University of South Carolina Libraries
tumorous Jrpartuunt. Met Him at the Station. She was rushing through the gate I>ast Bill Gibson, the gatetnan, like a passenger train by a tlag station, but Gibson stopped her, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Let's see your ticket, lady," he asked politely enough. "Oh, I have no ticket," she said, "but won't j'ou please let me through. I want to?" .v.., ....I*,.," r.iit in Hill lis agauisi me i uivu, vu> ... son. "Yes. but I want to be there on the platform"?all this breathlessly?"I'm so anxious to meet him." "Well, go on through," Gibson told her. "I guess it'll be all right." Then to himself he soliloquized: "Why not? Perhaps she won't always be so ke?n to meet him. Probably hasn't been married but a month or so. Mebby isn't married yet at all. Far be it from me to interrupt her in such nice little attentions." The train came in. Gibson sort of looked out of the tail of his eye for a chance to witness the happy reunion. Such sights illumine the dark recesses of the dingy old deppo. In a moment he caught sight of her. But her husband or sweetheart?if she has one or the other?was not with her. However, she was not alone. Under her arm she clutched tightly a compact brindle English bulldog with a countenance like a dissipated gargoyle. The Barber's Idea. Rentley had been out late the night before, or, rather, he had stayed in late in a little affair, and about all he had left to show for it in the morning was an old-fashioned away-from-homemade headache. In hope of relief he had sought his old friend, the barber, and the latter had been busy on Bentley's head and face for the past hour. "By jove, Karl!" said Bentle.v, as the barber rubbed the top of his head, "that feels mighty good, I can tell you. The man who invented massage was not only a genius, but a benefactor to the whole human race. They ought to put up a statue to him. There's nothing like it when a fellow feels seedy. There's only one trouble about it." "Vot is it?" asked Karl, hoping that perhaps he might overcome the difficulty. "Why, it's all on the outside," said Bentley. "If there were only some apparatus .that would enable you to get inside a fellow's head and clear out the pains of the morning after, what a blessing it would be." "Veil," said Karl, "I fink that maybe some day does vacuum cleaner fellers vill do dot already. Vot?"?Harper's Weekly. A Hard Heart.?Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the famous Denver juvenile court said in the course of a recent address on charity: "Too many of us are inclined to think that, one missten made, the boy is gone for good. Too many of us are like the cowboy. "An itinerant preacher preached to a cowboy audience on the 'Prodigal Son.' He described the foolish prodigal's exA J iravctKi&m'c tutu uissijuiuuu, uv uvscribed his penury and his husk-eating with the swine in the sty; he described his return, his father's laving welcome, the rejoicing, and the preparation of the fatted calf. "The preacher in his discourse noticed a cowboy staring at him very hard. He thought he had made a convert, and addressing the cowboy personally, he said from the pulpit: " 'My dear friend, what would you have done if you had had a prodigal' son returning home like that?' " 'Me?' said the cowboy, promptly and fiercely, 'I'd have shot the boy and raised the calf.""?Detroit Free Press. The Chief Crime.?The minister's class at the Kirk of Tobermory had" been reading the story of Joseph and his brethren, and the minister was asking the boys a few questions in review. Their replies had all been quick, concise and correct, such as: "What great crime did these sons of Jacob commit?" "They sold their brother Joseph." "Quite correct. And for how much did they sell him?" "Twenty pieces of silver." "And what added to the cruelty and wickedness of these brothers?" A pause. "What made their treachery even more detestable and heinous?" Then a bright little Highlander stretched out an eager hand. "Well, my man?" "Please, sir, they selt him ower cheap."?The Housekeeper. Why H j Called.? From an eastern city comes a sad story of a pawnbroker. He was enjoying a beauty sleep when a furious knocking at the street ,l.vr- l.rfiiiffht him t,. th?> witltliiw with a jerk, acording to the Rehoboth Sunday Herald. "What's the matter?" he shouted. "Come down," demanded the knocker. "But?" "Come down!" The man of many nephews hastened downstairs and peeped around the door. "Now, sir?" he demanded. "I wan'sh know the time." said the reveler. "Do you mean to say you waked me up for that?" How dare you!" The midnight visitor looked injured "Well, you've got my watch," he said. The Convict's Complaint.?Cornelius V. Collins, the criminologist and superintendent of New York's state prisons, narrated at a dinner in Troy some reminiscences of his interesting work. "A clever criminal of gluttonous proclivities," he said, "once couched a complaint in rather neat terms. "My ins|?ector, entering this man's cell one day, found it very hot and stuffy. "'Why have you got your ventilator closed?" he asked. "The burly and gluttonous prisoner answered plaintively: "'Well, inspector, yer honor, the last time I had the ventilator open a wasp Hew in, you see, and carried off my dinner while my hawk was turned." Feminine Curiosity.?Her husband was a merchant, and one day while downtown she dropped into his office. "What are all those books on top of the safe?" she asked. "Those are the day books, my dear," he replied. "And where are the night books?" she queried. "Night books!" he echoed in surprise. "Yes." she rejoined. "Those you have to work over at night sometimes, when you are kept here until 2 o'clock in the morning." -Chicago News. ittisfcUancous trading. FROM NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES* News and Comment About Things In and Around the Country. Lancaster News, June 25: Just mi the eve of going to press, we learn that Mrs. T. C. Green has passed away at the Columbia hospital, where she was being treated A particularly fine, CVCIIIJ UMliroicu gallic ui I'an ttao i played at Heath Springs Wednesday afternoon between the Lancaster and Heath Springs teams, the score being 1 to 1 Mr. J. C. Falkenbury of j Heath Springs, route 4, sent us by mail Wednesday a cotton bloom, the first received at this office this season. Mr. Falkenbury writes that he found the bloom in his field on the 21st instant. ....Mr. M. J. Walters' and Mr. Hugh Taylor's boys, Oscar and Charlie, killed two large snakes Wednesday afternoon, on Mr. Taylor's place, in the Tabernacle section. The reptiles each measured five feet in length. They had just started up a tree in which there is a bird's nest, presumably to get the eggs. They had probably gotten the owner of the nest on a previous trip, as bird feathers and bone were found under the tree As heretofore published, the joint summer school for teachers of Lancaster and Kershaw counties will open at Kershaw next Monday morning. Competent instructors will be in charge, and it is hoped, for the benefit of the teachers themselves, their schools and the cause of education generally, that the attendance will be large and full. The summer school is no longer an experiment. Its potency as a factor in the improvement of teachers and their methods of I Instruction has long since been conclusively demonstrated. Every teacher, no doubt, who has ever attended a summer school has felt and profited by Its helpfulness. Oftentimes new ideas are instilled, old ones presented in a new light and better and more practical methods of imparting knowledge acquired. A teacher has the opportunity to profit by the experience of others whose work in the school room has been notably successful. Rock Hill Herald, June 24: Wednesday afternoon. Miss Avalon Huddleston and Mr. Melvin Lesslie drove down to Lesslie's and were quietlv married. Miss Huddleston is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Huddleston, who live on Peaehtree street. The rooms of the new Catawba club, in the People's National Bank building are about completed and will soon be ready for use. The rooms occupy the whole third floor and present a handsome and attractive appearance. Little Harriet, the sixteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fewell, died this morning at 9.30, of colitis and whooping-cough. The little one had been sick since early spring and everything possible was done for her relief, but to no avail Mrs. J. W. Dunlap died yesterday afternoon ^t 3 o'clock at her home on Jones street. She had been sick for about eighteen months of pellagra. She leaves her husband and one son About two weeks ago the patrons and trustees of Ebenezer school met in the school building for the purpose of considering the advisability of employing a male teacher for the next session with the object of reviving or re-establishing the Ebenezer High school. Much Interest and enthusiasm were manifested and it was unanimously decided to employ a male teacher. Mr. J. W. Mack of Lone Star, OrangebOrg county, was elected principal and has accepted the school. Mr. Mack is a splendid young man, a graduate of Newberry college and taught very successfully last session as principal o? the Elloree High school, Orangeburg county The Danville (Va.) Regis ter of June 18th contained the following account of the marriage of Miss Satterfield to Mr. McFadden of this city. The home of Mrs. E. C. Satterfield on North Main street was the scene of a pretty wedding yesterday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock when her youngest daughter. Miss Alice Satterfield, became the bride of Mr. Claud B. McFadden of Rock Hill, S. C. The parlors were tastily decorated for the occasion. The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march, rendered by Miss Flossie Adams. Rev. H. W. Davis, pastor of the Calvary Methodist church officiated. The bride, becomingly attired in a white messaline silk dress carried bride roses and wore a pearl necklace, the gift of the groom. Miss Rozelle Satterfield, sister of the bride and maid of honor, wore pink messaline with gilt trimmings, and carried a bouquet of American Beauty roses. The groom was accompanied by his best man, Mr. Thomas V. Wilkinson. Chester Lantern, June 24: The wife and seven children of Mr. J. G. Simpson, who live on the York road, we v poisoned Tuesday night from eating ice cream and for a time were in a serious condition. Dr. W. M. Dove was summoned and attended them at once. They are now all right with the exception of Mrs. Simpson and son Sam, who are still pretty sick. However, no serious results are likely to follow Mr. James Sanders and Miss Lilly Burray from Fort Mill, came down this morning on No. 29, the southbound train, and called on Rev, Victor Robinson to tie the knot, but from the fact that Mr. Robinson did not have a local license he declined to marry them. Mr. J. J. Ward happened to be passing and volunteered his services and took them to Judge McLure, who soon mane mem nusnanu ami wiie. The happy couple took the northbound train for Fort Mill, their future home. Before a rather slim attendance at the Athletic hall park yesterday afternoon, Chester defeated Rock Hill in a double-header, taking the tirst by a score of S to 7, and the second by a score of 10 to 1. The tirst game was closely contested ami excited much interest. But in the second the boys from our "windy" neighbor town went all to pieces, and were literally slaughtered by the locals. At no time of the second game did Rock Hill get as much as a look in and when the smoke ideated Chester had ten runs chalked up to her credit. Rock Hill had one lone tally and sgemed surprised that she had obtained that. Wilkes pitched both games, winning them easily with the good support of the team behind him. His pitching was the feature of the tirst game while his twirling and the heavy hitting of the locals featured the second....Mr. Jim W'ootan, who drives a public hack, was badly hurt by his horse running away yesterday afternoon. He was caught in the wheel of the carriage and considerably bruised. His left leg was badly sprained in me acciuem, i'm mi' iiiii hu i-t-|mu iji mis morning that lie is doing fairly well and hopes to he out in a few days. It seems that Mr. Wont an had driven his horse home yesterday afternoon after meeting the incoming trains. The horse was still hitched to the hack antf Mr. Wootan pulled the l?ridle off to fix a broken part when the runaway began. No sooner had he taken off the bridle than the horse began to run. In the melee, Mr. Wootan was caught in the wheel and suffered much bruising before being extricated... .One of the most interesting social events that lias occurred in Chester for some time was the marriage of Miss Lucile Hood and Mr. Harry Williams, which was solemnized Wednesday evening at the home of the bride on Center street. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Carrie Hood, as maid of honor, and her bridesmaid was Miss Claribel Williams, sister of the groom. The groom's best man was Mr. Clarence Williams and Mr. William Hood acted as groomsman. The wedding party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn's march, splendidly rendered by Mrs. Quitman Hood, aunt of the bride, at the piano, accompanied by little Miss Adeline Hood on the violin. They proceeded to their places under a.large floral wedding bell, where Rev. J. S. Cartledge, pastor of Purity Presbyterian church, performed the ceremony, during which the strains of a violin obligato were wafted softly to the ears. Gastonia Gazette, June 24: Following a discussion in mass-meeting last night the city council granted a franchise to the Isothermal Traction company for a period of sixty years The home of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lowry of the New Hope neighborhood, was saddened Wednesday night by the death of their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, aged 16 years, who passed away at 8 o'clock that night after an illness of a month or more with typhoid fever complicated with rheumatism. Besides her parents, the deceased young lady is survived by one sister, Reda, and two brothers. James and J. W., Jr Mr. Weir B. Beatty died at his home at Cherryville, this county, Wednesday night as the result of a stroke of paralysis which he sustained the day before. Funeral services were held at 7 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home by Rev. James Wilson, pastor of the Methodist church at Cherryville, following which interment was made in the Lutheran cemetery. Mr. Reatty was a son of the late Mr. J. O. Reatty and was born 63 years ago in the Pisgah section of this county. He served in the Confederate army as a member of the North Carolina Junior Reserves. The following account of the Hopkins-Page wedding is from the New Orleans Times-Democrat of lasf Saturday: "The wedding of Miss Page, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Page of Oastonia, N. C., to Mr. Charles W. Hopkins, now of New Orleans, was celebrated here very quietly yesterday from the home of the bride's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Rhodes, No. 220 Audubon boulevard. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Alexander, a Presbyterian pastor. Plans for the wedding had heen* decided upon very recently and the event was very quiet in consequence. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins will be at home after July 1, at the residence that Mr. Hopkins has recently had erected, No. 241 Audubon boulevard." Chief of Police J. W. Carroll is in receipt of the following letter, under date of June 20th. from Mr. James Alton, special agent for the Southern railway at Spencer: "Dear Sir:?I have in my possession a cheap suitcase which contains a lot of old clothes, photographs, etc., also several letters, some of which were addressed to Mr. J. D. Carnes, Oastonia, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1, Box 40, and one was addressed to A. W. Price, Gastiona. N. C. This suitcase was found in Henderson's woods, between Salisbury and Spencer, this morning and the contents were scattered on the ground around the suitcase. Among other things was a coat split wide open from the collar to the tail, which was evidently done with a knife. We have no report of above mentioned suitcase being stolen from the depot and it may be possible a crime has been committed. I have reported the above facts to the police department at Salisbury and Spencer and suppose they will investigate the matter as far as they are able." Chief Carroll has taken the matter up with the police departments at those two places by correspondence but as yet has received no reply from them. Mr. J. D. Carnes, a man of perhaps 25 years of age, was working for Mr. J. B. Foy in the Pisgah section of route one. Two weeks ago he left Mr. Foy's and nothing has been heard of him since. He is a relative of Mr. J. B. Carson of the same community. BIRTH OF THE MOON. When the Earth Was a Sphere of Lava, Molten and Flattened. The earth revolves on its axis once in twenty-four hours. Millions of years ago the day was twenty-two hours; millions of years before it was twentyone hours. As we look backward into time we find the earth revolving faster and faster. There was a time ages ago, long before geology begins, when the earth was rotating in a day of five or six hours In length. In the remotest past the earth revolved in a day of about five hours. It could revolve no faster than this and remain a single unbroken mass. ll was ai iniH unit* mm im* iiummi was horn, separated, broken off from the parent mass of the earth. The earth was then a molten, flattened sphere of lava. Its whole body was fluid. The tides, which now are small, superficial and, so to say, local, were then universal and immense. They occurred at short Intervals. The whole surface of our globe was affected. And the corresponding lunar tides In the fluid, molten moon were Indefinitely greater still. Our day is now twenty-four hours. The distance of the moon is now 240,000 miles. When our day was about five hours long the moon was in eontact with the earth's surface. It had just broken away from its parent mass, As the length of the terrestrial day increased, so did the distance of the moon. The two quantities are conneeted by inexorable equations. If one varies, so must the other. Whenever the rotation time of a planet is shorter than the reriod of revolution of its satellite the effect of their mutual action is to accelerate the motion of the .satellite and in inrce n m move mi a larger orbit. to increase its distance, therefore. Tin* day of tin* earth is now shorter than the month?the period of revolution?of the moon. The moon is therefore slowly receding' from us. and it has heen receding for thousands of centuries, Rut the day of the earth is, as we have seen, slowly growing longer. The linger of the tides is always pressing upon the rim of our huge flywheel and slowly hut surely lessening the speed of its rotation. So long as the terrestrial day is shorter than the lunar month the moon will continue to recede front us. Harper's. HOW SILK IS MADE. The Product of Spinners Who Work Without Pay. The story goes, and it Is said to be an historical story, that two ingeniously subtile old monks are responsible for all the silk dresses in Europe. Thirteen and a half centuries ago they smuggled some silkworm j eggs out 01 enma. aoo an me sn^ of Europe have been spun by these eggs' caterpillar descendants. China had been cornering all the silk of the world and sending big caravans lavishly laden with fine raw and finished silken wares to Syria and other countries, while Persia became the silk market for the celestial empire and Europe, and supplied the Greeks and Romans with their ( graceful silk robes until the middle of the sixth century. Then the war with * the Emperor Justinian brought the j Persian silk tratlic nearly to ruin when the two Xestorian monks came in from China with relief. The monks had a quantity of silk- , worm eggs concealed which they de- j livered to Justinian. And he soon had the European monopoly of silk tnak- , ing. But at his death many others { took a part in it until France, Austria, j Italy, and the Levant have become j celebrated for their silks and pro- , duee them through all the elaborate { processes from the spinneret of the | caterpillar to the fine fabric that j adorns the butterflies of fashion. All j of these processes and their every stage of art, of nature, of machinery. ( need much labor and skilled watch- j ful eyes and deft fingers. I Long Process In Making. I The people that know say that more I time Is needed to get up a silk frock 1 from the raw materials of the mul- 1 berry leaf than is needed to build a t locomotive from the ores. And more 1 persons are required In the construction of the gown which simply ornaments the ballroom than in the construction of the giant iron engine which is intrusted with hundreds and f hundreds of lives and multimllllons of dollars of foods and stuffs and other merchandise. So that it is not at all wonderful that silk dresses are dresses of price. It is only wonderful that they are not dresses of greater price and beyond everything save the pocketbook of Mme. Croesus. It is wonderful that even the girls in the mills who lly the shuttles can have waists and skirts and flaunting ribbons of that costiliest of textiles which they are helping to make. But the real price paid for the silk is paid by the women and children of India, China, and Japan, of the Levant, and the south of Europe, who work for inconceivably small wages that you and I may buy at inconceivably small . prices. They are known to the economists as the cheapest labor in the world. And they are the people that feed and care for the silkworms and reel the silk filaments from the silk cocoons. Eggs Like Turnip Seeds. The silkworms are called by the entomologists the larvae of the moth Bombyx mori. Their eggs look like turnip seeds and weigh only about a hundredth of a grain. They are hatched artificially and the caterpillars are raised in rooms with plenty of light and air and even temperature. They ^ are hungry creatures and are given . enormous quantities of fresh mulberry leaves which increase their weight I about ten thousand times in thirty or I forty days. They are now about three inches long, climb little twigs and branches supplied them and spin their cocoons. I To do this they throw out two streams of a viscid, semi-fluid filament through the spinneret just under the mouth. The two filaments merge into one as they harden. Twenty-four hours later the little caterpillar is veil- 1 ed in his mesh ?.nd three, four, or five 1 days afterward his cocoon is finished, i He has shrunken to half his size, s transformed into a chrysalis and hous- i ed in his little satiny lodge ready to s come out a little later as a full fledged e moth and lay his three or four hundred \ eggs before dying. However, since r it injures the silk fabric when he ] breaks through the cocoon the silk 1 raisers slip him, cocoon and all into a steam heater and allow only enough curysaiiues 10 survive iu supply mem | with eggs. The cocoon has an outer tangle of straggling threads which anchor it to the twig and an inner sheath incasing the chrysalis. The outer thread is tloss or waste. The inner is thoroughly soaked in water to loosen it and then caught on a fine brush and passed through an eyelet to a reel and wound in a continuous thread 800 to 1,000 yards long. The silk is taken in skeins from the reels and is then the raw silk of commerce. A great many people at different times have tried persistently to grow this raw silk in the United States. But they all have failed, although some California enthusiasts are still trying and still hoping for success. But unless there is a distinct change In things t raw silk making can never succeed in j America save by engaging children to ( do the work and engaging them at cru- * elly small wages. The United States has its success in j silk manufacture. Its silk throwing . and silk weaving machinery is the ^ most nearly perfect anywhere and its mechanical power is the largest and the best. Mansfield, Conn., in 1810 had the first silk mill of the western hemisphere, and five years later Philadel- * phia had the next and four years after, < in 1834, Baltimore had the third. New < York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, ? Connecticut, and New Jersey soon be- t came silk centers. And when the Kng- i lish took the duty from silk In I860 t many of their silk throwsters and i weavers were thrown out of work and l came over to America with their ma-' ( chines and men. Thev settled In Pat erson, N. J? and made Paterson the 1 pre-eminent silk center <>f the states, f an honor still its own. t But even so by 1870 the Americans were manufacturing: only 23 per cent of i the silk they were using. By 1880 the percentage was 3.8, and 1890, 55, and i 1885, 85. In 1868 they imported only 512.449 pounds of raw silk and in 1909 they imported 23,333,750 pounds of raw silk, or two-fifths of all the raw silk of the world. The American silk mills t have a capital of $100,000,000 and cmploy over 75,000 persons. They get most of their raw silk front Japan and the next largest (plan- { tit.v front China, which really produces more silk than any other country. But the Chinese use more than half their 1 silk themselves so that this never 1 reaches the outside world and conse- ( queiitly nobody knows just how much i China really has. The Chinese and Ja- I panese silk comes into the Pacific ports and thence it hurries to New York on 1 the "silk special," a train that has the right of way over every other on the road and is carefully tended as is no other. For all the trainmen know that each car is loaded with $125,000 worth of silk or more and the entire train carries silk worth anywhere from a million to two millions of dollars. All the raw silks that enter America go direct to New York. And this has made of New York the second greater raw silk market in the world. Shanghai is the first. The raw silks are tested for moisture as they have a remarkable affinity for water and can make great trouble for the men who are buying them at from $3 to $5 a pound. They are tested also for fineness, elasticity, tenacity, and twisting power Then they are sold to the manufacturers and slipped into light cotton bags and soaked a number of hours In warm, soapy water. This is the first step iii silk manu1 facturc and is called throwing. They ! art* dried, stretched <>n swifts or sKeieton reels and twisted this way i?r that according to the sort of silk to he woven. Pongee is not twisted at all, hilt used single. The thrown silk is scoured to removed some.of the natural gum so that it will he more lustrous and take the dyes better. Then itisshank' en, glossed and lustered and is now ready for the dyer. Silk Naturally Most Durable. The dyer can work great havoc with silk. When no damage is done it the ' silk is the most durable and sturdy of textiles. Hut dyers and manufacturers sometimes dip the thrown silk into bichloride of tin to multiply its weight i three and four fold. They stretch the skeins so that a given weight will weave a greater number of yards. They steam it so that it will have an unnat ural luster. They dye it with inferior - dyes. All this isprofitahle to mantifactarm's. hut highly unprofitable to consumers and is the real story of the silk petticoat panic. Women wonder why their silk skirts mysteriously split, [ rack and fall into holes even when only hanging in closets or lying in bureau drawers. The silk is not treacherous. But the ways of the men who manufacture it are. The silk reaches the factories in skeins. The skeins for the warp or the ?hain of threads running lengthwise >f the cloth are* placed on bobbins. And the bobbins are set on an upright frame. The skeins for the woof or filling threads which cross the chain at Hght angles are wound on bobbins and from the bobbins to smaller spools :-alled <|uills which fit into the shuttles, raven plain silk weaving is done with inconceivably elaborate machinery. But it moves so quickly that one's eye an scarcely follow the flying, flashing shuttles to and fro. How Flowered Patterns Are Woven. Silk with figured patterns is woven ?n a Jacquard loom or a loom with a lacquard attachment, which has been mnwri fur it? imrciiious Frenchman nventor, Joseph Maria Jacquard. The pattern cards arc a big branch of the ?ilk industry and are hand painted by food artists on papers ruled with a square each for every crossing of the hreads of the warp and woof. The woven silk is placed on a frame vhere every inch is examined for soils, jtains. knots, and other flaws. Then it foes to the finishing department and t> sometimes singled to remove rough tap. It is sprinkled, sponged with wax ind gelatin and secret concoctions, and finally calendered or ironed with the iteel rolls which lend the last lovely uster. And when it passes on to the shelves if the silk shops and into the caressng fingers of the marvelous modistes :o grow grandly out into ball dresses ind reception frocks which shall set forth the charms of fashion devotees, who would suppose that its beginning was with the crawling caterpillar and :he thready gum steaming from the uulging caterpillar sides? The Dangerous Fly. Keep the flies away from the sick, (specially those ill with contagious liseases. Kill every fly that strays ino the sick room. His body is cov red with disease germs. Do not allow decaying material of my sort to accumulate on or near your iremises. All refuse which tends in any way to ermentation, such as bedding straw, laper waste and vegetable matter, ihould be disposed of or covered with ime or kerosene. Screen all food, whether in the louse or exposed for sale. Keep all receptacles for garbage (arefully covered and the can cleaned >r sprinkled with oil or lime. Keep all stable manure In vault or lit, screened or sprinkled with lime, >il or other cheap preparations, such is are sold by a number of reliable nanufacturers. See that your sewerage .system is in food order; that it does not leak, is ip to date and not exposed to flies. Pour kerosene into the drains. Burn or bury all table refuse. Screen all windows and doors, esjecially in the kitchen and dining oom. If you see flies, you may be sure hat their breeding place is in nearly filth. It may be behind the door, inder the table or in the cuspidor. If there is no dirt and filth there vill be no flies. KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL Health is Worth Saving, and Some Yorkville People Know How to Save It. Many Yorkville people take their ives in their hands by neglecting the cidneys when they know these organs ! teed help. Sick kidneys are responlible for a vast amount of suffering ind ill health, but there is no need to I luffer nor to remain in danger when ill diseases and aches and pains due to veak kidneys can be quickly and pernanently cured by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. The following statement eaves no ground for doubt. i D. E. Fincher, 119 N. Wilson St., ^ock Hill, S. C., says: "For more than i year I suffered from a severe pain n the small of my back and sides and here was often a soreness through my . cidneys. During these attacks I felt niserable and on arising in the mornng I was so lame and sore that I could rnrdly get around. I knew from these hfliculties that my kidneys were dis rdered and I Anally began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. They did me a treat deal of good. I seldom have jiny >ain now, my kidneys give me no more rouble and I am better in every way. do not hesitate to recommend" Doan's Kidney Pills to other kidney sufferers." For sale by all dealers. Price f-0 :ents. Foster- Milbum Co., Buffalo, Mew York, sole agents for the United states. Remember the name?DOAN'S?and :ake nc other. 3LEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXAMINATIONS. The examination for the award of scholarships in Clemson Agricultural , College will be held in the County , ?ourt House on Friday, July 8th, at 9 i. m. Applicants must fill out proper 'orms, to be secured from the County Superintendent of Education, before hey will be allowed to stand the examnations. For detailed Information, apily to the Superintendent of Education, ; >r to the President of Clemson College. Applicants for admission to the Colege, but not seeking for the scholarihins. will also stand entrance exanii mtlons at the court house July 8th. The scholarships are worth $100 and 'ree tuition. The next session of the college opens Sept. 14th, 1910. Cost and Courses of Study, (1) Agriculture. (2) Agriculture and Chemistry. (3) Agriculture and Animal lndusry. (4) Chemistry and Geology. (5) Civil Engineering. (t>) Mechanical and electrical En- | rineerlng. (7) Textile Industry. Cost per session, including Board. Laundry, Heat, Light, Uniform and all lees, $118.70. Books and all other mls;ellaneous supplies, about $20.00. For students who pay tuition, $40.00 additional. For catalog and Information, apply :o W. M. RIGGS, Acting President. 41 t 4t* GIVE IIS YOUR m DO IT NOW 'J Sooner or later?the sooner the better?you will be using the kind of STATIONERY that we turn out. Your business is worthy of being represented by the Highest Class of Printing?Neat, Attractive, Superior in Quality?Send Us Your Order Today. WE WILL GIVE IT PROMPT ATTENTION i [ MorkvilleEnquii NEW PERFECTION I Wick Blue name Oil Cook-Stove Ideal for .Summer cook;r>c Cut* fuel expense In iwo. Saves luhor. Wives clean, muck rebu l> ' hree sires Sn"v "iiMm' ' STANDARD O!L, CO. (' ri?-riu< J. C. WILBORN REAL ESTATE LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME IF YOII WANT TO SELL? j; I want to buy or re.it a cheap Hoive or Mule. ? FOR SALF, ? 285 Acres?Joins Wm. Bisters, Meek Faulkner, Jim McOill; 5-horse farm; 1 house, C-rooms, 7f> acres under cultivation; 185 acres in timber. Some saw timber; near to Enon church; 2i miles Smyrna; 4 tenant houses, 35 acres of bottom land. Price $15.00 per acre. ): 61 Acres?Joins Dave Clark, Cal Clark and Carson lands; 1 story, 4room house, new; 45 acres under cultivation, 2 acres in timber, young orchard, 3 miles from Filbert. All buildings are new. Price $40 per acre. One lot on East Jefferson street In Yorkville, 78x374 feet, near graded school; joins Clarence Lowrance?Miss Hattie Lowry lot. 740 Acres?J. E. Lowry lands?the finest in York county. Level and rich. See this farm. 144 Acres?At C. C. Hughes store; 3 houses; good, level land. Price $25.00 per acre. 275 Acres?Joins J. E. Lowry. Price $25.00 per acre. Miss Ida de Loach residence?$3,000. Miss Dolly Miller residence?a bar- I gain. 150 Acres?75 acres in cultivation; 75 acres in timber; 3 miles Sharon. Very cheap. ( ' 50 Acres?Joins A. J. Roheler, Westmoreland and Ed Whitesides corners at London siding; 1 house, 1 story, 3rooms, 20 acres under cultivation, plenty of firewood; orchard, good spring, J mile of Canaan church, 1 mile of Smyrna station, good barn. Price $16.00 per acre. 72 Acres?Beautiful fi-room cottage, land level, very productive; new barn, 1 new 4-room tenant house, dressed weather-boarding at Guthriesville? $4,000. ; 165 Acres?Nice two-story dwelling: 8-rooms; 3 piazzas, good barn; all necessary outhouses; 3 tenant houses; one 6-room house; fine mineral spring; one mile of Newport railway station and school. Price $50 an acre. o 98 Acres?Adjoining Forest Hill academy; property of Perry Ferguson. Price $1,600. Forty acres in cultivation, some of which has made over a bale to the acre; 58 acres on timber; plenty of fine saw timber. j 125 Acres?One dwelling, one story and half, 5-rooms?Perry Ferguson McCullum place. Price $1,600. t, 55 3-5 Acres?One dwelling, lj stories; good well water: 5 mile of Con cord church and school; 25 acres under cultivation; plenty of wood. Price $650. Terms to suit purchaser. Property of of W. H. Baird. 5 97 Acres?And a new 6-room house, 2 tenant houses; new barn 30x40; two miles Clover. Owner wishes to buy larger farm. This is a great bargain. Property of T. J. Bradford. ; House and half acre lot In Clover; 1 dwelling, 3 rooms, 2 piazzas, splendid house, electric lights. J. Ross Parish home. Price $850.00. * 50 Acres?Of land, situated In Cherokee county; joining Mrs. Sallle Childers and Blanton Moore; one mile Hopewell church; one dwelling. Property of F. M. Stewart. Price $1,000. 235 Acres?Three miles Ebenezer; 3J miles Winthrop college. Rents for 6,950 lbs. lint cotton; 3 miles incorpor- ? ate limits of Rock Hill. Price $30.00 per acre. Six-horse farm open. 100 Acres?One mile Tlrzah; level f land: 3 houses; good new barn. Price V. $40.00 per acre. re For Sale?A two-story, 6-room Cot- ea tage in Yorkville?in Liberia. Price $1,100. 100 Acres?Ebenezer township: three miles Winthrop- 6-room house; good ~ barn and outbuildings; rent 3,000 lbs. * cotton. Price $30 per acre. 186 Acres?In King's Mountain town* _ ship; one 3-room dwelling; about 60u,000 feet timber. Price $10 per acre. 3951-2 Acres?Known as the OatesAllison place; produces 8 bales of cotton; one 2-story, 7-room building; 4 tenant houses, 3 rooms each, 100 acres in cultivation, 150 acres in timber; balance in second growth and pasture; 2 miles of Hickory Grove. Will cut into small tracts. Price $12.00 per acre. 217 Acres?Joins Will Campbell. Will Youngblood, William Oates, In Ebenezer township. Will rent for 6,000 lbs. lint cotton. Is one of the best farms in the county. A beautiful home, painted; two story, eight-room house; 150 acres in cultivation; a good orchard, two miles of Tirzah station; 5 tenant houses, 3 and 4 rooms each; 2 large barns, pasture of 40 or 50 acres. Will sell in two tracts, but prefer to sell as a whole. Home of J. M. Campbell. { 455 Acres?Property of Jas. A. and E. Bankhead; 3 houses. Nearly 200 acres of bottom land, raises about 1,000 bushels of corn, very productive place. Price $9.00 an acre. t 122 Acres?8-rooin dwelling ;a fine orchard; lj miles Beersheba: 2 tenant houses: .75 acres in cultivation, balance in timber: the timber is original. 128 Acres?Home place of J. F. Carson; good 6-room dwelling; land level; new barn, crib, cotton house. All necessary out buildings. A beautiful farm at Dolplins. [j 119 3-4 Acres?Joins lands of Mrs. J. I,. McOill: one new 4-room house; 15 acres <?f fresh, new ground, oaiance in wood: H mile Bethany High School. 234 Acres?One 2-story, 8-room dwelling; good 5-horse farm open; 80 acres In timber; 4 good tenant houses, 4-rooms each: good barn. Land In high state cultivation. Joins J. J. Matthews; 3 miles Bethany. Price $25 per acre. 112 3-4 Acres?Joins John F. Smith; f.O acres In cultivation; 52 in timber: 1 dwelling, 2 tenant houses: good new barn. Price 2,000. R. D. Wallace. * One Lot, Fast Jefferson, near Graded school and Southern depot. j One nice Cottage, East Jefferson, near Graded school. Property of Mrs. Berry?very cheap. ? J. C. WILBORN. i GEO. T. SCHORB PHOTOGRAPHER. : Come to see me for satisfactory Photographs at reasonable prices. / See me about the high grade Lester Piano. This instrument has been fully tested in this vicinity for the past IIfteen years, and has met every requirement of the most competent musicians. See me about the Lester. GEO. T. SCHORB. iTIONERV ORDERS | WE PRINT : Noteheads, \ Letterheads, I Envelopes, $ Billheads, i Statements, Booklets, \ Catalogues, ] Blank Forms, j Cases on Appeal, Arguments, Etc. \ WE WILL SEND SAM- ! PLES IF YOU WANT ! THEM j ! fter. Yorkville, S.G. I TVi i c CivM* ck Will be c'ose(l Thursday on ac- - 1115^ k3LOlt; count of Taking Stock. Great Sacrifice! r\ it itt i i rr\ une uonar w ortn 1 wo. Children's Oxfords. $2.50 Quality Now Going at $1.25 2.00 Quality Now Going at 1.00 1.50 Quality Now Going at 75 1.00 Quality Now Going at 50 Ladies' and Misses' Oxfords. $3.00 Quality Now Going at $1.50 2.50 Quality Now Going at 1.25 ^ 2.00 Quality Now' Going at 1.00 1.50 Quality Now Going at.._ ........ .75 Douglas Ox.'ords for Men and Young Men $4.oo Quality Now Going at T $2.00 ^ 3-5? Quality Now Going at 1.75 , 3.00 Quality Now Going at 1.50 t 2-5? Quality Now Going at 1.25 / ^ Clothing for Men and Young Men. 20.00 Suits Now Going at $10.00 15.00 Suits Now Going at 7.50 12.00 Suits Now Going at 6.00 io.tx) Suits Now Going at 5.00 Boys' Suits, 8 to 11 years?HALF PRICE. Summer Underwear for Men?HALF PRICE. # Silk Gloves?Both White and Black. $1.25 Gloves Now 50 Cents Pair. 1.00 Gloves Now ..... 40 Cents Pair. * Woolen Dress Goods, Laces and Embroideries NOW HALF PRICE. $1.00 Per Yard Qualities, Now 50 Cts. Yard. ^ .75 Cts. Per Yard Qualities, Now 37 1-2 Cts. Yard. .50 Cts. Yard Qualities, Now. ...25 Cts. Yard. .25 Cts. Yard Qualities, Now 12 1-2 Cts. Yard. .10 Cts. Per Yard Qualities, Now 5 Cts. Yard. ^ YORKVIIIF RANKINfi X, MFRFANTUF MMPANY IUIII1I ILLL uailllinu U 1HLIIU/1I1 I ILL UUITU /111 I * Yorkville, South Carolina. [ MONEY TO LOAN. THE CITY MARKET )N First Mortgage of Improved ? , . country and city property. Terms IV] ICE Beer and Pork In all cuts, and asonahle and loans repayable in pure and mixed Sausage. We want sy installments. to buy Kood, fat Beef Cattle. Hogs and W. W. LEWIS, Attorney, Eggs. We sell Cabbage. ^ Yorkville, S. C. c> F> SHERER, Proprietor. 45 t ti. Send your orders for all kinds of W See The Enquirer office for Reb Printing to The Enquirer. built Typewriters of all kinds. WINDFALL OF WATCHES CHANCE TO GET A Good Timepiece for a Little Work < Liberal Offer Well Worth Consideration. The Publishers of THE ENyuiKEK have on nana a liberal supply of BANNATYNE NICKLE WATCHES, worth $1.50 each, that they desire to distribute among friend who will help to increase the already large subscription list, and it is our purpose to make this distribution, in whole or in part, on * Saturday, July 2. The conditions of the distribution will be One Watch to Each of the I Tinners of Nine Competitive Contests, hereby in b augurated for Nine Competitive D'stricts. and the balance, or more if necessary, to each clubmaker who returns and pays for r* 4 _ j f 1 l i.' as many as rive annual ouoscripiions. For the purposes of the competition each of the Nine Townships of the county will he considered a Competition District, and competitors living in the counties adjoining will be included in the township to which they are closest. f The competitor in each of the Nine Districts Returning and Paying for the Largest Number of Names by SATURDAY, JULY 2, AT 6 O'CLOCK, provided that number be NOT less than Two, will be entitled to the Watch offered for that district. % Each competitor who returns and pays for as many as Vive Names during the contest will be entitled to a Watch regardless of whether his club is the largest for his district. Competitors who return Two or more names and fail to get the Watch offered for the largest number of names in their district, will be allowed to add other names until they obtain the requisite number to entitle them to a Watch. * The BANNATYNE WATCH is a Good Watch. It is better than any dollar watch made and it is as good and as reliable a timekeeper as can be had for three or four times the price. The Bannatyne Watch Company Guarantees It for One Year. The guarantee means that any ordinary trouble or de- y feet, not caused by abuse, will be corrected on the return of I the watch to the factory, the owner of the watch paying trans- fl portation both ways. But this return to the factory is very sel- I dom necessary, most of these watches continuing to run in B perfect order for years. I ? All who desire a good Watch are invited to enter this com- fl petition at once. There is every chance to unn and no chance fl to lose. Make a Start Today. m fl It is preferred that all orders for subscriptions he accom- fl panied by the Cash; hut upon the order of contestants, names I * will he entered, at the Clubmaker's risk, and collections de- I . ferred until the closing day of the contest. fl Subscribers who want one of these BANNATYNE Watch- fl I es, may have THE ENQUIRER for one year and a WATCH p on the payment of $3.00, either to Competitors for the District Premiums or by paying at The Enquirer office. Subscribers fl who names are already on our lists, and want a Watch, may I have their subscriptions extended One Year and receive a fl Watch on the payment of $3.00. COMMENCE AT ONCE. L^I^GRIST|SSONSJ w