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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
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WATERMELON CULTURE.-In answer

WATERMELON CULTURE.-In answer
to correspondent with regard to wa
termelon culture, The Southern Guilt
vator says: On a small scale one can
plant quite early. Say first of March
and protect from cold by placing over
each hill a box without top or bottom
10x12 inches and putting pane of
glass on top. This makes little cold
frame for each hill. On large scale
where protection is not practicable,
melons should be planted at cotton
planting time. They should not be
planted on land which has grown
melons the previous season-the inter
val between melon crops should be
two or three years. The melon pre-
fers rather light sofia rich, light
loan. They grow admirably on new
ground, and on well-drained sandy
bottom land. The ground should be
very thoroughly prepared and heavily
manured :; well-rotted barnyard ma
nure is excellent. In its absence cot
ton seed and ashes make an excellent
combination for them. Lay off rows
l2 feet apart, open deep furrow and
in it place manure; then bed on it.,
making beds IL feet wide. Make hills
12 feet apart along the rows, and work
into them a little high-grade fertilizer
containing a good percentage of am
monia and potash. This last is done
to give the young plants a send-oft.
Give first plowing with shovel, or
solid sweep; afterwards cultivate like
cotton with heelscrape, running far
ther and farther from plants as the
vines extend. Never disturb vines
with plow after they fairly begin to
run. The favorite varieties in Georgia
are the Rattlesnake, Jones and Kolb
Gem.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

REMEDIES For INTERNAL Poison
ING.-These remedies for internal pois'
oning are suggested by a technical
journal A tablespoonful of ground
mustard in a glass of warm water,
followed by more warm water until
vomiting occurs, is an excellent emetic'
Common salt will answer in the alb
sence of mustard, or glass of cool
water, with heaping teaspoonful each
of common salt and ground mustard
stirred into it is good. The whites OF
eggs or a cup of strong coffee are anti
dotes for a greater number of poisons
than any dozen other articles known,
with the advantage of being easily
accessible. Sweet oil, lamp oil, drip
pings, melted butter or lard, are good
substitutes, especially if they are
vomiled quickly. Should vomiting
continue excessively after all traces oi
poison have been removed, it may
often be relieved by immersing the
hands and wrists in as hot water as
can be borne; meanwhile give the
patient clear cold coffee, or cream oi
tartar water.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

SHERIDAN AND THE WIGMAKER.-
Sheridan once had occasion to call at
hairdresser's to order wig. On being
measured, the barber, who wasla liber'
al soul, invited the orator to take some
refreshment in an inner room. Here
he regaled him with bottle of port,
and showed so much hospitality that
Sheridan's heart was touched. When
they rose from the table and were
about separating, the latter, looking
the barber full in the face, said:
"On reflecting, I don't intend that
you shall make my wig"
Astonished and with blank visage,
the other exclaimed:
"Good heavens, Mr.. Sheridan ! How
can have displeased you ?"
"Why, look you," said Sheridan,
"you are an honest fellow, and,
repeat it, you sha'n't make my wig,
for I never intended to pay for it.
I'll 60 to another less worthy son OF
the craft"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

DoN'Ts For MoTHERs.-An infant
should be given no food containing
starch until it cuts its teeth. Starchy
foods include biscuits, corn flour, tapi'
oca, sago, rice, potato, etc. An infant
cannot digest any of these until its
teeth are cut.
Violent noises and rough shakings
or tossings are hurtful to baby, and
should be avoided as much as pos
sible.
Infants should never be put into q
sitting posture until they are at least
three months old, when they will
probably sit up of their own accord
They should be carried fiat in the
nurses arms, as if the little back is at
all curved it may lead to curvature oi
the spine or chest disease.
Until children are six or seven years
old they should have - hours sleep
every night. In addition to this q
nap of two hours, either in the morn
ing or afternoon-especially in hot
weather-will do a great deal toward
keeping them bright and well.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

"KEEP Your Tor CooL."-It is re-
ported of Artemas Ward that he once
offered his flask of whisky to the driver
of the stage on which he was riding
through a mountainous section. The
stage driver refused the flask in most
decided tones. He said:.
81 don't drink ; won't drink; l
don't like to see anybody else drink.
I am Of the opinion of those noun,
tains-keep your top cool l! They've
got snow, and I've got brains that's
all the difference"
There is a great deal of wisdom in
his remark your top cool. "
Without a sound brain man is not OF
much use in the world. Alcohol,
whether in beer, cider, wine, brandy,
or whisky, is a foe Of the brain and
when it gets there inflames it, and
renders it unfit for use. BE like the
veteran stage driver, and resolve to
"keep your top COOL"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
A Snare
And DeluSiOn.

IF you have taken out a life insurance
l. 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-
we are here to tell you that
you will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove a snare and a delusion. It 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 a company that charges
you half as much. A life Insurance poll
cy is fraud rs 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, 1897-04-28
MUCH MIXED.-"My hearers"

MUCH MIXED.-"My hearers"
The chairman of the school board
was addressing the Annual Teachers
Institute.
"The schoolwark is the bulhouse of
ciyilization-I mean-ah ="
The chairman was slightly chilled.
"The bulhouse is the schoolwark of
civ" An invisible smile began to
make itself felt.
"Tbe warehouse is the bulschool of
-" He was evidently twisted.
"The schoolbul is the housewark-"
An audible snicker spread itself over
the faces of the audience.
"The scowse hool-"
He was getting wild. So were his
hearers. He mopped perspiration,
gritted his teeth, and came up to the
post again.
"The schoolhouse, my friends"
A sigh of relief went up. A-h-h
Now he has gotten his feet under him
again.
He gazed suavely around. The
light of triumphant self-confdence en-
throned upon his brow.
"Is the wulbark-"
And that was all.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
OLD PITTS JOKE.

Shortly before the Revolution, when
the air was heavily charged with fore
bodings of the approaching struggle,
old Major Putnam happened to be in
Boston. The Major disliked the red
coats, and sometimes inveighed against
their arrogant superciliousness in no
gentle terms. One day an officer of
His Majesty's regulars overheard Put
nam assert that the provincial army,
untutored in arms as they were, would
fight with the courage of trained SOL
diers. The officer resented the asser-
ton, and, after some hot words, chal.
lenged the Major to duel, provided
he dared to fight.
"Dare," shouted Putnam. "Why,
at any moment; but choose the
weapons"
"Name them," haughtily replied the
officer.
"Two kegs of gunpowder tie time,
tomorrow the distance, 10 PAGES; the
fight to be as follows: You to sit on
one keg, 1 on the other, slow fuse to
be attached to each, and the one who
holds out the longest shall be declared
the winner"
There was nothing for the officer to
do but but accept the unusual weap-
ons, and on the following day at the
appointed time and place the combat
ants took their seats upon the kegs of
gunpowder. The fuses were lighted
and began sputtering, rapidly ap-
preaching the kegs. The officer was
deadly pale, and watched the growing
danger with dilated eyes. At last he
could stand it no longer, and with a
leap he left his keg and raced like a
madman out of sight. When he had
gone Old Putram laughingly kicked
the burning fuse away and disclosed to
his friends keg of onions. When the
matter came to light the officer was
subjected to the laughs and gibes Of
the entire command.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
Atistellaneous 8eading.
HOW INDIANS ARE NAMED.

AS the Indian child grows he COM
mits acts from time to time each of
which gives him new name. For
example, he may see a bear, and run
screaming to the tepee. The folks all
laugh at him, and call him Runs from-a-
bear. Later on he may become the pos
SCISSOR of an unruly pony which he fears
to ride, and becomes known as Afraid
of-his-horse. Or he may mount horse
from which another Indian has been
thrown, and then he is spoken of as
Rides es-the-horse. Further on he be-
comes a great hunter, and kills five
bears, and they call him Five-bears, aud
when he slays another his name changes
to Six-bears. He may perform valiant
deed in battle, and ride his horse
through the camp of the enemy, for
which he is dubbed Charges-through-
the-camp. During the conflict he may
kill one of the enemy. If his victim is
the only one slain he is called Kills-the-
enemy. But if others fall, the one he has
killed must be described as Kills-the-
with-the- -big-knee. If he braids in
his hair yellow feather which he has
plucked from the tail of an eagle, he
may be called Eagle.tail, Eagle-feath-
er, Yellow-tail or Yellow-feather. If
be gives it to his friend, he will be
named Gives-fealher, but if he re.
fuses to part with it, his name will
change to Keeps-his-feather. Or he
may obtain his name from some other
object. If he is accustomed to ride
what is commonly known as "calico"
horse, he may be called Spotted-horse
but if his horse has short tail, he will
be known as Bob-tail. l.horse.
The chances are that he will be
known by all the foregoing names.
His enemies in the tribe will continue
to speak of him as Long-ears, Runs.
from a-bear, or Afraid-of-his-horse,
while his friends will call him Rides
his-horse, Six-bears, or Kill's-the-ene-
my. For this reason it occurs that il
you speak of the Indian in the presence
of certain members of the tribe and
call him Six-bears, they will laugh al
you and say, "That not his name; his
name Runs-fro n-a-bear." But if you
speak of him to certain others as Runs,
from -a-bear, they will scowl and say,
"That not his name his name Kills
the-enemy."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

WOMEN AS SoLDIERs.-"1 do not
see," said a clever woman recently,
"why the newspapers should feel call
ed upon to poke fun at the new law in
Colorado which permits women to
serve in the state militia. In time of
battle woman is just as necessary as
man. Just wearing uniform and
shooting a gun are not all that constl'
tute a soldier. What about woman's
place in the hospitals during time of
war? Does it not require a brave
heart and a strong nerve to wait on
the wounded and dying? Is not a
woman a soldier who can assist the
surgeon as he amputates the limb or
binds q fractured bone? Are not the
Red Cross nurses soldiers? 1t seems
to me that a woman will make just as
good a soldier as a man, and always
find her place in time of war"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

HINTs.-The calendar says it is
spring, but do not lay aside your
heavy flannels.
Whenever vegetables put up in tin
cans are opened and only partly used,
do not allow the remainder to stand
in the tins, but turn them out into an
earthen bowl and put in cool
place.
Silk handkerchiefs and ribbons
should be washed in salt and water,
and ironed wet, to obtain the best
results.
Whenever the careful and kindly
housewife cooks cabbage, onions, or
other vegetables of penetrating smells
in the kitchen of her fiat, she sprinkles
grounds of coffee over the top of the
stove to neutralize the odors.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
If You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice

AND COME to us with a 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. a 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
to you. OF course if you are too preju-
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, 1897-04-28
Au1nprp,1s 9epartn1ent.
THEY CHANGED THE SUBJECT.

The men who utilize the corner gro
cery for q clubroom in the evening and
on stormy days, says The Free Press,
had Just been discussing a fox hunt
about which one of their number had
read aloud, when the conversation
naturally took reminiscent turn.
"Nothing cutter nor more cunning in
the world than a fox," said Goggs, by
way of introduction. 81 remember
one night when was boy, that we
heard great fuss among the dogs
that were chained up. 1t took us
about half an hour co get dressed and
armed to sally forth for the purpose of
investigating. Not discovering any
thing, we loosened the dogs, and they
darted off on trail, yelping as they
went. We didn't know whether it
was man or varmint, but after long
run the dogs brought up at the hen
house and tried to tear it down. Well,
sir, an old fox had deliberately showed
himself to the dogs so as to excite
them, made that run while we were
getting ready for trouble, and, circling
around, was robbing the roost while
the dogs were off the premises"
~ walked up one moonlight night" "
volunteered the man on the woodbox,
"and seen fox under an apple tree
where fat pullet was roosting. l
knew the thief could't climb, so 1 just
stood at the window laughing. The
fox barked to wake the chicken, and
then began circling around the tree,
slow at first, but going faster and fast
er. Of course the terrified pullet fol-
lowed him with her eyes, and got so
dizzy that she fell out of the tree"
"I saw somethin' like that once" "
said the lank individual on paint
keg, "only that the chicken 1 was
watchin' wrung its own neck, cause
the fox was goin' so burned fast"
Then, by common consent the crowd
took up the subject of floods.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

TEMPERATURE FOR SEED GERM
NATIoN.-It has been ascertained by
an extended series of experiments that
rye and winter wheat will germinate
in soil the temperature of which is as
low as 80 degrees. Barley, oats, flax,
clover and pease will sprout at 35 de.
grees. The turnip is as cold-blooded
as the rye and winter wheat, but the
carrot needs 3S degrees and the bean
10 degrees before they will make the
initial effort to send the life-shoot in
search of air and light.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

NEVER BRIGHTEN A CHILD.-One
of the worst things that can happen
to child is to be frightened. The
mischief that has resulted from sud,
den shock cannot be overestimated
Painting fits; weak nerves, illness Of
the brain, hysteria, and St. Vitus's
dance can often be traced to a severe
fright. 1t is not, however, an easy
matter to avoid everything calculated
to arouse fear, but parents must try
and educate their children so that their
nerves are good and steady.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

B9 Smithers-You say you are the
Iuckiest man in the world. How is
that? Bilkins-W Why, I've had extra
ordinary luck in cycling. I've
wrenched my shoulder in collision
with a milk wagon, collided with a
tree and cut my scalp, scraped the
hide off my left leg in being thrown
while coasting, sprained my right
wrist in race with a friend, and
knocked out four teeth in last weeks
spill will Bromley. "And you call
that luck? ?" "Well, 1 should smile
for, if you will believe it, in all those
scrapes didn't scratch nor iDjure my
wheel in the slightest"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.

Trains Nos. 8 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 con-
nection at Chester with the G. c. d n.
and the c. C. & A., also l. & c. r. R.. at
Gastonia with the A. IL G. A. L.; at Lin
colnton with c. c.; and at Hickory and
Newton with w. N. c.
Parties desiring tickets to all points
North, East, South and West, will find it
much to their advantage to call at or cor
respond with the General Office of the
Carolina and North Western Railway at
Lenoir, N. c. L. It. NICHOLS, Supt.
S. T. PENDER, G.. F. and P. A.,
Lenoir, n. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

NoAH's MIsFoRTUNE-"I have al
ways felt sorry for Noah," said the
large-hearted man.
II don't see the need of it, said the
man of the shrunken sympathies.
"Looks to me as if Noah got off pretty
we'll"
"But just think of it. When the
waters subsided there was not soul
left for him to ask, Now, what did l
tell you p"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

GRIMsHAw-Hopping hornets why
didn't you call me in time? Here it's
seven o'clock, and the boys have start
ed off an hour ago. I told you last
night 1 wanted to 60 fishing through
the ice. Mrs. Grimshaw-But, my
dear, it was so cold $50 cold, eh ?
You didn't think anything of that last
week, when you woke me up before
daylight to shovel off the snow."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

B6 To pray as God would have
us; to pray with all the heart and
with the reason and the
will to believe wildly that God will
listen to your voice through Christ,
and verify do the thing he pleaseth
thereupon-this is the last, the great
est achievement Of the Christians war
fare on earth.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

s9 An experienced veterinary gives
the following simple remedy for foun-
der: GAS soon as possible take a
lump of alum as large as hens egg,
powder as fine as possible and drench
the horse with it; l have used this in
many cases, and l never knew it to
fail. OF course, other remedies should
be used to allay the fever and inflam-
nation, but l advise the use of alum
in all cases.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
If You Have
No Insurance,

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, 900 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 $4O0, 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.
SAM NJ. Il L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents, ,............Y Yorkville, s. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

sB~ Those who teach young chill
dren should speak to them properly,
not lisping or using silly words, for
thew can understand sense better
than nopsense.-Good Housekeeping.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

p9- The tomato was originally known
as the "love apple plant" and con-
sidered poisonus.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

a@ Some men win a reputation for
what they don't say.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

CONNECTIONS.
No. 80 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. l.. at
Catawba Junction.
Nos. "a and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. II and l2 have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, Kings Greek
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, 1897-04-28
UNDERTAKING.

T AM handling first class line of COZ
l. FINS AND CASKETS which I will
sell at the very lowest prices. Personal
attention at all hours.
I am prepared to repair all kinds of
Furniture at reasonable prices.
J. ED JEFFERYS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28
OHIO RIVER AND CHARLESTON B. .R

TIME TABLE Of the Ohio River and
l. Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Monday, January 4th, at 500 a. m.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-28

quired 25 cents for a small package OF
note paper. eyes, sir" replied the
stationer briskly. "That's right. We
referred to our postage stamps. Want
any,"
p@ Lemons are simple and excel
lent remedy for billiousness. Take the
juice Of one or two lemons in as much
water as will make it pleasant to
drink without sugar, before going to
bed. In the morning on rising, at
least half an hour before breakfast,
take the juice of one lemon in a tum-
BILE of cold water.
B9 Overpaid labor is not the sort re.
ferred to in the supreme judicial court
of Maine, sitting at Bangor, where an
old farm laborer said that he had re.
ceived as compensation for II years
toll or a farm "his board, few pairs
of pants, a secondhand overcoat or
two, some tobacco and licking"
Evidently he had not suffered too
much protection.
R9 The carrier pigeon when travel
ing never feeds. If the distance be
long it flies on without stopping to
take nutriment, and at last arrives
thin, exhausted and almost dying. If
corn be presented it refuses to eat,
contents itself with drink little wa
ter, and then sleeping. Two or three
hours later in begins to eat with great
moderation, and sleeps again imme-
diately afterward. If its flight has
been very prolonged the pigeon will
proceed in this manner for is hours
before recovering its normal mode of
feeding.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-07-28
First published In the Daily Leader
July 8, 1897
Notice for Publication.

Land office at Guthrie, O, T., July
9, 1897.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
named settler has filed notice of his inten'
tlOn 10 make hnal proof ia support Of his
claim, and that said proof VIII be made
before register and receiver at Guthrie.
o. T.. on August z, 1897. viz.
William A Legate, for the ne ar Of sec
81, twp IS, Of ,, 81.
He names the following witnesses 70
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation OF. said land. viz;
Samuel Is Giyens. Guthrie. o Il; Robert
l. Armstrong Edward r Price and VIII
liam II Brown, SprlngYale, o II.
4l74 a. n j. CROOK. Register.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-07-28
First published iu the Daily Leader
July %, 1897.
Notice for Publication.

Land Office at Guthrie, o. T., July "a
1871.
Notice IS hereby given that the follow
named settler has filed notice OF his In
tention To make final proof In support Of
his claim, and that sGld proof Will be
made before the register aud receiver IT,
4. land office at Guthrie, U. T., on Au-
gust p, 1897, viz
John II. White for the qr sec 2s,twp
i5n, INV.
he names the following witnesses 70
prove his continuous residence upon and
OTIS q. Legrand. Charles NJ. LegTand,
OF Tohee. d. 4. VIM. H. Brown, james
T.. Johnson, OF Sprlngyale, o. H.
ASP A N J, CRooK, Register