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k ~ -=^== ever, the orphanage committee have made up their minds to move the chllV dren. anyhow, and trust to getting as much as possible from the proposition which has been accepted from Yorkville. From reports received here it is understood thnt the buildings and j grounds of the former King's Mountain Military academy were not meant for an outright gift to the orphanage board, as was thought from the message brought here by Mayor Hart. It did not seem to be the intention of the owners of the property to turn it over gratis. It also appears that the condition of the buildings is such that a very considerable sum of money, not so small as at first was estimated, will be needed to make them ready for the use of the orphan children. These two conditions will materially reduce the value of the Yorkville offer, cutting the $30,000 proposition down substantially. Tha Vorkville offer included the K. M. M. A. buildings, eleven acres of ground, a $4,000 endowment from the city, free * lights and water for ten years, free medical attention, in all estimated to he worth about $30,000. Greenville's ofp fer. the next best, was worth some $15.000. As it now appears that there was a misunderstanding about the gift of the buildings and grounds, and about the cost of altering and renovating the plant, the board find themselves a bit embarrassed in effecting the moving proposition, but nevertheless, it is understood, have concluded to move the children notwithstanding. The situation has been the cause of considerable correspondence, but will undoubtedly be settled so as to bring about the removal of the orphanage. Nearly a third of the state Episcopal church ^.>?mbership is in Charleston and for ^^p>ver thirty years the Church Home and Orphanage has been a recipient of the affectionate interest of the whole city. The members of 'the Kpiscoj?al churches, have always kept in close touch with the children, and sincerely regret the proposed removal. The K ??. children in the home have always been Hp well and comfortably cared for. The Episcopalians of Charleston are especially desirous that their home chilV dren be bettered, if a change has to he made, and do not look upon the present status of the removal with the warmest enthusiasm. LOCAL LACONICS. The Price of Cotton. L "The whole trouble with the cotton market in these parts," said Mr. C. A. Carroll yesterday, "is just this: The country went wild on guano last spring and bought u world of the stuff. The notes were due the first thing this fall and the cotton had to be sold to pay them. The mills in this way got enough ^ to do them and they are not buying any more until others have to sell." k MERE-MENTION. The United States treasury department last week completed the movement of $225,500,000 from the mint in San Francisco to the mint in Denver. rCol. The treasure was moved Because the vaults in San Francisco were filled to overrlowing and were not considered especially safe. The Denver vauits are the largest and strongest in the country Despite the tact that he was charged with arson, John M. Carroll of Camden, X. J., last week gainect a verdict in the L'nited States circuit court at Philadelphia, against Bergan tfc Snyder, insurance agents of that city, for unpaid balances on Insurance policies Hundreds of Italians are leaving the United States tor Italy anu Sicily to search for relatives in the earthquake districts... .Count Bonl oe Bfc Casteilane who has been suing his tornier wlte, who is now Princess Anna C.ouid de Sagan, for tin- possession oi his tnree ennuren, has failed of his etlort in the i*Tencn courts In a local option election at Roanoke, Ya., last ^ week tne "drys" carried the day, anu forty-two saloons and six mail-order liquor houses must close up within ninety days The police department of Chicago, aided by the Law and ur?ler league, is making a crusade to prevent women from gamoling. The edict applies to cinch, whist and euchre parties in which trophies are cutgiass, cninaware, etc. It is declared that private residences will be raided if necessary Wm. L. Mat hues, ex-state treasurer, and one of the convicted grafters in connection with Pennsylvafina state capltol, died' at Media, Pa., Wednesday. John H. Sanderson ana Jas. M. Shutnaker, two otner convicted grafters, are critically ill The laqui Indians, who have been carrying on a prolonged war in Mexico, have n tmatv of neaee with the gov ?' - . ernment and now promise to be good. The savings banks of New York on January 1, paid to their depositors *20,000,000 in interest on deposits. The combined deposits of the savings bunks WjB. t<>tal *.0,000,000, and there are nearly 1,800,000 separate savings accounts.... I An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate L i'remier Clemenceau of France on K Thursday evening, by a disaffected Cor> sican named Bonedetti An aerial warship, 700 feet long, capable of carrying luo passengers is to be built at the Nixon shipyards near New York. The giant air craft is to cost more than $1,000,000 Wilbur Wright, the American aeropianist, made a flight of 2 hours, 0 minutes, at Le Mans, France, Thursday, and won the Michelin cup, valued at $5,000. He covered a distance of over 00 miles Among the large contributors to the Italy earthquake sufferers are the Anheuser-Busch f Brewing company and the Fnited Mates Steel company, $25,000 eacn; John D. uockefeiier and J. Fierporu .viorgan, *lo,uuo each; tne San M-ancisco relief committee contributed $5o,i Forty-eight bodies have been recovered from the ill-fated Lick Branch Colliery near Bluetieid, W. Ya., in wnich an explosion occurred Tuesday Passenger travel across the Atlantic during tne year 1908, shows a decrease of l,0o0,000 passengers as compared with 190.', owing to the hnancjai depression E. A. S. Blake, a contractor, has been convicted at Fan Francisco, on a charge of attempting . ~ ^ i Danf I to bride a juror in trie m?i oi and sentenced to four years in $?an Quentin prison The government ot Helguim has given up control of the Pekin-Hanko'w railroad on the payrnent by China of $30,000,000, the retlemption i>rice Prohibition laws went into effect in l/ouisiana, .Mississippi and Alabama on New Year's Day. ....Professor Gordy of the New York ^ university, committed suicide Friday, f immediately after the death of his child, .vhom he had nursed through a tiying illness... .More than O.OOO persons attended the president's reception at the White House on New Year's Day. There were 3.903 less cases of "drunk" before the police courts of Atlanta last year, the first under the prohibition regime, than during 190" < harles E. Hughes was inaugurated for his second term as governor of New York on Friday Tom Estes shot four men to death at Anderson, Texas, Friday, the result of a general quarrel. .......The police of Chicago are searching for Elijah Raffty. whose wife has disappeared. Human bones have been found in the ashes of the furnace of HLi the flat they occupied \ New York man picked up a bundle containing f $10,000 from the floor of a restaurant early Friday morning....A monument to the Confederate prisoners of war ^ buried at Green Lawn cemetery. Washington. is to be erected under direction of the war department The United States circuit court at Atlanta, has appointed receivers for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad Three young men of Chicago broke the ice in order to take a bath in Lake Michigan on New Year's Day There were 100 lynchings in the United States during 1908, against 68 in 1907. Mississippi lead the list with 22, Texas was second with 21; South Carolina had one. Ninety-three of the victims were negroes Yuan Shai-Kai, "grand councillor and commander-in-chief of the forces" of China, and friend of foreigners during the Boxer revolution, has been ousted from office in disgrace. The dismissal of Yuan Shai-Kai has caused consternation among the foreign diplomats..... .Whan Chang, the Korean, who shot Durham White Stevens, an American adviser of the Korean government, at San Francisco some weeks ago. has been sentenced to twenty-Ave years in San Quentin prison Because a fly fell into a five-gallon can of milk and was instantly killed at Los Angeles, Cal., Saturday, an examination was made of the fluid, and it was discovered that the milk contained a large quantity of salts of vitriol, a deadly poison.... Dr. a iav a simrn of Kansas, last week purchased a tract of 17,546 acres of land near Houston, Tex., for which he paid $262,200 Francis J. Heney, public prosecutor in San Francisco, said Saturday in an address at Philadelphia, that E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, and not Abraham Reuf. was the real corrupter of municipal life in California London surgeons are now beginning a crusade to put a stop to the removal of the vermiform appendix from every patient afflicted with appendicitis The United States supreme court has refused the petition of the government for a writ of certiorari in the $29,000,000 fine case against the Standard Oil company. The case will now go before Judge l^andis for a new trial ...Three prisoners made their escape from the jail at Homerville. Ga.. Monday morning by sawing the bars During the last fiscal year 50.676 names were stricken from the Federal pension rolls because of deaths among the pensioners B. F. Akridge of Thomasville, Ga.. was captured by "night riders" Saturday night, who after mistreating him in a shameful manner cut his throat from ear to ear. Akridge is a prominent planter, and although horribly injured he will recover Several persons were killed and sixty or more seriously wounded in a riot at Titteghun, India, Saturday. as a result of a police order forbidding Mohammedan sacrifices of cows It is probable that Postmaster General Meyer will be secretary of the navy in Mr. Taft's cabinet. James J. Jeffries, the ex-champion, refuses to meet Jack Johnson, the negro champion heavy-weight pugilist, for a purse of $50,000. Jeffries says he has quit the game for good. It is probable that the proposed postal savings bank bill now before congress will fail to pass The case against George L. Lilley, governor-elect of Connecticut, on charges of corrupt practices, has been dismissed by the two judges who were to hear the case, on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the act under which the case was to have been tried Tom Longboat, the Indian runner, defeated Dorando, the Italian, in a second Marathon race at Buffalo, N\ Y? Saturday. The Italian quit before the finish. IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION. Clear Exposition of Senator Tillman's Amazing Fallacy. The opposition of Senator Tillman to compulsory education on "account of the negro" must, necessarily, be based on one of two postulates. The first of these, that the whites will avail themselves of the free schools more than .the negroes in the absence of compulsory attendance laws is eliminated by the ascertained facts. For a number of years the reports of school superintendents, state and county, have revealed that the negroes are not only showing a constantly increasing disposition to send their children to school, but that the negro attendance is now larger than that of the whites in South Carolina. The alternative postulate is that with all the children, black and white, enrolled in and attending the common schools under a compulsory attendance law, the superiority of the white race in which the senator pretends to believe would not be maintained or. at least, that common school education would diminish the advantage of the white race. In other words, reduced to its plain English, the senator holds that the difference between an unlettered white man and an unlettered negro is greater than the difference between an educated white and an educated ne gro. This is an astonishing position for a man of Senator Tillman's intelligence to assume. History, experience and scientific investigation unite in pointing that as the lowest degrees of ignorance ana intelligence are approached, the fainter grow the differences of type. The senator would probably contend that the Caucasian is superior to the Japanese, but he would scarcely hold that an Anglo-Saxon race no better trained than were the English at the battle of Hastings would meet the Japanese of 1908 on equal terms. If Senator Tillman has been correctly reported, he deliberately proposes that the white people of the south should be held in comparative ignorance rather than that the danger of allowing the negroes to escape from it be incurred. If the enlightenment of the white people of the south is to be delayed that negro enlightenment be prevented, the sooner southern white men, especially those who are poor, get out of the south and into a land where no artificial limitation is set upon their advancement, the better it will be for themselves and their children. In practice, we doubt if compulsory laws woulu increase the school attendance of negro children. The negro nature is imitative, not obedient. The enforcement of the law would be exclusively in the hands of the whites, and it is not unlikely that the negroes would so generally resent coercion on the part of white school officers that falling off in attendance of their children would result. With the senator's declaration that education or schooling are not in all cases essential to civilization, we entirely sympathize. Scattered throughout South Carolina are hundreds of really noble men and women who have never learned to read and write, and they are in every way superior to some men and women who have been graduated from the public schools, and even from the colleges. Hut from these exceptional persons Senator Tillman would receive little encouragement for his implied argument that the complete elimination of illiteracy would be unwise. There are men diseased, men with weak hearing or eyesight, and men on crutches, who are doing more than the part of sound men in the world's work, but surely that is not a reason mat tney should he denieil a cure for their delects if it he in reach. The argument for compulsory education is that all children, until they are given a common school education, are defective, and that on account of the ignorance or viciousness of their parents, the handicap will not be removed as to some of them unless the state interfere in their behalf.? N? >\s and Courier. ? Union City, Tenn., January \i: An attempt to assassinate Attorney Ceneral Caldwell was made at o'clock tonight near his home here, tie was followed from the depot by a man who shot at him twice as he neared his home. Union City is not well lighted and as the man ran after tiring the shots, the attorney general could not Identify his assailant. A little behind the attorney general was the local Associated Press correspondent, who shot twice at the would-be murderer but missed him. The alarm was sounded and a cordon of soldiers and posse of citizens searched the neighborhood but without avail. ? Columbia. January 2: The constitutionality of tiie income tax law is sustained by the decision which Judge Watts has tiled in the case of |>. W. Alderman against the county treasurer of Clarendon. Mr. Alderman, who is a wealthy timber manufacturer of Clarendon. at Alcolu. paid the income tax unde. protest and sued for recovery of the amount on the ground that the tax \\as# unconstitutional. The case was aigued for the county treasurer by Assistant Attorney General Debruhl and for Mr Alderman by Mr. Charlton Dnrnnt. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Miss Mary T. Nance has resigned her position as president and superintendent of the South Carolina School Improvement association, much to the regret .of the members of that organization. ? Columbia, January 2: Senator B. II. Tillman, in delivering an address before the State Teachers' association here last night, took occasion to warn the people against agitation for compulsory education, asserting that should such a law be passed it would mean the education of the negro which in the end would mean a blow to white supremacy. Senator Tillman urged the Democrats of the south against the scheme which he said President-elect Taft and his associates are hatching ud to break the solid south. He said it is the purpose of the president-elect to hand out Federal offices to the Democrats of the south in order to build up a white Republican party in this section. ? Columbia special of January 3. to the News and Courier: The affairs of the Seminole Securities company have not yet ceased to be a matter of discussion throughout the state. The receivers appointed by Judge Watts have proceeded to take charge of such assets of the company as could be secured. The new board of directors, in addition to negotiating for an agreement with the Southern Life Insurance company, has been able to do little so far towards carrying out the resolution of the stockholders that the directors take steps to secure control of the affairs of the company and take them out of the hands of the receivers. To do this, unless the order of Judge Watts is modified, the directors will have to give a liability bond of $300,000, under the statute, and this is not the easiest thing in the world to do. The meeting of stockholders passed a resolution calling on the attorney general to institute prosecutions, on information to be furnished by the new board of directors, against those responsible for the wrecking of the Seminole Securities company. Attorney General Lyon has not returned to the city since the Christmas holidays and Assistant Attorney General Debruhl states that no formal request or notice in regard to this matter has come to the office. The office of the attorney general is already, and has for seme time, been clogged with litigations, growing out of the dispensary and the merger suit, and it is not at all likely that the attorney general will find himself able to carry out the demand of the stockholders?unless [assistance is given him by the directors of the company. However, the solicitor can institute prosecutions just as well as the attorney general, and any citizen can swear out a warrant. ? Chester special of January 3, to the News and Courier: Tuesday is "Inauguration Day" in Chester county, this being the day fixed by law for several of the county officers to be inducted into their respective offices or to enter upon a new term. Clerk of Court J. b. WeStDl'OOK Will ue among uiwc iu retire, his successor being Dr. J. E. Cornwell. Sheriff Andrew Peden will also lay down the duties and responsibilities of public office, his successor being Mr. D. E. Colvin. Mr. S. E. Wylie, who was elected in last summer's primary to succeed County Treasurer W. O. Guy, will not take hold-until March, the governor always waiting until about the last of the legislature session to sign the treasurer's and auditor's commissions. Among those who are to enter on a new term on Tuesday are, Supervisor T. \V. Shannon and County Superintendent of Education W. D. Knox. These offices were both made four-years offices last winter, and there will consequently be no further election for supervisor or superintendent of education until 1912. Coroner Leckie will also qualify for another term, he having been among those who were elected at the primary. County Auditor Hood, who was re-elected last summer, will enter upon his new term in March, along with the new treasurer. The officers who retire to private life after their arduous careers as public servants have one and all rendered the county good and faithful service. Mr. J. B. Westbrook. the retiring clerk, has Piled the office for the lust two years, having been appointed to the place two years ago, upon the resignation of Mr. John C. McFadden, who tilled the place worthily and well for twenty-two years. Mr. Westbrook has made a most capable official and he will carry with him into private life the best wishes of scores of friends. County Treasurer Guy, who is to lay down the duties of treasurer in March, has filled the place continuously since 1890. He has always been ranked among the best treasurers in the state, his settlements with the comptroller general always having been accurate and prompt. Sheriff Andrew Peden succeeded to the office of sher!? 1....i Wkiqmn- nffr.r thp flpflth of his brother, the late Thomas Peden. He has rendered the eounty faithful and conscientious service, first as deputy and later as sheriff. Messrs. Shannon. Knox and I^eckie, who enter upon new terms, have been faithful and efficient public servants, and their coming administration of affairs will doubtless be just as successful and satisfactory as has been the past. ? Spartanburg Herald, Sunday: Despite disturbing rumors as to the activity of the liquor interests and their preparations to light any effort made to secure state-wide prohibition for tsouth Carolina, a statement from the headquarters of the Anti-Saloon .League last evening is to the effect that, although realizing that the fight ahead will be a hard one, the league and the Prohibitionists are sanguine of victory and of the passage of an iron-belted bill by the next legislature. "I will admit that there is lots of opposition to us," said Superintendent Harley, when seen last night. "I have letters from Charleston and other points today which show that the opposition is girding its loins for the fray, but we fully believe the prohibition element will carry the day." It is rumored that if the liquor people find they will be unable to kill the bill in its entirety, an euort will be made to cripple it by changing its text, thus killing its effectiveness. Money and iniluence are being brought to bear upon the matter, 1 it is said, and there seems little doubt , that the fight upon the floor of the senate, at least, will be an interesting one. The prohibition element claims the house by a safe majority, and the senate. in less certain tones, is also claimed. In the latter body, however, the fight will be close. The Anti-Saloon League will, in conjunction with the churches send to Columbia a powerful lobby, which, if needed, will be retained there throughout the entire session of the legislature, or until the statewide prohibition bill has been disposed of by that body. The lobby will be headed by superintendent nanej, ?nw will virtually move the headquarters of the State Anti-Saloon League to Columbia during the legislature, taking with him his office force and the record*. Senator J. C. Otts of Cherokee, j has been selected by the Anti-Saloon League to pilot the bill through the upper branch of the assembly in which, it is believed, the brunt of the battle will occur. Mr. Otts is considered a' shrewd politician, and fully able to take care of himself and his constituents upon the floor of the senate. Representatives Charles A. Smith and John G. Richards and M. L. Smith are now conning the state-wide prohibition bills as enacted by the legislatures of many other states and from these they are compiling another bill which they hope to have pased by the next legislature. This bill is to be first submitted to the executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League, which meets in Spartanburg on January Sth. It will then be carefully perused, clause by clause, and then revised and approved. The measure is not to be given : the name of any one person who may introduce it in the legislature, but it is fathered by the Prohibitionists of the state of South Carolina as a whole, and this point will be made clear to the delegates to the general assembly who desire to hold down their jobs. The Baptists of South Carolina will supnort a lobby of twenty-five, representing this denomination, at Columbia, to remain throughout the session, if need be. j AT THE CHURCHES. BAPTIST. There will be prayer meeting on Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. FIRST PRESBYTKRIAN. There will be prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. $he Cotton Market. Yorkville, January f>.?Cotton 8i. A BARGAIN. IX a Second-Hand Mason & Hamlin CHURCH ORGAN. It is a walnut case and in good condition. GEO. \V. BROWN, Yorkville Hdw. 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BONDS AND REAL ESTATE is the thing to do in order to bring together buyer and seller. First N. Bank stock offered at 120. South Carolina Bonds Wanted. Lockmoro stock wanted at 75. See Me for Bonds, Stocks, etc. FOR SALE Three-room house. One five-room house. Two fine residence lots. A fair bargain of 192 acres. One splendid seven-room house. Several lots near Graded School. A farm of 186 acres 2 miles of town. Dr. M. W. WHITE. THE CITY MEAT MARKET. Slierer & Ferguson. THE BEST THERE IS Do not forget that we are headquarters for all that is REST in Fresh Beef. Pork, Sausage, Etc., and that we keep on hands a supply of Eggs and Butter. We are in the market for GOOD BEEF CATTLE. We give Prompt, Efficient and Satisfactory Service. Let us know your wants. Mll.lir.it ?v rri.nunw.,. GET 1 Yourself some (JOOD BUCKWHEAT, alonp with WJLKERSOX'S HOMEMADE MOLASSES, and enjoy your breakfast. I have both of them in stock. Als.i have PREPARED SELF R1SINC. 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LEDGERS Single and Double Entry JOURNALS DAY BOOKS And everything else in Blank Books can be had at the York Drug Store. Our stock of Blank Books Is very large and includes all sizes and a variety of qualities, such as will please the business man who knows just what he wants. We can please vnu in the size and quality and our prices will prove satisfactory to you. Come and let us supply your wants. See us for Pens, Penholders, Pencils Erasers, Inks, Writing Tablets, etc. THE YORK DRUG STORE, You Always Get The BEST At JOHNSON'S Snowdrift (Hogless) Lard Pure Leaf l4ird I In ins and Breakfast Strips Corn Meal and I-lour 1 loyal, Itumford and Good Luck Baking; Powders. Laundry Soaps, Starch, Bluing COFFEES and TEAS are Our Specially?Get Yours Here. 1. w. JUttlNSUW. J. L. Williams. Mason McConnell. J. L. WILLIAMS & CO. SETTLED AGAIN COM 10 AM) SEE US. You will find us on the corner of Main and West Liberty streets?we moved last night ?and are now occupying the store room vacated by the Strauss-Smith Co., and will be glad to have all our old customers and friends and lots of new ones come and see us for anything in our lines. With more room at our command we hope to be better able than ever to serve our growing trade. J. L. WILLIAMS & CO., York's Cheapest Dry Goods Store. .las. M. Starr, J. F. McElwee, President. Sec. and Treas. YORK SUPPLY CO. Incorporated. COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON We want everyone of our customers E.nil friends to know that we appreciate the business they have Riven us luring the past year. We hope that it has been satisfactory to them. We extend the compliments of the season and wish for all our friends, customers and everybody else, a most Happy and Prosperous Year during 1909. We will continue to do business at the same place as in the past, and we will appreciate a part of your business, whether it be large or small. SBf We have some Clay and White l'cas for sale. York Supply Company. J. C. WILBOR> ? FOR SALE ? The Bob Lee Place?70 acres; 2J miles of Yorkville, on Pinckney Ferry road. Price, $2,500.00. The Ix?o Armstrong Place?53 acres, on public road. 1? miles of Gold Hill academy; about 40 acres iri cultivation; bounded by lands of J. Coltharp and others. Price, $15.00 per Acre. 165 Acres?1 dwelling; 65 acres of line timber: Clay Hill section, joining lands of Len Woods. Price, $10 per Acre. Property of S. C. Smith?38 acres; 6 miles of Yorkville. Terms to suit. $350. J. A. Conrad-Guy Place?103 acres, level land; 2? miles of McConnellsvllie; a five room house; all necessary outbuildings, surrounded by lands of Boss Lathan and others. J. W. McClahl Place?60 acres; J miles of Filbert station. Pete Hardin Place?108 acres, joining lands of Henry Smith; 2 horse farm open; well timbered. Price, $1,300. R. B. Hartness Place?1152 acres, 4 miles of Sharon; 15 acres In cultivation; has 3 houses on the place; about 1 AA M MM/vn 1M tltVlKoi* ivu ttticn in iiuiuci. Property of Emina Moore?164 I acres, a 2 room dwelling; 1 mile of Delphia station; 30 acres In cultivation, balance In timber. Price, $2,200. Property of J. M. Horton?200 acres; 2 story dwelling In good condition; 25 acres under cultivation, balance in saw timber and wood; 1 mile of Bullock's Creek church; joins the lands of Kelly Inman and others. Price, $1,500. Terrlll Smith's?115 acres, one 7room dwelling; barn with six stalls and shed; 2 horse farm open; 4 mile of railroad station. Price $1,250. Home of W. T. Nichols?295 acres; has a beautiful residence, 2 stories and 8 rooms, painted; new barn, cribs, etc.; has five good tenant houses, four of the tenant houses are twostory, including the residence of the late John Nichols; 3J miles of Tlrzah station; 8 horse farm open; buildings easily worth $3,500. This is one of the best farms in York county?can easily be divided into small farms; 150 acres in timber; bottom lands on Big Allison creek. Property of W. T. Nichols?165 acres, 2 houses, 2-storles, with 6 and 7 rooms in each. All necessary outbuildings; 4 miles of Newport; 1 mile of Allison creek church; 80 acres In cultivation, balance in timber. 145J Acres?7 miles of Rock Hill, joining the home of John Starr on Fishing creek; an elegant farm; $25 per Acre. Property of M. B. Masscy?110 acres; a 3-room dwelling; 11 miles of Concord church; 65 acr^s in cultivation. Terms to suit. Price $1,600. One Beautiful Residence?On King's Mountain street?Charlie Smith's?for a quick sale. New bath tub and sewerage connections. 110 Acres?Ebenezer township; 60 acres In cultivation; very fine land. Rents for 2,200 lbs. cotton. .$1,650.00. 165 Acres?In Clay Hill, one dwelling; 65 acres fine timber; 41 miles Newport?$10 per Acre. I Raw Is Plumbing Co. PREPARED TO DO WORK We are in the PLUMBING and TINNING business. We are prepared to do FIRSTCLASS PLUMBING QUICKLY, and in a manner that will conform with all sanitary requirements and regulations. SEE US FOR ESTIMATES And let us have a contract with you. Everything in the TINNING line receives prompt and workmanlike attention. RAWLS PLUMBING COMPANY. Prosperous 1909 TO Our Customers and Friends | We wish to thank our many customers and friends for their liberal support during 1908, and assure every one that we will try to make our business career during the New Year for the interest of every customer. The Thomson Co. SW The Enquirer oflice is especially well equipped for handling Briefs and Arguments. Send us your next one. Farrand Pianos Farrand Organs Haven't you often envied the performer who draws forth from the Piano keyboard the most beautiful musical passages? Mayhap your youthful days were preoccupied to an extent forbidding a musical education. Perhaps you have, later, nursed an ambition to master the intricacies of piano playing, only to relinquish the well meant hope, because your fingers would not respond. Don't deprive your daughter or son of this future pleasure. Get a FARRAND today. Come, look them over at our showroom. 1 R. B. DAVIDSON CO. J. M. BRIAN COMPANY The Fancy-Groccrti THANK YOU 1 thank my Friends, one and all, for thr trade they have given me since I have been in business. I also wish them a Happy and Prosperous New Yea r. CANDIES, ETC. I still have in stock a nice lot of ! CANDIES, RAISINS, ORANGES, AP- 1 PLES. NITS, Etc. TOBACCO. ; If you like good Tobacco I have it ' in a variety of grades. I also have Snuff to please those who use It. Come and see me. Yours to serve. .1. M. BRIAN COMPANY. CLOTHES CLEANING. 1AM prepared to clean gentlemen's clothes and ladies' skirts in a thoroughly satisfactory manner, at reasonable prices. Work may be sent direct to my home or left at W. E. Ferguson's store. I Mrs. R. B. McCLAIN. STRICTLY CASH. IT is STRICTLY CASH at the "We , Fix It" Shop from NOW OX. it. E. MONTGOMERY. Prop. 1 f.t. 2t i W Fancy Blotting Paper for fancy work at The Enquirer office. Large sheets?four colors. I I?REAL ESTATE. Tlie lllghani Plaee?Two miles north of Sharon; 6 miles west of Yorkvllle; 113 acres of land; 65 acres under cultivation; rents for 1,650 lbs. Very Cheap. Land of W. A. Darby?339$ acres, 5$ miles east of Chester, at Orr Station. Has 8 good tenant houses; good 2-story barn; 1 dwelling, 8-rooms; six horse farm, open. The home of T. C. Alexander?62$ acres, 3 miles of Smyrna Station, one mile of New Zlon church and school; 45 acres In cultivation, 4 acres good branch bottom; one 5-room cottage; new barn; all necessary outbuildings. Ideal little home?CHEAP. 171 Acres?40 acres good bottom land; beautiful 2-story dwelling; new barn, 2 stories and 12 stalls; 2 good tenant houses- has a corn and wheat mill; 60 saw gin and Boss press; 20horse water power. New turbine wheel. The property of J. J. Scoggins?very cheap. Terms to suit. 341-2 Acres?20 acres In cultivation; good 3-room house; new barn, 1 mile of New Zlon. Price $350. 100 Acres?2J miles north of Piedmont Springs; 3$ miles northeast of Kings creek station; 91 acres in timber. 1051-2 Acres?Land of J. P. Barnes; 4 miles southwest of Yorkvllle; 12 acres of wired pasture; will divide this place and let line run on northwest corner with the branch; has 1 dwelling, 2 tenant houses. Property of H. C. Strauss?6 tenant houses, located on an acre and 1-4 of ground, near the old C. & N.-W. depot ?4 houses are new, 12 per cent Income. J. W. & M. A. McFarland. Part of Paul Bratton tract, 116 acres, 1-2 mile south of limits of Yorkvllle; 2 new houses, 4-rooms to each. Barn and other buildings; 2-horse farm, about 75 acres In timber, 30 acres In original timber?oak, poplar, pine. 455 Acres in Bullock's Creek township. Land of E. M. and Jas. E. Bankhead. From 250 to 300 acres In open land; nearly 200 acres of bottoms?fine corn land. Plenty of wood. 38 Acres?Good 3-room dwelling; good barn and cotton house; one mile of the incorporate limits of Yorkvllle. Adjoins C. M. Inman; land level and in high state of cultivation; a beautiful little home. $35 per Acre. One tract 146 acres, 2 miles west of Bethany High school and church. Joins lands of Mrs. Pursley, J. Lee McGill. 70 acres in open land, balance In woods, 2 streams, 2 houses?good; 4 stalls and barn; fine orchard. Miss Belle Crepes?Residence; 5rooms; 225 feet front, adjoins C. H. Sandlfer and W. C. Latimer. For a quick sale. 51 acres of land?the J. W. Sherrer tract, 2} miles of court house; two good houses, four rooms each, thirty acres In cultivation, 8 acres In fine bottom corn. This Is a bargain, and a profit ylelder. ? FOR RENT ? 70 Acres?6-room beautiful painted house, 24 miles of Yorkvllle; also one new tenant house, on Plnckney Ferry road; 45 acres In cultivation. J. C. WILBORN. Resolved THAT DURING THE YEAR l?0? I WILL MAKE IT A POINT TO . ALWAYS VISIT THE STORE OF J. Q. WRAY BEFORE BUYING ANY KIND OF DRY GOODS. SHOES. NOTIONS. ETC. Stick to the above resolution and you will find that It will be a money-saver for you. J. 0. WRAY, The Leader W Send the Enquirer your orders for Commercial Printing if you want the best work. Much Pleased? As Father Time reels off the last remnani 01 me yp&r isuo i warn. iu say to the people of Yorkville and York county that I am grateful to them for their liberal patronage during the year, and especially during the present holiday season. Aside from the fact that our business has been profitable to a certain extent, It is a source of pleasure to see the evidences of the growing favor of this store with people who know what goods of quality are and what they are worth, that It Is a store where dependable goods may be had at reasonable and fair prices. It shall be my aim and endeavor to improve wherever It Is possible during the New Year, and in the meantime I extend to all, my sincere wishes for a Prosperous and Happy New Year. THOS. W. SPECK, Jeweler. GLENN & ALLISON. It Will Cost You Money To buy a MULE, HORSE, BUGGY, WAGON or SET OF HARNESS without seeing us. We Sell Them at the Right Prices. MoCORMICK MOWERS. We have a full line of McCornilck Mowers and Rakes. It Is useless to tell you that they are The Best. Don't fall to see us If you need a Gasoline or Steam Engine. ( REVERSIBLE DISC PLOWS. We have on hands a full carload of Two and Three-Horse Reversible Disc \ Plows. See us about one. You need , a Disc Plow on your farm. GLENN & ALLISON. A STITCH IN TIME ] SAVES NINE Not only in clothing, but in Ledgers 1 and Day Books?but the ones you are I intending to buy from us do not need > any stitching?they will last you the > year through and then some. I We have them running in price from > 25 Cents to $5.00, and each one We ' Guarantee, but do not take our word < ?just ask some of the firms that have 1 been using them in 1908 and intend to ' in 1909. < COME AND EXAMINE. 1 ] THE STAR DRUG STORE, i I). L. SHIEDER, Proprietor. i NOTICE J I WILL be In Yorkville for a short time longer, winding up the business affairs of the firm of the StraussSmith Co., and can be found at the office of W. W. Lewis, Esq., and request i that all parties owing the firm will ' come there and make settlement at ! once. After I leave Yorkville our books ] will be in charge of Mr. Lewis, who will look after the making of settlements of accounts due the firm. H. C. STRAUSS. 1 . f.t. 2t W Good Printing? See The Enquirer. / AUCTION SALES. CLERK'S SALE. State of South Carolina?County of York. In the Court of Common Plena. Mary A. Brian. Plaintiff, against Elwood F. Bell and others (heirs of Mrs. Martha J. Bell and of James Brian, deceased), Defendants. BY virtue of a decree of sale In the above stated case, I will expose to sale in front of the Court House Door in Yorkvllle. S. C., on the FIRST MONDAY IN FEBRUARY. 1909, (Salesday.) between 10 a. m and 12 in., the two lots in Yorkvllle (to be sola as one) known as the Bell lots, situated on the a,/,A ferity trmuu / nv \fnlnl street, bounded on the north by the H. H. Beard lot. on the east by lot now or formerly of Glenn & Allison, and on the south by the lot formerly owned by B. T. Wheeler and known as the "Wheeler Factory" lot. (The lots to be sold are further described in the deed from T. D. Fulton, ex'or, to James Brian, recorded in the office of the R. M. C. for York county In book "P". page 275, and the deed from Reese M. Roark to James Brian, recorded In the same office in book "Q", page 41.) Terms of Sale?One half cash and the balance on a credit of 12 months. v with Interest from the day of sale at eight (8) per cent per annum, the cred- \_ it portion to be secured by the bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises, with leave to the purchaser to pay all cash. Purchaser to pay for all papers. No bid of less than one thousand dollars will be received. Cash portion of the bid must be paid within half an hour after the sale, or the lots be resold on the same day, at the same place, for cash, at purchaser's risk. Mortgage for the credit portion of bid must contain a provision that, in the event of foreclosure, the mortgage secures an attorney's fee for foreclosure in the sum of seventv-flve dollars. J. A. TATE. C. C. C. Pis. Geo. W. S. Hart, Plaintiff's Attorney. 2 ' t 4t IRION & (10KIM)\ COME AND SEE DS For FRESH GROCERIES and CONFECTIONERY, and the best HARDWARE?Best Goods at Reasonable Prices. TO THOSE WHO OWE US: TIME IS UP. WE NEED EVERY PENNY OF OUR MONEY. Unlike whisky and tobacco, a debt doesn't improve with age. We don't want to carry any debts over to 1909. Let Us Get Square for 1908. HERNDON & GORDON. IT'S TRUE Come to Sherer's to buy your Christmas Fruits, Candies and stuff?the best in quality and lowest in price. If you want something nice in Fresh Meats and Oysters for Christmas, phone Old George and you'll get them. I want to Sell or Rent my house at once?the best business stand In Yorkvllle. Call and see me. Please call in and settle your Bill if you owe me, as I need the money to pay my Bills. You can beat Old George's Beef BUI And get mad because you are dunned, But there's a time you have to pay It And it be Fire and Brimstone?Son. OLD GEORGE, The BUTCHER. YORKVILLE BUGGY 0 STEEL Bluebird TURN PLOWS After three years of use, the ALL STEEL BLUE BIRD TURNPLOW is conceded by all users to be the beet turnplow ever sold in this town. We have them and the price is right. We have for sale a full-blooded Jersey Milk Cow with young Calf. Yorkville Buggy Co. AT KENNEDY'S Right now is a good time to make your Christmas fruit cakes, so as to give them plenty of time to season? they are better for the seasoning. I have the CITRON, RAISINS, CURRANTS, and other essentials for the making of fruit cakes the way they ought to be. See me for the best: N. C. Buckwheat Flour Quaker Oats?none better Cocoanuts, Oranges, Malaga Grapes, Prunes, Grape Fruit, Seeded Raisins Brazil and Mixed Nuts. If you are hard to please in your Clothes come and let me show you the sample line of LAMM & CO.?Best on Earth Tailors?we can please you in nnoK... In ctwlo In nHpo >nH the UMt 4 UUIilJ t 441 OVJ tVf **? |/??vv V???v> ? - we Guarantee. Ordered now you will have it before Christmas. W. M. KENNEDY, Agent. Start th e New Year Right Yes. you have been thinking about making application for a policy in the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company for some time, possibly for seviral years, but for one reason or an5ther you have put it off. None of your reasons will bear rigid analysis, but the principal one has been that your finances are not exactly in the shape you want them when you start. Son, they will never be. If you continue to wait until you are exactly ready, you will have the experience of several others who I could mention luring my nine years' connection with the company. When you are entirely ready and anxious, your physical condition may be such that no reputable company will issue you a policy. Start the new year by signing an application. [ am still prepared to offer you the yery best there is in life insurance, and in position to prove my claim. Don't pou think your wife and children have seen carrying the risk long enough? rhe company is now entering its sixty-fourth year and no company In the world has a cleaner record. SAM M. GRIST, Special Agent. MONEY TO LEND. ON improved farms in York County. Repayable In five easy annual installments. Interest eight per cent. Vo broker's commissions. C. E. SPENCER. Attorney at Law. 99 f.t 6m W The Enquirer office is especially jrepared to print Lawyers' Briefs and \rguments.