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PRESENCE OF MIND.

l have heard of many striking ex
hibitions of presence of mind in the
face of sudden danger, but here is ar
instance of it which beats everything
of the kind that has ever come under
my notice. I can vouch for the truth
of the story.
An Australian "forty-niner," who
had struck it fairly rich at the gold
diggings, was taking his nuggets and
dust to Melbourne. He was walking
along by the side of his team with
his rifle under his arm, indulging ir
pleasant speculations concerning the
good time he would have after he
had sold his gold, when a stranger ap'
peared on the road, and accosting
him, said:
"Give us a piece of 'backy, mate"
Those were days when people, es.
pecially those who had been to the
diggings, didn't stand on ceremony
Suspecting no treachery, the miner
thrust a hand into his pockets to
get chunk of the muchly-prized
weed.
In moment the muzzle of a pistol
was thrust against his forehead, and
the stranger shouted:
"Bail up"
The stranger was a bushranger,
and that was the way that bushrang-
ers ordered their victims to throw
up their hands before going through
them.
Without pausing an instant, although
he knew that the bushranger had
only to exercise little gentle pressure
with his forefnger to blow him into
eternity, the miner bawled out at the
top of his voice:
bob !"
There was no "Bob" around there.
1t was ruse conceived by the miner
in the fraction of a second and imme-
diately put into execution to distract
the attention of the bushranger. 1t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10
DO WE EAT To MUCH?

If you require proof that we do, sup
pose that we have for breakfast nice
fresh roll which eats like a piece OF
cake, will we not eat more heartily than
if we had to partake of bread two OF
three days old?
Can it be affirmed that it is absolute.
ly necessary to have several courses for
diuner2 After the second course, We
only eat for the sake of eating. There
is no doubt that we eat more than
enough to satisfy hunger.
There is a universal conspiracy to
incite US to eat too much. Say that we
tEink,--as a. rule, one plate is sufi.
cient to satisfy ones hunger and we
will be called idiots. "What r' people
will think, "not taste the tempting
dishes which are placed before us! Do
you call it wrong to eat of them, just
because hunger is appeased?" And
they will look upon us with mingled
scorns and pity.
If we compare the quantity of food
which satisfies working man and that
which is considered necessary for q
rich man, we shall be inclined to think
that they belong to different species
A fisherman will be contented with a
piece of bread and cheese, but the
tourist who goes with him takes a tre'
mendous hamper crammed full it is
not because physiological necessity is
more exacting in the one than in the
other, but because the gentleman is
accustomed to eat, not according to the
dictates of hunger, but until all the
courses are exhausted-and in many
cases until it is materially impossible
TO eat more.
The Arab who accompanies the
sportsman on an excursion in the des-
ert, finds piece of hard bread and a
few dates sufficient for his wants; the
sportsman is afraid of dying of hunger
if he does not take with him several
baskets of provisions, boxes of pre-
served meats, and the like.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

OCEAN CABLE RATEs.-Oceanic
cable rates have been greatly reduced
since the transatlantic cable first be-
came a success, but cabling is still in
large part q business necessity or a
luxury ofgrief. Cable rates to London
in 1866 were $1OO for 20 words. They
were reduced in the same year to $50
for 20 words. Next year they became
s26.25; in 1868, $16.41; in 1870, SIS;
in 1871, $40. Then 1872 came the
word rate of 81. 1t rose to $3.50 in
1878, and has since been at various
times, according to the conditions of
competition, $3.50, rs cents, and, for
while in 1886, IL cents. The present
rate of 25 cents was fixed in Septem-
ber, 1888. Cable rates to places on the
west coast of Africa run as high as
S2.66 per word. The rate to the
island of Mauritius, when the Red
sea cable is interrupted, and messages
cannot be delivered by way of Alden,
is S4.14. The rate to New Caledon-
ia is $2.5l, and other Australian rates
vary between $1.27 and 1923, ac-
cording to the route employed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

He whispered goodby and dted.
them back. My turn came later. " Old
Sloat, too, chad his customary crack, I"
as he expressed it-a shot through the
wrist that made him hop and swear
sayagely until some Of the men got to
laughing at the comical figure he cut,
and then he turned and damned them
with hearty good will and seemed all
oblivious of the bullets that went zip
ping past his frosting head. Young Rol-
lins, to his inexpressible pride and COM
fort, had bullet hole through his scout
ing hat and another through his shoul-
der strap that raised big welt on the
white skin beneath, but, to the detri-
ment of promotion, no captain was kill
ed, and Jerrold gave the only file.
The one question at Sibley was, What
will Nina Beaubien do?
She did nothing. She would see no.
body from the instant the news came.
She had hardly slept at night, was al
ways awake at dawn and out at the
gate to get the earliest copy of the morn
ing papers, but the news reached them
at nightfall, and when some of the la
dies from the fort drove in to offer their
sympathy and coincidence in the morn
ing and to make tender inquiry the an
swer at the door was that Miss Nina
saw nobody, that her mother alone was
with her, and that "she was very still. :"
And so it went for some days. Then there
came the return of the command to Sib-
ley, and hundreds Of people went up
from town to see the six companies Of the
fort garrison march up the winding
road amid the thunder of welcome from
the guns of the light battery and the
exultant strains of the band. Mrs. May
nard and Alice were the only ladies Of
the circle who were not there. A son and
brother had joined them after long alb
sence, at Aunt Grace's cottage at Sab
Ion, was the explanation, and the colo
mel would bring them home in a few
days, after he had attended to some i'm
portant matters at the fort. In the first
place, Chester had to see to it that the
tongue of scandal was slit, so far as the
colonel's household was concerned, and
all good people notified that no such
thing had happened as was popularly
supposed-and Everybody" received
the announcement with the remark that
she knew all along it couldn't be So
and that grievous and absurd but most
mortifying blunder had been made. 1t
was a most unpleasant ghost to down,
the shadow Of that scandal, for it
would come up to the surface of garri-
son chat at all manner of confidential
moments, but no man or woman could
safely speak Of it to Chester. 1t was
gradually assumed that he was the man
who had done all the laundering and
that he was supersensitiye Oh the sub
ject.
There was another thing never satis-
factorily explained to some of the garri-
son people, and that was Nina Beau
bien's strange conduct. In less than
week she was seen on the street in COL
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10
Alistellaneous 8sading.
ABOUT MOTHER-OF PEARL.
Millions of Shells Are Needed Annually fol
the Manufacture of Buttons.

Millions of Shells Are Needed Annually for
the Manufacture of Buttons.
"They that 60 down to the sea in
ships to do business in the great waters
are more numerous than landlovers
imagine. five pause for minute and
think of the countless pearl buttons
that are daily sold and utilized all
over the world, we may then realize
the quantity of oyster shells required
to supply this demand.
The shells from which our pearl
buttons ARE obtained are quite large,
weighing a quarter of pound apiece.
They are shipped to us from Australia.
After the diagraming is finished the
shell.is sent to the factory to be cut,
filed, chiseled, grooved and polished,
and when this is finished the buttons
are carded and ready for market. The
polishing of the expensive buttons is
all done by hand on rapidly revolving
wheels of heavy flannel covered with
jewelers. rouge.
Even the scraps and clippings ofthe
mother of the pearl are not wasted. A
large button factory recently received
an order for quantity of small pieces
of pearl to form the mosaic of a large
altar that was being made for one of
our city churches.
Tiny pearls are often found in these
shells, and are occasionally cut to
pieces by the machinery, but the real
pearl shells do not come from Australia,
and pearl large enough to be of any
value is rarely if ever found in shells at
y button factory.
The largest pearl in the world is in
the possession of the queen regent OF
Spain. 1t was found by little colored
boy in an oyster shell so small that
be was tempted to throw it away
unopened.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

worked. The bushranger thought the
miner was calling a comrade to his
assistance. He looked around to
catch a glimpse of the fictitious
"Bob." That was the miners oppor-
tunity. Quick as flash he swung
his left arm and knocked the pistol
out of the bushranger's grasp. Then
he brought his rifle to his shoulder
and leveled it at the bushranger's
head. In much less time than il takes
to tell it, the situation had been COM
pletely reversed. The bushranger was
at the mercy of the miner.
"Now," said he, "you scoundrel,
just fold your hands behind your
back, and march ahead of me; if you
move or try to run away I will save
the hangman job by letting daylight
through you"
In that way the miner escorted the
bushranger into town and handed
him over to the police.-The Toledo
Blade.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10
FROM THE RANKS.
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.

between the colonel's family and me,
told him I wanted it to enlarge and
present to her mother on her approach
ing birthday and promised him that l
would never reveal how I came by the
picture so long as I lived, and he sent
me one-just in time Have I not paid
heavily for my SIM"
No one spoke for moment. Chester
was the first to break the silence:
"Poor fellowl He kept his word to
the photographer, but what was it worth
to woman?"
There had been week Of wild anxi-
ETY. and excitement at Sibley. 1t was
known through the columns Of the press
that the regiment had hurried forward
from the railway the instant it reached
the Colorado trail; that it could not
hope to get through to the valley of the
Spirit Wolf without fight, and that
the moment it succeeded in joining
hands with the cavalry already there a
vigorous attack would be made on the
Indians. The news of the rescue Of the
survivors Of Thornton's command came
first, and with it the tidings that May
nard and his regiment were met only 80
miles from the scene and were pushing
forward The next news came two days
later, and a wall went up even while men
were shaking hands and rejoicing over
the gallant fight that had been made,
and women were weeping for joy and
thanking God that those whom they held
dearest were safe. It was down among
the wives of the sergeants and other
veterans that the blow struck hardest at
Sibley, for the stricken officers were
unmarried men, while among the rank
and file there were several who never
came back to the little ones who bore
their name. Company B had suffered
most, for the Indians had charged fierce
ly on its deployed but steadfast line.
Armitage almost choked and broke
down when telling the colonel about it
that night as he lay under the willows.
"It was the first smile I had seen on his
face since I got back-that with which
he looked up in my eyes and whispered
goodby-and died, just after we drove
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

sd- The Popular Science News says
that the recent discovery of Mr.. Wilson,
of acetylene gas from lime and coal
dust treated with electricity from car
bon electrodes, has made it possible to
produce ethyl alcohol so cheap that all
other processes will be abandoned.
Should this discovery prove to be what
is expected, alcohol will be made for
two or three cents gallon, or even less.
Its uses in the arts will be largely in
creased, and as beverage it could he
cheapened to an enormous extent.
The occupation of distillng will be
superseded, and the manufacture of
whisky and other alcoholic beverages
will change, and the great problems
which centre around them CONNER
cially, scientifically and socially, will
have new features.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY.
The electric-storage battery, in whose
development lies the hope of emanci-
patton from electric light wires, trolley
wires and other unsightly distractions,
has reached a point of perfection, as
sh own by an exhibit in Philadelphia
which makes it commercial possibili-
ty, and promises large extension of
the usefulness of electricity in every
day life. With further development
in the direction of cheapness, it may
be possible to reproduce, in towns
unprovided with cheap means OF
motive power, the conditions existing
in Great Falls, Montana. In that town
electric power produced economically
at a water privilege, does all the
mechanical work. 1t propels, lights
and heats the street cars, runs the
elevators, the printing presses, the
cranes, and all kinds of machinery, and
is used for pumping, for excavating,
and for rock crushing. 1t is even
applied in the building trades, it not
being unusual to see on the streets a
mortar-mixer attached to an electric
wire leading down from pole. The
restaurants cook by electricity; the
butcher employs it to chop his sau-
sages, and the grocer to grind his
coffee. The housewives run their
sewing machines and heat their fiat
irons by electricity they bake their
cakes in wooden electric cake ovens,
that can be set away on the shelf like
pasteboard boxes. They have electric
broilers, boilers and tea kettles.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

HE FOUND OUT.-A couple of young
women were making their way along
the street through the rain and mud,
when well-dressed man going the
same direction looked backed rather
sharply as he passed them. "Well,
what's that fool staring at ?" snapped
out one of them, loud enough for the
stranger to hear them. "Pardon me-"
he pleaded, as he tipped his hat; II
had no intention of being rude, but I
was just wondering what kind of u girl
it was that came down town on rainy
day with a hole in her stocking. 1
know now. Thanks. Good-morning."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

PURE AIR-Pure air is to the lungs
the most important tonic, and we should
see to it that we have sufficient of it
in which we live and work. Not only
must the air space be sufficient, but
the air must be constantly renewed if
we are to live healthy lives. Nor can
the importance of open air exercise
be exaggerated. We should accustom
ourselves and our children to be out in
all weather and temperatures, unless
there be some special reason to the
contrary. Keep the skin healthy with
regular cold bathing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10
ors - brilliant colors when it was


known she had ordered deep mourning,
and then she suddenly disappeared and
went with her silent old mother abroad.
To this day no woman in society under
stands it, for when she came back, long,
long afterward, it was subject on
which she would never speak. There
were one or two who venturod to ask,
and the answer was, "For reasons that
concern me alone" But it took no great
power of mental vision to see that her
heart wore black for him forever.
His letter explained it all. She had
received it with a parozysm of passion
ate grief and JOY, kissed it, covered it
with widest caresses before she began
to read, and then, little by little, as the
words unfolded before her staring eyes,
turned cold as stone:
"It is my last night Of life, Nina,
and am glad tits so. Proud and sensl-
tive as I am, the knowledge that every
man in my regiment has turned from
me; that I have not friend among
them; that there is no longer a place
for me in their midst-more than all,
that I deserve their contempt-has bro
ken my heart. We will be in battle be-
fore the setting of another sun. Any
man who seeks death in Indian fight
can find it easily enough, and I can
compel their respect in spite Of them
selves. They will not recognize me, liv-
ing, as one of them, but dying on the
field they have to place me on their roll
Of honor.
"But now 1 turn to you. What have
I been, what am I, to have won such love
as yours2 May God in heaven forgive
ME for my past! All too late I hate and
despise the man I have been-the man
whom you loved. One last act of JUS
tice remains. If I died without it, you
would mourn me faithfully, tenderly,
lovingly, for years, but if I tell the
truth you will see the utter unworthi-
ness Of the man, and your love will
turn to contempt. 1t is hard to do this,
knowing that in doing it kill the
only genuine regret and dry the only
tear that would bless my memory, but
it is the one sacrifice I can make to
complete my self humiliation, and it is
the one thing that is left me that will
free you. 1t will sting at first; but, like
the surgeons knife, its cut is mercy.
Nina, the very night I came to you on
the bluffs, the very night you periled
your honor to have that parting inter-
view, I went to you with lie on my
lips. had told her we were nothing to
each other, you and I. More than that,
I was seeking her love. I hoped I could
win her, and had she loved me would
have turned from you to make her my
wife. Nina, I loved Alice Renwick.
Goodby. Don't mourn for me after
this"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

NOT REBELS TO ABRAHAM LIN
q recent meeting of the
Church club of the diocese of Long
Island, after an address of General
Stewart L. Woodford, in which he
had referred to President Lincoln, Dr.
Jerome Walker related hitherto un'
published incident in the life of that
great man, which shows how he re-
garded the Southern soldier. Dr.
Walker said, in substance General
Woodford has pointed to Abraham
Lincoln as typical American. One
week before the assassination of Mr..
Lincoln, he visited the hospital at City
Point, where I was stationed as
member of the United States sanitary
commission. I was then boy of 1S
or 10. Imagine my pride at being
asked to convey the president around
to the hospital We spent the entire
day together, and felt very big. We
came to one part of the hospital where
we had several tents of what were
then called rebel prisoners. said,
with all the pride of Northern boy,
'Mr. Lincoln, do you want to 60 into
all of these tents?' We had gone into
all of the others. He said, in his
quiet way, why not?' replied
There are only rebels in there
shall never forget his big, generous
hand coming on my shoulder as he
said, you mean Confederates,' and
have meant Confederates ever since. ~
"a Confederate" in the Boston Trans
cript.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

R9- A favorite assertion of the mod
ern, trained child's nurse is that nc
healthy baby cries. If he is well, as
he should be, and properly clothed
and looked after, he will not cry. But
on the other hand, some medical
authorities assert that crying is the
chief and best exercise for young
children, and one hospital superintend,
ent says that a healthy baby should
cry three or four times day, at least,
and from 10 to Is minutes at time.
This world would be dull indeed if all
mankind agreed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10
NUMBER 4.

The ORIGIN OF JINGo.-A CORES
pondent of the Boston Herald recalls
the origin of the word "jingo," now so
widely used on both sides Of the
Atlantic. Some years ago, at the
time of the Turkish atrocities in Bul.
garia, so vividly described and so
vigorously reprobated by Mr.. Glad
stone, the advisability of English inter-
ven,ion was agitated by large war
party, whose members were of all
shades of political opinion and joined
forces only on this one point. There
is no public question in England that
does not sooner or later get into the
songs in the music halls, and so one of
the most popular singers of the day
wrote a ditty, with these lines as
chorus:
We don't want to fight; but, by lingo!
We've got the men, we've got the ships,
we've got the money, too!
This song was received by the pa
irons of the music halls with every
demonstration of enthusiasm, and the
refrain quickly found its way into the
the newspapers. An anti-intervention-
ist journal one morning contemptuous-
ly referred editorially to the extremists
as 'jingoists." The word was not long
afterward heard on the floor of the
house of commons and quickly there
after took its place in the popular vo-
cabulary, being presently simpli6ed
into ''jingoes."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

B1- Capital is nearly always coward
ly, and the developments of the past ID
days have proved that it is sometimes
very silly. Cleveland's recent message
ON the Monroe doctrine was followed
almost Immediately by heavy slump
in all kinds Of American securities, in
cuding United States bonds. The scare
originated in London, but Wall street
played quick second. Stocks of all
kinds took IA tumble and on Friday and
Saturday of last week, the shrinkage
IN values amounted to hundreds OF
millions Of dollars. Just who started
the bear movement is not certainly
known; but all large holders every
where showed a decided eagerness to
convert their holdings into cash, and
hat is what knocked the bottom out of
prices. The circumstance proved a
windfall for shrewd business men in
Washington. They bought practically
everything that they could raise the
money to pay for, and advised their
friends throughout the country to do
the same thing. The result was a
sharp reaction, which left the Washing
ton spectators ahead of the game and
the London and New York bears
bewailing their heavy losses, and Incl
dentally their lack of the necessary
sense to appreciate the tremendous
military and financial strength of the
United States.
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TO BE CONTINUED.
STRINGS FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

The manufacture of strings for mu'
steal instruments has been carried on
from time immemorial in some of the
small villages in the Abruzzi. The
Neapolitan provinces maintain their su-
periority in the production of this arti-
Gle. They require the greatest care
and dexterity on the part of the work
men. The treble strings are particu-
larly difficult to make, and are made al
Naples, probably because the Neapoli.
tan sheep, from their small size and
leanness, afford the hest raw material.
They are made from the small intes'
tines, which must be very carefully
scraped. The intestines are then
stepped in alkaline lyes, clarified with
a little alum, for four or five days, until
well bleached and swollen.
They are next drawn through an
open brass thimble, aud pressed against
i, with the nail in order to smooth and
equal the surface, after which they are
washed, spun or twisted and sulphured
during two hours. They are finally
polished by friction and dried. Some
times they are sulphured twice or
thrice before being dried, and are pol
ished between horsehair cords. The
strings manufactured in Italy are noted
for their strength, transparency, brill
fancy and clearness Of tone. Their
manufacture was introduced into
France by Neapolitan nohleman in
1865, who established Il manufactory
at Lyons. This industry is carried on
in various other towns in Italy, name
ly: Goblio: Foligno, Bologna, Venice,
Verona and Bassano.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-10

B6 William Nickel keeps scent
store at Butler, Pennsylvania.
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nolitiqa soeal Asritultura and Gummetial Snteests

:. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896.