tumorous Jlepartmeut.
THE WRONG TEXT.
"Very few good speeches are really
impromptu," said a New Orleans lawyer,
who had a reputation as a clever
offhand speaker, "but it is generally
easy to produce that effect by simply
leading off with some strictly local allusion.
Of course that's a trick, but it's
a trick employed by a good many orators.
I was broken of it myself by
rather a peculiar incident.
"One day, some years ago, I happened
to be in a town where a large commercial
college is located and was invited
by the president to make a few
remarks to the boys during the noon
recess. I mentally framed a little talk
on the subject of energy, and as I was 1
going into the main hall I chanced to 1
notice the word 'Push' in big letters on
the outside of the door. 'By jove,' I ]
said to myself, 'that is the very thing I <
need for localizing my opening sentence!'
So when I reached the platform <
I launched out something nice tms:
" 'My young friends, as I approached
the entrance to this room a moment 1
ago I observed a word on the panel of 1
the door that impressed me as being an i
appropriate emblem for an institution ]
of this eminently practical character.
It expressed the one thing most useful !
to the average man when he steps into ]
the arena of everyday life. It was?' 1
" 'Pull!' yelled a dozen of the boys on i
the back seats. There was a roar of
laughter, and I was so horribly discon- 1
certed that I was unable to take up the 1
thread of my remarks. The confound- i
ed door had 'Push' on one side and 1
'Pull' on the other. I had taken my i
text from the wrong side."?New Orleans
Times-Democrat. 1
THE IRISHMAN'S BLUFF. ?
One day a gentleman not connected <
with the army, was riding to overtake *
.Lewis' Kentucky brigade, then serving
as mounted infantry, and operating be- ?
tween Augusta and Savannah, Ga., af- 1
ter Sherman had reached the latter 1
city. The brigade, reduced to a few *
hundred by four years' active service ?
in the field, had just marched through
a little village, where the gentleman 1
soon after arrived. He rode up to the c
door of a cottage, in which dwelt an 1
old Irishman and his spouse, and tip- a
ping his hat, a la soldier, inquired if *
there had been any rebels passing. The
old lady, seeing that the interrogator c
had on a blue army overcoat, natural- t
jy concluded that he was the advance *
of a Federal column in pursuit, and be- 1
ing a true Southerner, she sought to *
do the cause a service by at once striking
terror into the enemy's ranks. She 8
therefore answered: e
"l'is, sir, they have jist been afther 8
marchin' through, and there were twin- 8
ty thousand o* them if there was a sin- ^
gle mon!" *
The gentleman thanked her for the
information, and again tipping his hat 8
a la soldier, turned his horse s head in ^
the direction the "twinty thousand" ^
had gone. The old man, then thinking *
that the exaggeration had not been 1
sufficiently complete, ceased the vigor- *
ous whiffing of his pipe long enough to
call after the supposed Federal: "Yis, k
sir; that's ivery word the truth, it is. *
And they were dommed big min at *
thot!" e
Kept the Bonnet Company.?The e
story of an elderly couple who lived in
a Massachusetts town nearly 50 years d
ago, is told by some of the oldest in- e
habitants with much unction.
The lady had been bereft of one help- *
meet, and her second husband had 1
twice been left a widower before the r
pair were united in the bonds of matrimony.
They were both of that temper- *
anient which causes its possessor to be 1
characterized as "set." 1
On the wedding day the bride found s
in the back pantry, on a conspicuous r
nail, a sunbonnet, which had belonged ?
to her immediate predecessor. She removed
it to oblivion in a closet.
Her newly wedded husband made no
comment, but replaced the sunbonnet
on its accustomed nail.
During the next few days the calico
headgear vibrated between the closet
and the nail. Then there came a day
when the bride approached her husband
with a man's hat in her hand as c
he was in the act of re-instating the ?
sunbonnet.
"If you have that sunbonnet there," j
she said firmly, "I shall hang my first
husband's hat on the next nail."
She looked at the bridegroom and met
the counterpart of her own expression.
She hung the hat on the designated
nail, and although the two people lived ^
to be very old, neither the hat nor the
sunbonnet ever moved again till the [
house came into the hands of a new ^
owner.?Youth's Companion.
Sure Enough Tale.?In one of the 1
private schools here in-town there is a
small boy who is always cheerfully :
miles behind everybody else. He is not 1
a dull boy, but learning does not appeal !
to him as being a thing especially to 1
be desired. Recently the teacher told '
the class in composition that on the i
next day she would expect each of
them to be able to write a short anec- '
dote. She explained with great care the
meaning of the word anecdote, and 1
next day when she called the class up 1
to write, all but the laggard went at
once to work. 1
"Why don't you write an anecdote, 1
Rob?" asked the teacher.
"I forget what an anecdote is," said 1
Rob, undisturbed. J
"I explained to you yesterday, Rob, 1
and you ought to remember." said the
teacher, a bit out of patience. "An <
anecdote is a tale. Now write." <
Rob bent over his slate and. with \
much twisting of brow and writhing of .
lip ground out his task. When the
slates were collected, his was at the
very top of the heap. The teacher
picked it up, and this is what she
read:
"Yesterday we had soup made from
the anecdote of an ox."?Youth's Companion.
Xi'r Here's a remarkable case. The
other day a wagonmaker who had been
dumb for years picked up a hub and
spoke.
x-r She?I'll never marry a man whose
fortune hasn't at least five ciphers in
it. He (exultingly)?Oh, darling, mine's
all ciphers.
Wajjsidf
tS" Health authorities estimate that 10
per cent, of the men who go to Cape
Nome never come back alive.
tdT A won: an in Illinois recently sued
her husband because he took away her
false teeth when she tried to bite him.
SST Fish frozen alive have remarkable
vitality. Carps frozen 36 hours have
been known to hop about lively when
thawed out.
A woman is keeping in a book a
list of things she ought to purchase, but
cannot afford to wear. She calls the
book her ought-to-buy-ography.
t<j" The catacombs of Rome contain
the remains of about 6,000,000 human
beings, and those of Paris about 3,000,D00.
The latter were formerly stone
nuarries.
33T Des Moines has more horses in
proportion to her population than any
Dther city or town in the United States,
the census showing a total of 6,031, or
ane horse for every ten of the population.
tS' The Kaffirs of South Africa have
very queer names. Some are as follows:
Sixpence. Shilling, January, Feb
ruary, Hell and Blazes, xwo.ior sixpence,
etc.
M" During the year 1899 no less than
1,607 vessels, with 221,000 passengers,
passed through the Suez canal. Of
ihese 2,736 were merchant ships, 736
nail steamers and 145 war ships.
Ld" Five thousand honey bees, as they
eave the hive, weigh about 1 pound,
put when the insects return from their
/isits to the flowers, freighted with
loney, they weigh nearly twice as
nuch.
&}' Paris requires every vehicle that
traverses its streets at night, if only a
vheelbarrow, to carry a lighted lamp.
Safety is secured, and the avenues glit:er
as if swarming with giant firelies.
i3T Horseshoes weighing an ounce
iach and just a trifle larger than a silver
dollar, were turned out in a Call
'ornia shop recently, xney were maae
'or a Shetland pony 6 months old, and
tmall for its age.
iar It Is known that wasp nests often
;ake fire, supposed to be caused by the
:hemical action of the wax upon the
naterial of the nest itself. This may
iccount for many mysterious fires in
>arns and outbuildings.
In a recent lecture a scientist
claimed that the age of fishes can be
old by the scales. These show under
he microscope stripes similar to the
>ands in the crosscut of a tree, which
ndicate the age of the fish.
t2T Iowa almost from the date of its
idmission, has been called the "Hawktye
State." Hawkeye was the name of
l noted Indian chief, who in the early
Tays caused no little trouble along the
vestern border of American civilizaion.
&r The costliest dresses in the world
ire worn by the women of Sumatra.
Cney are made of pure gold and silver,
^.fter the metal is minejl and smelted,
t is formed into fine wire, which is
voven into cloth and afterward made
nto dresses.
tta' A suit for $50 damages, which had
>een in court at Portage, Wis., for more
han two years, and the costs for which
-J i_4._ iU. ...OO
IcLU ruil 1I1LU LI1C LIILSUOCLUVIO, nao uvviu
d the other day by the award of $20.
Che participants nad nearly bankruptid
themselves.
The editor of a contemporary who
loes not wish to be mistaken for anothr
man, says: "We are not the H. D.
5mith that is in jail in Macon for coinng
money, or the one in New York
naking chewing gum. No! we are not
naking money or chewing gum.
In the year 1800 the territory of the
Jnited States was 815,244 square miles;
n 1900 it is 3,768,521 square miles. This
s an expansion of nearly 3,000,000
iquare miles in 100 years. It is the
nost amazing record of territorial
rrowth ever made by a nation.
t?T Cripple Cre; k is the greatest gold
amp in this country, and its producion
is very great. The core of the gold
:ountry there is a strip of ground six
niles long by three miles broad. Out
if this comparatively small area of
ground $20,000,000 in gold will be taken
his year.
Z3j Young men in Mexico when paying
ittention to the young ladies can do
jo at very little expense. They are eajer
to invite them to theatres, parties,
itc. And no wonder, for it is the cusom
in that country for the lady's fathsr
to pay for the tickets and furnish
:he carriage, etc.
A Cape Times correspondent has
nterviewed Mrs. DeWet, wife of the
Boer general. She said: "You Englishnen
will never catch my husband. He is
?oing to win back for the Free Staters
ind Transvaalers what they have lost.
He has enough food and ammunition
lo last for three years, and that is just
how long the war is going to last."
?&" When a man thinks nobody cares
for him, and he is alone in a cold, selfish
world, he would do well to ask himself
the question: "What have I done
to make anybody care for and love me,
and to warm the world with faith and
generosity?" It is generally the case
that those who complain the most have
done the leest.
t4T In ordinary apple years the waste
ot skin and cores amounts to 500 to 600
carloads, and during years of abundant
yield it runs as high as 1,200 to 1,500
carloads. All this waste now goes to
the factories which make cheap jellies.
There are upward of 140 of these factories
in this country now, and they have
an annual capacity of some 200,000,000
pounds.
tS]' It is believed by many that the dry
climate of Southern Oklahoma and the
southern district of Indian Territory is
?oing to make all that section the home
y.r ^2 s\-f nattnn till vi n c
Lilt; 1IUCSI 6iauco V1 wwvvi*. '"O
the season it has developed that the
cotton grown in the Choctaw Nation
was of an extra good fiber, grading
above the average and in great demand
for export.
Z'T An authority on bacteriology says
that many diseases may be traced to
the eating of unwashed fruit, and particularly
of unwashed grapes. After
washing some grapes which had stood
for a long time in a basket on a fruit
stand, the man of science found that
the water contained tubercle bacili in
sufficient quantities to kill a guinea pig
in two days. Two other guinea pigs
which were inoculated with the germ
infected water died within six weeks.
pisrcltanrous $radin<),
FROM NEIGHBORING CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More or Less
Local Interest.
YORK?Rock Hill Herald, January
12: Mr. W. S. Creighton, assistant paymaster
on the U. S. Steamer Essex, is
in the city Randolph, the infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barron, was
very sick Thursday night, but was better
yesterday morning Dr. TV. D.
K. Wylie and wife, of Richburg, are visiting
Dr. Wylie's mother, Mrs. W. S.
Brown, on Elm avenue Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Barron entertained a number
of young people Wednesday night
at their home on Oakland avenue
The National Union bank will be closed
on the 19th on account of the fact that
it is the anniversary of the birthday of
the South's great chieftain, the immortal
Robert E. Lee Miss Agnes Shurley,
who has been spending sometime
with her parents in Ebenezer, returned
to Clemson College this morning, to resume
her duties as stenographer in that
institution Mr. W. J. Miller has a
number of pension blanks at his home
near Nowrirvrt nnrl vpfprnns flTirl wldnws
of veterans entitled to pensions are requested
to call at his home at once that
he may fill out the applications for
them Mr. A. G. Stultz, of Garland,
Texas, has been in this vicinity for a
week or more. He will return to his
home next week. He is well pleased
with Texas, but says he sees great improvement
in this county since he left.
We expect to welcome them back to his
old home ere many years roll by
On Thursday last, Pride, the 16months-old
son of Dr. and Mrs. W. R.
Simpson, while playing with a buttonhook,
put it in his mouth, and was in
the act of swallowing it, having thrust
it into his throat, when he pulled it
back, and in doing so lacerated the tonsils,
giving much pain, but not injuring
him seriously. He was better yesterday.
YORK?Hickory Grove Sun, January
12: The general assembly of South Carolina
convened in the state house at
Columbia, last Tuesday, the 8th inst.
What will they do at this session of the
legislature ? A rew weeKS wui snow up
their doings. The show will cost the
state a considerable sum of money,
whether the show is any value to the
state or not. Watch, wait and see resuits
Gaffney is to have another
bank known as the Merchants' and
Planter^.' Bank,?with a capital stock of
ao,000. That is their third bank. The
business men of Hickory Grove do a
considerable amount of banking business
in the run of a year. Why not put
your heads together and have a bank
in Hickory Grove? You can have the
bank; then why not? J. J. Robinson
and Jas. Howe have completed the
work of celling the Presbyterian
church. The church is supplied with
heaters and comfortable seats. It is
beautifully located on Peachtree street
in the southern part of town. The
small number of Presbyterians here deserve
much credit for erecting as nice
a house of worship as they now have
and were fortunate in securing the services
of Rev. J. P. Marion as pastor
E. F. Bell, Jr., of the pharmacy,
went to Spartanburg Wednesday on
a business trip Miss Nellie Mitchell,
of King's Creek, returned home Wednesday,
after visiting among relatives
near Hickory. Her cousin, Miss Ella
Mitchell, went home with her for a few
days Rev. J. L. Oates made a business
trip to Lancaster on last Wednesday
Boyd Orr, of Gowdesville,
Cherokee county, visited his brothers,
W. J. and C. S. Moorehead, this week.
S. W. Mitchell, proprietor of the
Mitchell house, went to Yorkville Tuesday
on business Rev. Leon T. Pressley,
of Edgmoor, S. C., spent last Tuesday
night in Hickory Grove. He was
the guest of Rev. J. L. Oates Mrs.
Barnwell Allison and two children, arrived
In Hickory Grove Tuesday, on a
visit to her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J.
L. Marion J. C. Wilburn, a prominent
merchant, of King's Creek, was
here Tuesday on business A party
of the young people assembled at the
home of Mrs. J. Buice, last Tuesday
evening, and had a pleasant time
There was a small tete-a-tete party in
the parlor of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. McDill
last Tuesday evening from 7 to 11
o'clock. It was a happy occasion and
will long be remembered by the participants
Work has been resumed at
the Brown mine, three miles southwest
of Hiekorv Grove, and the teams are
now hauling ore to Hickory Grove for
shipment to Atlanta, Ga., as usual
R. S. Kirksis began work on the Dr. R.
R. Darwin lands adjoining the Darwin
gold mine tract last Tuesday. The
faith in the gold interest of western
York seems to be unabated. There is
an abundance of gold ore in this section
and it is reported to be very rich
W. W. Boyce, county auditor, was in
Hickory Grove, Wednesday, on his
round of taking tax returns of real and
personal property. He was kept quite
busy. W. J. Moorehead continued the
work on Thursday.
CHESTER?Lantern, January 11:
Mr. J. E. Norment, of The News and
Courier, was in town yesterday. We
are always glad to see him. His visits
always inspire cheerfulness and energy.
Miss Annie Belle Darby, of Lowrysville,
S. C., is visiting Mrs. A. M.
Hardee During the year 1900 the
city of Chester collected in fines $2,077.42.
The mayor heard 412 cases. The
majority of them were for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct The
Kingstree dispenser has been arrested
on charges connected with the recent
alleged robbery. It will be interesting
to watch this case. There seems to be
a kind of tacit understanding that the
agents of the state in this branch of
the service are immune, but this case is
somewhat peculiar. The town and
county both nave lost money and they
Vjot-A tVtoIr nr? Thpr^ nrp pvpn
now mutterings about the people in
their indignation demanding that the
thing be abolished unless it is run to
better advantage. It is money that
gives it its moral character, and when
it does not grind out money the people
lose respect for it. The chances are,
however, that Mr. Player will play out
without much trouble. Very likely he
will arrange to replace the money, or a
part of it, and that will end the matter.
An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. White, aged about 8 months, died
last Sabbath morning, and the remains
were buried In Evergreen cemetery on
Monday. Mrs. White was a daughter
of the late R. T. Riggins, of Blairsville,
York county In our last issue we
1 stated that the body of the man that
was killed by falling from the stand'
pipe had been exhumed for more perfect
identification. His mother telegraphed
that she would start from St.
Louis for Chester Tuesday night. It
was so arranged, however, that his
brother came instead of his mother.
He was delayed a whole day by the
railroads sending him a round-aboutway,
so that he did not arrive until
last night. It was considered best to
bury the body here, which was done at
10 o'clock this morning. The man's
name was Robert Rothe, but he had assumed
the name of his step-father,
Bridges. Mr. Fred Rothe, his brother,
says he had had a number of dangerous
falls before. Not long ago he fell from
a smokestack in Ohio, some 75 feet, going
entirely through a roof and landing
on a boiler. He had an arm broken at
that time.
LANCASTER?Review, January 12:
I Mrs Cnthprine Neal. wif#? nf Mr. TTriall
Neal, of Flat Creek township, was taken
to Columbia Thursday for treatment
at the State nospital On Monday
afternoon, Mr. Barney Lucas, of the
Taxahaw section, was kicked in the
stomach by a mule at Crawford & Elliott's
stables, which he slapped on the
hip with his hand in passing it. He
was taken in the office at the stables,
and a physician summoned. Later, hi
was removed to his uncle's home near
the cotton mill, where he died the following
evening. He was a son of Mr
Thomas Lucas, and was about 23 years
of age The dispenser at this place
has turned over to the county treasurer
$956.71?the town and county's share of
the profits for the month of December.
The Kershaw dispenser turned over at
the same time $789.45?town and county's
share of the profits of the dispensary
at that place Mr. John A.
Stowman, fireman on the L. & C. railroad,
met with a painful accident at
Chester Wednesday night. He was
standing on one track watching a train
coming in on another when a car backed
down against him. He endeavored
to jump from the track, but fell or was
knocked down, the wheel of the car
passing over his foot, mashing off seve
rai 01 nis toes. ?.e was Drougm nume
Thursday and is doing very well.
I
UNION?Times, January 11: We wonder
why it is that some of our country (
friends will buy steel ranges from
country peddlers and pay them $60 to
$70, when they can buy as many as
they want in Union for half that price.
....Our citizens who were compelled to
go home after dark this week were in a '
bad row of stumps if they had not supplied
themselves with a torch or lantern.
It was the dark of the moon as it
happened. Of course the stars shone
bright; but are too far away to furnish
but they are too far away to furnish '
much light, and it was a dark road to
travel verily. This state of affairs was
brought about by an unfortunate
break-down of the arc light machine,
and the streets were in darkness until
the machinery could be repaired. Like
all other good things we did not know
how to appreciate the lights until deprived
of them. The electric lights are
a great thing for the town Some
seven months ago Mr. M. W. Bobo, of
Sedalia, moved to Union and opened up
a general mercantile business in the J
two store rooms formerly occupied by
J. Q. Wray and Murphy & Wallace.
These storerooms were not considered i
especially desirable business stands, but
Mr. Bobo is a business man and he
began in a business-like manner. One
of the first things he did was to contract
for a good, healthy advertising
space in the newspapers. In this space
he announced that he had come here
to do business, and that he proposed to 1
show the readers that he feared no
competition. There was no stinginess <
displayed by Mr. Bobo in a desire to
secure a measly little condensed space, 1
because it could be gotten for a few
dollars less. He had decided to advertise
his business for the purpose of '
drawing trade to his place, and he recognized
the Important fact that to do
this successfully he must recognize the
advertisement of his business as one of .
the departments of the business, and 1
as he did not intend to do a one-horse
business, he did not propose to do onehorse
advertising. It was strictly a d
moftor nf hiiclriDQO tiM+V? Mm TTa q
vertised for the good he could get out
of the business, and his phenomenal
success shows that he was level headed.
Now as to the result: He opened 4
up with two clerks. The advertisement
began to talk to the people, the people
began to go and investigate. They
met with courteous treatment and ,
found things as represented, they came
back, they told their friends, and soon
another clerk had to be added to the (
force to wait upon the increasing list '
of customers: then another clerk, and
another and still another, until now it
requires the employment of 11 clerks to
attend to the trade, and goods are arriving
by the carload. The latest arriv- ]
al is four carloads of flour, two carloads
of molasses, one car of corn and other
things in proportion.
GASTON?Gastonia Gazette, January
10: Messrs. Frost Torrence, Henderson
Long, and a party of New York
friends, leave this morning for a week
of sport near Sharon, S. C. With game
plentiful they may remain out ten days
. or more The new 90-foot bridge
over Catawba creek, at Gullick's mill,
, has been completed. The contractor 1
was Mr. J. A. Gulliek, who was in Dallas
Monday to turn the job over to the
county. He has built a good wooden
. bridge and covered it, so that it ought
, vo stand for many years. It is a wood
en trestle, there being no rock nearer 1
i than four miles: but it is well above i
high water The entire plant of Morrow's
roller mill and the ginning sys
tem has been leased for two years to
Mr. S. E. Mauney, of Lincolnton. The
. lease went into effect yesterday
, A telegram reached Rev. McG. Shields
Sunday morning, just after service, an
nouncing the death of an older sister,
Mrs. J. Li. Wicker, at his mother's home
near Carthage. He left on the evening
train for his old home. Deceased was
the widow of Rev. J. L. Wicker, who
. died a few months ago just as he was
entering his pastoral work at Durham.
The cause of Mrs. Wicker's death was 1
erysipelas. Four children, from 3 to 14
years of age are left orphans In
Bessemer City, Saturday afternoon,
Mr. Love Davis's wagon team, returning
from King's Mountain, ran away
with results more or less serious. The
Negro driver, we learn, held to the
mules until there was a smash-up in
which he got a leg broken. Mr. Bob
Wright fell off the wagon, knocking
him breathless, and was sent home on
a freight train. One of the mules received
a severe six-inch stab In the
breast from the broken end of the wagon
tongue.
CLEVELAND ? King's Mountain
Democrat, January 10: Mrs. Wilson, of
Hickory Grove, S. C., is spending some
days with her daughter, Mrs. Dovie
Weir, at this place Messrs. Oscar
Allison and John Youngblood, of Tirzah,
S. C., were in the city on Monday
night on business Messrs. C. J. and
Henry Peterson and J. F. Allison, of
Tirzah, S. C., have arrived with their
families and are identified with us as
citizens There is now a movement
on foot to build a parsonage for the
Presbyterian pastor here; and we feel
sure it should and will succeed
To sell $250 worth of milk and butter
from one cow in iwo years ana nine
months is good; and this is just what
Mrs. Lewis Neal has done Some
thief broke into the smokehouse of Wm.
R. Lowry recently and stole a whole
hog from him, excepting the head and
feet.
No Change?In a Sheffield workshop,
when the men absented themselves,
they were expected to produce a doctor's
certificate.
An Irishman, however, absent on a
second occasion, and told to bring his
certificate, gave in tne one used before.
The manager, looking at it said:
"Why, Maguire, this is an old certificate!"
"Sure, I know that, your honor," said
Maguire calmly. "And Isn't it the same
ould complaint?"
The coffee-growing industry in
tropical Africa is developing tremendously.
The seed was introduced in the
country about five years ago by some
English missionaries, with the object of
ascertaining whether the resources of
the country were favorable to the culture
of the article. The ground appears
peculiarly adapted to the industry,
since last year 100 tons of coffee were
exported from Uganda alone, and the
result of this year's production will be
even greater.
X3T In 1890 the mineral production of
the United States amounted to $619,000,000,
and in 1899 to $976,000,000.
Professional fljards.
JAMES F. HART,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
umce in rne mcv^iain nuiiaing, over
H. C. Strauss's Store.
Telephone No. 69. wtf.
J. H. WITHERSPOON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 6 Law Range,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
9Sr~ Prompt attention to all business.
Jan. 9 w 3m
PHONE?Office 116 Residence 60.
THOS. F. McDOW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 4 Law Range,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Negotiates Loans on Approved Security.
January 1 w ly
GEO. W. S. HART,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Dffice No. 2, LAW RANGE. 'Phone 58.
Mo. Si Law Range. 'Phone 67.
W. W. LEWIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Prompt attention given to all Business.
Loans Negotiated on Improved
Real Estate.
W. Bratton de Loach. Frank P. McCain.
de LOACH & McCAIN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Office over H. C. Strauss's Store.
FINLEY & BRICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Office in the Building at the Rear of
H. C. Strauss's Store.
All business entrusted to us promptly
attended to.
A. Y. CARTWRIGHT,
SURGEON DENTIST,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
OFFICE HOURS:
Trr g a. m. to i p. m.; a p. m. to 5 p. m.
Office In upstairs rooms of Cartwright Building,
opposite Telegraph and Express Offices.
S. M. McN'EEL, O.H.O'LEAKY, W. P. HARRISON,
President. Yice President. Casbier.
sEoan anil j&mngsi JSanlt,
Yorltvllle, 8. C.
E-ORGANIZED WITH AMPLE
CAPITAL for the protection and accommodation
of customers.
ACCOUNTS of Individuals and Corporations
solicited.
It elves us Dleasure to extend everv
courtesy and accommodation that is
consistent with SOUND BANKING.
S. M. McNEEL, President.
W. P. HARRISON, Cashier.
Banking Hours : 9 a. m. to3 p. in.
STOVES FOR SALE.
A LARGE size coal HEATING
STOVE, and a large size heating
KEROSENE STOVE. Apply to
L. M. GRIST.
3ST All of the January Magazines and
Journals at the YORK DRUG STORE.
'The prince will be in Brussels. You are
to come in his stead."
Arms and
the Woman
By Harold Mac Grath
The above is the title of a most fascinating
story of love and intrigue, the
serial rights of which we have purchased.
It will be published in inst ??
ments in these columns, beginning
soon.
None of our readers
should miss it
The story is full of action and the
interest is sustained from the start to
the finish.
HERE IS GOOD
FOR LIGHT
Get Up a Club f
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JCjiiqiurer
104 ISSUES
Biggest Pay For the
Every Worker Fu
For All Tim<
Expe
cinnnm nhininimrrc
lTOIHJ IIWLIMMVIS
The yorkville enquirer win
it has been in the past, and it will 1
support of York and surrounding coun
will permit. As heretofore it will contlr
tional, religious, agricultural and indust
and the general welfare of all its friem
entertain, instruct and benefit, conferiii
ing as little harm as possible. On th
solicit the continued support of its i
hope for the co-operation of all the pi
along the same lines. The publishers <
such a paper as is demanded by the inl
be made at great expense. They realiz
co-operate on an equitable basis, and t
are soliciting subscriptions for the yeai
As has been the custom of the publi
to call upon those friends and well-wish
geniality in the work of re-collecting the
subscribers and adding to the mailing ]
subscribers as it may be practicable to
publishers expect to pay as liberally a
club system will be followed as hereto:
pays for the largest club will be awarde
that can be made by the Yorkville Bugg
who returns and pays for the second
OPEN BUGGY made by the same comj
be paid with premiums apportioned to
specific offers in detail:
FOR 60 SUBSCRIBERS.
We will give the club-maker the choice
of the following articles?good values
at $25.00: A High Arm Four Drawer
Sewing Machine, latest improvements
and full set of attachments, etc; a Damascus
Steel Double Barrel BreechLoading
Gun; a handsome Waltham
Watch; or $25.00 worth of Furniture
from W. B. Moore & Co.'s.
FOR 60 AND LESS THAX 60
Subscribers, we will give the choice of
the following articles: A T. Baker
Double Barrel Gun; a Winchester or
Colt Repeating Rifle; an Elgin Watch;
or a Cooking Stove.
FOR 40 AND LESS THAN GO
Subscribers, either of the following: A
W. Richards' Double Barrel Gun; an
open face watch; a fine Mandolin or
Guitar; a Low Arm Singer Machine;
or an Oil Stove.
FOR 30 AND LESS THAN 40
Either of the following: Single Barrel
Hamerless Gun; a fine 4x4 Kodak; a
fine Toilet or Wash Stand China Set;
or a Hopkins & Allen, Jr., Rifle.
FOR SO AND LESS THAS 30
Subscribers, we will give THE ENQUIRER
and any Weekly Paper or
Monthly Magazine published in the
United States; or a No. 1 Ejector Single
Barrel Gun; a Pocket Kodak; or
any three popular Cloth Bound Books
that may be selected by the clubmaker;
or a "Crack Shot" 22-callbre Rifle.
FOR IO AND LESS THAN 20
THE ENQUIRER for one year; a fine
Warranted Razor; or Pocket Knife.
FOR 0 AND LESS THAN 10
A Triumph Stem Winding and Setting
Watch; a 3-Bladed Knife; a copy of
"David Harum," or any other book of
the same price, ($1.60.)
FOR 4 AND LESS THAN 0
A "Yankee" Watch; any Magazine
published in the United States for $1.
FOR 2 AND LESS THAN 4.
A Stylographic Fountain Pen; a Single
Bladed Knife; a year's subscription to
Black Cat or the People's Home Journal.
SPECIAL PREMIUMS.
In addltioi to the above we will
make special arrangements with perL.
M. GRIST & S
CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Schedule Effective Sept. 16, 1900.
A
Northbound Passenger Mixed ?
Leave Chester .... 7.40a.m. 8.30a.m. |
Lv Yorkvllle 8.46a.m. 10.40a.m. |
Lv Clover 9.14a.m. 11.30a.m. ,
Lv Gastonla 9.48a.m. 1.15p.m.
Lv Lincolnton ....10.45a.m. 2.45p.m.
Lv Newton 11.33a.m. 4.30p.m.
Lv Hickory 12.15a.m. 5.50p.m.
Arrive Lenoir .... 1.16p.m. 7.50p.m.
Southbound Mixed Passenger
Leave Lenoir 6.30a.m. 2.00p.m.
Lv Hickory 8.50a.m. 3.02p.m.
Lv Newton 9.20a.m. 3.02p.m. (
Lv Lincolnton ..11.10a.m. 4.20p.m. 1
Lv Gastonia 1.12p.m. 5.30p.m.
Lv Clover 2.11p.m. 6.07p.m.
Lv Yorkville 3.20p.m. 6.40p.m.
Ar Chester 5.15p.m. 7.60p.m.
CONNECTIONS. ,
Chester?Southern Ry., S. A. L., and
L. & C.
Yorkvllle?S. C. & G. Extension.
Gastonla?Southern Ry.
Lincolnton?b. A. L.
Newton & Hickory?Southern Ry.
Lenoir?Blowing Rock Stage Line and .
C. & N. u
E. F. REID, G. P. Agent.
Chester, South Carolina.
OUR personal attention, with long experience,
given at all times. All
pra<les and Driced Goods in COFFINS
and CASKETS. Latest equipment in
trappings, etc. Robes, Gloves, Slippers
ancl Stockings carried in stock. Fine
Hearse for town and country use.
W. B. MOORE & CO.
PAY I
, EASY WORK.
or The Yorkville
for 1901. I
a
i FOR $1.75.
_? i
Best Workers; But
illy Compensated
e and Effort
nded.
TO IW SUBSCRIBERS.
continue, during the year 1901, all that
se made as much better as the growing
ties and the abilities of the publishers
tue to devote itself to the social, educarial
upbuilding of the Piedmont section, ,
ds and supporters. It will endeavor to
ng all the good in its power and causis
platform its publishers respectfully
iresent friends and well-wishers, and
eople of this section who are working
or TilHi jursyiuny realize inai
telllgent public of this section can only
e also the willingness of this public to
his then, Is the basis upon which they
r 1901.
shers In the past, they again beg leave
ers who may find opportunity and con;
names and subscriptions of all present
list of THE ENQUIRER as many new
gather. For this work, or course, the
ls they possibly can. The competitive
fore. The clubmaker who returns and
;d A FINE TOP BUGGY, the very best
;y Company for $60; and the clubmaker
largest club, will receive THE BEST j
>any and worth $50. Smaller clubs will
their number and value. Here are the
sons who desire to make up a club for
some special article not mentioned in
the above list?fixing a specified number
of names for the premium desired.
Any article mentioned in previous
nrominm H at a xxHIl ha cr\ van nr.on tha
VWilWItl WfcJVfcJ ***** W ^ Q* T U*? U |.V?* kliU
same terms.
TEll MS AND CONDITIONS. ^
To NEW SUBSCIBERS who pay cash with
the subscription, will be given THE ENQUIRER
FREE from the time the subscription
price Is received until January 1, 1901, and a
full year from that date for $1.75.
By new subscribers, we mean those whose
names were not on OUR BOOKS ON SEPTEMBER
15, 1900. 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 addition's
to our subscription list.
TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at SI
each, will be.considered the equivalent of one
yearly subscriber at $1.75 and so counted. A
subscription paid for two or more years In advance
at $1.75, will be counted as one name Cor
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 an- *
other clubmaker's list after the names have
been entered on our dooks.
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.
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 droit, 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 lor.
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 commeuce NOW,
and expires at 4 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday,
the Oth day of March, 1001.
>ONS, Yorkville, S. C.
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