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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
THE ADVENTUROUS ENGINEER.
The Third Man In the Great Army Of
World Conquerors.

In the order Of conquest the con-
tracing engineer is but the third
man on the spot-first the mission
ary; then the soldier; then the con-
tracing engineer. After that come
the ordinary mortals known as popu-
lation. And only by the previous eff
forts Of these three and over their
white bones can the worlds popula-
tion and commerce proceed.
He learns to take 80 miles day on
foot as a mere constitutional, to sleep
on the ground, to steer by the sun, to
guess his altitude by the trees, to
sense the characteristics Of the coun-
try he journeys in as a sportsman
judges a horse. He must ride and
swim Tin water or quicksand, as the
case may be,) and not be afraid Of
high places or deep tunnels. He
must explore treacherous rivers in an
egg-shell Of a boat and not miss a sim
gle feature which he passes nor turn
up missing himself. He is supposed
to be able to get ashore somehow In
safety when rolled out Of boat In
the heavy breakers Of an unknown
coast.
1 have met more than one Of him
who had fought cannibals; so that
should, no doubt be put down as one
of his accomplishments too. And
sometimes he has to recover from a
broken leg or a fever with nobody
but a superstitious Cholo woman for
a nurse and fragrant mud hut for
a hospital and goodness knows who
for a doctor.
All the while he is roaming over
and learning the planet in it's natural
magnificence, he is studying how to
make it, possibly not so magnificent,
but vastly more convenient to live in.
Where you sweep gracefully round
the curve on the cliff and hang for
moment in the mid-air on the great
look at what the guide book calls its
scientific marvel, you will be making
far better time than the fellow who
blasted out the curve and climbed by
inches down one side Of the gorge
and up the other leaving a string Of
stone piers behind him; and for COM
fort and convenience you will be tre-
mendously more fortunate, but you
will never see the region as he saw
it, when he was hewing his way and
your way through it, nor ever knew
it as he did when he lived In little
hut on the lodges and watched his
army working and heard the faint
noise Of his machinery drifting down
the weird, lonesome valley, with the
thin smoke of his donkey boilers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
To be Continued.
FIERCE CANNES.
The WoIfish Dogs of Newfoundland
I ,broIor

ana ldpraoor.
On the extreme northern coast of
as we'll as in Labrador,
the fishing villages and settlements
are all situated in the harbOrs and
creeks along the seashore. In the
summer all intercommunication with
the various villages is by water, so
that the roads are very primitive. In
winter, when the ground is covered
with snow and the marshes and lakes
are frozen, the people utilize dogs and
"comaticks' to travel to and fro, and
also for hauling firewood, building
material. etc. Those dogs are savage
mOngrels closely allied to their pro-
genitor, the wolf; in fact, they are
half wolf.
The residents do not trouble much
about these mOngrelS in the summer,
and they are generally kept in a state
of semisavage starvation. They feed
on fish Offal during the fishing season
and occasionally band together and go
a-hunting on their own account. On
these occasions they will attack any
thing they come across. man or beast.
and so fierce are their depredatiOns
that caribou which are plentiful in
Labrador. can only on rare occasions
be found within Twenty-Five miles OF
the seacoast, as these mOngrels have
destroyed or driven them all inland.
Last winter it was reported that a
team of those dogs turned on the driv-
er and devOured him and his wife and
child, who were accompanying him
to distant settlement. 1t had been
long recognized that these packs OF
savage dogs were great obstacles in
the way of the progress of the people
in these parts. 1t was Impossible for
them to keep COWS, sheep, goats OF
even poultry.-Forest and Stream.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
AMBITIONS WAY.
Country Reporters Newspaper Instinct

Country Reporters Newspaper Instinct
Wins Recognition In New York.
cub reporter in small city in
the western part Of New York state
coveted a position on a certain New
York paper. Somehow the chances
of getting on that papers exclusive
staff seemed mighty few. But one day
his city editor told him to go down to
the railroad station, see Lord Charles
Beresford who was to wait there a
little time between trains, and get an
interview from him. The boy was
country bred, and Beresford was lit
tie more than name to him. But he
had an hour to spare before he would
have to be at the depot, and that hour
was spent in a library reading Of the
fight before Alexandria and Of revolv-
ing guns in the Sudan.
When he reached Beresford at the
railroad depot he found the rear ad-
miral very gracious and obliging and
ready to fill him with much praise of
the country in whole and that part of
the country in particular. The boy
took copious notes, then closed his
book with a bang and smile.
That's all good stuff, Lord Beres-
ford" said he, but it's what every
single one of you Englishmen. tell
us when you get over here. 1 want
some real news"
Real news?" was the response.
IF you would answer a single real
question for me it might put me on
my feet and make a big journalist Of
me-"
The big man smiled at the boy.
ASK me the one question. Let me
see what it is" he said.
1t was at the time of the earliest
troubles in the far east.
why did you change your plans
and not go to Port Arthur" he was
asked.
But that's a diplomatic question
and not to be answered" he replied.
THE very reason why it is real
news" pressed the boy.
The foreign office at London re-
ouested me not to go there" said
Beresford as he hurried back into his
train. The boy kept his secret to him
self. wrote his conventional interview
with Beresford for the paper that en-
ployed him, then wired Beresford's
answer to his real question as an ex-
elusive feature for the New York pa
per. That paper put it in its cable
service and sent Beresford's answer
to the country reporters question
swinging around the civilized world.
Then it sent for the boy himself and
put him on his feet. Today he sits
close to it's managing editors desk
and draws a salary of more than
$1,000 a year.-Saturday Evening
Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

He liked and enjoyed all the real
things Of life and despised the unreal.
For instance, he had real friends. On
ly a few people, even in private life,
have real friends in their old age. But
among the great history shows a still
smaller proportion so blessed.
That was one keynote Of his char
acter, but along with his simple love
Of truth there existed a cognate quail
ity which, however, does not always
accompany it; and that was an active
sense of responsibility to some power
higher than ourselves. In one Of those
rare moments in his unusually light
conversation when he broke through
his habititual reserve and showed
what he thought about deeply, he once
said to one of his friends: Il don't see
how a democratic people, struggling
and fighting for it's needs and desires,
can continue to exist as a free people
without the idea of something invisible
above them to which they believe
themselves accountable"
Like all great truths, this has been
said before. The point here Is that
he believed it, and that in these two
fundamental qualities, the vision of
truth, and the sense Of ones unshirk-
able accountability, and in courage,
which was their offspring. are to be
found the determining motives of his
life.-Jesse Lynch Williams, in Col
ier's Weekly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

88 Red haired persons are usually I'M
0ulsive and outspoken.
xH In this country the death rate
among the miners is 3.4 per 1000 en-
ployed. In Belgium in 1906 the num-
Der was "a, in Great Britain it was l.2S'
in France it was "a in 1905, ard in
Prussia it was 1.S in 1904.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
cLEVELAND'S GENUINENEsS!
Simple In His Tastes, Genial and
LOYAL to Friends.

The quality which impressed one
most on becoming acquainted with Mr..
Cleveland was not his greatness; one
had anticipated that; but his genial
kindness and his quiet, pervasive hu-
NOR. He even had charm. These char
acteristics l. for one, had not anticipat-
ed at ALL l had pictured him, as prob
ably most people still fancy him, a
gruff. rugged old warrior, resting after
his battles, brooding over the past; ST
lent. except when stirred occasionally
to prOnouncing a polysyllabic profun-
dity: august. austere, parsonage diff
fcult to know and impossible to love.
expected to admire him, but it never
occurred to me that one might like
him: still less that he might care to
be liked by those among whom he had
cast his lot.
| think every man who had chance
to know him must have felt affection
for him. Sam, his cOachman, used to
say: THE finest Dimmycrat I ever
knew I'm a Republican" After the
funeral he said: Il could hardly drive
for the tears runnin' down me face.
The finest man I ever knew, Dimmy-
crat or Republican,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

One day on the train from New York
he became very much concerned over
a little girl who seemed to be travel
ling alone. Finally he had to go and
ask her about it. She said it was all
right, she Was to be met by her father
at New Brunswick. But when that
station was; finally reach the former
president, without saying anything to
the rest Of the party quietly stole out
to the rear door and watched until he
saw the child safe in her fathers arms;
then he returned to the group he had
left and went on with the conversa-
ton as if nothing had happened.
The democratic mode of his pri-
vate life is sometimes spoken Of as
if an ideal to which he consciously ad-
hered With him it was a good deal
more than a well-followed creed; 1t
was spontaneous expression of his
personality due to his inherent honest
ty: He liked simple things because he
was simple. He was Of the soil. He
had but few forms, though these he
observed strictly and expected others
to observe them. The inevitable van
tiles and srtificialities Of highly or
ganized stage of society were not
wrong, but distasteful to him. He
felt their incongruity with him. In
short, he had humor-not the chirping
facetiousness of the generation which
prates to an unhumorous extent about
it's sense Of humor, but the real thing,
the inner vision Of truth which is the
beginning Of wisdom and it's end.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

The atmosphere Of greatness-that
subtle emanatiOn Of real pOwer-Was
always present always felt more so
than in the case of any man l ever
met. So often it evapOrateS when once
you have seen enough to disassociate
the man from the name. But there
was nothing gruff or severe about this
pleasant, simple hammered, large franz
ed man, comfortably seated by his Ii
brary fireplace. saying little, but lis
tening carefully, mpathetically in
fact, to all that was being said, with
ready smile for whatever might be
amusing. a kindly solictude for the
comfort of your seat and a grave care
fulness in the selection Of your cigar.
We'll. | guess there's no law against
our smoking" was his frequent phrase.
He seemed. as a friend remarked the
other day. "juSt as much interested in
giving me a good time as l was in
trying to entertain him" But no one,
not even the most intimate, thought of
being familiar with him. He always
insisted upon carrying his gun case
himself when making the annual pill
grimage; but he also insisted upon due
respect to the high office he had held.
Some of the numerous invitations to
address quasi-impOltant gatherings
annoyed him: "They've got nerve to
expect a former president to attend
their show" He did not say me" but
a former president"
tie higher than one would expect for
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08

His voice in conversation was lit
tie higher than one would expect for
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such a large man: it was undoubtedly

such a large man: it was undoubtedly
what foreigners would call an Ameri-
can voice, somewhat nasal, though not
unpleasant, and with something in 1t
that reminded me Of the way / sup
posed Lincoln's voice sounded. When
he referred to his old friends and asso-
ciates there was tenderness in 1t as he
pronounced their names-Joe" Jeffer-
son or tom" Bayard, and others, less
known to fame, but equally dear to
him. The world only heard Of the fa-
nous ones, but it never occurred to him
to arrange his friendships on any basis
but the real one-or that his more OBJ
scure chums were not just as interest
ing to quote and tell about
Callers who undertook to inform him
to his face that he had been a great
president made him exceedingly mis-
cradle, Cthough he did not mind reading
about it when they were not around,
but If you told him you saw his boy
Richard make good catch playing ball
Dul VII Tic liNi ds you SSbilC III ms
whole face lighted up with his wonder
full smile. His attitude toward children
was not the smiling condescension
which many Of the "Olympians" adopt
and which children hate; he treated
them with that fattering earn
estress which children like. Some Of
the other gentlemen here this after
noon left this bat behind them" he
would say to his boy. One day these
two were seen walking home together
in the rain. Richard was holding the
Father than let the boy see
that he could not hold it high enough
the Ex-President walked all the way
down Bayard lane with his head and
shoulders bent low.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
FREELY GAVE MEANS
TO FEED CHILDREN

Des Moines, Ia, Aug 19-(SpeciaD
Joseph Reynolds, one of the early
pioneers of Des Moines and the man
who has fed hundreds and made thou
sands of poor families happy is
dead at his little home on the In
dianola road.
Because of his broad charity for
others throughout the past twenty
years, Uncle Joe" Reynolds, as he
was livingly called by his beneficiar-
les, died in direst poverty. For
months the only aid that he had re-
ceived has come from charitable or
CARNATIONS
Years before any religious organ
ization took up the work, "Uncle Joe"
delighted to feed hundreds at Christ
mas time at his expense. These free
dinners were enjoyed by the poor of
the city. He kept a small restau-
rant on East Walnut street where
cleanliness and goodness were syn
Onymous
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 into the cold to look
for these little wayfarers. So long
as he had home the last crust of
bread was shared with some friend
less waif. He was known to have
fed 100 neWsboys at a time, so great
was his sympathy for suffering child
hood.
Free as the air was his hospitality
but there was one requirement, and
that was that no profane oath could
ever be uttered within his walls
His little store stood out against
the background of its unsightly sur
roundings by a 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 I'm
Gle Joe" asked of his free patrons was
that they respect his religious prin-
ciples.
There were early years of his
life when he was the still pigeon
of the race tracks. His kindly bear
ing and bland and sympathetic man
ner won to him easily the unwary
bettors He made money rapidly at
the races by this method of dipping
the unsophisticated race-track plung-
ers
But a conversion to the Christian
religion brought about years of retri-
button. The money made on the
race track, it is said, went back to
the people in charitable deeds
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
The Last Guest.
New York WORLDLY


Col. Wardwell died on Saturday in
wife, a leper. She lies strapped to a
bed in an adjoining room. For her
too the end of the toilsome road is
near.
No disease is so dreadful as lep-
rosy. Sickness etherealizes and death
confers its seal of sublime majesty
Alone the SCARED and manned leper
remains an object of horror. The
love which conquers death in such a
form outweighs any of the grand
passions" of which poets sing Given
but a modicum of courage, and death
for beauty's sake is easy. Death for
beauty destroyed beyond all hope of
remembrance calls for love almost
superhuman. And such love Col
'Wardwell had displayed Prudence
dictated and the law sought to com
pei the abandonment of her whom he
had promised to protect lin sickness
and in health But the war-worn
veteran found a higher law Taking
her with him he fled the State which
would have compelled their sepera
ton. The gallant soldier, now sur
rendered to the mighty enemy, con-
quered, yet the victor.
Sociologists are bewailing the
weakness of domestic ties, the courts
are choked with suits for divorce and
press and pulpit deplore the levity
with which marriage is now regard
ed The story of Col. Wardwell shows
that even in these prosaic days love
endures. One of Gibson's drawings
portrays an old couple seated at the
dining table. Empty chairs give ev-
idence of the departed guests Her
head rests upon his shoulder, while
love invisible to both drains toast
to the days that were. For Col Ward
well and his wife love too has re-
manned %the last guest"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all it's
stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive ucre now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh be-
ing a constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon he blood and mu-
cOus surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the di-
sease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work.
The proprietors have so much faith
in it's curative powers that they Of
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that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address
f. J. CHENEY e CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
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fulfilled: Your high places shall be
desolate; that your affairs may be
laid waste and made desolate, and
your idols may be broken and cease,
and your images may be cut down,
and your works may be abolished?"
We shall not attempt to say. The
devotion of the faithful fifteen to the
cause that they loved and lost is en-
titled to that respectful consideration
which is charitably accorded every
honest defender of the faith he be-
longer have quarrel with these
faithful few The fire of battle has
died out from their eyes, and all that
they now ask is the privilege of
cherishing in peace the memories of
the happy past.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
About Brides

A January bride will be a prudent
housekeeper and very good-tempered.
A February bride will be a kind
and affectionate wife, and tender mo-
Their
A March bride will be a frivolous
chatterbox, somewhat given to quar-
reling.
An April bride will be inconstant,
not very intelligent, but fairly good
looking.
A May bride will be handsome, ami
able and likely to be happy
A June bride will be impetuous and
generous.
A July bride will be handsome and
smart, but trife quick-tempered
An August bride will be amiable and
practical
A September bride will be pretty,
affable and much liked.
An October bride will be pretty.
coquettish. loving, but jealous
A November bride will be liberal.
kind, but of a wild disposition
A December bride will be fond of
novelty and entertaining.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
Adieu to POpuIists.


NIIOIIotUII OoIsJ
The gathering at Fort Worth
Tuesday of the remnant of the once
mighty populist party, the only party
since the days of greenbackism that
has ever been able to give the demo-
cratic organization scarce, pres
sented truly pathetic scene. The
old guard had dwindled to fifteen,
and these, battle-scarred veterans,
discouraged by frequent defeats and
wholesale assertions, declined to put
out State ticket other than for pres
idential electors.
In this last rally, perhaps of what
was once as bold an army as ever
raised a banner and charged a foe,
have we a picture of the prophecy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20

but the two ends were quite long and
finished with a deep black silk fringe.
1t was pretty and, as the fringe hung
over the brim of the hat it was grace
full
Such a style is very appropriate to
a woman who is nearing undetermin-
ed middle age. for somehow or o,her
the fringe seems to add dignity to
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
TO KILL THE DANDRUFF GERM.
ED the Only Possible Way OF Having
Am Effective Cure.

KH the Only Possible Way OF Having
An Effective Cure.
If you see woman or a man with lux
lriant glossy hair, you may be sure nei-
her has dandruff to amount to anything
n nearly every case where women and
zen have thin brittle hair, they owe It
Q dandruff. There are hundreds of prep
lrations that ''claim" to cure dandruff,
cut not one but Newbro's Herpicide tells
you that dandruff is the result of a germ
Surrowing into the scalp, and that per-
manent cure of dandruff and it's conse-
quent falling and badness, can only be
had by killing the germ; and there is no
other preparation that will destroy that
germ but Newbro's Herpicide Destroy
the cause, and you remove the effect"
Sold by leading druggists. Send 1Oc. in
stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.,
Detroit. Mich.
Two sizes, SOC and $1.00.
Davenport Drug Co.. Special Agents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
CURES ITCHING ECzEMA

Watery bltstels, oten, itching sores of all
kinds, all leave alter treatment with b. B b.
because these troubles are caused by blood
poison, while B B B kills the poison, make
the blood puresapd rich and heals the sores
and stops the itching forever.
Botanic BIooos3alm. (B. b. b., is pleasant
ingredients sam les sent FREE by Writing
Blood Balm Co., A lanta, Ga. sold by drug
gists, or sent by exp ess. 81 per large bottle,
with complete directions Tor home cure
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20
COnfiiscating Liquors.

Guthrie, Okla, Aug. (SpeciaD
Robert E. Lozier state liquor dis
penser, announces tonight that dur
ing the past two weeks at Muskogee.
Tuba and Claremore $4,000 worth of
liquors have been confiscated in
raids by Rev. B. j. Waugh, state
liquor detective and Fred S. Cald-
we'll. state enforcement attorney.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20

NlSOT anu CuGGTIul-
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncom-
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys. If the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-08-20

A few doses of this remedy will IN
variably cure an ordinary attack Of
diarrhoea.
1t can always be depended upon,
even in the more severe attacks of
cramp collie and cholera morbus.
1t is equally successful for summer
diarrhoea and cholera infantum in
children, and is the means of saving
the lives of many children each year.
When reduced with water and
sweetened it is pleasant to take.
Every man of family should keep
this remedy in his home. Buy it now.
PRICE, 25C. LARGE SIZE, 500.