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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28
DUST.

The bane of the ideal housekeeper's
life is dust, and yet this seemingly in.
significant, exasperating dust has been
a study of scientists for century.
"When a beam of sunlight enters a
darkened room it can be seen along its
whole course" says one writer. "The
light is reflected to every side and
made to reach the eye by the dust in
the air of the room. We do not see
the sunbeam but the dust which is
by it. AS unimportant as
this curious stuff seems, it plays con
spicuous part in nature. 1t is what
makes the sky appear blue, and when
we look at the sky we see dust illumi'
mated by the sun. Light goes through
all the gases-the dust catches it, re.
fleets it in every direction, and so
causes the whole atmosphere to appear
clear, in the same way that it makes
the sunbeam visible in the dark room.
"Without this strange, wonderful
dust there would be no blue sky. 1t
would be as dark or darker than on
moonless nights. The glowing disk OF
the sun would stand Immediately
against the black background, thus
producing binding light where the
SUMS rays fall and deep black shadows
where they do not. 1t is to dust that
we owe the moderately tempered day
light adapted to our eyes, and it is dust
that contributes 10 the beauty of the
scenery. The finest dust gives the
blue tone to the sky, while the coarser
kind produces an almost black ap-
-pearance.
The clouds consist of dust and vapor.
If there be only little dust, all the
vapor is precipitated upon it, and so
loads the clouds with water that they
sink in heavy drops to the ground.
Without dust the vapor would pene.
trate houses, making everything mold
with damp. We should feel upon 60
ing out that our clothes were becoming
saturated and umbrellas would be a
useless protection. 1t is hard indeed,
to conceive how different everything
would be if there were no dust. Inis
trivial common stuff has its consldera-
BILE part in the processes of nature,
and there is much of the wonderful
and mysterious concealed in its filmy
particles"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28
ATLANTA'S PRINTER MAYOR.
Goes First to His Case and Then to the
City Hall.

Goes First to His Case and Then to the
City Hall.
From the Charleston Post.
Mayor James G.. Woodward, of At
lanta, is probably the only man who
occupies such an important public po-
sition yet at the same time continues
to work regularly at trade.
While he was running for Office,
Mayor Woodward was dubbed the
"printer candidate" 1t does not ap-
pear whether this was expected TO
benefit or injure him in his political
aspirations. No one knows whether
the appellation was first applied by
friend or opponent. Mr.. Woodward
does not care himself, because he is not
ashamed of his calling, and now that
he has won success, possibly no one
else cares whether he was the "print-
er candidate" or the banker candidate,
80 long as he continues to give the
city an intelligent and honest admin
istration.
But while everybody knows him as
the printer candidate, few of his fellow
citizens are aware chat he keeps up
his work in the print shop just as reg.
ularly now as before he took hold of
the reins of government. None OF
Mr.. Woodward's predecessors have
ever given the Office their undivided
time, and be saw no reason why he
should do 30, just because his means
of support before going into Office hap
pened to be "sticking type"
If it was all right for Mayor King to
practice law or Mayor Collier to look
after his banking business and act as
mayor at the same time, Jim Wood
ward argued that it was all right for
him to stand by his lease" ifhe want.
ed to. Therefore, he is to be seen
early every morning making his way
up the dark stairs of The Journal build
ing and into the mailing and distribu-
ting room, where he has worked for
10 years or more past. There be
shucks his coat and works for two or
three hours before washing up for the
transaction of public business at the
city hall. When this business permits
he returns to his galleys and Type
racks again in the afternoon.
About the only change in the crafts
mans daily routine in the printing
Office since he became mayor, is that
more of his work has fallen upon his
assistants. Hei is still the active "fore-
man" of the department, and draws
his weekly wages the same rs ever.
But Mayor Woodward is versatile
man, like all the old.time printers, and
while he occupies his Office at the city
hall he is as much the man of affairs in
appearance as any of the distinguished
gentlemen who have preceded him in
this important public Office.
Mayor Woodward is union printer
and is a consistent friend of the labor
ing man but oddly enough, in none
of his campaigns has he ever run as
a labor candidate. That he does not
propose to get the "swell head" on
account of his elevation to the highest
Office in the municipal affairs Of the
city, is shown by the way in which he
has stuck to his old trade since he
came into Office.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28

LIFE-SAvING WIT.-An instance oi
extraordinary presence of mind on the
part of 7-year-old girl is reported by
the St. Louis Globe Democrat. The
girls name is Agnes Mccullough.
Her grandmother, woman of 7C
years, had shown signs of mental aber'
ration for several weeks; but no one
had thought of her as liable to commi,
violence.
One morning, however, when Agnes
and the old lady were alone in ar
upper room, the grandmother seized 6
hutcher-knife which had been lying or
the table, and ran for the child, wht
was sitting on the edge of the bed
partially dressed. The insane woman
grabbed the girl by the hair ano
screamed:
"Now I'll kill you! You are none
of my children !"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28

The little girl, with intuition re-
markable for her years, realized that
she was in the grasp of an insane
person.
"Grandma, don't get blood on the
bed-clothes. Wait till I get towel"
she said.
The woman released her hold on the
child's hair, and she ran down into
the kitchen, where she told her mother.
The two hurried to the police station,
and an ambulance removed the old
woman to the hospital.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28
The NEWLY ELECT.
Short Sketches Of Senator Grinhth and
Messrs. Robinson and Boykin.

Short Sketches of Senator Grinth and
| Messrs. Robinson and Boykin.
Captain d. j. Griffith will soon lay
aside the senatorial toga for the garb
of another Office. Senator Griffith Is
very popular man personally, and is
regarded a good business man, having
been in the railroad business IA years.
Last year Senator Griffith won the gold
watch awarded by The State to the
most popular member of the general
assembly.
He has served as clerk of the court
and as treasurer of Lexington county
for a number of years, always winning
over his opponents by large majorities.
Captain Griffith is colonel of the
Lexington regiment, United Confeder-
ate Veterans. In the Civil war his
service as a private for the first few
months was 80 faithful and valuable
that he was promoted to lieutenant at
the age of 16. He was a captain when
l8 years old. He made good soldier,
has been equally as good a citizen, and
promises to do just as we'll as superin-
tendent of the penitentiary.
Mr.. T. G. Robinson, who was elected
to succeed Mr.. Douthit on the state
board of control, was a candidate for
the Office of state superintendent of
education three years ago. He was q
lawyer of good standing in Pfckens,
and proprietor of the Pickens Journal.
He Is Wofford college man, and pos
sesses good business qualifications.
Mr.. Burrill H. Boykin is clear-cut,
successful business man and farmer.
His father, for many years before the
war, member Of the general assem-
bly,, was captain of the first troop of
cavalry from South Carolina which
entered the Confederate service.
Mr.. Boykin, who is now 4s years
old, received bis collegiate training at
Yale. He has since devoted his time
to farming, and has been very success.
full. He was once captain of caval-
ry troop, having received commits.
sion from Governor Richardson. This
is the first time he has applied for or
received an Office Of public trust. His
work on the board of control is expec-
ted to be honorable and faithful.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INsTALLMENTs.
In order that new readers of The En-
oUIRER may begin with the following in
stallment of this story, and understand it
Just the same as though they had read it
all from the beginning, we here give a
synopsis of that portion Of it which has
already been published:
DR.. De Normanville, an English phys-
sician at Hongkong, hears of woman
called the Beautiful White Devil making
her home on an island in the Pacific OF
which she is the sovereign and leading a
Diratical life in white yacht on the ocean.
Dr. De Normanville receives a call from q
stranger who engages his professional SER
vices 10 60 to an unknown place to treat
an epidemic of smallpox. After All event
ful voyage he finds himself on board the
Lone Star, the yacht of the Beautiful
White Devil. He is taken to her island
home, where he fights the plague success
fully and falls in love with Allie, the Beau
tifui White Devil. Allie informs DR.. De
Nornanville that person in her employ
at Singapore is about to betray her, and a
plan is laid to kidnap him.
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sat down, however, the younger lady
said, without a shadow Of embarrass-
ment.
"Ireckon, before we begin, we'd better
do little introducing, don't you? This
lady" (she pointed to her companion)
"is my very kind friend Mrs Beecher of
Boston, with whom / am travelling
You We probably heard of Beecher's pat
ent double action sofa springs, reckon?
l am Kate Sanderson of New York,
only daughter of Millionaire Sanderson
of Wall street, whom I guess you We
heard all about too. So you see we're
both Of the United States Of America,
and very much at your service" "
Il am very glad to have met you, " I
answered my name is De Norman
Vile, and hail from London"
"Not DR.. De Normanville of Caven-
dish square surely?"
"Yes, the same. Cavendish square
was my London address two years ago.
But how do you come to know it?''
"Well, now, if that isn't real extraor-
dinaryl l thought recognized you d.
rectly set eyes on you. But it's mighty
plain you don't remember me. That's
not much of compliment any way you
look at it, is it, Mrs. Beecher?"
The elder declined to commit herself,
so Miss Sanderson once more turned to
me.
"Just think now, DR.. De Norman
ville," she said. "Look at me we'll and
try to remember where we have met be-
FORE"
looked and looked, but for the life Of
me I could not recall her face, and yet
somehow it seemed strangely familiar to
me. All the time ! was watching her
she sat gazing at me with an amused
smile upon her face, and when she saw
that it was useless my cudgeling my
brains any more gave another little
silvery laugh and said:
"Do you remember just three years
ago being called into the Langham ho-
tel to attend a young American lady
who had fish bone stuck in her throat?"
II remember the circumstance per-
fectly," answered, "but that young
lady was only one or two and twenty. "
"You think, then, look older than
that? Well, l reckon you are really not
very complimentary. But you must re-
member that that was three'years ago,
and was only girl then. Wheu once
we get grown up and past certain
point over on our side, we age pretty
fast. That's so, 1 reckon. Well, now
you know me, don't you? What day
that was, to be sure, wasn't it? Lor,
how pap and mammie did 60 on! Any
body'd have thought l was gJing to
kingdom come right away to have heard
them. D'you know, l must have got the
marks of that bone in my throat to this
day"
"It was very nasty scratch, if re.
member rightly" answered, glad to
have at last discovered who this talka.
tive creature was and where had seen
her face before.
"Are you remaining very long in
Java, Mrs. Beecher?" asked the elder
lady, feeling that so far she had been
rather neglected.
"No, l think not, she answered
thoughtfully. 1--WE are trying to make
up our minds whether to take British
India steamer home from here or to 60 VI
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which to wipe her dress she found her
voice and said with strong American
accent:
"You must do nothing Of the kind.
It was all my fault Ideclare I'm down
right sorry"
l FASTENED to assure her that could
not let her take the blame upon herself,
and once more begged to be allowed to
sponge the tea off her dress This, how.
ever, she would not permit me to do.
"It won't hurt" she assured me for
the twentieth time, land if it did it's
an old dress, so don't bother yourself.
But now, look here, you've been depriv-
ed Of your tea, and that's not fair at
all. Say, won't you come right along to
our veranda and take cup with us?
You're English, know, and it's real
nice to have somebody who speaks our
own tongue to talk to. Promise Yes
right away and We'll be off.
There was something 30 frank about
her that, though I didn't at all want to
20, could not resist her. So, putting
the remnants of the cup and saucer back
upon the tray, accepted the invitation
and accompanied them round the hotel
garden to their own veranda on the 9th.
er side. As went kept my eyes open
for any sign of Allie, but though /
thought I saw her once presently found
I was mistaken. l could not help won
dering what she would think if she met
me in this girls company. However, as
I had let myself in for it I had nobody
to thank but myself.
When we reached the ladies' quar-
ters, we found tea prepared. Before we
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-28

THE OLD BLUE BooK.-"The Blue
Book as the official register of gov
ernment employees is known" says an
old-timer, "becomes quite an interest
ing book on comparison with the
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Fak BEavFtFlh Vl&&lFPEE VA&<PEE DEVIL NRR}Rltth
BY GUY BOOTHBY.

of Fortune,' cdr Nil<ola' "Ihe
Marria of
CopHrgbt D. Appleton Company.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-10

stunned on the ground. Had the
sweep hit him higher up on the body
it might have proven serious. No
bones were broken, but no doubt he
will have to confine himself to the bed
for some time-New London Times.
John NJ. Bergstrom returned last
week to White Earth reservation, he
having charge OF constructing govern
ment buildings at that place. .......
The passenger train going west
Wednesday afternoon run over and
killed a 2-year old steer belonging to
J. T.. Forsyth, residing a mile east OF
town Miss Mollie Archer Wis
tied at w Willmar the fore part Of the
week. Murdoch Review. 4=ss .5...
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Notes from Neighborlng EX.
- = changes.

Peter Pau|sou, Of West Lake, as
been employed at G., E. Krause's hard
ware store. .............R Rev. Collin at
tended a directors meeting OF the
sBethestda hospital at St. Paul last
Tuesday. We are glad to learn from
him that Andrew Anderson, who is at
the hospital, has undergone his opera
tion successfully and is doing fine. -.
Aug. Lindberg met with a very
painful accident and one which might
also have cost his life last Tuesday
while at work grubbing with a stump
puller. August ahd his: brother were
just engaged in pulling up a. large
stump. The machine and cable had
been stretched up to it's whole siren 9Th;
August had stopped the horse in order
togo behind the sweep to adjust some
thing about the machine, and when
the horse was started up again the
animal made q sudd den jump; the sweep
broke off J, ing back with terrific
force and striking August across the
legs He was sent . rolling and laid
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-10

ScrlDed:
Then follows blank place for the
sign ature Of the farmer and his wife
and for the agent, although in the note
he signs, not as agent. but simply as
"witness.' The second paper is the
contract, Containing various stipula-
tions. The company agrees to keep
the stove in repair for five years, but
as no agencies are established no re-
pairs can be secured unless the agent
calls again, which he is not likely to
do, or unless the stove or parts need
ing repair are sent to the place Of
manufacture. On the back of the con-
tract is Especial notice" that gener-
ally escapes the farmers attention.
Here it is expressly stipulated that no
old stoves are taken in part payment.
Tt is said that agents are in the habit
Of offering about 500 for the old stove,
promise to board out $40 Of the price
and allow the farmer anywhere from
S5 to SIS for carting, which reduces
the price of the stove to very low
figure. Sometimes the agent writes
the special agreements on the back of
the contract, but after leaving the
house he finds it easy to tear off the
end containing his stipulations and
when the collector returns with the
signed contract the concessions made
by the agent are not to be found.
If the stove man cannot sell his
stove he asks leave to store it in the
farmers barn or to put it up in the
kitchen without EXPENSE and allow
the farmers wife to try it for a. few
days. In that case the agent asks the
farmer and his wife to sign the ire
ceipt," which proves to be note, just
so he can show his superintendent
where each stove is if he should be
questioned. If the so-called receipt
is signed the farmer and his wife never
see the stove man again. They are
called upon later by either a collector
or a bank to pay. a promissory note
for 500. It was one Of these notes that
the Webster man brought to the bank
as stated. >.:..: /: ~: l.5
Stove men declare that there are
many faults with the peddlers steel
range and that it Is not worth the price
asked and they state that any loca1
dealer can sell the very best kind. Of 4
range for SIS or $40 less than the stee
range peddle Oh harges. Fo or those who
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on the north, in Saratoga county and
in BroOme county on the south.
Pennsylvania has also been invaded.
This person said from the investlga-
tions it was learned that the steel stove
men travel in three divisions, each un-
der a superintendent. There are
about ten men under each superintend-
ent. Each salesman has handsome
ly-painted wagon and carries stoves
right along with him. The plan of &C.
tion is we'll outlined in the following
circular:
"A Timely Warning to Housewives.
Beware of Steel Range Peddler.
"The Approach-A sleek looking
man, driving team of mules attached
to a democrat wagon, may drive up to
your house an attempt to unload and
place in your kitchen a range. He
may, if you allow him, proceed to ex.
plain, in a very smooth manner, that
this recently arrived range is made ol
steel and is far superior to all other
ranges on the market, and that 10,
$64 cash you may avail yourself of the
opportunity of owning this very su.
perior article in the stove line. II
you do not happen to have the money
in your hand you may take the stove
on approval, and, if satisfactory, pay
for it when convenient. However, as
mere formality,, you and your hus-
band should sign two innocent look
ing pieces of paper.
''The Contract-The range, as i,
stands alongside Of the one that has
probably done you such faithful ser.
vice, appears to be a great improve.
ment, and beware again of those two
innocent pieces of paper. Examine
them carefully on both sides.'
The first paper to be signed is de.
clared by the agent to be a'receipt for
the stove, left at the farmers house,
It is not receipt, but promissory
note, and reads as follows: t..
1869. State of New York. On the
..... day off,. 1898, after
date, we, or either of us, promise to
pay to the order of. .......... sixty.
nine dollars, value received, without
discount or offset, waving our rights
to all exemptions allowed us BY law
with interest at 6 per cent. from date
if not paid when due or presented.
County 81. B. 4. ). - 8 .5
The mode of operate on IS further de
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-10
BEWARE OE THEM.
A Gang of Stove Pedd1erS is
Said to be Working In Kan
diVohi Co. at Present.

The Rochester Post-Express ex-
poses the range swindlers in the fol-
lowing manner:
Over half a hundred Websterian
farmers are victims of new game,
new in the sense, yet nothing more
or less than the revival of the light
ming rod game in another form. The
farmers have lost their money, and
lawyers tell them, they have only
themselves to blame. It is the old
story Of signing papers without know
ing their contents.
The matter came to public attention
in Rochester by an application at @
local bank for assistance. A Webster
farmer, who is hard working man
and has prosperous farm, though
not much ready money, asked help OF
the bank to raise money sufficient to
pay note he had signed in payment
for a new-fangled steel stove. The
story of the farmer, who declares that
not only he but over sixty of his &C
quaintances in Webster have been
fooled, is worth repeating as a warn
ing to other countrymen who may be
approached by the steel stove man.
Steps have been taken through hout
the state to warn farmers and others
against the methods of the steel range
peddlers, and circulars have been wide
ly distributed with a view to giving a
plain statement of the facts as they
are. If, after once reading this circu-
lar carefully, farmer allows himself
to be inveigled into trying one OF these
500 ranges, on the strength of smooth
promises made by the peddler, he has
only himself to blame when the time
comes to pay up. He has no help
from any source.
. A representative of one of the large
stove works of Rochester stated to the
reporter that four car loads Of steel
stoves were unloaded this summer at
Spencerport and were sold in the
neighborhood Of that village. The
{. steel stove men, he said, avoid the
large cities. They Appeared in Or.
leans county about q year ago and
have since been working east. They
Y are now said to be il Jefferson county
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Advertised Letters.

Advertised Letters.
Willmar, Minn., May s, 1899.
Blom, Miss Malena
Coogaard,' Mr.. Gimru
Hogberg, J. A.
Larlzin, Mr. J. G.. ~
g. Lindgren, Miss Emily
ROnesh, Miss Lottie >,
Williams, Mr.. L. -.
>, s. J. F. -. :
.~. :... G.. A. BIRCH, Pm.
Parties wanting to buy land, and
those having land to sell, should not
fail to call on Y. E. Segerstrom in
the Mikkelson Block, Willmar, MINI.
He has special facilities for handling
Money to loan at 81 percent. 1915
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ROSE & QVALE,

have grievances similrr to the Web
ster farmers, they may, if they wish,
communicate with 1.-THE Secretary"
Box 1856, Rochester, N. Y, who is one
of the persons active in getting the
circulars so widely distributed. ibis
advice is also suggested:
"Don't trade with total stranger.
"Don't sign any paper until you
have tried the range for thirty days.
"Don't let him tap your old stove
with hammer to show you how frail
it is.
"Remember that all stoves will need
repairs, and that the post-olfice ad-
dress of the peddler is subject to
change without notice.
''Consult your lawyer before sign
ing any paper offered you for sigma
ture by peddler. 1t will be cheaper
than consulting him after you have
signed.
:'Your home dealer is a responsible
man, can sell you a better range at a
lower price, can always be found to
make his guarantee good, can furnish
you repairs at any time, aud in shor5
is the proper person now as he always
has been from whom to purchase a
range