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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
"GLASSES TO READ WIFI"

It was a warm summer day when
Uncle Ephriam Jackson, worthy col
ored man, entered an opticians shop,
and removing his tall white hat, and
wipiug the perspiration from his fore
head with a big red bandana hand
kerchief, sat down wearily on a re-
volving stool, as if he feared it was
about to run away with him, and
asked for pair of glasses "fer to read
wifi"
"What number do you wear?" ask
ed the optician.
Uncle Ephriam grinned. "I guess
wears two," said he.
"Number two !" exclaimed the opti'
clan in astonishment.,
"Jis' two glasses, sab; one fer de
one eye, an one fer de ODER
The optician looked at him with q
frown for an instant, but seeing that
the old man was innocent of any at
tempt to make a joke, went on with
the business before him.
"Try on these" he said, picking out
a pair, land see if you can read the
letters on that card over there"
Uncle Ephriam carefully put on the
spectacles, and looked eagerly at the
card.
"Carn't read it, shuah, boss," he
said, looking disappointed.
"Well, try these" said the optician
trying a stronger pair.
"No 60, boss" said Uncle Ephriam
The dealer gave him another pair
and then another. Not one of them
enabled Uncle Ephriam to read
though he struggled ever so hard, ano
wiped his forehead again and again ir
considerable excitement.
"Look here" said the optician final
ly, "can you read at l?"
3Nebber could read, boss" saic
Uncle Ephriam. "Dey nebber larneo
me how, nohow; but done hearn tel
OBJ people dat could read wifi glasses
dat couldn't read without 'em, nohow,
an made up my min I'd see eff twas
dat way wifi mel"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
FALL CAMPAIGN AGAINST WEEDS

FALL CAMPAIGN AGAINST WEEDS
Inquiries are constantly coming to US
concerning the best methods of get
ting rid of noxious weeds, especially
perenninals. Begin by sowing the in
tested fields to oats in the spring, or
wheat or rye in the fall. Soon
after these small grains have been har-
vested, plow under the stubble, thus
checking the development of the first
crop Of weeds. When the second crop
has started on the plowed ground, 20
over it with a disk harrow, corn culti-
vator or other farm implement that
will kill the young weeds. Repeat
this operation as often as necessary
this fall to prevent the maturing OF
any seed or the development of root
stocks. Seed the field to winter
grain again this fall and repeat the
operation again next year. If the
weeds are very persistent, as the Can
ada thistle, quack grass, ETC., cultivate
the fallow often enough to prevent
any green leaf surface appearing.
Otherwise the underground stems will
live for long time. This is the best
method of treating an infested field,
and if persisted in will be successful.
Now is the time to begin the work. DO
not neglect it.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
OH! YES !
Certainly, The Bazaar has
Millinery!

LATIMER'S BAZAAR has
Just received a select stock of
NICE NEW STYLISH MIL
LINERY, and it is prepared to
meet any competition in that
line, and the ladies are most cor
daily invited to call and examine
these goods. And besides, The
Bazaar has line Of the very
highest quality of Ladies' Hosi-
cry and Gloves, and the best and
most popular Corsets.
Latimer's Bazaar has no
books-lnelnorandun or other
wise-and does not charge
goods or work to anybody.
Lati1ner's Bazaar can get you
up a dress in better style than
ever; but it is cash OH delivery.
In the grocery department
YOU will find a nice assortment
and at the right prices.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

SCALLoPED EGGs.-An appetizng
way to serve eggs for breakfast is to
scallop them according to the following
directions: Boil them hard, chop them
not too fine. Line a pudding dish
with layer of bread or crumbs, then
IL layer of cold boiled ham, or hits of
fried ham chopped fine, then a layer OF
eggs, and 30 on till the dish is full.
Season the layers with salt, pepper,
aud little bits of butler. Moisten with
il little cream and set into the oven
for 10 minutes, or until thoroughly
heated.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
M0RTIEYING

The man that boasts is on the high
road to humiliation. Something like
that seems to be the lesson Of an
amusing little tale reported by the
Cincinnati Tribune. 1t concerns the
boyish son of a Presbyterian minister
of that city.
He had been suffering from tooth
ache, and at last his father said:
"Well, John, we will 60 the dentist
tomorrow and have the tooth eX'
tracted.
John was not much elated over such
a prospect, but he made the best of it,
and straightway began Dragging to
some of his playmates about the fear
full ordeal that he was to 60 through.
1t was an lawfully big TOOTH" he told
them. The dentist would have to Use
both hands to pull it, and most likely
would be obliged to call in an assls'
tant.
Well, the next day came, and in due
course the boy found himself in the
big operating-chair, on each arm Of
which he took good grip.
The dentist looked into the open
mouth, smiled, took up small steel
instrument, thrust it under the offend
ing tooth and literally pried it out.
The boy looked at the tooth, and
then at the dentist. Then he walked
across the room, saying not word
and began putting on his overcoat
His father followed him and asked:
"Did it hurt you, my son ?"
That was too much for the hero
Two big tears started down his cheeks
"Hurt !" he said. "Hurt Why
he didn't pull my tooth out. He just
took it out with tacklifter."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
A Practical Illustration.

Here is a practical illustration OF the
saving to policy holders hy the Mutual
Reserve plan in South Carolina: Last
year QS94), according to the report of the
comptroller general, all the old line COM
panies doing business in the State collect,
ed $S363l3 from their policy holders, and
paid S3ti6,7S7 in death losses, which leaves
$469, ,526 that was collected over and above
losses, and about $3.50, 900 more than was
necessary, had their business been con-
ducted on as economical basis ~ the Mu-
tual Reserve, and had all the insurance
been in the latter company there would
still he $}Gg, 600 in circulation in our power
ty stricken State that has gone into the
Golfers of the old line insurance compa-
neS, which would be something like
g, 600 to the county. See?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

A STORM CLoAK.-A well-known
doctor declares that mackintoshes and
pneumonia are twins. Amy rubber
garment, whether Of silk or wool on
the outside, is very warm garment,
and constant temptation to wear one
with nothing in the way of a wrap un-
derneath. But almost all mackintosh-
es are loose, with only sling sleeves or
no sleeves at all, SO that while they
exclude dampness they freely admit
the chilling wind just where the body
is most sensitive. A long circular
cloak of serge makes better storm
cloak than the most expensive import
ed macintosh and All ulster is best OF
all.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
humorous department.
TYPICAL AMERICAN STORY.


This is the story that Mr.. Blaine
told the Prince of Wales, as a typical
American story, says Eli Perkins
, Like all typical stories, it illustrates
point. The Kilmaroo story shows
that most of our troubles are imagina-
ry. Nine-tenths of them never hap
pen.
Snow" said Mr.. Blaine to the
nrince. "nine-tenths Of our troubles
never happen. They are all magma
ry. When we get to them they are
gone. They remind me of man who
was carrying something across Fulton
ferry in a close box. Every now and
then he would open the box curiously,
peep in, and then close the lid myste'
riously. His actions soon excited the
curiosity of a naturalist who sat on
the seat by him. Unable to conceal
his curiosity further, the naturalist
touched him on the shoulder, and
said:
II beg pardon, sir, but am curious
to know what you have in that box.
What is it?" 49,,
"Oh, don't want to tell. 1t will
get all over the boat"
"Is it a savage animal ?"
"Yes-kills everything" Then the
man peeped in again.
Still growing more curious, the nut
uralist begged him to tell him its
name.
"It's Kil-ma-roo from the centre OF
Africa-a very savage beast-eats men
and"
"And what do you feed it on ?" in
terrupted the naturalist.
"Snakes, sir-plain snakes !"
"And where do you get snakes
enough to feed such monster ?" ask
ed the eager but trembling naturalist.
CHOW can you feed a savage beast on
imaginary snakes?"
"Well, sir, my brother in Brooklyn
drinks good deal, has delirium
tremens, and when he sees snakes, we
lust catch 'em and" ..
"But these are imaginary snakes, "
argued the naturalist. 'How can you
feed a savage beast on imaginary
snakes?"
"Why, the fact is" said the man,
opening the box and blowing in it,
"don't say word; this is an magma
ry Kil-ma-roo."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

FRUIT AS MEDICINE.-Why for
ages have people eaten apple sauce
with their roast goose and sucking pig ?
Simply because the acids and pectones
in the fruit assist in digesting the
fats 50 abundant in this kind of food
For the same reason at the end of a
heavy dinner we eat our cooked fruits,
and when we want their digestive ac-
ton even much more developed, we
take them after dinner in their natural
uncooked state as desert, says Popular
Science Monthly. In the past ages in
stinct has taught men to do this; today
science tells men why they did it, and
this same science tells US that fruit
should be eaten as an aid to digestion
of other foods much more than it is
now. Cultivated fruits, such as apples,
pears, cherries, strawberries, ETC., con-
tain on analysis very similar proper
tions of the same ingredients, which
are about l per cent. Of malic and
other acids, and l per cent. flesh
forming albuminoids, with over 80 per
cent. of water.
Digestion depends upon the action
of pepsin in the stomach upon the food,
which is greatly aided by the acids OF
the stomach. Fats are digested by
these acids and the bile from the liver.
Now, the acids and pectones in fruit
peculiarly assist the acids of the stom-
ach. Only lately even royalty has
been taking lemon juice in tea instead
of sugar, and lemon juice has been
prescribed largely by physicians to
help weak digestion, simply because
these acids exist very abundantly in
the lemon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

bnild it, the housewife secured an
empty packing box of the requisite
size from the grocer at cost of only
10 cents. Brushed over with some
staining material corresponding with
the color of the floor, the platform
looked neat and as though an estab-
lished part of the room. The addi-
tional expense involved was that of
adjusting the stovepipe to the new
conditions. The top of the stove is
now as high as the kitchen table, or
little higher, and the cook and every
one who has occasion to use it are de-
lighted with the change and the greatly
lightened labor.-Selected.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
Last Year

The Mutual Reserve paid Sl23,150 to
beneticares of deceased members in
South Carolina. The deceased members
paid, all told, from the time the policies
were issued up to the time the money was
paid to their beneticiaries, S23, llS.45; and
had they paid the same amount in premi-
ums to old line companies their beneficial
rics would have received S55,GG6, or not
halfas much aS the Mutual Reserve paid.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
THE MUTUAL RESERVE

Fund Life Association furnishes life in
surance that insures at about one half the
rates charged by old line Companies, and
has been doing it for the past fourteen
years. During that time it has paid out
over S23, 600, 600 to the beneticiaries of de-
deceased members and has saved its policy
holders over 81, 2,000,0m as compared TO
what they would have been forced to pay,
had they had their insurance in old line
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
LIFE INSURANCE,

the kind that will pay specified sum to
your widow and orphans after your death,
is the kind you need. The other kind is too
expensive and the chances of your carrying
the high priced article are nine to one
against you, and in case you are the tenth
man and carry your policy through, you
will have paid out 40 to so per cent more
money than you should have done for
vOpr prntnf.tion
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

POINTS ABOUT THE Cook Stove
Too many housewives have the cook
stoves too low, thus causing it to he
productive of backaches to the mis-
tress or maid who bends over it. The
remedy suggested is simple, consisting
of placing the stove on an elevated
platform, thus raising it to such a
height as will bring the cooking uten-
sils when on the stove within easy
reach to one standing in an erect or
nearly erect posture. In one case this
required platform about nine inches
in depth, and, to save the trouble and
expense of procuring a carpenter to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
CUTLERY.

See our line Of Table and Pocket Knives,
Razors-warranted to be all you require of
them, or money refunded. ClauSs Shears,
each pair guaranteed-we mean by guar
anteed, that if they are not just the best on
earth, bring them back and get new
pair or your money. RAZORlNE sharp
ems the dulleSt razor. One 10 cents pack
age will last you for years.
PICTURE FRAMES made any size to
order. 4 variety of Frames to select from
Prices reasonable.
CREAM CHEESE, Breakfast Bacon,
Hams, Dried Beef, Clipped to order, on
our machine in any quantity at
w. B. MOORE IL co.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
You Need Insurance,

And You know it, and we are sure if You
will Investigate the plan Of the Mutual
Reserve you will place your insurance
with it. You can't help it if you are a
business man. We will take pleasure in
giving you any information you may
want. SAM NJ. f. l.. GEO. GR1ST,
General Agents,
Yorkville, S. c
October9 SO tt
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

THE ATWOOD sUSPENDER is a
i marvel Of simplicity, durability and
comfort. 1t is acknowledged to be the
most perfect suspender OH the market.
The trousers are held in correct position,
as all good merchant tailors will verify.
The Atwood conforms to all movements
of the body, and equalizes the strain on
the buttons so that none are ever pulled
of. There is no uncomfortable drawing
over the shoulders and spine when sitting
or STOPPING. The shirt will not gather i'll
bunch i'm the back, or the trousers pucker
at the waist. After once wearing the Al
WOOD SUSPENDER> you will wear no
other. Costs no more than any ether.
The Atwood will please you. Take no
other. For sale by -
J. J. HUNTER.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
Guns, Guns and Pistols.

We have the largest stock of Guns on
this market and at prices out of sight as
compared with any time before. $3.50
will buy d $500 Gun. We have Shells,
Cartridges, Leggins, Shell Belts, Dog
Chains, Powder, Shot, etc.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
B. n. MOORE. w. B. MOORE.
w. B. MOORE & co.
CYPRESS SHINGLES,
SHINGLES OF CYPRESS.

WE have never been able before to Of
w fer Cypress Shingles on this market
on account of the high freight rates, but
now, we have 100000 en- route to arrive
this week. We will sell them at Sl.75.
Everyone knows their comparative value
to be the best the world over. Give us q
call
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

CONNECTIONS.
No. 80 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill.
Nos. "a and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. II and II have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, Kings Creek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT, General Manager.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first-class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60
and 81 carry passengers and also run daily
except Sunday. There is good connection
C. d A. also at Gastonia with the A. & G.
A. L. at Lincolnton with the c. C. {; and
at Hickory and Newton with the w. n. c.
L. T. NICHOLS, Superintendent.
rs Special low rates over the Chester
and Lenoir to the Atlanta Exposition.
The Confederate Veterans will go over
the G.. IL l..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20
Wednesday, November 20, 1895.
.0HI0 RIVER AND CHARLESTON R R

TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and
L Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Thursday, July II, 1895, 7.30a. m.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME.
GnINr, 1-nnrIt ~ oo / M Qs
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-20

one CnlTu Vi VIC IiSiSu SShooi CHi'"'N "
bite their nails, and the girls are worse
than the boys.
Hay 1t is estimated that 10000 rats,
driven out by the fire from building
in Blackfriars, London, were drowned
in the Thames attempting to reach the
opposite shore.
s9 An exchange says that people
nowadays boast of their chuches and
their ministers in just that carnal spirit
with which they talk of steamboats,
and trotters.
sag By lighting his hothouses at
night with electric lights of 5000 can
die power all told, DR.. Werner Won Sic
mems, an eminent German electrician,
ripens raspberries in IS days, grapes in
two months and a half, etc.
ssg An artificial larynx has been in
vented by Prof. Stuart, of the Univer-
sity of Sydney, and tried with success
on man who had lost his voice. The
mechanism can be regulated so as to
make the voice soprano, tenor, con-
tralto, or bass, at will.
ea~ Life is book Of which we Lave
but one edition. Let each days ac-
tions, as they add their pages to the
indestructible volume, be such as we
shall be willing to have an assembled
world TO read.
pa We all get the wife that was in
tended for us, says social philosopher
He will allow US to remark, however,
that the man who elopes with another
mans wife, gets the wife that wasn't
intended for him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15
BASEBA1I BEATS THE BoYcorr.

Although the great national game is
 in the dumps just now, on account of
 the eccentricities of the weather, it Is
 still in the ring and will come out all
 right. A game that can defeat organiz-
 ed labor without half trying can't be
 hurt by a few unreasonable snow
 storms. The story of the recent pitting of the piratical boycott against the baseball instinct is decidedly interest ing.
 It is alleged that the carpenter work at the Baltimore baseball grounds was done by non-union workmen. The union men of Baltimore, who are liberal patrons of the game, resented this and last week the Baltimore Carpenters union sent communication to the union men of Cincinnati, where the Orioles were then playing, setting forth the above mentioned facts and request ing them to boycott the Baltimore ball. tossers and to refuse to patronize games in which they took part. The union men of Cincinnati replied that they had no quarrel with the Cincin- natl baseball club and, as boycotting the Baltimore team would injure the home club quite as seriously as it would the visitors, they must decline to ac- cede to the request of the Baltimore union. And then all the "cranks" among the union men of Gin cinnati went to see the game and rooted as enthusiastically as if they had nB with organized labor.
 Organized labor has had habit of biting off more than it could chew, but it never tackled bigger bite than when it tried to keep some of It's mem- bers away from game of baseball The injury of one is the concern of all and an organized laborer who wants to see a game of baseball and has the price is not going to injure himself by staying away from 1t.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15
FOR SOUND MONEY.

| One of the most cheering signs of
 the times is the continual .outcroppine l in the South of sound-money sentiment
 For instance, "the people of the United States" says the Baltimore Sun, "are not to be victimized by any such hal | Inclination as the pretended power of
 their government to declare fifty cents worth of material to be one hundred
 cents' worth of money, and make all mankind believe it.' And MT. Thomas H. Clark, the Democratic speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives,
 has written letter to the Montgomery
 Advertiser of that State, in which he
 takes a decided stand upon the sound
 money side. He does not believe in an
 international agreement upon the sub
 ject, characterizing it as "a perfect specimen of the jack-a-lantern in poli-
 ties" He regards the appeal for free silver coinage as Essentially a move ment for fiat money" "The United States" he says, fare now on gold basis; that is, values are measured in gold" To the silverites he declares; Your demand is for a change; we stand for the existing order" 'The South" he further says, "is particularly inter- ested in maintaining existing commer- cial relations with the world, and ex- tending these wherever possible" A dishonest dollar will be an obstruction to this. He concludes by saying to his Democratic associates: ''As a. party, we have recovered the banner of civil ization in the new world. It will more and more attract men of light and leading. Inscribe "cheap money" on it, and we are headed for the wilderness where we wandered for so many years.''
 The prevalence and the vigor of the sound-money sentiment in the South are rather unexpected. It is evident that many of the strongest and most sensible men of that section realize that it cannote afford to join the cheap money procession.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15
solrE SoIKNOR NEEDED.

We print In another column vigor- ous communication concerning the dis gusting water which the people of New Haven are furnished with nowadays, The writer of it is not distinguished scientist, and therefore it Is probable Ethat the opinions expressed in the com munication are not entitled to much weight. Still, there appears to be such |plausibi1ity about some of them that they will make an impression, at least upon the minimizing. Therefore the Water company might do well to trot out once more the scientific explanation of the present smell and taste of its wa ter. We have forgotten what it is, but we know it is convincing and cannot be gainsaid by those who are not scientific experts in water. Something is needed to give confidence in the water, and such communications as the one we print this morning are disturbing. If we are drinking decayed vegetables all right. They cannot harm us, of course. But decayed animals and some other decayed things are not so safe. Will the Water company tell us once more Just what we are drinking?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15
On Catching ooIa in Bed.

Mark Twain once wrote paper pointing out the appalling danger of going to bed as exemplified in bills of mortality. For one person who died out of his bed several hundreds sue cumbed i'm bed, and now we have MT. Ashley-Sterry drawing attention to the same thing. Hitherto he has hymned in graceful verse pantalettes, frills, and the tempestuous petticoat, and now, quanItum mutatus ab lilo Hectore, he lauds the pyjama. Tn a recent num- Der of the Graphic he says;
 "I have a theory that most people catch cold at night after they are in bed, and 1t is to this fact that I atGrib- ute great deal of the violent colds, the bronchial catarrhs, and influenza which have recently been so prevalent The temperature goes down suddenly in the night, and people catch cold when they lay asleep without knowing it. This evil Is to be counteracted, not by pilng on a lot Of heavy blankets,