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Jtumorous Department. SHE HAVE HERSELF AWAY. The woman mentioned in this little story may be called Mrs. Haughty, but she is known in almost every community by other names. She is inclined to do all she can to make other people believe she is somebody, and that she is fitted for a higher sphere than the one she is forced by adverse circumstances to live in. A short time ago Mrs. Haughty called on a neighbor and accepted an invitation to stay to supper. Mush and milk was the principal supper dish, and Mrs. Haughty declared wnn sundry ejaculations that she had never eaten that delightful compound. The steaming platter of mush was set in the centre of the table, and a bowl of milk placed in front of Mrs. Haughty. "Just help yourself, Mrs. Haughty," remarked the hostess. "Really, I do not know how to begin," said Mrs. Haughty, as she picked up her spoon. Mrs. Haughty made a move, and one of the children leaned over to her mother and whispered : "She said she never ate mush and milk, but she dipped her spoon in the milk before she dipped it into the mush." That little movement gave Mrs. Haughty away, for every lover of mush and milk knows that if the spoon is first dipped into the milk the mush will not stick to it. Stood Up For the West.?A little boy from California, who has been about a great deal, is spending the holidays with his Washington cousins, says The Post. He has enjoyed the sights of the capital, but he hasn't permitted himself to be in the slightest degree overawed by anything he has seen. His cousins took him? "carried" him, they said of it themselves?to the National Museum one J ~ ^ Kto uHontlnn tn A OTPftt, Utty, a LIU gaucu Uio avwuviv WW w. Q. log of petrified wood lying just outside the door. The little Californian had been a little depressed, but he brightened up at the sight. "I've seen a whole tree like that," he said. The Washington cousins maintained their composure. "We've got a whole forest of trees like that out west," went on the young westerner. Still the Washingtonians were not at all impressed. The California boy drew a long breath. "We've got a whole woods of putrefied trees," be said; "yes, and they's putrefied birds sitting on 'em, and? and," with one last effort to disturb the calm self-satisfaction of his companions, "they're singing putrefied songs, too." She Was "Me."?A gentleman who has a telephone in bis house has in his employ a faithful but stupid German girl, who one day responded to the ringing of the telephone bell. "Who is there?" came over the wire. "It is I," replied Katrina. "And who is I ?" "Why, I am I." "But who is I?" came over the wire. "I am me, my own self," retorted Katrina. "How should I be any one but me?" "But who are you ?" "I am my own self." "What is your name?" "Katrina Rupper." "Well, who is Katrina Rupper ?" "She is me, I, my own self." And when Katrina heard luughter at the other end of the line she said, indignantly : "I vil not sthay here to be made a shoke of," and she walked away from the telephone, grumbling : "How could I be any one but me? I let 'em know how to make a shoke of me !" Used the Telephone.?A San Franciscan, who recently returned from Honolulu, relates that while there he had occasion to inquire about two ladies who, he understood, were stopping at the Chapin House, and accordingly used the telephone. "Let me have the Cbapin House," he 9aid to central, aud, when the connection was made, he inquired if the two ladies were there. "No," came the answer. "But they were there last night, weren't they?" "Yes," was the hesitating reply; "but we had to let them go this morning." "Had to let them go," echoed the San Franciscan; "why, what sort of a hotel are you running?" "This isn't a hotel," replied the voice at the other end. "Isn't that the Chapin House ?" demanded the mystified San Franciscan. "No," was the reply, "it's the station house." genealogy.-Alexauder Dumas, the great French author, was a quadroon, and showed his African parentage in his woolly hair, his dark skin, bis thick lips and his prodigious bodily strength. But it is needbss to say that many people looked askauce at him on account of it. "Wac unnr fnther sir a millnt.. " """ J -? ??--1 ?-1 to?" a man asked him once, "Certainly," said Dumas. "My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a full-blooded Negro and my great-grandfather was a monkey !" "What!" "Yes; my genealogy begins where yours leaves off!" Clean Mistaken.?"This watch?" began the man. "Yes," interrupted the watchmaker, seizing it and rapidly opening it. "I see; it wants thoroughly cleaniug, and?" "Why," roared the man, "that's the Dew watch my wife bought here yesterday, and I want to exchange it for a larger size!" "Oh?ah?um?yes. Certainly, sir," mumbled the watchmaker. Slit ?tont (Teller. ENGLISHMAN AND DANE Romance That Grew Out of Their Dfeeting In a Reading Room. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. A curious friendship, which led up to a still more curious Christmas present, sprang up between two frequeuters of the reading room at Cooper Union a year or two ago. Both were * " -is 4U. in the habit 01 spending iue uchci part of every evening there, and both had developed a preference for a particular table. At first it was the location of that table alone which attracted them, but in course of time they became accustomed to each other's company, and although perfect strangers, they felt acquainted, and as though they met by appointment. One was a stout old Englishman, with a florid, stern face?one of those surly faces that usually go together with an honest and kindly heart. He was a well-read mechanic and bachelor, and having, or pretending to have, an aversion for women and children, he passed bis leisure hours either in the seclusion of his little hall bed room or at Cooper Institute. The other was a dry-faced, beardless Dane, of 40, with blue eyes of pellucid clearness, and long flaxen locks, which adhered close to his head and neck. It was the childish and yet penetrating look of those fcrystalline eyes of his which first cast a spell over the grufflooking Englishman. He could not help glancing at them again and again, and as he tried to read his book or magazine he seemed to feel their soft, appealing gaze upon himself. At one moment he was on the verge of a quarrel, but no sooner had he met the Dane's eye than instead of resentment he felt like asking if he could not be of service to him. As to the Scandinavian, the crusty look of his neighbor, far from repelling, had a peculiar sort of glamour for him. And so the two passed two or three hours at the same table six nights in the week until tbev came to greet each other, at first with u slight nod, then with a more demonstrative one, and finally with a bland "good evening." Oue night as they sat reading, the Dane banded the Englishman a note which read as follows : "Dear Sir?My heart is full tonight, and I wish to speak to some good man. Will you be my listener? I like you without knowing who you are ; but so much the better. Would you mind having a cup of coffee with me?" "With pleasure," was the Englishman's written reply. Some five minutes later they were seated at a marble table in one of the Vienna cafes on Second avenue. The Dane spoke English with perfect fluency, and although his pronunciation was labored and often incorrect, his grammar was irreproachable. ; "I beg of you, don't set me down for a crank," he began. "I am tired of being called that." "Whether you are one or not, I'm not goin' to call you names, sir," grumbled the Englishman. "All right, then. This is my day of misery. Just a yeur ago Fate dealt me a blow?or, rather, played me a trick?under which I have been squirming and writhing ever since. Today is the anniversary of an incident which may, after all, drive me mad. By the way, when you know me better you may find that I am no crank?not as yet, at least. Well, then, it is a love story I am going to recount to you?a love story of which I am the unhappy hero. It is not amusing?a hero and yet defeated and micoxokio 9 Well anmfi three vears ago I fell iu love with a poor but accomplished Sweedish girl in Copenhagen. Have you ever been in love, sir?" "I beg your pardon, sir. I meant no offense. As to myself, I had been in love a dozen times before I met the Sweedish young lady, and when I saw that I was infatuated with her I thought it was something like my previous romances?a passion of a week or a month, after which there is nothing left but 'smoke, smoke, smoke,' as the hero of one of Turgeueffs novels puts it. Are you fond of Turgeneff? But excuse my impertineut questions. Well, I had made up my mind to be a bachelor. You wish to'know why ? Because I was the most forlorn fool in creation. In the first place, I had taken it into my head that I had been born to fill the universe with a new sort of suushine?with the dazzling rays of my poetry. Accordingly, for me to marry and be bothered with a wife and children' and the sordid details of family life would be a crime against the interest of humanity, don't you know. In the second place, I should get tired of my wife before the honeymoon was half over, and marriage would be eternal torture. I drew my conclusions?uu j?u n.uv? from what ? From the brevity of my former passions. I was an idiot; the greatest on earth." "No, you weren't," the Englishman interrupted him. "Yes, I was. I believed in the "Kreutzer Sonata"?have you read it? I think it ought to be burned. But at that time I had the same idiotic views as the man in that story. Well, the last girl I fell in love with was a singular sort of woman. She was not pretty. No. I wish she had been, for then I should have forgotteu her long ago. But she was good?a genius of kindliness?and it goes without saying that she was also called crazy. She loved me desperately, and I knew it and that helped to spoil it all. I had a frank explanation with her and told her I liked her, but that my life belonged to humanity. Oh, the idiot that I was. She gave me a sad look and bade me farewell, and that is the last I have seen of her?in Europe, at least. "I subsequently learned that she had emigrated to America and that was what brought me over here. Why ? Because I could not live without her, because when she was gone I became aware of the real nature of my love for her. Ah, dear friend! I found when it was too late that I had never loved before. No other woman left an impression so deep, so cruel, so ineffaceable. And the feeling itself, too, seemed novel, unprecedented, so entirely unlike anything I had ever experienced before. It is still there (he pointed to his heart) and will be there l - l r L.tl T to mane jiie neii 10 me no >uu^ as i exist. "I abandoned a thousand things that I held dear and came over here in search of her?in a quixotic search for her. Was it not foolish, seeing that I knew not even in what city she had settled? And yet?and here I come to the most appalling part of it? I did meet her in this city and at the same time I did not; but I hope to come across her again, although I may be chasing a golden Bunset. But be it as it may, I neither have the courage to give it up and to return to my home, nor do I enjoy a single hour's rest in this city. "I had searched high and low for her in New York and in Chicago, where the Swedish colony is much larger, but all in vain. I had abandoned all hope and was nerving myself up to leave this country aud to try to forget the whole episode as a romantic tale, which could never become invested in flesh and blood, when this very day a year ago I caught sight of her in an elevated train on Second avenue. Yes, I saw her sealed by an open window?it was a beautiful day in September, like this. But it seemed fate had only intended it for a joke on me?for the most cruel joke it ever played upon a helpless being. Ah, only Tantalus and myself are familiar with this kind of torture. "Yes, she was in an uptown train while I was in a car on the opposite track. I looked at her back without recognizing her, but just as the two trains began to move in opposite directions, she faced about, aud?and?it was she! Excuse me, dear stranger, you don't see me crying, do you ? And there is no lump in my throat, either. I am not overcome as I tell you this?no more, at least than usual, than every day, for my poor heart is always crushed every time I think ol it?and when don't I think of it?" "Did you call to her?" the Englishman queried. "Did I! I came near jumping out of the window. But she did not hear me?at least, she did not seem to. I rushed out of the train at the very next station and idiotically boarded an uptown one, and?and I have been a wretch ever since. "I have spent many whole days and many dollars riding up and down the same road in the hope of meeting her once more, but in vain, in vain, in vain." The Englishman was deeply touched, although he tried not to show it. He came away with the Swedish girl's full name in bis memorandum book and with a secret determination to do what he could for bis eccentric friend. He thought the Dane had uot conducted his search in a practical manner, and be decided in his mind to see if he could not be more successful. The idea of discovering the young woman and presenting her to his lovelorn friend took a firm grip upon the misanthropic bachelor's mind, and little by little became the great ambition of his lonely days. He had a little independence of $2,000 or $3,000, and half of it he set aside for advertisements and other expenses which the pursuit of his all-absorbing object might involve. Having learned from the Dane that his beloved had taught French and embroidery he framed his advertisements in the "want" columus of English and German dailies, accordingly, in addition to having "personal" notices inserted in the various Scandinavian weeklies of this country. A month passed, another and a third. Every eveniug his landlady would hand him a pile of letters. They bore all sorts of signatures and plenty of Swedish names in their number, but the one name which bad become his idee fixe was not there. The two friends met at the library as usual, and frequently took supper together. Their intimacy grew apace, though the Englishman listened more than he talked. "You aren't a crank at all," he once reassured the Dane. "You're queer a little bit, that's about all. If you met your good lady and got married you might settle down." "Ah, dear fellow," sighed the other, without the remotest suspicion of what the Englishman was doing for him. One evening, as the mechanic sal rummaging through his bulky mail, he suddenly leaped to his feet, "Good !" I've got her," he exclaimed, so loud that his landlady heard him through the door of his room and whispered to her husband that their boarder was getting crankier every day. He at once dispatched a letter to the Swedish young lady, and next evening he called to see her. When she heard the Dame's name she dropped her gaze. "What is he doing in America?"she then inquired. "He has come for you." "For me?" she said, with a discon solate shake of her head. "Yes ; for you. Why, are you married?" the bluut Englishman demanded, his heart sinking within him. She shook her head more sadly than before. "Very well then," her iuterlocutor fairly shouted. "Do you still love him? Will you marry him ? He will die if you don't." "How do you know ?" She burst into tear9 and then pursued, sobbingly. "Is it really true, sir ? Are you sure of what you say ? Why did he not come himself? Where is he ?" He is safe aud sound ; but look here, my friend, it is two weeks to Christmas?will you have patieuce to wait that long? Then I shall give the two of you the nicest dinner I ever ate. But promise me that you'll keep quiet and let me see you every once and awhile." "But where is he?" "No questions till Christmas or you won't see him at all." When he met the Dane at the library that evening he thrust a note into nis omiu ; "Would you mind having Christmas dinner with me? Accept no other invitations." At last the long-awaited day arrived and the Englishman with a fast-beating heart received his Danish friend in bis little bedroom. "We shall have dinner with my landlady today," he said to him, "but first, I want you to accept a Christmas present which I have prepared for you as a token of our friendship. Come, it is in the parlor." With this he opened the door and ushered his perplexed visitor into the presence for which his heart had been pining and yearning without cessation. The two were married the same week and immediately left for Copenhagen, where, judging from the long epistles which the Englishman receives from both, they live as happily as any couple that ever belied the strictures of Tolstoi's "Creutzer Sonata." As to our British friend, he still persists in inveighing against married life, but when he sits reading the endless rhapsodies on matrimoilial felicity in bis Danish letters, his crusty face becomes overspread with radiance and he seems to feel as if the writers of the effusive missives were his beloved children. I0OYAI PpsffiTS 5^. S?w4 ^AKlH? POWDER Absolutely Pure OHIO IBS AND CBARLESTON 8.8. TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company, to take effect Monday, October 18th, at 6.50 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. i Dally I Dally ' Except I Except l Sunday.' Sunday. QOINO SOUTH No. 32. | No. 34. j Leave Marion 7 00 am 1 30 pm Leave Rutherfordton 8 05 am 3 05 pm Leave Forest City 8 20 am 3 35 pm Leave Henrietta 8 35 am! 3 55 pm Leave Mooresboro 8 50 am 4 10 pm Leave Shelby 9 20*am 5 00 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 9 30 ami 5 45 pm Leave Earls 9 35 am! 5 50 pm Arrive at Blacksburg, 9 50 am 6 10 pm Leave Gaffhey 6 50 m 7 15 pm Arrive Blacksburg 7 25 m 7 50 pm Leave Blacksburg 10 10 am| 8 00 am Leave Smyrna 10 30 ami 8 25 am Leave Hickory Grove 10 45 am| 8 45 ain Leave Sharon 11 00 am1 9 10 am Leave Yorkville II 15 am1 9 40 am Leave Tlrzah il 27 am 10 05 am Leave Newport 11 31 am 10 15 am Leave Rock Hill 11 45 am 10 40 pm Leave Leslies 12 05 pm 1 00 pm Leave Catawba Junction.. 12 15 pm 1 15 pm Leave Lancaster 1 00 pm 3 50 pm Leave Kershaw 2 00 pm! 5 30 pm Arrive at. Camden 3 00 pm 6 40 pm Leave Kingsville 4 44 pm Leave Branchville 5 .55 pm Arrive Charleston 8 00 pm GOING NOKTH. j N0..33. | ~ NoT~35 j Daily I Dally Except Except Sunday.' Sunday. I^eave Charleston 7 10 am Leave Branchville 8 57 am Leave Kingsville 10 25 am Leave Camden 12 0.5 pm 9 00 am Leave Kershaw 1 05 pm 11 10 am Leave Lancaster 1 45 pm 1 00 pm Leave Catawba Junction 2 30 pm: 2 40 pm Leave Leslies 2 40 pm| 2 55 pm Leave Rock Hill 2 55 pmi 4 30 pm Leave Newport 3 10 pm' 5 00 pm Leave Tlrzah 3 15 pm| 5 20 pn Leave Yorkvllle 3 30 pm (1 00 pin Leave Sharon 3 45 pm1 6 20 pm Leave Hickory Grove.... 4 00 pm' 0 40 pm I^eave Smyrna 4 15 pm 0 55 pn; Leave Blacksbnrg 4 35 pm 7 30 pm Leave Blacksburg 0 50 am B 30 pm Arrive Gaffncy 7 25 am 7 05 pm Leave Karle's 5 05 pm Leave Patterson's Spring. 5 10 pm Leave Shelby 5 20 pm1 Leave Mooresboro 5 47 am j Leave Henrietta 5 55 am Leave Forest City 6 12 am | Leave Rutherfordton 6 27 am Arrive at Marlon 7 30 pm CONNECTIONS. No. 32 has connection with Southern Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at 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. THM STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, York County. By \V. II. McCorkle, Esquire, Probate Judge of York County. WHEREAS W. W. LEWIS has applied to me for Letters of Administration on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of F. A. GILBERT, late of the county aforesaid, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to lie and appear before me, at our next nuiHiu- ldiih mr the said county, to lie holdenat York Court House ou the .'Id day ol' FEBRUARY, 1898, at 10 o'clock, a. in., to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not he granted. (liven under my hand and seal, this 19th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and in the 122d year of American Independence. \V. H. MeCORKLE, Probate Judge of York County. January 22 7 s2t INSURE YOUK PROPERTY IX THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE CO. It is as strong as > the strongest. L. GEO. GRIST, Agent. YORKVILLE FOR HERE IS THE OPPORTUNI1 OF CHARACTE th got aid n unc urn hf urn lit tuijui) iui Pleasant V and Cen IX UNUSUALLY YA1 Two High Grade Buggies i Leaders and Every COMMENCE TODAY BETWEEN this date and the MIDDLE OF MARCH, it is usual for the people of this section to select their reading matter for the following year. Being one of the cleanest, most enterprising and reliable newspapers in the state, it is natural, therefore, that THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER should also be one of the most popular. Ninety per cent, of the families in tnc county desire it as a regular visitor to their homes, and all those who can afford it, may reasonably be looked upon as probable subscribers. One of the most serious drawbacks, probably, Is the inconvenience of writing letters, sending money and attending to the matter of subscribing at the proper time. It is this fact that makes it especially desirable for us, Just at this time, to secure the services of a large number of intelligent and energetic assistants,and to make it worth their while to give the matter their attention, we are making the liberal offers which we will presently explain. The price of a single subscription one year is TWO DOLLARS. This is to the individual who does not give his name to a clubmaker; but sends it direct to this office. In clubs, however, the price Is only ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. That is the price which the subscriber pays the clubmaker, and the price which, under all circumstances, he is expected to pay us. Now to our propositions: THREE BIG PREMIUMS. The three leading premiums are a CAROLINA BUGGY, a ROCK HILL BUGGY, and a MONARCH BICYCLE, for lady or gentleman. The "Rock Hill Buggy" is to be a quarter leather top, and the "Carolina" an open buggy. Both vehicles are to be of the very best grades manufactured Dy tne respect Ive well-known establishments. The Bicycle Is to be of the highest grade manufactured by the Monarch Cycle Company, and the Monarch wheel, as 'every wheelman knows, Is without a superior. TERMS OF THE CONTEST. The clubmaker who returns and pays for the largest number of subscribers?NEW AND OLD?will be entitled to the choice of the three above described premiums. The clubmaker who returns and pays for the largest number of NEW NAMES, will be entitled to second choice. The clubmaker who returns the second largest number of names?new and oldwill be entitled to the third choice. In other words, the first choice goes to the largest club; the second choice to the largest number of new subscribers; and the third choice to the second largest club of old and new subscribers. OTHER PREMIUMS. In addition to the competitive premiums mentioned above, we also offer various other Crcmiums for clubs containing specified numers of names, and propose to deliver the premiums whenever the numbers specified are returned and paid for. Upon securing one premium?a watch or sewing machine, say? the clubmaker will be at liberty to try for the same thing again, or for anything else on the list, and if in the aggregate, by the 1?TH DAY OK MARCH, 189?, he shall have succeeded in returning and paying for the largest number ot NEW NAMES, he will be entitled to the SECOND CHOICE of the three leading premiums mentioned above, Just the same as If he had not previously taken other premiums. Now, then, read the list: For 60 Subscribers, We will give the clubmaker his choice of the following premiums, each valued at $25: A FOUR DRAWER "ENQUIRER" SEWING MACHINE, together with all attachments; a "HOUSEKEEPER'S" SET OF KNIVES, FORKS AND SPOONS, made by Rogers; a "WALTHAM" WATCH in coin silver, dustproof ease ; a NO. 0 AUTOHARP, a BANJO, GUITAR, MANDOLIN, or VIOLIN. For 40 and Less Than 60 sttrscribers. we will give the clubmaker Ills choice of the following, each valued at $15: WALTHAM WATCH, in open face silver cuse: set of half dozen ROGERS BROS'. KNIVES and FORKS (12 PIECES): NO. 4 AUTOHARP, BANJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR, or LOW ARM SINGER SEWING MACHINE. For 30 and Less Than 40 SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the following, each valued at $10: NEW YORK STANDARD " JEWELED WATCH In dust-proof case; 14K GOLD FILLED WATCH CHAIN, or HALF DOZEN TEASPOONS, HALF DOZEN TABLESPOONS and BUTTER KNIFE (13 PIECES). Address, L. M. GRIST October 23, 1897. WHEN YOU WANT TO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken you should not fail to come and see tne. I have been in the "picture taking" business for a great many years, and am confident that I know tnv business. It lias always been my desire to nlease my customers. I am prepared to take Photographs 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 tny Gallery warm and pleasant. Come and see me whenever you need photographs. Respectfully J. R. SCHORB. TUB TUTCE-A-WEEK EKQ.UIRER IS an up-to-date family newspuper, always tilled with clean aud wholesome home reading and ispublished and mailed on time. Subscription price, $2; in clubs of two or more, $1.75. Everybody is invited to make up clubs. ENQUIRER 1898. rv cno Dcnoi c i i run rmrLL R, ENERGY AND CAPACITY R A POPULAR PAPER, Vork, Good tain Pay LUABLE PREMIUMS. md a Monarch Bicycle the Worker a Winner. AND KEEP AT IT. For 20 and Less Than 30 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give a NO. 2% AUTOHARP, valued at S7-50; or THE ENQUIRER and any monthly magazine or weekly newspaper published In the United States, for one year. For 10 and Less Than 20 SUBSCRIBERS, a CONCAVE WARRANTED RAZOR, SILVER PLATED GRAVY LADLE, or an extra quality FOUR BLADED POCKET KNIFE, with name and address on the handle. Any of the articles mentioned would be a bargain at 82. For 6 and Less Than 10 SUBSCRIBERS, a "CLIMAX" WATCH, warranted for one year: an extra quality THREE BLADED POCKET KNIFE, or CHILD'S SILVER PLATED TABLE SET. Good values at $1.50. xi a j t ~ mi n rur i aiiu Liess mail o SUBSCRIBERS, a "YANKEE" WATCH, warranted for one year: "Siren" pattern BUTTER KNIFE, or TWO-BLADED POCKET , KNIFE, with name and address on handle. And to Each Old Subscriber, The Yokkvili.f. Enquikkr?TWICE-AWEEK?tilled with bright, fresh news from THE COUNTY, STATE, NATION AND WORLD, interesting stories, Instructive miscellaneous matters, and humorous selections, explanatory editorials, etc. The paper will be held up to its present nigh standard, and will qontinue prompt, explicit, reliable, and, in snort, the best. To Each New Subscriber. The same as above except that if the paper is COMMENCED NOW, IT WILL BE SENT UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1889, without any charge for that portion of the time between now and January 1, 1897. It is understood, however, that if the subscriber falls to pay the clubmaker the subscription price, he will be due him for all papers that he may have received. By new subscribers, we mean those whose names were not on OUR BOOKS ON OCTOBER 1st, 1897. except we will not count as new subscribers, cases where the subscription may have been changed from the name of one member of a family to another. This is Intended emphatically to mean new additions to our subscription list. Note the Conditions. TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at 81 each, will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at 81.75 and so counted. A subscription paid for two or more years in advance at 81.75, will be counted as one name for each year so paid. Clubniakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubmaker has returned ana paid for any name, he can. at anytime thereafter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the person for whom he has paid, and transfer the unexpired time to any other person, provided the person to whom the transfer Is desired was not a subscriber at the lime the original name was entered on our books. No name will be counted in competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid; nor will any premium be delivered until a satisfactory settlement has been made for all names returned by the clubmaker. Persons who commence making clubs will not be permitted to transfer their club to another clubmaker's list after the names have been entered on our books. It is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same postofflce. Names may be taken at any number of places. Clubmakers are requested to send in names as rapidly as they secure them after October 'a, 1897. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at nvnAncn f\t ihnco cpntllncr them LIJC CApVimV/ v?* kuvpv uv.i?...e We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by dralt, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkville postofflce. In sending names, write plainly, and give postofflce, county and state. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration or the time paid tor. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any one person may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two weeks will be allowed in which to "untie." The time in which names may be returned under our propositions will commence now, 23d day of October, 1897, and expire at 4 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 9th day of March, 1898. P & SONS, Yorkville, S. C. I BUY COTTON. I BUY COTTON, and you will please not fail to recollect it when yon have any to offer. If parties having lots of from 25 to 500 bales, who live out of town, will notify me when they get ready to sell, I will go and bid on it. I can be found at Grist Cousins' store. D. W. HICKS. December 25 103 stf S. J. GARRISON, DECEASED. ALL persons indebted to tbe estate of S. J. GARRISON, deceased, are hereby notified to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Persons having claims against the said estate are requested to present the same, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law. P. J. GARRISON, I Executors D. 15. FIN LEY, j Executors. January 15 5 s 3t PHOTOGRAPHY. FOR PHOTOS?in any style and of the best finish?please call at mv Gallery, on Cleveland avenue. I also develop and print Kodak Pictures. Orders for Enlarged Pictures from any size Photo taken, and satisfaction guaranteed. S. W .WATSON, Yorkville, S. C. FINLEY ofc HKICE, ATTORNEYS A.T LAW, Yorkville, 8. C. ALL business entrusted to us will be given prompt attention. OFFICE IN THE BUILDING AT THE REAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S STORE.