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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
IIICCnIlGHS.

Generally this troublesome little dis
turbance is matter of no moment be-
yond the annoyance it may cause the
sufferer. 1t is brought about by mo.
mentary contraction Of the diaphragm,
by which air is drawn into the chest,
and may be excited by a variety OF
causes. 1t may even be a symptom OF
grave disease, usually of the nervous
system, but most frequently it results
from trivial causes, such as laughing or
crying.
A very common cause of hiccoughs
is eating or drinking too much or too
fast, especially drinking. This is so
well.known that the funny paragraph
ers in the papers always sprinkle the
remarks of an alleged drunken man
with plenty of hics. 1t may also be
started, just as it may be arrested, by
sudden fright.
1t can often be cured by fixing the
attention closely upon something else,
as upon the attempt to bring the little
finger of each hand as near its mate as
possible without allowing them to
touch each other. Other simple means
of arresting hiccoughs, which usually
ceases of itself without any treatment,
are the swallowing Of little Jumps of
ice or a glass of very cold water or
acidulated water, vigorous rubbing
with the hand over the pit OF the
stomach or the back of the neck, dash
ing ice-cold water on the spine: etc.
If such devices fail, more etfectual
measure consists in making firm and
persistent pressure upward, with the
fingers passed under the edge OF the
ribs on each side, near the breast
bone. This causes pressure on the
diaphragm and, as it were, dis
tracts 1t so that it forgets to contract
spasmodically. The taking of eight
or ten deep and slow inspirations acts
in much the same way.
We often read in the papers of Won
derful cases of hiccoughs lasting for
days and days, and sometimes ceasing
only with death. There are OCCASION
ally such cases, which battle the skill Of
physicians, but when they occur there
is some other serious malady present,
which, and not the hiccoughs, is the
actual cause Of death. These grave
cases are not under consideration here.
They do not come within the domain
of household remedies, but call for
professional intervention. - Youths
CompaniOn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
A Snare
And DelUSiOn.

IF you have taken out life insurance
premium" company with the idea that
Won would at sometime in the future,
while you yet drew the breath of life, re-
ceiye substantial cash returns or "big
dividends" we are here to tell you that
YOU will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove a snare and 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 blessing 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, 1897-09-08

A CHEERFUL, SUNNY DISPOSITION.
The best possible beautifier is cheer
full, sunny disposition. Take woman
who makes the best of things as she
goes through life, and who smiles rath'
er than frowns, and her skin will keep
softer and roster and smoother than
the woman who wrinkles her brow
and pulls down the corners of her
mouth and adds lines of discomfort to
her whole face. A discontented face
can never be pretty; remember that.
Look at the lives of women you know,
and see if you have all the clouds and
storm and disappointments. BY no
means! Look within and above, and
see if you do not have much of the
sunlight and many of the roses OF life.
It is no use to devote ones self to
emollients for smoothing and softening
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

TRIED AND ACQUITTED BY HIS
PEERs.-An Augusta lawyer told me
the other day of a witticism uttered
by Henry w. Paine. He was prose
cutting attorney in a criminal case.
The evidence plainly showed that the
respondent was guilty and the defense
admitted it. The respondents coun-
sci asked for verdict as not guilty on
the ground that the defendant was
non compos mentis. Greatly to the
surprise of Paine, and everybody else
for that matter, the jury came in with
a verdict of not guilty. Paine, on the
instant, turned to the presiding judge
and said: "Your honor, the prisoner
evidently has been tried by jury of
his peers"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY.-A
wild-eyed man entered a Chatham
street pawn shop and wished to see
some pistols.
81 sells you dot pistol for two dol
lar" said the clerk.
"I'll take it. Load it up, and be-
fore another sunrise III put an end to
my miserable existence"
"Vat? You shoot yourselluff nit
dot pistol ?"
eyes," said the wild-eyed man des-
perately.
"Mr. Isaacstein," called the clerk to
the proprietor in the back room, der
shentlemans wants a two-dollar pistol
to kill himself nit. Vat shall do?'
"Scharge him five dollars. New
York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
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 90 per cent. year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
TO your satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOClA-
TION of New York does business OH
plan that is absolutely safe, and will pro-
tect your loved ones even better than
they now are, at even greater coso ,., 10
diced to 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 go on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that you have been deceived.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
If You Have
No Insurance,

And think you should have, we would he
pleased to explain the Mutual reserve
System to you. The Mutual Reserve Is
tie largest and strongest, natural pretm,-
largest Is ANY KIND. 1t has paid
about $3.50, 900 10 the widows and orphans
of deceased polcy-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 S4OO,OOO,
which now annually goes into the Golfers
of the former, would he left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which
we hear so much. ,e,
C;onoral 4 Agents..... Yorkville, S. c.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
REVENUE SERVICE,

il District of South Carolina, Deputy
Collectors Office, Yorkville, S. c., Aug.
25th, 1897. The following described hav-
ing been seized at Hero, s. c., on August
24th, 1897, for violation of Sections 3257,
1906, any person claiming same must
give notice and file the bond as required
by Section 346O r. s. u. s. within 30 days
from date hereof, or the same will be for
feited to the United States: Three pack
ages corn whisky, containing 81 gallons;
one IS gallon copper still, cap and worm,
and lot of piping. Seized as the property
of T. H. ALLEN. j. A. HOLLAND,
Deputy Collector, District of South Caro-
lima.
September l 10 w3t'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

the skin, when the heart is full of hard,
bitter feelings that contract the mus
cles, induce frowns and wrinkles, and
give the face a rigid, harsh contour
can never be softened by artificial aids.
Be cheerful and sunny if YOU would
be beautiful and magnetic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
When You Want
Nice Clean
Job Printing

You should always 60 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, 1897-09-08

GUARDING A CHILD's SIGHT.-A
modern mother who is bringing up her
little ones scientifically, has declared
against the time-honored custom of
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

sa" Nothing gives so much joy in
heaven as to see a man conformed to
the image of Jesus Christ and trans
formed by the renewing of his mind.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

R9 Josh Billings says: "It is a sta
tistical fact that the wicked work har-
der tew reach hell than the righteous
do tew 90 to heaven.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
8. w. WATSON.
PHOTOGRAPHER,
Cleveland Avenue,

Cleveland Avenue,
Yorkville, =. G.
PHOTOGRAPHY in all the latest
Il styles of the art. Special attention
given to outdoor work. My gallery is
thoroughly and comfortably furnished
with all the latest Improvements. Terms
reasonable and strictly cash.
s. w WATSON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.

Trains Nos. and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
30 and 81 carry passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good con-
nection at Chester with the G. C. & N.
and the G. G. e. A., also L & G. r. R. at
Gastonia with the A. & c. A. L.; at Lin
colnton with c. c.; and at Hickory and
Newton with w. N. C..
" G. F. HARPER,
Acting G. P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08
THE TWICE.A.wEEK ENQUIRER

rs an up-to-date family newspaper, al
L ways filled with clean and wholesome
home reading and is published and mailed
on time. Subscription price, q in clubs
of two or more, $l.75. Everybody is in
vitod to make up clubs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

CONNECTIONS.
No. 80 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the 8. A. L. at
Catawba Junction.
Nos. "a and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. IL and IL have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, Kings Greek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
8. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT. General Manager.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-08

period often show symptoms of insan-
ity.
aH~ awe have some kind of calami-
ty shrieked with us all the time," says
Uncle Allen Sparks. "Just as soon as
the wall about hard times begins to
stop, and things look little cheerful,
here comes the katydid predicting an
early frost"
B6 A German eXperimenter says
that coal loses considerably by expos
ure to the weather. Anthracite and
camel suffer least, but ordinary btu
minous coal depreciates nearly one
third in weight, and nearly one-half
in gas-rnaking quality.
B6r Punishment is rarely necessary
for horse unless he be vicious. In
that case you may have long fight
before you, against odds of superior
strength and endurance. Kindness
and patience will accomplish much
more than contrary treatment.
B9 The pupils in school were ask
ed to give in writing the difference be-
tween O. biped and quadruped. One
boy gave the following: GA biped
has two legs and quadruped has four
legs therefore the difference between
a biped and quadruped is two legs"
aa5" No husband ever put it more
delicately than the one who began by
saying, "My dear, man was shot at
by burglar, and his life was saved by
a button which the bullet struck. !"
"Well, what Of it ?" said she. "Noth-
ing" was the answer, 'only the but
tom must have been on !"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
Still UnSOIVed.

The Forum has a way of stating COM
monplace news in thrilling terms.
Here is Il sample:
New York is debating the question-"What
Snail We Do with Our Superfiuous Women ?'
And then, after stretching it's read
ers up to tension So acute, it squelches
the problem into pulp by comment
so simple that it ought to be patented {:
We don't remember to have seen MANY
that appeared superiluous
The simplicity of this statement, out
side of its awkward construction, is
marred, moreover
l, By the qualification implying that
it had seen some superfuous women,
and
?, Even among these superiority was
only apparent.
The JOURNAL contends, therefore,
that social problem, once tackled,
cannot be satisfactorily disposed of by
funk which employs bad memory
concerning fact implied and super
fetal Judgment of supertluous appear
ances.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
What il Will DO.

But the harder the blows and tilthier the
hand the pleasanter will be the hurts and the
sweeter the licking
The above is an allusion, forming tacit
admission on the part of our contemporary,
to the treatment it has received at the hands
of the miners who failed to send the Hon. j
Benson Oder to the State-senate.-FOrun..
Not SO. Cut from its connection, it
is Il "tacit" example of the F0um's
disposition to misrepresent the JOUR
NAL.
The Forum first said the Journal
was opposed to the miners because
they would not send its editor to the
State Senate.
This was pronounced untrue mainly
because the JOURNAL is not opposed to
the miners.
The Fortunes logic was then taken to
show how it will act under the same
clrcumstances-tot this effect, that the
miners are implicitly assured that no
matter how much they smack and
spank the little parasite, it will still
lick the hands that smite it, and the
dirtier the hands the better the licking
will taste.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
BrevitieS.

incidentally the Cumberland AUe-
ganian appears to disapprove of both
the JOURNAL and Forum. 1t is notice
able that those people who can't hold
up one end of quarrel are fond of
peace. Indeed, a great deal passes
for humility, for instance, that is really
helplessness.
''Lots" of sore faces and headache
in Homecoming, according to story of
a "reader" in the Star.
A Homecoming man who thought he
had snakes in his stomach consented
to have his regular brand of whiskey
analysed. The chemist reported $50
per cent. of alcohol, % per cent. of
tobacco spit and Is per cent. of rain
barrel water" No wonder.
In late reports from Washington
mention is made of an incursion by
Hon. d. E. Dick. He got hold of some
authority who had to listen and it is
said the Senator-elect roared like a
lion that had entered Office with the
purpose of eating recreant republicans
as fast as he could get to them. Rich
mond. Hohing, Weigand-all got a
terrific clawing-in fact, everybody in
Allegany county except the followers
of the late Prof. w. B. Wilson, and J.
j. Robinson. 1t was proven point
blank that all anti-Dick republicans
are and of right ought to be persona non
1rntn etreteyn !
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
M1N1Ncb58e.J ouRNA1
II. b. ODER, Editor,
FROsTBURG, MD. NOVEMBER q, 1879.


Richard Croker took a half column OF the
New York ,oarnai to define mugwump,
and he did it in a clumsy way. The best
definition of the mugwump ever placed on
record was that of the Hon. Joseph ii.
Choate "a mugwump," said Mr.. Choate,
''is person educated beyond his intellect
1t would be difficult to improve upon this
Cumberland Times.
The brilliant Chcate is wrong.
George Washington was "a mug
wump,' and Patrick Henry was so
much of one in the eyes of the reg
ulars" of his day that the first official
opinion of his defiance of boss George
No. 3 was designated treason"
The true definition of "mugwump''
is, therefore-an inveterate enemy of
modern Toryism.
But if Toryism be regarded by any of
our word-painters as an obsolete term,
the vocable, "Gormanism, may be
substituted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
TOWN AND VICINITY,
What Next >


The Fornm was afraid that the editor Of the
JOURNAL was not aware how completely
Fair Play" mad knocked HIM out.
How could the JOURNAL be aware of
being knocked ont when "Play FAIR
had to come to Fair Plays" assist
ance.
The shoe would seem to fit the other
foot.
But perhaps Fair Plays" chris
tianity is of the sort that not only
does not "hold the other cheek to the
adversary, but fights, knocks out, and,
not satisfied with so much devastation,
sets its little Spitz dog, PLAY FAIR
upon the PROSTATE victim of its
pugilism.
Prize ring rules, however, do not
permit such cowardice.
Hence, the JOURNAL fears the Forum
misreplesents the ethics of the chris
tian art of assault and battery.
But the parable changes. The Form,
has evidence that the "knocked OUT
JOURNAL
has bitten sour apple and with vinegar,
edged teeth has begun to personally snap.
This reads exactly like Fair Plays
own. Bad as is Forum rhetoric, "Fair
Plays" is worse. No other than
"Fair Play' would word-paint himself
as a "sour APPLE" bitten by an an
tagonist pummeled to that insensibility
which makes him unaware of chow
completely he was knocked out"
The most inexplicable point in this
medley, however, is-how can a bitten
sour apple completely knock out the
bitter and leave the latter with the
power to personally snap?" Because,
as long as a bitter can 'personally
snap" he is not "knocked out" If he
could snap impersonally, the case
might be different.
But it is evident that things is
moving What was once "Fair Play
later "Play Fair is now ga bitten
sour apple"
What the infinite domain of meta
phorical misfts will next produce only
Fair Play" can inspire and the Forum
reveal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
4 Mistake.

Until this moment the JOURNAL has
forgotten to say
|, That Arthur f. Smith, principal
of Grahamton school, ought not to
have been found guilty of the charge
charge Of assault. But
>, Even so found, he should not
have been fined.
For the sake of school discipline
judicial discretion should have pro-
tected him from humiliation by those
whom he should rule, If necessary, with
an iron hand.
For if the State undertakes to teach
the children it is its sovereign duty 70
see that Obedience is the first and last
article III the faith of beneficiary
pupilage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
Probably an Unfit Survival.

W. c. Brann saw a twilight picture
somewhere, one feature of which he
describ-s this way:
Venus flaming orb hanging like the
Kohnoor, pendant from the crescent moon.
1t was at one time reported that the
Forums main object in life was to give
Brann solar-plexus tap and take the
belt as the worlds champion intellect
ual upper cut.
But the JOURNALS destruction of
the sunset lecture and subsequent
desolation of Fair Plays" defence
evidently occasioned a change of pros
pectus.
And thus Brann's bacon has so far
been Inadvertently saved.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
Curious Law,

The liquor law of Maryland, unless we are
misinformed about it. is curious affair.
Men who fail to secure retailers license can
take out a license to sell at wholesale and can
then wholesale" as small a quantity as a
pint at a time. 1t looks as though 'some-
body Numbered" when the law was passed.
Keyser CIV. Va.) Echo.
The business of Allegany legislators
that is, the main business, is-to
confer the power of appointment of
Mine Inspector upon the electors at
Orleans and Sang Run.
Which is very large job.
How, then, can the Echo expect
them to get through little matter
like the whisky law without confound-
ing the terms, wholesale" and ere
tail -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27

Anent the discussion of the question
IF Fairchild should come to Alaska, u
the accompanying verse, from "Jim, -
better, by the way, than anything the
old man ever wrote or spoke. explains
lucid!y why there need be no fear of
his advent on the Yukon:
While others strive to turn trick
Where klondike breezes take a feller's breath
rlltry my luck on Georges Crick--
For I'd fur ruther fail than freeze to death
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
Ought to be DISTINGUISHED

The Cumberland Courier, justly re-
nowned for wisdom, makes a good
point in the following paragraphs:
Ifyou want to see what partisan voting
amounts to, put the word democrat or re-
publican at the top of the column and lot
of names of dead men as candidates, and the
"deestrict' will roll up" its usual majority
for the dead men rather than commit the I'M
pardonable sin of cutting the ticket.
Why do we laugh, then, at the old fellow
from away back, who still wants to vote for
"Old Hickory"
Extreme partisanship is one of the
parents of such dangerous Regularity"
and fractional ostracism the other.
Hence, it is not proper to laugh at
enfranchised idiocy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
WHY Choose the Harder Side +?

In an address at Altoona, Pa, Tues
day, M. ID. Ratchford president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
said that
the only way the miners could obtain jus
tice was through general strike which would
depete the market of coal and tie up the in
dustries of the country.
Certainly-and the only way for
them TO obtain religion en- masse is to
renounce sin and join the church.
OF the two the latter is the easier to
accomplish and in result religion in
cludes justice.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27

How did you enjoy the sermon this morn
ing?
Only middling. | have one objection to
brother Play. He has trick of lowering his
voice and singing low whenever he happens
to have something to say, and then bursting
suddenly into shout and charge on the
frOwning breastworks when his ammunition
has given out.
Same way with Rev. Mr.. Fair when
he endeavors to make an effort to at
tempt to play rhetoric.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
r.. b.

"Cisco' club defeated the "Beall
High SCHOOL, Thanksgiving day by IA
to /. Collaterally, seven fights took
place. and the Forum had unpublished
advices from Mt. Savage to the effect
that there was fight in that town
when the result became known during
the progress of Il dance. Question,
however, is-which is the more dan
gerous, football or foot-shake !?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
News aSiS News.

The first page Of last weeks JOURNAL was
made up of cheap plate" matter.-For,m.
SO was portion of the fourth page,
both under control of the JOURNAL,
however-not of the Baltimore News
paper Union.
If the Forum could quit denying un-
disputed postulates, its friends would
begin to feel that the babe had at last
taken the first step"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
Double Trouble,

A number of our friends from Morgantown
have told us rumor that is being circulated
down there about our versatile friend, the
editor of the Dominion. If Julian does any
thing like that without giving us a full
notice, there is going to be trouble, that's all.
Fairmont (W. Va.) hder.
Here. too.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
Omen Letter.

The JOURNAL has IAN open letter to
Messrs. Bear, Nickel and Griffith y
stating that
There are few pavements yet to be laid on
Ormand street. Gentlemen, force the parties
to lay them. Don't let them off Don't
compel those who have obeyed your Ordi-
nance to lose Its benefits by being compelled
to wade here and there through so feet OF
mud TAXPAYER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-27
Seeking Il Mexican Lesson

Mr.. Bryan is going to Mexico to
study the blessings of free coinage.
The JOURNAL extends wishes for a
pleasant Tip. out cannot help re-
hecting that this country must be
held as really in u bad way COM
mercially by the faction whose repre-
sentative's self-appointed mission
takes him to the home of the greaser
for pointers in finance.