Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 13, 1904, Image 4

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Jiumorous g f part men t. Proved Her Right To Promotion.? A Los Angeles school teacher, who recently spent a few days In this city, tells an amusing story about a colored girl named Lizzie Young, who was assigned to her class. It appears that Miss Blank, the teacher, a few days after Lizzie came to school, reached the conclusion that the colored girl, though nearly eighteen years of age, was not far enough advanced to remain in the class to which she had been assigned. This conclusion was rorcea upon me icacuer after she had examined Lizzie as to the studies she had pursued before coming to Los Angeles. "Lizzie," said Miss Blank at the opening of the examination, "what books did you use?" "Jes' like dese, ma'am," said Lizzie, pointing to one of the California State series. Now Miss Blank knew that "books jes* like dese" were not found out of California, and as Lizzie came from Louisiana she became suspicious. "Of course," she said, "you have studied arithmetic, Lizzie?" "Lot, ma'am," responded Lizzie, with a wise shake of her kinky head. "Fractions?" "Yes, ma'am." "Interest?" "Yes, inaeea, ma am. Lizzie's "yes. ma'am" came forth with exceeding regularity during the rest of the examination, and when, after Miss Blank had received a vigorous "yes, ma'am" to her question, "Did you ever study geography and grammar?" she asked: "And cerebrospinal meningitis?" Lizzie replied: "Yes, ma'am. We had dat in the baby class." They All Looked Alike.?Senator Foraker was drinking a glass of lemonade on the pike at the St. Louis Fair. All the morning he had been studying spectacle after spectacle, marvel after marvel, and now. a little tired, he was resting. "This Fair impresses me." he said, "but I remember an Ohio fair that impressed me still more. It was held in Ralnsboro, and I was one of its smallest, youngest and yet most enthusiastic patrons. There was hardly a feature of the Rainsboro fair that is not still vivid in my memory. "One feature was a relic show that an elderly man held in a small tent. A crowd of us paid a penny apiece and went in. On a long pine table a multitude of dusty relics were spread out, and the showman described them in a nasa! and mechanical voice. " 'Here is a piece of the True Cross,' he said. 'Here is one of Christopher Columbus's shoes. Here is a buckle from George Washington's knee breeches. Here is the ax that cut off Queen Mary's head. Here is a golden nail from Solomon's temple. Here are locks of hair?a lock of Shakespeare's, a lock of Milton's, a lock of Dryden's, a lock of Byron's, a lock of Pope's, a lock of Queen Anne's, a lock of?' " 'Which is Shakespeare's, sir, I said hurriedly, 'and which is Queen Anne's, and which is Milton's?" " 'Which you please, my boy, which you please,' the showman answered. A Confidence Dog.?A butcher narrated the other day a story Illustrative of the intelligence of dogs. "A patron of mine," he said, "had a collie that came to me one morning with a slip of paper in his mouth. " 'Hello doggie,' said I, and the collie wagged his tail and dropped the paper on the floor at my feet. I opened it. It was a signed order from his master for a piece of sausage. I gave him the sausage. He ate it and went home. "Time after time the collie came with with these orders to me, and finally I stopped reading them. Each, I presumed, was for a sausage, and each procured a sausage. I suppose, all told, the dog got as many as twenty pounds of sausages from me in two months. "But the master, when I presented my bill, kicked. He said he had only given the dog about a dozen orders, whereas I must have honored nearly a hundred. "Well, the upshot was that the two of us got together and did a little detective work. We watched the dog. And do you know what we found? Why, we found that this cunning dog, whenever a sausage hunger seized him, would grab up a piece of white paper? any piece he could find?and bring it to me. "I had been careless, you see, never looking at the paper, and through my carelessness the collie had fooled me for two months. Thwarted by a Witness.?"a little flash of humor on the part of a witness will often destroy the best of leg ai cAaiiuiiaiiuud, oaia a lawyer. "Not long ago I had a criminal case in which one of the best witnesses for the prosecution was a negro. Before the coroner he had made two different statements as to the number of times he had seen one of the principals in the case, and I intended to trip him up on it in the cross examination. If he said the first number I should confront him with the other statement from the testimony before the coroner and vice versa. I thought I had him cornered, no matter how he answered. I was reserving the question for the climax, and finally I asked him in my most confident manner. "How many times did you say that you saw this child?" He hesitated a moment and he replied in a surly tone: 'I didn't say I saw it at all. I said I seen it.' Even the judge had to smile, and, though I hammered away at him, all the effect that I had sought was lost beyond repair."?Philadelphia Record. Train Waited For Large Party.? A New York public man, large in body as well as in brain during the session of the legislature last winter had to meet a committee in Central New York, but found in starting that he had only one minute in Utica to change from one railway station to another, one hundred yards away, relates the Philadelphia Ledger. Fearing that his weight would prevent him getting to the second staion on time, he telegraphed to the railway officials: "Please hold No. 6 five minutes for large party on the Southwestern Limited." The conductor and train hands were all standing ready to assist the "large party" on board, when the one solitary Individual came smilingly up the platform. "Where Is the rest of your party?" said the conductor, looking expectantly down the platform. "I am all here, captain?240 pounds without my overcoat. Weighed last night. Much obliged." ptecfUanrous: grading. , ] IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. 1 News and Comment Clipped From ' Neighboring Exchanges. LANCASTER. Ledger, Sept. 10: Mr. G. M. Peters < - - - ?- ..InU *r\ , of Alexandria, is uii u. *1 an ?.? relatives in this county. This is his first visit to Lancaster in ten years... Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Blackmon of this place, have the sympathy of their friends in the death of their little son, Francis Allen, aged about seven weeks, which occurred yesterday. The interment will take place in Westside cemetery today Miss Marian Johnson will take charge of Miss Edith Stewart's class in music at the graded school temporarily. Miss Stewart is delayed on account of sickness. She is at the Presbyterian hospital in Charlotte... .Application was made before Associate Justice Jones yesterday for bail for a Mr. Austin of the Brewer Mine section of Chesterfield county, charged with the murder of a negro by the name of Knox. Bail was granted in the sum of S1.500. The proof seemed to indicate that the negro fired into Mr. Austin's house twice about 11 o'clock on the night of the homicide and that Mr. Austin arose from his bed and fired in direction of where he heard a noise in the yard, the load hitting the negro causing his death in a short time afterwards. The negro was drinking, Mr. Austin was represented at the hearing for bail by Messrs. M. J. & W. C. Hough, his attorneys We understand that Ceo. W. Belk, son of Mr# Sam Belk of Flat Creek, has been awarded the scholarship for this county to the Cit- - adel. There were three other competitors for the place: Ross Moore, Fred Poag and Bill Jones. j CHESTER; ( Lantern, September 9: The Spring- J stein cotton mill company will enlarge { their mill in the near future, a squad ] of men already having begun excavat- t ing, preparatory to laying the foundation for the additional building, which t will be 116 by 50 feet and two stories . high. It is proposed by the author!- j ties to add 6,048 spindles, with neces- i sary machinery for opening and pre- s paring cotton. More dyeing machln- j ery will be put in, and additions will ] be made to the finishing plant. The t company a few weeks ago purchased s the old colored school property to the ? north of the mill, and it is at this end I of the mill that the new building will ] be erected. Work has recently been s resumed after being suspended for j three weeks, during which time quite f a number of improvements were made. s Three new one hundred and fifty ? horse-power boilers, and new engine i cylinders were put in and other im- j provements made Court is still v progressing, but as is usual in civil cases, not very rapidly. It is most , probable that the entire two weeks t will be required for the completion ; of the work. Tuesday the case of j Walker vs. Sayers & Scovill was tried, j The jury gave the plaintiff $290. The ( case of James Benson vs. S. A. L. Ry. ] Co. was then taken up. Hemphill and i Henry & McLure representing the , plaintiff and Glenn & McFadden the ( defendant. The plaintiff was given i $1,000. Messrs. Glenn & McFadden | a# {/-m fV\r? q rtaiv trlfll. gave iiuikc ui uiviiv.i v. , The case of Orr vs. L. & C. Ry. Co., with W. H. Newbold for plaintiff and Glenn & McFadden for defendant, was begun Wednesday afternoon and continued through all of yesterday, the lawyers for the defendant having yet to address the jury Mr. J. D. Sanders last week completed the erection of the bridge over Seely's creek. The bridge is 180 feet long. The trestle is made of pure white oak, and will probably last twelve years. With the abutments and all, the entire expense in connection with building amounted to $450.45. Twenty years ago, when the present supervisor was one of the three county commissioners and chairman of the board, a bridge was built at this place which cost $851.66. Following is the claim: No. 1760. Date, Sept. 23, 1884. In favor of T, N. Bennett. building bridge over Seely's creek, amount $851.66 Married, Sunday afternoon 4 o'clock, Sept. 4th, W. Gilbert Bigham and Miss Plumey Ferrell. at the residence of Mrs. L. J. King, Rev. W. A. Fairey officiating... The county board of commissioners met in regular monthly session Monday, Sept. 5th, with all the members present except T. A. McNinch. The board authorized the supervisor, secretary of the board of commissioners and county treasurer to borrow $5,000. as the moneji is needed by the county. Mrs. John Bass Shelton, who has been spending the summer with her parents in Chicago, and friends and relatives in Milwaukee, will arrive home next Tuesday Mr. lewis a. Hurst of Indiana, employed by the ( agricultural department in the bureau of soils at Washington, spent from : Tuesday until Wednesday evening with Mr. W. B. Home. With Mr. Root he is now making a map of the soils i of Lancaster county, which work he 1 expects to complete in about a month. ( Cotton is beginning to come into town at a rapid rate. By eight o'clock yesterday morning a half doz- ( en wagons were standing at the Chester ginnery waiting to be unloaded. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 9: The fire companies were called out a few min- 1 utes past eleven o'clock yesterday | morning by a signal for the third ward. The blaze was a small one in ' one of the Loray houses, occupied by Mr. John Howell, night watchman at the Trenton, and was extinguished i before the companies could reach the scene. The fire originated In a bundle of clothes in the rear room from some | unknown cause. The resulting damage was very small Mr. D. R. Shields received a telegram yesterday , afternoon from Carthage announcing the death there of sheriff J. J. Wicker. ' The deceased was a brother-in-law of | Rev. M. McG. Shields, with whom he and his wife had resided here for the 1 past four or five years. Mr. and Mrs. 1 Wicker left Gastonia about two weeks , ago to reside at their old home In Car- i thage. His death was the result of a long affliction with paralysis. Deceas- ! ed was about sixty years of age. He < tvas sheriff of Moore county. He is survived by a wife, who is a sister of Vfrs. Shields... .Frog: George, of Charotte, spent Wednesday in Gastonia and ficinity on professional business. Frog George's profession is catching frogs, ind he knows his business. He can ;atch more frogs in a given length of time than any other person in the State, perhaps. It is his means of ivelihood?and no doubt he makes a Stood living. He catches the frogs and sells them by the dozen?and there is ilways a demand for them At the hour of going to press the condition of Mrs. George A. Jenkins is extremely critical Mr. Ewart Huflfstetler is on the sick list. He has been laid up a week or ten days with chins md fever Misses Nina and Majel Patrick of Begonia left yesterday norning for Charlotte where they will ittend the Presbyterian college Dr. W. L. Pressley of Due West passed :hrough Gastonia yesterday enroute lome from Lancaster where he had seen to see his son. Rev. P. A. Pressey, who is sick The condition of VIrs. Margaret Craig, who has been seriously ill at the home of Mrs. T. C. Pegram, was much improved yesteriay The board of county commissioners held its September meeting at Dallas Monday and Tuesday, transactng a large amount of routine buslless. The treasurer was ordered to jay seventy-nine outside pauper alowances, amounting to $473.16. Coun:y Superintendent of roads, W. P. Edileman, was ordered to visit all the ownship supervisors during the nonth of September. The treasurer's nonthly report was accepted and filed. THE BATTLE OF ANPING. rhrilling Story of Fight Between Russians and Japanese. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail with Gen. Kuroki's headjuarters, in a dispatch dated August ?s sends a Dicturesaue story of the (vents preceding the capture of An Ping, from which the following exracts are taken: "On the night of August 25, an stack was made upon the first Russian >osition. Correspondents were not >ermitted to witness this assault being cept behind a ridge until morning. A severe hand-to-hand fight was re>orted to have taken place, and the Russians were finally driven back on he double quick upon the main position, which was at the top of a gigantic line of hills. Lieut. Col. Yosloda was killed early in the fight. The Russian position was exceedingly strong. The Japanese movements vere greatly hampered by the coniguration of the country, which was in unceasing succession of mountains, ilmost pathless, that made it impossi>le to bring forward the field guns, ind mountain artillery was therefore ised. "A battery planted upon a ridge vhich had been captured earlier in he morning opened fire on the Russians with shrapnel. The Russians promptly replied. Meanwhile, the Ja>anese infantry advanced in arc-sha?>d formation. From the hill opposite, [ saw a steady, persistent move forward, now by twos and threes, and low in long lines, as the Japanese ;rept from point to point. Then a leavy fusillade began. The Japanese :ore off their coats in order to move nore freely, and thus presented splenlid white marks to the enemy. The Japanese gunners apparently found it lifficult at first to get the exact range. Soon, however, spurting smoke and tames showed where the respective latteries of the two combatants were working ruin. There was a ceaseless crackle from the front and the blue laze above the rifle pits revealed the presence of infantry. Then two Japtnese mountain guns, with great drring, advanced on the right below the Russian front, concealing themselves n the corn. Rapidly dropping shell And shrapnel right into the midst of the Russian trenches, they caused the Russian fire momentarily to waver. Then it was renewed more vigorously than ever, but it was the beginning if the end. Some Japanese, after creeping around and wriggling through the corn, bursted unexpectedly on the trenches. There was a bloody fight then and there. As though by magic, white flags with blood-red centers appeared all up the mountain side. On the summit stood a. man waving the flag of the rising sun aloft. "The Japanese infantry now opened fire upon the Russians who were descending the opposite slopes, while the Russian artillery turned savagely upin the heights which had been held shortly before by their own men. Almost to a man the Russians died at their posts or got clear away, only three prisoners being brought in. The Japanese losses were very heavy. One company reported that it had over me-half its total strength killed or wounded. Sixteen officers in one regiment were killed or wounded. Tne toiai casualties ui me muci probably 600. Both armies remained in touch during the afternoon. There seemed to be no single firing. There was little shelter that night for the wounded. All lay in common fellowship upon the mud, drenched to the 3kin, while the rain continued all night and until nearly midday, when a thick fog covered the country." What The World Wants.?Men who cannot be bought. Men whose word is their bond. Men who put character above wealth. Men who possess opinions and a will, will. Men who see the divine in the common. Men who would "rather be right than be president." Men who will not lose their individuality in a crowd. Men who will not think anything profitable that is dishonest. Men who will be as honest in small things as in great things. Men who will make no compromise with questionable things. Men whose ambitions are not confined to their own selfish desires. Men who are willing to sacrifice private interests for the public good. Men who are not afraid to take chances, who are not afraid of failure. * "?..^noro i?r'G riot POW IVlt-ll Ul UIUI <<fc,V. ....v# ^ irds in any part of their nature. Men who are larger than their business, who overtop their vocation. Men who will give thirty-six inches Nor a yard, and thirty-two quarts f"?r i bushel. Philanthropists who will not let their right hand know what their left hand is doing. Men who will not have one brand jf honesty for ouuno-s purpose? and mother for private life.?Orison Swett Marden in "Success." LAST YEAR'S COTTON CROP. It Brought $138,000,000 More Money Than the Crop of the Preceding Year. Secretary Hester's annual report was issued In full last Tuesday. He puts the cotton crop of 1903-04 at 10011,374 bales, a decrease of 716,185 under that of 1902-03. He says that compared with last year In round fig ures, Texas, including inaian xerritory, has Increased 45,000 bales. The group known as other Gulf States, consisting of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah and Kansas has lost 430,000 and the group of Atlantic States, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia has fallen off 332,000. Mr. Hester's report on the cotton crop of the different states is given as follov/s in thousands of bales: Alabama 1,000 against 1,050 last year. Arkansas 705 against 1,000. Georgia 1,325 against 1,470. Florida 55 against 55. Louisiana 824 against 824. Mississippi 1,387 against 1,404. North Carolina 563 against 575. South Carolina 825 against 950. Tennessee, etc., 451 against 509. Texas and Indian Territory 2,876 against 2,831. Total crop 10,011 against 10,728. He makes the actual production of Indian Territory 266,555 bales against 369,251 last year, of Oklahoma 177,057 aerainst 186.000 last year and of Missouri 34,367 against 35,906 last year, the two last being included under the head of Tennessee, etc. He puts the average commercial value of the crop at $61.38 against $44.52 last year and the total value of the crop at $617,501,548 against $480,770,282 last year. # In reference to the total value Mr. Hester says that while the crop is smaller by seven hundred and odd thousands bales less than last year and less by 1,263,000 bales than the crop of 1898-99, which was the largest ever marketed, it has brought a better return in money values than any ever produced in the south. Referring to the Increase in values over last year he gives details as to prices, showing that while the lowest range of last season was from September to January, inclusive, this year the highest range of values was during the period of marketing the bulk of the crop and the result was that farmers obtained more of the advantage of the rise instead of its coming as usual after the cotton had passed out of their hands. In other words there were marketed up to January 31 of this year in round figures 8,010,000 which sold for $447,710,000 while up to the same period last season the amount marketed was 7,985,000, which brought $336,665,000, a difference of nnlv 9R 000 holes oml nn Increase in the amount received of over {138,000,000. Further referring to crop values Mr. Hester says that when It Is considered that the combined values of the past three crops resulted In payment to farmers, merchants ajid other handlers of over {1,536,000,000, their Importance ae a great factor In the prosperity of the south and of the entire country may be fully appreciated. The consumption has been divided as follows: Alabama 212,398, Increase 594. Arkansas 1,444, decrease of 1,471. Georgia 419,761, decrease of 6,138. Kentucky 20,341, decrease of 1,029. Louisiana 16,121, decrease of 1,882. Mississippi 313,844, decrease of 6,137. Missouri 4,341, decrease of 382. North Carolina 530,814, decrease of 20,988. South Carolina 563,980, decrease of 49,295. Tennessee 41,773, decrease of 2,773. Texas 16,736, decrease of 6,871. Virginia 56,5 39. Increase of 14,891. Total consumption of the south 1, 919.252, a decrease under last year or 81,477. SALARIES OF TEACHERS. United States Leads in Liberality of Expenditures for Education. If the salaries paid public school teachers is to be accepted as the standard of civilization and enlightenment, the United States holds an enviable position among the nations. There are many school districts in the country where the wages received by teachers are too low, but the average monthly salary is large relatively to salaries in certain European countries, where the standard of literacy among the masses is high and where educational facilities are supposed to be of the best. It appears from the report of the Federal commissioner of education for 1901 that the average monthly salary in the United States is $47.55 for male and $39.17 for female teachers. In the North Atlantic division, which includes the New England and Middle states, the average salary for males is $57.75; females, $41.66. These figures are exceeded by the Western division, where the averages are $62.26 and $51.49. In 1901 the average monthly wages in Pennsylvania were $44.14 and $38.23. In forthcoming reports the Pennsylvania average will be higher, as a result of the law passed in 1903 fixing the minimum salary of school teacners at jjistricis lawmc, w comply with the statute will lose the state appropriation for the common schools. Massachusetts pays the most generous monthly salary to male teachers, $140.94; California to female teachers. $65.81. The figures for New York did not appear in the Federal report from which the quotations are taken. Comparisons with European conditions are favorable to the United States. From the report of an investigation of school salaries In various European countries, published in the Boston Transcript, it appears that the male class teachers in the United Kingdom get an average yearly salary of $350. Women in the same grade receive less than $200. In Copenhagen the highest yearly salary paid male teachers is $350 and this after eight years' service. Women receive a third less. The educational standard of Prussia is high, but the average Income of a school teacher in the small towns is only $218 a year. In the large cities he receives on an average only $341. In Berlin a school superintend- | ent receives from $789 to $925 and free lodgings. The lowest salary paid other teachers In Berlin is $315; the larg- f est, $550. The teachers there are pen- ( sioned to the extent of 75 per cent, of j the last salary received. i Saxony requires her young teachers j to serve two years without pay, and \ the highest salary paid is $180 a year. First-class teachers in Baden, in towns i?1A AAA Inhahltanta UUYliig Iiiuic man iw,uwv ?, receive $260. In Alsace-Lorraine female teachers cannot expect more than $160. The minimum salary in ! France is $220. Spain is a backward country in educational matters. About , 65 per cent of the population can t neither read nor write, though compulsory education was introduced many , years ago. Madrid grants teachers $400, but in villages the salary Is only ] $100. It is declared that at least sixty j per cent of the Italians are without ' the rudiments of education. In a noun- i try making such an exhibit one may 1 look for poorly paid teachers. Even in | the city schools of Italy the average yearly salary is $160. Sweden and Norway pay a minimum wage of $60 a year to female and double that sum to male teachers. The highest sal- 1 ary received by males is $800. DO THE DEAD REVISIT US? Stories and Experiences Tending to Show that they do Sometimes. "I have had only one experience in telepathy," said the man, "but that ' ?' "V./V T wnn O U'O fr f rom wua a Strung UIIC. X iau anoj i.?v? home when I was a boy of 9. My father was cruel to me. but I loved my mother dearly. I got on a ship at the Brooklyn docks, bound for I didn't know where. Eventually, after much roaming, I landed at Bombay, where I became a printer's devil on a small paper. "I was taken ill there of fever, so 111 thAt I thought I was at the point of death. That night it was very hot, but somehow I got out of bed and stood at the lattice of the open window. 'That was some seven years after I had run away from home, but I had never once forgotten my mother. She was my idol. I prayed for her. In my troubles I talked aloud to her, and she must have heard me, for though all the rest had long before given me up for dead, she would never believe it. "Well, as I stood there I said to her that I was sorry that I had left her and caused her so much unhappiness. That now that I was about to die, I wanted her to understand that. I wanted her to know, too, that I had always loved her. "Just then it became a little light In the east, and there began to be a breeze, cooling the intensity of the heat. I heard ner voice ai ine same time saying as plainly as I am talking to you now: "' You will not die.' "Then It was as If she kissed me as I stood there, "I got well and went home to her. She told me the day and the hour that I stood at the lattice In India talking to her and her answer to me." "I believe In such things," said the Psychic Woman, "and also In the nearness of the soul and spirit to earth and loved ones Immediately after death, particularly In the case of those who die suddenly. Not long ago a friend, a young man, came to see me. He was the wreck of himself. His eyes were hollow, his face haggard. "What In the world has changed you so?" I asked. "This," he answered. "My best friend died suddenly and he has been haunting me. I see him near me always, and I wish he would rest In his grave and quit haunting me." "I know all about that. I knew a man of such splendid physique that you would have thought, to look at him, that he would live forever. He was taken with appendicitis and died in three days. "He had beautiful auburn hair?a sDlendld mass of it, as thick as could be. He used to sit, when living, in a certain chair when he called on me, and the sunshine coming In at the window made a soft flame of his hair. I used to go to the head of the stairs and watch him come up, his fine hair gleaming in the dusk of the stairway. "For weeks after he died, whenever I entered the room I could see him In that chair with the sunlight on his hair. Whenever I went out and looked down the stairway I could see the shine of his beautiful hair as he came up. You may call it nervousness or the effect of my constant thought of him, but as for me, I believe the spirit of him was there. "One proof, to my mind, is this story of an old manor house that belonged to an army officer who had rented it and gone to India. The house was in the suburbs of London. The officer had lost an arm. "A girl whose father had rented the manor house was stricken with the kodak fever. She took pictures of the house, one room after another, until she had taken them all. Then she took the films to a London photographer to be developed and printed. After a week or so she called for them. " 'They are very good,' said the pho- , tographer, 'with the exception of one that is a little dim?the one of the onearmed man, who is sitting in the library by the table.' i "'What one-armed man?' she asked in amazement. 'There wasn't a single soul in any room when I took the pictures. Not a soul.' " 'There was a man in the library," 1 reiterated the photographer, 'for here is the nicture of him.' "He brought out the picture of the 1 library, and there was the one-armed | man sitting sadly there by the table. Upon investigation it was found that i the owner of the house, the one-armed ' army officer, had died suddenly in India on the day on which she had photographed his home. "Was there anything more natural than that his soul should come back on a visit to his old home the moment it was freed from his body? Or that my friend's soul should come back and visit me?"?New York Sun. 1 i X'ii* Instead of an engagement ring the t Japanese lover gives his sweetheart a piece of beautiful silk for a sash. FUTURE SUPPLY OF MEN. Real Accomplishments Come From the Boys In Humble Circumstances. The superintendent of the Chicago forward movement, which Is doing good work among the submerged, said In an address before the women of Chicago that the larger per cent of the men who are to control the destinies of the country In the coming years are to be found in the ranks of the newsboys rather than among those who dwell on the boulevards. Those who have had much to do with news ooys know mat tnis is ukeiy to d? me fact. The boys who are learning to hustle for themselves are Immeasurably superior to those who are pampered and humored and carefully guarded and favored In the struggle for existence. The son of rich parents Is heavily handicapped if he is made to feel his folks have money, and that he has expectations. There isn't the same pressure to do his best holding over such a lad that there is over the son of poorer parents. He doesn't feel that he has to apply himself in school. He doesn't have to scheme, plan, and contrive and deny himself to get anything that he wants. Any object or pleasure that may strike his fancy he can usually buy for himself or wheedle from his indulgent parents. He has an easy time, and is flabby In mental and moral make-up In consequence. Fibre, character and endurance that grow out of efforts and self-denial cannot be bought. There is no way to get them. It is as easy to have some one hired to eat and digest one's food as it is to have one's trials and temptations and labor done by others. Most of our captains of Industry have risen from the ranks. They learned well to serve and to stand waiting before they were Invited to be seated and to help themselves.?Toledo Times. A MATTERC^HEALTH biiirillli i Ifllf* POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS MO SUBSTITUTE _____? gnssnnHSHnHR 1 World's Fai H ?vi U SOUTHERN H BEST LINI gg of route; H Pullman SI || DINING CA g| Low Excurs |J on sale from YORK ?? SEASON TICKETS - - g? SIXTY DAY TICKETS " " |? FIFTEEN DAY TICKETS " g? For full information oj !| ture apply to any Ag g? way, or, ?3 R. W. HUNT, Divis H CHARLEST - ? ?Wll FIELD SEEDS We have a fresh supply of new crop Field Seeds, lncludlr.gr RYE, BARLEY and GRAY WINTER SEED OATS, and If you expect to sow either of these grralns see us for your seed. Our prices are right We also have a full stock of new crop TURNIP SEEDS In all varieties. Groceries, Etc. We carry a line of Standard and Fancy Groceries, and always keep our stock fresh. Remember us for Crockery, Tinware and Hardware. W. M. KENNEDY, Agent. THE PEOPLE OF YORK COUNTY WILL REMEMBER That I am In the real estate business to do your buying, selling, and exchanging. If you will kindly call at my office, you will readily see I possess the facilities for doing your buying, selling, or exchanging to a good advantage. My office is simply a Mill to carry your wants and offerings to to have them ground. If they are not ground, they cost you no toll. To sell property, we must have it and htivers as well. Questions alone do not make business, as a great many seem to think. I have all the Dargan lands around Guthriesville, and some very fine property it is. You must not sxpect to buy land at these old prices. Figures are higher and the longer you wait, the more it will cost you to own a home. Buy land and go to improving it. Make your money by enhancements and dividends. Send for my list of offerings, and make your selections and propositions. If [ can meet your requirements, I will ?ladly do so. J. EDGAR POAG, Broker. Rock Hill, S. C. THE "WE FIX IT" SHOP. , WE are repairing, repainting, and \ overhauling Buggies, and we are | doing this work at prices that are i right. i You'll find us In the rear of Riddle i ?: Carroll's. i Yours for business, I R. E. MONTGOMERY, Proprietor. I MACHINERY COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS A SPECIALTY. I ENGINES, OILERS, QINNINO MACHINERY, SAW MILL AND WOODWORK I NO MACHINERY, SHINOLC AND LATH MACHINERY, CORN MILLS, i GIB6ES MACHINERY COMPANY. I GoJumbla, S. C. I professional dfards. J. S. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. GEO. W. S HART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, YDRKVILLE, 8. C. a LAW RANOE. 'Phone Office No. f/t O. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. FINLEY & JENNINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office in WILSON BUILDING, opposite Court House. Telephone No 196 A. Y. CART WRIGHT, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, 8. C. JESfifc OFPICEHOUR8: ?ra to i p. m;t pro,to5p. m. Office In upstairs rooms of Cartwright Building, opposite Telegraph and Express Offices. FOB SALE MY house and lot on King's Mountain street. House has 8-rooms. Bath room, closets in all rooms, kitchen and pantry. Lot contains either 16 or 55 acres, to suit the purchaser. Variety of choice fruit. Land produces one bale cotton per acre, and sufficient grain for the farm. Good pasture all wired in, and two tenant houses on the place. Come to see the place. I am going to sell and will make prices and terms to suit you. J. O. WALKER. July 19 t 2m amnnv r, St. Louis ! "railway I 3, CHOICE ?g S, through H leepers and $4 RS P iioti Tickets || :VILLE as follows: ....... -$36.10 gg ----- -$30.10 gg - - - r - - -$24.65,1* World's Fair Litera- gg rent, Southern Rail- gg ion Passenger Agent, ? ON, S . C ?? OTBBfflBffl l The Ladies' ^ Dressing Table \ Should contain only toi- ? let preparations of known 4 quality. 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