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^tumorous Department. His Excuse.?Eugene Walter, the young playwright discussed In his Ansonia apartment the failure of "Paid in Full" in London. "The London critics," said Mr. Walter, "praised my drama without a dissenting voice. From Mr. Walkley, cf the Times down they deluged me with praise. But the public would not come to the Aklwych theatre. The public was unflattering as the African sentinel. "A French sentinel in Algeria, you know," Mr. Walter explained, "had for colonel a very tall, lanky, round-shouldered man." "This round shouldered colonel one night was making a quiet- inspection. Passing the sentinel, he found, to his rage an 3 indignation, that he was not challenged. So he returned to the man and roared: "'You didn't challenge me?' " 'No. sir,' faltered the sentinel, saluting. "'Well, why didn't you?' the colonel demanded. f " 'Excuse me, sir,' said the sentinel, 'but I thought?I beg your pardon, sir ?I thought you was a camel.' " a Hakd Language.?'"Leesten!" said the perplexed Frenchman. "When you give a sing, you cannot keep 'eem! So?" "So," said the English instructor. "But when a hones' man give 'ees word, 'ee keep 'eem. So?" "So," said the instructor. "But when 'ee give 'ees word, 'ow can 'ee keep 'eem? Does 'ee take' eem back?" "No," said the instructor. "But if 'ee keeps 'ees word 'ee does not give 'eem!" "Oh. yes! If he does not keep his word he is not an honest man." wi ^ "Ah. I begeen to see! 'Aving given 'ees word and not taken 'eem back, 'ee keep 'eem all ze while?" "That's it!" "Oh, la, la. la! What a language eez zee Englishe!"?Democratic Telegram. A Close Shave.?David Warfield, the actor, was describing his- European trip. "The best thing I saw was the Milan Cathedral," he said. "The worst was the English barber. The English barber uses a dull razor. He lathers your nostrils and your lips. He brushes your hair with a revolving brush that runs by machinery. "I'll never forget my first experience of a London barber shop. It was a dim, stuffy room. I sat in a straight backed chair. The barber, though his razor was dull, cut me three times. " 'Will you have a close shave, sir?' he asked after going over my face once. "I wiped a few ruddy drops from my chin. "'If I get out of this chair alive,' I said severely, 'I shall certainly consider it such.'"?Judge. Hard Luck.?At the banquet of the St. Andrews Society, recently held in New York city, Andrew Carnegie told the following in his toast, "The Land o' Cakes:" "Golfing one day in the autumn on the St. Andrews links I said to my caddie: " 'Angus, man, the leaves are falling. The green is turning red and brown. Winter will soon be upon us. And do you get much caddying to do in the winter, Angus?' "Angus frowned gloomily. " 'Na, na.' said he, blowing his nose. 'There's nae muckle caddyin' in winter. If it's no' snaw it's frost, if it's no' frost it's snaw; if it's neither frost nor snaw it's rain, an' if it's fine it's sure to be the Sawbath.' "?Judge. Twaix's Refutation.?Mark Twain was talking about the famous robbery in his beautiful country house. "Had I been living in Hartford," he said whimsically, "some of my Hartford friends would certainly have accused me of robbing myself. They had a poor opinion of me in that town. "Marshall Jewett. the ex-governor, used to take up the collection in our Hartford church. They never asked me to take it up. I fretted a good deal over this matter. " 'Sec here, Jewett.' I said one day. they let you take up the collection every Sunday, but they would never let me do it.' "'Oh. yes. they would,' said Jewett? 'that is. with a bell punch like the horse car conductors use.'"?Boston Herald. Tiie PiiECisE Scientist.?Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania, at a dinner in Philadelphia during the opening of the opera season, said of a noted Philadelphia scientist: "He is the most exact man 1 ever met. He believes in nothing but proved facts. Continually he pins you down. "One day 1 said to him: "'Cannibalism?what an abomination! To eat of human llesh! Brrrr!' "The scientist frowned. "'Pardon me, but have you ever eatin of human flesh?' he said severely. " 'So,' said I. '"Well, then,' he demanded, 'why do you speak of things that you know nothing at all about?'"?Washington Star. CAE Oil r.?In Philadelphia they tell a story of a man whose wife had arranged an "authors' evening," and persuaded her reluctant husband to remain at home and help her receive the fifty guests who were asked to participate in this intellectual feast. The first author was dull enough: but the second was worse. Moreover, uir luuuin ?cic iiuvi^iauij ??tu m. ww, on pretense of letting in some cool air, the unfortunate host escaped to the hall, where he found a servant comfortably asleep of the settle. "Wake up!" sternly commanded the Philadelphian in the man's ear. "Wake up, I say! You must have been listening at the keyhole!"?Harper's Magazine. all Fixed.?a Chicago artist relates how a wealthy individual from Kansas City, with his wife and three sons and four daughters, once called upon him. "Here we are!" exclaimed the head of ine family. "Nearly a dozen of us, Mr. Painter. How much for a painting of the whole of us. discount for cash?" "That will depend." answered the artist, hiding a smile with his hand, "upon the dimensions, style, etc." "Oh, that's all fixed." responded the other, breezily, with the air of a man who knows exactly what he wants. "We are to be dashed off in one piece as large as life, sitting on the lawn of my place just outside of little old K. C., singing 'Hail Columbia!"'?Harper's Weekly. ittiscfllancnus iJcadini). LOST IN THE BUSH. An Experience In Crossing Interior of Australia. To be lost in the vast Australian bush during a season of drought may safely be regarded as one of the most terrible experiences which can befall a man. and the list of explorers, prospectors and others who have perished uy the cuel death of thirst is unfortunately a long one. 1 had come down from Wilcannia on the Darling, to Adelaide, with a friend for a holiday after a rather lengthy spell of monotonous station life, and hearing that things were booming in the great silver mines of Broken Hill in New South Wales, we decided to try our luck there. My experiences of the Australian bush were at that time rather limited, but my mate, a native of South Australia, was an excellent bushman, as he had often proved himself during the time we had worked together on the station. We had also come across a miner, who having accom plished the journey on foot himself, gave us full directions as to certain landmarks, such as blazed trees, and carefully instructed us as to where we would strike off to find water. With rather heavy swags but light hearts, we started merrily off, little dreaming of the trouble in store for us. For the first week or ten days we managed very well, coming across farms and stations where we could obtain rations and water, but gradually things began to get decidedly worse with us as we reached the less populous country, but still we trudged hopefully onward in spite of the heat and the scarcity of water. Late one night as we were going through an outlying cattle station we struck a lonely hut where we were kindly welcomed by an old Scotch shepherd, who was genuinely glad to see fresh faces in his isolated dwelling. We told the old man of our plans, but he shook his head very doubtfully and strongly advised us to turn back, as the country before us was in a shocking state. He said that the few creeks and lagoons were all empty, while the dams had been dried up for some considerable time. But Charlie, my mate, had made up his mind to push on if humanly able to do so, and I was naturally relying on his thorough bush knowledge. The old shepherd on hearing our decision gave us full directions as far as he was able, explaining to us the exact positions of certain dams where we might find a little water. Early the following morning we started on again, rested and refreshed, with our water bags and billies full, having taken leave of our kind host. However, on the second day after we had left the hut we had seen no trace of a dam, and our water bags were empty. The heat was terrific, and at times the burning sand, filling our boots, made walking simp?y agony. By the evening we were vainly trying to quench our burning thirst by chewing tobacco. We had hardly spoken to each other all day, and at last Charlie threw down his swag under an oak, and I was only too glad to do the same. Though I went about prospecting a little way in all directions, I could neither see nor hear anything to indicate human habitations. "Well, Xed," was his greeting on my return, "nothing? I have been bushed before, but it strikes me that we may consider ourselves lucky if we get out of this alive." He then fell into a moody silence, and I flung myself down beside him with a feeling of despair which I tried hard to s ifle. We could not resist the temptation of trying to quench our thirst by chewing the leaves of the salt bush, although we knew that while it relieved us for the moment it soon made us more parched than ever. To add to our misery there was a hot wind blowing from the north, so that we could easily have fancied that we were standing in front of a fire, with the flames blowing in our faces. At last Charlie fell asleep, murmuring incoherently, and I had also just dozed off when we were startled by the howling of some dingoes close by, and soon after my poor mate called out, "Ah, Xed, lad, we are all right now! What a pair of fools we have been not to see the dear old river! Why! there is the Darling! I knew it could not be far off!" I looked eagerly around, but could see nothing but bush, endless bush, lying calm and cheerless in the light of the brilliant moon. Trying to put on an air or hopefulness wnicn i was iar from feeling, 1 turned to my companion, saying, "Lie down, Charlie, old chap, and keep quiet while I go and fill the water bags and billies," and thus I managed to soothe my delirious mate, until again he fell into an uneasy slumber. .So the long hours of night dragged wearily on, and we were thankful to heaven for every moment of unconsciousness. Hut with the dawn we were fully awakened by a couple of laughing jackasses in the branch of a tree nearby. Their almost human laughter seemed to mock us in our misery. Charlie was now conscious, but thoroughly exhausted. He tried again and again to speak to me, but was unable to do so, his tongue being double its normal size. My own clave to the roof of my mouth and I was hardly able to swallow. 1 really think, as I look back on the horror of it all, that the only thing which saved me from going mad was the strain which I was forced to put upon my naturally slow brain for the sake of my more prostrated mate. All at once, with an unnatural energy, Charlie picked up his swag, glared at me with bloodshot eyes, and, pointing into the distances toward the sun, beckoned me to follow. I looked in the direction he indicated and saw in the near distance a beautiful blue lake. We forgot all physical pain and exhaustion for the moment and tramped on through the spinifex grass, heedless of its sharp pricking and the scratches of the brambles as we forced our way through the scrub. But. alas! that lake was always the same distance off when we thought we had twice walked far enough to reach it. We must have been struggling on for hours, when at last, unable t? go another step, we both dropped down as we were ascending a ridge the mirage ever before us. By this time my tongue was getting so swollen that I could hardly speak, while I could see, in spite of my half maddened senses, that my poor mate would not last much longer. He was absolutely past speech or effort of any kind, just babbling like an infant of 10 months. As a last despairing attempt 1 crawled back to a dead tree a little higher on the ridge, and managed to sot it on fire; its blazing branches might, perchance, give a signal of distress, and what did it matter now if I set the bush on fire! Xo torture could be greater than the death we were slowly but surely facing. By the time the tree was properly blazing, I had managed to get back to Charlie, who was now sitting up, absolutely mad. and gesticulating wildly. Occasionally a smile would flit across nis painstricken face as he seemed to oe living over again some boyish freak. His bloodshot eyes seemed almost to be leaving their sockets, when all at once he jumped up again and staggeringing forward to some imaginary water he fell, and I knew at once that he was dead. I sank down beside him and knew no more. On opening my eyes a black fellow was leaning over me moistening my lips from his canvas water bag My head and eyes were very painful, and as drop by drop he managed to get precious liquid slowly through my parched lips and over my swollen tongue the fiery agony grew gradually less, and when at last 1 managed to drink a little it seemed as if I could have drained a lake. The black fellow had a boy with him. and their ponies were tethered close by. He tended me for hours, until at last I had sufficiently revived to be assisted on to jne of the ponies. Then for the first time he spoke to me. "You die um very soon me not come, but now good." Then, pointing to poor Charlie, he said: "Me bury um by um by." As he spoke he covered my poor mate with some houghs, and catching hold of my horse's bridle he asked where I wanted to go. When I told him he replied: "This track no good; plenty white men die here." I asked how he had found me. and he explained that he belonged to a station some few miles distant. He had been sent after some horses, had seen the smoke of the burning tree, and having found us he thought at first that we were both dead. When we arrived at the station the situation was explained, and with a week's kifidly nursing I was once more able to take to the road, this time being on the right track for Broken Hill?Emile Donnier in London Field. brtcAKING JAIL. An Ex-Convict Tells How It Is Done. During the terms of penal servitude which I have undergone I have on several occasions witnessed the excitement and commotion caused in prisons by attempted or actual escapes. Furthermore, I have had chats with men who nave escaped and have not been recaptured for weeks, and they have confirmed the fact that in the majority of cases attempts to escape are not premeditated. but are done on an imnnlsp. A man sees a chance, and if he is "game" he has a try. Perhaps, too, in the twinkling of an eye, he gives the tip to a fetlow-prisoner, and. without thinking for a single moment of the serious adventure they are about to undertake, they are off. And when one attempt at escape has been made, others generally follow in the same prison, for it becomes a sort of mania for the time being. The prisoners become most elated upon hearing that an attempt to escape has been made. The prison is instantly in a commotion?whistles blowing, bells ringing and all work stopped. All the warders are eager to share in the task of recapture, for a reward of ?5 is given to the man who. brings the prisoner back. It is not generally known that three days have to elapse before the hunt is given up by the prison authorities and handed over to the civil police. For three days and nights the warders have no rest. They receive extra funds for expenses, and are sent off after finishing work at night in different directions. coming back to work in the morning. As a matter of fact, most captures are made by civilians coming upon the hunted by accident. I remember a man who was away three days, and was U 1 . . U_ ...Ml ?iw. H,,t cunsiuereu m ijc nun in uic wm who had actually, it afterwards transpired, got clean out of the district within six hours of his escape. A porter going. without any thought of the runaway, to a truck of goods awaiting transmission to London from Bodmin, in Cornwall, to see if it was properly covered, in case of rain, detected the fugitive concealed among the goods. 1 had a chat with the man some time after his recapture, and he told me that in another live minutes he would have been well away. He had managed to get in communication with some friends at Basingstoke, at which place he meant to leave the train, whether it stopped or not. Although most attempts at escape are done on the impulse of the moment, it is wonderful what a lot of possible ways of escape are talked over by men who never have the least intention, and in a good many cases the courage, to make the attempt. And it is not improbable that these suggestions are acted upon by others when an opportunity suddenly presents itself, although a few minutes before the prisoners entertained not the least idea of making an attempt. The press, by the way, often helps an escaped prisoner to evade capture, as their reports regarding the prisoner's whereabouts are frequently wrong. Phis was especially so when King and Soar escaped from Borstal. King told me himself that he slept safely in London upon the evening of the day of his escape, although the papers published so much about the prisoners being seen together in different garbs and m different parts of the country for days afterward. As a matter of fact, King and Soar parted immediately after their escape. A prisoner generally likes a companion with him when he tries to escape, and in the case of smart cracksmen every effort is made by the officers to prevent their getting Into touch with one another. By secret codes and signals, however, a couple of men, with patience and cure, can make their arrangements, although in the case of Wilkinson, the man who escaped from Portland about three years ago, it took him many weeks to get into commu nil'illKMl Willi il UiMOpillllwu. A prisoner is in no way disheartened, as a rule, by liis failure to escape. He looks upon the attempt just as an outside! would regard any particular kind of undertaking that may have failed. He is proud of the distinctive dress which he is compelled to wear, and which denotes an attempt to escape, and very little malice is borne by the authorities toward him, as a rule. For the cleverest attempts to escape are generally made by men who, in other respects, give very little trouble.?Tit Bits. <t". About twice as much power is required to stop an express train as to start one. 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See us for all kinds of Building Hardware, Including Nails, Hinges, Screws, Locks, etc. See us for Lime, Cement and Brick. J. J. KELLER & CO. SW Be sure to see us before buying any kind of Lumber. professional Cards. a. y7cartwright, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, S. C. lES^fc OFFICE HOURS: 9 ?m. to i pm.; a p m. to 5 pnr Office upstairs in the Moore building over I. W. Johnson's store. DK. ?1. W. WHITE, DENTIST YORKVILLE, 8. C. Opposite Postoffice, Yorkville, S. C JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Range YORKVILLE, S. C. J. 8. BlilCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to ail legal buslnestof whatever nature. GEO. W. S. HART, ATTORNEY AT LAW YORKVILLE, S. C. 2 Law Range. 'Phone Office No. 58 0. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings FINLFY & JENNINGS, YORKVILLE, S. C. Office in Wilson Building, opposite Court House. Telephont No. 126. TAX RETURNS FOR 1908. Office of the County Auditor of York County, South Carolina. Yorkville, S. C., Dec. 1, 1908. AS required by statute my books will be opened at my office in 1 urkville on FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1909, and kept open until FEBRUARY 20, 1909, for the purpose of listing for taxation all TAXABLE PROPERTY held in York County on January 1, 1909. Returns made on proper blanks, and sworn to before an officer qualified to administer an oath and forwarded to me by registered man oerore r eoruary 20, 1909, will be accepted. All taxpayers are particularly requested to inform themselves as to the number of their respective school districts, and where they have property in more than one school district, they will please make separate returns Indicating the location of each piece of property. The school districts in which there are special levies are as follows: No. 23 In Bethel; Nos. 29 and 33 In Bethesda; Nos. 9, 20 and 40 in Broad River; Nos. 9 and 20 In Bullock's Creek; No. 12 in Catawba; Nos. 7 and 12 In Ebenezer; Nos. 26, 28 and 39 in Fort Mill; Nos. 11, 20, 33 and 35 In York. For the purpose of facilitating the taking of returns, and for the greater convenience of tax payers, I will be at the following places on the dates named: At Clover, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 5th and 6th. At Bethel?4S. A. Glenn & Co.)? Thursday, January 7. At Bandana?(Perry Ferguson's)? Friday, January 8. At Point?(Harper's)?Saturday, January 9. At Smyrna, Monday, January 11. At Hickory Grove, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 12 and 13. At Sharon, Thursday and Friday, Janua*f 14 and 15. At Bullock's Creek, Saturday, January 16. At Tirzah, Monday, January 18. At Newport, Tuesday, January 19, At Fort Mill, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 20, 21 and 22. At McConnellsville, Monday, January 25. At Ogden, Tuesday, January' 26. At Coates's Tavern?(Roddey's)? Wednesday, January 27. At Rock Hill, Thursday and Friday, January 28 and 29, and from Tuesday, r euruuiy ~ iu r nutty, reuruarjr o. All males between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate soldiers over the age of fifty years, are liable to a poll tax of $1, and all persons so liable are especially requested to give the numbers of their respective school districts in making their returns. It will be a matter of much accommodation to me if as many taxpayers as possible will meet me at the respective appointments, mentioned above so as to avoid the rush at Yorkville during the closing days. My office in Yorkville will be open every week day from January 1, to February 20, inclusive, and returns may be made there at any time. JOHN J. HUNTER. County Auditor. Yorkville, S. C., Dec. 1, 1908. 96 t 4t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of York. IN PROBATE COURT. By 1.. R. Willinms. Esq., Probate Judge of Yora County. WHEREAS Mrs. MARIE C. GLENN has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all .and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of R. M. CARROLL, late of the county aforesaid, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at our next Probate Court for the said county, to be holden at York Court House on the 15TH DAY OF JANUARY. 1909, to shew cause, if any. why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand and Seal, this 29th day of December In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight and in the 133rd voar of American Independence. L. R. WILLIAMS. Probate Judge of York County. 104 t 2t ...BLUE ROCK... Mineral Springs (Calcic, Sodic, and Lithic Bicarbonated Saline Water.) A recent analysis of the water of this Mineral Spring by Dr. Boyden Nlms, Ph. G. of Columbia. S. C., shows it to be equal to the best Mineral Water used by the American people today. This water has been given away for more than sixty days since the present owners came into possession and has been thoroughly tested by the public, and pronounced superior to any in the State. Now on sale at the STAR DRUG STORE. To any one not yet having tried this water, we will furnish the same free upon application, until a thorough test has been given it. BLUE ROCK MINERAL SPRINGS CO.. D. L. Shieder, R. E. Heath and Mar ion B. Jennings, Proprietors. EW We will show the analysis of this water to any one, and where, at any time. No secret about it. We are not afraid to show it. AT THE BRATTON FARM. Separated Cream, Sweet Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Butler, Vegetables and Fruits, delivered in Yurkville on Tuesdays and Fridays or at the farm at all times. Postal card mailed in the afternoon will receive attention next morning. J. MEEK BURNS. Manager. Jan. 25 f.t tf FOR RENT. DICKSON HOUSE, King's Mountain street, next Garrison. C. E. SPENCER. IB ft tf W Good Printing? See The Enquirer. MAKE A CLUB J| FOR THE ENQUIRER! : Eighteen Capital Premiums 1A, r uiucu ui %p 9 iummi AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF ~ SMALLER PRIZES. ? Rubber Tired, Quarter Leather Top, Rock Hill Buggy For Largest Club. 11? IMIW IMWW??1^ Quarter Leather Top, Steel Tired, Rock Hill Buggy For Second Largest Club. ? - v Forty and Thirty Dollar Sewing Machines for Largest and Second Largest Clubs That Do Not Get Buggies in Each Township. THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER IS THE MOST THOROUGHGOING FAMILY NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH CAROLINA. It is primarily a County paper, and there is' not a paper in this state that Alls its field more completely or more impartially in this respect. It seeks to promote the material and moral welfare of its readers, and in defending and developing all that is," best in their educational, political and social life. It is owned and controlled absolutely by its publishers, who hold themselves responsible only to their subscribers as a whole on a basis of the Ten Commandments and the four Gos- H pels. As the best recommendation of the integrity of its conduct, and of the righteousness of its controlling motives it points back to a record of fltty-three years of earnest endeavor, and the present support of MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND PAID SUBSCRIBERS. The premiums offered by the publishers of THE ENQUIRER for the LARGEST CLUBS returned in the premium getting campaign of 1908-09, include Two Carolina Grade Rock Hill Buggies and Sixteen High Grade Sewing Machines. THE FIRST PREMIUM. jM The prize for the LARGEST CLUB of the contest will be a Quarter Leather Top Rock Hill Buggy, equipped with Rubber Tires and valued at Re- +jAI tail at $95. THE SECOND PREMIU3I. M The prize for the SECOND LARGEST CLUB returned in the contest will be a Quarter Leather Top Carolina Grade Rock HiU Buggy, with 8teel Tires, and valued at $70. , ? ^ FIRST TOWNSHIP PREMIUM. To the Clubmaker returning a larger club than any other Clubmaker re- ^ siding in the same township we will give One Five Drawer High Arm Sewing ^A Machine, which Retails at $40. The Machine has drop head, hand lift, and is ^^A ball bearing. It is equipped with ribbon pattern stand and ball bearing device ^A which the manufacturers claim is the best that has ever been used in connec- ^A tion with a Sewing Machine. It is guaranteed for Ten Years and will last a ^A lifetime. SECOND TOWNSHIP PREMIUM. To the Clubmaker returning the SECOND LARGEST CLUB of any Club- Vj maker In the township in which he resides, we will give a No. 26 "New Model" Five Drawer, Drop Head Sewing Machine. The furniture is of selected oak, with quarter-sawed lid, finished in dark golden oak with high polish. The retail iHm is aan. and the Machine is guaranteed for Ten Years. -4H It is our purpose to give the Buggies to the Clubmakers returning the LARGEST and SECOND LARGEST CLUBS. If both the Largest and Second ^ Largest Clubs are returned from the same township, there will be no Sewing Machine premium for that township. In case the Buggies go to TWO different townships, then the Clubmaker in each of those townships making the w Second Largest Club, will receive One of the Forty Dollar Sewing Machines. The Buggies we are offering are of the Standard Carolina Grade made by the ROCK HILL BUGGY' COMPANY. They are of the quarter leather top description, and the Retail Price of one Is $95.00, while the Retail Price of the other Is $70.00. These Buggies carried off all the premiums at the last Georgia State Fair, and it is conceded by disinterested dealers and users every- A where that there is not a better Buggy to be had in the United States for the price. There are hundreds of these Buggies running In this section and they 41 are giving general satisfaction. They may be seen on exhibition at the mam- .S moth factory of the company in Rock Hill, or in the warerooms of different dealers in this section, Messrs. Carroll Bros., of Yorkville; W. F. Harris & V Sons, of Fort Hill; S. J. Kimball & Sons, Rock Hill. The Sewing Machines are as good as are to be had at the prices quoted. CLUBMAKERS. lf ALL PERSONS who desire to do so, whether they live in York county ? -1 ' ?-? ?n out au pinhmfl if ops. All will he entitled ur eise WIICI C, UIC buiuian; IIOVUK vw v>w ?.. to participate in the competition for the Buggies, and those who are unable to get the largest clubs in their respective Townships, will be paid for their work in other premiums, commensurate in value with the value of the work performed or in cash, as they may prefer. Should it develop at the windup that the Largest Club of the entire contest has been returned by a non-resident of the county, he will receive a $95 Rubber Tired Top Buggy. WHAT A CLUB IS The price of a Single Subscription is $2 a year, or SI for si* months. In Clubs the price is $1 for six montns, or 81.75 for a year. A Club consists of two or more names returned by the same Clubmaker. The names may be OLD or NEW?that is, people who are now taking THE ENQUIRER, or who have not been taking it since the 15th day of last July?and may be sent in one, two or more at a time, with or without the cash, to suit the convenience of . the Clubmaker. ^fl OTHER PREMIUMS Besides the Buggy and Sewing Machine premiums, which are to go as full and compiete reward to the Clubmakers making and paying for the largest clubs in the county and the respective townships, we are offering SPECIAL fl PREMIUMS for all smaller Clubs, including from four names up. ' FOR FOUR NAMES.?A Stylographic Fountain Pen; a handsome Three- W Bladed Pocket Knife with name.and address on handle; or one of the late v new Novels that retail for $1.00. FOR FIVE NAMES.?A year's subscription to either of the following Magazines: McClure's, Munsey, Argosy, Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, or any other Dollar Magazine, or either of the following: A "Champion" Stem Winding Watch, a gold pointed Fountain Pen or a Four-Bladed Pocket irik. Knife. FOR SIX NAMES.?An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, Hamilton Mod- ' el 15, 22-calibre Rifle, a year's subscription to the Christian Herald, a 22- J String Zithern or any one of the new popular $1.50 Novels. FOR EIGHT NAMES.?An Ingersoll "Triumph" Watch, Daisy Repeating Air Rifle?works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain Pen?plain case; or a Hopf Model Violin or an 8-inch Banjo. * FOR TEN NAMES?One year's subscription to THE ENQUIRER, a No. 2 Hamilton 22-Cal. Rifle?model 11; any one of the $1.75 or $2 publications one year, or a Gold Mounted Fountain Pen, a good Banjo, Guitar or Violin. FOR TWENTY NAMES.?Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-oz. Canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single-Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, or any one of the $4 Magazines for one year. FOR THIRTY NAMES?Either of the following: A Single-Barrel Hammerless Shot Gun, a fine Toilet or Washstand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen, Jr., 22-Cal. Rifle. FOR FORTY NAMES.?A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York Standard Open Face Watch, a W. Richards Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun. ANYTHING DESIRED.?We will arrange to furnish any special article desired by a Clubmaker for a given number of names on application at this office. ?^ TERMS AXD CONDITIONS. THE CONTEST BEGINS NOW and will come to a close on SATURDAY, MARCH 20, at fl o'clock p. in., sharp. Each Clubmaker will be held individually responsible for the payment of the amount due on all names returned by him or her. Where it is desired to^^r^^H stop a subscription before the close of the Club contest, the Clubmaker may do so by paying the amount due at the time of such stoppage. Where a subscription hus been paid in full, it cannot be discontinued. The Clubmaker, fl however, may, if he sees proper, transfer the unfulfilled portion of the subscription to another subscriber, provided the person to whom the transfer is tn hp made 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 the Clubmaker has either paid or made satisfactory settlement for all the names on the Club. In cases of contention by two or more Clubmakers over the right to a name, preference will be given to the one who pays for the name. FIRST; but where both pay, we shall not attempt to decide the matter except by crediting r. the name for one year for each such payment. After a name has been entered on our books, no transfer will be permilted. This is positive and emphatic, and where Clubmakers attempt to make such transfers, they must concede our right to take such steps as may stem necessary to protect the fairness of this provision. The Clubmaker who ^ returns names must pay for them. Clubmakers wno try to return ana pay ior ^ names already regularly returned by others will be called down, especially % if there is evidence of an understanding between the Clubmakers. This Is not for the protection of the publishers; but as a guarantee of the fairness of the competition. Any and all Clubmakers will have the right to Get Subscribers Wherever They Can. It is not necessary that all the names shall go to the same address. The fact that a name was returned on a certain club last year does not give that Clubmaker a right to return it this year. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them, and we will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when it is sent by Draft, Registered Letter, Express or Postofflce Money Order. In sending names, Always give correct name or initials, and present postoffice address, and if possible say whether the subscribers are NOW taking the paper. Careful observance of this will be the means of avoiding mv^gh trouble and confusion. , _ m. . In the case of a tie for either the Buggy or Township Sewing Machine ' Premiums TWO WEEKS will be allowed for the working off of the tie. After the close of the contest on SATURDAY, MARCH 20, at 6 p. m., the price of a year's subscription will be $2.00, unless New Clubs are formed. L. M. Grist s Sons, Publishers w YORKYILLE, S.C.