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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-17
ANOTHER PLANT WIZARD.
Remarkable Achievements by Proi
leduc of Nantes.

Remarkable Achievements by Prof.
Leduc Of Nantes.
If Prof. Leduc of the pretty city of
Nantes in Frances, had fourished In
the Middle Ages he would probably
have been tried for witchcraft, tortur-
ed and burned, says the Circle. His
particular variety of scientific nee
romancy consists in toyink with life
and in producing artificial plants and
cells which conduct themselves exact
ly like natural growths, but which
are composed only Of inert matter.
Leducs experiments are so simple
that any one can repeat them without
elaborate implements. In the first
place a tiny seed must be made
which consists OF two parts cane su-
gar and one part Of copper sulphate.
Drop this seed in a solution of one TO
ten per cent of potassium ferrocyapid,
one to ten per cent Of common table
salt and one to four per cent Of gela-
tin. and in a few hours or days some
thing will happen.
The seed terminates, roots and
stems are produced, leaves unfold and
branches shoot out in all directions.
The growth would battle botanist.
He could not distinguish it from a real
plant
The plant has all the functions Of
vegetation except one. Its develop
ment is arrested by poisons; it heals
its wounds; it feeds; in a word, 1t
does everything that can be expected
of a plant except the reproduction of
its own kind, and even that Leduc re-
fuses to consider an insurmOuntable
obstacle.
Although Leduc's artificial plants
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-17
BOIEINGSPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

SHELBY. N. @.
Has Determined to Be One Of the
First Glass High Schools Of the State.
The building and equipment will be
first-class in every respect. The
Course Of Study will be exceptionally
good, leading to the Junior class Of
the colleges. Young men and young
ladies will be we'll trained for the or
dinary vocations Of life. Separate dor
mitories. Board at cost. Fall term
opens October 1st, 1907. Prospective
students should write at once for par
ticulars to
j. D. HUGGINs, Principal,
Shelby. N. @.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-17

THE Devils DIsCIPLE.-Charles r
Lummis, the well-known author traV-
eler and authority on Indians, appear
ed recently in Washington in cor
duroy suit, a sash and a sombrero.
Mr.. Lummis," said a reporter, III
YOUR study of the Indians you mus'
have come upon many strange things
In any study" said the novelist
"one comes upon strange things. Take
for instance, the study Of childhood
Nothing reveals stranger things thar
that.
81 know a little boy in Los Angeles
He was bad the other day, and MS
mother punished him.
After his punishment he was seer
to go to his fathers desk and write
something on a sheet Of paper. Ther
he went out into the garden, dug
little hole and buried the paper in 1t.
His mother, after he had gone
away, dug up the paper. 1t contained
these words:
Dear devil, please come and take
mamma .'"-Pittsburg News
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-17

I'll A story which to western minds
may SAVIOR of ingratitude reaches us
from one of the northern ports, says
the South China Post. 1t appears that
among a large quantity Of foodstuff
consigned to the famine stricken peo-
pie in China by American sympathiz-
ers were thousands of cheeses. 1t Is
hor cheese. and the result Is that In
some of the northern places there is a
glut of this commodity at present. Big
cheeses-Once so rare-are now pro-
durable for 60 cents each.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-17

SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE.-The
visiting minister was walking along
the shady country road to a church
where he was to preach that day,
when he saw little boy digging Wig
orously into the bank by the road
side. He stopped and asked the boy
why he worked so hard on Sunday.
I'm digging for a woodchuck, sir
replied the boy.
We'll. my son. don't you know it is
wrong to do that on Sunday, and you
won't get him."
Not get him!" exclaimed the boy;
why, I've got to get him. The minis
ters coming to our house to dinner to-
day and we amt got no meat"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-25
Traits of Norway's Queen.

Il a sketch oi tie ne1 queen Of
AE~ay il Is said that she s probably
the slimmest woman in her dominion.
Her waist measures but l. inches and
ehs Is so erh real in appearance that
even in England, where the cult of
thinness has as worshipers practical.
" all the women of the Kingdom and
most of the men. she IS called rather
too frail and delicate in appearance
Queen Maud was the to-aboy member
Of 6ing Edwards family. She waa
the baby of the family a1i its bright.
est member as we'll Il was she who
first nicknamed her brother. the late
duke of Clarence, Collars and CUFFS.
a name which chung to him through
life. She called her eldest sister, ths
duchess of Fife. now called the prin.
cess royal her royal shypess, on sc.
count of that retiring lgdy's almost
morbid dislike Of appearing in public.
And it was this merry princess who
collected all the quoted sayings AMI
doings OF the royal family in a scrap
book and labeled II Things We Never
Did or Said"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-25
MADE MUCH MOf!EY
CHARLATAN FLEECED DUPEs N
ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY.
Large Fortune E ,sred from The
crsdulous in Three YeArs-Loys
Powders and Magic Breast
plates in Demand

Nearly 2oo Wines. representing
81 states. APPEARED in the United
States district court a. Baltimore 70
testify for the government Al the trial
OF DR." Theodore White, charged
with using The mails TO defraud- There
were present l. pretty typeEriters.
who were kept busy by Dr. White
In conducting tie CORES ondenee incl
dent TO the immense business he had
established connecting love powders.
manufacturing magic breastplates ard
dispensing diplomas comforting he
degree OF Ph D. on Fhs graduates.
who had established their tile 70 shat
degree By paying for DR. Whites
book. Blessings For Al Mankind.
The tables in the court room wore
covered with exhibits painful OF The
lore powder and some specimens Of
the breastplates being displayed there
Assistant District Attorney Soger
made the opening statement % he
fury. He said tina. DR. Whites
spiritualisfic and hypnotic mail order
business had attained such proper
tons thar his postage bill amounted
to $1,000 a month. and thai he had
been obliged 10 purchase a horse lad
wagon 70 take his mail from the post
Office.
Dir. Soper said thai DR.. White
had made a fortune aur.4g the three
years he spent in The business. You
may &c, some idea of the magnitude
Of L said Mr.. Soper. when l tell
you that in one month 200 people,
from Maine TO California, each sent
this man dollar and lock of hair
in order to obtain a life rec - Aad
every reading was identical. The
same reading was sent TO every per.
son who sent a dellar. and a husband
and his wife both of whom sent 20
Or. White for Readings. were very
much Disguised when they each -
eA~ed the same -aading.
Among the spiritualistic stunts"
described in one of the pamphlets
-asd by Mr.. Soper was the following:
place an egg before the fire and
watch it wit aut moving or uttering a
sound until nighttsll. Then the egg
viii sweat blood. and when the spooky
words 'Abra eadsbTa' are uttered a
tempest will rise. and all the evil spir-
sts which were ever heard of since
the world began will appear
the Adam and Eve" charm vas
he one used 10 create love. Adam
aad Eve were represented by roots
adam was ole root and Eve was tho
other. Mr.. Soper read the directions
for their use 10 the jury The roots
should be placed in running water. he
said, and the words Whom God hath
Joined together let no man put asun-
DER should be recited over them.
Mr.. Soper also described the an.
cSsSt Egyptian breastplate, contain.
mt the powders and prayers, and
sAafged with magic solar fluid"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-25
SAN FRANCISCO AND
TREATY.MAKING POWER

The effort to induce the Mayor
of San Francisco to consent TO the
execution of a treaty made between
the United States and Japan re-
duces the national dignity
to the level OF precinct politics.
Certainly it makes clear the wisdom
OF our forefathers in refusing to
the States the right to make treaties
giving that power to the Senate and
and the President and providing
that treaties thus made should be
the supreme law. In the Senate a
two-thirds vote is needed to con
firm a treaty This protects the
States.
In the Senate each State has two
representatives. There opposition
TO treaties must manifest Itself, and
the vote of Rhode Island counts
for as much as the vote of New
York.
The State of Virginia after the
treaty of peace with Great Britain
undertook to nullify certain pro-
visions and there was no power in
the confederation TO give effect to
that instrument.
The West opposed the Jap treaty
and fought it in the Senate, but in
the Senate alone. It carried with
not a single vote to spare. The
Webster-Ashburton treaty was
unpopular in Maine, but it was
believed to promote peace and the
general welfare, though it surren-
dered territory Maine insisted be
longed TO her. If the integrity OF a
State may be sacrificed, what may
not the treaty-making power dos
1t is not to be assumed that two
thirds of the Senate will adopt a
treaty that sacrifices a single right
of single State. Should it do so,
under some grave necessity, obedi-
ence would have to be enforced.
But at this time the Mayor Of
San Francisco is negotiating with
the President of the United States
for a new treaty under which San
Francisco can exclude the japanese,
the Mayor offering the President
as compensation admission Of Jap
anese to the schools. But if some
other Mayor should refuse to en-
force this tri-partite agreement nc
power exists TO compel its enforce
unless we are prepared to
admit that treaties made by the
authority of the United States are
the supreme law even in San Fran
cisco.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-02-25

We have in transit several
carloads of parlor furni,
ture in weathered oak,
Birdseye Maple and in
fact everything to make
the home beautiful.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
Judge Bryant Names Chester B. Dorchester on Request of
 Stockholder.
COMPANY IS WILLING TO SELL
But Cannot Do So for Anything Like Its Face Value Because of the Lien Fixed by the State
 of Texas.

Sherman, Tex, June 20.-A bill of complaint against the Waters Pierce Oil Company was filed in the United States District Court today by $. B. Cantey, an attor- ney of Fort Worth, representing Bradley w. Palmer of Massachu- setts, a stocllholder, who prays for the appointment of a receiver for the company.
 It is claimed by the applicant that the judgment rendered by the District Court of Travis coun- ty has been superseded by a sui fcient appeal bond, which was signed as security by the Amer ican Security Company and John H. Kirby, and that in addition as further evidence of their solvency
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
Minneapolis Journal

longer than eight consecutive hours in any 24, Prosecuting At torney RhOton yesterday filed suit to collect the maximum pen atty for one days allegedlviolation of the act.
 It is alleged that the company on June $ permitted telegraph CTS, train dispatchers, tower -manipulators and others engaged in controlling the running of trains by either sending or in terpreting telegraph signals to work more than eight hours on that day.
 The amount demanded from the company is $500. The suit was filed in the Circuit Court, Second Division.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21

the Waters-Pierce Oil Company had deposited S2, ,O00,000 with the security company for it's protec- tion
 That the company had also filed a supersedeas appeal bond, su- preceding the order appointing a receiver and that Judge Brooks of Travis county had suspended all receivership proceedings after the bond had been filed pending the appeal in the State Court.
 That the oil company has a small amount of tangible proper, ty in Texas compared to the real and commercial value of it's buSi- ness in the State and has con- tracts to supply thousands of persons and corporations in Texas whose business would be dis turbed and impaired if interfered with, entailing innumerable suits and claims for valid damages.
 That the company is willing to sell out and has an offer of over S2, ,000.0O0 and can sell within reasonable value if a safe title can be made
 That the company is ready to adandonT Texas and stop business, but cannot sell it's property for anything like it's value because of the lien fixed by the laws of the state.
 That the company is threatened W th additional suits for penalties under the said anti trust law.
 TheWaters Pierce Oil Company voluntarily appeared to this bill of complaint, waiving service of notice and admitting the truth of the allegations and prayed for the same relief asked by the stockholder.
 Chester B. Dorchester of Sher- man was appointed receiver for all the property of the Waters Pierce Oil Company in Texas. Judge Bryant notified the attor- neys that he did not intend the receivership to last for a long period.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
Depends on kirhy's Opinion.

Little Rock, June 21. - Upon the answer that Attorney General Kirby shall return to a request from the Capitol Commission for an opinion depends whether the new state house will be ready for occupancy by the state officials and the legislature at the next meeting of that body.
 The situation is this: The new capitol act appropriated S1, 1,000,- 000for the new capitol and directs the commission to do certain Spe- cific things. To do these things will cost about 0,000 more than the 1,000,0 ,000 that has been appropriated. What the com mission wants the attorney gen eral to say is whether it has the right under the law to do all the things that the law directs to be done, even though these things cost more than the million dollars that the capitol act ap- propriated.
 If the attorney general answers in the affirmative there will be ample money to finish the Cald- well X Drake contract, with the exception of building the copper dome, which the commission has decided not to build. There is now in the capitol fund S105, ,000. In July it will receive S140,0G0 and in July next year Sl 45, ,000, a total of S390,000 In any event, however. the commission would not eXpend all this money because with the expenditure of S170,000 in addition to the S1, 100000 the Caldwell X Drake contract would be completed with the exception of the dome, and the commission has no authority to do any work except that already contracted for. This S170, ,000 would be spent in the main for floors, tiling, doors, woodwork and other in terior finishings.
 The next meeting of the Cap. itol Commission will be held on July 9th, and Attorney General Kirby's opinion is expected at that time.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
WIRELESS
An Effort Being Made to Put In a New Telegraph Sta
 tiOn Here
BACKED BYTHE WIRELESS PEOPLE
Four Hundred Shares to Be Taken By Our People at Six Dollars Share in Order to Secure It-Rep-
 resentatives Here.

Messrs. c. E. Whitney and R. J. Baysore of Los Angeles, Cal, are in the city for the purpose of putting in a wireless telegraph station at this place. They repre- sent the Pacific Wireless Tele- graph Co.,, of Los Angeles, and expect to put in 37 stations in this state. In order to secure the service, a town must take 400 shares of stock, at S6.00 a share, which permits the stockholders to share in the profits of the en- tire company. The station will be maintain on top of some build ding, which the company propos-, :, SC to lease, with the operating room below As soon as the stock is subscribed, workmen will begin at once to putting in the instruments, and communi- cation with the outside world will be had in a very few days.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
Eighi.Hour Law to Be Tested.

Alleging the Iron Mountain Railroad Company has failed to comply with the act of the last legislature which forbids railroad companies to work telegraphers, whomanage therunning of trains,
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
Grover Cleveland Better

New York, June 20.-Advices from Princeton, N. J., early to- day announced that Ex President Grover Cleveland last night pass, ed the danger point of anothr SC rious attack of sickness. He had been perilously i'll for some days with internal trouble and several have been in constant The crisis has now safely passed and Mir. Cleveland's recovery is looked for.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-21
Come 10 Practice

All the Methodist Sunday school every teacher and schol- ar come to the church Saturday at , D. m. to practice for childrens day. We want all the singers es- pecially.
 J. K. Godbey.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20
NOT AN ORATOR.

J. o. LaFontisee Of The Fernandiua
Record, who IS exceptionally well
posted regarding public men Of this
State, says;
"Of All the announcements 70 far
made for Governor, Senator, Railroad
commissioner. etc. there II not one
man IN the crowd. excepting Frank
Adams. who can oe ciassed as an
orator. Albert Jennings Is plain
fellow. a good reasoner, but not a
good speaker Hudson Burr might
pull on something committed 70 mem.
ory IN fairly good shape. Albert
Onchrist has always been able %
please himself more than his audi.
ence with bis attempt a. oratory and
We can zee bar little IN this line from
any n the others who have been
mentioned. During the last eampaieu
there vas Davis, Mays and Eilia, three
u the best orators Ii this statf, and
they lent % ne campaign a degree
q entertainment n not genuine 10.
terest Il THIS aggregation referred %
70 connection wifh the nezf campaign
a % Be al tben ne State exscutiys
committee osght % hire . brass band
o. minstrel % accompany the speak-
ers On tbe.r toufr q the State - he
Interest o. anlgssmeat'
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20
THosE EXAMINATION sLANks-

ocala Star: Nearly everyone has
heard q ire sensation created uhen
4 shipment q examination blanks. for
the 1897 examinations sent By ex-
press from tie state superintsnaenfs
o1ice AZ TallEhRssee 10 stArke. we're
stolen and not oEly used Int many
more printed from then. These
blanks IRE sold IN Tallahassee.
ooala and other points At prices rang
ing from SIS 70 SO pr set among
the oolored applicants for schools.
and by the way. IL is Supposed that
colored people did the stealing and
selling Of the blanks. Prof Carr and
Prof. Workman. who vas assisting
him in the examination az the thirsy-
nine colored applicants Tor school Ger
slfcascS, became veTy susaicsoss whez
a number Of the applicants made from
g mp In the grades, and most of them
nearly hundred IN arithmetic. IN fact
a good many o. them made nearly
a hundred IN al Of the studies thst
they had been examined IN up 70 the
time Professors earn and workman
began to grow suspicious. Prof. Carr
quietly passed out to the applicants
a set Of last years blanks On gram
mar. erasing the date. and says It vas
a circus TO see the facial expressions
on a great many Of the wSald-be
teachers. They were stalled. coald
not do q thing They scratched their
heads, looked about grlnned, tit
tered. leaned over and asked Qnes-
lions. They knew. Ike the soldiers
in the charge Of the light brigade.
that someone had biEndercd. TIE
grades made averaged 20. Some AZ the
teachers, those who had evidently not
bought the question blanks. plodded
right ahead with the last years
Blanks never Suspccsing thas any
thing was wrong and made fair
grades OF course the applicatioas
for teachers certificates wIli have 10
be refused, at least 10 all whom e
Is suspected had the stolen blanks
There must have been a least twen-
ty-iive supplied with these blanks.
and oat Of the thlrtynins applicants
not over ten or twelve win pass Or
receive certificates to teach There
were only three men and thlTsy-six
women. Several Of these acanowi-
edged 10 Prof earn thar they knew
of others Who had the stolen blAnks.
bat none have yet acknowiedged that
be or she had them. neither has he
zen able 70 persaade INV one % tell
i'm from whom they WE'RE purchased
h0ugh a reward has been oaered
md the perpetrator uiiI Be found
sooner or later.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20

Judge J. c. Pollock n ne Usi'cs
states Diatrcs cozrt 81 Lszrea8cgsa.
Kanaaa, On TIE l7tk Inst 81 ~ ease
Of The Kansas BreWsng C1zEa-T Aak.
Ing an injaheti1a % rruFet G ~
Triekett assistsat aftorusT el-erzl ct
Kansas. frgn q zing ngaars y ira1fsi
from Missouri = Karsar ~ fszs
where ne sale = lssurr e n.ts p
rood fsstk IA q isreirz Eests - So
Ieg had tie pr4yless Ea.sr - tsslarAl
laws rerzstinE izterEizts cs1Hesrs
10 dsarer ~ uns 81 EG1E1a H-.1
sstber cozsct - KzlsaS Ee t1e sl19
al 6szrery. q = EeEuu--l g - E.sre
q Elie
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20
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We zpDend hereto The Wni q 4
nan uho 1led b an Insane asyium
il IlnoiE
His sane va Charles IDundzburg
ard fte Ezgirb isrgaags dees nos
furni1t . 0oc1mezt m0rs exquisite
te16er ara pafbeEie-
o1s eanzof rad this doeunen4
witkozt sseiinx better sor having
Eors ~ and wistost rstofeiEg th4f
thsrs are oeher thsasE bsslses rt5eks
an6 bossE. an rilEsr s.s soA ana
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rts Wofis tsaszi a1t ~ . plaas-
ars zn6 3 est
What c1a sDeg Gc1's n1Du-
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20

According to Miss JeEerson Bssi
the talented Tallshassee correeyput-
ent o. The Pensacola Journal Reg
resenutiye willis a Levy Earned q
reputation as the buEo0n cf fhs
House" We hope this VA Brove -
be a SANDER on Levy.-Bsnnson
Times Democrat
There u more % iess Iet5iy RAcst
Willis. he cart help tat n - 3
part o. him. Pvt SuEt ne szas -
was a useful member ~ the Hn1ss
% Representatives. veY See ne1
On the eoog keDs moFe thoga1E1iF
infornea a. 10 he meritE a. fAo
BINS that veFe 90 for cnassseraSir1
stzrke TeieEraph.
What TIE Telegraph says a. zssse-
sentative WINS. that -he waa a SEE
fsI member stx- q also TIRE rE
Senator 1ohu r. WINS a. ksgY. ~
vas Wiihout to1h4 Gee q gSs nsf
ln4ussrf0as aae $50 poses 81 tp
,hEsysuo menhers a ~ iast seq
lse
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20

Goa Et1ey Caesar Taga ttr e
Ths AEssscaa Regate rea&4 IS
Aiiszs4 kas ~u1rae6- o. 1ensagsrs
for q Ere1s scsI e free atFrrs
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ne f1zgnaTs lztess Vrfie - cs "A
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wa1rerh 70 Naza c1Ear- Net Etan
Ills ovn-E6He 81 Ia A1ea
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20

= 0ih introduced during the past
g Of the Legislature By Senator
. protect the gopher Eas taken
'oAe by those Who Do not realize
poraDee Of the gopher 20 The
Of Pensacola and ST. Angus-
N Hose cities the sopser Is
sfed By many as the finest
. be had. They rake The
md Of soup. xhHe ropher
Is a dish e for ne e0as-
command fancy PRICES il
pl-ees and their threatened ex-
a1oa is q serious matter Win
'eq0ahted with thefr value.
Isasaoola friends horsr~. cod
4utully supplied fron Aizeaa
where his go3hershis Is ~
Aaes -
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-20

pie Mr.. Albert Jennings a Pensa-
has not formally announced his
iidaey for GOyernor. there Is not
last doubt that he EIH Be IN
rsee He SAYS be s. nov too
/ With his personal aEaErs 10 en-
upon a campaign. bEt At the
n time, be intimates. be Win an
poe his candidacy and devote his
= tine personally 70 HIS CAN
P He has ardent supporters
'shOut the State. but is especial
pong IN West Florida. which sec
I Is claimed b. those in q 20
TO know, he win carry almost