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Call the Next Case.?It seems
that, in the interval of quiet which
his occupation allows, Deputy Marshal
Haonah sometimes practices law,
says the Grand Forks News. His fellow-marshals
tell of au experience of
his while defending a criminal before
a Walsh county justice.
Mr. 'Hannah had studied the case
carefully, and weDt, with a cutter
loaded with law books, prepared to
show the court a thiDg or two. The
case had not (progressed far when a
legal point came up, and Mr. Hannah
undertook to read a little law to the
court.
"What book is that ?" inquired his
Honor.
"The code," replied Mr. Hannah.
"What code ?"
"The code adopted at the session of
- aap- TT )}
loyo, your nuuw.
"Now, look here, young man," said
the court, as he opened a weatherbeaten
volume of territorial laws,
"I've tried cases by this book for the
last 13 years, and I'm goin' to keep
right on a-doin' it, aLd there don't no
new-fangled laws go :n this court. Do
you hear? Sit down. You don't
need to offer no objections, for I'll
overrule 'em. The prisoner is found
guilty, as charged. Call the next
case."
A Church Story.?Not very many
years ago, in a ,country church in the
west of England, the rector, preaching
with great earnestness for home
missions, took for bis text, "Feed Me
With Food Convenient For Me." As
he came down from the pulpit, well
content with the effect his eloquence
bad produced on the congregation, the
disturbing thought struck him that he
had made no arrangement lor the collection
(sure to be a liberal one on this
occasion). As he passed through the
chancel, he whispered hurriedly to an
intelligent choir boy, "Go iDto the
vestry, take the plate you will find on
the table, hand it round to the congregation,
and then bring it to me."
The boy departed on bis errand,
and the rector took his place within
the communion rails and gave out the
offertory hymn.
The last words of this had hardly
died away when the boy stood before
him, a plate of biscuits in bis hand,
and an apologetic expression on his
chubby face.
"Please, sir," he explained, in an
audible voice, "I've banded them all
round to everybody, and nobody won't
take none!"
Exposing the Family Skeleton.
Mrs. Parvenu was entertaining some
of the friends sbe bad succeeded in
making since Mr. Parvenu bad made
a fortune, and the conversation had
drifted to the subject of old homesteads
and the joys of childhood, although
there were others besides Mr.
Parvenu who would not have cared to
have the real facts in regard to the old
homesteads known.
"Ah, those were glorious days,"
sighed Mrs. Parvenu, when her turn
came. "I can recall the old family
estate as well as if I bad left but yesterday.
You remember, Josiah, that
was where you first met me?" (
Her husband nodded, being something
of a truthful man and not wishing
to get his tongue into bad habits. '
"There was a freedom in the old
life," continued Mrs. Parvenu, "that
one cannot enjoy when one becomes a I
part of the great fashionable world." ]
"Well, I should say yes," broke in i
Josiah, feeling that it was time for him i
to say something to back up his wife.
"Why, in those days we didn't use to .?
think nothing of e&tinc t>ie with a
knife." j
Condiments In the Tea.?It is (
related that when Judge Wright, of i
Cincinnati, and Mr. Corwin were trav- 1
elicg together duiing a recent campaign,
they stopped to stay over night
at the home of a prominent citizen in
the central part of the state. At sup- ,
per the host's daughter waited on the
table, and knowing the distinguished {
character of their guests, was inclined <
to put on some style ; and before pouring
tea inquired, first of Judge Wright: j
"Do you take condiments in your
tea?" The old judge was too polite
to say anything but "yes," and let her !
fix bis tea as she pleased. 1
When she came to Mr. Corwin, she
repeated the same question. The
chance for a joke was so good that be
could not resist the temptation to improve
it, and he replied: "Pepper
and salt, if you please, but no mustard."
No Weakness on Her Part.?The
president of the Neurosis society of
Scadd's Siding was visibly agitated.
So was the secretary. "Mrs. Nimbletung,
who was to deliver the address
at today's meeting, cannot be present,"
said the forp er. "Why not ?"
asked the latter. ' Her husband has
been seriously sick for three or four
days." "But a woman of herstrength
of principle won't neglect her work in
the great cause to attend to the paltry
needs of an individual?a male individual
at that?" "Certainly not; but
he writes her speeches."
J|V it ? an ill a n t n u* cv r uuuupj
school. The superintendent approached
a youth of color, who was present
for the first time, and asked his name,
for the purpose of placing it on the
roll. The good man tried in vain to
preserve his dignity when the answer
came, "Well, mass; calls me Cap'n,
but my maiden nan e is Moses."
IST He?I suppose your thoughts
were all on your new bonnet during
the sermon this morning? She?No,
indeed, they were not! "I don't believe
you can repeat anything that was
said during the service." "Yes,lean,
too. I heard a lady behind me say,
'Isn't it stunning?' "
Wayside Gatherings.
V&T The United States last year produced
36,000,000 barrels of fermented
liquors.
WST The habit of jesting about sacred
things implies the possession of a low
and coarse nature.
&" One hundred and twenty firemen
are required to feed the furnaces of a
first class Atlantic steamer.
ti&T A caterpillar is so greedy that
in one month it usually devors 6,000
times its own weight in food.
DST A nail making machine produces
as many nails in a given time as were
formerly made by 1,000 men.
86T Do good constantly, patiently,
and wisely, and you will never have
cause to say that life was not worth
living.
|&* To have friends we muse mane
ourselves friendly, and thus can we
hope to widen the circle of our usefulness.
WS Of the 36 cities of the United
States of 100,000 population and upward,
27 own their own water plants
and 9 do not.
WS A doctor says that probably half
the deafness prevalent at the present
time is the result of children having
their ears boxed.
WS He?Carrie, will you make me
the happiest of men ? She?I should
like to, Harry, but I think I prefer to
remaiD the happiest of women.
IS Roses discovered in tombs containing
Egyptian mummies often have
their colors perfect, even though some
of those found must be over 300 years
old.
WS In Bulgaria, the proprietors of a
medicine, by which they claim to cure
a special disease, are liable to imprisonment
if the medicine fails to produce
the desired effect.
WS* A large propostion of the accidents
and much of the sickness from
which colts and horses suffer, are due
to negltct and carelessness on the part
of those in charge.
WS* Those who have tried it say that
if two or three dandelion leaves be
chewed before going to bed they will
induce sleep, no matter how nervous
or worried one may be.
WS* It does not seem to be generally
known that the turkey was domesticated
by the Indians loug before the
discovery of this continent by white
men, but such is the case.
IST A salesman oi Cincinnati, is saia
to be the tallest man in the world.
He is 7 feet 2? inches in height. Queen
Victoria presented him a gold watch
when he was in the show business.
f6T The island of Puerto Rico is
more populous than Cuba, quite as
rich and productive and almost as disaffected.
The Spanish government
has been obliged to increase its forces
there, for fear of an outbreak.
J6T In India there are 100,000 boys J
and 627,000 girls under the age of 141
who are legally married, while 8,600
boys and 24,000 girls who have not attained
the age of four are under marriage
bonds as arranged by their parents.
tSF Prince Wittgenstein stands at
the head of Germany's landed aristocracy.
He owns 3,000,000 acres. Fourteen
other titled landlords own between
them 6,000,000 acres. Prince
Talleyrand-Sagan, one of the 14, is a
French citizen.
fl&" Dr. Babington used to tell a story
of an Irish gentleman, for whom he
prescribed an emetic, saying: "My
[1 ear doctor, it is of no use your giving
me an emetic. I tried it twice in
Dublin, and it would not stay on my
stomach either time."
tSP The supposed grave of Eve is visited
by over 40,000 pilgrims in each
year. It is to be seen at Jeddah, in a
cemetery outside the city walls. The
tomb is 50 cubits long and 12 wide.
The Arabs entertain a belief that hJve
was the tallest woman that ever lived.
t8T The new rural delivery bill,
which is expected to become a law,
authorizes a postmaster in a town or
village where no free delivery exists,
to appoint carriers on the petition of
20 or more persons, the carrier to be
paid at so much a month, or one cent
a letter by those receiving the mail.
AST" "Where do you wish to go?"
a;-ked the railroad ticket seller, as a
somewhat unsteady man slapped down
half dollar before him. "Sh-pose it's
h?1. Got any tickets to there?" said
the applicant. "No! Office for that
place across the street," said the railroad
man, poiutiug to a liquor saloon.
S8T The president of the Germania
Insurance Bank, of Louisville, died in
sole possession of the combination to
the reserve vault, which contained the
bank's $259,000 gold reserve. The
efforts of the bank officials and experts
proved fruitless, and it was finally necessary,
after ten hours' work, to bore
into the lock.
f6T In mediaeval times rhinoceros
horns were employed for drinking cups
by royal personages, the notion being
that poison put into them would show
itself by bubbling. There may have
been some truth in the idea, as many
of the ancient poisons were acids, aud
they would decompose the horny
material very ouickly.
16?? Kot long since a party of movers
passed through a Kansas town en
route from the western part of the
state of Missouri. They had a woebegone,
homesick expression on their
faces, which was further emphasized
by the legend painted upon one of the
wagon sheets in big black letters:
"Going Home to Maw."
*6T The distinction of being the
greatest dandy in the world has been
accorded to Prince Albert of Thurn.
His annual bill for clothing amounts
to no less than $15,000. He wears
1,000 neckties during the year, an average
of three a day, and, though he
never wears his linen more than twice,
a laundry employing 12 people is kept
specially for washing it.
She ^tory ?dtrr.
BACK TO BARBARISM.
From the Washington Post.
In view of the commendable progress
made by the southern Negroes
since their emancipation, it will surprise
many to learn that in certain
isolated spots along the South Carolina
coast the blacks are lapsing into
their primeval state of savagery and
superstition. On the island of Jehossa
in particular the colored inhabitants
have became since the war little better
than their naked sires in Africa. The
barbaric mysticisms of voudou or
hoodoo are rife among them, and civ
ilization comes not Dear.
Jehossa island lies just off the South
Carolina coast?one of the chain of
islands, great and small, which gird
the state from Cape Remain to Tybee
Roads.
Before the war it was the home of
many opulent cotton planters, who
lived luxuriously and dispensed an
elegant and bountiful hospitality. One
of these southern barons, whose manor
was surrounded by illimitable fields
of long staple cotton was Governor
AikeD. He owned more than 1,000
slaves, who were loyally attached to
him, a few of whom and hundreds of
whose children and grandchildren
still remain on the island.
During the war between the states
the settlements on Jehossa island were
devastated. The many handsome
dwellings were burned, and now only
piles of debris, crumbling columns,
fragments of stone and stucco work,
mark where these mansions stood,
and are grim reminders of former
wealth and grandeur.
Not.long since I visited Jehossa is
land for the purpose of ascertaining
the truth of certain wild stories that
I beard of the native Jehossites. 1
was directed to visit the most important
personage of the island, who
was known as "Old King Kamo," the
voudou chief or doctor, who was said
to exercise the most powerful influence
on the Negroes.
Passing the cabin of a woman who
was engaged in spreading on a sprawling
bush some linen she bad washed, I
inquired the way to his abode.
"I kin tell you, sar," she said, wiping
her brown hands on her apron ; "but
massa, he mos' likely be out at dis
hour ob de day to hunt up de charm,
dey be sarpent skins, de rabbit gall an'
de frog eye, an' if you will lissen to
dis ole granny, who ain't gwine lie,
when you git to de cross road whar he
home be, cross you fus finger on de
big toe ef you lef foot, an' spit on de
groun,' for sure he gwine congur you
ef you don't. Massa, I know you is
a stranger, dat is why I gib you dis
revise."
I thanked the ancient crone, which
thanks I emphasized by tossing her
some loose change, that caused her to
courtesy and mutter blessings on me
so long as I could hear her.
After riding some distance my horse
suddenly halted before the door of the
hut, a one-room cabin of logs, filled in
with mud and clay. It looked more
like the haunt of an animal than the
home of a man. There was not a
living object visible, save a leurn-looking,
half-starved cat that sat dozing in
[the sun, and an attenuated yellow dog
that wagged gooa-natureajy me iragmeut
of his abbreviated tail.
^'1 called out, "Hello, there!" Instantly
King Kurao tottered to the
door, leauing heavily on a stick. No
wonder, thought I, that he is the terror
of his neighbors, for a chilly sensation
seized me as I saw the strange
object approach. The man must have
been near 100 years old. His face was
large and seamed with dark folds,
more like the hide of the rhinoceros
than human skin. A patch of snowwhite
wool covered his otherwise bare
skull. Eyes leering and jet black
looked from beneath shaggy, thick
eyebrows, and as he silently gazed at
me I felt that my call had surely
aroused the evil worker.
"May I come in and see you?" I
said, dismounting from my horse, at
the same time jingling some loose silver
in my pocket, the sound of which
caused a smile to play on the rough
visage of the aged Negro.
"To be sure ye kin come in. "Come
in, sar," and I entered.
Truly it was an abode more wizardly
than the witches of Macbeth
ever dreamed of. A slow fire was
burning beneath a huge vessel that
emitted strange, noxious fumes.
Around the place there were skins
nailed to the logs, bunches of rabbits'
feet, claws of birds and bunches of
dry weeds. The old man turned to
the boiling caldron, seeming unconscious
of my presence, and began stirring
it vigorously, as he tore what
looked to be a dried frog, and threw it
into the vessel as he moaned :
Bile, frog, bile; de stranger in de doe,
Bile, snake, bile, wid de sarpent an de
crow.
After this poetical incantation he
turned to me and said: "Now, sar,
no ebil spell gwine hurt ye! Set
down, master," and he pulled the old
straw-bottomed chair toward me. At
the same time 1 banaea mm a piece 01
tobacco, by way of gaining his good
will.
"Well, old man," said I, "they tell
Die that you perform wonderful cures
and that you are a doctor. Are
you?"
"By de power ob de Lord, I is dat
boss. One man he come here. He
call heself preacher ob de Lord. He
say, see here, Kamo, you better stop
dis couguring, it is the debil's work,
and say I be kin to satin. Dat same
man he go away, and I put my spell
on him, an' from dat day he call me
'chile ob sin' he nebber walk again. I
cast my spell on his legs. Dey call it
rheumatism, but I call it de spell of
Kamo. But when gintleman comes
an' treat me as you do, boss, I stir my
pot for de luck to follow ye."
"Tell me, Kamo," said I, "what is
dow steaming away there ; potato and
possum ?"
"No, sir," and a smile made the old
horny face beam. "Possum am good,
and tatter, too, but it got no charm. I
git up 'fore de sun be up. I go an'git
me yarbs. I ketch de rabbit io de full
ob de moon. I kill de sarpent whenebber
I kin. I hab owl, an' crow, an'
jaybird. De all hep me to make de
pills an' my charms; but, boss, I am
gwine to tell you a secret. If you
eber tell it, look out ror oia js-amos
cuss. Here is de charm. No man
had seen it iD many long years. When
I die it gwine be buried wid me." He
put his band into his bosom and drew
from it a smooth, jet black stone, about
two inches long and one and-a-half
thiek. I went to take it from his
hand, when an awful shriek, like that
of a wounded animal, echoed through
the hovel. At the same time he
grasped it tightly. "Don't touch dat,
mister, it kill you like de pisen ob de
rattlesnake. No man touch dat but
he lay a dead man."
I apologized humbly to the excited
old man, and when he gained composure
he went on to relate the history
of the stone. The date "1739, Rismas,"
is engraved on one side of it
with several hieroglyphs. The old
man informed me that, in 1739 an
African king gave bis daughter in
marriage to the prince of a neighboring
tribe and bestowed upon the couple
this stone. It was considered the
most precious wedding gift that could
be given them, as it was supppsed to
possess wonderful curative powers.
Not only could it cure physical maladies
; but also exercise evil spirits.
Old Kamo, who was a native of Africa,
came into possession of it at the death
of his father, who had in some way,
he knew not how, obtained it.
Through all the days of slavery he
wore it around his neck, night and
day; but it was only after emancipation
that he became a recluse and began
to utilize the power of the stone.
T loft fV?r. nM man aiilh his frond
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luck spell upou me, and in my left
pocket a snake skin and frog bead,
that he forced in my band as I bade
bim goodby.
But my talk with King Kamo only
filled me with a desire to see more of
his semi-barbarous subjects. Accordingly
1 passed bis but and continued
my journey across the swamps by
what was once a fine enough road,
but bad now become a mere bridle
path, overgrown and obstructed by
creepers and trailing vines. Some
500 yards further on I came across a
clearing around which were gathered
a number of rude huts. Here in old
times bad been the slave quarters belonging
to Governor Aiken, but the
governor's slave huts had given way to
flimsy structures of baked mud and
wattles?like nothing in the world so
much as the rude dwellings of Ashantee
or Dahomey. Children were playing
in the open, and there was barely
enough clothing among those dusky
babes, as Private Mulvaney has it, "to
dust a fife." Some of them, indeed,
were absolutelv naked, and when one
looked at the mud huts, the lush
growth of forest around, and these
woolly-headed sprawlers in the foreground,
it did not need much imagination
to carry one's fancies back to
Africa.
There was a smell of cooking in the
village; aud I noticed that the smoke
escaped from the huts, not by means
of the modern chimney, but by a
primitive aperture in each leaf-thatched
roof. Occasionally, I was told,
this mode of egress caused the huts to
take fire, but the Negroes took the
loss of their homesteads quietly, since
all that it entailed was the collecting
of mud, live wood and leaves for the
construction of new mausions.
Every hut had some sort of voudou
charm of fetich hung before the slit
which served for a door, and some villagers,
more superstitious than others,
had placed a regular bunch of these
talismans before their homes. Such
of the women as were not busy cooking
came out for a deep at the "white
man," and in its femininity I saw
Jehossa Island's real savagery.
They were all but nude. But the
care avoided iu the matter of habiliments
had been lavished upon the
training and adornment of hair. The
average height of these dames' coiffures
exceeded 12 inches, and I saw
one toweriug specimen which must
have almost reached to two feet. Here
was certainly a distinct trace of the
return to African customs. The womeu
had greased their lofty hirsute
growth until "they shone, and smelt,
like Eden." Moreover, long, pieces
of wood and even thin seashells were
struck into the coarse, shining piles of
hair, after the fashion, now or recently
in existeuce, of a modern belle's
combs and pins. When I addressed
these poor creatures, they laughed
broadly aud answered me readily
enough, but in a dialect which would
have been impossible of understanding
to a northerner or an Englishman.
In fact, only my long South Carolinian
experience could have enabled me to
penetrate the meauing of the singular
patois, only partly English, in
which the women of the Jehossa
swamps held converse with me.
Riding on through the woods, I encountered
some of the male villagers,
attirred simply in loose cotton trousers,
so ragged that in some cases they
might as well have been dispensed
with altogether, and the merest apology
for shirts. But, ragged as they
were, almost every one 01 luem seemed
to own a gun and a dog, and, so far
I could see, their sole occupation seemed
to be the snaring or slaying of
game in the island wilderness. The
men spoke a slightly better English
than their spouses, presumably because
most of them had been to the
mainland and conversed more frequently
with whites and civilized Negroes.
But their superstition was appalling,
as was their ignorance.
I am told, but could not prove the
assertion, that polygamy exists, or
did until quite recently exist, in the
swamp villages of Jehossa. As regards
the heathen rites of voudou, I
have not only the words of "Old King
Kamo," but of many other Negroes on
the island, that Jebossites practice it
religiously to this day. Sacrifices are
offered up?not human sacrifices,
however, as in the West Indies?and
weird ceremonies are conducted in the
lonely forest depths under the waning
moon.
Jehossa is surely a field for the missionary
and civilizer, if ever there
was one.
Miiuii a mimmiTix
G. W. F. HARPER, President.
Schedules in Effect from and After
February 7, 1896.
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.
GOING WORTH. | No 10. [ No (10.
Lea'se Chester 0 10 am 8 80 am
Leave Lowrysville...... 6 36am 005am
Leave McConnellavllle 6 81am 9 39am
Leave Gothriesville .... 7 02 am 9 56am
Leave Yorkvllle 722am 10 60am
Leave Clover 7 52 a m 11 33 am
Leave Gastonia - 8 27am loOpm
Leave Llncolnton 8 45 a m 3 16 p m
Leave Newton 10 23am 4 45pm
Leave Hickory 11 10 am 6 15 pm
Arrive Lenoir.. 12 17 pm 8 00 pm
GOING SOUTH. No. 9. | No 61.
Leave Lenoir 3 80pm 6 30am
Leave Hickory 4 84pm 8 10 am
Leave Newton 6 14 p m 9 10am
Leave Llncolnton 6 00pm 10 40am
Leave Gastonia 6 67 pm 1 00 pm
Leave Clover 787pm 2 02pm
Leave Yorkvllle 806pm 3 10 pm
Leave Guthriesville ... 8 29pm 340pm
Leave McConnellsvllle 8 38 pm 8 55 pm
Leave Lowrysvllle 9 00pm 4 25pm
Arrive Chester 9 32pm I 5 10 pm
Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
60 and 61 carry passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good connection
at Chester with the G. C. ?fe N.
and the C. C. & A., also L <fc C. R. R.: at
Gastonia with the A. & C. A. L.; at Lincolnton
with C. C.: and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. C.
Parties desiring tickets to all points
North, East, South and West, will find it
much to their advantage to call at or correspond
with the General Office of the
Carolina and North-Western Railway at
Lenoir, N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, 8upt.
S. T. PENDER, G. F. and P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C.
OHIO RIVER m CMLffllll
TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and
Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Monday, January 4tb, at 8.00 a. m.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME.
Qpiyo SOUTH No. 12. I
Leave Marion .. 1 30 pm
Leave Rutherfordton.. 3 06 pm
Leave Forest City - 8 35 pm
Leave Henrietta 4 00 pm
Leave Mooresboro 4 15 pm
Leave Shelby 5 30 pm
Leave Patterson Springs.. 5 45 pm
Leave Earls 5 55 pm
Arrive at Blacksburg 8 10 pm
No. 32. | No. 34.
| Dally Dally
j Except Except
' j Bnnday. 8unday.
Leave Blacksburg 8 30 am 8 40 am
Leave Smyrna 8 50 am 9 05 am
Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am
Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am
Leave Yorkville 9 35 am 10 20 am
Leave Tlrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am
Leave Newport 9 51 ami 10 55 am
Leave Rock Hill 11 00 am' 12 55 pm
Leave Leslies 11 13 am' 1 15 pm
Leave Catawba Junction.. 11 30 ami 1 50 pm
Leave Lancaster 12 05 pm| 8 55 pm
Leave Kershaw 12 45 pm 5 30 pm
Arrive at Camden 130 pm! 6 50 pm
Q0ING~y~0RTH. | NoT33. | NOT85.
I Dally I Dally
| Except | Except
Sunday. Sunday.
Leave Camden 2 30 pm 8 30 am
Leave Kershaw 8 15 pm 10 45 am
Leave Lancaster 3 55 pm 12 05 pm
Leave Catawba Junction 4 80 pm 1 50 pm
Leave Leslies 4 38 pm 2 00 pm
Leave Rock Hill 4 54 pm 4 00 pm
Leave Newport 5 09 pm 4 20 pm
Leave Tlrzah .'. 5 15 pm 4 40prr
Leave Yorkvllle .. 5 80 pm 5 40 pm
Leave Sharon 5 45 pm j 6 05 pm
Leave Hickory Grove.... 6 00 pm1 6 30 pm
Leave Smyrna 6 10 pm 6 40 pm
Arrive at Blaci'sburg 6 30 pm 7 10 pm
No. 11. |
Leave Blacksburg 8 00 am
Leave Earls 8 20 am
Leave Patterson Springs 8 30 am
Leave Shelby A 10 am
Leave Mooresboro 9 50 am
Leave Henrietta 10 00 am
Leave Forest City 10 20 am
Leave Rutherfordton 10 50 am1
Arrive at Marlon 12 20 pm
CONNECTIONS.
No. 32 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at 1
Catawba Junction.
Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek '
and London, trains stop only on signal.
S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIPP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT. General Manager.
UNDERTAKING.
I AM handling a first class line of COF- !
FINS AND CASKETS which I will j
sell at the very lowest prices. Persona]
attention at all hours.
I am prepared to repair all kinds of .
Furniture at reasonable prices.
J. ED JEFFERYS. <
i
LUMBER FOR SALE.
WE have on hand a large supply of
CHOICE FLOORING and CEILING
LUMBER which we will sell at i
close figures.^ Also rough plumber of all
Kinas. i\.ppiy au our ljumuur i tirus uoai
the Three C's depot.
EVANS A MOXON,
Builders and Contractors, Yorkville, S. C. .
April 3 26 s tf FINLEY
A BRICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Yorkville, S. C.
ALL business entrusted to us will be
given prompt attention.
OFFICE IN THE BUILDING AT THE
REAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S
STORE.
SHAFTING AND PULLEYS. <
OffcFEET one inch-and-a-half (1 J) (
Ju w SHAFTING ; 3 Hangers, 14 inch- ]
es drop ; 2 Cone Pulleys?one of four ]
speed and the other of three; and two sets '
of Collars. For sale at a bargain. Apply '
L. M. GRIST. ,
A $1,000 WORD.
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Two Papers at the Price of One and
a Chance at $1,000, Additional
The Third Missing Word Contest of
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution,
In Which $1,000 Will Be Distributed
to Successful Contestants on
the 1st of May.
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution has
inaugurated its third consecutive "missing
word" contest, which began on the a
1st of March and close on the 1st of May?
sixty days.
It publishes the cashier's receipt for
the special deposit account of $1,000 to be
paid to the person, or persons, who, in
subscribing to The Weekly Constitution, ^
names correctly the missing word in the
following sentence:
"The Right of 4 * is the very
essence of the constitution." _
The sentence is taken from a historical
publication, and the sentiment to which
it gives expression is that of an eminent
writer.
By special arrangement with The Weekly
Constitution, that great paper and
The Enquirer can be obtained for one
year at almost the price of one paper.
Not only that; but under our arrangement
with The Weekly Constitution ^
every person who takes advantage of this '
clubbing proposition, subscribing for
both papers, will be entitled to a guess at
the missing word. All clubbing subscriptions
should be sent to The Enquirer
with each subscriber's guess at the missing
word plainly written. The guess and
the name and address of each subscriber
will be forwarded by us to The Constitution.
V
The Constitution's, first "missing word
contest" closed on the 1st of January, and ' i
but one person, Mr. M. L. Brittain, a/
hardworking school teacher, guessed the
missing word, receiving therefor a check
for $1,000. Its second contest closed on
the 1st of March, and The Weekly Constitution
of Monday, March 8tb, will contain
the announcement of the awards in
which $1,000 in cash is to be distributed
among the successful gueesers in that
contest.
The readers of The Enquirer who * 4
subscribe jointly to it and to The Weekly
Constitution have free access into the .
third contest, just opened ; and it may be
that some of them will get the $1,000 to be
distributed on the 1st or May. ' A
The only condition of the contest is that
every guesser must be a subscriber ; and
taking advantage of The Constiutioa's
offer we present this opportunity to all who
wish to subscribe to both papers. Every
person should have his county paper and
one great general newspaper; and The
Weekly Constitution, with a circulation
of 156,000, occupies the unique distinction ?
of being the the greatest American weekly
newspaper.
ITHE ENQUIRER and The Constitution
will be furnished one year
for $2.50.
A Snare >
And Delusion.
IF you have taken out a life insurance
policy in an Old Line high price "level
premium" company with the idea that
yon would at sometime in the future,
while you yet drew the breath of life, receive
substantial cash returns or "big
dividends," we are here to tell you that
you will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove a snare and a delusion. It is
all right for protection for your wife and
children, as they will receive the face of
the policy in case of your death, as they
would also in a company that charges
you half as much. A-life insurance policy
isa fraud as an investment for a living"
man, and is the greatest blessing of which
we or anybody else has any knowledge
as a means of protecting the widow and
orphans, after the breadwinner has been
removed by death.
It You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice *
AND COME to us with a desire to
learn why it is not to your interest to
carry high priced insurance, and how we
can furnish you just as safe insurance
for at least 40 per cent, a year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
to vour satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION
of New York does business on a * ?
plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect
your loved ones even better than
they now are, at even a greater cost to
to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced
to investigate and imagine that the
high price you are now paying makes
your insurance better or safer, or better ?
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you ; but will be forced to
let you go on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that you have been deceived.
If You Have *
No Insurance,
And think yon should have, we would be
pleased to explain the Mntnal Reserve
System to yon. The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premium
company in the world, and the fourth
largest of ANY KIND. It has paid
about $550,000 to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South Car- ,
lina alone, during the past twelve years,
and if all the insurance now carried in
old line companies in the state was in the *
Mutual Reserve, not less than $400,000,
which now annually goes into the coffers
of the former, would be left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which
we hear so much.
SAM M. A L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents, Yorkville, S. C.
WHEN YOU WANT
TO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken,
you should not fail to come and see
me. I have been in the "picture taking"
business for a great many years, and am
jonfident that I know my business. It
has always been my desire to please my
miatomnrci T am nrnn'ii-n/1 fn tul^O Phot/1
graphs in the latest styles and at"reasonable
prices.
HAVE YOU ANY
Photographs that you would like to have
enlarged ? If you have, come and see me
about it. I can do the work.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW
Where my Photograph Gallery is, ask
anyone in town and they can tell you.
DURING THE WINTER,
You will find my Gallery warm and
pleasant. Come and see me whenever
you need photographs. Respectfully,
J. R. SCHORB.
$Iw (Snquim.
Published Wednesday and Saturday.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Single copy for one year, 2 OO
One copy lor two years 3 SO
For six months, 1 OO
For three months, 30
rwo copies for one year, 3 SO
ren copies one year, IT SO
A.nd an extra copy for a club of ten.