Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 25, 1903, Image 4

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?tttttunuu0 department. Hasina The New Congrenmnn. Martin Emerich, elected from Chicago to the 58th congress, came to Wash/ , ington a few days ago to learn the ropes. Representative McAndrews, also a Chicago member, showed him around and hazed him a bit. They sat together in the house. Emerich was much interested. Suddenly McAndrews started for the door. "Where are you going?" Emerich asked. ^"Oh, I'm going out to the lobby." "What for?" "Why, there's an oil painting there I want to have taken down and shipped home." "Oil painting!" said Emerich. "How is that? How do you get an oil painting?' "Why," McAndrews replied, "It's one of the little perquisites we have." "Hold on!'* shouted Emerich, excitedly; "let me go, too. I want one." Another visitor from Chicago was W. W. Wilson, who will also be a new member in the 58th congress. Representative Mann had him in tow. As they were sitting in the house a page came in and laid a number of blue slips of paper on the desk in front of Wilson. "Sign 'em," said the page. "Oh," said Mann, "sign them." Wilson signed them. Then he asked again: "What were those?" "Why," said Mann, "those were the receipts for your pay from March 4 to December 1 next" "Good God!" yelled Wilson, "I have not got the money!" and he started on a run after the boy. It took the combined Illinois delegan/?n,rln/,a Wr Wllonn that TTnpU ilUU iV VVUTUIW AU* T T *>WV.. VMW. w ? - - w Sam wouldn't cheat him, and that the reason, he was asked to sign the receipts was to make it possible for the dlspursing officer to send him his money each month during the congressional reoess.?New vYork World. * ? Petrified the Englishman Too.? "Colonel Tom Ochiltree once upset Lord Lonsdale when the latter was entertained in New York on his" way home from an expedition to Alaskst," said a man who saw the fun. "At a dinner given in his honor Lord Lonsdale told many thrilling stories, and an audible 'oh!' went around the table when he finished telling of a petrifled forest in Africa, in which he found a number of petrified lions and elephants. As the Englishman lapsed into silence and the applause sank to an echo all looked to Colonel Ochiltree to defend his nationality and beat this petrified lion story. " 'Texas,' said the colonel after a pause, 'has its petrified forests; but, although they contain no petrified lions, they are remarkable for having petrified birds flying <Jver them.' " 'Nonsense!' said Lord Lonsdale. 'That is impossible. Such a phenomenon is contrary to the laws of gravitation.' " 'Ah, that's easy explained,' responded Colonel Ochiltree quickly. 'The laws of gravitation down there are petrifled too.'" Taming a Bull.?"I hae heard that ye can tame a wild beast -Jist by - lookln' boldly in its e'e and never takin' it awa' for an instant, but I dinna believe it," said Bob Meekin. "It's quite true, I assure you. The human e'e can frichten the maist savage animal," answered John Tamson. "Did ye ever try it?" asked Bob. "Of coorse, or I wadna be sae-certain ?> a boot it. Ye remember aboot two years ago the farmer at Carseriggan used tae keep a bull. It was the wildest beast ever seen in dis part o' the country and had nearly killed half a dlzzen folk. Ae day as I was comln* over the park the bull charged me. Well, after ruainin' a wee blttock I jlst sat down and glowered.lt out o' countenance. It never offered tae touch me and went away quite quiet." "That was wonderfu", but where did ye sit?" "In the hoose, of coor&e, and looked at it through the window while it stood on the other side o' the road."?London Answers. Forcing the Pace.?George Gordon, an old Scotchman of miserly habits, was dying. A neighbor who was on friendly terms with the old man's relatives agreed to call on the ministef and beg him to try to induce the old fellow to make a will. The minister consented and at length persuaded the miser to allow a lawyer to be sent for. By the time he arrived the old man was rapidly sinking, but the will was smartly drawn up and duly awaited his signature. He was propped up in bed and managed to write "George Gor? Then he fell back exhausted. An eager relative who stood by seized the pen and stuck it in the dying man's hand. " 'D.* Geordie, 'd,* " referring to the next letter of the signature. The old man glared up wrathfully. "Dee?" he snapped. "I'll dee when I'm ready, ye avaricious wratch!" Somebody Lied.?A certain woman has a husband who has done such a thing as to forget to do what his wife had requested. The other evening about 5 o'clock he came home, and she went at him. "John," she said, "did you tell that expressman to come here this afternoon?" "Yes, Mary," he answered meekly. "Well, he hasn't come." "Is that so?" xes, li is. inuw, now au you accuuin. for it?" John gave the matter a few moments' consideration. "Well, my dear," he said finally "either he's lying or I am, and so relieve us both from your suspicions I'll just step down to his place and see what's the matter." And the charitable John went to see the expressman. Willing to Divide.?A Hartford lawyer tells of a client in one of the adjoining towns who had a farm to sell. He had recently sunk a well on it, and the job cost a sum, consequently when he talked of disposing of his property the well caused him considerable anxiety. "How much do you ask for the farm?" the lawyer asked. "Waal, I'll tell yer," drawled the farmer, "I'll sell the place for $700 with the well, and I'll let it go for $600 without the well." 3ttt?ceUanrou$ Reading. ; FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More j or Less Local Interest. YORK. Rock Hill Herald, February 21: Mr. C. S. May's residence had a narrow es- 1 cape from destruction by fire Thursday morning between 12 and 1 o'clock. He was awakened by the furious barking of his dog, a faithful mastafF, and at that time his room was filled with smoke and, he was stifled almost beyond breathing. Making his way out of the ' house, he awakened his uncle, S. T. Frew, living next door and hastened to 1 KAWIA ViQtf lArtolo/1 f Ko me tuicaicucu living iiivjr ?w?%bu fire In another room. They went to work and put It out before the building had been injured, but not until the family's supply of summer clothing 1 had been destroyed. The loss is about $125, covered by insurance. Mr. May 1 who has never been a believer in burnings originating from rats and matches, cannot account Mb the fire in his house any other way....Death has cut down a very excellent young lady. Wed- 1 nesday Miss Nora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Davis, who would have ' been 21 years of age next July, died of consumption, the disease having been contracted by her while waiting J on a sk : friend several years ago. Thursday her remains were interred in Laurelwood cemetery Mr. Eli Creighton, an aged citizen, living four ' miles east of this city, died Friday of 1 last week and was buried in Laurel- J wood cemetery Saturday....7.There is universal complaint about the irregut- 1 larity with which trains are run over 11 T1 i. au- > ( tne r>ouinern railway, n is mc cAtxption for its Important trains to be on time and the traveling public is thereby very greatly inconvenienced and commercial interests suffer as a conse- 1 quence. A reason for this condition is furnished in the statement that there 1 is a scarcity of rolling stock. The com- * pany, however, has recently placed or- ' ders with a number of car and locomotive works for the immediate construe- 1 tion of 200 engines, 3,000 freight and coal cafs and 60 passenger coaches, the deliveries to be made at the earliest possible moment. When General Manager C. A. Ackert wen^ into the market it was his desire to place the orders with but few companies. On account of the great demand for rolling stock, he was compelled to divide the orders among car and locomotive works all over the country. Even with thia plan he can get no assurance that the goods will be delivered before the end of the year, although he stipulated each must be considered a rush order. CHESTER. Lantern, February 20: Mrs. Nancy Moffatt died yesterday morning at 1 | o'clock, at her home on Lacy street. : She had become paralyzed and was apparently at the point of death for a week or two. Funeral services ?vas conducted by Rev. J. S. Moffatt yesterday afternoon at the A. R. church, and the remains were buried at Old Purity, by the side of her husband. Mr. ' David Moffatt, who died in 1886, and her only daughter, Mrs. J. H. Simpson, who died in 1894. Mrs. Moffatt was 82 fl t /lair a# Tonnorv Ckn tiraa a ' vuc uidi uaj vi vuii uai j * daughter of the late John Torbet, an<J was the last of her family. A brother-in-law, Prof. David McCaw, is living in Columbia, Tenn., at the age of 87. She leaves five grand-children and five great-grandchildren. . The latter with their mother live in Virginia. The other grandchildren are Mrs. H. E. McConnell and Miss Eunice Simpson, of thi8 city, Mrs. J. R. Millen, of Oklahoma, and David Moffatt Simpson^ who is at present in Washington D. C. Mrs. Moffatt always looked young for her age and retained remarkabl/e vitality until near the end. She had a host of friends who will miss her beaming countenance and cordial greeting ! Mr. Joe Neely Hardin, of Capers Chapel neighborhood, died Wednesday and was buried yesterday, the Rev. J. ! M. Friday conducting funeral service. Mr. Hardin had been low with con sumption (or a long: time and his death j was expected. He was about 57 years , old and was the father of an interest- , ing family, nearly all of whom are grown. The information we have is meager, but we hope to have more.... A 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. ; D. H. Drum, of Wylie's Mill, was so severely burnt Tuesday that it died Wednesday. The body was buried yesterday....Mr. M. D. Allen left town , Monday afternoon, but never reached his home alive. Tuesday morning his ( horse was found grazing below the Fishing Creek church ford, on the Moore place, and his dead body was < found lower down. It will be remembered that there was a heavy rain that evening. The ford is deep and it is necessary to go up stream to cross in , that direction. It is supposed that he was carried down by the force of the current, and it was probably dark. Mr. , Allen leaves a wife and several children, besides some grown children by a , former marriage. He was probably 50 odd years. old. Most of his life was spent in this county, but he had been living a year or more near Smith's in York county. LANCASTER. Ledger, February 21: Mrs. Mallnda Beaver, wife of Mr. Anderson Beaver of the O. K. section, while returning home Thursday afternoon from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Sullivan in company with her grandson, Mr. Walter Beaver, fell dead on the roadside near Mr. Ervln RowpII'b nn/1 within half a mile of her own home. She had been In her usual health and It is supposed she was stricken with appoplexy. She was about 70 years of age and leaves one son and four daughters surviving her. She was a member of the Methodist church at Tabernacle, and her remains were interred there yesterday after funeral services conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. C. Winn. The old home on the Caldwell place four miles north of town, owned by Mr. J. L. Poag and occupied by Mr. J. Clark Robinson, was burned about 11 o'clock Thursday night. The origin of the fire is not known. When discovered the roof of the kitchen was all : ablaze. Mr. Robinson lost all of his household, and kitchen furnishings ex- 1 cept probably a trunk and a few quilts. 1 No insurance. Mr. Robinson is an industrious, persevering, exemplary citi zen and has the unbounded sympathy of his many friends in his heavy loss. The storm in this county last Monday night was more disastrous than we had learned at the time of going to press Tuesday evening. In the Pork Hill section It was very severe, not only destroying timber and fences, but unroofing a number of barns and one dwelling. The cribs of Messrs Henry Blackmon and Minor Ellis were both blown down and the dwelling of the latter was moved from its foundation and unroofed, and he is confident he saved -his life by running into the yard and clinging to a tree. The barns nt j. e. Blackmon. Jr., and Henry Blackmon were both unroofed and scarcely a tree was left standing on wooded land of Messrs. J. J. Sims and Jas. R. Blackmon. A party counted over 200 large pine trees?the finest timber in the Fork Hill section?blown down In a small area. And so far as injury to tlml?er .and fences is concerned the same was the case In other sections of the county. The new barn of Mr. H. N. Sowell In town was leveled with the ground, and the large new cow barn on the Gregory-Ferguson stock and dairy farm was moved from its foundation about a foot and creeled at one end. Mr. R. M. Jones' stables and barn In the Jones' X Roads section were also wrecked. He saw the stable giving way and got his stock out before the crash come. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, February 20: Monday night's storm, lifted the Presbyterian church at Bessemer from its foundation pid left it flat on the ground. The building stood about four feet off the ground. The tower was also slight ly aamagea. Mr, j. x. opciiuer wcm. down yesterday to see the extent of the damage and make preparations to repair the building. So far as can be learned Bessemer City sustained no other serious damage from the storm. Wednesday's Charlotte Observer Bays that Col. R. L. Abernethy, ov/ner of the Open View Farms, lost a wallet containing (450 Tuesday enroute from River Bend to Charlotte or after his arrival in Charlotte. Col. Abernethy drove from his farm to Mount Holly, a distance of five miles, Tuesday morning and took the train there for Charlotte. The wallet containing the money was in his coat pocket. At last account he had not succeeded in recovering it Wednesday morning Superintendent W. P. Eddleman, of the county roads, returned to get Joe Page, a Negro who escaped from-the county convict camp about two months ago. Page was sent up for stealing a suit of clothes from another Negro and had Berved the major part of an eight months sentence when he skipped out. His escape was made possible by his being a trusty. He had just nnisnea serving a short term on the chaingang at Rock Hill when Superintendent Eddleman got him Mrs. 'Sallie Wilson McArthur, wife of Mr. Samuel McArthur, died Wednesday morning Just before 8 o'clock, aged 35. She had been ill several weeks with peritonitis and complications, but was believed to be getting on well until Tuesday night, when pneumonia set in and caused her death twelve hours afterwards About 2.30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Just a short while before quitting time the workmen at the Gaston Iron works were startled by the crashing sound of falling timber. The large water tank, holding between 15,000 and 20,000 gallons of water and standing 40 feet from the ground, had just been filled up. One corner of the structure on which the tank stands rests on the ground near the edge of the well from which water Is secured for the works. The continued rains had softened the adjacent ground to such an extent that the walls bf the well gave way thus precip-r Itating the tank, with its contents, on the engine room. The tank crashed through the roof and damaged the engine to quite an extent. The fireman, Mr. John Johnson, had a very narrow escape and had he not been hurled aside by a falling: plank, would probably have been killed. Mr. J. Lawrence BeaJ, the manager, was standing within five feet of the engine, but escaped Injury. The damage to the engine and the building amounts to about $250. The tank will be rebuilt at once. THE PRESIDENT'S INVITATIONS. In Washington Society They Are Commands and Have Right of Way. William E. Curtis, writes in the Chicago Record-Herald as follows: President Roosevelt is creating a great deal of commotion by his dinners, and has alreadv made a heaD of trouble for the hospitable people in this town. Those who give fashionable dinners find it necessary to send out the invitations' three or four weeks in advance in order to get the people they want, and it is not uncommon for some of the smart set to fix a list of dates at the beginning of the season covering two or three months and ask their friends for those evenings. This is a great satisfaction to everybody concerned, and is becoming more and more the proper form. A popular society woman can turn to her engagement book today and tell where she will dine every day next month. An invitation from the White House, like an invitation from an emperor, is a command and must be accepted. No excuse, except death or sickness will answer. Other engagements that conflict have to be canceled. Hence when the president sends out his invitations only a few days in advance he sometimes creates a great deal of confusion by asking people who have already promised to dine elsewhere. One night last winter a senator and his wife had invited twelve of the most prominent men in both houses of con gress, with their wives, to dinner. The day before the hostess began to receive notes, reading, "I am very sorry, but my husband has just received an invitation to the White House, and will have to withdraw his acceptance from your dinner tomorrow night." It so happened that the president had made out a list of people he wanted to dine with him which included almost every man that had wanted to attend the senator's dinner, including the host himself. The senator's wife summoned every available man she could get hold of over the telephone in order to fill the vacant places at her table. Only a few nights ago two menbers of the cabinet were expected at a din- i ner given in honor of the Russian am- t bassador, when the president summoned them to dine with him. One of them frankly told his predicament and was excused. The other -withdrew his acceptance to the first invitation. A certain senator had promised to take dinner last Sunday afternoon with some old friends who had invited half a dozen people to meet him. Exactly three hours before dinner time, he received an invitation from the president over the telephone, and was obliged to write an explanation to his friends and ask ' them to excuse him. I Not long ago one of the new members ] of congress was requested to select the i guests and fix the date for a dinner | given in his honor. He did both, but i the dinner was given without him. He i was invited to the White House and < had to go there instead. 1 Of course, the president does not I know anything about the embarrass- < ment and disappointments that ,he causes, but if things get much worse a new rule will have to be adopted, and he will have to include in his Invita- ^ tlons the words, "If no previous en- ( gagement prevents." M. Cambon, recently ambassador, of 1 France, was the victim of the most serl- ] ous contretemps that was even caused ' by the president's dinners? He had in- , vited about twenty friends ?to dine ! with him at the embassy one night, J and on the morning -of the same day received an invitation to the White I House. The members of the diplomat- 1 ic corps are naturally very punctillous In observing their obligations to- , wards the president, and M. Cambon was obliged to 'send notice to all of 1 his guests that hlB dinner must be . postponed. Sometimes this- thing is carried so far as to be absurd. A fashionable widow in this city has a daughter the age of Alice Roosevelt ana on terms of Intimacy with her. This lady had Issued Invitations to a dinner party to young people In her daughter's honor and had made unusual preparations for the event. .About two hours before the time of the dinner, |her daughter was called up on the telephone by Alice Roosevelt who asked her to come down to the White House to dine and spend the evening, as the president and her mother were going out to a cabinet dinner at Secretary Hay's. This was a dilemma, but so loyal was the fashionable women to the social traditions that she sent her daughter to the White House and her own dinner was given without the . "esence of the person in whose honor it was intended. In the meantime the two girls sat alone in the big dining room of the president, and then went to the sitting room upstairs and spent the evening chatting na cHria iiannllv rtn. Pf?or>le think this is carrying courtesy a little too far.' It is all very well to consider invitations of the president as commands and sacrifice everything else to accept them, but the obligations to his daughter are not quite so strong. HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION. I'rofemor In I'ntverNlty of Vlriclnln Will Undertake the Great Work. Prof. R. H. Dabney, professor of history in the University of Virginia, has undertaken the task of writing the history of reconstruction in the south. In furtherance of his plans he has asked the co-operation of all persons having accurate knowledge of any facts that 1 would throw light on that period. Newspaper files, letter and contemporary accounts are particularly: desired. Prof. Dabney says: , "It is impossible to enumerate all #r? oto A c?a \ roH hilt It mOV IIIC jviiius vi lacio uwou\.u| MWb %> be stated, as a general guide to correspondents, that any information will be appreciated that will throw light, for example, upon the economic condition of the south in 1865; upon the attitude of different social classes toward each other; upon the extent to which ante-bellum parti- : sail political feelings revived; upon the feelings of southerners toward : the north and the Union, and toward northern settlers in the south; 'upon the conduct of the Negroes, and the feelings of the whites . toward them in 1865 and afterward; upon L.incoln'8 reconstruction policy in certain states; upon the freemen's bureau and its workings; upon north- : ern teachers of Negro schools, and their : treatment by the whites; upon the in- j fluence of Andrew Johnson's policy ; upon southern political action; upon the motives of state legislatures in passing the laws limiting the freedom of Negroes; upon the workings of these laws; upon the motives for rejecting the 14th amendment in 1866; upon . the exact methods of controlling Negroes, wuether by deception, intimidation, violence or proper personal in- ' fluence; upon the personal character- ( istics of the military commanders and the civil officials of states, counties or cities; upon the actual management of financial, judicial and other affairs by " the reconstruction governments; upon the fraud or force employed, either for j or against these governments; upon < the effects of Johnson's impeachment ] flHPFSTTSS V HI THE S0UTHE1 The Greet Highway of THROUGH THE SOI Excellent Service Quick Ti Any Trip Is a Pleasur Travel via THE SOUT The Finest Dining-Car For detailed Information as to Tick* rations address the nearest Agent W. A. TURK. S. H. HARD Tram* Cuml P????n| WASHINGTON. D. C. WASMINOTO lpon southern opinion; upon the Loyil League; upon the Ku-Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, and similar organizatipns, either general or ocal; upon election methods on both sides at different dates, etc, "The time has come when no man need fear to speak out concerning the methods by which the southern people overthrew the reconstruction regime, for the north no longer desires to revive that regime, and many northerners now understand and admit not nnly that a radical policy of congress was in many respcts a blunder, but that no high-spirited people would have hesitated to resist it tooth and nail. Nevertheless, all correspondents giving me information concerning threats or acts of violence in which they participated are, of course, assured that their names will not be revealed without their consent.?Washington Port. 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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 approved make. FOR FOUR NAMES. A "Yankee" Watch, a Stylographic Fountain Pen or a Three Bladed Pocket Knife of good quality; or a 15 String Zithem. ?TTrn A run rivti iiAMM, A year's subscription to either one of the following Magazines: McClure'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 Fountain Pen, a four bladed Pocket Knife. FOR SIX NAMES. An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, King Repeating Air Rifle, a year's subscription to The Christian Herald; or a 22 String Zithern. FOR EIGHT NAMES. An Ingersoll "Triumph" Watch, a L. M. GRIST'S SC sL B to, ^ Urn 1903. rnji $0 DUD ANWTTM luu <p& i mi niuiuiu o or More Only .75.S TO CLUBMAKERS. Guns, Rifles, Watches, 8ew[nives, Magazines and Other e Competition Is Free, the y Good. Columbian Repeating Air Rifle?works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain Pen?plain case: or a Hopf Model Violin or an 8-inch 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 gun mourned Fountain Pen; a good Banjo, Violin * or Guitar. FOR TWENTY NAMES. 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 Barrel 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 Watch, a W. Richards Double Barrel BreechLoading Shot Gun, or a Low Arm Sing- ^ cr .Sewing Machine. FOR FIFTY NAMES. 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 first-class gun and fully guaranteed. SPECIAL CLUBS t 4 We will arrange to furnish any special article desired by a clubmaker for a given number of names on application to this office. TIME TO BEGIN. The time for clubmakers to begin work in competition for 4he 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. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at ?1 each, will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at 91.75 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 so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubraaker 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, pro vlded 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 pride has been paid; nor will any premium bedellvered until a satisfactory settlement has been made for all names returned by the clubmaker. Persons who commence making clubs will not be permit ted to transfer their club to another clubmaker's list after the names have been entered on our books. It Is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same postofflce. Names may be taken at any number of places. 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 draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkvllle postofflce. In sending names, write plainly, and give postofflce, county and stale. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration or the time paid lor. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each nan e sent, so that the numt>er sent oy any one person may beascertalneJ 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. 111., on Wednesday. the lltli day of March, 1903 After the closing of this contest on March 1J, 1908, no single yearly subscription will be received for less thun the yearly subscription price of$2.0J, except new clubs are formed. >NS, Yorkville, S. 0.