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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-07

THE CoLDEsT AND HoTTEsT.-The
coolest spot on the earth's surface is on
the Eastern Slope, shelving mountain
that runs down to near the waters
edge, on the eastern bank of the Lena
river in Northern Siberia. The spot
in question is nine and fourth miles
from Serkerchoof, about latitude 81
north, and longitude 1874 east. DR..
'Woikoff, director of the Russian
meteorological service, gives the mini
mum temperature of the place as
being SS degrees below zero. 1t is
place of almost perpetual calm. In
the mountains near by, where windy
weather is the rule, it is not nearly so
cold.
The hottest region on the earths
surface is on the southwestern coast
of Persia, on the border of the Per-
sian gulf. For forty consecutive days
in the months of July and August the
mercury has been known to stand
above 100 degs. in the shade, night
and day and to often run up as high
as 13O degs. in the middle of the after
noon.
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The MAKING OF SHOT.

An English mechanic named Watts,
early in the present century, invented
the present process of making shot:
He was shot maker by trade, his meth
cd being to take sheet of the metal,
cut from it small cubes, place them in
revolving barrel, which he turned un-
til by friction the cubes had become
spheres. One night he dreamed thai
it rained shot, and in the morning, re-
:nembering his dream, he began TO
wonder what would be the effect on
molten lead by allowing it to fall
through the air. He carried ladle-
full to the the top of a church steeple
in Redclif and dropped it into the
moat below. The result was satisfac-
tory, and the first shot tower was soon
after constructed. This method SOON
supplanted the former, and is now
very generally employed. The height
of shot towers varies with the kind of
shot to be made, large shot requiring q
longer fall than the smaller sizes. Ure
says the highest shot tower in the
world is 249 feet. The shot, after be.
ing taken from the water, are dried and
sorted by sitting them in a copper cyl.
inder perforated with different sized
holes, and are then polished in re-
volving cylinder with graphite. Sever
al processes have been patented for
making shot without the expense of the
high tower. One substitutes low
tower, up the cylinder of which q
very powerful current of air is sent,
thus, in short distance, producing
the effect of long fall. In another,
the molten lead is poured on a revolv-
ing table on which is placed a cylinder
of sheet brass, perforated with holes.
The table is revolved with velocity
of 1000 feet minute on the periphe-
ry, and the lead is thrown through the
perforations in the sides, forming round,
brilliant shot.
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CHAPTER II.
THE STORY OF THE SECOND PIKE.

This Pike was called Bud. He
opened by saying: "Gents, / can't tell
you fish story, for I never keered a
lurn bout fshin. Knight tell you some
stories of gator shootin in Florida, cock
fightin In Cuba, rattlesnake and porker-
pine fights in Mobile and sich like things,
for was alters dry land sport and
better at gittin up dog and peccary
fights and them kind of games than any
thing elst. I made mighty we'll for
good while travelin with two fghtin
peccaries that picked up in Texas. l
had fghtin coon to ketch the colored
brother, ightin armadiller from Hon
duras and other sich rackets, but my
greatest show ventur was made down IN
Orleans.
"Gents all, though don't look it now,
was onct in fair way to be d bigger
man in the show business than old Bar
mum. Ny great exerbition was the
edercated turtles. For nigh onto six
weeks my show drawed powerful-was
all the rage. All over New Orleans was
seen in big letters, The Edercated Tur-
ties; the Greatest Livin Wonder of the
Age
"I had my hall crammed every day
and every night. Larned professors
wrote long articles bout the almost
human intelligence of the giant soft
shelled turtle | was making money
hand over fist when an accident hap
pened that busted my business-but OF
that you'll soon hear.
my show was a beautiful one and
'highly Instructive as it said on my
bills. It was my pride to give an exer-
bition. With light rattan cane in my
hand I'd appear on the stage, take my
place near the footlights and relate how
I'd led the life of q hermit six years on
Florida Keys and at Tortugas, ederca-
tin my four turtles, which I'd hatched
out in my bosom from the eggs, and
which, rs would be seen, had now at
tanned length of nearly five feet. l
had a long speech that n newspaper fel-
Ter wrote out for me for six bits.
"At last, when I'd worked up the
audience to sich q pitch that the cries OF
'Trot out yer turtles and the whistlln
and stampin drownded my voice. I'd
face about, flourish my rattan and at
the word Of command two of the turtles
would come marchin in from opposite
sides of the stage. Then they'd lumber
along down to the footlights, run out
their heads and make a bow. Then the
other pair would march in and take
their places between the first, likewise
bowin.
Music then strikin up, the turtles
would get up on their hind legs, take
their places and dance French four.
They'd also do double shuffles and pat
juba, which fetched all the nigs. They
played leapfrog, made pyramids and
wrastled; also their drill with wooden
guns was very pleasin. The big thing
after all was the boxin match at the
wind up. That alters brought down
the house, but it was that which at last
busted the whole business.
Zone Sunday night, when two OF the
turtles was boxin and the other two
actin as seconds, the glove contest all at
once turned into a reg'lar fight. To the
astonishment of all the whites, and to
the delight of all the niggers. the tur-
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TROI1BLE FOR TWO MEN.

There was d moments silence after
the introduction, says the Chicago Tri-
bune. Womanlike, each was mentally
"sizing the other up." Then one of
them spoke.
"My husband frequently speaks of
you," she said.
"Indeed !" returned the other. "My
husband thinks you are wonderfully
clever"
"Really? Why, that's the way my
husband talks about you. He told me
how you reshaped and recovered that
old parasol and so saved SS."
"Parasol! Why, never touched it
until my husband had harped all one
day on your cleverness in upholstering
and refining a baby carriage at a saving
of &c."
"Nonsense the thing that made me
do that was the way my husband
talked about that parasol. Then he
got me to fixing over q last years hat
because you were working over an old
Dress"
"But never started to do that un-
til nv husband told me five times
about the hat. wasn't going to admit
that you could be any more economi-
cal than l."
"Well, really, my dear madam, I
heard of that dress twenty-four hours
before touched the hat"
"Impossible. 1 -"
Then she stopped and her eyes be-
gan to flash.
~ believe our husbands -" she be-
gan again.
~ believe they have," chimed in the
other, becoming excited also.
"It's wicked shame !"
"An outrage! They've just tricked
us, that's ALL"
"It was o regular plot! And to
think how he's made me work I'll
get new gown today"
"And I a hat"
Then two women went into a dry
goods store and spent all the money
they could scrape together. And two
men got mighty little for supper that
night, and when they complained they
were promptly convinced that they
ought to have said nothing.
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his line to one Of the men he extended
both hands as far as he could reach,
showing that he had got nibble from
fish at least six feet in length. This
done he again laid a warning finger on
his lips and resumed his line. Not a
word was spoken and the faces of all
three showed signs of intense excite
ment.
Soon Bucks eyes again began to ex-
pand, the muscles Of his face worked
and at last his whole body was con-
vulsed. Turning to his companions he
held up his hand and waved them back
toward the end Of the line.
The men understood the signal, and
moving back some twenty feet they
took up the wire and, placing it over
their shoulders, braced themselves and
stood awaiting further orders.
Soon Buck gave wicked twitch ut
his line, uttered wild whoop and,
springing to his feet, ran to where his
pards, bent nearly double, were scratch
ing gravel in vain endeavor to climb
the sloping bank and haul in the line.
On reaching his men Buck gave sew
eral bull teamster yells, bestowed few
vigorous kicks on each and then, seeing
that no progress was made, he himself
fell in and took the line over his shoulder.
After much hauling and whooping
the line began to move, but q moment
after something gave way and the three
Pixies fell fat upon their faces. Soon
they arose and stood gazing at one an
other, their faces the picture of disap-
pointment and modification. At last
Bucks face frightened somewhat, and
signing to his men to hold onto the line
he went to the edge of the lake to inves-
tigate. He hauled in his plank float;
then getting into the edge of the water
he pulled in the remainder Of the line.
Holding it aloft he showed the hook
Strengthened out and the bait gone.
The other Pixies went down to the
waters edge and each in turn examined
what had been on the hook. One Of
them then made mark on the beach
with his foot, stepped off about six
PAGES and made another mark. All
three stood looking at the marks for a
time, when the second Of Bucks pards
marked about two feet farther. With
a sneering expression on his face Buck
took up two cobblestones, and placing
them some twenty-five feet apart turned
to his companions, who gazed first at
the two stones and then at Buck in the
greatest astonishment. Buck gave an
affirmative nod, and apparently that
settled it; the faces of his companions
cleared up at once.
The Pixies came up to where we were
seated, when Buck broke the silence by
saying: "Gents, own that I'm aston
ished. Thare air a catfish in that lake
that it would be wuth uny mans While
to ketch. He's almost like one of the
ole Mississippi cats. He's got a wagon
load of meat in him." .'
Altogether it was very creditable
piece of pantomime, and there was no
saving that the actors had not earned
another treat. -.
Meantime sauntered down to where
Buck had been seated and saw the piece
of flannel shirt that had been OH the
hook lying just under the water. In
hauling in the wire Buck had cunningly
planted his foot on it, thus etraighteniEy
out his hook and stripping off the bait.
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ties on q sudden left off boxin and went


to buttin heads.
"Only few dashes was made afore
off went the head of one Of the turtles,
and the other was butted clean out Of
his shell, exposin to view two little
naked darky boys.
"A howl went up from the audience,
and seein that q rush was likely to be
made for the stage, I gave the word to
my turtles and we all skipped by a back
door, rippin the little nigs out'n their
shells with my jackknife.
"Next day the papers gave the whole
thing away. They told that to the back
shells of turtles had been added artii-
cial heads and necks, that the belly part
was too flaps Of cotton cloth sewed to
the edges of the shells, and painted to
initiate shell, and fastening up in front
with small, we'll concealed hooks and
eyes. They had it about right.
"But for the papers BLOWN the thing
would have taken my show up the
river as far as st. Louis, and likely clean
on to New York.
"In gittin up this show the worst Of
the job was findin little darkies Of jist
the right build. They had to have long
necks and small heads to play the part
of Turtles. The masks were all the skins
of turtles heads greatly stretched and
fitted with glass eyes, and the boys wore
turtle slippers tanned till as soft asa kid
glove. The animal stuffer who got up
the rig charged two hundred dollars for
it, and warranted that no deception
could be detected from the front, nor
would there have been any trouble but
for the fight between the two little nigs.
The buttin busted out the show.
"a curious thing was that in gittin
up the show, when I first stripped one of
the little nigs to fit him into his shell |
noticed peculiar scar on his back. |
asked him how he got it, and he told
me by bein put onto big hook and used
for catfish bait. Then he ups and tells
me the whole story of his bein swallerH |
by catfish twenty-five feet long; how
he was taken out alive and with but one
little scratch, all jist as Buck here has
told US. I then thought him q awful
little liar, but now see that the poor
child was simply tellin me a Gods
truth"
fro RE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK
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APPLIED ELECTRICITY.

Interesting and useful information
about the force that is worth remem-
bering.
@. How many telephones are in
use in the United States?
A. About three hundred thousand.
@. What is the average cost, per
mile, of a transatlantic submarine
cable2
A.. About one thousand dollars.
@. What war vessel has the most
complete electric plant?
A. The United States man of war
Chicago.
@. How strong current is used to
send a message over an Atlantic
cable?
A. Thirty cells of battery only.
Equal thirty volts.
@. What is the longest distance
over which conversation by telephone
is daily maintained
A. About seven hundred and fifty
miles, from Portland, Me-, to Buffalo,
NY.
@. What is the fastest time made by
an electric railway?
A. A mile minute, by small ex-
perimental car. Twenty miles an
hour on street railway systems.
@. How many miles of submarine
cables are there in operation?
A. Over one hundred thousand
miles, or enough to girdle the earth
four times.
@. What is the maximum power gen.
Grated by an electric motor?
A. Seventy-five horse power. Ex-
periments indicate that one hundred
horse power will soon be reached.
@. How is break in submarine
cable located?
A. By measuring the electricity
needed to charge the remaining un-
broken part.
@. How many miles of telegraph
wire are in operation in the United
States?
A. Over a million, or enough to en-
circle the globe forty times.
@. How many messages can be
transmitted over wire at one time?
A. Four by the quadruple system
in daily use.
@. How is stelegraphing from NOV
ing train accomplished?'
A. Through q circuit from the car
roof introducing q current in the wire
on poles along the track.
O.. What are the most widely sepa-
rated points between which it is posi-
BILE to send telegram?
A. British Columbia and New Zea-
land, via America and Europe.
@. How many miles of telephone
wire are in operation in the United
States?
A. More than one hundred and
seventy thousand, over which one
million fifty-five thousand messages
are sent daily. ..
@. What is the greatest candle
power of arc light used in lighthouse I?
A. Two million in the lighthouse at
Housholm, Denmark.
@. How many persons in the Uni
ted States are engaged in business de-
pending solely on electricity?
A. Estimated at two hundred and
fifty thousand.
Q. How long does it take to trans
NIT message from San Francisco to
Hong Kong?
A. About fifteen minutes, via New
York, Canso, Penzance, Alden, Bonn
bay, Mardas, Penang, and Singapore:
O. What is the fastest time made
by an operator sending messages by
Morse system?
A. About forty-two words per min
-Scribner's Monthly.
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SHE SHOULD MARRY A MINISTER

"If l were minister's wife," said q
lady in the car, who was talking too
loud not to be overheard, reports q
writer in The Tribune, "you may rest
assured should take an interest-an
active interest-in my husbands work.
l should say to him: Richard, if you
want to do we'll next Sunday preach
short! If you want your congrega-
tions to grow larger and larger preach
short! If you want to draw them to
this church, that church and the other,
preach short Always preach short.
But, Richard, have something to say,
always! Condense, condense and
condense and then have All air about
YOU as if time were something, and
YOU could not afford to lose minute OF
it. If, on Sunday morning, he seem
ed to be in extra amiable mood would
venture to say: Richard, dear, do not
be all day in giving out your notices
DO not think over them and clear your
throat, and 90 poking along through
lIlcul us ii SOtl llhu hSNSi SSSA s'>'-'
before, and were pondering them in
your mind as you call attention to
them DO not, l beg of you, Richard,
read them straightforward, and then
say them all backwards There is
nothing so tiresome! I am not sure,
but some Sunday I should say Rich
ard, if you get the least bit tedious
l shall fuss with my bonnet strings as
warning! And when you say, In
conclusion do not for PHYS sake, 90
on until you reach FINALLY and af-
ter that, 'One word more, or, Just
another thoughtr I do think it is
such mistake to try to tell all one
knows in one sermon"
Just then the auditor was obliged to
leave the car, but he could not help
exclaiming to himself: "What sensi-
bic woman!' 1t is to be hoped that
some day this sensible one will marry
a minister. Christian Witness.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-07

States army it is now composed of the
following: Twelve ounces of pork or
bacon or canned beef fresh or corned, }
or one pound and four ounces of fresh
beef, or twenty-five ounces of salt
beef; eighteen ounces of soft bread or
-four, or sixteen ounces of hard bread,
or one pound and four ounces of corn
meal. To every 100 rations, fifteen
pounds of beans or peas, or ten pounds
of rice or hominy; ten pounds OF
green coffee or eight pounds of roast
ed coffee, or two pounds of tea; fif.
teen pounds of sugar, four quarts Of
vinegar, one pound eight ounces of
star candles, four pounds Of soap, four
pounds of salt, four ounces of pepper
and four ounces of yeast-powder to
each 100 rations of -four.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-07

herolsm, self sacrl1ce and true merit,
and it is not demonstrative. 1t waits for
safety and civilization to betray itself.
A month after Joe and his compan-
ions rode into that death camp l met
most of them in Denver. They had
come safely through all perils, their
treasure had reached the mint to be val
ued and paid for in coin gold, and there
had been one marriage-Joe and Bess.
A month later there was to be another
equally satisfactory to all parties
Harkins and Lizzie. From their own
lips I learned the story and have given it
to you. If there was not enough love in
it to satisfy the sentimentalists, blame
them for concealing the fact from your
most obedient servant.
THE END
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-07

Tdutor leaned against q tree tor support.
And as the first beam Of the golden
sun touched the dead, Taylor crept down
to gaze upon his work. he came trem-
bling and afraid. His face was ghastly
pale, his teeth clicked together and his
limbs could hardly support him as he
walked His own brother could not
have identified him, so great was the
facial change. he did not want to ap-
proach-he dreaded the sight which
would meet his gaze, but some mys-
terious power forced him along.
Revenge is mine and | will repay.
saith the Lord"
The fate which the outlaws meted out
to the poor gold seekers had recoiled on
their own heads, but there was yet an
other to be- punished Taylor leaned
against tree for support and surveyed
the bodies lying before him he had
planned this. There was the wagon
there was the gold-there the horses.
he had but to drag the corpses to the
bank of the stream and roll them in,
and then harness up and move Of. The
Big Cheyenne would not yield up the
corpses for days, and If found who
could tell how they died or discover
their IDENTIFY The route was clear Of
Indians, and he could tell plausible
story to account for his possession Of 30
much treasure. He had invented story
and gone over it in detail fifty times.
Comet All are dead! Dispose Of the
corpses. The treasure is yours.
But the man clung to the tree in q
dazed sort Of a way. A look Of terror
crept into his eyes, never to leave them
again, and he moaned in distress as he
looked over the camp The horses
whinnied for water and change to new
feeding ground, but he needed them not.
The sun climbed higher and higher,
but he did not move. A full hour had
passed when he suddenly broke forth
In mocking laugh, and this seemed to
give him physical strength. He threw
up his hands, shouted meaningless
words, and turned and fed as if pursued
by demons. Half mile away he hid
beneath the bushes, but not for long.
Terror reused him up, and he faced the
sun and dashed away over the earth as
men fly for their lives.
Night has come again on the great ex-
panse. A dozen miles to the east of the
spot where the dead still lie in their
stiffness the figure Of q man rises nom
the earth as the dews Of heaven fall It
Is hard to tell whether 1t Is the face Of q
man or some wild beast. The eyes are
sunken, the lips drawn. the cheeks like
those Of one who has hungered for a
weak. he peers this way and that-hs
skulks and crouches-he INDUCES in
strange and mysterious gestures.
"Al deadl All deadl The gold is
mine-hal hs! ha!"
Revenge is mine and ! will repay.
saith the Lord"
It's Taylor, and he is a raving luna
tio-a madman whose very soul is being
shriveled by the awful fire within. Let us
leave him to God, himself and the dark
ness. When the sun comes up again its
rays will not soften the pallor OF an
other dead face. There are gaunt, fierce
wolves here-great wild eyed beasts
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VOLUME OF THE GULF STREAM
The enormous volume of the Gulf
Stream has long been subject of Gu
rious investigation. The latest calcula-
tions on the "great ocean river" informs
us that at least 90,000,OO0,00O tons
of water pass cape Florida every hour
If this enormous amount of sea water
could be evaporated the residue would
be q quantity of impure salt so large
that all the ocean vessels now stioat
would only be equal to the task of
carrying the one-hundredth part of it.
And all this vast amount is held in
suspension and passes given point in
a single hour.
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Nh" \ faithful teacher in one Of the
Boston public schools was greatly
troubled by the use of tobacco among
his pupils. He said he tried every
form of moral suasion in vain. The
boys persisted in using the objection
able weed until the hygienic method
was introduced. In connection with
their physiology lessons they learned
the evil nature and effects of tobacco
and other narcotics on the human sys-
tenn. This lispassionatc presentation
of truth appealing to their reason, had
its effect, and the teacher had the sat
isfaction Of seeing his pupils one after
another abandon its use until the
school as whole is free from this
habit that was injuring both the minds
and bodies of many Of the boys.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-07

BY Women govern lis. Let us rem
der them perfect. The more that wo-
men are enlightened, so much the more
shall we men be. On the cultivation
of the mind of women very largely de-
pends the wisdom Of men. 1t is by
women that nature writes upon the
hearts of men.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1892-12-07

B4n Unless their attention is especial
ly directed to it, few people notice the
tiny letters stamped on the larger silver
coins of our currency at point just
below the junction of the arrows and
olive branch held in the eagles CLAWS.
The letters are rs" "O," and &C. c."
and stand respectively for San Francis
co. New Orleans, or Carson City,
where the pieces were cast in the
United States branch mints. Coins
made in the mint at Philadelphia bear
no special mark, and are indicated by
its absenae.