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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
A FRANC FOR A LIFE.
Exciting Adventure With Moslem
Fanatic In ALGERIA.


Near the western end of Quar- in
lonely street (for most Of the mer
were sleep from IL to 8 during the
heat Of the day. met tall. stalwar'
Riff from the mountains, writes Rev
w. G. Pope, who was a missionary
in Algeria.
Accosting him with the usual Ara
bic salutation, asked him If he could
read. He answered. no
Where do you live?'
I'm the mountain, twenty miles
west"
Have you a sheik who can read?"
YES"
"Then will you please take him this
book, with my greetings, and ask him
to read it to you all?"
What is it-a Koran?
mo: the story of the life of the
Messiah"
He then turned and asked If I was
follower of the Messiah, to which
answered, yes"
Then arose his Moslem fanaticism
for he was an Aissaoua, terribly
fanatical section of the Moslems in
Morocco.
Drawing his knife and holding II
over me, he uttered one word, "Sha-
he'd" (witness), meaning that I was
to say, with my forefinger raised
There Is no God but Allah, and Mo-
hammed is the prophet Of Allah"
1 felt white, but tried to look cour-
ageous and unconcerned. l remon-
strated with him for so acting with
his Amel's guest, but ali to no pur-
pose. He reiterated his one word
"Shahed!"
His knife was an ugly weapon. II
looked like a piece Of sharpened bar
rel hoop with two pieces OF goats
horn fastened together TO make J
handle.
Knowing the Arabs love Of an Eng
lish Knife, l asked him If his knife
was all English one. He answered thai
he had made it himself.
Remembering lIdI III oiS poNN~S
had a franc in silver and coppers and
in the other a French louis, 1 deter
mined to buy the knife If possible.
Taking out my small change, de-
cided to try that first. l referred to
the fact that the English were very
proud of their knives and l would
much like to take back to my country
a Moroccan knife to show what others
could do and offered to purchase 1t.
The sight Of the French coppers
and a glistening piece Of silver was
too much for his fanaticism. He un-
did his leather sheath, restored the
knife to its place, looked once up and
Down the street to see no one was
looking then, with apparent joy, ex-
changed the knife for the money and
the knife for the money and the book
the book and went off happy.
Which of the two felt the happier
cannot tell, but never forgot that my
life in Quar- was purchased back for
a paltry franc.-Liverpool Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
cITY'S LOST ISLANDS.
Illinois Has Three That Once Belonged
To ST. Louis.

st. Louis has lost three islands,
says the Globe Democrat, though the
names are as we'll remembered now
as when the islands themselves were
actually in existence. One Is Bloody
Island, just opposite the city. The
old timers used to go there to fight
their duels, and in those days the
river channel ran on the Illinois side
Of the island, and except in high wa
ter there was only slough between
St. Louis and the dueling ground. The
government and railroad works put
Bloody Island on the Illinois side,
and now a good part Of East ST. Louis
Is built over the sand bar that was
once a thicket Of willows.
Arnenal Island, too, used to be on
this side of the river, and boys rolled
up their trousers and waded across
the narrow slough from a point lit
tie south Of the workhouse. The boats
went on the other side Of the island,
but the channel began cutting into
the Illinois farms at such rate that
the government threw up dixie just
across from the arsenal, turned the
river 20 this side, the island was join
ed to the Illinois shore, was
purchased by the state Of Illinois from
the city of st. Louis and the former
bed of the river is now covered by
farms.
Duncan's Island was big sand bar
that began near the foot of Lami
street and extended north to Geyer
avenue. 1t was purchased by the Iron
Mountain Railroad company, Which
wanted to locate its yards In that
neighborhood, and filled up the site
with earth from Picot's hill in Car
ondelet. The names still live, for the
people of East st. Louis make diff
ference between the 'island" and the
mainland, just as the farmers In the
bottom still talk about Arsenal Island
and the switchmen in the yards south
OF chouteau avenue tell one another
that a certain car Is down on Dun
cans Island.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
WATER, WIND AND SUNSHINE.
Will Be Used to Make the Fortunes OF
the Future.

1t is not gold, silver nor copper
no, nor diamonds, either-that Will
make the great fortunes Of the future,
says the Pittsburg Gazette. 1t is the
hidden power in the air, the water
and the sunshine, which will build
up the wealth of the next few centu-
ries.
It Is estimated that throughout the
world about 100000 electrical horse
power is generated today from water
falls and streams. More than one
quarter Of this great horsepower Is
generated in the United States, with
Canada second and Switzerland third.
At the lowest estimate it would re-
ouire some $4,000, 900 tons of coal to
generate 100000 horsepower con-
tinuously by the ordinary steam en-
CINE, and allowing IS a ton for the
cost of coal, this would represent
saving of $125, 100000.
There are thousands of streams cap
able of producing from 100 to $4,000
or more horsepower; few others,
like Niagara, the Victoria Falls in
South Africa, and innumerable rails
of the Mississippi, the Colorado ana
the Missouri with powers in this d.
rection that seem unlimited.
If every part of the mighty torrent
of Niagara were harnessed, 1t would
easily generate sufficient electrical
power to do all the work Of this coun-
try. But Niagara is no greater than
Victoria Falls, in the heart of Africa
some say not so great in its un-
measured possibilities.
The value of a stream for power
purposes depends upon the amount OF
water flowing, and also upon its head;
that is, the height Of it's fall, whether
in a sudden cataract, or in rushinS
down a slope, and so the small noun
tain stream which tumbles noisily
down steep slopes and gullies is often
worth more than the broad sluggish
river that flows through low, leve!
stretches of country. One cubic foot
of water a second may equal in energy
the : al stored energy of many tons
of coal.
What is even more wonderful, a
stream can be made to operate an
electric pump. which in turn Will
pump the stream itself to levels where
ordinary irrigation bitches could not
conduct it.
In other words, the water could oe
used twice: first for generating cleo
trio power, and second for irrigating
our farms. Electricity could be made
to light and heat the homes of the
city and country population and run
the thrashing machines and reaperS
of the farmer, as we'll as turn the
wheels Of the cars and factories.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
Ana,nruus department.
Would As Usual.

Editor E. A Eaton, Of the Idaho
Springs Siftings News, is responsible
for this story. He says that there is
a popular conductor on the Colorado
and Southern whose run takes him
through Idaho Springs every day and
who always waves at the townspeople.
In order that no one will know who
the conductor is, Editor Eaton gives
his initials only. They are Pat. In
the Office Of the Siftings- News is
young woman who used to go 10 the
window each day and receive a wave
from the conductor. One day she said
to the editor:
That conductor is a mighty pleas
ant man. He always waves to me
when his train passes"
"Pooh!" replied Eaton. He'd wave
at anything"
He would not" replied the girl,
hotly.
I'll show you," said Eaton. There
upon he got the office broom and dress
ed it up to look like a woman. He
stood it up in the window and then
they waited for the train. 1t finally
came along with the conductor on the
platform. AS it passed the Siftings-
News office the conductor smiled and
waved at the broom with both hands.
The girl hasn't spoken to the editor
since, except when absolutely neces-
sary.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

the lone wanderer that we now know
| him to be, and tends to show, more
over, that he once liked the valleys
| better than his present dreary and
solitary abode. Indeed, the explorers
of the west found him equally at
home in the parched Businesses of the
Great Basin, in the fertile valleys or
among the ice-bound peaks, whether
feeding upon berries or bison, herbs
or human flesh, and everywhere, at
all times, monarch of all he survey
ed"
But he Is passing. In the places
where seventy-five years ago 200 of
his powerful tribe could be counted
in a days journey, he is now but a
tradition and a memory, and he is a
lucky sportsman who gets one shot
at a grizzly in a lifetime. Driven to
the inaccessible retreats Of the noun
tains, he is making his last stand
against a race which has already rob-
bed him of those myriad herds of buff
falo, antelope and elk, which were
once his prey, and from his icy sum-
mits, where only the American eagle
scars in solitary grandeur he looks
down upon a hereditary dominion
which is to be his no more forever.
We have known him but hundred
years. Was there ever so mighty a
monarch with reign so brief? We
cannot compute the exact rate at
which he is disappearing Git is far
easier to get at the mortuary statis-
tics of his enemies), but, as events go,
it is likely that there will still be IT,
gers in India and lions in Africa long
after the last echo Of the grizzly's
growl has died among the peaks and
precipices of his mountain home. But
an American monarch-"the gamest
he will die as he lived-die as becomes
of the game"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

WEALTH FROM THE PACIFIc.-Cali-
fornians have solved the problem of
the alchemists and are making gold
out of sea water. The Golden state
has taken golden treasure out of her
mountains. has made her valleys yield
millions of dollars worth Of golden
fruit, has amassed tourist gold in ex-
change for her sunshine, and now, says
the Chicago Chronicle, turns to the
great lazy Pacific ocean and ransacks
its Golfers.
There is no rush Of prospectors to
the new field, however, as the gold Is
coming out of the sea in the form Of
salts Of potassium, magnesium and
bromide, which would elude the pan
and the rocker of the prospector.
OF several "diggings" Of this nature,
one at least Is active and prosperous
and one is approaching activity. The
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

Texas WOMEN In BUsNEss.-There
are many women ranch owners and
ranch managers in Texas and other
parts Of the southwest, says the San
Antonio Express. They have had
marked success in the cattle raising
business. This is particularly true OF
Mrs. Richard King, the multi-million-
aire stockwoman Of Kingsville, and
Mrs. Adair, who owns and conducts
ranch of nearly 100000 acres In the
Panhandle"
Mrs. 9. c. Hooker is a prominent
railroad contractor in Texas. She took
a large grading contract on the Kan
sas City, Mexico and Orient railroad
between Sweetwater, Tex, and Knox
City, more than a year ago, and she
came out so we'll with it that she has
enlarged her outfit and is now at work
on a large contract on the same road
between Sweetwater and San Angelo.
She not only finances the job, bu,
superintends the grading work per-
sonally. She lives in the grading camp
and spends most Of her time on the
stretches of grade, directing the work
of the laborers and other employees
She started in with twenty mule
teams, but her outfit has been greatly
increased recently. 1t Is said that she
will permit no shirking on the par'
of any employee. They must do theil
work we'll and put in full hours at IT.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

San Pedro Salt company, which re-
Gently entered into the field, has sue
ceeded in manufacturing a quantity
and quality Of salt which has found a
ready market and has already assum-
ed q place among the exports of the
port of San Pedro.
The fact that San Pedro Is a lively
and thriving port, with almost no out
going cargoes, makes the development
OF this trade both easy and important
Since the first Of last year the coast
ing schooners returning to the north
ern coast have taken away over 1,00(
tons Of this sea salt
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

al improvements made in surgery
have been the means or reducing the
mortality of amputati"n operations to
per cent
,tS In all this huge country of ours
we build about $5OO,OOOOOO worth Of
new buildings a year: our fire losses,
including cost of fire departments and
insurance, exceeds that sum. Two
hundred millions Of dollars are actual
ly burned up, gone into smoke; fire
departments. high water pressure and
all that sort Of thing mean nearly
$500 000, 900 more; we annually pay out
$195, 100000 to the gentlemen who con-
descend to gamble with us on the
question of fire insurance premiums.
The sum of these amounts. writes w.
F. Fitzpatrick, in the Metropolitan
Magazine, is our fire costs, and we
get back, after considerable trouble
and some litigation, about $95,OO0,0O
from the insurance companies as a
slight salve for our fire injuries.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of York.
TN ppoRATE COURT.

By L. R. Williams. Esq. Probate Judge
Of York County.
VIZ HEREAS DR.. ]. H. SAVE. has
w applied to me for Letters Of Ad.
ministration, with will annexed, on all
and singular, the goods and chattels,
rights and credits Of WILLIAM NC
CAV, late Of the county aforesaid de-
ceased:
These are, therefore, to cite and ad,
monish all and singular the kindreo
and creditors of the said deceased, to
be and appear before me at our next
Probate Court for the said county, to
be holden at York Court House on
the 23RD DAY OF JULY, 1907.
to shew cause If any, why the said ad-
ministration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal. this
Sth day Of July, in the year OF
of our Lord one thousand nine hun
dred and seven, and in the 132nd
year Of American Independence.
L. r. WILLIAMS,
Probate Judge.
SIS ct
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

A QUAKER WHISKY CURE-William
Penn was urging a man he knew to
stop drinking to excess, says the Min
neapolis Journal, when the man sud-
denly asked:
Can you tell me Of an easy way tc
do it?"
YES" replied Penn, readily, ut Is
just as easy as to open thy hano
friend"
Convince me Of that" the man ex-
claimed, land will promise upon my
honor to do as you tell me-"
"Well, my friend" Penn answered
whenever thee finds glass of liquor
in thy hand open that hand before the
glass of liquor touches the lips, and
thee will never drink to excess again.
The man was so struck by the SIM
plicity of the great Quaker's advice
that he followed 1t and reformed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
FOR DISCHARGE.

ID URSUANT to law I hereby give
l. notice that on this 25th day OF
June I did make q final settlement
with the Probate Court Of York coun-
ty, as executor Of the estate Of DR.. A.
P. Campbell, deceased. and that on the
25th day Of July, 1907, will apply to
the Hon. L. R. williams, judge Of said
court, for a discharge from all further
liability as executor Of said estate.
w. E. ADAMS, Executor.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16
SElF-HELP.
Humble Beginning and Success of
Working Mems Gardens In France.

Humble Beginning and Success of
Working Mems Gardens In France.
1.-The great value Of my little garden
to me has not been the fine vegetables
1t has yielded all summer, and the good
time the children have had in the open
air, but the glasses Of beer and absin-
the my husband hasn't taken," OBJ
served the mother Of a French work
ingman's rather numerous family to
an investigator last autumn.
Quite right, mother" echoed a man
nearby; "you will never know the evil
we men don't do while we are busy
in our little gardens"
This conversation took place In
France, says William H. Holman, in
the Century, on one Of the working
mems gardens, a movement for self
help which is growing each year A
similar movement was started In De-
troit in 1894 under the name Of the
Potato Patch Farms; later carried out
successfully in New York and other
cities in the vacant lot farms, while
today Philadelphia is beginning her
eighth year Of successful effort.
Nine. Hervieu, charitable woman
in Sedan, tells Of aiding the poor by
gifts. of money, attempted to rouse
them to self-help by an offer Of doub-
ling any sum Of money which they
should deposit in the local savings
bank. She rented small tract OF
land and said to the poor people,
Now, go to work"
They did, and as they worked the
taste for 1t grew; they kept steadily
at It, especially as they knew that the
fruits of their labor would belong to
them, that the vegetables they raised
could be taken to their homes or sold.
Such was the humble beginning, In
1899, of a little movement, but one so
simple and practical that it grew un-
til last October, in Paris, there was
held a congress of workingmen's gar
den's attended by 700 delegates, under
the presidency of M. Aynard Of France.
The organizer Of the congress was M.
PAbbe Lemire and the secretary, M.
Louis Riviere, a collaboration Of the
American Institute Of Social Service.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

SB The ministers and missionaries OF
the western central part Of Canada are
taking up the subject Of endeavoring
to. supply wives to the bachelors res
idents Of that section.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

MUST WAIT HIS TURN.-"I was in a
German barbershop up at Stockton,
relates E. P. Hilborn general manager
Of the Central California Traction
company according to the Home Mag
azine, when a nervous and excited
German fellow dropped in to be bar
bered. He was very nervous, indeed.
suspected that he wanted to catch
train. At any rate, he was so nervous
that he couldn't keep his seat. He be-
gan pacing up and down the floor
waiting his turn. and as this did moi
seem to calm his nerves, he stepped
outside and began pacing up and down
the sidewalk. He came back in mo-
ment and discovered, much to his hor-
hor, that some one had got in ahead
Of him and had taken the first vacant
chair. The nervous man stalked UP
to the head barber blusteringly and
said:
IF a man comes in and goes oud
has he vent?"
1.-THE barber looked at him search
ingly and replied with dignity and
emphasis:
He vas, but he amt"
Whatever that meant, it end
ed the dispute quite effectively"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

A CATAsTRoPHE.-"Bil "Billkins' cat yell
ed for three hours the other night.
and then l got up and threw a lump
Of coal at It,"
Hit the cat?"
Nope, hit Billkins, who had just
come out to let the cat in"
There must have been some sat
isfaction in that"
There was for moment, and then
Billkins returned the coal through one
Of my plate glass windows. But that
wasn't the worst Of it."
MOP"
"No. He went in the house AID
left the cat outside yowling"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

Too ILL TO BE NURsSD-"The late
Bishop Fitzgerald" said st. Louis
man, according to an exchange. "once
presided at this season Of the year
at the graduation exercises Of a class
of nurses. He told the young women
a story that pleased them nightly.
HE said that during our war with
time a pretty nurse in the hospital OF
nurses Of exceptional beauty-just
such a corps, in fact, as the young
ladies ranged before him would have
made.
But it was whispered that these
fair nurses were inclined a little to
frivolity, inclined a little to fiirt with
the ailing young soldiers in their
charge.
Now when a soldier felt that ne
was on the mend, a filtration with
pretty nurse was delightful, but when
his wounds were troublesome, then
gallantry was a thing that he was
hardly up to.
"And indeed 1t was said that some
times a pretty nurse in the hospital
would come to a favorite soldier and
finding him lying with closed eyes, as
IL asleep, on his cot, and this note
pinned to the counterpane:
"'Too i'll to be nursed today. John
Smith,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

WASTING TIME.-A sophisticated
mother who felt responsible for the
future of her daughters said to one Of
them:
Anna, what did young Mr. Jones
say to you last night when he was
buttoning your glove? l saw he was
slightly excited"
why" answered Anna. "he said that
the person who made a glove so hard
to button as that deserved to be kill
ed"
my DEAR" retorted her mother i'm
pressively, don't waste any more of
your time on young Mr. Jones. Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

IA Fish live in the ocean at a depth
of $4,000 feet.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

A DEMONSTRATION REQUESTED. - A
Scotchman went to London for holi-
day. Walking along one of the streets
he noticed a haldheaded chemist stand
ing at his shop door and inquired if
he had any hair restorer
Yes, sir" said the chemist: step
inside, please. There's an article l
can highly recommend. Testimonials
from great men who have used it, 1t
makes the hair grow in twenty-four
hours"
"Aweel." said the Scot, I'VE can gle
the top of your held a bit rub wit,
and I'll look back the morn and see
IL ye're tellin' the truth.
Home Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-16

M1NED.-An athletic young man,
who was on the way to get his mar
riage license, found himself at last In
a room where, as a matter OF fact,
candidates for the police force were
being examined.
The moment he entered the r1o the
surgeon said, Strip"
whats that?" said the astonished
young fellow.
Get your clothes off" replied the
surgeon.
He did so and his chest measurement
was taken.
Next the surgeon said, Jump over
this horizontal bar"
He tried the leap, but fell to the
ground.
Double up your knees" commanded
the surgeon, "and touch the floor with
your hands"
Again he tried and failed.
"Now run around the room ten
times"
The young man rebelled. "That I'll
not I'd rather remain single"
"Single?" said the doctor.
yes, single. I'd like to know what
all this has to do with my getting my
marriage license"
And then the mistake as to the room
was solved.-Rochester Herald.