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tumorous Jrpartiucnt. How SH? Got Even.?Mrs. Brown. ^ telephoning to a friend one morning, happened to sa> : I "I have such a bad sore throat I'm afraid I cannot go to that dinner party tomorrow night." t Just then something went wrong ( with the connection, and she heard a j strange voice break in: I "Gargle your throat with cooking j soda, and I think you will be able to c go to your dinner." c "Who is this speaking?" asked Mrs. f Brown, startled. e "Oh, that you will never know," N answered the voice. r Mrs. Brown was greatly amused and t decided to try tne remeay. n*-i miwi c improved, and she went to the party, j During dinner she chanced to over- f hear the gentleman opposite say to his a neighbor: d "I had an amusing experience the e other morning. I was telephoning and t the wires became crossed. I suddenly heard a lady's voice say: 'I have j such a bad throat, I shan't be able to t go to that dinner party.' Just for fun r I broke in and said: 'Gargle your a throat with cooking soda, and you'll | be all right.' The lady's voice in re- j, ply sounded rather surprised. I won- y der if she took my advice." J" Mrs. Brown was greatly tempted to f reveal her identity as the heroine of a the episode, but she decided she could t get more fun another way. She made * careful inquiry of her hostess as to |j the gentleman's full name and address t and next morning called him up. When * he answered, she said: "I just wanted you to know that I a * ' ?ooi-fflail mv throat v IOOK ) UUI iiu) iv-f, ..... . with cooking soda, and was able to go ? to the dinner." c "Who?who is this speaking?" came h an astonished voice from the other * end of the wire. J' "Oh, that you will never know," an- a swered Mrs. Brown laughing, and rang li off.?Lippincott.'s. | 1 * 1 e Misapplied.?It is related that a h clergyman living in the suburbs set a 1 tired looking man, who had applied to ? him for work, digging potatoes. In an a hour or so he went out and found that the man had uncovered about tw? s quarts of the tubers. "Well," said the parson, "you don't |i believe in overworking yourself, do you ?" "Oh," replied the laborer, "I work v according to Scripture." d "Where in the Bible can you find v anything that justifies your taking an a hour to dig two quarts of potatoes?" C "Why this: 'Let your moderation tl be known to all men.'" p The minister thought this rather tl witty and he took the man to dinner, c The moderate worker did not prove to b be a moderate eater, in fact he cleared o the table. c "You don't seem to eat according to your text," remarked his host watch- w ing the viands disappear. v "No." replied the tired man, plying S his knife and fork faster than ever, "1 ?j have another text for this. 'Whatever 0 they hand flndeth to do, do it with ail n thy might!" J ??? or. iA tho olorcn-mdn "mv good man, you've got your two texts g misplaced." a China A? a Bluffer.?Professor Ian p C. Hannah in his book, "Eastern Asia s ?A History," says that taxieabs, or, a tl rather, automatic registers attached to c horse cabs, were invented about 630 A. d D., during the Tang dynasty in Chi- ^ na. In his opinion the Chinese empire t] is "the greatest bluff in the world," |, and it suggests to him a very ancient h Chinese fable, which he relates. A monkey was captured by a tiger. He whinned that he was thin and his h flesh of poor taste, but he knew of a d fine fat donkey for the tiger. The tiger consented to be led to where the 0 donkey was tied. When the donkey v saw them coming he was frightened, Jj but recovered his composure and bawled in his masterful donkey voice: t "Monkey, you used to bring me two tigers. Why only one today?" The tiger did a record hustle back to the jungle. r China, says Professor Hannah, has a shown much of that donkey's resource- s fulness in its history. il \ Merely a Parable.?Just before the S collection was taken up a negro t preacner ainiouiiceu moi uc . to state that a certain brother had for- ? gotten to lock the door of his chicken house the night before and as a result J he discovered in the morning that a most of the fowls had disappeared. ^ "I doan' want to be pussonel, bred- j| den." he added, "but I hab my s'picions c dat pusson won't put any money in de ,J plate which will now be passed 'roun?" r The result was a fine collection, not f a single member of the congregation ^ feigning sleep. After the money was a counted the old parson came forward. # "Now bredden," he said, "I doan' a want yo' dinners to be spoilt by won- 1 derin' where dat brudder libes who a doan lock his chickens up at night, v Dat brudder doan' exist, mah frien's. He was a parable gotten up fo' de pu- * 'pose of finance."?The Housekeeper, j c An Impossibility.?While Smith and ? Jones were on their annual walking q tour they came across a dirty little t urchin crying in the road. Smith gave r him a dime and Jones wiped his eyes e and then, as a fitting crown to their f kindness, they asked his age. f "Five," murmured the boy, holding a his money tightly in his grimy fist. j, "Surely not," expostulated Smith. The boy nodded and the few remain- ' ing tears were sent further down his j * cheeks to leave their tracings on the | smut. I1 "Ridiculous!" reiterated Smith. You ^ must be older." c "Rnt whv." asked Jones, "if he says a not ?" "My dear chap," replied Smith. y gazing earnestly at the lad's face, "you t can't tell me that it would be possible c for anybody to gather so much dirt in the time."?Answers. Not Satisfactory.?Far from the ' madding crowd in the dining room, j Bertha and Bertie cooed together un- i der the library palms. They had been r engaged for nearly a fortnight, and the ( blissful flight of time had left them | eager for The Day. t "Is it too soon to think of it, Bertie?" I1 she asked. "No, never too soon!" replied Ber- e tie, striking his head fervently against s the mantelpiece. ? She pressed her hand to her throb- t. bing heart, while he pressed his to his p aching temple. h "Then, dear," she murmured, "let it be three weeks from Thursday." t; "Beggin' yer pardon, miss, but you'll s have to make it hearlier in the week!" ? said a voice through the keyhole, .4 "Thursday is my day hout!"?Answers.'h iWisecllnurmis trading. /VITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES. Motes and Comments About Matters of Local Interest. Chester Lantern, August 6: News ias just reached this city of the sad leath of Capt. Robt. Simpson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Isaiah Simpson of Rock iill. which occurred at his home in Spencer, N. C. Mr. Simpson was one >f the Southern railway's most effi ient conductors, but for some time >ast has been in bad health. The end ame Sunday. Capt. Simpson leaves a vife and one son, Robert, Jr. The renains were taken to Lancaster for inerinent. Capt. Simpson was a nephew if Rev. J. H. Simpson, of this city.... Jr. W. G. Johnson was re-elected ?ublic cotton weigher for Chester at i meeting of the county board yesterla.v morning. No election for a weighr at Fort Lawn was held, as the Inendent of that place was not present. Policemen Jackson and Taylor ulled a young hobo off the midnight rain on the Seaboard Air Line raiload on Saturday night. It was only . small boy, eleven years old, and he urned out to be a son of Mr. John ^ee, of Fort Mill. He was sent back to lis father yesterday afternoon. This oung fellow had tired of the quiet of \>rt Mill and determined to seek his ortune in the wide world. He came rom Rock Hill to Catawba Junction jid caught the S. A. L. at that place o go to Atlanta, Ga., but his career k-as cut short by being pulled off here >y the police officers Something ike thirty-five or forty gathered at he court house yesterday to discuss Cu Klux times and various experi noes or tnose aays. a musi enjujamc ime was spent by all and It was un.nlmously decided to meet again next ear. Capt. J. W. Wilkes was chosen ommander A negro house was turned and a little child narrowly esaped with its life when a tenant louse on the plantation of Mr. W. C. Cee was destroyed by fire at Rlchburg ast night. The negroes had gone off o preaching, leaving the child locked lone in the house and with a lighted imp on the table. The child knocked he lamp off the table in its play, seting the house on fire and narrowly scaped alive, the flames singeing its lair. The house was totally destroyed, 'he parents of the child were at hurch when the burning occurred. It s not known if there was any insur,nce on the house. ITILL BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT. nstances Of a Superstition Recalling Bygone Days in Salem. Burning old women at the stake as witches is a pleasantry no longer inulged in, even in Salem, but belief in witchcraft is not altogether dead. Only few months ago a woman in Jersey 'ity had a neighbor haled to court on he charge of pretending to possess owers of evil and threatening to use hem unless paid to desist. As the omplainant has suffered a streak of ad luck, in spite of paying to ward it flf, her belief in her friend, whom she ailed a witch, was cruelly shattered. More recently a woman living near tutler, Penn., was accused of being a witch. Mrs. Laupaule Orber was the Ictim of this ancient superstition, ihe was charged by Mrs. Julia Kroner, farmer's wife, with having gone to he Kroner barn and "casting a spell" ver a cow so as to prevent her giving lilk. Mrs. Broner openly made the aF nrUoVtoro ff in nntirf hilt thp udge refused to consider it other than ne of disorderly conduct. On this round Mrs. Orber was found guilty nd fined $5. Other tales equally absurd could be aid of the rural districts, but none ossesses the elements of a witch tory so much as that of Abel Spiva nd his brother William, who lived unit a few years ago in McDonough ounty, 111. The events with which it eals are a matter of court record at} lacomb, the county seat. Abel Spiva's forefathers came from he Carolinas at a time when belief' ri witchcraft was strong, and they rought their superstitions with them nto what was then the western filderness. Thus Abel honestly inerited his belief in witches, as did is brother William, who as a witch octor had quite as extensive a pracice as a regular county physician of hose days. Whenever the simple folk f the neighborhood "felt a spell"?to fhich they attributed all their sickess and ill luck?they called in Willam Spiva and he drove out the fitches; at least he convinced his paients that he did. One day Abel Spiva told his brother hat he was bewitched. Every night, aid Abel, a witch took him from his ed. transformed him into a horse and ode him wildly about the country to ttend the meetings of the Devil and is host of Imps. As a result Abel was o tired in the morning that he found t hard to do the work on his farm. Villiam didn't suggest that Abel's omplaint was probably sheer laziness, or they were agreed that the only way o break the spell was to find the fitch and kill her. So they began to ast about for a likely woman whom he.v could accuse. It so happened that at that time ilary Friend, wife of Charles Friend, . farmer living near the Spivas, was langerously ill with a fever which had taftled the local doctor. Not believing n witches the Friends had refused to all in William Spiva, so when Abel pined that Mary Friend was probably he witch that found so much en joynent in changing him into a horse, lie lad a ready and willing listener in Yilliam. The two brothers decided, ifter a scant reflection, that Mrs. friend was only shamming in order to rive her an opportunity to lie in bed md rest after her nightly rides to the Devil's camps. At lirst William Spiva was puzzle] is to how to rid his brother of 'he vitch's spell, bur after consulting his witch's book" he hit upon a novel >lan. Abel must go into the woods, arve the outlines of a woman's figure 11 the bark of a tree, give it the nam0 ?f "Mary Friend, the Witch," mold s liver bullet and at sunrise the folowing morning shoot the image. Thus, reasoned William Spiva, would he spell be broken, for it would mean lothing else than Mary Friend's death. Abel Spiva did as his brother dirvt d and returned to his work with a eeling of renewed vigor. Shortly beore noon he was chopping wood when . passing neighbor called out: "Heard the news, Abel? Mary Friend s dead." "Oh. I knew that," remarked Abel ndifferently. "I killed her. She was l witch and I shot her with a silver iullet." And he told the story of his lewitchment, and how, as he thought, le had killed Mary Friend. The news of Abel Spiva's confession pread quickly, and from all sections if the countryside farmers came to isk him about it. His story sounded ncredulous, but he told it with so nuch seriousness, that it proved conincing, especially as she had died on he very morning Abel fired at her arved image on the tree. While the maioritv of Abel Sniva's neighbors believed that Mary hViend lad met her just deserts there was one vho was convinced that a crime had teen committed. Having no faith in citches he filed a complaint before ustiee of the Peace Tridwell chargng Spiva with murder. Abe was arested, and upon being arraigned in ourt pleaded guilty. Squire Tridwell was himself a beiever in witches, but he admonished he prisoner that his confession made lim liable to a death sentence. Abel usisted on his guilt, however, and the ustiee reluctantly sentenced him to be xecuted forthwith, "the same as he hot the woman"?so reads the old ourt record?by being stood against a ree and shot by the constable. Beause of Spiva's plea no evidence was roduced to show that Mrs. Friend ad not died as the result of a bullet round. From the courtroom to the woods at he edge of tin* village, went the contable with his prisoner, followed by a ruwd. Against a tree they placed iliel Spiva, and the constable, raising is long barreled "squirrel ritle" to his shoulder, was about to fire when there came a shout from the road. It was the warning cry of Samuel Wilson, then a young lawyer, and later Colonel Wilson of the Sixteenth Illinois infantry, riding home from court in adjoining county. He demanded to know what the proceedings meant, and when they were explained to him In ordered the shooting stopped. "It's against the law," he told Justice Tridwell. "You have no right tc send this man to his death. You can only hind him over to the court." "It is the law, and it is here," thf squire retorted, taking from his carpel bag the Illinois statutes and pointing to that section which imposed tin death penalty for murder. Wilson tried a new tack. "If you must shoot this man," he argued, "surely you will "ive him sufficient time to prepare to meet his God." This appealed to the stubborn judge, and he consented to give the prisoner a week in which to settle his worldly affairs and prepare to die. Splva was thereupon turned over to Sheriff Francis D. Lips, but he refused to act, and Spiva was released, never to he tried on that charge again. Some months later, however, he felt himself again "under a spell," and his brother William told him that his wife was the guilty witch. William advised Abel to wait until Mrs. Spiva was asleep and then, with a knife, draw a single drop of blood from her forehead "without letting her know it." This treatment, William said, would "break the spell." According to instructions Abel sharpened his long hunting knife, and that night pricked his wife's forehead. Startled from a sound sleep she suddenly sat up in bed and the knife cut a deep gash down her cheek. Abel Spiva was arrested and indicted for assault with Intent to kill, but for some reason the case was nolle prossed and he never was brought to trial. Rut to her dying day his wife carried the scar as a ghastly emblem of Abel Spiva's belief in witchcraft. ?New York Times. HUNTING LIONS IN AFRICA. Paul J. Rainey's Expedition Is Using Dogs Successfully. a-ho nmiis from East Africa, says a London letter, bring the news that the expedition of Paul Ralney ol Chicago university is meeting with remarkable success in tracking and harrying lions and other carnivora with hounds. On his last trip, which was made in the Guaso Nyro country, among other mammalia bagged were twenty-seven lions and lionesses, four cheetahs, one leopard, eight wild dogs and a large number of hyenas and jackals. Mr. Rainey has employed several classes of hounds in his hunting. First come the trackers, who are able to follow up the scent of a lion even if it is ten hours old. At first some difficulty was experienced because the dogs would run off the wrong scent and several of them were lost in this manner. A little tuition got them in good working order and they were soon taught to stick to a lion's scent. The tracking animals are full bred bear hounds. When these dogs had brought the party up to the lion they were called off and another set of hounds were sent in to attack the lion. These were halfbred bear hounds, collies, Airedales and other breeds of terriers. The plucky little fellows would go for the hind quarters of the lion, and if he turned on them they would let go and others would catch on, thus keeping the lion busy in repelling their attacks. Among the hounds there are several staghounds used for jackals. These staghounds were able to overtake their quarry in a hundred yards and after that it was all up with the jackal. Hyenas and other fleet carnivora were also brought down by the staghounds. One curious fact is that little or no damage was done to the attacking dogs by lions; but when they went 1?. ?... v,? ? ? ?.QO aiefor clgtllliai WaillU'-M- If luiv ?? aua Uliiva ent, and most the casualties to the dogs were inflicted by the old pigs. With Mr. R&iney on this trip, which started on April 10, were Dr. Johnstone, J. C. Hemmet, a photographer; Hunter Black and Messrs. Heller. Outram and Shelley. Leaving Nairobi, the starting point of all such expeditions, the party struck out for the Guaso Nyro, thence cutting across to the Getmati border and coming back again to the Guaso Nyro by way of the Loito plains, and so on into Nairobi, which was reached on June 9. The greatest day, and one not likely soon to be forgotten by the party, was while they were in the region of the German border. The party had had fairly good luck in rounding up some eighteen lions by means of the hounds. The chase led in the direction of the camp. Within easy distance of the camp the hunters came upon the lions and started in with their rifles. Eight lions were killed. A lioness managed to escape the harrying dogs and slipped by the camp, where an Askar took a pot shot at her, hitting her in the left groin. The lioness attempted to crawl off with the aid of her forelegs. Mr. Hemtnett thought it would be a good opportunity to get a moving picture of the lioness charging. Approaching to within fifty yards of the wounded lioness, who was snarling fiercely and crawling away, Mr. Hemmet, supported on the right by Mr. Rainey, with a 350, and Mr. Black with a double barrelled 470, and Mr. Outram, also with a 350, began to set up his camera. The lioness showed no signs of charging, so one of the native boys was told to throw stones at her. A snarl was the only response. The lioness continued to endeavor to crawl off. but fell back, this time facing the camera. All". lUaCK itliuuiru i.?iui\ uui, nil* means business!" Mr. Heminet was ready, and thinking she was only going to give a last short attempt and die, did not feel anxious. The lioness sprang up with a snarling roar and charged straight for the camera. Mr. Henunet set the machine going. Mr. Kainey held his lire until the brute was twenty-five yards from the camera and then llred, but did not stop her. Mr. Heininet continued turning the handle until the animal got out of focus. At fifteen yards Mr. Outram fired, but failed to stop her. Mr. Henunet endeavored to prepare his tripod to jab her when she sprang, but seemed unable to move. Mr. Black who during the whole process was as cool as a cucumber, held his fire until the animal was fifteen feet of Mr. Heminet: then he let her have one barrel of his 470. His finger was ready on the trigger to give her the other barrel, but he saved his tire when he saw the lioness with one last bound fall three feet from the camera, driving her head into the ground. The film was saved, but Mr. Henimet would likely have suffered severely if Mr. Black's last shot had not caught the animal in the brain. By this time Mr. Raine.v and his party are well out on another trip in another part of the country. In the Ouaso Nyro country a Dutch youth, 21 years of age, single handed killed seven lions in ten minutes which is a record, even in East Africa. He was in charge of an ox team and at dawn arrived at a little stream known as Deer Dale. He had no sooner let the oxen loose than they were attacked by nine lions. The young man jumped on his wagon for his gun, a 350, and opened fire on the lions, who had already killed one of the oxen. In less than ten minutes he had fired ten shots, with the result that seven lions lav dead in front of him, three lions and four lionesses, the furthest only fifteen yards distant. The other two e' ped, hut both were wounded. Remarkable Whist Hand.?"I have seen some very remarkable whist hands," said one of the bridge fiends in a down-town elub recently. "But once, about four years ago, I saw one man hold all thirteen trumps." "Why, that's not so remarkable." two or three players broke in all at once, "that's happened lots of ?" "Hold on till I'm through. What made this band remarkable is that the man who held it only took one trick." "Nonsense! What are you"? "It's a fact. When he trumped his partner's ace, first time round, his partner got up and threw him out of the window." Cleveland Plain Dealer. I CLARK'S EARLY LAW PRACTICE. i | Reminiscences of David A. Ball, Former Law Partner of the Speaker. "For two hours and a half he poured ' Into the ears of the jury and of the . packed audience an uninterrupted stream of marvellous oratory. It was one of the most powerful and convinc| ing efforts ever heard in a Missouri court room. And during all that feast 1 of wisdom, flow of soul or whatever you want to call it, he never touched the case side, edge or bottom!" David A. Ball of I?uisiana, Mo., was speaking about his old friend and law partner. Champ Clark, Speaker of the house of representatives. When Ball . was a candidate tor trie Democratic ' nomination for governor in 1908 Mr. , Clark said: "Thirty-five years ago Dave Ba.'l j took me in when I was penniless and dividexl his crust with me; it was slim : picking. God knows, but such law bus1 iness as he had he divided with me. | Now he asks my aid and he will get It i In Scriptural measure, heaped un. i pressed down and running over." This legal partnership to which Mr. I Clark referred was the subject upon which Mr. Ball was speaking. "It was on a noted murder case, involving several prominent families of Hannibal," he said. "Clark and a num. ber of well known attorneys were on the side of the state. To Clark was given the honor of making the close | for the prosecution and of cross-exami ining the defendant. The case was ' tried at Bowling Green. "In his examination in chief the defendant had said that he was with the famous Gen. Morgan's cavalry during the civil war. At this a cold glitter came into Clark's eyes. Not a soul in I the court room remotely suspected that Clark himself had ever ridden with the noted partisan of the south . and that all of Morgan's ODerations ? were like a well studied book to him. When Clark began quizzing the defendant about Morgan you could see the i sparks fly. , "He inquired about the age, size and general appearance and the manners ' of Morgan; how many men he had, 1 the sort of weapons they carried, the tactics they followed, their way of . lighting, the passwords and countersigns, the details of battles and frays, ' the thousand and one things that a man who had been with Morgan could I not help but know but about which the defendant, under Clark's incisive cross-examination, went down helplessly. The defendant could not susi pect until confronted by the ordeal . that he would be handled by a man who knew all these things by actual 1 experience. As a boy of 11 or 12 Clark had been with Morgan in some of his campaigns. "When Clark had finished speaking that jury had a profound admiration 1 for Morgan's men, and it did not believe the defendant had been one of , them. "While it was not a controlling issue , in the case Clark played it up big and , made it appear like one. He was a past master on such things. The small , technicalities of the law did not appeal , to him. He always hunted around un, til he dug up something vivid and full of human Interest, and then used It with irrisistible effect. "The case referred to was the only one of note so far as I recall now where Clark and I were on opposing sides. He was associate counsel for the state, while I assisted in the defence. "All who know the speaker of the house will have noted as a marked I characteristic his homely backwoods philosophy, which strongly suggests that of Lincoln. His convincing illustrations spring from the primitive^ the people of way back yonder. He studied them with a great deal more enthusiasm than he did his law books, and it was at close range. "As fine an effort as I ever heard Clark make was down in Lincoln county before a blacksmith who was a jus lice oi me peace, n was u. umei luiu day; we had driven twenty miles, and all the warmth we received at the end of the journey was the fitful glow of the charcoal on the blacksmith's forge. The brawny justice sat on one side and listened with becoming gravity to our exposition of the law. It was a preliminary examination, the defendant being charged with murder. When the evidence and arguments were concluded the smith said: "Turn the man loose; that's all, gentlemen. Now I must get back to my i work." "I don't suppose it ever occurred to the smith that one of the pleaders before his forge that day was the future speaker of the house, but it had to Clark, who from my earliest acquaintance with him declared he was going to congress one of these days. He treated that as something absolutely settled, even in the happy go lucky , times when he was wondering where the money would come from to square up with his landlady. "Clark came to Pike county from the clover fields of Kansas in 1875, when he was 25 years old. He said out there his most exciting diversion was ploughing corn and pitching hay, with now and then writing an 'extemporaneous' speech for some local spellbinder. He left Kansas, he said, to get rid of the hot winds and grasshoppers. "The principalship of the Louisiana higli school was Mr. Clark's first employment here. He was a good teacher. I've read where he taught in district schools and licked knowledge i into his pupils. Hut here he adopted an entirely different method. When anything went wrong he'd call the rei fraetory students before him and appeal t<> the best that was in them, nev .... I...-..I, I..., 1,1...I .....l cmi raging. "His students loved him, and it is a fact that every one of them, as far as i my observation goes, turned out well. ; Clark's purpose seemed to be to inspire those he taught with the same ideals he entertained himself. He managed to impress his personality on some of the boys so strongly that they became i distinguished along certain lines of ambition. "During thse days Clark taught a large Sunday school class, and while he was an ardent student of the Bible he would more thau likely choose his topic from some metropolitan newspaper discuss its editorials or some big event of political life, and work around to the proper moral, inculcating practical religion from every day life you might say. Anyhow, the members of his class were always talking about the interesting things they had heard at Sunday school. "In one of the lyceum debates we had. Clark proved to everybody that the Bible ought to be taught in the public schools. It was Clark's guiding principle that the Bible was the most helpful friend an ambitious man could have and that it laid down a rule of conduct covering every line of worthy human endeavor. In his jury speeches he would cite the Bible more frequently than he did the law, and from his manner of handling it was more effec, tive. He argued that the Bible was the foundation of law and justice and that he preferred to go to the source for his authority. "Clark and 1 became associated as law partners in 1X77, and in 1X78 I ran tutlucr uffarniA' TIIP onmp year Clark ran for the legislature. Of course being new beginners at law, we weren't overly rich and my partner thought if I was made prosecuting attorney the job would support both of us. "He was defeated for the legislature, but I went in as prosecuting attorney, and that was a big help to us. Since then, while he continued the practice of law, Clark and I were on the same side of every case we tried, with the exception of the one of which I have spoken. "Clark liked to get hold of a case involving a study of the human heart and emotions. We had this sort of a case to defend, brought here from St. Louis on change of venue. "E. made his way, revolver in hand, into a crowded street car. It was either a horse car or cable system, before the electric car period. Walking straight up to the conductor, K. shot him, and as lie started to fall the slay er threw his arm around the conductor's neck and held him up while he emptied the remaining cartridges of his pistol into the conductor's body. "Of course everybody hiked out and the car was soon empty save for E. and the body of the conductor. E. then drove the car out to the barns and to the astonished people there said: "I've brought your car and your conductor in." "A policeman was called and E. surrendered. When the case came up to Pike county our client was cheerfully frank about the killing and seemed dismally clear headed. His only excuse was that the dead man had stolen his wife. "We put on a policeman, a big level headed Irishman, to testify about E.'s curious manner the night before the killing. The policeman said he told his trouble to him and that previous to that he had acted so queer that he i naci searcneo mm. "On cross-examination the state < asked. 'Didn't you tell E. to go and get a gun and kill the conductor?' i "'No,' said the policeman, looking at i the bright star on his coat, 'but if 1 hadn't had this star on I would have told him to get him a good gatling gun and scatter that rascal over the face of I the earth! But I had my star on, i mind you!' "Clark used that clue. The unwritten law was a new element in Missouri juris-prudence then, and we had l>een basing our case on emotional insanity. But when Clark got through with his word painting of the home and the despoiler it was clear that was the real defence. The trial was attend d by many women, and they must have enjoyed that speech of my associate, for every one of them had her handkerchief in use. The cool deliberation of the killing, the panic stricken passengers, the cheerful admission of guilt by the accused, all were swept into the background, or else made to appear as the righteous act of a greatly wronged husband, under the matchless eloquence of the pleader. "Clark was at his best in a case of I I[I,i \ ..VMHIWUKI Www Mc X^y^lFYO' /7T] MONET // (i/YOU W ;/ W^hen' a. GfooddfoML,wfUa money <(**- & otmk. ^uMtaM oatmoti MAYER ROTHSCHILD. born and founder of the Great Rothsc earth?ixsldled from house to hous lie saved Ids money. Econon made (Ids great rortune. MAKE OUR BANI LOAN AND SA Safety Boxes for Rent? IF YOU WILL NOTICE How the small amounts you spend count up at the end of the week or month you will appreciate an Ac- > count in our Savings Department, J By merely saving a part of this : even small expenditure you can ( have an Account with us. ( Start with as little as a Dollar ' if you like, add to it as often ' as possible?have Money in 1 the Bank. Bank of Hickory Grove ????????? Does Honesty Pay?J For Fruits. Vegetables and Canned Goods, don't forget Old George is the cheapest place in town. White Salt Fish and Barrel Pickles " in stock now. ' Fresh Meats daily?Beef, Veal, ' Pork and Sausage. Fish on Saturdays. Creamery Butter every Day; Coun- ! try Butter on Saturday, IOggs all the lime. ' lining imo OllSUiens l? line gruillg . a wife. Only one in twenty-five sue- j ceeds, and he must he short on con- ( science, and have no feeling for his ( fellowinan. To do as you wish to he done hy Is the rule I've tried to follow, t I've heen ill business twenty years, J And today ain't worth a dollar. { OLD GEORGE j THE BUTCHER. Don't Fool 1 Thinking Ther cheap Prinl The Best Is Always the Chea] Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, Dr printer who offers you Cheap exactly what he sells yon. If it's "cheap", you will get "che; is what you bought. And your going to judge you by the Stat is all they have to judge you VILLE ENQUIRER your Sta get Quality At a Fair Price? You and Your Business Any^ make a pleasing impression. S L. M. Grist's S YORKVIL1 hat kind. A native Kentuekian, with 1 lis chivalrous sense of honor due wo- J nan-kind, he spoke from the depths >f a primal instinct that sanctioned :he right of man to avenge a mortal ' vrong. In five minutes after the Jury | tvent out E. was surrounded by congratulating friends, a free man. "One man in Clark's home town, a . Primitive Baptist, Hardshell, they jsed to call 'em, made arrangements P ?efore he died for Clark to preach his s funeral sermon. Clark was in congress c it the time of the old man's death and the funeral discourse was postponed until he could get around to It. Finally ;ongress adjourned and the first duty t I'lark attended to on getting back to _ lis district was to go out to the little ? Primitive Bapist church where Sam n Willis was buried, and here in the presence of many sorrowing friends p ne officiated as the master of ceremonies for his old friend and admirer. J An honest old Hardshell who heard , Champ's sermon on that occasion said: j' " 'When the Lord foreordained Clark ' to go to congress He lost a mighty good chance to make a preacher.*" t Meteoric Showers.?How many know that the earth is getting larger each \ year from the fall of meteoric matter f on its surface and that such matter ? is of no small weight? One hundred e tons a day is the estimate made by Young. This, he says, would make a c layer one inch thick over the entire J earth in 1,000,000,000 years if we as- j sume this meteoric matter to be three times as heavy as water. But another effect has to take place at the same time. As the earth is getting larger \ the force of gravity gets larger, and we J ire being attracted with more force ' toward the sun. But the centrifugal force keeping us away from the sun ' gets much greater, too, and, In fact, r more so than the sun's gravity, the f result being that we are gradually in- c creasing our distance from the glowing orb.?New York Tribune. c c ALKS |i >ES ANOTHER >NEY TALK. U PUT YOUR Yin the BANK ILL HAVE IT toU NEED IT. yoiVi -b<nM f./ndt^ee/yyouA. wfatoL ?jM n<A hahm. Xt. a \ in Frankfort. Germany, in 1743, * q liild fortunes?the greatest on e when a t)oy. r ny and INTEREST, at low rates, r a e t YOUR BANK VINGS BANK. $2.00 and $3.00 Per Year. f; YOREVILLE MONUMENT WORKS ' (THE OLD RELIABLE.) Cg IRON | FENCING We handle STEWART'S IRON J FENCING for cemeteries and front ,j yards, and can also furnish you a nice }, Vase or Settee for your lawn or an g Ornamental Hitching: Post or Tree Ouard. II The cost Is not so great and they f last a life time. Send us word to come g ind show you designs. No wire fenc- ? Ing handled. p We have the largest stock of MAR- a BEE in the Carolinas. F c WORKVIELE MONUMENT WORKS, e John E. Carroll, Pres. "2 ??????????? o C By Way of a Reminder While I am satisfied that practically ^ very property owner throughout this lection is aware of the fact that I am prepared to issue fire insurance poli ies in any amount desired In the itrongest, best and most liberal com- j rallies in the world, still I know it to I >e a fact that it is well to be reminded " iccasionally of facts that we have nwnv in nor minds lest we for jet for tlie time being that they are eally there, and for this reason I beg nee more to refer to the matter and _ o state again that I am always ready, ^ villing and anxious to give any busliess placed with me prompt and accurite attention. Fire insure with me ind you will never have cause to rejret. "It is better to be safe than sor y." I also sell live stock, accident and lealth insurance of the gilt edge va iety. SAM M. GRIST, S G P rourself Into L e Is Economy hirirr THERE LI llge ISN'T. Dest, whether it is Clothing, ugs or Printed Matter. The Printing is going to deliver ft vou buv Stationery because wm ii< ap" Stationery, because that business correspondents are I y( ionery That You Use. That buy. Send THE YORK- I / itionery Orders and you will Stationery Fit to Represent where?Stationery that will I \ end Us Your Next Order. I ons, Printers, I s I U! LE, S. C. g r. c. wiLBORr 1ST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME F YOU WANT TO SELL? I am now selling Land very rapidly, f you are thinking of buying, it will ay you and save you big money to ee my numerous bargains before you lose. ? FOR SALE ? 147 4-5 Acres?A part of the home ract of the J. J. Matthews land, three niles of Bethany, G miles of Clover; 40 ores in cultivation, balance in timber, riueh of it original forest. Price, $22.50 ier Acre. The beautiful residence of Joe W. fell, deceased, 3 miles from Yorkvllle, aces King's Mountain road. I regard t as one of the most desirable farms n York county; a beautiful 2-story esidence, 8 or 9 rooms; good barn. -Vill cut thi3 into 3 or more tracts, i'here is about 280 acres in the whole ract. Mrs. F. A. Thomas home, near doer; a beautiful residence, 2-stories; rood outbuildings. Farm Is in high tate cultivation. This farm will not e on the market long. About 100 icres. 245 Acres?The Allen Crosby hi'me, ?n public road. Large 2 story resilence, 7-rooms, painted. One tenant louse, 7-rooms; 3 other tenant houses. t.bout 2 miles of Sharon. A good farm ?plenty of wood. John Hartness Place?125i acres, oins Newton Whitesides; a beautiful lew 6-room cottage, running water In touse and barn; 3 new tenant houses, i rooms each; new Barn, 40x30, 10oot drive; 80 acres in cultivation; all lew ground except 10 acres. The best rop in the county. Wish to sell at ?nce. 301 Acres?The Moss place, 2J miles if Hickory drove; 5 horse farm. Three >r four horse farm can be opened in idditlon. Three good houses, 5-rooms >ach; also one 2-room house?150 ic. .s in woods; 30 acres in original >ine and oak timber. Rents for 5,200 lounds of lint cotton. Price $25 an icre. I have some small farms within he Incorporate limits of Yorkville; for ustance 49 acres near the overhead iridge. The C. E. Spencer's Moore place adoining the jail lot. If you want good tigh school, buy this land, don't wait. have five different tracts close In to own. 66 Acres?More or less; Mrs. Laura 3. Parish tract of land; mostly within he Incorporate limits of Yorkville. Phis land awlll be sold cheap. I will 1 ivide it into three tracts. Beautiful home of D. E. Durant at Juthrlesvllle, S. C.; 140 acres fronting in the C. &. N.-W. railroad, and also he beautiful sand and clay road from forkville to Chester. One dwelling, i-stories high, 8-rooms; 100 acres In ultlvation, 40 acres In timber, fine or:hard; one of the best barns In York ounty, 3 stories high 40x90. Barn Is vorth 32,500. Has four tenant houses n fine repair. Land lies level and adoins Guthrlesvllle academy. Will cut his place to suit purchaser if he hould not want it all. Price $9,300. 33 3-4 Acre*?One and one-half mile if Yorkville, near Pinckney road, good -room house; all necessary outbuildngs; will rent for 1,200 lbs. cotton, 'roperty of R. E. Steele. Price $1,060. The Spencer Lots are now for sale, ind I have plat of same in my office. Ve are prepared to give liberal terms, llso to build residences for you. Buy luick before they are all sold. 91 Acres?More or less; the J. J. Phomas place near Dave Clark; 1 good esldence, 7-rooms; 1 tenant house, 3oorns; 60 acres in cultivation; a plendid home near school, church, tc. $3,200. 3i miles of Yorkville. Two lots of the Hernion property on Vest Madison St., joining Herndon ots. $100 Each. 125 Acres?Two miles of Bethany; oining W. B. Stroup and others; 30 cres in cultivation, 95 acres In timier. Price $2,350. 203 Acres?Three miles of Clover, lear St. Paul's church, a 2-story. 9oom house; 100 acres In cultivation; good tenant houses. A very fine arm. Joins J. C. Lilly. 419 Acres?Three miles Hickory Irove; the J. Yancy Whitesides place; :ood strong land; large dwelling, etc. 'rice $12.50 per acre. For sale the Rose Hotel; large brick uilding, half block from public square, lmost opposite the court house. To >uild this hotel would cost much mony. It is now on the market. We deire to sell for division among the egatees. 325 Acres?Wylie Hafner home lace, a nine-room dwelling, rour tennt houses, 3-rooms each. Will also iut in 3 good mules. Price <4.000. lasily rent for ten bales of cotton; miles of Sharon. 111 Acres?On King's Mountain pubic highway; good sand road; 8 miles rom Yorkville; land liee level; nice -room dwelling, 2 stories; 1 mile from lethany High school; a nice 4-room enant house; good barn. Place is level .nd in a high state of cultivation 'rice $50 per acre. Price and location annot be beat in York county. Proprty of J. A. Ratteree. One Roller Mill, Gins and Corn Mill, Engines and boilers, 5 acres of land n Clark's Fork, 3j miles of King's Yeek station. Price $3,500. SEE THE Piedmont Marble Granite Company YORKVILLE, S. C. 'or High Grade MONUMENTS In Granite and Marble. Plain and Finely Carved TOMBTONES sold at reasonable prices, let our prices before you buy. iedmont Marble & Granite Co. I ouia Roth, Prat. <t Treat. F. Happerfield, Manager. The Difference Between a good and a poor prepara- I on in business method is Just the dlf rence between system and carelessi -ss, between success and failure. Deposit your money with us and do jur business in a systematic manner. The Bank of Glover, ' 1 OIjOVBR, S. O. PPLICATION FOR ! FINAL DISCHARGE i J OTICE is hereby given to whom it i ^1 may concern that I have filed in ie Probate Court for York County, 1 C., my final return as Executor of I IS. F. WALI^ACE, deceased, and that i August 28th, 1911, I shall apply to i id court for a final discharge as such xecutor. S. M. McNEEL, I Executor. < July 28, 1911. ! 60 f 5t REAL ESTATE. 2021-2 Acres?Of land in Ebenezer township, about 3 miles from Ebenezer; a ti-room dwelling and 3 tenant houses; 7 miles of Rock Hill; a part of the Dlnsmore Karris land. One lot?Woodland Park, city of Rock Hill, 50x196. Price $400. 150 Acre#?Two miles from Yorkville on the Sharon road; property of J. Q. Wray; rents for 9 bales of cotton easily; one dwelling, 2 good tenant houses. Land is strong and productive. 1191-2 Acres?A 4-room house, 11 miles of Bethany High school at $30 per acre. mx.,. k..?t n txt.. i lie uetLuuiui iauiiic ui vv . j. r. wy lie, 2 miles from McConnellsville. A nice 1-story cottage, 6 rooms; a good 2-story barn, 3 good tenant houses. 108 acres, land red subsoil, strong land. 99 1-2 Aorss?Six miles of YorkviUe, 1 dwelling, 7-rooms; i mile or school. | mile from Beersheba church. Price *1,875. 75 Acres?Of the John M. Thomasson homestead; a nice location; gooa, strong land. Price $60 an acre. 95 1 -2 Acres?The home of J. P. Liarnes, Delphos; 1 nice 4-room dwelling and 2 good tenant houses; close to school and church; a good neighborhood. Joins J. B. Scott and J. P. Carson. 240 Acres?Property of F. N. Lynn; joining Robt. Moore, J. J. Sherrer; It is rolling, but la good, strong land; has a 6-horse farm open on it; 1 dwelling house, 8-rooma; big barn, criba etc. Price $13 per acre. The beautiful residence and cottage, home of Sam'l MeCall in Clover, on King's Mountain street; 5-rooms, house .is nicely painted, nice hedge and shade; barn and stable; everything complete; good well water. Price $1,400. 91 Aorss?Parks Parish place, property of J. F. Smith, a nice new cottage, a splendid location for country store. Nice land at New Zlon cross road. 128 Acres?At New Zlon. Property of J. F. Smith; new house, good barn, out buildings, etc. Cheap. Write for prices. 100 Acres?One mile from Filbert, 3 miles Clover on Tork and Clover road, joining lands of J. M. Stroup and others. Property of J. A. Tate. Price $22 per acre. Rents for 2,200 lbs. cotton; 3-horse farm open. 61 Acres?1} miles Tirzah, on Rock Hill road; land lies level; 60 acres In cultivation; Joins J. L. Moss, Bob Ward and Southern R. R.. Pries $40 per acrs. J. C. Wallace. 310 Acres?Near state line, land lies rolling, about 40 acres in cultivation, balance In wood; a nice I-room cottage; newly painted and rodded; a fine bargain | $15 per sore. John Wells place. Mrs Metts's beautiful resldenoe in Yorkville; everything Is in flrst-claas condition, with twelve good rooms; sewerage and water In the dwelling. Lot 198 feet front, 343 feet deep, with a lane entering the premises from Madison street 40 Acres?At Outhrlesvllle depot, facing C. 4b N.-W. R. R. Prioe $60 an sore. 206 Acres?Two and one-half miles Lockhart mills; 1 3-room house; 20 acres In cultivation, 176 acres in wood ?most pine. Jno. Ned Thomson place. 201 Acrew?In Ebenezer township; 1 dwelling 1| story high, 6 rooms; also tenant house 6 rooms 1$ story high. Price $11 per acre. Property of M. B. Massey. One 4-room house and 39 acres of land at Filbert facing King's Mountain highway and joining King's Mountain Chapel. 69 Acres?Bounded by the lands of D. M. Parrott J. J. McCarter, J. B. Wood and J. C. Lilly; the property of J. C. Wood. Will put a six-room tenant house on the place. Will sell for (337) thirty-seven dollars an acre. The residence and store room combined In the town of Yorkville of Geo. Sherer. It Is three lots from the court house. It has a large store room, easily rents for $20, another room rents for 36. About two acres of land; 8 nice rooms In the residence. Prioe $4JW0. 150 Acres?Near Clay Hill; 1 dwelling; all necessary outbuildings?part of the A. A. Barron place?$1000 an aore. 136 Aores?Including the Balrd ft Hudson place near Concord church; S good houses; 60 acres In cultivation? $15.00 an acre. Property of M. B. Massay. 115 Acres?1 dwelling, and two tenant houses; 90 acres under cultivation, 20 acres In timber; 2| miles of Smyrna. Price, $15.00 per acre. T. B. Nichols. 95 Acres?Mrs. J. Frank Wallace place, 2 dwellings on it; 8 miles of Yorkville on public highway, near New Zion church. Price $1,425. 285 Acrss?Joins Wm. Blggers, Meek ' Faulkner, Jim McQill; 5-horse farm; 1 house, 6-rooms, 76 acrea under cultivation; 186 acres In timber. Rome saw timber; near to Enon church; 2ft miles Smyrna; 4 tenant houses, 36 acres of bottom land. Price $15.00 per acre. A. J. Boheler property. Miss Dolly Miller residence?a bargain. * 50 Acres?Joins A. J. Boheler, Westmoreland and Ed Whitesides corners at London siding; 1 house, 1 story, Srooms, 20 acres under cultivation, plenty of firewood; orchard, good spring, ft mile of Canaan church, 1 mile of Smyrna station, good barn. Price $16.00 per acre. J. C. WILBORN. $rnff??innal flTard? t J. HARRY FOSTER ATTORNEY AT LAW, i Yorkvilla, South Carolina. ' WW Office in McNeel Building. Dr. B. G. BLACK Surgeon Dentist. Office second floor of the New McNeel building. At Clover Tuesday and Friday of each week. Geo. W. S. Hart. Jos. E. Hart. HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkvilla S. C. No. 1, Law Range. 'Phone (Office) 58, JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW | No. S law Range * YORKVILLE. 8. C. j. s. BKICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON, S. C. Medicine and Pharmacy. Session opens October 2d, 1911, ends June 3d, 1912. Unsurpassed clinical advantages offered by the New Roper Hospital, one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in the south. Extensive outdoor and dispensary service under control of the Faculty. Nine appointments each year for graduates in medicine for hospital and ilspensary services. Medical and Pharmaceutical Laboratories recently enlarged and fully equipped. ' Department of Physiology and Emoryology in affiliation with the Charleston Museum. Practical work for medical and pharmaceutical students a special feature. For catalogue, address ROBERT WILSON, Jr., M. D. DEAN. ?or. Queen & Franklin Sts., Charleston, South Carolina. M 57 t.f 26t V