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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

MOVES UNDER WATER.-A CORES
pondent of the Chicago Times s-Herald,
writing from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, un-
der recent date, says:
The Raddatz submarine boat was
given another launch or test today
and with success. 1t is now being pro-
visioned for an extended voyage on
Lake Michigan and Huron.
The ship is IS feet long, 4 feet wide
and u feet high, and is built of steel
plates on a heavy framework of angle
irons, with an estimated strength sutfi-
cient to withstand safely the pressure
due to u submersion 500 feet deep.
She carries two sets of propelling ma
chinery, a hot air engine of 3O-horse
power for use on the surface, and a
number of trials have demonstrated
the capabilities of the craft to navi-
gate beneath the. surface of the water
for day at a stretch with safety and
without inconvenience to the inmates.
Trials have also shown that the
craft can be made to rise and fall in
the water at the wishes of the operator
and with various velocities, and a
complete submersion or emersion Of
the boat can be made in the short
space of 1S seconds, or less, while if it
be desirable to hold the craft suspend
ed in the water ut any desired depth
an automatic machine is provided
which is of itself capable of maintain
ing the ship at a given depth for hours
at time, with varying depth of less
than one inch from the given mark
either with the ship in motion or when
still.
Every effort has been made to insure
the supply of pure and respirable air
in proper quantities to the inmates,
and great care has also been taken to
insure the return of the craft to the
surface in case of accident to the ma
chinery of a sufficiently serious nature
as to endanger the lives of the passen-
gers and the safety of the craft.
An automatic machine is provided
to prevent the submersion of the craft
either by intention or accident beyond
a predetermined depth.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.-In answer
to a correspondent who made inquiries
with regard to the discovery of Amer
ica, the Philadelphia Saturday Night
replied as follows:
NJ. G. G.-There is no doubt that
America was discovered by the North
men, inhabitants of Denmark, Norway
and Sweden, long before Columbus
sailed. In 9S3 a colony was planted
in Greenland, and in 1901, Lief, a son
of Eric the Red, landed on what is
now Labrador. He explored its shores
southwark to a more genial climate
and we'll wooded country, presum-
ably Nova Scotia, and then to another
still further SO nth abounding in grapes,
supposed to have been Massachusetts,
in the vicinity of Boston. Thorstein,
a younger son of Eric, was the next
one to sail on voyage of discovery to
these shores, but was driven by storms
to Greenland, on the borders of Baffin's
Bay, where he died. A rich Norwe.
gian, living in Iceland-Thorfnn Karl
seful went to Greenland the following
wear, married Thorstein's widow, Gu
drida, and with his bride and 100 per-
sons sailed in three ships for Vineland
to plant a colony. They landed, it is
believed, in Rhode Island. Thorfnn
remained in Vineland about three
years, and his son Snorre became the
progenitor of the great Danish sculp-
tor, Thorwaldsen. Returning to Ice
land, Thorfinn died there. Icelandic
manuscripts mention visits to Vineland
in 1925, l135 and 1147. About 1890,
a Venetian, named Nicolo Zeno, visited
Greenland, and there met fishermen
who had been on the coasts of Amer
ica. The old tower yet standing at
Newport, R. l., is supposed by some
to have been erected by the Northmen.
A compilation from the old chronicles
of the records of the voyages of the
Mortimer has been made by Bishop
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

p@ Wife-My dear, I left my thin
BILE in the pocket of my new dress
and I wish you'd run up stairs and
Husband-Now, see here, Pm moi
going off on any such job as that.
"How foolish you are! Nothing is
easier than finding the pocket in 8
dress. All you have to do is to slip il
on"
"Slip what on ?"
"The dress of course. But you
needn't try to button it, you know"
"Oh, I needn't!"
"No, slipping it on is enough"
"Well, then what?"
"Use common sense, Of course. AL
you have to do after the dress is on i:
to dive down and crossways and 6
little slanting, and up and around
just as you see ladies do in a stree
car when the conductor comes along
and your hand will 60 straight into
the pocket"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

SAVING TOMATO SEEDs.-Let the
tomatoes become thoroughly ripe, put
them in large jar and mash to pieces.
When the jar is one-h-lf to two-thlrds
filled with this pulpy mass, fill to the
brim with water, and let stand a week
or ten days. The pulp and inferior
seeds will all rise to the top; the good
seeds sink to the bottom. The water,
when poured off, takes all worthless
substance with it, leaving the seeds
clean. They are then dried and put
away.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
If You Have
No Insurance.

And think you should have, we would be
pleased to explain the Mutua! 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. 1t has paid
about $3.50, 100 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 $4OO, 600,
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 M. & L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents, .......... Yorkville, S. C.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
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. ayear less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
to your satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOC1A-
TION of New York does business on a
plan that is absolutely safe, and will pro-
tect your loved ones even better than
they now are, at even greater cost to
to you. Of course if you are too preju-
diced to investigate and imagine that the
high price you are now paying makes
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you but will be forced to
let you 20 on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that Won have been deceived,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
A Snare
And DeluSiOn.

IF you have taken out life insurance
l. policy in All 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-
ceive substantial cash returns or "big
dividends" we are here to tell you that
you will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove 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 hich
we or anybody else has any knowledge
as means Of protecting the widow and
orphans, after the breadwinner has been
ramoyad nv DEATH
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

a@ 1t is recommended for the pre-
vention of badness that the hair be
kept pretty closely cropped, and that
the head be bathed frequently in salt
water and fabricated occasionally with
a very small quantity of vaseline
Two teaspoonsful of salt to pint o.
water will make tonic of strength
and with this the head should be
bathed three times a week.-Medical
Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

WHAT PAUL FoUND.-A young re.
porter not long ago was sent out by
the city editor to report a sermon by
Rev. Joseph Twitchell, of the Asylum
Avenue Congregational church. He
came back and began heroically on bis
task of writing it. After a few min,
utes' labor he looked up, and address
ing the city editor, said:
"This sermon was about Paul, but
I've forgotten what he did after his
conversion"
"Why he went up to Damascus"
observed the religious editor.
"Oh, yes" exclaimed the reporter.
"That's it; and he found Damascus
sitting outside of his tent. ."-Hartford
Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
Humorous department.
THEY WERE PECULIAR.
1t Was Not Very Safe Place For 6
Stranger to Abide In.

"ab NOC - N0Ey caAc A1SS EoA 9
Stranger to Abide In.
When I turned aside from the trai
and asked a woman sitting in front O.
a mountaineer's cabin if I could fine
lodgings for the night, she looked me
over and over and waited long min
ute before replying:
"Stranger, I've got an ole man ant
four strappin' big sons, and mebbe il
wouldn't be pleasant for yo'."
"You mean you haven't any bed fol
me?"
"No, don't. Reckon we kin ar
range about the bed all right. The
trubble is that the six of us ar badly
split up on religun. Me and Bill ar
Baptists, the ole man and Tom ar
Methodists, Jim and Sam ar sort o
shakin' between the Presbyterians anc
the Universalists, and when night
Gums we git sot down"
II beg your pardon" I interrupted
"but, having no particular religion
myself, I wouldn't take sides in dis
cussion."
"Yo' wouldn't, eh ?" she sharply
queried as she turned on me. sStran
ger, yo' don't know US as family ~
"Would 1 have to take sides?"
"Would yo' hev TO-! Why, as sartir
as yo' live! The discussion would
begin right arter supper, and my ole
man would begin it by THROWN his ha,
on the floor and sayin that the Meth
odists had killed mo- bars in this yere
stait of Tennessee than all the othel
religuns put together, and Tom woulc
back him."
II see."
"Then I'd get up and crack my
heels together and declar' that tht
Baptists didn't 60 foolin arter bars
but growed mo- con and taters thar
would load all the steamboats, owned
by the pesky Methodists on the face
of the airth, and Bill would back me.
II understand"
"Then Jim and Sam would jump W
and warwhoop and crack thar heels
together and put it that the Presbyte
rians and Universalists didn't dickel
in CONS, taters nor bars, but owned
the best farms and horses and nevis
and had most of the money, and they'c
back each other. Do yo' foller? ?"
81 do. But where would I come in p
"Y'd cum in fast huff! Being he'
boss of the place, the old man woult
reckon to consider that yo' orter sid
with him. If yo' didn't thar'd be 1
rumpus, and yo'd be throwed out
Being as I run the house, I'd reckon
to consider yo' orter side with me. 1
yo' didn't do it, thar'd be rumpus
and yo'd limp for two weeks arter
wads. Bein as Jim and Sam hev biz
to skule and travelled as fur as Knox
vile, they'd reckon to consider yo
orter side with them. If yo' didn'
do it, they'd holler fur blood and ge
it. D'yo' see?"
ri do, but suppose I refused to sid
with any of you"
"Then the hull six of us would pitcl
in and wreck yo'r life in less'n a mini
and without even asking the Lord II
hev mercy on yo'r soul! Stranger
owing to the pecooliar circumstances
yo'd better put in the other two mile
and stop at Sam Dixon's whar tha!
ar all pore sinners and dwell in lamb
like harmony."-M. Quad.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

p@ 1t is said tha. if lamp chimneys,
tumblers or other glass dishes are
placed in cold water, with a half cup
of table salt to each quart of water,
which is brought slowly to a boil and
boiled half hour, then allowed to
cool in the water, they will resist any
sudden changes of temperature with
out cracking.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

nay In Europe bulls are made to
work, and prove more serviceable as
we'll as less dangerous. They are con-
sidered expensive by farmers who have
but few cows, but if the young bull is
trained to work he can furnish tread
power and perform much labor that
would more than pay for his keep.
Idleness begets vices, and the bull is no
exception.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.
GOING NORTH

Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
go 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. c. & A., also L & G. r. r: at
Gastonia with the A. & G. A. L.; at Lin
Newton with W. N. G.
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. G.. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

n@ Silversmiths now counsel theil
patrons to keep fine table silver in
Canton flannel rather than in wool
The explanation is that the wooler
fannels hitherto commonly employed
for this purpose are treated in the
course of their production, with sui
phur, and enough of the latter clings to
the flannel to tarnish the metal when
it is kept in flannel bags.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

A TRAP FOR BEDBUGs.-An ingen'
ious plan is employed with great sue
cess in hospitals. in India. 1t is tc
place piece of wood, freely perforated
with gimlet holes, under the mattress
The insects find their way into these
holes, where they may afterward be
destroyed by dipping the piece of wood
into hot water.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
IN CASE OF ACCIDENT,

ID EMEMBER that I am prepared to
II put YOUR BICYCLE in firstclass
repair at reasonable price. I can fur
nish new duplicate Of any broken or
wornout bicycle part manufactured in
America. I am prepared to furnish
WOOD RIMS fitted with any make of
tire on the market at manufacturers price.
All work guaranteed. Call on or write
to OLIVER L. GRIST,
Yorkville, S. G..
Truing I'D wheels specially.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
9. w. WATSON.
PHOTOGRAPHERS,
Cleveland Avenue,

Yorkville, =. G.
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.
8. w WATSON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

WYE now have probably the largest
w stock in the county to select from.
Prices to suit customers, from the cheap
est to fine Oaks, Walnuts, Broadcloth's OF
various qualities. Metallic and White
goods in infants and adults sizes. Per-
sonal attention. New Hearse.
w. B. MOORE Il co.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

@ Neither accept an opinion, nor
except against it, merely on the score
of its novelty all that is new is not
true but much that is old is false.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

p9 If people could see their obitua-
ries while they are still living, it would
encourage them so much that they
might live longer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

s@ "Your husband seems to be a
victim of the tobacco habit" "No,
I'm the victim. He thoroughly enjoys
it."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
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, 1897-07-14
HAVE YOU ANY

Photographs that you would like to have
enlarged? If you have, come and see me
about it. can do the work.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW
Where my Photograph Gallery is, ask
anyone in town and they can tell you.
DURING THE WINTER,
You will find my Gallery warm and
pleasant. Come and see me whenever
you need photographs. Respectfully,
J.R. SCHORB.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
WHEN YOU WANT

ITO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken,
Il you should not fail to come and see
me. I have been in the "picture taking"
business for great many years, and am
confident that / know my business. 1t
has always been my desire to please my
customers. am prepared to take Photo
graphs in the latest styles and at reason
able prices.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

would indicate that the tree started on
it's earthly career after Columbus first
sighted the new world. The tree was
six feet in diameter at the base.
BH The false shame which fears to
be detected in honest manual employ
ment; which shrinks from exposing to
the world necessary and honorable
economy; which bushes more deeply
for shabby attire than for mean
action; and which breads the sneer ot
the world more than the upbraiding Of
conscience-this false shame will prove
the ruin of every one who suffers it to
influence his thoughts and life.
H9 The warden of the state prison
at Laporte, Ind, has adopted the idea
of forming his convicts into military
companies and drilling them like sol.
diers since the prison labor law was
abolished. 1t was feared the contin-
ued idleness and confinement of the
prisoners would drive them insane
but the scheme of making them all
study military tactics has achieved the
desired result of giving them some
thing to occupy their minds.
sB~ They tell this story of Lord
Roseberry, who is very bad shot
Recently he was on the Scotch moors
and, having unsuccessfully fired at a
covey of birds that rose not more than
twenty yards ahead, he exclaimed
at is strange that none of them fell
I'm positive that some of them must
have been struck ~ "I dinna doot,
returned the keeper, with the usual
freedom of his class, "that they were
struck ,.i' astonishment at gettin' of
sac cas-, ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14
COFFINs ROBES AND CAsKETs.

Truing up wheels specially.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-28

ate to a degree; they were not
only able to contend successfully
with invading tribes, but they
were also, owing to the topogra-
ply of the country, in position
to make war.on others, thereby
holding their own from the des-
poiler and acquiescing a name
throughout the land to be feared.
1t appears that they had a ter
rible war with the tribe on the
other side of Snake river, (who,
by the way, had just conqured
and taken possession of that
country, and after the war was
over, the two tribes were joined
together as one tribe. This fed
Grafton lasted through all their
after history, which comes down
to the present Shoshones. 1t
appears that federation was often
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-28

There is no other way to meas
ure the value of the seed than by
the crop. A good crop simply
can not come from poor seed.
Second rate seeds will waste
good land, good fertilizer, and
good labor, and the crop won't
pay expenses. Now, as the prac-
tical farmer cannot afford to
waste time testing seeds to find
out whether they are genuine or
not. For reliable seed send to
ID. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit,
Mich, who has sold seeds all
over United States and Canada
for the last AZ years. Send for
Ferry's Seed Annual for 1898,
which is sent free of charge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-28

ment of the sale of government
aided railroads we fear is bad
and that the President favors
the wrong. A number of other
recommendations were in the
right line. AS a whole it is as
good as one could expect consid-
ering his surroundings.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-28

resorted to along
period among wsr,;s
who, after warning r..
other till their respes'
were almost exterm;,..
unite the two rems;'z
ments into one tribe
rule was even mos
then either was at 6rs,I
The federation Of ths
with the southern tr;Is|
end to every possibil;s.|
ever being extermina,,'|
en- off by any other tr;S'
they were the most n
any people in the coun''
time,-but we will p
history in another artI;
Il
CHALLIs, ID, Dec. %
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-28

1 -
ering his surroundings.
The medical profession having
failed to assign satisfactory rea-
sons for the prevalence of bald
headed men during a period of
profound peace, we are forced to
the conclusion that the rootless
area of pates is caused in large
part by the rulings of the inter
ior department on questions aris-
ing under our federal mining
laws. The facility with which
rulings are made in one direction
and then yanked back to make
room for Numerically opposite
opinion, reminds one of the vii
lage postmaster who when asked
how he managed to hold to his
Office for 30 years replied eff
the administration kin change
quicker nor l kin, it's q burned
good one"
If litigants can keep their cas-
es alive they can figure success
fully in getting the verdict re-
versed by the next secretary of
the interior, for the pedulum of
clock never swung back and
forth with greater regularity
than the opinions of the success
sive ornaments that have presid-
ed over the interior department.
Briefly summed up as to a few
which are incidentally called to
mind, it has been necessary for
mining men to observe the fol-
lowing rulings Marble is not a
mineral; marble is a mineral.
Mineral must be found on every
twenty acre tract of placer; min
eral need not be found on every
twenty acre tract of placer. On
each claim 500 worth of work
must be done; if done on any one
claim in a group it will satisfy
the law. To get a patent $500
worth of work must be done on
each claim; to get patent on a
group of claims only $500 worth
of work is necessary. The list
of rulings and counter-rulings
might be indefinitely extended.
The interior department might
be appropriately named a factory
for the promotion of litigation.
Changes in the federal mining
laws that will do away with the
necessity of submitting some re-
bus to the guessing-machines of
the government are required, and
after such changes are made a
secretary of a mining bureau
should be added to the official
cabinet of the president to see
that the laws are impartially en-
forced and the interests of the
mining industry intelligently
served. If under such conditions
mining men gather no relief from
the ceaseless tumble into which
their interests have been plung-
ed by an occasional oasis in a
desert of rulings from the al
mighty trainers of western des-
tiny, they will feel like falling
back on their own resources like
the bereaved Dakota rancher who
posted the following notice on a
pine tree
my wife Sarah has left my
rancho when i didn't Doc thing
Too hur and Want it Distinctly
understood that any Man as talk
es hur in an Keers for hur on mi
account Will git hisself Pumped
so full of Led tibet Sum tender
foot will locate him fer mineral
elaine. A word to the Wise is
sufficient and orter work on
fools. Western Mining World.
Thnro ir no al