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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26
TO YOUNG MEN.


A man holding very high position in
the commercial world gives the following
advice to young men on "How to succeed
in life:"
AS to the body-keep the person clean.
Be as much in the open air as circumstan-
ces will permit. Eat abundantly of plain,
wholesome food, especially of fruit. Have
nothing whatever to do with Intoxicating
drinks. Be in bed not later than II o'clock
90 o'clock would be far better,) and rise at
6. Beware of late hours; of temptation
in the streets and at theatres and balls.
Have no personal habits, such as smoking
or chewing or others, that are Injurious to
yourself or disagreeable to other people.
Have clean hands and clean clothes. If
your occupation is sedentary, take exercise
in gymnasium or in other ways, thN
simplest and cheapest of which is walking.
Always give place to women in streets or
street cars. Spend any holiday of days or
weeks in the country or at the seaside. Be
not extravagant in dress-but be we'll
dressed, not at your tailor's expense, how
ever. BY all means keep out OF debt, and
do not borrow money for personal ex-
penses.
AS to the mind. If without education,
try your best, in some way, to get at least
grammar, for you have little hope of sue
cess without. Be careful what you read,
and do not confine yourself to newspapers.
Do not read anything in them that is like
ly to be hurtful, especially police reports.
Read books and magazines, and as to
choice of books seek advice from others.
Read best novels, humorous or pathetic,
and write for your own eye brief notices of
the books you read. Buy few books-use
public libraries. AS to public entertain
ments for recreation in the evenings, 60 to
no place of seeing or hearing where you
would not take your mother or sister. If
you keep to this rule, you are not likely to
be hurt. AS to games, avoid billiard sa-
looms and gambling houses or parties. II
you are clerk, learn shorthand writing if
you can.
AS to business-Resolve to be faithful
in everything. Be on hand among the
first. Be among the last to leave. Be
quick to answer any call. Be prompt to
do what you are told. Say "Yes, sir" and
"No, sir" with hearty expressions, and
say "Good morning" as if you meant it.
Be not lazy or slovenly in any work you
are set to do. Be alive and remember no
labor is degrading. Treat your employer
with unfailing respect, and your fellow
clerks and workers, whether superiors,
equals or interiors, with hearty goodwill.
Let no temptations to lie directly or indi-
rectly, or to indulge in or listen to filthy
talk, overcome you. Be gentleman al
ways-for it is quit within your ability.
Make yourself indispensable to your en-
ployers-this, too, is possible. Be ambi-
tious in the highest and best sense Re
member that If not. now, you Will hereafter
have others depending upon you for sup
port or help. Do not waitto be rich before
YOU marry Al
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

A TROUBLESOME STAPLE.-Cotton is
the most troublesome stable of the worlds
commerce. From the hour of picking until
the moment it passes out of the loom as a
fabric, it is susceptible of a million changes,
each one of which affects its value on the
market. A bale of cotton is so sensitive
to heat and moisture that the weight
varies every minute of the day, as you
will find by actual experiment. On this
account buyers and sellers are represented
at the compress by men who are styled
"weighers," but whose duties are some
thing more than recording weights or
checking off receipts. On their judgment
the value of shipment or consignment
can be increased or diminished by several
hundred dollars, hence factories are care
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

The CONSUMPTION OF FLOUR.-The
consumption of flour would furnish good
study for some inquisitive body who has
the time and inclination to 60 into it.
Some people say it has decreased per cap
ita, while others say has increased. The
latter base their opinion on the fact that
in the Northwest and West, where the
people used to eat rye bread and oatmeal,
and in the South, where corn meal was the
material used for bread making, all classes
now use flour made from wheat. There
is no doubt but there is great deal OF
truth in that The other side is taken by
people who say that in this and the east
ern part of the country the middle and
upper classes have very largely deserted
the staff of life, and taken largely to pota-
toes and fruits in and out of season, and
that the consumption of -four in pastry is
not sufficiently increased to make up for
loss in that respect. There is great deal
of soundness in that reasoning, also. l
know number of people who simply nib
BILE at piece of bread, and live on meats.
pototoes, fruits and vegetables. I, myself,
do not eat two slices of bread day, hard
ly, and do not touch pastry. This gives
the case rather mixed appearance. The
mills have been running almost steadily,
but even this is no criterion, as tits hard
to say what they would have done If the
country mills had not largely been shr@
down. John Crangle in Globe-Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

full to place only their clearest headed and
most reliable men at the scales. A daub
of mud at one corner of bale may JUS
tify rebates with one package, while on
another the sellers representative would
not consent to any deductions. The delete
rious effects of exposure to weather can be
estimated at glance by skillful man,
but, nevertheless, the process of weighing
is accompanied by more frequent conten-
tion than any other part of the business.
Then you must remember that If any
crooked work has been done, a bale OF
cotton can be traced all the way from the
mill through hundred hands until you
finally reach the planter who sold it in the
first Observation-Disclosures.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26
PROPER CARE OF WOODLANDS.

A German farmer would as soon allow
his cattle to range in his WheatheldS as in
his forests, which often prove the most
profitable part of an European estate. In
this country the wooded part of the farm
is not cared for nor protected in way to
maintain and increase its value; it is
always used as pasture, in spite of we'll
known fact that cattle are fatal to forest {;
the trees are either all cleared off at once,
without reference to their reproduction, or
are 80 carelessly selected for cutting that
the character and composition Of the woods
are ruined. More care is taken now than
formerly to prevent and check fires in the
woods, but the damage done to forest prop
erty in this country by fire is still an
alarming item in the national waste ac-
count. No system of agriculture can long
be successful and practicable which ig-
nores the necessity of cultiyating trees,
and which does not recognize the fact that
much land in any country can only be
made profitable by means of trees.
The. precepts which should be often re-
peated to farmers are not that trees pro-
duce rain, or that trees are sacred objects,
which cannot be cut without offense to
man and nature. The lessons they must
learn, if they hope to compete with farm
ers trained under more enlightened plans
of agriculture, are that sterile, rocky,
hilly ground cannot long be titled profta-
bly,; and that such land can only be wisely
used to produce trees that the pasturage
of domestic animals in woods or on land
only suitable for the growth of trees, is an
expensive and wasteful system, as unsat-
isfactory from pastoral point of view as
it is fatal to the forest; that trees are as
much out of place in the strong level lands
really suitable to permanent tillage as cat
they must learn, too, that woodlands can
only be made profitable when the same
care is given to the selection of trees with
reference to the soil and climate as is be-
slowed upon the selection ofgrain and other
crops, and that the rules which nature has
established for the perpetuation of forests
must be studied and obeyed.-[ Garden and
Forest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

the horrible flat head fast to the ground
with her two sinewy paws. Now let him
lash, writhe, twine, strive to strangle her.
In vain he will never lift his head an
instant more, and he lies STILL the fine
white teeth of the cat have severed the
vertebr@ just behind the triangular skull.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

THE MoCKINGBIRD DISAPPEARANCE
Florida mourns the loss of the sweet notes
of the mockingbird. Formerly hundreds
of them could be heard singing, but their
nests have been so Systematically broken
up or robbed of their young that they are
rapidly Disappearing [Chicago Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

THE SABBATH STRONGER THAN AR
M1Es.-Count Montelambert, one of the
most eminent statesmen, once wrote:
''Men are surprised sometimes by the ease
with which the immense city of London is
kept in order by garrison of three small
battalions and two squadrons, while. to
control the capital of France, which is half
the size, 10000 troops of the line and &C, 900
national guards are necessary. But the
stranger who arrives in London on a Sun
day morning, when he sees everything
suspended in that gigantic capital in obe-
dience to God-when, in the centre of that
colossal business he finds silence and re-
pose scarcely interrupted by the bells
which call to prayer, and by the immense
crowds on their way to church-then his
establishment ceases. He understands that
there is another curb for Christian people
besides that made by bayonets, and that
when the law of God is fulfilled with such
a solemn submissiveness, God himself, If
1 dare use the words, charges himself with
the police arrangements"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

UNHAPPY OLD MEN.-The profession
al man, who makes his living by hard
knocks and constant exertions, is prone
to envy the business man or speculator
who can 60 on making money almost
without work, and who can pile up for
tune which seems enormous to one who
manages to pick out of the world by con-
stant endeavor snug living and perhaps
little more under favorable conditions.
But when old age comes the professional
man has an immense advantage over the
merchant, particularly over the merchant
who is, from the nature of things, 90 COM
mon in country like this-the merchant
who was not educated in his youth, and
whose chase after the mighty dollar has
stunted all the more refined and studious
aspiration he may originally have pos
seSSed.
For the old merchant, rich as he may
be, there is little satisfaction in the last
years. He can neither struggle on after
dollars which have no longer any signif-
canoe OF charm for him, or he can spend
his time moping and lettering uneasily,
miserable in -idlenasS, and not knowing
which way to turn or what to do with the
time which before he never had any to
spare. OF course this is not the case with
all rich old men who have made their
money in trade. Some have as convenient
and satisfactory methods of employing
their minds as could be asked for; but the
majority are not so fortunate. Scattered
about this town are rich men, or men with
all the property they have need for, and
more, too, who are quite unhappy in their
idleness.-[Chicago Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

A BAD BIT OF TERRITORY.-The little,
old fashioned village on the crescent shore
that marks the water line on the southern
end of Mackinac Island has been the scene
gilmore robbery, debauchery and ruin work
ed upon the trusting, ignorant and helpless
reds of this upper lake land than was ever
known in any equal bit of territory on the
globe. A very old and squatty but amply
WhiteWashed building may yet be seen
there, in which one can buy rum or play
billiards, and which was the headquarters
of the Fur company. Ever since it was
built poison has been dealt out in ito
the Indians, rum for furs; to the Ameri-
cans, rum for cash. Visitors even now are
bled quite freely. Rich furs were then
bought by the pound, and it is said that
white men had way Of giving an Indian
a deep drink of rum, and then persuading
him that ''white mans hand jist pound"
Then white man laid his hand on one
scale, and drunk Indian piled beaver skins
on the other until white mans arm could
hold down no more, and that was pound"
worth $3.50. Money was of no use to the
reds. and what they got in its stead cost
them fabulous prices. The Indians went
away poorer and poorer every time they
came.
Beside the traffic in furs, the island was
the place where for many years the Indi-
ans gathered annually to receive their
money from the United States for ceded
lands. Here many thousands of dollars
were paid over to the unprotected reds,
who were $40 poorer for every 81 paid
them. The crescent beach has been seen
covered with Indian canoes, and the old
village crowded with men and women
drunk from day to day until their money
had all passed into the hands of white
"traders," God save the mark and then
they would gradually get starved into the
necessity of going to the woods to hunt for
a living American Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

NEARLY EXTINCT.-A buffalo bull was
killed by some Crow Indians week before
last within four miles of Billings, M. T.,
on the South side of Yellowstone River,
and little band of five or six head is re-
ported northeast of the same place. 1t
seems likely that these are almost the last
stragglers ofthe buffalo that have for years
been known to range on the heads OF Por-
cupine and Dry Creeks, tributaries of the
Musselshell. It was from these that Mr..
Hornaday secured his fine series of speci-
mems for the National Museum, and an
occasional one has been killed, from time
to time, since then. BY this time, how
ever, they must be nearly or quite exter-
minated, and the only ones to be found
now in the United States-except in the
neighborhood of the National Park-are
the few stragglers in Texas, those LETT by
Mr.. Jones when he returned from his raid
into the Lone Star State after living buff
falos to increase his herd.-[ Forest and
Stream.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26
THE CONTRIBUTION BOX.

Why this queer old fashion should have
survived the days of sounding-board and
foot-stoves, nobody knows; but it is still a
feature of our most aristocratic churches.
It is always diversion to children and
idlers, as it is the one service that is not
worship, but is of the earth, earthly. n'.ia
The expression of the man who carries
around the long-handled box and propels
it into the pews is full of interest for the
reader of human nature. His worldly
features wear sanctimoniousa air, mingled
with pleased attention as he hears the
coins drop. If instead of q box, he carries
a plate, he tries to avoid looking at it, as
if his thoughts were elsewhere, but as crisp
bills are added to the financial pile his soul
expands and he almost smiles. He feels
q ihushed solemnity overspreading him,
and he walks on tip-toe, knowing that the
eyes of the congregation are upon him..
In some parts of the country a saucer is
used instead of plate. There is an old,
but good story of minister who sent his
hat around. It came back to him empty.
He Immediately bowed his head and re-
turned thanks for getting his hat back
from the congregation.
queer things are 1Ound IN Lne cOnLrlDu-
tion box. Once in one of our old churches
lady gave subdued scream. She sat in
front pew, and little mouse jumped
out of the box into her lap. .....'l
Silly people think it smart to put buttons
and lozenges into the contribution box.
One minister, who made collection of
odds and ends found in the box, requested
the members not to put buttons in that
had no eyes or shanks, as they were USE
less to him. ,..
In one of our city churches child's
gold ring was found in the plate. AS no
owner could be found it was classed as
church property and laid away.
Occasionally the man who carries the
plate will encounter some eccentric or non
church going individual who insists on
having bill changed, or asking for what
purpose the money is required. This is
always very embarrassing to the collector
who is usually in high state of nervous
ness without any such untoward accident.
It is time that this intruding of money
matters on the church service was abol-
ished. A box at the door should answer
such purposes after worship. 1.-THE Lord
loveth cheerful giver," but how can
man be cheerful who in the moment of
spiritual exaltation is confronted with
collection plate ?-[Detroit Free Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26

DIFFUSION OF THE GOsPEL.-The Bible
is printed in 25O languages and dialects.
There are 150,000,000 copies in circulation.
Twenty-Five Women'S Boards in Eng
land and America are actively engaged in
Foreign Missionary work.
The Young Mems Christian Associations
are now formally inaugurating Foreign
Missionary Branches.
The number of Missionary Societies is
ten-fold what it was eighty years ago.
The number of converts is nearly fifty-fold.
The facilities for inter-communication
are increased.
The diffusion of the English language
is growing.
Wonderful revivals with pentecostal
power are frequent in heather lands.
The increase in membership in heather
lands is thirty times greater than at home
in proportion to the number Of ministers
employed, although the tests of disciple
ship are of the most trying nature.
But above all other encouragements are
the precious promises of God:
GAS truly as I live, all the earth shall
be filled with the glory of the Lord"
Number IA: 81.
SOME ENORMOUS SALARIEs.-Some in
teresting figures in regard to salaries nave
been elected in suit, in Brooklyn,
against baking powder company. 1t
was shown that the president of the COM
pany draws salary of $4,000 year, the
vice president 100000, and the treasurer
sc, 600. The president of paint and varn-
ish company, who was introduced as an
expert in regard to salaries, stated that
the superintendent of his company re-
ceived $4,000 year, while the yearly
business did not exceed $3,0O0,0O0. An
other witness stated that in companies
with which he was acquainted the chief
officers received from $4,000 to 1000 a
year, while a representative of a kerosene
oil company said that he knew one officer
of large corporation who received sala-
ry of $50, 900 a year, and two others who
receive $4,000 each. These figures are
enormous, and were unknown until the
DAYS of trusts and combinations. The ex.
planation is furnished in the testimony of
one of the witnesses, who said that the
business of the company with which he is
connected had been increased until the
profits had reached 45O per cent. on the
original capital stock.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-29
A QUESTION OF HEALTH.

Bread biscuit and cake generally made by the aid
of baking POWDER enter largely into daily food that
their debasement by the introduction of any injurious
deeroratng substance serious concern to the
public health What baking powder shall avoid
the lime and alum found many eavening agents.
and to insure pure and wholesome bread question:
therefore, of direct Importance every individual.
is indsputabe fact that all baking powders with
of these adulterants alum-n quantities from five
strength not only but (aside from injurious effects upon
the sysem) by debasing food with substance
robs of portion of its nutritious qualities thereby epriving
bodies of the full necessary that
bodily vigor requisite to protect us from disease
The Importance of this in bearing upon the
life and health of the public much fully realized in
England where punshmen under stringent pro-
hbitng the manufacture and sale of auteated articles of
food, are of frequent occurrence.
The "Royal" has been determined by the Government
chemists and the most prominent food analysts be the only
baking powder made that entirely free from me alum and
other impurities, and absolutely pure is made from
OF tartar refined for its exclusive by patent processes by
which the tarate of lime Is totally eliminated No other
baking powder manufacturer chemically pure of
tartar and hence the adulteraon of other brands The
"Roya is, accordingly, the only baking powder that will
produce perfectly pure Bread biscuit cake pastry etc. and
these articles pronounced wholesome raised
by the Royal Baking Powder than when leavened by any other
agent.
1t is particularly question of health therefore,
baking powder shall use and those who appreciate the
mees of dyspepsia and other ailments that follow h of
impure food will not hesitate to select the Royal"
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-29
cRoceRs' ASSOCIATION MEETING.

Annual Picnic Other Interesting Mat
ters Transacted. q
= The Grocers' Association of this city held
an interesting meeting at Hohl & Lyons
grocery last night with full attend
ance. The reports of committees occu-
pied the greatest portion of their
time. The committee appointed to make
arrangements for their picnic reported that
the Fair grounds had been secured, and
that the date for the picnic was June 81.
Mr.. Funk then gave them an excellent
history Of the wholesale and retail trade of
this city as he found II in his experience as
a merchant, that contained many interest
ing points and was highly appreciated.
The peddling committee reported that
from the views expressed by City Solicitor
Summers they had best take hold of
the matter according to state legislation.
After some unimportant business the meet
ing adjourned.
1t WIS also reported that all the grocers
OF the city would close tomorrow from IL.
O'Clock until p. m. y
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-29
THE cROAKeRS.

A Graphic Pen Picture of What is Seen
and Heard Upon the streets.
The following from the Sunday Ne,cs of
yesterday is respectfully referred to the
class of persons therein pictured:
Springfield is just now being preyed
upon by q brood of vultures, called 'croak-
ers, who 20 about the streets day and
night, with their chins striking their knees
as they walk, and wearing masks of the
deepest despair and direst gloom. They
pirate constantly that Springfield has lost
her grip, that she is going down, losing
money and people every day, bus
iness is dead, our manufactures un-
successful, labor unemployed, merchants
desperate, money ungettable, and much
more of such ilk, all calculated TO give even
healthy, wholesome man the blues. All
this talk is in effect rank nonsense and
utter rot; Springfield is all right. All her
general wiifare, her material interests. are
sound and D. K. All the city wants is for
people to stop imposing on Providence.
trusting to luck, and to make the same
natural. vigorous, animated efforts which
other cities are making, to advance her in
terests. She must not rely any more upon
her rep to sustain her. She must go
to work to sustain and maintain that rep"