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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-18
ALMOST ASPHYXIATED.

Mr.. Wm.lA. Burns, who lives six OF
seven miles west Of Yorkville, had
narrow escape from suffocation by gas, in
Columbia, last Friday night. The details
were published in the daily papers OF
Sunday morning, and the following ac-
count is from the Columbia Register:
"Mr. w. A. Burns, of York, came to
Columbia Friday and put up at the Grand
Central hotel. He went to bed at the
usual hour and blew out the gas. A
funeral would naturally follow this; but
by the greatest good luck, Mr.. Burns was
spared the disagreeable duty of heading a
graveyard procession at his home. But
he had narrow escape. He had been
breathing the deadly vapor for several
hours before the situation was discovered
It was about $50 in the morning when
another guest woke up and found himself
half suffocated. The gas was pouring
into his room through the transom, and
he Immediately gave the alarm at the
office. Mr.. Burns room was entered and
he was found nearly sutfocated. Meas
ures were Immediately taken to resuscl-
tate him, which proved entirely success
full without the aid of a physician, although
it took some time. He was given walk
around several blocks in the cold air and
completely revived. He did not go back
to his room; but spent the rest OF the
night on a sofa in the Office"
The News and Courier publishes an
account that is substantially the same as
the above, and goes on to say that while
Mr.. Burns was lyiug on the sofa ne was
made the butt Of cruel joke by drum
mer After learning Of MIR. Burnss
mishap, and ascertaining that all danger
was over, the irrepressible tourist wrote
the following and left it pinned to the
unlucky mans coat:
"There was an old codger from York,
Who doubtless eats soup with u lork
With stupidity Grass,
He blew out the gas
That innocent greenhorn from YORK J!
This doggerel, however, constitutes a
wicked slander. The reporter for the
Columbia State looked into the matter
more closely than did the reporters for
the other papers, and he says that Mr..
Burns did not blow out the gas at all. He
turned it out just as anybody else would |;
but there was something wrong with the
burner. 1t turned too far and was re-
opened. A Yorkville gentleman who
always turns out the gas, and who knows
Mr.. Burns, says he is willing to corrobo-
rate the story of The State. "Why, Billy
Burns is no greenhorn," declares the
gentleman referred to. "He was in our
company for four years during the war,
and he was in many a place that would
have made that smart drummer wish he
had never been born. 1t is true that
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-18
what is known as the Beaufort, N. c.,

what is known as the Beaufort, n. C.,
graveyard insurance cases. David Par
ker, one of the defendants, has turned
States evidence and told all about the
matter. He says that he knows Levi
T. Foe, J. c: and T. d. Delamar, of the
late insurance firm of Noe, Delamar &
Co. These men employed him to get
insurance far them. They instructed
him to only get the poorest kind of
risks. They preferred, before any
thing else, consumptives who were
almost ready to die. When he would
report such a case, they would have
the party insured on the certificate of a
peuured physician, and when the
trisk" died, would give him a portion
of the money. He named several
other parties who acted as agents for
the swindlers, and his confession is re-
garded as a complete expose of the
whole scheme.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-18

during that time he did not usually have
occasion to turn out the gas; but he knew
how to put it out all the same, and am
thoroughly satisfied that his misadventure
was not the result of ignorance, the face
tious poet to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing" Mr.. Burns reached Yorkville on
Monday, on his return home, and was
apparently none the worse for his narrow
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-18
YORKVILLE, 8. G. {:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMB'R lS, 1895.

- The News and Courier's hog contest
came to close last night at IL o'clock.
The returns, however, will probably not
all be in for several days yet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

were as large as the Crescent Mr.. Smith
was selling. One was much larger.
The berry created quite sensation in
the Smith family, and it was their can
did opinion that it surpassed all other
varieties that the world had yet seen.
One day Mr.. Smith carried half a dozen
specimens to town and gave one to
each of as many prominent persons who
felt in duty bound to give no end of
praise. He was greatly enthused, and
when he repeated some of the pleasant
things that were said his family con-
cluded that fortune had smiled upon
them. From that time on the new
berry was the leading topic, and all
the friends o. the Smith family were
informed of it's wonderful qualities.
After the bearing season the other
Seeding were hoed up and the runners
of the new berry layered all around
the parent plant, and carefully hoed and
watered. Johnnie's father gave him
nice rich bed in the garden which he
covered with manure and spaded and
made almost as fine as sand. About the
1st OF August there came rainy night,
and the next day while it was yet
cloudy, Johnnie took up twenty nicely
rooted plants with the garden troWel
and about quart of earth to each one,
and transferred them to the new bed.
They never felt the change, but con-
tinued to grow from the first. These
were treated just as the original plant
had been the year before except that
liberal amount of hen manure was ap-
piled among the plants, and in dEy
time they were well watered. In the
meantime the old plant was making
more runners, and at the end Of the
season Johnnie had twenty large hills
and over 200 good plants.
All of Mr.. Smiths customers had
chance to sample the new berry the
next season and compare it with the
Wilson and Crescent. The editor Of
the local paper received sample and
gave very fiattering notice In the next
issue. A nurseryman in the same
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS
Some Up to Date Hints About Cultira-
ton of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture, ViticuIture and FIOri-
culture.
Farming IN Arg entine.

The London Times says: The eighty
fourth meeting Of the Royal commits
sion on agriculture was held on Friday,
Mr.. Shaw Lefevre in the chair.
Mr.. D. ]. Brett, rancho owner in
the province of Santa Fe, Argentine re-
public, was examined He stated that
he had been in Argentina thirty-fve
years and had had long experience in
agriculture and stock raising in that
country. Wheat growing in the repub-
lie was for the most part in the hands
OF Italian colonists, though Swiss and
French immigrants were also engaged
in this industry. Some of the best
colOnists were natives of the Basque
provinces. The colonists as a body
were hard working community. They
labored over sixteen and seventeen
hours daily, including Sundays. The
women worked on the land, and the
children drove the plows as soon as
they were old enough. The soil was cas-
lily worked, and no manuring was nee
essary. Laborers were very little en-
ployed in the wheat growing districts
except for a few weeks during the
harvest. The bulk of the work was
done by the colonists and their fam1-
lies. Occasionally laborers went out
from Italy to Argentina for the har-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

Brings comfort and improvement and
lends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced IN the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truls
beneficial properties of perfect Lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions ano
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak"
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
H1yrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
..ists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
1factured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
ACCEPT any substitute if offered.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

was now being directed to the posi-
bility of developing a large export trade
in cattle and sheep to the United King
dom. Hitherto cattle rearing in the
republic consisted, to a great extent,
in the improvement of the stock by the
importation of good blood from Great
Britain and elsewhere. One great adj
vantage possessed by the Argentina
breeder was the fact that his stock
never required housing or hand feed
ing, and in this way the expense of
maintaining buildings was avoided.
The climate was such that the cattle
and sheep could be left out all the year
around.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
A Strawberry That Failed.

Mr.. Smith has been raising strawber-
ries for ten years or more, writes Mr..
Crawford in Strawberry Culturist. He
grows all his crops for revenue only,
belongs to no horticultural society,
takes no horticultural paper, and takes
but little stock in any new tangled no
tions. He raises the Wilson and Cres-
cent in thick matted rows, and takes as
many crops from the same plantation
as possible. One of his boys, Johnnie,
found some small seeding plants and
obtained permission to set them in the
garden where early lettuce and onions
had grown. This was in July. The boy
took good care of them and removed
all runners as they appeared. Early in
the fall some fine manure was scattered
among the plants, and when the first
freezing weather came the whole bed
was we'll covered with straw. This was
removed early in the spring, and every
weed that appeared was pulled up.
Just before the fruit commenced to
ripen some straw was placed between
the plants to keep it clean. There were
some fifty varieties, and most of them
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

vest.and returned home again when the
work was over. The wages we're about
$3.50 day. Most of the old colonists
in the wheat growing sections of the
republic had purchased their land, but
in recent years immigrants had usual
ly rented their land, and the majority
paid produce rent ranging from 9 to
Is per cent of the crop they grew.
Machinery and implements we're gener-
ally obtained by the colonists by pur-
chase on years credit from store
keepers, and paid for in certain per-
centage of the crop to be produced. The
older colonists who owned the land
they worked were certainly not in debt.
AS regarded the cost of production, the
Italian. colonist could grow wheat to
be sold on his farm at price equiva-
lent, at the present rate of exchange,
to lis per quarter, and he would gain
more by doing this than as a wage
Garner in the republic. Twenty shillings
a quarter in London would encourage
the extension of wheat growing in the
republic under present conditions. But,
although even the present low prices
did not represent loss to the Argen-
tina colonists. many wheat growers
had recently devoted more attention
to the cultivation of lucern or alfalfa.
Inc WdS d u1OSI OuO, duu
when once the land had been laid down
nc further trouble was necessary, as
the crop was practically perennial. As
an instance of the value Of alfalfa, he
stated that ordinary wheat land in the
republic could be bought for los per
acre, whereas the same land when laid
down to lucern would at the end of a
single year be of the value of E7 per
acre. There was large area in the
republic of the extent of about 16, 900
square leagues which was specially
suitable to the cultivation of this lu-
Germ, the soil being particularly good,
and having water at about twenty feet
below the surface. The great value Of
this particular land for the cultivation
Gf lucern had only been discovered
@ithin the last i've years. and attention
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

arranged with Mr.. Smith to introduce
it and give share of the proceeds.
Every effort was made to raise stock
and even the twenty hills were allowed
to run. 1t was put on the market the
next spring with glowing description,
accompanied by testimonials from the
preacher, Squire Brown, and other
dignitaries, as well as the clipping from
the local paper.
Although the price was 81 a dozen
a considerable number of plants were
disposed of, mostly to nurserymen in
various parts of the country. Each
purchaser felt anxious to increase his
stock as fast as possible, and, year
later, forty times as many people had
dozen of Johnnie Smiths new berry.
Up to this time no one had ever
fruited it to perfection but Johnnie
Smith. The next year, however, over
1000 people had it growing and ripen-
ing in their gardens. With a few it
succeeded, but in the great majority of
cases it was a disappointment, and
many hard things were said of the in
PRODUCER. Now, who was to blame in
the matter. Will some one tell us?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Evaporating Apples.

The apple crop of the state has again
been disposed of at fairly good aver
age price, says Maine Farmer Yet the
fact remains all the same that the sec.
onds have as usual been badly in the
way to drag down the price to a lower
average. Most growers still insist on
selling at an agreed upon price right
through
We still claim it would be better not
to put the seconds on the market as
green fruit. We complain that Nova
Scotia and Canadian fruit brings higher
prices abroad than our own, yet we still
insist that the inferior fruit shall make
up goodly part of it.
We fully believe that the introduction
of the evaporation into our state to a
much larger extent than it has ever vet
been done, and as has been done in the
fruit counties of New York, would
prove an advantage if rightly handled.
The Gamers now take care of some of
this inferior fruit. Let the evaporation
come and take the rest. It is estimated
that in Wayne County, New York, above
a full million bushels of the last crop
of this class of apples was evaporated.
and that in this form it was worth full
half million dollars. This disposition
of the fruit takes it out of the market
and puts it into form of value and
out of competition with the green
fruit.
We are strongly of the opinion that
such disposition of this class of fruit
in our state would be greatly to the ad-
vantage of the growers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
LfbeIIouS.

Is 1t unlawful to quote Scripture !
Yes. in some cases, and for some pur
poses.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports
that a grand jury in Ohio has indicted
a mai for sending slanderous postal
cards to one Of his debtors. The obJec.
tionanle matter consisted Of three Bibli.
cal quotations:
"Owe no man anything"
LET US walk honestly"
MANY days and years shall ye be
troubled"
The grand jury OF the English Ian
guage for the making of paradoxes, or
apparent but not real contradictions, is
almost unlimited.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Presidents Who Were Farmers.

In those halcyon days of agriculture
ten presidents of the United States
were called from farms.
1. Washington, the land surveyor
and farmer, from Mount Vernon.
2. John Adams, of Quincy, who,
during the last year of his presidency,
said: I am weary, worn and dis
gusted to death. l had rather chop
wood, dig bitches and make fences
upon my poor little farm. Alas! poor
farm and poorer family, what have you
lost that your country might be free!'
3. Jefferson, farmer, philosopher and
statesman, from Monticello.
4. Madison, farmer and lawyer, of
Montpelier, Va.
5. Monroe, farmer, from Oak Hill,
Virginia.
6. John Quincy Adams, from the
Quincy farm of 100 acres, near Boston.
Ut is said that most of the trees were
raised by John Quincy Adams from
the seeds which he was in the habit of
picking up in his wanderings. The
most peculiar interest attaches to a
shellbark hickory which he planted
more than fifty years previous to his
death. In this tree he took a peculiar
satisfaction, but he was an enthusiast
IN regard to all the trees of the forest,
differing in this respect from his
father, who was an agriculturist of the
Cato stamp-was more inclined to lay
the axe to them than to propagate
them)
Z. Andrew Jackson, of the "Her-
mitage,' in Tennessee, who, as a far
mer, soldier and lawyer, was a most ex-
cellent type of the best Americanism.
8. Van Buren,, of Undertook, N. Y,
was called to the presidency from his
sheep and wool farm, although he was
lawyer of far above average acquire
ments and ability.
9. William Henry Harrison, from
his farm at North Bend, o.
10. Tyler, of Sherwood Forest farm,
Virginia, where he subsequently died.
IL. James K. Polk, of Duck River,
Tenn, also came from the farm to the
presidency.
This selection of presidents from
rural homes-from among the farms
of the country illustrates the fact that
in those days there was no profession
or calling which held more exalted
position in public estimation than that
of agriculture.-Sec Secretary j. Sterling
Morton, in the Forum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
That Tired Feeling

It is remarkable how many people
there are who have That Tired Feeling
and seem to think it is of no inpor-
lance or that nothing need be done for
It. They would not be SO careless if
they realized how really serious the
malady is. But they think or say, 1T
will go off after a while"
We do not mean the legitimate
WEAKNESS which all experience after a
hard days work, but that all-gone,
WORKOUT feeling which is especially
overpowering in the morning, when
the body should be refreshed and
ready for work. 1t is often only the
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wonderful Progress.

cit is wonderful what progress has
been made in the way of machinery
remarked Mr.. Figg. II see that there
has been a machine invented that can
make complete pair Of shoes in sixteen
minutes. Why, that is even faster than
Tommy can wear then out.''-Indian-
apoliS Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
A Poisonous Mist.

This fifty describes mIasma, vaporouS pol
son which breeds chlllS and fever, Dlnous re-
m1ttenI, dumb ague, ague cake, ana IN the
tropics deadly typnolo forms OF lever. hos
letters Stomach blLIerS prevents anu cur eS
these complaints. Bl1lousnesS, constipation,
dyspepsia, nervous ana kidney trouble, rheu-
mal1s1n, neuralgia and impaired vitality are
also remealed by the great restorative.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
His Poor Memorv.

Mr. Ische-What month is it in which
it is unlucky to be married?
Mrs. Ische-Great Scott! what poor
memory you have, my dear. We were
married in June.-Life. .---..J
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
An Interview.

What did Senator Sorghum say
when you asked him for an interview ~
asked the managing editor.
Nothing" replied the reporter.
''Well, make column of it. It's Just
about what the public expects from
him. "-Washington Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
To Utilize an Odor.

London is now trying an apparatus
which, It is claimed, viii abate the
sewer gas nuisance by utilizing the gas.
Boston CouIant .-~s
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Gracefu1(?l Bicyc1fsts,

The enthusiast who declares in bI.
cycle magazine that "the bicycle is q
positive means of grace as well as OF
health" clearly couldn't have been
thinking Of the hump-backed scorchers
when he wrote--Someryille Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

First Boy wonder why Big Mike
doesn't train fer a Professional prize fight
er?'' Second Boy-''Mebby he ant got any
dramatic talent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Misunderstood.

Hell hope you don't think acted
like eonsummate fool last night?
She-Why, no; 1 thought you were
merely trying to be easy and NATURAL
Exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Extrenae Urgency.

Reggy Westend-What's that waiter
running through the hall for? Is the
club on fire?
Tom DeWitt-No Col. Carter just
went into the smokinS-room and I
guess he wants a drink.-Exchange
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

Clara-"How under the sun did Edith
happen to marry Mr.. Awkward?;' Dora
"He was the bane of her life at every ball
she attended, and presume she married
him to keep him from wanting to dan &c
with her,"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

Jinks-"Ther's man whose motto ie
"Pay as you co. Wlnks-"An excellent
motto. Who is heY' Jinks-"He's rail.
road president, and never gives passes"