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tumorous Department. An Intelligent Youth.?"That intelligent looking boy there," said the pedagogue to the top-hatted parent he was showing over the school premises, "is Brown. I am proud of Brown. I have Inculcated in him the love of learning to such an extent that he now prefers study to play. I expect at this moment he is writing Timmin's I^atin prose on that sheet of paper there, while all the other pupils are at play. I will ascertain." He called the lad to him. "Brown," he said, "let us see the result of your industry." "I?I'd rather not, sir," blushed Brown. "Note the modesty," whispered the schoolmaster. "Come, Brown, let me see what you have been writing." Still the boy demurred. But the schoolmaster Insisted and forcibly appropriated the paper. And there, in neat imitation of feminine handwriting. he read the following: "Please excuse my son James from school today. He is wanted at home." -Tit-Bits. Willing to Work.?The Democratic members of the house of representa tlves have been besieged ever by a horde of office seekers, willing to serve their country. "It Is refreshing," said one representative in discussing the office question, "to hear of an aspirant for public office who frankly admits his ambition, yet di ".ins to seek a position in which he wil' have nothing to do but to draw his salarv. "Two wayside pilgrims were talking over things when one of them asked: " 'Dick, you ain't a-hankerln' after no government place, are ye?' " 'I don't mind sayln' I'd take one of 'em ef I could git it,' responded the other, but I don't want no Job that's all fat. I'm wlllln' to earn my wages.' "An* what sort o' job would be about your size?' " 'Well, I'd like to fill fountain pens fur some assistant secretary of the treasury.' "?Judge. Sympathetic Burglar.?"I woke up suddenly the other night and thought I heard a burglar in the room. I sat up in bed, and that awoke my wife. "What did she do?" "She accused me, as usual, of having a burglar bug. Said I'd never hear a burglar if I lived 1,000 years. I said I'd bet I would. She said she'd bet I wouldn't. And just then a shadowy form rose from behind the dresser and a hoarse voice exclaimed, 'He wins, madam.'" "TMJ VAII notnh VtIm 9" 1/IU JVM VUfcVtt a?MM "Catch him? I didn't try. I Just laid there and laughed and heard him slam the door and run down the street. And say, my wife was so mad she didn't speak to me for a whole day. But I'll bet one thing." "What is it?" "I'll bet that burglar was a married man."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Kaiser's Joke,?During the German manoeuvres recently a company of dragoons was told off to represent a convoy of wagons. The kaiser, riding over the field of battle, and seeing a dragoon lying on the ground, said to him. "Well, what are you lying down there for?" "I am representing a wagon, your majesty," replied the soldier. "Are you?" said the kaiser. "Well, get up and go and Join the others." "That is impossible, your majesty," said the soldier, "because I have lost one of my wheels." The emperor burst out laughing and giving the man two shillings, observed: "Here's something for you to get the other wheels oiled with."? Paris Matin. Made a Good Guess.?A gentleman was watching a military funeral passing down the street. It was a very pretentious affair, and he walked to the edge of the curb to get a better view of the spectacle. Just then the flag-draped cannon passed, bearing the flower-laden coffin. His curiosity was all the more aroused, so he stepped up to a newsboy, who was watching the procession, and asked: "Who's dead, sonny?" The newsie looked at his questioner and then at the passing troops and finally said: "I don't know, boss; but I guess it must be the feller under all dem flowers!" New Job Wee Safe,?A man who goes up to Maine each year for the hunting was quite surprised this season upon arriving at the village hotel to find one of the old and best known guides loafing about idle. "Well, Lafe," asked the visitor, "don't you guide hunting parties any more?" "No, I gave it up." slowly answered Lafe. "Got tired of being mistook for a deer." "I don't blame you. How do you earn your living now?" "Guide fishing parties now. So fer nobody ain't mistook me fer a fish."? Harper's Magazine. Meeting Emergencies.?Senator Dixon was condemning a piece of political deception. "The thing was as flagrant," he said, "as the railway case. , "Two men, one of them very short, were passing through a station toward the train gates when the bigger one was heard to say: " 'I've took a half ticket fur ye, George. Yer so little ye'll pass all right.' " 'But,' protested George, 'how about my beard?' And he twiddled his chin beard nervously. " 'Oh,' rejoined the other, 'tell "em it's a mole."*?Minneapolis Journal. A Double Tragedy.?The elimination of the Republican party in Louisiana because under the state law it didn't cast * nough votes at a late election to entitle it to a place on the official ballot, reminded Senator John Sharp Williams of a man in Mississippi who ran for congress in a Mississippi district on the Republican ticket. He received two votes at the general election. "Rather humiliating, wasn't it?" put in a bystander. "Oh," replied the senator, "that was not the worst of It. They arrested him for repeating."?Saturday Evening Post. 1*3" Mrs. Scripture?"The Rev. Mr. Glimmer hides his light under a bushel. I think." Miss Vinney Garrish? "How wasteful. A pint cup would more than hide it"?Puck. GOV. BLEASE MAKES REPLY. (Continued from First page.) "Rabens, Rudolph (white): Convicted at the February, 1907 term of court of Oconee county, of receiving stolen goods, and sentenced to three years on the county chaingang. "Petition is signed by eight of the jurors who tried the case by the clerk of court, county treasurer, county auditor, judge of probate and other officials of Oconee county, and by many of the leading citizens, including ex-Senator E. L. Herndon, Wm. J. Stribbllng, \V. O. White, master; Jas. Seaborn, Boon B. Morse, R. T. Jaynes, M. C. Long, F. R. Lucas, Mayor George L. Wilson, and many, many others. "And a petition from the county of Charleston, signed by the Rev. Dr. Wm. A. C. Mueller, A. W. Winters, A. J. W. Goss, Otto Tiederman, F. W. Wagener & Co., Wm. M. Byrd, and a hundred or more of the most prominent citizens of the city of Charleston, and personal letter from Dr. Mueller, begging that the boy might be allowed to come home in order that he might see his old mother, who was believed to be upon her death bed. "Upon this pardon was granted March 2, 1911." This pardon was especially asked for by Rev. Dr. Wm. A. C. Mueller, pastor of the St. Matthew's German Lutheran church, of the city of Charleston. At the time the pardon was granted, Raben had served all but about thirty days of a three year sentence. I released him that he might go home and see his old mother who was believed to be upon her death bed. The accusation that Rabens gave $2,000 to save himself from imprisonment for thirty days, when he had already served nearly three years, is not only a wilful falsehood, but unreasonable. I submit herewith affidavits from Rabens, and from Dr. Mueller denying this charge of Felder's. I I. leave it to the people of South Carolina, if they prefer to believe Thomas B. Felder, a fugitive from the Justice of the state of South Carolina, a man filled with venom and spite, a corruptionist and a coward, in preference to Dr. Mueller, a Christian minister, whose whole life has been one of devoted service to the Prince of Peace and Mercy, who has been and is now doing so much for the faith of the great Lutheran denominations of this state. Charleston, S. C.. July 17, 1912. No. 96 RadclifT street. Whom it may concern:?In order that justice may be done, I was requested by many friends to make the following statement, which I cheerfully do, relative to the H. Rudolph Rabens pardon: During Gov. Martin F. Ansel's administration I wrote a personal letter in behalf of the case, to which I received no reply, and also signed the petition which was a large one and signed by men of prominence like F. W. Wagener & Co., and many others. Subsequently, when Cole L. Blease became governor of South Carolina, I wrote him a personal letter, March 1, 1911, which appeared shortly afterwards in the News and Courier, on March 4, 1911, I received a letter from Gov. Blease, which I quote verbatim: "The governor is in receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, and has given it very' careful consideration. In reply, he directed me to state that he has complied with your request. Yours very truly, Alex Rowland, Secretary. H. Rudolph Rabens had only 28 days to serve when pardoned. Last Monday, July 15, his parents stated to me as their pastor that neither they, their son, or any of their friends paid or offered to pay one cent of money. I believe their and his statement . He only had twenty-eight more days to serve, and I consider it foolish to think that he paid $2,000 or any amount to keep from serving his sentence out. Wm. A. Mueller. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of July, 1912. (Seal) J. D. Holling, Notary Public, S. C. The State of South Carolina, county of PhflrlAOtnn Personally appeared before me H. Rudolph Rabens, who being1 duly sworn says: That in the News and Courier of July 13. 1912, there appeared a statement of one of the detectives of W. J. Burns that two thousand ($2,000) dollars had been paid to Gov. Cole L. Bleose for his pardon. That. In Justice to Gov. Blease and himself, he desires to state that he had only twenty-eight (28) days to serve before the expiration of the term of his sentence. He further states that neither he nor his friends or relatives paid .anything In any shape or form for the pardon extended htm. H. Rudolph Rabens. Sworn to before me this 18th day of July. A. D., 1912. T. G. Dlsher. Seal) Notary Public for S C. The "T. B." Felder claims that the letters held by me, known as the "T. B." letters, were forged, during the years 1904 and 1905, by F. H. Krauss. at the time employed by Felder's law firm as a clerk. These are the letters that I spoke of early in this statement?the documents that are keeping Felder away from South Carolina The letters I hold have been submitted to several gentlemen of Columbia, and to some who live in the state of Georgia, who are familiar with Felder's handwriting, and they have stated that they would go on the stand and swear that the letters were written by T. B. Felder. I have also two letters written by Felder?one from England and one from a point in the United States-to a woman, and the writing of these letters compared with those of the "T. B." letters, shows that the letters I hold were written by Felder. Furthermore, I have testimony that the company referred to in the "T. B." letters, which was to control the liquor situation in South Carolina through H. H. Evans, was actually chartered in the state of Alabama Why should Krauss write about a matter which he would naturally know nothing about and have no interest in? Besides, the subject of these letters was the same subject-matter about which he wrote h. W. Boykln, John Bell Towill and H. Hi Evans, who have made sworn testimony before this same committee, which committee did not even think it necesary to make Felder say why he was over here in Newberry, Columbia and Augusta talking about t'ne formation of this conspiracy company. I do not know Krauss and never heard of him until a few days ago. If ho did in 1904 and 1905. foree these letters, he was a man of great prophetic power to foresee that six years afterwards I would need letters to show the rascality of Thomas B. Felder. Felder Insists that these letters are forgeries, and that they were written by Krauss, notwithstanding the fact, that, according to his own claims, he has never seen said letters. I shall be glad to convince him of their genuineness and shall do so without doubt if he will face a South Carolina jury. Is There Anything Else? I have endeavored to cover every insinuation and slander mentioned in the State. I am sure that you will recognize the fact that in all that mass of words, and owing to the fact that I have been very busy, it may be possible that some little piece of dirt, buried beneath an advertisement, or hidden in a corner, has escaped my attention. If it has, I wish to say, and this statement covers as well those things to which I have already referred. that my hands are clean and I have at no time as a citizen or an official committed a dishonorable act. However, if there be one thing, however small, that I have overlooked and any honest man in South Carolina desires information regarding it. I shall cheerfully give it. The Proof Positive. Thus I have set forth what the lawyers call my "brief"?my denials of the attempted charges against me, the insults to the high office I hold, and the assaults on the chivalry and integrity of my people. You have- the positive proof supporting those denials, and you should rejoice with me that once more honor and virtue have been able A/ to withstand the blackhand assaults of infamy and shame. The Burn* Gang. That you may have further Information, nowever, that the newspapers of your state have knowingly withhelu from you, 1 am going to tell you something of William J. Burns and his cohorts. This newspaper combination has attempted to make you believe that Burns, and those who work tor him, are high-toned gentlemen, although they had information to the contrary. The reputations of these hirelings may perhaps be unknown to you, but they are known to me, and it is my duiy to tell you what kind of cuttle they are. Since it became known that the Burns' crowd was hounding me down, letters and telegrams have come to me from various sections of the continent giving me information of the diriy methods of this detective agency. Without consuming much time about the records and reputations of this gang, I wish to call to your attention the fact that they have been denounced by two of the most prominent men in the United States? President William H. Taft and Hon. George W. Wickersham, attorney general of the United States. This denunciation of Burns and his coworkers was due to the fact that it was proved to the department of the attorney general of the United States that one Willard N. Jones had been unjustly convicted of crime by false testimony presented to a court by Burns and his men, and that the Jury retiiMnlnor irnr/llnf r\f nnnvintlnn hnrl been packed by these infamous scoundrels. President Taft pardoned Jones on the showing made to him. Mr. Wicker8ham, in recommending that the president grant the pardon, stated that he had been unable to get Burns and his assistants to come before him to explain, deny or justify their donduct. In concluding his report, the attorney general wrote as follows: "The course of the executive, however, seems to me to be clear, and that is, he cannot countenance the methods employed in the prosecution of these cases by requiring an enforce-' ment of the sentence Imposed in the Jones case." If you care to read the whole report of the attorney general on the Jones case, I suppose you can get a copy of it from his office, in the city of Washington. The whole matter is set out in the American Federationist, a magazine published by the American Federation or Labor, in the issue of the present month, at page 537, in an article from the pen of Samuel Gompers, editor of that magazine, who is president of the American Federation of Labor?and Mr. Gompers is the brave man who, fighting the battles for the laboring men of America, has stood firm and true, even going to the point of being sentenced to jail for a contempt of an august court. In commenting on the conduct of Burns in the Jones case, Mr. Gompers said: "Thus is fully established the fact, in Burns' own handwriting, that he has proved himself to stand as the worst type of private detectives which he so illuminatingly describes." A copy of that magazine can likely be obtained by addressing the magazine company at 801 G street. N. W., Washington, D. C.. and enclosing 10 cents?unless all tne copies have been exhausted by the general demand all over the country to read of the wickedness of a reprobate. Other Future Charges and Proofs. Since the Augusta meetings have ended and the Felder committee failed so miserably in their efforts to connect me with wrongdoing, statements from Felder, and. insinuations from other sources almost equally as bad, have from time to time appeared in the newspapers that other disclosures and charges would be laid against me later. These slanderers evidently did not stop to consider before making these announcements, for this is a frank confession from them that so far they have shown absolutely nothing. But regardless of what they think of their failures of the past, let them proceed with their malicious work. Knowing the men engaged in this unclean alliance, having knowledge of the little regard for honesty, truth or character they possess, having ample proof of their ability to get finances for their corrupt work, I shall not be surprised, if they go into some avenue of pollution and bring forth some poor, miserable being in the shape of a human being, who is willing, for the sake of a few paltry dollars, to further steep his or her soul in infamy. And they may. In their desperate efforts to get rid of me, assail and attack those kindred and friends dear to me. Such other foul falsehood as they shall send forth, shall be answered by me. if answer be deemed necessary, whenever they are made. Of course, you know, as I know, what is the reason for the continuous making of these announcements, and for the reason of the Felder committee to continue its sessions. They desire to keep my friends defending me, to keep me defending myself, while the Issues of this campaign are being clouded. Those issues are the records of the life and labors of Ira B. Jones as a legislator and a Judge?and the fight I am making for the interests of the people against extravagance in their government, against the rule of the self-serving corporations, and against the right of the newspaper trust to Invade the sanctity of your homes. I shall not be swerved from my purpose, and Judge Jones, his campaign manager, Felder, and the five ardent Jones men on the dispensary investigating committee, had Just as well open their eyes to this fact. Watch the Newspapers. For about three days the daily newspapers carried the accounts given them by Felder and his committee. I can not say that they did not receive compensation therefor, but I am confident that not one of them can show where the amount that came to it?if anv did come?was entered on its books as cash for legitimate advertising. Perhaps you like me, are anxious to see the manner in which they shall treat this statement of mine. I demand of them?not for myself; but In the name of decent Journalism, and for the good of the state?that they display this as prominently as they did the foul stuff of Felder. If they refuse, and I dare them to do so, once again their dirty practices shall be made clear to you! Likely they shall do, as they have so often done, only publish communica ttons from me upon tne payment or ten cents per printed line. If they charge a penny for this, then I shall have the undoubted proof that they are co-conspirators with Felder and Burns to get from honest people their money. I tell you frankly that I make these demands so that if they do publish this, and publish it prominently and without charge, that I shall have accomplished one purpose at last?and that is to teach these editors one small lesson in the ethics of journalism. In Conclusion. A number of my friends have told me that they do not see how I can endure, and for several years past have endured, the outrageous and unwarranted attacks that have heen made on me, attacks which are always, and have been always, unsupported by proof. Surely no man in recent years has been so unjustly assailed as I have been. I admit that it has been a fight with myself to undergo all this persecution with calmness and patience. But I have realized that "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." And I have ever had within me the consciousness that my heart has been set on doing good for my people, that my soul has been free, that the God.of justice is with me and that my people are giving me their confidence. And I am constantly reminded that those men who stand up for the rights of the people are always assailed on every hand. History?the history not only of our own state, but of the nation?records this. Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of American Independence, Christian man that he was, was charged with being an infidel. Andrew Jackson, born in South Carolina, a man of the common people. had brought against him the foul charge of adultery. John C. Calhoun, another of your distinguished sons, had laid against him by his enemies the gross charge of immorality. When every effort to blacken the name of Abraham Lincoln had failed, the political buzzards endeavored to cast retlection upon the virtue of his mother. You white-haired men of "76 will recall how the scalawags and carpet-baggers constantly spoke slander against the name of your beloved Hampton. It is fresh in your minds how Benjamin R. Tillman was charged by a few unprincipled men with being a tax-dodger and grafter. But what has been the result in all the instances referred to? The one man now living, whom I have referred to, sits in the highest councils of your nation, while those who attempted to besmirch his reputation are living almost in obscurity. Those great men, now dead, whose names I have mentioned, have their names written on the brightest pages of their country's history; the names of their slanderers are forgotten! But in their lives, 1 have learned a lesson?and that is this, that with all their greatness and goodness, they could not escape the scorpion tongue of slander and the vile pen of calumny. And since they had to undergo for the sake of their people and their people's causes, these tests of manhood?how may I, so weak when compared to them in ability, even if as bold as they in the defense of the liberties of my people, escape? 1 can not expect it?for my character and reputation?ah, my life, too, perhaps,? stand In tne way or tne rule or the selfish Interests! I must be sacrificed by these Interests because I stand for your freedom and independence?and the desire is not only to rid South Carolina of my political influence^ but, in getting rid of me, to send a warning to others, even some of your sons of the future, that they must bow to the wills and caprices of those who oppose the desires of that class of men who seek to oppress the people. But naught that can be said, or done, so long as I shall live, will prevent me from going on in the fight I have been making for your rights?and I believe that in this battle, I have the hopes, the assistance and the prayers of a great majority of the white men and women of South Carolina. CRIMINALS AS INVENT0R8. Convicts Have Given the World Many Valuable Contrivances. It is but repeating a hackneyed truism to affirm that many a noted criminal has shown himself possessed of brain power, which, if it had been utilized in a legitimate fashion, would have enabled its possessor to attain to a position of fame and affluence. Some have proved themselves inventors of no mean ability, and only the other day publicity was given to a convict's remarkable invention. This is a machine designed to prevent the alteration of checks or the forging of signature to negotiable paper, and the inventor, who is at present a convict in a California prison, has patented his prison-born idea. About three years ago a convict left the state prison of Waltham, Mass., a rich man on account of his Ingenious contrivance which he had invented. A great lover of mechanics, he perfected a device which abolishes the necessity of a bobbin in a sewing machine, and, better still, he sold his invention to a New York company for $100,000. Thermite, which has helped latterday science and mechanics to such an extent, was discovered by a notorious scientific criminal* named FYitz Von Schmitz, known to the European police as "Count Ether," because of his ability to vanish as quickly as that volatile spirit. So terrific is the heat obtained with the use of thermite that the best steel melts like wax in a fire, and as auickly. Nearly $10,000,000 were stolen from the strong rooms of London, Parisian and Berlin banks during the early part of 1898, and thermite was the open seasame on each occasion. But Von Schmidt shot his bolt when he attempted to patent his discovery. He offered to show a patent agent in Belgium a sample of his effectiveness by making his way into the agent's safe. Half an hour later he was being cared for by the police. Charles Woodstock, who was known among his own class as "the king of coiners," and one of the most desperate of men, invented in prison, among other things, a baby's rattle, a murderous steel-toothed burglar trap, an atrtfcnicotine pipe, and a hooked contrivance which, placed inside the vest pocket, would secure a man's watch from being snatched by pickpockets. Another celebrated coiner, a Manchester (England) man, whose bestknown alias was Henry Harvey, produced a coin-making machine, and so perfect and satisfactory in every detail that the German, French and Italian mints are all using it today. Unfortunately for Harvey, he could not resist the temptation to turn coiner on his own account, and the result is that, instead of now drawing over $10,000 a year in royalties on his invention, he is at present leading a healthy if monotonous life at Portland penitentiary. The medical fraternity have every reason to be thankful to a certain Du Challion, whose inventive genius gave to the world the hypodermic syringe. This syringe is, and has been now for many years, one of the most beneficial of medical instruments, and thousands of lives are saved annually by its timely aid. Du Challion was a man gifted with exceptional powers, and gave promise of a brilliant medical career, but an unfortunate escapade shut him out from intercourse with all self-respecting men. He drifted into crime, and formed a "crime school," where the young genius of Paris, stimulated by the hypodermic syringe, accomplished deeds of daring and roguery that were absolutely amazing. The school was eventually raided, but the presiding genius of the establishment escaped. Sufficient, was however, revealed at the trial to show that all his great coups had been the work of boys, who had been wrought up to a steelness of nerve by means of a syringe. The value of the syringe was obvious, and medical men all over the world soon took full advantage of the Instrument which the talented criminal had so extensively used to accomplish his evil deeds. It is to another scientific burglar we owe the "Johnston pump" and "helmet." With the aid of these appliances a diver is not only enabled to descend to great depths in the sea, but also to explore caves, and turn six or seven sharp corners while under water, a thing which was quite Impossible before. The inventor, Arthur Johnston, was a burglar, and it was to enable him to enter one of the largest banks in London that his "pump" and "helmet" were invented. For a number of years, Johnston confessed, he had kept an eye on the bank, even procuring a Job as porter in it so that he might make more certain of his ground when it came to the cruiclal moment. Then he rented a house near by and set to work. He discovered that a kind of sewer ran under the bank's strong room, and from it he meant to chisel his way up into the "treasure trove" above. But it was impossible to stop long in the sewer without some guard against the chance of being drowned. Then he Invented his pump and helmet, and, alVitk hlmaplf fflllpH In hlfl riArin&T scheme, his Invention has enabled men to explore depths which were previously beyond them. Even Charles Peace, that most remarkable and notorious criminal, when not engaged Jn "business" was a man of many Ingenious pursuits, and could have earned a handsome competence by other and manlier methods than crib-cracking. His skill as a violinist was well known, but few were aware of the fact that the Infamous burglar devised a new and exceedingly Ingenious method of fixing the hair of a violin bow. Walnwrlght, the murderer of Harriet I^ane, while awaiting trial for his dastardly crime, Invented a brush-making machine.?Buffalo News. Hidden Treasurers of the Tiber.? The waters of the Tiber are said to cover many costly treasures of antiquity. From Lake Neml, near Rome, many bronze armaments and statuary from the floating palaces of the Emperors Tiberius and Caligula have already been recovered. It has long been the dream of poets and the belief of antiquaries that the Tiber's bed conceals a vast amount of artistic treasures which have been flung Into It either from wanton recklessness or for the purpose of preservation from sacrilege. There Is a legend that Attlla burled all his treasure beneath the river. THE COIN WITH A HOLE. Many People Think There it Need for New Three Cent Piece. R. J. Bulkley, Representative In Congress from Ohio, who Is a member of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, has introduced a bill to authorize the coinage of threecent pieces. There are men not old who can remember the three-cent piece made of nickel which was in common use some years ago. It went out of circulation just before the copper two-cent piece disappeared. The reason for its withdrawal from circulation was that unscrupulous persons gave it In change to the ignorant and unsuspecting in place of the silver dime. Uncle Sam at times has proved that in spite of all the precautions which he takes to prevent fraud, he is apt to lend a hand to fraud unwittingly. The old three-cent piece was passed .frequently for a dime; the old twenty-cent piece often was given and taken for a full quarter, while the first five-cent nickel piece coined was passed frequently for a coin worth Just one hundred times its face value. The original "nickel" had a "V" on its face, but the word "cents" was omitted. Sharpers gilded the nickel and passed it for a $5 gold-piece. It was withdrawn from circulation as rapidly as possible, and thereafter all the nickel pieces coined bore the word "cents." It is said that there Is a need for a ** * ?1 1- l.ict mree-ceiu pieue m uuomcoo, uui juot from what business quarters the demand comes no one seems to be able to say definitely. It Is apparent that Mr. Bulkley does not intend that the new coin, If he can secure authority to have it made, shall be made the medium of fraud. His bill provides that each piece shall be perforated at the center, thus making it much like a Chinese coin "with a hole in it." It is said the United States Government never has Issued a coin or a bill which the counterfeiters and the sharpers have not studied carefully with a view to profit. There will be some curiosity to learn from the secret service reports a few weks after Mr. Bulkley's perforated, threecent piece gets into circulation Just what game the unscrupulous have found that they can work with It. The hole Is said to be the best defence against counterfeiting, but perhaps the counterfeiters will -find a way to get around the hole without putting their foot in it.?Chicago Post. SIKH SOLDIERS. An Interesting Division of the British Army in India. In the English papers one may frequently see pictures of tiny soldiers, about seven or eight years of age, gravely saluting elderly officers. These Infants at arms are boy recruits holding regular and dignified places in the Indian army. Each Sikh regiment is allowed twelve of these little chaps, who are trained almost from babyhood. They are paid each three rupees and eight annas a month and at the age of sixteen enter the regular army. The Sikh soldiers are an Interesting and remarkable part of the British army in India. Their conduct in frontier engagements has distinguished them as brave, steady and devoted to their English officers. Yet about fifty LENOIR COLLEGE Co-education under best cone partments: College (Two A. B. (Flano, Violin, Voice, Theory, HIi painting a specialty). Fifteen te above sea-level. No malaria. Ou work In University of North Can Complete A. M. Degree In one y shower baths, furniture (bedstes Dormitories. HIGHLAND HALL (Men)?I to $9.25 a month. Room rent '$1.1 OAKVIEW HALL (Women) $9.00 a month. Room rent $1.00 NEW SCIENCE BUILDING 1 TUITION FOR SESSION?Co Music, Art, Expression, etc., $36. HICKORY BUSINESS COLL College. Bookkeeping and Shor graduates get and hold positions. Next Session Opens Septembei R. L. FRITZ, - Apples On Ice We have Fresh Country CABBAGE. I get them every day. You can get Choice BALDWIN APPLES, right off the Ice, at Sherer's. When you want Oranges or Bananas come to SHERER. How I can sell BEEF so cheap Is a secret that others would like to know. But I will tell you what makes corn and bacon so high: The mule, he am grazing around, While the negro am lying asleep; White man In town got a lien on his crop. So the negro and mule can eat. OLD GEORGE THE BUTCHER. The New Perfecti Suits Ev It suits the most exacting Frem is found in luxurious villas?in camp Everybody uses it; everybody likes the year round. It bakes, broils, roas It is equipped with a special heating fection oven, brciler, toaster, and p. signed for use with the Oil Cook-stove All dealers sell the stove. It is handsome finished in nickel, with cabinet top, drc shelves, towel racks, etc. Long chimneys, e) ameled turquoise-blue. Made with I, 2 or burners. STANDARD O (Incorporated In NEWARK. N. J. years ago these well ordered soldiers were fanatical savages who In their mad uprisings shook the power of Great Britain. Once conquered, they accepted British rule and were trained and disciplined into a well equipped army of 30,000 soldiers. They formed part of the force that subdued the mutiny. The Hodson's horse troops, which helped capture Delhi, were composed of Sikhs whose devoted service to their leader made them famous. Their scarlet sashes and turbans gained them the name of "Flamingoes." Their descendants are no less determined fighters and stanch soldiers.? New York Press. Nothing to 8often the Blow,?A West End woman called the attention of her husband to a little baby, which was trying to sleep on the porch of Its home on the opposite side of the street. "If8 lying on the bare boards, isn't it?" he observed. "Yes, they haven't even placed a rug for the little chap to rest his head on." The husband took another look. "And what do you think of that?" he ejaculated. "They haven't even painted the boards."?Youngstown Telegram. ? 9 f IV The small boy by any other name would be just as strenuous. G. H O'LEARY j 2^^/dor ! PORCH SHADES G. H. O'LEARY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON, 8. C. MEDICINE AND PHARMACT. Seaalon open* Oct. 1st. 1811, ends June 2d. 1811. Unauipaaaed clinical advantages offered by the new Roper Hoapltal, one of the larfeat and beat equipped hoapltala In the South. Extenalve outdoor and Dlapenaary Service under control of the Faculty. Nine appolntmenta each year for graduate! In medicine for hoipltal and Dispensary services. Medical and Pharmaceutical Laboratories recently enlarged and fully equipped. Department of Physiology and Embryology In affiliation with the Charleston Museum. Practical worlc for medical and pharmaceutical students a special feature. For Catalogue, Address ROBERT WILSON, JR., M. D.. Cor. Queen and Franklin Sts., Charleston, 8. C. ,, HICKORY, N. C. litlons and management. DeCourses, ) Preparatory, Music, story); Expression; Art (China achers; 225 students. 1,200 feet r A. B. Graduates enter Graduate Dllna without Examination and ear. Steam heat, electric lights, ids, springs, mattresses, etc.,) in loard, heat and light at cost $8.50 >0 a month. ?Board, heat and light at cost, a month. n course of construction, liege MO; Preparatory $27 to $36; EGE In connection with Lenoir thand courses $25 each. Our S. Write for free Catalogue. . . - - president. Fresh Arrivals Fresh Mackerel, Salt Herring, White Fish. Sweet and Sour Cucumber Pickles, Big Hominy in Cans, Kraut in Cans, Pure Honey, Tomato Catsup, Canned Corn and Peas, Apple Butter, Barrel Coffee, Coffee in Cans, Quaker Oats, Toasted Corn Flakes, Jell-O, Gold Medal Tooth Picks, All kinds of Candles, See us for Tomato Plants. J. M. BRIAN COMPANY. | | | ____JLL 1 ^ I on Oil Cook-stove erybody di chef. It suits the housewife. It >s?in farms?in humble city homes, it It is the all-round stove for all ts and toasts as well as a coal range, plate, and we sell the New Perancake griddle?each specially deBook with every stove. inwR alto given to >P anyone tending j 5 cents to cover J ' J IL COMPANY New Jersey) BALTIMORE. MD. If You Are Particular ] About the Furniture that goes Into ] your home, we want you to come and see the new lines of House Furnishings that we are now showing. Within the past few days we have received large shipments of IRON BED8? Which everywhere are rapidly pushing the wooden bedsteads off the map. 1 The Iron Beds are neater and are more ' easily taken care of. We have an ele- I gant line of Iron and Metal Beds in the * newest styles and would be pleased to < show you what a good bed you can 1 buy for Just a little money. 8IDE BOARDS? Among our new arrivals is a new as- i sortment of Side Boards. Every home | needs a Side Board and if you want ( the best in style and quality for your ( money, we have it. Come and let us show you. EXTEN8I0N TABLES? No dining room is quite complete nnlARa it hn? nn Rrtenilnn Tnhlp. We are showing a new line of these?a variety of styles and at pleasing prices. Come and let us show you how a little money will buy an elegant Extension Table if you buy it here. YORK FURNITURE CO. i WHY NOT POLLOCK? Do You Suffer? With Kidney, Bladder and Liver Trou- , bles? If so, blame only yourself. NYAL'S STONE ROOT CO. will I certainly relieve all Inflammatory, irritated and weakened conditions of the kidneys and bladder; will purify the blood and aid greatly in Rheumatism, Scrofula and Skin Diseases. Try a 50c or $1.00 bottle, and praise Nyal's Stone Root Co., wherever you go, as Mr. R. L Williams of Route No. 6, does Nyal's Dyspepsia Tablets. Ask him about Nyal Remedies. Shieder Drug Store THE NYAL STORE. SHINGLES WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CARLOAD OP SHINGLES THAT WE WILL MAKE CLOSE PRICES ON. DON'T YOU NEED A NEW BUGGY? We have something new in Mo nair iop. aoiu on easy terms. WE HAVE FLOUR? Bought before the advance and are In position to make close prices. See us for your next sack. FOR BEST GROCERIES? See us. We have the quality and we make the prices right. CARROLL BROS. WATERMAN "IDEAL" FOUNTAIN PENS If you would like to see the most elaborate display of FOUNTAIN PENS ever made in Yorkvllle, call and let me show you the Waterman line. If you would spend your money for a Fountain Pen. spend it for a WATERMAN "IDEAL" PEN I have them at all prices, $250 and Up. In all sizes and can Just exactly "fit" your hand. T. W. SPECK. The Jeweler. This is The Place TO BUY YOUR GROCERIES. See us for FLOUR, MEAL, CORN and OATS, and all kinds of COW and HORSE FEED. See us for MEAT, LARD, and the best quality of HAMS. See us for SUGAR, COFFEE, TEAS and EXTRACTS. See us for IRISH POTATOES. CABBAGE, Etc. We are selling for CA8H. Yours for business, Yorkvllle Banking 4 Mercantile Co. c_n I tUH VII fllC IUI CHA8E& 8ANB0RN COFFEES TEAS AND 8PICE8 HAM, BACON AND BREAKFA8T 8TRIP8 SNOW WHITE SNOW DRIFT AND PURE LARDCIGARS AND CHEWING TOBACCOS. /. W. JOHNSON INTEREST There are more kinds of interest than the kind you pay for money when you borrow from a bank. There la a PERSONAL INTEREST, the kind that the officers of THIS BANK feel In Its customers ?an Interest which prompts us ' to do whatever we possibly ?an to encourage and to aid those who give us their patronage. Bank of Hickory Grove ] Hickory Grove, S. C. 1 i EGOS FOB HATCHING (I> "1 FOR 11 Indian Runner Duck tjp X Eggs. Best stock. Call or ad- . dress W. R. CARROLL, Yorkvllle, ( S. C. 41 t tf FOR SALE 130 Acres?5 miles west of the city of # Rock Hill. Joining farms of A. E. Willis, John Mcllwalne and W. L. Plexico. This la one of the best producing farms # per acre In Ebenezer township; good pasture, hog wire; 3 horse farm open; dwelling has 5 rooms; good tenant house with 3 rooms. Property of Johnion Cameron. For prices apply to J. C. Wilborn, Yorkvllle, S. C. 116 Acres?The Holmes Place; joining Holbrooke Good, Ed Thomas and others; a nice new cottage, 6 rooms, good barn; also a nice 5 room- house and store room, barn, etc. LAcated at cross roads. Good land at the low price pf $4,200. 177 Acres?Property of Marlon B. Love, three miles from Sharon station and six miles from Yorkvllle; 20 acres in cultivation, balance in timber. Some of the finest oak timber in York county on this place. Pries $17.00 per % ere. , 951-2 Acres?Joins J. B. Scott, Ed Sandifer and depot grounds at Philadelphia; 76 acres in cultivation; 1 dwelling house. 4 rooms: 2 tenant houses. Property of J. P. Barnes. A greet bargain. 166 Acres?In Ebenezer township; 1 4 mile of Newport, l mile of Tlrxah church. A nice 2-story, 7-room dwelling; several good tenant houses. High state of cultivation. Wilson Huey. 101 2-3 Acres?Joining McOill store at Bethany, fronting King's Mountain road; 1 dwelling, 6 rooms; barn, cot ton house and crib; property of Charlie Douglass. This is a cheap bargain and can be bought at once. 331-2 Acres?On King's Mountain road, one mile from Bethany High School; land lies level; 17 acres' in cultivation, balance in timber. A part of the Douglass tract 68 Acres?More or less, Joining C. M. Inman, Norman Black and others. One mile from the Incorporate limits of Torkvllla About 36 acres clear, balance In timber. One 3-room house, good barn. etc. 139 Acres?1 dwelling, 6 rooms; 70 acres in cultivation; 60 acres In timber; 2 1-2 miles of Smyrna; 1 tenant house, new, with 4 rooms; good bam, crib, lumber and buggy house. Property of H. M. Bradley. Price, $3,0004)0. 160 Acres?Joining Mrs. Mattle Nichols, T. J. Nichols and others. The Op property of L. R. Wllllama Price, $21.00 an Acre. 210 Acres?2| miles of Sharon; 1 dwelling house, 2 tenant houses good barn; half mile of 8utton Springs, school. Splendid Farm. A Nice Cottage Home?In the town of Smyrna; 6 rooms, situated near the Graded school building. One of the Deal collages in town, rnw, 9000. S00 Acres?Tom Owin home, three pl^ miles of Sharon; t tenant houses; a large brick residence, worth twothirds of the whole price of the farm, for 13,800. 319 Acre#?Joins R. B. Hartness, M. B. Love and others. 1 House, 1-story, 6 rooms; 3 tenant houses, all well fin- + ished; 1 5-room, 4 I-room; good ham, double crib; hydraulic ram running water to house; 3 good pastures; ltt acres under cultivation; 160 in timber. Price upen application. Property of John T. Feemster. 20 Acres?At Filbert. One-story house, 4 rooms; one-half red and other sandy. Prioe, 81,00040. 11 Acres Joins U Ferguson, Frank Smith, J. W. Dobson. 1 house, 1-story, f rooms. Price, $1,30040. 220 Acres?Near King's Mountain Battleground; 1 house, 1-story, seven rooms, New; IS.acres under cultivation, balance in timber; < miles from Jg King's CTeek. Good new barn, dressed lumber; 2 tenant houses, S rooms each. Prlee, $15.76 per Acre. 200 Acree?Fronting public road. 1story 4-room house; 4 horse farm open; 76 acres in timber; 2 miles from Roddey. Pricey $3040 per Acre. Residence of J. J. Smith, deceased, in Clover, on King's Mountain street; 2 stories, 7 rooms; wood house; bam, cow stable; good garden; well for stock near bam. 75 Acres?Level land, S| miles from Sharon; 1 house; 40 acres in cultivation. Prioe, $2040 per Aore. Walter G. Hayes. 57 Acree?2 miles of Hickory Grove; 4$ on public highway; .fronting Southern railway. Prioe, $2040 an Acre. 153 Acres Joins T. W. Jackson, L. T. Wood and others; 1 2-story l-room house; 1 tenant house, 4 rooms; < miles of Newport Prioe, $2140 Acre. A beautiful lot and residence of Mrs. ^ Ada El Faulconer. On ISast Liberty street, 100 feet front about 400 feet deep; Joins Rev. El El Gillespie and Hon. G. W. S. Hart Price on Application. 369 Acres In Bamberg Cow-Joining lands of D. O. Hunter and B. F. Smoak; 126 acres in cultivation, balance in timber; at one of the flnest schools in the county; 1-4 mile of church. Much of the land in this neighborhood produced 1 bale of cotton to the acre. Any one wishing a fine bargain will do well to investigate It 102 Acres, Fairfield Co^-^oinlng lands of R. 8. Dunbar, 4 miles of Woodward station. On Little river; 40 acres ? in cultivation. Price, $850.00. ^ ' Do you want Bargains in Moore Co* N. C.f 8ee me ana talk it over. J. C. WILBORN. Geo. W. Knox J. L. 8taoy, President 8ee. and Mgr. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. CLOVER, 8. C. V 1. One 6-room House and Lot situated in Clover on R.R. St; good well and barn; large lot; flne situation. 8ee us for price. 2. Large Lot on King's Mountain St, 171 feet front, 310 feet deep; 6 good 4 tenant houses, one 4-rooms; two 3rooms, and two 2-rooms; paying 9 per cent on $2,000. A good investment. 4. Five beautifully located Lots, near High School. See us quick for these. They will not last long. Two sold; they are going fast, as we ixpeeted. See them quick if you ex- w pact to buy. They will not be any cheaper. 6. 44 Acres?1 mile Clover; 7-room house, barn, well, etc. $4250 per Acre. 7. 96 Acres?8 miles Clover; plenty of timber; 10 acres flne sure crop bottom land; flne pasture; new, 3-room house. ^ 8. 3 Lota on Bethel road, for quick ^ sale; 300 feet deep; nice location. 9. 5 Room House?80 ft front; located on one of the best residence streets In Yorkvillc. A bargain. Now, or never, is your chance. See us for price. 10. 30i Acres?4 miles west of TorLville; large orchard of young fruit trees beginning to bear; 6 acres bottom * land; Joins Elmore Stephenson. $1750 per Acre. Good terms on this. 11. 100 Acres?Lying 1$ miles noith ~>f Battleground; 100,000 feet of saw timber. If you need timber now is the time 10 Duy. ijumoer is going' up; owner will cut In July If not sold. Timbar worth pries asksd. 8ss us for a pries. 12. 6 Lots, nicely located, on New Brooklyn street. Good terms on these. 13. Six Lots, fronting on Falres St.; also 11-3 Acres fine pasture, immediately In rear of lota Will sell as a whole or cut to suit your taste. Property of Ralph N. Adams. 14. One 16 h.-p. Tolbort Tngine, 60 law Eagle Gin, one Pin Centennial Cotton Press, and one 36-Inch Corn Mill, and Belt, in good condition. A A, Bargain. $400.00. 16. One complete Brick Mill Outfit? Engine, Brick Mill, Trucks, Racks, Sugar Cloth and Fixtures for 10,000 per day capacity?At a Bargain, and >n good terms. 16. Two 100-acre tracts of land in Moore, county, N. C.; Joins J. E. Jack- % son. For quick sale, $9.00 per acre. Come to Clover and buy property and rielp a live town grow. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. J. L. Stacy, 8ec. and Manager. BRAITON FARM. Phono No. 132. Two fine bred Bull Calves for sale at reasonable figures?Right blood to head a herd; also two full bred Guernseys and several Grade Cows. We want more customers for Cream and Milk. Stove Wood, split and sawed to length, delivered on short notice. J. MEEK BURNS, Manager. NOTICE MY House and Lot on Wright av- ^ enue for sale. For terms apply to 2. EV. Spencer, Esq., Yorkville, 8. C. wtf IDA DX LOACH.