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^tumorous Jcpartwrnt. Praying Under Difficulties. An old man in Georgia named Jack Baldwin, having lost his hat in an old dry well one day, hitched a rope to a stump and let himself down. A wicked wag named Neal, detaching a bell from Baldwin's old blind horse, approached the well, bell in hand, and began to ting-a-llng. Jack thought the old horse was coming and said: "Hang the old blind horse! He's coming this way, sure; he ain't got no more sense than to fail in on me. Whoa, Ball!" The sound came closer. "Great Jerusalem! The old blind fool will be right on top of me in a minit! Whoa Ball! Whoa, haw, Ball!" NJaol IrlnlcAd n llttla dirt OH Jack's head and Jack began to pray. "Oh, Lord have mercy on?whoa? Ball!?a poor sinner?I'm gone now! Whoa, Ball! Our Father who are In? whoa. Ball!?hallowed be thy?gee. Ball, gee! What'll I do? Now I lay me down to si?gee. Ball!" -Just then In fell more dirt. "Oh, Lord, If you ever Intend to do anything for me? back. Ball! Oh, Lord. You know I was baptised in Smith's Milldam?whoa. Ball! Ho up! Murder! Whoa!" NeaJ could hold In no longer and shouted a laugh which might have been heard two miles, which was about as far as Jack chased him when he got out.?Augusta Herald. Effect of Eulogy on Lawyers.?The Rev. F. S. C. Wicks of the All Souls' Unitarian churcn toia a gooa story uie other day of a young preacher who eulogized a very bad lawyer. He said the lawyer was a bad husband, bad father, bad neighbor and generally a bad man morally, though he had been very successful in his profession. For the funeral a new preacher in the town was selected so that he would not know just what kind of a man the lawyer had been. The preacher arrived and asked a man standing by, who was pretty much of a wag. what sort of a man the lawyer had been. The wag lauded the lawyer to the skies. The preacher believed all he said, arose and pronounced a poetic eulogy of the departed barrister. When he had heard all he could stand to hear without unburdening himself to some one present, the Judge of the court in that town leaned over to a lawyer who sat beside him and remarked: "Well, there's mighty little inducement for a really good man to die in Smithville now."?Indianapolis Star. Hit Thrtat to a Conductor.?Some time ago a man at Ypsilanti, Mich., became crazed on the subject of hypnotism and was sent on a Michigan Central train to an asylum,. When the oonductor asked for tickets the cnuey man began telling of bis hypnotic powers. "I'll hypnotize you," he said. "Fire away," replied the oonductor. The man made several passes before the conductor's face. "Now you are hypnotized," he said. The conductor looked the part as best be could. "You're a conductor," went on the hypnotist. "That's right," replied his victim. "You're a good oonductor," went on the hypnotist "Right again," said the oonductor. "You don't smoke, drink or swear at passengers. You are honest. You turn in all tickets and money you collect from passengers. Iu fact you do not steal a cent." "That's right," asserted the conductor. The hypnotist eyed him a moment, then said: "What an awful fix you'd be in if I left in thia condition!"?Kansas Citv Star. On the Limited.?The merciless heat made the passengers gasp as the limited ploughed its way steadily across the western plains. Dreary, monotonous, was the vista of sand and scrub which greeted the eyes of the wearied travellers. To add to their discomfort, above the muffled roar of the train arose the continuous wailing of a child. More than one man cursed softly and sought refuge in another car?all, as it happened, crowded. Finally a harsh-looking passenger spoke. "Why don't you keep that brat quiet?" he snapped. The mother, a forlorn-looking woman clad in rusty black, locked pathetically up at him. "I've been trying to," she faltered. "But you see, the heat and the long journey '? A new expression stole over the harsh-looking passenger's face. "Give it to me," he said in a tone of marvellous gentleness; and the poor mother placed the fretful baby in his arms. Whereupon he threw the child out of the window. Sold again!?Lippincott's. When the Judge Won Out.?Wilbur E. Williams, as speaker at the law enforcement convention, held here recently, told a story on a gas belt police , judge in explaining how men in such a position had better be careful as to the company they keep. He said some gamblers, who were brought into this judge's court, were proven guilty. The judge frowned; the gamblers frowned and marched in funeral fashion out to pay their fines. They were "digging" when the Judge passed them. He poked one of the men in the ribs. "Well, Bill," he said to the gambler, "this is not the first time I have dealt with you." "No, judge," smiled the gambler. "But It is the first time I ever came out of the game with your money," said judge.?Indianapolis Star. Practical Politics.?A political office in a small town in Iowa was vacant. The office paid $250 a year, and there was keen competition for it. The Democratic candidate, Ezekiel Hicks, was a shrewd old fellow, and a neat campaign fund was turned over to him. To the astonishment of all, however, he was defeated. "I can't account for it," said one of the Democratic leaders gloomily. "With that money, we should have won. Howdid you lay it out, Ezekiel?" "Well," said Ezekiel, slowly pulling his whiskers, "yer see. that office only pays $250 a year salary, an' 1 didn't see no sense in payin' $900 out to get the office; so I bought me a little truck farm Instead."?Lipplncott's. The old colored man had climbed Into the dentist s chair of torture. "Shall I give you laugning gas. Uncle?" queried the tooth carpenter. "Not till after de toof am out. Boss," replied the old man. "Reckon mebby Ah'll feel mo' lak laffln* den."? Chicago News. Miscellaneous grading. WHEN THE STAR RAIN FALLS. The Leonid Shower of Meteors Now Is Due. The stars are due to fall on the nights of November 12-14, a fixture In the celestial schedule of events. There is a secular change In the period of this particular display, a slow movement along the calendar, but it is only In the progress of many years that the alteration of the period amounts to so mn/?h D4 mnv be measured by a single night. Last year's display fixes the date for this year for many years to come. The November meteors will scarcely be at their best this year. In fact the earth cuts their orbit at perhaps Its most sparsely studded spot. This shower has a period roughly corresponding to the generations of human life, roughly computed as three to the century. The last great display was due in 1899, but it was a disappointment when compared with former manifestations of this periodic maximum. This year the earth crosses the orbit of this belt of minuscule members of the solar system at a point ten years away from the maximum density, about a third of the circuit of that orbit. The prospects, therefore, are that the display will not approach ^anything like the brilliance that from time to time has been observed. On the other hand the exhibition, chiefly in the early morning hours of Nov. 14, should far exceed the count of the wandering stars which blaze for a moment almost n I a, Kit ollont fllirhtj of oold in candescence. The penultimate display was a great show in the skies. It was spread over three years, the peak of Its magnificence in 1866, a heavy fall in 1867 and what might be called a smart shower even In 1868. But the 1833 rain of the heavens was most astounding. The eastern seaboard was most advantageously situated for observation on the night of November 12-13. The stars fell as fast and thick as flakes of snow on a winter day. Prof. Olmsted reckoned that 240,000 gleaming trains were visible in the course of nine hours. To the ignorant it presaged the crack of doom, the beginning of the rolling up of the heavens like a scroll. There yet live those who saw the rain of fire and who can describe how in every countryside the unlearned people sought the fields and passed the night in agony of fear, with prayer and supplication. To the faithful it was a night of terror, to those whom hope had abandoned a night of frenzy of wild excess. Such scenes were repeated, with variations according to the nature of the population, all the way from Nova Scotia to the Oulf of Mexico. It spoke well for the moral fibre of the several communities that their terror sought a religious awakening, for it was in the era of the great unrest, the period of the great unsettling: out of which arose so many new religions, that fever of new faiths. If such It was among the Ignorant, far otherwise among the learned. From the star rain of 1833 dates the beginning of all intelligence of these recurring phenomena. The astronomers, not mad nor undevout, but keen In their zeal to carry on the observations to whatever end might come?for then they had no knowledge one whit above the multitude praying In the fields with dervish howlings?then first found the key to the riddle of these visitations from the universe beyond our world's husk of air. To their trained eyes these roving streaks of light were not haphazard tracery upon the dome of night Each ball of fire followed a course all its own. Their tracks seemed aimed at every spot in the bounding horizon. Some even were seen to mount upward to the zenith and beyond upon the distant vaulted slope. Patiently the observers laid down upon the celestial chart each track as they were able to pick It from the tangle of crisscross embroidery of light. Thus in patient record did they arrive at the great discovery, fundamental to all later knowledge. Projecting each track upon the chart as it was determined by the well known stars athwart which it moved, extending each track backward against its direction of motion, it was found that the area of general intersection corresponded most closely with the point in the remoter heavens marked by the star Zeta Leonis. The radiant point had been found and delimited in space. Henceforth this November star shower was to be known as the Leonids, the lion cubs. This was the beginning of the shooting stars, and it dates from 1833, science calmly at work in the tumult of a world turned upside down. The next preceding shower has an initial importance bearing upon this discovery of the radiant point. In the early morning of November 12, 1799, at Cumana, Humboldt had witnessed a fire storm in the skies, and with his wide backward gaze he reached the conclusion that these meteors observed a period and that the study of the records of the past could be made to discover the length of the period. Three times in every century the November skies have set the s'tage for the great pyrotechnics of the heavens. A great display was recorded when Ibrahim, the second of the Aglabids lay dying before Coscenza and awaiting the coming of Sheitan to take him to the punishment of his many cruel deeds. All night long the rain of stars, the torrent of meteors, brought terror' to the faithful of one faith whose monarch lay dying, terror to the faithful of an older faith cowering behind their city walls. This was the night of Oc louer is, r rum una uaie n is easy to reckon the slow periodic change: the node advances 14J degrees In 1,000 years. That was 1,000 years ago. The second thousand years backward into time bounds the history of the lion's cubs as the world knows history. Leverrier has computed that it was no longer ago than 126 A. D. that Uranus exercised its mighty attraction upon a comet en-ant through outer space, chained it to an elliptical and recurring orbit of thirty-three years about the sun and broke it into a swarm of cosmic gravel. The word gravel is used advisedly, yet it can be no more than an estimate based upon the brief visibility of an object which in its very essence can never become tangible and therefore ponderable. No smallest mass from a periodic meteor shower has ever come to earth in such a way as to be identified beyond all peradventure of doubt. The astronomical records afford but two instances in which objects coming to earth from outer space might be suspected of a common origin with synchronous displays of meteor rains. The former of these was a bolide which came to earth in France on April 4. 905, a shower of Lyralds simultaneously attracting' to the heavens the wondering gaze of the people of western Europe. Of this hot visitant the Saxon chronicle records that one of the eye witnesses "cast water upon it, which was raised in steam with a great noise of boiling." The later Instance was observed at Mazapil in Mexico during the Andro mede rain of NovemDer zi, issa. rnai which was described as a ball of fire struck the ground and when cool was found to be a piece of iron weighing eight pounds and containing nodules of graphite. These two bodies came Into reach during a display of shooting stars. But they lack observation concerning their radiant point, therefore there Is no ground for associating them with the simultaneous phenomenon. The pea size estimate Is generally accepted as the measure of the components of the periodic shower meteors. Only slightly larger is the estimate made by Dr. Johnstone Stoney in his address to the British association upon the Leonids of 1866. "The meteors themselves," he said, "are probably little pebbles, the larger about an ounce, or perhaps two ounces, in weight and spaced in the densest part of the swarm at intervals of one or two miles asunder every way. The thickness of the stream is about 100,000 miles, which however is a mere nothing compared with its enormous length. The width is such that the earth when it passes obliquely through the stream Is exposed to the downpour of meteors for about five hours." For the Leonid stream Miss Clerke employs a bijou simile?"a ring with a gem on it" The ring is the long ellipse in which the shower revolves, now close enough to the sun to permit the earth to cross its orbit, again swinging far out beyond Uranus to the limit of planetary space, yet never quite losing its obedience to the sun's reclaiming pull. Along this long ellipse is spotted a chain of this cosmic gravel, enough to mark the presence every November night when the earth ploughs us through the orbit. The gem, a brilliant indeed, was the great central agglomeration of the mass which yielded such a terrifying rain in 1833, such a flashing display in 1866, the persisting remnant of the disintegrating comet gone Into gravel along Its orbit. That is the explanation now offered for those calendar displays, now generally accepted. Astronomy has computed the elements of each meteoric shower as It recurs. All of them have been found to obey the rules which govern the comets of known periods, those which have been proved to have elliptical orbits, and thus are chained from their first wild flights Into regular, though erratic, members of the solar system. In this theory the meteor nucleus represents the disintegration form of a comet, possibly once as brilliant an object as Halley's comet now speeding into view. At Intervals along Its orbit each comet runs the risk of several collisions, both on its outward voyage into space and upon its return, to be a spectacle in our heavens. It is merely a matter of the mathematics of orbital revolution of two bodies obeying in different order the same central impulse. Sooner or later, reckoned In cycles of long ages, the two are destined to struggle for the occupancy of the same spot at the same time. It Is the comet which bears the brunt; the earthen pots come not back from the cistern where the iron pot Is filling. The com et nas Deen snanerea ana me meieur shower is its survival. The earth has been seen to tear through such mass as a comet may be considered to possess; it has been seen to disrupt it. At first in the early existence of this degradation phase the disintegrated cometary nucleus is the brilliant on the ring; at the time appointed for the comet the rain of meteors shows some few of Its fragments flashing into fitful brilliance at the outer envelope of our atmosphere. But each pebble that once was a comet is a tiny unit of the system; it must obey the fundamental law of revolution; even as the greatest of the planets it Is subject in its minuteness to the laws of perturbation, acting counter to velocity along the uiuu iuca.no a uiaf,. Inevitably the drag dots the orbit with laggard pebbles; in slow lapse of long time the brilliant creates the ring in which it is set. As time goes longer on the ring becomes first complete, then more evenly spaced, until at last the brilliant vanishes, the setting has absorbed the gem. To the slow and inevitable cliange is added the suddenness of collision, a brief accomplishment of what would otherwise be more slowly done. As we havo nlrendv seen Leverrier found the solar history of the Leonid rain to begin in the capture of a comet accomplished by the enormous influence of remote Uranus in the year 126 of our era. At that or at some later period the parent comet was in col. ision with some one of the greater planets. Its substance was rent to pieces and the meteor gem was set upon its orbit. In 1833 and in 1866 the earth tore through the nucleus of the fragments. foa? It hiirnorl onH rlactrnvpil hv the friction engendered in its atmosphere: only a few, for the estimate of 240,000 is less than the counting of the veriest pinch of sand. To countless others it assigned a perturbation, a drag destined to spread them evenly along the orbit. The shower of 1899 showed the loss; it is computed that in less than two centuries the gem will have vanished in the evenly dotted ellipse. It has been figured out that in the point of the comet's orbit which is soon to be crossed there exists such a closeness of distribution of the icy pebbles as possibly to afford this year a considerable display. This cometary theory of explanation was not reached without a struggle. In the early days of thought, when thp Purth u'ne thp ppntra t\f rovril vlncr pettinesses, it was sought to find a telluric origin for these phenomena, not then perceived to be periodic. Some essayed the proof that the volcanoes which carried ruin to peaceful lands no less bombarded the heavens. The shooting stars were considered to be but the vulcanic ejections falling, as fall they must inevitably. When this theory failed to give satisfaction recourse was had to a theory that in some sudden way the vapors of the upper sky were agglomerated; as soon as they became ponderable they were subject to the forces of gravitation and inevitably fell. But no one was able to account for the power which acted in this sudden creation of ponderable mass from floating gas. XVvt the moon was sought out. The telescopes showed pitted mountain peaks, huge craters. At once the Idea gained ground that the volcanoes of| the satellite were bombarding the parent planet. The ballistics was computed. It was established that If an object could be ejected from the moon with an initial velocity of 8,000 feet In a second It would reach the earth's atmosphere with a velocity of 35,000 feet Yet to correspond with the measured velocity at the earth would call for fourteen times the minimum velocity of projec tlon at the lunar surface. No such power could be discovered as active upon the dead surface which we see. Out in our southwest remains unsolved the greatest problem, whether of meteorites or rain of shooting stars, a vast cavity for which the explanation has been offered that its rending of the earth's crust marks the impact of some celestial projectile. SAW STAR SHOWER. Venerable Pennsylvanian, Recatle Fall of Meteors In 1833. Henry Bott, who spent the summer at his former home In Seven Valley, devotes his leisure hours to writing up the recollections of his early days. He was born in West Manchester township In 1818, says the York (Pa.) Dispatch. What Is known to astronomical science as the "falling of meteors" In 1833 was witnessed by Mr. Bott at his paternal home In West Manchester township. Other meteoric showers have .since occurred, but none so striking as the strange phenomenon of 18S3. Even though It caused great excitement, there were no disastrous results. Meteors are luminous bodies, but most of them are or pnospnoresceni. suosiance. The following Is Mr. Bott's description of what he saw 76 years ago: It was on the old homestead farm where the writer was born and reared, In West Manchester township, York county. On the night of the twelfth and morning of the thirteenth November, 1833, while the sky was cloudless, and the air clear, suddenly the heavens became a scene never to be forgotten. Prom the constellation Leo meteors began to shoot out in all directions for the two hours between 4 and 6 In the morning. It was estimated that a thousand meteors a minute flashed and expired; It grew lighter than noonday. Crosses of fire and balls of fire, some of the appearances larger than the full moon, swept all around the heavens, explosion followed explosion, sound as well as sight, and the air was filled with uproar. All the luminaries of the sky seemed to have received marching orders. The heavens were garlanded with metorlc display from horizon to horizon, and everything was In combustion and conflagration. Many a brain that night gave away. It was an awful strain on the strongest nerves. Thousands of people fell on their knees in prayer, saying, "Is the world ending, or is there some great event for which all Heaven is illuminated?" For eight momentous hours the phenomenon lasted. East west, north and south It looked as though the heavens were In maniac disorder. Astronomers, watching that night, said that those meteors started 2,200 miles from the earth's surface, and moved with ten times the speed of a cannonball. That night will be remembered by me as long as I live. This is what a planter of South Carolina said of that night's scene: "I was suddenly awakened by the most disastrous cries that ever fell on man's ears. ' Shrieks of horror and cries of mercy I could hear from most of the negroes on three plantations, amounting in all to about seven or eight hundred. While earnestly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voice at the door calline my name. "I arose, taking my sword, and stood at the door. At this moment I hear the same voice still beseeching me to rise, saying, 'O, my God, the world is on Are.' 1 then opened the door, and it is difficult to say which excited me the most, the awfulness of the scene or the distressed cries of the negroes. Upward of one hundred lay prostrate on tho ground, some speechless, and some writhing with bitter cries, but most with their hands raised imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful, for never did rain fail much faster than the meteors toward the earth." But the excitement thus described by the southern planter ran among tho whites as well as among the blacks, among the intelligent as among the superstitious. The spectacle ceased not until the rising sun of the November morning eclipsed it, and the whole American nation sat down exhausted with the agitation of a night to be memorable until the earth itself shall become a falling star. THE HOOKWORM DISEASE. Negroes Brought It to America, But the Whites Have Let It Stay. Even though it was the negro who brought the hookworm to this country in the beginning, it is the white man who has let him spread it?has let him continue his Jungle habits and has not taught him better. Negro crimes of violence number) dozens where his sanity sins number tens of thousands. For one crime a mob will gather in an hour to lynch him; he may spread the hookworm and typhoid from end to end of a state without rebuke. Outside of the District of Co-j lumbia, there is not a law to punish him for an offence that may mean the sickness and death of a whole family. | In the end the responsibility for this /I loao an (hot had rorllippd thousands Of American families to abject poverty, that has made labor scarce and incompetent, that has lost every state below the Potomac untold millions of dollars, rests primarily with the landlord. The majority of both the poor white and the poor negro population are renters? tenants on another man's land. Too poor to put up a single small building, too ignorant to appreciate the risks they run and the need of sanitation, they take what the landlord gives and make the best of it Often the landlord is as ignorant in the matter as his tenant. Thus, largely through the Ignorance, neglect and carelessness of the landlord, it has come about in five great states that the labor problem is the problem of soil pollution and the hookworm.?McClureis Magazine. off Never suppose that in any posslKlo cltunHnn nr 11 n/lr.r nnv p i rp 11 m _ stances it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing.?Thomas Jefferson. Typewriters and telegraphers have increased more rapidly during the last ten years than any other class of persons in proportion to their numbers in 1880. PRESIDENT TO CHARLESTONIANS [Continued from First Pa#e.] oblivious to the importance and also utterly ignorant of the evidence with reference to the question: Which American discovered the Pole? I know that that is not the case with any one who has had the pleasure of being in Charleston for the last sixty days. (Laughter.) 'Then, too, I have been able to avoid election troubles and even now, have not learned all the results, because I have not had an opportunity to see them tabulated or stated. That, too, perhaps, if the elections are not satisfactory, is an advantage. The 8outh and the President. "One of the great pleasures of this f rl r\ m not cty?o I f\r I rt cr n mo Vino Kaon lii^i liivow 6,uluJ,ub ? ? ???V, IIOO what I might almost call the fervor of the reception that I have had throughout the states of the south. (Applause.) Of course, one in my position, and of limited political experience (laughter) might we'll be misled as to the popular expression and how much of it is substantial and what it means, and yet I have given some attention to the study of human nature, and I think I know the southern people, and I think I correctly construe what it is they have in their minds and hearts when they indicate to me as emphatically and sincerely as they do the pleasure that they have in my presence in their communities. (Appltause.) And that is that I am not contemplating a political revolution, that is impossible, but only that I am seeking to smooth out some of the wrinkles that may perhaps have remained from our former differences and am trying to convince the people of the south by such means as the executive has in his control of my earnest desire to make the south feel that it has influence at Washington, that its foremost men of prominence and influence are entitled to be heard, to, be listened to?(applause)?and that In treating the south this admii.Vcration looks upon it in no different sense, in a general way, from the treatment of Ohio or Illinois or the great west. (Applause.) Charleston as Home. "And now, gentlemen, I have reached the end of my speech. I can only close oy saying that after the very pleasant receptions I have had in the south, it was delightful to come to Charleston and feel that the reception here was not alone the reception of another oouthern city, but that it was the reception of a city where I had so many friendships already formed that I look at it rather as coming to a place like home, (great applause,) rather than to a place which I had never visited, and which I only regarded as a part of that genial section, with its magnificent traditions, with its enormous possibilities and with its intense loyalty. (Applause.) I say good-bye now. i hope to come again as soon as I can, and I hope that Charleston will retain all her attractiveness; that she will lo.?e none of those residences and those other structures that make her unique throughout the country; that she will continue to have that press which makes each paper so interesting in discussing the other, (laughter,) pnd that all the characters that go to make up your interesting society may remain here and live forever." Uncle 8am'e Money.?The enormous Job of counting Uncle Sam's money, commenced on November 1, by a committee of experts, aided by a large corps of assistants. The occasion for the performance of this task is Lee McClung, treasurer of Yale university, who was appointed some time ago as treasurer of the United States to succeed Charles H* Treat, and who will take the oath of A WILL On At 1 Y orkvi We will sell the fo 1 of the Norris "Sherrer I some cleared and some w 30 1-4 acres, a road and acres, road, stream and sp Ferguson, who lives near I TERMS: $100 ca on all deferred payments, Now the terms are right, t price to be set by you and property sell too cheap. 1 worth. office tomorrow and Mr. Treat will retire. Before McClung gives a receipt foi the valuables that will be turned ovei to him he wants to know that nothing Is missing. It Is the custom as well as law to count the money when there is a change of treasurers. The committee expects to begin the count tomorrow. The services of thirtj to .forty expert counters, laborers and others will be needed. It Is said at the treasury It would require about three months to count the funds. The amount In the reserve fund and the trust funds alone is about $1,500,000,000. The treasury statement showi that the gold coin and bullion held foi the redemption of United States notes and treasury notes alone amounts tc ?iuu,uuu,uuu. in me irusi. runus neic for the redemption of notes and certificates for which they are respectivelj pledged there is the staggering amouni of $1,365,512,868 in gold and silver coin Of this the gold coin amounts to $874,123,869. Altogether there is mon than $1,000,000,000 in gold alone in th< treasury. The task of counting thi gold, however, is easy compared tc that of counting the silver. The trusl funds contain nearly a half billion ol silver dollars. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE PURCHA8ER OF A Stieff Piano WHO REGRETTED HI3 SELECTION? We never have?and when It is considered how many of our pianos are In use In the United States today, this makes a record such as any manufacturer ought to be proud of. There is just one point In the construction of pianos that Is right In every detail, and we believe we have reached It. Won't you let us show you why we think so? Chas. M. Stieff Manufacturer of Artistic Stieff, Shaw and the Stieff Self-Player Pianos "The Piano with the Sweet Tone." Southern Wareroom 5 West Trade Steet Charlotte, N. C. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager (Mention this paper.) \ALL lRE going, RE1 WIN uii uvn Saturdc 1 O'clock, in Froi lie, - - - [lowing described property to tl ,ands," containing 45 acres, fou ood, road through same, lies ro stream through same, some w< ring thereon, with some cleared this property. sh, day of sale, and balance in n with the privilege of paying all he property is close to town, i the Auctioneer. Attend this si tVhen wp take thp strings off of A STEADY DRAIN ! 0 ' Sick Kidney* Weaken the Whole Body | ?Make You III, Languid and Depressed. ^ ! Sick kidneys weaken the body ? ' through the continual drainage of I life-giving albumen from the blood u ) into the urine, and the substitution s of poisonous uric acid that goes J; broadcast through the system, sowing ~ I the seeds of disea te. Loss of albu- * men causes weaL"<=tes, languor, dei pression. Uric poisoning causes rheu- * r matlc pain, nervousness, nausea, ^ i cricks In the back, gravel and kid) ney stones. The proper treatment is ~ I a kidney treatment, and the best rem edy is Doan's Kidney Pills. Here is 53 r good proof in the following teatlmoI nlal: d , E. W. Comer, 464 Hampton St., ti : Rock Hill, S. C., says: "Several years b ' ago I began to have spells of back- ti , ache, being afflicted in a rather pe- w t culiar way. A pain would strike me . when I least expected and often when si walking on the street I would be ta- tl ?t?44K ? awIa!/ (n mtr KqaIt l?nf ivuu nun a. vu\<a in 111/ ' days I was unable to get about on ac- b count of these spells. Some time ago I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills v< and procured a supply. They reliev- & ed me and I have not had a severe p. attack of the trouble since. Some times I feel a slight soreness across my loins but on such occasions I take Doan's Kidney Pills and they never m fall to give me relief. I do not think ~ there is a remedy on earth equal to them." For sale by all dealers. Price CO cents. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. i Remember the name?DOAN'S?and take no other. No. 9688. C ! TREA8URY DEPARTMENT. Office of Comptroller of the Currenoy. Washington, D. C., Sept 7, 1901. S Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned. It has been made to appear that "THE FIRST NATIONAL* BANK OF SHARON," I In the Town of Sharon, In the County < of York, and the State of South Carolina, has complied with all ef the provisions of the Statutes of the h United States, required to be complied with before an association shall be authorized to commence the business of Banking: Now therefore, L Willis J. Fowler, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that "THE FIRST NATIONAL. BANK OF SHARON," in the Town of Sharon, In the County of York, and State of South - Carolina, u auinonxea w cumuKuca the business of Banking aa provided in Section Fifty-one hundred and elx- / ty-nine of the Revised Statute* of the t United State*. In testimony whereof, witness my hand and seal of office, this seventh day of September, 1909. Q [Seal] WILLIS J. FOWLER, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Currency. Sept 10 f.t Nov. 10. ^ FOR SALE , 2 Tract No. 1?602 Acres of land in Kershaw county, 2 miles from R. R sta- tion; 100 acres open land, 200 acres as fertile land as can be found in S. c C.; 60 acres creek bottom land; 160 black loam soil. Not one acre In swamps; 76 per cent of land level. T* -* ? A ?*. A II yuu UU I1UL WIIBIUCI U CL UOltWU, I will pay all expenses of anyone who makes the trip to see the place. ? Price tiOOOUflU Timber right has been sold. Lumber can be secured for Improvements on place at very \ reasonable price. T*act No. 2?194 Acres, 2 miles from a Camden on S. A. L. R. R., between Camden and Lugoff; 50 acres river t bottom land, balance upland. Land c adjoining better Improved offered $40 b per acre. Price $21 per acre. Address $i J. U OUT, Camden, S. C. I 88 tf 6t r a n i r/?i\i GOING, ANE n m it u /II HI ly, Nov. nt of the Court Hoi South Cj lie highest bidders without limit on r miles west of Yorkvillle, a spring lling but can be improved. Also ood and some cleared, and Tract 1 land and wood also. For further it lonthly installments of $25 each, 8 cash. Deed to be given when pre and you have an opportunity to bi lie and bring your friends, and dot property we like to see the people TAX HOTICE-1909, ffioe of tho County Treasurer of York County. Yorkvllle, S. C.f Sept 14, 1*09. kT OTICE is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county will 3 opened on FRIDAY, the 1STH DAY F OCTOBER, 1909, and remain open a til the 318T DAY OF DECEMBER. m 109, for the collection of STATE, " OUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL AXES for the flecal year 1909, wlthat penalty; after which day ONE ER CENT penalty will be added to II payment* made In the month of ANUARY, 1910, and TWO PER ENT penalty for all payment* made i the month of FEBRUARY, 1910, and EVEN PER CENT penalty will be dded on all payments made from the 3T DAY OF MARCH, to the 1STH AY OF MARCH, 1910, and after this ate all unpaid taxes go Into execuons and all unpaid Single Polls will a tii rnnv?r to tha uverai Ttfa?H?. ate* for prosecution In accordance ith law. f For the convenience of taxpayers*, I # 111 attend at the following places on ie days named: At Rock Hill from Monday, Novemer S, to Saturday, November IS. And at Yorkvllle from Monday, Noember 15, until the Slat day of Deember, 1909, after which day the fRr enaltles will attach as stated above. HARRY E. NEIL. County Treasurer. 74 t 4t professional Cards W. W. LEWIS ATTORNEY AT LAW YORKVILLE - - - - 8. C. ffllce Opposite the Court House on west Liberty Street. A. T. CAR TWILIGHT URGEON DENTIST YORKVILLE, 8. C. OFFICE HOURS: 9 am. to 1 pm.| 2 pm. to 5 pm. p. Office upstairs in the Moore build- ' ig over L W. Johnson's store. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW || No. s Uw Ranee YORKVILLE, 8. C. J. S. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. j?m Prompt attention to all legal business f whatever nature. own w s_ haht Jt ATTORNEY AT LAW ^ YORKVILLE, 8. C. Law Rang*. 'Phona Office No. M I. E. Finloy. Marion B. Jennings. FINLEY & JENNINGS, YORKVILLE, 8. C. Office in Wilaon Building, oppooita AT THE BRATTOK FAUL ft 117 E are offering thoroughbred T Guernsey Heifers at from 910 up nd we have also a number of Berkhire Gilts with thoroughbred Pigs hat we will sell. Will deliver pure, lean milk at 10 cents a quart Cream, utter and fresh eggs on orders. w Pure Berkshire Pigs at from 99 to 5 each. Pure Buff Orpington eggs at 1 a setting of IS. J. ?* g BURNS. nan?w. WS3 ' I ICTION Wj use, * irolina. 4 ' ~V m . ?< r l above date: Tract wo. ^ j and cabin on this tract, Tract No. 3, containing No. 6, containing 52 34 * lformation, call on S. T. per cent annual interest H iperty is paid for in full, fl ny you a small farm at a I ^ n't stand by and see the make it bring what it is 1