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Jtuworous department. HE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT. One of the men who are always sure and never make mistakes recently stopped at a western hotel. On going to his room for the night he charged the landlord to call him in time for an early train. "Now don't you forget. The 5.30. That's the train I want." "But the 5.30 ?," began the landlord. "Never you mind anything about the 5.30. I know all about it. You call me iu time to get it. That's what you're to do. See?" "All right," replied the landlord, a liifl** oVtArflv UlllU ouvi va V At 5 o'clock the next morning there was a tremendous thumping at the door of the man who wanted to rise for the "5.30." A voice from within called "All right!" and the landlord retired to the office. The traveler soon appeared dressed for the day's journey. As he paid his bill, the landlord inquired, briefly : "Getting an early start, haint ye?" "No. Always take the 5.30 when I go through here." "One of the directors of the road ?" "No." "Superintendent of division, mebby?" "No. What are you trying to gee at?" "Nothing. Only the 5.30 was taken off the time-table yesterday, and the first regular train doesn't pull out till 9.16. Didn't know but you bad some official connection with the road, and was going to pull out on a special 5.30 all by yourself. You wouldn't let me tell you last night, but p'r'aps 'taint too late now." The man who "knew all about it" walked out of the office without a word, and the landlord smiled as he said to himself, "In the language of Josh Billings, 'It is better not tew kno so mutch then tew kno* so menny things thet haint so.'" How He Rode.?The character of the old Illinois courts, in which Abra ham Lincoln practised, was very primitive, says a writer in The Century. In one case a livery stable horse had died soon after being returned, and the person who bad hired it was sued for damages. The question turned largely upon the reputation of the defendant as a hard rider. A witness was called?a long, lank westerner. "How does Mr. So-and-so usually ride?" asked the lawyer. Without a gleam of intelligence, the witness replied: "A-straddle, sir." "No, uo," said the lawyer ; "I mean does he usually walk, or trot, or gallop ?" "Wal," said the witness, apparently searching in the depths of his memory for facts, "wheu he rides a walkin' horse he walks, when be rides a trottin' horse he trots, aud when he rides a gallopin' horse he gallops, when?" The lawyer was angry. "I want to know what gait the defendant usually takes, fast or slow ?" "Wal," said the witness, "when his company rides fast he rides fast, and when his company rides slow he rides slow." "I want to know, sir," the lawyer said, very much exasperated, and very stern now, "how Mr. So-and-so rides when he is alone." 'Wal," said the witness, more slowly and meditatively than ever, "when he was alone I wa'n't along, and I don't know." The laugh at the questioner ended the cross-examination. What Ailed the Cake.?It is said that good cooks, like good nurses, are "born, not made." In this opinion a lady who has recently struggled with the ignorance and stupidity of a servant who was "willin' and anxious, ma'am," fully concurs. "Now see what a nice loaf of cake you can make from this receipt, Bridget," said the mistress one morning. "Remember the tbiugs I have told you ; there's no reason why you shouldn't have as light a loaf of cake as anybody." "Yes, ma'am," said Bridget, "I'll remember iverything, an' I'll warrant I'll be afther givin' you a foine loaf." But when the loaf was at last withdrawn from the oven by the despairing Bridget, it presented anything but a light and well-baked aspect. "What iver can be the matter with it ?" groaued poor Bridget when she had summoned her mistress to inspect the uninviting panful. "Did you remember to put bakingpowder in the flour, Bridget?" queried the lady. "The bakiu'-powder is in it all right, ma'am," respouded Bridget, "but niver a bit av flour. I put in corn-starch, ma'am, in place av the flour." "Corn starch !" gasped the mistress. "Indade, yis, ma'am !" said Bridget. "You said you wanted the cake very light, and it was yoursilf was tellin' me the other day how much lighter coru-starch was than flour, so I just put in two heapin' cupsav corn-starch, ma'am !" ~ " *1 ~u:i vaer ine ionu momer 01 unec uuudren was obliged to remoustrate with her oldest boy because in the children's games he would always take the lead. A few days later the mother, happening to go into the nursery, saw the two younger children engaged in amateur theatricals. The elder boy stood aside with arms folded, moodily watching them. "We are playing Adam and Eve," said the youngsters. She turned to the silent figure in the corner, about to praise him. "Who are you?" she asked. "God," was the answer. IST Miss Bingo?"Bell's green dress looks perfectly killing." Miss Tremlow?"Bought it in Paris, didn't she?'1 "Yes. "Yes." "Paris green is apt tc be killing." She .ftorg idler. HIS MOTHER'S REPUTATION. The Tragic Story of a French Duel. Last year I weut to Besancom to attend a friend's wedding. His bride was the daughter of one of the wealthiest and best-known families in the city, and the affair was a most brilliant one. When we were about quitting the table after the wedding-feast, I felt ! J ?1 l,l?? f arl & LiHLIU upuu my auuuiuci, x iuiuvu. Before me stood a young captain of dragoons, a handsome, dashing fellow, with curly blonde hair. "You do not recognize me," said he, smiling. "In truth," said I, hesitating, "I cannot remember?" "I am Gustave Raisant, your old chum. Why, I remember well the first day you came to the school. You advanced toward me as I stood in the playground, and said, 'Lend me some marbles.' I lent you some, and we became fast friends at once, and our friendship lasted for three years." I grasped bis hand warmly, and we at once began to talk over old times together. It is always with a certain degree of pleasure that one meets an old chum of school or college. So we exhausted the subject of schooldays, and took up our present prospects. Gustave told me that his were excellent; he would soon have a-commission as major, a lucky advancement for so young a man. When I prepared to leave, he accompanied me to the station, and, after a cordial farewell, we parted. Months passed, and I heard no more of Gustave. Finally, one morning, I saw his name in the official journal, and noted with pleasure that he had received his expected promotion. With his commission be had received orders detailing Dim to a garnsuu ut Maubeuge, on the Belgian frontier. One August evening I was taking a stroll in the Champs-Elysees. It was a little after nine, and around me was the usual gay crowd of a summer night. Promenaders by the hundred ; merry people seated at the little tables in front of the cafes, smoking, drinking and chatting. To the right, a cafe, concert, its front hung with colored lanterns. Before me the long Avenue des Champs-Elysees extended, its hundreds of lights glimmering like glow-worms in the dark. Suddenly I saw a familiar face by the light of a street lamp. It was Gustave Raisaut. "Hallo, major," said I, extending ray hand, "well met!" "Ah, is it you?" said he, languidly. "I am glad to see you." His toue struck me. I looked at him attentively. He seemed to have aged much since I had seen him before. Already there were gray hairs showing around his temples. Linking my arm with his, I said : "Come, let's take a stroll." "Willingly." After we had walked some little distance, I gave up attempting to make bim converse. He seemed eutirely destitute of interest in any topic that I might bring up, and plunged into melancholy. "Come, come, Gustave," said I, "you have something on your mind, haven't you ?" He hesitated a moment, but finally replied : "Yes." "A love affair, I'll he sworn." He was silent, and I repeated my somewhat brusque remark. There are some wounds that will not bear probing. Suddenly he spoke: "Listen," said he, "and I shall tell you the cause of my melancholy. Perhaps I am wrong to chafe under it as I do; perhaps you may give me some good advice. In any event, I shall tell you my story. Since I last saw you there has been a tragical event in my life. Oh, you have heard nothing of it. Thanks to the people at headquarters, the papers were silenced, and I won't bore yon?my story isn't long; and," he added bitterly, "I think it is interesting. But it is old?the old story of parents' sins being expiated by the children. He knocked the ash from his cigar, and then he slowly told his story. "Last June, as you may know, the reserve forces were ordered out for their yearly service. We had some of them at Maubeuge, where I had been stationed with the Fifty-Third for a month. One moruing I was about to start for Lille, on regimental business, in company with a brother officer of my regiment. We stepped iuto a large eating-house to take a chop before the train left. It was a very large establishment, with marble tables around the room, and at one eud was a loug bar, where those with light purses were allowed to take refreshments. Our table was near the bar, and at the time we seated ourwoe a lrvnrr lino nf ni'lVHtP 3CIVCO luyiv. ?*?o c* iVMf, ???V v. soldiers and laborers drinking there. We talked of various matters, and my companion said : " 'Have you the son of any celebrity among your recruits?' " 'Yes,' said I; 'young Myrian, son of the well-known painter, is in my command. And you?' " 'Well, I have the son of a celebrity, too, but of a different kind. It is young George de Ferisset.' " 'What! not the son of Mme. de Ferisset?pretty De Ferisset ?' " 'The same.' "I laughed heartily as I said : " 'Well, well! So De Ferisset has a grown-up son, has she? How the times flies ! I was dreadfully in love with the woman once, but another fellow won her uot undivided favors.' " 'And I, too,' replied my companion, 'I was a little spoony on her; but i then, you know, I always had scruples about married women.' ' " 'Oh, you were wrong,' I replied. > 'She was well worth the trouble. And then, poor De Ferisset! The type of an unsuspecting husband! She had 20 lovers to my knowledge, i and he never knew it.' "I had scarcely finished speaking, < when a stripling soldier quitted his comrades, and advanced toward me. j His face was as white as a sheet. His emotion was so great that he trembled as he walked, with his sabre clattering at his heels. When he reached our table, he glared at me for a moment with wild yet indecisive eyes, I and then raised his band to strike me. There was a hurried movement, an outcry, and several of the soldiers around leaped upon him, and held his hand. He struggled for a moment, then was calm. Still gazing at me, he ! said, in a choking voice : " 'She is my mother.' i "In a moment I realized the hideous insult I had offered him. I tingled with shame. What could have possessed me that morning I do not kuow. , No officer or gentleman would ever speak ill of a woman?least of all in . public. ' " 'Let him go!' I cried to the soldiers. I rose, removed my cap, and bowing, said: ( " 'Sir, I place myself at your dispotion." "At this moment the whistle of the ' approaching train was heard. My ( friend grasped my arm, and dragged me to the station without, where we took the train for Lille. "As soon as I could do so, I hastened to the general commanding our division. I told him all. As you may ( imagine, he reprimanded me severely. ( "'What!' said be, 'an officer of your rank to babble thus in public, like a raw boy just out of the military ] school ? It is the fault of the war de- ( partment. They should not promote men so young as you to positions of importance.' , "I privately thought that if I had , been a general, the affair would have been the same. But I so richly merit- J ed his severe language that I did not ( reply. " 'Well,' said he, finally, 'what do you propose to do?" " 'There is but one course open to i me, general,' I replied. 'I have, griev- ( ously offended this young mun. I ( have therefore placed myself at his , disposition. We must fight.' u'A duel! You are mad! A major ; cannot go upon the field with a pri- ! vate soldier.' j "'Geueral, you must allow me to say that there are certain insults so ( grave that military usage must yield ( to them. Grant me permission to do this.' . " 'But I cannot?I haye no right to do.' , " 'Then telegraph the miuister of j war.' , " 'He will refuse.' ! " 'Well, if that be the case, I shall ( notify George de Ferisset, and we will fight in Belgium.' v , " 'Then you desert?' "Yes, general, I will desert, and then return for my punisment. I have once dishonored myself iu publicly insulting a woman ; I shall not again do so in refusing satisfaction to her son.' "The general's perplexity and anger began to pass away ; he seemed moved. He strode up and down the room for some moments, and finally, turning to me, said: " 'Be it so. Do as you will. Bear in mind, though, that I know nothing of this affair ?this conversation has not taken place.' "I thanked him, and repaired to my quarters. That evening, De Ferisset's seconds arrived. Tbey were civilians, as were also the two friends whom I / named to arrange matters with them. The weapon chosen was the sword ; the hour, 6 o'clock the following morn- f ing; the place, a little village just within the Belgian frontier. I put my affairs in order that night, for I had determined to offer but slight defence. "At the appointed hour the next day - - 1 -t. I.. . we were mere, it was a raw, unwiv morning, and the mud was ankle deep. De Ferisset appeared in uniform. One of my seconds remarked that he, like the rest of us, should have come as a civilian. He replied that he had been insulted ;as man and soldier, and that reparation was due to him as such. I made a sign to my second, and he did not insist. "We took our places. It was a curious spectacle?a private soldier in his uniform facing his superior officer iu mufti. "The swords were crossed. The word was given. I watched his face with a feverish curiosity. In his eyes there was the same glare of the day before, the same indecision. Suddenly a strange smile appeared upon his lips?the smile of a broken heart?a smile I shall never forget though I live . 100 years. Quick as a flash, he abandoned his guard, and grasping my sword with his left hand, he hurled i himself upon it. It ran him through j the body. Uttering a hoarse cry, he j fell backwards; a bloody foam tinged J his pale lips. A convulsive shudder i ran over his body?another?then a j groan. He was dead." j ] ] I listened with horror to his story. ] He noticed my looks, but went dog- j gedlyon: ] "Of course I had not killed him?I i had even resolved not to defend my- \ 1/1 ? ? J T ?- ?!? fVia m*mir Put sen; HUM X IjUltlcu ihc oiuij. I still I feel like a murderer; I feel as j though I had committed a crime, j I think of that poor boy?loyal to his j mother, bad though she was?slain in , the first flush of youth, I feel like an assassin. And think of that wretched mother! How she must mourn her ] brave boy's fall!" ' It was growing late; the people were pouring out of the cafes-con- i certs. Now and then a passer-by would hum over the latest comic song. ' Strange contrast! The follies of the song mingled with the words of the sombre drama just unrolled before me. Gustave walked on by my side, with bent head, crushed by the weight of his tragic story. And still the Charops-Elysees swarmed with people. Around us was the intense life of a summer night in frivolous Paris. On the avenue were innumerable carriages, and all around gayly dressed loungers on the irou chairs. As my eye roamed carelessly over them, I saw one group, the centre of which was a woman of 45, but still very beautiful. She was dressed richly and tastefully, and bore in her hand a bouquet which a smirking dandy had just presented, to her. I could not repress an exclamation. Gustave followed my eyes. "What!'' he cried, "it cannot be she?" "Yes," I answered him, "it is Mme. rie Ferisset."?Argonaut. AFTER AN OFFICE. A yearniug for public office is nothing new. Nor, unhappily, is it anything new for men to proclaim that yearning upon the housetop. The Rev. H. W. Pierson, many years ago, found in the southwestern purt of the country in a large class of perennial office-seekers. Ouce he heard a speech from a man who had been a candidate for the same office for 12 years in succession. Every year he had canvussed the county, making speeches in every neighborhood. Doctor Pierson prints a part of the speech which he himself beard. "I ask you to vote for me as an encouragement to the poor boys of the county,, that 1 may be an example to them ; that they may point to me and 3ay, 'There is a man who was once as poor as any of us, who has been honored with a seat in the legislature of of his native state.' "I have taught school a good many winters, and the boys that I have taught like me. They will give me their votes, i nave sometimes mougm I should have to teach school over the country until I have taught boys enough to elect me. The end of the speech was as follows : "My fellow citizens, when I look back over the 12 years since I became a candidate for this office, I feel encouraged. When I look back and think of the very few that for years gave me any encouragement, and compare them with the numbers that now promise me their votes, I am proud of my success. "I begin to feel that my hopes are about to be realized; that a majority uf my fellow citizens will honor me with their suffrages, and thut I shall proudly go up to the capitol and take my seat among the legislators of the stale. But, fellow citizens, if, unfortunately, I should fail in this election, I Lake the present opportunity to announce myself as a candidate in the next race." Not that year, but some years afterward, his long dream was realized. ROM ijp POWDER Absolutely Pure iIII8IWSTIE.il TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company, to take 3ffect Monday, October 18th, at 6.50 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. Daily Dally Except Except Sunday. Sunday. going south No. 32. | No.31. Leave Marion 7 00 am 1 TO~pm Leave Rutherfordton 8 0f> am 3 05 pm >ave Forest City 8 20 am, 3 35 pm Leave Henrietta 8 35 am 3 55 pm .eave Mooresboro 8 50 am 4 10 pm Leave Shelby 9 20 am 5 00 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 9 30 am 5 45 pm Leave Earls it 35 am 5 50 pm \rriveat Blacksburg, 9 50 am 6 10 pm Leave GafTney (1 50 m 7 15 pm Vrrlve Blacksburg 7 25 m 7 50 pm Leave Blacksburg 10 10 am 3 00 an. Leave Smyrna 10 30 am 8 25 am Leave Hickory Grove 10 45 am 8 45arn Leave Sharon II 00 am 9 10 am Leave Yorkville 11 15 am 9 40 am Leave Tirzah 11 27 am 10 05 am Leave Newport 11 33 am 10 15 am Leave Rock Hill 11 45 am 10 40 pm Leave Leslies 12 05 pm 1 00 pm ucave Catawba Junction.. 12 15 pm I 15 pin Leave Lancaster 1 00 pm 3 50 pm Leave Kershaw 2 CO pm 5 TO pm Vrrlve at Camden 3 00 pm 0 40 pm Leave Kingsville 4 44 pm iLeave Branehvilie 5 5 pin Vrrlve Charleston 8 00 pm going north. | No. 33. | No. 35 Dally Dally Except Except Sunday. Sunday. Leave Charleston 7 10 am Leave Branehvilie 8 57 am [.cave Kingsville 10 25 am Leave Camden 12 0-5 pmi 9 00 am [Leave Kershaw 1 05 pm' 11 10am >ave Lancaster 1 45 pm 1 00 pm Leave Catawba Junction 2 TO pm 2 40 pm Leave Leslies 2 40 pm 2 55 pm Leave Rock Hill 2 55 pm 4 TO pm Leave Newport 3 10 pm 5 00 pm Leave Tirzah 3 15 pm 5 20 pm Leave Yorkville 3 TO pm 6 00 pm Leave Sharon 3 45 pm 6 20 pm Leave Hickory Grove.... 4 00 pm 6 40 pm Leave Smyrna 4 15 pm 6 55 pm Leave Blacksburg 4 33 pm 7 30 pm Leave Blacksburg 0 50 am 6 TO pm Vrrive GafTney 7 25 am 7 05 pm Leave Earle's ? 5 05 pm Leave Patterson's Spring. 5 10 pm Leave Shelby 5 20 pm Leave Mooresboro 5 47 am: Leave Henrietta 5 55 am, Leave Forest City 6 12 am Leave Rutherfordton 0 27 am irrivA 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 ind Loudon, trains stop only on signal. S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. SAM'L HUNT, General Manager. HORSES AM) MULES FOR SALE. SIX HORSES AND MULES for sale. For further information, apply to T. B. McCLAIN, Yorkville.S. C. YiiRKVIIXE FOR HERE IS THE OPPORTUNIT (IF rHlR&CTFI TO GIT IIP CLUBS POl Pleasant V and Cert IN UNUSUALLY YAI Two High Grade Buggies a Leaders and Every 1 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 YORKVILiiE ENQUIRER should also be one of the most popular. Ninety per cent, of the families In the 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 es pecially desirable for us, just at mistime, iu 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 clubinaker; 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 clubma-. ker, 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 by the respective 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 n u m ber of subscri bers?N E\V A N D OLD?will be entitled tothecholceofthe three above described premiums. The clubmaker who returns and pays lor 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 premiunjs mentioned above, we also offer various other premiums for clubs containing specified numbers of names, and propose to deliver the premiums whenever tne numbers specified ure 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, bv the iiTH DAY OF MARt H, 18Mt>, lie 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 lending 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 gite the clubmaker his choice of the following premiums, each valued nt 825: A FOUR DRAWER "ENQUIRER" SEWING MACHINE, together with all attachments; a "HOUSEKEEPER'S" SET OF KNIVES, FORKS ANI) SPOONS, made by Rogers; a "WALTHAM" WATCH in coin silver, dustproof case; a NO.# AUTOHARP.a BANJO, GUITAR, MANDOLIN, or VIOLIN. For 40 and Less Than 60 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give the clubmaker his choice of the following, each valued at 815 : WALTHAM WATCH, in open face silver case; 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. 810: NEW YORK STANDARD 7-JEWELED WATCH in dust-proof case; UK 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 me. I have been in the "picture taking" business for a great many years, and am confident that I know my business. It lias always been my desire to please my customers. I am prepared to take Photoi - *of roounn. I1 grapns in mu inivnt silica auu nv ivwqv>< able Drices. HAVE YOU ANY Photographs that you would like to have ! enlarged ? If you have, come and :;ee me j 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. I DURING THE WINTER, You will find my Gallery warm and pleasant. Come and see me whenever you need photographs. Respectfully J.R. SCHORB. I BUY COTTON. j I BUY COTTON, and yon will please not fail to recollect it when you have 1 any to offer. If parties having lots of i from 25 to 500 bales, who live out of town, will notify me when they get re?"/ to sell, I will go and bid on it. I c> be found at Grist Cousins' store. * D. W. HICKS. December 25 103 stf ENQUIRER 1898. Y FOR PEOPLE R, ENERGY AND CAPACITY I A POPULAR PAPER. /ork, Good ;ain Pay iUABLE PREMIUMS. nd a Monarch Bicycle the SVorker a Winner. AND KEEP AT IT. For 30 and Less Than 30 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give a NO. 2% AUTOHARP, valued at 87.50; 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 81.50. For 4 and Less Than 6 SUBSCRIBERS, a "YANKEE" WATCH, warranted for one year; "Siren" pattern BUTTER KNIFE, or TWO-BLADED POCKET KNIFE, with name and address on handle. And t,o Each Old Subscriber. The Yokkvxi.ee Enquirer?TWICE-Ar WEEK?Illled 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 high standard, and will continue prompt, explicit, reliable, and, in short, 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, 18M), without any charge for that portion of the time between now and January 1, 1KS17. It is understood, however, that if the subscriber fails to pay the clubmaker the subscription price, he will be due hint 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. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubmaker has returned and 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 time 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 cliibmaker's list after the names have been entered on our hooks. 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 rertuested to send in names as rapidly as they secure them after October 21, JM17. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. 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 of the time paid tor. A separate list will be kentr 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, 1807, and expire at 4 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 9th day of March, 1898. & SONS, Yorkville, S. C. Protect Your Homes! IN the three words above is, I think, really an unnecessary command, for by the "very nature of things, it is the innate purpose of every living creature, even unto the fowls of the air, to protect their homes from all kinds of trespassers and destroying elements. Through a thoughtless notion of economy though, there jire many men of today who are allowing their otherwise fine and handsome homes to go to ruin for the lack of a coat or two of paint, when by its application the house will be beautified and its exterior protected from the never relenting destroying atmospheric elements. Paint is cheaper than weatherboarding and yet by applying the paint you increase the life of the weatherboarding almost indefinitely. MASURY'S RAILROAD PAINT IS THE BEST. IT WON'T SCALE. IT WON'T CRACK! IT WON'T PEEL OFF. There are thousands of paints that are inferior to MASURY'S; but not one superior. When you paint your buildings, use the best. I have had years of experience and it teaches me that MASURY'S is my mascot. Sold at $1.25 a gallon ; the best oil at 45 cents. See my color card and let me give you any other information desired. T. B. McCLAIN, Yorkville, S. C. Raw or Boiled Linseed Oil only 45 eta.