Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17


letter of little girl from n farm pa
per the other day. 1t has something
to say on the subject"
am going to tell you what know
about quail.
In July my brother and I wen
with papa to the watermelon field t
gather melons and as was pulling
big watermelon, a quail flew up fror
her little nest. l looked and there wer
II little eggs in the nest. By taking
away the melon l disturbed the nes
and she never came back TO it, so W.
took the eggs and set them under
Bantam hen, and in three weeks all o
them hatched For the first two o.
three days we kept the little birds in 6
coop. AS soon as they were turned out
they began to gather little pant lic'
SO small you could hardly see them. A:
they grew older, they went into thu
garden where they would hunt all da!
for the little green cabbage worms ant
small millers. They are almost brown
now and hunt all day long for insects
and will catch four or five before the
| mother hen can kill one. They vii
come to me when l call them. They
| feed on boil weevils, SrassIoppers
melon bugs, melon lice-in fact, have
never seen an insect they will not try
to catch. Besides this they eat al
kinds of grass and weed seeds that are
| troublesome.
Vivian Baugh (Aged ID
WeatherforG, Parker Co, Texas.
Friday the Thirteenth.
Said one this morning: while IT
Is, true that last Friday was the 18th
day Of the month, Friday the 18th isn't
such bad day after all the supersti-
tiously inclined to the contrary not
withstanding. History shows that
Friday has not always proved un-
lucky, especially for Americans. For
instance
It was on Friday, August 2, 1892,
Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain.
On Friday October II Of the same
year he made land in the new world.
On Friday Henry VII gave the COM
mission to John Cabot which led to the
discovery of North America.
On Friday st. Augustine, the Oldest
town in the United States was found
ed.
On Friday the Mayfower, with the
Pilgrims, landed at Plymouth, Massa-
chusctts.
On Friday Washington was born.
On Friday the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence was adopted.
What's the matter with the sixth
day of the week?
How comes this idea of Fridaysb =
ing lucky or unlucky? Mohamraedans
hold that Adam and Eva were created
on Friday, ate the forbidden fruit on
Friday, and lied on Friday, and that
Friday is the Mohammedan Sabbath.
The day takes its name from the
Scandinavian GODDESS Freya or Fr!gga.
The hardy Norsemen were little
afraid of this third wife of the god.
Odin, because she was supposed TO
know the fates of men. The early
Saxons and the Teutons also believed
in her, and while they watched her out
of the corner of their eye, they regard
ed her day, Frigedeag, as a lucky day.
In the Roman Catholic church, the
Greek church and the Anglican church
il is recognized as day of abstin-
ence ard fasting in memory OF the
crucitixion of Christ.
Just why thirteen is regarded as
unlucky is uncertain.
Man is a creature of small numbers.
He deals in units, tens, hundreds
thousands. millions, billions-when he
gets beyond twelve figures there's no
intelligence in his eye, it has stopped
! long since. He starts at the right
slowly. cautiously and painfully works
in ones, twos, or threes toward the
| left.
When puny little man Games &c
thirteen he says, "Unlucky number
Wonder why? Well, there were thir-
teen present at the Last Supper just
before the Crucitixion of Christ; bu'
the superstitution goes back centuries
before that. One can trace it back to
the old Morse mythology which tells OF
banquet in the Valhalla, the hall OF
the slain, where by direction of Odin
himself, the souls of those slain IN
battle were borne to immortality BY
the Valkyries, the beautiful maidens
who served at the banquet of Val
halla. Loki, an evil giant god, IN
! trudcd at the banquet of Odin and
| FrigEa and instigatcd the killing o'
their son Balder. Loki was the
thirteenth person and brought death
with him.
FARM WENT CHEAP