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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
Variety of Soils and Drainage,

The majority of soils consists princi-
pally of a mixture Of clay and sand
Such soils are known as loans. Sandy
loans contain more sand than clay
and consequently dry rapidly. Clay
loans consist mostly of clay, and re-
tain water much better. The best soil
for growing crops contains enough
water for the use of crops. When
there is a presence of too much clay
the soil will harden on drying (called
"baked.") Soils inclined to bake may
be improved by manuring, by the ad-
dition of sand or ashes, and often by
the use of lime.
If the pores of a soil remained filled
with water a long time after rain the
air would be forced out and the roots
OF the crop growing on the land might
be smothered. The ideal soil must
therefore, be we'll drained, so that its
pores will not long remain filled with
water, even in wet weather. The sub
soil must allow the surplus water to
pass through it rather easily.
Soils over a subsoil containing too
much clay dry out slowly in spring,
and after heavy rains. Such soils
may often be improved by draining.
bitches. connecting with an outlet on
lower ground. may he dug through
the land Drained lands are often
among the best for farming and gar
dening.
With the exception of carbon, the
food of plants comes from the soil and
is dissolved in the soil water. If the
soil does not contain sufficient food,
the plants can not thrive, even though
they have everything else they need.
The ideal soil must have enough plant
food in a form that can dissolve in
water to supply the needs of crops
grown upon it,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
farm and fireside
More Poultry For the Farms.

No careful observer can fail to note
the increased interest in poultry rails
ing, in the south during the last year.
Like all other lines of live stock rails
ing, it is especially receiving attention
in the area being invaded by the boil
weevil 1t is simply astonishing what
capacity this little bug-the boil wee
vil-has for making men think and
even act. All lines of live stock are
receiving more attention than ever be-
fore and poultry Is coming in for its
share of increased attention. But,
strange as it may seem the greater
part of this increase in poultry inter-
est is among the people In the towns
and to a much less degree among the
farmers.
This appears to Us wrong. Surely
there is no place where the opportu-
mites for raising strong. healthy poul-
try at a minimum of cost, are so good
as out on the farms. Not only is this
true as regards the production of util-
ity poultry-eggs and birds for food =
but it is especially true of the produc-
ton of fancy poultry and birds for
breeding.
BY much care, constant work and
intelligent feeding and management,
good poultry is produced on the small
lots in or near the towns; but 1t re-
quires more intelligence and poultry
knowledge to raise good birds under
such conditions than it does to accom-
plish the same results on the farm.
Why then, is most of our best poultry
raised in the small towns or near the
cities?
The range which may be given the
birds on the farm, except perhaps
unlimited and this means variety of
feed, such as poultry require, and
ample exercise, two things most es-
sential to the economical production
Of vigorous birds.
1t requires some knowledge to raise
good poultry and this can only be OBJ
tanned by reading and studying the
experience of others as set down in
poultry journals or agricultural papers
and in books, and by actual persona!
experience in the handling Of the birds.
In the past this has been thought too
small a business for the farrIer, but
If that is still the idea, we insist that
the women and children should be
given an opportunity 10 add this ad-
ditional industry to the farm. Nor
would we limit them to the production
of eggs and the growing of birds to be
used as food; but would insist that
where the inclination exists they be
given a chance to produce the best, to
be sold as breeders, or eggs to be sold
for hatching.-Raleigh On. c. Prog
ressive Farmer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
humorous department.

A Double Risk.-It was we'll known
in Mayville that when Cyrus Tanning
lent anything, from a hammer to a
plow. he expected a good return for
the favor. 1t was a matter for aston
ishment to Wilson Green, however,
when on inquiring of Mr.. Tanning how
much 1t would cost to rent his long
ladder for an afternoon, Cyrus re-
piled promptly, One dollar fifty
Now look here, Cy," demonstrated
his neighbor, you know I've got to
borrow it, for mine isn't long enough
to reach where I'm obliged to climb
to search out that chimney leak for
the Widow Sears. Can't you make 1t
less?"
mo, can't" and Mr.. Tanning shook
his small head and closed his obsti-
nate mouth.
why can't you?" demanded Wilson
Green.
Because there's a weak place in 1t
two thirds the way up" snapped Mr..
Tanning. It'll bear my weight all
right. but you're a good thutty pounds
heavier. If it gave way under you
'twould cost me a dollar to get 1t
mended. Considering the resk, l call
a dollar n a half cheap"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
An IndeseribabIs combination.-Ar

An Indeseribable Combination.-An
old lawyer had instructed his client,
accused of theft, to weep whenever he
struck the desk with his hand. In the
ardor Of his plea he forgot and struck
the desk at an inauspicious moment.
His client promptly fell to sobbing
with much energy, and the judge turn
ed upon her.
What is the matter with you?" he
asked.
He told me to cry as often as he
struck the table" said the woman,
lifting a pair of large dry eyes to the
judges face as she put down her
handkerchief.
A laugh ran round the room, but the
unabashed lawyer saw his oppor-
tunity.
TT is not possible" he said, when
the laughter had subsided, that any
one here can reconcile the idea of
crime with such candor and simplicity
as this"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
The Great Wall of China.

But II would have been we'll worth
while to make the trip if we had got
ten nothing else but the view Of and
from the Great Wall at the end of the
journey. About two thousand miles
of stone and brick, twenty seven feet
high, and wide enough on top for two
carriages to drive abreast, this great
structure built two thousand years
ago to keep the wild barbarian north
ern tribes out of China, is truly the
largest building on EARTH" and one of
the worlds greatest wonders. 1t would
be amazing if it wound only over
plains and lowlands, but where we saw
It this morning 1t climbed one noun
tain height after another until the
topmost point lowered far above us,
dizzy, stupendous, magnificent. BY
what means the thousands and thou
sands of tons of rock and brick were
ever carried up the sheer steep noun
tain sides, Is a question that must eX-
cite every travellers wonder. Certain
ly no one who has walked on top of the
great wall, climbing among the clouds
from one misty eminence to another,
as we did today, can ever forget the
experience. Perhaps it was we'll
enough, too, that the weather was not
clear. The mists that hung about
the mountain peaks below and around
us; the roaring wind that shepherded
the clouds, now driving them swiftly
before him and leaving in clear view
for a minute peak after peak and val
ley after valley, the next minute brush
ing great fog-masses over wall and
landscape and concealing all from view
all this lent an element of mystery
and majesty to the experience not out
of keeping with our thought Of the
long centuries through which this
strange guard has kept watch around
earth's oldest empire. Dead, long dead
and crumpled into dust, even when our
Christian era began, were the hands
who fashioned these earlier brick and
laid them in the mortar here, and for
many generations thereafter watchmen
along the battlements and towers,
straining their eyes for sight of what
ever enemy might be bold enough to
try to cross the mighty barrier.
However unwise the spirit or the
aim in which the wall was built, we
must admire the almost matchless
daring of the conception and the al
most unparalleled industry of the exc
cution. Beside it the digging of our
Panama canal with modern machinery,
engines, steam-power and electricity
considered as a feat of Herculean la
boris no longer a subject for boast
ing To my mind, the very fact that
the Chinese people had the courage
to conceive and attempt so colossal an
enterprise is proof enough of genuine
greatness. No feeble folk could even
have planned such an undertaking.
Clarence Poe, in Raleigh On. c. Prog
ressive Farmer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24

A Moving Sermon.-'1 once had a
parishioner who was a miser," said an
English clergyman. For this mans
bereft l preached one Sunday a
strong sermon on the necessity of
charity, of philanthropy-a sermon on
the duty and the JOY of giving. The
miser, at whom I gazed often, seemed
impressed.
Next day met him on the street.
well. john l said, what do you
think of yesterdays sermon"
1T moved me deeply, SIR, he an
swered. 1t brought home to me so
strongly the necessity of giving aims
that honestly, sir, I've great mind to
turn beggar.' dallas Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24

Willing to Tell 1.-THE check which
the comely young German woman
handed in the window of a Walnut
street savings fund bank the other day
was made payable to Gretchen H.
Schmidt, and she had indorsed it SIM
ply Gretchen Schmidt. The man at
the receiving teller's window called her
back to rectify the mistake just as she
was turning away.
You don't deposit this quite this
way" he explained. See you have
forgotten the H."
The young woman looked at her
check and blushed a rosy red.
"Ach, 80 haf," she murmured, and
wrote hurriedly.
Age 23."-Philadelphia Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
An Excuse That Held Water

An Excuse That Held Water
Waiter" roared the diner.
The waiter looked intently out of the
window, pretending he hadn't heard.
The diner had already complained of
his chop and his chips and his napkin,
and Alphonse had had about enough OF
him.
Waiter"
Reluctantly Alphonse moved over.
Just look at the color Of this water,
waiter" growled the diner. It's not
fit to drink"
Critically the waiter raised the glass
to the light and examined it. Then,
triumphantly, he set 1t down again.
NO, sir; you're deceiving yourself,
sir" he said, kindly. That waters
perfectly all right, sir. It's the glass
what's dirty!"-Pittsburg Leader.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
What Worried Him.-A peculiar IL

What Worried Him.-A peculiar in
stance of connubial affection occur
red some time ago in Vermont. An
aged couple, who through half a CEN
tury of married life had wrangled
with each other, were in all probabil-
ity soon to be separated. The husband
was taken i'll and was believed to be
near his end. The old wife came to
his bedside and after carefully exam
lining and taking stock Of his condi-
ton, exclaimed. well, daddy, your
feet are cold, your hands are cold and
your nose is cold"
"Wa'al, let 'em be cold"
WY daddy, you're goin' to die"
"Wa'al, guess I know what I'm
about"
Daddy, what's to become Of me II
you die?"
II dunno, and l don't care, What
want to know is, what's to become OF
me?"-Boston Globe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24

IN A prospective client asked Will
liam NJ. Evarts once what he would
charge for managing a certain law
case.
We'll" said Mr.. Evarts, Il will take
your case on a contingent fee."
And what is a contingent fee?"
well" said Mr.. Evarts, mellifiu-
ously, "a contingent fee to a lawyer
means this: If don't win your suit
l get nothing If l do win 1t you get
nothing-see? ?"-Ex.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24

~ According to the following "ad."
il would seem that Cambridge has a
COW of rare accomplishments:
"Wanted-A steady, respectable
young man to look after a garden and
milk a COW who has a good voice and
is accustomed to sing in the choir
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING.

wv ITH all the facilities Of the ma
w chine shops OF the Neely Man
ufacturing company, long expert
ence as a machinist and special knowl-
edge of Automobiles. 1 offer my SER
vices for any and all kinds of work in
this connection. satisfaction guaran-
teed. w. M. CREIGHTON.
20 13t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24

IN 1t happened in a crowded street
car. The noted Rabbi Hirsch had
arisen to give his seat to young
woman, but before she could take it a
burly young fellow slid into it.
The rabbi looked very meaningly at
him. and, after an uncomfortable ST.
lence. the young fellow blurted out:
We'll, what are you glarin at me for?
Want to eat me? En-"
NO." calmly replied the rabbi, Il
am forbidden to eat you-I am a Jew"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
]. c. Will B o RN .

- The Business man you write to,
judges you by the quality Of your Sta
tionery. The best is the cheapest for
you to use. Send your orders to The
Enquirer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
FOR SALE

THE Palmer Lot, on East Liberty
Il street, Yorkville, 1872 feet front,
and $50 feet back: one of the most de-
srable residence lots In the town
Joining this lot on the south is another
lot of one-fourth Of an acre, more or
less, and both lots will be included in
same sale. Apply to C. E. Spencer,
Atty. at Law, Yorkville, or Med. AR
LEDGE, Charlotte, N. C..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
Common Sense.

buy as low as can-That's Busi-
ness sense.
1 sell as Low as 1 can-Thats Pro-
gressive sense.
You buy as Low as you can-That's
Good sense.
YOU BUY OF ME-That's Dollars
and Cents to both of US.
l have everything you can reasona-
bly, expect to find in First-Class Cen
eral Store-my goods are Of excellent
quality and my prices as LOW AS THE
LOWEST.
have Dry Goods. Dress Goods. No
tiOns, Prints, Silks, Hats, Caps, Shoes,
Hardware, Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Family Medicines, Fresh Fruits and
Candies arriving every week.
have the ingredients for your fruit
cakes.
Give me your patronage and 1 will
treat you right. I pay the highest
market price for Country Produce.
NJ. A. MCFARLAND,
Yorkville II. F.. ID. No. 4.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP

m HE partnership formerly existing
i as TURNER & BROWN In the
Livery business Is this day dissolved
by mutual consent. All persons owing
the firm Of Turner G. Brown Will please
make payment at once to truman
Turner. All parties having claims
against Turner & Brown will present
same for payment to Truman Turner.
TRUMAN D. TURNER,
HUGH G. BROWN.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24

1 have this day purchased the inter-
est Of Hugh G. Brown in the Livery
business of Turner G. Brown. 1 will
a continuance of your bus
mess. TRUMAN d. TURNER.
20 st
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-24
WATERMAN
PENS

but better in quality. We have
just received a big assortment of the
famous WATERMAN IDEAL FOUN-
TAIN PENS. They range in price
from $3.50 to $500.
We would be glad for you to come
and let us show them to you. Every
thing in Writing Fluids, Inks, Pencils
and Stationery.
Make our store headquarters when
in Glover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
TRIP TO PARIS AMERICANS OF MODERATE MEANS

gold are drawn irreSistibly TO the Paris
boulevard to mingle-pleasure-se seeking,
lotus eating-with builders Of railroads,
factories, ranchmen. explorers. inventors
the successful Of the whole world on va
cation.
..Dreaming," he says, Il like to pick
them out to separate them from the
banal crowd of Parisians. who dilute
them like the water in my glass dilutes
the raspberry sirup.'
And not on the boulevard alone-all
over Paris You can sit, thus, on the
strec> under awning shade and foliage.
and rest. One ice cream ca cents,
half" IL cents, half bottle Of vichy
90 centsp. beer t6 cents, strip and water
with the ice tub (6 cents or coffee q
cents entities you to keep your table all
the afternoon.
Sit on the cafe terrace TO read your
guide book the invaluable Paris Baede-
ker" Here rest between sights. Here
shaking your party-sit and dream over
a weak Amer Picon-curacao," slipped
slowly filling up with ice water. And
little by little the fair dream of Paris viii
dance, like a sunbeam into your tired
soul
l know but one great Paris street that
n - no cafe terrace. 1t is the most
famous, the rue de la Paix. the mecca
of rich women. See il strolling At
noontime IL is hocked with bare-headed
sewing girls, peculiarly chic whose skirts
hang like those of the richest women.
because these girls help to make tho
styles
OF afternoons from 3 till the rue de
la Paix is packed with splendid auto
iimousines, victorias whose horses champ
on silver chains, flunkies in livery. por-
there's in blue and gold and elegant wom-
en-. lightly coming and departing.
Upstairs all the windows are lined with
growing flowers. They mark the out
lines of the famous dressmaking estab-
lishments. while the ground floors ara
occupied by furriers. lingerie and blouse
makers. lace establishments, modistes,
statiQners, engravers, shops of silver.
ware and leather trifles. goldsmiths. shoe
makers. glovers. all the most expensive
of their kind, quite different from others.
jewelers. windows flash with diamonds,
rubies. They sell trifies that make tho
heart hot to wish for-gold or platinum
mesh sacks or purses studded with
sapphires. cigarette cases in enamel
worth $40 each, watches as thin as
silver fifty-cent piece. or In tiny enamel
balls.
There are windows full of flmy hand
kerchiefs. each made by hand. like lace.
as dear as $40 each, though quite plain.
hemstitched. There are blouses marvels
of delicate taste and charming surprises.
models. merely, of things made to fit you
like @ glove.
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

and pre,tily served if you arrive before
noon and $50 p.m.-and so itemizingly
cheap that you can eat for 80 cents. try
the Grand Cafe or Brasserie Universelle
and the trick Of horsdoeuvre and the gar
nished dish.
The former is 10 Paris what the free
lunch is TO America Ancienty they
charged for each little appetite-oDener-
shrimps in mayonnaise. sliced hard boiled
eggs In bernaiSe. sliced smoked salmon,
etc. Now you dab into the collection for
10 cents. the price of one. Evidently, ale
who makes a meal of horS-d oeuvres at
10 cents: beer. cents and bread and
napkin. Il cents. will become unpopular.
Order. In addti just one garnished
diSh-"plat du jour-with its Veget able on
the side served like sauce. y tip OF 10
cents per person on bills under 81 fer one
or So for two assures good treatment.
Double il for bills above
Why is the average tourist prejudiced
against the paid guide? The neatly
dressed professional. taken inside your
hotel not only saves time and worry.
but is powerful device for accredting
you. He can brag up your Importance
and open closed doors, where you would
be silent and helpless. OF course, he
takes 10 per cent on all purchases made
in his presence. Either let him know you
know II, and insist on a reduction CORE
spending. or else make him show you the
place. and try buying alone.
In the great eSSmaking7 concerns like
Redfern where the average tourist only
wants TO see, the guide is perfect. He
rouses their enthusiasm. On the other
hand. any couple or trio of lone Amer-
cans may step into these splendid sane
tums and models. No matter how
badly you may be dressed, they have
seen worse dressed Americans give gigan-
tic orders. Try to feel rich. Trust your
accent, the Americans most precious rec
ommendation.
Only the modistes hate to show their
latest hats. Houses Hike RebouX and
GeorSette have rows Of parlors, where
doors may be open or shut. One parlOr
differeth from another in glory. knowl-
edge is your real key To ask. Have you
nothing newer?" in presence of the really
latest creations is a palpa BILE bluff. Men
have no such Paris sightseeing. Though
purely French tailor OF the Place Ven
dome is dearer than the Paris agencies
of Poole and Cavanagh. We do we'll to
stick to London. Once l met a Chicago
sport who insisted on buying "a pair of
Paris pants" His wife now uses them
for harem skirt.
Smart restaurants-unlike dressmakers
do not welcome addressed Americans
on the theory that they must be full of
secret money. Good. 1t is a protection
for the modest, because such is innate
Paris courtesy that cheap skates are SOL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

VIEW OF THE RESERVOIR.
process removes the greater portion or
the turbidity and about 80 per cent of
the bacteria, it passes through to the
clear water basin. BY means of three
forty eight-inch cast iron mains the
water is then carried to the distributing
gatehouse, at the eastern end of the
aqueduct tunnel. about in line with 4th
street northwest. Here, owing to the
very considerable variation in elevation
of the different parts of the District. the
system is divided into a number of sepa-
rate services.
To that territory lying between tide
level and seventy feet above water is
carried by gravity through two forty
eght-inch mains direct from the clear
water basin. BY direct pumping into the
mains without the Intervention of a res
ervoir water is supplied to that part OF
the District lying between seventy and
40 feet above tide level The Brightwood
reservoir. located southwest of the sub
division of Brightwood. is at an elevation
OF 273 feet above tide level and it Is
into this reservoir that the pumps send
water to be distributed by gravity to the
land lying from 40 to 30 feet in eleva-
ton
At an elevation of 423 feet above tide
level. the highest point In the District,
the Reno reservoir is situated, just north
of Tenleytown. This reservoir. supplied
by the pumping station, distributes water
by gravity TO that terTitnr" har'n an