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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
Beau Says United States More
Polite Than France.
Worlds Most Famous cotillion Leader
Calls on Youth of His Nation to
Recover Lost Science of
PoIiteness.

Paris, France.-M. FouQuieres, who
leader of cotillions and is also known
as the last true dandy of the Beau
Brummel type" finds that the United
States and England are now more
polite than France, thus contradict
Ing T. Hopkinson Smith, who has held
up France as a model in matters Of
etiquette. The noted society leader
mas issued a stirring appeal to Paris
ians in which he describes the decline
of courtesy, calls politeness a most
useful quality and urges his fellow
citizens to regain their reputation for
good manners as they are recovering
In aeronautics their reputation for
heroism.
"Politeness is disappearing" de-
clared M. F'ouquieres. 1T must be adj
mitted that we are no longer the most
courteous people in the world. The
politeness which was formerly a ma
tional virtue, and the former gallantry
which always characterized French
men are today neglected. ridiculed
ana almost deSp1Sed.
Look at our young folk. They are
formal, stiff, Indifferent and disdain-
full; their movements are identical
and bombastic like a funeral ballet,
and they affect phlegmatic ennui
which it is cain to criticise, for 1t is
the mode
Foreigners trusting to our reputa-
ton for courtesy are astonished to
find themselves inspected insoleDtly
when they venture into public places.
Women do not escape sly, gay looks
and vulgar murmurings and whoever
makes malicious jokes at their ex-
pense is applauded with the laugh Of
appreciation. Lack Of tact is consid-
cred witty. Our savants, aviators, au-
tomobilists and sailors perform heroic
deeds daily and their glory is undi-
minished Only politeness is lost.
yet there is no quality more USE
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
African Louic.

Dusky Driver clustering ladies from
steamer) Yes, marm-dis way, marin;
ca'iage to de hotel.
First Lady (hesitating at step And
what will you charge?
ID. Done dollar, marin.
Second Lady-Half a dollar apiece,
when the hotel is barely a block away?
Why, we'd just as lief
d. D. (interrupting) Would you jest
as lief go in de hotel bus? Dey
charges a quarter.
Ladies Tin chorus) -Just as lief.
d. with fourish)-Den step right
into de caige, marin, an I'll take yu
fer de same as de bus-dey is some
folks prefers de caige and l has to
charge accordin' Virginia Vintage
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
Belief Is Prevalent in Mexico City
That Ancient Aztec Lords Grew
Rare Flowers

Mexico City.-That an unknown,
highly4 cultured people, of whom. Meth
er history, tradition or legend has
preserved any record, flourished. in or
near the valley of Mexico and enjoyed
spiced chocolate and aromatic bev-
erages from transplanted tropical
fruits grown by. them in marvellous
Iy. built garden at Oaxtepec, from
1900 to 1000 years ago, is the latest
theory of Guillermo Teller, regard
$500 ing the recently discovered garden of
s.@s AIontezuma. .s
sMr. Teller applied to the depart.
= ment Of public instruction for d spec
= ciGl permit to make exploration in the
$50. ssrden. He states that concerning
s.... 21 successive caciques, on the land
8. With codices in possession of the ma
A. sioral museum has led him to be-
fieevs that the garden has great an
a llquity.
~ He has been dsvoting a large part
~ III s42f t4 ttss+S+zT
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
OLD GARDEN OF MONTEZU7NA

of four years to studying the plans
found there. Through the inscrip-
tons he has been able to CLEAN his
torical data concerning 81 successive
caciques. Tropical trees, flowers and
fruits were transplanted from the Is
.thmus Of 'Tehuantepec and Central
America to this garden, and there
were grown cocoa, vanilla, parota, vol
loxochitl. mecaxochitl and another
rare flower which gives of its odor
in the night. These plants and their
friends were ingredients of the deli
cious chocolates which were the ia
vorite beverage of the Aztec lords
when Cortez arrived
The garden was visited by Acama-
spixtle and. Ilhuicamina, the second
named being. identical with Monte
zumal. L. It. is. claimed. that Monte
Yuma Ilhuicamina appropriated this
beautiful garden to his personal use
and pleasure;
i = !. /. ~ n
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
Man as Beast Of Burden.

Williamsport, Md.-John Pryor. a
deaf mute, with his wife and several
children, who are returning to their
home in Montana, passed up the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal toward
Cumberland, where they will abandon
two small boats in which sthey are
travelling.
The family started on the canal al
Washington and camped out at night
in tents. They have a few utensils
and carry supply of provisions. PRIV.
or pulls the boats with a rope tied
around his body.
The family came east several years
ago, and, becoming dissatisfied, de-
cided to return to their old home in
the west.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
Estimate on Canadian Wheat.

ottawa, Ont, Canada's total whea,
crop this year is 122,785.Oc0 bushels,
according to the estimate of the gov.
eminent statistics officer just an.
nounced. This is 43,959,O0O bushels
less than the yield of 1909.
The wheat produced in Saskatche
wan, Alberta and Manitoba this year
is estimated at 99.89O.00Q bushels.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

time I began using Doan's Kidney
Pills and passed gravel stone as
large as a pea. The next day /
passed two more and from then on
improved rapidly until cured"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ~.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

screamed. I grew
worse and lay in bed
for weeks, the only
relief being from n.y.
podermics. I was
treated by. three ply
sicians without help
and the last one said
a n operation W a S
necessary At this
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

what Liver or. Bowel medicine you
are using, stop it noU. Get loo
box-week's treatment -of CAS-
CARETS today from your druggist
and learn how easily, naturally and
delightfully."- your liver can be made
to work, and your bowels move every
day. There's nelD life in every box.
CASCARETS are natures helper.
You will see the difference! 8,
CAScARETS roc a box for weeks
treatment, all druggists. Biggest seller
In the world. Million boxes month.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

II Get health. No. labor. pains. nor
exercise that can gain 1t must be
grudged.- Emerson.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

If he can get ten cents for nothing
a man is generally willing to give up
a chance to earn a dollar. i $50 9
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
USED HYPoDERMIcs.
Only Relief From Terrible Suffering

Thomas E. Vest, 1906 s. 18th St.,
Terre Haute, Ind, says: Il had no
control over the urine and the pain
when voiding it was so great 1 often
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

Papa-That was the supreme court
Of the United States we just came
out of.
Tommy (aged seven)-Gee, pop!
dere wasn't anybody dere but lot of
bearded old women dressed in black.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

where the date on a dime is and the
first glance certainly impressed one as
the real coin. The other side had a
sheaf OF wheat and in the centre the
words "On Time"
The firm had no desire to defraud
the public. But unscrupulous people
who had access to them did. Several
walters at a summer park lost money
by accepting the advertisement for real
money, chewing gum machines were
filled with them and at last the secret
service learned how matters were and
began an investigation.
There were 100000 Of the metals
confiscated. Some stray ones, however,
were in circulation and 1t took almost
year to hunt them down."
jewelers. are guilty every day of
committing a criminal offence. Every
day some one Of them lays himself liza
BILE to the law. According to the or
dinance quoted above, to mutllate
money is an offence in the eyes Of the
law. jewelers. file one side of coin
smooth and monogram it. The other
side Is perfectly good. Pins, bracelets,
lockets and numerous other things are
made. The owner never means to use
the article for money. But some one
gets hold Of the pin or locket. They
think the money would be more useful
and so pass the coin with the pin or
ring pulled off and the good side up.
To change the complexion" of coin
also is an offence. That means to dip
silver in gold. Only few days ago a
"lot' of shirt sets were confiscated
and sent to Washington. The sets were
made of Panama halfpennies gilded'
Carelessness Of the law again.
The only kind Of coin that can be
worn is that so completely multilated
that there can be no chance at all OF
passing it; for example, the filigreed
dimes that the Mexicans make.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
WOULD ABOLISH cHAINGANGs
journal of Methodism Writes of Their
"Shame and Iniquity."

We would call attention to some
phases of the growth and need of re-
form in our attitude toward and treat
ment of crime and the criminal. This
whole question, we believe, is as much
moral and Christian as it is economic
and social
We wish here to direct specific at
ton to the so-called chaingangs-a
mode Of punishment, we are told
] largely local to the south. The head
| ing may strike some as rather Wig
orous, but it is about as near as we
can express the feeling that comes
over us whenever a line of human be-
ings shuffles by with rafting of chain
and striped brand of the criminal.
1t is just and proper for society to
protect itself by the preventive meas
ure Of Imprisonment. 1t is not only
right but humane to exact regular la
Dor of the prisoner, not merely be-
cause he should help meet the cost
of his keep, but for the higher reason
that work is a moral tonic, an anti
septic to moral disease. But it is
degrade and harden.
We should not forget that, for all
his crime, the prisoner is a human be-
ing who, with possibly rare excep-
tions, has left in him in some degree
the sense of self-respect And who
would dare point out these exceptions
Who would deny that this lingering
sense is the chief hope Of reclamation
to moral manhood? And yet it is
this sense that we work to bruise and
harden away by our system of public
exposure in the garb Of shame and
the shackles of degradation.
We doubt If there be a single think
ing, feeling human being whose ele-
mental humanity does not surge with
In In righteous indignation and with
sense of outraged dignity at every
sight Of these shuffling, clanking
lines. We cannot but feel that their
living links are victims not alone to
their own perverted natures but to a
combination Of greed, indifference,
and perverted ideas Of justice on the
part of those who in Gods eyes are
their brothers.
Have we not in our state some men
in position Of authority whose sense
of humanity and justice and whose
knowledge of the newer and more en-
lightened methods of penology would
prompt them to frame and advocate
legal means which would serve at
once to conserve the ends Of justice
and work for the ultimate good OF
these unfortunates?
We have given space to this dis
cussion because we believe the sys-
tenn, though established to prevent
crime, to be irrational, inhuman, and
degrading to the point of becoming
itself crime. We believe further that
its abolition is a moral duty-South-
ern Christian Advocate
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
LAW CONCERNING COINS.
Using Them as Advertisements-How
They May Be MuItiated.

Thousands of dollars are lost yearly
by big firms through ignorance or care
lessness in observing the Federal laws
governing abuse of coins.
Just lately in Chicago a piano COM
pany came to grief in this way. Had
they asked the proper authorities the
information would have been furnished
gratis) or had they looked up the law
they would have found in section 165,
public act No. $50, these words:
whoever fraudulently, by any art,
way or means shall deface, mutilate.
impair, diminish, falsify or tighten
the gold or silver coins
which have been or which may hereaf-
ter be coined in the mint of the United
States shall be fined no.
more than $4,000 and Imprisonment of
not more than five years"
Much trouble and expense would
have been saved the firm and the gov
ernmcnt had the law only been read.
1t all happened in this way: Som"
clever advertiser conceived the idea Of
an lad" of metal just the size of a
dime, with the wording ard printing
placed in such a way that ut first
glance it would appear as a dime. The
idea was cleverly executed. A fair
imitation of the head of Liberty was
on one side and the advertisement on
the other. The number was placed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
humorous department.

Thought II a Bad Case.-A man was
locked up the other day in the Bel
grade and Clearfield streets police sta
ton accused of having been intoXicat-
ed During the night the sergeant
found the man was violent and sent
for DR.. Manship, the district surgeon.
AS it was rather early in the morn
ing the doctor seemed to be in a hazy
state of mind when he arrived. He
saw a man asleep in the roll room and
took it for granted that this was the
man he was to examine.
We'll, well, wake up now and be a
man." said the physician.
What's the matter with you?" ex-
claimed the man in the chair.
What is your name?" continued the
doctor.
"Aw, go to-" was the only reply.
After feeling the fellows pulse DR..
Manship went to the sergeant and told
him he thought it was a bad case.
What's a bad case?" asked the SER
geant.
Why, that fellow asleep in the roll
room"
After hearty laugh the sergeant
said: That's not the man. That's
Tom Harkens, one of the policemen
Philadelphia Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

Correeted.-A newly made magis-
trate was gravely absorbed in a for
midable document. Raising his keen
eyes, he said to the man who stood
patiently awaiting the award of JUS
tice, Officer, what is this man charged
with?"
"Bigotry, your worship. He's got
three wives" replied the officer
The new justice rested his elbows on
the desk and placed his fingertips to-
gether. Officer" he said, somewhat
sternly, what's the use of all this edu-
cation, all these evening schools, all
the technical classes, an what-not?
Please remember, in any future like
case that a man who has married three
wives has not committed bigotry, but
trigonometry. Proceed.-Battle Creek
Enquirer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

ing with some little friends recently,
had the misfortune to fall from high
fence and was severely injured. We
are glad to state she is improving and
will soon be out again.. The
resignation of DR.. SimmS, pastor or
the First Baptist church, has been
acted upon by the board of deacons
of the church, and Sunday night its
acceptance was announced to the con-
gregation. DIR. Simms will sever his
connection with the church some time
in December, and he expects then to
go to Raleigh, y. c., to reside near his
children, though he may probably en-
gage in some light work there later
on. The doctor is much beloved by
Gaffney people, irrespective of demo-
mination, and one and all will regret
to see him and his lovely family take
their final departure from this city;
but at the same time they understand
and appreciate his condition and their
very best wishes will ever cluster
around him wherever he may be. A
committee has been appointed to Sc
cure a new pastor for the church to
succeed DR.. SimmS. .... Mr.. L. w.
Williamson, who lives out near Lime
stone, where he raises vegetables, cat
tie and other things for the markets,
MIXED five strippers last month and
received a check for S27.25 from the
creamery for the milk thus obtained
from the strippings-or an average of
about n dollar a day, which of course
was more than enough to feed the en-
tire lot This was money from a
source that many one would consid-
er too small and trifling to waste time
upon-too much work for the remun-
eration-but Mr.. Williams is one who
gives attention to the smallest details
of his business, recognizing the truth
of the old adage that mighty oaks
from little acorns grow
Gastonia Gazette, November g: Mrs.
D. T. Woods and children, returned
Monday evening to their home in
Yorkville, S. c., after a brief visit to
Mrs. Fannie Morrow .... The 5-year-
old child of Mr.. and Mrs. George L..
Webb of McAdenville, died Monday
from diphtheria and was buried at
Lowell Tuesday morning at IL o'clock.
The bereaved parents have the SYM
pathy of many friends in their be-
reavement. "A number of Gastonians
went to Charlotte last Thursday to see
Thomas DiXon's new play, THE Sins
Of the Father" AS elsewhere Mr..
Dixon played the part of the father.
At Shelby, the authors home town, the
play was presented one night last
week, the receipts being $1,000. .......
Congressman E. Y. Webb has sufficient
cause to be one of the best pleased
men in the state over the result of yes
terdays election. They turned their
big guns, such as Vice President Sher-
man on him, and spent much more
money than Webb for campaign eX-
penses. They worked night and day,
early and late, to defeat him, only to
see the popular young statesman roll
up a majority of something like six
thousand. Mr.. Webb is one of the most
promising young men in congress and
the thing for his district to do is to
keep him there, which we believe they
are going to do.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
DIET FADS ATTACKED.
Physician Disputes Some Ideas About
Foods and Nutrition.

TO0do iNsS'N'
A Britisher is your true "knocker'
of fads, provided he turns at all In
that direction. DR.. A. l.. Benedict has
taken this tangent and has set about
disputing a lot of ideas concerning
foods and nutrition.
Few people, comparatively, eat toe
much; most of them, through rae
foods, economy and lack Of condition
for a normal appetite, don't ca,
enough.
A cooked egg is more nourlshlne
than an egg eaten raw.
Sugar, used to the extent Of three
to four ounces a day, is one or the
cheapest and best foods for the de-
velopment of energy; If not all di-
gested, it isn't as harmful to the di.
gestive organs as are the undigesteo
fats and proteids.
Starch never advances far towarc
digestion in the stomach; the pancreas
deal with it easily and effectively.
Fruits, nuts, desserts and the like
are unnecessary to the physical need!
of the system.
Excepting the olive, almost the only
vegetable foods that contain appreci'
able fats are nuts.
Meat and many vegetables contain
as much phosphorus or brain food
as does the fishiest fish.
A Welsh rabbit is sterile, highly nu'
tritious and no harder to digest thar
is milk curd. It's what you drink
with it after midnight that hurts.
The best bouillon and other clear
soups have about per cent of proteio
content. Beef tea is about as nourish-
ing as is the water in which an egg
has been poached.
OF eggs and milk, the calories of a
days rations should call for twenty
five eggs or three quarts of milk. AS
to raw oysters. % pounds yield fifty
calories, which is about one-twelfth
Of what a person needs of proteid.
No healthy person should be a
semi-invalid after a meal, requiring a
snooze to recover; drawling over
meal is as bad as bolting it.-Chicago
Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
AUCTION SALES.
CLERKS SALE.
State of South caroIina-county Of
York.

State of South carolina-county Of
York.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
Marion Nelson and Charles D. Nelson,
Plaintiffs, against Minnie B. Starnes,
ct al, Defendants.
DY virtue Of the decree of sale,
ID made in the above entitled cause.
shall expose to public outcry at York.
vile, said County and State, in front Of
the Court House, on TUESDAY, THE
18TH OF NOVEMBER, 1910, between
the hours Of II a. m. and p. m, the
three following tracts Of land, eecn
situated in Bethesda Township, County
of York and State of South Carolina:
l. Nelson Home Place, containing
$50 Acres, more or less, and bounded
by lands Of John Nelson, DR.. w. M.
Love, w. B. Cameron, Thomas L. John
ston, E. NJ. Nicely, estate Of William
Caldwell, deceased, and others.
2. The Bates Place, containing 147a
Acres, more or less, and bounded by
lands Of William Lumpkin, John II.
Duncan, ]. B. Johnson, M. D. Dunlap.
w. D. Dunlap, J. J. Dunlap, Sr., and
others.
3. The Mccullough Place, contain
ing 64 Acres, more or less, and bounded
by lands Of Mrs. Mary Ratterree, Claud
Ratterree, ]. F. Reid, and others.
Terms Of Sale-CASH: Purchaser
to pay for papers; any tract or tracts
may be sold by the acre, provided the
same be surveyed before the day Of
sale. j. A. TATE,
Clerk Of Court.
October 2Sth. 1910.
SO f st
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

Who's loony Now?-Among the
beautiful fall bonnets in the show win
dow of a Kensington millinery store
there is a jardinere wrapped in pink
tissue paper and filled with a large
cluster of handsome dahlias. A
lady accompanied by her husband
paused before the window, when the
old man let loose a large exclamation.
Il have seen some fast going in my
time" he remarked, but that is eX-
ceeding the speed limit"
What is?" wonderingly asked wifey.
why, that thing there" replied
hubby. pointing to the jardiniere OF
dahlias. Where in the deuce is there
a woman loony enough to wear hat
like that ?"-Philadelphia Telegraph.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
Hard on the Tramp.-The tramp hat

Hard on the Tramp.-The tramp had
walked a good three miles and was
particularly thirsty. A sudden turn
in the road brought him to the foot
of a steep hill, at the top Of which
stood a large house. The tramp paus-
ed moment before attempting the
herculean feat of storming the hill.
He felt hungry and thirsty. He
glanced to the left. These words
caught his eye: ''Tarry, traveller,
and refresh thyself." The tramp was
sorry the sign was attached to a pump
handle. However, water was better
than nothing so he commenced to
pump. The spout remained dry. He
pumped with more vigor. Still no
water. After ten minutes Of hard
work he said harsh things about the
pump, and continued his journey. AT
the top Of the hill he mentioned his
grievance to a native. The latter
pointed to the fine house across the
road.
1.-THE owner of that house." he said,
"has some big water-cisterns which
have to be filled from stream in the
valley. He is too lazy to fill 'em him
self, though so he rugged up that
pump and connected it with his cis-
terms. and now
But the tramp was already sprint
ing across the road to argue with the
man who owned the pump.-Tit-Bits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

A Miracle Defined.-Michael Butler
one of Uncle Sans TRUSTEES, who car
ries mail to the jackies at the Phila-
delphia navy yard, and over Grays
ferry road to the naval home, had this
joke the other day for a party OF
friends. It's story about the defini-
ton of the word miracle.
Mike said to Pat: Can you tell me
the definition Of the word miracle?'"
Sure said Pat, with a grin.
We'll, will you tell me?' queried
Mike.
I'll do that, replied Pat. Now just
turn around
Mike did as he was told, and Pat
hooted him hard.
Mike Strengthened up in anger.
Did you feel that?' asked Pat, with
a chuckle.
You bet your life did Mike re-
piled.
well, if you hadn't felt it, it would
have been a miracle .'"-Philadelphia
Times.