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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08
RATS HATE TOBACCO.
An Old Cigar Man Tells of His obser-
vations.

hn OId CiSar wan iciiS VI THO wow
vations.
"At any rate, the tobacco man can
put in a good word for the rats" said an
old cigar man. but suppose he Is the
only man who would see anything
about the rodent family that was good.
Besides, what he says is a negative
sort of goodness. The rat simply does
MT bother the tobacco man.
During a long experience in the to-
bacco business. an experience covering
twenty-five years or more. 1 recall but
few instances where the rat became at
all bothersome around cigar stores.
"They cannot stand the odor Of to-
bacco and I have never known of rats
eating tobacco in any form, or even or
rats attempting to cut into tobacco. l
suppose the taste of the weed is often
sive to the rodent palate.
AT any rate, they will have nothing
to do with it. You might fill the place
up with rats, and I would open every
so the tribe would have easy access to
the stock, and would lay a wager that
we would come in here after they had
remained overnight and find that they
had not touched thing In the place.
Rats are not chewerS of tobacco, nor
smokers, nor users Of the weed In any
form. Even the smoke of the tobacco
seems to craze them. I remember few
years ago to have made an experiment
for the purpose Of seeing what effect
smoke would have on a rat, and to de-
termine the cause Of the rats antipathy
to tobacco. I had caught a rat in a
trap at my house.
II put him in a little cage and began
to blow tobacco smoke in on him. !
have seen a great many panic stricken
animals, but nothing compassed by my
experience equaley the wild alarm of
that rat when I began to puff the
smoke through the Sits of the cage. If
the cage had been on fire he would
not have been more frightened than he
was.
Maybe that is what he thought. l
carried the experiment further than l
had intended, for before l knew 1t the
rat became as limp as a rag, and was
evidently very much nauseated.
THE experiment taught me that the
rats stomach rebels at either the smell
or the taste Of tobacco, and I suppose
that's why we are not pestered by rats
in cigars stores" Inter- Noun
tain.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08
A Budding Morgan.

"Oh, yes" the proud father remark
ed, says the New York Press, my
Youngest son has the making OF a
Morgan in him. 1 went home early
the other afternoon and found him
presiding over a lemonade stand at
the corner Of our street. I asked him
what under heaven he was doing that
for, and he said to make money He
told me he had cleared seventy-five
cents that day. I told him to close up
at once and come home with me.
"I can't he said. I've just prom
lsed to sell out the stand to a boy
for forty cents
"'Will you take fifty cents for it?
asked him.
"'Certainly,' he replied.
livery we'll, here's fifty cents. Now
throw that box away and come home
"'AIl right, father he said, pocket
ing the money. but I just want to
wait here until the boy comes back.
1t wouldn't be honorable not to wait
and tell him that I had sold out to
vou.'
so left him after he had promised
to give up the lemonade business as
soon as the boy turned up. That hon
orable' tickled me.
But that wasn't the end Of it. His
uncle came home ten minutes after I
did, and when he spotted my boy selling
a glass Of lemonade, he, too, wanted
him to close up at once. My budding
financier told him he could not, that
he had an offer Of fifty cents for his
stand, and was waiting to sell out.
"Tll give you seventy-five cents If
you will dump that stuff in the gutter
and come home said the innocent un-
Gle.
Very we'll, SIR my boy agreed.
"And when the seventy-five cents
had exchanged hands he closed up the
lemonade stand"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08

THE TEXTILE INDUsTRY.-Congress
man Bellamy, Of North Carolina, tells
Of a colored preacher in his state who
left preaching to engage in more re-
munerative work. Meeting him one
day the congressman asked him If he
was still preaching in the little cabin
on the hill.
mo. sah." was the reply, II am en-
gagged in the textile industry; it's more
lucrative than pastorizin', sah."
you've gone to work in the cotton
mill at Charlotte. I take it," said the
congressman.
mo. sah," replied the ex-minister,
Use selling a book Of texts for minis
ters, with helps for their elushidation."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08
An Apinal Story For
Little Folks
@e CaterpiNars Ball

The caterpillars' dance was the big
gest thing that the caterpillar family
had given for many and many long
day, and you may rest assured that
not one of the invitations that were
sent out was thrown away.
When the fiddlers had just begun
to fiddle and the dancers had lined up
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08

I'm A CATERPILLAR" ANSWERED MR
EARTHwORM.
on the floor for the first grand waltz,
who should come along but Mr.. Earth
worm.
"Only caterpillars are admitted here"
said the chief doorkeeper.
"Well, I'm a caterpillar" answered
Mr.. Earthworm, and he looked offend
ed.
"What kind of a caterpillarT asked
the doorkeeper.
"I'm baldheaded caterpillar" an.
swered the earthworm promptly.
So they decided to let him In any.
way, and soon he was in the hall and
dancing with the prettiest lady cater
pillar there.
But one of the little caterpillars
dropped piece Of chewing gum on the
floor, and right in the midst Of the
whole affair Mr.. Earthworm slipped on
It, and down he went in heap on the
floor.
Everybody cried "Ohw for they
thought that he must have been hurt,
but he sprang up quickly enough and
was ready to keep on dancing. But.
wonderful to relate, the earthworm
got up wrong end foremost and began
to dance around upside down, for you
know that one end Of an earthworm
looks as much like his head as the 9th
er. But the caterpillars knew the diff
ference, and they all thought that he
must be ghost The lady caterpillars
screamed, and the gentlemen cater
pillars jumped out Of the window, and
that ended the big ball, except that
when Mr.. Earthworm started to go
home crowd Of caterpillar policemen
taught him and sent him to Jail for
'..hree summers for his badness.
Moral.-Don't 60 where you don't be-
bng.-Chicago Tribune.
8T Old age either brings experience or
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08

1F' Mother-Tommy. what's the mat
ter with your little brother?
Tommy-He's crying because I'm
eating my cake and won't give him
any?
Mother-Is his own cake finished?
Tommy-Yes'm. and he cried while I
was eatin' that too.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08
CLOSE FIGURES -.
PHOTOGRAPHY
ra AM Ant

A ND It takes an artist to be pho
Atographer. One who Is not an art
list doesn't stand much of chance OF
making success at photography
have given years Of study to this es-
pecial line and 7 can say with pride
that my work will compare favorably
with that Of any photographer In this
section.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08
As Far As Prices

Are concerned, you need not worry
yourself along that score. I know that
my prices are reasonable and you will
agree with me when I tell you what
they are. am also prepared to devel-
op and print pictures taken with pock-
ct cameras. If you have Kodak or
Vive or any other camera, and for any
reason you can't develop and print
your pictures. bring them to me at my
gallery on West Liberty street.
]. r. SCHORB.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08

1T Old age either brings experience or
Is brought by 1t.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08

n Insomnia is one thing and night
mare Is another. Take your choice.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-08
GASTON.

Gastonia Gazette, August a: Misses
Willie and Lee Williams and Miss Ella
Cody arrived last night and are spend
ing today with Misses Dollie and Benie
Ford. They are enroute to their homes
at Yorkville from stay in the noun
tains. .......T The Gastonia and Kings
Mountain baseball teams played at
Kings Mountain yesterday afternoon,
the game resulting in score Of to Z
in favor of Kings Mountain. The
game was snappy and Gastonia did
excellent work considering the fact
that several of the regulars could not
go. The feature of the game was a
home run by John Garmon Of the Gas
tonia team. go. Mr.. ]. A. Gullick died
suddenly this morning at his home on
West Main street This sad news will
come as a great shock to Mr.. Gullick' s
friends everywhere. While not in good
health. he was still attending his daily
duties. He spent yesterday in Dallas
and came back in the afternoon with
Messrs. John Mclean and Tom Allison,
who spent the night with him. and
were with him when he died. About II
O'Clock last night. Mr.. Gullick went
home with headache. At four he was
taken i'll. Physicians were called, but
he was dead shortly past four when
they arrived. Hemorrhage Of the heart
was given as the cause of his death.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
The Moon and Rniu.

when you see the new moon hangin'
straight up and down, lookin' sort of
sour like, you're not goin' TO have rain
for at least two-thirds of the month"
said an old observer. when she comes
up lookin' like she wouldn't spill, then
it's goin' TO be good weather for two
thirds of the month.
You can bank on that, boy. I've
been watchin' the moon for weather
more'n thirty years on land and sea.
and the dip tells the story better than
any weather prophet that ever called
turns ON the weather from headquar-
ters down in Washington.
Further than gettin' a cue on the
weather." he continued. you ear tell
by the color of the moon whether it's
goin' to be a warn or cold rain.
IF the we moon looks red it's goin'
to be a warm rain. If il looks bright
and silvery like it's goin' to be a chilly
rain.
1--WE been watchin' Luna, as they
call her, come up over Jersey for a
number of years. and l haven't found
her sign to fail yet."-Philadelphia In
duirer.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
The Afunka Bride,

Here is a picturesque incident in the
Munka wedding ceremony in India:
The bride goes to a stream or well near
by with her pitcher and. having filled it,
raises it aloft ON her head. steadying it
with her hand. The bridegroom
behind. as she turns homeward. and,
resting his hand on her shoulder, shoots
an arrow along the path in front of her
through the loophole formed by her up
lifted arm. The bride then walks on
20 where the arrow lies and picks it up
with her foot, still balancing the pitcher
on her head. Transferring it grace
fully TO her hand. she restores 1t to the
bridegroom. thus showing that she can
perform her domestic duties well, with
hand and foot at his service. He IL
turn, by shooting the arrow in front of
her, has shown his ability to protect
her and clear her path of any danger
that may beset it.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Cost of False Noses.

People sometimes lose their noses by
disease or by accidents, and some have
lost them in war. For noseless persons
the most appropriate organs are said
to be made of wax, and the best ones
cost about $175, though a really good
one can be got for $75. A nose made
of papier mache may be bought for So.
Noses made of this material are enam-
eled and are deceptive, and for a poor
man they are said to answer all the
purposes that are required. Waxen and
paper noses are, in case of disease,
preferable to those made by the plant
Ing of flesh on the diseased part, for
several cases have been known where
the transplanting of the flesh of the
nose has endangered mems liyes.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Notice of Forfeitu~ &c

F. Silve, teIlIcIe SIlve, Il. Silye.
p. n. Silve. You are hereby nouned
that the undersigned are in
mining claims, known as the
Geneva, Standard, ~SunnysIde, Blue.
La Grande, Lucky Jack ana Copper
ring mine, situated in Potosa district,
III humboldt county, state of Nevada,
mas performed the assessment work
as required by law for the years 1901
and 1902. and if within sixty dad
after this notice by publication you
fail or refuse to contribute you pro
portion OF the expenditure upon SAID
claim for assessment work your IN
lerests in SAID claim will become the
property of the undersigned under the
d. DIVISIONS of Section 1924, Revised
Statutes of the United States.
FELIX LONFIGLIACO.
July 10, 1903. 7-10-2mo.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
From the q. of L. 3.

Detroit. Mich. May rs. 1902.
The Detroit leather Speciality Co
Gentlemen-I have been wearing the
F. P. Sargent glove. which is man
featured by your company. for the paa'
six months and N convinced that for
durability, wear and style they have
no equal. The new laced thumb
which you have adopted. in which
v0u have done away with the clumsv
rivets ard uncomfortable stitching, So
commonly used, is all you claim for 1t,
giving 1t a freedom Of motion not
possessed by any other working glove
7 have worn. can heartily recon-
mend your glove to anyone who wish
10 wear a good. substantial. stylish
as bestos tan glove. that is made by 3
firm using the Union Label.
Respectfully Yours.
A. LEO KENT. Sec. 81
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Sample Copies Free

Inc Silver state Will be pleased
o send sample copies TO any address
haI may be handed III, Tree vi charge.
* o nave trlen0s IN the east or
Elsewhere that you are Trying TO In
terest IN Nevada, and especially IN
4 ames, and we Will send them q copy
OF severaI copies OF n paper. lucy
Will get more information q a 1
the county and state IN d uozen letters,
and you are saved the trouble of writ
ing. The more names nai you hand
n with the request hat sample copies
lie sent. the better We will like it.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
HISTORY or WHISTLER.
The Picture That Was His Ever
Though IL Had Been sold.

A certain Lady So-and-so, who adj
mired Whistler's genius to the extent
of purchasing one of his pictures.
never was able to obtain possession of
her property. one day she drove TO
the studio in her victoria. Mr.. Wits
sler went out to the sidewalk 10 greet
her.
mir. Whistler she said, two years
ago | bought one of your pictures, a
beautiful thing, and / have never been
able to hang it on my walls. 1t has
been loaned to one exhibition or an
other. Now today | have my carriage
with me. and | would like to take ii
home with me. / am told 1t is in your
possession"
Dear LADY, returned Whistler, you
ask the impossible. l will send 1t to
you when have it again, but it is not
here. You have been misinformed.
And so forth. and so forth, to the same
effect. and the lady drove off without
her picture.
After size had departed Whistler
commenced to poke around the studio,
and. to the great establishment of n
friend who had beer an involuntary
listener TO the above conversation. ne
brought forth a canvas.
Here it is he said. "She was right
about one thing-it is beautiful" And
il was beautiful.
"But the impudenee of these people"
he continued. who think that because
they pay Il few paltry hundred pounds
they own my pictures. Why, it mere
ly secures them the privilege Of having
them in their houses now and then,
The pictures are mine!'-Harpers
Weekly.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Bartlett Springs Water

Messrs. Marino, the propl. etors OF
ne new saloon, THE Leader" have
secured the local agency for the min
eral water from the celebrated Bart
lett Springs, situated in Lake coun-
~, California. and will keep on hand
at all times a big and ai~ays fresh
supply, which is bottled especially for
Them. The water comes In quart bot
les, which retail at rs cents. Try
sing it Tor awhile, and test the won
AerIul qualities OF TINS wafer. 7-Stf
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Fight Until the End,

Life can be made a success. It IS not
a question of climbing above poverty;
it is a question of understanding life.
So many of us have been lured away
and fascinated by what turn out to be
phantoms and false gods! We have
had to wheel back and begin over
again and fight along against tremen-
dous odds, and yet with all that life
can be made a success, for success con
sists in doing right, in doing the best
you can with what you have, of years
of experience, of sorrows, of chances,
of joys and of hope. Fight until the
end.-Schoolmaster.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Fearful Odds Against Him

Bedridden, alone and destitute. Such,
in brief, was the condition of an Old
soldier by name OF J. j. Ravens, Yer
%sailles, o. For years he was troubled
with Kidney disease and neither doc
tors nor medicines gave him relief.
At length he tried Electric Bitters. 1t
put him on his feet in short order and
now he testities: I'm On the road to
complete recovery Best on earth
for Liver and Kidney troubles and all
forms of Stomach and Bowel Com
plants. Only soc. Guaranteed by
Brown Bros, druggists.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Weird Music of Moro.

Moro music is strangely unrhythmic-
nj to European ears, says a writer in
Eyerybody's Magazine. 1t consists
mainly of Il mOnotonous reiteratiOn of
sound, even II supposed change of air
being almost imperceptible to an ear
unaccustomed to the barbarous lack Of
tone. The Moro piano is II wooden
frame shaped Hike the runners of q
child's sled, on which small kettle
drums are balanced by mea of cords
and sticks laid horizontally. These
rather resemble pots for the Kitchen
range than musical instruments, but
each is roughly tuned. forming the
eight notes of the scale. Women crouch
ING on the ground before this instru-
ment beat out Il wailing sound from it
with shaped sticks, while from larger
kettledrums. hung by ropes from a
wooden railing at one side. two men
accompanied the piano, and one old
woman in the background drummed
out an Independent air of her own on
an empty tin pan.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
Curious Irish Marriage Custom.

A curious old marriage custom, call
ed locally ''the settling" still survives
In County Donegal, Ireland, and in the
Scotch districts of Kintyre and COwal.
After the marriage has been publicly
announced the friends of the couple
meet at the house of the brides par
ents to fix a suitable date for the mar
rage. \ bottle of whisky is opened.
and as each guest drinks TO their hap
piness he names a date. When each
guest has named a date an average is
struck and settling Is complete.
Neither the bride nor bridegroom ever
thinks of protesting against the date
so ~curiously chosen.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
A MAN OF MYSTERY.
Peculiar Life of Metnstasfo, the Cell
ehrated Italian Poet.

hthth tbtNs
Metastasio QG9S-17S2l. the ted
dramatic and operate poet, spent fifty
i've years in Vienna with the Marines
family without ever learning German
or wishing TO learn it.
Besides his utter indifference to all
speech but Italian. Metastasio possess
ed many peculiarities of character.
None might mention death in his pres.
snce. Those who alluded to smallpox
before him he made ii a point not to
see again. In all his fifty-fve years
I'm Vienna he never gave away more
than the equivalent Of $50 to the
poor. He always occupied the same
seat ut church, but never paid for il.
He took all his meals in the most mys-
FERROUS privacy: his greatest friends
had never seen him eat anything but a
biscuit with some lemonade. Nothing
would induce him to dine away from
home. lie never changed his wig or
the cut or color of his coat.
Metastasio was to have been present
ed to the pope the day he died and
raved about the intended interview in
the delirium of his last moments. Mrs.
Piozzi familiar to readers of Boswelrs
life of Or. Johnson as Mrs. Thrale)
collected these particulars from the la
dies of the Marines family. with
whom Metastasio was so long domesti-
Gated without speaking or understand
ing n word of their language from first
70 last.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08

That's Il very knowing animal of
yours" said a young cockney to the
keeper of an elephant.
Very was the cool rejoinder.
He performs strange tricks and han
tics, does hep inquired the cockney.
eying the animal critically.
"Surprisin'!' retorted the keeper.
''We've learned him to put money in
that box you see up there. Try him
with half a CROWN
The cockney handed the elephant
half Il CROWN, and, sur enough, he
took it in his trunk and placed it in "a
box high up out of reach.
Well, that is very hextraordinary-
hastonishing, truly!' said the green
one, opening his eyes. "Now. let's see
him take it out and hand 1t back"
I'VE never learned him hat trick"
retorted the keeper, walking away
Glasgow Times.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08


speaking Of bad luck" said a land
lady the other day. did you ever hear
that Il was bard luck 20 so back TO q
house you had once lived in? Well. it
IS. | heard some enc say that when !
was a little girl, and some way 1t has
always remained in my mind. If any
person who has lived in my house goes
away and talks If coming back | az
ways try 10 dissGsds him. One youl
follow scoTed st the idea. yet the day
after he c.-ce back TO live with ro
he lost his position and did not get an
other until he moved away from uy
house. He would have stuck it ogt
only | told him | would have to have
my room. So he went away. and at
once secured another and better posi-
ton than the one he had when he first
came to me-"
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08

In Frankfort the body of the dead is
removed as soon as life is extinct to
'leichen hansen" or death houses,
where it rests until the first signs of
decomposition appear. Such a death
house consists of a warder's room, with
five death chambers on each hand. A
ring on the finger of each body is con-
nected with a bell. and should one
rouse from a trance that had been mis-
taken for death he could summon the
warder. Since Frankfort has had
death houses several young girls have
been rescued from being buried alive.
Munich has a similar system.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
mo 10 nareaIn on Record.

Probably ~ in the history of the
world was n better bargain made than
the purchase Of the island of Grenada,
in the British West Indies. 1t was
bought by ihe French from the Carih3
by a solemn treaty in the middle of the
seventeenth century. and the price
paid was two bottles Of rum. Esau's
mess of pottaEe was a good stroke Of
business ny comparison. The Carlos
soon regretted having sold their birth
right and vainly tried to get the island
back by force. 1t IS now one of En-
lands most prosperous colonies in III
West Indies, with a population of over
10000 and a big trade.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-08
The Day Did Come.

His chest heaved convulsively, and
the veins stood out upon his forehead.
In his anger he advanced toward the
other with outstretched fist. But by a
strenuous effort he controlled himself.
NO matter.' he muttered savagely
"The day will Gomez
Sure enough, at dawn the next morn
ing faint streaks of gray penciled Tie
east. Later, at its accustomed hour,
the sun arose.
Thus was the prophecy fulfilled.