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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-15
All Are Willing.

All Are willing.
The Washington correspondent of
the Columbia Register reports that all
Of the South Carolina members of con-
grcss express themselves as willing to
allow the general assembly to re-dis-
trict the state or not in accordance
with its own notion. They say they
will make no effort to influence the
matter in the least.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-15
The atorkrille Gnquirer.
YORKVILLE, s. @. {:
WEDNESDAY, deer. Is, 1897.

- The Abbeville correspondent of The
News and Courier, says that it is settled
fact that w. c. McGowan is candidate
for governor.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-15
Still Hunting Ducks.

Still Hunting Ducks.
Ex. President Cleveland is on visit
to the vicinity Of Georgetown on
duck hunting expedition. He is the
guest of General f. p. Alexander.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-15
ASSIGNMENT OF THE PREACHERS.

Here Is the List as 1t Will Stand During
| Next Year.
Following are the appointments of
the South Carolina Annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, as announced by Bishop Duncan
at Florence on Monday night:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-15
CHARLESTON DISTRICT,
COX ESDURY DISTRICT.

Presiding elder, G. It. Harmon. Cokes-
bury, J. c. Chandler Greenwood, NJ.
Dargan; Verdery, G. r. Shaffer; Ninety
Six, w. A. Belts Donalds, w. b. Whar'
ton Abbeville, J. w. Daniel; Antreville
w: J. Snyder; Mccormick: w. II
Ariail Lowndesville, E. w. Mason Mt
Carmel, H. Stokes; Princeton, S. D.
Vaughn; Waterloo, w. w. Jones; Ph9:
nix. p. Stokes; Newberry Station and
CITY Mission, C w. Creighton and j. w
Speak; Newberry Circuit, D. Tiller; XII
nard's, S. Lesley; Saluda, j: j. Steph,
enson; Butler, w. c. Wern Parksville
J. C. Holley; Prosperity, K. G. Price.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
Duration of Life Among Birds.

The distinguished German biologist,
Wiesmann, has pointed out that there
is less exact knowledge ON this subject
than might be expected, considering
how many in number are the ornitho-
logical societies. Small singing birds
live from eight to eighteen years.
Ravens have lived for almost one hun
dred years in captivity and parrots
longer than that. Fowls live from ten
to twenty years land are then sold as
spring chickens to young housekeep-
ers). The wild goose lives upward of
one hundred years and swans are said
to have attained the age of three hun
dred. The long life of birds has been
interpreted as compensation for their
feeble fertility and for the great NOR
tally Of their young. From the small
inlands of St. Kilda, off Scotland,
twenty thousand young gannets and an
immense number of eggs are annually
collected, and although this bird lays
only one egg per annum and is four
years in attaining its maturity, its
numbers do not diminish. Obviously,
as Wiesmann observes, such birds must
reach great age or they would long
ago have been exterminated.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
QUEER STATISTICS.
some Singular Facts Relating tn the Hu-
man Family.

man Family.
The estimated population of the world
on January l, 1895, was 1900, 100000.
Taking the world over, there is an
average of one death and one and one
fourth births per second. Only one
half of all who are born into the world
live to the age of II years.
Vital statistics prove that, taking the
world over, there are 100 women to
every 100 men. Out of every sudden
deaths reported 8 of the number are
men.
The microscope shows that the hu.
man body is covered with scales, each
scale covering 500 pores.
Only 6 persons of each 1000 born
live to be IS years old, and only l out
of the same number reaches the century
mark.
Figures by experts in vital statistics
prove that not less than 4,S47 500, 90 hui
man beings die on our globe each cen
fury.
The latest anthropological statistics
prove that in America the daily, month
ly and yearly number of births exceed
the deaths in the ratio of 3 to 1.
Iuxley's tables show that the human
body is made up of 10 different ele-
ments, of which are gases and are
solids.
The average height of man in the
United States is s feet 1015 inches; in
England, feet inches; in France, 8
feet inches; in Belgium, feet ca
inches
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16

could for the sufferer the men related
what the missionary calls "as curious a
lion adventure as ever heard"
The party were on their way to the
coast, and at night had made fires and
lain down to sleep. Suddenly they
were awakened by the deep growls of
a lion. 1t had leaped among them, and
had already seized a boy, whose screams
mingled with the horrid growls Of his
captor.
The men ran this way and that in
their terror, each thinking of his own
safety. Not so the boys father. He
was big and strong, and besides, it was
his child who was screaming. He had
no time to snatch up SO much as a
spear, but went straight at the lion,
and struck it again and again full in
its face with his clenched fist, all the
while uttering fierce cries of anger.
The lion was cowed; it rclinquished
its hold of the boy, and sprang away
into the darkness, leaving the father
with his bleeding son in his arms.
The scattered company came together
again, replenished the fires, and took
care Of the lads wounds as best they
could. Now they had brought him
to the missionary, who washed his
wounds with carbolic acid and water
and bound them up. The patient was
doing well when the missionary last
saw him, more than a week later.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
HOW HE GOT HIS EITHER.
A Missourian Sent Abroad for an Instru-
ment with Funny Results.

4 musical instrument dealer tells a
good story at the expense of n musical
ly-inclned and wealthy resident of tn,
little Missouri town of Hermann, says
the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat Some
time ago he wanted a fine either and
searched the local market for one that
would suit him. The time he spent was
of sufficient value to pay for an or
binary instrument, and yet he did not
succeed in getting anything that quite
satisfied him. Confident that there was
nothing in this country that would an.
swer, he wrote to European dealers.
and finally ordered one that he thought
would go ahead of anything ever seen
in this section.
His friends were all posted and await
ed the arrival of the instrument in
anxious expectancy. 1t came few
lays ago. and the package was careful
ly opened in the presence of half dozen
admiring friends. The either was i,
beauty, there was no installing that
but on closer examination there was
the makers stamp indelibly placed on
Mo-, L. S. A." neighboring town of
Hermann. The gentleman might have
saved $50. in addition to the express
and import charges. and have avoided
all the waiting which he had to en-
dure. But he would never have been
satisfied.
The either is an expensive instrument
and difficult to manufacture, being very
delicate and requiring the best of ma
terial and most skillful of workmen,
but dealers say it is fact that the man
ufacturers of this country make the
best ones placed on the market. There
are but three factories in this country,
one in this state and two in the east.
Their instruments are largely sold in
Europe, some of them without being
branded, and then sent back to this
country at prices 100 per cent. above
what they should be- The ocean trips
may improve them, but the Hermann
gentleman cannot see just where il
comes in.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
ONE AMERICAN IN SIAM.
Sent as . Missionary. He Became tn
Kings Counselor.

Sent IS . Missionary, He Became the
Kings Counselor.
There died in Siam few days age
an American named Marian A. Cheek
who had been resident of that coun-
time of his death was one of the most
distinguished and influential men in
that land, says the Boston Globe.
Sent there twenty-five years ago as a
medical missionary under the auspices
of the Presbyterian church, at the age
of twenty years, he gradually rose in
power and wealth until he became the
most intimate counselor Of the Siamese
king.
Mr.. Cheek left family consisting OF
a wife and four children, who have re-
sided in Oakland for the last two years.
Mrs. Cheek received a cablegram re-
Gently announcing the death of her
husband. AT the time of his death he
was pressing a claim against the
United States government for several
hundred thousand dollars alleged to be
due on account of negligence of Ameri-
can officials in Siam.
obtained a concession from the king to
farm out a teak forest. In getting the
logs to a market they were tloated
down rivers, and it was while he had
many thousands of them in the form of
a raft that the logs were contiscated by
representatives of an English com
pany.
Cheek had the stars and stripes
pinned to his RATS, and he called on
the American officials for assistance.
They failed to come to the rescue, the
logs were confiscated and Cheek ac-
cordingly sued the government for
damages.
The officials at Washington question
the right of Cheek to fly the American
flag in the situation he was then in.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
YOUTH Renewed.
What the Magic of Modern Science Has
Accomplished.

What the Magic of Modern Science Has
Accomplished.
At a recent meeting of medical as
ISOLATION in Philadelphia one of the
speakers drew attention to the signifi-
cant facts that the average length
of life is increasing and that the period
of activity, in which the best work is
accomplished, with both men and
women is extending. The advance of
sanitary and hygienic science, says the
Baltimore American, has offered fair
prospect to the average man and
woman for increase of days, and mod
ern invention, by lessening the wear
and tear entailed by the discomforts of
former generations, has still further
prevented the waste of vitality and
nervous energy. Life is also length
ened in another way, by the fact that
time is minimized. and that travel and
all necessary communication now take
up marvelously short space of modern
life, leaving SO much more time to de-
vote to other objects that the practical
effect is to add more days to ones ac-
count.
With this increase of life and this
extension OF activity man is far
younger to-day than his ancestors We're
at given age. The magic of modern
times has literally performed that i'm
possible miracle of olden times and
legends-the renewal of youth. The
wearing drudgery of labor has been
vastly lightened on the one hand,
while broader interests on the other
keep the modern brain from the rust
ing process Of age narrow lives and
restricted ideas formerly brought on it,
at a time when that brain is now in its
prime,
Yet we hear all about us complaints
that the rush and wear of modern life
Is hurrying men into premature graves
at increasing rate. 1t is sadly true
that the great virtue of temperance, of
moderation in all things, has not been
assigned its due Importance in this
vast scientific development. 1t is in
spite of the advantages of the times,
not because of them, that this longer
life is not the lot of more. We appre-
ciate the stores OF vitality laid up by
them for us, but will not resist the
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16

The youth and strength of the brain
and body are drawn upon too frequent
ly. We will not be content to live
within our vast means of vitality, but
draw recklessly upon the fund, until
nature refuses to honor our drafts, and
we find ourselves bankrupt. The bust
ness man of to-day puts into his career
of comparatively few years the energy,
the thought, the vigor, that formerly
spread over the enterprise of centu-
ries. We speculate with our vital en-
ergies, and sometime we stake all on a
single throw. But if we do not make a
safe investment of youth and health, it
is not for lack of the opportunities of
the times
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
Fig Pudding.

Soak half a pound Of dried figs in suf-
ficient water to cover them for sew
eral hours. Drain and chop them fine,
also mince finely had a pound of suet;
then add to the figs with half a pound of
fine breadcrumbs and cupful strip.
Butter a mold and flll with the mixture
and boil for two hours, as given for
canary pudding. Turn it out and serve
with the following sauce: Place in a
saucepan one tablespoonful of butter
and dessertspoonful of -four; let them
become well blended over a gentle fire.
when add half pint of hot water and
stir faithfully. When the sauce has
boiled for five minutes, add three table
spoonfuls of strip and little grated
nutmeg. Serve hot.-Ladies' World.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
A FATHERS TEMERITY.
Fought Lion with His Fists to Release
His Child.

An English missionary in Africa was
sitting in his tent door when he saw a
party of natives approaching. They
were bringing to him a boy whose head
was covered with piece of calico, on
removing which the missionary saw
two deep burrows, one on each side Of
the scalp. The wounds had been made
by lion a few. evenings before, says
the Youths Companion. The boy had
been brought to the Englishman for
treatment. and while ne did what he
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
Vests FavOritc Yarn.

Senator Vest has a favorite story
which he has told on the occasion of
many political speech, but, so far as
known, never on the floor of the United
States Senate, says an exchange.
s"A Temperance lecturer was strug-
Cling against odds in Kentucky" says
the Senator. He was talking to not
very large audience that had been
drawn to the hall by curiosity. 'The
effect of alcohol is to shorten life, said
the lecturer.
IAN old man at the rear of the hall
rose at that juncture and said, You're
a llar.
"' Why?' inquired the advocate of
Adams ale.
Because, sir, I've been drinking
for 75 years, and / am 80 and am likely
to live to be 100. am strong enough
to lick you if you'll step outside
f0h, no doubt, sir. You're an ex-
ception, sir. If you keep on drinking
the lecturer paused.
What?' asked the impatient old
topper.
IF you keep on drinking you'll
have to be shot on judgment day.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16

bottom were stirred to unwonted ex-
citement by the news that an energetic
stranger had bought the old Judge Cal
houn plantation and that unlimited i'm
prov9ments were contemplated. And,
even while this report was being circu-
lated from mouth to mouth, it was fol-
lowed by rumors of lavish contracts
and engagements with the townpeople
of the town. Decidedly the stranger
was no ordinary man.
And evidently Willie thought so too,
for she would flash covert, inquiring
giances at him from under her long,
dark eyelashes, and sometimes would
listen with almost bated breath, wonder
ing what daring scheme would be pro-
posed next. He was so different from
any person she had ever met-so enter
getic and impulsive and chivalrous.
She could not help liking him, and she
could not withstand his impetuosity
any more than the reeds of the river
could Withstand the current in the
springtime. She offered objections to
the building of the bridge and he over
ruled them in single impetuous speech.
She did not like the idea of his assum-
ing all the expenses Of improving the
river, but did not dare expostulate for
fear Of the quizzical look which she
knew would come into his merry eyes.
Inside Of a month she began to feel
that he was as much at home on her
plantation as he was on his own, but
she could see no way to prevent it.
And, indeed, she did not want to. In
the fall their engagement was definitely
annouced, and all Talbottom said it
was the most suitable match of the year.
A few weeks before the marriage he
carefully overhauled his papers. There
were many letters addressed simply to
Willie Smith, some were to Willie H.
Smith, and few to William Hamilton
Smith. All of them were destroyed.
cit isn't we'll to keep papers, he
soliloquized, as the last one was re-
duced to ashes. "Some folks see them.
New York Ledger.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16

J. W. Baggett, Oak Grove, Fla, had
an attack of the measels, nearly three
years ago, and the disease left him with
very severe pains in the chest. "I
thought would die, he writes; "but
to my great Joy, was saved by Cham
berlain's Pain Balm" Pains in the
chest nearly always indicate the ap-
proach of pneumonia, and by promptly
applying this liniment on a flannel
cloth, which should be bound on the
chest, an attack of pneumonia may be
prevented. 1t is always prompt and
effectual. For sale at 25 and so cents
per bottle by Ward & Friberg- The
Bee Hive.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
Important Order Issued.

Judge Clark has issued an impor-
tant order affecting the movements of
deputy marshals. 1t is that each offer
when taking out a warrant before a
commissioner for supposed violater,
must be able to stale plainly the time,
place, amount of illicit goods handled
and give enough details to show that
the person for whom the warrant is
asked is reasonably sure of being gull
ty. No commissioner by this rule will
be allowed to send up to the court 9
person on the evidence of one person
alone unless that person be Of the high.
est character and exhibit no personal
enmity toward the defendant.
Deputies will not make application
for warrants where one illegal remova
of whisky was made for an amount less
than a gallon.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16

Mr.. James E. Ferrell, of Blount House
W. Va, has discarded all other diar-
rhoea medicines and now handles only
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhoea Remedy. He has used in his
family and sold it to his customers for
years, and has no hesitation in saying
that it is the best remedy for collie and
diarroea, he has ever known. 1t not
only gives relief. but effects a perma-
nent cure. 1t is also pleasant and safe
to take, making it an ideal remedy for
bowel complaints. For sale by Ward
& Friberg 's-The Bee Hive.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
MAMMOTH LOCOMOTIVES.
The Southern Railroad Has Three Giant
Machines Built.

mdCHlHtS DullJ'
The Southern Railway has under
construction at the Richmond Locomo-
tive wors the three largest and strong
est passenger locomotives in the world,
and in mouth or 80 they will be pull
ling the Washington vestibule over the
mountains. The Suthern Railway pro-
poses to make schedule of sixty miles
an hour, with heavy trains of sleepers,
and it is for this purpose that these
leviathans of the rail are being built.
The railway has contract with the
United States government for fast
mail service over the line, and every
time an hour is lost there is fine of
$500. The officials of the line propose
to make the schedule winter or sum
mer, whether trains are extra heavy or
not, and the addition of few sleepers
will not caunt for much with locomo-
tive which can pull on straight level
track thirth-three sleepers weighing
forty tons each.
The six-coupled drying wheels of
these engines are each six feet in di-
ameter, and the working steam pres
sure is 200 pounds to the square inch
The cylinders are of the ordinary
simple-type, each twenty-one inches in
diameter, with piston stroke of TWEEN
ty-eight inches. This gives a traetive
force, or draw bar pull, of "a, 460 pounds,
sufficient to haul train load of 4,279
tons, equal to about eighty-five of the
largest loaded freight cars, at slow
speed on level track. No locomotives
now running have so large combined
cylinder area and steam pressure as
these new Goliaths.
The total weight of one of these loco
motives will be seyenty-fve tons, Of
which fifty-eight tons will rest on the
six drying wheels, the remaining seven
teen tons being carried by the four
wheel truck in front. Reckoninfi the
bite or the grip on the rail at one-fourth
the weight on the drivers, there is al
adhesion of fourteen and half tons, ol
80, 900 pounds, which is 1,54O pounds
more than the tractive force Of the en-.
gine, thus leaving a good margin fol
wet weather and slippery rails.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
Long Trip for Three weeks-Old Babe,

Sloan Springs, Ark, September II.
When the Pittsburg and Gulf train
arrives from the North tomorrow it
will bring the youngest passenger that
ever travelled alone. The waif is an in
FAINT born three weeks ago at:.Newton,
Iowa, and comes distance of 900 miles
accompanied only by its nursing bot
tie. When the babes mother died,
leaving it alone, there was not friend
there who cared to take it, and Mrs.
j. o. Mcbride, of this place, generous
ly offered to adopt the child. She
wrote to the attending physician, ask
ing him to pin a note to its clothing
and put it on the train. This was done
and its safe arrival here is eagerly
awaited.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
Corbett willing to Try Fitzsimmons Again.

Wheeling, West Va. Sept. 1O.-Ex-
Champion James J. Corbett, who is
here today to play ball with the Wheel
ing team, has just received telegram
from Chicago informing him that the
Northern Tulane Club, of New Orleans
offers $4,000 for a contest between
COrbett and Fitzsimmons. Corbett
authorized the Associated Press to say
he accepts the offer and will await Fitz-
simmons decision.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
Your Intelligence.

Your Intelligence is questioned by the drug
Rists who tries TO influence you to let him bot
tie anything when YOU ask for DR.. Bells Piut
Tar Honey. No druggist can put this up for
you-he cannot put up anything like it-it is
not to be had in bulk it is to be had only in
2sc soc and 81 bottles. There is nothing ''just
as good" as DR., Bells Pine-Tar-IIoney. Avoid
those substitutes with similar sounding names
When you buy Or. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey see
that the bottle has never been opened and that
1t bears the picture and testimony Of Good Old
Granny Metcalf" aud the name Of the * E.
southerlAnd aediciuecompany, Fountain Park
Paducah, Ky.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
EVERYBODY SAYS So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won.
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on Kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habituai constipation
and blliousness. Please buy and try box
OF C. q. c. to-day; 10, %. so cents. Sold and
guaranteed 10 cure by ell druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
Blu okIen's ArnIoa salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter chapped
hands, chilblains. corns and all skin eruption S
and positively cures piles or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box,
For sale by Mcfarland g. Co.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
The victories Of Hoods
Sarsaparila over all
Forms OF disese

Forms of disese
Conclusively prove
That it is an unequalled
Blood purifier Tt conquers
The demon, Scrofula,
Relieves the itching aud burning of
salt rheum, cures running sores, ulcers,
boils, pimples, aud every othsr form of
humor or diseas originating in impure
blood. The cures by Hool's 5arsapa-
rilla are cures -lb3olute. pasmils1t,
perfect cures. They are base up)n its
great power to purify all enrich the
blood.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-16
MARTIN I. GUMP,
Justice Of the Peace and Aetay Public.
Gfice-Market Street, in Faw Block,
DENTTSTRY.
]. Q. KING. D. D. s.

ONCE in the old Rankin building. The
pioneer in Grown and Bridge Work teeth with
out pates). Teeth extracted painless with
Eucaine, a new, safe local anaesthetie Gas
new process Prices way down. Work guar
anteed