Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-06-06

Der of copies of the Bible, to initiate those
which were commonly sold in MSS, he
undertook the sale of them at Paris. 1t
was his interest to conceal this discovery,
and to pass off his printed copies as MSS.
He could sell his Bibles at sixty crowns,
while the dealers demanded five hundred.
This raised astonishment; and still more
when he produced as fast as wanted, at
lower prices. The uniformity Of the
copies increased wonder; information was
given in to the magistrates against him as
a magician. His lodgings were searched,
and great number of copies of the Bible
were found. The red ink which embell-
ished his copies was said to be his blood;
and It was solemnly adjudged that he was
in league with the devil, aud he
obliged to save himself from bonfire by
revealing his art to the Parliament of
Paris, who discharged him from all prose-
cution in consideration of this useful in
vention. r@i
WHITE NATIVES OF AFRICA.-M
people who have read Rider Haggard's
tale of the great white race in Africa con-
slider it the purest fiction, but. such is not
the case. South of Timbuctoo andsnorth
| of, Kong mountains, iii the western part
| Africa, live the Fooiahs, the white tribe
of the Dark Continent. This tribe has
good features, a skull modelled like that of
white man, and a complexion about as
dark as that of the Italians. They were
great slave traders in the old days, but
they made speciality of the finest grades
and but few of their own number were
ever transported. It is said that a ship
load of them was once landed on the coast
of Louisiana, and that the Creoles, refusing
| fo ho1ioxyo thopo dorlioc COT fhano frQa and
hung the slavers.
These Foolahs settled down in the
marshes of southern Louisiana, and after
a while became civilized, and in that part
of the State today you will find tall, dark,
rather good looking white men who have
all the Incidence of the black African, who
are sometimes as fierce as the Arab, and
always hospitable and musical. These
people are the descendants of the FoOlahs,
and the MolaotUer was SLAYER. There
are strange people in this great country of
ours.-Kansas Cfty Star.
p@ City and village schools have become
peoples colleges. 1t was not so genera
tion ago, but it is now; for ninety per cent
of all our children are educated in them.
The old academy is dying. Seventy years
ago there were 900 academies in New
England; Inere are lOt ~ I'LL tolu, Soou
and poor to-day. Village and city schools
have supplanted them. Since this is 80,
it is of the utmost Importance that great
attention should be given to the methods
of teaching, grading and supervising our
public free schools. Our supervising off,
GERS are to-day of more Importance than
our college presidents, for these direct the
hundreds, while the former. direct the
thousands. The time is not distant when
it will be hard to find q private secondary
school. The old colleges will stay, but the
private boarding school will 60. The ed
ucational interests of to-day centre in and
as it ought to be-. The signs of the times
show US that our greatest strength should
be applied in strengthening, beautifying,
enlarging, and perfecting the free. public
school,. Let US take wisdom from the signs
of the times.-Nea0 York School Journal.