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tumorous ^Icpartrarut. Novel Wedding Fees.?"No doubt," said the clergyman, "there are stories of novel wedding fees. On one occasion up state, after I had spliced a young couple, the man took me aside. "'Be you fond of carrots?' he inquired. " 'Yes,' said I. " 'I'll send you some,' he promised. 'You'll find them tasty in soup.' "Two days later a wagon load of the vegetables was dumped into the parsonage cellar. As that was in October we ate carrots daily until April, but I believe they improved our complexions. "After another ceremony the bridegroom silently handed me a sealed envelope. Opening It when he had gone I found a half sheet of'note paper on which was scrawled, 'I O U $10.' That was eieht vears back. I did not see him again until the other day, when he called at my house, " "Guess you don't remember me. parson,' he said. " 'I don't remember your face,' I answered. " 'Well,' he explained, 'I'm the fellow who gave you an I O U wedding fee a few years ago, and I want to pay you the money. Here's the ten. And in another instant he was gone."?New York Herald. Bluffed It Out.?The stories of the embarrassment of unsophisticated diners when faced by highly sophisticated menu cards are endless?and usually amusing. A man whose career had confined his knowledge of things to eat to such standard products as ham and eggs and pork and beans found himself among a company who ordered intelligently from an extensive bill of fare. It contained so many classified dishes as to make a fair sized book, the pages of which he pawed aimlessly and in dismay. The waiter who needed only his order to go to the kitchen; was standing at one side deferentially, with his order slip and pencil in hand. The delay was noticeable and irritating to the unskilled diner, and finally he pointed blindly to the middle of a page with his finger. "Give me some of that," he said. The waiter looked over his shoulder, and remarked: "That's mayonnaise dressing, sir." "I know It. I can read." "But," apologetically, "what will you have it on. sir?" "On a plat, you bonehead. Do you feed your customers In troughs here?" ?Chicago Post. Why Thsy Grow Beards.?A medico tells of two physicians in a certain town, the one elderly with a long record of cures, the other young with his record still to make. The older doctor, it appears, was inclined to surrender some of his night work to the younger man. One bitter night in winter the veteran was aroused by two farmers from a hamlet eight miles away, the wife of one of whom was seriously ill. The doctor at once referred them to his young colleague; but they refused the latter's services. "Very well," replied the doctor, thinking to put a convincing argument before them. "In that case my fee is two guineas, payable now." Whereupon there ensued a remon strance on the part of the farmers; but the doctor was obdurate. Finally one of the men asked the other: "Well, what do think I ought to do?" "I think you'd better pay him the two guineas," said the other. "The funeral would cost you more."?TitBits. The Peculiar Chinee.?A sightseeing visitor recently went aboard a tramp steamer in the harbor. Noting that the deck hands were Chinese, she approached one of them and said: "You no speak English?" The Chinaman looked bored and answered nothing. The woman continued: "Me go your country soot* Me learn speak Chinese, teach little Chinese boy and girl. You savvy 'missionary?'" The Chinaman looked at her a minute and answered: "Madam, if y.ou are not more successful in mastering our language than you appear to have been with your own I fear that your attempt to enlighten our race will prove anything but satisfactory. Good afternoon." The Chinaman sought the other side of the ship and the woman sought oblivion. She had been addressing a Yale graduate who was working his passage back to China.?San Francisco Argonaut. Hard Requirements.?There was a queer old specimen of humanity brought to the Cuyahoga county jail. He had been convicted of the crime of cruelty to animals, and there was no doubt in anybody's mind that he richly deserved the penalty inflicted. It is the custom to examine prisoners, however, before they are assigned to their cells. When this old reprobate was brought up the interrogation went thus: "What is your name?" "Budd Dobbs." "What is your age?" "Sixty-eight." "What is your religion?" "Great snakes! Does a man hafter git religion before they'll let him inter Jail in this county?"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. One-Man Power.?In a speech at Denver, Nat C. Goodwin once remarked on the small means wherewith Washington had achieved such great ends, says the Washington Star. "When I think," said Goodwin, "of Washington's terrible handicaps my mind goes back to the town of Nola Chucky. "An actor-manager was to appear for one night in Nola Chucky, and accordingly wired the proprietor of the Nola Chucky opera house: " 'Will hold rehearsal tomorrow noon. Have stage manager, stagf carpenter, property man and all stage hands of theater prompt to hour.' "He received this telegram in reply: " 'He will be there.' " Starting It Too High.?It was in the days before church organs and choirs. tint rxiannn TVirsev volunteered to lead the singing of an old hymn. He started out very well: "Mv soul be on thy guard; ten thou?" and he stopped, unable to go any further because he had such a high pitch. He started over again: "My soul be on thy guard; ten thou?" and once more he stopped, this time pitched so low that h*e could not proceed. "Say, Brother Dorsey," said one of the congregation, "hadn't you better start it with five thousand?"?Norman E. Mack's National Monthly. ittisrcUancous grading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES Notes and Comments About Matters of Local Interest. Gaffney Ledger, October 27: Alfred Dickens, son of the famous Charles : Dickens, has been spending sometime I in America on a lecture tour. Dickens said in Boston that his most vivid impression of America was that the American girls had beefy ankles. We do not know positively that he would see the ankles of Gaffney girls in case he came to town, but we do know that he would see almost the entire female population of the town between the ages of 12 and 29 if he cared to take a stroll along any of the business streets of the city. He could get a glimpse of them at almost any hour of the day and sometimes as late as twilight. It really seems absurd to think that the mothers of the Gaffney girls would permit such action, but it is nevertheless true. Some girls in this town are seen every day at least five times on the streets and It is nothing unusual to see some of them as many as ten or fifteen times per day, aimlessly strolling the streets, with absolutely no end in view. It would J seem to one unacquainted with conditions that they come to town merely for the purpose of strutting up and down the main thoroughfares of the town in order that they may preen before the young men of the town, even as a foolish peacock. And righi here it might be stated that these same young men should be busying themselves with attending to business rather than staring at a girl who has forgotten that "handsome is as handsome does." Girls are seen on the streets of Gaffney daily, arrayed in finery that dazzles the eye, clothing that throws Solomon's glory into .the shade, while this same girl's mother is probably at home bending over an Ironing board, wasting her life away for an addle-pated girl who hasn't the sense to appreciate these labors of love. It's a strange old world, isn't it? To one who has little experience with the feminine world it would seem high time that the mothers take some steps?steps which if taken in time may prevent several broken hearts. If the mothers won't do it, it might be well for the fathers to take some of them in hand Editor Ledger: Your paper of October 24th contains an article which interests every citizen of Gaffney and especially concerns me. One sentence, by its indeflniteness involves every minister and at least one merchant in this city. In response to a direct request your reporter has given the name of that minister to whom reference was made. Feeling convinced by all the circumstances that I am the merchant referred to by that article, in justice to myself, my family, my friends, my church, and the city which has so kindly received me as a citizen, I beg you to give me space in the columns of your paper that I ma" defend myself against an underhand attack, the reason for which I have not the remotest idea. I have been living in Gaffney since the lltn or May, isus. me nc?. W. A. Ferrall has been living here not quite two years. I think that I am as well known and as favorably known in Gaffney as the reverend gentleman who is trying to blast my name, blacken my character and bring shame and disgrace on the church of which I am a member. Let me say that there is not one pci-icle of foundation contained in fact for the gross insinuation contained In the article and apparently aimed at me. If I had been such a villain, fleeing from justice, would I have stopped in Gaffney? So near my former home and the place of the alleged crime? Mr. Editor, for many years I have been trying to live a Christian life and be a Christian worker. All can understand my wonder and surprise and grief of heart that a professed minister of the Prince of Peace should try to wreck my character and ruin my reputation. Thanking you for your kindness in publishing this statement. J. G. Simmons. PEARL FISHERS' RISKS. The Penalty Sometimes Inflicted on a Thieving Diver. At one time pearl shelling as an Industry was native to Great Britain, and pearls are still found in mussels got from Irish rivers. But the chief centre of pearl shelling has long been the tropical region around the north of Australia and the East Indies. Thence comes nowadays the bulk of the world's supply of pearl shells and of pearls. It is a common mistake to suppose that a pearl shelling fleet seeks gem pearls as the sole source of its profits. This is by no means so. The chief quest, indeed, of the pearler is not the gem pearl but simply the pearl shell oyster, which yields "mother of pearl," a material used extensively for ornafnr tho honrllAQ nf lfnivp.Q and for buttons. The pearls are really incidentals of the industry. On a good patch of pearl oysters a fleet would make handsome profits if never a pearl were found in the molluscs. It is estimated that on an average a pearl of value (that is. worth over 1?) is found in every 4,000 shells. But almost all these shells would be valuable otherwise for their mother of pearl, and when the oyster shelters a large pearl of good shape or a curiously colored pearl its value may run to hundreds or even thousands of pounds. The divers are alwajs alert to these pearls. They are said to know an oyster which is likely to contain a pearl by a little bulge on the outside shell. To guard against theft by the divers is one of the cares of the pearl sheller. Gruesome are the stories told of the punishment inflicted on dishonest divers by their overseers. In a pearling fleet working in savage seas, with the men engaged mostly savages, no civilized law runs. Punishment follows quickly on the heels of crime or the suspicion of crime. Neither judge, jury nor form of trial is needed. Who is to know if a diver or two has disappeared? The method of the industry makes easy one form of deadly punishment. The diving is now mostly in deep waters, the shallow reaches of pearl shell beds having been exhausted. So with all possible care cases of divers' paralysis ?IC CUIIIIHUH cuuueu imuufi,!! the pressure of the water on the man | at work at the bottom of the sea. "Wilful negligence?in leaving him a little longer than should be under water? and his death is practically certain. That, they say, is the penalty of the thieving diver.?Empire Magazine. tf^'She?"But how am I to know you will be patient and forbearing when we are married?" He?"I can put on a 14J stand-up collar on a No. 15 shirt without saving a word."?Variety Life. -*? "Cook, did you stay long in your last place?" "I never stays nowhere long enough to be discharged. I's one of these tireless cookers."?Judge. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. More Trifles That Hav Led tj the Complete Expose of a Murder. How accidents that have solved crimes are legion. The experienced detective recognizes aid often given him by coincidence?by a mere trifle thp.t has led to the complete expose of a murder that would otherwise have perhaps merged into the mists of the past as an unsolved and forgotten puzzle in the annals of crime. ThS old saying that "murder will out" cannot be substantiated by statistical Information. No detective doubts that there are hundreds of unsolved crimes right in this generation that probably never will be fully unraveled. On the other hand, records of American courts show some remarkable cases where the most Insignificant action on the part of a guilty murderer or thief led to his apprehension and often to the gallows. Let us, for example, take the case of Andy Toth, who spent twenty years In the penitentiary for ^the alleged murder of a fellow steel worker. Toth laughed because a fellow workman stumbled over a cuspidor when they arraigned the workmen in the office after the murder, and his fellow countryman was so Incensed that he pointed him out as the murderer. And Toth was sent to prison on circumstantial evidence. How this Hungarian confessed to the atrocity and how Toth was freed has been told in the columns of the daily papers recently, but there are other tales more remarkable than this. We may assume a condition in which no rule of logic will apply?where the police will be baffled and helpless. A and B are enemies. Their mutual acquaintances know of the bad blood that exists on both sides. A decides secretly to avenge himself on B to the extent of doing murder. A knows B'8 habits?what route he takes from the suburban station home, what hour he generally arrives, and departs, and how he conducts himself generally. Selecting a dark, stormy night, A lies in wait for B, and sees a form he believes to be his enemy passing beneath the blurred radiance of an arc light. As the man approaches A steps out from the dark and strikes, inflicting a mortal wound on the other's temple. The man is found dead an hour later?and there is no clew to the crime. A walks miles before boarding a street car and casts his brass knuckles Into the river. The man murdered is not B, but C. with whom neither A nor B is acquainted. No ill feeling has ever existed between the two principals in the crime?nobody has so much as seen A leave the spot or arrive in the neighborhood. Every source of reason exhausts itself. A learns of his error later, carries his secret to the grave, and another unsolved mystery passes Into the criminal annals without a single ray of light to illuminate it. At other times the most trivial circumstances point the finger of accusation directly at the guilty one, who has been cautious in all things except the one that has led to his undoing. In Marathon county, Wis., some few years back a young girl was attacked in the woods?and was found strangled to death. A man named Fulweller reported the finding of her body and also stated that a few moments prior he had seen two tramps hurrying along the Chicago and Northwestern railway tracks. Numerous tramps were arrested and held for examination. No evidence could be worked up against them? and most of them were permitted to go on their way. Some of the residents of the wooded vicinity, not reared in the detection of crime, noticed that the footprints of only one man could be found leading to the spot and away from It. These marks tallied exactly with the size of the foot of Fulweiler, upon .whom a detective was put to work. Getting his victim drunk, the detective kept awake while the other slept, and soon the suspect began to babble, telling of every horrible detail of his deed while talking in his sleep. He was sentenced to a life term in Waupun. Here the detective had a definite record to work on and was employed not to hunt the criminal, but to secure a confession from the one whom popular opinion held responsible for the uccu. Had Fulweiler left the finding of the boCy to others, it is questionable if a case would have ever resulted against him. Some trivial Instances have led to the arrest, trial and conviction of men and women against whom no suspicion had ever been directed. Within a welldefined circle policet officials can often bring a guilty person to justice. The arts and crafts of crookdom carry with them the fine hand of perfection. The neatness and dispatch with which a safe is blown directs suspicion toward the only safe cracker capable of doing so thorough a job. Drawn in by the dragnet and put through inquisitorial examination each known crook seeks to save his neck by knowledge relative to the special work under advisement. In a strict sense this is detection of crime after the manner of the threshing of wheat. The grain is separated from the chaff and the net result is abundant evidence against the guilty person. Beyond the pale of the'methodical comes that sorq?thing else that defies explanation, and which is best explained by the term "coincidence." And yet the law depends to a marked degree upon this fortuitous culmination. The reading public frequently ridicules the plots of many novels and short stories, designating them as "yellow," whereas more unreasonable things have been lived out in this worried old world of ours. All criminals do not have their habitat in the slums, contrary to general belief. The dragnet fails to connect with many malefactors whose hands are crimson with the stain of misdeeds that are catalogued under the head of felonies. The bank cashier who pilfers from his institution must eventually be caught. He is a case of cause and effect and if he does not run away he will be brought to account by the discovery of his shortages. This form of crime makes itself evident in a great variety of ways. Covering it perpetually is next to impossible. A New Englander had long retained a grudge against a fellow agriculturist. It had originated in a horse trade that had made the success decidly one-sided. The spirit of revenge endured for years, and so careful had been the planning that the murderer never so much as voiced an unfair opinion about his neighbor. Separating the farms of these neighbors was a small forest, covering perhaps a hundred acres. The morning of that fateful day a man who lived in the neighborhood, whom we may call Patrick, was hunting for squirrels in the wooded stretch. He had paused to rest for a few moments and had leaned on an old fence, beyond which he could see Fanner Brown at work. Just why Patrick happened to scrutinize that particular piece of fence may be explained by his distaste for snakes?a certain copper-tinted species of which was given to wriggling up to the topmost rail to bask in the warmth. Late that afternoon Farmer Brown was found dead near his barn, with a bullet hole through his head. Now, nobody in the county would have thought of suspecting Farmer Jenkins of the deed, -had it not been for Patrick, who, with many others, hurried to the farm to view the still form of Brown and comment on the crime. Farmer Jenkins was there with the others, offering his most sincere sympathies to the widow and children. On his way to the Brown estate Mr. Pat1/va* Vila iffhlrt nr?/l hla Knran I ItK HUD n/oi I1IO '"J'i Uiiu HID Jiu* on, without a whip, was a questionable means of transportation. He recalled that during the morning he had seen several likely willows growing in the woods beyond the fence, and he decided to cut a few stout, supple branches to lash his animal into obedience. Then he made the discovery that he had left his knife in his barn, and what was more natural than that he should borrow a knife from his friend, Mr. Jenkins? The county sheriff was present, and was glad to accept Patrick's invitation for a stroll across the pasture to the forest. Just as the men were about to climb over the fence Patrick's aversion to reptiles again manifested itself, and he looked along the top rail cautiously. He espied the knife marks in the wood that had not been there that morning! ."Why," he said to the sheriff, "these were not here at 11 o'clock! There are just two cuts. Whoever was here waiting for Brown, let us assume, became nervous. I know that Brown could be seen clearly from this spot, and it was from this direction the bullet must have come." Alighting on the farther side of the fence the officer and Patrick viewed the scene and at this juncture Patrick opened Jenkins's knife, and placed it on the new surface of the wood that was shown in the V-shaped incision. The blade fitted perfectly. m 1 14 n n..Uf i lie men aaiu iiuuiiuk, uui u. >iu>" investigation started. The balance of the chain of evidence was soon welded. Not a single link was missing. Jenkins owned a 38-calibre rifle. A bullet flred by a gun of this type was found In the ragged wound in Brown's breast. Then a neighbor recalled the old horse trade?and the early threats of Jenkins against Brown. The footprints of Jenkins were found in the soft soil not only at the point in the fence, but also at different j laces leading from and to his own home. Another farmer, who had driven past the Jenkins farmhouse (a couple of rods from the country road) had seen Jenkins cleaning his rifle. On the bullet extracted from the mortal wound was found the initial "J" cut with a knife and the youngest son of Jenkins told at the trial how he had decorated all the bullets he had found In the same manner. Still, not one of these facts would have likely come to light had it not been for the unassuming attitude of Patrick, who had been at the right places at the right time?who had forgotten the vital things he should have rorgotten ana wnose reelings rowaru the snake family had caused him to notice the top board of the fence in the morning?when it was free from knife marks?and again in the afternoon when the telltale nick gave the clew. And if Farmer Jenkins had refrained from his thoughtless act of cutting into the weather-beaten board he would never have paid the price at the business end of the hemp cord. That so trifling a thing as a toothpick should lead to the arrest, conviction and execution of a criminal seems too farfetched for any tale?and yet! One noon two friends lunched at the same restaurant. We will call them D and El To E D explained that the same night he was going on a journey; that he had, in fact, already secured his transportation, and that he would be gone some weeks. Indeed, if he found things agreeable he might not return at all. At the culmination of the meal the waiter brought several quill toothpicks to the diners and E noticed, casually, that the one D used (and afterward placed in his pocket) had a peculiar dark mark girdling its middle. The incident passed from his mind and after bidding D farewell and a prosperous trip E went about his business. The next morning F, a realty agent, who had failed to return to his home during the night, was found in his office stabbed. H>e had evidently died instantly. His safe, which had apparently not been locked, was rifled of its monetary contents. With this agent E had dealt more or less for several years and moved more by morbid curiosity than by friendship he visited the scene of the murder. Almost the first thing that caught liis vision was a quill toothpick with a dark mark encircling its middle, and he gasped. Imparting his suspicions to the police he dismissed the matter from his mind as being pure coincidence. But D was subsequently arrested while embarking for Europe, and, after confessing his part in the crime, he took his own life. Being nervous over the act he was about to perpetrate he had talked with F to put him off his guard and had unknowingly drawn the,quill from his pocket, later casting it on the floor. He had killed the real estate man just as the latter was in the act of closing his safe. Nobody had seen him go; no one had witnessed his departure. He had even taken the precaution to lock the door on the inside, break the lock of a window and leave that way so as to make the crime appear as the work of robbers. He had taken the money, not because he needed it or wanted it. He had even burnt the bills, so that no mark of identification could follow him from that source. He explained that his grudge had its origin years before in a distant part of the world. D, the murderer, had even been so cautious as not to have anything about him that he might leave thoughtlessly?but the quill toothpick, of which he had not thought at all, brought about his undoing. A huge business deal may be planned and executed practically free from chance. No editor cares for a detective story in which results are accomplished by circumstance. Once the element of the power of mind and scope of reason has been removed the "human interest vanishes with it and the tale sinks to the dun level of the dime novel. A felon may lay his plot months ahead of Its commission. He may provide every safeguard for himself, and i yet fall through some circumstance that seems so slight nobody would seriously regard it as suggesting the so- I lution.?Chicago Tribune. I LIONS EVERYWHERE. \ A Hunting Adventure in British East 1 Africa. Describing an encounter with 11- j ons In British East Africa, the Field I says: "We set out In the morning. ' my brother following the course of the river Tlba, a tributary of the Tana J river, and I making for the plains, where the grass had all been burned off (with exception of the river bank) , and looked a very likely spot for li- I ons. Having sighted, some Impalla I antelope and finding on closer in- j spection that there was a fair head , among them, I proceeded to stalk < them. At 300 yards I fired at the finest buck and the bullet told, but too far back. Separating from the herd, he went in a direction for the < river. On walking to the brow of the j hill over which he had disappeared, I heard a growl, and looking in the I direction saw a lioness. She was then ' about 250 yards from me and was j lying, or rather crouching, at the i edge of a small patch of grass that ! lined the river bank. At 150 yards, J taking my .450. I fired, but the shot j carried too high; on my second shot ( she sprang right up in the air, and ! then turned Into the grass. There, j to my surprise, she was joined by j another lioness which I had not seen. "On my right was the river and about twelve yards in front of me , was a patch of grass which had been ] flattened down by a hippopotamus; 1 the river was not more than eight \ yaras irom inc. iuc ut*aici? nu^icu the grass with my brother and kept their sticks moving well. Suddenly there was a shout, "Look out, she is coming!" As she came nearer I , perceived the grass moving but could not see her. I therefore waited till she reached the patch of trampled grass and then fired. The first bullet took her well in the shoulder and checked her. On receiving the sec- i ond she gave a dying spring which landed her in the river, where she < sank like a stone. "It was at our next camp where my j brother killed five lions in three hours and got his horse and syce mauled, i though he himself got off without a scratch. The following is his account of the adventure: " 'On the morning of October 7 I 1 set out to try for an eland, and after a short march came on a fine herd, , but they got our wind and stampeded, i A fine bull eland I was anxious to ' get, bui he would keep right in the I .enter of the herd, so I sent my second gun bearer' with my light rifie and cartridge bag containing am- , munition for both to get round the Oiher side of the herd. This he did, and the herd split up. I took four . long shots at the big eland with my .450, but failed to hit, as they were J 400 yards off and going strong. The bull disappeared over a slight rise 1 into some thorn scrub, and so had ( my second gun bearer. " 'On topping this rise the Somali ' and I saw twelve lions about 100 yards , off, moving at a quick walk through j this thorn scrub. One lioness stop- . ped and looked around; she only showed her shoulder, at which I fired, and hit her hard. We then followed , her up quickly and found her under , a bush, when on my second shot she , ?"^11 /-?<-! Atror HooH "'Ly this time the other lions had moved off, so I blew my whistle for my second gun bearer, as I wished to replenish my cartridges. We heard a shot quite near and knew that he had seen the lions. On following him in the direction of the shot we came on eight of them immediately across our front, and about 150 yards off. Having shortened the range by fifty yards, I fired at the biggest one leading the pack. My first two shots carried high, but the third took him high up in the front shoulder, putting him immediately out of action. Feeling in my pocket for more cartridges, I found that I had run out of them, and had also exhausted the small number that my Somali carried for my .450. At this moment two lionesses, seeing their mate rolling over and over, ran up to him, and faced right about and charged. " 'The Somali started to run, and called to me to do the. same, but knowing there was no tree large enough within 2,000 yards, I called out, "It is no use running," and stooo my ground, keeping my eyes riveted on the big lioness which was charging straight at me, the smaller| one keeping out on the left. They came at full speed until within ten yards, and then crouched. In the meanwhile my gun bearer had returned to my side and was standing there with his hunting knife drawn. I said: 'Abubuker, I am going to charge.' He said, ' No! No!' but knowing that it was the last resort, and that they were crouching to spring, I jumped forward, yelling as loudly as possible, when, to our surprise and relief, they both turned and fied. In the meantime my other gun bearer had been up a tree, and came up cringing, with the tale that eight lions had attacked him and pulled his boots off." "?London Globe. && Reed?"You know when Columbus reached this country he didn't know just where he was going to land." Greene?"Why, did he come over in an aeroplane?" ? Yonkers Statesman. r * w urn it? 'I V? ' j|p I j ill fThe You C \ ( in early ^ not yet s e iv In whatever part ot the hoi | best and quickest with a Perfe The Perfection is the most relial can move it wherever you please. Start it in bedroom or bathroom, an< morning. Take it to the dining-room, ai cosey meal. A touch of a match at dusk, i The Perfection Smokeless Oil Heat $ anywhere. Drums of plain steel or enan A special automatic device makes sn | become wedged. All parts easily cleaned. Dealers everywhere; or write for deter Standard Oil (Incorpo ' ' DANGEROUS FISHING. A Night On an Ice Floe With a Famished Wolf. Lake fishermen. who maintain that fishing huts are In no danger of being carried away in the ice, and northern hunters who assert with squal wisdom that the gray wolf is never seen in Michigan save in the farthest recesses of the north, are nature fakers, all of them. Two fears ago, in the dead of winter, Dr M. A. Leach was out gn Lake Michigan in a friend's hut, fishing through the ice. Everything was proceeding merrily when?siays the doctor: "Then came a sudden report sounding like thunder. The ice was going! "I rushed outside, but the snow was blinding, and I could, of course not even see the shore line. I stood perplexed for a moment, but as 1 had no compass, there was nothing for It but to keep warm and trust to luck. All around the thunderous reports were sounding and the ice ivas quivering strangely. I was frightsned, but as there was no help-for it [ went back to the hut and kept or fishing. 'This was about noon. I noticed to my relief, that there were nc cracks coming beneath the hut, sc that if the ice did go out I should al least be on a big cake?for a time rhe big cakes do not last very long in Lake Michigan. I could not tell what was happening outside, for the wind was shrieking and howling horribly, and every few seconds the ice would split with a resounding crash So, for lack of something better tc 3o, I arranged a frying pan I had ovei l he little stove, and to keep 'up mj food supply, I started frying some of the fish, after cleaning them outside the hut. In a few minutes the place was filled with a most appetizing odor, which, I presume, hac something to do with what followed "First of all I heard a series of low whines outside; then something scratched at the door. I opened It lr amazement thinking some dog had perhaps, been lost on the Ice and hac found my hut. To my surprise, however. a great unkempt animal entered and fawned about my feet, licking my boots; and although I hac never seen one I knew that it was t gray wolf. The animal seemed terrified beyond measure by the splitting ice and the storm, for he kepi casting fearful glances at the door and showed no sign whatever ol svildness." As the doctor had no other weapor than his knife and a frozen fishinf line, he was in a quandary. But thi wolf seemed lonely and showed i strong desire to make himself a' home, so they naturally decided t( let it go at that, and spent the nigh quite charmingly together. The nex morning?hear what the doctor says; "I awoke to find the sun up, the day bright and clear, and the lane four or five miles west of us. A1 around floated cakes of ice, goinf the same way as ourselves in th< grip of some current. My feari passed away with the bright sunlight, and I used up my last wood ir cooking some fish for the wolf, whil< I finished the basket of provisions. "bo the wolf and I went out in the sunshine, and now the animal grew surly and. no longer welcomed mj approaches. I believe that so lonf as the danger lasted he was cowed but that with the approach of day and when rescue was at hand for me all his savage nature returned upor him with redoubled force. Howevei that may be, two hours later I saw a dot moving among the ice, and a: it neared saw that it was a fish boat doubtless with a rescue party or Knnrd And nnw nftme the most BUT prising part of my adventure. "The boat was about half a miU distant and the occupants having seen me and waved to me, started t( make their way through the floating ice. I saw the wolf watching their with bristling hair, and suddenly h< turned to me with a low growl. ] offered him a bit of llsh, but he tool no notice, and I began to fear thai be realized that my rescue would noi include his. At any rate, he drew back a few steps, his eyes fixed or mine. Then, with a quick movement he sprang at me. "I had no weapon, except a shor knife, which was closed. All I coulc do was to jump aside, hitting hiir with my fist as he missed me?an olt boxing trick. But I had not counted on that savage side slash of the greai teeth, and when the animal gained his feet and turned to fly at me agair my hand was streaming with Blood from a small gash. I heard shouts from the approaching fish boat, bui as the party was unarmed, they could not help me. "Immediately upon getting his balance on the snow the wolf came toward me slowly and sprang again This time I was really frightened and, with a wild idea of holding hirr away till my friends could assist me 1 met him half way, grasped his throat in both hands, and we botl fell to the snow together, for the impact of his leap was tremendous. ] hung on to his throat, but, althougl I kept the gleaming teeth off I coulc not hold his feet. He struck at m< savagely with his hind paws, th< sharp claws tearing through my coal like knives, and I realized my danger just in time to cast myself backward. Instantly the wolf returned tc the attack, and this time the look ill his face frightened me so that I did not wait for him. I whipped my coal iway and threw it in his face; then urned and, running to the side ol :he ieecake, leaped into the water. "I am a good swimmer) and the noat was only 100 feet distant, so *in no time I was on board and getting nto warm clothes. The engine was stopped, and we lay there watching he wolf. He seemed puzzled at my lisappearance, running backward and forward on the ice; then he looked it the boat and howled dismally. S'one of the men liked to attack him with knives for their 'only weapons, md so presently the boat was turned ibout and we threaded our way oui 'mm thp iep tn the free water. 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