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tumorous Department. He Wanted to Know?There is a fine old family living up in New York state that has plenty of servants, but has never had a butler, deeming such an appurtenance a frivolity. A time ago the son married a high-born Massachusetts young lady and the couple came home to visit the groom's parents. The older sister, having ideas of her own about what the bride might expect decided to hire a butler for the occasion and went to the city to find one. She asked the caterer who usually sent up the ice cream and such things when they had a party if he could furnish one, and the carterer said he could. He called in a clean-cut, fine-looking man of about fifty and told him to do what the lady wanted. "What will my duties be?" asked the man. "Oh, nothing much but to stand around and butler, and, mostly, give an Imitation of an old family retainer who has been with us for twenty years. That's what I want most. I want you to make them think you have been our butler for a quarter of a century." The bride and groom came. There was a big: dinner in their honor. The guests remarked the butler, calm, Important, handsome and dignified. "Old family retainer," lied the sister glibly. "Been with us many years. Couldn't keep house without him. I think it is lovely to have these old family servants. Now James, there, Is a perfect butler. He has been with us since I was born. Knows all about us and all our ways perfectly. I consider James the finest example of an old family retainer " '1 beg pardon, miss", said James, coming up and breaking in on the conversation, "but will you kindly tell me where the refrigerator is?"?Saturday Evening Post Just An Accident.?Representative Padgett, of Tennessee, was the ranking Democrat on the naval committee of the house of representatives, and succeeded Representative Foss, of Illinois, a Republican, as chairman of the committee when the emocrats got control of the house. Foss and Padgett were guests of honor at a dinner of the naval militia in Washington. Foss spoke first and joshed Padgett. Foss said he hated to give up the very comfortable naval committee room, but so long as by a political accident the Democrats had a majority, thert was no member of the committee he would prefer to give it to than Padgett. Padgett came next. He said: "The remarks of my esteemed colleague, Mr. Foss, bring to my mind a story I heard about a lynching down south. A mob took a negro from a Jail and proceeded with him to the public square where it was proposed to hang him. *K*V ltmnklnflf aavnt*ol nf fhh DCIU1C Clio 1J IIVII11I5, ovtv?ai v? leading: citizens of the town made speeches, commenting on the horrible crime of the negro and the punishment that was to be meted out to him. Then they called on an old and much respected negro resident to say a few words. This old man got up, and addressing himself to the people of his race, said: 'I want all you colored people to take good heed and learn the lesson of the accident that is about to happen here."?Saturday Evening Post. Ths Soft Answer.?Thsre was an old darky who drove the solitary hack in a small town on the Virginia shore where the late Senator Daniel had spent the season. In good weather the senator, who was lame, was its only patron, but in storm the old vehicle was so popular that he had narrowly missed several engagements owing to the old man's taking more orders than one antiquated chariot could possibly fill. One stormy night the senator said: "Now, Jordan, be here tomorrow morning in time to take me to the 10 o'clock boat without fail. I have an important engagement in Washington. Jordan drove away, promising to show up in good season. But next morning a quarter to 10 came and no Jordan. Finally, at five minutes to 10, he drove up, and the senator climbed in and started on a mad race to the wharf, arriving there Just in time to see the boat pulling out. "Now, Jordan," cried the exasperated Daniel, "I said we'd miss it!" "Yes, suh, dat's so, but," with sudden inspiration, "she ain't been long gone!"?Everybody's. a ^ II ? : la. D?A,rinA M uonne ncminavr.? iuc rcouno Palladium has been stealing some more of our editorials and running them in its own dirty columns as if they was original. When we get so hard up that we can't think of anything to write about and have to fall back on some other man's brains we'll be dumsquizzled if we ever steal from the editor of the Peavine Palladium. He hain't got an original idea to save his life, and we'll bet him a gallon of good sorghum molasses against his printing-office, which consists of a cider press and a box of shoe-pegs, that he don't know what a palladium is. If a palladium was to come into the shanty he calls his office (?) and hit him in the eye he wouldn't know what struck him. Now steal some more editorials from us, will you, you wall-eyed pike.?Hickory Ridge Missourian. Crosseyed Justice.?The late Wilbur Sanders, of Montana, once United States senator from that state, rode into a Montana mining town one afternoon and found the entire population about to lynch a man who had been stealing ore. Sanders Dushed his wav into the crowd. "Stop this!" he thundered. "Stop this! I protest! There has been too much of this sort of thing in Montana. We must break up this habit we have of hanging men without a trial by law. You must not hang him now. Let us give him a fair and impartial trial as prescribed by law, and then hang him!"?Saturday Evening Post. Not the Horse for Him.?A German farmer was in search of a horse. "I've got just the horse for you." said the liveryman. "He's five years old. sound as a dollar and goes ten miles without stopping." The German threw his hands skyward. "Xot for me." he said, "not for me. I live eight miles from town, und mit dot horse I haf to valk back two miles." A Poser.?"He who puts his hand to the plow," screamed the cross-roads orator, "must not turn back!" "What is he to do when he gets to the end of a furrer?" asked the auditor in the blue jean overalls."?Youth's Companion. IWiscrllanrous grading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGE8 Notes and Comments About Matters of Local Interest. Chester Reporter, Aug. 9: Dr. James Land, Jr., and Miss Mabel Simrill, two of Chester's most popular young: folks, surprised their hosts of friends Tuesday evening by quietly repairing to the Methodist parsonage and being united in* marriage by Rev. J. C. Roper, a few Intimate friends witnessing the ceremony. Immediately after the ceremony Dr. and Mrs. Land left over the S. A. L. railroad for Washington and other points. Mrs. Land is the daughter of Mr. John L. Simrill, of Jacksonville, * Fla., but has been making her home with her grandfather, Mr. J. R. Simrill in this city. She has hosts of *-* -?s- rv? T n?f1 wKa ia o irienas nere, tts imo u\. uwu, native of York county, but has been located In Chester for the past two years as a member of the Shieder Drug Co. Gastonia Gazette, Aug 9: Mr. Henderson Long, a member of the firm of Long Brothers here, and his cousis, Mr. Sidney Long, of Charlotte, were very seriously injured between 10.30 and 11 o'clock this morning when an automobile driven by Bright May, of Cherryville, crashed into the buggy they were occupying from the rear. Mr. .Henderson Long sustained one bad cut on the head, a slight cut on his right leg and was badly crushed about the chest and throat. It is thought he is Internally injured, though to what extent is not as yet known. His family and physicians entertain grave fears that he is in a critical condition. Mr. Sidney F. Long's most severe injuries are five deep gashes on his head. It Is not thought that he sustained any fractures of the skull though at this hour the physicians, have not completed their examination and dressing of the wounds. DANGER OF HUMOR IN CONGRESS May Mean Death of Budding Young Statesmen. Oliver Wendell Holmes in his verses, "The Height of the Ridiculous," says "I never dare to write as funny as I can," after Uie specimen which he wrote had almost destroyed his servant. This, too, is a law of public life. The first chapter in the primary of politics forbids any dalliance with the gentle art of humor. The penalty of infraction is political oblivion, says the Washington Star. Yet in every session of congress some member tempts the public disfavor. For the moment he is applauded, but the laughter no sooner subsides than thumbs are turned down on his career. This does not apply to the official who can confound an opponent by a keen retort or a clever bit of repartee, ? 41? ?- n-Wllfi nr<i>astnnilllv ur lilt; man miu, n?..v witty, is able to win a reputation for serious statesmanship. Champ Clark, the speaker of the house of representatives, possesses no great reputation as a wit or humorist, yet in many of his speeches he uses figures that are marked with the fragrance of the farm and the slang of the street. For example, in a heated colloquy during the partisan strife of the last congress he accused the Republicans of indulging in too much "hot air and slack Jaw." On another occasion he denounced the lobbyists who visited the Capitol during the tariff session in behalf of the various Industries interested in a proposed bill. He declared that "from the morning of the 10th day of November down to last Thursday night lobbyists swarmed In Washington city ?first a brigade, then a division, then a corps, then a full army. They were as pestiferous, if not as numerous, as the frogs and files of Egrypt." Then there is Senator Rayner, of Maryland, who frequently rises in the more august senate to express in. crisp language his views on life and Its issues. Senator Rayner recently declared, with a vicious thump on his desk: "There are two elements in society. One is the element that has more appetite than dinner, and the other the element that has more dinner than appetite." A score of years ago Private John Allen, of Tupelo, was elected to congress from Mississippi. Allen was anxious to secure a fish hatchery for his native town of Tupelo. Unable to persuade the committee on appropriations of the merit of the proposition, he introduced in the house an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill carrying $20,000, and February 20, 1901, he rose on the floor to plead for its adoption. The town of Tupelo was the subject of this eulogy: "If I were willing," he declared in pa-t, "to avail myself of the traditions and many well authenticated historical suspicions, I might invest this subject with much more romantic Ut/irooto Rut T nrnnnup tn confine myself to the well authenticated facts, Ignoring such traditions as the one to the effect that, when Christopher Columbus had his famous interview with Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, he assured them that the All-wise Creator, creating a world like this, was bound to have made somewhere near its centre such a place as Tupelo. "In 1513 the knightly Ponce de Leon landed upon the coast of Florida, and perverted history has it that he started out to look for the fountain of youth and limitless gold fields, when in truth and in fact he really started to look for Tupelo. "Many of you gentlemen have never been to Tupelo. I hope none of you entertain any idea of dying without going there. I extend you all an invitation to go with me to College Hill and see one of our Tupelo sunsets. Come and see one of.our southern, silvery Tupelo moons. I think it is the only place in the south where we have the same beautiful moons we had before the war. "I have often been asked about the size of Tupelo. The tabulating machines of the last census have not been able to work it out yet, but by sufficiently extending the corporate limits of our town we can accommodate a populace larger than the city of London. The truth is that our lands about Tupelo have been so valuable for agricultural purposes that we have not yet yielded them up for building a city as rapidly as we should have done. "While there are larger places than Tupelo, I do not think there is any other place just like it. Tupelo is very near, if not exactly, in the centre of the world. The horizon seems about the same distance in every direction. "Before us is a proposition to es tabllsh there a flsh hatchery. Why, sir, fish will travel over land for miles to get into the water we have at Tupelo! Thousands and millions of unborn fish are clamoring to this congress today for an opportunity to be hatched at the Tupelo hatchery. "Now, Mr. Chairman, I only wish to say that if there is a member here who wishes to have his name connected by future generations with those of Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold?if he wishes to have himself and his posterity pointed out with scorn?if he desires to be despised by men and shunned by women?let him vote against this amendment and he will secure all this infamous notoriety!" John Allen is now a prosperous planter In southern Mississippi, where he enjoys the contemplation of the flsh hatchery won by his humor. His name remains only as a memory in the halls where statesmen tread. Adam Bede, who represented the 8th Minnesota district in the house, was one of the most popular stump speakers and spellbinders of the present generation. His speeches were full of humor unrt hl? Hrnll manner nf II lustrating his arguments by stories of the day never failed to win the applause of his audlenceB. A short time after he took the oath of office Bede won front rank among legislative humorists by a eulogy upon the Republican party. Securing the recognition of the chair, he opened modestly, but soon had the house in an uproar. "Mr. Speaker," he said, "I had not Intended to make any remarks at this time. First I desire to extend a formal invitation to the Democrats to come into the Republican party and be a part of us. "There is a little railroad down hi southern Minnesota, a few miles long, with a dally mixed train that always gets to its destination too late for a connection. "A lady who was riding on this train complained to the conductor that It was going too slow. Finally she asserted that she could walk faster than the train was going. "The conductor retorted by asking her why she didn't get off and walk, and she said that she would do so, but her people would not be looking for her until the train got in. "So I realize how hard it is for the Democrats to get out and walk faster than their party is going, as nobody will be looking for them, but, nevertheless, I extend the invitation in the kindliest spirit and with no feeling of hate." The late Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, by clever retort and brilliant repartee could cold an audience attentive and spellbound during the recital of the dryest statistics of a tariff discussion. He was one of the small bands of Insurgents who fought valliantly on the floor of the senate against the enactment of the PayneAldrich tariff act. The last speech he delivered in the senate before his death in 1910, was a scathing arraignment of that bill. He spared no terms in his denunciation of the measure. And he evoked peals of laughter from a hostile and sullen audience by declaring: "The past year witnessed two events of unusual interest?the discovery of the North Pole by Dr. Cook and the revision of the tariff downward by the senator from Rhode Island. Each In its way was a unique hoax.*' Senator Chauncey M. Depew probably enjoyed the widest reputation as a wit of any man in congress, yet he possessed not so much wit as a talent for story-telling. He was par excellence a reeonteur, and in the cloak room was always a centre of attraction. In his speeches Senator Depew never indulged in those exchanges of repartee which characterized the remarks of Senator Dolliver, nor In that sublime sarcasm and ridicule that has brought fame to Senator Rayner. His speeches were always punctuated with stories taken from the stock which has made him the peer of American afterdinner speakers. During the last session of the 61st congress, as Mr. Depew's term was drawing to a close, he delivered a speech on the popular election of senators, which was typical of his public addresses. In this peech It was that Senator Depew referred to the progressive wing of the Republican party as "the recently organized Salvation Army." During the last special session of congress the southern Democrats in the senate were consistently voting to amend the free list. August 1, by way of retaliation, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, offered an amendment putting rice on the free list. This was aimed at the Louisiana Democrats, who have always insisted upon a tariff on rice and sugar. The amendment was defeated. Immediately after the defeat of the Lodge amendment Senator Jeff Davis rose and offered the following as an amendment to the free list: "Boston baked beans, black beans, nnd nil nther heans raw. dried, snlit or parched; also codfish, skinned or unskinned. fresji, salted or served In balls." This sally, aimed at his friend from Boston, as well as the whole famous "codfish aristocracy" of Massachusetts, was greeted with applause in the galleries as well as on the floor of the staid and dignified senate. THE MAELSTROM. Tides and Wind Cause the Whirl and the Hole in the Sea. "What of the maelstrom that is between two of the Loffoden islands, off the coast of Norway? Where the water sinks there must be a subterranean passage or an outlet fafther north," writes a correspondent. In answer we reply that there is no opening in the ocean's floor. The whirling motion is caused by tides and winds. The water rushes in channels between the islands, whose configuration aids in twisting. The current runs during six hours from north to south and then six hours from south to north. This reversal and friction against rocks set up the whirling motion. "Suction through a ho'e in the bottom of the sea" does not exist. Winds in from the ocean when in the right direction increases the rotation of the water which, in the center of the whirl, is about twenty fathoms in depth, but just west of the straits the soundings show depths of from 100 to 200 fathoms. Many modern ships, in the absence of winds, have traversed the troubled wastes, but they keep away when the wU>d is blowing against the changeable currents, especially at high tide, when the danger is very great. Many fables regarding the maelstrom have been handed down from ancient times, from medieval also, and moderns still Invent them. Of course ships hav^ been wrecked there as elsewhere.?New York American. NO CLEAN POLITICS. Should be Two Parties in Name as Well as in Fact. The political conditions in this state have become so thoroughly out of tune we have reached the conclusion it will be hard to bring about a change for the better until there is a demand for two distinct white parties. Just so long as we are to have our political affairs entrusted into the management of one party, Just so long will there be occasions for distrust and bitterness. If South Carolina had an opposition white party, we are satisfied there would not be the Intense feeling that exists today, and besides, the affairs of the government would be administered more carefully. Whichever party was In control would keep Its eye upon the opposition, and keep it from having material to operate upon. We are certain if there were two parties In the state there would not be so many disagreeable episodes upon the hustings as there are today. The purpose of the county to county canvass wos to educate the masses upon the public affairs, to teach, and to as certain the public needs, but In this day and time the canvass has been converted into a mud-slinging contest of no benefit to the masses, on the contrary It is demoralizing and disgusting. There has not been anything of an educational value offered In this campaign that we have been able to see, nor do we believe there has been a single vote changed by the candidates; those who had their favorites have them still, those who believe the charges of corruption believe them still, and those still, those who believed the charges of likewise of the same view, therefore we say, the county to county canvass in our opinion, has done no good, but it has brought on a condition which will remain a source of annoyance until It Is all over, which we wish was now. The present campaign has made heretofore friends fall out; foolish though it be, it is a fact, that men who have been the warmest of friends for years on account of the present political conditions are now enemies; perhaps for life. A moment's reflection should convince any one how foolish this is, and how unappreciated it is by those they gave up this friendship for. We would urge any man who has fallen out with another on account of politics to go to that man and say to him; "the .game is not worth the candle," and shake hands.?Manning Times. Customs in India.?Have you ever heard what some of the Indian people do when their hair gets gray? Of course you will think that they dye it That is what they do, but some of them dye it an odd color. They put something on it that makes it look red, and a peculiar shade of red for the hair. The first time I noticed one of them with dyed hair I thought he had been wearing something red on his head and it had faded on his hair. Our cook must be more skillful in putting on dye than many of the others, because he dyed his hair and only a slight tinge of red could be seen. He dyed it Just after we came to Simla. I suppose he thought that since we had come to the summer capital, he would get into society. Another custom of the Indian people that I do not think any one has written about, is chewing the betel leaf. When we were in Calcutta - and had seen a good many Indian people, I noticed some of them looked strange. mV. ? f. lrtrtl?/\/1 oa ra/i on/1 r\ i i IICII IIIUMtllrj IUUACU OU I CU| IMiU uiu not seem to be bleeding. I asked Dr. Simpson what was the matter with their mouths. She told me that they had been chewing betel leaves. One night after I arrived in Montgomery some women came to call on Miss Alexander. They were chewing these leaves while they were there. You have often heard that the women in the east are not treated as equals by the men. They ever show some of that spirit In the language. When they are talking about a "Sahib" (gentleman,) they always use the plural verb, but they rarely use the plural verb when speaking of a lady. I suppose, in their opinion, a gentleman is equal to several ladles. When I try* I to make sentences, sometimes I use the singular verb when speaking of a "Sahib." My teacher never falls to correct me. We have been brought up to think I that ladles are altogether as important as men, so I think it is a little hard for us to remember to give the proper honor to the gentlemen when we art speaking of them.?Miss Mary Lesslle, in A. R. Presbyterian. Making Thieves of Boys.?You don't have to go back to Dickens for Fagins. New York has them on her famous Bowery. The Midnight Mission, on the site of the old Chinese theatre at 5 Doyers street, has in four months rescued from the clutches of these Fagins over a hundred boys, ranging from little tads to half-grown youths, and has really reformed them. This was not difficult, as they had not become confirmed thieves. In the boys who drift into New York other time, the very 1 that stove-artists can do?is a It Burns Oil ? ?No Ashes q It Concen- iteoncentrate? trates xieat and wh?-e you * ?No Waste i eadier and Kane It Is Handy ele?KL Peffe No Dirt lurquom-bhie ckins in nickel, with cnl It is Ready rncb, etc. Mnde* ?No Delay Fr^C^v'Sok^S I?????? given to anyooe tend STANDARD C (Incorporata<S 1 NEWARK. N. J. to "see life," the Fagins find their material. Green, dead broke and hungry, they are easy prey. Sidling up to such a boy in a Bowery pool room, the Fagin takes him out, stuffs him with good food and at once starts in to work on him. Before the actual training to steal begins, the boy Is provided with good clothes. Good food and clothes and a little spending money are all the boys get out of what they steal; the rest goes to the Fagln and his wife or mistress. "Fitzy Rice," "Berlin Dutchy" and "Mockey Price" take better care of their boys than did the Fagin of Dickens' novel; but the presence of such schools of* thieving in modern cities Is not flattering to the "efficiency of their police.?Lesslle's Weekly. AN AFRICAN HONG KONG. Half Way Between Europe and South Amer.ica. A flattering but far from exaggerated description of the city of Dakar, a French colonial capital on the west African shore, supplied by a current Daily Consular and Trade report, serves to call attention to one of the most Interesting of African boom towns, which in the midst of present incidental prosperity looks forward to becoming an Africaji Hong Fong. The present claims or Dnu r to commercial rank are considerable. Between Algiers and Cape Town, It is the only African harbor provided with the equipment of a modern port and in addition It has the only safe harbor between Gibraltar and the Congo. Behind it railways and Bteamboats together insure rapid communication with Timbuktu and the great bend of the Niger, and when lines under construction are completed It will have nearly a thousand miles of uninterrupted railway service. In addition Dakar has already become a great coaling station for French. German and Italian and in part British steamers serving the South American trade. Half way between western Europe and the Brazilian coast, its strategic position is unmistakable, and its superior resources have enabled it to supplant the Portuguese Islands as the coaling station of South American trade. But Dakar looks forward to still greater prosperity when European engineers and financiers have carried out their plans for two great railways. One of thesje is to start at the strait of Gibraltar and terminate at Dakar. This, with a train ferry connecting with Spanish railways at Algeciras, will give- Europe a mail route to South America by which the water Journey between Paris and Valparaiso will be reduced to four days. The second railroad, the famous Trans-Saharan, will cross the desert from Oran or Algiers and following the Niger from Timbuktu unite all the French colonies from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. It is only a comparatively few years since Dakar was a native village upon a hoaoh sheltered hv the fortified is land of Goree; today it is a city with boulevards, electric lights, a modern water supply and all the circumstances of a European town. It is connected with Europe by cable and its telegraph lines reach Lake Tchad, while mail steamers lie alongside its quays and the commerce of all French West Africa gradually turns toward its wharfs.? New York Sun. Morton and Methuselah?George B. Sloan was seconding the nomination of Levi P. Morton in the state convention in New York that named that aged statesman for governor. The bosses had decreed the nomination of Morton, but there was a good deal of protest because Morton was, even then, so old a man. However, the bosses had their way, and Sloan was sent up to make a seconding speech. "Levi P. Morton," declaimed Sloan, "was born in Vermont One hundred and nineteen years ago " He meant to go on with something about Ethan Allen and Ticonderoga, but the continuity of his remarks was destroyed by a bull-voiced delegate who interrupted him just there with the bellowed inquiry: "Great Scott, is he as old as that?"?Saturday Evening Post. MEDICAL COLLEGE I OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON, 8. C. MEDICINE AND PHARMACY. Session opena Oct 1st, 1912, ends June 2d. 1911. 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. 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Raw or Boiled, by the Whole Ham or by the Pound to suit the customer. Also Breakfast Bacon. We buy all the Butter we can handle and sell all the Eggs we can get We are always In the market paying the Highest Cash Prices for Beef Cattle, Calves and nice Fat Hens. We study to please the trade, and if things are not right we take pleasure in making them right. Yours for quality, C. F. 3HERER. Tornado Insurance The good town of Clover, as well as the surrounding country on last Saturday afternoon learned from experience the destructive power of a full grown tornado. The readers of The Enquirer are familiar with details. It Is to be sincerely hoped that neither Clover nor any other section will ever have another similar experience, but who can tell? Tornado Insurance does not purport to keep off tornadoes, but is only intended to indemnify the individual who carries it against loss or damage in case one does come. 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Come and see what I have to offer In Qualities, Styles and Prlcea M. A. McFARLAND Plnckney Road R. F. D. No. 4. G. H. O'LEARY VWHiTVI V - Vudor PORCH SHADES G. H. O'LEARY 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. WT" You can save a third to half by buying a Rebuilt Typewriter. See The F.nqulrer Office. HAVE YOU AN ELECTRIC IRON? We have them in 3, 5 and 6 lb. sizes. Guaranteed Two Tears. We will sell you one at COST. May we send you one on Two days trlaJ? Will be glad to do it. Just phone us. City Electric and Water Plant If You Are Particular About the Furniture that goes into your home, we want you to come ana 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. The Iron Beds are neater and are more easily taken care of. We have an elegant line of Iron and Metal Beds In the newest styles and would t>e pleased to show you what a good bed you can buy for just a little money. SIDE BOARDS? Among our new arrivals Is a new assortment of Side Boards. Every home needs a Side Board and If you want the beet In style and Quality for your money, we have it. Come and let us show you. EXTEN8ION TABLES? No dining room is quite complete unless It has an Extension Table. 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. Do You Suffer? With Kidney, Bladder and Liver Troubles? If so, blame only yourself. NYAL'S STONE ROOT CO. will 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 60c 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. WATERMAN "IDEAL" FOUNTAIN PENS If you would like to see the most elaborate display of FOUNTAIN PENS ever made In Torlcville, 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 GROCERIE8. 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. Tours for business, Yorkvllle Banking I Mercantile Co. INTEREST There are more kinds of Interest than the kind you pay for money when you borrow from a bank. There is 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. Those Old PICTURES OP FATHER AND MOTHER ARE VERY DEAR TO YOU?PRICELESS IN FACT. PLEASE'BEAR IN MIND THAT YOUR CHILDREN WOULD CHERISH JUST SUCH PICTURES OF YOU. THE HARRIS STUDIO i Shelby Yorkville Henrietta BRATTON FARM. Phone No. 132. Two fine bred Bull Calves for sale at reasonable figures?Right blood to head a herd; also two full bred Guern- | seys 4nd several Grade Cows. We want more customers for Cream and Milk. Stove Wood, spilt and sawed to length, delivered on short notice. J. MEEK BURNS. Manager. i FOR SALE 209 Acres.?F. L. Lynn, Robinson place. Large eight room house, big barn, cribs, two tenant houses, three rooms each. Fine pasture?40 or 60 acres; three wells, two springs. Five irMes from Sharon. Ten miles from Yorkville. Five horse farm open. For a quinck purchase $12J>0 an acra. This is a fine place for a home, and a big proposition for rent. 109J Acres of I.And?near Tirzah. Has a good house with five rooms, and three tenant houses. A fine place. 60 1-2 Acres of Land?Five miles from Clover. Has a nice, new building, and a good orchard. Forty-One Acres?Of land, one mile ^ from Filbert Property of O. R. Alexander. A fine proposition. 130 Acres?5 miles west of the city of Rock Hill. Joining farms of A. E. Willis, John Mcllwaine and W. L Plexico. This is one of the best producing farms ^ per acre in Ebenezer township; good ^ pasture, hog wire; 3 horse farm open; dwelling has 6 rooms; good tenant house with 3 rooms. Property of Johnson Cameron. For prices apply to J. C. Wllborn, Yorkville, S. C. 116 Acres?The Holmes Place; joining Holbrooke Good, EM Thomas and + others; a nice new cottage, 6 rooms, good barn; also a nice 6 room house and atore room, barn, etc. Located at croas roads. Good land at the Tow price of $4,200. 177 Acree?Property of Marlon B. Love, three mllee from Sharon atatlon and six miles from Yorkvllle; 20 # acres In cultivation, balance In timber. Some of the finest oak timber In York county on this place. Price $17.00 per acre. 901-2 Acres Joins J. B. Scott, Ed Sandlfer and depot arounds at Philadelphia; 76 acres In cultivation; 1 dwelling house, 4 rooms; 2 tenant houses. Property of J. P. Barnes. A great bargain. ? 166 Acree?In Bbenteer township; 1 mile of Newport, 1 mile of Tlnah church. A nice 2-story, 7-room dwelling; several good tenant houses. High # state of cultivation. Wilson Huey. 1012-3 Acres?Joining McGlll store at Bethany, fronting King's Mountain road; 1 dwelling, 6 rooms; barn, cotton house and crib; property of Charlie Douglass. This is a cheap bargain and can be bought at once. fe 33 1 -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. In man, Norman Black and others. One mile from the Incorporate limits of Yorlcvllle. About 26 acres clear, balance In timber. One 3-room house, good barn, etc. A 159 Acres?1 dwelling, 6 rooms; 70 V acres in cultlvatlonf 60 acres in timber; 2 1-2 miles of Smyrna; 1 tenant house, new, with 4 rooms; good barn, crib, lumber and buggy house. Property of H. M. Bradley. Price, $3,000.00. 160 Acres Joining Mrs. MatUe W Nichola T. J. Nichols and pthers. The property of L. R. Will lama Price, $21.00 an Acre. 210 Acres?1| 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 best cottage* in town. Price, $650. 500 Acre*?Tom Owln homo, thro* mile* of Sharon; t tenant houses; a large brick residence, worth twothlrda of the whole price of the farm, for $3,8001 % 319 Acre*?Joint R. B. Hartnees, M. B. Love and others. 1 House, 1-story, 6 rooms; 8 tenant houses, all well finished; 1 K-roost, 4 I-room; good barn, double crib; hydraulic ram running water to house; S good pastures; 1U acres under cultivation; 160 in timber. w6 Pries upon application. Property of John T. FOemster. 20 Acres?At Filbert. One-story house, 4 rooms; one-half red and other sandy. Price, $1,000.00. 11 Acres Joins L. Ferguson, Frank Smith, J. W. Dob son. l house, 1-story, 6 rooms. Price, $1,30040. 220 Acres?Near King's Mountain Battleground; 1 house, 1-story, seven rooms. Now; 26 acres under cultivation, balance in timber; miles from King's creek. Oood new barn, dressed lumber; 2 tenant houses, S rooms each. Price, $16.75 per Aere. 200 Acres?Fronting public road, 1story 4-room house; 4 horse farm open; a 76 acres in timber; S miles from Roddey. Price, $3000 per Acre. Residence of J. J. Smith, deceased, in Clover, on King's Mountain street; 2 stories, 7 rooms; wood house; barn, cow stable; good garden; well for stock near barn. 75 Acre#?Level land, S| milea from Sharon; 1 house; 40 acres in cultlva- . tion. Price, $2040 per Acre. Walter v Q. Hayes. 57 Aores?2 miles of Hickory Orove; on public highway; fronting Southern railway. Price, $2040 an Aere. 153 Acres?Join* T. W. Jackson. L. T. Wood and others; 1 2-story l-room house; 1 tenant house, 4 rooms; i A miles of Newport. Prioe, $2140 Acre. A beautiful lot and residence of Ada E. Faulconer. On East Liberty street, 100 feet front, about 400 feet deep; joins Rev. E. B. Gillespie and Hon. G. W. 8. Hart Prioe en Application. 369 Acres In Bamberg Containing lands of D. O. Hunter and B. F. Smoak; 126 acres in cultivation, balance in timber; at one of the finest 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.?Joining lands of R. S. Dunbar, 4 miles of Woodward station. On Little river; 40 acrea In cultivation. Price, $850.00. J Do you want Bargains in Moore Co, N. C.7 8ee me ana talk it over. Geo. W. Kntx J. L. 8tacy, President 8ee. and Mgr. J. C. WILBORN. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. t. CLOVER, 8. C. 1. One 6-room House and Lot, sltuated in Clover on R.R. 8t; good well and barn; large lot; fine situation. 8?e us for price. ? 2. Large Lot on King's Mountain St., ' 171 feet front, Sir feet deep; 5 good tenant bouses, one 4-rooms; two Irooms, and two 2-rooms; paying 9 per cent on $2,000. A good investment. No. 3? 8?O?L?D?. 4. Five beautifully located Lots, neai High School. See us quick for these. They will not last long. Two sold; thsy are going fast, as we 'W expected. 8ee them quick if you expect to buy. Th?y will not be any oheaper. 6. 44 Acres?1 mile Clover; 7-room house, bam, well, etc. $42.50 per Acre. 8. 3 Lots on Bethel road, for quick . ^ sale; 300 feet deep; nice location. ^ 10. 301 Acres?4 miles west of YorLvllle; large orchard of young fruit trees beginning to bear; 6 acres bottom land: Joins Elmore Stephenson. $17AD per Acre. Good terms on this. 11. 100 Acres?Lying 1$ miles noith of Battleground; 100,000 feet of saw timber. If you need timber now is the time to buy. Lumber is going up; owner will cut In July If not sold. Timber worth price asked. 8ee us for a price. 12. 6 Lots, nicely located, on New rjrooitiyn screeu uooa terras on meee. 13. Six Lots, fronting on Faires St; also 11-3 Acres fine pasture, immediately in rear of lots. Will sell as a whole or cut to suit your taste. Prop- ' erty of Ralph N. Adams. 14. One 15 h.-p. Tolbort Tnglne, 60 saw Eagle Gin, one Pin Centennial V Cotton Press, and one 36-inch Corn Mill, and Belt in good condition. A Bargain. $400.00. r 15. One complete Brick Mill Outfit? Engine, Brick Mill, trucks, Racks, Sugar Cloth and Fixtures for 10,000 per day capacity?At a Bargain, and on good terms. 16. Two 100-acre tracts of land in Moore, county, N. C.; Joins J. E. Jackson. For quick sale, $9.00 per acre. 17. One 6-room Cottage (new), situated on one -of the best residence streets in Cloven." A bargain at $1,500. If you do nojf see what you want in our ad., write, us as we have other property that ,1s not advertised. CometoCloyer and buy property and help a live town grow. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. J. L. Stacy, Sec. and Manager. ^ W Typewriter Ribbons?At The Enquirer Office. All kind*