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tumorous |lcpartmcnt. What She Asked Him. They were sitting close together in the gathering twilight, so close together that she tickled his cheek with her eyelashes. "And do you really love me?" she whispered, while her heart stood still to await his answer. "I do," he averted. He had returned the same reply about 3,000 times during the previous two years, so it was probable he had come to believe it. "Do you love me truly?" "Truly, dear." "Much?" "Very much." "Ever so much?" "Ever so very much." "How much, dear?" It Is an awkward question for a girl to put, but they all put it. Love, you see, cannot be measured In quantities, and that makes it difficult to answer the lady when she wishes to know the extent of your affections. "How much, dear?" "Much more than I can tell you, darling." She sighed at that. Any reasonable girl might have been satisfied. But no girl is reasonable when she is in love. "Do you love me a million pounds' worth ?" "More than that, dear." "Ten million pounds' worth?" "Ever so much more than that." "Do you love me just as much as ever you can?" "You know I do, darling." She sighed again. Still she was not contented. Did you ever know a girl who was?" "When we are married, dear, will you be happy?" "Shan't I Just!" he ejaculated. f "And. when we are married, will you love me more than ever?" "Yes. darling." ?*luir man j-uu uu nun "Yen. sweetheart." "Oh, you false brute!" she sobbed. "I knew you couldn't love me much now?else how could you love me more when we're married? Oh, It's cruel, cruel!" "But darling?" he urged. But she would not have any buts. She went straight away and left him, without saying good night, and it cost him two boxes of' chocolates and a new gold charm for her chain before she would allow him to apologize and admit he was In the wrong. Tali. Stjries.?a couple of witty fellows were conversing together recently, and their arguments finally occasioned a bet between them. Each agreed to tell a peculiar incident, and the reciter of the strongest episode was to receive the stakes, a sovereign. No. 1 commenced and said he knew a lady who was "turned Into wood." '"tmpossiDie: suiu i>u. **?.plaln yourself." "You see." was the reply, "the lady was placed on a vessel, and then she was a-board!" "Very good," said No'. 2, "but listen to this: Once I knew a man who had been deaf and dumb for twenty years, but last week he regained speech In one minute." "Nonsense!" rejoined No. 1. "But proceed." "Well," replied No. 2, "the man 1 mean went into a bicycle shop with a friend, and, stooping down, he picked up a wheel and spoke."?London Telegraph. , A Cautious Official.?It is well to be cautious, but there are times when even caution may be carried to excess. The widow of a German officer went to the pension office for the purpose of drawing the pension due her. She presented the usual certificate of the mayor of the village In which she lived, to the effect that she was still alive. "This certificate is not right," said the official in charge severely. "What Is the mater with It?" inquired the poor widow. "It bears the date of Dec. 21," was the stern reply, "and your pension was due on Dec. 15." "What kind of a certificate do you wish?" Inquired the disappointed applicant. "We must have a certificate stating that you were alive on the 15th of December," said the official, with great firmness. "Of what possible use is this one that says you were alive on the 2l8t of December, rlx days later?" Had a Long Root. ?An Irishman, with one jaw very much swollen from a tooth that he wished to have pulled, entered the office of a Washington den# to# on fo cunnnuq When the suffering Celt was put Into the chair and saw the gleaming forceps approaching his face, he positively refused to open his mouth. Being a man of resource, the dentist quietly instructed his assistant to push a pin Into the patient's leg. so that, when the Irishman opened his mouth to yell the dentist could get at the refractory molar. When all was over, the dentist smilingly asked: "It didn't hurt as much as you expected. did it?" "Well, no," reluctantly admitted the patient. But," he added, as he ran his hand over the place into which the assistant had inserted the pin, "little did I think them roots wint that far down!" Hit Back.?Walking along a road in the remote west of Ireland, two tourists were passing one of the cottages. or, us they are better known in the country, cabins, of the peasantry. This particular cabin was even a more than usually dilapidated specimen of its class, and the chimney, consisting mainly of the remains of an old top hut. presented a comical. If not pathetic. appearance. Tipping his friend a wink, one of the tourists accosted a youth who was sitting contentedly on a fence. "I say. my boy," he said, "does that chimney draw well?" "Shure. thin. It dues." was the prompt reply. 'It draws the notice o" I very fool that passes by!"?London Journal. Thk Votb Was Swi'reu.?An exM. P. who contested a highland constituency some years ago tells the following anecdote: Once, after a long and fatiguing tlay's canvass 1 tackled a dissenting minister, who was very keen upon the subject of getting the bishops out of the house of lords, and in pursuance of his favorite hobby he asked me: "Well sir. what are you prepared to do about the bishops?" I was irritated and fatigued by my day's work, and 1 testily muttered. "Oh. hang the bishops!" The minister bowed and replied: "Well, sir, you go rather beyond me there. 1 carina undertake to go altogether that length with you. but you shall have my vote."?Pearson's Weekly. iUisctllaumts trailing. t IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. r t News and Comment Clipped From v Neighboring Exchanges. LANCASTER. v News, February 13: Supervisor Perry has arranged with the supervisor of Chester county to hire all con- f victs of Lancaster county at $6 per .. month each. Lancaster to pay all v traveling expenses of guards and convicts There Is but little im- e provement In the condition of Mr. r Ernest Funderburk, who has been s under treatment In a hospital In Bal- j tlmore the past few weeks.. The physicians pronounce his ailment tuberculosis of the spine Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ellis of this place were called to Flat Creek last Thursday ^ on account of the death of the latter^ sister, Mrs. Queen Deas, wife of Mr. Geo. W. Deas. Mrs. Deas died that morning after a week's illness, 8 of pneumonia. She was 32 years of n age, and leaves her husband and l< three children surviving her. She e was a consistent member of Flat a Creek Baptist church. Her remains f were interred at Pleasant Plain church on Friday Mrs. Zelphy A Estridge. widow of the late F. C. ti Estridge, died last Friday, after a t< protracted Illness of dropsy, at her home near Waxhaw, aged about 60 p years. Her remains were interred L Saturday at old Waxhaw Baptist * church, after funeral services con- tl ducted by Rev. Mr. McKinstry P j While sawing shingles with a rip tl I saw recently, Mr. Lewis X. Montgom- v ery had th^ misfortune to lose the ? thumb of his right hand. It was so badly lacerated by the saw that it ^ had to be amputated, which was e done by Dr. Sapp The clothing ? of Annie Bertha, the little 3-year-old a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Rut- h ledge, caught afire while standing at the fireplace Saturday afternoon, and, d but for the quick appearance on the L scene and presence of mind of her is mother, who smothered the flames by wrapping the little one in her own tl dress, a woolen garment, little Annie tl Bertha would have been fatally si burned. As it was her injuries are e only slight, her hands, and the side E i>f her face and neck being badly blls- c tered... .Luke Gavin, col., who lives near the Southern railroad crossing ti on Catawba street, had a good horse n killed by the freight train which b passed here about 9.30 o'clock Sat- p urday night. It was frightened by ? the passenger train passing and w broke out of the yard, getting on the L railroad track Just before the freight came rumbling along. ii GASTON. s Gastonia Gazette, February 13: The o friends in Gastonia of Miss Julia " Marino were somewhat surprised n when it became known Saturday that P '--1 >- In Co- (1 sne was marrieu uu i-1 iua} .... ? vannah, Ga., to Mr. Paul Rhofier. Miss Marino's home was in Savan- e nah but for the past two years or d more she has been employed as a d milliner in the Jno. F. Love, Inc., w stores. About three weeks ago she o went to Savannah, presumably on a a visit, and It was expected that she would return and resume her position tl here. The marriage, it is said, was G the consummation of an old love af- i< fair. Miss Marino meeting her lover tl in Savannah after an absence of two a years... . .Chief of Police I. N. Alex- si ander was taken to the Presbyterian u hospital at Charlotte Saturday for p a stomach trouble. He has been P quite ill for several days but it is hoped that the hospital treatment P will prove beneficial Mr. C. B. ? Armstrong yesterday received a tele- h gram from Mr. A. A. Young stating s' that Lark Ratchford and John Craig. two Ua8l0nia Doys wno lecemij i an away from their homes in the New h Hop? neighborhood, were working on 84 the South & Western railroad near 'r Spruce Pine. The fathers of the two n boys, Mr. Bob Ratchford and Mr. e' Thomas Craig, left at once for Spruce Pin? to bring the boys home. About u three weeks ago these boys, yet in their teens, were seized with a desire c< to see something of the world and c' took French leave of the prosaic 84 farm life to do a little exploring on their own hook. They left Gastonia, lr it is stated, in company with Camp- a bell Bradley, an older boy who was ,r leaving home with the knowledge of ? his parents. Since then their parents vv have been making efforts to locate them A message from Stanley this afternoon conveyed the intelli- 01 gence of the sudden death there of ai Mr. James Cannon, which occurred n a few minutes after one o'clock this tl afternoon at the home of his son-inlaw. Mr. J. C. Gaston, with whom he S lived. Mr. Cannon was about 65 years of age and is survived by three S sons and three daughters. The funeral will be held at Stanley tomorrow Police officers are on the look- ^ out for Roland Tate, a white boy t( about sixteen years old. who, it is al- tj leged, yesterday entered the store of V( R. Dobson at the Avon and rifled the cash drawer of about 515. Tate, it is e, said, entered the store from the rear 0] while Mr. Dobson was uptown on business and while Mrs. Dobson was in .. their residence adjoining. He had been seen hanging around the store a number of times and there is little doubt that he is the culprit. Tate ^ bears an unsavory reputation, having n been In similar trouble before. It is ^ believed that he walked to Lowell ^ and there boarded an eastbound train. w His parents, it is understood, reside f, at Bessemer City....At her home on g the old Dallas road, two miles north of town. Mrs. William Sumrney died t) at 3.40 o'clock yesterday afternoon y from pneumonia, after an illness of only a few days, aged fifty-four years. (j The funeral and burial were held this afternoon at Long Creek Baptist j church, of which deceased was a member. Rev. J. A. Hoyle conducting the services. Surviving the deceased are a husband and three sons, Messrs. Craig, Charles and Thomas Sum- t[ mey News reached Gastonia this morning of the death from heart failure this morning at 1 o'clock of Mrs. c Sarah Ann Wilson, wife of Mr. Sam ^ I Wilson, at hfr home in the Bethel t( neighborhood. Mrs. Wilson was in |{ her sixty-second year and was the j( mother of two children. Messrs. Wil- t liam and Howard Wilson, who, together with the husband. survive. The funeral services will be held e sometime tomorrow at Olne.v Presby- tj terian church. v, Ent.erprisi.vu Salmonkkbpkr.?Frank ^ White of the Orpheum. is responsible j for the following story says the Den- s ver Post: Yesterday afternoon, ac- ^ cording to him. two tall ranchmen bought seats in the back row in the balcony. One of the ushers chanced to c be standing near them while he was s not busy and accidentally heard some 0 f their conversation. Before the cur icin rose they talked about variou hings in the theater. While the or hestra was preparing to play Its over ure one of the ranchmen said: "Jirr i'hat do you s'pose all them red light vlth 'E-x-i-t' over 'em is for?" "I ain't sure, but I think I know, ras the reply. "Well, what's your idea?" "That there 'Ex-l-t' is French tal or 'Saloon' I think," said the othei Them doorways lead to some plac rhere you can git a drink." The one who had asked about th xits looked at the red lights a mo nent. "Gosh!" he said finally, "tha aloon keeper Is sure enterprisin', bu t don't look to me like he's doin ouch business." LINCOLN'S FAMOUS PHRASE. *?n?t m* niH Nnt It Fir?t. In his world-famous "Gettysbur peech" Lincoln "declared that th nen whose monument they were ded mating, had died in order that "gov rnment of the people, by the peopl nd for the people should not perls] rom the earth." Like lightning the phrase electri ed the nation, and from that day t his it has remained the most celebra ed speech of modern times. But fame always has to pay a bl| irice for Itself, and repeatedly sine iineoln's brief but Immortal addres ras delivered it has been intimatei hat the martyred president was i lagairlst, having taken from anothe he most striking phrase in his speed 'ithout making any acknowledgmen f the fact. To these Intimations have com he counter claims that Lincoln's eel brated phrase was strictly orlgina |th himself, and that to Lincoli lone belongs the honor and glory o aving coined It. About the fact that the phrase ii Ispute was in existence long befor .incoln spoke it at Gettysburg ther ? no room for doubt. Five centuries and a half befor be day of the martyred preslden here lived in old England one of th tanchest democrats that the race ha ver produced. The name of that oh >emocrat was John Wickllffe. th elebrated theologian. Now, In the preface to Wickllffe' ranslatlon of the Scripture?1324? lay be found these words: "This Bi le is for the government of the peo le by the people and for the people,' rhlch is Identical, word for word '1th the famous expression fron .incoln. In the year 1830, at a public meet ig held at Olten, Switzerland, i peaker named Schlnz, In the coursi * Klo a/tOfaac iiaori this Iflneuaee All the Rovernments of Swltzerlam lust acknowledge that they are slm ly from the people, by the peopli nd for the people." In an address before the Anti-Slav ry Society of New England, Theo ore Parker, the celebrated Unltarlai (vine on May 20, 1850, used thes< ords: "Democracy Is a governmen f all the people, by all the people nd of course, for all the people." To go a great deal further bacl ban we have yet gone, we find f (reek demagogue, of the age of Per ;les, Cleon by name, saying, abou be year 420 B. C.: "Men of Athens, m In favor of the democracy tha ball be democratic, that shall glvi s the rule which shall be of the peo le, by the people and for the peo le." The similarity between all thes< hrases Is perfect, and It goes with ut saying that Mr. Lincoln could not ave originated the famous expres ion as found in his Gettysburg ora on. It does not by any means follow owever, that Lincoln was a con ;ious plagiarist. Mr. Lincoln had ai lquirlng mind, and knew a grea lany things, but no man can Knov verything; and It Is more than likely lat he had never heard of the phrasi ntll his own mind had conceived It But even if It was proven that Lin Din had appropriated the phrase, a: harged, the fact would militate In n* ;rious way against his fame. The greatest of the Germans, th< nmortal Goethe, declared one day t< n intimate friend that if everythinj i his works that he had got fron thers should be stricken out h< ould not have a dozen pages left. The greatest of the great in th< elds of literature, philosophy and el rjuence, have pillaged right and left nd that, too, without stopping t< lake any acknowledgment of th< lings appropriated. EEKS ABRAHAM'S TITLE DEEDS ir William Ramsay Will Also Hun1 For Beginning of Aryan History. Sir William Ramsay will, says i ondon dispatch, soon go to Asia Minoi > undertake on a much greater scab lan has hitherto been attempted In estigations which are expected t( irow much light on ancient history specially Biblical history of the tim< f Abraham. Extended work Is mad* ossible by Lord Stratehcona's gift o 2.500 a year for five years. Sir William in speaking of his ex ectations says he has been convince* >r a long time and now thinks it wil e IHUt'llVItu; liciuuiisiiaicu uj mext great series of discoveries tha ryan history had its beginnings ii sia Minor and that the people amonj 'hum they are to be discovered wen te people called the Hlttites In tlv lible or the children of Heth, fron horn Abraham bought a piece of lam i make a grave for his family. Si I'illiam says: "I shall not be satisfied until th< ocument recording the sale of tha iece of land is discovered. It wouli e a clay tablet, but would be practl ally imperishable, and there are thou unds of those tablets recording sale: f that kind. "There is not the slightest doubt tha lie sale of that property was registerei t tlie time and doubtless deposited ii unit1 Hittite temple for preservation, annot tell where it would be deposited ut those tablets constituted title deed n property. Abraham in a Strang ind had to have proof of his purchas 11 a safe place, showing that he wa lie legal owner, and the only saf lace at that time was a temple. "Now those Hittites had an empir xtending from the ^40gean sea to th orders of Egypt. It Included th > hole of Asia Minor and Syria. The! apital was in the northern part o isia Minor, and its modern name I iogliazkens. We know the sites o everal of their great cities in Asii linor. The duty of the future is ti ig up those cities. "The Germans began to excavate tin apital. and they have already achieve! plendid results. We are now at worl n several other ancient Hittite cities. ERICHSEN'S TRY FOR POLE. o s h - Duke of Orleans Will Pay the Ex- s pe rises. a i, The Duke of Orleans has Just ans nounced that he will send the explor- c Ing vessel Belgica to the east coast of d " Greenland this summer to render all d possible service to the.Danish explor- o er. Myllus Erlchsen, who left Copen- o k hagen In June last to undertake the p r. exploration of all the unknown li e stretches of the eastern shore of the n great island. 1: e There are now three Arctic expedl- s - tions In the field, but Erichsen's en- n tornrlsp is attraotlne most attention. I c it because of the qualities of its leader h g and the remarkable care with which k the expedition was organized. If s Erlchsen succeeds he will complete the outlining of the Greenland coast c and then we shall know the exact tl y shape of the island and be able to u compute its area. There is no doubt t that Greenland is the largest Island in 7 g the world, unless it is found later that li e the largest land mass in the Antarc- w tic Is only of insular instead of conti- t nentai extent. c e Rut Ericshen proposes to do much a more work than the lapping of the E unknown shores of Greenland. If s all has gone well with him he will s start a small sledge party about o March 1 for the North Pole. n His plan is to send the men who n s are spending the present winter at a e his most northern station, on a Jour- p ? ney directly north over the sea ice. > If the party does not reach the pole itself he hopes that it will, at least, attain a very high northing. t In view of the new information t which Peary brought home It Is t doubtful If Erichsen's idea of using .. the East Greenland coast as the base j, j for a Journey to the pole Is a good ^ one. Peary's experience last spring j, f seems to show that the drift move- ? ment north of Greenland Is to the r, east' h In this case an expedition starting e for the ' Pole from East Greenland n would be likely to drift u long dls- t| p tance to the east, which would great- 0 t ly increase the difficulty of returning t] J to its land base or any other land. a s Peary's present plan seems to offer j the logical route poleward In the part 0 p of the Arctic ocean north of America, u He proposes to start north from far tl s west on the Grant land coast, so that ? in his journey to and from the Pole the drift will not be likely to curry w him east of the north coast of Green- ?' ? land. j In Its organization Erichsen's ex- t< ' pedltion Is the most remarkable that has gone to the Arctic. Of the twen- ? ty-Hlx men in his party all are men a of scientific training excepting two d p mechanics, the stoker, the steward, n . three sailors and three native Green- *( D j landers. The engineer Is also a car- tl tographer and meteorologist. d As far as possible all places in the fl B 0] expedition were filled with men of s scientific attainment, Erichsen himself is an ethnologist. The first of- n i fleer is in charge of the map making. n p The ship captain is a cartographer t and so are the three steersmen. Then there ure five other men on the scien- 4 title staff who have nothing to do i with the ship, but are In charge of 1 various branches of geographical science. t Seven of the staff are competent to j make accurate surveys aim iay mem t down on first class charts. Certainly I no other polar expedition was ever I so well supplied with cartographic 1 talent and Erlchsen specially planned I for this as his expedition will be dl- I e vlded into groups of workers each of them will have a cartographer for the correof mapping of Its results. The work which Erlchsen will try to do Includes the mapping of the unknown coast of northeast Greenland, more than 300 miles in extent, the crossing of North Greenland In order to map Peary Channel, which is supt posed to separate the mainland from f the archipelago north of it, a sledge f Journey to or toward the North Pole, s the study of those parts of the east coast further south which have not yet been sufficiently well surveyed ^ for the purposes of good mapping > and the crossing of Greenland on the I Inland ice In the latitude of Franz I ? Josef Fiord for the purpose of mak- g j ing a scientific study of all the phe r nomena of the Ice cap. j A more scientific expedition was ? never sent to the Arctic and Erlchsen commands confidence as a man ; worthy to lead the undertaking he . planned. He has already lived with the Esquimaux between Cape York j and Cape Alexander for ten months, j, has sledged across the Island of Disco, has visited the inland Ice in two places, and knows the whole west coast of Greenland. No more important work remains to be done In the I I Arctic than the exploration of East J Greenland, now In hand.?New York Sun. bi [ STORIES OF THE CAT. } Legends and Facts About the Still But Half Tamed Animal. ? "There are few tales of cat fidelity ar ? and many of dog, yet one thinks no pa f worse of the cat for this," says an observer. "His very independence cora. pels respect. He walks 'by his wild _ j lone, waving his wild tall, through the I wild woods,' as an inspired modern B writer has set forth. All the generat tions have not served to tame him, 1 and the most domestic of the race will f revert sooner to a wild life at 'the call g of the blood' than any other friend of mnn it is thus scarcely surprising to 1 find that the most famous cat lovers I j have been drawn from the ranks of r politicians and poets, those whom rea- | sons of state or a sensitive tempera- j e ment have rendered averse from trust- ^ t ing their fellow creatures and who j consequently bestow all their affections . upon the 'fireside sphinx.' We are in_ vited to believe that the most famous J s of all cats, he who brought fame and fortune to his master. Dick Whittingt ton, was no four legged animal at all, j but merely the French word 'achat'? n to buy and sell at profit?and that the I great merchant made a pet only of his lt merchandise from the very beginning. s Thus in later years do the idols of our e youth topple about our heads, e "But other legends?nay, factsJ-are s left us. Cardinal Wolsey, for instance. e when acting in his official capacity as lord chancellor is said to have had his e favorite cat always seated beside him. e and anotner prince or ine cnurcn. riciiP elieu. found his only relaxation In r keeping a number of kittens in his f private cabinet and watching their s gambols during his spare moments, f We cannot really reckon Richelieu as 4 a true lover of the race, however, Tor ? directly the kittens grew to three months he had them sent away and e replaced by others. Lord Chesterfield j left in his will life pensions to his fa- j u vorlte cats and their kittens. Victor ^ " Hugo's great cat Chanolne always sat a n a large red ottoman In the center of Is saloon and received his guests In tate, showing marked displeasure if ny one failed to caress or praise her. "Tasso wrote a sonnet to his favorite at, and Petrarch had one he loved as early, we are told, as Laura. No oubt she was the confidant of many f his trials and consoled him for much f the fair lady's disdain, and when uss.V died the poet had her embalmed i the Egyptian fashion and carried her lummy about with him everywhere, tajidelalre. the French poet, a very hy man, was always ill at ease in any ew house he entered until the family at was brought up and introduced to irri, after which, with the cat on his nee, he was perfectly happy in his llent poet fashion. TitnrliHAno nocnoot I n C PQ t? fl TP fif ourse, legion. From time Immemorial hey have been regarded as somewhat ncanny, omens of weal or woe. beings r> be either conciliated or crushed, "he cat worship of ancient Egypt and iter, the Roman creed that the cat ras sacred to Diana speak of the one; he wild charges of witchcraft?or oncern in it?rife during the dark ges of Europe will attest the latter, lut there is another popular belief deerving also of mention, that which ets forth the old maid as the cat's nly friend, a legend arising In the iiedlaeval nunneries overrun with nice, where one or more cats were lwa.vs kept and were no doubt much etted by the good nuns."?Chicago lews. Stole the Court Clock. There is one story of Ho.ig Kong hat has never been told in this counry," said the man from the tropics, and I guess that Is because Hong Long has always been ashamed to let he story get out. For if ever the lugh was on a whole community it ettled upon that damp village the Ime the coolies wertt to the court ouse to fix the clock. "Hong Kong prides itself on Its miliclpai buildings, particularly upon tie Hall of Justice. Over on the wall pposlte where the justice's bench Is hera used to be a fine marble clock, n Immense affair. "Whenever tourists visited the Hall f Justice the big Sikh at the entrance sed to call particular attention to hat marble clock. It was his pride nd one of his chief Joys of duly was > wind it every week. "Xot very long ago when the court ras sitting two Chinese coolies, dressd as mechanics, presented themselves efore the door of the court room, hey carried a ten-foot ladder beiveen them. The Sikh stopped them. " 'Alle ll-flxum clock pidgin,' said ne of the coolies, and the big Indian dmitted them. "They went right over the wall uner the clock, hoisted their ladder oiselessly, and with due deference i the majesty of the law, represented y the Justice on his woolsack across lie room, took that marble clock own from Its fastenings. 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General Merchandise OUR Stock of General Merchandise la large, varied and well selected. We are able to supply almost anything In the best qualities and at the RIGHT PRICES. MACHINERY. We handle goods of the International Harvester Co., Including Gasoline Engines, Hay Balers, Harvesters, McCormlck Reapers, Rakes, Harrows, and sell everything at Right Prices. BUGGIES AND WAGONS. Anything that may be desired In Buggies and Wagons can be had from us. If it does not happen to be on hand it CAN BE HAD without difficulty. But we are carrying a large stock In this line. J. S. W1LKERSON & CO., Hickory, S. C. LIZERS j Phosphates $e the Best I i red By . . phate & Oil Co. I ON, S. C. , L L STATIONS ? 171 J NO FURTHER 4AVE IT HERE! ire is just what you have been looking for C ACID DESTROYER potash or mercury. A powerful tonic in natism Cure iflammatory, Sciatica, Rheumatism or (1.00. Tablets, 50c. Beware of substidy "See that our trade mark," the Head age. None other genuine. Send for tree Pa. For sale by IRUGSTORE IMPORTERS AND i ... ROASTERS OF HIGH GRADE COFFEES OUR ROASTING PLANT Is In Full Operation, and to Those Who Desire a Clear, Well Roasted and Illgh Grade COFFEE We are Prepared to Furnish It. We name the following brands: Old Government Java, Monogram, Fort Sumter, Blue Ribbon, Arabian Mocha, Mountain Rose, Morning Glory, Maraeaibo, Jamoma, Sunhcuni, Electric, Porto Rico, Red Owl, Acme, Aromatic, Dime. A Trial Will Convince Consumers of the Superior Merits of Our Roasted Coffee, and Once Tried Will Use no Other. Packers of Teas, Splees and Sodu, put up under our personal supervision, and Wc Guarantee them Strictly Pure. Ofwwls. Send for samples and prices before purchasing elsewhere. I\ W. WAGEXER & COMPANY, Charleston. S. C. APPLICATION FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. HAVING made a final settlement with the Pr< bate Court of York county, as administrator of the estate of WENZEI, 8HUBERT. deceased. I hereby give notice that on February 1C. next ensuing, I will made application to tlie said court for a final discharge from all further liability in connection with said estate. J. B. SHCBERT, Ad'rn'r. Jan. 18 f 5t -PHOTOGRAPHY For first-class Lasting Photographs come to my studio on West Liberty street. J. R. SCHORB. / "Imita is th incerest Fla H. The unprecedented popularity ERS' BONE fertilizer has in ors to advertise Fish Guano, is good," FARMERS' I Guano, and, to prevent being d be sure that our trade-mark i nly guarantee that you are gett X) iiicrs u k Made with Fish i F. S. ROYSTER GUANO C THE YORKVILI CV^D ti i un i< Annual Club C? Opened to'E nil I! HUM) HOLLARS Valuable Buggy 'or Largext < THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER Is th? County Newspaper Published In the S people of York and surrounding counties, rectly Informed on all the Important devel all that is best in their educational, Indus owned and controlled absolutely by its pu of long experience, and who yield ailegli than the particular welfare of their fellov in such measure as it may be able to give endeavor. The price of a single subscription to $2.00, and for six months, $1.00. CLUB RA' The price of THE ENQUIRER to cl names is $1.76 per annum. CLUBMAK All persons who may feel so incline! elsewhere, are invited to act as Clubmake ance with the terms and conditions belov that may be made in the direction of ext QUIRER, and we shall see to it also that c satlon in proportion to such service as the TWO HIGH CLAS I For the TWO LARGEST CLUBS rel with the conditions herein specified, we pi gies ?for the Largest Club a COURTLaNI local market for $85, and for the Second BUGGY, which retails on the local marke are on sale by Messrs. Carroll Bros., of Y< tlon at their repository. They will be cov company them to purchasers who pay the OTHER PREJJ In addition to the Buggies, as lead- er ers, to be given away to the two club- ap makers who return and pay for the | two largest clubs, regardless of the number of names these clubs contain, < whether one hundred or four hun- wo dred, we offer a number of special ofr premiums in proportion to size as fol- na lows: tui For Four Names. boi A Stylographic Fountain Pen: a handsome Three-Bladed Pocket Knife with name and address on the ' handle, or one of the late new novels ea< that retail- for $1.00. of For Five Names. tw A year's subscription to either one of the following Magazines: Mc- y j Clure's, Ladies' Home Journal, Munsey, Argosy, Scrap Book, Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, or either ' , of the following: A "Champion" Stem Winding Watch, a gold pointed j"; Fountain Pen or a four-bladed Pocket Knife. JJ For Six Names. to soi An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, wt Hamilton Model 15. 22-calibre Rifle, ori a year's subscription to the Christian bG( Herald, a 22-String Zithern or any i one of the new popular $1.50 novels. tjtj For Eight Names. Scr i oii' An Ingersole "Triumph" Watch, a S11i Daisy Repeating Air Rltie?works | tot like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a j niu Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Foun- t tuln Pen?plain case; or a Hopf Mod- olu el Violin or an 8-inch Banjo. I ter For Ten Names. I "3| eu One year's subscription to THE j ENQUIRER, a No. 2 Hamilton 22- ciu calibre Rlrte?model 11, the Youth's 0ni Companion one year, or a gold mount- uu; ed Fountain Pen, a good Banjo, Oul- . tar or Violin. ed For Twenty Names. Crack-Shot Stevens Rllle, a 10-oz. tra Canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector ser Single Barrel Breech-Loading Shot mo Gun, the Century or Harper's Maga- | pot zine. I J giv For Thirty Names. . i Ue< Either of the following: A Single tor Barrel Hammeriess Shot Gun, a tine T"iiot ,?p Wflshstand Set. a Hookins & Allen, Jr., 22 Calibre Rltle, or a ^ So. 13 Oliver Turn Plow, ! nui For Forty Names. be A fine MTandolin, Guitar or Banjo. tw< a New York Standard Open Face to Watch, a W. Richards Double-barrel i Breech-Loading Shot Gun. ret For Fifty Names. ! t'?,i o cl A Winchester or Colt's Repeating daj Rifle. 22-calibre; or a Baker Double J Barrel Breech-Loading Gun. j the Anything Desired. j We will arrange to furnish any yea special article desired by a club-mak-1 nev L. M. GRIST'S SONS jBEBm ifltfl nSBBBSt^^ iV Pl'J k B tion I Itcry" I f of Koyster's M iduccd some of M claiming theirs m BONE is the 8 imposed upon, M s on every bag. m ing the genuine H lone I HI A Tarboro, M. O. ;$f| (la Macon, Ga. '>& mmmrnmmw * ,E ENQUIRER 907. mipetition has veryuuu^. MTHOmillS Each of the Two llubs. 4 s largest Home Print 9eml-Weekly outh. It is edited especially for the and its object is to keep them coropmenta of the day, and to promote v trial, political and social life. It is bllshers, who are newspaper peeple tnce to no Interest or policy other v citizens, and It seeks support only value received along the line of it* THE ENQUIRER for one year la TES. ubmakers in clubs of two or mo<*e BBS.1, whether living In this county or rs for THE ENQUIRER in accordv. We shall appreciate any efforts ending the circulation of THE EN>ur friends receive material compeny may render in this respect. S BUGGIES. turned and paid for in accordance ropose to give Two High Class Bug) TOP BUGGY, which retails on the Largest Club a ROCK HILL TOP t for $65.00. Both of these Buggies >rkville and may be seen on ezhiblered by all the guarantees that ac- . regular retail prices. H1UM8: for a given number of names on plication to this office. TIME TO BEGIN. The time for clubmakers to begin irk iu competition for the foregoing ere is KiUUT NOW. Let all mes, whether old or new, be rerned as rapidly as secured, so they ly be properly entered upon our i>k8. TEltMS AND CONDITIONS. ? l'wo Six Months Subscribers at 91 idt will be considered the equivalent one yearly subscriber at 11.75, and counted. A subscription paid for 0 or more years in advance at $1.75 II be counted as one name for each ir so paid. L'lubmakers will be held personally sponsible for the payment of all rues returned by them. * After a ibmaker has returned and paid for y name, he can, at any time thereer, discontinue the sending of the per to the person for whom he has id and transfer the unexpired term any other person, provided the per1 to whom the transfer is desired a not a subscriber at the time the ginai name was eniereu uii uur jks. So name will be counted in compeon tor a premium until the subiptlon price has been paid; nor will y premium be delivered until & istactory settlement has been made ail nu mes returned by the clubiker. rersons who commence making ibs will not be permitted to transtheir club to another ciubmaker's . aiter the names have been enteron our books. Li is not necessary that names on a 10 shouid ail be at the same postice. .Names may be taken at au> mber of places. -til subscriptions must be forwardto us at the expense of those seiid; them. tVe will be responsible for the safe y nsmission of money only when it by d(aft, registered letter or mey order drawn on the Yorkville itoiflce. In sending names write plainly, and u nnotnttifii fAiintv and sjfafM \ 11 subscriptions will be discontin1 at the expiration of the time paid \ separate list will be kept for :h clubmaker, who will be credited ,h each name sent, so that the mber sent by any clubmaker may ascertained at a moment's notice, n case of a tie for either premium, ) weeks will be allowed in which work oft the tie. Che time in which names may be urned under our propositions will nmence NOW, and expire at 6 ^ lock p. ni., on the Second Wednes* r in March, 1907. tfter the closing of this contest on second Wednesday In March, 17, no single yearly subscription V I be received for less than the V rly subscription price, $2.00 except A v clubs are formed. , Yorkville, S. C.