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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05
MARKHAM'S new POEM.

Edwin Markham contributes 10 the
Christmas number of Success" the
most remarkable poem he has written
since 1.-THE Man With the Hoe" His
new work is entitled, "The Mighty
Hundred Years." and 1t is story in
forcible, yet graceful and elegant verse,
of the world during the past century.
In Markham's poem, the Muses. stand
before the Norns, the gods Of mytholo-
by, that gave all men birth and tell the
wonderful history The following are
a few stanzas from this great piece, IL
Illustrating the growth Of the world
from the death Of the dark ages;
THE MIGHTY HUNDRED YEARS.
lone mighty gleam, and old horizons
broke!
All the vast, glimmering outline of
the Whole
Swan on the vision, shifting at one
stroke,
The ancient gravitation Of the soul.
"All things came circling in one cosmic
dance,
One motion older than the ages are;
Swung by one Law, one Purpose, one
Advance,
Serene and steadfast as the morning
star.
Men trace the spacious orbits of the
Law,
And find it is their shelter and their
friend;
For there, behind its mystery and awe,
Gods sure hand presses to blessed
end.
And so man pushes toward the Secret
Vast
UP through the storm Of stars, skies
upon skies;
And down through the circling atoms,
nearing fast
The brink of things, beyond which
Chaos hes.
Yea, in the shaping of grain Of sand,
He sees the law that made the
spheres to be-
Sees atom-worlds spun by the Hidden
Hand,
To whirl about their small Alcyone.
with spell Of wizard Science on his
eyes,
An argument on his arm, he probes
through space;
Or pushes back the low, unfriendly
skies,
To feel the wind Of Saturn on his
face.
HE walks abroad upon the Zodiac,
To weigh the words In balance, to
fuse
Suns in his crucible, and carry back
the spheral music and the cosmic
news"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05

"'Being that it's my raise said
Mack very quietly and very cody, 'and
as the pot is rich, it will cost you
just $4,000 to call me-
"And with that he began looking at
his money. He brought out bills Of the
four figure character and he was count
ing these off slowly. The captain had
reached for his wallet and we looked
for wild plunging. The captain, how
ever, hesitated.
"'Hang the luck, he said viciously,
I am beaten and there isn't any use
throwing good money after bad and
with that he threw down his hand.
Billy began to rake in the money just
as If it was a 81 bet, and the captain
left the room. The pot had frac-
ton less than $4,000 in actual money,
and Mack smiled when the sea dog had
gone.
"'Pretty good he said, for two lit
tie fours, but the chance Of the draw
was worth it. What did that guy
have?
1.-THE captains hand had been copped
out. He had a little straight, and
strange to say the smallest card in it
was a four spot"
Billy Mack belonged to the class of
gamblers so much in evidence around
Charleston just after the close Of the
war. He was without a relative. He
came to Charleston years ago from
New York city and it Is understood
that his home was originally in Alba
ny. He never received a letter and 1t
Is doubtful If he got any mail for Is
years preceding his death. He never
talked of himself, and in a certain way
he was mystery.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05

WHY You SEE STARs.-If you are one
of those who frequent the police courts.
you have no doubt heard the victims Of
assaults declare that their assailants
hit them so hard that it made them
"see stars" And, indeed, the sensa-
ton which you experience from a vio-
lent blow on the head resembles very
much the sight Of stars.
The fact is, there is phosphorescent
power in the eye which shows itself
when the head is struck violently, and
is often perceived even in the act Of
sneezing. The jar to the system caus-
ed by the blow, produces a pressure
Of the blood vessels upon the retfna,
causing either total darkness or faint
blue light which floats before the eye
and in which the imagination discov-
ers thousands of fantastic figures, the
majority of which resemble stars.-New
York Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05
JUDGE AEDAnUS BURKE.
Soma Sayings Of South Carolina Jurist-
Distinguished Men Of Long Ago.

UlSllnRuISH6u mGH VI LUHk hSVs
r. H. Kirke writes to the Washing
ton Post as follows:
Mr.. Edward Hooker, native Of Con-
necticut, and an educator Of note, was
a professor in the South Carolina col
lege at Columbia from 1906 to 1908. He
kept a voluminous diary during that
period, which, through the enterprise
of Prof. Jameson, Of the American His.
torial association, has been published
Prof. Hooker relates many interesting
experiences with eminent members OF
the South Carolina bar of that day, q
few of which I recount here.
Aedanus Burke, native Of Ireland
and a Carolinian by adoption, was q
member Of congress from 1889 to 1871
He was a common law judge from 177s
to 1899. He once pronounced sentence
Of death on culprit and added at the
close Of 1t, "but don't mind my good
fellow, 1t Is only what we have all got
to come to-"
II hope" said one Of the lawyers
'your honor don't mean that we've all
got to be hanged"
NO." replied the Judge, "but we've
all got to die, and 1t don't make much
difference how"
On one occasion General c. G. Pinck-
ney, who had been minister to France
and the Federalist candidate for the
vice presidency Of the United States ir
1880, was arguing a dry legal point be-
fore Judge Burke, when the later lost
patience, tucked up his silk robe, took
his hat and left the bench. The lawyer
ceased his argument.
go on, General Pinckney, go on,
said the judge, you love to hear your
self talk. Meanwhile, I'll go out and
take a look at the camel" then on ex-
hibition back of the court house.
Hence "peeping at the camel" Is tc
this day a byword among the CaroE-
ma lawyers for going out Of the cour,
room on any occasion.
One day, while going on horseback
to hold court in a neighboring county
he lost his way. He met mountain.
eer, whom he requested to pilot him
through the woods to the court house
Upon his refusal to do so, the judge
|dismounted and vigorously attacked
him until he cried out that he was
willing to carry his honor anywhere
If he would stop beating him. The
Judge told the lawyers that he had
been among a desperate set Of people
that day, and that nothing but theil
fear of his strong arm had enabled him
to fill his judicial appointment.
Prof. Hooker devotes much space IN
his diary to the legislative debates a,
Columbia, and pays high compliment
to the eloquence Of the gifted and ami
able Colonel Robert Barnwell, General
Wade Hampton, Of Revolutionary
fame; Charles Pinckney, Paul Hamil-
ton, William Lowndes, John Goodloe
Harper and others. The years tina,
Mr.. Hooker spent at Columbia are
part of a period Of transition, during
which the state was developing from
the Federalist South Carolina Of 17SS
into the better known South Carolina
of 1882. All South Carolinians will
thank Prof. Jameson for having made
public this most interesting diary.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05
THE MYSTERY OF
AGATHA WEBB.
Bv ANNA KATHARINE GREENE,
Author of Leavenworth Case, "Lost Mans Lane
and Ring" ETC., Etc.
Copyright, 1900, by Anna Katharine G
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
In order that new readers Of THE EN-
oU1RER may begin with the following
installment of this story, and under
stand it just the same as though they
had read it all from the beginning, we
here give a synopsis Of that portion OF
which has already been published:
The story opens with the close OF
ball after daylight in the morning.
While the guests are leaving the house
Frederick Sutherland dashes out fran
tically and disappears in the WOODS on
the other side of the road. Agatha
Webb is found up stairs murdered:
The body of Batsy, the cook, is FOUND
Webb, Agatha's husband, is discovered
sitting before a dining table asleep,
with a. smear Of blood on his coat
sleeve. Philemon being charged with
the murder, his mind, alrady feeble
gives way completely. All Agatha
Webb's money has been taken. Miss
Page, standing on the lawn, points to
spot of blood on the grass. FREDERICK
Sutherland, who has been wild fel-
low, promises mis- father to reform; also
to give up Amabel Page, whom he has
been expecting to marry. Miss Page
tells Frederick that she followed him
on the night of the, murder and saw
him secrete $1,000 in hollow tree. She
declares that he shall either marry her
or she will proclaim him murderer.
She is about to leave him and the town
when she is held as witness. The
past life of Agatha Webb. Six children
have been born to her and all died IN
infancy. It is learned that the money
taken from Agatha Webb was all In
new bills. A storekeeper produces one
of them that a strange man with
flowing beard gave him the night of the
murder. The problem now is to find
the man with the long beard. Suspic-
ion falls on the label brothers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05

that miners have long held the belief
that there was a splendid vein Of ore
somewhere in northern South Carolina
and I merely wish to call attention to
the fact that 1t is possible that Mr.
Frank has found it in York county. II
he has you are destined to see boom
up our way in the next year or so, be-
side which all other booms In this Sec
tion of the country will sink into insig-
nificance. The people up about Hick-
ory Grove have not lost their heads
over the affair-they have not taken
the gold fever. They are still raising
cotton and corn and wheat on their rich
bottoms and loamy hillsides; but they
are watching that hole in the ground
down on the farm Of the Brown Broth
ers, with something akin to excitement.
Mr.. Frank still plays the fiddle In the
long pleasant evenings, and the people
who gather around to listen to the mu-
sic say that the tunes he selects nova
days are merrier than those he used 10
play when he first came to the county"
News and Courier, December 3.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05
DECEMBER WEATHER.
Tho Averages Of the Month Of December For
IS Years.
TEMPERATURE.

Mean or normal temperature, 48 de-
grees.
The warmest month was that Of 1889,
with an average Of So degrees.
The coldest month was that of 1896,
with an average Of A degrees.
The highest temperature was n de-
grees on December %, 1889.
The lowest temperature was de-
grees on December 20, 1894.
Average date on which first killing"
frost occurred in autumn, November 5.
Average date on which last killing"
frost occurred in spring, March %.
PRECIPITATION
Average for the month, 2.3S inches.
Average number Of days with .01 Of
an inch or more, 8.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was 3.37 inches in 1887.
The least monthly precipitation was
0.75 inches in 1889.
The greatest amount Of precipitation
recorded in any "a consecutive hours
was 1.64 inches on December 1917, 1888.
The greatest amount Of snowfall re-
corded in any "a consecutive hours (re-
cord extending to winter Of 18S4-S5)
was 5.3 inches on December 30-31, 1894.
CLOUDS AND WEATHER.
Average number Of clear days, IA;
partly cloudy days, Z; cloudy days, 10.
WIND.
The prevailing winds have been from
the northwest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-05

81 don't care anything about last
nights work or who was concerned In
1t. That's nothing to me. All | want,
my boy. is the money. and that l want
devilish bad or ] would not have run
up here from Boston. when | might
have made half q hundred Off q coun-
tryman Lewis brought in from the
Canada wilds this morning"
"Wattles. swear
But the hand he had raised was
quickly drawn down to the other.
Don't" said the older man shortly.
"It won't pay. Sutherland. Stage talk
never passed for anything with me.
Besides. your white face tells a truer
story than your lips, and time Is pre-
cious. want to take the II o'clock
train back. So down with the cash.
Nine hundred and fifty-six it Is. but.
being friends. we will let the odd six
CO."
"Wattles, | was to bring it to you to-
morrow. or was it the next day? | do
not want to give it to you tonight. In
deed cannot. but-Wattles. wait,
stop! Where are you going?"
"To see your father. | want to tell
him that his son owes me debt; that
this debt was incurred In way that
lays him liable for arrest for forgery;
that. bad as he thinks you. there are
facts which can be picked up in Bos-
ton which, would make Frederick Suth-
erland's continued residence under the
parental roof impossible: that In fact
you are scamp Of the first water and
that only my friendship for you has
kept you out of prison so long. Won't
it make nice story for the old gentle
mans ears%
"Wattles-I-oh, my God, Wattles,
stop a minute and listen to me. | have
not got the money. had enough this
morning to pay you. had it legitimate
ly. Wattles. but 1t has been stolen from
me-, and
81 will also tell him." the other broke
in as quietly and calmly as If Freder-
lex had not uttered word. that in
certain visit to Boston you lost $500 on
one hand: that you lost it unfairly.
not having dollar to pay with; that
to prevent scandal became your
security. with the understanding that
l was to be paid at the end Of ten days
from that night: that you thereupon
played again and lost S400 and odd
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07

"Ma" exclaimed the Interrogation
point, aged seven years, a member OF
respectable south side family, as he
sat reading. "Ma! who was the maid
of Orleans?"
"She was young woman; French
patriot. Her other name was Joan OF
Are" replied his mother. But by this
time he was 50 interested in seeing
his dog chase neighbours cat that the
story of the French maiden had lost
all hold Of him.
1t was some SIX months after this
that his teacher was asking the class,
"Who knows about Joan of Arc?" A
dim recollection of having heard the
name before puzzled but did not en-
tighten him.
"What was she maid of?" suggested
the teacher.
"Made of dust" they cried in
chorus, thinking of their catechism.
But the question completed the
circuit in the boys memory. He
dimly his talk with his mother.
Up went his hand. The teacher
nodded. "She was n French patri-
arch, he proudly answered, Chicago
Chronicle.
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ODD CASE Of 1eLePATHY.
a Problem Which Those Interested
the Supernatural May Figure Out.

a Problem Which Those Interested in
the Supernatural May Figure Out.
81 have heard several times of
telepathic communication, said q
gentleman well known in the hotels
OF Washington to Star reporter,
'but | never had it brought home 50
closely to me as it was the other day.
was visiting at the house of friend
who is practical electrician and who
has charge of dynamo in one of the
department buildings. He happened
to be absent at the time, although it
was past his usual time for getting
home and his wife aud were sitting
in the parlor commenting upon his
tardiness, for he was usually the most
punctual of men. Just as | looked at
the clock for perhaps the sixth or
seventh time and had perhaps noted
that it lacked fifteen minutes Of be-
ing . o'clock, my hostess gave a slight
gasp and sat rigid in her chair.
Every muscle seemed to be tense, aud
she gave the appearance Of one labor
ing under the strongest shock. For
the space of perhaps second she re-
NAMED in this condition and then
suddenly grew limp and helpless as il
some strain under which she had been
laboring had been removed Almost
Immediately she revived and looked
around with n questioning air. When
l say that all this occupied not more
thau two on three seconds at the most
you will realize how queer it all was.
Isn't it funny, she said on coming
to. 4 feel exactly as though | had re-
ceived terrible electric shock.
know the sensation because my hus-
baud has small battery in the
house and often gives me electricity
for nervousness. At that moment
the telephone bell rang and [ an
swered it. The message was that
my friend had taken hold of the
wrong lever at the switch board that
distributed the current from his
dynamo, and that the surgeons at
nearby hospital hoped to save his life.
| asked when it occurred, and the re-
ply came About a quarter to five
can't explain it, and don't intend to
try. | have trouble enough of my
own of very material nature without
going into the supernatural to hunt
for more problems to figure out
am happy to say that my friend en-
tirely recovered, but both he and his
estimable spouse are as much at loss
as 1 am in reasoning ont the strange
occurrence. Washington StGr.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
WORDS OF WISDOM.

One to-day is worth two tomorrow.
Keep good company OF none. Never
be idle.
There is no failure excap! in cens.
ing to try.
1t is the wise head that makes the
still tongue.
Conservatism carried too far be-
comes dry rot.
There is no index Of character so
sure as the voice
All imposture weakens confidence
and chills benevolence.
Triaes make up the happiness or
the misery of mortal life.
Do good to thy friend to keep him,
to the enemy to gain him.
One felt if she had been pretlier
she would have had emotions instead
of ideas.
Where malice persists we may safe
ly assume that there is criminal dis
position.
Yindictiveness, liko all forms of re-
venge, is illogical as we'll as immortal
Its presence is sign of an exceed
ingly low type of morality.
Sorrow is the key to the lock; sor-
row opens the door into a fuller ex-
istence and gives understanding OF
power innate and its perfect usage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07

feet long, aud fashion the forward end
OF each in the shape of a sleigh runner.
Then take 2x4 the same length as
the boards, and bevel the edges in such
q way that when the boards are nailed
on they will spread out at the bottom
until they are about eight inches apart.
This trough is to pass, inverted, over
the corn row, between the shovels of
the cultivator; its sloping sides catch
ing the loose soil and leaving it lying
loosely next the corn, but never on it.
TO fasten this trough to the cultivator,
bore an inch hole through the sides
near the front end and just beneath
the top 2x4. Through these run a
small, strong rope aud tie each end to
the cultivator in such way that the
trough will be kept little in advance
of the shovels. 1t is best to leave
the rope play loosely through the
trough. as it would otherwise upset in
turning at the end of the rows. The
illustration shows the construction
exactly. Make your handy devices
now, before the busy time comes
Jim 1. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07

tion to the summer wardrobe, giving
an up-to-date and picturesque touch
to any number of gowns with which
it may be worn. This one, called the
Trianon, from Harper's Bazaar, is one
of the newest models. It's folds are
especially designed to give a perfect
shape, and it is cut with narrow stole
ends in front, as foundation for the
ruflles that ornament the front.
Mousseline de sole, chiffon, null or
point d'esprit are suitable materials
for its development, with self material
or lace ruflles. The self-ruffles may
be further embellished by tiny ruches,
top and bottom, aud by the lower edge
being cut in scallops. This fichu can
be worn just simply pinned at the
bust as here shown, or it can be knot
ted at the bust and allowed to hang
loose. 1t can also be crossed and
fastened with bow each side at the
waist line; or, it can be crossed on
the bust, with the ends taken around
aud fastened at the waist in the back.
Infinite variety may be obtained by a
little tasteful variation in its arran ge-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07

The finer the soil the more moisture
it is capable of absorbing and retain
ing. Moisture cannot and does not
penetrate into heavy, tenacious soils,
and when clods III such soils are not
pulverized and become dry they re-
tain their dryness in the centre dur
ing the entire summer. When land
is made fine and free from cods the
water does not so readily flow back to
the surface, nor is it so rapidly dried
up during the season, but il delivered
to the surface in proper proportions.
The moisture which is inclosed in the
interstices of the soil and which ac-
cumulates in large quantity when
land has been plowed in the fall ex-
pands and contracts during the win
ter, according to the temperature, and
many of the coarse portions are pull
verized; but in spring, should the
plowing of a field composed of heavy
soil be performed and the work fol-
lowed by dry weather, even the har-
row will sometimes fail to reduce it.
Flowing and narrowing must, there
fore, be done atproper times, and the
judgment of the farmer must be exer.
cised to guide him. The condition of
a field should be similar to that re-
quired for a garden. With a small
garden, where the spade and rake are
used, care is taken to make the soil as
fine as possible. A field should be
considered as garden on larger
scale. 1t requires more labor on a
garden plot than for field, but the gar
den produces twice as much in pro-
portion to area as the field. Labor
bestowed on field, so far as the
preparation OF the soil is concerned,
will be amply repaid in the gain of
yield in the crop. The soil always
responds to good treatment-a fact
which at Que time gave rise to the
claim that well-cultivated soil re-
CURED no manure, which claim, how
ever, is not correct; but cultivation
without doubt largely increases the
WELD
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
Benefits of Co-Opera tion.

What farmers can do by co-opera-
ton in the matter of road making is
Interestingly told by Michigan cor
respondent of the Orange Judd Far
mer. 1t is a sandy country where the
correspondent lives, and the roads
were generally poor throughout the
year. The town was poor also, and
refused to improve the highways.
Then the farmers decided to help
themselves About five years ago
twenty-five of them came together and
offered to haul mari one day free if
the township would allow them to
take the mari from it's bed. The town
ship was willing, and about twenty
men volunteered to shovel and level
the mari, and so the first half mile
was laid. That road proved such a
success that the next year another
half mile was put down. This mari,
packed down so hard and made such
excellent bed for gravel that the far
mers donated 1926 and labor for
about one-quarter mile of gravel.
This being put on in what was always
wet place. it was spread about eight
inches thichk. Next year $3.50 was
collected and about one-half mile was
put down, spreading this only about
four inches. This year only 500 was
collected, but a quarter.mile strip was
put down, finishing the mile started
five years before. Besides this about
half-mile of mari was put down
ready for gravel next fall. This ac-
tion of the farmers stirred up the
townspeople ut large, and now the
town has offered to raise 5000 for
gravel if the farmers will furnish the
labor to spread it. That they will do
willingly.