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"So It I*."?A lowly colored man who
had ambitions to own a watch, but
could not read time from one, purchased
a dollar watch recently, attached it
to a strap and hung it from his coat
lapel, putting the watch in the top
pocket of his coat.
Sauntering down Lombard street, relates
the Philadelphia Ledger, he met
another colored man who likewise aspired
to own a watch, but could not
tell time either. The following conversation
ensued:
"What you-all got there, Bill?" asked
the colored man who met the owner
of the watch.
"(Jot a watch," said Bill.
"Can you tell the time?" asked the
friend.
"Of cose ah can!" he replied.
"What time is it, then?" asked the
friend.
"Find out you-self," said Bill.
He pulled out his watch and showed
it face up to his friend, who looked at
it, stared a moment and then replied:
ir is so it is." and he walked
away. He had at least made his friend
believe he, too, could tell time.
Reversing the Code.?"What do you
mean by writing me that my Jimmie
can't pass into the next grade?" stormed
an irate female, bursting into the
principal's room. "An" after him doin'
such grand work all the year."
"Why, Mrs. Flaherty," replied the
teacher, "you must know better than
that. Ive sent you his report curds every
month and you know that his
marks have been nearly all 'D's.'"
"Indade they have, and yit you say
he can't pass. I don't understand it,
mum."
"I am afraid you don't understand
our system of marking. D means deficient,
you know."
"Sure, 1 don't know phat that may be
mum, but Jimmie told me all about the
letters. Sure 'D' is dandy, 'C is corking,
'B' is bum, an* 'A' is awful?an'
he's got 'Cs' an' 'Ds' ivery month.?Ex.
Not to bo Fooled.?Proudly young
Tomkins displayed the sights of London
to his uncle, fresh from the verdant
country. They visited St. Paul's
and the Embankment and the National
Gallery and all the places they could get
in free and, tina'lly, as an especial treat,
they visited a music hall, where a
trombone solo was in progress when
they entered, says Answers.
With rapt attention the old man
watched the instrumentalist's facial
contortions. At the close the audience
applauded thunderously, but the old
man sat mute.
"Well," said young Tomkins, didn't
you like it?"
"Verra good, verra good, no doubt,''
nodded the old man, "but we country
folk canna be taken in so easy as all
that; I knew all the time he wasn't to
eurnllnu'in' of it!"
A Military Offense.?During the annual
maneuvers of the British Territorials
a private was riding one day in
a train with his uniform coat unbuttoned.
This caused a sergeant to say:
"Button up that coat! Haven't you
any sense of military decency at all?"
But here a gentleman on the left interfered,
saying to the sergeant:
"How dare you give commands with
a cigar in your mouth? I am Major
Fitzhugh Calbrain.''
At this point an elderly gentleman
with a white mustache leaned over and
murmured in the major's ear:
"Colonel Brewster Fairfax is sorry to
remind you, sir, that to scold a sergeant
in the presence of a private, is a
military offense hard to overlook."
Done by Deputy.?At a marriage
service performed in a little country
church when the minister said in solemn
tones, "Wilt thou have this man
to be thy wedded husband, etc?" Instead
of the woman answering for
herself, a gruff man's voice answered,
1 Willi
The minister looked up. very much
perplexed, and paused. He repeated
the sentence, and again the same gruff
voice answered, "I will!"
Again the minister looked up when a
man seated at the end of the tirst row
said, 'She's deef, parson, an' I'm answerin'
for her!'
Already Provided.?Mrs. Naggs has
a reputation for meanness. One day,
while ordering some meat to be delivered
later on, she ordered two cents'
worth of cat's meat for puss. She lived
a considerable distance from the
shop, and just as the messenger was
leaving with the order Mrs. Naggs'
maid appeared, and in a state of
breathlessness exclaimed, "Has missis'
meat gone yet?"
"Just going," replied the assistant.
"Oh, thank goodness I am in time!"
she exclaimed. "You must not send the
cat's meat; the cat has just caught a
bird."
The New Peril.?H. O. Wells, the
novelist, one day told a good story of a
deaf old fisherman who was out in a
rowing boat one day when a motorboat
near him sprang a leak and immediately
sank. Its occupants shouted, but
the old man sat puffing his pipe, and
paid no attention. Finally they managed
to swim to his boat and clambered
aboard.
One of them yelled indignantly at
him: "Confound you! Why didn't you
lend a hand? Didn't you see we were
sinking?"
"Dor' bless yer," he gasped in reply,
"I saw yer right enough, but I thought
you was one of them submarines."
Not at the Front.?A professor of a
university, who is very popular among
the students, was entertaining a group
of them at his residence one night.
Taking down a magnificent sword that
hung over the fire-place, he brandished
it about, exclaiming:
"Never will I forget the day 1 drew
this blade for the first time!"
"Where did you draw it, sir?" an
awe-struck freshman asked.
"At a ralfle," said the professor.?
Philadelphia Ledger.
Well Balanced.?"I don't quite see
the point of that remark of yours," said
Mr. Skinner, the grocer, as he tied up
the package of sugar.
"What remark was that?" asked the
customer.
"You just remarked that some men
had an offhand way of doing things,
and you wished I was one."
"Yes; I wished to remind you that
your hand was on the sugar when you
weighed it."
Not Behindhand.?The judge looked
at the prisoner keenly for a few moments
and then said: "It strikes me
forcibly I have seen your face before."
"That's where I always wear it." replied
the prisoner sullenly.
Then the court laughed, and it took
some time to restore order."
A TALK WITH MR. EDISON
Great Scientist Gives World of His
Wisdom.
THINKS POVERTY CAN BE ELIMINATED
It is His Belief that in the Course of
Time Men Will Eat Less, Sleep Less
and Work in Double Shifts?He
Thinks That There Should be No
Stimulants.
bald Edison to me, writes Edward
Marshall of the Philadelphia PublicLedger:
"Humanity will have to live
in double shifts, by and by, because
the world will be so crowded; and it
will have to sleep less.
"I y sleeping less it will enormously
increase its productive power, for
sleep is an absurdity, a bad habit.
"It will have to eat less because
the world's population will be so
great that its productiveness will not
keep pace with a per capita consumption
as Kre.it as that of the presjent
time.
"By eating less it will enormously
increase its efficiency and happiness
and will do away with poverty."
These statements by the great inventor
were drawn out in the course
of a long talk occasioned by the 35th
anniversary of his invention of the
electric lighting system which occurs
this month.
Edison expects more rapid progress
in the future than the past has ever
known.
I asked him to tell me something
of his estimate of what his invention
of the electric lamp really has accomplished.
"It seems to have been the starting
point of the whole era of electrical
development," he answered. "You
see," he went on, slowly, "as soon
as the light was proved to be a practical
thing it was plain that it was
of paramount importance. It was
clear that it must speedily and completely
be developed. I estimate that
3 per cent of the work of developing
our present electric lighting system
was devoted to the perfection of the
lamp, and that 97 per cent was devoted
to the perfection of the system
which makes the lamp available
for practical usefulness.
"The problems involved in the
distribution of electricity for lighting
purposes throughout large communities
and its sale to the consumer, by
meter measurement. involved an
enormous amount of study and hard
labor. To make each light independ
trill Ul ,111 uiun uama >100 m
task.
"About the only help I had in the
development of the electric light lay
in the fact that the scientific world
was all against me, and recited Ohm's
law to prove the case.
"It was an interesting situation. I
turned the Ohm's law around and did
what was regarded as the opposite
of that which it provided for, and
found that it applied to the reversed
situation perfectly. But I wasn't
satisfied with this success. I wanted
to furnish power as well as light as
soon as the wires were spread through
the streets.
"Presently we put up the world's
first electric railway into operation
at Menio Park, and 1 was sure that
the idea was practical. Its development
needed money, though, and
capital was hesitant. Indeed. I was
assured by the greatest financial figures
in Wall street that this scheme
of operating railroads by electricity
was the craziest idea that ever had
been advanced by any one assuming
to be sane.
"I had carefully gathered all the
figures of the cost of horse cars and
their operation and was sure that the
substitution of electric power for
horse power would result in an enor
mo US saving. indeed, i Knew, anu
my knowledge was exact. I knew
electric traction was the coming
thing, and a very big thing. But it
fooled me.
Had Underestimated It.
"It was bigger than I thought it
was. I had made a better guess than
Wall street had, but my guess had
been far from adequately prophetic.
It was so big that it amazed me. It
increased traffic startingly. As a
matter of fact, electric traction has
increased street car traffic, I estimate,
5(10 per cent.
"The first electric cars revealed a
facility of operation and a rapidity
of movement which no one but myself
seemed to have expected.
"Their multiplication of traffic was
enormous, their effect upon street
railway receipts was very great. Then
the men in Wall street, who had declared
them to be a crazy dream, began
to speculate in electric traction
stock. They have been at it ever
since.
Electricity Expands Day.
"I don't believe the electric light
has ever stirred much sentiment in
me. I had so much trouble and worry
in connection with the perfection
and introduction of the lights that T
never have had time for sentiment
about them.
"I believe they have expanded what
we may describe as 'day,' and that
has increased the possibilities of effective
human effort. 1 rather like
to think of that.
"Everything which decreases the
sum total of man's sleep increases
th>. sum total of man's capabilities.
There really is no reason why men
should go to bed at all. and the man
of the future will spend far less time
in bed than the man of the present
does, just as the man of the present
spends far less time in bed than the
man of the past did.
"As.a matter of fact a very simple
bit of arithmetical figuring will show
that by and by humanity will have
to live in double shifts, so that there
may be room upon the earth for all
the people."
"Eut war still helps to keep the
population down." I commented.
"The day of life in double shifts
will come in spite of war. Medical
science will save more lives this year
than war will take, no matter how
terrifically murderous that war may
lie.
"In the old days man went up and
down with the sun. A million years
from now he won't go to bed at all
He illy, sleep is an absurdity, a bad
habit. We can't suddenly throw off
tlie thralldoin of the habit, but we
shall throw it off.
"Humanity can adjust itself to almost
any circumstances. Not so very
long ago we Imnl a good deal of
trouble here in the factory while we
were trying to perfect the disk
record for our phonographs. Eight
of us then started upon the work
with very definite intentions of wasting
just as little time as possible.
For five weeks we put ill from 14ii to
lf?0 hours a week each at the job.
< ne hundred and fifty hours a week
means more than 21 hours a day?
and we all sained weight.
"The man who sleeps too much
suffers from it in many ways and
gains nothing from it. The average
man who sleeps seven or eight or
nine hours daily is continually oppressed
by lassitude.
Never Had a Dream.
"I have* never overslept, and 1
have never had a dream, good or bad,
so far as I know, in my life.
"Nothing in the world is more
dangerous to the efficiency of human- i
ity than too much sleep, except, per
haps, stimulation. The elimination or
all stimulant would be a fine thing
for the race. The temperance movement's
advance ought to be a subject
for general congratulation. Presently
we shall he cutting out tobacco.
tea a'?d coffee, and we all shall be
better for it.
"Suppose a crusade which would
educate the people might be started
which would keep the 110,000.000
people of the United States out of bed
one hour each night.
"That would add 36.r> hours a year
to each individual's life, or much
more than a month of working days
of ten hours each. To the 90.000.000
it would give about 3,500,000 hours
every year.
"I can think of no way in which a
vast addition to the wealth of the
world could be made so certainly as
by this method, but this nation and
the world will be slow in its adoption.
Kut there is a vast economic
gain which humanity may make
? llliuui Kit- llt-||> UI UHJ NCI> Iinvii
tion.
"Another and even greater one
might be accomplished if the world
would stop is overeating. I consume
five ounces to a meal, three
times a day, including the water in
the food. 1 drink lots of water.
"The man engaged at hard physical
labor, whose work makes the
engine of his body require more fuel
than mine does, could get on perfectly
well Nvith eight or ten ounces to
a meal, although he might find the
achievment of the habit difficult.
"< >n the average, men. would get
on better if they reduced their food
consumption by two-thirds. They do
the work of three horsepower engins
and consume the fuel which
should operate 50 horsepower engines.
Would Erase Poverty.
"If the world would cease its overeating.
it thereby would do away
with poverty. Stop and think this
matter out. We now are consuming
as food 600.000 bushels of wheat to
accomplish a result which would be
accomplished better by the con
sumption of 200,000 bushels oi wneai.
"This is wasteful in more ways
than one and, by making the supply
short, makes it expensive and decreases
the power of each acre of
land to support human life.
"In the second place, it increases
the death?and illness?rate of those
who overeat. Putrefaction of foodstuffs
in the lower intestines is the
cause of most diseases.
"Humanity will never reach its
ultimate development until it cuts
down sleep and food. I consider this
the most important conclusion which
I have come to during my years of
hard and cosnstant effort."
At this I finally asked Mr. Edison
just what he felt willing to say about
the European war.
"Vol much" he answered. "This
war had to come. The tower of
armament had reached its apex, a
point at which it had to stop. It
reached it and stopped. When it
stopped the war came.
"< >f course, it is a world disaster,
but if it results in general disarmament
it will he an evil of which great
good will emerge.
"It will take the world a long time
to recover from the evils of the war,
hut the whole disaster would he far
more than offset by the advantages
of a general disarmament.
"After the war an era of general
and rapid advance will begin. Instead
of turning toward military development
the world's mental energies
will he devoted to invention, engineering
and productive labor.
"I firmly believe that in a few
years after the end of the war we
shall see the greatest constructive
era that the world has ever known."
In the opinion of naval men. if
the problem of an inexhaustible air
supply for submarines can he solved
.is easily as Mr. Edison says, there
remains only the problem of fuel to
eive it new type submarine the same
traveling radius as the present
dreadnought type of battleships.
Correct!?"Say, pa," inquired young
Sulvester Snodgrass, "what's a test
case?"
"A test case, my son," replied the senior
Snodgrass, "is a case brought
into court to decide whether there's
enough in it to justify lawyers in
working up more cases of the same
kind."
CORPORAL O'BRIEN
Corporal O'Brien Is one of the men
who took pnrt in the memorable
charge of the Ninth British lancers
under Captain Grenfell at Mons. He
was wounded and sent home, and is
shown here appealing to the men of
Great Britain to enlist. His two
brothers were killed within a hundred
yards of him.
itlioffllamoua iUaduifl.
WORLDS HIDDEN TREASURES
Untold Millions Driven to Earth for
Safe Keeping.
European authorities ligured that
when the Balkan war began, and
there was dread among the common
people of Europe that a general war
might result, nearly $350,000,000 in gold
was hoarded in three countries in sums
ranging from a gold piece or two up to
tens of thousands of dollars. Austria
Hungary was credited with hiding
away $150,000,000, Germany $65,000,000
and France $130,000,000, says the New
York Sun.
This was money which had been
traced into those countries just before
the Balkan hostilities began and after
war started. In addition to this vast
sum there was an unguessable quantity
of gold already buried in the
I ground.
Russia is believed to have tens of
thousands of hoarders of money. It is
| utterly impossible to guess at the
amount of gold which the people of
[ Russia have put into the ground or
into the cellars of their homes. The
sign of wealth would mean the coming
of the tax collector, and among the
men who look poor are owners of
countless weight in gold.
I Vast sums of gold and silver coin
have gone into Russia, which seldom
lets go of it. The great imperial war
chest has behind it if the signs mean
anything, other sums in little war chests
j ?gold which the government might
draw out if it offered lands for sale, or
bonds the people would trust or opportunities
in commerce heretofore denied
them.
England has its hidden hoards, no
ono knows how large or how many, but
there is concealed in England nothing
like the amount that is hidden in continental
Europe, where foreign armies
have only to cross a surveyed bounOUTPOSTS
OF THE BELGIANS
Belgian patrol on duty, the laBt between
the Belgian and German lines.
The names on the signpogt have been
obliterated to confuse the invaders.
dary line or a little creek to raid their
enemies. Turkey, whose people have
been terrorized, for ages, has more lost
hoards than the world will ever know
about, because there the hoarding has
gone on for ages, during which armies
have swung up and down the denuded
lands, tearing down cities and destroying
everythig that could give comfort
or sustenance to an enemy.
Spain has millions of dollars in gold,
silver, pearls and gems buried and lost
in a thousand ancient castles, monasteries
and other public buildings. In
the heyday of her glory Spain imported
countless millions of gold and silver
from the Americas and faithless officials
made away with great sums in
bullion, hiding it away?and many of
them never recovered it.
India is the bottomless pit of the
world's gold. In one year India imported
$300,000,000, and there has never
been a time apparently when India was
not importing gold, silver and precious
jewels. In the temples of Idia there
are said to be $1,800,000,000 in precious
metal and precious stones. India has
more fine pearls than all the rest of
the world put together. They have even
gold cannons there?cannons that
weigh 280 pounds each.
The tourist sees some of this gold;
if a visitor should attend a function
given by one of the princes of India he
would see jewels whose value he could
not estimate. Afghan, Mogul, Tartar,
raiding through India, found millions
upon millions, but the troops did not
tind it all. In the ground, in places
where none could find or would search,
is the vast wealth which the natives of
India bury, and keep buried.
The ameer of Bokhara, a Russian
vassel in Central Asia, is said to have
been accumulating a hoard amounting
to $8,000,000 a year, and this is kept
in a great vault where Russia might
possibly find a resource in case of need.
In Egypt and along the north shore of
Africa, the Barbary coast people have
their hoards estimated by the millions.
The lost treasure of the Incas is estimated
at $600,000,000 in gold.
No one is able to guess the amount
of gold that has been looted in the history
of the world by raiding armies.
When the wars of old were waged billions
of treasure changed hands from
the vanquished to the victors. The
treasure was commonly the public
funds. Men known to have wealth were
held for ransom, enslaved, tortured, cut
to pieces bit by bit in the effort to
compel the revelation of hiding places.
In the ruins of Carthage is a vault
that holds the treasure of the vandal
Oenseriv which was not found when
Carthage finally fell. The buried treasure
of Carcassonne, in southern France
was put away when tlie Huns and
Slavs ranged over Kurope trying to
exterminate the Latins. Alaric, the
doth, looted Home and cached his
treasure in Carcassonne, tradition says,
in a deep cave, and killed the men who
helped him stow it away, and it has
never been found.
This treasure was part of it from
Solomon's temple. Titus having raided
Jerusalem and made away with the
treasure that Solomon had gathered up,
and which was part of the loot that
King David had captured in his great
wars of conquest and defense. There
was the accumulation of ten centuries
of profit in the temple of Solomon.
The loot of ancient Rome, the loot of
Constantinople, of Calcutta, Itombay,
Pekin, with the treasure ships captured
at sea, paid the price of capture.
There were raids on the treasure towns
of Spanish America which made the
pirates wealthy. But the capture of
bullion and the exaction of ransom
failed to compensate the victors from
about the time of the Napoleonic wars.
Wars of conquest followed wars
seeking loot. Nevertheless, the modern
wars are accompanied by opportunities
of loot which are hardly paralleled in
ancient history. Thus the defeat of
France resulted in the payment to Germany
of J 1,000,000,000 after the war ot
1870?a tribute payment hardly rivaled
in ancient days. If France and Russia
should conquer, Germany will doubtless
be compelled to stagger under
such an exaction of tribute as no ancient
Caesar ever dreamed.
If the hoards of Europe could be
tapped?if the ancient treasures of European
cities should be tapped by invading
armies?the possibilities of loot
in jewels and precious metals are beyond
compute. But all the loot possible
would not compensate for the hundreds
of thousands of ounces of gold which
must be paid each day for army sustenance
and equipment. In olden times
wars paid for themselves, reckoning
from the viewpoint of the victors. Wars
were then for loot. The ships of the
conquerors returned from across the
seas with treasure?they even went to
u/nr loaded with treasure for emergen
cies, as witness the Spanish Armada,
whose gold is still the dream of fortune
seekers.
MILITARY ANNIHILATIONS
The Phrase that is Misleading to the
Lay Reader.
Many of the phrases in the dispatches
from the war in Europe are
misleading to the reader who is ignorant
of the technical meaning of military
terms. That is the case with the
words "annihilated" and "destroyed."
The breathless reader learns with horror
that "an entire division was destroyed
while attempting to storm the
forts at A," or that "a regiment of cavalry,
while reconnoitering on the lllank
of the enemy, was annihilated." He
imagines a terrible scene of slaughter
in which all, or virtually all, the soldiers
are left dead on the field.
The truth, however, is quite different.
By no means was every soldier or
every trooper killed; the division or
regiment was destroyed or annihilated
as an organization or effective fighting
unit.
In time of war, men fight, not as in
dividuals, but as parts or a rignung
unit. That unit may be a regiment, a
division, or an army corps. In order to
be of any real use, those organizations
must be maintained. When the organization
is broken up, the individual
soldiers who compose it, no matter how
brave they may be personally, degenerate
into a mob; and, as mob or mere
disorganized collection of men, they are
unable to attack the enemy, and usually
unable to make any defense against
attack. So, when the organization is
thus broken, it is said to be annihilated
or destroyed, although perhaps only a
small part of the soldiers have actually
been killed or wounded. Indeed, it
is rare that a lighting unit survives the
loss of more than ten per cent of its
men. That is because the mortality of
officers is always higher than that
among the privates, and when nearly
half of its officers are killed or wounded.
the organization generally goes to
pieces. In such a case, the men go to
the rear as individuals, or in such order
as they can maintain. There they
must remain until the organization is
recruited, re-officered and re-organized;
until that is done they are useless
for war.
In the Boer war, General Buller, with
an army of some forty thousand men,
attacked the Boers at the Tugela river.
He was defeated, and lost about thirty-five
hundred men, killed and wounded?less
than one-tenth of his whole
army. Yet his army was said to be
destroyed?as, in fact, it was. After the
defeat, it had lost all organization, and
virtually degenerated into a mob. It
had to retreat to Estcourt, about twenty
miles in the rear, where it would be
safe from Boer attacks; and there it
lay for several months, unable to make
a single move, until it was recruited,
re-officered, re-inforced, and, most of
all, re-organized.
THE STRANGEST FISH
Sun Fish, Weighing Half a Ton Is an
Ocean Acrobat.
One of the strangest junipers it has
been my good fortune to watch and
catch is the sunfish or mola, in all
probability the strangest fish in the sea
as it appears to be all head. This is so
seemingly true that in a specimen
three feet long the vertebrae is but
an inch and a half long. Some of the
fish weigh over one thousand pounds.
I have had some weird experiences
with this fish. In 1875 I was fishing at
the mouth of the St. John River, Florida,
for channel bass, tarpon and big
sharks when a monster sunfish came
sailing in, and like a ship, grounded on
the bar opi>osite Pilottown. I went out
to watch its capture. It was said to
weigh 2,200 pounds, and looked it. It
was 11 feet high.
The next one I saw was off the Isles
of Shoals, in 1877. I had been trying to
take a tuna with a rod off Boon island,
and on the way, in the dory, we nearly
ran into a sunfish. I hooked onto
it with a gaff and brought it in. Later
at Santa Cotalina I found a very large
one. I ran alongside, seized its tin and
bent it over the rail while the boatman
cut a hole in the tin and passed a rope
through it.
n iiiic >\ r wcic uuiug itua me iiiwiioter
nearly wrecked the launch and
towed us toward shore; when we finally
got it in tow our launch could
not move when the fish felt like swimming
the other way. It took two
launches to tow this sunfish which
must have weighed over 1,000 pounds,
into Avalon Bay, where I had an excellent
opportunity to watch and study
it. after which I released it uninjured.
< >ff Santa Caratlina or San Clemente
in summer thousands of the young
of this fish are seen from a foot to
three feet in length. They swim in
small schools; are very social swimming
about the boats, engaged in a
continual game ()f leaping. Sometimes
wherever you look you see a leaping
suntish. At times they leap very clumsily,
but generally come down with a
resounding crash. To see dozens ot
these "big heads" in the air, coming
down in a continual patter is fascinating.
The big barracuda and the kingtish
of Florida are jumpers of high degree.
The former is a wild and splendid
jumper after it is hooked, while the
latter makes magnificent leaps after
the bait before it is hooked; so it is in
the class with the tuna. 1 should not
care to go on record with a mere guess
as to the length of its jumps, but they
are supreme in vivacity, length and
exhilaration among the wild tinny
tribes of the sea.
That there should lie so great a dif
ference in the mere leaps of same fish
seems impossible to the layman: but
your keen observing angler notices all
the niceties of the jump and is quick
to see it.
Several years ago I was fishing just
outside of Aransas Pass, Texas, for
channel bass, which we took with
shrimp bait in extraordinary holes in
the lagoon when the gafftopsail catfish
would allow it. This was an extraordinary
locality for jumping fishes. Apparently
everything leaped, and at the
slightest suggestion. If I splashed the
water with an oar a score of mullets
would go into the air, and over what
appeared to be a variety of tule there
was a constant flash of scales in the
hot August sun.
Suddenly the pompanoes began to
leap and I was afforded a remarkable
opportunity to watch their methods.
The pompano is a little fish, but very
broad. An ordinary leap covered 10
or 15 feet. But the peculiar feature
was that thi little fish, about the size
of the palm of your hand, did not jump
high, yet covered incredible distances.
After watching several I believe I
solved the mystery.
In leaping the pompano did not go
up; it dashed out of the water at an
angle, and when at an elevation of
four or five feet I distinctly saw it turn
on its side, and so, like an aeroplane,
with its broad surface to the air it slid
away in a long and graceful parabola.
i saw inis rt*pfaifuiy, its tut? usm
were jumping by our boat every few
minutes, and one or two fell into the
boat. A friend told me that in beating
up a narrow river in Florida he alarmed
a school of these delicious, delightful
little fishes and they came out of
the water in swarms, bombarding him,
hitting the sail and falling into the
boat.
At Aransas, in the pass, I hooked a
shark which jumped so exactly like a
tarpoon that I was more than once deceived
by them. In Catalina Harbor,
California, there is a striped shark
which leaps when hooked and gives a
very good imitation of a gamefish.?
New York Press.
THE FIRST CUP OF TEA
Pretty Legend of How Tea Was Originally
Used as a Drink.
The Chinese claim to be the first
users of tea as a drink, and how it
originated is told in a pretty little legend
that dates from 2,000 years before
the coming of Christ, says Tit
Bits.
A daughter of a then reigning sovereign
fell in love with a young nobleman
whose humble birth excluded him
from marrying her. They managed to
exchange glances, and he occasionally
gathered a few blossoms and had them
conveyed to her.
One day in the palace garden the
lovers met, and the young ?an endeavored
to give her a few flowers;
but so keen was the watchfulness of
her attendants that all she could grasp
was a little twig with green leaves.
On reaching her room she put the
twig in water, and towards evening
she drank the water in which the twig
had been kept. So agreeable was the
taste that she even ate the leaves and
stalks. Every day afterwards she had
}iii nr?h pq of thn ton t ran hroncrht to hpr
which she treated in the same way.
Imitation being the sincerest form of
flattery, the ladies of the court tried
the experiment, and with such pleasing
results that the custom spread
throughout the kingdom?and the
great Chinese tea industry became one
of the greatest businesses in the world.
York Lunch Room
THE YORK LUNCH ROOM IS NOW
OPEN FOR THE FALL AND WINTER,
and ready to serve Meals and
Special Orders at all hours.
When you are hungry, come and see
us and let us feed you. You will find
us in ine buil.uii\u, on me
corner of Madison and North Congress
St. Charges very reasonable.
EGGS WANTED
We want all the FRESH EGGS we
can get and will pay the Highest Market
Price in Cash. Bring us your
Fresh Eggs.
It. D. DOKSETT, Proprietor.
Phone 1 11).
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REAL ESTATE
LOOK! Now Isn't This a Nice Selection?
The J. K. Hope Place: 70 acres,
near Tirzah, on Rock Hill and Clay
Hill and Yorkville and Fort Mill roads.
5-room dwelling; large barn; 2 tenant
houses and other buildings; 2 wells?
one at house and other at barn. Adjoins
T. M. Oates, F. E. Smith and
Mrs. Glenn. This is something nice.
See ME QUICK.
The E. T. Carson Place: 185 acres;
8-room dwelling; 3-room tenant
house; large barn; crib, etc. Plenty
of wood. Adjoins W. R. Carroll and
others. Now is your time to see me.
Two Tract*?Une 63 acres and the
other 60 acres?about 6 miles from
Yorkvilie on McConnellsville-Chester
road. First tract has 4-room dwelling;
barn, crib and cotton house. Other
tract has one tenant house. Each
tract watered by spring and branch.
Plenty of timber. Good, strong land,
and the price is right. Better see me.
Town Property: My offerings here
are very attractive. Can suit you either
in a dwelling or a beautiful lot in
almost any part of Town on which to
erect one. Let me show you.
Geo. W. Williams
REAL ESTATE BROKER.
30 Years''
30 YEARS THE STANDARD
j Come Here and Sc
I Come and compare the "OwensborO
I any other make. Hitch your team to il
farm, the road, in the woods?anywhen
| Yorkville Ba
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE S
CHARLES']
DEPARTMENT OF MEDI
Owned and Contro
86TH SESSION OPENS OCTOBE1
Fine New Building ready for
vantageously located opposite Roi
Hospitals in the South, where abu
Hospital contains 218 beds.
Practical work for Senior Stu
a Special Feature. Large and w
Schools. Department of Physiolof
ton Museum. Nine full time tea
Six graduated appointments each :
For Catalogue, address:
OSCAR W. SCHLEETER, I
APPLER SEED OATS
I HAVE 600 bushels of fine quality at
75 Cents per Bushel. Address No. 3,
Clover. JAMES M. BARNETT.
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Indigestion and Nervousness
are overcome by Mrs. Joe Person's
Remedy, which purifies the blood and
tones up the system. Mrs. Mary
Amanda Nash, Lumberton, N. C., was
a severe sufferer from acute indigestion.
which brought on extreme nervousness,
suffering daily with catarrhal
headache. Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy
relieved all these ills and dhe endorses
it as the best medicine in the
world.
GIVE NATURE A CHANCE
Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy purifies
the blood and permits nature to repair
the damage of the ills brought on
by impure blood?Indigestion, rheumatism,
scrofula, eczema. Get the
blood right and most ills are cured.
Your druggist should have Mrs. Joe
Person's Remedy. If he hasn't, send
us his name and one dollar'for a large
bottle.
REMEDY SALES CORPORATION,
Cliarlotte, N. C.
Mrs. Joe Person's Wash should |
I ho uaofl in nnnnontinn with the i I
Remedy for the cure of sores and
the relief of inflamed and congested
surfaces. It is especially valj
uable for women, and should al|
ways be used for ulcerations. _
FOR SALE
The beautiful home and farm of J.
Barney Barron, In Tirzah, 8-room
cottage; 120 acres land. Price $40.00
per acre, for quick sale. A most desirable
home at R. R. station. Can't
be excelled.
I am selling many farms and now is
the time to buy. Recently sold the
Alexander farm, Frank Glenn farm
and others.
136 Acres?The Wells Place, the
property of R. N. Plaxco, a very fine
farm. High state of cultivation.
I have had many inquiries about the
County Home Lands?First Tract: 90
acres, on Rock Hill road; also 137 acres
join J. L. Moss. I must sell this land
At Once. . If You want it, see Me at
Once?It is a good money maker.
County Home Farm?90 Acres, Joining
T. L. Carroll, $25.00 Acre.
140 Acres?Joining R. R. Love, J. L.
Moss and others. Magnificent bottom
land in this tract. See me.
Cottage Home?Of W. C. Miller, on
Charlotte road, near Ancona Mill.
300 Acres?Property of D. A. Whisonant,
joins J. W. Quinn and others
Pries $16.00
40 Acres?Property of John Barnett,
Joining farm of J. R. Connolly and Wm.
Harrison Est lands.
100 Acres?Known as the Dorster
place, about 1 1-2 miles from Philadelphia
church and school. If sold
during February, I will take the small
sum of $20.00 an acre for it.
409 Acres?Near Lowryville, $25.00
per acre.
I desire to say to my friends that I
have property that I can cut up in
.mail tracts and sell on long terms.
The Quinn estate land?On King's
Mt. road, adjoining Frank Riddle's
Nell place and others, am willing to
cut this into smaller farms to suit the
purchaser.
The residence of the late Dr. J. B.
AlllflAn fninincr fhn nnnr PronhvtftHfl n
Manse. Can be cut into two beautiful
building lots.
The property of Dr. Mack White on
King's Mountain Street, also 2 dwellings,
property of Quinn Wallace, et al.
on Kine-'s Mountain Street. This property
will be sold quickly and if you
want it, see me.
I have for sale three of the Finest
Farms in York county, and they are
very cheap at the price; to wit:
The John Black?Henry Massey I
homestead.
600 Acres?The R. M. Anderson
Farm.
410 Acres?Of the S. M. Jones-Ware
Farm, about 4 miles from Rock Hill. ,
Also 18 acres, and a nice cottage,
beautifully located within the incdr- (
porate limits of Yorkville. Read my
list of Farms and send me some of- j
fers.
Two Good House**?On King's (
Mountain Street.
J. C. WILBORN
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Unseen, Unknown :
Future.... !
Many years ago the late Charles A. 1
Dana wrote a letter to a little girl I
who asked if there was a Santa Claus. '
Here are some extracts from it: ,
''Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa <
Claus: he exists us certainly as
love, generosity and devotion exist.
* * The most real
things in Uie world are those i
things that neither men nor Children
see. You may tear apart
the baby's rattle and see what
makes the noise Inside, but there
is a wall covering the unseen
w?rld which not the strongest
man nor the united strength ot
all the strongest men can tear
aiuirt. Only faith, faney, poetry,
love, ron i a nee, can push aside
the curtain and view tlie glory beyond.
Is it real? Ah, Virginia,
in all this world there is nothing
else real and abiding. No Santa
Claus? lie lives and lives forever."
"There is a wall covering the unseen,"
there is a wall covering the future,
and those beautiful sentiments,
"love, generosity and devotion," demand
that provision be made for that
unknown future. No better provis- |
ion can be made than by means of a |
life insurance policy in the Staunch '
Old Mutual Itcncfit. I
SA.M M. OH 1ST. Special Agent.
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every user, for every |
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: and try it out on the lighter, rides easier, cs
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nking & Mercanti
iTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
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CINE AND PHARMACY
lle<l by tbe State.
I 1, 1914, CLOSES JUNE 3, 1915
occupancy October 1st, 1914. Adper
Hospital, one of the largest
ndant clinical material is offered.
dents in Medicine and Pharmacy j
ell-equipped Laboratory in both w
?y in affiliation with the Charleschers
in Laboratory Branches,
rear in medicine.
Registrar, Charleston, S. C. ?
Corns Quit, Pains
Stop, With "Gets-It"
Quit Plasters, Salves and What-XotH.
After using "GETS-IT" once you *
will never again have occasion for M
nol/lnrr "UThot non T Hn tA cot ? !/) nf _
my corns?" "GETS-IT" Is the first
sure, certain corn-ender ever known.
Why "Sjrffr ^
If you have tried other things by the
score and will now try "GETS-IT,"
you will realize this glorious fact.
You probably are tired sticking on
tape that won't stay stuck, plasters
that shift themselves right onto your
corn, contraptions that make a bundle
of your toe and press right down
on the corn. Put two drops of
"GETS-IT" on that corn in two sec- ~WM
onds. The corn is then doomed as
sure as night follows day. The corn
shrivels. There's no pain, no fuss.
If you think this sounds too good to
be true try it tonight on any corn,
callus, wart or bunion. ^
"GETS-IT" is sold by druggists
everywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent direct
by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
Your orders for Commercial Stationery
will receive prompt attention
at The Enquirer office. Let us have
your orders you want the Best.
professional (IJards.
Geo. W. S. Hart Jos. E. Hart
HART & HART *
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Yorkvilla S. C.
Witherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front.
'Phone (Office) No. 53. y
D. E. Finley J. A. Marion
FINLEY I MARION
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Opposite Court House Yorkville, 8. C.
Dr. B. G. BLACK
SURGEON DENTI8T.
Office second floor of the New McNeel
Building. .Absent from office on
Monday of each week until further no- *
tice.
^ n VIA nT"
JUHIN n. nnn i
ATTORNEY AT LAW
No. 3 Law Range
YORKVILLE, S. C. *
TAX NOTICE?1014
Office of the County Treasurer of York
County. a
Ynrkville, S. C., Sept. 14. 1914.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
TAX BOOKS for York county will
be opened on THURSDAY, the 15TH
DAY OF OCTOBER, 1914, and remain
pen until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER,
1914, for the collection of STATE,
COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL
TAXES, for the fiscal year 1914, without
penalty; after which day ONE
PER CENT penalty will be added to
all payments made in the month of
JANUARY, 1915, and TWO PER %
CENT penalty for all payments made
In the month of FEBRUARY, 1915, and
SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be
added to all payments made from the
1ST DAY OF MARCH to the 15TH
DAY OF MARCH. 1915, and after this
late all unpaid taxes will go into ex- a
ecutions and all unpaid Single Polls *
svill be turned over to the several
Magistrates for prosecution In accordance
with law.
For the convenience of taxpayers. I
will attend the following places on the
lays named:
At Yorkville, Thursday, October 15.
At Smyrna, Thursday, October 22d.
At Hickory Grove, Friday and Sat
jrday, Octooer zaa ana z?n.
At Sharon, Monday, October 26th.
At McConnellsvllle, Tuesday, Octoser
27th.
At Tirzah, Wednesday, October 28th.
At Clover, Thursday and Friday, Oc:ober
29th and 30th.
At Yorkville from Saturday, October
!lst, to Tuesday, November 3d.
At Coates's Tavern, from 8 o'clock a. ^
n., Wednesday, November 4th, to 8
/clock p. m.
At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday,
November 8th and 7th.
At Rock Hill, from Monday, Novemjer
9th, to Saturday, November 14th.
And at Yorkville from Monday, November
16th, until Thursday, the 31st
lay of December, 1913, after which date
he penalties will attach as stated
ibove.
Note.?The Tax Books are made up
>y Townships, and parties writing
ibout taxes will always expedite mat- ^
ers if they will mention the Town- *
ihip or Townships in which their
>roperty or properties are located.
HARRY E. NEIL,
Treasurer of York County.
itation
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