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tumorous Jfcpartramt. The Colonel's Command of Language. ?"Yassuh," said old Uncle 'Rastus enthusiastlcaJly, as he ran over his reminiscences, according to LIppincott's, "de ole kunnel was a mighty fine gen'leman, suh, and dey was indeed de proud days for dis yere old niggah when he belonged to him. An' goo3 gracious, Marse Jim, didn't he hab what dey caJls de command o' language? Law-zee! Dere nebbah was nobody lak de old kunnel fo' dat." "I never noticed that peculiarity in him," said the visitor. "The old colonel was a fine man, as you say, and when the occasion arose he could swear some if that is what you mean." "He suttinly could," laughed the old fellow; "but he had de command o' language down fine, too. Why, ah reipembah once he come out to de barn dressed up in his bes' Sunday-go-tomeetin' does, showin' off de live stock to a pahty ob ladies f um de no'th. Dey come into de barn, whar Ah'd been amixin' a mash fo' de calves, and de pail was jess a-drippin' wiv de gravlest, oozin'est mash you' most ebber see, and nuthin* would do but dat de kunnel should show off to dem ladles * * J ? ffiAiUn' now ne oune kuuhcu an mwui ??u<u de stock. So he come over to wha' I been settln.' an' he take dat are oozln' ole pail in he hand, an' he goes up to one o' dem hongry little red calfs, an' he say, 'Hyar yo' Is, bossy, hyafs yo' suppah.' An' wlv dat de little red calf he shove he ole snoot down into de pail dat quick and rapid like, dat de m&sh fly up in de air, and goes a galumphin' all ober de old kunnel's bes* Sundaygo-to-meetin' clo'es, and leflfum standin' there lookln' lack he'd fell into de cream Jug. Law-zee, but he war a drippin' sight! An' den he done show what I been tellin1 yo' all about. He ??? ><' ?H1I whlla pftlf pt he suppah, an' he nebbah say one word!" The visitor laughed. "That's a very good story, 'Rastus," he said, "but I can't see that It showed any command of language. On the contrary, I should say that It showed just the opposite." "Naw, suh," said 'Rastus, shaking his head, and sticking to his point, "it done prove jes what Ah says, Marse Jim. Kain't yo' imagine de language dem ladies would ha heard ef de o le kunnel hadn't had command of it?"? Exchange. Easy Money.?Those two distinguished Journalists, James W. Faulkner, who is by way of being dean of the profession, along with Eddie Rlggs and Ned Hamilton, and James J. Montague the poet, were discovered one afternoon during the Bull Moose convention at Chicago busily engaged in spending money, says the Saturday Evening Post. "Whence this sudden and vulgar display of wealth?" asked Louis Siebold. "We just made five thousand dollars," chorused Faulkner and Montague. "But how?" persisted Siebold. "Why," explained the two Jameses, "we found an advertisement where an automobile man said he would give five thousand dollars for the best suggestion for the improvement of automobiles; so we sent in a suggestion. And though the money isn't actually in hand yet, we will get it In a day or so, all right?and we're using a little of it now." 'What was the suggestion?" asked Seibold. "We told the man the best way to make automobiles safer and better for all concerned was to take ofT the wheels!" Unpatriotic Spiggottios.?Gerald Higgins, of Missoula, Montana's champion long-distance traveler, was sitting in a cafe in Havanna one evening last spring, listening to a native band giving a concert. The band undertook to play a medley. They rendered the Cuban national hymn and there was loud applause. Several popular airs followed and then the musicians struck into the opening bars of "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight!" Instantly an Irishman from the states, who was sitting at the table next to Higgins, rose unsteadily to his feet, removed his hat and looked about him. Nobody else had removed. "Stand up, you blamed Spiggoties!" roared the Irishman. "Stand up and salute the song that set you free!"? Saturday Evening Post. Mental Suggestion.?A vaudeville actor took his wife to the shores of the Shrewsbury river, in New Jersey, for the fummfer vacation. The bathing was good and the husband undertook to teach his wife how to swim. She did not prove an apt pupil. Walstaeep in me water, ne woraea over her for a long, hard hour. Finally the lady mustered courage to take both her feet off the bottom at once and . make a splashing, wallowing stroke or two. "Work your arms!" he yelled. "I am!" she gasped. "Kick with your legs!" .he commanded. "I'm kicking!" she said; and then, as her head inevitably went under, she gurgled: "What shall I do now?" "Try to think of some prominent fish!" he said.?Exchange. Only One in Doubt.?In the early days of the Christian church it was sometimes called the Campbellite church, after Its founder. A prominent clergyman of the new faith journeyed one Saturday night from his home in Louisville to a small interior town in Kentucky, to preach the following morning for a young and struggling congregation. ' An old darky met him at the train upon his arrival, relieved him of his hand baggage and started to lead him to the only hotel in the town. "TTnele" said the elerevman neerinc through the darkness, "is the Christian church anywhere round here?" "Law, boss!" said the old negro, "I reckins dey's all Christian churches? unless 'tis dat dere little Campbellite church down yonder on de back street."?Saturday Evening Post. They Never Grow Weary!?In one of Chicago's long-ago campaigns for mayor Sam Allerton was a candidate. Sam was making a speech. He discoursed on the waste of the taxpayers' money in unnecessary street-cleaning. "What happens?" he asked passionately. "What happens? One of them white wings comes along and he brushes the dirt in the street up into a myrapid. Then the wind comes along and blows down the myrapid. Then the white wings brushes it up again into another myrapid. And so on ad inflniteismal."?Exchange. iHisrcllanrnus Sradim). OLD MANUSCRIPT. Is 1,700 Years Old and Was Recently Discovered i'n Egypt. Considerable Interest has been awakened among Orientals and biblical scholars generally by reason of the discovery announced from Egypt of an ancient Coptic oapyrus manuscript which some distinguished investigators are said to have pronounced <he oldest Bible manuscriDt in existence. This interesting "find" is said to include the text of the greater part of the book of Deuteronomy, the whole of Jonah, and the major portion of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. Discussing the discovery, the London Times concludes that the new codex proves beyond all question that copies of an Egyptian or Coptic translation of some of the books of the New Testament were In circulation in the early part of the fourth century, and it deduces from the evidence that the version just found belongs to the third century. The Acts, although written in a good hand, is evidently a copy from an earlier document, since it contains many palpable errors which could only oe made Dy a careless copyist from an old or partly obliterated text. Words and even lines are omitted. It will Indeed be a remarkable discovery If the manuscript just brought to light should prove to be older than any now known. The Codex Sinaltlcus is believed to be of the fourth century; the Alexandrinus of the fifth century; the Vatlcanus of the fourth and the Ephraemi of the fifth. Eusebius Is authority for the statement that Mark, the evangelist, was sent to Egypt to establish the first churches In Alexandria. This must have been while he was still a young man, probably under 40. There are many references extant touching his work In Egypt. He began his work there about A. D. 62-63, and his propaganda spread over a large part of Egypt. rne new nnd, wmcn must nenceforth be called the Coptic Codex, contains 109 papyrus leaves, about 11x6 Inches. Some twenty leaves are supposed to be missing. It is worm-eaten and much worn and has evidently been greatly used by Its owner. It bears the title "Coptic Biblical Texts" in the dialect of Upper Egypt. Some of the writing is exceedingly faint and it has been retouched in places; moreover, while the Coptic is used throughout, the writing in several places is cursive Greek. ?Christian Herald. WASHINGTON MYSTERY HOUSE Octagon, Where Dolly Madison Set Up Court, Scene of Romantio Tragedy Don't let anybody tell you the story of the old Octagon house in Washington after dark?you'll have to sleep with the light on all night if you do! Why, it's the kind of a story that will send all manner of delicious, indefinable little shivers and thrills over you af 1 H o m nn o onnohinv Hoxr Octagon house Is where Dolly Madison, the fascinating, set up her Democratic court of the republic when the British burned the White House in 1814. And as if that were not romance enough for any house to claim, there are ghost stories galore, two more or less well-authenticated underground passageways, a secret stairway and secret doors opening out of blank walls. Here is a really old-time mystery house. From it runs a secret passageway, now walled up, to the White House itself, and for this, the story goes, Dolly was responsible. As runs the story, the clever and delightful Dolly, really the first mistress the White House ever had, with that queer psychological twist not uncommon in the feminine mind, knew in her prophetic "soul that in time the defeated British would want another test of prowess with the valiant little Republic of the New World. When such time should come, she figured cleverly again, the White House would be a point of QtfoAlr DKO n.ioKo,! Krv miaviv aiiu otic nioucu iv uc picjjaicu for a secret flight. She knew the Tyloes, who owned Octagon house, very intimately. Hence, the secret passageway. But when the time for her anticipated flight came something interfered with the prearranged plan. The British came, torch in hand almost to the door of the White House. Dolly lingered long enough to gather her priceless silver and to cut the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington from its heavy gold frame before she fled by the south portico and sought shelter with friends in Virginia, whence her husband had preceded her. Some months later she returned to Washington and then it was that the Octagon house became the home of the presidential family. The strange troublous times in which the house was built?It was a building while Washington was president?must have had snmi? shnrA In Hetprmlnlner its mysterious construction. The architect was a man of renown, Dr. William Thornton, who designed the Capitol, and aided Jefferson years later in the plans for the university of Virginia. The house is full of secret doors and even now, wide open and to be inspected by anyone who elects; there is a tunnel leading out under Eighteenth street. Where the destination may have been none of this generation can say, for most of the land in that part of the city has been changed by filing in. Communicating with this underground passage is a back stairway running from the basement to the third floor, and either the second or third landings are reached from it through secret doors. The baseboards and chairboards on the blind side run far past the doors before being cut through, and after all these years the joining remains so nearly perfect that none but a quick eye detects the slightest appearance of an opening, for there are no keyholes, hinges or knobs. The unique arrangement of the house, which is built in octagon shape on the outside and with rooms surrounding the circular hall, with a spiral stairway running from basement to roof, and all the rooms connecting?some of them by secret doors, to be sure?is such that had an arresting party entered, anyone familiar with the house or even passably clever might have escaped .quickly and quietly. Quick egress also was provided for from what was once the dining-room through a secret door into a closet and out to the street through a casement window. Such are the actual facts. The ghostly personages who gather there constitute another story. Way back in the history- of the Tyloe family, so runs the romantic tale, there was a beautiful daughter of the house whose love affair with an officer to his majesty the king of England brought her nothing akin to happiness. Despairing of ever being able to marry him, and vexed by opposition and repeated disappointments, one night as she wended her way upstairs to her bedchamber, the flickering light of the candle she carried throwing ghostly shadows across the stairs, melancholy seized her, and she flung herself into the dark well encircled by the upward climbing staircase. Mangled, bleeding, never to utter another conscious sound, she was picked up from the stone flagging of the basement floor, and died an hour later in the arms of her heart-broken mother who crooned over her as she had when she nestled in her arms as a baby. Many times since, so runs the story, sue na? ueen seen wmi ner iiiunerinK candle light to mount the stairs at midnight and with a heart-breaking cry throw herself Into the darkness, fifty feet below. Another story Is that the spirit of the old mansion's departed greatness returns In the witching hours between midnight and dawn. There is a low hum of pleasant conversation, the sound of silver and the clink of glasses as a splendid company Is wined and dined, and phantom coaches with gay liveried men drive up to take away the departing guests, while grand dames with powdered wigs and wearing gorgeous satins and brocades and courtly gentlemen with short silk hose and gold-laced coats pass across the silent threshold into the darkness of night whence they came. In a circular room at the head of the stairway on the second floor one vol untarlly speaks with hushed voice, for there truly lingers the spirit of memorable events. 'Twas here that President Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent in 1815, and downstairs one is permitted to see the quaint, old-fashioned circular table, with drawers all about the edge, which served him as desk on that historic occasion. By rare good fortune one may be permitted to see the room which was Dolly's bedchamber and the dear little spot which was her boudoir. So one finds Octagon house, quaint, romantic, and, but a block from the treasury, queerly out of step with the march of progress. A stone wall ten feet high guards a garden, and a dear old garden it must have been in its heydey, for even now there are traces of prim walks and trim set flower beds, where in fancy blossom the dear old posies of other days! Her*, and there a gnarled and blackened old tree raises senile arms to protest o o^o In of tha vltrnr nf atrwrmo trhioh hfl VA fDu.i.uv v..c ? *Ov' w- ? " ... ~ not dealt gently with It, and clinging warmly to the time-darkened brick walls of the mansion are progeny of the grape vines that flaunted goldenthroated flowerlet trumpets when Dolly was mistress there.?Philadelphia Telegram., LEGACY OF FILIAL HATRED Quarrel Between Kaiser and Son Re* calls Many Ruptures in Royal Family There came the other day out of Germany a strange, discordant story of a quarrel that exists between William the emperor and his son, the crown prince of the land. William, if the story be true, has not spoken to his son for months, and when the other day a city was feasting in honor of the birthday anniversary of the crown prince, the emperor passed through and would not tarry or by any word or act admit that the birthday celebration of the crown prince was an occasion in which he reit a pride or joy or interest. Tne I story?If It be true, and it seems likely tllat it is?is but the latest manifestation of the ancient curse of the Hohenzollerns, the curse that sets father against son and son against father, making them hate each other bitterly. This family hatred is no new thing; it has happened in the royal house of Prussia time after time. And this most recent breach calls to mind an incident almost forgottei^?the story of the break between the Prussian king, Frederick William?it was in the days before the empire?and his son "Fritz," who afterward ruled Prussia as Frederick the Great. Between these two there had been strife since the prince was a child. Old Frederick William was a vulgar, roaring boor, a household tyrant, whose strange characteristics have made historians of a later day ask themselves whether he may not have been a bit unbalanced. But that is mere conjecture and probably not true. His joys were bear hunting and drinking; he smoked a pipe continually, and his temper was of the vilest. The family of Frederick William did little to soothe that temper. His queen loved France and French thing's; culture and music and poetry and the arts. And In sympathy with her were her two eldest children, FTitz, the heir, and Wilhelmina, his sister. As the boy FTitz grew toward manhood there came to be between him and his father an ever-widening breach. Although the old king loved the boy (by fits), the future Frederick the Great irritated his father almost beyond endurance. FTitz loved all the things his father hated?luxury, culture and the arts. Fritz hated all the things his father loved?tall soldiers, boar hunts and drinking bouts. Germans were boors, the crown prince thought, and he hated them, too. Old Frederick William left his son in no doubt as to his feelings.- He cursed the boy, made fun of him, held him up to ridicule, struck him in the face. All this, not only before his mother and sisters, but in the presence of members of the court, while army officers looked on and laughed. The prince's temper was high. He was only 18, but already he felt himself a man. The constant restraints his father put upon his liberty, the continual insults were more than he could bear. For a long time he held on, more for his mother and his sister's sake than for his own. Then he evolved a plan which was to rescue him from all his troubles. It was a simple plan; he would run away. Fritz was an nfflppr in hl? father's armv?a rnln nel. With two other young officers, Lieutenant Keith and Lieutenant Katte, he planned the escape. They would ride across the German border. What they would do after that they did not know exactly. Fritz was full of vague, half-formed plans for joining, incognito, the army of the French king and going to the Italian wars. All that could take care of itself; the main thing was to get away from Germany. Before the runaway could even be attempted it was found out. The prince never set foot to stirrup, much less make his way. across the German border. A watchful colonel had discovered the scheme, and, acting on his father's orders to take him "alive or dead," put him under guard and brought him to Wesel, where the king was. Keith was warned in time and fled; by hard riding he crossed the border into Holland, lay hidden in the house of the British ambassador at The Hague, and one dark night set sail in a small fishing boat, crossed the English channel and found safe asylum. Katte delayed too long, had one thing to do and then another, though his brother officers and his superiors warned him, at last the order came for his arrest and he was taken. At Wesel occurred a scene It is not well to dwell upon; the king gone mad with rage, the prince silent, defiant, glowering at his father In an Intensity of speechless rage. The king asked questions. Fritz refused to answer; ma iauier sirucx mm in uie iace wltn a gold-headed cane; officers looked on and saw the heir to Prussia's throne bleeding and dishonored. Then the prince was marched away to prison. Two months they kept the prince In prison; solitary confinement it was, without books or the material for writing, no one could speak to him, his food, cut up for him because he might not use a knife, was thrust in through a slightly opened door by dumb attendants. It was the sort of thing that drives men mad, and the castle guardians knew it; therefore they dared to disobey the king, to smuggle books to the unhappy Fritz, to obey the letter of the king's command rather than the spirit, and sometimes not the letter. Then a court-martial sat?fifteen men of the Prussian army; not easy masters these, but just. They heard the evidence against the prince and Kat te. No plotted treason, such as Frederick William fancied, could be found in the hare-brained plans for the escape, no attempt to overth w the throne of Prussia or to thrust the king from it to make way for his heir. The fifteen voted mercy for the prince and fatherly forgiveness; for Katte lifelong Imprisonment. It seems a stern decree, but it was not stern enough to suit the king of Prussia, and he sent back word. Katte must die; the king decreed it. As a special mercy he should be permitted to die by the sword, his head struck off, rather than by being torn with red-hot pincers, as his crime deserved. So they slew Katte. They brought him to the castle at Cuestrin, where Fritz was still imprisoned. The king decreed that Fritz should see his comrade die. For Katte had been the prince's dearest friend, the David of his Jonathan. Him Fritz had steadfastly refused to implicate in all his answers to his father's questionings; for him he had beggffed to be allowed to die, that Katte might go free. Therefore it v&s decreed that the crown prince should watch his comrade die. They brought out Katte in the early morning, and Fritz stood in a window and saw him pass. The doomed lieutenant looked up ana saw nis mamer ana ne smitea up bravely. "Forgive me, dearest Katte," the prince cried brokenly, tears choking him. And Katte called back: "There Is nothing to forgive; for such a prince and such a friend as you, death Is sweet" Then they slew him.?Kansas City Times. Watching a Jaguar.?Charles Livingston Bull had the good fortune to see a young Jaguar at play In a jungle of British Guiana. He tells, In "Under the Roof of the Jungle," how the great cat combined amusement with business. He climbed a slight rise of ground to a sandy, forest-covered ridge. 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In two bounds he overtook it, but as he struck it with his paw, it curled up into a ball and rolled away for a short distance, until it brought up against a big, flat root. The jaguar sniffed at it, tentatively pawed it, and watched it with keen interest as it rolled this way and that. Soon he was playing with it as a kitten plays with a ball, knocking it away and springing after it, or clutching it with his paws and rolling over on his back in ecstasy. Then, after a little, he left it, and walking to one side, sat down and washed his face and paws just as a cat might have done, pretend ing to take no notice of the curious, hard-shelled beast It was an armadillo, that curious creature which, like the tortoise, carries its house upon Its back. The hinged bands in Its shell enabled it to fold head, feet and tail compactly away, and to assume almost the shape of a sphere. Its tough, elastic shell was proof against even the blows of the big cat. The jaguar's attention was next attracted by sounds from the jungle of cracking brush, squealing and grunting. Leaping lightly upon a fallen tree trunk, he crouched, perhaps ten feet from the ground, and watched a band of peccaries, little black pigs of the jungle, which were nosing along, picking up occasional nuts as they came. For several minutes they stood rigid, making no sound, and the spotted cat needed all his self-control to keep his whereabouts unknown. . Then, one by one, the plgrs turned and started to steal silently back through the jungle. * As the last one turned, the Jaguar sprang. With one savage blow he stunned the peccary, and seizing his prey, sprang back upon the sloping trunk, and climbed quickly up for twenty or thirty feet, to a great knot, the top of which was fairly level. There he laid down his burden and proceeded to make a generous meal.?Youths Companion. Bridge Over the Ganges.?The task of bridging the Ganges, the great river of northern India which Issues from an ice cave at the foot of the Himalayan snow bed, lias been assigned to a group of English engineers. This bridge which is over a mile In length, is to carry the Eastern Bengal State railway over the Ganges from Damukelia to Sara Ghat, the place of pilgrimage, to which hundreds of thousands of devout Hindoos repair once a year to wash away their sins in the sacred river. Spanning the river, the bridge will be carried on steel trestles, which in turn will be supported on massive steel grilles In granite piers. The contract consists of fifteen main spans, each 359 feet long and fifty-two feet high, and weighing one thousand three hundred tons. The Ganges is essentially a river of great cities; Calcutta, Patna, Benares, Allahabad all lie on Its course, and the ancient capitals of Agra and Delhi are on the Jumna, higher up. 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We Invite your account First National Bank Of Sharon, 8. C. Seo. W. Knox J. L. 8taoy, President Sec. and Mgr. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. CLOVER, 8. C. FOR SALE 1. Mrs. J. A. Hedgepeth'a House and Lot in Clover. A Big Bargain at 12,100.00. 2. Extra large Lot on King's Mt St; 6 houses; an excellent renting proposition?91 to 10 per cent on Investment 4. Several nice Lots near Clover academy?$225 to $275 each, according to situation. 5. 44 Acres, 1 mile Clover; 7-room house; barn, well, etc. $42.50 Acre. 10. 301 a., 4 miles west of Yorkvllle; about 100 young fruit trees. $17.50 per Acre. 11. 100 a., near Battle Ground; lot of good saw, timber. $8.00 per Acre. 12. 6 lots on New Brooklyn St, $75 Bach. All the time you want on these. 13. 6 lots fronting F&lres St 65 Each. 11-3 a. fine pasture, close in. 9150.00. 17. 1 6-room Cottage (New), H. B. Moore residence?$1,500.00. 18. 220 Acres?Good, sandy land farm, the W. B. Adams home tract 942.50 per Acre. Good terms on this. 19. R. J. Love home traces, 246 acres. Plenty of saw timber, fine bottom land; 7-room dwelling and all necessary out-buildlngs. $30,00 Acre. 20. 40 Acres?Of the J. W. Lawrence tract south of Allison creek. 21. 50 Acrco Partly within corporate limits of Clover; a part of the T. F. Jackson-Glass tract CLOVER REAL E8TATE CO N0W--SH0RTLY-The frosts of winter will be felt In these parts, the cold winds will begin to blow. Suppose you get busy and get your heating apparatus In shape before you need it Possibly your old Stoves will do, but you will need a few joints of new Pipe, a Stove Mat or perhaps repairs for your Coal Graten Whatever you may need In this line come and see us. We can supply your wants. COLE'S HOT BLA8T HEATER8. As an economical heate- for home or office there Is nothing that quite eauals the Cole Hot Blast Heater. It Is th6 one heater that gives entire satisfaction both as to he?*'n* qualities and economy of coal, convenience, etc. Or if you prefer a Wood Heater we have that too, in sizes to suit your requirements. And again, if you prefer a COAL GRATE we have these ilso, and can meet your requirements. In fact we can supply anything you may want in the line of Heating apparatus and at the RIGHT PRICE. GASOLINE, OILS, ETC. If you are an automobile owner let us supply you with the Gasoline, Oils Greases, Tires, and other supplies that you need from time to time. YORK FURNITURE CO. professional Cards. D. E. Finley J. A. Marion Fiuley & Marion ATTORNEYS AT LAW Opposite Court House Yorlrvllle, S. C. J. HARRY FOSTER ATTORNEY AT LAW, Yorkvillo, South Carolina. W Office In McNee! Building. Dr. B. G. BLACK Surgoon Oontiat. Office second floor of the New McNee] buildinK. At Clover Tuesday and Friday of each week. Geo. W. 8. Hart. Jos. E. Hart. HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkvilla 8. C. No. 1. Law Range. 'Phone (Office) 58, JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW N. 3 I aw Rinat. YORKVILLE, 3. C. J. S. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal bual> less of whatever nature. STATE OF SOUTH CABOLINA, York County. In the Court ,of Common Plena. \lice Wilson, Plaintiff, against R. T. J. Wilson, Ruth M. Wilson, Bula B. Wilson, I. Naomi Wilson, Oenevia V. Wilson, Alice I. Wilson, Wylle N. Wilson and Rosa N. Wilson, Defendants.?Summons for Relief? (Complaint Served).' ?o the Absent Defendant, R. T. J. , Wilson: ! CT OIT oro horphv anmmnnpd and ri? JL quired to answer the Complaint n this action of which a copy is herevith served upon you, and to serve a opy of your Answer to said Complaint ' in the subscriber at his office in Lanaster, S. C., within twenty days after he service hereof, exclusive of the lay of such service; and if you fail to .nswer the Complaint within the time foresaid, the plaintiff in this action rill apply to the court for the relief lemanded in the Complaint, late, Lancaster, S. C., August 8, A. D., .1912. . A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis., York County. H. HINES, Plaintiff's Attorney. 80 f 6t BRATTON FARM. Phone No. 1S2. Two fine bred Bull Calves for sale at easonable figures?Right blood to ead a herd; also two full bred Guerneys and several Grade Cows. We want more customers for Cream nd Milk. Stove Wood, split and sawed to mgth, delivered on short notice. J. MEEK BURNS, Manager. j W9~ Carbon paper, any size, at The Inquirer office. J. R. Lindsay Robart Witharspoon J. R. LINDSAY & CO. INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE We Are Prepared to Handle All Kinda of Inauranoe? FIRE. LIFE. ACCIDENT. HEALTH. TORNADO. LIVE STOCK, EMPLOYER8' LIABILITY. PLATE GLA88 and AUTOMOBILE. Any business entrusted to us will receive prompt and careful attention. Have bad years of experience in Insurance matters and Represent FirstClass Companies with Large Reeouroes. We make a specialty of furnishing FIDELITY BOND8 on short notice. Parties having REAL E8TATE TO 8ELL OR EXCHANGE, Or who wish to buy property, win do well to see us FIRST. Write or call on us for any information in our lines. J. R. Lindsay & Go. D. E. BONEY Life, Fire and Live Slock INSURANCE Town and Country Property 4| J. 8. Wilkenon N. M. McDUl T. A. Wilkenon. . Hickory Grove Realty Go. REAL ESTATE. HICKORY GROVE, S. C. FOR SALE 301 Acres?2| miles from Hickory Grove; gray and red soil; 150 acres In cultivation, 75 acres in fine wood land; four tenant houses; plenty of water. $30.00 per Acre. 114 Acres?4 miles from Hickory Grove; good, deep soil; 76 acres in cultivation; new i-room dwelling, good out-buildings, practically new; four tenant houses. A bargain at $30 per Acre. 70 Acres?1 mile from Hickory Grove; 40 acres in cultivation, balance in wood; good l-room tenant house, barn and crib. $30 per Acre. 75 Acres In Cherokee county; 40 acres in cultivation; 1 mile from a school and one mile from Salem church. No buildings. $15 per Acre. 134 1*3 Acres?1| miles from Hood- ' town; about 50 acres in cultivation and good, strong land. Good house and barn. $13.50 per Acre. J. W. H. Good?House and lot In We have other valuablejands^here ana in oouio ueoriu, tor exuo. nnu or call .on ua for particulars. HICKORY GROVE REALTY CO. TAX NOTICE?1912 . Office of tho County Troasuror of York County. Yorkvllle, 8. C., 8ept 11. 1911. NOTICE Is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county will be opened on TUESDAY, the 1STH DAY OF OCTOBER. 1912, and remain open until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1912, for the collection of ^ STATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL TAXES for the fiscal year 1912. without penalty; after which day ONE PER CENT penalty will be added to all Davments made in the month of JANUARY, 1913, and TWO PER CENT penalty for all payments made In the month of FEBRUARY, 1911. and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH to the 16TH DAY OF MARCH. 1913, and after this date all unpaid taxes will go into executions and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will attend the following places on the days named: At Hickory Orove, Friday and Saturday, October 18th and 19th. At Sharon, Monday, October 21st At McConnellsville, Tuesday, October 22d. At Tirzah, Wednesday, October 23d. At Clover, Thursday and Friday, Octnhpp 24th and 2K'th. At Yorkville from Saturday, October 26th, to Tuesd^P, October 29th. At Coatee's Tavern, from 8 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, October 30th, to 8 o'clock p. m. . At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 1st and 2d. At Rock Hill from Monday, November 4 th to Saturday, November 9 th. And at Yorkville from Monday, November 11th, until Tuesday the 81st day of December, 1912, after which date the penalties Will attach as stated above. Note.?The Tax Books are made up by Townships, and parties writing about taxes will always expedite matters if they will, mention the TownBhip or Townships in which their property or properties are located. HARRY E. NEIL, Treasurer of York County. 74 f 4t 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 tan to encourage and to aid those who give us their patronage. Bank of Hickory Grove Hickory Grove, S. C.