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tumorous ^Department. Trick* In All Trade*. A small, active and enterprising vendor of the itinerant variety was standing near the corner of School and Washington streets the other evening, loudly expatiating on the contents of a sealed envelope which he held in one hand, while with the other he shook a small, gaudy covered pamphlet in the faces of the "rubbering-' crowd. "Get together, gentlemen, get together," he exclaimed with a Chelsean dialect, and an expressive sweep of the pamphlet to the goodly crowd that hovered near. "Is that all we get?" inquired a tall, lanky chap, with a sleepy face and a moist mustache. The vendor pretended unconsciousness and the crowd snickered. The street merchant continued. ' "Now eentlemen. I'm selling you this envelope for a nickel, a half dime, 5 cents, and I'm giving you this book, at the same time. The book is advertising, but to place it in your hands I must sell you this envelope." "What's the matter with selling the book and giving the envelope away?" queried the lanky chap, clearing his throat noisily. The answer was a scornful glance. "What's in the envelope?" asked an interested spectator. "Ha, ha!" laughed the man of the sleepy face; and the crowd echoed him. The vendor looked fierce for a moment and then said: "For the benefit of those who have just arrived, I will open one." And he opened the ordinary manila pay envelope and took out five plain white cards. "Hold them up to the light, gentlemen, that's all. That's all." "And I guess it'll be enough," vouchsafed the lanky chap, with a queer grin. A smile ran through the crowd, while a number loudly laughed at the suppressed anger of the little man in the nlaid suit. "Gentlemen, these cards are transparencies. One Is called 'The Dancer,' another 'The Bather,' another 'Through the Keyhole,' the fourth one is 'The Vision,' and the title of the fifth one I wouldn't dare to say, but I think you will readily recognize in it the features of the smart Aleck who is trying to make a monkey of me and injure my business." And he looked hard at the tall chap. This witty drive at the talkative man pleased the crowd immensely, and they immediately sided with the vendor, who, for a few minutes had quite a brisk trade. Then the lanky chap spoke: "Cheese it, the cop!" "Gentlemen, my business is perfectly legitimate. If I wasn't here I would be managing a railroad or " "Or in jail," interrupted the tall man with a prolonged groan and a funny cackle of a laugh. The crowd, which was increasing every minute, roared with laughter, and a patrolman, who was on the outskirts, grinned and quietly disappeared up School street. "Gentlemen," piped the merchant, as he made a couple of quick sales.' "I'm sorry for this unavoidable interruption. This insulting loafer, instead of being wlfh V?Jg ctarvinir wlff> and children or trying to earn an honest dollar to keep them from the poorhouse, bums enough drinks to make him foolish, and then tempts fate by trying to take the bread and butter out of my mouth.' "Who's fate " queried the lanky chap. "I a?u," was the answer. "Thought your name was Green?" "You idiot!" said the street vendor fiercely, "do you want to fight?" "Noo: but I'll take a chew of tobaccy if you have it handy." The merchant shook his fist at him, and then turned to the laughing crowd. "As I was saying, gentlemen, the book is an advertisement, but the envelope?" "Is a fake." And when the crowcfr recovered from their fit of laughter the lanky man had disappeared in the darkness. But the crowd was a huge one by this time, and in the best of humor, and until the last envelope was disposed of the street merchant had little time to do else but sell. An hour later the writer saw the vendor and the lanky chap convivially discussing two large glasses of ambercolored fluid in a North End saloon. Verily, there are tricks in every trade. ?Boston Herald. She Didn't Worry Him.?It was a self-made millionaire and he stopped one of three ladies at an inn in the suburbs and asked her to play ping-pong, says the Washington Post. Now, he was a most objectionable person, with not even a speaking acquaintance with grammar and a huge diamond in his cravat. The lady would havs none of him. "I don't know how to play," said she, politely. He laid his hand on her arm, and her politeness gave way to wrath at the impertinence. "Aw, come on," he said, "I'll learn you in a minute." "Learn me?" said she, icily, with a biting emphasis on the "learn." "Don't you know that no man can learn a woman? My husband has been 10 years trying to learn me"?emphasis on the "learn"?"and he hasn't done it yet." But her snub was to that self-made millionaire as a pea-shooter to a rhi nocerus niue. "Well, say," said he, "if you can't learn ping-pong in ten years you must be slow. But come on and try." His Dog, Mojiuovbr.?"What's your dog's name, Uncle Lazarus?" asked the man, according to Brookliyn Life. "Boss, dat purp hez got er Bible name." "A Bible name?" "Yes, sah, Massa. He's got de same name as Laz'rus dog got. wot we read 'bout in de Bibul as lay down afore de rich man gate." "But the Bible does not give the name of any dog. It only says that they came and licked Lazarus' sores." "Boss, yer yent read uni right." "Well, what is your dog's name?" "Moreober. 1 yerry my mistiss read uni what hit says: "Moreober de dog came and licked de sores.' Yent yera see? My name Laz'rus an' my dog name Moreober. Bress de Lawd." JttisccUiinrous Reading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. \ew? and Comment That la of More * or Leaa Local Intereat. YORK. ' Rock Hill Herald, November 5: In Columbia, Friday, the election of officers of the State Agricultural and Mechanical society was disposed of. Ma^or A. H. White, of Rock Hill, was re-elected president, with the following vice-presidents, all re-elected: A. T. Smythe, Charleston; R. B. Watson, Ridge Springs: T. J. Kinard, NinetySix; J. Wash Watts, Mountville; J. W. Dunnovant, Chester; B. F. Williamson, Darlington; G. A. Guignard, Colri/vl 'HKao TXT Unllnnro tr f\P UIUUICI. V>WI. 1 11VO. ff lAvavnuj , Pomaria, was re-elected secretary, and Mr. A. G. LaMotte, treasurer Mrs. J. B. Campbell is critically ill at her home in Winnsboro. Summoned by telegram, her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Reid went to her bedside Monday morning, accompanied by Mr. Reid and Mrs. J. B. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson returned yesterday morning and stated that the physicians thought Mrs. Campbell hopelessly ill. She received a telegram, however, after her return, stating that there was some improvement Mrs. Charley Nelson, whose serious illness was made mention of in last week's Herald, died Sunday at the home of her father, Mr. W. J. Cornwell, of Harmony. Sunday the remains were interred in the family burying ground at Harmony church. She was about 23 years old and leaves her husband and parents to mourn her death. On Monday an additional train to run between Chester and Charlotte was put on the Southern. It is a mixed train, carrying two passenger coaches and only solid cars of freight. The southbound train will be known as No. 25, and the northbound as No. 26. No. 25 will leave Charlotte at 6.36 p. m.; Pineville at 6.56 p. m.; Fort Mill at 7.16 p. m.; Rock Hill at 7.48 p. m., arriving at Chester at 9 p. m. No. 26 will leave Chester at 1 p. m.; Rock Hill at 2.10 p. m.; Fort Mill at 2.40 p. m.; Pineville at 3.05 p. m., arriving at Charlotte at 4 p. m. In consequence of the conveniences this train will afford, No. 29, the mail and passenger train leaving Charlotte at 10.20 p. m., will make only one stop between Charlotte and Chester and that will be at Rock Hill. South of Chester stops will be made at all other stations, as heretofore. CHESTER. | Lantern, November 4: Mr. Frank Marshall, who has been with Mr. R. A. Love for the past two years, is now employed by the Bewley Hardware Co. ....The train crew employed ir. broadening the narrow gauge has reached here. Car loads of dirt are arriving daily and it is being dumped along each side of the track Mr. J. C. Weir was called to Columbia last Sunday a week ago, by telegraph, to the bedside of his little daughter Ethel, who is confined to her bed with pneumonia. He returned Sunday night, and thinks she is some better Mrs. C. D. Nelson died Saturday evening at 8.30 at Harmony and was buried Sabbath at the family burying ground near Harmony. ViiioKo n/3 Mr P T1 Mplsnn i.Q nipht operator at the Seaboard. Mrs. Nelson had a prolonged attack of fever which developed into acute lung trouble. She was only 20 years of age and leaves no children. LANCASTER. Ledger, November 5: On the death of Clerk of the Court W. S. L. Porter, the probate judge, C. D. Jones, Esq., took charge of the office as required by law and will continue to act as clerk until the successor to the late lamented clerk has been appointed by the governor to fill the unexpired term On Saturday night last, the mills and ginnery of Mr. J. A. Bowers, in the Flint Ridge section, was totally destroyed by fire. His saw mill, grist mill and ginnery were wholly consumed entailing a loss of about $1,000. He car ried insurance of $700 on the machinery. The origin of the fire is not known. The machinery was run on Saturday, and it may be that the fire was of accidental origin Brisco Cousar, a respected old darkey of the Zion section, was found unconscious lying in the public road one day the past week, and taken to his house where he lingered until Sunday night and died, never having regained consciousness Our esteemed townsand talented young lawyer, Mr. H. Hines was quietly married at noon yesterday to one of Lancaster's most excellent young ladies, Miss Bessie Perry, daughter of the late lamented Capt. John M. Perry Mrs. Araminat Kennington, of the Flat Creek section, died last Saturday and her remains were interred at White Bluff church on Sunday. She was about 48 years of age, and leaves six children surviving her Mrs. Kitty Neal, wife of Mr. Uriah Neal, of the Flat Creek section, died at the state hospital in Columbia, where she has been under treatment, on Friday last. Her remains were brought home and interred on Sunday at Pleasant Plain church, of which she was a member. Her husband and eight children survive her Miss Ida Craig, a daughter of the late Joseph Craig, died at the home of her uncle, Mr. B. H. Craig, in the Newcut section of this county about 5 o'clock last Monday morning from the effects of carbolic acid poisoning, selfadministered. The young lady was about 22 years of age, and has lived with her uncle's family since she was left an orphan at the death of her father about 13 years ago. She was a young lady, attractive in person, fascinating in manners, of a pleasant genial disposition, loved by everyone, but especially by her devoted uncle and aunt, who cared for her as if she were their own child. Miss Craig's cause for ending her life can only be surmised as she left no writing that has been found giving any reason for her act, ana previously sne riau e.xpreaseu "<-? thought of even contemplating such a thing as self-destruction Last Sunday night. Constable Connor went over to Mr. T. Y. Williams' plantation, south of town, to arrest Wm. Alsobrooks, colored on a warrant sworn out by Alsobrooks' wife, charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill. I The Negro resisted arrest, got Mr. Connor down and was choking him when the latter shot him twice?one ball passing through the shoulder and the other through his leg. Alsobrooks, we understand, claims that the shot through his shoulder was fired by Henry Perry, colored, who pulled him off of Mr. Connor. Alsobrooks was put in a wagon, brought on to town and lodged in jail where his wounds received the attention of the county physician. The wounds are not serious.... Many expressions of sorrow will fall from the lips of citizens of Lancaster county when they read that W. S. L. Portor, our efficient and popular clerk of court, is no more. His death occurred last Sunday afternoon, and so sudden and unexpected was it that life was extinct when his children, who were in the yard, reached his bedside. He was engaged in conversation with j his wife and Mr. M. H. Johnson, who had dropped in to see him, when he started to turn on his side in the bed. They noticed one hand drop limp and both sprang to him at once. In an instant he had ceased to breathe?his good spirit had taken its flight. Thus quietly passed away one of Lancaster county's noblest men and very best of citizens. William Stephen Leander Porter was born in this county, November 13, 1860. Had he lived ten days longer, he would have celebrated his 42d birthday. He was a son of Mr. J. W. A. Porter, of the Dixie neighborhood. After attending the Pleasant Valley High school, he taught for several years the school at Pleasant Hill, until he was elected a teacher in the Lancaster graded school. In 1896, he was elected clerk of court and was reelected in 1900, filling the office efficiently and acceptably until removed by death Mr. John R. Blakeney and family left yesterday for Commerce, Texas, where they will make their home in the future. We regret to see them leave Lancaster. May they make many friends and have great success in the Lone Star State. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, November 4: At the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. J. D. Post, on West Franklin avenue at 8.30 o'clock last Wednesday night, Miss Tutie May Post was married to Mr. E. Milton Deal, of Newton. The wedding was a quiet home affair, the ceremony being performed by Dr. H. > F. Chreitzberg in the presence of only a few intimate friends of the contract- ' ing parties A large crowd gathered 1 at the passenger depot Sunday after- ' noon to see the Southern's initial fast flyer, which passed here at 5.53 o'clock. 1 Eager watchers were also scattered ' along the track from the Ozark to the '< Arlington. The train consisted of four 1 mail cars and an engine, and, of course, '< did not differ in looi.j from other trains 1 except that it was made up entirely of 1 mail cars. The fact that it was the ' first train ever run into the south for 1 the sole purpose of carrying mail and l the further fact that it runs on a very 1 fast schedule were the features that made it an object of great interest. This train, which is No. 97, is superior to all other trains. It exchanges mail 1 here, thus giving Gastonia her New York mail on the same day it leaves the metropolis. The local postoffice authorities inform us that this mail ( will probably take the place of that * formerly received from No. 35, but no 1 instructions to this effect have been * received; it is mere conjecture Mr. 1 Mac Holland returned to Yorkville last night after a visit of several days to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Holland Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Brown were called a week ago to the bedside of their son's wife near Abernethy, in Iredell county. She died Thursday, leaving four children, the youngest being only two months old Bessie Martin, the 16-year-old daughter of Mrs. Emma Martin Setlzer, died at her home in the Loray neighborhood at 2 o'clock Sunday morning of consumption. She was very delicate and had been declining in health since the beginning of last summer. ONE WOMAN'S VENTURE. How MIhm Bernlce Bartllne Mntle Money on Pecan*. Bernice Bardine, a Texas girl, who is not yet 20 years of age, has displayed business acumen of a higher order than a score of male competitors who are engaged in the same business that ' occupies her attention at the present * time. ' Last year Miss isarame ana ner brother, who is younger than herself, made a little money gathering pecans. ] Since then she has been studying the * business and laying plans for future op- * erations. During the last summer she carried on an extensive correspondence | not only with mercantile establishments 1 in various cities that handle pecans, ' but with reliable people who reside in regions where the nut grows. In this ! way she became thoroughly posted in 1 all matters pertaining to the present ' crop. 1 Feeling confident that pecans would 1 command a good price, she set to work J some weeks ago, and, aided by her brother and a few trusted assistants 1 who were sworn to secrecy, she quietly 1 leased every pecan grove of any ( value in the Colorado valley. When 1 buyers appeared in the country, start- 1 ling the ranches by offering to engage 1 pecans at 7* cents a pound, those who make a business of gathering the nuts were astonished to find that a young 1 girl had entered the field and cornered the crop so far as this particular region ; is concerned. A little investigation : showed that this energetic young woman is in a fair way to make a for- 1 tune in a few months. It is known that she got a great bargain in nearly all of her leases. As a sample of the shrewdness that she displayed, it has ' leaked out that she leased one forest for $100 in which there are several giant trees that will yield twenty bushels or 880 pounds of pecans. At a low estimate the profits accruing from this single transaction will fall little short of $5,000. When it is remembered that nothing of marked value is subject to such fluctuations of price as pecans, there is not much matter for wonderment in the fact that the people leased their forests for so little money. Only a few years ago there was an abundant crop, and yet for some unaccountable reason the nuts were allowed to rot where they fell. There were no buyers and no market. Aside from scooping the crop this courageous Texas girl has distinguished herself in other ways. A pecan crop is not easy to gather. The work is attended with great danger and many Hardships. The harvesting is generally lone by vigorous young men and ath- A :etic boys. Not many young women would exchange places with the fearess Texas girl though the profits were loubled. Those who are engaged in the tl ausiness, have to camp out In the a woods, often many miles from a ranch a ar a town. 11 After Miss Bardine became convinced a that pecans would command a fair tl price she at once set to work to discov- o ;r some method through which she ? doped to gather the crop in some way b that would be an improvement upon tne I jld plan of operations. This led her in- c to a venture that nearly cost the brave 1 girl her life. t The largest and best pecans grow up- o pn the topmost bows of the tallest trees, n pften a hundred and fifty feet from b A /Inniriry ofVlloll/H nH mhor \ LUC 5I UU11U. jrx. UUUUb kiv v**?? vx-? pf light weight gets a few bushels of b these "top gallants," as they are ealled, 0 but ordinary threshers are forced to shake their fists at them and walk o away. They often leave from '$20 to c f50 worth of pecans in the tops of the f taller trees. Few boys can be found t who dare to ascend to such dizzy v leights. 8 Miss Bardine determined to harvest 8 the crop clean. "I will have those big b pecans in the tops of those trees if I t bave to go after them in a balloon," she 8 3aid. Her assistant laughed at this Idea, but after she had tried various ways, to accomplish her purpose with- ^ put svccess, this irrepressible genius ac- a tually concluded to construct a small a balloon. Her friends looked on in ^ imazement and many of them advised r ber to abandon the dangerous project. * 'Those pecans," she said, "are worth r several thousand of dollars, and I need b them in my business." The experiment was made at Granite * Shoals on the Colorado river, where s there is a large forest of the tallest pe- c :an trees in Texas. v Miss Bardine's people had already gathered the nuts from the branches of c the giant trees as far up as the thresh- V ?rs dared to venture. They estimated ? that there were at least 500 bushels of b pecans yet remaining beyond their 11 -each. b The balloon was transported to Gran- P Ite Shoals and inflated with hot air r from a furnace constructed in the b midst of a grove of the tallest trees. 0 rhe girl, armed with a long threshing b pole, stepped into the basket, and when d per assistants, who were holding the 1 mchor-rope, announced that they were a -eady, the signal was given, and the ^ lirship rose swaying and jerking to 1 :he tops of the trees. The men who e peld the anchor-rope had taken a halflitch around a small oak, and they found that they could easily control the iscent of the balloon.?Chicago Trib- 0 ine. r t , II THI'3 NEW POSTAGE STAMPS. V it Flelntrodaction of the National Flnjr C ?Farewell to the Wmthlnxton Pro- fi file. il For the first time since 1869, the post- 8 affice department with the issuance of d :he new series of stamps now in prep- h iration, will make tlSe of the American lag in one of its designs. This will be , i part of the two-cent stamp, which, c ay the way, will bear little resemblance :o the one now in use. The portrait af Washington, which has long ap- o aeared on the popular stamp, will be h succeeded by a photograph taken from ? Gilbert Stuart's famous painting. The a familiar bust of Washington, so long ^ known to the stamp-using public, was Irawn from Houdon's profile cast. Let :he public, then, soon take Its last view a af the likeness of Washington, which is * loubtless more than any other impressed upon the popular mind. The Stuart picture at Washington J formed the basis of the ten-cent design )f 1847, when the adhesive stamp system began. The five-cent stamp then carried a picture of Franklin. The Washington stamp, with its changing lenomlnations, continued to be based jn the Stuart painting, with rare exceptions, until 1870, when a type of the Floudon cast appeared upon the threecent issue. On the new stamp the likeless of Washington will be the most mportant feature, occupying the central oval, which will be somewhat smaller than in the current design. A.bove this, in a panel, will be the ivords: "United States of America." Draped on each side, and occupying ibout two-thirds the length, will be two flags forming a background upon which the oval seems to rest. Below the bust will appear the word "Washington," and in small figures the dates 3f his birth and death. Models for four stamps of the new 3eries have already been completed? the two, four, eight and thirteen-cent lenominations. All the designs are listinctive, and are said to be of rare artistic merit. It is noted that the flags, when brought into the series of 1869, were used on a stamp which the public rarely saw?the thirty-cent denomination. The people who write letters to the government have on many occasions expressed a desire that the flag be brought into use again. When the Columbian series of 1893 was projected, the department was flooded with such requests, and also in connection with both the other World's Fair sets. Mechanical difficulties are said to have prevented the earlier utilization of the idea. The flag is a favorite emblem on the stamps of republics, but not of monarchies. The Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Ecuador, Salvador, Uraguay, Liberia, and Colombia show their flags on practically every stamp they issue. The Boers used to bunch their flags in the centre of their stamps. The last issue of the Hawaiian republic gave a prominent place to its flag. The inhabitants of the little republic of Hayti get a view of the national emblem every time they fasten a postage stamp on a letter, but the common people do this so rarely as to keep the glimpse still somewhat of .a treat. The Cuban flag will adorn one of the denominations of a new series of stamps soon to be brought out.?Washington dispatch to the New York Evening Post. x.-y The records kept by the accident insurance companies indicate that about 300,000 non-fatal accidents occur every day from ordinary causes?that is, there are not far from 11,000,000 nonfatal accidents every year, 15,000 to . every 100,000 of population. J A PRAIRIE CAVERN. in Interesting Hole In the Ground Where Cave* Wonld Not Be Looked For. At a. spot eleven miles southeast of his place In the level prairie upland Is n opening about forty feet in diameter nd sixty feet in depth. By clinging to :s rocky and precipitous walls, a peron may descend to the bottom, and here find the openings to the two caves, ne leading to the westward and the ther to the east. For years this place as been known as Rock Prairie Cave, t is one of the most striking natural uriosities in the Chickasaw nation, 'he caves are of unknown length, and hrough one rushes a subteranean river f great depth in places and of icy coldess. Exploring parties have ventured nto these labyrinths for hundreds of ards,.but the danger of becoming lost ias prevented a thorough investigation f the underground passages. The cave leading westward is easiest f access and contains a number of spaious chambers. The room is about 70 eet square and 50 feet from the floor o the ceiling. The floor is obstructed vith huge boulders. The darkness and tillness are intense. Picnic parties ometimes go there and with a large ioulder for a table, eat their lunch in he glare of torches that cast uncanny hadows along the massive walls. Timid persons hesitate in venturing tito the depths of the eastern cave, 'he passage slants downward at an ,ngle that compels the explorer to slip nd crawl and slide for nearly 100 feet efore reaching a spot where a person nay stand upright and walk safely, 'rom the darkness echoes the sound of ushing water, which later is found to e a stream that runs from 8 to 30 feet i width, and from 6 inches to many eet in depth. Men have waded in the tream until the water reached their hins, and then gone in a boat to points yhere they were unable to touch botom with the longest oars. A farmer arried his boat into the cave several ears ago to follow the stream to its nd. At a depth estimated to be 200 feet elow the surface of the ground is a latural bridge formed by a huge stone hat fell across the stream. The water lunges under this bridge like a millace. A boat can be pulled over the ridge, however, and launched on. the ther side. About 100 feet below the ridge the stream widens into a broad eep pool, with a high vaulted roof, leautiful stalagmites and statactites dorn this chamber. Two hundred feet elow this pool the passage is difficult, t is claimed that this cave has been xplored for a mile. The stream is believed to find its outit at a spring about three miles from tie entrance to the cave. This spring is f great size and volume and flows with emarkable swiftness. In rainy seasons lie spring gushes and boils as if choked ,'Ith the flood of water that pours from a mouth. The stream in Rock Prairie ave rises when there is a heavy rainall in the surrounding country, and the ncreased flow of both springs and tream at such times Is taken as evience that they are connected.?Oklaoma State Capital. I ? ? Win January the death rate from acidents is slightly greater in rural parts han in cities; in February the death ates in city and country are similar; n March the country is more dangerus; in April the rates balance again: i May and June the city leads; in July nd August the country leads; in Sepember the city is ahead; in October nd November the country is more faal; in December the city takes the ;ad again. COMMERCIAL PRINTING. For sometime past THE ENQUIRER has been claiming that good business men want nothing but the BEST work when they order Commerical Printing. Well printed stationery always carries with it an impression of the Success of the user. We have succeeded very well in our efforts and there is more high grade Commercial Stationery being used by York county business men now than has been the case in the past. A few months ago Mr. W. B. Carmichael, managing director of Carmichael, Wilson & Company, Limited, of Sydney, Australia, visited the leading printing concerns of this country, and on returning to his home, said, among other things, to the Sydney Printers' Overseers' Association: "An American firm of standing will not risk its reputation doing cheap work. Of course, as elsewhere, you) can get as much cheap stuff as you want, but no one in any kind of business can afford to send out circulars, letters or billheads that are in any way shoddy. I will give you an instance what influence a well-got-up circular or booklet has on a business man. While in the New York office of one of the largest corporations in the world, an envelone was handed to the manager. I noticed on the outside the American flag and eagle in three colors, and underneath the sentence 'America leads the World's Exports.' As most of you are aware, the United States of America, for the year 1900, capped the world's export trade for any single nation, and the envelope in question contained the most handsomely-gotout circular in book form I have ever seen. It was an advertising scheme in commemoration of the aforesaid, giving the authentic figures, and the smart advertising man wanted only one hundred firms in this work at $500 apiece. He secured one right away, for after glancing through the work, the gentleman to whom I refer said: 'Isn't that splendidly gotten up? That will be worth advertising in. We'll likely take a page.' The firm in question was not one that did advertise, as their business was such that it did not actually require, but they were taken by the splendid get-up of the circular. If inferior work had been put before them, no advertisement would have followed." From the above it will be easy to see that successful business men are almost always impressed with good printed matter. In other words that the man who sends out printed matter is measured commercially by the work that he sends out. Is your work of the kind that will give you a good measure or is it calculated to cause your measurement to be a little off-color? If THE ENQUIRER prints your Stationery or Catalogues or Booklets or anything else you have to print, you. may be sure of getting a high mark when you are measured. We solicit your work, and will give you the BEST work at a fair price. We do not do "cheap" printing at all. 1?. M. Grist & Sons, Printers. sCoan and pavings $a?k, Yorkvllle, C. WITH ample resources for the protection and accommodation of customers, this Bank solicits the business of corporations, Arms and individuals, and will extend every accommodation consistent with safe banking. 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In addition to close attention to the news, the literary feature of THE ENQUIRER is also important. It aims to instruct, entertain and inform. It seeks to present nothing except of a wholesome, elevating - " a.-*? i.U ? character, tnat win sustain me um aim Inspire the young in the higher Ideals of life and duty. In all of the features outlined, THE ENQUIRER excels all other South Carolina newspapers, and has but few rivals In the entire country. These results are the product of years of experience and of ceaseless toil, as well as of heavy expense, the like of which Is not approached by any other weekly or semi-weekly newsaper In the south. In printing only what should be printed and leaving out what should not be printed, It is without a superior, and the highest ambition of the publishers Is to continue to sustain and upbuild the reputation the paper enjoys In all Its most praiseworthy features. HOW TO GET IT. The regular subscription price of THE ENQUIRER Is $2.00 per annum: but as a special inducement to NEW and OLD SUBSCRIBERS, we will enter all names returned in clubs of TWO or MORE, between OCTOBER 15,1902 and MARCH 11, 1903, at $1.75 PER ANNUM. And as an inducement to clubmakers to collect, return and pay for these names, we offer a long list of valuable premiums on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth in full. The first premium for the LARGEST CLUB returned and paid for within the time mentioned, is a HANDSOME TOP BUGGY, the best that can be made by the Yorkville Buggy Company and valued at $62.50, and the SECOND PREMIUM is the BEST OPEN BUGGY made by the same company, and valued at $50.00. Should the first premium be won by a Rural Free Delivery Carrier, and he should prefer it, we will give, instead, a MODERN FREE DELIVERY WAGON of the most ap proved make. NEW SUBSCRIBERS. There will be no special premium on accouint of NEW subscribers this year; new subscribers will be counted the same as old; but by way of assistance to the clubmaker we offer the following inducement to all who are not now on our lists and who were not on those lists on the 30th day of August last. For $1.75, cash with the subscription, they will receive the paper from the date of entry on our books UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1904. By NEW subscribers, of course, we mean actual additions to our subscription lists. Subscriptions now in the name of one member of the family changed to the name of another member will NOT BE CONSIDERED NEW. The detailed list of premiums follows: FOR FOUR NAMES. A "Yankee" Watch, a Stylographic Fountain Pen or a Three Bladed Pocket Knife of good quality; or a 15 String Zithern. FOR FIVE NAMES. A year's subscription to either one of tho fnllnwinc Mflcay.inps! MnClure's Ladies' Home Journal, Munsey, Argosy, Cosmopolitan, Delineator, Saturday Evening Post, Everybody's, Frank Lesslie's Popular Monthly, or either of the following: A "Champion" Stem Winding Watch, a gold pointed FountL. M. GRIST & SO J. F. PURSLEY, CLOVER, S. C. BE SURE AND COME TO see us for the next week, as we are going to OFFER SOME VERY CLOSE PRICES, We will not name the things, but will ask you TO COME AND SEE ITS. We are selling SHOES from 30 cents per pair and up to S4.00. Surely you can get your price. Be sure to see us for FLOUR, LARD, MEAT, COFFEE. SUGAR, TOBACCO. SNUFF, etc., in fact just anything you should want. Jttf We are still selling 10 packages of COFFEE FOR ONE DOLLAR. Yours for right prices, J. F. PITRSLEY. 1mm 1903. CE $2 PER ANNUM. o or More Only ,75. eek Newspaper Carolina. S TO CLUBMAKERS. x Guns, Rifles, Watches, Sewinives, Magazines and Other e Competition Is Free, the y Good. ?, aln Pen, a four bluded Pocket Knife.. FOR SIX NAMES. An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, King Repeating Air Rifle, a year's sub* scription to The Christian Herald; or a 22 String Zlthern. FOR EIGHT NAMES. - ^ An Ingersoll "Triumph" Watch, a Columbian Repeating Air Rifle?works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain ? TJA?># U/ulol VIA. LO*3C| tfl a Aivpi AUW4WI ? ?V?lln or an 8-lnch Banjo. FOR TEN NAMES. One year's subscription to THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER, a "Quaker" Watch, valued at $2.50; a Hamilton 22 calibre Rifle?model 11; The Youth's Companion, one year; or a go]d mounted Fountain Pen; a good Banjo, Violin or Guitar. FOR TWENTYgJfAMES. Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-ounce canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, The Century or Harper's Magazine. FOR THIRTY NAMES. Either of the following: A Single Bar- <"* rel Hammerless Shot Gun; a fine 4x4 Kodak, a fine Toilet or Washstand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen Jr., 22 Calibre Rifle. FOR FORTY NAMES. A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York Standard Open Face JWatch, a W. Richards Double Barrel isreecnLoadlng Shot Gun, or a Low Arm Singer Sewing Machine. FOR FIFTY NAMES. -x A Winchester or Colt's Repeating Rifle, 22 calibre; or a Baker Double Barrel Breechloading gun. FOR SIXTY NAMES. A High-Arm Sewing Machine; or a first-class Double Barrel Breech Loading Shot Gun. FOR NINETY NAMES. A Batavia Hammerless Gun, 12 gauge, furnished by H. & D. Folsom Arms Co., of New York. A flrst-class gun and fully guaranteed. SPECIAL CLUBS t We will arrange to furnish any specail article desired by a clubmaker for a given number of names on application to this office. TIME TO BEGIN. The time for clu>bmakers to begin work in competition for the foregoing offers is RIGHT NOW. Let all names, whether old or new, be returned as rapidly as secured, so they may be properly entered upon our books. Aim /lAimTfTT/WO XJ^IVJna ,OX1 MJ vuni/tinvmn TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at $1 each, will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at 31.75 and so counted. A subscription paid for two or more years In advance at $1.75, will be counted as one name for each year bo paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible forthe 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 clubmaker'8 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. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the exDense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the sare transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkvllle 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 kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any oue per- " son 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, and expires at 4 o'clock p. m., oil Wednesday, the 11th day of March, 1903. After the closing" of this contest on March 11, 11)03, no single yearly subscription will be received for less than the yearly subscription price of *2.00, except new clubs are formed. NS, Yorkville, S. C.