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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

Too MUCH FOR THE GREYHoUND.-
At a recent dinner of some veterans
there was the usual interchange oi
"reminiscences, but one story told by an
appreciative comrade certainly de-
serves wider hearing.
1t was after the great battle of Bull
Run, and the scattered soldiers, most
Of whom had just got their first taste
of wa-, were hurrying over the long
bridge aad seeking refuge in the Fed
eral capita. Everybody was looking
gloomy, but one man was particularly
downcast.
"Say, comrade," exclaimed a mem
ber of the same company, happening
to strike him and noticing his genera
wretchedness, "what in Heavens name
is the matter with you ?"
"Matter with me? Well, I should
say there was matter enough !"
"Well, what is it? You amt shot
are you ?"
"Shot! No. Worse, worse; I've
had a terrible loss"
"Well, come, comrade, cheer up and
tell me about it,"
"Well, it was my greyhound"
"Your greyhound?"
ayes, poor dog, he went into battle
with us, and he came out all right
but somewhere on our way back hi
got lost. He couldn't keep up"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

A WONDERFUL GAIA few even
ings since Alvy was paying a visit to
his dulcinea. She had smuggled him
into the parlor, and the darkness only
served to conceal her bushes, while
Alvy told his story of love. The NUT
tered words reached the parents ear,
and coming suddenly into the room,
he demanded to know of Mary who
it was she had with her.
"It's the cat, sir" was the mumbling
reply.
"Drive it out of here" thundered
pater-familias.
"Scat !" screeched Mary; and then,
soto voce, Alvy, meaow little"
Alvy set up woful yowl.
"Confound it; bring light and
scare the thing out"
This was too much, and poor Alvy
made leap for the window, carrying
a glass and frame with him.
"Thunder, what a cat!" exclaimed
the parent, contemplating the ruin af-
ter the light was brought 81 never
saw anything like it; and, confound
it, it's tail is made of broadcloth J" as
he viewed a tiuttering remnant hang
ing from the window.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
SOMETHING In BUILDING.

The new $4,OOO,OOO Federal build
ing in Chicago will stand on series of
points instead of resting on founda-
ton extending evenly along the entire
wall line, says the Chicago Post. The
weight will be so adjusted that it will
rest on cement columns, thirty-two
feet apart, the columns going down to
bedrock, seventy.two feet below the
surface of the earth. This is the plan
adopted in modern bridgebuilding, and
represents the most advanced progress
in that field of construction. The
mode of evcavating for the foundation
is very interesting and simplicity it.
SELF A section of a wrought iron tube
of the desired diameter is set upon the
ground on its rim, and as the earth
within the circle is removed the tube
sinks. When the top of the first Sec
ton settles down to the level of the
earth's surface, second section is
placed above it, and the digging pro-
cess is continued. One section after
another disappears, and bedrock is
eventually reached without the slight
est disturbance TO the surrounding ma
terial occurring. There is no settling
of neighboring foundations, no totter-
ing walls, no alarm or disquiet of any
sort.
When the excavation is completed
there is a clean, iron walled hole, into
which the cement is poured and SUBJ
jected to the necessary pressure. When
the iron tube is filled the job is finish
ed, the iron casing being allowed to
remain. The columns which will con-
stitute the foundation of the Chicago
building will vary in diameter from
12 to Is feet. Through the wear and
tear of ages they will support all the
weight that they will be called upon
to bear. By this plan it will not be
necessary to drive piling down to bed
rock, or to resort to any other of the
methods for making broad bases for
foundations to rest upon, so familiar to
Chicago builders of lofty edifces and
heavy business blocks. The element
of uncertainty will be entirely elimi-
mated. Cement columns have been
tried in the construction of all the
great iron and steel bridges built in
recent years, and found to be wholly
satisfactory. There is no guess-work,
no speculation as to the precise weight
cement column of certain dimen-
sion standing on solid rock will sus.
tain. 1t is a simple mathematical and
engineering proposition.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

How TO MAKE Cows GIVE MILK.
A writer in one of our agricultural
exchanges says that his one cow gives
all the milk that is wanted in family
of eight, and that from it, after taking
all required for other purposts, 26O
pounds of butter was made this year.
This is, in part, his treatment of the
COW: eff you desire to get a large
yield of rich milk, give your COW
every day, water slightly warm and
slightly salted, in which bran has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to two
gallons of water. You will find, il
you have not tried this daily practice,
that your COW will give twenty-five
per cent. more milk Immediately un-
der the effects of it, and she will be-
come so attached to the diet as to re-
fuse to drink clear water unless very
thirsty; but this mess she will drink
almost any time and ask for more.
The amount Of this drink necessary is
an ordinary water pail full at time,
morning, noon and night.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
Au,uurons department.

~ When the war ended and the
Negroes were free, there was a great
enthusiasm for educating them, says
Thomas Page in Harper's. One of the
first schools started was built on the
edge of his place by Colonel Trigg
who got little "schoolmarm," as they
were termed, to come down and teach
it. 1t was soon filled by the colored
population, the pupils ranging from
5 to rs years, all studying the 'a-b ab
e-b eb." Even Uncle Jack Scott, the
colonel's head man, one of the old.
timers, went in and was transferred
from the stable to the schoolroom, but
soon dropped out.
1t was several years after this that
Uncle Jack was working one day at a
water-gate when the children came
down the road from school. They
stopped and peeped stolidly through
the fence. Among them was Jawnie,
Mrs. Scott's hopeful, who had proved
an apter scholar than his father. His
bag was on his arm. He climbed over
the fence, and from the bank gazed
down alphabetically at his father in the
water below. Presently he said:
"Oh, papa, de teacher say you mus
git me geography"
"Uncle Jacks jaw set. He dug on
as if he had not heard. Then he re-
peated to himself: "Geog'aphy-geog'-
Apply. Marse Conn, whut is dat !
What is geography ?" he asked, looking
up.
ga geography" said his master
"Why, geography is ais a books
book that tells about places, and
where they are, and so on He gave
a comprehensive sweep around the
horizon.
"Yas, sub; now I understand" said
Jack, going back to digging.
. "Presently he stopped and looked
up at "Jawnie." say, boy, you tell
de teacher I say you better stick to
yo' alb abs an you e-b ebs, an let
geography alone. You knows de way
now to de spring and de woodpile and
de mill, an when you gets little big,
ger Use gwine to show yo' de way to
de hoehandle an de Gavin furrer, an
dat's all de geography a nigger's got
to know"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

A MEAN TRICK.-The students OF
the University of Texas are always
playing some game on the professors.
Old Professor Gassaway is generally
selected as the target. About 8 o'clock
in the morning one night he was dis.
turbed by the ringing of his door bell.
Hastily enveloping his figure in a
dressing gown, he threw open the win
dow, and sticking his head out, asked
what was the cause of the disburb.
ance.
"The burglars are bad and we only
wanted to tell you that one of your
windows are open."
(which one ?" be asked anxiously.
"The one you've got your head
out"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
farm amd firesiae.
GOOD COFFEE MADE WITHOUT BOILING.

So many people have an idea that
coffee has to be boiled to get the
strength out of the crushed berry.
On the contrary, boiling gives the H.
quid peculiar bitter taste that is for
eign to really good coffee. Besides
that, it ruins the flavor. "Drip" cof.
fee is supposed to be the very best cof-
fee that is made; but even that is
spoiled sometimes by letting the liquid
boil up over the strainer, thus loosen
ing the oil that makes the coffee bitter.
If you have not a regular coffee
strainer, make three or four cheese
cloth bags of size large enough to
accommodate the amount of coffee
that you use, allowing for swelling OF
the grain and for a drawstring to tie.
Wash and boil the bags after making,
so that not a taste of the cloth re-
mains in them. Fill the bag with the
coffee, and have in teakettle, boiling
hot, exactly the amount of water you
want to use for your coffee. Rinse the
coffee pot out with hot water, and put
the bag in the pot and pour over it
the boiling water. Place the pot on
the back of the stove, where it will re-
main just below the bubbling period,
for at least ten minutes. The result
will give you clear, strong coffee; you
need not use grain more than for the
old way and it will not hurt the weak
est digestion. Neither is egg necessa-
ry. Empty the bag as soon as the
meal is over, as there will be no more
good in the coffee, and wash the bag
in hot water; shake free of all the
grounds and hang in the air to dry.
Have at least four such bags, and keep
them and the coffee pot scrupulously
clean.-Washington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
DETECTION OF CORN PRODUCT IN

DETECTION OF CORN PRODUCT IN
WHEAT FLoUR.-A correspondent O.
The Modern Miller says: 81 would
suggest that when corn mixed was
suspected, pinch of -four be dropped
on a hot surface, such as the top of 6
stove or a hot shovel. If there is any
corn in the mixture there will be 8
decided odor of parched corn that
can't be mistaken for anything else
Another test is to put the mixture in
glass of water, stir we'll, and when
the precipitation takes place you will
find that the wheat flour will settle in
one layer and the corn in another
The specific gravity of corn and whea,
fours are not the same, and they viii
settle separately. These tests have
the advantage of simplicity, and
think will prove as reliable as any
have ever seen given, and are so sim
pie that anyone can try them."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
A Snare
And DeluSiOn.

IF you have taken out life insurance
i policy in an Old Line high price "level
premium" company with the idea that
you would at sometime in the future,
while you yet drew the breath Of life. re
dividends" we are here to tell you that
you will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove q snare and a delusion. 1t Is
all right for protection for your wife and
children, as they will receive the face Of
the policy in case of your death, as they
would also in company that charges
you half as much. A life insurance poll
cy is fraud as an investment for living
man, and is the greatest Elessing Of which
we or anybody else has any knowledge
as means of protecting the widow and
orphans, after the breadwinner has been
removed by death,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
If You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice

AND COME to us with desire to
learn why it is not to your interest to
carry high priced insurance, and how we
can furnish you just as safe insurance
for at least 40per cent. year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
to your satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIA-
TION of New York does business OH a
plan that is absolutely safe, and will pro-
tect your loved ones even better than
they now are, at even a greater cost to
to you. Of course if you are too preju-
diced tc investigate and imagine that the
high price you are now paying makes
your insurance better or safer, or better
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you but will be forced to
let you 60 on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that YOU have been deceived.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

CUCUMBER PICKLEs.-Wash small
cucumbers, fresh from the vine, and
pack. Allow one small cupful of salt to
each gallon of pickles; then add boiling
water until they are well covered, and
let stand twenty-four to forty-eigh1
hours take out, rinse off with clear
water, and drain carefully; place in
cold vinegar for two weeks, take up
drain, and pack closely in glass jars
using one teaspoonful of white mus
tard and twenty cloves to each quart
Make sweet vinegar by taking two
parts of sugar to three of vinegar, in
which boil mixed spices, closely tied
in a thin cloth, for twenty minutes
pour this boiling hot over the pickles
and seal. 1t usually takes a table
spoonful of mixed spices to gallon ol
sugar and vinegar, but one must use
judgment, as their strength varies.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09


pS Walnut trees require about ~
years before they can be considered
ready for use in market. The prac-
tice of those who have gone into the
business of growing walnut trees is to
plant the trees about 80 feet apart,
gradually cutting out alternate growth.
They are of slow growth, and time is
required before return can be secured,
but after a walnut grove begins to pay
it gives q large profit on the invest
ment. Land that is idle can be plan
ted to walnut trees to advantage, and
the nuts will be a partial source OF
revenue in few years. A little culti-
walton and care at the start is all that
is required.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
If You Have
No Insurance.

And think you should have. we would be
pleased to explain the Mutual Reserve
System to you. The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premi-
um company in the world, and the fourth
largest of ANY KIND. It has paid
about $3.50, to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South Car
lima alone, during the past twelve years,
and if all the insurance now carried in
old line companies in the state was in the
Mutual Reserve, not less than $500, 900,
which now annually goes into the Golfers
of the former, would be left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which
we hear so much.
General Agents. ,.......... Yorkville, s. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
When You Want
Nice Clean
Job Printing

You should always go to THE
ENQUIRER office where such
printing is done. Excursion
Bills, Programmes, Dodgers, Cir
culars, Pamphlets, Law Briefs,
Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill
Heads, Envelopes, and Cards of
all kinds printed on short notice
and at very reasonable and legit-
innate prices.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

stone, or even on the damp grass, is
well.known to be fertile source of
disease and wet, cold feet are also,
with reason, credited to paving the
way to an early grave.-Medical Rec
ord.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

s9" The Lady-I'll give you good
meal if you will cut up some of that
wood. The Tramp-Sorry, but l can
not accommodate you, madam. "Too
lazy to work, suppose?" "Not that,
madam, not that. l would be false to
my trust. You see, I'm a member OF
the Society for the Preservation of the
American Forests; we never cut any
wood"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

B6 Every man living shall assured
ly meet with an hour of temptation, a
certain critical hour which shall more
especially try what mettle his heart is
made of.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

CONNECTIONS.
No. 80 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the 8. A. L. at
Catawba Junction.
Nos. "a and IS will carry passengers.
Nos. II and IL have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, Kings Creek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
8. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIP, Superintendent.
SAML HUNT, General Manager.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09

aSr Bread is the staff of life, liquor
the stills the former sustaining man,
the latter elevating him for a fall.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-09
What the Professor SAYS

The Professor propounds most re
markable scientific theory. He says tha
after a certain number of people have
been born all the physical and menta
combinations which 60 to make one mar
differ from another are exhausted, anc
then nature goes back to the beginning
Thus, upon the basis of the world:
present population, each living person
has ten exact counterparts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-12
Not ON the Man.

In a certain New England town there
once lived a wealthy but illiterate man,
who owned many sailing vessels and fol-
lowed their course over the seas by the
aid of an enormous atlas says the Youth s
Companion. A neighbor who stopped on
one occasion to see him on a matter of
business was ushered into the library,
where he found the ship owner. with his
spectacles astride his nose. porting over
the atlas, which was spread open on the
table before him.
Pm glad you've come in" said he, ris-
ing to grasp his guests hand cordially,
for there's little point you may be able
to help me about. I've just had a letter
from one of my captains, and he tells me
that he's been in a storm and he didnt
know but the vessel would go to pieces.
He's a well-educated man. and he uses
first-rate language" said the ship owner
proudly IN just read you out the pas
sage from his letter that puzzles me. He
says. The waves rose Ike mountains and
the storm ragged about US, while nothing
but the vivid lightning broke the pitchy
gloom. But although death seemed likely
to be our portion, we were saved; driven
before the wind and put into great jeo-
pardy, but still here am, pen in hand.
Now. what ] want to know is said the
ship owner. as he refolded the sheet from
which he had read the precious extract
and placed it carefully in his wallet
what | want to know is. where is Great
Jeopardy? | know it's somewhere in the
Mediterranean, but / can't seem to find il
on this peSky map anywhere"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-12

Personal.

Jules Verne is at present busy in the
execution of a plan to publish a series of
stories bearing on different countries In
like many authors. he thinks of the plot
last, letting II form in his mind a he reads
books of scientific nature on the part of
the world he is going to treat.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord has been outdone in
post-mortem generosity to servants by
the late Nine. Brasseaux of Paris. This
eccentric lady, a widow, used to give a
dance once week to the five pretty maids
who attended her, and by her will She
left about 100000 to be divided among
them and among some of the guests who
frequented the parties.
DIR. Albert ]. Leon, who was for a
time an instructor of Arabic in the Johns
Hopkins University Baltimore, but is now
in business in New York city, says he has
the oldest copy of the Koran eXtant: "Af-
ter ] had purchased it / had it submitted
to Mr.. Douglas, the expert on Mohamme-
dan subjects in the British museum and
he had but little doubt that the work was
by Ali, the first convert to Mohammedan-
ism, the prophets cousin"
Prof Moses Colt Tyler of Cornell said
the other evening in a lecture that while
Washingtons reputation as soldier and
statesman was safe. he was in real danger
from the humorists of the future. This
was owing TO the fact that Washington
the real man, had never been very well
known, and is now almost forgotten, haV.
ing been replaced in the popular mind by
OF the heroic, the priggish and the statu-
eEnue.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-12
Rc.nnnsihiIitx of DIRECTORS.


1t is pretty wei understood that the
cause of the collapse of the building and
loan association at Atlanta and the one at
Knoxville was Acknowledgement. II is
claimed that If the directors of these insti-
| tutions had discharged their duties faith
fully and conscientiously. the Institutions
would have escaped the misfortune which
has overtaker them.
It is a notorious fact that nearly all the
failures Of financial institutions are due
either to the dishonesty of officials or to
bad management A few weeks ago there
were several bank failures in the west.
and in almost every instance it was shown
that one or more OF the officials OF the
broken banks were guilty of dishonest
practices or that the directors bad paid
no attention TO their duties
The directors as a general thing. are
men of wealth and character. Men Of that
kind are desired because they have the
confidence Of the community in which they
live, and they give character and standing
to the financial institutions to which they
lend their names. They know why they
.
they practically pledge themselves to the
community that they will see TO it that the
institutions with which they are connect
ed are honestly managed. That being the
case ought they not to be held legally as
well as morally responsible for losses re-
sulting from their neglect of duty? We
think they ought. A law providing that
every bank director. or the director of any
building and loan association or other
financial institution shall be liable in dam
ages to any one who has suffered a fnan-
cial loss through such directors neglect of
the duty he had undertaken to perform
would have a most beneficial effect.
If a man who accepts a dictatorship in
financial institution doesn't intend to
look after the affairs of that institution
he is dishonest. because he is party to
deception practiced upon the public, and
a man who would lend himself to such a
deception should be made to bear the losses
which are incurred through his neglect of
duty.
1t is said that some prominent men Of
Knoxville and Atlanta are directors of the
collapsed building and loan concerns We
do not know whether they discharged the
duties they agreed TO perform or not. but
| it is assumed that they'were not as diligent
as they ought to have been. because it is
claimed that these concerns were wrecked
! by mismanagement. If they had been dill
! igent and faithful in the discharge of their
duties there could not have been great
deal of mismanagement without their
knowledge. The extent of their failure
to discharge their whole duty will doubt
less be disclosed before the affairs of the
defunct institutions are wound up.
The legislature of this state cannot too
soon enact law innicting heavy penal
ties upon directors in financial institutions
who neglect their duties to such institu-
tons. They ought to be made liable for
the losses sustained through their failure
to do their whole duty as directors