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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02

the same purpose when he was inau-
gurated governor Of New York. We
had bought Bible for his Inaugural
ton when he received word from
Mrs. Roosevelt that she preferred
the use Of their own volume, and II
was accordingly substituted.
1--WE still have on hand the Bible
bought for that occasion, but we
shall not use 1t for Mr.. Taft. Unless
he furnishes q book himself, we Will
get a new one and will keep the
Roosevelt Bible on hands for emer-
gencies, such, for instance, as occur
red when Arthur took the oath Of Of
flee in this city. He had been sworn
In New York, but it was suddenly de-
cided that it would be safer to again
administer the oath in Washington.
Accordingly Chief Justice Waite and
about twenty other persons of prom
inence were called very suddenly TO-
gether in the vice-president's room
at the capitol. I had to send uptown
for a book, and had but few min
utes in which to execute the COM
mission. I succeeded, however, In
getting the book in time for the
ceremony and was one of the Few
present when Mr.. Garfield's success
sor was initiated into his high office.
1--WE now make it a point to have
an available book on hand at all
times, and probably will keep the
Bible for that purpose. y
Kansas City Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02
AWAITED IN A GRAVE
Japanese Attempts to Bury Himself
and Die AfterWard.

Japanese Attempts TO Bury Fimseli
and Die Afterward.
A youth Of Kobe, Japan, who sought
to commit suicide by burying himself
alive and paid an accomplice 25 cents
to spade the earth upon his coffin
achieved some degree Of notoriety
even in Japan, where new things are
happening every day, says the New
York Sun. He failed Of his original
purpose, however.
A policeman was strolling along the
bank of the Miantogawa river outside
Of Kobe one day last month when he
happened to spy joint Of bamboo
pipe sticking a few inches above q
mound Of fresh earth. Being a JAP
anese and also a policeman, his curl
osity was especially keen. He looked
down the bamboo pipe, but could see
nothing.
Then he began to dig around the
pipe. He had a considerable wrench
put on his nerves when a voice came
out Of the end Of the pipe right at his
ear:
"Honorably condescend TO go away
and permit me to die peacefully"
But the policeman did not go. He
dug some more and finally unearthed
a pine box, the length Of mans body
and about three feet wide. The bam.
boo pipe led through an opening Into
the box. The policeman pried off the
cover Of the box, securely nailed down
and dumped the self-appointed corpse
out.
Yamada Katsutaro, the man who
thus would have died, told the prefec1
of police that he had wanted to die In
seemly fashion because he was out
Of work. The lack of food had sug-
gested to him the practicability OF
starving himself to death, but in order
to be sure that he should accomplish
this purpose he had determined to
bury himself in a securely nailed cof-
fin and await the ravages Of hunger
He didn't want to suffocate first, hence
the bamboo pipe.
The day before the policeman dis
covered him, Yamada said, he pro.
cured the box and the services OF a
coolie. Then he dug the hole out or
Egeyama and after giving the coolie
his obi and fifty sen, his last bit OF
money, he was nailed up in his coffin
lowered into the grave and covered
under six feet of soil.
Yamada promised never to try bury
ing himself again and the police lie,
him go.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02

The Bank Could Stand It.-A west
ern lawyer tells of a remarkable In.
stance Of the convincing power o.
feminine logic as evidenced by an oc'
currence which he once witnessed
while standing on the edge Of crowe
that was besieging the doors Of bani
supposed to be on the point of sus'
pending payment.
A conversation between a ros!
checked Irishwoman and her husband
who were near the lawyer, at once at
tracted his attention.
Mary" said the man, I'VE must pusf
up, so We can dhraw your money a
onct!"
But I don't want to draw 1t out
Roger" replied Mary placidly.
Don't We know, Mary" persisted the
husband, that they'll lose your money
for We IL ye don't hurry t dhraw II
out?"
AN shure, Roger" retorted Mary
"ain't they better able to lose it thar
we are?"
Roger was stunned by this una1-
swerable logic, and after a few more
words the two withdrew. Fortunate
" the bank survived it's difficulties, and
no depositor lost a cent.-Harper's.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02

Deny Nothing.-Represen wal
ter I. Smith of Iowa, who, as a member
of the house committee on appropria-
tions, was one Of those named by Pres
ident Roosevelt as responsible for the
limitation placed on the secret service
was formerly a judge. He Is regard
ed by his colleagues as one Of the ALI
lest men in the house. His reply to
the president was characteristicaiiy
bristling with facts and figures sci
forth with the keenest satire.
Recently Mr.. Smith was asked by a
newspaper man to affirm or deny
story of current interest relating to
bit of legislation.
Did you ever hear the advice OF the
old politician?" replied Mr.. Smith.
The newspaper man admitted he had
not.
well, this particular individual was
running for office. His opponents
charged him with being a CRATER. 1t
made him mad, but he did not deny 1t.
Next, somebody said he was a liar.
That made him madder, but he did not
deny 1t. Then some virtuous citizen
said he was a most profane man. He
greatly feared this charge would cost
him the church vote, but he did not
deny it. When they finally said he had
made a deal with the corporations In
order to be elected he got so blamed
mad he could not hold in any longer,
and he denied that, and, by George,
they proved it on him. Deny nothing"
Chicago Daily News.
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. FOR SALE

J.. j. Wallace Land-3S acres, join
ing lands of ]. e. Plexico and j. p.
Blair Price, S400.
ID. j. Fitchett Property-61 acres,
near Glover, Bethel township; llO
acres.
ID. j. Fitchett Residence-In Clo-
yer. This is very desirable property
and must be sold at once.
A. E. Love Property-50 acres, 8
miles Sharon; 6 acres In cultivation;
A acres in original forest and saw
timber. Price, $1,000 per Acre.
NJ. b. Love Property-S0 acres; 3
miles of Sharon; all in original forest.
Price, 100000.
NJ. B. Love Property-s6 acres; 8
miles of Sharon; 16 acres in cultiva-
ton; so acres in original forest; ~
acres second growth timber. Price,
81, 900.
j. p. Barnes Land-105h acres; 4
miles southwest Of Yorkville; IL acres
Of wired pasture.
John T. Feemster Property-S6
acres; rs acres in timber; about 10
acres Of cleared land. Price, SSSO.OO'
Easy terms.
2S5 Acres-5 miles from Rock Hill;
plenty of wood; rents for $500 lbs.
cotton. Price, $5,OO0.OO.
Dennis Whisonant-Residenc al
Hickory Grove, s. C. Painted; 2
stories. A fine residence; l acre lot.
The Bigham Place-Two miles
north Of Sharon, miles west OF
Yorkville; 113 acres of land; 65 acres
under cultivation. Rents for 1850
lbs. cotton. Very Cheap.
Land OF E. NJ. and Jas. E. Bank
head-In Bullock's Creek township;
455 acres; from ESQ to 800 acres in
open land; nearly 200 acres Of bottom
land-fine for corn; plenty Of wood.
40 Acres-Ebenezer township; SO
acres in cultivation, very fine land.
This rents for 1900 lbs. of cotton.
Price, S1,85O.OO.
One Lot-Near old C. & NV. de-
pot; 4 Of an acre, more or less.
1885 Acres-3a miles N. e. Of Kings
Creek station; 1875 acres Of fine tim
ber; land lies we'll; near Piedmont
springs; lots of pine saw timber; over
1000 cords pine woods. Must be sold
at once.
]. G. WILL B 0 R N.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02

"Uncle Joe's" New Story.-Speak-
er Cannon has added to the literature
Of the wordy war between congress
and the White House. Uncle Joe" Is
credited with a story that has set all
congress to laughing. 1t deals with
member Of the house who went home
after a late session at the club wabbly
as to legs and somewhat thick as to
speech. At o'clock in the morning
Mrs. Congressman dug her snoring
spouse in the ribs with her elbow.
John" she whispered excitedly
John, wake up"
"Ugh," he grunted.
John, for mercys sake, wake up!'
she whispered again, emphasizing hel
appeal with a second vigorous dig
Another grunt was all that greeted her
For heavens sake, John, wake up!'
she whispered frantically, there art
robbers in the house!"
You're mistak'n, m DEAR" said the
congressman, composing himself fol
sleep. "Ain't any robbers in the house
They're all in the shenate."-Wash'
ington special to New York Times.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02

An Anxious Time.-Mr. Boughton,
the English artist, while sketching
in the Alps. was one day in search OF
a suitable background of dark pines for
a picture he had planned. He found
at last the precise situation he was
seeking, and best of all, there happen
ed to be a pretty detail in the figure OF
an old woman in the foreground.
Il asked the old lady, said Mr..
Boughton ito remain seated until had
made a sketch of her. She assented,
but in a few minutes asked me how
long / should be. Only a quarter OF
an hour 1 answered, reassuringly.
Three minutes or so later, she again
asked me-this time with manifest
anxiety-if ! should be much longer.
"Oh, not long I answered. But
why do you ask so anxiously?'
"'Oh, it's nothing she sadly answer
ed, only I'm sitting on an ant-hill.' -
Tit Bits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02
SOME QUEER BELIEFS.
Superstitions of the Filipino Seem
STRANGE to an Observer.

| SupeFStltlonS OF tne EHlpino 0com
Strange to an Observer.
Discussing the Philippines, the Fill
pinos and their many queer beliefs,
Samuel M. Gardner Of Manila, said to
Washington Herald reporter that in
the Philippines more, perhaps, than in
any other country, the Inhabitants be-
lieve in many superstitions. I'm many
places the belief is so strong" said Mr..
Gardner, ."that with each everyday act
and occurrence there Is associated some
superstitious belief.
: "Domesticate a cat" continued Mr..
Gardner, who is interested in the ship
ping business in the eastern posses
sions Of America, land take 1t three
times around the stove, then pull out
one of it's whiskers and bury it (the
whisker, not the cat) in the ashes.
The cat will never return to its for
mer home.
when a wild cow is bought or OBJ
tanned, the new owner must lead 1t
three times around the barn or other
place where he desires 1t to sleep. He
must then take from the animals nose
the loop by which it was led and bury
1t in some spot where the COW has cir
cled. This must be done in the twi-
light. In the future the animal, with
out any guidance, will every evening
promptly lie down in this very place
when returning from the fields.
when the cornfields are visited by
the small worms which greatly dam
age the crops the farmers have a pc
culiar way of destroying them without
much trouble. Without letting anyone
know, the farmer goes to the field,
takes seven worms, strings them on a
broken eyed needle, and then buries
them in the seventh hill Of the seventh
row of the corn. The worms will die
out in numbers, and in a couple of
days the field will be free Of them.
This must be done secretly in the twi-
light or the charm will be broken.
Often a whole piece Of bamboo is
found in which black ants have made
their nests, there being, however, no
visible entry. Fishermen always hunt
for this peculiar bamboo to assure
themselves Of good fishing. They use
it as one Of the frames in their fishing
corrals, and the presence of this bam-
boo charms the fish of the corral, and
consequently a rich haul will be made.
"Once / heard a mother say that
none of her children ever fell down.
stairs, in spite of the fact that the
steps were badly constructed and dan
gerous. She accounted for this very
easily. She said that whenever child
became year old she cut lock of his
hair, wrapped it in a piece of paper,
and put 1t in one Of the cracks Of the
stairs. The children might come near
falling, but never actually did so, for
they would always find something to
catch hold of.
1T is almost general custom in the
Philippines that after a wedding the
newly married couple remains at home.
It is believed that should they go on
a trip by sea a storm would arise, or,
If by land some mishap would over
take them"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02
THEN AND NOW.
EIGHTY Years Retrospect Of an Eng
Iish Publicist.

Eighty Years Retrospect Of an Eng
| lish Publieist.
Eighty years ago in an old mouse Oh
an old English town, a little boy was
living in bed listening to the Christmas
chimes, perhaps to the last call OF the
watchman on the street, and looking
at the servant lighting the fire with the
flint steel and tinderbox Of the olden
time, writes Goldwin Smith In the
Cornell Era. Since that morning what
changes!
The main storm Of the French rev.
olution may be said to have ended at
| Waterloo. But there has been series
of afterblasts which has changed the
political face of all Europe and Is now
apparently extending itself to the hith-
erto stagnant east. We may set down
in some measure to the same account
the overthrow by civil war Of the same
power in the United States.
The impelling force everywhere has
been democracy, generally triumphant
advancing to rule apparently even In
Russia, and in England completely
possessed of the legislative seat of real
power, the house Of commons, though
remnant of aristocratic control still
| retains a precarious existence in the
house Of lords.
The United States now, instead OF
being the vanguard Of democracy
might almost be said to be its rear
guard, the power Of the president and
the senate making it's constitution In
some respects the most conservative
Of the set.
Not less, but rather more, moment
Gus than the political movement, and
fraught with ultimate change, Is the
advance of science, which In two or
three generations has been almost MI
raculous, and has carried mechanical
invention with 1t. Mechanical invention
with steamship, rail and telegraph, Is
bringing the nations into far closer
communication and making Of them In
some respects almost one common
wealth.
| In one way, unhappily, invention has
been retrograde. 1t has always been
increasing the construction Of new in
struments Of war, the incentive to en-
nifty between nations or the appeal to
violence and destruction.
The growth Of physical science, or
the increase Of it's influence over the
mind, has had the most momentous
effects in another sphere. Those
| Christmas chimes, when the child first
heard them, spoke to all hearts alike,
both Of home and the church. To not
few they now speak Of the home
alone. This change has come rapidly
and startlingly over the intellectual
world.
The child when still a youth heard
great professor Of physical science
struggling to reconcile geology with
Genesis. Now he reads the work Of a
religious writer, such as Gladstone,
struggling to reconcile Genesis with
geology.
| Let the evolutionists, however, re-
member two things: First, that evolu-
ton cannot have evolved itself; Sec
ond, that unlike brutes, humanity, as
we have been noting, advances, and
we cannot tell what the end will be,
whether it may not be the final ascen-
dency Of the spiritual over the mate
rial in man. Man, let the evolutionists
remember, advances and rises. The
beast does not
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02
Hatauruus department
An Amateur conjurer.

During a little pedestrian trip gen
tleman came unexpectedly upon
country race course and on one por'
ton of the ground found thimblerie
establishment in full work. Notwith-
standing the remonstrance of his COM
panion. the gentleman, who was bi'
of a madcap, insisted on watching the
game.
"Now, would the gent like to wager
a crown he could find the pear re-
marked the expert
"Yes," was the reply.
The money was on both sides depos-
tied, and the pedestrian, lifting up tine
thimble, pointed out the required pea
and took the stakes.
A second bet, double or quits" end
ed, to the surprise of the expert In the
same result.
Then third wager, "a pound oi
nothing" steadied the nerves OF the
loser, and the trick was accomplished
with great caution. The gentleman
lifted I'D the thimble and showed the
pea, at the same time pocketing the
stakes.
"S'help, me-" etc., Il didn't put II
there!" exclaimed the bewildered art
ist.
mo, but 1 always carry my own
pea" rejoined the man who had come
out right as he went on his way with
the spoils of war.-London Tit-Bits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02
ARTIFICIAL SAPPHlRES.
How a Modern Persian AIchemist
Manufactures ScintilIating Gems.

How a Modern Persian AIchemist
Manufactures Scintillating Gems.
"Not five out Of a hundred jewelers.
In Broadway could detect a manufac-
tured ruby" said a gem expert the
ether Gay, according to the New York
Tribune. 1.-THE imitation is so perfect
that I think it hardly proper to pub
lish the fact 1t might lead some
swindler to buy the French-made
stones at 40 cents a carat and sell
them at the price of the genuine,
which is upward of SIG carat whole
sale. A fine ruby is more valuable
than a diamond of the same weight.
So is a sapphire. for that matter"
Rubies and sapphires are chemi-
cally of similar composition, both be-
dunn, but the manufacture of sap
phires to equal the genuine stone is
later achievement than the produc-
tion of rubies. At his laboratory at
Boulogne- a modern alchem-
list, named M. Louis Paris, transmutes
inert powders into sparkling gems and
heaps up quantities Of sapphires great
er than a thousand miners could dig
from the bowels of the earth.
The constituents Of the jewels to be
created, which are aluminium and OK
ide coloring, are weighed very pre-
cisely on glass inclosed scales, for an
error Of a milligram in the proper
tions would give defective results.
The mixed powder is poured in a GU
pei, which is then placed in an oil
burning oven, a temperature Of LOO
degrees is maintained for several
hours. When the cupel is taken from
the oven its contents are dumped into
cup and thence emptied through a
funnel into a sort Of flower pot with
perforated cover. The pot is placed
over the jet Of an oxyhydrogen blow
pipe, with a temperature of 1900 de-
grees. The tube Of the oxyhydrogen
apparatus is protected with many
layers of sheet iron, and this final pro-
cess Is carefully observed by expert
workmen. Slowly the liquifying
powder falls in the shape of drops
upon the intense flame and in place
of mere chemical mixture appears
a sapphire splendidly blue and trans
lucent.
The sapphire, natural or artificial,
is a very hard stone. Even If fash
ion declines to accept the laboratory
article, important commercial uses
can be found for it, as in forming tips
for rock boring drills the sapphire
drill is equal to the diamond drill and
on the artificial basis costs infinitely
less.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-02

Peary's Idea of "Fatalism." Com
mander Peary is fatalist of sort. He
believes that he is fated to reach the
north pole before he dies, but he also
believes in giving fate helping hand.
He explains his fatalism by comparing
it to that of the old backwoodsman
who was a firm believer in fate, but
never went out without his rifle. One
Jay he had an important errand to do,
but a neighbor had borrowed his rifle,
so he sat down to wait for it's return.
A friend passing by taunted him about
his taking such precautions when he
believed that he would not die until his
time came, and that then nothing could
prevent the event.
That's all right" said the old man;
but suppose l should go out without
my rifle and meet an Indian whose
time had come. What would happen
then?"-Chicago Tribune.