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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
LARGEST Animal In the World.

According to the London Globe,
what Is claimed as the largest animal
in the world is represented by colos-
sal skeleton in the museum OF Christ
Church, New Zealand. This Is the re-
mains of a large, specimen Of the blue
whale stranded on the coast Of that
country This whale Is probably the
largest of all living animals. The
length of the skeleton is 81 feet, and
the head alone is 81 feet. The weight
Of the bones is estimated at nine tons.
This gigantic whale gets its name Of
blue whale from the dark blush gray
Of its upper surface. The tinge OF yell
low on its lower part has led to the
name sulphur bottom" by which it
Is known on the western side Of the
Atlantic 1t is otherwise. known as
Sibbald's roqual (Balenoptera sibbal-
dii)
The chief food Of this gigantic ami
NAL is a small marine crustacean
(Thysanopoda inermis), known to the
whalers as "kril" Another species of
the same shrimplike group has been
obtained in thousands from the stom-
achs Of mackerel caught on the Cornish
coast. The nearly related opossum
shrimps found in enormous numbers
in the Greenland seas form the chief
food of the common whale. Some of
the thysanopoda are phosphorescentI
and contribute to the luminosity Of the
sea-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
His Receipt.

A southern banker recently told the
following about his S-year-old son:
The boy had been invited to spend
week with some little friends in the
country. "Stay and keep me compa.
ny, Jack" said his mother. Father
goes travelling this week, and I shal
be all alone. Here is IS bill for you
instead Of the visit"
Jack promptly closed with the offer
and the banker as promptly borrowed
the s5 at current interest, thereby
keeping, as he observed when telling
the story, both the boy and the money
in the family. Some two months latel
Jack wanted to recall the loan.
What s5 do you mean?" asked the
banker.
"Why, the IS gave YOU"
II haven't any S."
But I gave it to you. Mother, didn',
I give him IS? You saw me-"
'I certainly did," she replied.
where's your receipt, then?" de-
manded his father. do you mean tc
say you've been lending money with
out getting black and white to show
for it?"
"Mammie," said the boy, appealing tc
his nurse, didn't I give papa s5?"
you poh' little lamb" Indignantly
exclaimed the old woman. "Co'se you
done glib it to him, honey"
There, papa" said the budding law.
yer, triumphantly, there's the black
and white of t."-Delineator.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
= WIRELESS =.
FOR SEPTEMBER
NOW READY
PARTIAL LIST OF CONTENTS.

Wireless for Railway Service; con-
slant communication with moving
train successfully demonstrated. L.
vessels 1000 Mile wireless Mes
sage.
Latest Wireless Equipment.
Wireless quicker than the Telephone
Another Long Distance Record.
Rapid Growth Of the Telephone
Business.
Governments using Wireless.
Wireless Praised for Efficiency.
Wireless Plants for China'5 Army.
Wireless a Convenience.
Another Proof Of Success for Wire
less
Wireless Forest Protection.
Wireless in Inmost China
The Wireless Spark, (Poem)
The Wireless North Of Arctic Circle
Wireless Station for Capital Roof
Facts from a New York Brokers
Letter.
Six months Development Of the
Wireless Telegraph.
Mans Ships wireless at Age Of is.
Wireless Healthful; the experience
Of Pioneer. Wireless Operator con-
tradicts the Rumors that Wireless Is
Injurious to Health.
Wireless has come to stay; the
Wireless telegraph business Is rapidly
developing, and wireless Is the livest
wire in the investment field today;
wireless stock has advanced 200 per
cent and more in the past year.
A copy Of the September issue OF
Wireless will be sent free as sample
to any adult upon request. Address
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LESION. s. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01

Quite Harmless.-Senator James B
Frazier, at q banquet in Chattanooga
said of certain lawsuit:
'"The discussion was misunderstood
Harmless, 1t gave an impression ol
harm. 1t reminds me Of Mountain
View Beach.
"A young matron, her unmarried sis.
ter and her little daughter sat at ont
side of the long table at a Mountain
View hotel, and opposite them sat
meek young minister that the child. fol
some unknown reason, greatly feared
"One evening the young mother
wanted to go to the beach to see some
fireworks with her sister, but the lit.
tie girl refused to be left alone. Sht
screamed and wept. So it was decid'
ed to frighten her into submission by
means Of trick.
For this purpose the young sister
slipped out then came and knocked al
the bedroom door, and said in a fero.
cious bass voice:
whats the matter in there?
''The child stopped crying ant
looked frightened. Her mother said:
Hush. That's the parson. Now
will you go to sleep?'
"This trick succeeded. Mother and
sister got of to the fireworks. Every
thing seemed well.
"But at dinner the next day. dur
ing a silence that had fallen on the
long table. the little girl looked ovei
at the young minister and said taunt-
ingly in her shrill, loud voice:
"'Ah, you knocked at mothers dool
last night and she wouldn't let yor
!'"-Detroit Free Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01

value of the gold, for the Babylonian
gold talent was worth G6,150 II
heavy" and e3,075 If light" II
heavy" the gold used in the oracle
was worth e3,6s0,00O; and that in the
other part of the temple, s16.605,000. E
The value Of the whole Of the gold
used in the temple, the thickness Of
the gold on the wainscoting, and the
value of the precious stones used are
unknown.
great candlestick with seven lights,
symbols Of the divine presence; sew
en- being the number Of perfection. Ten
reduced copies of this candlestick were
made and ranged on each side Of the
altar Of incense, Besides these there
were the ark, to hold the tables Of the
law, the table for the shewbread, can
dlesticks, censers, tongs, snuffers,
knives, extinguishers, trays, vases and
other utensils for trimming and max
ing the lights and fires, in number un-
known; also basins, spoons, censers,
entry for the house, inner doors Of the
most holy place, and the doors of the
house Of the temple.
There were a great number Of Ia
bles. One was large and made Of gold,
and on it were set the loaves Of God.
There were 10000 others that resem-
bled this, for the Walls and cups. Those
of gold were 10000 and those Of sill
yer 10000. There were 10000 CANDLE
sticks, according to the command Of
Moses, one Of which was dedicated for
the temple that it might burn in the
daytime.
There were $4,000 gold basins, '120,-
900 silver ones, 10000 gold censers,
80, 900 pouring vessels-in short there
was enough of an establishment to
keep Boston hustling for some time to
come
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
Seleeted 2oetry.
WHEN OLD AGE COMES.

II God grant me old age,
1 would see some things finished;
some outworn;
Some stone prepared for builders
yet unborn.
Nor would l be the sated, weary sage
Who sees no strange new wonder In
each morn,
And with me there on what men call
the shelf
Crowd memories from which I Gull
the best
And live old strifes, old kisses, some
old jest:
For if l be no burden to myself
shall be less a burden to the rest.
If God grant you old age,
I'll love the record writ in whitened
hair,
I'll read each wrinkle wrought by
patient care,
AS oft as one would scan a treasured
page,
Knowing by heart each sentence
craven there,
I'd have you know life's evil and life's
good,
And gaze out calmly, sweetly on it
Serene with hope. whatever may
AS though love-strong spirit ever
stood
With arm about you, waiting any
call.
II God grant us old age,
I'd have us very lenient toward our
kind,
Letting our waning senses first grow
blind
Toward sins that youthful zealots can
engage,
While we hug closer all the good
We find.
I'd have us worldly foolish, heaven
wise,
Each lending each frail succor to
withstand,
Ungrudging, ev'ry mortal days de-
mand,
While fear-fed lovers gaze in our old
eyes,
And go forth bold and glad and
hand in hand.
-Burges Johnson, in Harper5.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
False Doctrine.

The late DR.. Theodore Wolf, profes-
sor Of chemistry at Delaware college
set officeholders rare example OF un-
selfishness by having his fees as state
chemist greatly reduced on the ground
that they were exorbitant.
'Dr. Wolf" said a Newark man
was a delightful lecturer. I OTTER
dropped in to the college to heal
him. I'll never forget one Of his lee
lures on quack medicines.
He told us about an early patient
of his, a man who dosed himself with
about a half peck of pills and two OIL
three gallons Of quack medicine every
week.
There was nothing the matter with
the fool but all this silly medicine
swilling and DR.. Wolf told him so
but it did no good.
Then Dr. Wolf appealed to the
mans wife to stop him, but she declar-
ed that it couldn't be done. She ha6
quoted at him again and again shs
said, the verse in the liturgy tha
pointed out his sin and
but where interrupted DR.. Wolf
bewildered, where does the liturgy say
anything against taking quack medi.
cine?'
"She was prompt with her reply
"'F'rom all false doctoring
good Lord, deliver us.'"-Seatle Post.
Intelligencer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
AUSTRALIAN DINGoS.
Treacherous and Destructive Animals
That Can Feion Death.

There are some who believe, though
the evidence seems against them, that
certain Of wild dogs, like the Austria
liam dingo-"yellow dog dingo, always
hungry, dusty in the sun"-are rever-
sions to the wild state Of race once
tame, just as the pariah dogs Of vari-
Gus centuries have travelled half the
road toward becoming wild animals
again.
AS one sees the dingo here in the
gardens it looks not merely like do
mesticated dog, but like a dog Of a
distinctly engaging and amicable kind.
The dingo's character bellies its gentle
looks. "Quarrelsome, sly and treach-
erous," an Australian naturalist has
called 1t. So sly Is 1t that, according
to Mr.. Beddard in 'The Cambridge
Natural History" 1t feigns death with
such persistence than an individual has
been known to be partly flayed before
moving" and so treacherous that In
the days when dingos were more COM
monty kept as pets by the colonists
than, as a result of bitter experience,
is the case today it was no unusual
thing for the dog which had been
brought up with every tenderness from
puppyhood to turn suddenly on its
master or mistress, or, what was more
frequent, when left in temporary
charge Of an empty house to seize the
opportunity to raid the sheepfold or
the poultry runs.
On such occasions 1t ravens" even
as the wolf, killing not to satisfy its
hunger, but in the understandable fury
Of a brute instinct, 80 that, given
time enough. 1t will not leave one fowl
or one sheep alive. That 1t does not
need much time, moreover, Is shown
by the statement of Thomas Ward that
zone dingo in the course Of few
hours has been known to destroy sew
eral score Of sheep" For its fighting
ability the same authority declares 1t
to be q match for most domestic dogs
of double its size.
When wild it hunts in packs, which
are said sometimes to include as many
as a hundred individuals, though from
six to a dozen is the common number,
and the only Australian animal which
1t Is uncertain 1. the pack can ever
pull down Is Tin spite Of Mr.. Kipling)
the "old man" kangaroo.-London
Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
No. 1888.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Office of Comptroller Of the Currency.
Washington, d. c., Sept. z, 1909.
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence
presented to the undersigned. 1t has
been made to appear that THE FIRST
NATIONAL BANK OF SHARON"
In the Town Of Sharon, In the County
Of York, and the State Of South Car
olina, has complied with all Of the
provisions Of the Statutes Of the
United States, required to be complied
with before an association shall be
authorized to commence the busi-
ness Of Banking:
Now therefore, I, Willis J. Fowler,
Deputy and Acting Comptroller Of the
Currency, do hereby certify that THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHA-
ROM" in the Town Of Sharon, in the
County of York, and State Of South
Carolina, is authorized to commence
the business Of Banking as provided
in Section Fifty-one hundred and six
ty-nine Of the Revised Statutes Of the
United States.
In testimony whereof, witness my
hand and seal Of office, this seventh
day Of September, 1909.
(SEAL1
WILLIS ]. FOWLER,
Deputy and Acting Comptroller Of
the Currency.
Sept 10 TT Nov. 10.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
COST OF LIVING CLIMBS.

But Most Trust Prices Are Said to
Be Left Far Behind.
The cost Of living, which has been
increasing so rapidly for most Of the
last thirteen years is again advancing
from the slightly lower levels brought
by the depression Of 1908. All through
the past summer the prices OF the nec-
essaries of life have been slowly ad-
vancing, reaching on August l, the
highest figure reported for that date
save one in 1907.
The average cost Of supplies prac-
ticaliy every household must buy has
increased over 40 per cent since 1885,
but the Review Of Reviews remarks
that It is rather interesting" to note
in the Bradstreet statistics that the
commodities controlled by the trusts
have generally shown a smaller in
crease in price than the average.
Thus refined petroleum sold In 1895
for 7.S cents a gallon and the whole
sale price now Is 81 cents. Sugar cost
in 1896 AZ cents pound acd cost
4.85 cents. Anthracite coal In 1895
cost $4.25 a ton and Is now $3.50.
The Bradstreet agency has selected
106 articles Of domestic consumption
and has kept careful record Of their
prices month by month for seventeen
years. The highest point ever reach
ed was in March 1907, after which
came the moderate slump caused by
the financial disturbances Of that year.
We are now marching steadily back
toward this high record and the Au-
gust figures are only 6.S per cent be-
low 1t.
Some of the individual cases Of In
creased cost are much more impress
sive than the average. Rubber has
advanced from 81 cents a pound In
1896 to $19S a pound now; pork from
$S.25 a barrel to $21.75; eggs from 12a
cents a dozen to 2S cents; mutton
from 81 cents a pound to II cents;
corn from "a cents bushel to 80
cents; wheat from 81 cents bushel to
$1.20, and so forth. The figures given
are wholesale prices and as a rule the
advance to the ultimate consumer has
been decidedly greater.-New York
Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
Humorous department.
Didn't Understand Him.

There was a circus in a Missouri
river town, and a drummer, who was
in a town four miles further down the
river, wanted to get to 1t. The steam
boat had left and there was no rig to
be had. The drummer went to the riv-
er and found a negro sitting in skin
THAT your boat?" he asked the ne
gro.
"Yassir."
Want to rent it?'
"Yassir."
How much for the afternoon?
want to go up to the circus"
Bout foah bits, boss"
'All right. Can you row?"
whats dat?"
Can you row."
mo, sub. Deed, cain't do muffin
laik dat, boss"
well, dodgast you, get in the stern
there. You can do that, can't your"
''Yassir."
The drummer took the oars, and af-
ter he had rowed about two miles
against current was tucked out.
He threw down the oars and said:
IT can't pull this boat another inch
don't care If I never get to that cir
Gus. You're a fine boatman not to
be able to row."
The negro looked at the drummer
with quickening intelligence. Does
you mean you wanted me to pull dem
oars, boss?'
Sure I do. I asked you If you could
row and you said you couldn't"
Deed, boss" said the negro, Il
thought you done ast me could roah-
roah like a lion."-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01

Why They Grinned.-Mra. Grant
was undoubtedly the disciplinarian ir
the family, and Mr.. Grant, who wat
a very busy lawyer, was regarded by
the two children as one CT themselves
subject to the laws Of Mother" But
one day Mrs. Grant became very i'll
and at luncheon Mr.. Grant, who fell
that the children were already show
ing signs of running wild" felt OBJ
liged to reprimand them.
Gladys" he said, stop that imme-
diately or I shall have to take you
from the table and spank you"
Instead Of making the impression he
had fondly hoped to do, he saw the
two little imps glance in surprised
manner at each other and then stimuli
taneously a grin broke over the faces
Of both culprits, and Gladys said in a
voice Of derisive glee:
"Oh, George, hear father trying to
talk like mother!"-Lippincott
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
Il Write
Fire Insurance

In placing your fire insurance you
will not go wrong II you have 1t In
sured In one Of the dozen time tried
and fire tested companies represented
by me. You can then feel satisfied
that In case your property Is either de-
stroyed or damaged by fire you viii
receive every dollar to which you are
entitled.
IF YOU CONTEMPLATE BUILDING
a new structure Of any description and
desire information as to how to pro-
ceed In order to be entitled 70 the low
est rate on the proposed structure, ]
shall be pleased to furnish you with
same. It is to your interest to have
the information as the probability Of q
fire will be reduced to the minimum,
and ! will furnish It whether you pro-
pose irsuring or not.
write Live Stock Insurance.. It ts
good In case Of death from any cause.
See me about 1t.
SAM M. GRIsT.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
Advice From
A Customer

AS soon as person begins to ac-
cumulate money he begins to take
an interest In living. The very
fact that he can save the small
amounts and make them larger
makes him hustle" and compels
his interest and attention. Invest
a dollar in our Savings Depart
ment, add to II weekly or monthly
and see how your efforts viii in
crease. I've tried 1t and know
you try 1t.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01

1B' The poorest marksman sometimes
hits the nail on the head
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01

- We Pay YOU to SAVE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01

p state where Editors Rule!
The governor, his private secretary
and executive clerk are country news.
paper men; so are the labor commits
sioner, the executive agent of the
game and fish commission, the state
oil inspector, the state librarian, the
secretary and assistant secretary Of
state, the assistant labor commission
er, the state fire warden, the assistant
fire marshal, the deputy public exam
iner, the secretary Of the dairy and
food commission, the assistant clerk
Of the supreme court, the secretary OF
the board of control
Both political parties have recog-
nized the capability Of the country
editor for official position from the
earliest history Of the state, and he
has always been an active force in
legislative councils and in the minor
places under the national and state
governments.
Then, too, there is glory enough in
just being an editor. What young
journalist has not held up to his
flushed and eager eye the editorial
page Of his first issue and gazed
proudly upon the name next preced-
ing the words, "editor and proprietor?"
When the years roll by, and the
struggles Of adversely are not always
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-09-01
NINETY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
OF MRS. ESTHER A. PIERCE.
No Celebration of the Event, but II
Found Her Very Well and Cheerful.

Ninety-fve years ago Tuesday Mrs.
Esther A. Pierce was born in North
Kingston, r. l., the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Joseph Arnold, her maiden
name having been Esther Arnold. For
her first husband she married a Mr.
Arnold, and after his death she mar.
ried Bernard w. Pierce of Westerly,
who died thirteen years ago.
Mrs. Pierce has lived with her
daughter, Mrs. John A. Bowen, of this
city, for number of years. Although
totally blind, which affliction she has
had for long term of years, her 18th
birthday anniversary found her very
well and cheerful and she was very
happy on the enviable occasion. She
continues to enjoy good health and is
able to get about with assistance. Be-
cause of her advanced age no celebra-
ton was attempted, but she received
the best wishes OF a. number of friends
and a number of pleasing remem-
ORANGES.
For many years there was family
reunion on the occasion, but since her
S0th birthday there has been none, as
on that occasion two of her sons lost
their lives and since then 1t has been
felt there could be no reunion. Mrs.
Pierce is most estimable woman, be-
ing held in high esteem by many
friends whom she has made by her
pleasing personality and sympathetic,
Christian character. Her friends wish
her many more pleasant anniversaries.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-09-01
JAMES J. NOLAN REPORTED
KILLED BY THE CARS
Has Been Missing Week and the
Body Found at Guilford is Believed
to Be His.

A New Haven despatch to The Bull
letin on Tuesday evening said:
THE identity of the man whose body
was found lying beside the railroad
tracks in Guiford several days ago
was probably established today as that
of James j. Nolan of Norwich. The
body will be exhumed tomorrow so
that positive Identification can be
made.
Thomas Ahearn of Norwich called
on Chief Cowles of the local police
force and told him that in company
with Nolan he boarded the Federal
express at New London, and that
New Haven, Nolan had left the car
and probably either fell or jumped off
the train"
Word was received here on Tuesday
evening from John B. Keenan, of New
Haven. brother in-law of the deceas-
ed, to whom the matter was reported
on Tuesday. Mr.. Keenan, sent word to
his wife, who is visiting here, and her
sister of their brothers death upon the
statement of Thomas Ahearn. An in
vestigation today will determine wheth-
er the statement is so and Nolan's
body buried as unknown.
For the past week James j. Nolan
has been missing, and at 1t is unusual
for him to go away like that, his Sis
tiers were worried over his absence.
The time between his disappearance
and the news of his death and burial
caused them to think it could hardly
be their brother. but later developments
tend to the belief that it is. 1t is
known that he left here with Thomas
Ahearn on the oath of August. and
nothing has been heard of him since.
Ahearn was injured in New Haven and
has been in the hospital there.
James J. Nolan was born in this city
from 80 to 38 years ago, the son of Jo-
seph and Mary Nolan, and has always
lived here. He was well known about
the city, and returned in the spring
from whaling trip on the schooner
Margaret. His parents are dead. He
is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Henry
C. Marx of this city and Mrs. John
B. keenan, of New Haven. The body
will probably be brought here.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-09-01
Four Fall
Necessities

Be sure you have these remedies. In
your medicine chest before the cold,
wet, windy weather sets in, then there
will be less sickness from Coughs,
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COUGHS: A slight wetting or ex-
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