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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10
MIDDLE LIFE.
It Brings the Gift of Entirely lmper-
sonal Enjoyment.

II Brings the Gift of Entirely lmper-
sonal Enjoyment.
The greatest free gift of the years is
impersonality That voracious inter-
est in ourselves which Is so natural a
limitation of youth fades Of its own
accord as we grow into full knowledge
of our slight endowment, the paucity
Of our spoken lines and the fragmen-
tary and insignificant part Of our role
in life, writes George Harvey in the
North American Review. And then
what is to fill up the void? We are,
after all, not cast for the hero's part,
but are we to sink into mere hardened
machines? The gift Of entirely I'M
personal enjoyment Is one Of the great
est Of life's events. When 1t falls up
on us we can adorn our secret corners
of delight and learn to live in them.
We begin to listen to music with no
dispieting desire to have 1t interpret
our personal emotions or feed our am
bitions. We can look at pictures and
nature with a new and a more liberal
interest.
There is shifting of basis, by
which, If we will, we may gain COM
plete advantage. AS in youth we cling
to some glorified fragment Of the past
or hold out our hands to some warm
hope Of an unearned but magnificent
future, so in middle age we come, II
we will. to a moment richer and no
bier in itself If in youth we use the
senses for personal aggrandizement,
in maturity we learn to enjoy them
for themselves. 1t is shifting OF ba-
sis from emotion to perception and
the perceptions can give as keen
pleasure, every whit, as the emotions.
To keep the sight and the hearing
ever alert, attuned to wider visions
and fuller harmonies, is to be on the
winning side in the game Of life. TO
observe the world in the gross, as 1t
subserves a personal interest, Is not
particularly vivifying, but continual
ly to see and to hear more delicately,
more exactly, is to intensity life and
Iife's interest. AS the demand Of the
intellect Is to feel itself ever increas-
ing in power and scope, so the demand
of the senses Is for continuous refine
ment and delicacy of resource, and
this is to become, as we age, not less
but more alive till, at the instant OF
death, destiny shall overtake us at
the very fioodtide Of our abilities and
our Zest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

ORIGIN OF PLUG" ToBAcco.-An old
Missouri farmer visiting Kansas CITY,
said, as he took q chew Of tobacco.
"All the difference in the world IN
tobacco. I've tried some twenty diff
ferent kinds and none is as good as
that we used to make ourselves down
on the farm. We would take maple
log while twas green and bore doz-
en- holes in 1t with a two-inch auger
They were our molds. We selected our
choicest tobacco and soaked 1t for
week or more in wild honey. Then
we'd take the leaf to the log. get
good hickory 'tampin' stick, and go to
work.
"A little ball of the honey soaked
tobacco would be put in an auger hole
and tamped in with the stick and
hammer. We'd pound it in solid. Ball
after ball would be rammed in and
pounded until the whole became a SOL
id plug. When the hole was nearly
full we would pound in plug. and
then the log would be put away to sea-
son. AS the wood dried the moisture
would be drawn from the tobacco.
And when it was split the sweetest to-
bacco ever made was taken from II.
We called 1t plug tobacco, and that's
where the name originated"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

at the depot Saturday as he was pre-
pairing to leave town. The warrant on
which he was arrested was issued
April 18th, but Mack Immediately left
town and the officers had been unable
to locate him until he was nabbed here
Saturday. The case was called before
Magistrate T. II. White yesterday
afternoon at o'clock. but was sworn
away from him and is set for trial be-
fore Magistrate S. S. Morris this, az
ternoon, at o'clock. 1t Is under
stood that there is very damaging
evidence to prove that Mack is gull
ty; in fact 1t is understood, there was
at least one witness who saw him In
the act of committing the crime. A
passenger train barely escaped wreck
on account of 1t, the engine being
stopped just after the train had enter
ed the siding.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10
GOLD WAS TOO HEAVY.
Wreck of a Helena Cab With Cargo Of
$4,000.

A Helena cab driver has just had an
unusual experience. 1t came about in
this way, says the Washington Post:
He met an early train on the Great
Northern, and was more than pleased
to receive an affirmative reply to his
call from four men as they advanced
across the platform at the Union sta
tion. The cabby noticed that the men
were carrying a package, or, rather.
that two Of them were, and that 1t
seemed to receive the undivided atten-
ton Of all the members Of the party.
The driver also noticed that the men
were wearing holsters, from which
protruded the butts Of large calibre
revolvers.
The package was carefully placed in
the bottom Of the carriage and start
made for the city, about a mile and
a half distant. The men directed that
they be taken to one Of the hotels up
on being informed that the assay Of
flee would not be open for business
until 10 a. m.
Helena avenue, which connects the
union station and the business part
Of the city, is being paved, with the
result that riding thereon is not as
smooth as the proverbial billiard table
driveways.
The carriage had proceeded less
than a block, perhaps, when the dri-
yer heard a breaking Of wood and
cries from his passengers to stop i'm
mediately. The request was complied
with, the drive asking the cause Of
the disturbance.
He was informed that the bottom Of
the hack had fallen out Two Of the
the passengers quickly dismounted,
grabbed the bundle, which had fallen
through. and restored it to a place on
the seat. The journey was resumed
and the hotel reached without further
incident.
The bundle contained $4,000 in
gold. being brought from the mines to
the United States assay office. and
it's great weight-more than 200
pounds-caused the breakage.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10
TREASURES OF DEATH VALLEY.
Borax, Niter, Copper, Silver, Lead and
Gold Worth Billions There,

Today we know that the rainbow
of wealth has its ends in the biggest
pot Of gold that man ever dreamed Of.
Mountains of gold, mountains of sill
yer, mountains of copper and Of lead
and precious stuff have ceased to be
vision for dreamers to write about.
A few facts about Nevada and the
Death Valley country will substantiate
this. The mountains Of precious met
ais are no longer a vision for dream
ers. They exist in reality, and have
been found, located and recorded with
the mineral recorders of this coun-
try, says the Death Valley Chuck Wal
la. Location monuments are dotted
over them. Wealth in such fabulous
sums that it staggers the imagina-
ton has fallen into the hands Of the
individuals. Even the resources Of
John D. Rockefeller appear as insig-
nificant when compared with the re-
sources Of "Borax" Smith, or the cop
per kings that have acquired the best
holding in Death Valley land.
Mt. Blanc, approximately 1900 feet
high and two miles in diameter, Is a
mass of pure borax. 1t is the proper
ty of one man, Frank M. Smith
of Oakland owns the mountain abso-
lutely, and thereby controls the visi-
BILE supply of borax in the world. The
market value of the deposit of borax
where it lies is something over 500
a ton. Experts estimate that the
mountain has at least 5000, 900, 900
tons Of borax in It, At 800 per ton
the value of this mountain can be
computed in billions by anyone who
will multiply 100 by three. This noun
tain standing at the north end Of the
Funeral Range within a stones throw
of Death Valley makes "Borax" Smith
easily the richest man in the world
from a point of resources. But this
borax deposit Is merely lining for
the pot of gold that rests in the Fun
eral Range.
Some so miles south Of Mont Blanc,
at the other end of the Funeral Range
are inter deposits. The full extent Of
this deposit Of inter no one appears
to know. All of 1t Is claimed by pros
pectors These inter hills cover an
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10
In the SueZ Canal.

After a few days Of inhaling coal
dust, one by one the ships passed into
the canal, and when the week was up
the Dewey followed. Between the
long straight banks at its northern end
all went WELL but down where the
channel twists and turns the trouble
began.
Into the soft, yielding bank the
sharp corner would dig, and a thou
sand yards or so of sand would come
tumbling down about It; while the
other end swung across and did the
same thing on the other side. Swift
as a spider building it's web heavy
lines would be flung out and secured
to bollards on the opposite banks, and
steam windlasses and capstans would
snort as they tried to drag the Dewey
back into the channel. But II the lines
didn't part the bollards were torn out
by their much-ramified steel roots,
while the Dewey stayed where 1t was.
Hordes of ubiquitous Arabs rose out
of the desert, and with pick and
shovel buried great spars ("dead men")
in the sand; to these chains were led
and something had to come when the
strain was put upon them; so the
Dewey came out Of its bed Of sand and
went gayly on, having great sport
plucking up buoys and depositing them
miles from where they belonged-hun-
dreds Of them.
1t was soon apparent that in the
least breeze 1t was impossible to han
die the dock with the nicely that the
narrow channel demanded; so most
Of the Dewey's journey across the
isthmus was in the voiceless, death
like stiffness Of the mysterious desert
night So intense and all-pervading
was this sense of mystery that 1t
crept up and cast its spell over the
huge leviathan that stole stealthily
through 1t, and the dock became as
still as the desert itself-the silence
was only broken by the soft murmur
Of the water against its forward end,
and even that sounded like a prolong-
ed u-s-h!-Scribner's
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

Tzv, INDIFFERENT RIcH.-A newspa-
nor correspondent was talking about
Father Bernard Vaughan Of London.
Though Father Vaughan's congre-
cation" he said,. "is one OF the mosI
fashionable in the world, the gooo
priest is always on the side OF the
poor.
He calls the poor Gods pet chill
dren. and 1 once heard him in an ad-
dress tell the rich that they were res
ponsible for the poor's faults-the
drinking and so on-saying that the
poverty Of the poor wasn't the result
of their drinking, but their drinking
was the result of their poverty.
He decided that the rich, In their
Indifference and careless cruelty to-
ward the poor, reminded him Of GER
tain surgeon.
This surgeon, lecturing class OF
students, said:
~ was so excited at my first opera
ton that l made a mistake
"A serious one, sir?' asked a STU
dent.
"'Oh, no.. the surgeon answered. l
only took. off the wrong leg. "-Wash-
ington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

3T Andy and Tim are partners in the
sheep business at the stockyards,
says the Chicago News, and with
their silent partner they are likely to
remain so as long as he is sufficiently
able bodied to follow his present occu-
patton Of separating the sheep from
the goats" Captain is a white Cots
void sheep, weighing about 200
pounds. 1t is his duty to assist his
owners in loading and unloading sheep
by leading them from and to the pens
and freight cars. AS soon as his work
of guiding to a car is done Captain
slyly steps out Of danger.
When he has drove to deploy from
the car he goes among them, mixes up
with the sheep a few minutes, just to
calm their fears. and then trots away,
the gang most obediently following In
his wake. Once at the pen he leaves
them and goes for a new drove.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

A STATEMENT FOR PUBLcArIoN'-Dr'
Wiley Of the department OF agrlcui-
ture is a hard man to deal with III
sonos ways. He has habit of explod-
ing in an anti-climax and handing d
visitor a citrus fruit Of some sort wneh
he came around for something less
acid. When they passed the WHISKY
decision last week there was an iiii-
mediate descent of correspondents on
DR. Wiley for his views on the ques-
t,on. Now he probably had views 10
burn. but not for distribution. he
told several inquirers gravely that II
xas not for him to pass comments Oh
onv sort on the decision Of the attor-
new general, that it would be useless
to disagree with 1t, and would aoo
nothing to it should he agree 80 ne
declined to be quoted. But late IN the
avening one of the out-of-town papers
called him up and fairly DEMANDED
something ng-anything-so it coulo DC
nsed as a quotation from DR.. whey
IN connection with the general subject
of pure food.
IAN right" said the doctor grave
lv. "I have refused to talk to any
body about the decision, but II II 10
only generalities on pure food ana
the label law, 1 guess I can tell you
something if you promise to quote me
accurately. It's something 1 haven
confided to any one else, either.
The inquirer on the other eno VI
the phone pricked up his ears anu
urged the chief chemist to go aheao'
"Well, I will tell you then" said the
doctor the department Of agricui-
ture. through the department Oh JUS
tice, has asked that prosecution De
instituted against Prof. Willis Moore
for misbranding this weather we are
having and calling it April when IL
ought to be labeled imitation March'
Washington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

WHEN BEvERIDGE TAPPED TAFT
Senator Beveridge of Indiana the other
afternoon administered such reproof
to Secretary Taft as is not likely to be
forgotten in a hurry by the big Ohio
man. The senator was delivering his
speech on the child labor bill-an ef-
fort which had cost him weeks prep
aration. Almost from the beginning
of his remarks he was annoyed by the
hum of conversation Immediately be-
hind him. Turning, he saw Sec. Tatt
in animated discussion with group
of senators. Looking straight at the
secretary, he said, in clear tones: II
l am disturbing you l will suspend un-
til your conversation is finished" The
secretary's face flushed until II seem
ed as though he would explode, but
after a few moments he left the cham
ber
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10
Aulnuruus department.
Cireumlocution.

The unhappy prisoner was consult
ing with his attorney.
What will you do?" asked the
prisoner.
I'VE will first attempt to have the
indictment notified"
"And then, II that fails?"
Then we will demur to the indict-
ment."
Then what?"
"Then we will take a change OF
venue"
Them"
Make affidavit for continuance
And then?"
"Take another on the ground OF
not being able to get service on iii-
portant witnesses"
well, what then?"
IF all these fail we will then go 10
trial"
"Wbat will be the defense?"
First emotional insanity.
"If that don't work."
"Then we'll switch to justifaole
homicide.
But II that fails?
"well We'll ask for a new trial.
IF we don't get it?"
Appeal the case"
IF 1t goes against us?"
Take it to the supreme court
And then?"
Then well have TO peu'ioH
governor for pardon
But If that fails?"
"rhen we'll have to make it poiit-
ical issue" -,
But if even that is useless
well, by that time your great
grandchildren will be dodaerins
around with old age and you'll be
long past taking any interest in the
case tell you that our methods OF
Iegal procedure are wonderful sir;
wonderful. ul."-Commoner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10
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A Trial Will Convince Consumers OF
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Packers of Teas, Spices and Soda,
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and We Guarantee them Strictly Pure
Goods. Send for samples and prices
before purchasing elsewhere.
F. w. WAGNER & COMPANY.
Charleston. S. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

THE "SPARRows."-There is nothing
English" about the humor Of George
Graves, the comedian in that excellent
comic opera THE Little Michus.
Here's one Mr.. Graves brought from
across the water that is as funny as
any homemade article.
A teacher had been telling her class
OF boys that recently worms had be-
come so numerous that they destroyed
the crops and it was necessary to i'm
port the sparrow to exterminate them
The sparrows multiplied very fast and
were gradually driving away our ma
tive birds.
Johnny was apparently very mat
tentive and the teacher, thinking to
catch him mapping, said:
Johnny, which is worse to have
worms or sparrows?"
Johnny hesitated moment and then
replied: please, I never had the spar
rows."-Young's Magazine.
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.
GARDENING"
Valuable New Book Just
Out
BY Prof. J. s. NEWMAN
Of CLEMSON COLLEGE.

Southern Gardeners Practical Man
uaI,U is the name of a new book by
Prof. j. S. NEWMAN Of Clemson Col
lege, recently published. 1t is devoted
especially to conditions as they exist in
South Carolina, tells what garden veg
etables, fruits, shrubs, ETC., can be
grown to advantage in this State and
gives detailed information as to how
they are to be Planted, Fertilized and
Cultivated.
The author has devoted a lifetime
to work of this kind and is probably
the highest authority in the South on
the subject of which he treats. No
gardener whether amateur or profess
sional, can afford to do without this
book.
1t may be had at the office Of THE
YORKVILLE ENQUIRER for $1.10 a
Copy; by Mail S1.25.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-10

,3E- A New York man relates his ex-
perience of travel in Arkansas. To
proceed from a certain town to an
other, not connected by railway he
found it necessary to take stage.
At the postoffice he asked: How Of
ten do the stages leave for Berring-
TOM"
Every fifteen minutes" replied the
man behind the counter
And how long shall l have to walt
for one now?"
"Oh. bout an hour" drawled the
postmaste Public Led
ger
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WANTED A SAMPLE.-"Children, said
Judge Willard McEwen, at dinner
in Chicago, ARE the great home build
ers. A lack Of children means unhap-
piness, divorce. In the majority Of the
divorce suits that l pass on, and l
pass on 100 a month-the couples are
between 80 and 40 years of age and
childleSs.
$50 children should be priced and
cherished, despite their faults.
Faults they have, I will admit.
"Only the other day l heard of lit
tie girl who lunching out, was detect
ed in the act of examining a large yell
low handful Of Spanish omelet into
the pocket of her pink frock.
why, you little pig exclaimed her
mother what on earth are you about?
Put that back on your plate at once.
Why, | never heard Of such thing.
What on earth do you mean by it,
1T is so good, muvver, the child
explained l just thought I'd take a
piece home to our cook for pat
tern" Washington Star.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-02
NEWS OF HERNDoN.
General and Personal Items From
Nearby Virginia Community.

General and Personal Items From
Nearby Virginia Community.
Special Correspondents Of The Star.
HERNDON, Va. October 2, 1907
DR.. B. w. Sunny and family close their
house at Vienna today and remove to the
city. for the winter.
Mrs. @. =. Jones, who was removed from
her home at Vienna to George Washington
Hospital. Washington city, early last
month. has recovered from q severe attack
Of typhoid fever and will return to Vienna
in . few days.
Harry Charles Of Washington has pur-
chased the Eouser property In Herndon
and will take possession at once. Mr.
Houser and family have returned to WASH
ington.
8. r. Dishman and family have removed
from Falls Church to Herndon where they
will remain during the month OF October.
when they will return to their home in
Alexandria. Mr.: Dishman, who was very
severely injured in the wreck on the Wash
ington. Arlington and Falls Church railway
July last, ie recovering slowly.
DR.. B. B. Detwiler has purchased the
Leonhardt lot at the corner Of Eden and
Grace streets, Herndon.
George R. Anderson. secretary of the
Southern Railway Company, will remove
from Herndon. where he and his family
have been spending their summers for
Mrs Anderson. who has been very Ill for
several weeks, il very much improved.
Prof. H. E. Hahn. formerly principal Of
the Herndon public schools. will open q
for instruction, in all the English branches.
The coast and geodetic survey has
party In Herndon and vicinity making sur
veys to determine the elevation above sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-02
MEETS INSTANT DEATH
WILLIAM ABIGAIL'S HEAD
CRUSHED By ACCIDENT

A fatal accident occurred in Corby's win.
esar factory at Langdon this morning
about 10 o'clock. the victim beinr wil,la =,
Abigail. who lived at Bladensburs Mr..
Abigail. who was nearly sixty years old
was In charge OF the grain room at the fac.
tory and was in the engine room alone
Edward Carey, living at 72s 9th street
northwest and employed as fireman I'm tho
factory, heard a suspicious noise In the en-
gine room and went in there to make an
Investigation. He was shocked upon find
Ing that the body Of the man with whom
he had been conversing only a few minutes
before was In a horrible condition.
Mr. Abigail had become caught In the
betting of the machinery and his head had
been crushed. A physician was summoned.
those who were in the factory at the time
thinking there might be life left in the
body. The physician found that life was
extinct, however, and Acting Coroner
Glazebrook was notified. He made an in.
vestigation and gave certificate OF accl-
dental death.
The deceased. who was a widower leaves
two grown sons, who live in this ofty.
Undertaken Gasch Of Bladensburg took
charge of the body and removed II to the
late home Of the deceased. ARRANGEMENTS
for the funeral will be completed this after
noon.