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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16

Explaining an Exeuse.-An Atlanta
merchant has frequent occasion to
rebuke Ike, his darky porter, for his
tardiness in reporting for duty in the
morning. Ike is always ready with
a more or less ingenious excuse.
You're two hours late, 1ke! ex-
claimed the employer one morning.
'This sort Of thing must stop! Other
wise I'm going to fire you. Under
stand?"
Deed, Mistah Edward" replied
Ike, at want NAH fault dis time!
Homes! / was kicked by mule!
kicked by a mule? Well, even II
that were so, it wouldn't delay you
for more than an hour You'll have
to think of a better excuse than that"
Ike looked aggrieved. "Mistah Ed
ward" he continued, solemnly, III
might have been all right ef dat mule
kicked me in dis direction; but ne
didn't-he kicked me de odder way
Atlanta Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16

Realism.-During one of his pres
idential trips. Mr.. Cleveland, accom-
panied by Secretary Olney, arrived at
a town in a heavy storm, and they
were driven from the station with
hailstones rafting on their carriage.
A brass band, undismayed by the
weather. bravely stuck to its post and
played the welcoming airs.
That is the most realistic music
I have ever heard" remarked Mrs.
Cleveland.
What are they playing?" asked
the secretary of state.
Hail to the Chief with real
hail."-Success Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16

was Indians in 1t, too, and they let
him stay there a whole month, fed
him, an wouldn't charge him cent.
OF course, he didn't have a cent, but
that don't alter the fact that it was
mighty white in 'em. Every day he
filled UP with that water an wallered
in it, an by the end O. the month he
was as we'll as he'd ever been.
Now, he felt pretty sure that there
was some money to be made out O.
that water, but he didn't quite see
how a man could swing it without
capital. 1t was about the beginnin'
of wheat harvest, an he went over in
to Oklahoma an got a job as a field
hand. All that summer he stayed in
the fields followin' the harvest clear
up into Manitoba. By fall he'd laid
by about $500, an then he got a lot
O. bottles an some labels, went back
to the spring an filled up his bottles
an crossed over into Texas, stuffed
up with the idea that he was goin'
to make a fortune right off the han
die sellin' the wonderful remedy for
every i'll of man or beast.
1.-THE first town he struck he set up
a stand on the public square an made
a spiel that was so convincin' that he
sold fifty or sixty bottles as fast as
he could hand 'em out at a dollar
apiece. That was mighty fine start,
but along in the evenin', as he was
sittin' in front of the hotel waitin' for
train time an smokin' big cigar, a
feller comes slippin' up to him an,
says he, in whisper:
"'Excuse me, partner, but they's a
whole lot O. people in this town to-
night that's mighty sick, an some
how or another they're the same folks
that bought medicine from man
down on the square today. I amt
namin' no Names says he, but If
their friends get hold O. that man,
an theys out lookin' fer him now,
it's goin' to go mighty hard with him.
Dow didn't lose any time. He
didn't understand it, but he knew 1t
wouldn't be any use to try to explain.
He slipped through the hotel, out the
back door an struck across the coun-
try as fast as his long legs would
take him. He wasn't any too soon,
either. The crowd was right after
him, an for three days they kept him
on the jump to get away from them
an their dogs. But finally he threw
'em off the scent, struck a railroad
sidin', tagged train an got back in
to the Territory. He was pretty near
heart-busted, but he figured out that
there was somethin' about that water
that wouldn't keep, decomposed or
soured, or somethin', and so the bot
tim business was all off,"
But" said the red-headed man, as
the traveller from Terre Haute lighted
a fresh cigar, T thought you said he
got to the top again."
That's right, so I did," admitted
the Hoosier. "And so he did. He
give up the bottle idea, got options on
all the land around the spring, went
back to Indiana and interested some
Of his old friends in the proposition,
an they agreed to put up the money
to build big sanatorium down there.
But that scheme fell through, too, for,
while they was arrangin' the deal, an
other feller come rovin' through that
country, got the scent of kerosene
from that creek, found there was coal
oil there, an paid Dow so much for
his options that he hasn't had to do
a lick O. work since."-C. S. Yost, in
Los Angeles Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16

Too Pointed.-Mr. Howard was
man of exceedingly few words. He
positively disliked to talk, as an Indian
dislikes to smile One day he went in
to a music store to buy the music or
an opera for his sister. The clerk came
up, and to him Mr.. Howard said in his
quiet way:
"'Mikado' libretto."
The salesman frowned
Whats that?" he asked.
"Mikado, libretto," repeated the 9TH
er.
ME no speakee Italiano," said the
clerk. shaking his Washington
Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16
Tn, Pedestrian In 1e1o.-Chug- chug!

The Pedestrian In 1910-Chug- -chug!
Br-r-r! br-r-ri
Honk-honk!
gilligillug!
The pedestrian paused at the inter-
section Of two busy cross streets and
looked about.
An automobile was rushing at him
from one direction, a motorcycle from
another, an auto truck was coming
from behind and a taxicab was speedi-
ly approaching.
Zip-zip! Zing-glug!
He looked up and saw directly
above him a runaway airship in rapid
descent.
There was but one chance. He was
standing on a manhole cover. Duck
ly seizing it, he lifted the lid and
jumped into the hole-just in time TO
be run over by a subway train.-Lip-
pincott's.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16
TAX NoTIcE-lsO9,
Office of the County Treasurer Of York
County.

Yorkville. 8. c., Sept. II, 1909.
NJ Office Is hereby given that the
IN TAX BOOKS for York county will
be opened on FRIDAY, the 18TH DAY
OF OCTOBER, 1909, and remain open
until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER.
1909, for the collection Of STATE,
COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL
TAXES for the fiscal year 1903. with
out penalty; after which day ONE
PER CENT penalty will be added to
all payments made In the month Of
JANUARY, 1910, and TWO PER
CENT penalty for all payments made
In the month Of FEBRUARY, 1910, and
SEVEN PER CENT penalty win be
added on all payments made from the
1ST DAY OF MARCH, to the 18TH
DAY OF MARCH. 1910, and after this
date all unpaid taxes go into execu-
tions and all unpaid Single Polls win
be turned over to the several Magis-
trates for prosecution in accordance
with law.
At Yorkville from Monday, Novem-
ber Is, until the 31st day Of De-
cember, 1909, after which day the
penalties will attach as stated above.
HARRY q. NEIL,
County Treasurer.
IA It
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16

's9- A good way to secure real down.
right horseshoe luck Is to keep your
eyes open. and grasp the opportunity
before it turns the corner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16
CATTLE AND HOGS WANTED.

TAM in the market for good, fat Beef
Il Cattle and Hogs in condition for
slaughter. Highest market price paid.
The best Beef and Pork at all times.
A. D. DORSETT,
York Cotton Mill.
80 TT 3m
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16
THROW OUT THE Line

Throw Out the Life Line
The kidneys need help.
They're overworked-can't get the
poison filtered out of the blood.
They are getting worse every min
ute.
Will you help them?
Doan's Kidney Fills have brought
thousands of kidney sufferers back
from the verge of despair.
Will cure any form of kidney trou-
BILE.
Mrs Mary Sexton, 100 Hintin, ST.,
Chester, S. c., says: For some time
/ suffered from a dull ache across my
kidneys. 1 occasionally had dizzy
spells and at such times was very un-
steady upon my feet. I was finally
told that my kidneys were disordered
and were the cause Of all my suffer-
ing. Learning Of Doan's Kidney
Pills, I procured a box and began
their use l have been feeling much
better since, and I know that 1 have
found a remedy that can be depended
upon to bring relief. I will always be
glad to give Doan's Kidney Pills my
endorsement"
For sale by all dealers. Price 30
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-DOAN'S-and
take no other.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16
AT THE BRATToN FARM.

NNE are offering thoroughbred
w Guernsey Heifers at from $40 up
and we have also a number Of Berk-
shire Gilts with thoroughbred Pigs
that we will sell. Will deliver pure,
clean milk at 10 cents a quart. Cream,
butter and fresh eggs on orders.
Pure Berkshire Pigs at from So to
IS each. Pure Buff Orpington eggs at
81 a setting Of Is.
J. MEEK BURNS. Manager
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16

~ No. 8 Rebuilt oliver Typewriter,
AA-Grade, $50, at The Enquirer Office.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

ted the passage of irriting and in
furious laws by the legislatures OF
many states. Some of these were
declared unconstitutional later on.
Others became a dead letter when
their harmfulness was disclosed.
The press of the various states
should sound a warning against new
local attacks on the roads which may
be melted by any legislation enlarg-
ing the powes of the interstate COM
merce commission. The suggestions
which the president makes in that
direction deserve the attention OF
congress. 1t is possible that the
notifications which he proposes
would not harm the roads and might
benefit shippers and the public. They
need to be studied dispassionately.
Light from all available sources
should be sought, SO that congress
will be equipped to consider the mat
ter intelligently. Mr.. Taft deserves
the thanks of the country for bring
ing up the issue now instead of al
lowing it to wait until it is presented
in his message at the opening of
congress.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

Sky pilots will soon be in demand
for the %airshrips.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

A test case is to be made in the
New York courts as to what criminal
statute is violated by the offense tech
nically known as talking back" to
the police, and whether arrest and
punishment in the matter are justi-
fled by the law. The question of IL
legal arrest is really a serious one,
as the whole matter of personal lib
erty, upon which the principles of
this government are founded, is in
volved. And it may be remarked
that the metropolis is not the only
city in the country in which official
dignity has an unwritten law of its
own.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

We wonder if Mars is as much in
terested in our flying macnines as we
are in canals?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

A ship sailing from New York the
other day carried $S,000,000 in gold
to Buenos Ayres, Argentina. That
makes a large addition to the sums
SEN previously. and the money is
put to good use. Argentina is pay
ing maturing obligations anG expand
ing commercially, and much If not
most of the gold sent from the
United States will return directly or
Indirectly in the shape OF invest
ments that will be profitable all
around.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

are minded o continue here their
disaffection and to rail and agitate
and conspire against republicanism,
just as they had done against mon
archism, says the New York Tribune,
we must regard their coming as an
impertinent and offensive intrusion,
which is permitted, if at all, not be-
cause of any legal or moral right of
theirs, but through a -careiessness or
a self-confidence on our part which
may be more complacent than pru-
dent or patriotic.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

THE reversing of a Judgment by
an appellate court on the ground of
a mere technicality when substantial
justice has been administered is an
outrage says Justice Brewer of the
supreme court of the United States,
the highest legal authority in the
world. This is a confirmation of the
public ideal of law as the conserva-
tor and defender of justice and of
technicality as the form by which is
preserved the spirit.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

to be maintained if the authority of
the governing powers is o~verruled
by injudicious sympathy from the
government heads. which sympathy
merely encourages the violation of
that strict obedience which is the
foundation and dependence of mill
tary duty and effectiveness.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

A decree has been published in
Spain suppressing the privilege of
purchase of immunity from military
service. All will now have to serve
in the army, rich and poor alike.
This is first fruit of the popular up
rising and is encouraging, as it shows
that the Spanish government is will
ng to listen to the voice of the
people.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

Now they are talking of 1.-THE
American peril in Europe. There is
not a more peaceful OF peace-loving
power in the world than this Il
try, and its possibility as a peril"
exists only in the excited European
imagination, in whose minds the war
scare is turning into a pane.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

Contractor and Builder z
18th Street and Avenue @.
EAST ELY NEVADA
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

To show how far the science of fly
ing has not progressed, it is worthy OF
mention that aviators go to the con-
tests by train with their wings slowed
in the baggage car.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

Rigorous measures are to be taken
to repress hazing, which, it is dis
covered, still exists at West Point.
This time the military authorities
should be upheld at Washington, says
the Baltimore American. 1t is use
less to expect the proper discipline
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06

Friends of Mrs. James N. Sutton
are arranging a subscription for a
monument at Arlington, Va, for her
son, the Marine Corps lietenant, the
of whose death is in dis
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15
TIPS IN SCOTLAND.
An Example Of How Some Servants
Win Their WAGES,

''eSSSs
A gentleman was invited to a shoot
In Scotland at two places close to,
gether. He arrived at the first place,
and Immediately after his arrival at
the first house received a telegram
calling him back to town. He. how
ever, determined to have one days
shooting and to proceed to town by
the night mail.
AT the end of the day he gave the
head keeper fl and asked him to send
his gun and cartridge bag over to the
other place for which he had an invi-
tation and where he proposed proceed
Ing in three or four days time.
On his arrival there after his visit
to town he found his gun, etc, had
not arrived, whereupon he wrote to
the keeper, asking him to forward it
at once, and he received Il reply stat
ing that when he (the keeper had re-
ceived the other G4 to which he was
entitled" the gun would be forward
ed. 1t was detained till payment was
made.
The gentleman wrote to the keepers
master and received reply that "he
(the master) never interfered between
his guests and his servants in the
matter of tips" The gentleman as
certained that the master in question
paid the keeper no wages, but left
him to get what he could out of the
guests.-London Times.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15
MILLIONS OF LIVES LOST.
The Awful Toll Collected by Consump-
ton.

If people could only understand
that catarrh is an internal scrofula-
that nothing applied externally does
much good-they would not need to
be warned so often about this fatal
disease. which, when neglected, in
variably ends up IN consumption, at
the cost of millions of lives every
year. Yet catarrh is easily cured if
the right treatment is employed.
Catarrh is caused by germs in the
blood which circulate throughout the
entire system. External remedies give
but temporary ease. Although the
effects are often seen IN the form of
pimples. rash, eczema or dry scaly
skin, the trouble is internal, and can
never be cured by external remedies.
The only way to cure catarrh is by
employing a medicine which is alb
sorbed and carried by the blood to
all parts of the system. so that the
mucous membrane or internal lining
of the body is thoroughly med!cated,
soothed, disinfected of germ matter,
and the soreness healed.
We have a remedy prepared from
the prescription of a physician who
for 80 years studied and made catarrh
a specially and whose record of sue
cess was a cure in every case where
his treatment was followed as pre-
scribed. That remedy is. ReXall Mu-
cu-Tone, We are so positive that it
Will cure catarrh in all its various
forms, whether acute or chronic, that
we promise to return every penny
paid US for the medicine in every case
where it fails to cure or for any rea7
son does not satisfy the user,
We want you to try Rexall Mucu-
Tone on our recommendation and
We are right here where
you live, and you do not contract any
or risk when you try Rex
Ill Mucu-Tone on our guarantee. We
nave Rexall Mucu-Tone in two sizes.
rhe prices are soc and 81. Very Of
en- the soc size effects a cure. OF
course, in chronic cases a longer
reatment is necessary. The average
n such instances is three 81 bottles.
The Pendleton Drug Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15
CONSERVATION Of MOISTURE
IS BASIS Of ALL DRY FARMING

but without the humas.
Just as your horse needs fresh all
and a ventilated barn to keep in. good
health, so the crops need plenty OF
Of air and ventilated soil to grow
best. Ventilation in the soil serves
double purpose; 1t helps in the
growth processes Of the plant and
also tends to oxidize the elements of
the soil and thus renders them avail
able for use for the plant.
In this connection it may be well
to say that only a very small portion
Of the salts and other food elements
Of the soil are available to the crop
in any one season. Warmth is need
ed for plant growth, as well as for
your domestic animals. Some crops
need more than others, and we all
know that crops become adapted or
acclimated to the conditions in which
they have long been grown.
Seed Is Important.
For this reason, best results may
be obtained by using seed grown eth
er under the same conditions as those
IN which you wish to grow them, or
under even severer conditions. For
Instance it would not do to plant seed
grown under irrigation for dry farm
crops. 1t does not give food results to
plant seeds under our arid conditi-
ons that have been grown under the
more humid conditions in the east
Southern grown seed should never be
planted in a northern or high altitude
locality.
Sunlight is one requirement Of
plant that bears small analogy to the
needs of animals. Sunlight is an alb
solute requirement for growth in our
common crops. We know that the
plant which begins to grow without
sunlight remains white. The chlora-
phyl. or green coloring matter, in the
leaves Of all the common crops cam
not develop without sunlight. This
chlorophyl is one Of the most import
ant agents in the growth of the plant,
so that we may consider sunlight one
Of the first and most important re-
However, in this climate,
where over 300 days of the year are
sunny. we do not have to worry about
having enough sunlight.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15

Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 15.-H. T.
pertinent station of the agricultural
department Of the University of wy
oming, who will deliver an address
before the Third Trans Missouri Dry
Farming congress, which meets at
Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb 20, "a and 25,
has written an interesting article on
1.-The Conservation of Water" Prof.
Novel; says:
"It is interesting to note the analo-
gy between the needs Of the grow
ing plant and those Of the growing
animal. Let us consider for a mo-
ment some crop plant in its require
ments as compared with some farm
an!mal-say, n horse. In the first
place, both the animal and the plant
need food for their development. That
given the animal is in the form OF
grain and hay, but the plant gets most
of its food in more elementary form.
The breaking down of rocks by the
weather has formed in many centur-
les what we call our soils. These
soils are composed Of the same sub
stances in general as compose the
rocks from which they were formed.
1t is the mineral salts in the soil that
form the main body of plant food.
Phosphoric acid, the sodium and pO-
tassium salts, and the nitrates, the
chemist tells us, are the most needed
foods for the plant.
Soil Needs Nitrogen.
Western soils are rich in all needed
elements but nitrogen. It is true that
rain and snow dissolve some nitrogen
from the air and it is collected in the
soil in form available to the plants,
but this is so small in amount that
other ways of supplying the nitrogen
foods to growing crops must be con-
sidered. Probably the best form in
which nitrogen can be placed for the
best use of the plant is in the form
Of humas, and he who by provident
methods obtains a good supply of
humas in his soil IS indeed fortunate.
Crops obtained on such land will
be we'll fed and well nourished, i'll
other conditions are right. and the
Weld vol show very much larger than
the same crop grown on the same soil,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15
LION ATTACKS TRAINER,
Quick Work of Citizen saved Mans
Life.

Albany, Ga.-While putting sever
al wild animals through an act at a
street carnival here last night, Cap
tain Cardo, the trainer, was attacked
by a large lion and severely bitten
in the neck ana arms before he was
rescued by the attendants and spec
tators.
Captain Cardo tripped and fell to
the floor of the arena. The lion
Immediately sprang upon him. BY
the quick work of Samuel Farkas, a
citizen, who ran from the audience,
ana iabbed the brute with a walking
stick, the trainers life was saved.
Christie Valerie. another trainer,
was scratched in the face by a puma,
ana it Is feared he will lose one eye.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15
LOCALS

Pastime pictures please all.
Best pictures and prizes given at the
Pastime theater.
Best nut coal. Give us chance
Oregon Lumber Yard.
For rent-4 room cottage, good To-
cation. Enquire 100 Il. Bluff st.
Oak wood, the heat producer. for
sale at the oregon Lumber yard.
J. B. HALEY. express Leave orders
welch's cigar store; Phone Main 10
Lost-Dark brown fur about two
weeks ago. Leave at 10 Star street.
We have some real bargains It will
nay yau to investigate. The Wonder
Store.
Get our prices on Cascade fir wood
and slab wood. oregon Lumber
Yard
The Wonder Store Is not cramped
FOR ready cash. however, we have got
some real bargains
Gus La Fontaine has just received
a fresh lot of crawfish. crab and oys-
ters in the shell at the Quele.
For sale cheap, two good delivery
horses. Am going to leave city. APP
ply Powers Dairy or ask the driver.
For Rent-3OO acres of garden, al
falfa and wheat land on Mckay
creek, 3h miles from city. Address
Dan Kemler. Pendleton, Ore.
Kennedy's Orchestra will furnish
muse for all ovcasions. Formerly the
Grand theatre orchestra. Address
Lee b. Kennedy, 62S College. phone
Block 1441.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-15

to deplore the modern youths prefer
ence of brawn TO brain.
He used to tell of a football game
he once witnessed. Princeton had a
splendid player in Poe-you will re-
member little Poe?-and Professor
Norton, thinking OF The Raven and
'Annabel Lee said to the lad at his
side:
He plays well, that Poe.
Doesn't hep the youth cried.
"Is he said Professor Norton,
any relation to the great Poe?'
ANY relation?' said the youth,
frowning, why, he is the great
Poe Boston Herald.