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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12
4 NEEDED REFORM.

The letter of Bishop Stevens, asking the
aid of the Charleston Ministerial Union to
secure legislation which will make it nec-
essary to obtain a license in South Caroli-
ma before marriage can be celebrated, is
likely to attract earnest attention to this
subject. AS the matter now stands, it is
easier for two persons to enter the mar
riage relation, which is indissoluble under
our law, than it is to form a business part
nership for a few years or months, or even
to effect the transfer of an acre of land, or
to enter into a business contract of any
nature.
1t would seem, really, that compact
which is regarded as so solemn and bind
ing, when once made, should not be capa-
bic of being entered into so slightly, es-
pecially by young people who have scarce
iy arrived at years of discretion, and who,
even if they are old enough to regulate
their own conduct, are not usually in par
ticularly discretionary frame of mind at
the time when they seek to assume the
obligations of the matrimonial estate,
whether or not, however, a license should
be required as a preliminary to marriage,
1t is certain that the marriage laws OF
South Carolina ought to be revised in some
particulars. Even if it is not desired to
make it more difficult to marry than it is
at present, there should be some definite
provision for recording, or registering, the
fact of marriage at least.
It seems unimportant, perhaps, when
persons are marrying in haste, whether
they shall be married by clergyman who
will record their marriage, or by trial
Justice who will keep no evidence of the
contract. But in after years when chill
dren shall have been born and property
has been acquired, it becomes of the ut,
most consequence to have always the
means of establishing the fact of the mar
riage and its lawfulness likewise. How
many persons in South Carolina have in
their possession, or could obtain at need
The nr0nf of legitimate birth? It is an
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12

BE EARLY.-Remembe that time, tide
and railway trains wait for nobody, and so
arrange your movements in travelling as
never to be in hurry. Go to your train,
boat, steamship, stage, diligence or other
conveyance in ample season, as to have
opportunity to make all needed arrange
ments without pressure for time. On
most Continental railways the sale of tick
cts cease five minutes, and the registration
of baggage ten minutes, before the depar-
ture Of the trains. This is something to-
be borne in mind, or it will be learned by
missing a train some day. In making up
party for extended travel, shun the man
or woman who has habit of procrastina-
tion; who habitually comes late to an en-
gagement, and is always not quite ready
when the others want to be starting. Such
person can spoil the pleasure of all his
companions by keeping them in state of
perpetual worry whenever they are to 60
from one place to another, or have any sort
of engagement to keep.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12
TERMS--$2.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE

sheriff of the county approaching him, his
courage failed and he made break for
liberty. He started down the street at a
tremendous rate. The crowd raised yell
and very large dog took after him. The
dog overlook him as he turned the first
corner, fastened his teeth in Davis's pants,
and tore them completely off of him. He
increased his gait, out ran the dog, and as
he turned the top of the first hill he ran
out of his big boots, they flying in the air
over his head as he sped onward. He ran
to his home, but made no halt, running
through the house and garden, breaking
down a panel of the latter as he went out.
He turned up Beaverdam Creek, and new
er made halt until he reached relatives
house in the vicinity of Hartwell, having
run twenty-six miles in about three hours.
For year afterWard Davis could not be
induced to put his foot on Elbert county
soil.
Thus commenced and ended undoubted-
ly the fastest presidential race ever run in
the United States.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12

HONEST WORK.-We are all workers
in one way and another; but how many
of us are possessed of an earnest desire
that the work which we put from our
hands shall be thorough, honest, faith
full performance that shall fulfill its purpose
and withstand the ravages of time? The
great difference in labor is not in what has
been done-nor in the kind of work we
perform-but in the spirit which we put in
to it. From the cleansing of aroom to the
purifcation of a government, from the
clearing of a forest to the chiseling of a
statue, from the humblest work of the
heart and brain, it is the determination to
make it of the best possible quality that
places it in the front rank. The work that
is performed only for the sake of what it
will bring, not for what it will carry forth,
is like the cloth of shoddy, which may
please the eye, but will not wear. 1t
is cheap, fimsy stuff, woven with no no
bier purpose than to hold together long
enough to be bought and paid for.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12
ENERGY OF THE sun.

The most satisfactory way of arriving at
an idea of the enormous energy OF the sun
is by measuring the amount of heat which
his rays are capable of ofgenerating, and fur
ther, by our knowledge of the relations
that exist between heat and mechanical
work, we are able at once to estimate the
amount of work which the sun is capable
of doing, and also the quantity of energy
he must be losing year by year. BY suit
able arrangements we can cause certain
quantity of his radiation to be absorbed
by water or other substance, and note the
rise in temperature which results, and as
we know the mechanical equivalent of
each degree of temperature, in water for
instance, it is only a matter of calculation
to arrive at a knowledge of the suns total
energy.
Like everything else connected with this
wonderful body, figures give US no ade-
quate conception of his energy land various
illustrations have been used by different
investigators. Thus, Herschel considered
it relation to the quantity Of ice which
would melt in given time, and states
that the amount of heat which the earth
receives when the sun is overhead would
melt an inch thickness of ice in two hours
and thirteen minutes. From this it can
be calculated that if the body of the sun
were entirely surrounded by sheet of ice
on its surface of more than mile in thick
ness, the SUMS heat would entirely melt
this coating Of ice in the same time
namely, two hours and thirteen minutes.
Professor Young uses an even more strik-
ing illustration. He says: "If we could
build a solid column of ice from the earth
to the sun, two miles and a quarter in
diameter, spanning the inconceivable
abyss of 93,OO0,OO0 miles, and if then the
sun should concentrate his power upon it,
it would dissolve and melt, not in an hour,
nor in minute, but in a single second
one swing of the pendulum, and it would
be water; seven more and it would be
dissipated in vapor.'
OF course, of this enormous quantity OF
heat the earth receives but very small
fraction. The remainder, except of course,
whatthe other planets receive, passes away
into space, and is lost forever, so far as
can be ascertained, to the solar system
If we estimate in mechanical power what
we do receive, we find this to be on each
square foot of surface equivalent, on the
average, to about fifty tons raised mile
high yearly, or to one horse power contin.
uously acting, to every thirty square feet
of the earth's surface. 1t is by this enor'
nous supply of energy that the whole
world is kept alive and active. 1t keeps
US warm, and drives our steam engines
and water wheels; it circulates our atmOs
phere, and brings us rain and snow in due
season it grows and nourishes our plants
and animals, and, in word, is the source
ofalmost every earthly blessing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12

bushels of seed to every ton of cane, worth
as much as corn, which 1 presume to be
worth 80 cents; that is 81 more, making
$500. Then there are at least ten gallons OF
molasses. worth 50 more-Sl0.20. Yet the
manufacturer has paid but $3.50 for that
from which he gets his 5000. Can any
thing be more profitable than that: ltap-
pears to me that there cannot.
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have some bran mixed with IL. But say
it is equal to the Indian corn, and pro-
duces about the same number Of bushels
to the acre, and the seed will pay the cost
of cultivation.
THE LOUISIANA SUGAR.
If any of you have visited the Louisiana
sugar plantations you know what a slow,
tedious Job it is to raise cane there, and
how much help it requires. Here no
such skill is required. Here we have a
climate where man can work longer and
do more; we have land that is cheaper,
and the time is surely coming, gentlemen,
when in every neighborhood you will have
your sugar mills as in the wheat growing
States you have your Touring mills. The
time is coming when you will have your
sugar factories just as you have your cotton
gins when white man and black man
can raise their cane, haul it to the factory,
have it converted into sugar, get, as they
do in Kansas, from 50 to SO ton cut right
from the field, leaves and all, cash every
Saturday night, the sugar manufacturer
converting it, and making good deal
more money than the farmer does. Great
applause
Here is an opportunity for capital to en-
ter and make money. Take ton of cane
and see what it produces. 1t produces 100
pounds of sugar the first working; if there
is another reboiling it produces 20 pounds
more-l2O pounds of sugar. What is that
worth: What are you paying for sugar
now? For the quality produced under
take to say you will pay cents; but say
6 cents. That is Sc for the first run ;Sl.o9
for the second-$7.2O. Then there are two
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
Getting Square.

In Delaware county, New York, there is
brook that is about perfection for trout,
and, were it not for the many natural safe
guards which surround it, it never could
have withstoOd the continuous and out
rageous abuse it has undergone each spring
for several years past, and have any fish
left. | remember when in an hours cast
ing one could almost fill 12-pound creel
with fish that would average nearly three
quarters of q pound, but now nothing but
hngerlings are to be had This is how
the end has been attained As but a
small proportion of the inhabitants living
on or near a stream of this kind are in any
way so fixed that they can accommodate
strangers for any length of time in even
ordinary comfort, it naturally falls to the
lot of these few to entertain the angler
when he comes their way. They immedi-
ately become the envy of those whose
worldly goods do not offer the same adj
vantages, and the result is that a dog-in-
the-manger feeling prevails. Visitors suf-
fer in consequence. Now, the moment the
law is up the disappointed ones go to the
stream and catch everything they can, and
in any manner that best serves their pur-
pose, so that in couple of DAYS there is
hardly trout to be had worth saving.
This method of destruction is practiced in
order to prevent those city chaps from hay
ing any sport, and consequently they debar
their better-circumstanced neighbors from
getting the dollars from those chaps in the
future. Their success is generally COM
plete, and as the size of the catch is only
limited by the immediate supply, they
have pleasant and inexpensive way of
getting square-ForeSt and Stream.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
ANTIQUITIES OF IRELAND.
The Hslf-Mythical Tradition of the County
Meath-The Dowth Mound.

Among the most interesting monuments
of prehistoric pagan times in Ireland, says
the London NeWS, are those found on and
near the banks of the river Boyne, in the
county of Meath, few miles west of Drog-
heda. Here was a cemetery of some of
the princes and chieftains of Erin at
period to which no certain date can be
ascribed, but to which may be referred the
half-mythical traditions of the Tuatha-de
Danan, the fair haired race of strangers.
valiant horsemen, singers and harpers, and
maglcians, who are supposed to have con-
quered some part of the island, and to
have established their kings throne on the
hill of Tara. Of their protracted wars
against the Fomorians and the Firbolgs,
whoever those invaders were; of the Fo-
morian King Balor, who had one eye in
the middle of the forehead and another in
the back of the head which could kill men
at glance; and of Nuada Airgeat Lamb.
the king with a silver hand, made to re-
place his hand lost at the battle of Moy-
tura, the lovers of romantic fables NAV
read at their pleasure. 1t is probable that
Meath was, in very remote age, the abode
of a warllke people, who gained consid-
cradle ascendency over the tribes of the
adjacent parts of Ireland, and whose King
may sometimes have been the head of
Federal League to resist the incursions of
the Danes and Norsemen.
The sepulchral mounds, cairns, or bur-
rows IN the neighborhood of Dowth and
Newgrange, associated with the names of
King Dubbath and Achad Aldai (the
name of "Dowth" being corruption of
" Dubbath" in the opinion of Celtic schoI-
ars) were examined by members of the
ROYAL Irish Academy forty years age. The
Dowth mound is an immense pile Of small
bowlder stones, in the interior of which
are chambers and passages constructed of
very large blocks of stone rudely laid to-
gether in the "dolmen" fashion of Brittany
and other Celtic examples: the first
chamber formed in the shape of cross
Though certainly not of Christian design,
contained broken stone coffin, with few
bronze or iron ornaments and half-burnt
human bones. A passage twenty-seven
feet long conducts to a series of small
crypts, and to square chamber, the stones
of which are scul ptured with variety of
decorative, perhaps symbolical, patterns
and devices. The more important of these
have engaged the study of antiquarians
with view to ascertain their possible sig
nifcauce. They appear in the greatest
richness and complexity on the huge
stones of the interior of the great sepul-
chral monument at Newgrange; the
carvings are of wonderful diversity-cir-
cles. spirals, zig-zag, indentations, lozen-
ges and lines and dots, which some think
to be form of writing.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
A Rainbow by Moonlight.

1t was on the 10th of October, 1886, that,
rising at an unusually early hour (about
o'clock, as member of the family wished
to make an early start to a ueighboring
city, CHANGED to glance out of the open
doorway, when | beheld scene which
held me spellbound with wonder and ad-
miration, and which will remain indelibly
stamped upon my memory SO long as mem
DRY lasts.
The splendid harvest moon, with its at
tendant stars was slowly descending to-
ward the western horizon; dark clouds
filled the eastern sky, from which bright
mist was falling, while over the simmer
ing river, and towering high above the
dark wooded hills, until its apex rested
among and Illuminated the very clouds
above, a magnificent arch had been erected
"a rainbow, clear and distinct, yet with
colors infinitely more soft and beautiful
than any seen by the light of day.
The enhancing beauty of the scene held
me spellbound, as it were, till at length
realizing that was selfish in my enjoy
ment, l aroused the sleeping household,
that they might witness a scene the weird
splendor of which it is impossible to de-
scribe, and which cannot hope to ever see
again.-FOrest and Stream.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
The Orbits of Aerolites.

Professor III. A. Newton, in discussing
the orbits Of aerolites, presented the re-
suits of the observations and study of
great number of meteors Without fol-
lowing his line of argument, which was a
very able one his principal conclusion
may be given, which is that the aerolites
are moving in direct and not in retrograde
orbits; that is, they move in the same
general direction as the earth, and not in
an opposite direction. The fact that the
earth does not meet as many as it over
takes is one of his reasons for this conclu-
sion. At the same time he admitted that
there may be two reasons why fewer
meteors met by the earth should be OBJ
served, besides their actual comparative
number: First, they may move with such
velocity that few reach the earth; and,
second, they may fall when men are
asleep and not abroad-that is, in the
morning hours. The first of these points
he did not discuss; but of the second he
said that Of ninety-four observed aerolites
that reached the EARTH and whose zenith
is known only at the instant they fall,
more appeared in the afternoon than in
the forenoon, seven-eighths of them in the
daylight. OF the meteorites which we
have in our cabinets, he said, and which
have been seen to fall, by far the greater
part have come from stones that were fol-
lowing the earth, and not moving in oppo-
site directions.-.Science
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
COWBOY FUN.
How the Montana Herders Fare With
Lively Broncos.
TApril Century1

lAPAAA NSbbuAl'i
While the head men are gathered in a
little knot, planning out the work, the
others are dispersed over the plain in
every direction, racing, breaking rough
horses, or simply larking with one another
If a man has an especially bad horse, he
usually takes such an opportunity, when
he has plenty of time, to ride him; and
while saddling he is surrounded by a
crowd of most unsympathetic associates,
who greet with uproarous mirth any
misadventure. A man on buck
ing horse is always considered fair
game, every squeal and jump of the
bronco being hailed with cheers of de-
lighted irony for the rider and shouts to
/" stay with him." The antics of vicious
bronco show infinite variety of detail, but
all are modelled on one general plan. When
the rope settles round his neck the fight
begins, and it is only after much plung-
ing and snorting that a twist is taken
over his nose, or else hackamore-a spe-
cies of severe halter, usually made of
plated hair-slipped on his head. While
being bridled he strikes viciously with his
fore feet, and perhaps he has to be blind
folded or thrown down, and to get sad
die on him is quite as difficult When
saddled he may get rid of his exuberant
spirits by bucking under the saddle, or
may reserve all his energies for the rider.
In the last case the man, keeping tight
hold with his left hand of the check-strap,
so as to prevent the horse from get
ting his head down until he is
fairly seated, swings himself quickly
into the saddle. Then up rises the
bronco's back into an arch, his head, the
ears laid straight back, goes down between
his fore feet, and, squealing savagely, he
makes a succession of rapid, istiff-leeged,
Earring bounds. Sometimes he is
"plunging" bucker, who runs forward all
the time while bucking; or he may buck
steadily in one place, or suntish that
is, bring first one shoulder down almost to
the ground and then the other-or else he
may change ends while in the air. A
tirst-class rider viii sit throughout it all
without moving from the saddle, quirting
his horse all the time, though his hat may
be Jared off his head and his revolver out
of its sheath. After few jumps, however,
the average man grasps hold of the horn
of the saddle-the delighted onlookers
meanwhile earnestly advising him not to
" go to leather and is eontented to get
through the affair in any shape, provided
he can escape without being thrown off.
An accident is of necessity borne with
broad grin, as any attempt TO resent the
raillery Of the ystanders-which is per-
fectly goodhumored, would be apt to result
disastrously.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05

Protoplasm is said to be the simplest
form of matter. If so, matter generally
must be of a very complex nature-too
complex, in fact, for analyzation by any
body who has got anything else to do dur
ing the term of his existence The Phila-
delphia Times says: "The eminent DIR.
Rodewdld and Professor j. Reinke were
able to obtain protoplasm in state of
purity from the qualification of ethali-
cum septicum, fungus developed in heaps
Of tan, and find its composition, than which
nothing could be simpler In its more
solid portions only the authors have iden-
titled the following bodies: Vitellin,
myosin, pepton, peptonoid, pepsin, nue.
leine, lecithine, guanine, sarkine, xanthine,
ammonium carbonate, paracholesterin,
cholesterin, @thalicum, resin, yellow pig
ment, gylcose, non-reductive sugar, oleic,
stearic, palmitic, butyric, and carbonic
acid, glycerides, paracholesterides of the
fatty acids, calcium, stearate, palmitate,
oleate, lactate, oxalate, acetate, formiate,
phosphate, carbonate, and sui plate, mag
nesium and potassium phosphate sodium
chloride, and iron in an unknown state of
combination. The albuminoids scarcely
form so per cent. of the entire weight.
Could anything be simpler ?'
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The Sturcenn Landed.

Mamma, dear,' said an Albany girl the
other day, speaking in the tone of gentle,
loving confidence that is always so charm
ing to see between mother and daugh-
ter, I-I-think George Sturgeon intends
asking me to be his wife tonight. What
shall | say if he does?
any darling" cried the fond mother,
clasping her loved one to her bosom.
" Must you ask me-must lou ask any one
what to say at such time? Be guided
entirely by the dictates of your own heart.
Ask your heart if you love him. What
does my darling heart say?"
"Well, mamma, said the maiden, pen
siyely, it seems to be kind o straddle of
the fence and don't know which way to
tumble, but, on the whole, guess George
is about as good fish as [ am likely to
land, so I'd better haul him in, hadn't l."
My sweet" said the agitated mother,
tearfully, " reckon YOU had" = Troy
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