the camp about ten days, some OF
the men proposed to 60 and see her people.
She manifested delight, and offered to
guide them to the spot Reaching the
place where they first met her, she led them
| into the forest, then made sign for them
to stop and be silent. A hubbub of voices,
as of many people talking, reached their
ears, and the girl whispered to them that
she would 60 and announce their coming, as
otherwise her people would run away and
hide on hearing footsteps. Away she went,
and soon not sound was heard. The men
waited patiently, but their diminutive
guide did not return. Convinced that she
had very cunningly eluded them, they
went forward, and two minutes found them
| in cornfield. There were embers in two
or three places, and small piles of corn,
as if prepared for transportation. The
ground was much trodden, but no living
creature was in sight. They searched in
vain, and remained 'some time in the field
hoping that the owners would return for
the corn, but they never saw the girl again,
nor any of her people. One of those very
woodmen gave me this account, and SINH
lar stories have been told by others; but all
such stories might be doubted were it not
for the cities of diminutive houses, which
any traveller may examine for himself."-
From Demorest's MonthIyJor AprN.
NEWSPAPER ADVERTIsING.--Theg great
est merchant in Philadelphia is Mr.. Wan
amaker. This is the theory upon which he
places his advertising business: "There is
always some trade doing, even in the dull
lest season, and we strive to divert the
floating or transient trade to our place.
Again, when business ordinarily is dull,
people who see our invitations in the
newspapers are more apt to read them for
the reason that they have more time to
read, and there are fewer advertisements
then.
"Many merchants who have been in bus
mess fora certain number of years will say:
oh, we are so we'll known that it is no use
for us to ADVERTISE There never was
greater mistake. We would as soon think
of cancelng our insurance policies as our
advertising contracts. We spend more
money with newspapers each year that
goes by; there are more people who want
goods and new trade is always coming to
| the surface.
"Advertisng that is we'll done is cumu-
lative in character. 1t is like the COM
pounding of interest. An advertisement
in newspaper one day will, in all prob
ability, make a good return to the mer-
chant who has the goods the people want
at the right prices; each successive adver-
tisement that he puts in gains an impetus
and influence from the original one and so
it counts up until the name of the firm gets
what is equivalent to the good will OF
successful business, besides deriving the di-
rect profit from the immediate sales caused
by the advertising.
"To advertise well, a merchant should
give as much care to his newspaper srace
as he does to any other department Of his
business. AS general thing a merchant
can we'll afford to spend in newspaper ad-
vertising from one-third to one-tifth the
amount of his other total expenses. If
man in business talks as earnestly through
his newspaper when he is addressing one
or two hundred thousand people, stimuli
taneously, as when he is talking to one Gus
toner, he cannot fail to make success OF
newspaper Advertising"
nag- Ex- Confederate General Preston said
to an interviewer: "Once when Sir Garnet
Wolseley asked me at dinner party at
Montreal if the South could not have held
out longer, replied, GAS mere matter or
physical endurance, yes; but do you know,
sir, that in the four years of war through