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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
THE LATEST WIZARD"
Has Secrets Which Not Even the Gov
ernment Can Share.

ernment Can Share.
The first wizard" we mad in New
Jersey was Leo Daft, builder of an
electric car that drove all other elec-
trio cars into innocuous desuetude. The
second wizard was Tom Edison, whose
electric lights now illuminate the world.
And now, says the New York Press,
just as Edison is retiring from the
commercial field of invention, in which
he has amassed large fortune, looms
wizard No. ga yOungiSh man in
Greenville, a deep-eyed German Of
some 40 years, medium height, spare
(as a wizard should be), plain, mod
est, silent and a master of detail. His
name is Oscar Wiederhold. The world
does not know him as yet, but it will
soon.
The other day I found Wiederhold
in the basement Of his factory working
at a lathe. There were all kinds of
lathes and drills and planes and presses
surrounding him in this mechanical la
boratory. What are you doing?"
ventured "Oh, just perfecting a uni
versal attachment for all lights. Such
an adjustment is needed to standardize
cluster burners, arc burners and all in
verted gas mantles. We have to keep
little ahead of the times, you know"
Wiederhold manufactures lights for
the United States government accord
ing to secret processes that have been
in his family four or five generations.
He does not dabbe with electricity.
Leave that to Edison" he says. He
has a little caSt-irOn cylinder which
he charges with some oxygen COM
pound. This will produce a light of
1000 candlepower for 4S hours, and
will be used on all government auto
mobiles in time Of war His lights for
the lighthouses along our coasts are of
such power that l might be called a
nature faker to mention them. But not
even the government is allowed to
have the WeiderhOld secrets.
Everything in connection with our
family secret is locked in safe de-
posit vault in New York" said the in
ventor. Il am the last surviving son.
When l die the secret will descend to
my oldest son, as it has descended to
me. At present he is in utter ignor-
ance Of it's nature, because l vowed
never to repeat it to any one during my
life. 1t must descend to my heir. 1t
involves the dipping and bleaching of
mantles. We manufacture these of
ipulate them in our own peculiar way,
and dispose Of them
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
WILL MAKE OZONE.
Interesting Experiments to Be Carried
On In Pittsburq.

Interesting Experiments to Be Carried
On In Pittsburs.
A plant for the manufacture of ozone
has been built at the Homeopathic hos
pital, says a Pittsburg dispatch to the
New York Press, and pathologists who
are making experiments may be able
to tell the world that water can be alb
solutely purified The result Of the
experiments Is likely to prove Of great
value, enabling cities everywhere to
furnish a water supply from which all
organic matter has been removed.
The plant was erected at a cost ex-
ceeding $4,000. The idea is the crea-
ton Of Prof. Girard Of Belgium, who
also has been making experiments.
There is only one other plant Of the
kind in the world, that one being in
Holland The ozone, which is manu-
featured on a scientific basis, Is ex-
pected not only to kill organic matter
in water, but to destroy bacteria of ev-
cry kind.
Work on the plant was begun about
four months ago and has been finished
for two weeks. Ozone is made by cleo
trolysis, the process decomposing a
chemical compound by the passage Of
an electric current through it. Elec-
trolysis decomposes the air and makes
the ozone This is done first by pass
ing air in it's natural state through
lime. It's passage through the lime
takes all the moisture out Of 1t. The
air in it's dry state is then forced into
a glass tube. There is a tube within a
tube. One is used for the dry air and
the other for ozoning and by the time
the air reaches the water tanks 1t has
become ozone.
Men who have worked about the
plant at the hospital and have inhaled
the gaseous substance assert that it
has cured a cold in twenty minutes.
Many claims are made as to what 1t
will do. At present experiments are
being made not only with water drawn
from the water pipes Of the city, but
also with water from sewers. Expert
ments also are being made with dis
ease germs. 1t is known that the tests
already made have been sufficiently
successful to almost assure that pure
water can be secured by treating 1t
with the ozone process.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
Humorous 9rparltnrnt.

FULLY EQUAL.-Aunt Mandy is an
old colored woman who for years has
done washing for several East Orange
families. She has had several matri-
monial experiences, and when her last
husband died one of her customers at
tempted 10 condole with her.
"I was very sorry to hear of your
husbands death, Aunt Mandy" she
said.
"Ya'as, ma'am," said Aunt Mandy.
He was a pow'ful good man."
What did he die Off"
"Ah, really don't know, ma'am."
You don't know! Gracious Couldn't
the doctor tell you?"
"Ah didn't have no doctah, ma'am," "
said Uunt Mandy. He jes done died
a natch'ral death"
1t wasn't long. however, before Aunt
Mandy had another husband.
II hear you are married again" re-
marked her patron one day.
"Ya'as, ma'am," giggled Aunt Man
dy. "Ah was done married las Sun
day."
And is your new husband equal to
the last?'
"Ya'as, indeedy, ma'am," said Aunt
Mandy. He's jes as equal if not
equaler."-New York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
GERMANYS END.
An Old Prophecy Gives The Empire
Only Five Years More.

An Old Prophecy Gives the empire
Only Five Years More.
Five years more and the German
empire will come to an end. So at
least says a prophecy made in the
thirteenth century by a monk named
Hermann, who lived in the monastery
Of Lehnin, in Brandenburg, where he
wrote a work in Latin concerning the
future destiny Of Germany for many
centuries. The work is styled the
"Vaticinium Lehninense," and 1t Is In
verses after the manner of the sibylline
books.
The monk seems to have foretold the
defeat at Jena and the constitution of
the Germanic confederation in 1915.
Unfortunately the prophetic Hermann
foretells in plain language the down.
fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty and
William II. is destined to be the last
Of his race to sit on the imperial throne.
The verses that foretell this are.
Verse SO. Tandem sceptra gerit qui
stemmatis ultimus crit.
Verse "a. Israel infandum sectus
audet morte piandum."
cat last the scepter is in the hands
of him who will be the last Of the roy
al race. Israel attempts an execrable
crime that death alone can expiate)
In 1910 William I. king Of Prussia,
consulted a celebrated soothsayer who
in answer to his queries told him that
he would ascend the throne in 1S4s,
that the German empire would be es-
tablished in 1871, that he would die irl
1888 and that the German empire
would come to an end in 1913. The
first three prophecies have been full
filled to the very letter.-New York
Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
THE BODY SELLERs.-Mayor Speer

THE BODY SELLERs.-Mayor Speer
of Denver was talking the other day
about a pair of political tricksters.
"They gave themselves away" he
said. Don't tricksters always give
themselves away? 1t reminds me of
the two men who wanted to sell their
corpses for dissection.
These two men, miserably clad,
called on the dean Of a medical college
in New York.
1--WE are both on the verge of star
walton, sir the spokesman said. We
are we'll on in years, and it is clear
that we haven't much longer to live.
Would you care to purchase our bodies
for your dissecting ROOM?
1.-The dean hesitated
1T is an odd proposition he NUT
tered.
but it is occasionally done said
the spokesman in an eager voice.
"'Well, said the dean, we might
arrange it. What price do you ask?'
lover in Philadelphia said the
spokesman, they gave us s4O.'"-
Washington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
IN NEW ZEALAND.
A Place Where There Are Still Some
Manifest Drawbacks.

A Place Where There Are Still Some
Manifest Drawbacks.
Now that our fleet has visited New
Zealand and been so graciously receiv-
ed, and such good accounts have been
cabled to the United States about this
wonderful land, I venture to predict
that you will see the United States
flooded with glowing literature about
the opportunities Of the man with a
small amount of money in that -four
ishing country" said A. B. Loubier Of
Indianapolis, to q Washington Herald
reporter.
Il have been there and I know that
New Zealand has the hardest working
bunch of press agents Of any land In
the wide, wide world. Speaking with
out prejudice to New Zealand and only
as an American who would prefer to
see every one of his countrymen better
himself, I will say that there are no
such opportunities in this far-off land
as appear in the books and prospec-
fuses.
1T is true that everything which the
poor man needs is cheap in New Zea-
land. including farming land, houses,
food and clothing. The man with a
very little capital can set himself up,
but there he is with no possible chance
Of reaching a market for the sale Of
his products A factory IS isolated from
the world The railroads are miserably
managed. No effort is made to ex-
pand them. and most Of the transpor-
tation is by water This is Of neces-
sity very slow, and life in New Zealand
is far less attractive than pictured by
nimbe-witted adjective artists"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

AN OYERvALUATIoN.-Jo K. Lloyd
the noted life-saver Of Long Branch,
related some of his life saving expert
ences at a complimentary dinner.
II have had dealings with very gen.
erous men," said the veteran hero, and
I have had dealings with very mean
men.
"Once, on a January day in Phila-
delphia, a man who was recovering
from a debauch fell from one Of the
Delaware piers into the cold, wet river.
Slipping off my overcoat, 1 plunged
in after him. I fished him up from the
bottom. He was unconscious, but l
managed to get him to big, cold cake
Of ice, and on this cake of ice 1 sup
ported the pair Of us till help arrived
We'll, 1 had saved the mans life,
and he said he was grateful.
Here, young fellow, said he; here's
a half dollar You saved my life and
you must be chilled through. Go and
get yourself pint Of whisky
But handed him a quarter back.
"'No, no. 1 said, a half pint's your
price. You've overvalued yourself "
Washington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
AToNED FOR HIS PAST.
Race Track Tout Who Gave to Make
Others Happy.

Joseph Reynolds, one Of the early
pioneers Of Des Moines and the man
who had fed hundreds and made
thousands of poor families happy, Is
dead at his little home on the Indian
ola road, says the Des Moines Report
er and Leader
Because of his broad charity for
others throughout the past 20 years
Uncle Joe" Reynolds, as he was low
ingly called by his benefciaries, died
in direst poverty. For months the on
ly aid that he had received has come
from charitable organizations.
Years before any religious organiza-
ton took up the work Uncle Joe" de-
lighted to feed hundreds at Christmas
time at his expense. These free din
ners were enjoyed by the poor Of the
city. He kept small restaurant on
East Walnut street, where cleanliness
and godliness were synonymous.
When the north winds would play
tag with the rags Of a newsboy, "Un-
Gle Joe" would leave his warm fire.
side and go out in to the cold to look
for these little wayfarers. So long as
he had a home the last crust Of bread
was shared with some friendess waif.
He was known to have fed 100 news
boys at a time so great was his SYM
pathy for suffering childhood.
Free as the air was his hospitality,
but there was one requirement, and
that no profane oath could ever be ut
tered within his walls.
His little store stood out against the
background Of its unsightly surround
ings by fragrant sign, please do not
swear. My Lord is my Judge" This
and other scriptural signs were hung
profusely on the restaurant walls.
Deeply religious. all that Uncle Joe"
asked OF his free patrons was that
they respect his religious principles.
There were early years Of his life
when he was the stool pigeon" Of the
race tracks. His kindly bearing and
bland and sympathetic manner won to
him easily the unwary bettors. He
made money rapidly at the race track
by his method of duping the unsophis-
ticated race track plungers.
But conversion to the Christian re-
ligion brought about years Of retribu-
tion. The money made on the race
track, it is said, went back to the peo-
pie in charitable deeds.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

THE MARGIN OF PRoFT.-"There
was a general storekeepcr," said A.
nancier. "who was forced to the wall
by hard times and resolved to make
an assignment. He figured out that
he would be able to pay 40 cents on
the dollar Well, a certain wholesaler
that he had dealt pretty heavily with
heard Of his plight and came post
haste to see him.
What the wholesaler shouted.
Going to make an assignment! Pay
only 40 cents on the dollar! A pretty
state of things this isl
"'Calm yourself, Mr.. Wholesaler,
said the general storekeeper. 1t is true
1 am going to assign. These hard
times have played the very deuce with
me. And it's true I'm going to pay
only 40 cents on the dollar. But all
your goods, it happens. are intact. Not
a case has been opened, and they shall
be returned to you at once
what shouted the wholesaler, an
grier than ever Return my goods!
Not on your life! insist on my law
full 40 per cent. the same as the other
creditors Washington Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

Mr.. RoCKEFELLER's MEAL.-"I have
just read story of an economical far
mer that Mr.. Rockefeller, Jr., had been
telling to his Sunday school class"
said Higgins. He says there is a
farmer out near Cleveland who makes
a fad Of economy. Every time he drives
into town he carries a hen with him
tied to the seat of his buggy. A friend
who rode out with him one day was
curious to learn the use of that hen, so
he watched carefully and found out.
When at noon the farmer Iunched un-
der tree he gave his mare a feed from
a nose bag, and the hen, placed on the
ground, ate all that the horse spilled
from the bag, so that there was no
waste at ALL"
Good story" said Virgins, "and
true, too, know that old farmer. Mr..
Rockefeller didn't say where he got his
lunch. did he?"
mo" said Higgins. THE story stops
there"
1T was the egg the hen laid under
the buggyseat on the way out" said
Wiggins-Harper's Weekly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
REGISTRATION.
Office of Board of Supervisors of Reg
istration for York County.


Yorkville, S. c., Aug, 1S, 1908.
ID URSUANT to the act Of the Cen
I eral Assembly Of South Carolina,
approved the oath day Of February,
1908, the Board of Supervisors OF Reg
istration for York county will, during
the month of September, make a round
of the townships Of York county for
the purpose Of affording the people an
opportunity to secure Registration
Certificates. Under the law, the board
is required to spend at least one day
in each township. We have, therefore,
arranged our schedule so as to be at
the following places on the dates
named:
AT clover on Tuesday, September l,
and Thursday, September 8.
At Bethel, (Glenn's Store), on We'd
nesday, September 2.
tember 4.
At Hickory Grove on Monday, Sep
tember 7.
at Bullock's Creek Goods Store),
on Tuesday, September 8.
At Fort Mill on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, September 10, II and IL.
At Rock Hill on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, September
IA, is, Is and II.
At EbeneZer, q. B. Neely's Store),
on Friday, September IS.
During this round, we will issue new
certificates to all applicants presenting
their old certificates. Old certificates
cannot and will not be questioned by
us. All new applicants presenting
themselves without old registration
certificates or certificates from the clerk
Of the court, showing that they have
haen d,ly Registered will be required
to qualify as provided by law. Pre-
requisites to registration Of those who
have not already been registered, are
ability to read and write or evidence OF
payment OF all past due taxes on $500
worth Of property, and ability to sub
scribe to the constitutional oath.
R. M WALLACE, Chairman,
A. M. BLACK,
R. T. BEAMGUARD,
Board Of Supervisors Of Registration
for York County
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
MAGAZINE Clubbing Offered.

The Charleston News and Courier is
offering upon extraordinarily liberal
terms several clubs Of high-grade
monthly magazines. They are posi-
lively the greatest money-saving club
bing offers ever put out by any news
paper In South Carolina, and are nat
urally attracting attention all over
the state. All propositions are open
for a short time only to new and old
subscribers. Write the Magazine De-
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Charleston, S. c., at once for full par
ticulars and prices. Some Of the
Magazines represented are: The Out
ing Magazine, Bohemian Magazine,
Human Life, Paris Modes, Spare Mo-
ments, Mothers Magazine, National
Home Journal and the Uncle Remus
Magazine.
Splendid Magazines may be secured
very cheaply in connection with The
Weekly News and Courier, as well as
The News and Courier and Sunday
News. For example, a years sub
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Courier and a year subscription to six
standard magazines will cost every
old and new subscriber only $3.50.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
EXECUTORS SALE OF REALTY.
A. c. Stroup Property to be Sold at
Public Auction.

A. c. Stroup Property to be Sold at
Public Auction.
ON salesday in October next imme-
~ diately after the regular official
sales, l will sell, before the Court
House door at Yorkville, at public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder, the realty,
belonging to the estate Of the late A.
c. STROUP, deceased, as fallows
A tract of 3S4 acres, bounded by the
state line on the north, by L. ]. Craw-
ford on the east, on the south by Bob
Jackson and ]. M. Stroup, and on the
west by the Dicky old place and Andy
McCarter This tract has been cut
into four smaller tracts, and these will
be sold separately as follows.
Tract No. l, containing 100 acres.
Tract No. 2, containing 7S acres.
Tract No. 3, containing S3 acres.
Tract No. A. containing 1243 acres.
Also one lot on York street in the
town of Clover containing one acre.
l reserve the right to dispose Of this
property at private sale before the date
named.
For terms, description or further in
formation, apply to me at Clover.
w. B. STROUP, Executor.
So t I'd.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

WAIT FOR \ RAISE.-Augustus Mar
maduke Uppische had by inadvertence
been elected a member of the local club,
but somehow he did not seem to catch
on" as it were with his fellow men,
bers.
In many ways they strove to make
him understand his unpopularity, and
one evening he rushed furiously up to
a member Of the committee.
Look here" he said. 1--WE been
insulted in this club! A man offered
me a hundred pounds if I'd resign my
membership. l must do something
What would you advise me to dO?"
The committeeman considered a
while before replying.
I'D advise you to hang on for a
day or two longer. You'll get better
price then."-Pearson's weekly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

A DEFINITION.-An ingenious and
amusing answer was recently given by
a student in the natural philosophy
class at Princeton university. An in
structor gave the questiO Define
transparent translucent and Opaque.
II cannot, professor" answered the
student, "precisely define those terms,
but l can indicate their meaning in
this way: The windows of this room
were once transparent. they are now
translucent. and if not cleaned very
soon they will be Opaque. ."-Lippin-
colts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

= & In the course of month a cater
pillar will eat food weighing 5000
times the weight of its body.
IT, Supersensitive persons have light
hair.
r. Watchmakers' oil is from the jaw
bone Of the pOrpOiSe.
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81 It pays to use the Best Quality Of
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Entered at the Postoffice as Second
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Close Under Morro.

THE Ericsson was on this duty one
black April night, and was wallowing
unseen within pistol shot Of Havana's
MORO Castle, when a powerful search
light, and one which had just been in
stalled. suddenly shone like a sun from
that ancient fortress. So close under
the MORO was the torpedOboat that the
searchlights wheeling ray just missed
her tunnels. 1t went seaward, to il
lumine one after another the grim
battleships and cruisers that were
keeping vigil over the port. Unseen
and hushed. the Ericsson rolled her
bottle green hull in the tide that wash
ed within biscuit throw of light and
castle. So near was the vessel to the
fort that the voices Of the Spanish gar
rison could easily be heard. It was at
this critical moment when the light
was lancing the blackness in every di
rection except the small spot where the
quiet Ericsson rode that the Japanese
steward must needs fall overheard
The boat was rolling heavily. and in
his slipping. sliding tumble Overside
he fell afoul of the whistle cord and
pumped into the water with a round
turn of the cord fast to one foot. There
was a gutterng rush Of steam from
the whistle, and banshee shrek as it