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flutnotous Department. Honesty In "Washington.?"There was a lobbyist out in Ohio once." said Representative Beidler, "who was interested in passing a certain corporation bill. He had money to spend to bring about his ends, and approached an old man from one of the agricultural districts. The farmer said he wouldn't vote for the bill. Then the lobbyist offered him a sum of money. The farmer was about to explode until the lobbyist told him the other side was spending a good deal more money to beat the bill than he was to pass it, and asked the farmer to investigate. "He did investigate, and came back next day to the lobbyist and confirmed the report. "'What can I do?' he asked the lobbyist. 'I shall not take sides on this measure at all.' " 'Well,' said the lobbyist, 'you might stay away when the vote is taken. That win let you oui. "The farmer stayed away and the bill was passed. That afternoon the lobbyist met him and handed him $500. " 'What is that for?' asked the farmer. " 'Why, that's for you for staying away when that vote was taken.' "'Great heavens!' shouted the farmer. 'is there no way a man can be honest?'"?New York World. Strictly In Ltne of Business.?The manager of the big store stood stock still outside of the little box-like chamber which held the telephone of the establishment, for he was a very startled manager indeed. Within the chamber he could hear Miss Jones, the typist, speaking, and this is a scrap ol the conversation the scandalized man overheard: "I love you dear, and only you! I'm weeping my heart away! Yes, my darling, speak to me once more! I love you, dear?I love you so!" The young woman rang off and stepped out of the cabinet to confront the angry manager. "Miss Jones." he said, "that telephone has been fixed where It is for the purpose of convenience In conducting business, and not for love making in office hours. I am surprised at you. Don't let it occur again!" The young woman froze him with a glance. "I was ordering some new music from the publishers for No. 3 department." she explained, icily. And then the manager felt that this was a cold world indeed. A Preferred Creditor.?A membei of the commercial swindling fraternity lately called his creditors together and offered them In settlement his note for 2 shillings on the pound on their claims, payable in four months. His brother, one of the largest creditors rather kicked, but the debtor took hirr aside and said: "Do not make any objections, and 1 will make you a preferred creditor." So the proposal was accepted by all Presently the preferred brother said: "Well. I should like what is coming to me." "Oh," was the reply, "you won't get anything: they won't any of them get anything." "But I thought I was a preferred creditor?" "So you are. These notes will not be paid when they come due. but it will take them four months to find out that they are not going to get anything But you know it now. You see. yoi are preferred."?London Standard. A Dollar and a Sovereign.?Wher Lord Coleridge visited America among otner places ne visiiea ueorgeiown. a: he and his guide were walking on th< banks of the Potomac, Lord Coleridg< said to his guide: "Mr. Secretary, do you believe thai Washington chucked a dollar acros: the Potomac?" "Yes, sir, I do." "Why do you believe it?" said th< Judge. "Well, sir, a dollar went much further in those days than it does now.' As they were parting. Lord Coleridge said: "To revert to the questioi of Washington, you put me off lasi time. Do you really believe that h< chucked a dollar across the Potomac?' "Well, I can't say, sir. All I knov is that he chucked a sovereign acros: the Atlantic."?London Onlooker. The Czar Went to Bed.?A foreigr nobleman who, if report speaks true is somewhat henpecked invited some men a night or two ago to play card: in his house. The meeting was a convivial one, and all went "merry as ? marriage bell." It grew late, and fear: were expressed by the party that thej were trespassing upon the kindness o: the mistress of the house, who, by th< way, was not present. "Not at all, gentlemen: not at all Play as long as you please. I am czai here," said the master of the mansion "Yes, gentlemen, play as long as yoi please," said a silvery voice, and al rose immediately as the baroness stooc before them. "But as it is after 1 o'clock the czar is going to bed." H< went. A Bishop's Rebuke.?Bishop Dudlej of Kentucky could administer a rebuke delicately, but on occasions h( took care to see that the point was plain. One of the wealthiest member: of his church as well as one of th< closest told him he was going abroad. "I have never been on the ocean." h< said to the bishop, "and I would lik< to know something that will keep m< from getting seasick." "You might swallow a nickel," responded the bishop. 'You'll never giv< that up." His Bio Bumps.?A gentleman entered a phrenologist's office and askec to have his head examined. After a moment's inspection' the professoi started back, exclaiming: "Good gracious! You have the mosl unaccountable combination of attributes I ever discovered in a human being. Were you parents eccentric?" "No, sir," replied the all round character, "but my wife is. You needn't pay any attention to the larger bumps, sir." piscrllancous Heading. .FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. CHESTER. Lantern, Feb. 23: Burglars entered Mr. D. J. Maeaulay's store either Saturday or Sabbath night. Five pairs of the best shoes and they think probably some clothing and other things are missing, but cannot tell yet what is gone. Entrance was made by breaking out two lights and the piece of frame between them, over the back door, with a small piece of iron Mr. Charlie TT?will*. la vtsitiner hi * BmiUI U l iwntiiK, .? daughter, Mrs. G. W. Ferguson... .Mr. Ice of Arizona, arrived Sabbath eveni ing with the remains of Rev. J. G. Hall. The funeral exercises at the Presbyterian church at 3.30 yesterday afternoon, were conducted by Revs. J. K. Hall of McConnellsvllle, and M. R. Kirkpatrick of Blackstock, and were , attended by a large number of sympathizing friends. The remains were buried in Evergreen cemetery. The pallbearers were Messrs. R. R. Hafner, E. A. Crawford, W. D. Knox, J. J. Stringfellow and Drs. S. G. Miller and J. B. Bigham. The pure white roses and callas which covered the coffin were an emblem of the pure life the deceased had lived. We are not in posses, sion of dates for a sketch of the useful life of Mr. Hall, but trust this will be furnished. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, Feb. 24: It is pleasant to the Gazette to chronicle the ad' vent on the home market of more homemade goods this week. The knit1 ting mills at Bowling Green, just across the line in York county are turning out 1 a handsome line of ladies" vests in six or eight styles. They are belaced and 1 beribboned like the northern products and sell on sight right along, in competition with the better known goods, ! Mr. J. F. Yeager bought a supply yesterday and will have them on his shelves about the first of April. Mr P. T. Heath handles the Bowling Greer goods on the road There was nc ' ? At-.? t^iMi Dnniict nhnrph sermon ai cue rnai Sunday morning. only a brief talk by the pastor. But it was an interesting service to the few present, and a long step forward was taken by the church ; The troublesome debt of $6,000 was the topic of consideration. When the service closed, all had been raised but $1,1 078. It is believed that the members who were absent on account of the inclement weather, will not find it toe great a sacrifice to raise this residue - When the call for offerings was made I there was a great calm and the clock ticked away on the wall. The first tc respond was Captain J. D. Moore. He ! was not well, he said, and his voice in, dicated it. With an effort to control i his feeling he said: "I wish to give one-third of the $6,000 if the churcl [ will pay the rest in thirty days. If it appears selfish that I should wish tc assume this part, it is because I feel that my need is greater for the bless ing which comes from giving." Mr. L L. Jenkins followed with $1,600 anc t others in sums from $2 to $250. The : following account of the meeting is copied from yesterday's Charlotte ObI server: Gastonia, Feb. 21.?Notwithstanding ice overhead and ice under, foot and the cold wind whipping ice I and rain into their faces, the less thar I fifty people who attended services ai the First Baptist church here this , morning had a good time. They, tc use a current phrase that is more expressive than polished, "went down after" their church debt and put it out 1 of commission. The town of Gastonia ' has a right to regard with pride its church buildings, every one of which is practically new. In 1890 the Firsl ' church remodeled (practically built anew) their house of worship at a cost of ten thousand dollars. In two years ' the membership had paid off half ol this sum. Then the Second church was organized and the numbers of the i mother church were almost halved The debt became a thing the small membership dreaded. It was let alone Interest of $600 accumulated. Othei incidentals made a debt of $6,000. It 1 was the biggest thing in the church's 1 life. Some of the members felt thai ; the church was lifting up this debt instead of the Christ. It didn't draw ' men. Nobody wanted to join a debt s That's the way pastor W. H. Reddish felt about the matter. He devoted a week's work to the matter, going quietl ly but earnestly to his members. This , morning was appointed to take up the ? matter. But few were present. Count3 ing janitor, pastor and the Sunda> - school children, the congregation numi bered less than fifty people. "Whal 3 would you do?" asked the pastor of his r deacons. "Do? Why, go ahead and dc f what we can. The people here have i come surely for this purpose." Another deacon said: "Better wait unti . another day. It will be good for the r people not here to see how it's done . But if the others want to go ahead an?3 i make them sorry they didn't come, ) 1 am with you." The pastor said this 1 storm of cold and ice and rain had cut I nttonHfirirui rlnvvn tn n Olrlonn's hnrirl i "I shall give the word and tell therr to go forward." Only cash pledges were called for?pledges to be paid ir thirty days, for on the third Sunday ir next month, said the pastor, we are going to burn that church note for $5.000 right here before your eyes. Wher the service closed the subscriptions amounted to $4,922 from thirty givers This assures the cancellation of the debt in thirty days, and already the congregation is beginning to rejoice The membership of the First church is 225. It has never asked for a dollai outside of its membership and so fai ? as your correspondent is advised it has not received from such sources as much as $20 all told. This came as voluntary gifts from those who realized the sacrifices many of the members were ' making to pay for their church build[ ing. t Plymouth Rock.?"During one of my visits through the country districts.' said the professor, "I happened to reach a small village where they were to have a flag-raising at the school house, : After the banner had been 'flung tc , the breeze' there was an exhibition ol drawings which the pupils had made and of the work they had done during the year. "The teacher recited to them 'The Landing of the Pilgrims,' and after she had finished she requested each pupil to try and draw from his or her imagination a picture of Plymouth Rock. "Most of them went to work at once, but one little fellow hesitated and at length raised his hand. "'Well, Willie, what is it?" asked the teacher. " 'Please, ma'am, do you want us to draw a hen or a rooster?' " SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. Automobiling Disease?Coffee Without Caffeine?Pigments From Waste Vapor?How the Body Starves? Voices of the Air?Speech of the Clock?The World In a Drying-Up Stage?Useful Alloys?Supplanting Chimneys. Conjunctivitis, due to friction of the wind and chilling of the eyeball, is noted in America as a fairly common result of fast riding. French and German physicians, however, report that all automobiling diseases are the result of nervous excitement, and the cases are sufficiently numerous to attract much attention. A typical record de^ scribes a patient who was affected only on long journeys. No disease except brain disturbance then appeared, but the fourth day of travel invariably brought pain in the stomach, with general nervousness, followed by a chill. There was also palpitation of the heart, with an overwhelming fear of sudden death. Coffee berries have been credited with an average of about 1 per cent of , caffeine, but Bertrand, a French chemist, shows that the proportion varies ! in the berries of different countries and also in those of other species than . Coffea arabica. In C. canephora, which is richest in alkaloid, the percentage is , 1.97. C. humblotiana berries are remarkable for containing a bitter principle, cafamarin, but no caffeine at all; and those of C. mauritiana have only . 0.07 per cent. These two species offer the much sought coffee free from caf! feine. ( By a new method, pigments of metal: lie oxides are produced by burning in , special flues the waste vapors from , electric reduction furnaces. The vary' ing mixtures from different ores give a great variety of colors, waste is [ avoided, and the products are in extremely fine powder without grinding. Physiological radiations, probably N! rays, have been transmitted by A. Charpentier along a wire. This offers ( the physiologist means for a more precise study of such rays. [ The phenomena of starvation have ! been a subject of study by Vanlair, a Belgian physiologist. The fasting per [ son is at first tantalized by recollections of flavors and aromas, and the I call for food Is soon emphasized by , rumbling in the intestines, painful ( spasms of the stomach, and dizziness. t The activity of the brain diminishes, | the hands tremble, the limbs shake, and I muscular weakness becomes excessive. The heart soon beats faster and lighter. Body weight diminishes, the fat cells being first affected, then the liver, ( muscles, blood, intestines and bones, . but the heart and nervous centres suffer little until near the end. The lessening of bodily activities brings a rapid fall of tetnperature. As death , draws near the face becomes ashy, the j eyes are fixed, muscular feebleness is t extreme, and the legs are swollen and j covered with blotches. The scene ( closes in an unreal world of hallucinations. Weird sounds of atmospheric disturt bances?unlike the ordinary telegraphic * and inductive disturbances?have been . noticed by Mr. J. C. Taylor, a British . electrician, during experiments in wiret less telegraphy. They are more fre, quent in summer than in winter, most , in evidence for a few hours about sunj set, and often precede a storm or gale. , They resemble the flowing and bubbling j of water, though there are also crack( lings and screamings like rocket discharges. The latter are attributed to | the electric currents set up by the fall of meteors, and the other noises are | supposed to be connected with the , ionization of the air, disturbances bes ing caused when the ionization is dist sipated by an electric field. The "tick-tock" that is universally r regarded as the sound of both pendulum and spring clocks has been inves| tigated by Dr. Rosenbach, a Berlin psychologist. He finds that the "tick" results when the right arm of the es. ? capemeni ancnor siriKea a. cue ui mc | wheel moving upward, while the "tock" is produced when the other arm strikes a cog moving downward. The different conditions give different acoustic t effects. A new field of investigation has been opened up by Prince Kropotkin. He finds evidence in Central Asia that the whole vast region has been steadily I drying up since the first historical records, and the evaporation now greatly exceeds precipitation, with the result j that the deserts are rapidly extending, while life and agriculture are possible only near the rain-making mountains. 5 The destruction of forests is insufficient to account for the drying up of lake systems and rivers. He concludes that the dessiccation going on over the whole surface of Europe and Asia, more especially in the northern and more elevated portions, has continued since the Glacial epoch, and that we are living in a geological epoch as marked by dessiccation as was the Glacial epoch by accumulating precipitation. Tree-planting on a large scale and the sinking of artesian wells are suggested as means of combatting the coming drought. > Of Or. Uuiliaumes remarKaDie iron \ and nickel alloys, two are being manu' factured. "linear" contains 37 per cent of nickel, and is practically unalteri able in length at any atmospheric tem, perature. It is finding use for standard measuring bars and wires and for the pendulum rods of astronomical clocks i and the compensation balances of , chronometers. "Platlnite." containing 46 per cent of nickel, has the same expansion as glass, and may take the place of platinum for incandescent elec> trie lamps. Mugna's smoke-washing apparatus, now being tested in London, is claimed to make chimneys unnecessary. It consists of an electrically driven fan drawing the smoke from the fire and pass ing it into a stream of water, which extracts the sulphurous vapor and unconsumed particles. The working cost 1 is a little more than one per cent of 1 the cost of the fuel. Butter has been found by T. E. , Thorpe to be influenced by climate, , fodder, breed of cow, period of lactation, and idiosyncrasy of the individual ! cow. HOW HANNA WON WIFE. n w When a Young Grocer He Wooed Only d Daughter of Rhodes. tl Nearly thirty-eight years ago, Mark s Hanna was just starting on his busl- a ness career as a grocer in Cleveland, f< says the Pittsburg Dispatch. He. was fi a poor, plodding, and to the casual ob- li server a very every-day sort of a young ti man. Daniel Rhodes was one of the n richest coal owners of the state.. He s had one daughter, Gussie, the very idol 1< of his soul. Around this lovely girl E the brusque old father had wreathed all I the sentiment, all the hopes of his fu- t ture existence. Everything was to be h done for Gussie. Mrs. Rhodes, her 1< mother, was a Joint idolater at the d daughter's shrine, and the doting pa- t rents had dreams of a rich, influential g suitor, a splendid marriage and a bril- v liant social career for Gussie, when as ii usual, the unexpected happened. Gussie Rhodes met and loved the obscure, i' poor young man, Mark Hanna. Mr. I Rhodes was astonished when the dar- r ing young grocer called upon him and t asked for the hand of his daughter. He t refuged absolutely to grant the young v suiter even time to beg. He said "no" r curtly and sharply, and then he saw i' his daughter anc^tried to scold her, but j instead he took her in his honest arms i and begged her not to think of "this i unknown man, Hanna." He said he t never, never could consent to such a a choice for his child. c Gussie Rhodes told her father, with I many reassuring embraces, that she c would never marry without his con- v sent, and she added. "But papa, dear, I shall never marry any man but Mark s Hanna." t Then she promised her father not to 1 see her lover or write to him for a year i at least. She kept the promise, and in c the course of a few weeks, although s she never audibly murmured, and was 1 sweetly gentle and loving to all about i her, she grew pale and wan. She ( neither ate nor slept. The old father t was at his wit's end. Some one proposed a foreign tour for that change of e scene which is supposed to work won- ( ders in heart affections, and presto! at t a few hours' notice father, mother and { daughter were on board an Atlantic s liner. i For nearly a year the "change of 1 scene" prescription was faithfully pur- i sued and the patient, always cheerfully i submissive, gentle and charming, ob- i viously grew frailer day by day. Al- i most in despair the old man brought I his child home again, and one morning I he gathered the courage to ask her if i she still cared for Mark Hanna, I "Why, father," she replied, "I shall ! always love Mark; I told you that, t you know, a year ago." Poor old "Uncle Dan" Rhodes! That i was a bitter day for him, but he was ] equal to the occasion. Sending for the i obscure young man, he said to him: i "Mr. Hanna, Gussle loves you. That I is my only reason for accepting you 1 as her future husband. You are poor. .' I'll fix it so Gussle can live as she has ] been accustomed to and I suppose I I must see you marry her." i Now the coming young man cast 1 ever so great a shadow of his future ' greatness on the opportunity of the i present. i "Mr. Rhodes," said he, "I must grate- 1 fully accept the gift of your daugh- < ter's love. To marry her is for this < world to become a paradise for me, but I cannot make her my wife unless she , will consent to live as my means will enable us. I can neither accept aid nor permit my wife to accept it from any one." So Mark Hanna and Gussle Rhodes were married, and the bride went from 1 her father's big house to live in a tiny cottage, where with one maid-of-all work, she was as happy as a queen for some years. SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS. Major H. E. Dorr, an American, Claims 1 He Discovered Them In 1859. I It is not generally known even to the J jewelry trade that the title of the first discoverer of diamonds in South Africa is claimed by an American, Major J Henry E. Dorr, 60 Pemberton square Boston, who as early as 1859, brought , from South Africa a crystal which ] was Identified as a rough diamond. J Major Dorr related the following sto ry to me. I might say, however, that he prefaced the story with the remark i that It might sound like romance, but j every word of it was true. Here it is as Major Dorr told it: I "In the month of February, 1S5.9, I, ' being then nineteen years of age, sail- ' ed from New York a passenger on board the ship Samuel Appleton, Capt. ] Doane, and bound for Shanghai, China. 1 Shortly after arriving off the Cape of Good Hope, the ship encountered heavy , gales from the southeast, followed by ; serious disaster, and we were obliged < to put into Algoa bay for repairs. The , captain was ill and left the ship for good, finally returning to Boston in the bark Gemsbok, and before the Samuel J Appleton proceeded upon her voyage, commanded by her first mate, Mr. Freeman, I had concluded to remain at Port Elizabeth awhile and continue my voyage to China later in some other vessel. The country interested me much and I was not at all sorry for the opportunity to explore it which this break , in my journey would afford me. Shortly after my arival at Algoa bay, among my newly made acquaintances was an officer of the English engineer corps. He, one day, informed me of his in- j tention to make a trip to a town in the interior, some five or six days' ] journey from Port Elizabeth, and pro- ^ posed that I should accompany him in I / .nrt Hut thiit r must rptnrn alone. > as his duties would detain him in the section of the colony where we were j going. "In due time we arrived at our destination, where, after remaining a few ' days to explore the neighborhood for < game, which was very plentiful, and also to rest the horses, I bade farewell to my friend and left the little town, which I remember to have been fragrant with the perfume of orange " blossoms, and started upon my return journey. J "The vehicle upon which I traveled r was a two wheeled spring cart drawn r by four horses and driven by a Malay t driver. Our journey to the coast was J quite a.different route from the one by which we had gone, to afford me a lore extended view of the country. It as without special incident until one ay, at noon, while traveling south of he Orange river, we outspanned beIde a dry watercourse, not far from farm where we had obtained water ar our horses. While the driver was eeding the horses and preparing my inch, I strolled to the bank of the waercourse, and seeing that its bed was lainly composed of pebbles, large and mail, i sai aown uniuiig mem iu acid a set of 'jack stones' such as we loston boys used in playing: that game, 'resently I picked up a small stone hat I took to be a crystal such as I ad used to break from a vein in a edge of rocks near my home. But it liffered from those I had known in hat it had no fractured side. I re:arded it simply as a crystal, but a ery perfect one in shape, and put it n my pocket with the jack stones. "Arrived at Port Elizabeth, I exhlbted the crystal with other curios that nad collected upon, my journeys to ny friends, with whom I was living in lachelor's quarters. Upon examining he stone, my friends were so struck rtth its appearance that they advised ne to take it to a jeweler for an opinon. This I did. Upon Informing the eweler that I had picked up the stone n the bed of a dry watercourse in the nterior, he replied that it certainly had he appearance of an uncut diamond, ind that he would pronounce it to be ine if diamonds had ever been found n South Africa. He examined it with are. weighed It, and approximated its 'alue. "This statement of the Jeweler occa;ioned more than a little Interest imong my friends, but no one of us lad ever seen an uncut diamond, and t seemed to us all to be such an lnxedible circumstance that diamonds ihould be found upon the desolate caroos of Cape Colony, that although ve had the evidence before our eyes, no >ne of us seemed to fully realize It at hat time. "I know not what might have result?d from this discovery had not an accllent happened soon after my return :hat put an end to further inquiry and i test of this stone being made by some one whom we hoped to find who vas competent to make it, or at least familiar with the appearance of diamonds in their natural, state. I caried the stone loose In my vest pocket, snd one day I missed It. A hole was worn In the bottom of the pocket, through which it had dropped, and althought I made careful search, it was lever found. I then wrote a description of the locality where I found the stone and the circumstances attending the finding of It. "During 1871-'3, I resided In Europe, making my home much of the time in London. While there it was at one time my fortune to see many uncut diamonds from Cape Colony; and. from Its similarity to them, especially those liaving a faint tinge of yellow?which shade had partly deceived us at Port Elizabeth?I became positive the stone that I had found in South Africa was i bona fide diamond, of a size approximated at between five and six carats, rhere was now no doubt whatever in my mind that I had discovered dia monds in Cape Colony twelve years before any one else and In a locality aifferent from the great mines."?Jewelers' Circular Weekly. The "Farmers' Favorite" Is Selected by the Experts? In competitive tests the Blckford & Huffman Drills always carry off the blue ribbon. They have done this a great many times in the past and will Jo the same trick many times in the future. At the State Fair, Raleigh, N. C., ir October, 1900, the manager of the State Agricultural Farm, located near Raleigh, selected the Blckford & Huffman Combination Hoe and Disc Drills in preference over six other drills which were put up for selection at the same fair. Recently the Virginia State Experimental Farm selected the Bickford & used on the farm lately established by Virginia. This selection was made after a close comparison with every othsr make of drill sold on the Richmond market. The Farmers' Favorite?that is the Bickford & Huffman Drill, is used on the Clemson College Farm. Are these facts not enough to convince the most skeptical? If not 11 vou will give us the opportunity by coming to see us we will point out the various advantages of these drills that ire not embodied in any other make. We have them for sale and prompt ielivery at the right prices and on the easiest terms. YORKVILLE BUGGY COMPANY, Yorkville, S. C. Heinz's Pickles. I have these well-known goods oose in barrels. VTiv^H at on rpnk n nnart ^how-Chow at 25 cents a quart. Sweet at 25 cents a quart. Also German Dill?large size, it 15 cents a dozen. Pickled Salmon?a first-class irticle?put up like Mackorel? it 10 cents a pound. LOUIS ROTH. TIME TO PAY. UBSCRIBERS to The Enquirer ^ on my club are respectfully reninded that the time in which payment riust be made Is growing short, and hey will confer a favor by settling vlth me or at THE ENQUIRER OFFICE at once. JOS. M. WHITESIDES. Feb. 16 t.f tf BLOOD POISON! Old Rnnnlng Sores, Mucous Patches lr i month or throat, Copper-Colored Spots, , ?T1 Dnnn OalnL uicera, ruimui owcuiug^, uunu . j Pimples, Boils, Scrofula, Catarrh, Rheu- ( matlsra and every form of Blood Poison, quickly cured forever by taking Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.). Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Druggists. $1. Directions with each bottle. Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.) heals every sore, makes the blood pure and rich. Cures when all else fails. Bead S cents to p?y postage on Free Trial Bottle. BLOOD BALM CO . Atlanta. Oa. ' : There's No Question About this store being the best place to buy China, Crockery and Glassware. I am offering the best inducements as to quality and variety. You will find that my prices are the lowe>t. See ine before you buy. T. W. SPECK, The Jeweler. YfMVTTJ.I! 1 Villi V 1JUJJJJ Most Complete S Newspaper Ii ?4 Should Be In Every $2 For Single Subscr Subscription* t LIBERAL PREMIUM OF I The List Includes Buggies, iiig: Machines, Pocket ? i Articles of Value. T1 Work Easy and the P. The yorkville enquirer is the most complete semi-weekly newspaper in South Carolina. Its mission Is to keep its readers promptly and correctly informed as to all local, state and general happenings that are of immediate interest and to stand for all that promises best for the welfare of its constituents along business, Industrial, social and religious lines. The contents of THE ENQUIRER represent more careful and painstaking labor than do the contents of any other semi-weekly newspaper published in the state, and the time and money expended in Its production are also greater. At the same time, on the basis of actual service rendered, its cost to the subscriber is less than that of anyoths er South Carolina paper. l THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. ! The subscription price of THE ENQUIRER to single subscribers Is $2 per annum; but In clubs of two or i more we send it for only $1.75. This ! reduction is for business reasons and for the convenience of the subscriber, and to further both of these ends we i offer the following proposition TO CLUBMAKERS. To the clubmaker who returns and pays for the largest number of names : between October 15, 1903, and Wednesj day, March 16, 1904, at 6 o'clock p. m., we will give a first-class Babcock Top Buggy, worth $85; or a first-class Columbia Top Buggy with rubber tires, I valued at $85. The clubmaker will have the option of the two propositions. To the clubmaker who returns and , pays for the second largest club, we will give a handsome Columbia Top Buggy, worth $65. The Babcock and Columbia Buggies can be seen at Glenn & Allison's livery . stables. OTHER OFFERS. For Four Names. A "Yankee" Watch, a Stylographlc Fountain Pen or a Three Bladed Pocket Knife of good quality; or a 15String Zlthern. For Five Names. A year's subscription to either one of the following Magazines: McClure's, Ladles' Home Journal, Munsey, Argosey, Cosmopolitan, Delineator, Frank Lesslie's Popular Monthly, or either of the following: A "Champion" Stem Winding Watch, a gold pointed Fountain Pen, a four-bladed Pocket Knife. For Six Names. An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, King Repeating Air Rifle, a year's subscription to the Christian Herald: or a 22-String Zlthern. For Eight Names. An Ingersoll "Triumph Watch, a Columbia Repeating Air Rifle?works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain Pen?Dlain case: or a Hopf Model Vlo lin or an 8-inch Ranjo. For Ten Names. One year's subscription to THE ENQUIRER, a "Quaker" Watch, valued at $2.50; a Hamilton 22-calibre Rifle? model 11; the Youth's Companion, one year; or a gold mounted Fountain Pen; a good Banjo, Violin or Guitar. For Twenty Names. Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-ounce canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, the Century or Harper's Magazine. For Thirty Names. Either of the following: A Single Barrel Hammerless Shot Gun; a fine 1x4 Kodak, a fine Toilet or Washstand Set. or a Hopkins & Allen Jr., 22 Calibre Rifle. i L. M. GRIST'S S< STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of York. iy W. Brown Wylle, Esq., Ex-Offlclo Probate Judge of York County. WHEREAS ROBT. R. McCORKLE has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, the foods and chattels, rights and credits ?f COL. W. H. McCORKLE, late of the :ounty aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and adnonish all and singular the kindred ind creditors of the said deceased, to je and appear before me at our next Probate Court for the said county, to te holden at York Court House on the ITH DAY 0*' MAKL'H, tu. LO o'cclok, a. m., to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not ne granted. "riven under my hand and seal this 17th day of February In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and in the 128th year of American Independence. W. BROWN WYLIE, C. C. C. Pis. anfl Ex-Offlclo Probate Fudge of York County. LAND FOB SALE. ON MONDAY, MARCH 7. following the legal sales, or at 12 o'clock [ will expose to public sale at the highest bid, the follQwing described real property, to wit: (1) Tract of 79J more or less acres In Bullock's Creek township, near Turkey Creek, and bounded by lands of Hugh Galloway aiid R. D. McKnlght, and Dowdle lands belonging to estate of W. J. Rainey, deceased. (2) Tract of 12% acres more or less, bounded by lands of Galloway, Hoffman and McKnlght. Terms of sale, CASH. P. A. THOMAS, Agent. Feb. 12 f 4 SHINGLES FOR SALE. 1HAVE Just received a lot of 60,060 FIRST-CLASS OCONEE SHINGLES, which I wlfl sell at close prices. I have connections by which I can, on short notice, furnish Shingles in any quantity, and give good satisfaction as to quality and price. r? WVATT MRVTT.T.Pl ~ forkvUle, S. C. Feb. 19 f.t. 3m 11 lemi-Weekly i South Carolina York County Home iption; Two or More * $1.75 Each. FER TO CLUBMAKERS. Guns, Rifles, Watches, SewLnives, Magazines and Other le Competition Is Free, the iiy Good. For Forty Names. A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York Standard Open Face Watch, a W. Richards Double Barrel BreechLoading Shot Gun, or a Low Arm Singer Sewing Machine. For Fifty Names. A Winchester or Colt's Repeating Rifle, 22 calibre; or a Baker Double Barrel Breechloading Gun. For Sixty Namea. A High-Arm Sewing Machine; or a first-class Double Barrel Breech Loading Shot Gun. For Ninety Namea. A Batavia Hammerless Gun, 12gauge, furnished by H. & D. Folsom Arms Co., of New York. A first-class gun and fully guaranteed. SPECIAL CLUBS. We will arrange to furnish any special article desired by a clubmaker for a eiven number of names on appll cation to this office. TIME TO BEGIH. The time for clubmakers to begin work In competition for the foregoing offers Is RIGHT NOW. Let all names, whether old or new, be returned as rapidly as secured, so they may be properly entered upon our books. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Two Six Months Subscribers at $1 each will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at $1.76, and so counted. A subscription paid for two or more years In advance at $1.75, will be counted as one name for each year so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubmaker has returned and paid for any name, he can, at anytime thereafter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the person for whom he has paid and transfer the unexpired time to any other person, provided the person to whom the transfer Is desired was not a subscriber at the time the original name was entered on our books. No name will be counted In competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid; nor will any premium be delivered until a satisfactory settlement has been made for all names returned by the clubmaker. Persons who commence making clubs will not be permitted to transfer their club to another clubmaker*s list after the names have been entered on our books. It is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same posiofflce. Names may be taken at any number of places. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkville postoffice. In sending names, write plainly, and give postofflce, county and state. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each elubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any elubmaker may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two weeks will be allowed In which to work off the tie. The time In which names may be returned, under our propositions will commence NOW, and expires at 6 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1904. After the closing of this contest on March 16, 1904, no single yearly subscription will be received for less than the yearly subscription price of $2.00, except new clubs are formed. )NS, Publishers.