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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

The Snake Stone.-In most accounts
of snake charming in India, the snake
stone plays an important part. When
the charmer is bitten the stone Is ap-
piled to the bite, and Is supposed to aid
in his recovery. Writing in the Lon
don field, Lieutenant L. Mackenzie
gives some notes on two of these stones,
which he had the opportunity Of see
ing. They were triangular in shape,
at end, rounded, with smooth, polished
black surfaces. They are said to come
from the hills of Tibet and to be solidl-
fled saliva of the markhor. This animal
is spoken of in Lieutenant Mackenzie's 8
note as the Persian snake eater" Its
saliva is thought to contain an anti
dote to snake poison. The markhor is
a species of wild goat found in India,
Tibet and Kashmir.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
EXPLOSIVE PILLS.
NitrosIyeerin for Seasickness-cordite
for Insomnia

NitrosIyeerin for seasiekness-cordite
for Insomnia.
Violent explosives-such as nitrogly-
cerin and cordite-are now recommend
ed to be swallowed like pills Of Turkish
rhubarb for their medicinal value!
Il must have a sedative," we shall
shortly hear in the clubs. And a man
may be seen calmly chewing a piece Of
cordite-a sufficient quantity to blow
hole in a two-foot wall!
DR.. Burwinkel, famous professor Of
Nauheim, is responsible for these start
ling ideas. He boldly recommends nj
troglycerin as cure for seasickness.
The German professor advices that
the explosive be taken in soup-twen-
ty drops of the stick nitroglycerin in a
quarter Of pint Of thick soup or wa
ter.
At what particular times the explo-
sive mixture is to be taken is not
known.
Some further interesting details Of
the use of explosives as medicines
were given to the London Daily Mirror
by a well known scientific expert
"Nitroglycerin Is a quite colorless
jelly with sweet aromatic taste.
1T Is given in small doses as heart
stimulant. DR.. Burwinkel has no
doubt discovered that it is an excel
lent cure for seasickness, too.
ha 9hrono ootton ill.,
plosive largely used in modern warfare
and in blasting, is, have been inform
ed, a splendid remedy for insomnia.
British soldiers are said to have
discovered the strong sedative effect
Of cordite. It Is claimed that an Eng
lish Tommy suffering from sleepless-
ness tore off a piece Of cordite, and
chewed and swallowed the fiber.
I'm a few minutes he was asleep just
as If he had taken opium.
"Cordite is undoubtedly a good sed-
ative, either simply swallowed In its
raw state or mixed up with some food.
Rut-I don't recommend the general
public to try the experiment without
the consent Of a doctor.
"One would also be ill-advised to try
DR.. Burwinkel's recipe for seasickness
without the advice of a doctor.
"The explosiveness Of nitroglycerin
may be tested by placing a thin layer
of the substance on hard surface and
striking It with hammer. A tremen-
dous explosion will ensue.
AT the present time the public
would haye great difficulty in buying
these explosives.
I'm the future, however, If their
medicinal value Is found to be excep-
tionally good, It may be possible to OBJ
tain doses of the explosives in the form
Of cachous or pills.
"a patient suffering from seas :kness
would after a weeks diet Of MI rogly-
cerin have sufficient explosives in him
to blow up a moderate sized house.
But I think that once mixed with
water the nitroglycerin inside the body
would be as harmless as treacle-so
far as explosives are concerned.
THE only danger would be in safely
consuming the substance. Acting as
violent irritant poison to the stomach,
the nitroglycerin, as DR.. Burwinkel
has found, would probably counteract
the pains of seasickness."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
CENTENARY OF THE TRoUsER
Elsie Fay Ford
Glendale Schoo,.

II was NapoIson's Lesions Who
Brought Garment Into Fashion.
AS nearly as can be ascertained 1t Is
hundred years since Napoleon Bona
parties soldiers introduced the old-new
style of leg wear which speedily secur-
ed recognition as the distinctively mas
culine garment Of civilians throughout
two continents.
In 1S14-the year before Waterloo
1t was related as a current news
item of some importance that the great
duke of wellington had been refused
admittance to Almack's in London, be-
cause he presented himself wearing
trousers instead Of the conventional
breeches which the dress regulations
then in vogue demanded, says the
American Tailor and Cutter.
AS a matter Of historical fact trou-
sers have been worn by various races
and by both sexes in all the ages Of
which any authentic records exist.
Generally speaking. trousers were re-
garded in ancient times as symbolical
of inferiority or effeminacy. In the tri
umphanal professions Of the Caesars,
for example, prisoners Of war wore
them as a sign Of defeat, while the
sturdy legs Of Rome's victorious le-
gions were bare below the bottom Of
the skirted or killed coat Of mail.
For the last hundred years or there
about trousers have been widely recog-
nized as the garments Of authority,
the outward and visible sign Of the
stronger sex. But that position has not
been won or maintained without a
struggle. Many attempts have been
made to trample down the tyranny Of
trousers, as their rule has been called;
many times has their superiority been
challenged. But 80 far their position
remains secure.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Keeping Warm With lee.-This

Keeping Warm With lce.-This
seems turning ordinary usage upside
down, but the process Is simple enough.
It consists in the furnishing Of dou-
ble-lined car with four galvanized iron
cylinders reaching from the floor al
most to the top. In summer these CYL
inders are kept filled with ice and salt
in order that the car may be main
tanned at a cool temperature; In. winter
they are filled with ice in order to keep
the contents Of the car from freezing.
Ice is nominally at temperature OF
thirty two degrees Fahrenheit, and 1t
is a substance that changes its temper
ature reluctantly, being bad conduc-
tor Of heat or cold. Consequently
when zero weather prevails without,
the cylinders Of relatively warm Ice
prevent the escape Of heat; In other
words, so 1t Is claimed, they maintain
the temperature within the car.
Still another device whereby Ice Is
employed for protection against cold
consists in throwing upon the car, when
the weather Is near the zero point,
plentiful stream Of water, which. freez-
ing at once, forms a complete coat over
the car. The action Of the ice Is said
to be the same as in the other case.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

Columbia, November 14:-Charging
that w. Boyd Evans, Of this city, an
attorney In a recent case in the United
States court here, in which w. d.
Sturgeon was given a verdict Of $4,000
against the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road, was guilty Of fragrant and un-
ethical violation of his duties as an
attorney in the court, in the case he
tried to prejudice the minds Of the jury
on the case, Barron and Mckay, attor-
neys for the railroad, have made
motion that the verdict be set aside.
The motion will be heard later in the
week. Sturgeon lost his foot In at
tempting to step in hole in the rail-
way platform in Orangeburg. The at
torneys allege that Evans wrote per-
sonal letters to the jurors inclosing
cards to a social club Of the city and
that he placed the amputated foot of
a man in a bottle of preserving liquid
in such a position that the jurors, on
their way to and from the court room,
had to pass by it and so that they were
most likely to see it. Mr.. Evans Is an
officer of the club to which the jurors
were invited.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Primitive Wheat.-All cultivate,

plants have their ancestors" which
remain in a savage state. The greater
part of our vegetables and fruit trees
come from Persia. where they yet have
representatives that grow spontane-
ously. The grape vine grew originally
only on the plateaus of Central Asia.
Wheat originated probably in the val
ley of the Euphrates, where the neces-
sary humidity first seemed to work on
plant life most favorably A traveller
who recently visited the highlands Of
Galilee reports that he has found a
wild wheat that must be the progenitor
of the modern wheat. This wild wheat
covers extensive acres and is a vigor-
GUS plant with marked nutritive prop
critics. 1t seems proof against drought
or frost and adapts itself easily to arid
soil.-Harper's Weekly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
WITH NEIGHsoRING EXCHANGES
Notes and Comments About M alters of
Local Interest

Gastonia Gazette, Nov. IS: Through
the courtesy of Mr.. S. w. Bradley,
secretary and treasurer of the Crowd
ers Creek Drainage commission and
superintendent of the dredging of that
stream. the Gazette man had the
pleasure Wednesday of spending an
hour or two at the boat and observing
the progress of the work. Despite the
fact that the newspaper man. like the
others. had to wade through mud and
water knee deep to get to the boat, 1t
was pleasant and profitable trip. The
work of dredging Crowders creek was
commenced December 12. 1911. at the
]. B. Carson place in the Pisgah sec
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
getters from the Schools.
Conducted by Miss Leila A. Russell.
Rock Hill, s. c., Nov. 1s, 1912.

Dear Girls and Boys
thought possibly you would enjoy
reading letter written by one of the
Laurens county children for the School
Journal. This little boy is in Miss
Mary Cartwright's school. Some of
you know Miss Cartwright. She lives
at Yorkville.
Notice the heading Of this child's let
ter and see how nicely 1t Is punctuat-
ed. The heading Of letter is very i'm
portant. Get your teacher to tell you
why the punctuation is necessary. This
child has stated the name Of his school
under his signature just as asked you
to do.
/ give you poem this week Learn
1t.
Very sincerely yours,
Leila A. Russell.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Clinton, 8. c.,
Oct. II. 1912.

Dear Friend:
I will tell you what time had the
other night. I went o'possum hunting
Friday and got lost a long way from
home. stumped my toe and fell down.
1t was late when we got back and
was tired and sleepy. There were about
-FOUR OF US. We treed once but did not
get anything. We thought that our
dogs were going to tree in an old house
once and went through briars so thick
we could hardly walk through them.
We didn't see anything that night,
though. Yours truly,
Gillette Simpson,
Hurricane School.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Rock Hail, 8. c.
Nov. IL, 1912.
Rock Hill, 8. c.,
Nov. IL, 1912.

Dear Miss Russell:
have been requested by my teacher.
Miss Carrie Belle Poag, to write you a
letter.
/ suppose you would like to know
something of me and our little school,
am fifteen years old and ] am In
the eighth grade.
/ have been going to the graded
school at Rock Hill until our school
opened.
Our school is the Oakley school, sit
uated on the Rock Hill and Chester
road, about three miles south Of Rock
Hill
have been striving for an education
ever since have been large enough to
realize what an education means to a
person, but we country children have
such poor advantages compared with
those of the city children. But be-
lieve the time Is coming when the
country children will be equal to those
Of the city In school advantages; in
fact, they are in many places now.
I must say our little school Is pro-
crossing nicely. We all love our teach
er and you know that means great
deal.
! am,
Sincerely yours,
Iona M. Rawls.
Oakley School.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

,sa The worst thing about taking
chance is that you can't always put it
back where you found it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Glover, 8. c.,
Nov. IL, 1912.

NOV. IL, lSlZ.
Dear Miss Russell:
Our school opened the 9th. We have
an unpainted school-house and We
cannot get up enough money to have IL
painted as there are only eleven pupils
now. We are making some improve
ments, though. The first year I went
to school we stayed in the little room
back of the main school-room, with all
the windows down usually. Ut had only
two). However, We moved into the
big room which has eight windows. We
keep at least one or two Of them open
all the time, except at night. The chill
dren bring flowers and we have vases
to put them in. We hang pictures on
the walls and have divided the girls
into couples to sweep, the couples taxi
ing 1t day about. We buy our own
chalk, brooms, and water-b buckets. and
when we moved into the big room we
replaced all broken window-panes.
Now when anyone breaks pane he
has to buy another. We are going to
have reports, too, which we did not
have before.
Elsie Fay Ford
Glendale Schoo.,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
The Boy With th. Hoe.

The Boy With the Hoe.
Say, how do you hoe your row, young
man?
Say, how do you hoe your row?
Do you hoe It fair,
Do you hoe 1t square,
Do you hoe 1t the best you know?
Do you cut the weeds as you ought to
do,
And leave what's worth while there?
The harvest you garner depends on
you,
Are you working 1t on the square?
Are you killing the noxious weeds,
young chap
Are you making 1t straight and clean,
Are you going straight,
At hustling gait,
Do you scatter all that's mean?
Do you laugh and sing and whistle
shrill,
And dance a step or two?
The row you hoe leads up hill;
The harvest Is up to you.-Ex.
Rock Hall. 8. c.
Nov. II, 1912.
Dear Miss Russell:
I thought would write you a letter
as my teacher has asked me to do
I went to the country and had fire
time one day. We went hunting, fish
ing, and went in swimming and boat
riding; and did many other things.
We came back home and rode horss
until dinner Then we went to dinner,
and had o'possum, fish and all kinds
Of vegetables. We had a grand time.
Yours very truly,
Eli whitesell,
Oakley School.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

ia A woman is as old as she looks,
but not as young as she thinks she
looks.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

ifg A man doesn't necessarily have to
be sharp to have his good points.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Miseellanruus Readina.
CoNSTANTINoPLE.
Rome's Eastern Citadel, That Became
the Ottoman Capital.

noHo . CdotoTn Sitdooi, NAT became
the Ottoman Capital.
The very name of Constantinople
brings in its train, historic associations
that rival those Of Rome, Athens and
Jerusalem. The city Of Constantine"
was the Roman emperor's enlarge
ment, in A. D. 1928, of the earlier town
Of Byzantium. Constantine saw how
the site controlled Asia Minor, the
Black Sea and the Aegean, and barred
the land gate between Occident and
Orient Baths, theatres and fortifica-
tions the Romans built In the middle
of the fifth century, in the reign Of
Theodosius II, wall 100 feet high was
built, whereon the warriors might
stand in dense array to hurl Greek fire
and stones and arrows upon invaders.
The ruins Of that wall are still to be
seen. This and other ramparts were
sorely needed against the onslaughts
of the Avars in 627; the Saracens in
673 and 71S; the Bulgarians in S13 and
913; the Crusaders in 1908; the Turks
in 1922. and finally. in 1853, when the
city was taken and an end was made
of the grandeur that was Rome in the
east.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Peter Karageorgevich.

The accession of Peter Karageorge-
vich as king of Servia followed the
assassination of King Alexander and
Queen Draga in June, 1903. The new
ruler was selected by the regicides.
King Peter was born in 1874. He Is
the son of Alexander Karageorgevich.
He was married in 1888 to Princess
Zorka, daughter Of King Nicholas OF
Montenegro. At first the authority OF
the new king was merely nominal. He
was guided in his every official action
by the men who had slain his prede-
cessor.
At his coronation In September. 1897.
all the powers, except Great Britain,
were officially represented. England re-
sumed diplomatic relations with the
country-they had been broken off with
the assassination of Alexander-in
1906.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

The taking Of Constantinople by the
Turks in 1853 was one Of the most dra-
matte events in the worlds history.
The soldiers (not counting the priests
and camp followers) numbered 1861
900, and the fleet comprised 145 ships.
The land forces took two months to
cover the distance of 100 miles from
Adrianople. They had an immense
cannon, which could only be discharg-
ed seven times day. There were ma
chimes for hurling rocks and darts:
bullet and battering-ram and wooden
turret on rollers were all used together.
Mohammed II is said to have taken
ships ten miles overland in one night
to circumvent the Greek vessels.
In the final assault upon the walls.
on May 20, Mohammed led in person,
on horseback, an iron mace in his hand.
The first to reach the top of the wall
was Hassan, the january, a giant in
strength and stature. Of thirty men
with him eighteen were cut down.
Hassan, scimitar in hand, covering
himself with his buckler, was pushed
from the wall. He struggled to rise,
and still fighting like a lion, was over
whelmed with darts and stones. The
Turks swarmed over the wall where he
showed the way. Constantine, the en-
peror, seeing all was lost, exclaimed
Cannot a Christian be found to cut of
my head?" Presently he, too. fell and
was buried beneath the heap of dead
and dying men. Two thousand Chris
tians were put to the sword. The
church of ST. Sophia was crowded to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

The population seems to be close to
a million. Of these, there are some
10000 Mohammedans, 10000 Greeks
100000 Armenians and $4,000 Jews. The
diversity of race and tongue and re-
ligion makes the development of any
sense Of social cohesion or civil patri-
otism almost unthinkable.
The trade that passes through the
port is reckoned at some $55,000,000 a
year. Half the imports are manufac-
tured fabrics-cotton, woolen, silk and
others. Sugar, petroleum, flour are
other major items. The exports of ce-
reals are worth $5,O00,O00 a year, and
next in order Of value are mohair, car
pets, silk and opium the latter item
alone representing s2,0OO,OOO. 'wo-
fifths of the imports come from Eng
land. But the German trade has been
increasing by leaps and bounds, show
ing in eight years a gain of 13O per
cent to England's 33 and Italy's SO. The
shipping entering the port in a recent
year included 9,796 large vessels, hav-
ing a tonnage Of 14,7S5.0s0.
The municipal government is subor-
dinate to a prefect, appointed by the
sultan, but under the direct authority
of the minister Of the interior. His Of
fetal title is prefect of Stamboul The
city council of twenty -four members is
named by the sultan Or the minister
of the interior. The prefect is supreme
over streets, markets, bazaars, hospit-
ais, baths, street porters and public
weighers. He Is likewise tax collector
and treasurer. The foreign commu-
mites are almost like tiny, separate
republics. A Turkish policeman may
not enter the grounds or residence of
a foreigner without permission of the
consular authorities. The alien-b born
if they choose, have their own schools,
hospitals and postoffices.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19

Constantinople has been-and is-a
city Of churches. ST. Sophia (Holy
Wisdom) was built by Justinian the
Great, and dedicated on Christmas Day
53S. on the site of an edifice raised by
Constantine and burned in 404, and a
second church, due to Theodosius,
burned during a riot in 532. After the
Turkish conquest a minaret w plac-
ed at each corner. The exterior gives
little promise Of the beauty of the in
terror, with its variegated marbles and
its porphyry columns brought from
the Temple of the Sun at Baalbek, TAX
en- to Rome by Aurelian, and finally
given to Justinian by a wealthy woman
for the salvation of her SOUL"
Many Of the churches of the Roman
city were demolished at the time of the
Ottoman occupation, and mosques
were built in their places. These mos
ques give the city its characteristic
appearance Of clustered domes, minar-
cts and pinnacles. The modern city Is
ousting the medieval A medical
school, hospital for children, an asy-
lum for the poor, bespeak the growth
of the humanitarian spirit. There is a
great museum of antiquities, and a
fiourishing school Of art and architec-
ture; all these under native auspices,
as are numerous schools patterned
upon French and American models.
The downfall of the abhorred regime
of Abdul II was in no small measure
due to the work of these institutions.
In the constellation of towns and vii
lagos that form the city, Pera is the
European quarter. There will be found
up-to-d date hotels and stores and the
embassies. Throughout the city the
houses are beginning to initiate those
of western Europe-even to the sui
tan's palace. Streets have been paved
and lighted of late: houses have been
numbered; there are cabs and trolley
cars. Aside from the bringing in Of
the railway linking east and west, as
part Of the eventual route between
London and Calcutta, the great i'm
provements Of the new order over the
old are the wharves of Stamboul and
Galata.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-09-12
HEIGHTS NEWS

On Sunday night the congregation at
the Baptist church passed resolution
of confidence in, and appreciation Of,
the present effort and poiiey OF Gov.
West.
John Baker has sold his property on
Thirteenth street and Will move to
Portland. He and his wife will be
missed on the Heights. Last week the
Post and Relief Corps Jointly gave
them farewell party.
Mrs. Anna Edgington spent the
week end in Wasco, Ore. on business.
Mrs. A. l.. Carmichael, who has
been i'll for several weeks, returned
from Portland last week, much i'm.
proved.
Mrs. Roy Woodwork has been on the
sick list for some time, ana has beer
ordered by her physician TO try the
Willamette Valley. She leaves al
once for Oregon City in hopes Of re
ceiving benefit.
MIR. and Mrs. Hubbard Taylor re-
turned Sunday from visit in The
Dalles.
In his sermon on the subject: 'Wn
it Paw" Rev. HargreaVes made refer
ence to the possibilities and need of Z
night school in Hood River. conducted
in connection with the public schoo
system. This is worthy Of consider
alton.
The sermon subject at ssthe Baptis
church next Sunday night will be
Getting Ready to Vote. = Service a
Z 80. Rev. Hargreaves will preach.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-09-12

usrv went Monday morning 70 HooC
River TO have dental work done.
Mrs. Arlington and son went t,
Hood River Monday Afternoon.
Mrs. c. H. DunsmOre spent Sunday
in The Dalles.
Rev. H. C. Clark ana family have
been busy getting settled Y. tue hus
KEY cottage near the chuieh'
Miss Mary Reeves, who has beer
very in the last two weeks is lmproy.
ing at this time.
DIR. Macrum left Sunday ior. Eugene,
where his wife is visiting reiauVes'
Apple growers are very busy now
getting ready to begin the apple har.
Vest between the goth and lst'
W. ]. wollam went SATURDAY after
noon 10 his home in Hood River for
over Sunday.
T. Z. Ward, of The Ds'les, was 10
Mosier Monday.
Donald Ahern, a gentleman from
Oh lahoma,i is teaching the young Ideas
of Dist. s, this term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Wyss left Mon.
cav for a visit to Portland They
went on the boat.